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Noam Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP's Climate Change Denial (lierally, the Party of Death)
Opinion | The Story of 2018 Was Climate Change - The New York Times - Future generations may ask why we were distracted by lesser matters.

Journalist group counts 94 slayings of media staff in 2018
Dozens of journalists were murdered in 2018. This is a crisis of press freedom. - The Washington Post
Cartoon Carousel: 2018 Rewind - POLITICO
The best Ann Telnaes cartoons of 2018 - The Washington Post
America, How Ya Doing? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - 2018: What a year: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, reported in November that life expectancy for the average American ticked downward for the third year in a row
What the Year's best photos tell us about 2018

US stocks post worst year in a decade as the S&P 500 falls more than 6% in 2018


Video shows bags believed to contain Khashoggi's remains
r/The_Khashoggi_Effect : The straw that broke camel's back


CIA's Afghan Forces Leave a Trail of Abuse and Anger - The fighters hold the line in the war's toughest spots, but officials say their brutal tactics are terrorizing the public and undermining the U.S. mission. (left hand meet right hand)

There has been a wave of criticism after Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said he sexually assaulted a maid, having recalled confessing to a priest how he reached into the maid's underwear as she slept. Women's rights group Gabriela said Duterte was "unworthy of his position and should resign". : worldnews

Brexit ferry contract worth #13.8 million awarded to company with no ships or trading history : worldnews (Tories doing Tory)


American Is Arrested in Moscow on Spying Charges - The New York Times - an American identified as Paul Whelan had been taken into custody on Friday on suspicion of spying. The statement implied that he had been caught red-handed, saying that the arrest had occurred "during an act of espionage."


Whitaker's role in 2006 immigration raid foreshadowed aggressive stance as acting attorney general
An Alabama sheriff personally kept $1.5 million that was supposed to feed ICE detainees : politics


Donald Trump Ends 2018 With At Least A Dozen Ongoing Scandals : politics
Leading By the Seat of His Diapers: Trump Has No Idea What a President's Job Requires, Like Running a Government

A Holiday Mystery: Why Did John Roberts Intervene in the Mueller Probe? -- We're about to find out
Roger Stone turns on Jerome Corsi: He worked with Mueller to 'sandbag me'

Trump tweets: Judges say they are 'speculation' and not 'pure fact' Those are words federal judges have used to describe President Donald Trump's tweets while guarding the secrecy of ongoing investigations that have shadowed his presidency. Trump's own Justice Department, which has argued repeatedly that the president's comments on the probes are not always to be taken literally, or to be trusted ... Presidents don't tend to announce they are under investigation.

Russia Detains American Paul Whelan on Spying Charges - Possible Swap for Maria Butina - Trump Is Compromised - No matter what his administration does in this prisoner dispute with Russia, it will not have legitimacy.

Trump doesn't seem to value anything -- except himself
Howard Dean: Dems can't negotiate with Trump on shutdown because he's 'mentally incapacitated'
Trump says he 'NEVER ABANDONED' the idea of a concrete wall, disputing Kelly
Trump Digs In, Darkening Hopes for a Deal to End the Shutdown - The New York Times
Twitter catches Donald Trump lying about being in the Oval Office : politics
Trump claims there's a 10-foot wall around the Obamas' D.C. homes. He is wrong

2018 was the year the White House press briefing died : politics - undefined
Doctors say Sarah Sanders isn't telling the truth ... "She'ss a Baptist. When they get involved in politics they lie like breathing."
Kellyanne Conway Busted In Florida After She Criticized Pelosi For Hawaii Visit During Shutdown
CNN Host Calls Out Kellyanne Conway for Falsely Blaming Bitter Migrant Debate on Democrats : politics

Opinion | Cleaning the Congressional Stables - The New York Times - All that stands in the way is the Senate.
Donald Trump is completely transforming the Democrats | TheHill

Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White announces departure - CNNPolitics - Chief Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White is leaving her post, a move that coincides with Secretary of Defense James Mattis stepping down but also comes amid an internal Defense Department investigation into her conduct (staff were her errand-people and she was a vengeful bitch)
Justice Thomas's s wife under scrutiny for partisan posts

Eschaton: What Liberals Need To Do Is Shut Up - If you're a politician, such as an about to be retired one whose name rhymes with Laire McBaskill, you cannot expect to control "The Left." ... Dumb liberals are dumb, fine, and they don't understand the struggles of a rich politician in Missouri, fine, but, dumb liberals don't work for you and if it's so important that they shut up then "making dumb liberals like you" should be a concern. You can't shut them up by yelling at them.


Conservative health care experiment leads to thousands losing coverage - POLITICO - 'I have pre-existing conditions. But all they could tell me was 'sorry, you didn't comply,'" said one Arkansan who lost coverage. (after voting for Trump)

Americans have at last figured out that the adults in the room are Democrats - The Washington Post (not the fiscally-responsible, national-security loot and steal Daddy fuckers)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she will seek the presidency in 2020 - The Washington Post
Elizabeth Warren launches 2020 presidential exploratory committee : politics
Elizabeth Warren is running for president - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Beto and Bernie debate raises questions about Texas' oil economy


The Media's The Post-Advertising Future of the Media - The Atlantic - s Post-Advertising Future Is Also Its Past - Why the news is going back to the 19th century
MSNBC is surging - The Washington Post

Data is clear: States with lowest-performing schools do the most paddling : politics - The United States is one of the few countries in the world that still allows it. Only 69 nations still allow corporal punishment; most of those are in Africa and Asia. No nation in Europe allows it in schools. Nineteen American states currently permit corporal punishment ... Of those 19 states, only one, New Hampshire, is a blue state. The other 18 red states are mostly in the South. In the 10 states with the highest murder rates, eight allow paddling in schools. Among the 10 states with the lowest murder rates, only one allows paddling in schools. In the 10 states with the lowest percentage of the population in prison, paddling in school is not allowed in any of them. (and hello, Kenfucky)

EXCLUSIVE: NYS Senate Dems say thanks, but no thanks to Simcha Felder's return to Democratic conference - NY Daily News (anti-women transphobic orthodox Jew was actually a Republican, "he overplayed his hand")

Opinion | The Special Misogyny Reserved for Mothers - The New York Times


Bernie alumni seek meeting to address 'sexual violence' on '16 campaign The signees are looking to change what they call a pervasive culture of toxic masculinity in the campaign world. (Bernie Bros are toxic? who woulda ...)


Louis C.K. Goes After Parkland Victims in Leaked Audio of New Stand-Up | TMZ.com - As if Louis C.K. hadn't already hit bottom, he just went even lower by attacking victims of the Parkland massacre in a stand-up set ... this according to leaked audio of his new material.
Trumpism is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Look who's back with more comedy-like material: (Szekely)
Anna Maltese ?? on Twitter: "Louis CK is the Dane Cook of Dennis Millers."
Louis CK's Comedy of Complicity Doesn't Need a Second Act (prescient)

Kevin Spacey to Plead Not Guilty and Wants to Skip Sexual Assault Arraignment : television

I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. | HuffPost - A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.

Local deputy charged with sexually assaulting, kidnapping woman he arrested : news
Professions with the most psychopaths - Business Insider (journos more psychopathic than copsters?)
Police Have a Much Bigger Domestic-Abuse Problem Than the NFL Does - The Atlantic - Research suggests that family violence is two to four times higher in the law-enforcement community than in the general population. So where's the public outrage?
2018 police shootings database - Washington Post - 987 people have been shot and killed by police in 2018


This Western Mass. town rejected Comcast and built its own broadband network (fuck you, Fuckbridge)
Crowds Buy Recreational Marijuana At Bourne's Doorstep | Falmouth News | capenews.net

A Breezy Look at Eve Babitz, a Writer With a Born Feel for the Charms of Los Angeles - The New York Times ... She is now 75. Anolik tracked her down in Los Angeles, where she listens to right-wing talk radio and mostly lives like a recluse.


Previous research has found that messages with moral-emotional words are more likely to go viral on social media. Now, a new study on the diffusion of political messages on Twitter has found that conservatives -- including Donald Trump -- enjoyed a greater moral contagion effect than liberals in 2016.

Eight-dimensional octonions may hold the clues to solve fundamental mysteries. : science
Physicists puzzled by strange numbers that could explain reality - Big Think


Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars : news

u/TheGurw explains bra measurements in regards to the bust size of an animated character : bestof

ELI5: What are the major components and subsequent advantages that distinguish various household cleaners? (Ex, Soap and water vs 409, glass cleaners, mold/mildew type cleaners, etc? : explainlikeimfive

Anybody feel Black mirror: bandersnatch was really disappointing and not to the standard of usual black mirror episodes ? : television

Demonstration of how easy it is to spread misinformation on the Internet - The Eight Spiders myth. : videos

Facebook is the least trusted tech company followed by twitter, amazon: survey : worldnews




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Trump is dragging out the old year - The Washington Post
4 Devious Ways States Chipped Away At Abortion Rights In 2018 | HuffPost - past years restrictions were particularly extreme. (revolt of the patriarchy)
Dave Barry's Year in Review 2018 -- You thought 2016 and 2017 were bad? Let's look back at this past year.
A year of unprecedented deception: Trump averaged 15 false claims a day in 2018 - The Washington Post -- Fewer than 3 in 10 Americans believe many of his most-common false statements ... Only among a pool of strong Trump approvers -- about 1 in 6 adults in the survey -- did large majorities accept several, though not all, of his falsehoods as true. (so, 15-30% of the country are walking-dead trump zombies)
The most popular fact checks of 2018 - The Washington Post
The 2019 In/Out List - The Washington Post
2019: The Year in Preview. Washington Post reporters and columnists forecast the big stories. - The Washington Post

Malware attack disrupts delivery of L.A. Times and Tribune papers across the U.S. - Los Angeles Times
Foreign cyberattack hits newspapers: Here is what we know - Los Angeles Times (dumbfucks clicked on spam, got ransomed)

International traveler with measles arrived at New Jersey airport, state health officials say; warn of possible exposure : news


Turkey, Russia resolved to clear terrorists from Syria - Both countries have joint will to clear Syria of all terrorist groups, says Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
Putin tells Trump that Moscow is open for dialogue | Reuters ("dialogue" = "our puppet will do what we aay")
The U.S. Is Betraying Its Allies In Syria - The Atlantic - Trump's withdrawal from Syria is most notable for its needless cruelty - No Peace for Them and No Honor for Us


Khashoggi murder one step closer to resolution with striking new findings - anews - the voice recordings are not made up of that 7.5 minute long piece. As a matter of fact, the recordings are much more comprehensive and long (among other things, they are both really stupid and really evil) ... "Ive never worked on a warm body so far but I can easily handle him [Khashoggi]. Normally, when I'm cutting cadavers, I would put on my headphones and listen music ... " the recordings of these five minutes are so dramatic that even the intelligence members who have experience over these issues and thus have astuteness had quite discomfort while listening. (still unknown: what did they do with the body?)
Khashoggi murder one step closer to resolution with striking new findings : news ... Prince, with a Bonesaw, in the Office ...


ACLU sues Texas over law that says contractors can't boycott Israel

Trump ditched the TPP. Now it's going into effect without the US - CNNPolitics - Trump pulled out of a massive trade deal. Now 11 countries are going ahead without the US


In Trump's America, it's mportant to remember: this isn't normal - Michael H Fuchs
How Nancy Pelosi signaled the end of Donald Trump's easy ride ("easy ride" = Republican-enabled treason) "It goes to show you: you get into a tickle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you."


Any Deaths of the Children I've Kidnapped Are Strictly the Fault of Parents Who Didn's Pay the Ransom ... Remember, this isn't normal thing that happens. There haven't been any children deaths in custody at the border in the last 10 years, now there have been two ... in three weeks ... that we know of
Trump tries to deflect blame for migrant children's deaths (and "I am Satan's bitch" Kirstjen Nielsen) (see pic, when will our media figure out he has no frontal cortex?)
Video shows migrant children dragged, pushed at since-shuttered shelter | TheHill (SHS says Trump is the best baby-killer)

Taxpayers Dish Out $54,000 For Mar-a-Lago Party Tents For New Year's Eve - The public eats the costs of a bash at Trump's Florida resort while federal workers go without pay amid the partial government shutdown.
FBI, New Jersey investigators gathered evidence of undocumented immigrants who say they worked at Trump golf course, lawyer says - The Washington Post
FBI Collected Fake Green Cards Allegedly Supplied By Trump Golf Club Managers: Report : politics (of course he did) "He seems to be guilty of every single thing he accuses others of doing. Pretty soon we'll find out he's a Mexican who's here illegally."
Justice Integrity Report - Welcome To Waterbury: The City That Holds Secrets That Could Bring Down Trump (Lolita Express and Trump's pedo pizza kidhapper ring)
Trump Accused of Hitting 'New Low' After Blaming Deaths of Migrant Children on Democrats
AMJoy on Twitter: "#AMJoy @realDonaldTrump @MSNBC The way of the cross "

Outgoing White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly defends his rocky tenure - Los Angeles Times ("judge me by what he didn't do")

Trump Lies Again About 19,000 "Deleted" FBI Messages
All the investigations and lawsuits involving President Donald Trump - Business Insider (why, it's almost like an organized crime family!)

Donald Trump: Paul Manafort 'worked with ex-Russian spy while running campaign for White House'
Mueller: Paul Manafort lied about contacts with Trump administration this year : politics

As long as Matthew Whitaker is in place, the Russia investigation is in danger - The Washington Post (impeach the crooked fathead fucker)

Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal: President Donald Trump immoral, doesn't tell the truth - ABC News
How a drumbeat of 2018 revelations shadows Donald Trump's presidency

Donald Trump Too Busy Watching FOX News To Contact Nancy Pelosi About Ending Government Shutdown, Senator Suggests : politics

On shutdown, White House wants Trump's tweets to do the talking - Since Dec. 11, Trump has only addressed Democratic leaders via Twitter. For most White House aides and allies, that's a positive development - As the federal government shutdown entered its eighth day on Saturday, the president once again had no public events on his schedule (hahaha, he's hiding from his Fox masters)

Deciphering the Patterns in Trump's Falsehoods -- We review how President Trump bent the truth this year by repeating and inflating falsehoods, shifting his statements, embellishing or omitting details, and offering misleading attacks. -- 1) Repeat and Inflate 2) Shift and Deflect 3) Misleading Vagueness and Fanciful Details 4) Invent Straw Men


Eschaton: Going Out With Class - Claire McCaskill would have gotten away without it if not for those meddling kids ... "a bright shiny new object" ... Watching McCaskill over the years, I think she's always been upset that she didn't receive more plaudits from the dem base, even as punching the dem base was part of her schtick ... Also, too, there's no point in hippie punching when you're a few days from retirement. -- Centrist sniping at Ocasio-Cortez is so weird. She's a freshman member of the House (about to be) from that liberal enclave, New York City. If we can't have lefties there, we can't have them anywhere...
Ocasio-Cortez Says Claire McCaskill Calling Her A 'Shiny Object' to CNN is 'Disappointing' - The outgoing senator once warned Democrats not to go "so far to the left" (said the basically-Republican Blue Dog fucker "NYC should elect more right-wing assholes like me," she said)
Ocasio-Cortez Says Claire McCaskill Calling Her A 'Shiny Object' to CNN is 'Disappointing' (McFuckkkill literally objectified AOC)

Fears of Republican Power Grab in Michigan Fade as Governor Vetoes Bill - The New York Times - Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan vetoed a bill on Friday that was seen as an effort to limit the power of incoming Democrats (but see that Wisconsin asshle, Rick Scott)

Against the Trumpism of the Center - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A useful reminder that Max Boot remains bad on foreign policy even as his views on other issues have improved post-Trump:
Bomb squad - Anti-Trump conservatives want to reverse the GOP's destruction. But they helped light the fuse. (... and ... the Bootster!)

The Assassination of Robert Kennedy by the Coward Duran Duran - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... "he's the Dollar General version of Christopher Hitchens."
Ron Rosenbaum on Twitter: "Get real. He did many good things as a Senator but Teddy Kennedy left Mary Jo to die in that sunken car when--according to the diver who reached her after Teddy slunk away and kept silent she might have been saved if he'd reported the incident immediately. (I interviewed him). https://t.co/8kSMvTBlol"
Bijan Parsia on Twitter: "Note that you seem to be in a classic confirmation bias trap: you misread the original; the misreading triggers strong feelings; the misreading is potentially embarrassing; now you are manufacturing stuff that doesn't exist ...
Max Kennerly on Twitter: "My uncle is innocent! "

Half of Southerners believe the US was founded as 'explicitly Christian,' new poll finds (dimbulb dumbfuck worshipers of Satan)

Alice Walker's Terrible Anti-Semitic Poem Felt Personal == to Her and to Me (see her half-Jewish daughter's feelings about her mom:) "I came very low down in her priorities" , Rebecca wrote in 2008, "after work, political integrity, self-fulfillment, friendships, spiritual life, fame and travel." (shvartse shiksas: will Jews ban the s-word?)
Black Jews Are Being Chased Out Of the Jewish Community By Racism. Here Are Their Stories. 0 The Forward

Misquoting the Talmud: Oral Law - General Response on Ask the Rabbi (but "marriage contracts" for 3-yr olds is kosher and Egyptians are "goyim" apparently)


Massachusetts woman expected to survive after being stabbed by Tinder date : news


boob123456789 comments on December, Regional Collapse Thread.
/u/boob123456789 writes a vignette of living in the collapsing "fly-over" parts of America. : bestof
Poverty Rates of the Total Population by county: 2014 (flyover moochers)
1959 Poverty Rates by Country (oh, for the good old days before coastal elites wrecked the country)
Colonias in Texas: Third-world conditions, slowly improving - HoustonChronicle.com - On the border, American citizens still scrape by without electricity or clean water (give more money to the rich!)

Akloriek comments on Smoking weed


Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: 'Everybody is a potential target' -- "Deepfake" creators are making disturbingly realistic, computer-generated videos with photos taken from the Web, and ordinary women are suffering the damage


City Decides to Destroy 20 Years Worth of Police Misconduct Records : politics - Inglewood -- law previously stated that records should be kept for a minimum of 25 years, but the city decided to change the rule just before the new state law goes into effect, meaning the city can legally shred or discard the case files. Curiously, the city's new resolution only covers files on police shootings, use of force, and administrative reviews, even though the order says that the changes were needed to destroy files that "occupy valuable space, and are of no further use to the police department." (mayor is ex-police chief, wants to bury his crimes, b/c cop)

I ordered a box of crickets from the Internet and it went about as well as you'd expect

[TIL]After a New York lawyer insulted restaurant staff for speaking Spanish in public, people wrote over +2000 1 Star reviews for his office. : todayilearned


'For 30 years I've been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer - Newly knighted cancer scientist Mel Greaves explains why a cocktail of microbes could give protection against disease ... "The disease tracks with affluence." "For an immune system to work properly, it needs to be confronted by an infection in the first year of life" (America killing off their special snowflakes with disinfectants and fear of the outdoors)
For 30 years I've been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer

Isotretinoin, a form of vitamin A, reduces oil production in the skin, which helps prevent acne from forming. But new research has uncovered a previously unknown benefit of the medication. It shifts the skin microbiome of acne patients to more closely resemble that of people with normal skin. : science

Is nuclear energy the key to saving the planet? A new generation of environmentalists is learning to stop worrying and love atomic power. : technology

Men with borderline personality disorder, who are prone to becoming furious at small provocations due to so-called "fast emotional biases" hat lead them to overreact, may have deficiencies in the area of the brain known as the lateral prefrontal cortex, finds a new brain imaging study. (ever look at Trump's head?)

Why is the gravitational constant, a value that is fundemental to so many fields of science, only know to within 4 significant digits? What about this figure is so intrinsically difficult to measure? : askscience

TIL a study was conducted involving separating infant twins through an adoption agency to study nature vs nurture . The twins involved in the experiment were never given knowledge of the study and the findings never published. The records are contained at Yale and will not be released until 2066. : todayilearned

ELI5: How can "infinite" be a possibility? : explainlikeimfive


u/NotEvenAMinuteMan concisely describes the various Cantonese words for penis and what they imply

There are many well known habits people know they should never get into; drugs, drinking, gambling, etc... What are some less well known things or habits that people shouldn't get into? : AskReddit

In 2006, Wendy Williams dug up private medical information, went on air and revealed that rapper Method Man's wife was battling cancer, which was something her own family members didn't even know about yet. Wendy Williams continues to have a talk show to this day. : videos

What's the most awkward situation you've ever been in with a stranger? : AskReddit

TIL King Edward I of England built the largest trebuchet ever made called "the Warwolf". The Scots inside the castle surrendered by the mere sight of it but Edward used it anyways because it was so awesome and wanted to see it in action. : todayilearned




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Anything Good Happening on the Environmental Front? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - 2018 has been a horrifying year for anyone who cares about the environment. If you are honest with yourself, you know that your children and grandchildren are going to live worse lives than you are. But if you want to try and hold on to some level of optimism, here are some things you can point to:

The Thinnest Skins In Media In 2018 | HuffPost - Their diapers runneth over.
The top 10 books of 2018 - The Washington Post

In Spite Of Its Efforts, Facebook Is Still The Home Of Hugely Viral Fake News - A BuzzFeed News analysis found that 50 of the biggest fake stories of 2018 generated roughly 22 million total shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook.

California organizers cancel Women's March due to 'overwhelmingly white' participlants (too many white bitches, so we're staying home)

Delivery of Union-Tribune and other newspapers affected by computer virus - The San Diego Union-Tribune ("across the country")

Egyptian forces kill 40 suspected militants after tourist bus bombed | Reuters

German 'Islamic State' wife charged with murder of 5-year-old slave - German prosecutors have charged a 27-year-old woman with taking a 5-year-old girl as a slave in Syria and then letting the child die of thirst. The German had traveled to the Middle East to join the "Islamic State"

Indea's new transgender bill mandates "screening test" for gender identification

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur - The New York Times
Boy dies after Yemeni mom fought US travel ban to reach him


Trump's Disgraceful Betrayal of the Kurds

A Troubling Pattern of Personal Diplomacy : Trump has a tendency to agree spontaneously to requests pitched by foreign leaders. ("diplomacy" = "sell out")
The Obama Double Standard on Vimeo

Trump Takes No Responsibility For Two Migrant Children Who Died in Border Patrol Custody - The president used the deaths of two children as a political talking point on Twitter.
Donald Trump Sticks it to Neoliberal Elites Again - Lawyers, Guns & Money Trump's tweets on children dying in U.S. custody are a new low


Mueller appears to respond early in subpoena fight at Supreme Court : politics
New Jersey AG has obtained evidence of possible crimes at Trump's golf club -- and Mueller, FBI are involved in probe
Trump transition team under Mueller's microscrope - Jared Kushner, Mike Flynn, Carter Page and Jeff Sessions. Also Trump and J.D Gordon. (lock them all up for the rest of their lives)
Here's what we learned about Team Trump's ties to Russian interests (March 2018, they are all commie traitors and spies)
Is the Michael Cohen 'Progue' Story True? - The reporters behind it are either the new Woodward and Bernstein -- or the new Judith Miller. - The stakes are immense. If the McClatchy story is validated, it would strongly suggest that Mueller has evidence that in 2016 Trump sent his personal lawyer and fixer to Europe to meet with a high-ranking Kremlin official.
Russian Ex-Spy Pressured Manafort Over Debts to an Oligarch | Time

Trump's focus on pleasing his most ardent supporters raises questions about reelection strategy
Leon Panetta: Five lessons that never seem to be learned from shutting down the government - The Washington Post
Did Trump blow the shutdown?
White House to Freeze Pay for Federal Workers in 2019 - Those serving in the military generally not affected by executive order

Video compilation shows 30 times Trump repeated 'Fox & Friends' talking points in 2018 (Faux President Fox)
Retiring Republican gets real about Fox News: "Sean Hannity yelled fire and [Trump] fell in line" (Pres Sean and his fat orange puppet)
Tucker Carlson's Show Sheds Advertisers After Immigration Comments: Report (fat face is failing)
JFK Secret Societies Speech (full version) - YouTube

Alan Dershowitz complains anti-Trump bias is keeping him off CNN: 'It's a tragedy' (octogenarian Dershofuck is entitled to your tv screen so he can spread Trumpster's lies) )


New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics | The Nation - Far from being a sophisticated propaganda campaign, it was small, amateurish, and mostly unrelated to the 2016 election. (does the Nation still have Russian ties?)


House GOP quietly ends probe into FBI's 2016 decisions (Chaffetz/Gowdy and Bengghhaazzziii! but Hillary was a real witch, so "shrug")
Trump-Russia: Republican probe of alleged FBI bias ends 'with a whimper' - Committee chairs issue just a letter rather than final report after inquiry that was condemned as ploy to undermine Robert Mueller - House judiciary chairman Robert Goodlatte and oversight chairman Trey Gowdy, who are retiring next week (evil fuckers)
Trump-Russia: Republican probe of alleged FBI bias ends 'with a whimper' : Schiff: "not with a bang, but with a Friday, buried-in-the-holidays whimper, and one foot out the door."


'You Control Nothing' : House Republicans Brace for Life in the Minority

Think Congress Was Bad This Year? Just Wait Till 2019. | HuffPost - A prolonged stalemate over border wall funding doesn't bode well for lawmakers' task of raising the debt ceiling next year.


Scott Walker's parting gift: A corporate welfare deal costing each Wisconsin taxpayer $1,800 (enjoy your tax, suckers)

Former North Carolina County Official Makes New Allegations Of Election Fraud | HuffPost - Jens Lutz says the board received multiple forged requests for absentee ballots, including one on behalf of a dead person. (Republican shit is deep)


Trump's Latino Base - Lawyers, Guns & Money - But Latinos voted for Trump at a higher rate than they did for Romney and he has held a reasonable base, despite openly demonizing them. Why? Evangelicalism is a huge reason: ... In November's elections, 32 percent of Latinos voted for Republicans ... "I think the president has good, Christian principles," said Jose Larios, a parks worker.
Evangelicals - Evangelicals V. Mainline Protestants | The Jesus Factor | FRONTLINE | PBS

Christian nationalists are trying to seize power -- "Project Blitz" the long-term plan aimed at maximizing the Christian right's power and influence - In the 2016 election, Trump got 81 percent support from white evangelical Christians ... 'religious vote' for Trump was primarily the result of Christian nationalism ... unmoored from traditional moral import emphasizing only its notions of exclusion and apocalyptic war and conquest (good Satangelicals)


A Woman's Rights (just an extension of the fetus)


Alleged leader of Lev Tahor charged with kidnapping in New York State | CBC News - U.S. Justice Department charged 4 members of the ultra-orthodox sect with kidnapping of minors (after they kidnapped your tax money and .. chlld rape)
Alleged leader of Lev Tahor charged with kidnapping in New York State : news

A retired Army 2-star is heading to trial on charges that he raped his daughter : news (child rape not a crime in the Army until lately and raped children have to report within 5 yrs or forgetaboutit ... and, he voted for Trumpster)

Southern California Pastor Arrested on Suspicion of Child Molestation : news
Prosecutor sues Justice Department over schizophrenic college student shot 59 times by officers : news
Illegal killing of mountain lion gets Colorado man convicted of felony : news
Police arrest Oregon woman after racist slurs, knife threats caught on video | oregonlive.com

Bre Payton, 26-Year-Old Political Journalist, Dies Suddenly After Being Diagnosed With Swine Flu : news (H1N1)

He Hawks Young Blood As A New Miracle Treatment. All That's Missing Is Proof. - Jesse Karmazin claims he can fight aging, and a lot of people want to believe him. (hahaha vampire Thiel lurking in the shadows)

'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' : Netflix's Choose Your Own Adventure Movie Is a Gimmicky Disappointment

Your Cash Is No Good Here. Literally. - WSJ - Massachusetts is the only state that currently requires retailers to accept cash.

California Becomes First State to Ban Retail Sale of Dogs, Cats and Rabbits : politics
One day before New Year's Eve, Utah will implement the strictest DUI law in the country : news

Couple sue Vermont gynecologist for fathering child : news


TIL about ''Gvbekli Tepe'' The first temple on earth, predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years. : todayilearned
The 12,000 Year old Comet that Landed on TEDTalksand Erased Ancient Civilization - Greenland Crater - YouTube

Swedish researchers present model of the universe as an expanding bubble in an extra dimension : science
Researchers have devised a new model for the Universe - one that may solve the enigma of dark energy. Their new article, published in Physical Review Letters, proposes a new structural concept for a universe that rides on an expanding bubble in an additional dimension. : science

People adopt made-up social rules to be part of a group - It happens when the rule is useless and nobody will ever meet anyone affected by it, finds a new Nature Human Behaviour study.


More science than you think is retracted. Even more should be. - The Washington Post

TIL Of the Nazi drug D-IX that allowed test subjects to march 56 miles per day while carrying a 44 lb. backpack : todayilearned

The best science fiction book I've ever read -- Ian Banks' Culture series


Chinese click farm giving fake ratings and view counts online : videos
Australian baking Youtuber Amm Reardon discusses the demise of authentic content due to content farms : videos




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What the stock market crash means for the climate | Grist
Power Plant Explosion Casts New Light On New York's Dirty Fuel Addictions
After Back-to-Back Hurricanes, North Carolina Reconsiders Climate Change | InsideClimate News - In a state where lawmakers once rejected sea level rise warnings, polls show a growing concern among residents and a desire for better policies. (remember when they banned the words "sea" and "level?" - stupid comes with a tax)

NASA's Close Encounter With Mysterious Space Object Will Make History On New Year's Day | HuffPost

You Can't Understand The Brutal Reality Of Gun Violence Until You Hear It From Doctors - The NRA tried to push doctors out of the gun debate. They responded with raw accounts from the front lines of the crisis.

(31) Barack Obama - Posts (fucking Facebook, Barry?)
7 Striking Photos That Sum Up Our Turbulent World In 2018 | HuffPost -- "I am doing this because you adults are shitting on my future"
2018: The Year In Ideas: A Review Of Ideas | HuffPost - From the foremost thinkers of thoughts in America.
TV of 2018 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Pompeo heading to Brazil for inauguration of far-right president - The Washington Post

China's African debt-trap: Beijing prepares to seize Kenya's port of Mombasa : news

Four cousins shot dead in Pakistan over 'family honour' on orders of village council, police say - More than 1,000 women are killed every year in the conservative, Muslim-majority country over suspicions they engaged in relationships that went against the family's wishes. (fucking Muzfucks)


How Russia's military intelligence agency became the covert muscle in Putin's duels with the West

#MAGA : a consolation devoutly to be wished
#TrumpTantrum hashtag on Twitter
News about #ShutdownStories on Twitter

Eschaton: 15 Years Later - In 2058, President Sebastian Gorka, Jr. is gonna be visiting The Troops in Iraq and I will, from my life support system, be able to ask the question for the final time: Why are we in Iraq?


Trump Iraq Visit Is Called a Political Rally - The New York Times - "When that starts happening, it's like the politicalization of the judicial branch" (which is a done deal and troops support me!)
'Embarrassing' and 'entirely inappropriate' : One of the most highly decorated former US Army generals blasts Trump's visit with US troops in Iraq (yeah, fuck you norms, normie)

Mollie Tibbetts' mother listened as Trump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration. Then she took a different path. - The Washington Post

Special Counsel Robert Mueller Seized Russian Trolls' 'Nude Selfies' - The special counsel turned over reams of material from the email and social media accounts of accused Russian trolls
Accused Russian Troll Farm Casually Mentions Mueller 'Collected a Nude Selfie' ("witch hunt" they claim)
Russian operatives were promoting sex toys on Instagram to sow discord in the US : trollfare

Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say : politics (fucking little commie traitor) "The recount money raised by Stein (which this very subreddit was happy to repeatedly signal-boost and champion) has been used to pay Stein's egal expenses and even her campaign staff" (Putin's handmaiden and lying grifter)
Has anyone else noticed how frequently RTs use the word "Y'all?" : trollfare
#TrollTracker: How To Spot Russian Trolls -- Some clues which identify probable Kremlin accounts

Giuliani struggles to keep his story straight on Mueller cooperation | MSNBC - First, Rudy Giuliani isn't exactly excelling as a prominent member of the president's legal defense team (only the best incompetent liars)

Jemele Hill says calling Trump a white supremacist is like 'saying water is wet' (it's the best, wettest, water, from the standpoint of water!)
The comical incompetence of President Trump : politics ... "It's as comical as watching the Three Stooges running a nuclear power plant."


Government shutdown: Feds could do carpentry to pay rent, agency says (sweep streets, beg for space change)
Trump Administration Suggests Furloughed Workers Do Chores for Landlords to Help Pay Rent : politics ("they could clean toilets and stuff")
Senators are getting paid during the government shutdown. Many low-wage contractors aren't
Don Lemon airs 2013 clip of Trump saying Obama should be 'fired' over shutdown
Has the GOP retreated into a world of make-believe? The shutdown debate will tell us. - The Washington Post
Trump DOJ Lawyers Won't Work Amid Shutdown. Judges Say They Must - Bloomberg
Eschaton: Doesn't Care - Unless the shutdown affects somebody that knows somebody on Fox&Friends, Trump's the honey badger. Hey don't care.
Trump Is Losing the Government Shutdown Fight in a Rout ... Nevertheless, a president with a 40 percent approval rating -- who just suffered a historic rebuke in a midterm election -- should not be sacrificing his standing with the general public for the sake of waging a doomed crusade on behalf of his loyalists. (you mean, Fox News!)
No, President Trump. Reagan didn't try to build a wall (St Ronnie wanted more carnage at the border, not less)

Attn. Mr. President: 6 days until Speaker Pelosi (Nancy Smash comin' for you, Fat Donnie)
Team Trump Gleeful That Shutdown Will Hijack Pelosi's Big Moment - aides see a debate being waged on his issues, not hers, and they couldn't be happier ("distract her from investigations" hahaha that'll work)

Opinion | The Inevitability of Impeachment - The New York Times - Even Republicans may be deciding that the president has become too great a burden to their party or too great a danger to the country. (impeach, convict, imprison, execute)
Trump Impeachment Is 'Inescapable' Says Watergate Journalist, President Is 'Out of Control'
Trump Can Be Defeated In Spite of the Constitution - Lawyers, Guns & Money
House Democrats scoop up lawyers to power Trump investigations - CNNPolitics (so many crimes, so little time)
Robert Mueller Won't Decide Trump's Fate in 2019. Mitch McConnell Will. - The president has little to fear so long as one person, whose only concern is maximizing the power of the Republican Party, stands behind him.

Trump's New Judges Are Everything Conservatives Hoped For And Liberals Feared - Judges confirmed to federal appeals courts in the past two years are already staking out strong positions on guns, abortion, political speech, and agency power.

The Chart That Shows the Price Tag for Trump's Obamacare Sabotage - If You're middle class and looking for insurance through the health law, chances are you're paying a penalty courtesy of the G.O.P. (fuck off and die, suckers)

Trump did what he always does and changed his mind. Why was Congress surprised? - The Washington Post - The only way to deal with Donald Trump is to not do deals with Donald Trump. The private sector has learned this; when will Congress?


Eschaton: What's A Banana Cost? - I'd think the semi-richie riches (I don't mean the billionaires, just the upper upper upper middle class types) should have some logic circuit in their brain which spits out a readout saying, "If I can't live on $400,000 per year, it must be hard to live on $30,000!" but they never seem to get to that point.
Employers and Their Lackeys Have Lied About the Minimum Wage Since 1938 - Lawyers, Guns & Money - When the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1938, employers were apoplectic. The minimum wage would destroy America! It will lead to layoffs! It will undermine the freedom of Americans to make the wage they want, which somehow is less than minimum wage guidelines!
What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle - Bloomberg - An initial study said the increase to $15 would cost workers jobs and hours. That didn't happen (it never does)

Why the Bernie Movement Must Crush Beto O'Rourke - Sanders attracts the intense support of a small left-wing intellectual vanguard who see American politics in fundamentally different terms than most Democrats do. The primary struggle in American politics as they see it is not between liberalism and conservatism, but between socialism and capitalism.
"Trump Got Lucky" : Why G.O.P. Insiders Fear Beto and Biden Over Warren and Sanders - Republicans are happy to run against any progressive who tries to compete with Trump at the game he perfected. But they desperately fear another Barack Obama. (what does that even mean?)
Beto's towering advantage in the 2020 Democratic primary

/u/lemon_meringue explains the overriding goal of the Republican Party : bestof ("starve the beast" hello Charlie Baker and regulatory capture)
Kochtopus | INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION

North Carolina Elections Board Dissolves, Adding New Chaos in House Race - The New York Times (when all else fails, plus why was the court "angry" NYT?)


A correction to the correction - Lawyers, Guns & Money (NRO gets caught with its dick up its butt, has to delete dick) ... victory for reichwing failsons and faildaughters...
How Your Generating Campus PC Panics With Bullshit Random Andecdotes Sausage Gets Made - Lawyers, Guns & Money


White Referee Fired After Forcing Black Wrestler to Cut Dreadlocks : news
New Jersey school district won't compete in events officiated by ref who forced wrestler to cut his dreadlocks : news
High School Wrestling Ref Who Called Colleague The N-Word Makes Black Wrestler Cut Off His Dreadlocks

Lauderhill man brings loaded assault rifle into store over dispute on cigarette price WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale


Woman who claimed to be God robs mail truck, flees on tricycle, deputies say : news


The impact homelessness and the opioid crisis are having on San Francisco streets - CNN
Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreaks Are Exposing Crumbling U.S. Public Health Infrastructure | HuffPost

Angelina Jolie hints at move into politics - BBC News (will form the "Celebrity Dimbulb Party" and run with Kim K)


New York City Traffic Deaths Set to Hit 100-Year Low - WSJ - City officials credit traffic initiatives for reducing road deaths, on pace to fall for fifth consecutive year (remember when Bloomberg paid you to kill pedestrians?)


In New Hampshire, a clash over marijuana and libertarianism - The Boston Globe -- Live free or die. Unless, that is, your idea of freedom involves marijuana. (hahaha Sununu Jr.)

'Better dead than coed' : Deerfield Academy confronts its male-only past

911 outage continues for Mass. residents - The Boston Globe

More than 130 crashes reported Friday around Fitchburg, parts of N.H. - The Boston Globe


A drug used to treat PTSD may actually be harmful, a new study suggests. Prazosin is sometimes used to treat PTSD-related nightmares and insomnia that can increase suicide risk, but the drug may actually make nightmares and insomnia worse and not reduce suicidal thoughts in PTSD patients. : science


ELI5:Why Asia has such a high demand for endangered species body parts for traditional medicine, when some of these animals are not traditionally found in Asia eg the African Elephant, Giraffe or Rhino. : explainlikeimfive
HDYhMI7.jpg - Stalin is suspicious of doctors
Mao Zedong and the Resurgence of Traditional Chinese Medicine | Leonard Norkin Virology Site (Mao the Dong genocided half of chinese intelligencia and doctors, thought Western medicine was anti-revolutionary, so he brough back traditional Chinese Bullshit Medicine, which required genociding who branchs of the animal kingdom : the roots and branches of evil)


Netflix Takes Interactive Storytelling to the Next Level With Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Anyone as annoyed by how poor the lending process is for library ebooks as I am? : books
xsy
Karens of reddit, how's your life as a 'karen'? : AskReddit
Half-Chinese redditor brilliantly explains why Chinese values are so different from Western values : bestof (and then the Chinese mod deleted it haha)


(31) Mark Zuckerberg - For 2018, my personal challenge has been to focus on addressing some of the most important issues facing our community -- (how do I keep track of all my lies?)




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Opinion | Trump Imperils the Planet - The New York Times - the administration is taking the country, and the world, backward.
Environmental Crisis in North Dakota, Elsewhere Shows Republican Party Must Be Defeated as Presently Constituted - Our new environmental reality was not inevitable. It is, in many cases, the result of public policy. (death to the Necromongers)
Mount Etna Volcano Eruption and Earthquake Cause Christmas Chaos: In Pictures
2018 will be the first year with no violent tornadoes in the United States - The Washington Post

Colin O'Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica With Final 32-Hour Push ... essentially tacking an ultramarathon onto the 53rd day of an already unprecedented journey

Holiday sales: Retailers gifted with best shopping season in 6 years


Iran's Economic Crisis Drags Down the Middle Class Almost Overnight - economy is in a shambles, savaged by years of mismanagement and renewed economic sanctions.

Iraqi lawmakers demand US withdrawal after Trump visit - ABC News
Iraqi lawmakers criticize Trump visit as blow to Iraqi sovereignty | Reuters - and lawmakers said a meeting between Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi was canceled due to a disagreement over venue.
Trump Takes a War-Zone Victory Lap -- And Trips - The president used his first visit to Iraq to defend his decision to outsource the ISIS fight to a fickle ally. It wasn't a very convincing case.
How Trump gave away his secret war zone trip - POLITICO - trip to Iraq was supposed to be a surprise. But the White House couldn't keep the sensitive trip a secret for long. (blunderbus)
Donald Trump Twitter Account Video Reveals Covert U.S. Navy SEAL Deployment During Iraq Visit (Tre45on on stage)
Troops bringing Trump hats to sign may violate military rule - CNNPolitics

Trump's Feel-Good Troops Visit Also Featured a Flabbergasting Lie and a Serious Security Breach
Trump Put U.S. Troops In a 'Very Bad Position' By Politicizing His Iraq Visit, Retired General Says
Trump flubs another routine presidential task - The Washington Post - Trump has the obnoxious habit of using American military personnel as props, an audience for highly partisan attacks. Every other person to hold the office has understood that the military must be beyond politics; the apolitical military is a critical difference between Western democracies and thuggish regimes. Worst of all, Trump deployed the troops at the border in pre-election stunt to rile up his xenophobic base.

Homeland Security Chief Faults Parents, 'Open Border' Supporters In Migrant Kids' Deaths -- Kirstjen Nielsen (lying face of evil says parents and "carnage at the borders" are to blame, not her)
'Beyond Repulsive' Outrage After Trump DHS Secretary Blames 'Parent' and Open Borders' Advocates for Deaths of Children in US Custody
Migrant Detention Center Conditions Are 'subhuman,' ' Like an Episode of Locked Up Abroad' Says Democratic Congressman (Obama was even worse and the "press" ignored it)
Why the Hell Are We Locking Up Migrant Kids at All?
$800 Million in Taxpayer Money Went to Private Prisons Where Migrants Work for Pennies (Republicans love slave labor)

Trump's presidency has changed Washington, defied convention
Who's afraid of the MAGA mob? Only Trump.

Trump's Popularity Revisits Low as Government Agencies Shut Down -- Plurality of voters say president mostly to blame for funding lapse amid fight over border wall -- 39% approve of Trump, 56% don't -- matching nadir of his popularity in August 2017, after Charlottesville protests. - 43% plurality says he is mostly to blame for shutdown; 53% also say he didn't do enough to stop it

Trump claims without evidence that 'most of the people not getting paid' in partial government shutdown are Democrats' ("And I would fire them all if I could but not paying them is almost as good")
Trump now claims most furloughed workers 'are Democrats'
End of Government Shutdown May Depend on the Definition of 'Wall' (Dems will reopen government on 1/3)
The Government May Be Shut Down, But Taxpayers Are Footing The Bill For Mar-a-Lago Party Tents : politics
xsy Trump tries to steer shutdown focus to financial impact for Democrats ("Republicans don't work," he said)
The Shutdown Could End Tomorrow But Dealing With Trump Is Like Negotiating With a Criminal (wonder why that is?) With the tact of a rhinoceros in a bong shop, president Trump seems to have totally forgotten that he has complete control of Congress until January rolls around.

Trump apparently didn't read Mattis' resignation letter until cable news made a big deal of it (no no, he still didn't read it, stop pretending he can read, he just listened to Fox's 2-syllable-max translation) ... The darkest of comedies. This dude doesn't listen to his own advisors. But listens to the man on the television.

Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting
Report Puts Cohen in Prague and Collusion on the Table
Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting : politics
Cell Data Reportedly Placed Cohen Phone in Prague | Law & Crime - While Cohen vehemently denied being there, cell phone data indicates otherwise ... The cell phone data is significant because it lends at least a degree of credence to the Steele Dossier (hahaha the only unverified part is the pee tape)
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting : politics
Scott Stedman on Twitter: "Two sources tell me that at least one major news org (perhaps two) have confirmation of the Cohen/Prague trip and are working on reports."

Giuliani calls for Mueller to be investigated for destruction of FBI evidence | TheHill - defense lawyer pointedly accused Mueller's office of destroying evidence by allowing text messages from now-fired FBI official Peter Strzok and his FBI lover, Lisa Page, to be erased in the Russia probe. (haha, always stupid Fuckiani)


MSNBC IS THE #1 CABLE NEWS NETWORK FOR WEEK OF DEC. 17, BEATING FOX NEWS FOR 1ST TIME IN 17 YEARS | NBCUniversal Media Village - MSNBC Also Tops FOX News in A25-54 for 1st Time Since 2001
MSNBC Beats Fox News in Weekly Cable News Ratings for First Time Since 2000 - The Daily Beast


The Obamas are America'ss most admired man and woman (eciptsing Hillary)


Probe of Trump's charity could crash 'like a Mack Truck' into his real estate empire -- There seems to be entanglements in terms of people and probably in terms of money (well, ya don't say)


Trump's 'Apprentics' Jouney in Reality: Wouldn't You Like to F*ck Her?' -- A speed read of a New Yorker profile of Mark Burnett reveals more about the existence (or not) of new Trump tapes, and the man who saw the presidency as just another game for TV.

Fox News Host Sean Hannity Has Seen His Ratings Fall as Buddy Donald Trump's Problems Have Increased (shadow VP) show had an average of 2.76 million viewers from the midterms until December 17, a 19 percent drop compared to the previous month ... ratings fell 30 percent among viewers who were 25 to 54
Fox News host Sean Hannity has seen his ratings fall as buddy Donald Trump's problems have increased : politics

From Trump to Brett Kavanaugh to Les Moonves: How the childish masculinity of aging men took over America in 2018. -The Year of the Old Boys - It's hard to overstate the extent to which childish masculinity revealed itself in 2018 as the engine of power in America. ... This year we saw with startling clarity that what many of the nation's powerful men share is less talent and vision than arbitrary cruelty, pleasure in retribution, bullying, shouting, sneering, a sense that they're above consequences, and an unusual dependence on golf -- the traits of aging manchildren. (ommited the Old White Boys part and the literal dick-waving, but yeah)
Living in An Old Boy's World - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... "They peered into the face of Donald Trump and saw themselves in all their glorious awfulness. That's why they continue to be all in. They don't worship Trump as their leader. They worship Trump as themselves."


California Republican Party fractured after 2018 election | McClatchy Washington Bureau - The California Republican Party had 14 of 53 congressional seats before the 2018 election and next year will have seven. (Republicans are pissed that Democrats got to vote)

'Deportation bus' candidate reports to jail following indictment - State senator and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams turned himself into Hall County jail Wednesday, days after news broke that he had been indicted on charges that included insurance fraud.


As national Women's March leaders face claims of anti-Semitism, Chicago group says it won't host January march, citing costs ... an event that for the past two years drew hundreds of thousands of supporters to Grant Park in concert with similar marches across the globe ... following accusations of anti-Semitism and scrutiny of its ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. (Mallory needed to pay herself a lot of money)

Jeffrey Epstein still managed to be shocking even in a year full of heinous men ... "Throughout his ordeal, Epstein maintained the air that there was nothing sordid about his actions. His wealth seems to have endowed him with utter shamelessness, the emperor's new clothes with an erection" (Lolita Express, Pedo Force 1)
In a Year Full of Heinous Men, Jeffrey Epstein Still Managed to Be Shocking : politics
Manhattan DA sided with pedophile after botching investigation - Assistant DA Jennifer Gaffney, then-deputy chief of Cyrus Vance Jr
Bill Clinton's name found 21 times in rich sex offender's phone book

Elizabeth Wurtzel on Discovering the Truth About Her Parents ... My mother had to take the side entrance into the Random House office building with all the other women. (Prozac Nation and Coke Nation and Heroin Nation) "I have spent my whole life driving people crazy."


Legal marijuana industry had banner year in 2018 - ABC News - as the global market exploded and cannabis pushed its way further into the financial and cultural mainstream. (hello, Fuckachusetts)
One year of legal pot sales and California doesn't have the bustling industry it expected. Here's why -- Retailers and growers say they've been stunted by complex regulations, high taxes and decisions by most cities to ban cannabis shops. At the same time, many residents are going to city halls and courts to fight pot businesses they see as nuisances, and police chiefs are raising concerns about crime triggered by the marijuana trade. (sound familiar? )


Why PewDiePie, Youtube's Biggest Star Can't Be Canceled




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Dan Rather asks Trump what's more 'marginal' : 'Believing in Santa at age 7 or not believing in climate change at age 72?'

You Can't Understand The Brutal Reality Of Gun Violence Until You Hear It From Doctors -- The NRA tried to push doctors out of the gun debate. They responded with raw accounts from the front lines of the crisis. (gunfuckers)
'What if someone was shooting?' - More than 4 million children endured lockdowns last school year, a groundbreaking Washington Post analysis found. The experience left many traumatized. (NRA says they deserved it for not being armed)
The failed leadership of Broward Sheriff Scott Israel


British-Iranian Scholar Returns Home After Detention - The New York Times - A prominent British-Iranian scholar detained in Iran since April has returned to Britain, according to an advocacy organization he helped found. The scholar, Abbas Edalat -- He is a founder of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran. (dumbfuck Islamonuts fucked themselves)

On the Surface, Hungary Is a Democracy. But What Lies Underneath? - The New York Times (asshole Nazis all the way down b/c history is hard)

Arms Sales to Saudis Leave American Fingerprints on Yemen's Carnage (thanks, Barry)

Hezbollah Leaders Targeted, Reportedly Hit in Israeli Airstrike, U.S. Official Says

Queen's speech in front of lavish gold piano blasted for being 'out of touch' - Queen Elizabeth referred to Brexit in her Christmas day message as she sat beside a golden piano

Selling Real Estate in Russia? Are You Crazy? - The New York Times - As closing day approached, the couple had one task to complete. Each would need a certificate of sanity from a psychologist. (deep in the Putinocracy)
Russia Considers Constitution Changes as Putin Faces Term Limits - Bloomberg - parliament raised the possibility of changing the constitution as speculation grows that the Kremlin is considering ways to allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in power beyond the end of his current term, when current law requires him to step down. (dictator-for-life!)

I thought fraud in reporting was done for. I was wrong. - The Washington Post ... Not until 2004, two years after Kelley had been honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist, did USA Today figure out he had been fabricating and plagiarizing since 1991 ... Ugly Americans, and American ugliness, crop up repeatedly in Relotius's articles (irony is he was lazy, didn't have to invent this shit)

Opinion | America Needs a Privacy Law - The New York Times - An expert on data privacy says the United States lags behind Europe.
2018 Was A Terrible Year For The Press | HuffPost - From the death of Jamal Khashoggi to Donald Trump's attacks on journalists.
UN Special Rapporteur: Donald Trump 'worst perpetrator' of fake news


No More Bread and Water: U.S. Navy Scraps an Age-Old Penalty - The New York Times (Navy stuck in the 1800's, see Admirals' Revolt)


Remember the Big Story in the Russia Scandal: Donald Trump Betrayed America : politics (does that mean ... firing squad time?)
American Dad! - ollie north - YouTube
6c2otvgeqwc01.jpg (JPEG Image, 500 W 684 pixels) - Scaled (109%)

Donald Trump has been avoiding war zones for 50 years : politics
Trump Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq to See American Troops : politics (shamed into it)


WSJ: Acting AG lied on resume about 'Academic All-Amefrican' honors
Acting AG Matthew Whitaker falsely claimed 'All-American' academic honors on resume, government forms (the stupid American honor, below 3.3)
t Lawmakers demand probe of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's 'sweetheart deal'


Eschaton - They can choose the particulars, but given what we basically know about Trump's financial crime empire and blatant violations of the emoluments clause, if Trump isn't impeachable then...would any president be? And if not prosecutable and not impeachable then lol nothing matters. The next one will know that, too. -- Of course the Senate is not going to convict, but that's on them.

Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam? - The New York Times (5-star General Bonespurs!)

Dow soars 750 points, erases losses from worst Christmas Eve ever : news
Economic growth is slowing all around the world - The Washington Post
As Market Rout Continues, Trump Stands Firm on Fed, Border Wall - WSJ

Trump signals no end to shutdown: 'You have to have a wall' ($5bn wall between his brain and reality)
After Christmas, The Government Shutdown Is Just Getting Started | HuffPost - Asked when the government would reopen fully, Trump said he couldn't say
Trump lawyers, citing shutdown, ask court for delay in emoluments case : politics

Eschaton: Don't Know Nothing - One can't always distinguish between the lies, the shifting incentives, and the ignorance. And Trump is right sometimes even when he's wrong! -- He's right about the Fed chair ... I don't know what to make of his strong dollar gibberish. Like many people Trump thinks a "strong dollar" is good because it's our dollar and strong is better than weak. It isn't that simple.

Opinion | A Gutted I.R.S. Makes the Rich Richer - The New York Times - With enforcement enfeebled, as much as 20 percent of potential tax revenues go uncollected. (they still have enough money to audit poor people, though)
Ho ho ho: IRS cuts audits of rich, steps up audits of poor after budget cuts | Salon.com (oh look)


Don Jr. Mocked With Birthday Party Starring Alleged Ex | HuffPost - Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine and tireless troll of President Donald Trump, will throw the soirie at his Las Vegas club on New Year's Eve


Eschaton: Toblerone Fatwa - The nutty right is upset because Toblerone certified its chocolate "halal" in Europe. It's mostly like labeling beef "gluten free." Fair enough, but there wasn't really much doubt. -- For awhile a certain online nutcase whose name rhymes with Gam Peller was obsessed with the cruelty of halal slaughter, which whatever one thinks about it is identical to kosher slaughter in terms of what the animal experiences. Particular involvement of religious authorities differ, of course. -- I bring up the latter because this type of stupidity is not new. More people aware of it now.


Black Voters, a Force in Democratic Politics, Are Ready to Make Themselves Heard - The New York Times

Defying election results, Republicans balk at voter-approved state laws | MSNBC
Defying election results, Republicans balk at voter-approved state laws : politics

North Carolina 9th District voter fraud scandal: new evidence emerges - Vox - The Republican candidate who won in November likely won't be seated before an official hearing in January.
More evidence piles up in North Carolina election fraud scandal : politics


Sexual assault case against Kevin Spacey includes video evidence, Massachusetts State Police report says : news (was in character?)
Kevin Spacey's Bizarre House of Cards-inspired Video Racks Up 4.5M Views in 24 Hours. Meanwhile, Netflix had no comment. : television

Cop Fends Off Menacing Group in NYC Subway Station, Is Praised for Restraint : news

Manhunt underway after gunman kills officer during traffic stop in Northern California: Police - ABC News

Lakewood woman hunts down porch pirate, records confrontation on video : news


A new study shows 7 key features shared by both social anxiety and depression: irritability, feelings of worthlessness, mood instability, depressed mood, positive affect, social avoidance, and social fear. The key "bridging" symptom in the new model proved to be feelings of worthlessness.


What's the adult version of "there is no Santa Claus"?


How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. : technology




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Some parts of Western US have had a 41% reduction in the yearly maximum mass of snow, according to new research, the first time anyone has assessed the trend at the 2.5-mile by 2.5-mile pixel level over the 35-year period from 1982 to 2016. : science (too many dots for simple minds)

Indonesia tsunami caused by collapse of volcano : WTF
ArcGIS - Major Cities Near Active Volcanic Threat

What are concepts that are really simple but people just can't seem to understand? : AskReddit


Dutch church clocks up 1,400 hours to prevent family being deported - CNN

The Catholic Church scandal casts a shadow over the season. But Christmas is a time for hope. - The Washington Post (the ring is so gay)


Ex-Mossad Head: Russia Decided Trump Was Their Best Candidate, and Ran Him for President : politics (Israel is mad about Trump giving Syria to Iran)
Russia's Secret Weapon? America's Idiocracy

You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal

An 8-year-old migrant has died in U.S. custody on Christmas Day - The Washington Post
US says 2nd Guatemalan child dies in immigration custody
ICE dumps hundreds of migrants with nowhere to go at a bus station on eve of Christmas without warning shelters : politics (away in the manger)
Ocasio-Cortez sends Christmas greeting to 'refugee babies in maners' (why is it always and only AOC?)
TSA moving toward floppy-ear airport dog force because pointy-ear dogs 'scare children'

Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime - Though he called military personnel on Tuesday, Trump did not visit a hospital or a military base.
Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime : politics

Trump Is Reportedly Considering Firing Mnuchin Over Stock Market Woes : politics (his reality show strategy -- when ratings tank, fire somebody +Kelly's absence)

Government shutdown: Donald Trump, Democrats at odds over border wall -- Government shutdown, day 4: Pelosi blames Trump for using 'scare tactics' over border wall
Shutdown Takes The Twinkle Out Of National Christmas Tree | HuffPost - Resolving the impasse seems unlikely before Thursday, when the House and Senate return. (Trumps sticks it to the "coastal elites' b/c stupid Iowa farmers could care less about "government" unless it's paying them for their idiotic decision to vote for Trumpster and get tariffed)
Side hustles and family loans help federal workers weather the shutdown - The Washington Post

Trump tells boy that believing in Santa at 7 is 'marginal' - ABC News
Trump hands out lumps of coal to enemies on Christmas Eve | TheHill
'I am all alone' : An isolated Trump unleashes a storm of Yuletide gloom
I Want to Live In A Tacky Gold-Plated Building On the Upper East Side And Never Go Out in the Street - Lawyers, Guns & Money

MSNBC Trolls Rudy Giuliani With 'Most Outrageous Diversion' From Mueller Probe Award - Two of the three contenders were President Donald Trump himself. ("The truth is not the truth" "My lies are the truth")

Democrat wants to block Paul Ryan's gym access during government shutdowns
Trump's 'poor me' Christmas Eve tweet draws mockery as 800,000 federal workers go without pay
Donald Trump was a 'Serial Failure' and 'Daddy's little welfare case,' MSNBC Host Says
Why the Trump presidency will end poorly - Los Angeles Times

What the Fall of the Roman Republic Can Teach Us About America - The New York Times

In Maine, a political sea change as a new governor prepares to take over from LePage - The Boston Globe


16,932 people have lost Medicaid coverage under Arkansas's work requirements - Some of the worst fears about Medicaid work requirements are coming true. (also, the Republican plan to make people suffer as much as possible)

Surgery center possibly exposed thousands of patients to HIV, hepatitis : news


Gritty's evolution from googly-eyed hockey mascot to meme to leftist avatar, explained -- On our burning hunger for moral clarity and the unexplainable heart of the universe.
Todd VanDerWerff on Twitter: "Anyway, back to Gritty, Explained. "


California Gov. Brown orders new DNA tests in Kevin Cooper murder case : news ... Good to know that Senator Kamala Harris, who previously denied this man the chance to have DNA testing and refused to allow him a chance to prove himself when she was California's attorney general, gives a shit now that she's an elected Senate politician who has to care about appearances. She 'regrets' not allowing it now, per other articles. Yeah. Uh-huh. I'm sure that means a lot to a man you doomed to being locked away on death row for years and years. (not the only skeleton in her closet and Jerry Brown, attorney general, didn't care either)
Opinion | One Test Could Exonerate Him. Why Won't California Do It? - The New York Times

Tennessee nurse prescribed 'colossal' amount of opioids, kept license through error, state says : news

Eschaton: A Well-Trained Militia - The cops, who theoretically (if not in practice) have a reasonable amount of training do not handle this stuff well. -- The kids told police they were trying to take a picture on campus when the Lopez spotted them and started chasing them. - That's when they claim the custodian pointed a gun at one of them yelling, "I'm gonna shoot you! Do you wanna die tonight?" -- Tell people there need to be more "good guys with guns" in schools and you're telling them it's appropriate to whip out their external death penises any time little Johnny gets a bit hyperactive.


u/Detroitdreg's account on the Psychological development of Catholic priests, and why a sizeable number of them are prone to committing Child Abuse (it's a bigger problem)


Are there infinite sets of 1-10 that have 4 primes? : askscience

ELI5: If light is mass-less, what is keeping it from having an infinite velocity? : explainlikeimfive

The 'clean plate' mentality drives us to overeat: New research explores our tendency to overeat when we only have a little bit of food left over. Many of us were raised with a 'clean your plate' mentality, stemming from a desire to not be wasteful but this can also lead to overconsumption.

ELI5: my parents live near a lake. It's frozen, cause winter in Canada, and it makes this weird low pitched hollow noise. What is it called and what causes it? : explainlikeimfive

TIL that, contrary to popular belief, there's no good evidence that vibrators were developed or used for treating "female hysteria". That idea comes from one book whose author said it's just a hypothesis rather than a claim of fact. Other historians consider it highly unlikely to be true. : todayilearned


TIL orcas can teach themselves to communicate with dolphins. A group of researchers in California discovered that orcas living alongside dolphins changed their vocalizations by adding in more clicks and whistles to match the dolphin's communication

What is the most useless social construct mankind has created? : AskReddit
The Big Five Project - Personality Test = Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism.
Big Five Personality Test
Do Personality Tests Mean Anything? - YouTube

Flew from Norway to Arizona to surprise my mom on Christmas Day... Took her awhile to recognize me : funny - God, you just made me have the cold realization that identity theft in the future is going to be apeshit. -- 100% accurate voice modulators. AI online impersonators uploaded with your social media data to make them act in the most accurate representation of you. DNA replication to frame people at crime scenes...

14 years ago, The "Numa Numa" video was uploaded to newgrounds. 26% of the human population was born during or after 2004, meaning that a quarter of the world was born after this video was uploaded. : videos - and if you're 30, you're older than over half of all living people.

TIL "There once was a man from Nantuckit" originally wasn't vulgar at all. First published in 1902, it goes "There once was a man from Nantucket. Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man. And as for the bucket, Nantucket." : todayilearned
limericks - Album on Imgur


Did you get an ebook reader for Christmas? /r/FreeEBOOKS welcomes you :) : books




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Indonesia Tsunami in Pictures: Deadly Wave of Destruction Along Sunda Strait Coast - The tsunami struck without warning on Saturday night, sweeping people into the sea and shattering beachside buildings along the Sunda Strait.

How Credit Cards Are Used to Finance Mass Shootings - The New York Times - Omar Mateen used six credit cards to buy two guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition before he opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub. ("I'll just max out my cc and buy a bunch of guns and kill everybody b/c America!)

A cyberattack that may have compromised information about current and former NASA employees is only the latest sign of ongoing information security problems that have plagued the agency for years. : news
THREAT MAP by LookingGlass (Trump is attacking Iran)

National Christmas Tree Dark Due To Government Shutdown | HuffPost - the National Park Service says the tree site near the White House will stay closed until the shutdown ends. (kinda symbolic)

China imports zero U.S. soybeans in November for first time since trade war started : news ... lazyassdog 16.4k points 7 9 hours ago - Canadian soybean producers thank you for supporting Trump. (haha, happy now, Iowa soybean farmers? and connect the dot below if it's not too much work -->)

U.S. Stocks Fall Sharply Ahead Of Christmas Holiday | HuffPost - very possible that the market will end this month as the worst December for stocks since 1931. (yay, Trump! we're winning!)
Dow drops 653 points in worst Christmas Eve trading day ever - The plummet followed a tumultuous few days in Washington, amid reports that Trump was discussing how to remove Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
Dow drops, S&P 500 on the cusp of bear market
Schumer and Pelosi accuse Trump of plunging country into chaos as markets tank | TheHill
Stocks fall after Steven Mnuchin's odd statement fails to calm markets - CNN
What's Behind Steve Mnuchin's Press Release? - The Atlantic - The Treasury secretary put out an alarming -- and confusing -- press release on Sunday evening.
Shutdown, Stock Slump and Mattis Exit Cap Grim Year for Trump - Bloomberg - One week sums up a failing presidency. (time for Dumpster to fire himself)
Stock Market Rout Has Trump Fixated on Fed Chair Powell - The New York Times(baby throws tantrum, tried to fire everybody)
Markets stage one of worst Christmas Eves ever, closing down more than 600 points as Trump blames Fed for stock losses in a tweet - The Washington Post

Wonder how the Trump administration would handle a financial crisis? Well, now we know. - The Washington Post

Democrats vow new scrub of post-9/11 war powers - POLITICO - The House changeover is giving new life to calls by some lawmakers to reexamine the sweeping authority that Congress granted the president 17 years ago. (another Bushfuck legacy)

Judge orders North Korea to pay more than $500 million in damages for Otto Warmbier

Claas Relotius: Disgraced German reporter may have embezzled donations intended for Syrian orphans - CBS News

Scandals brewing, Netanyahu calls early election for April (they love him in Israel)


Wesley Clark on Trump's Syria withdrawal: 'Did Erdogan blackmail the president? Was there a payoff?' (not incriminating Jared and some hotels)
Ex-NATO commander: Allies wondering if Trump was blackmailed to pull troops out of Syria : politics
Top general on details of Trump's withdrawal plans: "I have no idea." (America is being run by "the best instincts" without a brain)


Chief Justice pauses contempt order for mystery company in Mueller investigation - CNNPolitics


Trump tweeted a picture of himself signing a "bill" hat appears to be a blank sheet of paper, and the internet is having a field day
Amanda Katz on Twitter: "This photo of the president sternly pretending to sign a blank piece of paper is, as many have noted, amazing "
Stonebridge Joe on Twitter: "Do you hand write the bill from start to finish? I ask because the sheet is blank. #FakeBills #workinghard "
An intelligent, logical American on Twitter: "Signing a blank piece of paper with a pen that has the cap on...you can take Trump out of reality TV but you can never take the reality TV out of Trump... https://t.co/qw7BJ0Ef5d"


Patrick Shanahan, Trump's pick for acting defense secretary, steps into spotlight after Mattis's ouster (no experience in government or military, so typlical Trumpster)
Trump's Incoming Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan Pushed Military to Buy Weapons It Didn't Want ... Shanahan's corporate allies have thrived under Trump. Now he's going to be Secretary of Defense.

Based on Trump's detailed diagram of his slat wall, here is some advanced mathematics (sorry, math is impossible for The howls about ORepublicans unless it involves tax cuts)

Twitter Users Brutally Mock Trump For Self-Pitying 'Poor Me' Tweet - "Let's s hope he's visited by three spirits tonight!" ... "While you are alone in a Mansion, there are 800,000 Americans not being paid this Christmas, you out of touch baby."

'No bottom for Trump' : Disgusted conservative launches epic rant over ouster of Mattis on MSNBC
Trump is incompetent, impulsive and amoral. Heaven help us all. - The Washington Post (not "amoral," Eugene, "evil." and see the Antichrist appearing in the comments)


Melania Trump closes 2018 with fewer personal woes, but a difficult public perception - CNNPolitics



2020 Presidential Campaigns Are Screening Potential Staff For Me Too Problems | HuffPost - "a complete cultural change" - possible 2020 Democratic candidates are scrutinizing hires for any past misconduct. (hello, Kamala)

McCaskill warns Dems about 'cheap' rhetoric; says GOP senators privately believe Trump is 'nuts (disses AOC b/c she should keep her mouth shut - fuck you Clair FuckDog) '

"They are Suspicious of Beto" : : Why Are Democrats Trying to Annihilate an O'Rourke Campaign Before It Has Even Started? - The howls about O'Rourke from the Chapo wing of the Internet say as much about Bernie Sanders's diminished stature as they do about the golden boy from Texas. Is Beto the real deal, or just a Davos Democrat on a skateboard? (BernieBros are having a meltdown)

The Virtue Signalers Won't Change the World - Third-wave antiracism makes sense, and fits into the longer struggle, but it's a dead end ... The new zeitgeist is under-considered and even condescending, seductive but fruitless, a fashion statement in the guise of a program, and finally, a distraction for a people who have already been through so very much ../.. James Weldon Johnson, the NAACP head and author, insisted in 1934, "I will not allow prejudice or any of its attendant humiliations and injustices bear me down to spiritual defeat. My inner life is mine, and I will maintain and defend its integrity against the forces of hell." ... Racial uplift in modern America does require dealing with matters more abstract than what a Douglass or a King faced. This is a challenge. Progressives shirk that challenge, however, in fashioning a new kind of activism based on performance and display. They should not do less; they should do better. (he has a good point about the Church Lady Religiousity Syndrom and compare to Alice Walker and the anti-semitic Black Girls of the Women's March -- the problem is not enough thinking)

Lebron James Posts 'Jewish Money' Selfie With 21 Savage Rap Lyrics, Angering Conservative Critics ... "In the NFL they got a bunch of old white men owning teams and they got that slave mentality."
LeBron James of Los Angeles Lakers apologizes for 'Jewish money' IG posting

Anti-Semitism is not just another opinion. The New York Times should know better. - The Washington Post



Kevin Spacey Charged With Felony Sexual Assault | Hollywood Reporter
Kevin Spacey to be arraigned in alleged Nantucket sex assault of Heather Unruh's son - The Boston Globe
Kevin Spacey charged with sexually assaulting son of former WCVB anchor : news
Kevin Spacey Releases Bizarre Video Monologue Amid Sexual Assault Charge | HuffPost (Spacefuck off the deep end)
Kevin Spacey: Let Me Be Frank : videos ... "This might be the strangest video, in context of reality, I've evr seen."


12 Ways To Keep Your Home Warm Without Cranking Up The Heat | HuffPost Life


Silent Night: The Christmas carol was born on Christmas Eve in 1818 - The Washington Post - The song debuted on Christmas Eve in 1818 in an Austrian church

The worst gifts boyfriends give to girlfriends, from a can opener to a sonogram - The Washington Post - The five love languages -- receiving gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service and physical touch
All I want for Christmas is a lesbian meet-cute - The Washington Post - Ever since I came out as gay at age 24, I learned that lesbian love stories are hard to come by


Is Estrogen the Key to Understanding Women's Mental Health? ... As recently as the 1980s, a person could not be tagged schizophrenic if he or she was older than 40. Some clinics targeting early intervention have cutoff ages as young as 24 ... They found something astonishing: a demonstrable "second peak" of first-onset schizophrenia after 45. These patients were predominantly female ... They believe that in some, the dramatic fluctuations in hormones that accompany the onset of menopause may help to trigger schizophrenia ... This correlation is called "the esgtrogen hypothesis." ... If estrogen modulates psychosis, it might explain why schizophrenic symptoms in menstruating women were less severe than those in men and why these women needed lower doses of antipsychotics to control them ... It also blunts the effect of dopamine and acts as an inhibitor, similar to an antipsychotic. " And that's really why women don't start wars ... "femalee troubles" (and doctors have no clue b/c women are a mystery)

Study Confirms: Global Quantum Internet Really Is Possible : technology (light travels at the speed of causality, and gets all the attention)
Causality (physics) - Wikipedia - Speed of Causality
The Speed of Light is NOT About Light | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios - YouTube

Is psychopathy considered a binary diagnosis or is it seen as a spectrum? : askscience
The interpersonal core of personality pathology


Our family has a 35+ year tradition of disguising Christmas gifts. This took over 80 hours to build. : funny
If Santa's lump of coal was updated for the modern era, what would he give to bad boys and girls?
SantaLand Diaries: David Sedaris - YouTube


Evan Spiegel's Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success -- Until Users Fled - Snap, once seen as a viable competitor to Facebook, is struggling after the CEO ignored warnings about a redesign that proved unpopular ... Mr. Spiegel co-founded Snap while a design student at Stanford University, where he was a fraternity party planner and used his sense of how young people communicate to design the early versions of Snapchat. (haha stock is way below IPO, narcissitic techbro asshole kills his company, still walks away with billions)

Eschaton: Why I Care - Because we barely spend any money on mass transit on this country, when we do it's often on pretty stupid projects decided by people who have never actually seen a bus let alone been on one, and quite often shiny new stupid technologies that are the opposite of mass transit are used as an excuse to block any actually useful projects. (Rahmbo going to fuck up transit in Chicago b/c ... "cars in tunnels" is revolutionary!)

The end of leaning in: How Sheryl Sandberg's message of empowerment fully unraveled (lean in and be evil; these are all fake people)




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Pollution from US manufacturing has massively declined since 1990, despite increases in production. New study in the American Economic Review finds that it is primarily due to environmental regulation. : science (Republicans want to kill you)

Indonesia: Tsunami kills more than 200 in disaster without warning - The Washington Post
Tsunami Kills Over 220 in Indonesia and Injures Over 800 More - The New York Times

TIL that the Brazilian megacity of Sco Paulo is not only the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world but also has a larger Italian population than any city in Italy and boasts the biggest Japanese population of any city outside of Japan. : todayilearned ... And also the biggest Lebanese outside Lebanon, the biggest Armenian outside Armenia, the 2nd biggest Lithuanian...and so goes on.


Someone is trying to take entire countries offline and cybersecurity experts say 'it's a matter of time because it's really easy : technology


In Syria, Assad's government is doubling down - on the killing of political prisoners as the civil war heads toward its conclusion - once-teeming prison cells being emptied by mass murder (Trump's buddies)
The top US official in the fight against the Islamic State group has quit over President Trump's decision to pull troops from Syria, reports say. : news
White House says Erdogan promised Trump he'd finish off ISIS in Syria (as soon as he kills all the Kurds fighting ISIS)
Turkey masses troops near Kurdish-held Syrian town : worldnews ... "Yep, and as a result we won't hear that Kushner okayed his murder."

Opinion | The Threat in the White House - The New York Times - With the impetuous decisions that drove Jim Mattis into retirement, President Trump does more to undermine American national security than any foreign adversary.
Susan Rice: Trump doing more to undermine national security than any foreign adversary | TheHill
Susan Rice rips Trump over McGurk tweet: 'I can assure you' Obama knows him well ("Obama guys" = "people who can think")
Dem senator: Trump saying he doesn't know his top ISIS envoy 'should scare the hell out of every American'
Trump 'hates' Mattis resignation letter ... Trump and Hannity form a coprophagic ouroboros.
Mattis will leave as defense secretary on Jan. 1 - The Boston Globe (for the neologisms in the comments: "Herr Twitler" and " Cheeto von Tweeto")

Turkey masses troops near Kurdish-held Syrian town (more blood of our allies on Trump's hands)

Saudi Arabia Suspected of Helping Accused Murderer Escape Portland : news

Secularism for the Win? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The latest in laicite: the mayor of a Parisian suburb banned a vendor from the city's Christmas market because she was wearing a Muslim headscarf.

Spiegel to file criminal complaint against cheating reporter - Spiegel said it now had information that Relotius allegedly launched a campaign for readers to give money to help subjects of an article he wrote but that the bank details he gave directed the funds to his own account.

The lure of chaos is leading Britain straight into the abyss - The Washington Post (and fucking Corbyn wants a "socialist revolution" where people get killed a lot)
Gatwick drone disruption: Pair arrested over airport chaos released without charge | London Evening Standard
Police say it is 'a possibility there was never a drone at Gatwick' : worldnews - undefined
AI-generated and manipulated content


Trump says he had a "long" call with Turkish president Erdogan ("you get the fuck out of Syria or I release Jared talking to BoneSaw"


Mick Mulvaney says DHS can't 'spend money from Mexico' for wall: 'We have to get it from the treasury' (Dumpster has been spending other people's money all his life so it's a hard concept for his tiny brain)
Merkley: Border wall 'a fourth-century strategy' (for a fourth-grade mind)
GOP discord on wall prolongs shutdown fight | TheHill - But conservatives at the lunch, including some of Trump's top allies in the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, pushed back on that idea, encouraging the president not to cave and accept what they view as a bad deal.

Hundreds of migrant families arrive at remote border crossings, overwhelming U.S. agents - The Washington Post

Trump is 'Terrible CEO' and his 'Decomposing' Presidency is Running America 'Into the Ground' Republican CNN Host Says
Wealthy Republicans lose faith in Trump, as nearly 40% say they wouldn't vote to re-elect him: CNBC survey : politics
Dow Jones YTD Performance | MacroTrends

Trump forces Mattis out two months early, names Shanahan acting defense secretary - The Washington Post
Trump, Angry Over Mattis's Rebuke, Removes Him 2 Months Early

Trump can launch nuclear weapons whenever he wants, with or without Mattis - The Washington Post - No defense secretary can stop an impulsive president.

Schiff: 'Prepared' to force Mueller report release if White House blocks

My Daughter Reality Winner Faced Severe Punishment, But Key Figures in the Trump-Russia Scandal Are Getting Off Easy

Week 83: BuzzFeed Takes a Victory Lap - POLITICO Magazine - Week 83: BuzzFeed Takes a Victory Lap -- The libel case over the dossier it published before Trump took office gets tossed. But the explosive contents that sped up the Russia probe still await final vindication. (and Chuck Toddler - surprise! - was wrong, and so was Margaret Sullivan and ... even ... David Corn who thought is was "unfair" to Dumpster ... and Isikoff, who was thanked by Dumpster ...Not everybody was against BuzzFeed. Richard Tofel of ProPublica supported him as did the Columbia Journalism Review ... by Shack Jafer)

John Huber, Justice Dept. Sheriff Who Never Quite Rode Into Town | RealClearInvestigations - John Huber has developed almost mythical status among pro-Trump tweeters since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed him to investigate why the FBI spied on Trump's aides and whether they protected Hillary Clinton and her foundation over alleged misdeeds ... Instead, more than a year since his appointment, Huber's lack of traction on either front is leading many once hopeful supporters to dismiss his investigation as a "sham" (get that? it's not the fake bullshit, it 's the "investigation" of the fake bullshit)

'Bushies' creep into Trump's administration - Trump is suspicious of people who have worked for the Bush family, but has little choice but to keep hiring them -- to the anger of some hard-core supporters. (creeps will creep)

Paul Ryan's Entire Career Was a Cash Grab for Billionaires (1. Give us your money. 2. Fuck you.)

Inside Bernie-world's war on Beto O'Rourke -- As the Texas congressman's star rises, Sanders supporters turn up the heat: (Bernie will fuck this one up also)


Women's March Roiled by Accusations of Anti-Semitism -- But she said the conversation took a turn when Tamika Mallory, a black gun control activist, and Carmen Perez, a Latina criminal justice reform activist, replied that Jews needed to confront their own role in racism ... At that first meeting, Ms. Wruble said, they seemed to want to educate her about a dark side of Jewish history, and told her that Jewish people played a large role in the slave trade and the prison industry.(Farrakhaned) At one point, Ms. Wruble said she asked about security for the march and was told by the leaders that the Nation of Islam would be providing it. (compare to Alice Walker)

Is the Women's March Melting Down? -- Millions of women mobilized against gender inequality and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. But only four of them ended up at the top -- and the consequences have been enormous ... Perez and Mallory allegedly first asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people -- and even, according to a close secondhand source, claimed that Jews were proven to have been leaders of the American slave trade. These are canards popularized by The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, a book published by Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam -- "the bible of the new anti-semitism," according to Henry Louis Gates Jr., who noted in 1992: "Among significant sectors of the black community, this brief has become a credo of a new philosophy of black self-affirmation." (and then they lied; a lot of lessons here, but one is that "Bob Bland" is a dick and the Black girls' connection to Farrakhan was much deeper than it looked and they did a power-play for the money and kicked out all the Jews and ignored local chapters b/c they were the "stars")

Eschaton: QAnon - I've mostly not followed the QAnon stuff and I recommend you don't worry your beautiful mind with such things, but I've dipped in a little bit and... these people are mostly not well ... Related: "For two years, Mr. Trump has waged war against his own government, convinced that people around him are fools. Angry that they resist his wishes, uninterested in the details of their briefings, he becomes especially agitated when they tell him he does not have the power to do what he wants, which makes him suspicious that they are secretly undermining him" ... Also this article has appeared weekly (essentially) for 2 years.


Trump's 'Merry Christman' pledge fails to manifest at his own businesses (presidency is a sideline)

Christmas Is the Loneliest Time for Qanon Fans (delusionality is a bitch)

David Hogg said he got into Harvard months after Laura Ingraham taunted him over college rejections - The Washington Post (Ingrafuck lost big)


Parkland survivor Jaclyn Corin will join David Hogg at Harvard - The Boston Globe

Taking Rurality Seriously - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Rural regions dominate the American landscape, comprising 97 percent of the country's land mass. While 20 percent of Americans live in these regions, many still doubt their importance in the 21st century. ("suprestar" cities are "hogging" the economic growth! let the cows vote!)

Charter Schools and Race in New Orleans - Thursday night, New Orleans public schools as we knew them ended. With a 5-2 vote by the Orleans Parish School Board, the last remaining public high school in New Orleans became its latest charter school. (LA gives up on education b/c it's too hard and racism is easy)

ELI5: How has the previous generation "runing the housing market" for millennials?


Woman allegedly flees fatal crash in stolen car, leaving kids and dead passenger behind - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

San Bernardino County settles for $390,000 with families of girls arrested to 'teach them a lesson' (lesson learned!)
home / FisheadMovie | I Am Fishead (2011) - YouTube


Liberals and conservatives are known to rely on different moral foundations. New study (n=1,000) found liberals equally condemned conservative (O'Reilly) and liberal (Weinstein) for sexual harassment, but conservatives were less likely to condemn O'Reilly and less concerned about sexual harassment. : science


Contrary to predictions, teen marijuana use declined in Washington state after recreational pot was legalized in 2012, a new study finds. : science (someone call Mawty, Chawlie and Jason Lewis)
Delaware judge rules that a medical marijuana user fired from factory job after failing a drug test can pursue lawsuit against former employer : news

If you asked me if I had read a particular book, I could tell you instantly. However, if you asked me to list all the books I'd read, I'd not be able to recall them all - why is this? : askscience (recognition vs recall)

/u/horsedickery explains a lot of the subtle subtext to some "interesting" Nazi propaganda : bestof
horsedickery comments on Aryan family (1938) (take a look at all the blonds)

(NSFW) Redditors who lived in secluded towns, what's the darkest thing that has ever happened in your town that everyone knew about but never talked about? : AskReddit

225,718 tires removed from Osborne Reef off the coast of Florida. I couldn't be more proud of my company! : pics
Uncovering the Secrets Beneath the Surface of the New York Harbor -- New York Magazine - What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms.

Woman Hits Herself to False Accuse Husband : videos
Kid is hit by car, and then nearly run over by another car. Gets up and runs away. : WTF
If Chuck Norris was a cat : funny

What is the most expensive object you own? : AskReddit
What products serve a better purpose than what they were designed for? : AskReddit

(NSFW) What's the most disturbing thing that happened when you were young that you still remember most of the details to this day?
MechaAkuma comments on YouTube allows people to claim random videos anonymously without mediating it

Apparently Kids Doing ASMR Was A Problem: YouTube Deletes Video : videos

Fortnite isn't a game, it's a place (the new social media for kids)

Facebook'ss Lonely Conservative Takes on a Power Position -- Joel Kaplan has emerged as the social-media site's s protector against allegations of political bias (so of course he did the opposite by leaning in evilly with Daily Caller, hahah you've been Zuckerfucked again)
Facebook stopped 'Common Ground' political initiative because Joel Kaplan thought it would offend conservatives: Report - Business Insider - Kaplan, formerly of the George W. Bush Administration, came under fire earlier this year for appearing on Capitol Hill to support his friend Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Questions From The Crypto Idea Maze - Multicoin Capital




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Exxon Attorney Drafted White House Comments Backing Top Trump Environmental Pick | HuffPost - Newly obtained emails involving the nomination of a climate change denier for the White House post show the fossil fuel industry's sway over Trump's administration


Dow's worst week since 2008 financial crisis; Nasdaq closes in bear market : inthenews


Bolton's Hawkish Syria Plan Backfired, Pushing Trump to Get Out -- The national security adviser expanded U.S. goals in Syria to challenge Iran. But Trump wasn't on board, senior officials say, and Turkey took an opportunity to push the U.S. out. (tucking Furkey)
'You know what? It's yours' : Trump reportedly threw his hands up on Syria during phone call with the Turkish president (only the best out-of-control instinctual impulses)
y Seth Abramson on Twitter: "*THE GRAND BARGAIN* This (below) is what the entire Trump-Russia investigation is now about. Please share this image widely, as it will be *the* crucial information in the months ahead, now that Prince and Nader's cover is wholly blown. More on all of this in PROOF OF COLLUSION. https://t.co/3HtqXOvoL9" / Twitter
Trump's Abrupt Syria Withdrawal Thwarted 'Major' Operation Targeting ISIS, Sen. Bob Corker Says -- The Foreign Relations chairman said the U.S. was weeks away from launching a 'Major clearing operation' in the Euphrates River Valley when Trump decided to withdraw from Syria. (Repubicans elected a traitor b/c they are)
U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria is 'a dream come true for the Iranians'
Taliban greets Pentagon's withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan with cries of victory -- "The 17-year long struggle and sacrifices of thousands of our people finally yielded fruit" (could the NYT go talk to some dumb farmers in the Iowa diner about this, pls?)
Taliban greets Pentagon's withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan with cries of victory

Life After Horrific Death for the Journalist James Foley - The New York Times - He was kidnapped in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war, held hostage for 21 months and brutally murdered in 2014 by members of the Islamic State in an execution filmed by his captors and released online (Trump's buddies)


Corbyn: Brexit would go ahead even if Labour won snap election | Politics | The Guardian - : opposition leader says he would go to Brussels to secure better deal if he was PM (that's how stupid both side are)

Protest In Hungary Over Controversial Slave Law - Galaxy News Express



How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business - After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in.
Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say (little Russian traitor Stein, why she was in Moscow)
Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say : politics
Justice Alito, you owe President Obama an apology - The Washington Post - was spoken specifically in response to Obama's claim about the risk of foreign influence in U.S. elections. (fire the little commie fucker and bury him in infamy)

Why did Trump lift sanctions on companies of top Russian oligarch caught up in Mueller probe? | Salon.com - administration is going to lift sanctions against Oleg V. Deripask

Maria Butina pleads guilty, is first Russian national convicted of seeking to influence U.S. policy around time of 2016 election : worldnews

Poweruser /u/PoppinKREAM explains why (s)he spends a lot of time making important posts against Nazis/Racists/Homophobes/GOP and the importance of calling them out for their Russian connections and the disinformation they spread. : bestof


Ruth Bader Ginsburg Voted From Hospital To Block Trump Asylum Restrictions | HuffPost - 85-year-old justice lives up to Notorious RBG nickname even after cancer surgery.

You Can't Serve Both Trump and America -- The departure of Jim Mattis is proof that you cannot have it all.


Government Shuts Down as Talks Fail to Break Impasse - The New York Times
'A Rogue presidency' : The era of containing Trump is over
'He takes no ownership -- that's just Trump' : President eschews responsibility for a shutdown he once craved (who needs a "plan" when you have the best "instincts")
Shutdown Proves Once and For All Trump Has No Idea What He's Doing -- Anybody with half a critical mind and an attention span longer than a gerbil can figure out that Donald Trump is no master negotiator.
Trump's shutdown stunt is an act of needless stupidity (Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said federal employee expect to be fucked over!)
Government partially shuts down for third time in a year - CNNPolitics (Pres Disfunctional)
Temper Tantrump: Government Shuts Down After President Reneges On Deal = Talking Points Memo
GOP Congressman Blasts Trump For 'Toddler Logic' On Shutdown
For Trump, 'a War Every Day,' Waged Increasingly Alone -- At the midpoint of his term, the president has grown more sure of his own judgment and more isolated from anyone else's

"Some Reverse Wag-the-Dog Bulls--t" : Boxed in and Fighting for Survival, Trump Is Flailing, Fuming, and Wondering Why Jared Is Getting All the Good Press - His base is revolting, his staff are rolling their eyes, and Ann Coulter called him "a joke." But, says a self-pitying president, Macron is worse.
OK, This Time Is Worse Than Usual : politics (Trump is "in deep shit" will try to start "civil war" run by Hannity)
GOP already whispering about Donald Trump | Newsday - Conspiring with the enemy is 100 percent fatal. (Confederate traitor sympathizers disagree)


Eschaton: Shutdown - Last place to come to for Bush nostalgia, but I do think he had a glimmer of awareness of the consequences of his actions. Sometimes. Not much. A little. -- Not Trump.

Trump Dramatically Shuts Down Some Agencies After Nobody Will Pay For His Wall | HuffPost - blaming Democrats for the impasse.
New York Daily News Torches Donald Trump With Blistering Grinch Cover | HuffPost - How The Trump Stole Christmas
Jim Carrey Depicts 'Lady Liberty' At Death's Door In Attack On Donald Trump's Wall (+Huckafuck as the Gorgon)
House Republicans Called Emergency Meeting On Cheese As Shutdown Approached | HuffPost ("not the wall of cheese") "Vital parts of our government are about to shut down in just a few hours, and the Republicans have called an emergency meeting on cheese." McGovern said (b/c you know, rats)
President Doocy's Shutdown - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Foxprop is running the Pres)
Checks sent to border wall GoFundMe will be picked up in Castle Rock by unnamed "business associates" of Florida fundraiser (hahaha suckers)

'This is tyranny of talk radio hosts, right?' : Limbaugh and Coulter blamed for Trump's shutdown

Trump sees dangerous cracks in Hill GOP support - POLITICO - A series of recent events is alienating congressional allies Trump would need in an impeachment fight. (sure, for 2.5 seconds)
Trump Policy Gyrations Threaten Fragile Republican Coalition - The New York Times - With his actions this week, Republicans said Friday, President Trump demonstrated that he does not grasp how damaging his impulsive behavior was to his party in last month's elections (b/c he "won")
GOP already whispering about Donald Trump : politics - undefined

Trump lashed out at Whitaker after explosive Cohen revelations - CNNPolitics - Trump was frustrated, the sources said, that prosecutors Matt Whitaker oversees filed charges that made Trump look bad. None of the sources suggested that the President directed Whitaker to stop the investigation, but rather lashed out at what he felt was an unfair situation. (very unfair)
What'sNoticeably Missing from the Whitaker Nonrecusal Explanation -- The letter offers absolutely no reason why it would be of any value to the Department or the administration of Justice -- indeed, why it would be of any value to anyone or anything at all, save the personal interests of Donald Trump -- for Whitaker to replace Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as the superintendent of the Russia investigation

Opinion | Bill Barr Just Argued Himself Out of a Job - The New York Times - His recent memo to President Trump seriously damages his credibility and raises questions about his fitness for the Justice Department's top position


It's Been a Year Since Trump Enacted Sweeping Tax Cuts. Rich People Won -- The GOP said its tax bill would help the middle class. But the rich have reaped the biggest benefits. (hahaha suckers)

Massachusetts Stroke Patient Receives 'Outrageous' $474,725 Medical Flight Bill (estate planning in comments)

Nike Posts Huge Earnings After Kaepernick Ad, Leaving Egg on These Right-Wing Pundits' Faces

TIL that the 'Turn-about Ranch', a camp that is frequently recommended by Dr Phil to troubled children, has cases of children being severely abused and humiliated. : todayilearned (read for the history of Dr. Phil McGraw +fuck Oprah)

West Virginia mom says daughter was bullied after not attending bible class in public school : news


Alice Walker, Answering Backlash, Praises Anti-Semitic Author as 'Brave' (she needs an exorcism and so does the NYT and of course, no comments on this article)
Is David Icke anti-Semitic? | Semitic Controversies (no, his lunacy just happens to have a lot to do with Jewish Lizards, otherwise he's right about the zombies and robots)


Ref with racist history forces HS wrestler to cut off dreadlocks before match - NJ.com

This is the first police officer charged with a federal hate crime in at least 10 years - CNNPolitics (oh, a racist Trump-voting police chief thinks he's above the law?)
Quartz - Kahneman contends that happiness and satisfaction are distinct. Happiness is a momentary experience that arises spontaneously and is fleeting. Meanwhile, satisfaction is a long-term feeling, built over time and based on achieving goals and building the kind of life you admire ... working toward one goal may undermine our ability to experience the other ... satisfaction is based mostly on comparisons ... connected to a large degree to social yardsticks ... money has a significant influence on life satisfaction, whereas happiness is affected by money only when funds are lacking ... Satisfaction is retrospective. Happiness occurs in real time. (money can't buy you happiness, especially as you empty out your soul)


Are there any differences between they way earlier species of humans experienced pregnancy and birth and the way we experience it now? : askscience

Dutch scientists drove door-to-door collecting poop samples from 1,800 patients to study their microbiomes. Now, in a new study, researchers finally have some answers as how to diagnose Irritable Bowel Syndrome versus Inflammatory Bowel Disease as well as start explaining what causes them. : science

A team of Chinese researchers have turned cheap copper into a new material "almost identical" to gold. The new material can resist high temperatures, oxidisation and erosion, according to the researchers. (think catalitic converters)

Intermittent Fasting: What Is It, and Should I Try It? | GQ

What is AI? Your artificial intelligence questions, answered. - Vox

How Tinder Changed Dating for a Generation - The Atlantic - When Tinder became available to all smartphone users in 2013, it ushered in a new era in the history of romance.




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Winter solstice 2018: Full moon, meteor shower make it extra special | CNN Travel - Winter solstice 2018 in Northern Hemisphere was at 5:23 PM on Friday , December 21

Dow dives 400 points to end its worst week in 10 years
As Markets Tumble, Tech Stocks Hit a Rare and Ominous Milestone - The New York Times


Trump decided to leave Syria after call with Erdogan, says US defence official - The National - US Envoy for Syria cancelled his trip to New York to follow meetings in Washington (you want hotels in Turkey? Let us kill all the Kurds.)
In leaving Syria, the US sells out its Kurdish allies to bloodthirsty Turkey
Kurdish-led Forces Report 'Huge' ISIS Assault in Southeast Syria - Report comes just two days after Trump announces withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria & Kurdish officials concerned over ability to contain ISIS prisoner (Trump toddler throws temper tantrum, people die)

Trump is leaving 50,000 Syrian civilians to die - The Washington Post
Trump's surprise Syria pullout is a giant Christmas gift to our enemies
Brian Kilmeade Goes Off on Sarah Sanders Over Syria: Trump Just 'Refounded ISIS' By Leaving ... "giving Russia a big win. Vladimir Putin praised him. He also is doing exactly what he criticized President Obama for doing. He said President Obama is the founder of ISIS. He just refounded ISIS"
U.S. to Withdraw About 7,000 Troops From Afghanistan, Officials Say - The New York Times (and turned over Afganistan to the Taliban)


The Great Unravelling? It's "Lights, Cameras, Action!" again for American Geopolitical Suicide. - Lawyers, Guns & Money - If you'd asked me about the fate of the American-led international system a few weeks ago, I would have said that Trump has done enormous damage to US leadership and national security, some of that damage is permanent, but much of the infrastructure remains capable of being patched back together ... But the development of the last few days leave me more pessimistic about what 2019 and 2020 will bring ... "But the officials said Trump, who had previously accepted such advice and convinced the Turkish leader not to attack the Kurds and put U.S. troops at risk, ignored the script. Instead, the president sided with Erdogan. ... the president quickly capitulated by pledging to withdraw, shocking both Bolton and Erdogan. (Trump hotels in Istanbul! Erdogan agrees not to leak transcripts of Kushner talking to BoneSaw during the disassembly of Khashoggi)


Measles cases at highest for 20 years in Europe, as anti-vaccine movement grows : news

Eschaton: Our Way - Aviation is just one example. There are 700 things sorta like the aviation problem. But it's one that is easy to understand so it's good to talk about ... We'll stop your island from plunging into the sea, but only just.

Eschaton: Droney - Gonna have to figure out what to do about these things. -- Gatwick airport remains closed after another sighting of drones over the runway, causing disruption to thousands of passengers that is likely to last at least another 24 hours.
Gatwick reopens after airport implements anti-drone measures - 700 flights are expected to take off Friday and over 100 have been canceled.


Russia Gloats: 'Trump Is Ours Again' ... "Again? Ha. I remember Helsinki. This is just reinforcement. BTW Putin calls him Donald now"


Supreme Court denies Trump administration request to immediately enforce new asylum rules - The Washington Post
In Immigrant Children's Shelters, Sexual Assault Cases Are Open and Shut Across the country, kids are reporting sexual assaults in immigrant children (Republicans at work and play)
Meet Stephen Miller, the 32-year-old White House adviser who convinced Trump to start separating migrant children from their parents at the border : politics


Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' Resignation Message to Trump Is Basically F*** This - The Pentagon chief quit after Trump announced plans to withdraw troops from Syria and just before he ordered a drawdown in Afghanistan. ("just following Vlad's orders," he said)
James Mattis's Resignation Leaves Congress With No Excuses - The Atlantic - The resignation of James Mattis leaves Congress to face the truth about Trump.
With Mattis out, we're in uncharted territory
Mattis' Message to the World: Trump Is Out of Control - That was more than a letter of resignation provided today by Defense Secretary James Mattis. It was a bright red line in American history.
Mattis Knew Trump From the Beginning - The Atlantic - Mattis Always Understood Trump's Severe Defects -- And his resignation means he knows that the president will never change.

Trump faces new test with midterm election interference report | TheHill (Russia's little pawn)
Trump's Presidency in Peril -- This resignation stings because it's not about policy, it's about values
The Year in Trump Freakouts | The New Yorker - Jim Mattis is out, the President is leaving Syria without consulting anyone, and that's just this week in crises of the President's own making.
Jim Mattis Was the Only Thing Keeping Trump's Insane Clown Posse in Check

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has cancerous nodules removed from lung - CNNPolitics


Mueller Appears Close to Indicting Stone for Alleged Lies - The Atlantic - The longtime Trump adviser appears to have asked an associate to obtain anti-Clinton emails from WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign.
Poll: Public overwhelmingly opposes Trump pardoning his associates | TheHill - only 28 percent agreed that it would be "proper" for Trump to pardon former aides convicted by special counsel Robert Mueller. The vast majority, 72 percent, said no. (that's right, 28% of the country thinks crimes don't count if you're a Republican)

Pre-Christmas Trump: Rebuked, rampaging - Axios (toddler has a tantrum)
What should worry Trump most: Republican allies are turning on him - Axios ... Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake (hahaha Axios tells us Eli Lake is a "Republican ally" which is obvous, but still ...)

Mick Mulvaney in 2015: Trump's views on border wall 'simplistic,' 'absurd and almost childish' (almost)
Like a wheel inside a wheel - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It appears from his twitter feed this morning that Trump is trying to get McConnell to get rid of the filibuster, so that he can get his magnificent wall built.

'We Need Wall': Why Kirstjen Nielsen Sounds Like the Hulk - The Atlantic ... Breaking news: Mexico agrees to pay for impeachment
Kirstjen Nielsen Is Responsible for Children in Migrant Detention Centers - Sexual Assaults by Staff, Inmates Common -- Make no mistake
President Umbrella Knows Tech, Okay? - Friday got off to a helluva start - "It's like the wheel, there is nothing better. I know tech better than anyone, & technology ... Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018
Josh Marshall on Twitter: ""I would ask for wall. We need wall." "
Fundraiser by Luke O'Neil : Build a Giant Escalator Over the Wall

Partial government shutdown assured after lawmakers leave Capitol without budget deal - The Washington Post

Pelosi told Trump he didn't have the votes in the House. So what happened? all but eight Republicans voted in favor of a temporary spending bill that would avert a shutdown and provide Trump's wall money. That, coupled with the 20 House Democrats who weren't there to vote ...

Shutdown Countdown -- Here's the Latest -- McConnell and Schumer will talk to reporters after Schumer meeting with White House

Republicans are responsible for the Trump fiasco - The Washington Post (Mitch the Ditch Bitch)

Fox News Calls Out Trump for 'Flipping a 189' on Shutdown Blame
Schumer Reminds Trump: You 'Called For A Shutdown No Less Than 25 Times'

Trump warns shutdown could last 'very long time,' urges McConnell to go 'nuclear'and end filibuster -- "Mitch, use the Nuclear Option and get it done! Our Country is counting on you!" Trump tweeted
Trump warns of a 'very long' government shutdown if Democrats oppose bill that includes border wall money
'A tailspin' : Under siege, Trump propels the government and markets into crisis
Trump Says A Government Shutdown Would 'Last For A Very Long Time' -- Trump tried to build the case that Democrats would bear responsibility if there's no deal over his demand for border wall money (libtards are responsbile for my insanity)
Senator Bob Corker Agog Over Trump Shutdown: 'You Can't Make This Stuff Up' The Tennessee Republican ripped the latest threat as yet another 'precipitous' decision by the president.
The Federal Government Seems Headed for a Shutdown - The Atlantic - The House and Senate have passed conflicting measures to fund the government, creating a stalemate
In budget brinkmanship, Republicans once again hold themselves hostage - The Washington Post

We Found 95 New, Undisclosed Trump Appointees : politics (evil mole rats in Trumps deep hidden state)

What Does Trump Really Care About? What Ann Coulter Thinks - A president who cares only about his base will respond mainly to its voices. (debase)

Eschaton: I Don't Want To, But Sometimes You Do Just Have To Blame The Marks - Giving your kids' inheritance money to build the wall.
Founder of viral fundraiser for Trump's border wall has questionable news past - Brian Kolfage told NBC News he didn't want to mention his previous projects becaue he "didn't want it to be a distraction" (ignore my past crimes!)

Maggie Haberman: 'Disgusted' Republicans Now Privately Admitting They Regret Supporting Trump (they are disgusting)

Priorities - Lawyers, Guns & Money - With Republicans about to lose the House majority, they had to take one last attempt to do the one thing that unites all Republicans -- giving money to rich people. But the way this happened is the best ...
It would repeal the Johnson Amendment prohibiting houses of worship from endorsing or opposing a political candidate. It would add another $100 billion to the national debt. And it doesn't even help working Americans! (too stupid to know how stupid they are)

8 days of trouble for Trump - The Boston Globe - To all those voters who refused to acknowledge that Hillary was far smarter, and competent, and measured, and experienced, and patriotic, and humane; who, instead, chose to cast your votes for this ignorant, unhinged, intellectually lazy, lying, greedy, whining, narcissistic, racist, misogynist, mean-spirited, bootlicker of fascist idols in Russia, North Korea, China and Turkey, slut-mouth bully grifter DJ TruDump- -- you own this mess


As stocks drop, Trump fears he's losing his best argument for reelection

The Cruelty Is The Point - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Populist president Donald Trump once again fights against neoliberalism for the working man: "Republicans in Congress could finally get their wish to make it harder for poor people to access food assistance." (we got all the money, fuck off and starve)
Trump's food stamp cut will hit his single, white, male base the hardest - Nearly 800,000 people could lose their access to food stamps if US president Donald Trump gets his way. And many of them will be single, white men.
Trump's food stamp cut will hit his single, white, male base the hardest

Eschaton: Distinctions Without Differences - When the Trump era is over, and a Democrat is once again in the White House having impeachment threatened against her and jail for every White House employee because she wore a dress that was deemed to be one inch too short by Lindsey Graham, and similarly trivial "offenses," I know exactly how they'll manage it. I've long observed how the Republican spinners are masters at focusing on irrelevant details to somehow distinguish Democrat Crimes from Republican Heroism.

Robert Mercer scales back GOP support after scrutiny for backing Trump -- "He's out," "He's not going to play any major role going forward."


Democrats Just Blocked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Push For A Green New Deal Committee -- Instead, Democrats are sticking to their original plan, and channeled Exxon Mobil in an announcement refusing to bar members who take fossil fuel money. (vote for us, we're just like Republicans!)

The Greatest Crime in Human History: Questioning the Right of Old White Men to Power - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Oh shut up Jerry: California Gov. Jerry Brown isn't concerned that the increasingly diverse, women-dominated Democratic Party will chafe at having a white male nominee in the 2020 presidential campaign ... "What's wrong with white men?" (you have to ask?) Whether Brown or Biden or Bernie, that generation of white guys just need to go away from politics.


After Big Losses, a N.Y. House Republican Clashes With Her Party - The New York Times

In Defense of Philip Anschutz ... David Brooks, who was present at the creation of the Standard (horrible people fighting each other and fuck you, Sulzfucks)


CBS is a cesspool of sexual violence and the network has repeatedly failed to keep its employees safe
CBS is a cesspool of sexual violence and the network has repeatedly failed to keep its employees safe : television

Eliot Spitzer snuck me into his apartment in a suitcase: ex-mistress - Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer used to smuggle his Russian-escort mistress into the luxury Upper East Side home he shared with his wife -- by stuffing her inside a piece of luggage ... The Russian sexpot first hit the headlines in early 2016 when she accused Spitzer of choking her during a sex-session-gone-awry at The Plaza hotel in Midtown. (woah, more Jewish toxic masculinity)


Vanessa Zaman wanted to reunite with her father. Now he is charged with killing her and her cousin. | Crime, Police & Fire | richmond.com - Abdool Zaman and Samlall, his niece, had a baby together who is now about 3 months old, Barnes said.



Please don't wish me 'Merry Christmas' - It's impolite and alienating to assume I follow your religion (given the history, and the Evangelical plan, it's like "Happy Death to the Jews")

These wealthy neighbors have been at war for nearly 25 years - The Boston Globe

Drinking Water Hardness - Water - City of Cambridge, Massachusetts


A new study found that UK scientists are significantly less religious than the UK general population. In addition, UK scientists at elite universities are more likely to never attend religious services, and biologists are more likely to never attend religious services than physicists. : science


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LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
Flickr: The Commons
About public domain sound recordings
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House climate change panel unlikely to have subpoena power | TheHill (your climate just got Hoyered)
Policymakers have severely underestimated the risks of ecological tipping points, according to a study that shows 45% of all potential environmental collapses are interrelated and could amplify one another. : science
Arctic Permafrost Melt Due to Climate Change Puts 70 Percent of Alaska Infrastructure at Risk

More than 15% of childhood deaths in America are due to guns, study says - Los Angeles Times (price of doing business with evil)
Guns are the second leading killer of kids, after cars. The gun fatality rate for U.S. children is 36 times higher than the rate in other developed nations, according to the analysis. : science

Dow drops 470 points to 14-month low in second day of big losses following Fed rate hike (bear market now)
Dow's dive reaches nearly 500 points after White House ups the chance of government shutdown

N. Korea says it won't denuclearize unless US removes threat

Putin Welcomes U.S. Withdrawal From Syria as 'Correct'
Putin backs Trump's move to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, says Islamic State dealt 'serious blow'

Trump snubs Corker, as critics and allies alike lambaste Syria decision - The Washington Post
Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria startles aides and allies
'Trump gets no credit' : As Republicans question Syria withdrawal, Trump tweets to defend himself

Trump Administration Is Considering Substantial Afghan Troop Drawdown - WSJ - Drawdown could begin in several weeks, officials say (Trump turns Afganistan over to the Taliban 'cuz Vlad told him to)
Trump Withdraws Troops From Syria: UK Only Found Out From The President's Tweet - While the decision was not a total surprise, the UK received no advanced warning of the announcement. (don't need no steenking "allies" or "diplomacy")

Executions in Saudi Arabia have doubled under crown prince, watchdog says : worldnews (terror state run by sadistic creeps)

Catholic Church Faces New Sex Abuse Scandals in Michigan, Oregon, Gonzaga, Alaska, Los Angeles, Native Communities, the Phillipines (more patriarchy going down)

No-deal Brexit could mean 'minimalist' withdrawal deal, says UK minister ("we can agree not to have a deal which is still a deal")
Eschaton: What Are They Good For - Ah. "Disruption." Not to, say, the food supply. But, you know, disruption, like people being disruptive because of a lack of food supply. - Lots of people want to watch the world burn, and elites globally often have a sense that what the world needs is a good culling. I generally think authorities aren't afraid of "disruption." They're hoping for it.
Vladimir Putin tells Theresa May to 'fulfil will of people' on Brexit - Russia is seen as a possible beneficiary of the UK's exit from the EU, and a prominent financial backer of the leave campaign met Russian embassy officials repeatedly during the run-up to the referendum in June 2016. (Putin and Trump destroying western democracies)

Exclusive: Saudis fall $1.8B behind in arms deal with Canada | The London Free Press - audi Arabia has fallen behind in making payments on its $15-billion arms deal with Canada, a contract that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he's looking for ways to halt. (so, just leverage)


Russian Agents Sought Secret US Treasury Records On Clinton Backers During 2016 Campaign - Whistleblowers said the Americans were exchanging messages with unsecure Gmail accounts set up by their Russian counterparts as the US election heated up.

A 5-Month-Old Girl Has Been Hospitalized With Pneumonia After Being Detained By The Border Patrol - mother said her daughter got increasingly sick after being held in "freezing" cells

The United States' Responsibility for Central American Migration - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Given what the U.S. has done to nations such as Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, which has very much contributed to the large-scale migration we are seeing today, the only morally correct position is to have completely open borders to people from these nations, not to mention open borders for Mexicans, considering we stole half their nation in an unjust war to expand slavery ... And this is only touching the surface. Between the long histories of U.S. interventions, the nation's insatiable drug habit, and the guns flowing south, the U.S. holds tremendous responsibility for what is happening. We owe it to these people to open our borders to them entirely without restriction. (America, always escaping responsibility b/c 2 dots are too many to connect)


President Donald Trump's new Space Force will fall under Air Force - ABC News

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Resigns, Rebuking Trump's Worldview
James Mattis will retire as secretary of Defense in February, Trump says : politics (last adult in the room)
Mattis Out - Lawyers, Guns & Money
US Defence Secretary Mattis to quit : news
Jim Mattis'ss unmistakable repudiation of Trumpism, annotated
With Mattis out, we're in uncharted territory
Jim Mattis' resignation letter is an absolutely stunning rejection of Trumpism - CNNPolitics - Faced with a President who made enemies of our allies and allies of our enemies -- no one has arguably been happier with the Trump presidency than Russian President Vladimir Putin -- Mattis decided to walk away.

Democrats want to use obscure law to grab Donald Trump's tax returns

Trump's presidency is falling apart and the big crybaby is cracking

William Barr, Trump's Attorney General Pick, Criticized Mueller Probe In Memo: WSJ -- Barr reportedly described the special counsel's probe into potential obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump as "fatally misconceived"
Now We Know Trump Picked William Barr to Shut Down Mueller's Investigation

Ethics officials said Whitaker should recuse from the Mueller probe, but his advisers told him not to, officials say - The Washington Post

House Intel Votes To Give Robert Mueller Official Transcript Of Roger Stone Testimony

Trump rushes into shutdown threat over wall - POLITICO - House Speaker Paul Ryan declared that the president won't
Demanding Wall Funding, Trump Balks at Bill to Avert Shutdown - The New York Times (the elf is over his shoulder)
'Are you runing myu life?' : Republican senators in disbelief over Trump shutdown threat (fake person Susie Doozy is not happy)
Why Fox News Made Trump Shut Down the Government (Murdoch on the inside, Putin on the outside)

These are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Eschaton: The Wall - I'm sure it's happened but news reporters generally don't explain why, given that Republicans have controlled Congress the entire time of Trump's presidency,- and still do, it is necessary for the Democrats to give Trump his stupid wall

Coulter Unloads: 'A Joke Presidency' That 'Scammed the American People' With Promises of a Wall (bitter truth sinks in, propaganda has its limits)
GoFundMe campaign for border wall aims for a billion (at least) - Politico (is there a deep state of suckers?)

Eschaton: America's Mayor - Once our grand gatekeepers in journalism give you sainthood it's never quite revoked, but watching Rudy beclown himself so much that even his biggest sycophantic media fans have had to dial it down a bit has been fun.

Tribune editorial: Chaffetz has made his choice - The Salt Lake Tribune - He has left public service, burned his bridges behind him, and gone completely over to the Dark Side of American culture. His political career should be over ... In an appearance on Fox News, the pseudo-journalistic hype machine of false news and fear, he displayed an incredibly cold heart in trying to absolve the government of any responsibility for the death of a 7-year-old girl who died in federal custody ... Jason Chaffetz has sold that belief in America for a chance at TV stardom. He has made his choice. The rest of us must make a different one. (well, who could have predicted that? from Jason Benghaaaazzzzi!)

Trump administration aims to toughen work requirements for food stamp recipients - The Washington Post (starve more) Trump proposes cutting food stamps for over 700,000 people just before Christmas : politics


Republican party leaders are slowly backing away from Trump as 2020 approaches. - popularity with voters is only one part of the picture. Leaders within the GOP are clearly hedging their bets as 2020 approaches.


Why Nonvoters Say They Stayed Home In The Midterms - Most Americans who missed out on Election Day now say they regret it ... turnout in this year's midterms was higher than it's been in a century, about half the voting-eligible public didn't turn out. Nonvoters span every conceivable demographic group but tend to skew younger, poorer and less white than those who do turn out.
Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics - The New York Times

Remember when Paul Ryan was the future of the Republican Party? - The Washington Post
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Gives Farewell Speech Ahead of Retirement That's Full of Shit - Be gone, zombie-eyed granny-starver from the State of Wisconsin. Go to your fat lobbying gig.

'Citing 'rotten, stinking politics' Kasich vetoes gun bill - " gun rights measure" (that's right, guns have rights!)


State Sen. Michael Williams, ex-Georgia governor candidate, indict - State Sen. Michael Williams, who waged a controversial campaign for governor this year, was charged this week with making a false report that computer servers were stolen from his campaign office shortly before his last-place finish in the May primary.


How bad does the 'Illinois Exodus' have to get? Not only has the flight of citizens continued for a fifth straight year, but the population loss is intensifying. This year's estimated net reduction of 45,116 residents is the worst of these five losing years ... This is terrible news for House Speaker Michael Madigan ... Democrats who've run the legislature ... as the nation's population expands, the populations of Illinois and eight other states are declining. On their watch, an Illinois once revered as a land of opportunity now is in decline ... More ominously, every other state in the Midwest is growing.

Voter ID: NC House overrides veto | News & Observer (NC really, really, hates voters)
The North Carolina GOP's Latest Ploy to Save Its Partisan Gerrymander Is Almost Literally Unbelievable : inthenews

Planned Parenthood Is Accused of Mistreating Pregnant Employees - The New York Times - Employers that champion women face accusations of discriminating against their pregnant workers, showing how widespread the problem is in American workplaces.


Eschaton: They Already Claim To Have Standards - Any time there's a sufficiently bad bigot eruption in conservative media, and advertise boycott movements being, assholes like Shack Jafer (find it yourself but really you've read it before) write their 500th column about how such movements will destroy free speech and lead to the erasure all "controversial" political views being expressed by people with 8 figure salaries ... If you're more upset about the criticism of highly paid racists than, you know, the racism, ... (Jack Shafer is upset people might boycott Fucker Carlson for his nazi/racist propaganda broadcasts, srsly)
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' has fewer commercial breaks amid advertiser boycott - CNN (Jack Shafer is sad)

Alice Walker and David Icke: the New York Times By the Book feature controversy. - "By the Book" controversy seems like the result of editors getting a little too comfortable with a long-running, puffy feature.

The Alice Walker anti-Semitism controversy, explained - The beloved activist and author of The Color Purple is under fire for promoting an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in an interview with the New York Times ... It's been out there for years, in Walker's writing and public comments, for anyone paying close attention to Walker to see. But major outlets like the New York Times have pointedly avoided mentioning it, which means that for the general public, anti-Semitism wasn't part of the story of Alice Walker. Until now. (and the NYT being soulless and stupid woke people up to both facts, Walker and themselves and Vox is on the case with the deep background and this summary:) Basically, it sure seems like Alice Walker, legendary activist and author, went looking for some critiques of Israeli politics and ended up getting "redpilled" on YouTube into becoming an anti-Semite by a person who doesn't believe in the moon ... (b/c Youtube's algorithm gives you conspiracy theories for the clicks and Alice didn't realize her brain had been taken over by a lizard-like hate parasite)

Lovebirds Olivia Nuzzi And Ryan Lizza Are Writing A Book - white-supremacist whisperer Olivia Nuzzi and guy who was fired from the New Yorker after a sexual misconduct investigation Ryan Lizza are a couple. Congrats to the sex-havers. While I'd usually try to avoid thinking about a woman my age being with a guy who is old enough to be her father ...

Der Spiegel journalist messed with the wrong small town Der Spiegel says top journalist faked stories for years | World news | The Guardian - journalist fraud 'on a grand scale'

Why I'm Suing Max Blumenthal and Benjamin Norton
Sulome Anderson Admits Her Supposed Hezbollah Source Is 'Incredibly Unreliable' (by one of the sue-es)



Least-Educated State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates (Texas #2) (MA #1 for college grads)
The most -- and least -- healthy states in America - CNN (mostly red states, with everyone smoking and drinking mountain dew)


The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini - The New York Times

Alabama police department blames crime on young people's rejection of God : news (you don't need no education)


Emergency room bills: what I learned from reading 1,182 ER bills - Vox - A $5,571 bill to sit in a waiting room, $238 eyedrops, and a $60 ibuprofen tell the story of how emergency room visits are squeezing patients.

Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB (unaccountable tech assholes)

Let There Be Light (1946 film) - Wikipedia - John Huston while serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. Its portrayal of soldiers suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder led to Let There Be Light being suppressed by the U.S. government; it was not released until the 1980s. (of course they did)


Saturn is losing its iconic planetary rings - it'll take just under 300 million years for them to totally vanish, but that's a blip in time compared to the age of the planet, which is estimated to be at about 4 billion years old.

How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure : videos

I'm Vic Spitzer, and I created a virtual cadaver

For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain. The release is unprecedented, and its impact on culture and creativity could be huge. : books


u/_mildlyinfuriating explains how translating a book nearly destroyed medieval European society : bestof

What medical condition do you have that you thought was absolutely normal? : AskReddit

Took this picture of my dog the other day and someone said "Looks like a Vogue cover" and then this happened : funny

How Fascist Sympathizers Hijacked Reddit's Libertarian Hangout


The end of Lean In: How Sheryl Sandberg's message of empowerment fully unraveled (it was always a scam)
A Timeline Of Facebook's Scandals In 2018 - Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn't and 2018 has only presented more problems.
Facebook Inc. took a second stab at convincing its 2.3 billion users that it didn't allow more than 150 other companies to misuse their personal data : worldnews

Visionary Brain Genius Elon Musk Has Invented The World's Worst And Most Expensive Subway




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Rare tornado touches down near Seattle, causing "catastrophic damage" (the new "rare" normal)

Rats are everywhere in D.C. Even on the White House lawn. - The Washington Post

More journalists killed on the job as reprisal murders nearly double - Committee to Protect Journalists
United States added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists for first time : politics (Trump will disappear journos)

FT Person of the Year: George Soros | Financial Times - The philanthropist has become a standard bearer for liberal democracy, an idea under siege from populists

It's time to face the facts: Racism is a national security issue (nah, just a little Southern Heritage in defense of treason and slavery)

Richest 1% on target to own two-thirds of all wealth by 2030 : politics
FedEx CEO blames 'bad political choices' for most of company's issues - I mean, making a bad decision about a new tax, creating a tremendously difficult situation with Brexit, the immigration crisis in Germany, the mercantilism and state-owned enterprise initiatives in China, the tariffs that the United States put in unilaterally
Dow slides to 2018 low after Fed disappoints - CNN
Federal Reserve raises rates despite signs of economic softening - CNN

In a single tweet, Trump destroys U.S. policy in the Middle East - The Washington Post - Victoria Nuland -- With his decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria, President Trump hands a huge New Year's gift to President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamic State, the Kremlin and Tehran.
Officials Say Trump Has Ordered Full Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Syria - The New York Times
Trump undermines his entire national security team on Syria - The Washington Post - Trump appears to be discarding his entire Syria and Iran strategy at a single stroke, giving up any and all U.S. influence in the region -- and disregarding the advice of his top national security officials. (his "instincts" are better than their so-called "intelligence")
US preparing for 'full' and 'rapic' withdrawal from Syria - The decision, which would be a reversal from previously stated US policy, was made by President Donald Trump, who has long signaled his desire to get out of Syria, (Trump surrenders to Putin, xbillion dollars down the drain)
U.S. Military Preparing for a Full Withdrawal of Its Forces From Syria - WSJ - Move throws campaign against Islamic State into question
The US is preparing to withdraw all its troops from Syria, US defence officials : news ... Trump: "I just got off the phone with my...erm...advisor, and he made a very strong argument for me to get US troops out of everywhere."
What would happen if the United States totally disengaged from Afghanistan? - The Washington Post (7/2017) (creation of a terrorist state)
Afghanistan opium production jumps 87 per cent to record level (taliban funding)

Chaos on French highways as 'yellow vests' torch toll booths : news

'Far-right cell' in German Police 'threatened to kill lawyer's two-year-old daughter' -- Five German police officers are suspected of operating a neo-Nazi cell within the Frankfurt police force ...

The Relotius Case: Answers to the Most Important Questions - SPIEGEL ONLINE - In recent years, DER SPIEGEL published just under 60 articles by reporter and editor Claas Relotius. He has now admitted that, in several instances, he either invented stories or distorted facts. (woah, like literally fake news)

Eschaton: Adiss, Torrevieja - It was fun while it lasted. -- The European Commission will at noon today publish its preparation plans for no-deal Brexit. Here are some highlights based on early info: (thread) 1) UK nationals residing in other EU countries will from 29 March no longer have the right to live/work there. (Tories fucked everybody, including themselves)

Hacked European Cables Reveal a World of Anxiety About Trump, Russia and Iran - The New York Times

Trump admin to lift sanctions on firms owned by Russian oligarch Deripaska : worldnews - Reminder that Oleg Deripaska is the oligarch to whom Paul Manafort owed $10 million.


'Cameras can't get in' is only reason Democrats say border patrol facility that held 7-year-old girl is still open - "If one of your cameras could get in there, the public would see what we have seen and we would shut this down or we would restructure it so that it could treat human beings in a decent fashion." (performative cruelty is Trumps/Rethugs' specialty)
'Fox & Fuckers' 'Stunned' by Trump's Loss to Pelosi on Border Wall Funding

Trump, foundering: His foundation stands nakedly exposed as a sham - NY Daily News


Remember the Big Story in the Russia Scandal: Donald Trump Betrayed America - Mother Jones (1 year, 333 days to get this far)


Trump signed letter of intent for Trump Tower in Moscow, Giuliani incorrectly claimed he didn't - CNNPolitics (hahaha everybody lied, it's all fake news)
Rudy Giuliani admits President Trump signed 'bulls--t' letter of intent for Moscow tower during 2016 campaign - NY Daily News (Rudy is made out of bullshit)

'I'm not hiding my disgusts, my disdain': Veteran judge upends hopes of Trump allies as he spotlights Flynn's misdeeds
How Michael Flynn's Lawyers Messed Up - The Atlantic - A muscular public-relations strategy is often a terrible litigation strategy.
A Lot of Sleazy Things - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Marcy Wheeler has a good post about the significance of Emmet Sullivan's comments yesterday, despite his unwise choice to invoke treason:
In Defense of Emmet Sullivan: Van Grack Suggested Mueller Did Review Whether Flynn's Behavior Amounted to Treason | emptywheel

Judge Emmet Sullivan Poses President Donald Trump Problems With Deportation Halt, Michael Flynn Case - Judge Emmet Sullivan, presiding ... And, not for nothing, but, if the suit gets that far, it is Judge Sullivan who is presiding over the lawsuit brought by Democratic congresscritters that accuses the president* of violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. Sooner or later, god willing, the president* may have to appear before Judge Sullivan, either as a witness or a defendant. I would pay top-dollar for a ticket to that.

` We were FBI agents. We want to know why Flynn lied to the bureau. - The Washington Post ... He had not only accepted thousands of dollars from Russian firms with suspect business practices, but had traveled to Moscow to speak at a gala for a Russian propagandist television network and was pictured hobnobbing with none other than President Vladimir Putin. (let's go with "foreign agent" and "treason")
Fox Host Calls Flynn Judge A Member Of Mueller's 'Witch Hunt' (Lou Fobbs)

Rep. Adam Schiff: If Michael Cohen Goes to Jail, Why Wouldn't Trump?

New secret filing in case of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
Mueller seeks Roger Stone's testimony to House intelligence panel, suggesting special counsel is near end of probe of Trump adviser (hahaha he waited until the Dems took over so Nunes couldn't ratfuck)

Why not indict the Trump Organization? - The Washington Post

Trump 2020 campaign used a shell company to pay ad buyers at the center of alleged illegal coordination scheme with NRA

VA Didn't Spend Millions Meant for Veterans Suicide Prevention | Time (corruption more important)

Senate overwhelmingly backs overhaul of criminal justice system - The Washington Post - after a remarkable political shift from Republicans who voted in large numbers to save money by reducing prison sentences, handing a rare bipartisan victory to President Trump.
Arkansas R Senator Cotten: 'If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem' ("Way too many black people walking around out of jail" he said)

Mnuchin Bloomberg Interview on Trump's 10% Tax Cut Promise - Bloomberg ("backs Off" = admits he was lying, and as usual, the pic)
Trump tariffs hit middle- and low-income earners most - CBS News (suckers will blame Obama and Hillary)

South Carolina GOP open to canceling state's 2020 primary to protect Trump from challenge (lie cheat steal rape pillage and rig the systems)

Why Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Scare Democrats So Much? - The Imagined Threat of a Woman Who Governs Like a Man

Nevada Becomes First State With Female-Majority Legislature | Time

Kyrsten Sinema will be Arizona's senior U.S. senator, Gov. Ducey says (hahaha that worked out, Sally McSally is #2)

Clayton, Sykes leave Republican Party and become Democrats | The Kansas City Star



Illinois Attorney General Says Catholic Church Withheld Names of at Least 500 Accused Priests - The New York Times (isn't that a ... crime?)


The Fresno Bee and the War on Local News | GQ - Local newspapers like The Fresno Bee have long been an endangered institution in America, and that was before California Rep. Devin Nunes began waging a public campaign against his hometown paper.

Poll: Most Americans Are Against U.S. Becoming More Politically Correct : NPR (NPR warns against being less racist, Dems need to use N-word more)

Trump Immigration-Bashing Provokes Public Opinion Backlash - Bloomberg - Polls show that support is increasing for the people he attacks.

Conservative Website Makes Bonkers Rule About Watching Porn And Criticizing Trump | HuffPost - You're Not Allowed To Knock Trump For Stormy Daniels If You Watch Porn http://fdrl.st/bt2 (watching porn = adultery ... Republicans off the edge of sanity)

Everyone is Misreporting the Texas BDS Lawsuit - Volokh Conspiracy : Reason.com (corps are people, people are corps, so shut up)


Ousted NPR news chief, ex-Fox News execs team up on new site - POLITICO - but two top hires left their previous jobs after allegations of harassment and racism. ... Another former Fox News executive, Ken LaCorte, has enlisted former NPR news boss Michael Oreskes and former Fox News executive editor John Moody to join him in creating LaCorte News, which he said will be a truly "fair and balanced" alternative in these polarized times. (nice Fox slogan you have there)

Hot Historical Takes from the New Gilded Age - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Smithsonian Museum of American History is a complete disaster. Ever since the Enola Gay exhibit became a center of conservative culture war resentment in the 1990s, the Smithsonian has been petrified of offending anyone in power. Combine this with the decline of federal funding to produce great exhibits and the Smithsonian is now an institution completely beholden to the wealthy

Johnson & Johnson Loses Bid to Overturn a $4.7 Billion Baby Powder Verdict : news


Eliza Dushku: I worked at CBS. I didn't want to be sexually harassed. I was fired (asshole dick bro culture) ... Weatherly also bragged about his friendship with CBS chief executive Les Moonves
` Eliza Dushku: I worked at CBS. I didn't want to be sexually harassed. I was fired


Activists launch 'Phones Out' campaign urging public to record police : news
public freakout - YouTube
/r/PublicFreakout

Cleveland man alleges racial profiling after bank refuses to cash check, calls 9-1-1


The Secret Baby Catchers of Alabama - The Huffington Post


Research has generally found that American conservatives are more likely to espouse conspiracy theories. It was hypothesized that this might be the case because conservatives did not hold the presidency between 2008-2016. However, post-2016 research still affirms the link. : science


Are people with photographic memories less prone to developing false memories? : askscience


Woman charged with witchcraft just 2 days before offence scrubbed from law : news - As opposed to real witchcraft.

What's the best case of Instant Karma you've witnessed?

u/slurmf posts a 10yr old internet classic and it's original creator shows up and provides an 8-years-later remake : bestof

What is a great quote you heard in a porno? : AskReddit
Nerd gets laid (3:00 minute mark)
My daddy taught me - YouTube


Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace -- but forgot one crucial detail -- No one likes a lying asshole ... Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: Facebook, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and its COO Sheryl Sandberg, and its public relations people, and its engineers have lied. They have lied repeatedly. They have lied exhaustively. They have lied so much they've lost track of their lies, and then lied about them.

Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people's data than it has disclosed (Fuckerberg and Sandfuck lied, and lied about lying)
Facebook's Data Sharing: 5 Takeaways From Our Investigation -- (#1: Zuckerfuck and Fuckberg are lying spawn of Satan)
Facebook "allowed Microsoft's Bing search engine to see the name but forgot one crucial details of virtually all Facebook users' friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users' private messages." : news
The Register
Why Do These Users Keep Getting Their Privacy Violated? - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Mark and Sheryl scratch their heads?)
Facebook 'log out' boycott underway after alleged black voter suppression : technology (Mark and Sheryl are anti-semitic racists? no ...)
Facebook Allowed Some Tech Companies To Read And Delete User's Private Messages: NYT




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TIL that over 108 billion people have lived on the Earth and today's population of 7.5 billion represents 7% of humans that have ever lived. : todayilearned

'Living under a time bomb' California communities scramble to avoid becoming the next wildfire tragedy

Officers Had No Duty to Protect Students in Parkland Massacre, Judge Rules : news (heros)

More than 70% of economists and fund managers blame tariffs for market sell-off : politics (dot A meet dot B)
Wall Street Hits New 2018 Lows as Fed Decision Looms Over Markets - The New York Times (so much winning)
CNBC Fed survey: Chance of recession rises to 23% - Fifty-two percent said they now approve of the president's handling of the economy, down 14 points from the prior survey in which his approval had hit an all-time high. (suckers)
Tax bill bonuses: workers only got 2 cents more per hour in bonuses - Vox - US companies got about $54 billion. (and the super-rich got $1.99 trillion, hahaha suckers)

Sweden's 'man-free' feminist music festival is found guilty of discrimination by authorities : Music (complete with "man-pens")

On My Mind: Shattered glass - Opinion - Jerusalem Post - The New York Police Department recorded a 22% increase in antisemitic incidents in the city in the first 10 months of this year, compared to the same period in 2017.

How totalitarian regimes will take over social media and destroy the West - Opinion - Jerusalem Post - Porous borders and radio waves and other methods enabled people to learn what was happening outside of various police states, such as the Soviet empire.


Eschaton: Not Our Job To Clean The Puke Out Of Your Carpet - Some things will be mutually beneficial and likely happen quickly, but the EU won't be interested helping the UK out just because they're nice. (in all this time, no effective opposition to Brexit suicide)

Controversial Playboy model Marisa Papen is arrested for nude photos of her being crucified on a cross at the Vatican


Donald Trump Awarded 'Golden Idiot' Prize by German TV Show as Much of the World Laughs at U.S. President (except Putin and Bone Saw, who just cackled)
A child occupies the White House -- and the world knows it (said the daughter of St Reagan)

U.s. Branded 'Far-Right' After Being One Of Two Countries Out of 183 To Vote Against UN Pact To Help Refugees
This week in Trump inhumanity: Keeping a mother from her dying toddler - The Washington Post (performative cruelty keeps his base happy)
Trump backs off demand for $5 billion for border wall, but shutdown still possible after Democrats reject new GOP offer - The Washington Post

Why Is Congress Trying To Pass An Obviously Unconstitutional Bill That Would Criminalize Boycotts Of Israel? : politics ... "It's ironic that the pro-Israel party is full of anti-Semites" (Netanfuckyu's strategy)
She lost her school job after refusing to sign a pro-Israel pledge. Now, she's filing a lawsuit ... "how insane it is that a Texas school district insists on their employees signing this stupid pro-Israel contract?" (you will swear loyalty to the End of the World)

People with extreme political views 'cannot tell when they are wrong', study finds

Quote of the Day: "Could he be charged with treason?"

Jon Meacham: Trump May Be Committing 'Definition of Treason' Right Now -- The presidential historian said ... "It's quite possible" Trump is a a witting or at least partially witting agent of a foreign power"
Presidential Historian Jon Meacham: Trump Could Be an 'Agent of a Foreign Power Who Committted 'Definition of Treason'

Appeals Court Upholds Grand Jury Subpoena In Secret Mueller-Linked Ca
Read: Appeals Court Upholds Grand Jury Subpoena In Secret Mueller-Linked Case : politics

Mueller Ready to Pounce on Trumpworld Concessions to Moscow - could answer a central question of the Russia investigation: What did the Kremlin hope to get from its political machinations?
Russia's support for Trump's election is no longer disputable
Trump supporters turning on president over Mueller investigation into Russia ties, poll shows : politics
Is Mueller's investigation nearing the 'worst-case scenario? -- "The completely inconceivable idea that . . . the president of the United States is an active agent of Russian intelligence, no longer seems completely unthinkable" ... "In most cases, Mueller is running four to six months ahead of where we think he is publicly"
Poll shows majority of Americans think Robert Mueller will find President Trump committed crimes | TheHill
Trump could be indicted by Mueller, says Fox News' Judge Napolitano: 'There's ample evidence' (and may already be)
Trump Could Be Under Sealed Indictment, Analyst Speculates : politics
Robert Mueller's Legal Masterpiece -- The special counsel has spun a web of investigations that draw closer to Trump every day.

Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit : politics (crime operation)
xsy Chris Matthews: Trump Jr, Ivanka stand as the next dominoes to fall'
Ex-National Enquirer Editor Suggests Jared, Ivanka Partook In 'Criminal Activity'
Trump's s Publisher Pal Puts Saudi Propaganda Magazine in U.S. Supermarkets ... praising crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (3/2018)
Jared Kushner seeking a back channel with Russia would be 'off the map,' ex-general says (Hayden 5/2017)
Jared Kushner's Growing Stench of Treason (5/2017)

"The Staff If Fed Up He's Acting Like a Nut" : Trump's West Wing Braces for Christmas Madness, More Departures -- And Mueller

CNN's Chris Cuomo Spots 'Uncanny' Similarity Of Trump And Russian Bot Messages
On Twitter, Trump comes out swinging in many directions - The Washington Post (berserk toddler disses crooked Hillary among other temper-targets)

Top Republicans struggle to persuade Trump not to shut down the government - The Washington Post

Trump launches unprecedented reelection machine - POLITICO - Unique structure of the president's reelection campaign is an expression of his iron grip on the party. (all Republicans are owned by Trump Inc)

Michael Flynn Sentencing: Washington Owes Him an Apology - Bloomberg - One year after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, there is still no evidence that he is a traitor (Eli Lake, wrong again)
Apology Not Offered - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Various conservatives were very confident that Michael Flynn would have his actions effectively justified by Judge Emmet Sullivan: "Anticipating just such a triumph, Eli Lake published a column this morning speculating that Flynn had been entrapped and was owed an apology." (Eli Lake falls into the garbage dump in less than 2 hours)
Mike Flynn Steps in It: In a Bid to Feed the Frothy Right, He Leads to Release of Damning New Details Showing He Lied to Protect Trump | emptywheel (Marcy for reality)
Flynn sentencing: Trump backers had their anti-Mueller dreams dashed - The Washington Post
David Mack on Twitter: "Here's Judge Jeanine this weekend saying Flynn was set up and praising Judge Emmett Sullivan as someone "unafraid of the swamp." She even speculated the judge could toss out the guilty plea and let Flynn walk ........ not so much as it turns out. https://t.co/9FtJXWR5DU"
Judge to Flynn: 'Arguably you sold your country out'
Flynn Sentencing Postponed as Judge Raises Doubts: Court Update - Bloomberg (Judge asks why they prosecute him for treason, hello Eli)
As Trump's power slips away, as Flynn faces possible jail time

Blaming the Deep State: Officials Accused of Wrongdoing Adopt Trump's Response

Senate reports on Russian disinformation show how trolls targeted black Americans. - Will lawmakers finally do something about it?

Even Obamacare Haters Think Friday's Court Ruling Is Terrible -- These conservatives sound just as critical of the decision as the liberals do. Murdoch's Journal is not happy)

Trump's story told through classic films - Drawn by Jake Tapper - CNN Video

All 83 of the Ethics Complaints Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh Were Dismissed Because He's on the Supreme Court Now

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Slammed by Reporter as She Cuts Press Briefing Short: 'Do Your Job, Sarah' ... The meeting got off to a rocky start, beginning nearly an hour later than originally scheduled. Then, when Sanders did allow members of the press to ask questions, she repeatedly cut off answers and signaled that they were "short on time" (Bitch showin' 'em who's boss)
'Do your job, Sarah!" Reporters shout after first White House briefing in weeks lasts 15 minutes
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Slammed by Reporter As She Cuts Press Briefing Short
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Dodges Wall Funding Questions With Nonsense About Mexico Trade Pact 'General Revenue' -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders Adds a New Entry to the Gaslight Encyclopedia: General Revenue - Remember when Mexico was going to pay for The Big, Beautiful Wall?

Second woman claims billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein 'directed' her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz (karma reaper comes for Dershofuck)
Second woman claims billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein 'directed' her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz - NY Daily News

Eschaton: America's Worst Publication - The Weekly Standard ... April 28, 2003 issue -- that is, a month after the U.S. invasion of Iraq ... "Now that the war in Iraq is over." (Republicans fucking the world! for the win!)
The 10 Most Appalling Articles in the Weekly Standard's Short and Dreadful Life (but compassionate murderous conservatism!)
Death of The Weekly Standard Signals Rebirth of the Right


Different kind of Blue Dog Coalition intent on being a force in House - The Washington Post - They were predominantly older white men from the South who boasted A-ratings from the National Rifle Association and hewed right on issues such as abortion and gay rights.

Update: Work requirement ends Medicaid coverage for 4,600 more Arkansans in December | ArkansaRob Monster claims he helped resurrect Gab because of his commitment to free speech. He also has a lot to say about Jews.
s Blog (Repeal and Wait For You to Die)

Ocasio-Cortez weighs a new primary target: Hakeem Jeffries - POLITICO - Jeffries, the newly elected No. 5 Democrat in the House, has drawn criticism from the left since the party's leadership elections - The group feels Jeffries takes too much money from corporate interests, a key litmus test, and is overly friendly with banking and pro-charter school interests. But Ocasio-Cortez is also unhappy that a campaign donation to her from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was allegedly used in a whisper campaign against Lee before her narrow loss to Jeffries in the recent race for Democratic caucus chair.

America's Overcompensated and Underachieving Elites, The Teenage Years - Lawyers, Guns & Money

A garbage president for garbage people - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Erick Erickson is grappling with a deep mystery:


These Things I Have Recently Learned - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Alice Walker is a reprehensible anti-Semite.
The New York Times Just Published an Unqualified Recommendation for an Insanely Anti-Semitic Book - Tablet Magazine (oh, and Holy Blood, Holy Grail)
Are the Lizard People controlling the Intellectual Dark Web? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

In popular Wisconsin vacation town, toddler's rape kit leads to arrest (cops buried rape kit b/c they always do)

Seriously, Prada, what were you thinking?: Why the fashion industry keeps bumbling into racist imagery - The Washington Post

People fall off cruise ships with alarming regularity. Can anything be done to stop it? ... Broberg -- who at 5'5" weighed 120 lbs -- was served 19 drinks


The Most Overlooked Movies of 2018: Pimp-Slayers, Anti-Capitalists and Nic Cage Rage

The Strategy Bridge - the most flagrant challenge ever hurled by top-ranking American military men at the civilian leadership of the United States.


Party over platform: Trump's varied statements on a range of issues gave political scientists a unique opportunity to see that Trump supporters are more attached to the party label than conservative principles. : science


Researchers succeeded in neutralizing what they believe is a primary factor in late-onset Alzheimer's disease, opening the door to development of a vaccine or drug that could be administered before age 40, and taken for life, to potentially prevent the disease in 50 to 80 percent of at-risk adults. (probably not)

A study of 26,000 people has found opioids not much better than placebos at treating pain. Alternative treatments are often better for noncancer pain, the study found : science

Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport : technology

A proposal happy accident : aww
What screams "I need to prove my masculinity" ? : AskReddit Women of Reddit, what's the most "crazy girlfriend" thing you've ever done?

The next major battle : Sununu charges against marijuana legalization (the son of the guy who killed the planet)
Episode 344: The Book of Revelation
Episode 344: The Book of Revelation : LPOTL
Libsyn Directory - podcasts

Google isn't the company that we should have handed the Web over to - Analysis: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place. (Fuckya Nutella: "I dont' see why we need more than one web browser)

The Bible-Thumping Tech CEO Who's Proud Of Keeping Neo-Nazis Online - Rob Monster claims he helped resurrect Gab because of his commitment to free speech. He also has a lot to say about Jews. (eponymous)

The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times - Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress




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Opinion | Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? - The New York Times - Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? - Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering.
Americans want action on climate change. Republicans are the exception - 66 percent of Americans now say they've seen enough evidence to justify action on climate change, up from 51 percent two decades ago ... Resistance comes only from the one-third of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans. A 56 percent majority of the GOP says either that concern about climate change is unwarranted (hence the 66% overall)

'Living under a time bomb' California communities scramble to avoid becoming the next wildfire tragedy

Worst start to December for the stock market since Great Depression

Uncovering Chinese Espionage in the US | The Diplomat - A detailed look into how, why, and where Chinese spies are active in the United States.


Poland Reverses Supreme Court Purge, Retreating From Conflict With E.U. - The New York Times - Mr. Duda waited until the last hours before his formal deadline Monday night to sign the bill to reinstate judges who had been purged

Opinion | The Cost of Telling a #MeToo Story in Australia - The New York Times - Shje is worried that Australia's defamation laws will drag her into a legal and financial quagmire ... Australia is the only Western democracy without an explicit constitutional protection for freedom of speech (revenge of the dickieocracy)

How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe | The New Yorker - The German Chancellor and other European leaders have run out of patience with the President.


Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate 'interference' in kingdom (you will not criticize us!)

Politicians have caused a pay 'collapse' for the bottom 90 percent of workers, researchers say ... efforts to weaken unions, the decay of the minimum wage and monetary policy that prioritizes low inflation over full employment (hello, Republicans)

Video of migrant children with numbers on their arms goes viral after 7-year-old girl dies in detention - U.S. News - Haaretz.com - The 7-year-old Guatemalan migrant girl who died after being detained by U.S. border agents this month was inseparable from her father and had looked forward to being able to send money home to support her impoverished family
Trump 'Boarder Security' typo draws instant mockery on Twitter

The IRA and Political Polarization in the United States The Computational Propaganda Project

Anatomy of a Ratfucking - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most sweeping analysis yet of Russia and worked even harder to support him while in office.
A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations | WIRED
Silicon Valley may have done 'bare minimum' to help Russia investigation, Senate Intel Committee told (the Mark and Sheryl Show)
New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation's scale and sweep
Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media - The New York Times ... The most popular of the Russian Instagram accounts was @blackstagram, with 303,663 followers.

Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate - The Washington Post (Donnie asked Vlad for a little help)

An Anatomy of A Ratfucking, Pt. 2: Working With the Worst of America - Lawyers, Guns & Money
An Anatomy of A Ratfucking, Pt. 3: Discouraging Democratic Constituencies - Lawyers, Guns & Money

How Donald Trump Got Caught in a Legal Vise -- The breadth of investigations is so sweeping that they may hang over the president and his entourage long after Robert Mueller's probe is finished

Giuliani stumbles into admitting Trump's hush money payments were probably illegal


Napolitano: FBI Agents Did Not Entrap Mike Flynn
The 'Michael Flynn is an innocent hero' conspiracy theory suffers a major setback
Michael Flynn's business associates charged with illegally lobbying for Turkey

More Powerful Than a Russian Troll Army: The National Enquirer - The New York Times

Roger Stone Admits Spreading Lies on InfoWars - WSJ - Trump adviser made the admission in settling a defamation suit brought against him by an exiled Chinese businessman

It's high time for media to enter the No Kellyanne Zone -- and stay there
Chris Cuomo and Kellyanne Conway Slug it Out For 39 Absolutely Crazy Minutes on CNN

Witches to Trump: Stop Calling the Mueller Investigation a 'Witch Hunt' -- The witch community is tired of the president invoking the worst moment in their history to serve his political needs.
Fox News contributor ridicules Trump for calling Michael Cohen a "rat" : It's "mobster lingo" (well?)

CNN's Jake Tapper Shuts Down Susan Collins' Trump Hush Money Spin: We 'Do Have The Whole Picture' (lying Suzie Doozy is always waiting for "the full picture")

Obama-Trump Voters - Lawyers, Guns & Money - How to deal with the Obama-Trump voters is a tricky proposition for 2020. These are mostly white racists who also believe that they are getting screwed economically. While Trump remains obscenely and disturbingly popular among Republicans, not everyone who voted for him is a Republican. (they got conned)

Eschaton: They'll Be On CNN Labeled "Patriot Party Members" Or Some Shit - Great framing, as always, New York Times. These Congressman are just tired of Washington which as we all know is just a complete hellhole compared to Bugnuts, Alabama, where they will return for the winter break before beginning their new jobs as [check notes] Raytheon lobbyists. They're lazy and scoping out their next gig you assholes.

A Shutdown Looms. Can the G.O.P. Get Lawmakers to Show Up to Vote? - The New York Times -- Their vanquished and retiring members are sick and tired of Washington and don't want to show up anymore to vote. - Call it the revenge of the lame ducks.

Suddenly everyone is defending the Affordable Care Act - Axios (you know, the Repeal and Replace with Shit Act)
Texas ObamaCare Blunder - WSJ - ruling will be overturned and could backfire on Republicans (if the WSJ says that ...)

A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States -- so She Lost Her Job
Muslim group challenging Texas' "No Boycott of Israel' law

Bob Corker won't say whether or not Trump should be primaried in 2020

Iowa Poll: Trump's popularity still soars among Iowa Republicans (let's talk to some more evil dimbulb farmers who got screwed by Trumpster and love it)
Pennsylvania meltdown triggers Republican alarms - POLITICO - A GOP implosion in Pennsylvania has Republicans alarmed about President Donald Trump's reelection prospects in a state that proved essential to his 2016 victory.

Trump Officials Plan to Rescind Obama-Era School Discipline Policies - The New York Times (what America needs is more paddling and abuse of kids said the pyramid of evil Queen)

'Men For Others, My Ass" : After Kavanaugh, Inside Georgetown Prep's Culture of Omerta

CBS Says Les Moonves Will Not Receive $120 Million Severance - The New York Times (Moonfucked)

Woody Allen's Secret Teen Lover Speaks: Sex, Power and a Conflicted Muse Who Inspired 'Manhattan'


Opinion | Blue States Practice the Family Values Red States Preach - The New York Times - According to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 32 states, those with the highest percentage of high school students who say they have had sex are Mississippi, Delaware, West Virginia, Alabama and Arkansas. All but Delaware voted Republican in the last presidential election. (Delaware, the sex state)

Salt Lake County is now minority Mormon, and the impacts are far reaching : politics

Washington Women's March group disbands amid anti-Semitism controversy at national level
They Grabbed Her Baby and Arrested Her. Now Jazmine Headley Is Speaking Out. - The New York Times (cops will be cops)

Angry Staff Officer on Twitter: "Hai I've had some wine and realized today is an AUSPICIOUS day I. The history of the things of the country and stuff. HARK TO MY TALE. so a long time ago in a northwest territory far far away, there was almost a war about Toledo Ohio. Toledo, Ohio. I know right" (the Toledo War because stupid and lazy has always worked and history if fun) "Mi says they're ready to "welcome them to hospitable graves"




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Climate Negotiators Reach an Overtime Deal to Keep Paris Pact Alive - The New York Times

Paradise Lost | Outside Online - nside the most destructive fire in American history -- and why the West's cities and towns will keep on burning
Sierra Nevada snow pack on track to shrink 79 percent, new study finds. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab report finds "fundamental changes" coming for California's water supply)

'Pathetic' NRA, Republicans Are 'Easily Manipulated' and 'Complicit' In Russian Espionage, Expert Says - Dr. Sarah Kendzior, an academic who researches and writes on authoritarianism (and no, Russia doesn't let you buy assault guns)

China's Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor

Japan explosion: Dozens injured in Sapporo restaurant blast - BBC News

Brazillian faith healer accused of molesting over 300 women now considered a fugitive : news (Oprah promoted him, you know)


British officials line up for second referendum: reports POLITICO
Senior Tories urge free vote on second referendum | Politics | The Guardian - Cabinet ministers renew pleas for fresh approach after damaging week for PM

Trump working on extraditing cleric, Turkish foreign minister says - Breaking News - Jerusalem Post

Here's How The Chief Palestinian Negotiator Described His Last Meting With Jared Kushner - Let's get the bad news out of the way first: it's possible that Jared Kushner may not successfully broker a Middle East peace deal.

Horrifying indifference to children's lives (they only care about the unborn)

Jakelin Caal: The 7-year-old migrant girl who died in Border Patrol custody was healthy before she arrived, father says - The Washington Post
Jakelin Caal Was Held at Border Patrol Base Previously Cited for Contaminated Water

New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation's scale and sweep ... the Russian campaign reached 126 million people on Facebook and 20 million more on Instagram. (Sheryl blames Soros)

Comey shreds Trump for 'lying' about raid of Cohen office
This is from the President of our country, lying about the lawful execution of a search warrant issued by a federal judge. Shame on Republicans who don't speak up at this moment -- for the FBI, the rule of law, and the truth.


Voters uneasy over Trump probes, question his honesty: NBC-WSJ poll -- A robust 62 percent majority say Trump has not been honest about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, up from 56 percent in August. (the core 38% of delusional sadists)
Poll: 62 percent say Trump isn't telling the truth in Russia probe - More Americans want Democrats -- not Trump -- in charge of setting policy
WATCH: GOP strategist flames out after mistakenly citing poll that shows most American's think Trump is a liar

Alarming CNN Graphic Shows Just How Many Ongoing Investigations Relate To Trump | HuffPost

Mueller Is Fighting a Witness in Court. Who Is It? - The New York Times


Investigations Into The Personal and Political Mount For Trump | HuffPost - Less than two years into Trump's presidency, his business associates, political advisers and family members are being probed, along with the practices of his late father.
'30-year criminal enterprise' : Investigations look at Trump's life from all angles
After nearly two years in the White House, Trump's lies start catching up with him

Donald Trump Whines Over 'Unfair' Coverage On NBC, 'Saturday Night Live' "Should be tested in courts," the president tweeted. (notes on his delusional word-salad rants)

Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow 'Up To November 2016'
Giuliani melts down defending Trump lies about Cohen: 'Unles you'e god, you'll never know what the truth is'


Sen. Dick Durbin: Obamacare ruling 'once again puts Republicans in Washington on the spot' (like repeal replace and refuck didn't do it)

Ryan Zinke, Face of Trump Environmental Rollbacks, Is Leaving Interior Department - The New York Times (face of corruption, you mean)

Scott Walker Gets Mercilessly Mocked By Twitter Users Over Venn Diagram Fail | HuffPost
Michigan GOP Governor Signs Bills Gutting Minimum Wage Hike, Paid Sick Leave : politics

Arizona Lawmaker Faces Calls for Resignation After Saying Black People Don't 'Blend In' with Society

She needs to smile more or less - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Vanity Fair set up the hurdles for Kamala Harris's still-hypothetical bid for the presidency. It is as bad as one would expect.

Our Women in Washington - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This may have happened over a week ago, but I have to say how awesome it is that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is exposing to the public just how that gross corporate-friendly Washington sausage is made ("bipartisan" freshman orientation given by Goldman Sachs, no unions allowed)

Speaker Paul Ryan retires: his legacy is debt and disappointment - Vox - Paul Ryan's long con (very serious policy wonk in the give us your money and fuck you dept.)


After suicides in Acton and Boxborough, a communion of sorrow - The Boston Globe


Adult obesity rates rise in 6 states, exceed 35% in 7 : news

Multi-lab, high-powered replication of widespread moral psychology finding (exposure to the Ten Commandments increases honesty) fails to find evidence of an effect : science

New research on attachment insecurity shows what drives the need for money. Among all forms of security threat, furthermore "interpersonal insecurityis one of the most important factors influencing materialism"

TIL In medieval times women's hairstyles showed if they were single or married. Married women would have kept their long hair tied up in braids beneath a head covering of some sort. Single women would allow their hair to fall freely over their bodies signaling that they were available for marriage. : todayilearned

Traffic flow measured on 30 different 4-way junctions : videos

The development of a kind, caring, and warm attitude toward oneself might help those suffering from chronic pain. A new study found that people with higher levels self-compassion tended to be better able to "get on with the business of living" despite experiencing pain.


ELI5 why is there the two rows of elements that don't fit in on the periodic table? How do these 20 or so elements fit into those two single spots? : explainlikeimfive

Healthy levels of Vitamin D are linked to a 75% lower risk of depression, new research finds. The Irish study followed almost 4,000 older adults for four years. : science

Men tend to perceive both polygyny -- in which a man has more than one wife -- and polyandry -- in which a woman has more than one husband -- as less troublesome than women


What is the biggest "this relationship won't last" red flag you've ever seen at a wedding? : AskReddit



The Unbearable Conventionality of Our Tech Betters - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Fresh off Amazon's decision to engage in a nationwide scam to set cities against each other and see what goodies it could get and then settling on building in two already extremely expensive cities that don't need the jobs, we have Apple: Apple said Thursday that it would build a new $1 billion campus in Austin ...

Sears bankruptcy court OKs $25 million in bonuses for top execs : news (they reward themselves for destroying companies and jobs)




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The year's brightest comet makes its closest pass by Earth this weekend. On Sunday, the "Christmas Comet" will come within 7.2 million miles of Earth, or about 30 times the Earth-Moon distance. : worldnews

Mention of 'fossil fuels' cut from videos at UN climate talks: Videos produced by environmental groups to be shown to thousands of participants in a major UN climate summit were banned by organisers for mentioning fossil fuels, in a move campaigners say amounts to censorship. : worldnews (sounds Trumpian)
200 Nations Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Weeks Of Talks | HuffPost - After two weeks of talks in Poland, nations finally agreed on rules for combatting climate change ... Last week, Saudi Arabia, the Unites States, Russia and Kuwait refused to use the word "welcome" in association with the findings of the report. (Trump's corruption has become our best buddies)
Quoting 'The Lorax,' Court Pulls Permit For Pipeline Crossing Appalachian Trail (and oh, read the comments)
Drenched city: 2018 is now Washington's wettest year ever recorded ... past the previous record of 61.33 inches set in 1889 (Boston has had 52")

Monumental Disaster at the Department of the Interior - A new report documents suppression of science, denial of climate change, the silencing and intimidation of staff (we don't need your sciencey stuff)

Quiet Skies: TSA says it no longer tracks regular travelers like terrorists - The Boston Globe - following widespread criticism that federal air marshals were spying on thousands of unwitting fliers who are not suspected of any crime or on any terrorist watch list.

Maria Butina pleads guilty, is first Russian national convicted of seeking to influence U.S. policy around time of 2016 election : worldnews (thought and prayers, commie NRA +Putin "never heard of her")

U.S. Fears for Safety of Russian Cooperator Butina, Filing Says - Bloomberg (Putin, who "never heard of her" will Novichuk her)

Ukraine Asserts Major Russian Military Buildup on Eastern Border - The New York Times (Trump gave Putin the go-ahead)

America' s hidden war in Syria - U.S. troops will now stay in Syria indefinitely, controlling a third of the country and facing peril on many fronts

U.S. Tech Giant Cloudflare Provides Cybersecurity For At Least 7 Terror Groups | HuffPost - Among its customers are the Taliban, al-Shabab and Hamas.
How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments - The New York Times - Especially remarkable was the location: Kashgar, the ancient Silk Road city in China's far west that is experiencing a major humanitarian crisis. (annals of evil)

Venezuela's inflation rate passes 1 million percent and it's costing lives every day. : worldnews (Maduro and his bus-trip to Hell)

Palestinian teenager killed as violence spirals in the West Bank during Israeli manhunt for shooter : worldnews

No sexual consent means rape, Spain told by legal panel: A panel of legal experts was set up by the government after protests when five men were cleared of raping a teenage woman. Judges ruled that the so-called "wolf pack" gang had not assaulted her. : worldnews

"Red vests" movement announced in Tunisia: Protests will start on Dec 17 as govt seizes 48,000 red vests and 2,000 yellow vests from a warehouse in Sfax : worldnews

British Columbia court upholds extradition of pair accused of 'honour killing' in India : worldnews

UK ministers think May's Brexit plan is dead, seek alternatives: The Times | Reuters
Eschaton - Run out the clock and hope for desperation to pass the thing is the plan, I guess. - Theresa May has come home from Brussels empty-handed and without hope of further negotiations over the Irish backstop, with the failure to achieve any kind of breakthrough leaving her brutally exposed ... Brussels sources claimed May was just keeping up a pretence that the legal guarantee she had promised rebellious Tory MPs during this week's leadership challenge was still on the cards. ("on the cards")
Benedict Cumberbatch Scams a Nation in the Brexit Trailer


Saudi Media Defends Donald Trump by Attacking Progressive Muslim-American Politicians With Racism, Conspiracy Theories (Trump is a commie A-rab)
Saudi Arabia spending billions to prop up stock market after foreign-relations bungles, including Khashoggi murder : worldnews
PressTV-Saudis violate Hudaydah truce 21 times: Yemen army

Dow dives about 500 points to its lowest close since May

DHS Secretary Blames Migrant Family For Child's Harrowing Death | HuffPost - "This family chose to cross illegally" (she cackled evilly)

Trump push to deport Vietnam War refugees scalds California GOP : politics ... there are still more registered Republicans than Democrats among Orange County's roughly 100,000 voters of Vietnamese descent (figure that out +Stephen Miller's next plan: deport all Dems to Antarctica)

Obamacare Thrown Out by Judge, Raising Insurance Uncertainty - Bloomberg
Federal judge in Texas rules entire Obama health-care law is unconstitutional - The Washington Post (Texas, yi-ha))
This Is The Future Republicans Want - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Judge Reed 'O'Connor (R-Tex) has as expected issued his ridiculously hacktacular opinion arguing that because Congress repealed the tax penalty enforcing the mandate the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. ("give us your money, fuck off and die)
Federal judge in Texas strikes down Affordable Care Act : news - Sadly, a lot of folks think this won't impact their lives, as they have ACA, not that darn Obama Care.
The ruling finding the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional is raw judicial activism and impossible to defend - The Washington Post
Opinion | What the Lawless Obamacare Ruling Means - The New York Times - not based on a solid legal argument. It's an exercise in raw judicial power.

MarkHoHoHoHamill on Twitter: "You're about to find out, Benedict Donald! ?? #HaveYourselfAVeryMuellerChristmas ?? "
His worst nightmare: Trump's life under a legal microscope - Simply put, Trump's campaign, transition, inaugural committee and presidency are now under active criminal investigation. His business -- the Trump Organization -- and his defunct charity -- The Trump Foundation are also under investigation (the charity investigation is a civil one). His college -- Trump University -- has already been deemed a fraud.

Mueller continues to be interested in interviewing Trump - CNNPolitics (his open-book take home test didn't get a good grade)
Strange real estate deal raises specter of Putin buying Trump - SFChronicle.com
Russia Investigations: Collusion Case Looks Weaker Amid Focus On Cohen : NPR - Political and legal danger for President Trump may be sharpening by the day, but the case that his campaign might have conspired with the Russian attack on the 2016 election looks weaker than ever. (said the Nice Polite Republicans)

Adam Schiff's Plans to Obliterate Trump's Red Line ... congressional investigation will follow the money.
Mounting legal threats surround Trump as nearly every organization he has led is under investigation - The Washington Post (why, it's almost like America elected a crook!)

olddivorcecase comments on A Former Manager At The Russian "Troll Factory" Is Now Living In The US, Report Says (long list of connections between Trump and Russia)

As Trump prepares for his holiday respite in Florida, he is more isolated than ever - The Washington Post ... "trump has exposed the christian evangelicals for what they are. Dumb, incoherent hypocrites. Another word for Evangelical is Redneck. Another one is trailer trash."

'Stop,' 'I wasn't there,' 'I don't know anything about that' : Republicans dodge or dismiss Trump's legal woes ("who?")

FACT CHECK: Did a Banned Federal Study Show That Refugees Bring in More in Government Revenues Than They Cost? (much more)


Chris Christie declines White House chief of staff role | TheHill (getting fucked by Ja-Red worked out well for him, didn't it?)
Trump's Next Chief of Staff Called Him 'A Terrible Human Being' Just Before He Was Elected President - Mulvaney left his House seat the next year to serve Trump as both director of the Office of Management and Budget and Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (well, he got the "terrible" part right)

As the Trumps Dodged Taxes, Their Tenants Paid a Price - The New York Times (first they cheated, then they charged the victims for their crimes)
For Kushner, Criminal Justice Has Been a Personal Issue and a Rare Victory - The New York Times

Ryan Zinke Is Out As Interior Department Secretary | HuffPost - The loyal soldier for Trump's "energy dominance" agenda had tallied up more than a dozen federal investigations. (crooked dinky Zinke)
Interior Secretary Zinke resigns amid investigations - The Washington Post
Draining the swamp - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The competition for worst Trump cabinet officer is like the competition for worst 20th century dictator, i.e., stiff, but Zinke's game was strong (a true Trumpster)

Congress passes bill to make members pay sexual misconduct claims : news

VA secretary gave inaccurate answers on pro-Confederate ties during confirmation process - CNNPolitics


Nancy Pelosi Is Going to Spend Two Years Running Rings Around Donald Trump - What happened on Tuesday is just the beginning. The lifelong pol Pelosi has been preparing for this moment her entire career. (Nancy Smash will rule, Revoltin' Moulton will lose his primary)
Republicans failed to govern. Democrats have a chance to succeed. - The Washington Post - To put it bluntly, the Tories under Prime Minister Theresa May and the Republicans under President Trump have failed as governing parties. That's because they can't reconcile their inflammatory rhetoric with the practical realities of economic and social policy in the 21st century. The conservatives talked big to aggrieved voters, but they have come up empty. (they lied to the suckers and the suckers screwed themselves and everybody else)
Max Mara Is Re-Releasing The Famous Nancy Pelosi Coat - Talking Points Memo

The left blindsides Beto - POLITICO - The Texas congressman is taking flak for several votes and for not joining the Congressional Progressive Caucus. ("centrist" oil industry money taker triangulator? or are they scared of him?)
No Democrats Are Talking About Their Next Governing Agenda, If You Ignore All the Democrats Who Are - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Elizabeth Bruenig -- the opponent of reproductive freedom who has nevertheless appointed herself the guardian of lefty purity -- has a second column attacking Beto O'Rourke while also implicitly arguing that all non-Bernie candidates and their supporters want nothing more than was able to pass Congress under the Obama administration. The latest one brings is that classic leftier-than-thou Golden Oldie: Democrats have no governing agenda other than being anti-Trump. What is her evidence for this assertion? (she emailed a couple of Reublican randos on the internets and talked to ... James Comey!)

Yoder joins other defeated candidates in asking for review. | The Kansas City Star - Outgoing U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder of Kansas (look in the mirror, zombie dude)

Scott Walker Leaves As He Came In - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A handmaiden to moneyed interests who hates democracy: ... "If you took Madison and Milwaukee out of the state election formula, we would have a clear majority" said Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. (only the rural walking dead should vote)


Star Economist at Harvard Faces Sexual Harassment Complaints - The New York Times - Before he turned 40, Roland G. Fryer Jr. had earned tenure at Harvard, received a MacArthur "genius" grant and won the most prestigious award for young American economists. He stoked a national debate by concluding that police officers show no bias in the shootings of black men. (oh, it's Harvard, and he's a "genius" sexual harrasser) Dr. Fryer fostered a work environment hostile to women, one filled with sexual talk and bullying.


West Virginia University Student Investigated For Border Patrol Halloween Costume | Daily Wire - Cortese, who is also the Communications Director for Students for Trump (DailyLies, hahahaha )

YouTube's 2018 "Rewind" is the site's most disliked video ever. The implications are huge. --PewDiePie is YouTube's most popular user - Felix Kjellberg, a.k.a. PewDiePie, has lately made the news for his alignment with YouTube's growing community of white supremacists ...
PewDiePie's ties to white supremacy spell serious trouble for the future of YouTube -- celebrity keeps dally with the alt-right. His 76 million followers don't care (do U?)

In the Valley of Fear | by Michael Greenberg | The New York Review of Books - Measured by yearly production, the San Joaquin Valley is one of the highest-value stretches of farmland in the country, and is dominated by large growers who preside over a labor force of migrant workers in a way that has not changed much since Carey McWilliams described it in his 1939 book, Factories in the Fields.


Woman arrested after racist tirade in NYC subway, makes everyone late to work. : news -- "Lushchinskaya, or Anna Lushchinsky, the name she used in her career as an attorney, was arrested and charged after the drama on the D. ... Lushchinskaya, with a Russian accent, screams that the man who has stepped in her way is preventing her from hitting Tung and then Lushchinskaya lunges at Tung, who now begins to fight back. All the while, the dyed-blond Lushchinskaya, carrying a Louis Vuitton bag, kicks, strikes, and screams."
Anna Lushchinskaya: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Bedford family calls for priest to be removed after funeral | Toledo Blade - The couple said the priest disregarded their requests for an uplifting homily and instead chose to sermonize on the morality of suicide ... Father LaCuesta did not respond to requests for comment this week. The Archdiocese of Detroit, which has been in touch with the family, apologized in a statement.
Bedford family calls for priest to be removed after funeral : news
Bedford Public Schools Temperance, MI - Various media outlets have reported that the District's football coach for the past 11 years, is no longer the coach. (whose name they don't mention, of course)

Navy kicking out four petty officers accused of barracks sex crimes with a child : news

Jury finds man facing jail after playing 'F the Police' not guilty : news

Disney Channel Actor Arrested and Fired for Allegedly Plotting Sex With 13 Year-Old : news
Victim told Univ. of Idaho football player 'no' multiple times before rape, docs say : news

Lakewood associate pastor John Gray defends decision to buy wife Lamborghini for anniversary | abc7chicago.com (G-D told him to do it)

Pennsylvania bear attack: Black bear drags woman from behind her house into woods - CBS News ... the bear may have been attracted to deer parts from a recent hunting trip that were left near the home.

The Real Sex Lives of Historical Queens
'I Always Steal My Friends' Boyfriends, and I Can't Stop!' ... But you're not a fool for unrequited love. You're an emotional terrorist on a single-minded quest.


A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson : books

Why you shouldn't be afraid of your aging brain -- Yes, our cognition slows as we grow older, but some activities and even attitudes can help. (but not that much)

A study has found that constantly being online or on your smartphone creates a state of "online vigilancje" wehre one's mind is automatically monitoring communications. This does not give your mind a time to rest and decreases mindfulness.

Being in a committed relationship, having exclusive sex, having less dissonance between attitudes and activity, having greater sexual agency, and having stronger sexual desire are tied to higher sexual well-being for heterosexual college women today, finds a new study. : science

The Prophet of Envy | by Robert Pogue Harrison | The New York Review of Books - Rene Girard ... most valuable insight is that rivalry and violence arise from sameness rather than difference. Where conflicts erupt between neighbors or ethnic groups, or even among nations, more often than not it's because of what they have in common rather than what distinguishes them ...categories of 'difference' when the root of all conflicts is ra ther 'competition,' mimetic rivalry between persons, countries, cultures (notice the abscence of "races" and, in the what a tangled web dept.,) student Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who studied with him at Stanford in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Evolution of Rene Girard | America Magazine
Reni Girard and Mimetic Theory ... because they want what others will envy
Girard, Rene | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy


Damn It All | by Stephen Greenblatt | The New York Review of Books - The Penguin Book of Hell (the unique cruelty of Christianity)

Los Vatobots vs Los Deporticons - YouTube

Deaf baby hears mothers voice for the first time : aww

Daughter singing for her hearing-impaired father at a rock concert : gifs

ELI5: Why do URLs have %20 in them to represent a space? : explainlikeimfive

What is the creepiest Reddit post you ever read? : AskReddit





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Revealed: FBI kept files on peaceful climate change protesters : news (while Republicans were homociding th planet)

Maria Butina Claimed to Have a "Signed Cooperation Agreement" With the National Rifle Association - The confessed Russian agent told an Israeli audience in 2013 that she had a deal with the NRA.
Judge rejects embattled school deputy's claim he had no duty to confront Parkland gunman : news

Federal judge in Texas rules entire Obama health-care law is unconstitutional - The Washington Post - The lawsuit was initiated by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who describes himself as a tea party conservative, with support from 18 GOP counterparts and a governor.

'Yello vest' protests reach Israel as hundreds demonstrate in Tel Aviv - Inspired by French movement, activists blame government for rising cost of living; block a central junction; at least 10 arrested after confrontations with police

Netanyahu's Son Says All Muslims Should 'Leave The Land Of Israel'

For 3rd straight year, Turkey jailed more journalists than any other country: Report : worldnews (lest you forget Erdofuck's true nature)

Boris Johnson given 24 hours to respond or face legal action over Brexit 'lies'
Boris Johnson given 24 hours to respond or face legal action over Brexit lies

Julian Assange facing embassy exit and uncertain fate: Julian Assange is fighting to stay at Ecuador's embassy in London, but his hosts don't want him anymore. The WikiLeaks founder accused the embassy of carrying out a surveillance operation on behalf of the FBI : worldnews

ISIS has lost its last stronghold. US backed and Kurdish led Syrian Democratic forces have finally seized the town of Hajin after more than three months of fighting. : worldnews


'Historic moment' as Irish parliament legalises abortion, after landslide referendum result: The new legislation permits terminations to be carried out up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy -- or in conditions posing serious health risks to the woman.

Police in Britain are recording more domestic abuse against men : worldnews


Nine medical schools in Japan rigged entrance exams to benefit men and relatives of alumni: Nine of Japan's 81 medical schools manipulated their entrance exams to favor men and relatives of alumni, the education ministry said Friday in final report on its probe into university admission processes.

US Senate passes resolution saying Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is responsible for murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death : worldnews


The Steele Dossier: A Retrospective - Lawfare -- The dossier holds up well over time, and none of it, to our knowledge, has been disproven. ... more to come ...

7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion - The Washington Post
WaPost: Girl dies of dehydration while in Border Patrol custody, 'had not eaten for days' : news


Trump's claim that he didn't violate campaign finance law is weak -- and dangerous
Trump is toast: This week really was the beginning of the end for the President - NY Daily News - He is done. Donald Trump will be forced to resign the presidency before November 2020.
Trump is toast: This week really was the beginning of the end for the President : politics

Trump's Inauguration Paid Trump's Company -- With Ivanka in the Middle - As the inaugural committee planned the landmark celebration, internal concerns were raised about whether Trump's Washington hotel was overcharging for event space. The spending could be a violation of the law. (lock her up!)
Trump's Inauguration Paid Trump's Company -- With Ivanka in the Middle
The Trump inaugural committee's fundraising was a mess from the start, but a new investigation could finally provide some answers
Trump Inaugural Fund and Super PAC Said to Be Scrutinized for Illegal Foreign Donations - The New York Times

"This Is Not A Normal Time" : Trump and the Rapidly Expanding "Witch Hunt" - The criminality of the key figures in the President's inner circle is now established, and they have started to implicate Trump himself.

Mueller investigation news: Paul Manafort advised White House on how to attack investigation of Trump and Russia - Vox - We now have details as to how the indicted former campaign manager worked with the president to undermine federal law enforcement.

Mystery Mueller mayhem at a Washington court - CNNPolitics (Individual 1?)
Entire Floor at D.C. Federal Courthouse Sealed Off for Mystery Case : politics (reddit thinks it was Pence)

Trump taps Mick Mulvaney -- who already has two top jobs -- as acting White House chief of staff, replacing John Kelly
Megathread: Trump names Mick Mulvaney as acting WH Chief of Staff : politics

Jared Kushner Replaced Michael Cohen as Trump's National Enquirer Connection -- The president's son-in-law grew tight with David Pecker during the early months of the administration.

How Did the Republican Party Get So Corrupt? - The Atlantic - The GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start.

New Jersey AG probes Trump golf club after undocumented maids claim racially-charged harassment, threats - NY Daily News
FBI actively investigating Papadopoulos days after his release from prison

Eschaton: Rediscovering The Deficit - Indeed. - The budget crisis begins in three weeks when Democrats take control of the House. The countdown has begun. Expect every major media outlet to join the drumbeat for immediate deficit reduction.
Trump Is Shattering Economic Taboos, and His Successors May Pay - Bloomberg

Trump Fact Checker poll: Few Americans believe his falsehoods. - Washington Post

The first black president - Lawyers, Guns & Money


'We were shocked as shit' : How Pelosi crushed the Dem rebels - The longtime Democratic leader outmaneuvered her critics and showed exactly why she will be speaker once again. ... One of the most high-profile rebels in the group, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), had told his colleagues that he'd win over the incoming freshmen, even referring to these lawmakers as "my candidates" (charge in and kill people Revoltin' Moulton has a big ego, doesn't he)


Wisconsin's Scott Walker Signs Bills Stripping Powers From Incoming Governor
Liberal groups move to sue after Walker signs lame-duck bills in Wisconsin - POLITICO - undefined


Snowflakes - Lawyers, Guns & Money (you're a "snowflake" if you're not a old white racist asshole)

Chief justice of the California Supreme Court leaves the Republican Party, citing Kavanaugh | CALmatters

The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine critical of Trump, to shutter after 23 years - CNN
The Weekly Standard is shutting down: what it meant to conservatism - Vox - The end of an era in conservative media.

In American history, our deepest fears come from the south - NY Daily News
Evangelical Fear Explains the Rise of Trump - The Atlantic - The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear
Evangelicals Overwhelmingly Voted For Trump. No Survey Result Changes That. | HuffPost
Myths Debunked: Why Did White Evangelical Christians Vote for Trump?
'Toxic Chrisianity' : the evangelicals creating champions for Trump


Texas judge who approved plea deal for alleged Baylor University rapist faces public backlash : news


Sondra Locke - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Clint Eastwood, Republican and Confederate Army guy hates women)

Behind CBS's Secret 9.5 Million Settlement With 'Bull' Actress Eliza Dushku

Fox 2 meteorologist Jessica Starr dies by suicide : news - In October, Starr received Lasik surgery for her vision and was out of work for several weeks

J&J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder - A REUTERS INVESTIGATION
Over 11,700 Mesothelioma patients sue Johnson & Johnson for selling talcum powder contaminated with asbestos. : news
J&J reportedly knew for decades about asbestos in baby powder

Physical activity in the evening does not cause sleep problems. Contrary to popular belief, there is no reason to avoid exercising in the evening, an analysis of the scientific literature has revealed. : science

TIL that a study found that Internet trolls tended to have personality traits related to sadism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism, and that the link between trolling and sadism was the strongest out of all three traits. : todayilearned

A nearby supernova may have blasted Earth with high-energy cosmic rays some 2.6 million years ago, potentially causing the mass extinction that killed off the Megalodon (a shark up to 20 times as heavy as the Great White) and increased the cancer rate in human-sized animals by about 50%. : worldnews

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records


Wareham Pot Shop To Open For Recreational Marijuana Sales On Tuesday : bostontrees


100,000 Stars

What's not as bad as everyone says? : AskReddit

what is the most disturbing current social trend you have noticed? : AskReddit

Reddit, As of Lately, What Has Been The BEST Thing You've Recently Discovered on the Internet? : AskReddit


Americans pay more for wireless data than consumers in most other developed countries : technology




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Opinion | John Kerry: Forget Trump. We All Must Act on Climate Change. - The New York Times -- If we fail, it won't be just the president's fault
The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules (- Marathon Petroleum, the country's largest refiner, worked with powerful oil-industry groups and a conservative policy network financed by the billionaire industrialist Charles G. Koch to run a stealth campaign to roll back car emissions standards (Kochbros = hands of Satan)
Shark numbers crashed by 92% over past half century, report finds. Shark numbers have plummeted in Australian waters over the past few decades in a trend researchers say is playing out across the world. : science

Parkland's David Hogg sends 'thoughts and prayers to the NRA's PR team' after accused Russian spy pleads guilty

US Budget Deficit Hits Record $204.9 Billion for November - Bloomberg
"I blame myself": Retirement remains out of reach for millions of Americans - CBS News


Top Cardinal'ss sex-abuse conviction is huge news in Australia. But the media can't report it there


Senate Votes to Limit War Powers in Yemen, Angered by Saudi Killing of Journalist - The New York Times - The Senate voted resoundingly on Thursday to withdraw American military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, issuing the latest in a series of stinging bipartisan rebukes of President Trump for his defense of the kingdom amid outrage in both parties over Riyadh's role in the killing of a dissident journalist.... The 56-to-41 vote was a rare move by the Senate to limit presidential war powers and send a potent message of official disapproval for a nearly four-year conflict that has killed thousands of civilians and brought famine to Yemen. (1. so there are 41 Repubicans supporting this evil 2. the five dems killed it in the House, so Trump doesn't have to veto it. 3. Is that really "resounding?"
Sen. Tom Cotton Is Trying to Cripple a Bill to End U.S. Support for the War in Yemen (he failed, but one of the 41 superevil Rethugs)


'Troubling gaps' between Trump's beliefs and intel community ("gaps" and "beliefs")


5 Democrats Bail Out Paul Ryan And Protect Saudi Arabia | HuffPost - Jim Costa (Calif.), Al Lawson (Fla.), Collin Peterson (Minn.), Dutch Ruppersberger (Md.) and David Scott (Ga.) (primary the fuckers)


'New York Times' Falsely Suggests Everyone Missed Rise of Right-Wing Extremism Because They Did - The New York Times plays itself but offers a useful window into how establishment media has enabled all this ... It's not "our" fault that the NYT hired Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat, and not Dave Neiwert or JJ McNab, to write for their Opinions section. (Charlie, as usual, for the real history)


Trump Administration Seeks to Deport Vietnam War Refugees in Latest Act of Performative Cruelty - For the Trump administration, it's never more complicated than that. (Vietnamese refugees from America's disaster are all "violent criminal aliens")
'We See You Stephen Miller' : White House Reportedly Considering 'Despicable' and 'Racist' Plan to Deport Vietnam War Refugees - "Let me translate this for you: Trump wants to deport Vietnamese grannies who have been living here for more than 40 years"

Totally Non-Evil ICE Arrests 170 Immigrants Trying To Save Babies From Baby Jails - Wonkette

Trump claims new trade pact will ensure Mexico pays for border wall - politico
Trump cites French terrorist attack as he pleads for funding for his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall - The Washington Post (the face!)
Trump and Democrats can reach a deal on the wall -- if they have the spine to take it ... if each side has the spinal fortitude to face down its own most rabid partisans and take it. ("both sides" are "rabid partisans" fuck you Fred Hiatt, one side believes in "laws" and the other doesn't)


Trump Inauguration Spending Under Criminal Investigation by Federal Prosecutors - WSJ - Probe looking into whether committee misspent funds and top donors gave money in exchange for access to the administration


Get Ready for Mueller's Phase Two: The Middle East Connection -- The 'Russia investigation' is set to go global. In court filings due to drop in 2019, prosecutors will unveil Middle Eastern countries' attempts to influence U.S. politics. (SA and Netanfuckyu)
Did Trump Just Move a Step Closer to Unindicted Co-conspirator? - POLITICO Magazine - Cohen's sentencing is not the end of the investigation into the campaign finance crimes. And we can expect further indictments against those close to the president ... federal judge William H. Pauley III said in open court that Trump had directed his then-lawyer to commit a federal felony.
Cohen Will Talk After Mueller Probe Is Complete, Lawyer Says - Bloomberg
Trump says Cohen did low-level work for him, mostly PR: Fox : politics ("hardly knew him, low-level coffee boy")

Trump was in the room during hush money discussions with tabloid publisher -Trump was the "other member of the campaign" present when Michael Cohen and David Pecker agreed to silence women ... "But if Trump is now in the room ... you now squarely place Trump in the middle of a conspiracy to commit campaign finance fraud."
7 quotes that show how blatant the Trump hush money coverup was - The Washington Post (and his base thrives on his lies)

Trump was in the room during hush money discussions, NBC News confirms : politics
It's Only Breaking the Law If You Say the Words "Let's Break the Law" Out Loud, President Suggests


Watch Napolitano Debunk All of Fox & Friend<' Trump Defenses: 'John Edwards Case Actually Hurts the President' /a>

Former Apprentice Staffer Claims Trump Was 'Speed Freak,' Invited Teen Beauty Queens to His Suite (he sure was snortin' during the debates)

Key lawmakers seek to haul in Trump associates working with Mueller - CNNPolitics - leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence committees are preparing to haul him back before Congress before he begins serving time (Nunes, hahahaha)

Abandoned By Confidants, Investigation Draws Closer To Oval Office | HuffPost - The admissions by Cohen and AMI conflict with Trump own evolving explanations. (you mean "lies")
A 'loud gong' : National Enquirer's surprise deal could imperil Trump -- parent company has agreed to tell prosecutors everything it knows about Donald Trump -- and it might know a lot
How the National Enquirer broke up with President Trump - CNN ... This confirmed reports dating back to August that Pecker had been granted immunity. Numerous headlines have portrayed Pecker and the Enquirer as "flipping" on Trump

Did Michael Flynn Try to Strike a Grand Bargain With Moscow as It Attacked the 2016 Election? Mother Jones


Trump confides to friends he's concerned about impeachment -- Despite public declarations that he's unconcerned, the president has told people close to him he's unconcerned ... (the "friends" promptly leaked his fear)


BREAKING: Trump plans 16-day holiday visit to Mar-a-Lago - News - The Palm Beach Post - West Palm Beach, FL ("executive time")
Trump cancels White House Christmas party for the press | Fox News (we wish you Mueller Crhistmas ... and an impeachment New Year)

Eschaton: Disgraced Former Speaker Gingrich To Be Chief Of Staff? - That'll at least be good for laughs for the 20 days or so it lasts.
Trump Considering Son-In-Law Jared Kushner For Next Chief Of Staff | HuffPost - The president is in the third round of his search for a job not many people seem to want.
Report: Trump Considering Idiot Son-in-Law for Chief-of-Staff Job : politics ... (downthread) And also they all kinda look like rats ... Yeah, it's the weak chins

It Took Quite a Push, but McConnell Finally Allows Criminal Justice Vote - The New York Times
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'This has spiraled downward' : Democrats introduce Trump to divided government

Anderson Cooper Nails Hypocrisy Of Sarah Huckabee Sanders

What If Trump Thinks He Needs to Win to Stay Out of Jail? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Donald Trump is as popular as ever among Republicans, and has a good shot at being re-elected - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Donald Trump is a criminal, a pathological liar, a coward, and a proto-fascist. He is also lazy, stupid, racist, misogynist, and a textbook narcissist of the most extreme sort ... He is also extraordinarily popular among Republicans. Various recent polls put his current approval rating among self-identified Republicans at between 88% and 9o%, which is about as high as it has ever been, and higher than the comparable figure for any other Republican president, with the exception of the second President Bush immediately after 9/11 ... The notion that getting rid of Trump via the 2020 election is going to have any effect whatsoever on the fact that 40%, more or less, of the population is made up of people who support what the Trump political phenomenon represents (white ethno-nationalism with strong authoritarian overtones) is wishful thinking.


Maria Butina pleads guilty to engaging in conspiracy against US - CNNPolitics ... attempting to infiltrate Republican political circles and influence US relations with Russia before and after the 2016 presidential election. (sounds normal, but what did she give them?)

Melania Trump's poll numbers plummet - The first lady, whose favorability stood at 54% in October, has slipped to 43% in just two months. Additionally, 36% of those polled found her unfavorable, a 6-point increase since October. (unlike the stable polling of the stable genius)

Nancy Pelosi's Red Coat Was Such a Moment It's Coming Back to Stores in 2019

Green New Deal Gains Key Support At Home As Trump Undercuts UN Climate Talks Abroad | HuffPost - A resolution for a House select committee on a Green New Deal has at least 35 backers.

Hensarling, Waters bill stalls amid dispute with Trump administration - POLITICO - Waters cut the deal as she faced questions about whether she would reach across the aisle on the Financial Services Committee if Democrats won back the House and she became chairwoman.


Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; Senate 2020: Republican exposure on paper, but not necessarily in practice - GOP defending a lot of turf, but much of it is dark red - Of the 34 Senate races on the ballot in 2020, Republicans already control 22 of them while Democrats hold only 12. That represents something of a role reversal from 2018, when Democrats had to defend 26 of 35 seats being contested.

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin Claims ProPublica Is a George Soros Front - Matt Bevin dogwhistled at ProPublica. It did not go well for him.

'He got screwed' : Gillum absent from indictment after DeSantis bashed him as corrupt (oh, a Republican lied and cheated?)

Judge tosses lawsuit by GOP congressman who lost election - A federal judge rejected a lawsuit Thursday by a Republican incumbent from Maine who lost the nation's first congressional election held under a candidate-ranking system. Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin sought to have the voting system declared unconstitutional after he lost the election to Democrat Jared Golden despite having the most first-place votes. (that's the whole point, asshole, b/c Eliot Cutler)


Samantha Bee Gives Blistering Review Of Fox News' New Streaming Service: 'Toxic Slop' - pure substance-free propaganda squirted right down your slobber hole


The Walking Death Of A Once Great Magazine - Lawyers, Guns & Money - One of the many problems with contrarianism as an ethos is that you keep needing bigger doses to keep your high. After you've you've trolled your readers with embarrassing nonsense like "let's drag Katie Roiphie out of the nostalgia file to make fact-free reflexive attacks on #MeToo" and ... where do you go from there? (Harper's John MacArthur)
Alexandra Schwartz on Twitter: "Michel Houellebecq liking Donald Trump is the least controversial position Michel Houellebecq has ever taken. You would have to know literally nothing about him to be scandalized by this."



The $400 Rape - young woman in Texas found out this week precisely how much the criminal justice system values her. The former fraternity president she says raped her will serve no jail time and will not be put on the sex offenders registry. Instead, he will pay a $400 fine -- less money than you'd pay if you got caught speeding through a construction zone.

Boy Scouts of America Considers Bankruptcy Filing Amid Sex-Abuse Lawsuits - WSJ - The Boy Scouts have been at the center of sexual-abuse scandals in the past, and the organization is facing a number of lawsuits that allege inappropriate conduct by employees or volunteers in incidents dating back as far as the 1960s. Filing for bankruptcy would stop the litigation and would give the nonprofit a chance to negotiate with those who have sued.


In a First, Lawmaker Cites QAnon Conspiracy From City Council Floor - In May, she roiled the city council by refusing to make a lunch order from a halal restaurant, saying she was concerned about Shariah law.

Congressman-elect Mark Green's Vaccine Fear-Mongering Makes Him Latest Political Doctor With Crazy Ideas - The latest is Tennessee's Mark Green.


Four recreational pot shops awarded final licenses - The Boston Globe - in Pittsfield and in Hudson and in Fall River and Great Barrington (Fuckachusett's strategy for keep pot away from where the people are)


'They don't care': Facebook factchecking in disarray as journalists push to cut ties | Technology | The Guardian (it was all a Sheryl Fuckberg PR scam) ... "It's worth asking how do they treat stories about George Soros on the platform knowing they specifically pay people to try to link political enemies to him?" (anti-semite Jew Sheryl)

Eschaton: Youtube is a Sewer - At some point - I dunno, a couple of years ago - those "recommended videos" (gotta keep fighting to turn the damn autoplay next video off!) started getting really weird. Often nothing to do with whatever crappy music I happened to be listening to. Basically a click or two (or autoplay) away from crazy racist conspiracy stuff -- And so YouTube doesn't have to pick out Pizzagaters or MRAs or neo-phrenologists. It has the power to send viewers in the opposite direction. The people who run YouTube made the choice to teach its algorithms to value trash ... .




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In 200 years, humans reversed a climate trend lasting 50 million years, study says : science
Trump Official Advocates for Coal, Fracking, Fossil Fuels at U.N. Climate Change Conference in Poland - While the climate crisis accelerates, we call for more fracking.
giro_di_dante comments on Climate Change Conference Erupts Into Laughter As US Rep Promotes Coal
Climate change: Arctic reindeer numbers crash by half : news

More than two years later, no Canadian Panama Papers charges have been filed - The agency's review of the Panama Papers has identified 3,330 offshore entities with "2,670 possible beneficial owners that have some link to Canada." : worldnews

French gunman shouted 'Allahu Akbar'

Journalists Arrested for Inserting Salt Bae Into Last Supper (Jordan, natch)

The Brexiteers have failed -- so they blame Theresa May
UK Prime Minister Theresa May wins confidence vote : worldnews
Conservative Party calls for vote of no confidence to oust Prime Minister Theresa May - The Washington Post
Confidence Game - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Theresa May's inability to construct the world's most powerful navy entirely out of submarines made with Cornish Yarg has triggered a no-confidence vote:
Eschaton: I Think They Do -- Senior Tories are frustrated by how much power Ireland has had in the Brexit negotiations, especially over the backstop, says our political editor Nick Watt. "The Irish really should know their place," one said
BBC Newsnight on Twitter: "Senior Tories are frustrated by how much power Ireland has had in the Brexit negotiations, especially over the backstop, says our political editor Nick Watt. "The Irish really should know their place," one said https://t.co/zLB8mXi1BT #newsnight | @nicholaswatt"
Model Chrissy Teigen can't grasp British politics. No one in Britain can, either.


Vatican No. 3 Cardinal George Pell Convicted on Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys - The highest-ranking Catholic Church official to face such criminal charges.
Vatican's Third-Most Powerful Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted on All Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys in the 1990s
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Ban Ki-moon: Only Two Healthcare Systems Exist -- One Where The Rich Pay For The Poor, and America's


Trump says standing by Saudi crown prince despite pleas from Senate

Under Trump, the U.S. debt grew by the size of the Brazilian economy in just two years : politics

Donald Trump's Racism Has Material Consequences - Lawyers, Guns & Money == The Trump administration is resuming its efforts to deport certain protected Vietnamese immigrants who have lived in the United States for decades ... many of them having fled the country during the Vietnam War.
Donald Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees - The Atlantic - The White House again wants to expel certain groups of protected immigrants, a reversal after backing away from the policy months ago ... "While the procedures associated with this specific agreement do not apply to Vietnamese citizens who arrived in the United States before July 12, 1995, it does not explicitly preclude the removal of pre-1995 cases."

CIA reportedly went into 'panic mode' when Trump appeared to side with Putin over US intelligence community in Helsinki (Trump will replace then all with the Central Instincts Agency)
Trump's departure from reality is a national security threat


Opinion | Would Indicting Trump Be Constitutional? - The New York Times - Yes, it would be. But that question is a distraction from the principal objective of the Russia investigation.

Trump impeachment: President claims he'e 'not concerned' about being removed from office because there would be a revolt - Trump is issuing marching orders to his base. ... a few dozen morbidly obese septugenarian shut-ins riding mobility scooters in formation is a scary prospect indeed (don't forget the Proud Boys with dildos)
For Trump, it's all downhill from here

Trump turns down Meadows for White House chief of staff, removing leading contender - The Washington Post

Eschaton: Witch Hunted -- NBC reporting Trump has not yet come to work today. Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) December 12, 2018 -- To be fair, it is a long commute.

Michael Cohen Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison
Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison for crimes committed while working for Trump - The Washington Post ... "dirty deeds" of his former boss (disorganized crime ring) ... I do love the fact that Cohen once Tweeted "@HillaryClinton when you go to jail for defrauding America and perjury, your room and board will be free" (karma is a bitch)
Fox's Napolitano: We learned today that prosecutors have evidence Trump committed a felony ... In addition, Napolitano asserted that the agreement prosecutors reached with American Media Inc. (AMI), the parent company of the National Enquirer, "ties a bow on all of this."
Napolitano: We learned today that prosecutors have evidence Trump committed a felony
The most damning revelation from the Cohen case (opinion) - CNN - Given the evidence, Trump can no longer plausibly deny that he was willing to cross the line and work with Cohen to break the law.

Aaron Rupar on Twitter: "CNN put together a montage of Senate Republicans -- including Susan Collins, John Thune, Bill Cassidy, and Orrin Hatch -- each shrugging off the president being implicated in felonies by federal prosecutors. https://t.co/rrVWgjGQxV" / Twitter (Susie Doozy)
Sean Hannity busted deleting all his old Michael Cohen tweets : politics

'National Enquirer' Owner Admits Paying Off Ex-Playboy Model for Donald Trump (the walls are closing in +"bus factor")
Tabloid Company's Admission Shows New Peril for Trump's Circle


America now has a party of authoritarianism -- it's the GOP (traitors, lock them all up)
The Republican Party Exists to Protect Millionaires and Billionaires : politics (and scam dimbulb white rurals)

Republicans Ruin Hearing With Google CEO Sundar Pichai With Paranoid Stupidity from the Conservative Vortex - That makes, say, a hearing with a Google executive very difficult ... This isn't politics as usual. It's a locked ward.
Half Our Political System Has Chosen to Live in a Vortex of Spoon-Fed Paranoia : politics


Ivanka and Jared reportedly pushed John Kelly out -- but their guy didn't want the job

Judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay nearly $300,000 in legal fees to Trump's attorneys in defamation case

Trump's election stunt at the border cost US taxpayers $210 million (he spent your money on himself and Mitch the Ditch Bitch clapped)

Ann Coulter Slams Trump for Lying About Wall Already Being Built: Does He Think His Supporters Are Dumb? : politics (look in the mirror, lizard-girl)
Stephen King on Twitter: "Wait a minute, wait! Wasn't...um, Mexico going to pay for Trump's useless, just-tunnel-under-it wall?"
Trump'ss terrorism argument for border wall is bogus ("thousands of Republicans crossing the border")

Trump's ultimatum on border wall boxes in fellow Republicans -- increasingly urgent push to construct a massive wall on the border with Mexico has created a nightmare scenario for congressional Republicans as they race to avert a partial shutdown of the federal government at the end of next week. (Trump baby has a tantrum)

Playing by His Own Rules, Trump Flips the Shutdown Script - The New York Times
Everybody's Wrong: Donald Trump Won the Chuck-n-Nancy Meeting, and Here's Why (his base loves out-of-control morons)
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "It's like a manhood thing for him, as if manhood could ever be associated with him. This wall thing" ... "The fact is we did get him to say, to fully own that the shutdown was his. That was an accomplishment." -- Pelosi is going to drive Trump up his non-existent wall pretty much every day for the next two years, if he lasts that long, which I'm beginning to doubt. She is, in every way, the right woman for the job.
Nancy Pelosi's epic takedown: "As if manhood could ever be associated" with Donald Trump
The contradiction that will bedevil Trump for the next two years - The Washington Post - But as he runs for reelection, he won't able to convince them that the wall is built and Mexico has paid for it, especially if he's also telling them they still need to be afraid of the problem the wall is supposed to solve. ("The Wall" has always been inside his supporters' heads to keep the truth out)
Fox News' Laura Ingraham calls out Trump's big border wall lie: "There's no wall!" (Fox support is crumbling)

Pelosi puts an ignorant, irrational president in his place - The Washington Post ... "Pelosi emerged from the meeting not some wilted flower, but a symbol of a woman who doesn't have time for male posturing. ... Pelosi kept her composure throughout the charade, continually trying to bring the conversation back to a place where actual dialogue could occur." ("male posturing," hello Seth Moulton) ... (As an aside, I'm at a loss to understand how any Democrat could oppose literally the only elected Democrat who has publicly called out the president to his face, scoring a direct hit.)
Seth Moulton on Pelosi battle: tough conversations make us stronger, not weaker (hahaha sure hissy-fit Seth)
Moulton on Pelosi as House speaker: "Now it's time to move forward as one' (commenters aren't buying your spin, Sethie)

Trump 'stormed out' of Oval Office after Pelosi, Schumer meeting
Nancy Pelosi Mocks President Trump in Wall Meeting in Oval Office With Chuck Schumer - So much for the Liberal Sellout.
Pelosi on verge of deal with rebels to reclaim speakership - POLITICO - The California Democrat and some of her fiercest party critics have tentatively agreed to limit her speakership to four years at most (revoltin' Moulton)

Mika Brzezinski described Mike Pompeo with a homophobic phrase. Her non-apology did't help ... "wannabe dictators butt-boy" (only Rethugs can talk like that)

Probe of U.S.-funded news network that called George Soros a 'Jew of flexible morals' finds additional offensive content ... In an interview, Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, said Martm and his organization were never in contact before the reports aired. Fitton declined to comment on whether he considers the Martm reports to be anti-Semitic. "I don't speak Spanish" ... (or Arabic, probably)
Bannon ally wants to turn government media agency into 'legacy' for former Trump adviser

Trump has blasted Mueller's team for political donations. But attorney general nominee William P. Barr has given more than $500,000.

Incoming New York attorney general plans wide-ranging investigations of Trump and family - she will probe real estate deals, Trump Tower meeting, emoluments, Trump Foundation and more.

Mike Pence just cast a historic tie-breaking vote to confirm a judge the ABA called "not qualified" - "The Committee believes that Mr. Kobes has neither the requisite experience nor evidence of his ability to fulfill the scholarly writing required of a United States Circuit Court Judge."

Hillary Clinton boogies with John Kerry and King of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan | Daily Mail Online at the star-studded $100million wedding of India's richest heiress (jfc, she never stops)

Introducing The Cook Political Report's 2020 House Ratings | The Cook Political Report

DISTRICT 9: Photo shows District 9 Congressional candidate and man at center of election fraud investigation | WSOC-TV (the smoking photograph)


Pennsylvania Republicans, thwarted in court, are trying to deny seating the Democratic winner of an election : politics (fuck your democracy, Republicans scream furiously as they are funded by the Nazi Kochbros)

Defeated Republican Rep. Rohrabacher Considers Starting Consulting Firm - WSJ ("How to Spy for Vlad")

Tennessee Rep. Mark Green claims vaccines may cause autism, denies CDC data - Not only did Republican Mark Green, a Congressman-elect from Clarksville who is also a medical doctor ... Green won the seat previously held by Republican Marsha Blackburn, who won election to the U.S. Senate.

Tribune, Tronc And Beyond: A Slur, A Secret Payout, And A Looming Sale : NPR -- Michael Ferro's actions contributed to a series of crises at Tribune Publishing, where he was its chairman and largest investor ... Ferro no longer controls day-to-day operations; he stepped down as chairman after sexual harassment accusations arose involving his conduct outside Tribune Publishing ... The lawsuit against Levinsohn and others at Murdoch's Fox Interactive alleged that sexual harassment was rife in the workplace under Levinsohn, then a senior vice president ... Within three weeks of the Levinsohn revelations, Tribune Publishing moved to sell the LA Times, along with The San Diego Union-Tribune ... (at Alta Fucking Vista and the face says it all +more toxic patriarchy)
ProPublica, Courier Journal in investigative partnership
Who's Holding the Courier-Journal Accountable...George "I-Hate-America" Soros? (Rethug KY gov has meltdown over journalism and boy does he look/sound weird, KY likes the stupid)

Who's More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 -- or $400,000? (take a guess)

Conservative Gays Need To Shut The Fuck Up - On Tuesday, conservative rag The Federalist ...

'Believe Me' : Author on why white evangelicals got behind Donald Trump
Nonfiction Book Review: Believe Me by John Fea. Eerdmans, $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8028-7641-6
My Review of John Fea's "Believe Me" = he current situation of evangelical alignment as a long-term historical development arising around three broad features: Fear of Change, The Search for Power, and a Nostalgic Grasp for some Golden Age.
Fear, Power, Nostalgia, and the 81 Percent | Christianity Today
'Christian America' dwindling, including white evangelicals, study shows
Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics | Pew Research Center - Boston
Why many white evangelicals are not protesting family separations on the U.S. border - The Washington Post (their minds are in cages)
Religion and Right-Wing Politics: How Evangelicals Reshaped Elections - The New York Times
Poll: white evangelical support for Trump is at an all-time high - Vox

It finally sinks in that some people aren't White - "Who exactly do we mean when we say 'we'?" (white rural dimbulbs?)

'Politico' Publishes Call for Joe Biden to Run on Third-Party Ticket with Republicans Like Mitt Romney, John Kasich - Just as the publication sets a course for redemption, we are subjected to this. (JoeBi and Mittster 2020! for the Unity!)


Inside Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam's Strange Ties to Scientology


Hundreds of Complaints Flood In About New York Store Signs, but From Whom? - The New York Times

How Do You Recover After Millions Have Watched You Overdose? - The New York Times - Amid an opioid crisis, police and strangers with cameras are posting raw images of drug users passed out. For those whose bleakest moments now live online, life is never the same.

Mom, dad kept quiet after learning son dismembered woman's body
Texas Woman Admits Cutting Up Cousin's Body, Grilling His Limbs on Barbecue : WTF

NC police officer under investigation after slamming teen sisters to ground : news (more hero warrior cops)

White woman dubbed "Pool Patrol Paula" pleads guilty to assaulting black teen at pool : news - 38-year-old Stephanie Sebby-Strempel pleaded guilty Monday to the June assault and was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.


In Seattle, Washington, delaying the start time of two high schools by nearly an hour lengthened students' daily sleep by more than half an hour, and was associated with reduced sleepiness and increased academic performance. : science

Coding school App Academy open sources curriculum : technology


Throwing your voice - A guy makes his voice sound far away to mess with his friends and it's absolutely hysterical
This guy attempts to reviews guns while using a speech jammer, hilarity ensues. : videos

We hear "toxic masculinity" alot, what are examples of "toxic femininity"? : AskReddit

What's the worst thing a sibling has done to you?

What's the smallest reason you've ended a relationship for?

California considering tax on text messaging : news

u/_ancora Explains how Kevin Hart's dismissal from the Oscar's was more that just twitter overreaction. : bestof

Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC : politics (after they stole all the money to help poor people have better internets)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai emerges 'unscathed' from the circus in Washington (contrast with Zuckerfuck and Fuckberg)




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The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice -- a startling sign of what's to come If the thinning trend continues, scientists fear an added boost to global warming (well fucking duh)
Climate Change Realities Are about Power and Poverty - Lawyers, Guns & Money (poor shadeless neighborhoods are screwed and Tucson la-di-las into into a future that won't work)
Climate change was behind 15 weather disasters in 2017 - The Washington Post
CNN: Please ignore the climate change deniers we pay to appear on CNN to engage in climate change denial - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Santorum and DeLay are CNN hacks)
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That was awkward -- at world's biggest climate conference, U.S. promotes fossil fuels
Trump Prepares to Unveil a Vast Reworking of Clean Water Protections - The New York Times (die, suckers)
Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards -- and the Water Underneath -- Making a bet on climate change, the university's $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights

Time's 2018 'Person of the Year' : Killed and imprisoned journalists - Time magazine is spotlighting a handful of journalists who have one thing in common: They were targeted for their work.

Gunman kills at least four people in French Christmas market | Reuters


Opinion | The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire - The New York Times - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born 100 years ago today, did more than anyone to bring the Soviet Union to its knees.

Former Canadian diplomat detained in China: sources | Reuters - It was not immediately clear if the cases were related, but the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver has stoked fears of reprisals against the foreign business community in China.

Knives Out For Theresa May's Whips Office As Her Brexit Plan Teeters On The Edge Of Collapse - PM buys time, but the blame game has started in earnest.
MP causes uproar in parliament by grabbing mace in Brexit protest | Politics | The Guardian - Lloyd Russell-Moyle waves symbol of Queen's authority to show anger over debate delay
Cameron's Folly Continues to Unravel (UK has to make do with a much smaller cast ofevil dumbasses)


Gap continues to widen between Trump and intelligence community on key issues - The Washington Post (something to do with "intelligence" which he has none of and doesn't need any b/c "instincts")
Jared Kushner covers for Saudi crown prince in softball Fox interview on Khashoggi killing : politics
The CIA persuaded senators of Saudi prince's guilt. Kushner says no conclusion has been reached.


Trump Administration Paid Firm Nearly $14 Million To Recruit Just 2 Border Agents | HuffPost - And the private company used government resources to do even that (Republicans!)


Constitution allows prosecution of a sitting president - The Boston Globe - By Laurence H. Tribe
Harvard law professor issues scathing takedown of DOJ policy that bars prosecutors from indicting a sitting president | Alternet - This Harvard law professor believes Trump can be indicted and should be. (Tribe)

Trump concerned about being impeached, sees it as a 'real possibility'
Trump's 'reality tremor' as Mueller fallout piles up (MAGAhats getting worried)
Some Trump allies starting to worry about investigations ("some" ... "starting")
Trump can't Stop Confessing -- Proving white-collar crimes is an exceedingly difficult task for prosecutors. Trump is doing his best to make it easier.
'The bottom is going to fall out' : White House reporter says Republicans are privately discussing abandoning Trump
Smart Republicans are already abandoning Trump. But they're still culpable (lock them all up!)

Asked about allegations against Trump, senator says, 'I don't care' (do u? - said Hatchet)
The foundation of Trump's coalition is cracking

? Here Are All The Trump Associates, And Family Members, Who Had Contact With Russians During The 2016 Campaign

We are former senators. The Senate has long stood in defense of democracy -- and must again

"It Got Back to Trump That Kelly Was Bad-Mouthing Him" : After Firing John Kelly on Impulse, Trump Learned He Had No Plan B -- Hyper-ambitious wunderkind Nick Ayers led Trump on, then left him in the lurch. So who now? Meadows? Mnuchin? Bossie? Berman? Reince Priebus!?!
'This was a humiliation': Report show how Trump's spiteful firing of John Kelly blew up in his face ... Ayers was reluctant to endure the scrutiny -- particularly of his conspicuous finances -- that was bound to come with the job
Trump 'Super Pissed' That Ayers Turned Down Job (baby is screaming)
Amid chief of staff search, Trump increasingly anxious over political future - CNNPolitics ("politically focused" = "loyalty to the supreme me")

Trump has already lost the shutdown fight - The Washington Post ... It is not clear how Trump could have appeared any more irrational and unhinged. (and he already built his bullshit wall and/or says he will order the army to break rocks)
Trump, Pelosi and Schumer have on-camera shouting match as wall talks break down - The Washington Post

Mueller, Trump approval ratings fall - CNNPolitics
As Trump slides in a new poll, reality begins piercing the bubble - The Washington Post

Jared Kushner did what? - The Washington Post - According to the Saudi, Mr. Kushner has offered the crown prince advice about how to weather the storm, urging him to resolve his conflicts around the region and avoid further embarrassments ... As a preliminary matter, we should recognize this as yet another example of why a president should not put a relative in a position of power -- especially if the relative possesses questionable judgment and is utterly unqualified for the job ... in any other administration, Kushner would be fired for rotten judgment and perpetuating, at a minimum, the appearance of a conflict of interest. But, of course, it's hard to imagine a 37-year-old old real estate scion with no government experience and no foreign policy experience working in such a high-level post in any other administration (only the best inexperienced crooked dimbulbs!)

The Democrats' Best Response to Republican Power Grabs - The best option goes beyond retaliation or restraint

Eschaton: Wow Tell Us More About This Process By Which The President Plants Disinformation -- Sounds like a big story!!! (Haberputz leaks herself?)

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani linked to multi-million dollar campaign to ease sanctions against DR Congo : politics (little crooked Rudyfuck)

How the IRS Was Gutted - An eight-year campaign to slash the agency's budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That's good news for corporations and the wealthy ... "Congress" ... Gingrich ... Former Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected mainstream Republican, ran for president in 1996 on a platform of abolishing the IRS. A Republican congressman in 1998 introduced a bill to repeal the Internal Revenue Code by 2002 (drown the IRS in the sink!)

Trump says China buying 'tremedous amount' of U.S. soybeans

Nancy Pelosi is tough enough to deal with Donald Trump and Republicans -- You don't bring a novice to a knife fight. That's why Democrats need Nancy Pelosi. (let's make dumb "centrist" Seth our leader!)
Pelosi privately disses Trump's manhood after White House meeting ("he needs a wall to protect his litte mushroom dick" she basically said.)
The Latest: Pelosi: Trump thinks Mexico will pay for wall

Twitter users mercilessly mock Mike Pence for 'Elf on the Shelf' performance in Oval Office ... Mike Pence powered down to save electricity

Good Faith Advice From Your Mortal Enemies - Lawyers, Guns & Money - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Monday that Democrats shouldn't focus on investigating President Trump when they retake the House majority in January because there are bigger issues facing the country. (Trumpghhaaaaziiii!)

What Does Beto O'Rourke Actually Stand For? - He is neither a bold progressive nor a distinguished legislator.

Moulton Likely to Get Primary Challenge in 2020 - NBC10 Boston (bye bye asshole)

No Labels, No Method, No Guru, No Teacher, No Clue - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Romney-Biden 2020!) - Juleanna Glover has worked as an adviser for several Republican politicians, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Rudy Giuliani and advised the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Jeb Bush. (take her advice, libtards!)

NC GOP 'pretty certain' vote totals leaked in Bladen County and would back new election

James A. Fields Jr. sentenced to life in prison in Charlottesville car attack - The Washington Post (ur butt gonna be so sore, nazi)

9-year-old Alabama girl commits suicide after bullies' taunts: report

Missouri's novel approach to redistricting - reform initiative took a new and previously untested route by creating the position of a nonpartisan state demographer who will be nominated by the state auditor and approved by the state Senate


Stormy Daniels Is Ordered to Pay Trump $293,000 - Bloomberg

Hundreds of sex abuse allegations found in fundamental Baptist churches across U.S. - By Sarah Smith (let's call them by their name: "Southern" Baptists)
'Theology of the Antichrist' : A closer look at the heresy of white Christianity -- the privileged can never grasp religion's true essence (b/c they worship the Antichrist/Trumpster) "Any theology in America that fails to engage white supremacy and God's liberation of black people from that evil is not Christian theology but a theology of the Antichrist" (except he has Cain and Abel backwards)

Federal judge rules Mass. law prohibiting secret audio recording of police, government officials is unconstitutional : news

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 368 - Lawyers, Guns & Money - We forget that for much of the nation's history, New England, and especially rural New England, was probably the most conservative region of the country on economic issues. Remember that in 1936, the only states FDR lost were Vermont and Maine. Massachusetts had enough immigrants to counter that Yankee conservatism on a state level, but in some districts, that old right-wing reactionary politics played well. (the rural deadheads have always been there fucking things up)


A star flutist has sued the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Her case could change how orchestras pay men and women. - Washington Post - Her lawsuit came after years of appealing privately to management about the roughly $70,000 less a year she is paid than John Ferrillo, 63, the orchestra's principal oboist (patrichary is tenascious they still thought they could get away with this now they've fucked themselves with a lawsuit and will have to pay all the girls more)


Proposed legislation would ban paddling in Kentucky schools : news

Is Screen Time Bad for Kids's Brains -- "60 Minutes" reported that heavy screen use was associated with lower scores on some aptitude tests, and to accelerated "cortical thinning" -- a natural process -- in some children. But the data is preliminary, and it's unclear whether the effects are lasting or even meaningful ... In short: results have been mixed, and sometimes contradictory. (and children aren't people, they're "brains")

Scientists Reveal a Massive Biosphere of Life Hidden Under Earth's Surface : science

Why does talking on the phone become difficult if you hear the feedback of your own voice due to connection issues? : askscience


What are some things that sound like compliments but are actually insults? : AskReddit


Congresswoman to Google CEO: Why when I search 'idiot' do I get pictures of Trump? (Republican don't believe in search algorithms)
Democrats erupt into laughter after Google CEO has to explain to Rep. Steve King that the 'iPhone is made by a different company' (tnx, Iowa)

New York Touted Real Estate, Eminent Domain in Bid for Amazon - WSJ - World Trade Center, Midtown among areas also pitched before Long Island City was picked




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The Wages of Coal - Lawyers, Guns & Money - McDowell County, where this story takes place, went 75-23 for Donald Trump in 2016. MAGA! And while it might be a cheap shot to note this and while I doubt a Clinton administration was going to rush in and clean up West Virginia water, the belief that Donald Trump is the savior for West Virginia only poisons more people in the future.

Trump administration poised to strip protections from up to two-thirds of California streams and millions of acres nationwide - Los Angeles Times


Satellite imagery shows hundreds of Russian tanks near the border with Ukraine - Defence Blog

Eschaton: And Then What - A part of me wants to believe that the Tories (May) have gamed out where they realistically want this Brexit thing to go but I have never seen any evidence that they've gamed it out past tomorrow. Or 2 days ago, really.

Is France showing us what America's next civil war will look like? -- Will Bunch


NYT's Krugman: US, Russia and Saudi Arabia are 'new axis of evil'

Declassify the Khashoggi Assessment | Just Security
Diminished Saudi influence on display in Senate debate over Yemen - POLITICO - typically formidable lobbying operation has gone quiet as the Senate prepares to vote on the resolution

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina poised to plead guilty in case involving suspected Kremlin attempts to influence NRA - The Washington Post
NRA leader, Jack Abramoff and GOP operative tied to alleged Russian spy Maria Butina have long history as foreign agents lobbying together


Everybody Says Mueller Is Almost Done. What If He Isn't?
At least 16 Trump associates had contacts with Russians during campaign or transition - CNNPolitics (Ivanka added to yesterday's list)

Who wants to be White House chief of staff? - The Washington Post
Trump's next chief of staff may be walking into a nightmare
Nick Ayers, Aide to Pence, Declines Offer to Be Trump's Chief of Staff (not me, hahahaha)
Ayers And Out - Lawyers, Guns & Money
John Kelly Was a Bully, Bigot, and Liar for Trump. Goodbye and Good Riddance. : politics
Trump Doesn'tt Want a Chief of Staff

Asawin Suebsaeng on Twitter: "lol at all the nick Ayers beat sweeteners lolololol"
Eschaton: A Beat So Sweet - Now they all rush to do celebrity profiles of the most powerful people so that they can get on the list of people who do fawning profiles of powerful celebrity people. Just print the damn press releases and run the enclosed photos and go home early.
Trump considering Mark Meadows for chief of staff (tea party asshole)
Robert Schlesinger: Trump can't hire the 'very best people,' because he's the very worst president

Brennan shred Trump: 'I am relieved that you will never have the opportunity to run for public office again'
Carl Bernstein: 'Donald Trump For The First Time In His Life Is Cornered' - The legendary Watergate reporter says the president is boxed in and the people around him know it.

That So-Called Smocking Gun - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The President of the United States of America has some Deep Thoughts to share on the Twitter dot com website: "No Smocking Gun, No Collusion!"
Trump's s latest rage-tweets expose the depth of his own corruption
Trump's latest rage-tweets expose the depth of his own corruption (+The 25 rules of disinformation:)

Washington Post fact-checker introduces
Washington Post fact-checker introduces 'Bottomless Pinocchio' rating to call Trump on repeated false claims - TL;DR - the President of the United States lies so much he gets his own lie rating. Are we tired of winning yet folks?

'His word isn't good' : Dems don't trust Trump to make shutdown deal (Satan is a known liar ... "the lyin' King")

Supreme Court sides with Planned Parenthood in funding fight : politics
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Cites Debunked Planned Parenthood Smear in Opinion - More normal stuff happening ... One of the lasting legacies of the late George H.W. Bush, the great warrior-statesman and famous bipartisan moderate bipartisan, is that he visited upon the generations the presence of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, now in his 28th largely silent year on the bench at the Supreme Court. -- "the illegal sale of fetal organs" (we'd sell your brain if you had one, Clarence )

'There should be outrage' over Whitaker, Kushner meeting (crooked is now normal)


With an Impeachable Trump and Pence, Are You Ready for President Pelosi? : politics (yes, and another reason to fuck Moulton and the #fivewhiteguys)


Fox News Talked More About Migrant 'Invasion' Just Before Election Than In Past 3 Years Total (and those white farmers in Iowa are very scared)
US starts to withdraw troops from Trump border mission (a liitle $250+ million campaign stunt)

Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi sues Mueller, Justice, CIA, FBI, NSA for $350 million : politics

The sad truth about Russian election interference - The Washington Post (Mookster and Nillary lost it)

CREW Sues FBI for Giuliani Leak Records - CREW

Conspiracy theorist sues Mueller alleging illegal leaks and surveillance - POLITICO ($350 million, b/c his "reputation" is worth that, hahahaha)

John Podesta Is Ready to Talk About Pizzagate

The More Republicans Lose, the Harder They Work to Rig the Game : politics

Eschaton: Not How It Works - It occurs to me that much in American politics is about white people who think of themselves as "middle class" (don't want to debate what that actually means) imagining they are mediating a dispute between the very rich and the very poor. -- When really they're defending their own class interests as the rich spend a lot of money trying to convince them that it's the poor who are trying to take all their money away.

Paul Ryan's long con - He betrayed his promises and left a legacy of debt and disappointment.

An insane amount of people turned out to vote in the midterm elections - CNNPolitics


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Harvard orientation for freshman lawmakers as 'lobbyist project' that hypes tax cuts for corporations ... "The idea that we elect these people to represent US then corporations send their lobbyists to "train" hem on how to NOT represent us sucks balls ... "Was this a multi-decade, pro-corporate lobbyist project the entire time?" (why yes, and Harvard has always been evil)

GOP Candidate's Consultant Linked To 2nd County In North Carolina Election Probe - New evidence appears to connect controversial political operative McCrae Dowless to Robeson County, which also reported unusual ballot data.

Democrats reach 40 House flips, 2018 'blue wave' was officially party's biggest win in recent memory

LinkedIn co-founder backs $35 million voter data project in 'existential threat' to Democratic Party - POLITICO - "Across the board, everyone involved agrees that the Republicans have a tremendous advantage when it comes to data infrastructure going into 2020, and that there needs to be a real shift in our thinking and action in order to set candidates up to be successful for people around the country" (wut? are you talking about? let's give a bunch of vc sociopaths control of all your voter data, yes, that will work)

Charles Duhigg: Why Is America So Angry? - The Atlantic - The Real Roots of American Rage - The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives ... Anger, Averill concluded, is one of the densest forms of communication. It conveys more information, more quickly, than almost any other type of emotion. And it does an excellent job of forcing us to listen to and confront problems we might otherwise avoid.

Michael Bloomberg still doesn't seem to understand how journalism works - The former New York mayor says he might end political coverage at his news service if he runs for president. (he's paying for good stories or he's not paying; christwhatafuckingasshole)

YouTube Bans Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes - The Daily Beast
Youtube Kicks off Proud Boys Founder Gavin Mcinnes : news

'Appalling' Video Shows the Police Yanking 1-Year-Old From His Mother (food stamps, no seats, they wanted her to stand and hold her baby for two hours and when she sat on the floor, they arrested her) "This just reinforces their sense that police are a source of violence and injustice" (warrior hero copsters)

Pleading no contest Baylor frat president gets off with no time for rape charges. : news (TX, natch)

U.S. Olympic Committee fires head of sport performance - Axios - Alan Ashley, in the wake of an independent investigation into sexual abuse in the USA Gymnastics team that revealed that he and former CEO Scott Blackmun failed to address allegations leveled against Larry Nassar, reports AP.

'The View' brings on talent coach to help Abby Huntsman 'come alive' ... "She's s been a snooze, and the network knows they made a mistake hiring her without a chemistry test and based on her name" (literally, a "life coach")

Modern Family's Sarah Hyland talks about her two kidney transplants...including getting one from her father...it failing...and getting another from her brother : videos


'This is scientific censorship of the worst kind': The Trump administration reportedly froze the acquisition of fetal tissue for research, including an HIV cure experiment : technology

Science Discussion: We are medical doctors who are experts on sexual health. Let's talk about sex, reproduction, STIs, and everything you wish your high school health class had covered! : science

Satellite issue accidentally reaffirms Einstein's theory of gravity
ESET discovers 21 new Linux malware families: "All malware strains are trojanized versions of the OpenSSH server or client apps that include keylogger and backdoor capabilities." : technology

/u/PoliticaLIncorrect gives a thorough breakdown of why the "Baby it's Cold Outside" controversy is misunderstood : bestof

What's the smartest thing you've seen yuor pet do?


PewDiePie gives shout out to hateful, anti-Semitic YouTube channel - The Verge

Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline (bye, Apple)

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret




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Paris cleans up after latest riot; pressure builds on Macron - ABC News
Paris Protesters are not Chanting Trump's Name as he has Claimed, but False Right-Wing Meme Continues to Spread
Paris Protesters are not Chanting Trump's Name as he has Claimed, but False Right-Wing Meme Continues to Spread - "We Want Trump!' Love France" (millions of French protesters chanted, said Trump)
hugthebug comments on What are you gonna do? Shoot me?


China threatens Canada with 'grave consequences' if Huawei CFO not freed | Technology : news


I said, Lord, take me to Midtown I'm just lookin' for some Kush - Lawyers, Guns & Money - When you spot a mark, you don't let go -- Senior American officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and Middle East adviser, had been having private, informal conversations with Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favorite son of Saudi Arabia's king ... As the killing set off a firestorm around the world and American intelligence agencies concluded that it was ordered by Prince Mohammed, Mr. Kushner became the prince's most important defender inside the White House (lock up the little fuck)
Look At This Fucking Asshole - Behold idiot son-in-law Jared Kushner -- the man now in charge of brokering Middle East peace, Uberizing the federal government, reforming the entire criminal justice system, and keeping Donald Trump's hands off his wife ...


Schiff: Trump may face 'real prospect of jail time' ... "We're about to witness very interesting and chaotic times. Even more so than what we've been through already. Buckle up guys."
Judiciary Dem: Latest court filings show Trump was at center of 'massive fraud' | TheHill - Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said
Judiciary Dem: Latest court filings show Trump was at center of 'massive fraud' ...
Mueller is close to answering Russia collusion question that could end Trump's presidency ... Cohen provided credible information regarding criminal conduct by others in the administration. We do not yet know those names, but this is news that should cause sleepless nights for many White House officials. ... Please be Ivanka. Please be Ivanka ... I can't wait for Ivanka to go down. Nothing would cause trump more anger and rage ... Ironically, it's usually his daughter not going down that causes him anger and rage.

Prosecutors Effectively Accuse Trump of Defrauding Voters. What Does It Mean? - The New York Times
The Michael Cohen Sentencing Memos Are Damning for Trump | The New Yorker
Trump 2020 Shaping Up to Be a Campaign to Stay Out of Prison
Opinion | Is Mueller Building an Expansive Obstruction Case? - The New York Times - The sentencing memos suggest the possibility that Trump and perhaps others were involved in a series of lies from Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen.
Christie: It sounds like Mueller has corroborating evidence against Trump beyond Cohen : politics (said the evil fat fucker)

Cohen Russia memos show Trump was out to hide scandals and get richer -- Broken laws, Russia negotiations: Can Trump presidency survive latest court filings?

Russians interacted with at least 14 Trump associates during the campaign and transition - The Washington Post (no collusion!)

Sen. Chris Murphy: Mueller probe now 'beyond the stage' of Clinton impeachment (well no shit)
Pardoning Paul Manafort would be 'terrible mistake,' could 'trigger a debate' about pardon power: Sen. Marco Rubio - ABC News (just a little "debate" with little Marco's finger in the wind)
'This Week' Transcript 12-9-18: Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Chris Murphy - ABC News

The Ineptitude of Donald Trump's Co-conspirators


'Seige warfare' : : Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils ... But, Gingrich said ... "He's a bitter, bitter man, Giuliani said of Flace. "It's sick. Nobody likes him and they would like him gone." (and 10K+ comments)
'A Lot of Repuboicans' Starting To Think Trump Won't Serve Out His Term, Conservative Commentator Says (Brooks, and jfc, the comments:) Bush got re-elected after starting two wars we already knew were based on complete lies. Just saying ... That's because gay people wanted to get married. 'Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve' or whatever ... Rubes voting against their own best interests while voting against another group to be treated equally. Sounds about white ... The kids are alt white.
Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy Thinks President Trump Will Face Indictment in Manhattan - The Daily Beast ... (and longtime NR hack and diehard Trumpster) ... He did make clear, however, that Justice Department policy is not to indict a sitting president.
Flake: Republican Party 'is a frog slowly boiling in water' ("'a very orange frog' he said)


Trump Calls Senator Richard Blumenthal 'The Dick' in Bizaare Tweets


Trump Can't Settle on a Staff. It's Settle on a Staff. It's a Disaster For Him and a Goldmine for Opportunists.

President Trump didn't say the Apostle's Creed at President Bush's funeral. Twitter pounced. - The Washington Post (b/c Trump is Satan)
Keith Boykin on Twitter: "This is your "Christian" evangelical president. "

Comey Testified That We've Become 'Numb' to Trump's Lies
The Biggest Things in the Comey Transcript - The Atlantic - closed-door hearing was made public late Saturday, and it confirms that Mueller is pursuing a possible obstruction-of-justice case against the president.
Comey Tells House Panel He Suspected Giuliani Was Leaking FBI Information to Media - WSJ - Giuliani has previously denied getting information from the bureau's New York field office

Did Someone Say...EMAILS? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In retrospect, the year the most of the nation's editors and reporters spent pretending to believe Republicans who pretended to believe that Hillary Clinton's departures from email server management best practices were a scandal of world-historical importance seems not entirely easy to defend.
Molly Jong-Fast on Twitter: "So Hillary isn't guilty but guess who is ... (Comey is a lying asshole Republican)

Early on, Trump-Russia obsessives were marginalized; they're prephets now

Senate Republicans are responsible for the most unethical and incompetent administration ever - The Washington Post (Mitch the Bitch Ditch)

As Michigan and Wisconsin pass bills stripping newly elected Democrats of power, we need legislative solutions to show the country it's not business as usual - Republicans are undermining democracy state by state - Russ Feingold (the party of crooks has gone full crook)

u/auandi explains how the democratic and republican parties "flipped" during the 60s : bestof

s the Economies, Stupid -- The key to understanding the 2018 midterm results -- and the future of American politics -- isn't ideology or culture. It's the different economies of red and blue America ... the older industrial economy and the newer ideas economy ... (what about the culture of stupid and the ideology of ignorance and lies and racism?)

Five reasons ranked-choice voting will improve American democracy - The Boston Globe - But by seeking a majority, ranked-choice voting better reflects voter preferences
Five reasons ranked-choice voting will improve American democracy : politics
To Build a Better Ballot

Louisiana Court Rules ETP Can Build on Land without Owners's Consent (and why LA is so fucked when they have a ton of resources)
Why Louisiana Stays Poor - YouTube


Taking offense - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This is a nice example of how the right wing's inventtion of the concept of "political correctness" has, for almost 30 years now, been at the center of an enormously successful propaganda campaign. (don't be politically correct, own slaves!)


At NPR, an army of temps faces a workplace of anxiety and insecurity - The Washington Post

Should Harvard investigate an alleged rape that happened nowhere near campus? - The Boston Globe


Nobel laureates dismiss fears about genetically modified foods : news

Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It? : books

A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood - The New York Times
Book Review - Friedrich Nietzsche - A Philosophical Biography - By Julian Young - The New York Times
Friedrich Nietzsche, a Philosophical Renegade Whose Ideas Endured - NYTimes.com

Doctors often recommend a new vaccine to prevent shingles. Good luck finding it - The Boston Globe


Analyzing a dataset of over 9 million papers and 6 million scientists, researchers find that ethnic diversity on scientific teams results in a research impact gain of 10.63% for papers, and 47.67% for scientists. : science

The near future of the global economy looks extremely bleak. This pessimistic forecast comes from advanced statistical analysis of the S&P 500 stock market index, recently published by scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics : science
Accelerating change - Wikipedia

New research provides evidence that conspiracy theories could be considered as a social stigma. Ridiculing conspiracy theories has been suggested as a means to reduce them but this may increase the social stigma attached to conspiracy theories that can be a source of social exclusion. : science


Ladies,when you first saw penis in person,was it bigger or smaller than you expected? : AskReddit

Local news catches scamming tow truck companies and gets state investigators to swarm in realtime for instant justice : videos

The male urinals at the nightclub lets you see the female washroom without them knowing. [OC] : WTF

ELI5: Why does picture quality on Netflix appear to be of much higher quality than Cable TV even when both sources are outputting 1080p? : explainlikeimfive (b/c cablecos fuck you over and charge you a lot)


Feds Investigating Millions Of Fake Messages Opposing Net Neutrality: Report | HuffPost (Idjit Pie deep with the Russkies)

How Amazon Prime will change the way our cities look - The Boston Globe - Stores define the urban landscape. What happens when goods go straight to your home?




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Angelique Chrisafis on Twitter: "Some thoughts after spending time with gilets jaunes on roundabouts & toll-booth barricades in the south west and also from spending time with gilets jaunes from the north east 1/10"
'Macron's arrogance unties us' -- on the barricades with France's gilets juanes
Police Crack Down on 'Yellow Vest' in France With Tear Gas and Hundreds of Arrests ... "apprehending a protester" (60 paragraphs from the NYT and not one explains why they are rioting except to say it's like fucking Hungary)
In France, les deplorables strike back (Murdoch brands protests as same as Trumpsters protesting climate hoax)


Finally, Some Real Menace Enters the El Chapo Courtroom ... choice to try El Chapo as tradition drug "kingpin," as if moving the man they call 'Shorty" off the board was going to somehow end the cartels and justify the untold billions the government has spent on the War on Drugs. It was a misconception of both time and scale ...

American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned - WSJ - Worsening costs, taxation, tech transfer and regulation prompt foreign-owned businesses to throw in the towel (thanks, Dumpster)

The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House - The New York Times (slimey little fucker owned by the A-rabs)
Deposed aide to Saudi crown prince accused of role in female activists' torture | Reuters - A top aide to Saudi Arabia's crown prince, fired for his role in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, personally oversaw the torture of at least one detained female activist earlier this year ("personally oversaw" = "did it himself"

Mattis Erupts Over Niger Inquiry and Army Revisits Who Is to Blame - The New York Times - His anger, Pentagon officials said, came from seeing news reports that junior officers were being reprimanded for the botched Niger mission while the officers directly above them were not ... Army officials complained to aides that Mr. Mattis and Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had contributed to the morass by allowing Africa Command, whose leader, Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, is also a Marine, to essentially investigate itself (so he's FURIOUS that his own fuck up made him look bad, welcome to Trumpville)


ICE arrests 105 in New Jersey operation targeting criminal aliens and public safety threats | ICE (and people with Hispanic-sounding names, ICEfuckers at work)
Guatemalan father of slain North Carolina teen denied visa to attend her funeral : news (sadism and cruelty are their brands)


Trump announces John Kelly will depart White House by year's end : news (shit's coming down)
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "3 Chief of Staffs in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason why @BarackObama can't manage to pass his agenda." (2012, didn't age well)


Manafort and Cohen Sentencing Documents Put Donald Trump in Spotlight | WIRED - the only remaining question is how bad does the actual worst case scenario get?
Opinion | Is This the Beginning of the End for Trump? - The New York Times - Sentencing memos reveal damning evidence about collusion and campaign finance violations.
Mueller Is Telling Us: He's Got Trump on Collusion - The special counsel is connecting the dots and it doesn't paint a pretty picture for the president.

Trump Is Going To Leave His Successor a Nightmare. And He Doesn't Even Care - The president doesn't care about the debt because it won't hit a crisis point until he's gone. It's the anthesis of MAGA. (Make America Suck Again, suckers)
The Department of Justice Calls Donald Trump a Felon -- Trump's own government has described him as a crook.

The Russian's apprentice - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Donald Trump committed felonies that allowed him to become president of the United States, but he can't be charged for those felonies because he is president of the United States. - That, apparently, is going to be the position of Trump's own DOJ. It seems a tad problematic, and is likely to get more so, as more evidence of electoral thievery, Russian collusion, and who knows what else comes forward.
Mueller Briefs: Bad News for Trump, Manafort, and Cohen - The Atlantic - Robert Mueller is closing in on the president and all his men ... This newly disclosed conversation directly speaks to the question of collusion -- the outreach was explicitly political and was focused on how each side would gain from a potential partnership. (the noose is tightening)

Mueller Weaves Trump, Manafort and Cohen Ever Closer - Bloomberg
Mueller's Roadmap: Major Takeaways from Cohen and Manafort Filings
Here Are The Most Interesting Parts Of The Latest Mueller Filings | HuffPost

'Totally Clears the Presient'? What Those Cohen and Manafort Filings Really Say - In short, the Department of Justice, speaking through the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is alleging that the president of the United States coordinated and directed a surrogate to commit a campaign finance violation punishable with time in prison ... Mueller is still not ready to show his hand on the key substantive questions. But President Trump should should probably go easy on the cries of vindication. They may age badly, and they may do so quickly.
Special Counsel's Office Files Submission in Support of Breach Determination in Manafort Case
Mueller: Manafort Lied About Contacts With Trump Officials
Trump Believes He Can 'make the Law Go Away by Tweeting It,' Republican Strategist Says -- This is a guy who honestly believes that he can change the fabric of reality and make the law go away by tweeting at it.
Mueller Is Telling Us: He's Got Trump on Collusion (no collusion I tell you!!)
Robert Mueller should charge Trump with committing a crime only a president can commit | Salon.com - "care that the laws be faithfully executed"
Robert Mueller should charge Trump with committing a crime only a president can commit : politics

Conservative Think Tank Donor Revealed as Russian 'Oligarch' (Russians all the way up and down)


Donald Trump Ridiculed For Falsely Claiming Michael Cohen, Mueller Filing 'Totally Clears The President"
The Daily Show on Twitter: "(2/87)" (Trump's "Report" totally clearing him really a catalog of Fox/Russian propaganda)
Trevor Noah's 'Daily Show' Pulls Elaborate Twitter Prank On Donald Trump And Fox News - This is one mammoth thread.


Ex-FBI Director James Comey exasperated after closed-door interview on Capitol Hill - CNNPolitics (Rethug witch-hunt for Hillary the Witch!)
Nadler: I'm ending investigation into FBI, DOJ when I become chairman ("last desperate attempt" to fuck the country)

Ex-EPA chief Scott Pruitt used personal email for government work : politics (irony is over)

Trump's favorite pollster was the least accurate in the midterms (Fuckmussen only polls old white people with landlines ... 52.5% of homes do not have a land line.)
s favorite pollster was the least accurate in the midterms - A new Marist College poll finds President Donald Trump's approval rating at 43% among registered voters. His disapproval rating is at 49%. - Rasmussen's polling does not meet CNN standards for a number of reasons including that it doesn't call cell-phones. (zombies love him)

Eric Trump Weighs In on Kellyanne Conway's Husband. He Doesn't Like Him - Even in an administration where staffers and family members have routinely stabbed one another not just in the back, but in the front, commentary by a president's son on the marriage of a top White House adviser seemed unusual. (have fun in jail, Junior)

Ammon Bundy Quits Militia Movement, Defends Migrant Caravan - "To group them all up like, frankly, our president has done -- you know, trying to speak respectfully -- but he has basically called them all criminals and said they're not coming in here ... What about individuals, those who have come for reasons of need for their families, you know, the fathers and mothers and children that come here and were willing to go through the process to apply for asylum so they can come into this country and benefit from not having to be oppressed continually" (surprising, and then the flying hate-monkeys descended)
Ammon Bundy Quits Militia Movement in Solidarity With Migrant Caravan : news


Democratic Women Are About To Lead Michigan. Republican Men Are Freaking Out. | HuffPost - "It's literally women saying 'Here is what we want,' and men walking over and saying , 'Shhhhhhhh," an adovate said (patriarchy is disturbed)
GOP power grabs pour gas on 'resistance' in key Midwest states - Republican legislators in Wisconsin and Michigan have reignited Democratic energy since the midterms in two narrow Trump states.

More Evidence Of Illegal Activity Emerges In North Carolina Congressional Race | HuffPost - Two more voters reported handing over their ballots to canvassers who came to their home.
Vice Chair of Bladen County Board of Elections abruptly resigns - took an unusual turn on Friday night. Jens Lutz, the Vice Chair of the Bladen County Board of Elections ... A conservative political action committee called Patriots for Progress is also under investigation for possible election fraud by the State Bureau of Investigation ... Why? We don't know for sure but it may be related to his extensive connections to Leslie McCrae Dowless, the convicted felon at the center of the election fraud scandal in the 9th District. (oh, he's a crook and a confederate traitor)


James A. Fields Jr. convicted of killing Heather Heyer in Charlottesville car-ramming - The Washington Post

VA secretary praised Confederate president as a "martyr to 'The Lost Cause'" in 1995 speech - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie praised Confederate States President Jefferson Davis effusively in a 1995 speech (fucking traitors)


"They're All Too Old" : Democrats Face a Generational Reckoning - The choice in the 2020 primary ultimately comes down to one thing: who is best prepared to beat Trump at a time when Trump owns the culture? Someone who actually understands culture would be a start. (JoeBi is the most qualified in the history of the world! and gtfo, Bernie)


Minneapolis ends single-family zoning, undoing a major component of housing segregation. - By doing away with single-family zoning, the city takes on high rent, long commutes, and racism in real estate in one fell swoop - Minneapolis will become the first major U.S. city to end single-family home zoning, a policy that has done as much as any to entrench segregation, high housing costs, and sprawl as the American urban paradigm over the past century. (the northern confederacy of white-only neighborhoods` crumbles)


The Atlantic's Defense of Access Journalism Is Pathetic - In the Atlantic today, Elaina Plott published what she described as a piece about "why it's so annoying when people sneer at 'access journalism." She went there, folks. (fucker HW Bush is "one of us")
Who Does Ross Douthat Think He Is? Hmm Daily - There is only one Ross Douthat column and the theme of it is that Ross Douthat is unhappy with his place in the world. Usually he understands this to be the world's fault ("we" long for the good old days of race-baiting, gay-hating, looting and pillaging, dumbass WASPs like the hand of Satan HW)


The Right-Wing Media Can't Quit Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : politics (they've moved on from Hillary and Liz)
The Right-Wing Media Can't Quit Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez I spent 24 hours reading every attack on the lefty congresswoman I could find ... Fox Business ... "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the face of Democratic socialism, and since her brain is as empty as the promises of unfettered statism I am absolutely fine with that," Lisa Montogomery wrote ... (+Clownhall, Twitchy, National Review, Fuckity ...)


How power and money colluded to let Jeffrey Epstein get away with abuse - The Washington Post - Recent revelations about billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal with government prosecutors ... are the tip of the iceberg in a scandal of money, power, sex, corruption and boys' club criminality. The story has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster but for the sexual abuse of girls as young as 14 ... Epstein's lawyers, including Alan Dershowitz and former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr ... (Big Evil)


Thousands of state employees entangled in reply-all nightmare | KUTV


With Brando, Maria Schneider, and Bertolucci on the Scandalous Set of 'Last Tango in Paris'



Falling for Hot Jesus at a Christian Theme Park in Florida - From crucifixion to resurrection, from karaoke to sno cones, The Holy Land Experience in Orlando is a theme park like no other, right down to a sexy Son of God. (like a tv show!)

Case Study of 1 - Alex Press (mental healthcare in America mostly sucks)


ELI5: Why do humans move while listening to music (headbobs, dancing and foot tapping)? : explainlikeimfive (your body listens)
Bird singing "Bodies" by Drowning Pool - YouTube
Drowning Pool - Bodies - YouTube


In a new study involving people over 70 who have exercised regularly for years, scientists discovered that the participants' hearts, lungs, and muscles were in equivalent shape to those of people in their 40s. : science

Study of advanced Buddhist meditators suggests inducing near-death experiences can be learned and perfected. : science


What is the scariest book you've ever read?
The United States of Horror Movies : movies

What's the weirdest dream you've had? : AskReddit

thought it would be cute if our three daughters all wore a shirt showing a ring on a finger to ask my GF to marry me. Shouldn't have left the art direction to a 13 year old : funny


Eschaton: Nobody Listens To Atrios - But eventually I am always proved fucking right*. - *ok not always
Timothy B. Lee on Twitter: "Until recently my mental model of Waymo was that their technology was basically ready to go in late 2017 and they were doing a last few months of testing out of an abundance of caution, and to give time to build out non-technical stuff like customer service and maintenance." (so many "smart" people bought into one of the biggest obvious scams ever)
Waymo's s Big Ambitions Slowed by Tech Trouble

New report reveals growing threat of organised social media manipulation world-wide : technology

The Feds Are Now Investigating The Millions Of Anti-Net Neutrality Comments Filed With Stolen Identities : technology ... "I'm sure the new AG who use to be Counsel for Verizon is going to do a lot of investigating.... (Ajit Pai is a master criminal and a Mitch the Bitch plant)




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California's Camp Fire caused by failure of a steel hook that held a high voltage line on a nearly 100-year-old PG&E transmission tower : news - PG&E is also implicated in the Santa Rosa fire of 2017 as well as the fatal fire in San Bruno around 2015. They need to be done. (fuck your forests and lives, we need the money to pay our top executives and shareholders!)


France protests: Government fears 'major violence' in coming days. : news

German conservatives pick a Merkel ally to be party leader, signaling continuity and a long goodbye


Anti-Zionism Isn't the Same as Anti-Semitism - American Jews have nothing to fear from the new congressional critics of Israel. (thanks, Michelle, but Netanfuckyu disagrees)

The Saudi ambassador lied point-blank about a journalist's murder. Now he has the gall to come back to D.C.

Trump to Pick Heather Nauert as UN Ambassador, Sources Say - Bloomberg - Nauert, 48, is an unusual choice for the UN role given that she had little experience in government or foreign policy before joining the administration in April 2017 after several years as an anchor and correspondent for Fox News, including on the "fox and Friends" show watched by Trump ... (let's let Fox run the country!)
Welcome to the Fox News presidency - The Washington Post

We're now seeing the Trump economy

Eschaton: What Could Go Wrong - Not quite the same as this issue, but it's like the bully who is too stupid to realize that if he tries to take Jean-Claude Van Damme's lunch money, then his whole family is gonna get their asses kicked.
Eric Gomez on Twitter: "This seems like a bad idea " (was Mnuchin behind the kidnapping of Huwei? brilliant move, as usual)
Canada caught between Trump and China in Huawei case - POLITICO - The arrest of Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng at a Vancouver airport puts Canada in the middle of a volatile diplomatic situation between two world superpowers.


U.S. trade deficit hits the highest level in a decade : news (apres moi, le destruction and my rececessions are the biggest!)
It Took Just One Week for a $1 Trillion Wipeout in U.S. Stocks - Bloomberg (that trillion dollar giveaway to the rich didn't exactly work)

Rex Tillerson on Trump: 'Undisciplined, doesn't like to read' and tries to do illegal things ... "to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn't like to read, doesn't read briefing reports, doesn't like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says, "This is what I believe.'" ... "instincts" ... "I will be honest with you: It troubles me that the American people seem to want to know so little about issues -- that they are satisfied with 128 characters," Tillerson said. (that's how big their brains are)

John Kelly expected to resign soon, no longer on speaking terms with Trump - CNNPolitics (not talking!)

Tucker Carlson says Trump is 'not capable' and hasn't kept his promises (has Fox read the tea leaves? but Fucker is back to his usual with today's segment on ... you guessed it ... Benghaaazzzii!)

Special counsel Mueller says in new filing that Russia reached out to Trump campaign as far back as 2015 : politics
Trump's ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades

Megathread: Federal prosecutors recommend 'substantial' prison term for former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
Individual 1 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Neal Katyal on Twitter: "The real news right now is not about Cohen's sentence. It is about the conclusion by federal prosecutors that Donald J. Trump has committed a serious felony.
Federal Prosecutors 'Concluded that President of the United States Committed a Felony' (one year, 321 days later ...)
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "Totally clears the President. Thank you!" (and definitely read the responses)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders unwittingly admits Donald Trump directed a felony criminal conspiracy - Palmer Report

The latest filings on Michael Cohen show that nobody can save Trump now - The Washington Post - At the end of the day Friday, we learned what federal prosecutors in New York think of Michael Cohen: ... This scandal can't be hidden away. Republicans in Congress can't save Trump, his attorney general can't save him, and no amount of desperate tweets can save him. Accountability is on it's way, and it's arriving very soon.
The Mueller investigation has been a series of drips. It's about to turn into a flood. ... Trump's campaign chairman, deputy campaign chairman, foreign policy adviser, former national security adviser and personal lawyer are all now felons who were either convicted of crimes or pleaded guilty to them. Moreover, those crimes and their related disqualifying behaviors are serious ...

New Mueller filing says Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen was in touch with a Russian seeking 'political synergy' with campaign

Trump promises a 'major Counter Report- to rebut Mueller's findings (as soon as they pry it out of the jaws of Rudy's dog)
Trump Goes Bananas on Twitter With Robert Mueller, Mike Pence, John Kelly, Russia and Vladimir Putin All Looming - There Are at Least Four (4) Reasons the President* Just Took Another Trip to the Bananas Factory -- It's all happening. None of it's good. (and Putin is not happy with the Dumpfuck either)

Comey to testify again in 2 weeks; Republicans claim DOJ lawyer blocked answers | WPEC - "After a full day of questioning, two things are clear to me," he told reporters before leaving the Capitol. "One, we could have done this in open setting, and two, when you read the transcript you will see that we're talking again about Hillary Clinton's emails for heaven's sake. So I'm not sure we need to do this at all." (they are literally brainless zombies eating your democracy)

The frantic scramble before Mueller got the job - CNNPolitics

Poll: Republicans Are Only Group That Mostly Sees Mueller Probe As A 'Witch Hunt' (71% + 12% "undecided")

Trump's trio of traps ahead of 2020


The Justice Department Still Hasn't Told The Government Accountability Office That Jeff Sessions Quit - Federal law requires the vacancy and any acting appointment to be reported "immediately"

Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Trump Jr: Keep trolling, we have subpoena power next year : politics ("you're our bitch, bitch," she said)
Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Trump Jr: Keep trolling, we have subpoena power next year | TheHill (and other smart remarks)

TIL that despite 12 indictments and several convictions of high level officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, all perpetrators were either pardoned or had sentences overturned resulting in no prison time. The only person to go to jail was a minister who stole a street sign in protest. : todayilearned (kindly old gay-hating race-baiting moderate HW pardoned himself out of Iran-Contra jail and everyone immediately forgot)
The Return of the Administration of Kindly Old Moderate George Bush - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Now that Trump has nominated Bill Barr, Bush's Attorney General from 1991-93, to be his own Attorney General, with the clear and obvious consideration that Barr will not recuse himself from the Mueller investigation or anything else, that is all the more clear. (oh for the days of those good Republican daddies who would take care of their crying little liberal babies with strict parenting and tax cuts but holy shit, that shit is deep)

Since 1969, Republican presidential administrations have 121 criminal indictments and 89 convictions, while Democrats have had 3 and 1 respectively. How do you feel about this? - Quora (dems and media not interested for some reason)


Robert Mueller and Leakin' Lyin' James Comey are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest. And bye the way, wasn't the woman in charge of prosecuting Jerome Corsi (who I do not know) in charge of "legal" at the corrupt Clinton Foundation? A total Witch Hunt... We wish you a Mueller Christmas... We wish you a Mueller Christmas... And impeachment next year...
Donald Trump Rages On Twitter Ahead Of Developments In Mueller Probe | HuffPost - His typo-ridden rant bashed key figures from Bruce Ohr to Rod Rosenstein.
President DSM-V - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... "a new level of unhinged"
J.K. Rowling Turns Donald Trump's Latest Twitter Rant Into Taunting Character Study | HuffPost (his psycho-typo meltdown)


Bernie Sanders: Billionaires Are Destroying the Fabric of Our Country : politics
Democrats Must Solve Issues Between Centrists and Progressives Before 2020 Election -- Centrist' Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means - The Democratic Party has to get a handle on this, and they have to do it yesterday ... from the DLC, to the Concord Coalition, to "neoliberalism," to Pete Peterson's assaults on Social Security, to No Labels, to the cult of Simpson-Bowles, to the Problem Solvers Caucus and right up to the present day. In 1982, (and yes, Bernie is an idiot)


Onetime Pelosi foe reverses course, announces support for her House speaker bid - The Washington Post - Democratic Rep. Stephen F. Lynch


Truth or Both Sides Do It: You Can Choose Only One - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The blatantly anti-democratic actions of Republican legislators in North Carolina, Michigan, and Wisconsin present a test for the media: (you guessed it, in two major stories about Republicans destroying democracy, the NYT didn't use the word "gerrymandering" or talk about white votes being more valuable, instead it was just a "partisan" clash of power)
North Carolina GOP Makes Its Contempt For Democracy Official

u/monorail_pilot catalogs the evidence for voter fraud in North Carolina : bestof (Republicans are crooks, all the way up and down)
North Carolina Republican Says He Would Support New Election if Fraud Occurred - The New York Times ("better than going to jail" he said)
Voter fraud in North Carolina 9th District election: the McCrae Dowless scheme - Vox - The Ninth District race between Mark Harris and Dan McCready is still stalled over election fraud allegations.

Michigan G.O.P. Starts Limiting Power of Incoming Democratic Leaders - The New York Times (Wississippi and Michabama)


Conservative pastor: 'The floor of Congress is now going to look like an Islamic republic' ("and you will swear loyalty to the NRA Jesus")


Senior adviser to Sen. Kamala Harris resigns after report of $400,000 harassment settlement : news (oh, taxpayer money paid the perv's settlement and Kamala knew nothing, Nothing! about it and pushed Franken out)

NYT: CBS Paid $5 Million In Settlement Over '60 Minutes' Creator's Alleged Sexual Assault - In the 1990s, a woman reportedly accused Don Hewitt, who died in 2009, of multiple assaults. Her case came to light amid the investigation of Les Moonves. (they buried a lot of dick shit)
At '60 Minutes' Independence Led to Trouble, Investigators Say

FBI catches Air Force senior Officer during underage sex sting operation : news


Flint water crisis: State's medical chief faces trial for manslaughter : news - Dr. Eden Wells, a member of Gov. Rick Snyder's Cabinet, is among five people facing an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area in 2014 and 2015. Wells is now the second high-ranking state official, along with Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, to be ordered to trial.


Millennials aren't breaking traditions. They're just broke (screwed by their boomer parents who said it would all trickle down to them)


How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year from America's Elderly (kiddnapped your relative scam)

Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud - Story : news


Ohio father teaches daughter a lesson about bullying by making her walk 5 miles to school : news


Person describes their arrest by NYPD for running a red light on their bike, but actually for not carrying their ID, which is not illegal. Describes how easy it is for cops to abuse their power over something as petty as being corrected about their knowledge of the law. : bestof ("I can arrest you for telling me the law!")

Recreational marijuana officially legal in Michigan today : news (first day, they're giving out free joints -- coulda' been you, Fuckachusetts)
: Yuppies have discovered pot -- and they like it
Nearby Marijuana Shops Make Homes And Rentals More Valuable, Studies Show : bostontrees (send Jason Lewis an Instragram)

Marijuana Dispensaries Reduce Local Opioid Overdose Rates, Study Finds | Marijuana Moment (someone call Mawty Walsh)


Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut is a fantastic book and possibly his greatest one. : books ... "Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."


Experiencing failure hurts your self-esteem but has no effect on actual performance, contrary to the commonly held view that failure begets more failure, finds a new study. In fact, failure could propel you forward to later success, but it depends on how you cope with your emotional response to it. : science

Introverts can feel out of place within our Western culture that values extraversion. A new study found that introverts become unhappy with themselves if they compare themselves to an extraverted cultural ideal, but if they accept their authentic, quiet selves, they can flourish and be fulfilled. : science

TIL that the average 18-year-old adult is only about halfway done with "mental puberty" : todayilearned


What's the strangest question you've been asked at a job interview?

Meanwhile in Russia... : aww
ELI5: What happens to farmers that don't have tainted romaine lettuce when the FDA or CDC suddenly recommends no one consume it?
Sign language users of reddit, what kinds of wordplay jokes exist in sign language, and what are your favourites? : AskReddit
The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century : videos

Does modern sedentary lifestyle contribute to the rising amount of depression? : askscience

ELI5: Why are dots and dashes the only acceptable non-alphabetical/numerical characters in usernames on social media sites and message boards? : explainlikeimfive


Ohitsrandybo describes his own decline due to heavy meth use, and why it's impossible to live a normal life on meth. : bestof
ohitsrandybo comments on Serious Question, can you live a normal life while using meth?

Will we ever run out of music? Is there a finite number of notes and ways to put the notes together such that eventually it will be hard or impossible to create a unique sound? : askscience

Microsoft Surface Studio 2 review: better performance, same good looks | The Verge | YouTube : Surface




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Climate change caused the "Great Dying," aka the planet's worst extinction

Earthrise - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Fifty years ago, it felt like humans were going to take saving the planet seriously. We made great progress. Unfortunately, bad presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Kindly Old Moderate George Bush went far to undermine this effort, turning environmentalism into a partisan issue and creating the terrible world in which we now live. (and there's a very dark corner of hell where John Sununu will reside and did you know he's a fucking Cuban?)

Nearly a month after the Camp Fire began razing their towns Californians return to ruin - The Washington Post


Deal or no deal?: Theresa May's Brexit standoff (oh, is that a cliff right in front of me?)

A court said the 'wolf pack' case in Spain was nonconsensual sex, not rape. People are demanding justice. - The case involves a group of men videotaping themselves sexually assaulting an 18-year-old (Spanish machismo dickitude at stake)


Huawei C.F.O. Is Arrested in Canada for Extradition to the U.S. - The New York Times - A top executive and daughter of the founder of the Chinese tech giant Huawei was arrested on Saturday in Canada at the request of the United States, in a move likely to escalate tensions between the two countries at a delicate moment - unfolded on the same night that President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China dined together in Buenos Aires and agreed to a 90-day trade truce


France dumps controversial fuel tax - Seventy-two percent of the French back the Yellow Jackets. (Macaroni's poor people tax with climate-change rebranding fails)
Cultural Marxism as fascist code - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Yellow Vest protests in France represent a populist outcry against urban financial and social elites, as embodied by President Macron: "So, to recap, the protesters are mostly working-class folks who are angry at what they see as an out-of-touch elitist president whose policies favor the wealthy and corporations at the expense of working-class French people." (and Trump gets it backwards, as usual) You will be surprised to learn that an international cabal of globalists are behind the hegemony of Cultural Marxism in our universities and in the entertainment industry, where political correctness now makes it impossible to even discuss the Jewish question whether all this "multiculturism" is just a cover for the Frankfurt's school's Soros-funded plot to destroy America. Good times.
Charlie Kirk: American universities are now 'mob' assembly lines (cranking out "cultural marxists")

Venezuela's Failed Socialist Experiment Is Deadlier Than Ever - Twenty years ago, the ex-rebel rose to power in Venezuela and laid the foundation for todays humanitarian crisis. (don't need no ed-u-ca-tion)


Is Harvard Whitewashing a Russian Oligarch's Fortune? - Len Blavatnik made billions as a Kremlin insider. Now writing huge checks to the university. (speaking of evil)


Dow drops 600 points, bringing its 2-day losses to more than 1,400 points

81 migrant children separated from families since June (ICE fuckers really get off on this shit and so does Trump/Miller)
Making President Trump's Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers - At the president's New Jersey golf course, an undocumented immigrant has worked as a maid since 2013
A Mysterious Imposter Account Was Used On Facebook To Drum Up Support For The Migrant Caravan - Days before the migrant caravan left Honduras, a fake Facebook account was used to try to bolster its numbers. The social media giant has since deactivated the account but has refused to provide information about who created it. (it was't George Soros?)

Record imports push US trade gap to $55.5 billion in October (Trump: "apres moi le deluge")


Mueller poised to reveal new details on Russia probe in Manafort, Cohen filings - CNNPolitics - could reveal tantalizing new details in its investigation into possible Russian collusion on Friday

Trump White House Has No Plan to Counter Mueller Report - The Atlantic - Nervous aides expect the president to lead the way, tweet up a storm -- and, Rudy Giuliani promises, fight back. (that'll work)
Giuliani: The Dog Ate My Counter-Report to Mueller



The buying of a president - The Washington Post - Lobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved blocks of rooms at President Trump's D.C. hotel within a month of Trump's s election in 2016 -- paying for an estimated 500 nights at the luxury hotel in just three months ... Recall that Trump retains the lease on the hotel only because the General Services Administration reversed its earlier decision and decided to ignore a provision in the lease prohibiting anyone employed by the government from profiting by the lease. (Trummp totally bought and corrupt, if it walks like treason ... but the Pelosi subpoena storm is coming)

Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and the NRA -- Trump and the gun group used the same consultants to spearhead TV ad blitzes at the height of the 2016 election, likely in violation of federal law (why Mueller isn't bothering with Butina and the NRA)

Trump aide's appearances on RT channel are focus for Russia inquiry - Ted Malloch, a Trump campaign adviser, has been questioned about his relationship with the Kremlin-controlled broadcaster (the Russia shit is so deep)

In potential blow to Manafort, Supreme Court unlikely to change double jeopardy rule - A presidential pardon could keep Trump's former campaign chairman out of federal prison, but it would not free him from being prosecuted on similar state charges. (unless Cuomo also pardons him)

How Donald Trump Shifted $1.1M Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Business (totally corrupt)

David Bossie: House Democrats plan a witch hunt against Trump | Fox News (hahahaha)
'Stupid perjury charges': Fox New's Tucker Carlson spits on Mueller news (muhahaha ... and remember, Hannity was one of three Cohem clients, and ...)

Trump's slow-motion staff 'shakeup' stunts 2019 planning The president has left top officials in a state of limbo and top jobs without permanent occupants, creating 'a sense of chaos' (if not actual 'chaos' but the important thing is that Trump is trying to run government like a reality show -- inflating himself and changing his "apprentices" all the time -- because it's the only thing he knows how to do)


Eschaton: I Was A Very Good Boy - I tire of the stories about how Trump is a sociopathic toddler, and yet he showed a moment of NOT being quite that bad, largely because the reporters who write them never follow through on the implications. It isn't just about The President Show, whether he has good etiquette, whether he is PRESIDENTIAL. It's that this is who he is, and it applies every single thing he does. -- Mr. Trump has been snappish with aides most of the week, according to administration officials, miffed in part by so many ceremonial events not related to him. He was impatient for the memorials to end but expressed pride in himself for remaining publicly civil. People close to the president called it a course correction after his peevish reaction to Mr. McCain's death (Pres It's All About Me)
The president has been shockingly presidential for the last six minutes - The Washington Post

Eschaton: Wow I Really Miss The Good Old Days Of The Peak Of The HIV Epidemic And An Indifferent/Hostile Government Response (Reagan-Bush fuck off and die gay people, but those two rich gay guys in NYC love Trumpster)
More Dispatches from the Administration of George Bush, Kindly Old Moderate - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Of course, George Bush was in fact destroying labor unions, demonizing gays, and throwing the entire black population in prison, but that hasn't stopped the inevitable nostalgic eulogies for the better days of the Republican Party. And let's be clear -- George Bush was horrible for American workers. (but they still voted for Republican, and kept doing it)

New York Times' Ross Douthat Dreams of WASP Supremacy (Douthfuck is nostalgic for Bushfuck 1 and his crew of WASPs)


Cheneyism Is No Better Than Trumpism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Good piece by Yglesias about how while the Weekly Standard is being euthanized for the wrong reason it represents a highly pernicious strain of thought in its own right:
Weekly Standard's demise is a reminder that there are some ideas worse than Trumpism - The most principled resistance to Trump comes from conservatism's most dangerous faction (invented "preventive war" and killed a million people)


House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Considers Term Limits On Committee Chairs | HuffPost - As Pelosi rounds up votes to become speaker, she agrees to consider supporting term limits for chairs.

What Joe Biden doesn't understand - NY Daily News - We all know that Donald Trump is the Braggart in Chief. But a close second may be Joe Biden, whose humble brags often know little humility ... None compare to his latest, however: that he is the most qualified person to be President ... Of course, qualifications probably should be a major metric by which we elect our leaders, but leave it to the American people to decide in recent years that experience can be disqualifying. From a slew of inexperienced Tea Party candidates in 2010 to Donald Trump to another round of newcomers in 2018, we just aren't into long records of accomplishment these days. (clash of titanic egos and let's sweep all that other shit under the rug)
Joe Biden Will Decide Soon on Running for President - The Atlantic - The former vice president is angry about Trump and thinks he can do the job better than anyone else,

Citing 'cruelty of our elections process' Patrick officially backs out of 2020 bid (said the guy who works for Cruelty Inc)

Kamala Harris aide resigns after harassment settlement surfaces | The Sacramento Bee - A longtime top staff member of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris resigned Wednesday after The Sacramento Bee inquired about a $400,000 harassment and retaliation settlement resulting from his time working for Harris at the California Department of Justice ... and other demeaning behavior, including frequently asking her to crawl under his desk to change the paper in his printer. (she knew the shit was buried and did nothing)
Kamala Harris denies knowledge of allegations against aide | The Sacramento Bee ... Wallace worked with Harris for 14 years (so, in an office she supervises, a top long-term employee settles an harassment case for half a million and no one told her anything about it, right?)

Democrat accused of repeated use of women's restroom will resign in January (next time wear a dress, dude)

Trump hotel feud erupts between Lewandowski and Florida senators - How much credit should Donald Trump get for GOP successes? (you will bow down to our transparently false statements)

Lame duck session: The 81 Walker appointees the Senate approved (how democracy dies in the darkness of Repubican-ruled states)
'No Labels' Refuses To Call Out Republicans By Name For Midwest Power Grab - The centrist group was less hesitant about trying to limit the power of the next Democratic House speaker (and what is Seth Mouton's position?)

Republicans were upset about election fraud -- before it threatened their candidate (when has that ever happened before?)
Over a thousand absentee ballots possibly destroyed in controversial North Carolina House race: report | TheHill - rom likely Democratic voters may have been destroyed
NC Supreme Court - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Democrats now control the North Carolina Supreme Court 5-2, and the only justice up for re-election in 2020 is one of the remaining two Republicans. (pretty funny: the ratfuckers tried to ratfuck the election with a 3rd party candidate at the last minute and ratfucked themselves, NC may have a future)
Republican officials had early warnings of voting irregularities in North Carolina - The Washington Post (and were happy)
Fox Business Network Apologizes for Louie Gohmert Spreading Anti-Semitic George Soros Conspiracy - The openly anti-Semitic attack initially went unchallenged by host Stuart Varney, who later issued an apology. (Gumball is evil and insane)

Welcome to 'But her emails!' version 2020
Elizabeth Warren is apparently sorry about that DNA test - Lawyers, Guns & Money - example 3,751 of the kinds of problems that can arise when white people are at the head of a multi-racial coalition whose primary reason for existing at this historical moment is to defeat a white ethno-nationalist party that's obsessed with absurdly unscientific yet extremely socially powerful ideas about race and racial purity.

Missouri Secretary of State Ashcroft launches investigation into Josh Hawley | Law and order | stltoday.com - Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has launched an investigation into the way Attorney General Josh Hawley ran the office

condemn white nationalists, Veterans Affairs's diversity chief was told after Charlottesville, emails show ... ("we're all good nazis now") In October, a senior official in VA's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization was forced to remove a portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and the Ku Klux Klan's first grand wizard, from his office in Washington after offending employees. The official said he was unaware of Forrest's affiliation with the hate group. (so, a bunch of lying racist assholes and top comment:) "The VA diversity chief is ordered not to condemn white nationalists. Just let that sink in for a minute."


Organize the Charters - Lawyers, Guns & Money - One of the few things about American politics making me happy in the last couple of years is that the charter scam has been fully exposed for the union-busting, profit-taking, public institution-destroying scam that it is. And thus, I am extremely happy to see the nation's first charter school strike. (let's run the education system like a pyramid scheme!)


Border agent indicted for capital murder in 4 Texas deaths : news

35 Tweets About The Struggle Of Getting Kids Dressed For Cold Weather | HuffPost Life (strange)

The sub who stole Christmas? Teacher who debunked Santa to first-graders is dropped from district's nice list (don't lie to your children or drench them in marketing propaganda)


TIL Cousin marriage in the US is complicated and some states allow it, some states criminalize it, and many states have conditions that decide whether it is allowed or not. : todayilearned (why MA is so retarded; looks like a colonial issue plus CO, NM and CA)


Will Uber Survive the Next Decade? - Uber Is Headed for a Crash -- Uber's investors have been buying your satisfaction in the form of massive subsidies of services. What has made Uber a good deal for users makes it a lousy investment proposition. Uber has kept that recognition at bay via minimal and inconsistent financial disclosures combined with a relentless and so far effective public-relations campaign depicting Uber as following the pattern of digitally based start-ups whose large initial losses transformed into strong profits in a few years.

Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They're Using Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other (Sheryl is tapping their phones)




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'We are in trouble.' Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.
With a Green New Deal, Here's What the World Could Look Like for the Next Generation

US makes preparations to sail warship into Black Sea amid Russia-Ukraine tensions - CNNPolitics

New satellite images reveal activity at unidentified North Korean missile base - CNNPolitics (President Deals)

Here's How Facebook's Local News Algorithm Change Led To The Worst Riots Paris Has Seen In 50 Years - The Yellow Jackets movement is what happens when you point Facebook's raffic hose at France's small towns. The question now is: How do you turn it off? (Macaroni wasn't prepared for this)

PIERS MORGAN: Meghan Markle is a ruthless social climbing actress | Daily Mail Online (soulless heart of British Royalty)

Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: 'I Won't Be Here' When It Blows Up (not his problem, hahah suckers)

Eschaton: Can't Fault The Logic Of President Deals - Not at all.
'Chaos breeds chaos' : Trump'serratic and false claims roil the globe. Again. ... "I am a Tariff man." ... the president routinely says that China and other countries are paying billions of dollars to the United States because of his tariffs. But that is false. Tariffs are paid by companies, often U.S. firms, that import foreign-made products. (which then charge their sucker American Trump-voting Republicans)
You Don't Understand Tariffs, Man -- Trump blinked on trade with China -- and it was the right thing to do. Just ask the markets.

Canada arrests Huawei's global chief financial officer in Vancouver


"In Washington, the Way You Say, 'I Told You Do,' Is To Leak Something : With a Calculated Leak, the War Between Trump and the Intelligence Community Escalates -- Trump backed the C.I.A. into a corner by casting doubt on its assessment of Mohammed bin Salman's responsibility for the Jamal Khashoggi murder. Then someone fought back by sharing information. (interesting: "intelligence is about the uncertain, otherwise it would be facts")

Saudi-funded lobbyist paid for 500 rooms at Trump's hotel after 2016 election


14 Questions Robert Mueller Knows the Answer To | WIRED

Mueller's Flynn Memo Should Worry Kushner and Trump - The former national security adviser provided information about interactions between the presidential transition team and Russian officials.

Gregg Jarrett: Mueller strikes out trying to nail Trump - Flynn sentencing memo is a big nothing (says la-di-la-land Fox)
Michael Flynn Is Cooperating With Robert Mueller: What Does That Mean for Trump? - Robert Mueller is clearly immortalizing his work against any White House shenanigans.
Judge Napolitano: I Expect Donald Trump Jr. to Be Indicted


Feds Target Butina's GOP Boyfriend as Foreign Agent - Paul Erickson served as accused Kremlin spy Maria Butina's guide as she penetrated the American conservative movement. Now he's under investigation as a Russian agent, too. (one of the 14 question is why Mueller isn't going after Butina)

Prosecutors ramp up foreign lobbying probe in New York - The New York work underscores the broad effects of Mueller's investigation, extending well beyond the central question of President Donald Trump and collusion.

Rudy Giuliani Says Twitter Sabotaged His Tweet. Actually, He Did It Himself. - The New York Times (dimbulb Rudy)


Chris Wallace: 'A chill' descended on front row upon Trump arrival at Bush funeral
George H.W. Bush's Racial Demagogue Campaigns Mater, Just Like His Record as President - Taking the oath of office did not abracadabra all that away ... The Reagan-Bush years were years of profound racial reaction and social backlash in this country. Because it was the easiest and surest way to get elected, both men pandered to those forces. (very bad and evil people)
More Dispatches from the Administration of Kindly Old Moderate George Bush - Lawyers, Guns & Money - And while I am sure that the story is more complicated than this, for Rich, the real villain is the administration of George Bush, especially Chief of Staff John Sununu, who made it his crusade to discredit climate science and was very influential in turning Bush away from doing anything about it ... George Bush was a bad president surrounded by bad people who did bad things. We are living with the consequences today. (annals of evil: so Sununu fucked the planet and his kid is gov of NH)


America's Two Political Parties Are Asymmetrical -- The Democrats are too ideologically and ethnically diverse to field a presidential candidate who resembles the man in the White House. (Springsteen's question: who can compete with the crazy Dumpster?)

Michelle Obama Tells a Secret: 'I Have Been at Every Powerful Table You Can Think of... They Are Not That Smart' ... a sold-out talk with Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London, which drew lines of tens of thousands of people. (vide infra)

The Clintons Are Now The 'Spinal Tap' of the Political World - Bill and Hillary Clinton thought they were in high demand around the country. Collapsing ticket prices to their "Even With The Clintons" show how wrong they were. It is, as the saying goes, a teachable moment. (Billary not very learnable)

Inside The North Carolina Republican Vote Machine: Cash, Pills -- And Ballots -- McCrae Dowless and his family worked with "wads of cash" -- and workers illegally handled absentee ballots, a woman who worked for him says ... The allegations that Republicans tampered with absentee ballots in a close North Carolina election represent the most serious federal election tampering case in years, one that allegedly stole votes from elderly black voters in the state ... Red Dome, a political consulting firm that contracted McCrae Dowless, was paid more than $428,000 by the Harris campaign ... (will they go to jail? what do you think?)
North Carolina: Why the case for election fraud is strong - CNNPolitics
Republican Primary Candidate for Sheriff in Bladen County, North Carolina Meddled in Absentee Ballots - North Carolina brings us to new frontiers in Republican election chicanery. (would the party of lie cheat steal rape and pillage actually cheat?)

In Stunning Power Grab, Wisconsin Republicans Pass Bill Weakening New Governor | HuffPost - The bills take power away from newly elected Democrats. (banana America)
Wisconsin Republicans Approve Bills Stripping Power From Incoming Democratic Governor - The New York Times

Deval Patrick, Foreclosure Mogul | HuffPost - How the 2020 Democratic presidential contender helped a Republican billionaire rip off the middle class (he really went to work for Bain Capital)
Deval Patrick's Decision Not To Run For President Is Personal, His Allies Said (he'd get slaughtered because he's truely a Bain guy)


Eschaton: Both Sides - That there are some racists (yes, everywhere, in all parties) is not surprising. I'm sure even on Team D women and minorities find certain "inexplicable" barriers to obtaining positions in leadership. What you won't find are multiple people in concert who think it's a perfectly acceptable reason to state publicly (and, I think, in most cases, even to themselves, though that kind of denial isn't exactly admirable either) -- "The only reason she had was because he was a Muslim" ... Dorrie O'Brien and a small group of her supporters have put forth a formal motion to remove Shafi as vice chairman because of his religion, a motion that is slated for a vote Jan. 10. To Easton, who opposes the measure, the move is an embarrassment to the Republican Party. And to Shafi, it amounts to exactly what he believed did not exist in the United States when he arrived here 28 years ago: a religious test.


Eschaton: Organized Crime - I'm not surprised that people, uh, look the other way about this stuff a bit, but this goes far beyond that -- The outside lawyers were told by multiple people that CBS had an employee "who was 'on call' to perform oral sex" on Mr Mooves ... A number of employees were aware of this and believed that the woman was protected from discipline or termination as a result of it ... (perfectly normal for superrich creepy assholes like Moonfuck)

Eschaton: The Little People Don't Matter - I suppose I am just becoming cynical in my old age, but I do think we underestimate the degree to which people of a lower class are just not seen as people at all by many elites ... then there are a reasonable number of very bad rich people who have lots of money and power behind them. Also, too, powerful friends who side with them in their interests. Every time the Roman Polanski Defense Force makes an appearance, or we get several days of "wah people are mean to Alan Dershowitz" articles, we get a taste of this. Siginificant numbers of elites think it's okay for a rich guy to rape girls, in part because they're probably doing it too. -- The deal came Tuesday just before jury selection was to begin. It means none of the women will be able to testify against Jeffrey Epstein for now. -- There have been more calls for people you have never heard of to denounce Louis Farrakhan approximately monthly because they stood in the same room as him a couple of times than there have been for elites to explain their associations with Epstein.


"They Say We're White Supremacists" : Inside the Strange World of Conservative College Women -- Young Republican women are aggrieved, outnumbered, defiant. going to apologize for loving the guy in the White House (proud Republican white girls complaining that their colleges don't want to be "intersectional" with Nazis +"liberal guys are really feminine")


A Conservative Magazine May Pay a Price for Being Unfriendly to Trump - The New York Times - The Weekly Standard


Eschaton: The Free Market - Tough when your competitors are being subsidized.
Declare the Strand Bookstore a City Landmark? No Thanks, the Strand Says - The New York Times

The Enormous Life of Anthony Bourdain, According to Those Who Knew Him Best | GQ - The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best.


Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More. - No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who's sharing her story publicly for the first time.

USA Gymnastics Files for Bankruptcy - WSJ - Filing will stop depositions and discovery in lawsuits filed by sexual-abuse victims of team doctor Larry Nassar


Baby Jesus In Cage As Part Of Dedham Church's Immigration-Themed Nativity Scene (goes viral)


Consider the lobster - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Innuendo Studios has a series of six videos called "Why Ae You So Angry?"



Smoke a Joint, Save the Subway? - The New York Times (they could fix the fucking subway with a pot tax, but they don't really want to so fuck your money. potheads)

New York's Vanishing Mayor -- Mayor Bill de Blasio spends far less time at City Hall than he once did, leading some city officials to ask: Has the mayor lost focus?


"Everyone's For Sale": A Generation of Digital-Media Darlings Prepares for a Frigid Winter -- Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, among other companies that once heralded the dawn of a new media age, are now grappling with decidedly old-media problems ... Traditional magazine companies, meanwhile, are trying to adapt to the digital world. Hearst, whose holdings include Cosmopolitan and Esquire, has endured layoffs, restructuring, and a leadership shake-up. Condi Nast, which owns Vanity Fair, is looking for a new C.E.O. who can streamline and maximize its global clout. (but the concept of FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) is flawed -- Apple is a hardware company, none of the others are and notice that Microsoft exceeded Apple in value and isn't on the list)
Buzzfeed, Walmart collaborate on line of inexpensive cookware, kitchen tools - CNET

Facebook Removed A Former Employee's Post Accusing It Of 'Failing' Black People ... former strategic partner manager for global influencers, Mark Luckie, alleged Facebook regularly removed the content of black users without notice and suspended their accounts indefinitely ... Seemingly proving his point, Facebook removed Luckie's post Monday because it reportedly went against its community standards. (Fuckberg'd and Zuckerfuck'd)
Facebook is failing its black employees and its black users
"When You Get That Wealthy, You Start to Buy Your Own Bullshit" : The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg -- Harvard Business School invented the "leadership" industry and produced a generation of corporate monsters. No wonder Sandberg, one of the school's most prominent graduates, lacks a functioning moral compass.
Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users' data and activities, according to documents released by British lawmakers - The Washington Post (but lying Zuckerfuck says they didn't "sell" data to anybody)
Six4Three Exec Ordered to Surrender Laptop After Facebook Leak | Fortune
Facebook's Biggest Problem: Internal Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over ... "It's the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now ... the only survival strategy is to quit or fully buy in.


Eschaton: Sure - Ongoing research and development, blahblahblah, but at some point you gotta step back and say, "you know, this doesn't really make any sense... (the Waymo scam
Capital uber alles - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The largest private company in the world loses enormous amounts of money, has always lost enormous amounts of money, and has no discernible prospect of not losing enormous amounts of money at any point in the foreseeable future. This fabulous portfolio has allowed it to raise $20 billion from investors:




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'A kind of dark realism' : Why the climate change problem is starting to look too big to solve (we lied to you and now it's too late, so die, suckers)


Italy's M5S sacks entire board of health experts, sparking political interference concerns | World news | The Guardian - Concern as Giulia Grillo, from the vaccine-sceptic Five Star Movement, says she will replace esteemed panel with 'other deserving personalities' ... Five Star Movement -- a vaccine-sceptic party that has supported unproven cures for cancer -- said it was "time to give space to the new" (anti-science morons)

"A Dark Day for Hungary" - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It has been twenty months since Viktor Orban's Fidesz government launched their legislative attack on Central European University. Today, CEU officially announced that it will move all US-accredited programs to a new campus in Vienna ... Orban's government has successfully shut Hungary out of giant sections of the global intellectual community. (rise of the asshole morons uninhibited by Trumpster)


Britain can legally cancel Brexit. That's EU advice -- but will parliament agree? - the UK can revoke article 50 (la-di-land)

France Suspends Fuel Tax Increase That Spurred Violent Protests - The New York Times (little wannabe dictator Macaroni backs off plan to tax the poor)

Pompeo Questions the Value of International Groups Like U.N. and E.U. - The New York Times (dismantling restraints on dictators like trumpster and boy is the fatfuck stupid and evil)


Manafort Discussed Deal With Ecuador to Hand Assange Over to U.S. - The New York Times - Mr. Manafort made the trip mainly to see if he could broker a deal under which China would invest in Ecuador's power system, possibly yielding a fat commission for Mr. Manafort. (and rid them of pesky creep Assange)
Reps Lieu and Rice Call For Investigation Into Conduct of Manafort's Lawyers


GOP senators come out and say it: The Trump administration is covering up Khashoggi's killing ... the evidence is overwhelming. (lock up Trump!) GOP senators come out and say it: The Trump administration is covering up Khashoggi's killing
After CIA briefing, Republicans say 'no quesstion' Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi murder
After CIA briefing, Republicans say 'no question' Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi murder
Senators accuse Saudi crown prince of complicity in Khashoggi murder - The Washington Post (and what about Dumpster's coverup?)
Corker: Saudi crown prince would be convicted of murder in '30 minutes'
Lindsey Graham HEATED Press Conference After Cia Briefing 12/4/18 - YouTube ("smoking saw")
GOP Rep. Chris Stewart Defends Trump on Khashoggi: 'Journalist Disappear' All the Time - Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) ("no one knows where they go after they disassemble themselves")

U.S. Stocks Battered by Trade, Yield Concerns: Markets Wrap - Bloomberg
Dow plunges more than 600 points on confusion over status of U.S.-China trade deal - The Washington Post

Megathread: Special counsel calls ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's cooperation 'substantial,' recommends no jail time
Stone snubs Senate document request, invoking Fifth Amendment : politics
Mueller says Michael Flynn gave 'first-hand' details of Trump transition team contacts with Russians (no collusion!)

Trump was compromised by the Russians. What else do they have on him? - Now we know Trump, like Flynn, was compromised by the Russians. Was the Moscow deal their only financial leverage over the president, or is there more?
Maybe now we know why Donald Trump won't criticize Vladimir Putin


Mueller Preparing Endgame For Russia Investigation | HuffPost - "They've been telling people they are tying up loose ends and trying to conclude"
Mueller is about to have his say -- in a big way (Opinion) - CNN

No Single News Event Will Take Down Trump - The Atlantic - It won't be a single news event that takes down the president.

Why Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer, Confessed to It All
Here's What Trump's 'Cult 45' Refuses to Understand About the Michael Cohen Revelations -- Quite simply, why all the lying by so many people extremely close to Trump, in a manner which risks their personal liberty? This just doesn't happen in the real world, unless of course there is something important to be hidden. (witch hunT!! says Fox and Andrew McCarthy, "weren't not stupid, you are!!")

Trump's not winning anything, anywhere

Mike Flynn Report Expected to Shed Light on Mueller Probe - WSJ - Filing Tuesday could say how the former Trump aide has helped the Russia investigation

Did Trump obstruct justice in public on Monday? - The Washington Post - tweets appeared to be evidence of tampering with witnesses.
Trump's latest tweets cross clear lines, experts say: Obstruction of justice and witness tampering

'Who is Scott Free?' A search for meaning after Trump's misuse of a medieval idiom. ... But really, scot-free traces its roots back to a medieval tax called a "scot" that arose in the 14th century ...

2 attorneys general to subpoena Trump Organization, IRS : politics
DC, Md. officials ready with subpoenas in Trump hotel case

Trump Jr. Invested in a Hydroponic Lettuce Company Whose Chair Was Seeking Trump Administration Funds

Majority of Americans believe House Dems should release Trump's tax returns: poll (lock up the crook!)

Exclusive: Emails of top NRCC officials stolen in major 2018 hack - POLITICO - Emails of top NRCC officials stolen in major 2018 hack - Republican leaders were not informed until POLITICO contacted committee officials about the incident ... exposing thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder
National Republican Congressional Committee says it was hacked during this year's election cycle

The Guardian offered a bombshell story about Paul Manafort. It still hasn't detonated ... former campaign manager, had met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange several times, including during a critical period in March 2016.
End to Manafort plea deal could put Palm Beach Gardens home at risk - News - The Palm Beach Post - West Palm Beach, FL - efforts to make sure his wife could continue living in the couple's Palm Beach Gardens home should he go to prison fizzled after special counsel Robert Mueller III filed court papers last week asking a judge to throw out the deal because Manafort lied. (she he screwed her, too)
More Than 400 Justice Department Alumni Said They're "Disturbed By Matthew Whitaker's Appointment ... acting attorney general is facing a number of legal challenges in court."

In City She Shook, Stormy Daniels Speaks About Path to 'Full Disclosure'
Avenatti announces that he will not run for president in 2020 - POLITICO - The celebrity lawyer says his family has requested that he not mount a campaign against Donald Trump.

President Trump traveled 250 yards to greet George W. Bush. He used a stretch limo and an eight-vehicle motorcade to make the trip. - The Washington Post (could have used his golf cart)

Eschaton: Their Records - It's unseemly to "dance on the grave" of anyone who has just died, though I think all former presidents have made enough decisions that have had catastrophic for some people that it is quite understandable if some of those people do ... Geroge H.W. Bush was a bad president for a lot of reasons. People can make that judgment by themselves, but only if it isn't taboo to actually provide them with the relevant information. (stop being gay is the best way to prevent AIDS) (hate the sin, love your gay child) And like Reagan, he stocked his Cabinet with anti-gay zealots. (rot in hell, fucker)

Bush Made Willie Horton an Issue in 1988, and the Racial Scars Are Still Fresh - The New York Times
George Bush did nothing at all - Lawyers, Guns & Money (about AIDS except "love" the gay sinners)
A premature eulogy - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This morning two friends were discussing, in the context of the fulsome praise now being showered on Bush 41, what sorts of encomia would pour forth for Donald Trump when 45 shuffles off this mortal coil ... For example Goebbels and his wife murdered their six young children before killing themselves ...
THE MAN WHO WAS HOLLYWOOD - The New York Times (Sam Goldfish, another Jewish molester dick)
The View's Joy Behar and Meghan McCain blow up during tribute to George Bush | Daily Mail Online

Eschaton: This Is Dumb No Matter Who Says It - It's the kind of thing Trump says, but more than that there is no "most qualified" and saying it makes voters roll their eyes (as they should). -- "I think I'm the most qualified person in the country to be president," Biden told an audience in Montana (STFU & GTFO, JoeBi, you might be one of the "most stupidest" if that)

Republicans embraced Trump's immigration scare tactics and paid a high political price< -- The wreckages of the Republican embrace of Trumpism are everywhere. Voters want solutions and are tired of strategies that divide the electorate. /a>

Eschaton: Behind The Curtain - Did you know who was behind No Labels? I never did. I always thought they were bad because the whole premise is ridiculous (Donald Trump Is A Problem Solver). Somehow they always managed to get all kinds of press for their stupid grift. The press is suckers for this bipartisan/nonpartisan bullshit, but No Labels was even more vapid (and obvious, really) than usual. -- Apparently extremely rich people are behind it!

Bernie Sanders Stakes Out Forceful Climate Stance, Leapfrogging The 2020 Field | HuffPost - The 2016 presidential race largely ignored climate change. The Vermont senator is banking on that no longer being possible. (Trump said it was a Chinese hoax and Hillary kept her mouth basically shut)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's $21 trillion mistake (military set up their books so you will never know where your money went and it might only be $14.5 trillion, so shrug)

After losing women in midterms -- Republicans will let Violence Against Women Act expire as their final act of Congress

Fate of The Weekly Standard is uncertain, editor tells staff - CNN
'Not a natural death" : the Never-Trump bastion Weekly Standard may be shut down - "This is not about dwindling subscribers. This is about strip-mining TWS for its assets." - namely, the magazine's subscriber lists ...

Midwestern Republicans Try To Kneecap New Democratic Governors | HuffPost - In Wisconsin and Michigan, GOP legislatures aren't taking the party's losses well (the lie cheat steal rape plunder party?)
Republicans to vote Tuesday on curbing powers of Tony Evers, limiting early voting
Wisconsin Republicans are trying to subvert the will of the voters. They're part of a larger trend. (Putin/Bonesaw 2024! say Republicans)

'Banana republic dictators' : Democrats fume over last-minute GOP power-grabs in Wisconsin, Michigan - One Republican lawmaker said the measures were needed because the GOP didn't trust the incoming governor in Wisconsin. (you know who else you can't trust?)
Republicans advance plan to limit Democrats' power, drop proposal to move 2020 presidential primary (instead, only Reublican votes will count)

Let's stop using euphemisms; American democracy is under attack - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Republicans: It Is Illegitimate For Democrats to Govern - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Wisconsin Republican Scott Fitzgerald Says It Outright: Only Republicans Are Allowed to Govern - That is the new party philosophy, stated outright by the majority leader of the Wisconsin senate.
The GOP's 2018 Autopsy: Democracy Is Our Enemy
Good Time To Point Out Voter ID Would Not Stop Republican Election Fraud. Watching the actual voter fraud in North Carolina shows how useless voter ID laws truly are. : politics


US HOUSE DISTRICT 9 RACE: Channel 9 uncovers similarities between absentee ballots in U.S. House District 9 race | WSOC-TV
North Carolina election-fraud investigation centers on operative with criminal history who worked for GOP congressional candidate - The Washington Post - Republicans have stayed largely silent about the allegations, instead accusing the state elections board of trying to steal the race. (crooks all the way down)
Democrats could refuse to seat North Carolina Republican, Hoyer says - The Washington Post

With State Official's Fate Looking Grim, NH Could Lose First In Nation Status - Gardner has held the position for 42 years and fiercely protects New Hampshire's place on the primary calendar from other states that want the attention -- and money ... Gardner, who is one of just three secretaries of state chosen by a state legislature, is under fire from fellow Democrats for his participation in President Donald Trump's commission on voter fraud and for backing GOP legislation to tighten voter registration rules. (so, an asshole)

Women-led data team helped Democrats win the House majority | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Trump's alienation of younger voters is a generational gamble for GOP

Bob Brady aide Smukler found guilty on 9 of 11 counts in campaign finance case - Smukler, 58, who has helped dozens of Democrats win public office over the last 30 years, was convicted of coordinating multiple unlawful contributions and falsifying finance reports for candidates in back-to-back congressional races.

Nostalgia About the Past Doesn't Help Us Understand the Past, the Present, or the Future - Lawyers, Guns & Money (no, CEOs weren't kindlier and gentler when America was great in the '50s) As historians are increasingly exploring, CEOs were setting up the infrastructure to repeal the New Deal and worker power in the 1930s and 1940s (it's all about power and the rich try to make sure you don't have any)

Bruce Springsteen doesn't think anyone can topple Trump in 2020. Here's why ... "I don't know precisely what I'm going to do this time, but I tend to think the more you make yourself available, perhaps the less weight your word carries," he said.

Sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein settles court case, apologizes | Miami Herald


Corporate tax breaks cost U.S. schools billions of lost revenue: report | Reuters

'Damn Right, I'm a White Nationalist' Declares Texas GOP Platform Committee Member - A connected tea party activist says white nationalism has nothing to do with race supremacy -- it's just part of Trump's "America First" vision ... "the pivotal political moment came when Obama came on the scene. I knew immediately that America was in trouble," (said the nazi racist asshole Republican)

Black Man Killed by Police in Alabama Was Shot From Behind, Autopsy Shows - The New York Times (hero cop shot him 3x in the back)


Born in Philadelphia, U.S. citizen says he was held for deportation to Jamaica at ICE's request (Trump's gestapo and can we deport Charlie Fucking Baker now? and oh, get this:) "Basic Ordreing Agreements" stipulate that the federal agency compensate sheriffs to the tune of $50 for extending the detention of "criminal aliens" (let's incentivize this shit and profit! ... and ... this should be worth a couple of million, maybe they'll take it out of the sheriff's pension fund)
Newton judge and lawyers were right to be concerned about ICE in the courtroom - The Boston Globe - By Nancy Gertner (the system is totally corrupt and fuck Charlie Fucking Baker and all the assholes who voted for him like the majority of boglo commenters)
Transgender woman's death in ICE custody was 'entirely preventable,' advocates say after new autopsy released : news

The Reason Many Ultrarich People Aren't Satisfied With Their Wealth (it's never enough as their souls rot)


Student organizers boot SNL writer from stage during standup routine for jokes deemed offensive - Columbia Daily Spectator


Les Moonves Obstructed Investigation Into Misconduct Claims, Report Says - The New York Times (instead of the usual Jewish exhibitionism, jamming his dick down womens' throats)
'Transactional' Sex and a Secret Resignation Letter: Takeaways From a Report on Les Moonves


Here to explain earthquakes is a man who says the Earth is flat and carried through space on the backs of four elephants... - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Some of the viewpoints may be wrong and dangerously so, but they must be presented because reporters who understand the topic enough to call bullshit are expensive it is only fair that all sides are heard. Perhaps then people who don't like that method of reporting will be happy to learn that in a recent segment about the outbreak of e. coli that has been linked to romaine lettuce, CNN interviewed one source.


Best places to live in Massachusetts - The Boston Globe - #1: CAMBRIDGE - Median Single-Family Price $1,310,000 - Change Since 2012 +59% - Median Condo Price $725,000 ... From quaint side streets to buzzy restaurants and nightlife, from top universities to high-tech startups, Cambridge has it all ... #2: WINCHESTER - Median Single-Family Price $1,085,000 - Change Since 2012 +55% - Median Condo Price $571,000 ... A photogenic suburb northwest of Boston, "Winchester is a quintessential New England small town . . . like a community that might be pictured inside a snowglobe"


'One of the best days of my life' In wind and cold, Leicester marijuana shop continues to draw in crowds (said the 87 yr-old)

Man who worked on demolition crew recalls the razing of Boston


Whats a tell-tale sign someone is smarter than average? : AskReddit

What's a rule that was implemented somewhere, that massively backfired? : AskReddit

Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo finds Google personalizes search results even for logged out and incognito users : technology

Wells Fargo computer glitch blamed as hundreds lose their homes - CBS News

The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker

Tumbler'xsys Porn Ban Is The Middle Of The End Of The Old Internet - The internet culture of the 2000s has been dying off for years, and the march to the digital grave is speeding up.




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'Just a lot of alarmism' : skepticism of climate science is echoed across GOP (party of dimbulb necromongers)
Trump Is More A Symptom Than a Cause, Cont'd - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Climate change denialism is as mainstream Republican as white guys in suits and vote suppression.
David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon | Environment | The Guardian - Naturalist tells leaders at UN climate summit that fate of world is in their hands


Trump's tweet on China's 'leap forward' was a poor choice - The Washington Post - "Big leap forward" (followed by millions of dead people)

Nigeria's Buhari denies dying and being replaced by lookalike


Another diplomat was diagnosed with 'Havana sumdrome.' Here's what we know - The illness afflicts only government employees from the United States and Canada. Sufferers report feeling pulsing or hearing a ringing in their ears. Then headaches, dizziness, trouble concentrating and struggles to remember basic words and facts.


Soros-founded university says it has been kicked out of Hungary as an autocrat tightens his grip - The Washington Post (and fuck you, anti-semitic Sheryl)

Qatar to Leave OPEC as Politics Finally Rupture Oil Cartel - Bloomberg (Trump is Bonesaw's puppet in war on Qatar)


Intercepts Solidify C.I.A. Assessment That Saudi Prince Ordered Khashoggi Killing - The New York Times (Dumpster and Ja-Red co-conspirators in murder and look at the pic, they're all clutching their balls)

Russia says Putin greeted other leaders just like the Saudi crown prince. Let's check the tape

Trump said he canceled his meeting with Putin over Ukraine. They met at the G20 anyway - The U.S. president just can't Vladimir Putin, who wants yet another meeting before the middle of next year. ("Trump is Putin's bitch")

No One Knows What's Happening in This Tent City for Migrant Kids - ICE is arguing that it can't be held accountable for its officers sexually assaulting or raping detainees...
ICE Detention Center Says It's Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees (everyone they raped "consented" b/c whatever)

LGBTQ protections in Trump's new trade deal were nullified ... in a footnote


President Trump Tweets About Roger Stone Testifying Against Him in Possible Obstruction of Justice, Witness Tampering - It's right there, out in the open.
Legal Experts Say Trump Just Committed Witness Tampering on Twitter : politics
Fmr Federal Prosecutor: If I Had a Wiretap and Someone Said What Trump Tweeted I'd Say 'Wow, We Got Him on Obstruction'

Whoops, Rudy Giuliani: Your tweet indirectly called President Trump a traitor - MarketWatch

Mueller's breadcrumbs suggest he has the goods (and he's gonna "bake" Trump, hahaha) )
Mueller is building a conspiracy case that's likely to ensnare Trump and his family (Ivanka will chinese trademark her prison suit)
Mueller is building a conspiracy case that's likely to ensnare Trump and his family
'Immediate Trouble' for Don Jr. Predicted After Michael Cohen Guilty Plea
Expect Mueller to lay out a 'conspiracy case' taht will 'ensnare the president's family': Ex-federal prosecutor
Perjury Chart: Trump Associates' Lies, False, or Misleading Statements on Russia to Federal Authorities

Trump praises Roger Stone for not cooperating with Mueller : politics
Legal questions swirl around idea to offer $50 million penthouse to Putin in Trump Tower Moscow - ABC News

The Mueller investigation is closing in on Trump | Jill Abramson | Opinion | The Guardian - What a catalogue of rogues - and what a tantalizing pile of clues. Surely we will soon know where all this leads - Jill Abramson
After the latest Mueller news, these corrupt Trump moves look much worse - The Washington Post

The Best TV Show Donald Trump Will Ever Create - And we, the readers and viewers of 2018, are consuming the Russia investigation news like we're part of the biggest internet fandom there's ever been ... There's a missing professor, a Moscow deal, a porn star, a Russian spy, a Russian billionaire, his son, his son's music promoter, highly lucrative overseas political consulting, secret memos, secret recordings of calls, secret payoffs, surveillance warrants, the existence of Carter Page, the vagueness of that Trump Tower meeting, the dossier, the overheard lunches, the texts between the FBI agents, the love affair between George and Simona, the emergence of Michael Avenatti, the latter-day resurrection of Rudy Giuliani and Lanny Davis, and on and on and on and on .... surreal plots ...

In Twist, Trump Now Bemoaning Military Spending As 'Crazy'

Did Trump Forget Melania Is Standing Next To Him? - YouTube

Warner says he believes Republicans would 'like to have known' Trump was dealing with Russia in 2016 (oh sure)

Behind Michael Cohen's deal: All the lies surrounding Trump start to crumble - Michael Cohen has been talking to Mueller and other prosecutors for months: This is very bad for Team Trump (Digby)


Subpoenas to begin for Trump records in emoluments case : politics
Norm Eisen on Twitter: "BREAKING: the court has ordered discovery to begin in the Maryland & DC #emoluments case led by @BrianFrosh & @AGKarlRacine & cocounseled by @CREWcrew @deepakguptalaw & @CohenMilstein. Here we go! https://t.co/XB2sINt1nm"

For the first time in decades, the sitting president won't eulogize a former president (he can't read anymore and they are afraid of a 90 minutes free-association rant)

Fox News Panelist Says Mueller 'Might Have Something' and 'Things Are Starting to Seem a Little Weird'
Sean Hannity Apparently Thinks Trump Can Investigate the DOJ via Military Tribunal. That's 'Completely False'

Alan Dershowitzs still advising Jeffrey Epstein (and himself, since he was on the pedo-plane)


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Takes Down Mike Huckabee: Leave Lying to Your Daughter, 'She's Much Better at It' (hahaha she's good)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Donald Trump administration has been 'criminal from the start' (all the things Hillary could never say for some unknown reason)
There's another 29-year-old going to Congress: She also kicked Donald Trump's butt

The economic boost from the Republican tax cuts is probably about to run out - That was quick. (hahaha the rich kept all the money didn't tinkle down any of it, suckers)

How No Labels Went From Preaching Unity to Practicing the Dark Arts - Internal documents show a group funded by the biggest names in finance. But also beset by dysfunction and division. (nah, they were always corrupt idiots and for fucks sake, Mark Penn hahahaha))

Black Women Decided The 2016 Democratic Nominee. They'll Have An Even Bigger Say In 2020.
Every Accusation is a Confession, Vote Fraud Fraud Edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It's appropriate that the vote suppression fanatics in the North Carolina Republican Party are also practitioners of actual election theft:
EXCLUSIVE: Absentee ballot envelopes in North Carolina fit into "a pattern of fraud"

Emergency Protests Planned to Stop Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP's "Shocking and Naked Power Grab" ("protest" all you want, libtards, BeerKav has our backs)

'Nothing's invisible now' : How the 2020 contenders are trampling the old rules -- From Bernie Sanders to Elizabeth Warren to Kamala Harris, the emerging 2020 Democratic field is taking a new approach to the early presidential campaign (and fucking it's all about him Bernie will fuck us again)

Georgia group can prove illegal voter purge by Kemp, leader says : politics

Republican North Carolina Election Fraud, Wisconsin Power Grab Show Party Is Danger to American Republic - Its primary national imperatives are bigotry, plutocracy, and ratf*cking. It must be held accountable ... it illustrates perfectly how fully the prion disease has destroyed the higher functions of the Republican brain. The Republican Party as it is presently constituted is the greatest threat to the American republic since Appomattox. It needs to die, fast and hard, and the ground salted so that it does not rise again.
The Republican Party Is the Single Greatest Threat to the American Republic : politics
Republicans Are No Longer Committed to That Whole Peaceful Transfer of Power Thing : politics

Wisconsin's GOP Aims to Strip Power From the Incoming Democratic Governor
Incoming attorney general slams GOP plan to curb his powers, says it subverts democracy : politics

Michigan's marijuana tax revenue would be gutted by lame duck bill -- In addition to lowering the tax rate from 10 percent to three percent, the bill cuts out Michigan's schools and roads from receiving tax revenue from legal marijuana. (Christians say no roads of sin for you)
Michigan to be first Midwest state to allow recreational pot : news

Billionaire Heiress Lashes Out at Unions Because Her Fortune Didn't Buy Election. If anyone has a "stranglehold" on politicians it's silver spooned magnates like DeVos (pyramid swindler you mean)

Max Rose came to Congress to do big things. But first, he has to do dumb things. - The Washington Post - During orientation, he and a crew of fellow Democrats, all military veterans, formed their own Gang of Nine. (stupid army dicks fucking the party )


Half the land in Oklahoma could be returned to Native Americans. It should be. : politics (Cherokees all voted for Trump, b/c they hate moochers and gays)

Maine Lawmaker Wants To Limit Childhood Vaccination Exemptions : politics

FBI raids home of Atlantic City mayor | nj.com - FBI agents raided the home of Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam just before 8 a.m. Monday morning - Gilliam, a Democrat elected in November 2017, was also recently served with municipal criminal summons from a mid-November brawl at the Haven nightclub.

'Racist' Christmas tree display gets two Minneapolis Police officers suspended - The Washington Post (copster racist jerks thought they were being funny)

Milo Yiannopoulos 'more than $2m in debt' Australian promoters' documents show - Cache details deterioration in relationship between far right activist and his former Gold Coast-based promoters ... Creditors listed in the documents include employees of his company, a wedding venue and his former sponsors, the billionaire Mercer family. (the evil and grift are deep)

Broward County Sheriff's Office investigates deputy's #QAnon patch.
Broward Sheriff's Office Demotes QAnon Cop Matt Patten | Miami New Times (dumbfuck cop made the whole dept look stupid)
South Florida #QAnon Cop Gets Demoted from SWAT Team : news

Student sues Harvard over its investigation into allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman off campus : news


The digital-media bubble is bursting. That's hurting a generation of promising young journalists. (pivot off the cliff)
Aram Zucker-Scharff on Twitter: "You cannot apply Tech Startup Economics to a Journalism company and expect it to operate ethically. All VC-based startups are operating on a set of incentives which are already unethical, but doubly so for journalists https://t.co/9zY3aP6fdx"

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Guy completes a challenge from Flat Earther who promises 100,000 dollars to whoever completes the challenge : videos


The Trouble With Tuna: 'A Lot of Millennials Don't Even Own Can Openers' (there must be an iPhone app for that, right?)

TIL that only 14.5% of American men are 6 feet tall or taller. About 3% are taller than 6 feet 2 inches. Interestingly however, 58% of CEOs in the U.S. are over 6 feet. : todayilearned

Harvard scientists have a new look at RNA and how life may have begun on Earth - The Boston Globe

The Cure Factory - The Washington Post - UCLA is on a mission to make the world's most harrowing ailments -- everything from bubble-baby disease to HIV -- relics of the past.


Grandparents increasingly targeted by impostors who know "everything" about them : news


What is the stupidest question on this sub that you have seen get super successful? : AskReddit

Tumblr to ban all adult content | Technology : news - For realz, it's the #1 porn distribution platform as of now.

PC user's guide to privacy : pcmasterrace

Michelle Obama swore when criticizing Sheryl Sandberg's 'lean in' mantra, and the Internet lost it ... "It's not always enough to lean in because that s--- doesn't work all the time" (Sheryl Billionare Fuckberg)
The George Soros Scandal Is Entirely Of Facebook's Own Making - recent opposition research scandal against billionaire George Soros is revealing, but not for the reasons you might think ... Delay, Deny, and Deflect ... (Zuckerfuck's and Fuckberg's motto)




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Want Someone to Care About Climate Change? Make It Personal | WIRED
The Climate Apocalypse Is Now, and It's Happening to You

A Generation of Widows, Raising Children Who Will Be Forged by Loss - The New York Times (Trump will drop moar bombzzz)

Global Growth Cools, Leaving Scars of '08 Unhealed (needs more austerity! hello, Ferkel)

Pope Francis Goes Full Homophobic, Now 'Very Worried' About Homosexuality in the Church ("we're all gay except for the pedos" he said)

Iran Test Launches Ballistic Missile Violating UN Security Council Ban - a medium range ballistic missile that is capable of carrying multiple warheads. The missile has a range that allows it to strike parts of Europe and anywhere in the Middle East. (the NK playbook, Trump will soon be their best buddy)

Putin refuses to release Ukrainian sailors and ships : news

The U.S. Senate's Historic Vote on Yemen, with Some Historical Perspective - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Egyptian actress Rania Youssef charged over revealing dress : news (they could see part of her ankle -- "inciting debouchery")

Israeli Police Recommend Netanyahu Be Charged With Bribery In Telecom Case | HuffPost - uncovered enough evidence to charge the prime minister and his wife with bribery and fraud. (lock up the crooks!)


Meghan Markle's left her personal assistant in tears | Daily Mail Online ... amid a myriad of reports about 37-year-old Meghan's behaviour towards members of staff (raving entitled asshole bitch)

Worst riot in a decade engulfs Paris; Macron vows action - The Boston Globe - 133 people had been injured and 412 had been arrested as protesters trashed the streets of the capital
Paris riots: PM to meet protest groups after worst unrest in decade | World news | The Guardian - Shops and cars set alight after peaceful gilets jaunes protest turns violent


Russian spokesman says there were contacts on Trump Tower, but they 'disappeared' (after putting themselves into a locked bag and shooting themselves twice in the head while jumping out of a window)


Trump overheard saying 'get me out of here' as he suddenly walks off stage at G20 summit
TO? ?O?E T?AViS on Twitter: "Oh my lord. Trump just wandered right off the stage, leaving the Argentinian president all by himself. A staffer is then observed attempting to stop and retrieve Trump. Ladies and gentlemen... Donald Trump. https://t.co/JhZpKFfiZG" ... During another embarrassing moment on the world stage, the audience and reporters can be heard audibly laughing at Trump as he wanders off, leaving the Argentinian president in clear annoyance
Trump Greets Argentinian President Mauricio Macri, Promptly Walks Off Stage | HuffPost - This is not the first time Trump has walked away aimlessly .
"Walk-on? That's a walk-off, that's what this is." - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Will the United States of America ever be seen as anything other than the country that gave a bilious bigoted sexual predator who has an ego the size of the moon and all the markers of a serious drug addiction the keys to the most powerful nuclear arsenal on Earth? (sundowning Trump)


Jamal Khashoggi's private WhatsApp messages may offer new clues to killing


Democrats, Trump spar over border wall funding ahead of possible government shutdown - ABC News
He's Built an Empire, With Detained Migrant Children as the Bricks - The founder of Southwest Key made millions from housing migrant children. His nonprofit has stockpiled taxpayer dollars and possibly engaged in self-dealing with top executives. (with your money)

Top US naval commander in Middle East found dead - CNNPolitics - no evidence of foul play at this time. (but no mention of age)
U.S. Navy admiral Scott Stearney found dead in apparent suicide : news


Michael Cohen plea signals 'blockbuster indictment,' says Watergate prosecutor


Schiff: Trump refusal to rule out Manafort pardon adds to evidence of obstruction of justice : politics

Comey says he's reached agreement with Republicans for congressional testimony : politics - free to talk when done and transcript released in 24 hours


Bush - Lawyers, Guns & Money - President David Cop-A-Feel is dead.
George H.W. Bush - Lawyers, Guns & Money - while his 1988 campaign was proto-Trumpian, as was his pardoning of various Iran-Contra crooks, in terms of total body of work the two elected Republican presidents who preceded and succeeded him were much worse. R.I.P.
In short, Bush believed that you could buy crack across from the White House and wanted to demagogue it on national television. But you really couldn't t easily buy crack from across the White House. So the DEA set up a kid so Bush could have a moment. ... 10000000 points of light and War on black people Druggzzzz!)
The Media Is Erasing George H.W. Bush's Catastrophic Harm To LGBTQ People



Avenatti crashes and burns


You Can't Expect Someone Responsible For As Many As 800 Words A Week To Come Up With New Ideas - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Sad -- I guess MoDo's highly underworked research assistant sent the column intended for Penthouse Forum into the New York Times:

Democrats won the House with the largest midterms margin of all time : politics (but it certainly wasn't wavy, say conservative media and Bret Stephens)

Insecure Men Were a Big Trump Demographic in 2016 : politics
Despite Big House Losses, G.O.P. Shows No Signs of Course Correction - The New York Times

North Carolina Race Roiled by Claims of Voter Fraud -- But Not the Kind the GOP Worries About (Satan's got you in his grasp)

Hyde-Smith Turned Mississippi's Racial Clock Back to 1964

The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many Southern whites still believe otherwise? - The Washington Post - The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many Southern whites still believe otherwise? (self-serving treasonous delusionality is a southern tradition)

Oklahoma senator wants to classify abortion as felony homicide : politics (always their wetdream)
Kentucky congressman questions food stamps: 'If healthcare is a right, is food as well?'


A Catholic priest confronts a clergy sex abuse scandal in his own parish - The Washington Post


Neil deGrasse Tyson Denies Sexual Misconduct [Updated] | Vanity Fair - Two women have stepped forward with stories about the Cosmos host, spurring Fox and National Geographic to launch an investigation.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Addresses Sexual Misconduct Accusations : television

A High School Newspaper Was Suspended For Publishing An Investigation Into Football Players's Transfers -- "Well, you raised an uproar, we're going to try and silence you" said Halle Roberts, 17, the editor-in-chief of the Har-Ber Herald in Arkansas. (where highschool sportsball is the biggest industry)

Black college lacrosse player is arrested for racist N-word and swastika graffiti | Daily Mail Online - Black college lacrosse player, 21, is arrested for spraying N-word and swastika graffiti targeting HIMSELF and other minority students in two incidents that terrorized the campus (pure terror)

Sexy Talk Time - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?' : technology

Running in highly cushioned shoes increases leg stiffness and amplifies impact loading : science

ELI5: Why do drug stores have tons of reading glasses in varying intensities (for farsighted people), but no pre-made glasses for nearsighted people? : explainlikeimfive

Is Quantum Mechanics Really Random? : askscience

Study: Frequency of pornography viewing not linked to body image or relationship problems in women - A new study suggests that pornography viewing frequency, perceptions of excessive use, and control difficulties are unrelated to body image or relationship problems among women. : science

Canadian scientists discover massive unexplored cave in the middle of nowhere. : videos


TIL Oprah had a brother who said that she never supported him financially because he was gay. He died of AIDS in 1989. : todayilearned (it's always been all about her)

Which is that one thing you still regret doing it?? : AskReddit

What is the creepiest subreddit? : AskReddit


Here Is The Research Facebook Commissioned On George Soros - has never been published before. You can read one of those documents here. (running for pres anti-semitic Jewish PR girl Sheryl Fuckberg ran anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda to distract from her failures and she sure doesn't look like her PR pic anymore)

Blame The Right People for Media Failures | First Draft - You relied on Facebook -- Facebook, in the year of our Lord Jesus Delano Roosevelt, 2018 -- or revenue from videos -- VIDEOS -- and when that went tits-up you had no backup plan. Any ten people on the street could have told you that relying on third-party companies to give you the traffic you'd otherwise have to build like grown-ups was a long wait for a train don't come and a shitty risk besides, but no, you pivoted like hell until you drilled a hole and fell in it. (supporting the "business costs" of a whole floor of WTC and a bigly paid pres, how about the "business costs" of extreme stupidity?)




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19 of 20 World Leaders Just Pledged to Fight Climate Change. Trump Was the Lone Holdout. : politics ... He physically looks like an idiot in that group. He looks like that one moron that nobody seems to know who actually invited him.


The US has dropped more munitions in 2018 in Afghanistan than it has in any year in over a decade - News - Stripes (Dumpster sets loose the death machine, necro-generals have orgasms)

CIA finds Saudi crown prince sent at least 11 messages to adviser who oversaw Khashoggi killing around time of his death : politics
'We don't want him here' : Saudi crown prince is a protected pariah at G-20 summit ... Mohammed bin Salman, Assassin! (christ, what an asshole)
'I am worried: Macron's chat with Saudi prince captured at G20 -- French presidential aide confirms they spoke about Khashoggi murder and Yemen after microphone picks up informal talk ... "Don't worry. It's OK. I can deal with it" (BoneSaw said, "I own Trump" +wtf is little Macaroni doing?)
Trump cancels G-20 press conference : politics (chickened out to watch Fox and east McDonalds)


Mattis: Russia interfered in 2018 midterms : politics
Emma Loop on Twitter: "Rep. Gohmert had a chart about Uranium One and Russia. " (what they were interested in after Putin hacked the election)

Putin's Spokesman Displays Trump Lawyer's Emails ("why yes, we do own the crooked little orange moron why do you ask?" )
Cohen: Trump Knew I Called Kremlin for Help With Trump Tower Moscow : politics
Cohen claims 'regular contact' with Trump legal team when crafting false statement to Congress (sounds kinda obstructy)
Lifting Russian Sanctions Key To Trump Deal Exposed By Michael Cohen | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC : politics - Trump was advocating dropping sanctions without disclosing that for the US to do that would be a huge financial windfall for him, because now we know Trump and his business at that time were secretly negotiating a gigantic business deal for Trump Tower Moscow that was being financed by a Russian sanctioned bank ... Trump was knowingly doing business with active enemies of the US while promising them the most historically pro-Russia foreign policy ever.
Lifting Russian sanctions key to Trump deal exposed by Cohen : politics
Cohen Bombshell Confession: I Reached Out To Kremlin & Trump Knew | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC - YouTube

Hayes: "The President Was Compromised...Full Stop" | All In | MSNBC ... "President Individual 1"


Trump is energetically and persistently assaulting the rule of law - SFChronicle.com

Trump Fund-Raiser Received Laundered Foreign Money, Prosecutors Say - The New York Times - a scheme to launder millions of dollars into the country to help a flamboyant Malaysian financier end a Justice Department investigation. Elliott Broidy,
Trump, Russia and lessons from the mob: Did 'godfathers' steer collusion probe?
Former Justice Department Employee Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Deceive U.S. Banks about Millions of Dollars in Foreign Lobbying Funds : politics

Devin Nunes protected Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr. from Mueller probe: Democrats won't (lock up the little commie traitor: "That potato-headed fuck is going to be in a world of hurt before all this is over." and see his HS pic)
How Devin Nunes Helped Robert Mueller - The House Intelligence Committee chair may have unintentionally assisted the special counsel in building cases against Trump ... the irony ... is that ... Devin Nunes, Rep. Mike Conaway (who purportedly led the Russia inquiry after Nunes's quasi-recusal), lead interrogator Trey Gowdy, and the other GOP members of the committee may, wholly unintentionally, prove to have been devastatingly effective questioners in the service of future false-statement prosecutions. (oh the irony, the dumbfuck traitor screwed Trump)

Pence tweets, deletes photo with sheriff's deputy in QAnon patch (pretending to be military heros but very stupid)

Senate Intelligence Committee has referred cases of suspected lying to Mueller - The Washington Post
Mueller Exposes the Culture of Lying That Surrounds Trump - The New York Times


Trump's Book Club: A President Who Doesn't Read Promotes the Books That Promote Him (everything he does is marketing evil)

Whitaker's Ascent at Justice Dept. Surprised Investigators of Firm Accused of Fraud (he even looks crooked as shit, a perfect Trumpoid)

No tears for Paul Ryan: On the short, unhappy tenure of the worst House speaker ever : politics (a serious policy wonk of eviltude but only if you forget Newt SlimeLizard Gringgerrichs)

In-Depth Analysis by Team of UMass Amherst Economists Shows Viability of Medicare For All : politics

Rural Americans Are Now The Largest Slice Of Federal Food Aid Recipients : politics (welfare queen farmer moochers drivin' around in their F-950's and gold tractors! and eatin' steak!)


Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread : politics


California Republicans see what happens when more voters vote, and they don't like it one bit : politics (Republicans consider trying to raise voting age to 65)
Inside the GOP's California nightmare - The party lost big in the state's November House races, and Republicans didn't see it coming - The nightmare results were the end result of a toxic brew of overconfidence and presidential unpopularity, as some Republicans failed to recognize and reckon with the unprecedented negative reaction to President Donald Trump


Wisconsin GOP seeks to strip power from Tony Evers, limit early voting (fuck your democracy, Rethugs say)
GOP moves to dilute power of gov, attorney general, secretary of state (in MI also, of course. Rethugs are pure evil)


Is a Do-Over Election Incoming? North Carolina Republicans Alleged to Have Committed Massive Voter Fraud : politics (becoming more clear)
North Carolina elections board chairman resigns, says he doesn't want his partisan views to hurt election fraud investigation. (Refucks always cheat)


'I Love You, Too' : George Bush's Final Days
Eight women say George HW Bush groped them. Their claims deserve to be remembered as we assess his legacy. (hello, Al Franken)
Eight Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush? - POLITICO Magazine - The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.


Loss and Bravery: Intimate Snapshots From the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis - The New York Times


St. Louis Police Officers Indicted on Charges of Viciously Beating Black Undercover Colleague They Mistook For a Protester : politics (sadistic asshole fuckers)

They say he yelled 'I hate Mexicans' before attacking them with a metal bar. Will this Utah case be considered a hate crime?


She Thought She Was In Bed With Her Boyfriend, Until She Saw His Face - Rape by Fraud (and MA is retarded, as usual but not like IN)

Fox Is Investigating Neil DeGrasse Tyson After Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct - Three women have accused the celebrity astrophysicist of inappropriate sexual behavior ... "look for Pluto" in her dress (near UR-Anus asshole)
Two More Women Accuse Neil deGrasse Tyson of Sexual Misconduct | David G. McAfee
'Cosmos' Host Neil deGrasse Tyson To Be Investigated By Fox, Nat Geo & Producers After New Sexual Misconduct Allegations ... Feel DeAss Tyson ... Neil grabDeAss Tyson (but sourced from Patheos, may not be true and also, Morgan Freeman had an affair with his step-granddaughter? and she died)


TIL There Are 328 Human People Named "Abcde" in the United States ... TIL There are approximately 656 parents who never thought ahead.


CHP: Drunk driver slept while Tesla appeared to drive Hwy 101 on autopilot - SFChronicle.com (the future is here)




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More Americans and most Republicans now believe in climate change - CNNPolitics - About 8 in 10 Americans believe the climate is changing, causing extreme weather. Two thirds of Republicans believe the same thing. A majority of Americans (54%) consider it a "very serious" problem ... 64% of Republicans believe in climate change, compared to 49% in a 2015 Monmouth poll.

'Major' damage to Anchorage area after severe magnitude-7 earthquake in Alaska
Large earthquake rocks Anchorage, Alaska, causing 'major infrastructure damage


There Is No Left Case for Nationalism | The Nation - Endorsing nationalism isn't compromise. It's compromised


Russia and Ukraine had a short naval battle. Here's what you need to know


CIA Intercepts Underpin Assessment Saudi Crown Prince Targeted Khashoggi - WSJ - Conclusion that Mohammad< 'probably order" killing relies in part on 11 messages he sent to adviser who oversaw hit squad around time it killed journalist /a>


Why the G-20 Leaders Are Gloating Behind Trump's Back -- Amid the latest Russia revelations, the president's foreign rivals will be coldly calculating how long he can last. (FP: "rivals" "coldly" "gloating")
Russia regrets Trump plan to cancel Argentina meeting and is still 'ready for contact' correction: A previous version of this story incorrect stated that Russia "rejected" Donald Trump's plan to cancel the meeting. Raw Story regrets the error.
Strongmen strut their stuff on G20 stage - Russian leader and Saudi crown prince set tone with jovial greeting.
As Trump Panic-Tweets, Putin Cracks His Whip and Shows Him Who's Boss - his was the week that the bottom fell out of Donald Trump's presidency.

George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dies at 94 - The Washington Post
Former President George H.W. Bush Dies at 94 : news

Next Week Will Be Busy for Robert Mueller | Law & Crime - undefined
Mueller's team promises to drop new "Crimes and Lies" report on Manafort by next week

'Individual 1' : Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe
Robert Mueller and His Prosecutors: Who They Are and What They've Done

The lies that Mueller has already documented - The Washington Post
"Trump Was Totally Caught Off Guard by the Cohen Plea" : Inside Trumpworld, Some Fear Mueller Has Laid a Perjury Trap - Rudy Giuliani is frustrated at Mueller's The White House is in a defensive crouch. "It's an untethered distuation," a person close to the president said.
Rudy Giuliani may now be in Robert Mueller's crosshairs: "The lawyers are going to need lawyers"

Mueller's coming attractions ... Every twist of the investigation shows that Mueller knows far more than we thought he did:

The Russian Leverage Over Donald Trump - The Atlantic - A foreign adversary has possessed potentially damaging information about the president for an extended period of time.
Trump talked up Russia during now-revealed secret Moscow project talks - The Washington Post

Was Trump compromised? Is he still? - The Washington Post
Cohen's Plea Suggests Russians Held 'Kompromat' on Trump
Trump is more scared of Vladimir Putin than Robert Mueller: national security expert

Cohen believed Trump would pardon him, but then things changed : politics

Lies, lies and more lies: This is not how innocent people act - The Washington Post
Trump's inner circle has always been a cesspool
What logn-ago 'favor' made Trump keep Michael Cohen around? Here are my guesses.
Here's verything You Need To Know About Michael Cohen's New Guilty Plea -- former personal lawyer admitted to lying to Congress last year ... "The blast radius caused by Cohen's cooperation could be enormous. As Trump's Cohen not only can implicate Trump for colluding with Russia but potentially the entire Trump organization." (yes, lock them all up +"virtuous corruption" of autocrats)
Field Commander Cohen Was Our Most Important Turncoat - Lawyers, Guns & Money

It Seems Robert Mueller Has the Evidence Needed to Charge Donald Trump Jr. Right Now : politics
Eschaton: What About Beavis - Butthead and Ivanka have problems.
Who else is in danger from Cohen plea? - The Washington Post ... , Ivanka, who is now a top White House adviser, and his eldest son, Don Jr., were also working to make Trump Tower Moscow a reality

Trump defender Alan Dershowitz is deeply involved in the sordid Jeffrey Epstein scandal ... Roberts went public with her claims about sex with Dershowitz and Prince Andrew in 2011 in a paid interview with the British tabloid ... (Dershofuck's sordid past)

How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right | by Bernard E. Harcourt | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

On the Trump-Mood Beat -- but Why?
Vice President Mike Pence Deleted Picture Of Florida Deputy With QAnon Patch

There's No Right to Jail a President in the Constitution Because The Founders Never Imagined a Crook Like Trump -- Is this what the presidency of this republic is supposed to be: the safe haven of a scoundrel, a witness protection program for a liar and lawbreaker?
Trumpism is rotten to its core. And the stench of corruption and failure is everywhere. - The Washington Post

Conservatives, Prepare Yourself Now for What Mueller May Find -- How we react in the aftermath of the special counsel's findings will determine the future of the Republican Party and, possibly, the country. (said the conservative)

Senator Richard Burr Runs Senate Intelligence Committee Correctly, Refuses to Let Trump Associates Lie - Senator Richard Burr is running his committee rightand throwing Trump apparatchiks into further peril because of it. ... I won't tell you the number of times, but we have made referrals to the special prosecutor.

Trump once said he had "no dealings with Ruissia." Now he claims "everybody knew" about them. Trump has dramatically moved the goalposts about his contacts with Russia. Here are the receipts.

Michael Cohen's guilty plea proves House GOP's Russia probe a sham (and little commie Devin Nunes obstructed justice)

Rahm Emanuel Suggests Democratic Party Rift Between Beto O'Rourke, Nancy Pelosi - Wants Outreach to Trump Voters - The whole American left just got scrambled around.


2018 midterm analysis is quietly getting worse - The NY Times updates Stephens' bad post-election column to make it even wronger


Moulton Calls Ocasio-Cortez's Tweet Defending Nancy Pelosi 'Offensive' ... spectators are wondering if Moulton's career in the House is coming to an end. ... "I think his future in the House is pretty limited,"

Sen. Claire McCaskill Blames Radical Democrats For Midterm Loss

Evidence of fraud mounts in uncertified North Carolina race won by Republican : politics

There's something very weird going on with this House election in North Carolina - State officials refuse to certify the results of a US House race in North Carolina.

'Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less' : New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years

The ugly truth behind viral college acceptance reaction videos. An investigation by the NY Times. : videos


DC clerk stalls marriage over 'foreign' New Mexico ID card (not the first time this has happened)


Understanding Society: James Scott on the earliest states


New research shows that vaporized cannabis produced greater pharmacodynamic effects and higher concentrations of THC in blood compared with equal doses of smoked cannabis : science


TIL The pyramids weren't built by slaves, but a complex system of voluntary, privileged laborers. : todayilearned

Hospitals are overburdening doctors with high workloads, resulting in increasing physician burnout and suicide. A new study finds that burned-out physicians are 2x as likely to cause patient safety incidents and deliver sub-optimal care, and 3x as likely to receive low satisfaction ratings. : science

Does the force of ejaculation influence the probability of impregnation, or is this only determined by the swimming speed of individual sperm cells? : askscience

Older people can come to believe their own lies - New EEG research shows that within an hour of telling a falsehood, seniors may think it's the truth. Findings suggest that telling a falsehood scrambles older people's memory so they have a harder time recalling what really happened.

People who've dated a psycho: what incident made you aware that you were dating a psycho? : AskReddit


Microsoft is now more valuable than Apple : windowsphone

Sheryl Sandberg Asked for Soros Research, Facebook Acknowledges - The New York Times
Latest Facebook controversy puts heat on Sheryl Sandberg - The Economic Times
Cramer questions how Sheryl Sandberg could possibly stay at Facebook after the latest NYT expose
Facebook's story on Sheryl Sandberg and ongoing obsession with George Soros keeps evolving (as she gets caught in lie after lie)




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Trump's FDA rollbacks may have triggered E. coli outbreak

U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I - The Washington Post
More American children are uninsured despite strong economy - CNNPolitics
'The Numbers Are So Staggering.' Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year ... drug overdoses killed more than 70,000 Americans in 2017, a record. Overdose deaths are higher than deaths from H.I.V., car crashes or gun violence at their peaks.

Why Second Trimester Abortions Should Be Legal - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The Ebola Outbreak In Congo Just Became The Second Largest Ever | HuffPost - Patient numbers are rising as health responders struggle to fight Ebola in a Democratic Republic of Congo war zone.

Deutsche Bank Offices Are Searched in Money Laundering Investigation - The New York Times

The homebody president: Trump keeps it quick on trips abroad - Trump departed the United States Thursday for the Group of 20 summit in Argentina , where the homebody commander in chief will spend just 48 hours on the ground yet pack in a series of high-level meetings with foreign leaders.


Ukrainian president: Putin wants to rebuild Russian Empire
Trump cancels meeting with Putin over Ukraine - ABC News

Eschaton: What An Era - But my real point is that the Bush years were full of horrible crazy shit, also, too, even aside from the more obvious stuff. People don't remember because they weren't really exposed to most of it at the time. Even I've forgotten so much (thankfully). A little flashback from everybody's favorite totebagging reasonable conservative, David Brooks ... "People in this political movement include Christopher Hitchens, Dennis Miller, Paul Wolfowitz, Joseph Lieberman, John McCain, Richard Holbrooke, Charles Krauthammer, the staff of Fox News, Bernard Lewis, and George Bush." ... That list of names in the last quoted paragraph... those are the liberals to David Brooks. (no memory, no history, no learning)


Veterans Affairs Dept. tells Capitol Hill it won't repay underpaid GI Bill benefits recipients - The news conflicts with a promise VA officials made to a House committee earlier this month that it would reimburse those veterans who received less than the full amount they were due. (hahaha we lied, suckers)


Experts Agree: Robert Mueller Just Played Donald Trump Like a Fiddle : politics

Trump's Recall of Moscow Deal Matches Cohen's, President's Lawyers Say
Michael Cohen Admits Talks for Trump Over Moscow Tower Occurred Well Into Campaign - The New York Times
The Legal Perils That Michael Cohen's Guilty Plea Poses for Donald Trump -- The timing of Cohen's guilty plea is significant. It seems that the prosecution team, led by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, delayed Cohen's admission of guilt until after Trump and his legal team had submitted the President written answers to Mueller's questions ...
Michael Cohen's admission could put Don Jr., Trump Org staff in the crosshairs
Three Remarkable Things About Michael Cohen's Plea - These developments would, under normal circumstances, end a presidency. (but America wanted a crook, and that's what they got)

Mueller's Steady Stream of Russia Revelations Is Driving Trump Crazy (crazier)
Michael Cohen's Plea Over Trump Tower Moscow Lies Shows Russia Probe Is Closing in on President Trump - Michael Cohen's latest plea is a sign Robert Mueller is turning the screw.

Feds raid Ald. Burke's City Hall, ward offices (connected to Cohen's plea??)
Christmas Is for Coincidences 'Tis the season - Now here comes the Christmas miracle plot twist. A brief recap in case you've joined our production in progress: this is the same day that Michael Cohen copped a plea, and also the same day on which German authorities raided about the only bank in the world who would loan Cohen's former client money. And now, the FBI is paying Ed Burke a visit. Our production continues ... Burke's work has included conducted property tax appeals for President Donald Trump's Chicago Tower ... Cue the angelic choir. (ka-ching!)
Federal Agents Raid Office of Lawyer Who Previously Did Tax Work For Trump : politics
Trump finding out he won the election - GIF on Imgur

A Clear Link Between Trump and Russia Is Now Out in the Open : politics (and Don Jr. is toast)
Mueller eyes Ivanka and Don Jr.'s work on Trump Tower Moscow (maybe Ivanka too) ... alot of stuff about Wendi Deng (one of) Putin's mistress, ex-wife of Rupert and "friend" of Ivanka ...

I'm Craig Unger, journalist and NYT bestselling author of House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia. Ask Me Anything. ... Trump is Putin's asset, completely
The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow : politics (oh, another dot!)

The stunning implications of the Manafort-Trump pipeline - The Washington Post
Rudy Giuliani Tries to Distance Trump From Trump Tower Moscow: 'This Was Cohen's Deal'
Trump's night-owl calls to Roger Stone in 2016 draw scrutiny in Mueller probe
Jerome Corsi Told Roger Stone WikiLeaks Had Dirt on Hillary's Health. Then the Attacks Started.
How Paul Manafort and Roger Stone created the mess Donald Trump said he'd clean up -- The Swamp Builders

James Comey Files Legal Action Against House Republican Subpoena : politics

Why Trump Can't Stop Talking to the Press -- post-election interview binge, explained. (it's like talk therapy with a supportive therapist for him)
How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood - The Washington Post -- From boasting about the size of his penis on national television to releasing records of his high testosterone levels, President Trump's rhetoric and behavior exude machismo. His behavior also seems to have struck a chord with some male voters ... "fragile masculinity hypothesis"... We found that support for Trump in the 2016 election was higher in areas that had more searches for topics such as "erectile dysfunction" (red state white racist snowflake dicks probably gay) "Agree but Melskankia is not much of a trophy. When the entire World has seen your wife naked..."

And I said to myself: This is the business we've chosen - Lawyers, Guns & Money - . . . also too, Deutsche Bank gave Trump more than a billion dollars in real estate loans while Anthony Kennedy's son was the head of a real estate division there. (in case you forgot why we have Kavanaugh)

Cambridge Analytica Used Fashion Tastes to Identify Right-Wing Voters - The New York Times - Preferences in clothing and music are the leading indicators of political leaning ... The narratives of the great American brands, which play on the myths of the West and the (mostly male) frontier are also the narratives of the Republican right. Those who choose to spend on the former are susceptible to the latter. He mentioned Wrangler and L.L. Bean in particular

Pelosi shuts down critics in tense meeting - politico - The rebels, led by Democratic Reps. Kathleen Rice of New York, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Tim Ryan of Ohio, want her to go, or at the very least commit to passing the gavel by a certain deadline ... "They want her to lame duck herself. It's not just about her. They want her to put a timeline on herself. That erodes the authority of the entire Democratic majority." (so revoltin' Moulton is the new Lieberputz and fuck you, assholes)

The Voter Fraud Fraud Has Real Victims - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Why AP had to retract its projection that GOP Rep. David Valadao had beaten Democrat TJ Cox - Los Angeles Times

Mississippi's Era of Outsize Clout in Washington Is Waning (down in the heart of slavery-loving conferate evil moochers) "The Senate might be described without too much violence to fact as the South's unending revenge upon the North for Gettysburg."

Pro-Bernie group hacked in quarter-million-dollar email scam - POLITICO - Our Revolution had raised the money to help a Native American tribe fight an oil pipeline.


Republican Party in an Oklahoma county makes clear its opposition to public education - The Washington Post ... "A better pathway would be to abolish public education, which is not a proper role of government, and allow the free market to determine pay and funding, eliminating the annual heartache we experience over this subject" ... DeVos ... (big sort continues as Republicans opt for dumb kids)


My Black Son Was Sent Home From First Grade Because of His Natural Hair | American Civil Liberties Union

Eschaton: Racially Divisive - Euphemisms for "racism" are used, in part, because they make it sound like Both Sides can be to blame. Cops shooting unarmed black people, unarmed black people making cops angry by being black. Both sides! The power of the state being used to enforce discrimination in numerous ways, those people complaining about discrimination. Both sides!

Tucker Carlson, the Daily Stormer's favorite

Holocaust scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University finds swastikas spray-painted on her office wall - NY Daily News
Boy, 9, socked in face in Brooklyn in possible anti-Semitic hate crime attack - NY Daily News

'Astonishingly cruel.' Prosecutor describes locker room sex assault case at Damascus High School (football hazing rape culture)

"I don't Want to Shoot You, Brother" -- A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect.

Arizona Man Accidentally Shoots Himself in Groin in Walmart ... (gun in waistband, no holster, began to slip and he shot off his dick with his dick substitute ... in the meat section)

4 Police Officers Indicted On Federal Civil Rights Charges For Protest Abuses | HuffPost - St. Louis cops



OC Southwest gate agent mocks 5-year-old girl's name, posts boarding pass on social media | abc7.com


Inside Bruegel


The dark cube: dark and light character profiles [PeerJ] - In other words, based on differences in their associations to the light side of character, the Dark Triad seems to be a dyad rather than a triad.


This video from 1936 explains spinning levers and gears better than any modern video I've seen.... : videos


Mic laid off the majority of its staff - Recode - The publisher is trying to sell the remainder of the company to Bustle Digital Group. -- Mic raised more than $60 million to build a millennial-focused news company but couldn't find a business model to support its costs, which include a one-floor office in Manhattan's World Trade Center ... Facebook recently cancelled a deal with Mic to publish a news video series (pivot to video flop)




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Trump on climate change: 'People like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we're not necessarily such believers.
Eschaton: I Look Up From My Vermouth On The Rocks - Oh boy -- One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence, but we're not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water and it's right now at a record clean. But when you look at China and you look at parts of Asia and when you look at South America, and when you look at many other places in this world, including Russia, including -- just many other places the air is incredibly dirty. And when you're talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over. I mean, we take thousands of tons of garbage off our beaches all the time that comes over from Asia. It just flows right down the Pacific, it flows, and we say where does this come from. And it takes many people to start off with.
EPA chief: Trump administration may intervene in next climate study - politico (next study will study Trump's gut )


Dutch rail company to pay reparations for WWII deportations -- More than 100,000 Jews -- 70 percent of the Dutch Jewish community -- did not survive the war. Most were deported from the Netherlands and killed in Nazi concentration camps. (wheels of justice stil turning 72 years later, how long will the Iraq war take?)


Senate advances Yemen resolution in rebuke to Trump | TheHill


Clinton: Trump is 'part of the coverup' in Khashoggi killing
White House Muzzled CIA on Khashoggi Slaying, Mattis and Pompeo Say - undefined
"I don't speak Arabic" John Bolton says he won't listen to tape of Khashoggi killing because he won't understand it ("I don't understand Arabic screaming" he said)
John Bolton is a coward : politics (revoltin' Boltin')


'A humiliation' : Outcry after Mexico president gives highest honour to Jared Kushner


US sued for $60 million after infant in detention later died : politics
A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. He's 6.
Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After "Zero Tolerance" Was Reversed -- Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. The explanation? They're protecting kids from criminal dads and moms. ("if they weren't criminal, they wouldn't be migrants" +"zero tolerance for you" is the Republican campaign slogan)
'Good Morning America' catches Ivanka lying about her father okaying lethal force at the border (Ikranka didn't get the death memo)
Ivanka Trump Had to Answer 'Lethal Force' Question When 'Good Morning America' Brings Receipts to Interview - They showed Ivanka Trump the receipts -- and made her answer the question.


The true depths of Trump's cruelty are about to be exposed ... This oversight -- which could result in calling for testimony from Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration agenda ...

Barack Obama excoriates Trump: 'Nobody in my administration got indicted' (actually, Trump is working on that problem)


Robert Mueller's Russia probe looks like it's speeding up, and could lead to big indictments soon

CNN's Chris Cuomo speculates that Mueller might have cleverly trapped Manafort and Trump
Opinion | Why Did Manafort Cooperate With Trump Over Mueller? - The New York Times - Lawyers for Manafort and Trump engaged in a brazen violation of criminal defense norms. The move could pay off, or it could blow up spectacularly.
Donald Trump-Paul Manafort Legal Arrangement Was Straight Out Of A'Mafia' Case Says Former Federal Prosecutor
Paul Manafort's Nonstop Lying May Have Done Robert Mueller A Huge Favor

Two key answers from Trump to Mueller - CNNPolitics - President Donald Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller in writing that Roger Stone did not tell him about WikiLeaks, nor was he told about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, campaign officials and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton
Mueller asked Trump about 2016 RNC platform change regarding Ukraine: Sources - ABC News
Rober Stone's 'Time in the Barrel' : Campaign Dirty Tricks, Political Sabotage and the Law

Rudy Giuliani reveals Manafort's lawyers briefed Trump's team on Mueller questions
Manafort's Lawyer Said to Brief Trump Attorneys on What He Told Mueller
Giuliani's bizarre bragging about the Manafort-Trump alliance highlights new obstruction questions

Trump says pardon for Paul Manafort still a possibility
Manafort pardon would be impeachable, indictable and convictable : politics

Trump Threatens To Declassify Sensitive Russia Probe Docs If Dems Investigate Him

Russians May Have 'Financial Leverage' Over Donald Trump, Suggests Leading Intelligence Committee Democrat (drip ... drip ... )

Donald Trump's New Interview With the Washington Post Is Expectedly Insane - There's a Reason Our Barking St. Bernard of a President* Doesn't Do These Interviews Often -- I just, y'know, I think I...but...yeah, I got nothing.

Coons: McConnell blocking Mueller protection bill to protect Trump : politics (Mitch the Ditch)
Mueller probe: Senate again rejects vote to protect special counsel

Trump priority of criminal justice overhaul bitterly divides Senate Republicans - The Washington Post (in th ditch with Mitch)
Popadoulous Russia Ties Continue to Intrigue - The former foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign boasted of a Russia business deal even after the election, according to a new letter under review.

Trump Is Said to Feel No Urgency to Choose New Attorney General - Bloomberg ... content with Matthew Whitaker ...

Trump Shares Crazy Image of Obama, Clintons, Mueller, and Others Behind Bars : politics ... Rosenstein is behind bars. He is tweeting his fantasy of putting his own deputy AG that he appointed in prison.
Trump retweets image of US deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein behind bars 'for treason' : politics

Ivanka Trump Defended Her Use Of Private Email And Said "Lock Her Up" Diodn't Apply to Her (Lock her up!)
In Melania Trump's red Christmas nightmare forest, keep to the path - The Washington Post (trees are as red as a handmaiden's cloak)

Don Lemon Lists The Lies Told By The Trump Administration In Just 1 Day : politics
Trump'ss rules of engagement: Boasting, spinning and running out the clock

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Gets Fact-Checked Live On Air By CNN | HuffPost
MSNBC declines to allow Sarah Sanders to dictate its programming - The Washington Post -- It had been nearly a month since Sarah Sanders had held what was once known as a "daily" briefing ...

Erick Erickson Tweets That US Should Find 'Next' Pinochet - Goes Full Fascist - 'I'm hoping for some helicopters in this plan.' (his head looks like a basketball or a bucket of shit)
Eschaton: Comrade Gritty For President - You should be worried. -- All you gotta do is throw a few scraps down on the peasants occasionally to keep the guillotines away, but this lot isn't even capable of doing that.

Farm bankruptcies are surging as Trump's trade war drags on : politics
'This isn't what we were promised' : Amid GM closures, Trump's economic policies are coming home to roost (hahaha stupid suckers)
Farm bankruptcies surpass Great Recession levels in upper Midwest : politics
Left Behind by Trump's Boom: The Rural Americans Who Elected Him
Lost jobs, shrinking growth, and rotting crops -- here are all the ways Trump's trade war is hurting America

Pseudo-economists with perfect records of never having been right about anything write unintentionally hilarious hagiography of Donald Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money - One thing I really admire about my friend Jon Chait is his relentlessness in the face of unending tsunamis of right wing bullshit. I sure as hell wouldnn't read a book by Arthur Laffer, Larry Kudlow, and Stephen Moore about the economic wisdom of Donald Trump without a court order, but Jon as always is on the case when it comes to this subject in particular:

Educated voters breaking hard against GOP : politics - Voters who have attained a bachelor's degree favored Democrats by a 20-point margin in this year's midterm elections (the real big sort continues)


Nancy Pelosi Wins Democratic Speaker Nomination | HuffPost - Challenges remain for the California Democrat as she faces a floor vote in January to secure the position.
Democrats overwhelmingly nominate Pelosi as Speaker amid rebellion | TheHill
House Democratic leadership elections: Nancy Pelosi and her critics - Vox - The House Democratic leadership team could use a stronger communicator.
"Is Never Good Enough For You?" : Nancy Smash And Social Security ... What has been less widely discussed was Pelosi's absolutely critical role in saving Social Security: (but bucket-head army guy Seth oulton said she was terrible)

'This Is Political Cowardice' : Fury at Schumer for Offering $1.6 Billion for Trump's Anti-Immigrant Agenda - "We need Democratic leadership who are going to have a goddamn backbone and reject this racist ideology." (Chuckie Fuckie is out of step with the times) - The best Onion article recently, in the wake of the mail bombs, was something like "Schumer believes he's never taken any position substantive enough to receive a bomb"

TJ Cox beats Republican Rep. David Valadao to give Democrats gain of 40 House seats, seven in California - Los Angeles Times (ding-ding-ding)

Bill and Hillary kick off their paid speaking tour in CANADA but rows of seats remain EMPTY | Daily Mail Online
John Kerry Offers Sharp Rebuke of Trump at Harvard IOP -- And Says He Isn't Ruling Out a Presidential Run

'White supremacy' is really about white degeneracy


California Rep. Barbara Lee falls short in bid to become the first black woman in House leadership - Los Angeles Times (lost to a younger man, natch)

3 critical questions about the Board of Elections 9th District bombshell | Charlotte Observer - We know that board members twice voted 9-0 not to certify the 9th District results. That means the board, which consists of Democrats and Republicans, was overwhelmingly persuaded of the seriousness of Malcolm's concerns (Reublican voter fraud)

On Mississippi - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In the wake of the racist Cindy Hyde-Smith winning in last night's Mississippi runoff ...

Texas woman with four children gets eight years in jail for voter fraud - Rosa Maria Ortega, a green card holder, voted for the attorney general who prosecuted her, according to her attorney (she thought she was doing her civic duty but "voter fraud" is worse than murder in Texas)

Martha McSally campaign blames everyone else for Kyrsten Sinema loss -- says it's not, not, NOT her fault she lost to Kyrsten Sinema

Michigan Senate votes to gut minimum wage, sick leave laws : politics


Stormy Daniels: Michael Avenatti Sued Trump For Defamation Against My Wishes - says her lawyer refused to give her information about how her crowdfunding money was being spent, and launched a second crowdfund without her knowledge.

'If Bobbie Talks, I'm finished' : How Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser - A trove of text messages details a plan by Mr. Moonves and a faded Hollywood manager to bury a sexual assault allegation. Instead, the scheme helped sink the CBS chief, and may cost him $120 million.

California Democratic Chairman Eric Bauman accused of sexually explicit comments, unwanted touching - Los Angeles Times
Alexander Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein the deal of a lifetime | Miami Herald - His client, Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, 54, was accused of assembling a large, cult-like network of underage girls -- with the help of young female recruiters (sounds familiar)
More From the Worst Cabinet Ever - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Now President Trump's secretary of labor, Acosta, 49, oversees a massive federal agency that provides oversight of the country's labor laws, including human trafficking. He also has been on a list of possible replacements for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions ...


Fox Nation Is the Recycled Trash Too Terrible for Fox News - Even for the most dedicated Fox News fanboys ... (it's garbage)
Is It Possible to Overestimate the Gullibility of the Fox News Viewer? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Data Shows Tucker Carlson Is The Daily Stormer's Favorite Pundit -- And it isn't remotely close (nazis love nazis)

After years of debate, L.A. legalizes sidewalk vending: 'This means freedom'

Did a Rave Review Really Shut Down Portland Burger Bar Stanich's? Maybe It Was the Owner's Legal Troubles - The personal life of the owner had been spiraling into chaos long before his restaurant landed on the national radar.


Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why : news


Aside from what yous've been taught or told, what do YOU personally believe happens to your consciousness/soul after you die? [serious]


Lion Cornered by Hyenas Calls for Backup : videos
Guy throws gator into lake : WTF
That kangaroo tho : WatchPeopleDieInside
How to stop a kangaroo fight : funny


NYC May Pull The Plug On Cashless Restaurants, Retailers: Gothamist (if you don't have a $1000 iPhone, you can just starve)

DOJ unseals charges in alleged massive online ad fraud | TheHill - Aleksandr Zhukov, Boris Timokhin, Mikhail Andreev, Denis Avdeev, Dmitry Novikov, Sergey Ovsyannikov, Aleksandr Isaev and Yevgeniy Timchenko were charged with crimes including wire fraud, money laundering, computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft,




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CNN and NBC betray Sunday viewers seeking analysis on damning climate change report : politics ("sorry, it's too complicated for us" they said in an offical statement)
Stop Letting Republicans Lie on TV About Climate Science : politics
The best thing you can do to stop climate change is to vote against Republicans : politics
Senseless Tons of Garbage From Made-Up Tiny Oceans - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The President of The United States of America recently expressed some thoughts about climate change. I present them to you verbatim: ... (gibberish) ... Hillary Clinton was, if anything, too prepared.

Video shows explosion at border agent's gender-reveal party that sparked Arizona wildfire | Local news | tucson.com - undefined

The NRA Just Reported Losing $55 Million in Income - The gun-rights group has its biggest champion in the White House. But its financial situation has worsened in the age of Trump
Chardon Ohio School Shooting, Six Years After T.J. Lane Shot Students at Chardon High School

Anti-Semitism in Europe: CNN exclusive poll - One in five said they have too much influence in the media and the same number believe they have too much influence in politics. Meanwhile, a third of Europeans in the poll said they knew just a little or nothing at all about the Holocaust, the mass murder of some six million Jews

Woman describes torture, beatings in Chinese detention camp : news (meanwhile, in hell on Chinese earth)

Sentinel Island: calls to leave body of American killed by tribespeople | World news | The Guardian - Attempts to retrieve remains of John Chau dangerous for both sides, says charity
Missionary didn't die from tribesmen's arrows. He was killed by his own arrogance

Dispute Over Airbnb In West Bank Settlements Shows ADL's 'Moral Schizophrenia' -- But when it comes to Israel, the ADL is a different organization. Not just different, in fact, but morally unrecognizable. (the Pro Defamation League)

The soldier and his terrible photos of war - The Boston Globe - He wanted people to know what happened in Baghdad, and so I agreed to carry his pictures home.


White House prevents Gina Haspel from briefing Senate on Khashoggi murder | World news | The Guardian - Mike Pompeo and James Mattis are due to give a briefing on US relations with Saudi Arabia to Senate on Wednesday
The Khashoggi killing had roots in a cutthroat Saudi family feud - The Washington Post - a power struggle within the Saudi royal family that helped feed the paranoia and recklessness of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Former Border Patrol Chief And Fox News Guest Says Pepper Spray Can Be Eaten On Nachos, Medical Experts Say That's False
The Latest: US nixed FBI checks for teen migrant camp staff (only the best fuckers)
U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Total Lowest in a Decade | Pew Research Center - Number from Mexico continues to decline, while Central America is the only growing region (invasion! crisis! ISIS gangbangers!)
Sinclair Forces Local TV Stations to Air Segment Defending Tear-Gassing Migrants : news

Maybe They're Just Bad People -- Not all Trump support is ideological (Michelle says the unsayable for the NYT)


Ex-CIA chief John Brennan tears into Trump: Mueller's name will be revered in US history, yours will be scorned

With Manafort filing, will Mueller reveal details about the investigation? - The Washington Post
Robert Mueller's Endgame May Be in Sight
u/slakmehl explains how Trump may have just been tricked by Mueller into submitting lies (ones he would have coordinated with Manafort) in his sworn answers, and how Mueller guided the process of the Manafort trial to ensure the evidence goes public in a way Matt Whitaker cannot suppress. : bestof

Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy | US news | The Guardian - Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published
Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy : politics ... swiggity swooty, Mueller coming for dat booty
Timeline: What it would mean if Manafort and Assange met in 2016 - The Washington Post
Unkempt, Heavily Bearded Julian Assange No Longer Has Embassy Cat For Company - WikiLeaks founder is living in isolation with limited human contact. Even his cat found it too lonely ... What they found was a depleted man on the verge of going mad.

Manafort Breached Plea Deal by Repeatedly Lying, Mueller Says - The New York Times ... "crimes and lies" about "a variety of subject matter" relieve them of all promises they made to him in the plea agreement. But under the terms of the agreement, Mr. Manafort cannot withdraw his guilty plea.
Mueller says Manafort lied after pleading guilty, should be sentenced immediately - The Washington Post
Mueller Just Guaranteed He Can Issue a Public Report - emptywheel - Mueller Just Guaranteed He Can Issue a Public Report

It looks like a big day for collusion. No wonder Trump is raging. - The Washington Post - Both of them involve former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and while it's always possible they'll turn out to be inconsequential, the fact that the president himself is highly distressed suggests otherwise: ... "The Phony Witch Hunt continues, but Mueller and his gang of Angry Dems are only looking at one side, not the other." (hahahaha)
Trump attacks Mueller day after Manafort accused of lying : politics
Trump suggests he has inside info on Russia probe, hours after Mueller said Manafort broke plea deal : politics ... "to hear his heartbeat when they asked him about communicating with the white haired wiki weasel would be like listening to gabber id imagine"
Trump is panicked because Robert Mueller has turned on Paul Manafort | Salon.com - Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday the President has 'been upset for weeks' about the 'horrible treatment of Manafort'
Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday the President has

Russia probe: House Democrats aim to unmask Trump Jr's blocked call (dum-di-dum-dum)


CBS reporter Paula Reid confronts Trump on migrant family separation policy - The Washington Post (lying dimbulb)
Donald Trump Gets Fact-Checked By Reporter Right To His Face, Walks Away : politics

Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather | US news | The Guardian -- Royal decree ordered Friedrich Trump to leave Bavaria and never come back after he failed to do military service (they didn't buy his bone-spurs exemption)

Trump experience lands in Tupelo | News | djournal.com - Over the weekend, tailgate tents stocked with Trump merchandise began popping up around Tupelo. The vendors signaling the President's imminent arrival knew his fans would want shirts, hats, flags and buttons. (MAGAsuckers)

House Republicans unveil giant tax package - POLITICO - they hope to move during the lame-duck session of Congress. (one last looting of the treasury for rich fuckers!)

Farm bankruptcies on the rise in Upper Midwest - The number of farms filing for bankruptcy is increasing across the Upper Midwest, following low prices for corn, soybeans, milk and beef, according to a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis ... The situation has gotten worse for farmers since June because of the retaliatory tariffs that have closed the Chinese market for soybeans and held back exports of milk and beef. (stupid.suckers)

rage-tweets and spin over General Motors layoffs ring hollow
Donald Trump Drives Off A Cliff In Biting New York Daily News Cover | HuffPost
GM warned Trump that his China tariffs would hurt jobs. He now complains that it's happening
GM's Plant Closures Confirm the President is a Liar and a Fool -- He has never cared about the men and women who build cars in places like Michigan and Ohio. (he tell it like it isn't!)

Top GOP lawmaker says 'it's awfully tough' for Ivanka Trump to comply with government email standards ("she's not that bright, you have to cut her some slack, it's not like Hillary")

'I Always Respect Subpoenas' : Comey Says His Legal Team Is Looking At His Options
Comey on acting AG Whitaker: 'Not the sharpest knife'

Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting in wide-ranging interview with The Post - The Washington Post ... They're making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me."

ACLU: McConnell is the 'one person' blocking criminal justice reform (Mitch the commie bitch)

Fox News Let Scott Pruitt Pick Interview Questions, Script - Donald Trump-Fox News Connection Deepens - The president's pravda network allowed one of his most corrupt goons to dictate the questions and script for his interview.
Surprise: Fox News colluded with Trump's then-EPA boss (Pruitt the crooked)
Eschaton: Our Sister Network - As if answering the softball questions was generally going to be too hard without a cheat sheet. (sorta like you know who)

Democrats smash Watergate record for House popular vote in midterms - Nationally, Democrats have 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans took 45.2 percent.

Bernie Sanders: Trump 'has no politial belief,' is a 'total phony'


The Pathetic Pelosi Putsch - POLITICO Magazine - Seth Moulton and friends said they would take down the first female speaker of the House. Here's what went wrong (pathetic army guy set himself on fire)
Who's the Mystery Man Behind the Latest Pelosi Putsch? It's Mark Penn ... A small group of billionaire-backed Democrats, part of the so-called Problem Solvers Caucus in Congress .. "No Labels" ... Penn is notorious in Washington as the metaphorical devil on the shoulder, whispering toxic advice into the ears of Democratic candidates ... Penn and Jacobson were both early players in the Democratic Leadership Council, a faction that emerged within the party in the 1980s to push it to align with corporate money and to move in a more conservative direction ... most well known for urging his client, Hillary Clinton, to attack Barack Obama as un-American during the 2008 presidential primary. (and then he crashed, and burned, again)

Lawsuit seeks broad changes after alleged Georgia election problems - to overturn state laws that resulted in purged registrations, canceled ballots and many other obstacles to voting.

Cornyn: 'Texas Is No Longer, I Believe, A Reliably Red State'

Collins Gonna Collins - Lawyers, Guns & Money - And why not? From the Chief Justice on down, the ideas that it should be harder for black people to vote and their votes should count less are central establishment Republican dogma now, like upper-class tax cuts.

San Francisco Giants owner's Hyde-Smith donation sparks calls for team boycott (take a knee, dude)

Opinion | An Insult to Missouri - The New York Times - Politicians try to undermine a constitutional amendment passed in a landslide this month.

Al Franken Is Staying Silent As His Fans Attack Kirsten Gillibrand - Gillibrand has faced criticism for months over her call last year on Franken to resign.

In historic upset, Alex Villanueva beats incumbent Jim McDonnell in race for Los Angeles County sheriff - Los Angeles Times - a stunning upset for a seat that hasn't seen an incumbent lose in more than a century ... the first Democratic sheriff in the county in 138 years ... and kicking out ICE

America's s Epidemic of Empty Churches - Religious communities often face a choice: Sell off the buildings they can no longer afford, or find a way to fill them with new uses - 6,000 to 10,000 churches die each year in America


New Proud Boy Rules: Less Fighting, Less Wanking - The far-right outfit is trying to escape its violent rep with new prohibitions on head punches, self-love, and cargo shorts.

Liberti, Egaliti, Gritti: how an NHL mascot became an antifa hero | Sport | The Guardian

An Anti-Vaxxer's New Crusade - Dr. David Ayoub used to be active in the anti-vaccination movement. Now he's challenging mainstream science again -- as an expert witness for accused child abusers.


Ex-Pennsylvania top prosecutor convicted of perjury may begin sentence soon | Reuters - A jury convicted Kathleen Kane in 2016 of leaking secret grand jury information to the media to embarrass a former state prosecutor and then lying about it to investigators. She was sentenced to serve 10 to 23 months in jail.

A New York City Official Working for Predatory Lenders Made $1.7 Million Last Year - Meet New York City's highest-earning official. He's a debt collector for predatory lenders.

Lovesick Prosecutor Who Wiretapped Her Crush Also Snooped on 700 Other People: Lawsuit - More than 700 people are suing former assistant Brooklyn DA Tara Lenich for invading their privacy as she serves a year in jail for illegally wiretapping an ex-cop crush of hers.

Boston police head Gross says he was defending officers in Facebook post in wake of ACLU lawsuit - The Boston Globe

N.H. skydiver who went missing in Sept. committed suicide in mid-air, investigators say - The Boston Globe

The missionary position - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Wynn is both analyzing the Incel movement, and reaching out to the men trapped within it. The latter aspect of the film is particularly remarkable. Wynn was just profiled in the New Yorker:
Incels | ContraPoints - YouTube

Murder on a Mountain Bike | Outside Online

Does the 'foreskin facial' mark the end of the world? -- Kate Beckinsale is the latest celebrity to try the treatment, which uses a serum derived from babies' circumcised penises ... Epidermal growth factor (EGF) serum is derived from the progenitor cells of the human fibroblast taken from the foreskins of newborn babies ... Fun sidenote: it also smells exactly like sperm!


These Cambridge restaurants sell Japanese noodles. But they are really here to help us realize our dreams. - The Boston Globe



Your Dog May Not Be a Genius, After All - Scientific American - New study finds that canines are not exceptional in the animal world
'Siberian unicorn' walked Earth with humans - BBC News


A Business With No End - The New York Times


More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States, but cannabis use among teens does not appear to lead to greater conduct problems. Instead, it's the other way around: It is adolescents with conduct problems who are more likely to gravitate toward cannabis use, finds new research.
TIL some people have a gene mutation that makes them less likely to enjoy marijuana. Those with a variant FAAH gene are less anxious and are less inclined to like marijuana. They actually experience a decrease in happiness when smoking marijuana. : todayilearned

Losing just a couple hours of sleep at night makes you angrier, especially in frustrating situations. The study is one of the first to provide evidence that sleep loss causes anger. : science


Seems logical enough. : funny

Teachers of Reddit, what are some positive trends you have noticed in today's youth? : AskReddit

What's the worse thing you've come home to?
What's your best NSFW story that happened while at work? : AskReddit

Who has the most interesting/oddest life in history? : AskReddit

Police Officers: What's the dumbest thing you've ever seen a criminal do or say? : AskReddit


Transport utopianism is stupid, and Elon Musk should shut up | CityMetric

Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool | Reuters

Seized documents reveal that Facebook knew about Russian data harvesting as early as 2014 - The Verge - Facebook needs to start being more open (Mark and Sheryl betrayed their country, nice "brand" you got there)

Why Mark Zuckerberg's 'empty chair' policy is backfiring - Facebook's chief executive has focused his time on answering US critics. But the bigger threat lies overseas, and he's failing to react ... When it comes to non-Americans -- who make up roughly 80 percent of the company's 2.2 billion-user base worldwide - the 34-year-old tech mogul has been mostly MIA. (20% of the users and 80% of the money, duh) The Facebook chief executive traveled to all 50 U.S. states to better understand people's everyday lives (politico wants to bury the fact he thought he was running for president)

Eschaton: The Book of Faces - I deleted my account. I'm not one to push such things on people. All big companies are bad and we each have our own cost/benefit analysis. It was easy for me to delete it. But aside from "facebook is a bad actor" I didn't have a problem deleting it because...facebook is just... bad.




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The price Republicans pay for embracing know-nothingism - The Washington Post (only believe Trump's "nuclear brain" science)
Trump: 'I don't believe' government climate report finding

$3,700 Generators and $666 Sinks: FEMA Contractors Charged Steep Markups on Puerto Rico Repairs : politics (almost like the military)

NASA spacecraft lands on red planet after six-month journey - A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet Monday after a six-month, 300 million-mile (482 million-kilometer) journey and a perilous, six-minute descent through the rose-hued atmosphere.


China's Tactic to Catch a Fugitive Official: Hold His Two American Children (father split in 2012)

Matthew Hedges: British academic pardoned by UAE - BBC News

"The system is rigged" How the crimes of The Panama Papers affect us all

This is the only Trump syndrome we need to worry about - The Washington Post - His shameful indifference to the killing and dismembering of the Saudi journalist and Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi was an act of cold collaboration with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's coverup
Is Trump Compromised By Saudi Money? : politics (bha-hahahaha)

Assange Case, If It Exists, Can't Be Made Public, U.S. Argues

Ukraine Declares Martial Law Over Naval Attack by Russia - The New York Times
Putin's Navy Attacks Ukraine Gunboats and Hands Trump a New Crisis He'd Like to Ignore
The same day tensions with Russia mount, Trump lashes out at Putin's rivals over money
pyronius comments on Russia 'fires on and seizes Ukraine ships'

Trump Ramped Up Drone Strikes in America's Shadow Wars - In his first two years in office, Donald Trump launched 238 drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia -- way beyond what the 'Drone President' Barack Obama did


Trump denies tear gas was used on child migrants despite pictures, video - CNNPolitics
Trump denies tear gas was used on child migrants despite pictures, video : politics (fake news! he ranted)

Trump is failing miserably on his biggest issue. And he'e covering it up with lies -- immigration agenda is a total and abject failure and that he is covering up this glaring reality with lies.
Remember, We Are Gassing Children So That Trump Can Violate A Court Order: Trump is gassing children in order to continue his illegal practices. : politics
Nielsen Defends Homeland Security's Use Of Tear Gas, Slams Migrants' 'Lawlessness' - Customs and Border Patrol agents fired tear gas at a group of migrants approaching the border on Sunday, including children. ("Gas all the little MS-13 gang-bangers" she said)
Breaking News on Twitter: "A migrant family, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America to the U.S., run from tear gas in front of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico at Tijuana on Sunday (twitter assholes say it was all "staged" probably by Soros)
'Tear Gassing Children Is Outrageous and Inhumane' : US Condemned for Violence Against Asylum Seekers
Tear gas at border: how a march at the US-Mexico border descended into chaos - Vox
'Fox & Friends' Guest on Pepper-Spraying Migrants: You Can Eat It on Nachos (Fox & Fuckers)

Donald Trump's Disapproval Rating Hits All-time High, Rising After Midterm Election, Poll Shows - disapproval rating had shot up to 60 percent. That's tied for his all-time high and the sharp 7 percentage point uptick from the week prior. Just before the midterm election, Trump's disapproval stood at 54 percent, according to Gallup.
Trump's disapproval rating hits all-time high ... And yet roughly 40%... more than 100,000,000 people in the U.S., that think this is "OK." That is the part that really bothers me.

Justice for Roxsana: Announcing Legal Action To Hold Government Accountable for Transgender Asylum-Seeker's Death (ICE knows that Trump hates Transgender people even more they do, so the killed her)
Trans Woman Was Beaten in ICE Custody Before Death, Autopsy Finds - Roxsana Rodriguez died following lack of medical treatment in a privately run immigration detention center. An autopsy concludes that she was beaten.
Trans Woman Was Beaten in ICE Custody Before Death, Autopsy Finds -- Roxsana Rodriguez died following lack of medical treatment in a privately run immigration detention center. An autopsy concludes that she was beaten. : news

Trump Accuses Mueller of 'Conflicts of Interest' in Explosive Tweet: 'NO Collusion & Mueller Knows It!' (yelled baby Trumpy)
What Trump's Latest Outburst About Mueller Could Mean - The president was unusually specific in his attacks against the special counsel.
Mueller: Manafort Has Lied To Investigators Since Plea Deal : politics
Ryan Goodman on Twitter: "See @emptywheel's points?? Imagine if Trump's answers relied upon Manafort's lies to FBI One of the purported 49 Questions to Trump: "What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?" https://t.co/Expsy7JgsP"
emptywheel on Twitter: "Yup. Mueller delayed this until after Trump handed in his open book test. Releasing a list of the lies Manafort told provide another opportunity to tell a story. A report, if you will. https://t.co/D9wsbzb1WC"
Jerome Corsi, an associate of the Trump confidant Roger Stone, says he's eller Probe - Jerome Corsi, an associate of the Trump confidant Roger Stone, says he won't take it

Jared Kushner pushed to inflate Saudi arms deal to $110 billion: Sources - ABC News (Jews for Nazis and Murderous Arabs)

It's Not Just Trump in House Democrats' Cross Hairs. His Family Is, Too. (disorganized crime famiily)
Donald Trump Says The Mueller Investigation Has Been Great For Him, Actually, Thanks Very Much
White House lacks lawyers to deal with empowered Democrats - POLITICO - The office has been without a permanent leader since October and top deputies are departing, leaving just a skeletal staff in place. (staff of "skeletons")
More questions than answers in too many Trump stories | TheHill

Trump's incoherence is too much -- and it's getting worse

Tax Return Indicates Trump Foundation Did Not Donate Last Year : politics

Exclusive Video: Secret Service Agents Interview Tom Arnold About His Anti-Trump Tweets - Mother Jones - The agents delivered a warning to the comic that's also appropriate for the president: Social media posts can incite violence.


In the United States, right-wing violence is on the rise - The Washington Post
Why don't we ever call white extremists terrorists? (b/c they are good Christian Republican terrorists!)
Video shows driver trying to run over Jews near Los Angeles synagogue | TheHill - 32-year-old Mohammed Mohammed, reversed and tried to hit them again

Trump suggests creating U.S. 'worldwide network' to compete with CNN - POLITICO - Trump suggests creating U.S. 'worldwide network' to compete with CNN (Trump Worldwide Network: "Only the Best News")
Donald Trump wants to start a worldwide US propaganda network - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Trump suggests government start its own worldwide television network : politics
In 2018, political gravity caught up to Trump

Former California GOP Congressman Says Republicans Had it Coming - NBC Southern California - A longtime leader of the California Republican congressional delegation says his former colleagues were punished by voters in the midterm election because they failed to stand up to the Trump Administration.

Retired Justice Stevens: Gun control case, Gore v. Bush among three biggest 'errors' Supreme Court made during his tenure (the third being Citizens United in Destroying Democracy)
Multiple Legal Scholars Just Escalated the Challenge of Matthew Whitaker's Appointment
Christine Blasey Ford Speaks Out About the Threats She's Faced


Dictionary.com's 2018 Word Of The Year Is ... - Everything After Z by Dictionary.com - Misinformation

Anti-Pelosi effort raises questions for Moulton - Lowell Sun Online - "This has everything to do with Moulton running for president," she said, ""and nothing to do with Pelosi running for speaker" (fuck you, Republican "centrist" Moultan)
Moulton seeks nonegotiations with Pelosi - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Nonegotiation. When you try to get the other party to make a deal because you're the only one who doesn't know that you have absolutely nothing to offer ... It underscores Pelosi's stgrength and the fact that the #5WhiteGuys are so far out of their depth that the fish have lights on their noses ... Seriously. Who is this guy, and why is he so very bad at whatever it is he thinks he's trying to do? ... (revoltin' Moulton torched himself)
Centrist Group Behind Pelosi Holdouts Plotted to Make Her 'Bogeyman'- No Labels contemplated turning the incoming House Speaker into a political punching bag during a primary fight ... moderate Democrats allied with No Labels ("moderate" = far-right Repoublicans)
Pressley supporting Pelosi for House speaker - The Boston Globe

Democratic rebel seeks negotiations with Pelosi on races for leadership - The Washington Post - Moulton, who served four tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine, is an informal leader of a group of centrist Democrats that has been organizing against Pelosi (D-Calif.) and pushing for new leadership across the party's ranks in the House (conservative Army guy wants to boss the women around)
Centrist Democrats vow again to oppose Pelosi unless rules demands are met - The Washington Post (for more bi-partisan bullshit!)

Franken scandal haunts Gillibrand's 2020 chances - 'Let me tell you how strongly I felt about it -- I didn't even vote for her in the recent election. I left it blank' said one top donor
The Misogyny Tax - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Kirsten Gillibrand is paying it:


How a Liberal Couple Became Two of N.Y's Biggest Trump Supporters (rich gay guys against abortion!)


Mia Love gives Trump no love as she concedes a narrow loss in Utah - The Washington Post

Full 'Public Hanging' Video Surfaces, Revealing More About Hyde-Smith's Views (you mean "racist views")
Nooses, hate signs found at Mississippi State Capitol
'We don't want an Alabama' : Hyde-Smith has Republicans holding their breath - Democrat Mike Espy claims momentum in the final days of the Mississippi special Senate election, but Donald Trump heads to the state Monday to blunt it (is she worse than a pedophile? Probably)
Cindy Hyde-Smith strikes out - Johnson is also a donor to a PAC called "Black Americans for the President's Agenda." (he is white) .In an email sent Sunday night that was obtained by Popular Information, the group accused Democrats of plotting to 'steal the Mississippi Senate race" (from the rightful white-supremecist Republican owner of the position)

How Southern politicians defended white supremacy -- and made the South poorer -- contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American South in part trace their origins to slavery's prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action, and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward blacks. (change is hard for retarded assholes)
Slavery's Enduring Political Legacy with Maya Sen and Matthew Blackwell -- Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes
The GOP is now the party of neo-Confederates : politics

Conservative Republicans are least supportive of making it easy for everyone to vote : politics

America Is Poorer Than It Thinks : politics


Alabama police suggest man they killed in mall shouldn't have held his gun : news

Trumbull County, Ohio, shifted 30 points to vote Trump. That didn't save its car plant (#1 Obama did that and they forgot #2 racist suckers got played #3 You can't cure stupid #4 b/c they will have learned nothing) top comment: "You believed a con artist, voted against your own self-interest and elected a person who has zero policy bearings to effectively and definitively put you out of work. How does that work for you now? Your county gave him our EC votes. Thanks to you, you are now fulfilling your own destiny."

General Motors to close Detroit, Ohio, Canada plants : politics (trump is winning) All those UAW members who voted against their own interests are going to understand how badly they screwed up, any day now
The Latest: Trump has harsh remarks for GM over layoffs - General Motors will lay off 14,000 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it restructures to cut costs and focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles.

Because They're Wreckable - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The rise in health-code violations at the chain began after Carlyle and investors completed a 2011 financial deal that extracted $1.3 billion from the company for investors but also saddled the chain with what proved to be untenable financial obligations - Because this is America in 2018, the pirates responsible are not merely among its most reprehensible citizens but among its best-compensated. The top priority of the current Congress was to given them a massive tax cut. (classic hedgie fuckers)


New pot shop's neighbors say traffic jams are awful (they will always fuck everything up, at every level)

Users of medicinal marijuana, why do you use it and how effective is it? : AskReddit
ELI5: What is CBD Oil and how does it work? : explainlikeimfive

The rate of universal expansion is accelerating to the point that light from other galaxies will someday never reach us. Is it possible that this has already happened to an extent? Are there things forever out of our view? Do we have any way of really knowing the size of the universe? : askscience


What hasn't aged well? : AskReddit


You're an idiot in a room full of confirmed geniuses. How do you prevent them from taking all of your money and belongings? : AskReddit
You're in a room full of confirmed idiots. How do you relieve them of all their money and belongings? : AskReddit

Cop shares his story of treating PTSD with magic mushrooms : bestof

Don't fuck with Sgt. Jesse : MilitaryStories

SparksMurphey comments on TIL that sitting opposite the well known 7 deadly sins are 7 cardinal virtues including: prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, and charity

solgb1594 comments on TIFU by burning half of my foreskin off

Wade_NYC comments on My (26M) girlfriend (24F) found an engagement ring I was keeping safe for my friend until he was ready to propose. She thought it was for her and is furious that it wasn't.


Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Is Tainted by Crisis After Crisis - COO oversaw social-media company's meteoric rise, but her leadership is being questioned now ... prioritized her own brand over Facebook's (Lean In and Be Evil)

Goldman Lucks Into Amazon Windfall Chasing a Tax Break in Queens - Bloomberg - Bank invested in housing the same day retailer announced move - Timing was an "absolute coincidence," Goldman says




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The White House Is Doing Its Best to Undermine Dire Climate Report - Democrats ramp up pressure to act in wake of most sobering government analysis yet
How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts. : politics Climate May Force Millions to Move and U.S. Isn't Ready, Report Says - Large outflows of people expected from New York, New Jersey

Boston area has seen its wettest fall on record, and more rain is coming - The Boston Globe


The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan -- Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth saving Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changing

The Yardbirds - Ever Since The World Began Lyrics | Genius Lyrics -- The devil has you in his grasp There ain't no mercy you can ask More and more you will need You're strangled in the clutch of greed You can't get out, no place to go You sold your soul -- the answer's no!


Number Of Missing In California's Deadly Camp Fire Falls Below 250 | HuffPost

America's Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion (what could have been but Sandra Day O'Connor fucked the planet)

Hate crimes against blacks and Jews drove big spike during Trump's first year in office - Not to mention the huge spike in all forms of legal discrimination. Trumpism is a hate movement. As simple as that.

Opinion | The New Radicalization of the Internet - The New York Times - Jihadists and right-wing extremists use remarkably similar social media strategies.
'Nothing on this page is real' : How lies become truth in online America
Russian hacker resurgence after midterms | TheHill - carrying out a widespread campaign that targeted the federal government, media outlets and think tanks.

EU leaders agree UK's Brexit deal at Brussels summit

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies - MIT Technology Review

Ukraine: Russian vessels fire at Ukrainian ships in Black Sea - The Boston Globe

Julian Assange Faces Federal Charges. But Let's Not Forget What WeAs the U.S. reportedly closes in on Julian Assange, a look back at WikiLeaks' biggest stories


Why I'm Sick of Turkey - Washington continues to claim Ankara as 'strategic partner' - Let's stop pretending it is. (but wait, doesn't Trump have hotels there? or will?)

The Senate is not going to let Trump shrug off Khashoggi's Murder
Senior Saudi prince says CIA cannot be trusted on Khashoggi conclusion | Reuters (who you gonna believe?)
Trump's kowtowing to Saudi Arabia should be the last straw
GOP Senator Mike Lee: Trump's Saudi Conclusion 'Inconsistent With the Intelligence' ("Trump is inconsistent with any intelligence") This is the same Mike Lee who says that, unless we abolish the federal highway system, public funding of education, and liquidate federally-owned land, there will be civil war instigated by the left. He's the epitome of the broken clock metaphor.
More Republicans challenge Trump on defense of Saudi crown prince - The Washington Post ... "America's first coin-operated president."

Trump's tariffs are beginning to catch up to us


Children 'Screaming and Coughing in the Mayhem' as Trump Border Patrol Fires Tear Gas Into Mexico
U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana reopened after migrants attempt to breach fence, Border Patrol says - ABC News
US agents fire tear gas as some migrants try to breach fence
US authorities fired tear gas at migrants at border, witnesses say - CNN
The Latest: US agents shoot tear gas at migrants : politics

The chaos behind Donald Trump's policy of family separation at the border -- A 60 Minutes investigation has found the separations that dominated headlines this summer began earlier and were greater in number than the Trump administration admits (fuckers)

Contradicting Trump, Incoming Mexico Gov't Denies Making Deal To Host Asylum Seekers -- "no agreement of any sort" (wait, Trump lied??)
Migrant caravan: Mexican officials deny US border deal - BBC News

Dozens arrested after ICE detains undocumented man living in Durham church for 11 months :: WRAL.com

Trump uses the military as his personal political tool. That's the opposite of respect he claims to have.


'He has moved incredibly quickly' : Mueller nears Trump endgame - During the election, Comey spoke openly about the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails. The Trump-Russia inquiry was kept secret.
Mueller report will be 'devastating' for the president: Frequent Trump defender (Dershofuck says he won't go to jail)
Adam Schiff plans to haul Matt Whitaker before Congress on Mueller probe : politics
Rep. Gowdy suggests videotaping Comey testimony to prevent selective leaks - The Washington Post

Angus King: Trump administration 'giving a pass to dictators around the world'

Former Trump Campaign Manager Admits There Was, in Fact, a 'Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy' to Undermine the Clintons
Former Trump campaign manager admits there was, in fact, a 'vast right-wing conspiracy' to undermine the Clintons (Republicans have always been evil lying assholes)
New Book Gives Voice to Trump's Claims of a Vast Conspiracy Against Him ("vast" = Obama tapping his phone which no one believe anyway)

Donald Trump is attacking the rule of law and may well get away with it - Lexington

Why Does President Trump Get Away With Lying? | Opinion - Post-truth: "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief"
Why Does President Trump Get Away With Lying? : politics

Trump called himself 'President T'. The Internet filled in the rest ... Even in a country that has grown somewhat used to the president's unique styles of communication, be it through third Trumperson or all-caps diplomacy or gibberish tweeted in the middle of the night, the unexpectedly colloquial form of his self-gratitude caused confusion and alarm.

Trump called himself 'President T'. The Internet filled in the rest.
Trump thanks 'President T' in Thanksgiving weekend tweet

Trump demands action to reduce deficit, pushes new deficit spending - The Washington Post (take from the starving, defund government, give to the rich, run on "fiscal responsibility" win-win-win)

The race to control the Senate in 2020 has already started - CNNPolitics

Eschaton: Democrats Will Keep Losing (Quick Find Somewhere They Lost) If They Don't Hide The Scary Black Kids - After this election, the NYT puts on the front page a story about how the one place in America they could still find to tell the story about how Real Americans hate Democrats. -- It is true that the Democrats are unlikely to be popular and win everywhere and that a one party state at all levels of government in all states and locations is not in our forseeable future. The New York Times is on it!
How Can Democrats Survive Without Winning the Votes of White Alabama? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The endless array of articles claiming Democrats are doomed if they can't win REAL AMERICANS has reached its apotheosis: bemoaning the fact that southern Democrats have to make the choice whether to appeal to progressives or white rural people. (thank you, NYT) Just keep on interviewing white rural aging Trump voters in cafes about how Democrats are out of touch.

Another rebel Dem softens on opposing Pelosi for speaker - POLITICO - Rep. Stephen Lynch had signed a letter pledging to vote against the leader on the floor but says he will back her over a Republican. (thanks alot, Stevie)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocks Fox News for hosting a panel to discuss her wardrobe | The Independent - "It is bizarre to see 1%-salaried anchors laugh at the US housing crisis," she added.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocks Fox News for hosting a panel to discuss her wardrobe : politics

Mississippi Republican faces new Confederate claims before Trump visit | US news | The Guardian - Senator promoted revisionist view of civil war in Congress
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier's effort to 'defend his homeland' ("Fatherland" but it's Fuckassippi so she'll probably win)
Cindy Hyde-Smith Hearts Segregation - Lawyers, Guns & Money
OPINION: Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Lives in a Bubble of White Privilege | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS
Opinion: Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Lives in a Bubble of White Privilege : politics
It's Really Hard to Imagine Why Baseball Has Lost Black Fans - Lawyers, Guns & Money - On Friday, days after Cindy Hyde-Smith made "joking" comments about lynching and the like, Major League Baseball decided she deserved a $5,000 campaign contribution.(MLB doubled down on white supremacy but it looked so bad they asked for their money back)
Democrat's path to victory in Mississippi: black turnout

Alabama GOP: Sessions not guaranteed to win back his old seat - POLITICO - The deposed attorney general would be the front-runner, and he remains popular in the state, but Trump remains a big X factor

Texas Democrats won 47% of votes in congressional races. Should they have more than 13 of 36 seats? | Politics | Dallas News (not according to the "1/3 compromise" where a Dem is a third of a person)

New Hampshire political legend falls prey to Trump effect - POLITICO - One of the great ironies is backlash against President Trump is likely to cost to Bill Gardner his job ("rigourously non-partisan" Trump supporter hahahaha)


Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 357 - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- This is the grave of John Wilkes Booth. (what might have been)
Good riddance | Americans need to set aside icons like Robert E. Lee to live up to our potential. : politics

California Democratic Party chairman under investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct - Los Angeles Times (and his uncle is Bowser)

Man killed by cops during Alabama mall shooting had a permit: Actual shooter remains at large : news
Family demands answers after police kill man mistaken for shooter of 2 at mall : news


What's in a name? More than you think.

Hello friends, it' been a while - By Yvonne Abraham - I wish I had come by my concussion in a more spectacular way.

Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Dispensary Locations & Discounts


Opinion | The Monopolization of America - The New York Times - In one industry after another, big companies have become more dominant over the past 15 years, new data show.


Leaping from specialists to ERs fails to solve this young boy's odd ailments (childhood psychosomatic disorder)
Home | Porphyria Foundation

Scientists have developed catalysts that can convert carbon dioxide -- the main cause of global warming -- into plastics, fabrics, resins and other products. The discovery, based on the chemistry of artificial photosynthesis, is detailed in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.

Dispelling deadly myths about the flu vaccine - The Washington Post

ELI5: Do satellites have passwords? How do their owners manage them? : explainlikeimfive

What are the properties of an ion engine exhaust? Is it warm? Is the engine loud? What would happen to stuff that gets in the way of the exhaust? : askscience

What's the most amazing thing about the universe?
Cosmic Calendar - Wikipedia

Children mirror the weight gain and losses of their mothers but not their fathers, a study has found. Scientists looked at activity levels of 4,400 children and their parents over 11 years to discover if there was a link in their weights. : science

An ability to perceive and empathize with others' pain is rooted in cognitive neural processes instead of sensory ones, according to a new study. Suggesting that empathy is a deliberative process that requires taking another person's perspective rather than being an instinctive, automatic process : science

New study finds four universal ingredients for higher life satisfaction: friends, health, a loving partner, and a good job : science

ELI5 what is Gauge Symmetry? : explainlikeimfive


You have just been named as Reddit's new CEO. What feature do you choose to implement first? : AskReddit

Bitcoin sinks below $4,000 as the crypto market takes another hefty beating : technology




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White House admits Trump climate policies will cost Americans $500 billion a year : politics
Al Gore Rips President Trump for Trying to 'Bury' Climate Change Report
This Seems Suboptimal - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The terrible effects of climate change (Dumpster says it's cold, so "shrug")
Trump's Attempt to Bury Devastating Climate Report Backfires - As it so happens, after hours and hours of being pummeled on the severity of the climate threat coupled with Trump's criminally irresponsible dismissal and neglect of the issue, they put forward a typical cruelty distraction gambit by asking the Supreme Court to uphold their ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. Gratefully, few media outlets took the bait.
Federal report says climate change will wallop U.S. economy : politics

Jesus Christ'ss Return to Earth - By the year 2050, 41% of Americans believe that Jesus Christ definitely (23%) or probably (18%) will have returned to earth. However, a 46%-plurality of the public does not believe Christ will return during the next 40 years. Fully 58% of white evangelical Christians say Christ will return to earth in this period, by far the highest percentage in any religious group.

California 'Camp Fire's is now at 95% containment after burning about 153,336 acres. : news
The deadly Camp Fire in California. The town of Paradise is consumed by the wildfire. - The Boston Globe

Hospitals Are Trying To Do What Politicians Haven't: Stop Gun Violence | HuffPost
Which Americans support the Second Amendment? The answer depends on whether whites or blacks have the guns. : politics


Russia is now a "far greater threat" to the UK's national security than the Islamic State group, the head of the British army has said. : news (that means Trump is worse than ISIS)

In historic move, Sen. Rand Paul places hold on $38 billion to Israel : news (grandstanding to an empty room, that won't last long)

Copa Libertadores Final Postponed a Day After Fans Attack Boca Juniors' Bus

Taiwan voters reject same-sex marriage in referendum - BBC News - , in a blow to the island's reputation as a rights trailblazer in Asia.

How the CIA Helped Prevent the Next 9/11 -- And Why You Can't Bring Liquids Onto Planes (hydrogen peroxide and Tang = bomb)

Harry and Meghan Cement Their Split from William and Kate by Moving Out of Kensington Palace - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to set up home near Windsor, 20 miles from London, following reports of tension between Harry and Meghan and Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Parents 'dismissed as racist' by school when they complained about migrant posing as 15-year-old | Daily Mail Online

One million Chinese people 'move into Muslim homes to report on Islamic or unpatriotic beliefs' | The Independent


MBS has a toxic record of recklessness. The Trump administration doesn't need him (but they own Trumpster)
AP Interview: Saudi royal says crown prince is here to stay
Jamal Khoshoggi's troubles started after he criticized Donald Trump (Jared called up Bone Saw who said he'd take care of it)

In his drive to dismantle American institutions, Trump is following in Erdogan's footsteps
zzzigzzzagzzziggy comments on Weeks after midterm election, data released on voters purged in Georgia
"America First!" - Album on Imgur
u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy uses Vice President Wallace's eerily prophetic words in 1944 to explain how calling America fascist isn't hyperbole anymore : bestof

Dow falls more than 150 points, posts worst Thanksgiving week decline since 2011 as tech shares and oil drop : news

Mexico: Tijuana declares humanitarian crisis over migrant caravan : news
Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at U.S. border - The Washington Post


'America's straightest arrow' : Robert Mueller silent as urgency mounts


New Democratic Congress plans to investigate Betsy DeVos on five fronts : politics


"We Need A Positive Governing Agenda, And We Should Let Erskine Bowles and Joe Lieberman Figure It Out" - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- Krugman on "Democrats need to have a positive agenda, not just be against Donald Trump" ... The linked article in which Moutlon says that Dems need an agenda beyond just opposing Trump also features Moulton and Tim Ryan trying to describe such an agenda. The results are unintentionally hilarious: (here's the thing: if Trump is totally evil, which he is, then "against Trump" is totally good, and Moulton is really a Republican)

How Democrats Won In Trump Country | HuffPost
Washington Monthly | The Democrats of Trump Country - How liberals in the reddest parts of America are starting to get their groove back.
Across South, Democrats Risk Speaking Boldly and Alienating Rural White Voters - The New York Times ("alienating" racists is a bad thing, says NYT)
House results underscore that what's good for Trump isn't so good for the GOP -- If the enthusiasm for Trump in rural and small-town America constituted the story after 2016, the revolt against him in the suburbs, led by female voters, has become the story of the 2018 elections

It's not just Ocasio-Cortez: Here are 7 freshman Democrats to watch - The list includes the first black woman ever elected to Congress from Massachusetts and an openly-gay Ivy League-educated lawyer from Kansas.


Midterms show educators have been swept into office in record numbers | A wave of pro-education energy, spurred by the April walkouts, led to election victories in Oklahoma, Arizona and Wisconsin : politics

Does the rise of Donald Trump mark a new era in American politics? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - in the general, the net effect of all the racism/sexism/nativism/fake populism was close to zero, winning him some votes and losing him some in roughly equal measures ... many people expected that a deplorable strategy that was a winner in a multi-candidate primary dominated by an increasingly unhinged Republican base would be a sure-fire loser in the general.


Hyde-Smith Attended All-White 'Set Academy' to Avoid Integration -- U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith appears third from the right in a 1975 yearbook photo of cheerleaders at Lawrence County Academy. The mascot appears in the middle dressed as a Confederate colonel holding a rebel flag. (and sent her daughter to one)
Cindy Hyde-Smith sent her daughter to a private school created to help white kids bypass integration : politics

Maine's Gov. LePage uses final days in office to resist expanding Medicaid LePage has said he'd rather go to jail than expand the Obamacare Medicare expansion approved by voters in his state. (and then he escapes to Florida)

Ohio Isn't a Red State Yet - But it will be if Democrats do not fight for working people in every corner of the state - Ms. Whaley is the mayor of Dayton, Ohio.


Hillary Clinton Blasts Fox News As 'Fully Owned Subsidiary' of Trump Administration

Trump's communications director will get $7 million from Fox News while working in the White House
Report: Bill Shine to Get Paid by Fox News and White House Simultaneously - The Daily Beast (ironically, no conflict of interest)


American Exorcism - Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world. (b/c more haunted souls)


Echidne Of The Snakes: Short Posts 11/24/18: Bad News on Black Friday, Political Exhaustion, Home Economics And Poetry (Edith Svdergran)


How Parents React to Kids Coming Out of the Closet - The Atlantic - some queer youth are pleasantly surprised with the lack of family drama the news causes.

Free-speech protects those in viral prom photo appearing to show Nazi salute, Baraboo district says ("we don't know if they were really Nazis" they said)

Hollywood Producer Terry Rossio Under Fire for Comparing 'Anti-Vaxxer' Label to N-Word - Terry Rossio, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter -- Two years ago, he reportedly acquired the rights to a book by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose work linking vaccines to autism has been repudiated in the scientific community. (Hollywood idiot)

Father and daughter jailed for five years after baby shot in legs

Wanted: The 'perfect babysitter.' Must pass AI scan for respect and attitude. (and give up all their privacy)

My New Vagina Won't Make Me Happy - And it shouldn't have to

Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic

How do ovums prevent excess sperm cells from entering them when they've already fused with one? : askscience (it shuts the door)

Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research -- Science journals are laughing all the way to the bank, locking the results of publicly funded research behind exorbitant paywalls. A campaign to make content free must succeed

Scientists Discovered Rare Giant Viruses Lurking in Harvard Forest Soil Under Massachusetts : science

Til Telling the truth when tempted to lie can significantly improve a person's mental and physical health. Researchers found participants could purposefully and dramatically reduce their everyday lies, and that in turn was associated with significantly improved health


Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers | Technology | The Guardian - Documents alleged to contain revelations on data and privacy controls that led to Cambridge Analytica scandal

Opinion | Lean Out - The New York Times - Perhaps it's only fair that, as women like Sheryl Sandberg rise to power, they pay the price for failure. But why is everyone so ready to forgive the man who really runs Facebook? (really, Kara? everyone knows he's an idiot, and Fuckberg was supposed to be the "adult in the room")
Sheryl Sandberg Can't Have It All - The burdens and perils of the pedestal - Possibly worth noting: Sandberg's conference room at Facebook is called Only Good News. (Lean Out and Fall Over; c'mom Jennifer, follow the fucking money)




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Major Trump administration climate report says damages are intensifying across the country' Scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is already affecting the United States -- and that it is going to be very expensive ... "We have wasted 15 years of response time. If we waste another 5 years of response time, the story gets worse. The longer you wait, the faster you have to respond, and the more expensive it will be." (since the SC killed Al Gore ... Trump mumbles "Chinese hoax' and toddles off to bed)
U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy - The New York Times - Flooding in 2011 forced the Fort Calhoun nuclear power station near Omaha to shut down for years (Fort Fucking Calhoun??)
Government climate report warns of worsening US disasters
Climate change will shrink US economy and kill thousands, government report warns - CNN

Stocks Are Nosediving. Is a Recession Coming? - The Atlantic - If You're going to worry about the economy, tumbling stocks are the least of America's financial troubles right now ... In December 2007, Larry Kudlow, then a talking head for the business network CNBC, proclaimed, "There's no recession coming. It's not hooging to happen." That same month, the economy plunged into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. This week, Larry Kudlow, now the director of the National Economic Council, stood on the White House lawn and struck a familiar note: (only the best proven morons, in every position)


Pedro Sanchez: EU summit in doubt if no Gibraltar deal (meanwhile in la-di-la land)


Democrats must hold Trump accountable on Saudi Arabia. Adam Schiff explains how. - The Washington Post
Rep. Adam Schiff: House Democrats will investigate Trumps financial ties to Saudi Arabia as part of a 'deep dive' into the kingdom's dealings

Sen. Jack Reed: Trump lying about CIA report on Khashoggi - CNNPolitics "Yes. The CIA concluded that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was directly involved in the assassination of Khashoggi."
Senate Dem on Armed Services panel: Trump lying about CIA report on Khashoggi : politics


Trump Administration Takes Transgender Military Ban To The Supreme Court ("Fire all the trannies," Trump shouted)
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to immediately take up transgender military ban - The Washington Post


Tijuana declares humanitarian crisis from migrant caravan - asks for international help (Russian bombers and Saudi bone-saws)
Small group breaks from caravan to press within 500 feet of U.S. border in Tijuana - The San Diego Union-Tribune


Trump Is 'Most Thankful' For His Own 'Tremendous' Work. Twitter's Jaw Drops. | HuffPost
Aaron Rupar on Twitter: "REPORTER: Mr. President, what are you most thankful for? TRUMP: "For having a great family & for having made a tremendous difference in this country. I've made a tremendous difference. This country is so much stronger now than it was when I took office" Completely beyond parody https://t.co/d5jWf2ub4k"
DAWG on Twitter: "Me The People"
Trump Said He's Thankful For Himself This Thanksgiving, Then He Went To A Golf Course
'HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL! : Rhetorical bedlam erupts as President Trump speaks to the world from Mar-a-Lago

Trump's Idiotic Twitter Battle With Chief Justice Roberts Gets One Step Closer to Impeachment

Is Collusion a Crime? Judge in the Mueller Russia Case Says Yes - Judge in Mueller Case Upholds Legal Theory that Makes Collusion a Crime - Collusion refers to an agreement with others to achieve some improper end. In criminal law, we call that a conspiracy - a partnership in crime. And the breadth of the federal conspiracy statute makes it particularly well-suited for cases like Mueller's probe of Russian interference with the election
Trump Foundation lawsuit: New York state judge rejects Trump claim that he can't be sued because he is president
NY AG's lawsuit against Trump foundation can proceed, judge says

Stone associate Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel - The Washington Post - Stone has said that Corsi also has a relationship with Trump, built on their shared interest in the falsehood that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States
Israeli named by Trump Russia probe convict dismisses 'absured' spy allegations - After George Papadopoulos, the first Trump official to plead guilty in Mueller probe, dragged him into the headlines, businessman Charles Tawil gives his side of the story

US media must 'get smarter' to tackle Trump, says Hillary Clinton (tnx Hillary)

Early Voting Could Turn the Democratic 2020 Race on Its Head - Instead, because of early-voting rules, the increasing popularity of early voting, and a reshuffled primary calendar, a handful of huge, diverse states could see troves of ballots returned even before some of the traditional small and largely white early-voting states do -- a shift that just might herald real changes to the way Democrats nominate their presidential pick, and quite possibly the nominee.


Warning signs mount for Trump reelection bid - POLITICO


What's up with all those black men who voted for the Republican in the Georgia governor's race? ... Seventy-five percent of white women voted for Republican Brian Kemp ... Among black women, 97 percent supported Abrams ... 11 percent of black men voted for Kemp ... Those numbers are reminiscent of the double-digit level of support that Donald Trump got among black men in the 2016 presidential election.

Disapproval of Trump's handling of race relations hits 60 percent

Working class heroes - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Law professor Joan Williams thinks that the reason Donald Trump got elected is because elite white people are contemptuous of their non-elite white fellow voters, and they therefore dismiss the legitimate economic concerns that led a lot of non-elite whites to vote for Donald Trump as mere expressions of racism ... Again, this auto da fe of various straw men is straight out of the right wing propaganda playbook ... (Remarkably, Williams simply passes over in silence the epochal change in the Democratic coalition that took place 50 years ago: one that had nothing whatsoever to do with "blue collar issues," nd everything to do with sending tens of millions of white supremacists over to the Republicans.) ... Why do law professors with no training in the social sciences pretend to know what they're doing/


Trump aide Bill Shine gets $15 million in bonuses, severance from Fox

Judge Jeanine Ghosted on Old Campaign Debt and Ignored Feds' Demands for Financial Records - Jeanine still owes nearly $600,000 to vendors and stopped filing required updates to the FEC years ago. (future SC "judge")


Meet The Dollar Store Resistance | HuffPost - Low-end retailers undercut independent grocers and small-town aesthetics, but some locals are fighting back.

'I believed we were going to die' : An elevator in a Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors, requiring a dramatic rescue of six people

Viewers Left In Tears By Emotional #50 Budget Christmas Advert - LADbible


Human's didn't cause mass animal extinctions in Africa, like previously thought, study says - The animal decline might have instead been because of environmental factors such as declining atmospheric carbon dioxide and expansion of grasslands, researchers write (they ate trees)




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Thanksgiving Is a Time for Remembering American History, Good and Bad, Peaceful and Bloody - This Thanksgiving, it's incumbent on all of us to remember.
Over 5,600 immigrant children spending Thanksgiving in TX shelters : politics

Noam Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP's Climate Change Denial
Scientists Slam Trump's Clueless Climate Change Tweet: 'He's A Clown' (it's cold in New England, "Whatever happened to Global Warming?' said the necrophiliac Dumbster)
Thanksgiving Day 2018 may be among coldest on record in northeastern US

As deadly flames approached, a mother called her daughters to say goodbye - Los Angeles Times

You Want to Feed the Hungry? Lovely. Let's See Your Permit (free to starve)


How populism became the concept that defines our age | Cas Mudde | World news | The Guardian - The spread of this idea reflects a deep and lasting change in the way we view 'the people' and 'the elites' (the elites are now the people and the people are walking dead nativist authoritarian nationalistic zombies for Trump)


China blacklists millions of people from booking flights as dystopian 'social credit' system introduced : news (Xi goes full Orwell)

EU and China break ultimate trade taboo to hit back at Trump - POLITICO - Brussels and Beijing want to stop the US justifying tariffs as security measures, but the move carries high risks. (so-called "national security" no longer applies in age of the Dumpster)

Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists | World news | The Guardian (Hillary says nazis are your boss! and you should suck their populist dicks!)

Gibraltar spat holds up Brexit - Theresa May will return to Brussels for further talks with Jean-Claude Juncker on Saturday. (stupid idiots)

Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn Fired Following Arrest | HuffPost - a stunning downfall for one of the biggest figures in the auto industry ... for alleged financial improprieties ... misuse of company investment funds and expense money for personal gain ... under-reporting $44.6 million in income from 2011 to 2015 (super-rich but still needed to steal)


The Pennsylvania report on clergy sex abuse spawned a wave of probes nationwide. Now what? - The Washington Post - "Priests were raping little boys and girls," tghe grand jury wrote, "and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing, they hid it all. For decades."
College School principal and president resign amid student sex assault scandal at St. Michael's College School in Toronto Canada

American Reportedly Killed In Flurry Of Arrows As Tribe Defends Its Island Off India : NPR (from the Jesus invasion)



Trump's reluctance to visit troops in war zones is an aberration, historian says
Trump thanks troops by phone, hints he might visit Afghanistan war zone - ABC News - Speaking to the commander of Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan (canceled the teleconference, "troops" = one guy, 'who knows?"
Trump politicizes Thanksgiving call with troops to attack migrants, judges - CNNPolitics (from Mar-a-Lago)


CIA Heard Audio of Saudi Crown Prince Giving Order to 'Solence' Jamal Khashoggi ("stop his screaming, cut out his tongue" Bone Saw said)
Report claims CIA has 'smoking gun phone call' connecting Saudi crown prince to Jamal Khashoggi killing : news
Trump brushes aside CIA assertion that crown prince ordered killing, defends him and Saudi Arabia - The Washington Post ... insisting that the agency had "feelings" but did not firmly place blame for the death. (tape recording was "fake news," Trump's "feelings" are the best)
Congresswoman to Trump: 'Being Saudi Arabia's bitch is not 'Amertica First' (Tulsi! ftw)
Trump says CIA has not found Saudi prince culpable in killing - The Boston Globe (Globe comments very anti-Trumpster)

Trump defends Saudis, says "maybe the world" should be held accountable for Khashoggi's murder

Trump is Crude. But He's Right About Saudi Arabia. On the strategic questions that matter in the Middle East, the president is cleareyed. (if you think Netanyahu is your boss anyway)

Trump plan would force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as cases are processed, a major break with current policy - The Washington Post (and Mexico will pay the bills, big win, hahaha)
Migrant caravan members may be planning 'humman stampede' at US border (ISIS and MS-13 warns Foxfuckers)

Justice Robert's attack against President Trump was blatantly political and wrong (b/c Roberts is a flaming socialist libtard! defending the illusion that Repubican judges aren't political hacks!)

Donald Trump: He's A Superhero Alpha Male, But He Desperately Needs Your Emotional Support - Rush Limbaugh said this on his show today: "the greatest president of our lifetimes, with one or two exceptions." ... the so-called Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi ... (Bimbaugh, mouth of Satan)
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US agency opens case file on potential Hatch Act violations by Matthew Whitaker - CNNPolitics
Filings Show Trump's s DOJ Chief Still Working for 14 Companies (Republican corruption has no limits, ever)

Donald Trump pulled out of planned Mueller team meeting at Camp David after seeing list of questions : politics

House Republicans subpoena Comey, Lynch for closed-door testimony - politico (more distraction from thir crimes)
James Comey's Lawyer Responds to House Republicans' Subpoena, Is Ready for a Fight
ames Comey Responds To Subpoena From Republicans: 'Let's Invite Everyone To See'
Renato Mariotti on Twitter: "Because Republicans waited until after the midterms to subpoena Comey, he can probably just run out the clock with this legal fight. https://t.co/7HrsNPiYof"
Opinion | How Long Before Trump Destroys the Rule of Law? - The New York Times - The only thing blocking his plan to prosecute Hillary Clinton was Don McGahn. Think about that.
Trump Resumes Spat With Roberts, Calls 9th Circuit 'A Complete & Total Disaster' (said the mumbling disaster)
Trump warns of 'bedlam, chaos, injury and death' if US judges allowed to do their job : politics

Ivanka Trump ignores rules because she doesn't treat the White House as a real job (she's never had a "real" job and will House Republicans subpeoena her???)
Donald Trump Just Invented Another 100,000 Deleted Hillary Clinton Emails to Defend Ivanka Trump : politics
Jon Passantino on Twitter: "And since that tweet has now been deleted, here's the screenshot (Benghaaaaazi and Trump's lies imported from Russia)
Ivanka Trump's emails, and the many things Trump attacked Obama and Clinton for and then did

With honey instead of vinegar, Pelosi steadily inches toward the speaker's gavel
Be Thankful the #FiveWhiteGuys 90s Nostalgia Tour Is Over - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "All the challenges to Leader Pelosi are coming from her right, in an apparent effort to make the party even more conservative and bent toward corporate interests. Hard pass. So long as Leader Pelosi remains the most progressive candidate for Speaker, she can count on my support. https://t.co/nFiilDxmYS"

Bernie Sanders: Democrats need a bold agenda. Here's what they should do in the first 100 days of Congress. - The Washington Post - By Bernie Sanders -- ("Contract on America II!" be "bold" like the psychopaths, he said)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Republican commentators for doctoring her livestreams to 'sow doubt in my intelligence'

Rob Woodall Wins by 433 Votes in Georgia's 7th - Four-term congressman defeats Democrat Bourdeaux in once safe GOP seat
RACE CALL RETRACTION IN CA-21 - Decision Desk HQ - On election night we called the race for incumbent Congressman David Valadao over Democratic challenger T.J. Cox. ... lead has shrunk from over 4900 and 8% on 11/7 to just over 400 with thousands of additional ballots left to count in areas favoring Cox

GOP exploring reasons for gender disparity in new Congress (it couldn't be that they are all racist women-hating misogynistic fucking assholes?)


/u/godloki asks for clarification on a grand jury investigating alleged criminal wrongdoing by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. The guy who brought the lawsuit shows up to give his perspective. : bestof


How to Talk to a Fox News Viewer - The Big Picture - You so-called Elites continue to snidely wag your fingers as you condescendingly lecture them, having precisely zero influence over their beliefs ... (but) ... Behavioral Economics has taught us the ways cognitive psychology can help. (just do CBT on the flaming racist assholes, that'll work!)


Texas Students Will Soon Learn That Slavery Played 'Central Role' In Sparking Civil War - The Texas Board of Education has approved revisions to social studies curriculums, but some educators say the changes don't go far enough ... The board also decided to keep in the curriculums Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller ... but Texans remain divided on the history of the Civil War ... "The lies they're telling are a little smaller than the lies they used to tell" (just defending noble state's rights in a war of dasterdly northern aggression! why Repubican are incapable of telling the truth about anything)
Texas Students Will Now Learn That Slavery Was 'Central' to the Civil War

Jared and the hip-hop artists currently advising him have decided that too many people are in prison. If you think you've heard this before, you have: Genius insights of this sort have preceded nearly every major crime wave this country has experienced, from Philadelphia to California to a bloody period known as "the Warren Court" (carnage in the inner cities! says Coulter-fuck)

Twitter Bans Far-Right Activist Laura Loomer - The Daily Beast - over a tweet calling newly elected Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress "anti Jewish" ("loomering")
Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer Fight for Credit Over Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theory

Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes Quits Group A Day After FBI Calls It 'Extemist'

Man arrested for alleged racist rant aboard D.C. to Atlanta Delta flight : news
U.S. Marshals: Cuyahoga County deprives inmates of food, water and Constitutional Rights amid string of seven deaths : news (they were running a for-profit torture chamber in fucking Ohio)

Fertility fraud: People conceived through errors, misdeeds in the industry are pressing for justice - The Washington Post


Boston police face lawsuit over listing hats and selfies as gang symbols : news (which makes kids deportable/ICEable)

Are recreational marijuana companies preparing to open in your community? Check our maps - The Boston Globe (nothing in Cambridge unti the next century)
Marijuana math: Consumers spent $440,000 on more than 10,000 pot products Tuesday - The Boston Globe


MIT working on an Ion drive, testing a small plane that flies with no moving parts : technology - the world will soon have a flying mesh network nervous system, going from the ground to space and back. A planetary brain of brains flying and/or falling around itself perpetually. In not too long they will probably even be putting in neuromorphic processors in nearly everything, even routing can be vastly more efficient with advanced AI. Then it will be a brain ... interesting to think we could just be the "boot loader" for a living stellar consciousness.
Milky Way still bears the 10-billion-year-old scars of a galactic collision

Researchers turned a 156-year-old law of physics on its head demonstrating that the coupling between two magnetic elements can be made extremely asymmetrical. A development which could lead to more efficient recharging of batteries in cars and mobile phones : science

ELI5: How does gravity "bend" time? : explainlikeimfive

Mars 2020 will look for life in one of three sites - Washington Post - Inside the fierce debate over the fate of NASA's new rover -- and a chance to make history (are we really alone?)

TIL psychopathic traits can be evident in children as young as 3 or 4. In one case, an 8 month old infant being breastfed would repeatedly bite his mother and laugh. : todayilearned

What makes honey "non-spoilable"? : askscience - TL;DR: Honey is a desert for microbes that sucks them dry.

Doctors of Reddit, what are some of your worst experiences with anti-vaxxers? : AskReddit

When it comes to Twitter, Canadians are far more polite and positive than Americans, per an analysis of 40 million tweets (text and emojis). : science

Found this freaky optical illusion while watching a cooking video. Stare at the center of the brine until the scene changes. : videos

What's the dumbest excuse your girlfriend/boyfriend has used for cheating on you?

Halfway through American Gods. And it's beautiful! : books

Facebook Admits To Targeting Billionaire George Soros In PR Attack | HuffPost - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last week he didn't know about the PR campaign until The New York Times investigation. (two anti-semitic Jews and fucking liar Sheryl says maybe it "crossed my desk")
On Thanksgiving Eve, Facebook Acknowledges Details of Times Investigation - The New York Times - Joining a long tradition of companies and campaigns that drop bad news on holidays ... "Did we ask them to do work on George Soros? Yes." (oh, Sheryl and Mark lied, again and again?? ... "it crossed my desk" said anti-semitic Jew Sheryl)
Facebook Admits To Targeting Billionaire George Soros In PR Attack : technology ... "I hear Facebook and Dyson are working together on a moral vacuum."
How Facebook's P.R. Firm Brought Political Trickery to Tech (lying Mark and Sheryl had nothing, nothing we tell you, to do with it!!)
Facebook slammed for allowing South Sudanese user to auction off 16-year-old bride - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (Sheryl said "it might have crossed her desk")

USPS Site Exposed Data on 60 Million Users Krebs on Security (and sat on it for a year to let hackers all over the world steal your data)

US Postal Service Left 60 Million Users Data Exposed For Over a Year



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During California wildfires, farmworkers say they felt pressure to keep working or lose their jobs - The Washington Post


A Death on North Sentinel Island - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Call me crazy, but an American Christian missionary being killed after illegally invading protected tribal lands in order to convert one of the world's remaining un-contacted tribes to Christianity during Thanksgiving week feels just a little too on the nose. (just bringing Satan's word to the sinful)


Matthew Hedges: British academic accused of spying jailed for life in UAE | World news | The Guardian - Durham University student was detained while on way home from PhD research trip (Arab fuckers)

Inside the Hunt for the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist - Junaid Hussain



Interpol presidency vote: Russia in surprise loss to South Korea - BBC News
What the socialist Kama Sutra tells us about sex behind the Iron Curtain - The Washington Post - The story behind the Eastern bloc's most popular socialist sex manual

MI6 battling to stop Donald Trump releasing classified Russia probe documents
Two journalists just revealed how they helped expose the Trump Russia affair | The Dworkin Report


Almost everything Trump just said about Saudi Arabia and Jamal Khashoggi is wrong or overly simplistic - The Washington Post
Trump's Statement on Saudi Arabia, Explained! - The president makes the case for the crown prince: Iran, arms sales and oil.
"I am astounded:" Sen. Corker compares White House statement to PR for Saudi Arabia
Trump slanders Khashoggi and betrays American values - The Washington Post
Senators demand Trump say whether Saudi prince ordered Khashoggi killing - POLITICO
Khashoggi murder: Calls to remove Saudi crown prince 'a red line' ("we will chop you up into little pieces if you say that" he said)
Trump's dangerous message to tyrants: Flash money and get away with murder
Turkey accuses U.S. of turning blind eye to Saudi killing of Khashoggi | Reuters ("U.S." = bought and sold Trumpster)
Trump Thanks Saudi Arabia For Low Gas Prices After Jamal Khashoggi's Killing | HuffPost
Tres Sheik
President Trump's Statement Gives MBS, Saudi Government a Pass in Jamal Khashoggi Death

No, Trump isn't putting 'America first.' He's putting himself first. (yeah, Haberputz did this but Trump thinks he IS America) Julian Sanchez: "Crucifixion is a terrible, terrible thing. Should never happen. And we may never know whether Jesus was guilty of crimes against Rome. Who can say? But thirty pieces IS a lot of silver, and it would be very foolish to turn it down."


Trump economy expected to slow down in 2019, before possible recession in 2020


Stalemate on Trump's wall amid threat of shutdown - Both parties are refusing to bend, with a government funding deadline two weeks away.
White House approves use of force, some law enforcement roles for border troops (is that even legal?) a move that legal experts have cautioned may run afoul of the Posse Comitatus Act. (actually not)
John Kelly's Cabinet Order Authorizing Troops to Use Force Against Caravan Migrants at Southern Border Is Disgraceful - His use-of-force order for troops at the border is a crock and a disgrace ... Kelly is shot through with the essential bigotry that blighted his native Boston when Kelly was growing up there ...
White House Approves Use of Lethal Force for Border Troops: Report : news

We Are All Part of the Same Hypocrisy - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Trump hits back at Chief Justice Roberts, escalating an extraordinary exchange - POLITICO - The president had originally attacked a District Court judge who ruled against his asylum policy as an 'Obama judge'


It's time for the rats to leave Trump's sinking ship -- Like a television show that has jumped the shark, President Trump's frantic act grows more desperate and pathetic by the day. (and his (de)base is as strong as ever)
Donald Trump likened to bizarro Forrest Gump : bestof

Behind the scenes: Trump vs. Mueller - Axios

Trump is losing his fight against the law. - The judiciary has continued to quietly deliver subtle, devastating blows to the president's agenda

Former Bush attorney general Alberto Gonzales rebukes Trump for reportedly seeking to prosecute Clinton, Comey - The Washington Post (and when Alberto says you're fucked up ...)

Trump's Yearning to Prosecute His Political Enemies - Trump reportedly sought earlier this year to prosecute Hillary Clinton and James Comey, which one former Justice Department official called "un-American" (because, you know ...)
What Trump Has Done Is Already Impeachable By Any Reasonable Standard - If we're following the constitution, as soon as the president* asked the question, he was guilty of a high crime.
Trump tried to order the DOJ to prosecute Clinton and Comey - Lawyers, Guns & Money

House Intelligence Panel Hiring Money-Laundering Sleuths - One of the President's biggest foes is taking steps to chase the Trump-Russia money trail. (little Adam Schitt is coming for the Big Orange Turd)

Ivanka used a private email server. Now do we lock her up? - The Washington Post
Dershowitz: Defense of Ivanka's Private Email Is 'Hypocrisy on Parade' ... but wasn't a big deal and there's no reason for people to be going nuts about it in the first place.

Comedian Michelle Wolf delivers one-liner in response to Trump attack - ABC News - "I bet you'd be on my side if I had killed a journalist."


Trump Hired Matt Whitaker to Lock Up Hillary Clinton
New Letters: Whitaker Disclosure Forms Raise Ethics and Hatch Act Concerns - American Oversight
White House Won't Say When Trump Formally Named Matthew Whitaker As Acting Attorney General -- President Trump announced Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general in a tweet. That's all the paperwork that's been released
Whitaker made $1.2 million from conservative nonprofit - POLITICO - As executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, or FACT (hahahaha)
Griftonomics - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Whitaker's "non-partisan" advocacy group, which he or his paymasters christened with Orwellian moniker Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT. Clever, very).

Avenatti won't face felony charge on domestic violence case, DA says : news

Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar | Reuters - U.S. farmers finishing their harvests are facing a big problem -- where to put the mountain of grain they cannot sell to Chinese buyers. (will the suckers ever learn? no.)


These Showrunners Are So Hacky - Lawyers, Guns & Money - You'll never guess who's behind the #fivewhiteguys/#nolabelsUnity20 putsch: Yet the force behind their campaign is one of the most toxic and notorious partisan warriors the Democratic Party has produced in the past three decades: political and corporate consultant Mark Penn -- The failure of this 90s nostalgia act was even more overdetermined than I thought!
Opposition to Pelosi slowly collapsing - POLITICO - Rep. Brian Higgin's support deals a setback to the group looking to oust the California Democrat. (will moldy Mouton be the last asshole in the room?)
In backing Pelosi, Higgins got what he wanted -- and so did she
Nancy Pelosi stopped the Bush Social Security privatization plan - Vox - "Never. Is never good enough for you?"
Poll: Democratic voters back Pelosi as speaker by wide margin - politico (and agree Seth Moulton is an idiot and a jerk)


Democrats won House popular vote by largest midterm margin since Watergate - Nationally, Democrats have 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans took 45.2 percent.
What the Polls Got Right This Year, and Where They Went Wrong - The New York Times - Though more accurate over all, the polls mismeasured some of the same areas of the country in the same way ... But while the big picture is much better than in 2016, when the polls systematically underestimated Donald J. Trump in the battleground states, some details are eerily similar.
Democrats see rural gains bolstering fight for White House in 2020 | Reuters - The message, rooted in healthcare and economic inequality ... Beyond the victories, Democrats increased their share of the vote in dozens of the country's most rural congressional districts (non-white voters)

It's over. Democrat Ben McAdams ousts Republican Rep. Mia Love by 694 votes ... meanwhile, in the states' other close-up-to-the-end race, Proposition 4 that seeks to end gerrymandering by creating an independent commission to redraw political boundaries after each Census also won (all driven by Prop 2 medical marijuana)



Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't rich. There's no reason to talk about it.
Words We're Watching: What Is 'The Ratio' and 'Ratioed' | Merriam-Webster
Sarah Palin mocks Ocasio-Cortez's 'basic civics' knowledge, falls into Twitter ratio abyss (Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods)

Judge dismisses female genital mutilation charges in historic case (cutting off you daughter's clit is "free speech" and up to "the states to regulate" yes, "regulate")

Judge notes 'sad irony' of men deciding abortion rights as he strikes Mississippi's s abortion law -- The law made exceptions only for medical emergencies or cases in which there's a "severe fetal abornormalty." There were no exceptions for incidents of rape or incest.
U.S. abortion rates dropped to record low between 2006 and 2015 - Axios
Number of abortions in U.S. hit historic low in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available - The Washington Post

All they have to do is run around the city while playing a horn - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Arkansas' Medicaid Works plan, which is aimed at limiting the reach of the ACA Medicaid expansion, is working as intended.

Will Fox Business Network Take Action After Lou Dobbs Tells Judge to "Go to Hell"? - Lou Dobbs is the Sean Hannity of Fox Business Network
Trump Helped Roger Ailes Create Fox Business Network, the Most Pro-Trump Cable Outlet

Ex-Facebook President Sean Parker Funded Race-Baiting Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith's Super PAC (racist tech-bro)
All the rudiments of hatred are present everywhere - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Decline and Fall of the Zuckerberg Empire (evil will out)
As Facebook faces fire, heat turns up on No. 2 Sandberg - her carefully cultivated image as an eloquent feminist leader is showing cracks. Questions these days aren't so much about whether she'll run for the Senate or even president, but whether she ought to keep her job at Facebook. ... "Every day executives are fired for a fraction of infractions these two have committed" (anti-Semitic Sheryl, how have the mightly fallen)


An Atomwaffen Member Sketched a Map to Take the Neo-Nazis Down. What Path Officials Took Is a Mystery. - Some experts and former officials see the case as part of a larger pattern, evidence that federal agencies are understaffed and out of position in confronting the threat of white supremacist terrorism -- even as the FBI's latest report shows a spike in hate crimes for the third straight year.


Police: Dog injures 12 children at Oklahoma City elementary school | WTVC (terrorist dog attack)


Most people are bad at arguing. These 2 techniques will make you better. - Vox


All Feminists Must Stand Up For Trans Liberation | HuffPost



Is there an altitude on Venus where both temperature and air pressure are habitable for humans, and you could stand in open air with just an oxygen mask? : askscience

Over 8 years, healthcare data breaches affected 164 million patients. But a new study finds that hackers are not the biggest problem, with 53% of breaches caused by healthcare organizations' own mistakes or neglect. : science


What's the weirdest rumor you've heard about yourself? : AskReddit

The Mind of an Anti-Vaxxer | 0:21 : videos

What were you most surprised to learn about the opposite sex? : AskReddit ... lavalamp ball syndrome ...

What's a genuine question you have that Google can't seem to answer but maybe somebody on Reddit can? : AskReddit


Adult furry erotica site hacked, with information stolen from nearly half a million subscribers - 500K is 1 in 651 Americans or pretty much 2 kids at every high school.

6500 dark web sites deleted in one attack : news ... the balls-deep web ...

Eschaton: Amazon Cuomo - Aside from the corruption, I really think Amazon Cuomo truly believed that the people of the world (and New York!) would be so impressed that he won the Amazon lottery and he is confused by the criticism. -- Somebody buy this man an internet. (he can't type)

Amazon hit with major data breach days before Black Friday | Technology | The Guardian - Customer's names and email addresses posted on website, tech giant confirms




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Climate change will bring multiple disasters at once, study warns: In the not-too-distant future we can expect a cascade of catastrophes, some gradual, others abrupt, all compounding as climate change takes a greater toll. : science
Subsidizing upstate New York nuclear power plants more expensive than new wind: shutting down nuclear and replacement with onshore wind will save $ 7.9 Billion till 2050, while reducing CO2 by 20.1 to 27.4 Mt more than nuclear. : science

California fires: Trump administration now blames devastation on 'radical environmentalists' (carnage in the forests! mobs of libtards tieing themselves to burning trees!)
GOP county chairman deletes image calling wildfires 'God's punishment for liberal California' - Really? Did the dumbass who said that realize that Paradise, CA was literally the city in the US with the most churches per capita? As far as divine wrath goes, killing your own flock seems kind of counterproductive ...

Phil Murphy ate at swanky restaurant while NJ storm raged ("raging" 5 inches)

Romaine lettuce is not safe to eat, CDC warns U.S. consumers - The Washington Post - The CDC told consumers to throw away any romaine lettuce they may already have purchased. Restaurants should not serve it, stores should not sell it, and people should not buy it, no matter where or when the lettuce was grown.
AFM: Experts chase the cause acute flaccid myelitis - The Washington Post


More Than 50 Killed By Suicide Bomber In Afghanistan Capital | HuffPost - More than 70 other people were injured in the Kabul attack, according to a spokesman for the interior ministry. (it will never be too much)
'He's afraid people want to kill him' : White House discusses possible Trump visit to troops in Iraq or Afghanistan

Don't Let Russia Lead Interpol - The international law-enforcement organization is dangerously close to losing its legitimacy. (final steps in Trumpian devolution, make the crooks into the cops!)
The world can't let Russia run Interpol. My experiences show why -- By William Browder (whose idea was this, anyway)

I'm a reporter for NBC News. We realized Russia's disinformation playbook is hiding in plain sight -- so we made a documentary to tell everyone about it. AMA

Moroccan Woman Arrested After Cooking Boyfriend and Serving His Body With Rice

Child bride auctioned on Facebook by family in 'barbaric use of technology' : news


In Bosnia, Entrenched Ethnic Divisions Are a Warning to the World - The New York Times

Trump administration prepares to add Venezuela to list of state sponsors of terrorism - The Washington Post


Trump says U.S. stands by Saudi Arabia despite Khashoggi murder - Axios (pardons Bone Saw, says he's totally innocent, just like "me!!!")
Trump defends Saudi Arabia's denial about the planning of Khashoggi's death
In Extraordinary Statement, Trump Stands With Saudis Despite Khashoggi Killing - The New York Times
Trump says US stands with Saudi Arabia despite Khashoggi killing : politics
His Kinda Guy - Lawyers, Guns & Money
In unusual statement disputing the CIA and filled with exclamation points, Trump backs Saudi ruler after Khashoggi killing - "Maybe he did and maybe he didn't!" the president said of whether Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew of the journalists slaying ("and don't bother me with your stupid "intelligence!")
Ex-CIA chief calls on Congress to declassify CIA findings on Khashoggi killing : politics
Amnesty says Saudi activists beaten, tortured in detention


Dow may drop 2,000 points more before market selling done: CNBC survey (Trump boom!)
Opinion | The New Economy and the Trump Rump - The New York Times - Why we went from regional divide to political chasm. - Krugman
The two big reasons there really might be a recession in 2020 - The Washington Post
Tech's 'FAANG' stocks have lost more than $1 trillion and counting from highs amid tech rout
Once popular tech stocks like Facebook and Apple are now getting crushed: Here's what happened (Zuck is a crook; iPhones are too expensive; bitcoin tanking)


In blow to Trump's immigration agenda, federal judge blocks asylum ban for migrants who enter illegally from Mexico
Feds have paid undercover informants in migrant caravan - The 4,000 migrants have used WhatsApp text message groups to communicate along their journey, and DHS personnel have joined those groups to gather info.
Troops Rushed To Border To Guard Against Caravan Leaving Before Migrants Arrive : politics

Mueller might soon bring charges that even Trump die-hards can't trivialize
Trump Wanted to Order Justice Dept. to Prosecute Comey and Clinton - The New York Times
Morat20 comments on Trump Wanted to Order Justice Dept. to Prosecute Comey and Clinton
Thread by @SethAbramson: "(THREAD) Pre-election Russia collusion may take down Trump. It's equally possible the Trumps' pre- and post-election collusion with Saudi Arabia the UAE, and Israel will do it -- a course of collusion also connected to the Kremlin []"
Mueller Controversy: Trump Has Repeatedly Broken His Oath of Office. Now It's Up to Congress to Hold Him Accountable.
Mueller says powers still intact amid DOJ overhaul - POLITICO
Americans divide along partisan lines over protecting special counsel - CBS News poll - CBS News - Overall, 52 percent of Americans think Congress should pass legislation to protect the special counsel in charge of the Russia investigation from being fired, including three out of four Democrats and most independents. Sixty-seven percent of Republicans, however, disagree. (Fox-watching morons support Russian control of America)
Carolyne Cass Admits Mueller Rape Report Has False Information She Didn't Want Published - Cass opens up and tells us that she does not know if Mueller was actually the person who raped her and that both Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman published and shared, against her will 'inaccurate' statements

Suddenly, Matthew Whitaker's Financial Disclosure Form Is Going to See the Light of Day

We now know more about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's finances than we do Trump's
Misogyny has become central to the Republican mission -- and the GOP is dying as a result

Trump's Base Isn't Enough - the 2018 wave was indisputably unlike any other in recent midterm history: It came with exceptionally high turnout. Turnout is currently estimated at 116 million voters, or 49.4 percent of the voting-eligible population. That's an astounding number; only 83 million people voted in 2014, by contrast

Ivanka Trump Repeatedly Used Personal Email at White House, Review Finds - The New York Times
Did Someone Say...EMAILS? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Lock her up? : politics
'Fox & Friend' spent months blasting Hillary Clinton's email use. Ivanka Trump got 25 seconds.
Nate Silver on Twitter: "If you're one of those news organizations that treated Clinton's private emails like they were a national emergency, the solution isn't to treat Ivanka's private emails like they're also a national emergency -- rather, it's to acknowledge that you kinda fucked up on Clinton."

Obama suggests Trump has 'mommy issues' | Daily Mail Online - -- Without mentioning Trump by name, he said says the reason the problems aren't solved is because of 'hate, anger, racism, mommy issues'

He's an architect in Manhattan. He got $3,300 from Trump's farm bailout


Obama praises 'extraordinary' Pelosi amid leadership battle
Marcia Fudge vouched for man now accused of killing ex-wife - POLITICO - The potential rival to Nancy Pelosi for speaker faces a new political problem. (Dems try to undermine all the work voters did)
Nancy Pelosi Revived Obamacare After Democrats Left It for Dead - Nancy Pelosi's Fight (but shes old! and a woman!)

Stacey Abrams Says She Was Almost Blocked From Voting In Georgia Election : politics

Mississippi Senate race devolves into racial melee - POLITICO - One ad showed Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith with black men in nooses (not a bit racist) .
Embattled Hyde-Smith posted photo of herself in confederate hat - POLITICO - "Mississippi history at its best" she said ... where she posed for a picture she put on Facebook. (the whistles have become shrieks)
Walmart withdraws donations to Cindy Hyde-Smith after criticism

They're prepping for a race war. And they see Trump as their 'ray of hope' - South Africa has become a twisted meme for the far right online. A favorite for extreme right-wingers like Katie Hopkins, a British provocateur, and Laura Southern, a Canadian alternative media personality, who have developed a substantial following. (black boogeypeople coming for your trailer park as Trump stokes the fires in their tiny brains)

Xochitl Torres Small wins New Mexico 2nd District to boost Democrat House majority - Democrats have now flipped a net 38 GOP-held seats, expanding their majority in the Congress that starts in January.

Arkansas's s Medicaid experiment has proved disastrous - This summer, Arkansas became the first state to require poor people to prove they're employed to receive Medicaid. Critics say the state is trying to save money on the backs of the poor. That's nonsense, Arkansas officials reply. They want to *help* the poor (sadistic Republican fuckers fucking poor people)

Trump Fans Sink Savings Into 'Iraqi Dinar' Scam -- President's true believers are convinced he's going to make them millionaires with Iraqi currency. (with his face on it; morons will be morons)


Actress Claims Michael Avenatti Dragged Her Across Apartment, Called Her An 'Ungrateful Fucking Bitch'

Giving Money to an Elite Private University is the Worst Kind of "Charity" - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Bloomfuck) Matthews is right that there have been much worse vanity donations to universities that don't need the money, but if you want bang for the buck state schools without selective admissions are where to go.


It's Almost as Though "Pro-Life" Advocates Aren't - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "pro-l;ife" advocates in the Ohio legislature are advocating killing women and doctors.

Former MSU president Lou Anna Simon charged with two felonies for lying about Nassar investigation - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Former MSU President Lou Anna Simon has been charged with lying to police, making her the third person charged by the Michigan Attorney General's Office in its investigation of the university related to Larry Nassar -- The utterly disgraceful conduct of Michigan States Board of Trustees during this horror show should never be forgotten.


5-year-old girl, sister of Taylor Hayes, is shot in West Baltimore, expected to survive, police say - Baltimore Sun

The girl in the wheelchair was told she was critically ill. Her mother's brutal murder exposed the truth = Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental condition where a parent grafts fictitious sicknesses onto a child.

Prosecutors blame serial rapist for 1969 murder of Harvard student Jane Britton - The Boston Globe - (wheels of justice grinding very slowly)

Mom sues Texas Roadhouse after being told to cover up while breastfeeding : news

Glamour Magazine to Cease Regular Print Publication - The New York Times - yes another women's magazine is moving away from print (pivot to digital!)


A significant proportion of suicidal teens treated in one psychiatric emergency department said that watching the Netflix series '13 Reasons Why' had increased their suicide risk, a University of Michigan study finds. : science

Representative Joe Kennedy reverses himself, calls for pot legalization nationwide - The Boston Globe - change of heart comes in an opinion piece for STAT on the same day that recreational marijuana sales began for the first time in Massachusetts. (retarded, and looking at you, Maaaty and Chaawlie)
Here are the menu's at Massachusett's first 2 recreational marijuana dispensaries
A look at what people in Massachusetts are Googling on the first day of recreational marijuana sales - The Boston Globe
A look at how long wait times are in the lines outside the two recreational marijuana shops in Massachusetts - The Boston Globe (with pics of potheads! for their employers to see



Prenatal exposure to air pollution linked to autism: a cohort study of more than 129,000 children found a modest association between exposure of nitric oxide (a traffic air pollutant) to pregnant women, and a higher risk of their children developing autism by the age of 5. : science




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A fire, a newborn baby and a pact: Tales of survival from Paradise - San Francisco Chronicle - Remarkable escapes as firestorm swept through town

Chicago hospital shooting: Police officer, gunman and 2 others dead after Mercy Hospital attack - Chicago Tribune

Anti-vaccination stronghold in N.C. hit with state's worst chickenpox outbreak in 2 decades -- a school in North Carolina where many families claim religious exemption from vaccines ... Asheville Waldorf School (Jesus said no-vax, anti-vax idiots call it "medical terrorism")
Anti-vaccination stronghold in N.C. hit with state's worst chickenpox outbreak in 2 decades


Stats about girls in India are alarming. Meet 18-year-old Anjali. - The Lily - Girlhood Around the World

An Irish teenager said she was raped. Then her lacy underwear was used against her. - The Washington Post

Pompeo handed Riyadh a plan to shield MBS from Khashoggi fallout: Source | Middle East Eye - US Secretary of State gave Mohammed bin Salman a roadmap to insulate himself from the scandal, a senior Saudi source tells MEE
After Khashoggi murder, some Saudi royals turn against king's favorite son

Troops at U.S.-Mexican border to start coming home - POLITICO

Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year - The Washington Post (so, Lock! Her! Up!)
Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year : politics

Ex-FBI Lawyer Drops Big Hints on Trump Obstructing Justice

Denial is not a foreign policy - The Washington Post
Trump once again rejects US intelligence he finds inconvenient : politics

Book Offers Firsthand Account of a Venomous Den Inside the White House - The New York Times - Cliff Sims, a former Trump aide who has written a new book, kept hundreds of pages of notes during his time at the White House

A look at Trump's 'A-lus' weekend: Finnish leaf-raking, 'Pleasure,' Calif., and Adam Schitt

CNN drops suit against White House after Acosta's press pass is fully restored -- New rules -- Reporters must ask only one question of the president at news conferences, but they can follow up with another if the president consents. A reporter must then "yield the floor" including giving up a microphone. Failure to abide by these rules, the White House letter said, will result in revocation of a journalist's White House pass.
Trump targets Acosta ouster -- again -- So a court fight could result in a precedent that curtails freedom to cover the most powerful official in the world from the literal front row.
White House Tells Acosta He Will Be Banned Again in Two Weeks : news

The most revealing quote from Trump's latest Fox New interview ... "we got rid of the individual mandate, which was the most unpopular thing you can imagine, health care -- I got rid of it" ("extremism in defense of insanity is no sin")
3 takeaways from Trump's testy Fox News interview -- "The one most important takeaway from the interview is that Trump is bonkers and unfit for public office."
Trump's pattern of insulting war heroes continues with commander of bin Laden raid - insults of war heroes and military families who criticize him are a feature, not a bug, of his presidency. (yeah, Cadet Bone Spurs knows all about military stuff)
Trump's Attacks on Admiral McRaven Have Successfully Pissed Off Everyone

Trump's Border Stunt Is a Profound Betrayal of Our Military -- The president used America's military not against any real threat but as toy soldiers, with the intent of manipulating a domestic midterm election.

'Takes all of the oxygen out' : Trump further divides political map for 2020 - Nearly 6 in 10 white, college-educated women voted for a Democratic House candidate, an eight-point increase from the 51?percent that supported Hillary Clinton in 2016. Young people also moved, with 67 percent of voters under the age of 30 supporting a Democrat in the House, compared to 55 percent who supported Clinton.

Trump's crowd-size estimates: Increasingly unbelievable

Why did Trump's lies fail so badly? Important new data provides a clue. -- With the Democratic edge in the House popular vote now swelling to nearly eight points -- 53 percent to 45.3 percent -- it's clear that the country decisively rejected this Trumpist story ... All of the districts across the country that will now be controlled by Democrats "account for 61 percent of America's gross domestic product" while all the districts that will now be controlled by Republicans account for 38 percent.

A $12 Billion Program to Help Farmers Stung by Trump's Trade War Has Aided Few - Mr. Trump, who has had broad support in many farm states, still insists that his get-tough approach to trade will ultimately help American farmers ... (moronocracy suckers: Make America Shit Again and "Sonny' Perdue has a big fat belly)

From dire warnings to happy talk: Trump changes his tune after the midterms - The Washington Post


Sixteen dissident Democrats vow to oppose Pelosi as next speaker - The Washington Post ... Seth Moulton (Mass.) ... Stephen F. Lynch (Mass.) (Dems will always, always, fuck things up)
Seth Moulton, Stephen Lynch sign letter opposing Nancy Pelosi as speaker - The Boston Globe
Rep. Seth Moulton faces town-hall pushback for opposing Pelosi - POLITICO
This Is Just Sad - Lawyers, Guns & Money - #13WhiteGuys
Erik Loomis on Twitter: "This increasingly feels like an IDC caucus in the Democratic Party attacking the fact that the party is moving to the left. https://t.co/iIRVNgm5AN"

Always Projection: The Invention of Political Correctness - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The conservative movement has long dismissed the value of neutral expertise


No, Democrats Didn't Win The Senate. But They Did Better Than It Seems - Democrats lost seats in the Senate, but still overperformed

Thomas Farr Devised Ways to Keep Blacks From Voting. Mitch McConnell Wants to Make Him a Judge. - A protigi of Jesse Helms wrote a law targeting minority voters with 'surgical precision' in North Carolina - His nomination is part of a plan to pack the courts with extremists.

Why the blood of a 1955 Mississippi murder drenches today's Senate race - Will Bunch -- Cindy Hyde-Smith (evil bitch, front row at the lynching! )
If Republicans don't want to be called racist ... (maybe they shouldn't act like racist assholes)


Sherrod Brown Is Right to Say Brian Kemp Stole the Georgia Governor's Election from Stacey Abrams - Lessons from Sherrod Brown and Chuck Todd.

How Marco Rubio's sad decline explains the Republican Party (Trump cocksucker)
Brenda Snipes submits resignation as Broward elections supervisor - Sun Sentinel
DID BRENDA KILL BILL? (looks like it: bad ballot design by incompetent Dem kills Bill Nelson)

GOP Legislatures Try To Curb Democratic Governors' Power -- Some of the steps Republicans are expected to take will almost surely be challenged in court. (b/c they can, and they are purely evil)


How Trump administration pressure to dump 4-H's LGBT policy led to Iowa leader's firing (only took them 6 months to go this deep into thir hatreds)

Wisconsin Republicans Get Fewer Votes, Claim Mandate to Govern from Gerrymandered Districts


A Record Number of Women Were Just Elected But The Women's March Is Imploding -- group just can't igure out how to deal with its Louis Farrakhan problem.

The Truth About George Soros Tablet Magazine - Understanding the Jewish billionaire -- who is neither the villain of right-wing caricature, nor the angel of left-wing hagiography

The Domination of Fake News - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This story about how the invented propaganda Facebook spreads for profit works is chilling:

Eschaton: The Racism Is Coming From Inside Your Neighbor's House - One of the obvious myths embraced by our objectitudinal journamalismists is that racism is something for hicks from the sticks, and maybe the occasional southern politician, and that's it.

Emily Scheck, a lesbian runner at Canisius College, regains eligibility in NCAA funding dispute - The Washington Post (too much bad PR, even for monsters, and also, her lying parents are very bad people who will never live down their evil, hello, Timothy Scheck, infamous on the internets for all eternity)

FBI now classifies far-right Proud Boys as 'extremist group', documents say : news


Denver Dad Chris Watts Gets Life in Prison as Attorneys Reveal Daughter Fought for Her Life


International Men's Day: More heels! - Lawyers, Guns & Money


The Boston Globe creates a new section dedicated to marijuana coverage - The Boston Globe


MDMA makes people cooperative, but not gullible. In a study of 20 adult men, participants playing a game cooperated more if they'd taken MDMA, but only if their opponent was trustworthy. : science

I am an employment attorney here to tell you how to respond to sexual harassment in the workplace in the "#MeToo" era. Ask Me Anything! : IAmA

Members of the multi-billionaire philanthropic Sackler family that owns the maker of prescription painkiller OxyContin are facing mass litigation and likely criminal investigation over the opioids crisis still ravaging America. : news

[Serious] Cancer survivors of Reddit, when did you first notice something was wrong? : AskReddit

What is your opinion on the moon? : AskReddit

/u/hexjunki laments the death of fictional world-building in the face of endless plagiarism. : bestof

Tekashi69 Arrested on Racketeering, Firearms Charges : news

Who's someone that "gets a pass" because they're famous but really shouldn't because they've done/are involved in some shady sh*t? : AskReddit
What's the worst adult tantrum you've ever witnessed? : AskReddit
The 90s had blind dating, in the 2000's we had FWB's , 2010's gave us Tinder, what will be the new dating trend of the next decade? : AskReddit


The Biggest Threat to Free Speech No One Is Talking About: It's not being mean to reporters, "The biggest freedom-of-the-press issue is that Trump is working with Comcast and AT&T and Verizon to end net neutrality." : technology




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Cleaning Up the Cuyahoga - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught on fire. This was hardly the first time. It had happened several times actually. In fact, it was so not notable that there are no known images of the fire. It was too commonplace.

School shootings have fueled a $2.7 billion school safety industry. What makes kids safer? - Washington Post - Billions are being spent to protect children from school shootings. Does any of it work? (no, but the fear and death industry profits)
Holy crap, Mad Magazine isn't pulling any punches. - Album on Imgur ... Z is for ZOE who won't be the last
Holy crap, Mad Magazine isn't pulling any punches. : pics - I mean, around 16 people were killed and 55 injured in shootings across the US just yesterday according to gunviolencearchive.org. That's almost as many people that died at Parkland.

After trading barbs all year, Newsom and Trump meet at California fire zone - POLITICO (oh look, Newsom is 6 inches taller than Trumpster)
California fire: What started as a tiny brush fire became the state's deadliest wildfire. Here's how
California fire: Death toll in and around Paradise grows to 76 with 1,276 still missing as Trump visits - Los Angeles Times
Trump told Niinistv revealed raking being crucial part of fire prevention in Finland -- The Finnish president says he never mentioned raking (you don't mean Trump lied, again?)
Smoke from California's Camp Fire : gifs

'You should have died in the Holocaust' : Neo-Nazi harassment is not free speech, judge rules ... Court documents note that by spring 2017, the family had received more than 700 violent and threatening communications ... "There is no First Amendment right to call upon hundreds of thousands of readers to launch a public attack on a private individual with the intent of ruining her life. That's simply not something that our Constitution protects" ("hundreds of thousands" in the flying-monkey army of Trump Nazi zombies)

Death toll rises to 11 children in adenovirus outbreak at New Jersey rehabilitation center : news


The Land That Failed to Fail - The New York Times - China Rules - The West was sure the Chinese approach would not work. It just had to wait. It's still waiting. (But Larry Summers told us it would fail!)


Dominic Raab: Restart Brexit talks and say UK won't be 'bullied' POLITICO (conservative assholes always project their evil)
New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica's Role in Brexit - Newly surfaced e-mails show that the former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, and Cambridge Analytica, the Big Data company that he worked for at the time, were simultaneously incubating both nationalist political movements in 2015. (lock up the fascist fuckers)
Eschaton: Prime Minister Deals - The first "agreement" (which hasn't yet been agreed to) was about more high minded framework stuff. The next set of dealing is where every single country in the EU gets to demand their little piece -- A seven-page declaration published last week is set to become a much heavier document after member states made a series of interventions in meetings with the European commission for additional text. One EU diplomat said: "It's a Christmas tree and all the member states are putting their baubles on it." (hahaha nationalist Brit fuckers)


Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder premature but possible | Reuters (refused to listen to the tape of Khassoggi screaming, said it was "fake news" probably invented by "lying Acosta.")
Trump: 'I Don't Want to Hear Khashoggi Tape -- I"t's a suffering tape. It's a terrible tape. I've been fully briefed on it. There's no reason for me to hear it. ... It was very violent, very vicious, and terrible" ("but I don't believe Mohammed Bone Saw had anything to do with it")
Trump on Khashoggi death tape: 'No reason for me to hear it' (Arab fuckers bought him, years ago, on sale after Putin took the best outfits)
Trump Says He Was 'Fully Briefed' and Also 'Not Briefed Yet' But Either Way Saudi Crown Prince 'Absolutely' Not Involved Because Trump Knows 'Everything That Went On' Without Listening to Tape of Khashoggi Murder
Trump: 'I Don't Want to Hear' Khashoggi Tape
Trump: 'I don't know' if Saudi prince lied (said the biggest liar)
'Smoking gun' would help implicate Saudi prince, Senate Republican says ... Missouri Republican Roy Blunt, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee (doesn't believe US "Intelligence" ("I need the video of Mohammed Bone Saw chopping him up," Blunt said. "Then maybe I might start to believe this improbable anti-Trump story about some stupid fake-news guy" he said)
Top White House Official for Saudi Policy Resigns: NYT - The Daily Beast (fired, actually, for not being pro-murder enough)


The U.S. joined with Russia, China and North Korea in rejecting cyber pact. Nobody will say why. : politics (a mystery)


Trump Claims He 'Did Not Know' Whitaker's Views on Russia Probe (and if you believe that ...)
Trump says he wouldn't stop acting attorney general from curtailing Mueller probe (but he would never tell him to do that) Trump also said Sunday that he could not envision a situation in which he would try to amend the Constitution to run for a third term as president in 2024. (said the lying liar President for Life)

Trump suggests venerated Navy SEAL commander should have found bin Laden faster - The Washington Post (support our troops!)

Republicans battle to defend Trump from threat of impeachment - POLITICO - Lawmakers are jockeying for the top GOP spot on the House Judiciary Committee, which will be ground zero for Democratic attacks on the president ... Jim Jordan, R-Asshole)
Trump labels Schiff 'little Adam Schitt'
Trump's "three-hour work day" is over once a Democratic congress starts investigating, conservative CNN host says (they coming for you, Big Trump Shit)
Trump Says He's Unlikely to Sit for Interview in Russia Investigation - President Trump had maintained over the past year that he was willing to be interviewed by the special counsel - The president also claimed that he had no idea that his acting attorney general, Matthew G. Whitaker, viewed the Mueller investigation skeptically, despite reports that the two had multiple conversations about the inquiry over the past year. (Satan lies, always)


Unfixable: Several nations have tried to restore democracy after populist strongmen. It was never the same. - The Washington Post - Several nations have tried to restore democracy after populist strongmen. It was never the same. (Trumpsters have wrecked the country permanently)

Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump | FiveThirtyEight (the real "big sort" -- people with brains and the fox-watching walking dead)

: How lies become truth in online America ... one of the most popular on Facebook among Trump-supporting conservatives over 55.


These Americans Are Done With Politics - The New York Times - The Exhausted Majority needs a break. (oh look, the NYT does yet another of their endless series of visits to Iowa/Kansas to interview very special red staters who are very "exhausted"

'A cancer on democracy' : the battle to end gerrymandering in America

Maine's pioneering ranked-choice election likely to catch on nationally (get up to speed, Massholes)

Is Trump country really better off under Trump? No. It's falling further behind

Chuck Schumer, feckless hack - Well, in 2017, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) opened an investigation into Facebook over Russiagate and misinformation generally. (Far from being some fire-breathing populist, Warner is among the most milquetoast, business-friendly Democrats who has ever held high office.) But Schumer has raised more money from Facebook than any other member of Congress, his daughter works there, and he helped get his former staffer appointed to the Federal Trade Commission (which oversees Facebook). In concert with Facebook brass, he told Warner to lay off the company, reported the Times: (Chuckie Fuckie is a neo-con self-serving crooked asshole)

Andrew Gillum Concedes Florida Gubernatorial Race To Ron DeSantis | HuffPost - The announcement comes after a week and a half of uncertainty over a recount.
Stacey Abrams Acknowledges Loss In Georgia Governor's Race


These House Committees Could Make Or Break A Progressive Agenda | HuffPost - The fight for the future of the Democratic Party is already happening on Capitol Hill ... four ultra-powerful committees: Appropriations, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, or Financial Services.

Women Won The House For Democrats, But Men May End Up Running It | HuffPost - Congresswomen eager to take on leadership roles may get edged out by influential male colleagues. Not a good look, folks! (men are increasingly the problem, everywhere)

Ocasio-Cortez backs campaign to primary fellow Democrats - POLITICO - The incoming congresswoman endorses an effort by the group Justice Democrats to make the House Democratic Caucus more liberal and diverse by taking on incumbents. (get rid of pink fucker Moulton, pls)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins the rigged conservative shame game by refusing to play : politics - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins the rigged conservative shame game -- by refusing to play

After a bumpy day of missing ballots, troubled Broward recount put on ice until the morning - Sun Sentinel


Say Adios to Matt Rinaldi, the Texas Lawmaker Who Called ICE to Report Latino Protesters (bye-bye, asshole) Maybe ICE is hiring.


America Is Blaming Pregnant Women for Their Own Deaths : politics - Maternal mortality rates ... The US is doing better than Brazil, about as good as Armenia and slightly better than Afghanistan. (and by "America" we mean "homoicdal Repubican Red State Fuckers")

The Best Way To Save People From Suicide - The Huffington Post - "What if this is what we should be doing? What if it's tht simple?" ... "If you plan on killing yourself this weekend, I need to know" (worth the read, Cyndi)

'Predatory' Dartmouth professors plied students with alcohol and raped them : news

The dramatic implosion of 'I Kissed Dating Goodbye' is a lesson -- and a warning ... published in 1997 by then-21-year-old Joshua Harris, launched a revolution in the evangelical Christian world ... Sexual impurity was a "grimy film that coats the soul" ... Fast-forward to 2016: Those teens who swore off dating have grown up, and they're angry. (trapped in a culture of Satan's lies)

Far right protesters left stranded in Philadelphia after taxi drivers refuse to pick them up | The Independent - Only two dozen marchers turn up to right wing rally

School has SEVENTEEN children changing gender as teacher says vulnerable pupils are being 'tricked' nto believing they are the wrong sex -- Whistleblower teacher makes shocking claim that 'most are autistic' | Daily Mail Online ... powerful transgender lobby ... convincing autistic children ... they are the wrong sex (transepidemic)

The Battle Of Athens | american HERITAGE - The GIs came home to find that a political machine had taken over their Tennessee county. What they did about it astounded the nation.
The Battle of Athens -- When WWII Veterans stood up to the corrupt Local Government in Tennessee ... Due to prior scams involved in local elections, the GI's pointed out their slogan -- Your Vote Will Be Counted As Cast ... The GI Government collapsed in 1947 and was replaced with a clique similar to the one they had been fighting against
Battle of Athens (1946) - Wikipedia

One of Jesus's Most Famous Lines Wasn't in Original Gospels -- One of the most famous moral teachings involving Jesus and an adulterous woman didn't become part of the Bible until at least a hundred years after the Gospel of John was written. - "Judge not lest ye be judged" ("Let him is who without sin cast the first rock" and Jesus "wrote" many books)

What Great Listeners Actually Do - Harvard Business Review - Pocket (HBS tells you how to have a human-to-human conversation)


An inside look at how sadistic the American mental health system is. : bestof

Students who receive sexuality education, including refusal skills training, before college matriculation are at lower risk of experiencing sexual assault during college. : science

A new study finds that cutting your time on social media to 30 minutes a day reduces your risk of depression and loneliness : technology


ELI5: the term 'Bourgeois Nationalism' : explainlikeimfive

Older people of Reddit, what do you think is BETTER about today's youth? : AskReddit

What is the moment during your relationship that made you decide "I will marry you."? : AskReddit
What is your NSFW secret you are NOT proud of? : AskReddit
Reddit, what is the worst secret your SO is keeping from you, but that you actually know? : AskReddit

What's the worst case of over-sharing you've experienced on social media? : AskReddit
People who've been blocked on Twitter by a famous person, what got you blocked ? (see the Dan Schneider riff)


Smart speakers have no idea how to give us news - The Verge (google is reinventing radio and it sucks)

Tumblr is missing from Apple's App Store -- Apple has removed apps from the store in the past. Earlier this year, it booted Telegram after it became clear that the messaging app was being used to distribute child pornography. (see, the reason why you can't stop governments from spying on you is always child porno)




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Likely New House Science Chair Seeks to Move Away from "Suspicion" of Science (and reality in general)

Since 9/11, the U.S. has spent $6 trillion on wars that have caused half a million deaths: report : politics (keep looking forward, so we can do it all over again)

Trump: Not raking weeds contributing to fires : politics
In California, One Community Reflects on a Fire as Others Still Burn - The New York Times
Trump again suggests California mismanaged forests as he heads to fire-damaged state - The Washington Post - Trump's response to natural disasters has varied, and sometimes appears to depend on the partisan makeup of the state or region affected.
Camp Fire's Missing Person List Climbs To 1,011 As Statewide Death Toll Rises To 74
Camp Fire refugees create new town of 'Wallywood' as officials struggle with housing crisis - "This is on an order of magnitude beyond what we thought was one of the worst disaster recoveries we would be faced with"
Smoke Days Are Now California's Snow Days -- Wildfire smoke has closed schools and canceled events across Northern California. But not everyone can stay indoors.

The New York Area Was Nearly Paralyzed by 6 Inches of Snow. What Went Wrong? - The New York Times

U.S. Household Debt is Nearly a Trillion Dollars Higher Than it Was Before The 2008 Recession : politics (wait, you mean it trickled UP?)


France's climate change commitments trigger rising diesel prices and street protests

Eschaton: Bored Now - Perhaps Theresa May's cunning plan has been "no Brexit" all along?
Immigration worries drove the Brexit vote. Then attitudes changed. - The Washington Post - 48 percent in June 2016 to 17 percent in October (b/c Putin's propaganda stopped)

Israel Police to recommend Netanyahu be tried for media corruption : news

The once poisoned and imprisoned foes of Putin gather in London - The Washington Post - Russian dissidents and their Western allies honor Sergei Magnitsky.

Argentina's missing submarine found a year after it vanished with 44 aboard. : news

Russian tipped to take over Interpol in Kremlin victory | News | The Times - A Russian official is favourite to be the next head of Interpol in spite of concerns that Moscow has been using the international policing agency to target political opponents ... The election follows the disappearance of Meng Hongwei,

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi's assassination (Trump and Jared are complicit)
CIA Khashoggi findings 'highly damaging' to Mohammed bin Salman - Agency must have solid proof that Saudi prince ordered journalist's killing, says official ... It came after Donald Trump and his national security adviser, John Bolton, had tried to shield him from criminal investigations that have incriminated 21 Saudi agents in the grisly murder. (so, complicit in torture and murder)

CIA Determines Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Jamal Khashoggi's Assassination - The conclusion that Mohammed bin Salman ordered the journalist's murder contradict the Saudi government's version

Trump speaks with CIA about Khashoggi killing - The Washington Post
Trump hails Saudis as 'spectacular ally' in wake of CIA Khashoggi reports (they help us how, again?)
Trump is defending Mohammed bin Salman's lies. Congress must insist on the truth. (his face is big but his brain is small) Jared Kushner raised concerns among administration officials by communicating with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on private channels, including through WhatsApp : worldnews - Jared Kushner's ties to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Mohammed Bone Saw)

Khassoggi Death: Trump won't believe his own intelligence community -- again ... Trump has been shown evidence of the prince's involvement but remains skeptical that Mohammed ordered the killing. (traitor-in-chief is owned by RU and SA but he has the "best brain")

Woman says she married Khashoggi in ceremony kept secret from his fiancee and some in his family - The Washington Post
If Trump sacrifices Fethullah Gulen to protect Saudi Arabia, he will make a mockery of the U.S. extradition system : politics

Decades of Fake News, Courtesy of the Kremlin : politics

Are Jared and Ivanka Good for the Jews? - The New York Times - Jewish communities stand more divided than ever on whether to embrace or denounce Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. (very divided on the totally evil question)

Decorated Navy SEAL Is Accused of War Crimes in Iraq - The New York Times


How the Trump Administration Stepped Up Pursuit of WikiLeaks's Assange - a remarkable shift by both the American government and President Trump, who repeatedly lauded WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign for its releases of Democratic emails, stolen by Russian agents, that damaged his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Booting Jim Acosta from the White House was bad for press rights. Charging Julian Assange might be worse. - The Washington Post
Trump: If Someone Pulls an Acosta in the Future, 'I Will Leave' (if they are impolite to the supreme leader)


More than 14,000 immigrant children are in U.S. custody, an all-time high - SFChronicle.com (America hates children)


Trump'ss battle to destroy the Mueller investigation is officially doomed - His attempts to fight Mueller were so ham-handed and so public that it made it impossible for him and his administration to shut Mueller down. (obstructer-in-chief, lock him up! )

In Which Brett Kavanaugh's Replacement is Somehow More Evil Than Brett Kavanaugh - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Especially popular in Florida bars, dwarf-tossing is the strange spectacle in which competitors throw Velcro-clad little people at a wall or mattress like a shotput. The longest toss wins. (yes, it's stupid and evil all the way down)

Matthew Whitaker's denial about his company's alleged fraud just suffered a major blow (lying asshole bully crook now running DOJ)
Opinion | Matthew Whitaker and the Corruption of Justice - The New York Times - whether it is part of a broader attempt to subvert the rule of law.
"Illegal, Unheard of, Highly Suspicious" : Where Is Matthew Whitaker' Financial Disclosure Form? (hahaha where is Trump's?)
Think Matthew Whitaker is a hack? He's one of many (hacktocracy)
Subject of Mueller probe boasts of ties to acting AG Matt Whitaker - Sam Clovis talked about his "very good friend" Whitaker.

'This would be a very good time to do a shutdown' Trump says ... if Congress fails to give him the money he wants to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. (shut down youself, you idiot)

House Democrats to Step Up Probe of Trump-Russia Ties - WSJ - Adam Schiff wants to learn more about a deceased GOP activist who sought Hillary Clinton's private emails (Trump bumped him off)

Lou Dobbs Loses His Mind After CNN Defeats White House Over Acosta's Press Access (Fox-brained)

Opinion | Trump Is Beginning to Lose His Grip - The New York Times - It isn't just white suburban women who switched to Democrats. Parts of rural and white working class America peeled off too.
The Democratic blue wave was real: Midterm elections proved that Republicans have only a tenuous hold over the coalition that propelled Trump to the White House in 2016 : politics
Here's what a primary challenge to Trump would accomplish

Chuck Schumer Caved to Facebook and Donald Trump. He Shouldn't Lead Senate Democrats. (Chuckie Fuckie sounds a lot like a Republican asshole)

Why the Right Is So Obsessed With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : politics

America's Election Grid Remains a Patchwork of Vulnerabilities (one of Obama's lowest priorities)

Democratic Rep. Moulton draws fire for campaign to deny Pelosi speaker's job - Prominent liberal activists are openly floating a primary challenge to the two-term Massachusetts congressman, the instigator of the nearly 20 Democratic foes to Pelosi and one who helped recruit several of the incoming freshmen opposing her (speaking of self-serving assholes, vote the fucker out!)
Don't blow it, Democrats. There's only one choice to be the next speaker.


Nearly 3,000 Votes Disappeared From Florida's Recount. That's Not Supposed to Happen (when you let Repubicans count the votes)

Rep. Mia Love jumps ahead of Ben McAdams by 419 votes after updates from Utah, Salt Lake counties - The Salt Lake Tribune (UT finds more Republican votes)

Hyde-Smith Accepts $2,700 Donation from Notorious White Supremacist | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS
In Mississippi, Republican concern rises over a U.S. Senate runoff that should have been a romp - The Washington Post - Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith stumbled recently when, in praise of a supporter, she spoke of her willingness to sit in the front row of a public hanging if he invited her

RIP, California GOP: Republicans lash out after midterm election debacle - POLITICO - There is no message. There is no messenger. There is no money. And there is no infrastructure - In the wake of a near-political annihilation in California that has left even longtime conservative stronghold Orange County bereft of a single Republican in the House of Representatives ... only one hope for reviving the flatlining party: Blow it up and start again from scratch. (yeah, that'll work also b/c you're still Republican assholes)
Going, going ... with midterm wipeout, California Republican Party drifts closer to irrelevance - Los Angeles Times ... "It's dead. It exists in small regional pockets, where there are enough white, non-college-educated working-class communities for there to be a Republican Party. But that's not much"

Ranked-choice voting: Maine proved the concept in 2018 midterms

Republican Governor Says Trump Makes People Into Victims, Encourages them to Blame Others, and Will Never Heal or Unite - Ohio Governor John Kasich, a possible 2020 candidate,

Abortions are declining in Ohio, property taxes for schools are rising. Which issue do you think GOP lawmakers are targeting? Thomas Suddes | cleveland.com - No question, Ohio has had its problems. Unlike Indiana, though, the Buckeye State has never elected a Ku Klux Klan member its governor.

"You Don't Critique My Journalism, I Critique Your Journalism!" - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Axios, the innovative meida website that does the center-right inside-baseball gossip format the site's founders made famous, only as bullet point executive summaries: ... All "the shit that's distracting" is, apparently, paragraphs and complex sentences. (simple sentences for simple minds) Look, we've talked to a wide spectrum of affluent conservatives, and they all agree that policies that benefit affluent conservatives are best for the country! WHO ARE YOU? (bullet point: Vanderhei is an asshole) ... "smart brevity format"

"Senator, Why Are You Being Arrested?" (Georgia Republican Fuckers, they wanted her vagina searched for extra cruelty)

The last Republican. Chris Smith is the lone survivor of N.J.'s blue wave in Washington.

A Gay Councilman in Texas, Ousted From Office, Says He Was Blackmailed With Naked Photos - The New York Times (dude, think next time)
A Gay Councilman in Texas, Ousted From Office, Says He Was Blackmailed With Naked Photos : news

Dartmouth students shocked, angered over abuse allegations in lawsuit - The Boston Globe
Dartmouth students sue college, alleging sexual assault by professors - The Boston Globe ... a "21st-century Animal House" ... For years Dartmouth did little to rein in the professors ... Dartmouth's conduct was wanton, malicious, outrageous, and conducted with full knowledge of the law. (professor-gropy-bros made sex a course requirement)

After man was gunned down by US Park Police, two lawmakers want more body cams : politics (as usual, they got away with murder)

Authorities find a rocket launcher and pipe bombs during massive Florida white supremacist sting - Thirty-nine members of the United Aryan Brotherhood and Unforgiven neo-Nazi groups were arrested in a Florida drug trafficking sting

D.C.'s Neo-Nazi Brothers Were Hiding In Plain Sight

Third autopsy results show non-accidental damage to boy found dead in rolled up in gym mat (quite the coverup)
Man, 78, confesses to 90 unsolved murders over four decades, say police : news

Hershee bar: One of the oldest lesbian bars is to be demolished. The city wants a dog park. - The Washington Post ($1.5M for dog park, Lesbians are lower than dogs, is the message)

Yogurt shop employees 'scared' of black man supervising mother-son custody visit -- so cops ask him to 'move along'

Can you fit in this bathroom? Passengers are growing but airplane bathrooms are shrinking - The Washington Post - On some of the newer planes flown by American, Delta and United airlines, the bathrooms in coach are just 24 inches wide. For comparison, that's roughly the width of the average dishwasher or the size of Kim Kardashian's waist

The case for cracking down on Tinder lies - The Washington Post - There should be a legal penalty for obtaining sex through fraud.

Number of Witches in U.S. on the Rise, May Surpass 1.5 Million ... which is higher than the 1.4 million mainline Presbyterians. (that's a lot of broomsticks flying around)

Toddler dead after accidentally shooting himself with gun found under a pillow : news

Woman in alleged GoFundMe scam claims she was set up by boyfriend, homeless man
Serial con artist swindled victims and abandoned her children for decades : news
Serial con artist swindled victims and abandoned her children

Nashville police officer alleges city retaliated after she said she was raped by another officer : news

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 350 - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jamestown was a complete disaster in its early years. See, all the European colonial incursions faced a problem: there wasn't very many of them and they violently demanded that Native people work for them for free. When those Native people got sick of being killed, it put the colony in jeopardy. This is really the story over and over again ... but that's not why people in Jamestown were eating each other. That happened because they had become so afraid to leave their tiny fort that they chose to starve rather than incur the wrath of the Native peoples around them. And this was entirely on the English. (it took 11 days from the time they landed to piss off the real Americans)

Trump admin. sued over rules blocking medical marijuana patients from gun ownership : politics
Massachusetts marijuana stores to open Tuesday - The Boston Globe - marijuana retailers in Leicester and Northampton (almost like they planned it that way)

Striking Marriot workers reach tentative agreement with hotel, union says - The Boston Globe

Columbia Gas engineer's failures at root of gas explosions, NTSB says ... with "limited knowledge" (sorry, knowledge costs money)


What's a dark part of American history that gets no attention in schools? : AskReddit


/u/Flite500 explains the top ten medicines/chemicals you should have if society collapses, if the supermarket shelves and pharmacys are empty and you need to survive for an extended period of time. : bestof

Why 536 was 'the worst year to bee alive' - Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe ... A mysterious fog ... Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse ... a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in Iceland spewed ash across the Northern Hemisphere early in 536. Two other massive eruptions followed, in 540 and 547. The repeated blows, followed by plague, plunged Europe into economic stagnation that lasted until 640

ELI5: What exactly are the potential consequences of spanking that researchers/pediatricians are warning us about? Why is getting spanked even once considered too much, and how does it affect development? : explainlikeimfive

TIL that in Michelangelo's painting "The Creation of Adam," there is an anatomically correct image of the human brain behind God, with his right arm extending to the prefrontal cortex, the most "human" part of the brain

The Swan of Tuonela - Wikipedia

6_0221415E23 comments on I'm Emily Conover, physics writer for Science News. Scientists have redefined the kilogram, basing it on fundamental constants of nature. Why? How? What's that mean? AMA!

TIL Christianity has existed in India even before it did in the western world. Since it was established by Saint Thomas the disciple following the death of Jesus. : todayilearned

An older picture of Teresa. She's the love of my life! Happy birthday honey! : pics

OP's powebill goes up by $500. Discovers room-mates bitcoin mining rig hidden in the garage. : bestof

/u/qwertyurmomisfat tells the story about his awful neighbor Caroline; a woman so infamous that other redditors chime in with their own stories about her : bestof

What's the sluttiest thing you've ever done?

What is the worst thing you've ever seen? : AskReddit

Idiocracy: The Great Dumbing Down : videos

The New York Hustle of Amazon's Second Headquarters - The city of hustlers got hustled ... Amazon might receive three billion dollars in breaks in New York alone, the equivalent of every city resident Venmoing $348 to Bezos.

She was reading about her neighbors' Amazon fears. Then came a knock on her door. (sell us your house!)


"I Hope It Cracks Who She Is Wide Open": Inside Silicon Valley, Many Have Long Known Sheryl Sandberg Isn't a Saint (Fakebook led by fake souls)
Zuckerberg Defends Company in Friday Meeting with Employees - The New York Times
Facebook Fallout Ruptures Democrats' Longtime Alliance With Silicon Valley
Facebook employees react to the latest scandals: "Why does our company suck at having a moral compass?" (look to your leaders for that answer)
Students protest Zuckerberg-backed digital learning program and ask him: 'What gives you this right?" ("depersonalized learning" - Zuckerfucks pushing charter school shit in exchange for student data, of course)




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Ocasio-Cortez gets in closed-door fight with veteran lawmaker over climate change - POLITICO - New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, incoming chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee -- slammed the creation of the new climate panel
Heat waves caused by climate change could impair male fertility across generations, scientists warn - The Washington Post (Trump's dick will fall off)
Officer Donald Trump is on the case of climate change - The Washington Post

California wildfires: Made homeless by flames, evacuees face hardship, disease and desperation - Los Angeles Times
California fires update: Death toll in Camp Fire rises to 63 - CNN
Death Toll Rises To 63 In Northern California Camp Fire, 631 Now Unaccounted For | HuffPost
The bizarre and frightening conditions that sparked the Camp Fire | Grist - "Worse than no rain is negative rain"
Camp Fire's destruction in Northern California leaves rescue teams sifting through debris for human remains

COMMUTE FROM HELL: Snowstorm Cripples NYC Area With 10-Hour Traffic Nightmare | HuffPost - Roads came to a standstill, mass transit was crippled and ride-hailing prices skyrocketed. (6 inches paralyzed NYC, just wait 'til they get some real snow)
NYC Scanner on Twitter: "Oops!! the winter weather has started. The GWB is a total lockdown. Expect Heavy traffic. " (they can't drive in snow)
Ben Feuerherd on Twitter: "There's kids on school busses after midnight because the city ground to a halt after six inches of snow fell "

Gun Control Groups Eclipse N.R.A. in Election Spending - The New York Times

Theresa May's Brexit deal gives everyone something to hate - May has made a choice from among all of the bad alternatives on offer. She has negotiated an agreement that is absolutely guaranteed to be unpopular and will make her unpopular. Already, members of her own party are calling for a vote of no confidence in her government ... (Tory clowns take UK off the cliff)
Jumping Out of the Clown Car Right Before It Goes Over the Cliff - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Raab has come to the same conclusion that David Davis and Boris Johnson reached earlier in the year: it is easier to be on the team that accuses the prime minister of failing to deliver majestic herds of unicorns than it is to be stuck with a portfolio that requires expertise in unicorn-breeding -- Given that the plan these inept dipshits supported ... (disaster)


Trump Mulls Letting Turkey Kill U.S. Resident to Help Saudis
Trump Mulls Letting Turkey Kill U.S. Resident to Help Saudis Get Away With Killing U.S. Resident : politics - "Once they realized it was a serious request, the career guys were furious" - The White House is looking for ways to remove an enemy of Turkish President Recep Erdogan from the U.S. in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ("placate" Turkey for SA's killing, makes alot of sense)
Turkey has second audio recording on Khashoggi killing: Columnist - Turkey News (and you can bet that's not all -- Erdogan is playing both Salmanella and Trumpster like fiddles


Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal inadvertently in court filing - The Washington Post - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged under seal, prosecutors inadvertently revealed in a recently unsealed court filing - a development that could significantly advance the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and have major implications for those who publish government secrets ... "The court filing was made in error. That was not the intended name for this filing" (can't do simple paper work)
Julian Assange Is Secretly Charged in U.S., Prosecutors Mistakenly Reveal - The New York Times

The 'caravan' faded from the news. Obama predicted this would happen.

Two Years In, Trump Struggles to Master Role of Military Commander - The New York Times

Trump's White House Chaos Is Worsening -- Distractions and disarray are threatening to upend Trump's presidency. Can he possibly stay focused?

It's easy to fact check Trump's lies. He tells the same ones all the time ... Fact-checking Trump is kind of like fact-checking one of those talking dolls programmed to say the same phrases for eternity, except if none of those phrases were true.
If only we could find this "Nobody" person (which, ironically, is the point)

In a 'self-defeating and self-incriminating' slip-up, Trump just admitted he installed Matthew Whitaker to kill the Russia probe

Trump says he "just finished" answering Mueller's questions ... "easily" ... "I'm not agitated [by the Mueller investigation] ... it's a hoax, the whole thing is a hoax, no collusion... no I'm very happy ... there should have never been any Mueller investigation ... they've wasted millions and millions of dollars"
Trump legal team balks at Mueller's questions on post-2016 election activity

Preparing for the worst' : Mueller anxiety pervades Trump world - Half a dozen people in contact with the White House and other Trump officials say a deep anxiety has started to set in ... have only added to the intrigue that something big is about to happen.

There are dozens of sealed criminal indictments on the DC docket. Are they from Mueller? - ABC News

Alleged Russian operative Mariia Butina negotiating with prosecutors (sic)

Top Cheney Aide in Mueller's Sights as Probe Expands - Mueller's investigators have examined an array of operatives with ties to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the UAEincluding John Hannah, Dick Cheney's former national security adviser. (meeting before the election with SA to overthrow Iran, almost like they were sure they would win)

GOP pushes Trump for new attorney general amid Mueller uproar - POLITICO - Senate Republicans hope replacing Matthew Whitaker will calm the firestorm over Trump's attacks on the special counsel.

Trump to meet with Florida's Bondi as he searches for new attorney general ... Bondi received a $25,000 campaign donation in 2013 from a charity run by Trump as her office was looking into complaints from customers of Trump University ... (crooks all the way down)

Is Mike Pence Loyal? Trump Is Asking, Despite His Recent Endorsement - The New York Times

CNN-Trump lawsuit hearing: Judge orders White House to return Jim Acosta's press pass - CNN (raging maniac wants more "decorum"

Another Trump aide tell-all due to hit shelves in January - POLITICO - Former top White House aide Cliff Sims

Mercedes Schlapp Contradicts Kellyanne Conway's Claim On 'Sped Up' Video - A White House spokeswoman on Thursday claimed that a video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta that was shared by press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had not been altered, directly contradicting White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, who previously confirmed that it was.

Wilbur Ross leaving? Mulvaney is waiting. - POLITICO - Amid the drama around higher-profile Trump officials, the president's 80-year-old Commerce chief may be on the way out.

U.S. Marshals Service spending millions on DeVos security in unusual arrangement - The cost to taxpayers could be as much as $19.8 million through next year, according to figures provided to NBC News.

Avenatti blames pro-Trump conspiracy theorist for arrest - politico = "First Mueller and now me. When we are fully exonerated I am coming for you Jacob Wohl aka Surefire"

George Conway: Republican Party has become a 'personality cult' under Trump (cult of morons)

Bette Midler Ripped For #FLOTITS Tweet About Melania Trump | HuffPost (somebody had to say it, but @FLONIPS would have been better)
Melania Trump racked up $174,000 in hotel bills for a day trip to Toronto

Fancy Bear hackers may be impersonating State Department - Axios

Yes, the campaign to take down Nancy Pelosi is sexist -- not to mention a terrible idea - Efforts to take out Pelosi aren't progressive, but backward -- She's earned the speaker's gavel the hard way (shut the fuck up, Seth)
The Democratic Insurgents Who Want to Topple Nancy Pelosi -- What do Tim Ryan and Seth Moulton really want? (to fuck over the country, obviously)
"A nameless, shapeless, faceless woman I know nothing about who will surely be perfect." - Lawyers, Guns & Money - As you would expect, Alexandra Petri is perfect on the #FiveWhiteGuys-led movement from the right of the party to depose Pelosi: ... Whatever Andy Borowitz is making Petri should be making a hundred times that.
The Costs of Dropping Pelosi - Pacific Standard - There are a few points that Democrats uncomfortable with Nanci Pelosi's leadership might want to consider before urging her to retire (written pre-wave)

Way too many Americans say suppression tactics stopped them from voting

Eschaton: All Over At 7:30 EST - There is something about spending 2 months hyping an event (election) and then wanting to "declare the narrative" at 7:30 EST, or file one version of their pre-written column, before most polls are closed and long before most votes will be counted. (Bret Stephens, ex-WSJ, now NYT asshole is an idiot)

Pelosi Mulls Super-majority Rule For Tax Hikes On Bottom 80%-- For First Act in Power, Democrats Consider Making Their Own Agenda Impossible to Pass - All this would be a bit less problematic if the Democratic Party had overcome its allergy to deficit spending (and/or accepted Modern Monetary Theory as its personal truth). (always playing on Republican turf)

Stacey Abrams Ends Fight for Georgia Governor - The New York Times

Florida recount: DeSantis looks certain to win governor's race; Senate contest goes to a manual recount (FL just elected a racist asshole and is about to elect another one)
Broward County recounted hundreds of thousands of votes for nothing - CNNPolitics -- long-agonized-over machine recount total delivered two minutes too late ... he secretary of state's office did not accept the new numbers ... after days of painstaking work ... (Republican fuckers fucking the country, again)

Stacey Abrams Prepares Push For New Vote In Georgia Governor's Race

Republicans no Longer Have a Single House Seat in New England : politics (and Susie Doozy is done in ME)

GOP Senator Says Voter Suppression Is A 'Great Idea' Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) said it should be harder for 'liberal folks' to win (just kidding, hahahaha)

Opinion | Why the Perfect Red-State Democrat Lost - The New York Times - Taylor Sappington is exactly the kind of candidate his party should want in Ohio. But he couldn't get union support ... The Republicans who assumed control of Columbus pulled off an aggressive gerrymandering of federal and state legislative districts ... And not just the building-trades unions, which sometimes side with Republicans, but the Service Employees International Union and the public sector unions -- AFSCME, the Ohio Education Association and Ohio Civil Service Employees Association (union idiots now reliably red in red OH)

Twitter Users Have Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Back After She Was Fashion-Shamed | HuffPost - Washington Examiner journalist Eddie Scarry seemed amazed the newly elected congresswoman could wear nice clothes after she said she couldn't afford rent in D.C. (clueless conservative assholes)
joe on Twitter: "here it is " (hahaha he deleted his stupid tweet)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Oh, does @eScarry think he can delete his misogyny without an apology? I don't think so. You're a journalist -- readers should know your bias (which, apparently is womens' butts)
Eddie Scarry tweet about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outfit questions her 'struggles' - The Washington Post


Some white Northerners want to redefine a flag rooted in racism as a symbol of patriotism - The Washington Post - Some white Northerners see a flag rooted in racism as a symbol of patriotism - "a fitting symbol of white people's grievances" (patriotic traitors in defense of slavery racist morons)

QAnon's true believers are devastated as the conspiracy theory goes down in flames

Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory - POLITICO Magazine - Credible sources say the Las Vegas shooting was a one-man job. But a small band of former government insiders is propagating a wild alternative theory -- with dangerous consequences -- Paddock's rampage was part of a coordinated anti-Trump plot involving the Islamic State and Antifa, or left-wing "anti-fascist' activists ... sprang from the feverish mind of Infowars' Alex Jones days after the attack (stupid, delusional and evil) ... What's also alarming about this particular conspiracy is that it's being driven by people who not long ago held senior positions in the intelligence community and who still have access to members of the government


Republican senator claims 'the left' will start a civil war unless federal highway system abolished - We are ruled by monsters and fools ... Rival American forces war over the interstate highway system somewhere in Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT-Asshole) imagination (or his racist memories and also defund education which libtards hate) Lee, who also believes that federal child labor laws, Social Security, and Medicare are unconstitutional (yes, they really are that stupid, evil and insane)

Charts: Democrats represent modern economy, Republicans left behind -- Republicans represent the smaller, fading segment, with less-educated, more-homogenous work forces reliant on traditional manufacturing, agriculture and resource extraction. (the past) Democrats represent the larger, growing one, fueled by finance, professional services and digital innovation in diverse urban areas. (the future) ... the 472 counties Hillary Clinton carried accounted for nearly two-thirds of U.S. economic output. (Rethugs got 5x more counties and 1/3 of the economy)

Ohio House Passes Controversial 'Fetal Heartbeat' Anti-Abortion Bill | HuffPost - If bill becomes law, it would allow only about 6 weeks to obtain a legal abortion in the state, often before a woman knows she's pregnant (which is the whole idea) There are no exceptions in the bill for rape or incest. Doctors violating the measure could face felony charges and up to a year in prison. (see your rapist's face for the rest of your life, said the evil fuckers)

What Did 'Pod Save America' Expect? - Don't put professional Republican smear men on your liberal podcast ... Facebook ... expoloited anti-Semitism ... Soros ... The Republican operative behind the campaign was none other than Miller. (vide infra) ... Miller's presence on the Crooked team was a modern media spin on a familiar phenomenon: prominent liberals inviting the right-wing weasels into the living room, allegedly in the interest of getting a different perspective, the totally predictable result of which is an orgy of special pleading and whitewashing ... Here's what Miller had to say for himself, regarding his little Facebook anti-Semitism oopsie: ... "Pro-abortion pom poms" (CWAFA) ... and ... he also worked as a spokesperson for the Employment Policies Institute, which put out this highly misleading ACORN attack ad (he killed ACORN, that's a lot of evil)
"Rotten" ACORN Ad Funded by Anti-Minimum Wage Group (2008 when bi-partisan Barry let them kill ACORN so poor people wouldn't hava a voice)

Video shows white Kansas official telling a black woman he is 'part of the master race'

Fox News' Laura Ingraham Drops Radio Show for Podcast | Hollywood Reporter - "the most-listened-to woman in America on political talk radio"

De Blasio Ousts Investigations Chief, Citing Abuse of Power - The New York Times


Model And Actress Kim Porter Dead At 47 | HuffPost - Porter was the former longtime girlfriend of Diddy, with whom she had three children ... cardiac arrest.


Is Science Stagnant? - The Atlantic - Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck - Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, progress is barely keeping pace with the past. What went wrong?


Amazon deal will disrupt plans for affordable housing on Long Island City sites - "The fact that massive public subsidies are helping eliminate affordable housing units is just the latest reason this bad deal needs to be torn up and thrown away"

Sheryl Sandberg and the emptiness of leaning in - The Washington Post -- Sheryl Sandberg leaned way, way in -- to shut the rest of the country out. (her soul was always empty of everything except money-grubbing PR)
A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook's Attack Dog (Sandberg is evil)
'No Morals' : Advertisers React to Facebook Report - The article also spotlighted a lobbying campaign overseen by Ms. Sandberg, who also oversees advertising, that sought to shift public anger to Facebook's critics and reval tech firms ("Lean in and be really evil" is anti-semnitic Sheryl Sandfucks motto)




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British Prime Minister Battles To Save Brexit Deal As Ministers Quit | HuffPost - Just over 12 hours after Theresa May announced that the cabinet had agreed to the terms of a draft Brexit agreement, the Brexit minister resigned ... at an agreement they say will trap Britain in the bloc's orbit for years (English white nationalism and la-di-la off the cliff with Theresa)

Theresa May buffeted by resignations over her Brexit deal - Dominic Raab's Theresa May buffeted by resignations over her Brexit deal POLITICO - departure blindsides Number 10.

The Wages of David Cameron's Staggering Incompetence - Lawyers, Guns & Money(they put blindfolds on and walked backwards off the cliff)


Japan's New Cybersecurity Minister Admits He Doesn't Actually Use Computers - Yoshitaka Sakurada obviously needed no experience for the role.


Saudi Arabia's latest account of Khashoggi's death is shocking in its audacity (Mohammed Bull Shitter knew nothing, nothing, about it and the syringes and bone-saws in the airport xrays weren't there on purpose but we are now in a post-truth Trumpian world, so fuck you)
Saudi Arabia distances crown prince from killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi - The Washington Post ... Saudi Arabia's crown prince had no knowledge of the operation, Shaalan al-Shaalan, a spokesman for the prosecutor, said at a news conference in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. (hahahaha)
Jamal Khasshoggi's killers carried syringes, electro-shock devices and cutting tools as they left Istanbul, says report
Saudi prosecutor seeks death penalty for five in Khashoggi killing : news

Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders face murder charges in death of Special Forces soldier - The Washington Post

First Wave of Migrants in Caravan Reaches U.S. Border in Tijuana - The New York Times - About 800 migrants associated with the caravan have made it to Tijuana so far, according to local officials and advocates, with thousands more still crossing Mexico and expected to arrive in the next several days.
Donald Trump has sent a total of 0 tweets on the caravan since the election : politics - Strange, it's almost like it's not the imminent threat of invasion he claimed it was and he was only trying to scare stupid people into voting for Republicans.
dereviljohnson comments on Donald Trump has sent a total of 0 tweets on the caravan since the election (vide infra)


President Trump Tweets in a Frenzy About Robert Mueller's Russia Probe - House Democrats Deal with History - The new House class is going to have history dropped on them. (interesting way to put it, Charlie)

Trump: Damn Right I Fired Sessions to Obstruct Justice - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This Is the Saturday Night Massacre ... happening in slow motion ... . Putting a president above the rule of law is a threat to democracy.
NYT's reporter says Trump was instructed not to tweet about the Mueller probe -- but that'Hes flown out the window (Haberputz)
Trump blasts Mueller probe a week after installing new acting attorney general - The Washington Post (of course I'm obstructing +80% of his face is below his eyebrows)

/u/PutinsPawn sums up why Roger Stone is providing what looks like self-incriminating evidence in a well-cited, succinct post. : bestof

"Insanity," "Furious," "on His Own" : Trump's Post-Midterms Blues Are Vexing His Staff and Roiling the White House. He's lashing out at aides and press and foreign leaders, and threatening to roll West Wing heads -- but at least he didn't get his hair wet at the Belleau Wood memorial.


U.S. says defendant in Elliott Broidy hacking case has diplomatic immunity - The ex-diplomat accused of helping steal and distribute GOP fundraiser Elliot Broidy's emails is entitled to immunity, the U.S. government tells NBC News ... the case, which criss-crosses the murky worlds of cybercrime, the Persian Gulf diplomatic crisis and pay-to-play politics in Trump era. (i.e. totally crooked, and "government" = Trumpster) "The case must be dismissed," wrote Lowell, who frequently represents high-profile clients including Jared Kushner. (hahaha)

Trump to Nominate Handbag Designer as Ambassador to South Africa - WSJ - Lana Marks is a member of the president's Mar-a-Lago Club (more "pay-to-play" and more totally incompetent for the job)

Trump's Orwellian argument for violating CNN's First Amendment rights

Donald Trump Becomes Twitter Laughingstock Ove 'Envy Of The World' Boast -- "Take it from an outsider: we feel sorry for Americans.
Joe Munger on Twitter: "We aren't the envy of anyone. We are a laughing stock. *side note.....they are laughing at you not with you


witter Users Mock Trump's Latest Conspiracy Theory With 'Voter Disguise' Pics
Meg G???????????? on Twitter: "Actually video of a voter changing their disguise to vote twice, as our dear Leader Trump has asserted happened. "
King Jaffee Joffer on Twitter: "BREAKING: clear video evidence of voter fraud #disguise "
Mary on Twitter: "They Suspect Nothing"

White House aide Mira Ricardel picked a fight with Melania Trump. The first lady won. - The Washington Post

Michael Avenatti Arrested for Felony Domestic Violence ... I'll Be 'Fully Exonerated' (after I pay a bunch of hush money)


Eschaton: Brain Worms (in Trump's syphilitic brain)
How Trump's favored midterm candidates performed - Trump bragged that the candidates he backed won. The reality is more complicated.


Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats Can Ignore Republicans and Problem Solvers Caucus Acting in Bad Faith - The "Problem Solvers Caucus" has never solved a single problem. Sit down. Democrats Can't 'Work With' Republicans Until Republicans Return to Reality ... So, on Thursday, it was no surprise to find that it was The Hill that sent the feline screeching from the burlap ...
Democrats Can't 'Work With' Republicans Until Republicans Return to Reality : politics
27QWByN.png -- And waht, McConnell, Must We Give in Return?

: CNN's Alisyn Camerota corners Democrat Seth Moulton on his plot to topple Pelosi as speaker (self-serving dick)
On the #FiveWhiteGuys Coup - Lawyers, Guns & Money (we really don't need your shit, Seth)

Andy Kim Declared Winner Over GOP Rep. Tom MacArthur In New Jersey | HuffPost - Kim edged the biggest Trump backer in N.J ... becoming Congress' irst Korean-American Democrat. (repeal and replace asshole get repealed and replaced, despite racist attacks on Kim)

Federal judge gives Florida voters until Saturday to correct signature problems roiling close races - The Washington Post

Rep. Mia Love sues to halt vote count in Salt Lake County - The Washington Post
A loss in Utah and fury in Florida - The Washington Post (and you know something? Jeb Bush is a terrible person)

'This is not all of us.' Call to remove Muslim from post divides Tarrant Republicans ("islamic terrorist" Republican)

Al Jazeera host corners Trump supporter on president's lies like few American journalists ever have


A presidential map for the 21st century - Axios - Changing demographics and Trump have blown up the electoral map that has dominated American politics since 1992 ... Due to Obama's neglect of the Democratic Party, this has been a lost decade for the Dems ... (thanks alot, Barry, for tellings us to "go home and let the adults handle it" ... Obama was a disasterous pres, paved the way for Trumpster)


Man shouts 'Heil Hitler, Heil Trump,' does Nazi salute during Baltimore performance of 'Fiddler on the Roof'

Trump, Daily Caller repeat Tucker Carlson's unproven claim that protesters broke his door (while his wife was cowering in the pantry)


Title IX protects those who Emily Yoffe and Wellesley College disempower | The Wellesley News ("advocate for women" thinks sexual harrassment cases disempower men like Kavanaugh)


Deep Thoughts, By Malcolm Gladwell - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A prominent thinkfluencer has some ideas to share: (what's wrong with his head?)


Fighter vs. Bomber I - Lawyers, Guns & Money


A new study has found that the more literally a person understands metaphorical statements and the more religious they are, the more likely they are to share pseudo-profound bullshit on social media. : science

An antibiotic called thanatin, produced naturally by the spined soldier bug, attacks the way the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is built. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now found that this happens through a previously unknown mechanism. : science



/u/Lonnbeimnech beautifully explains the futility of bringing a hate symbol to a football match : bestof (the bestof comments on Brexit, UK, Ireland and Northern Ireland and comparison to the Confederate Flag except they won)

/u/AdrianBrony and /u/Bugbread concisely and clearly explain why the concepts of "mansplaining" and the Bechdel Test are not idiotic, and why they are an actual problem : bestof


/u/pm_me_flaccid_cocks makes a racist Vietnamese joke toward OP, ends up having a nice conversation with OP in Vietnamese. : bestof (good discussion of ethnicity)

coloadomi comments on In what light do Germans of today view their WW2 veterans

dereviljohnson comments on Donald Trump has sent a total of 0 tweets on the caravan since the election (white evangelicals elected Trump, otherwise whites voted for Hillary +good comments on "economic stagnation anxiety")
myth economic anxiety trump at DuckDuckGo
Donald Trump is the worst president ever, 41 percent of Americans say in poll : politics
Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds - The New York Times
u/dereviljohnson explains Trump's anti immigration rhetoric, his primary voter base and why it's so effective : bestof


BarbieButtPlug comments on First date ideas in downtown?

Hypocritical_Oath comments on Pharmacist student speaks out...

ColChrisHadfield comments on We are members of Canada's space sector, with special guest former Astronaut Chris Hadfield, discussing our past and future in Space Technology and Exploration. Ask Us Anything!


New York's Amazon Deal Is a Bad Bargain - The city has what the company wants, talent. Why pay them $1.5 billion to come? ... "New York can proudly say that we have attracted one of the largest, most competitive economic development investments in U.S. history," Amazon Cuomo said. (he changed his name to get the deal)

The moral and ethical rot at Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg's Facebook (might say something about the condition of their souls) It has barely been a year since Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg were talked about as presidential material (yeah, remember his "focus groups" and "America Listening Tour"?
Facebook denies hiding Russian sabotage after shocking New York Times investigation
Facebook Cuts Ties With Washington Firm That Sought to Discredit Social Network's Critics (zuckerculture)
Facebook says it removed a flood of hate speech, terrorist propaganda and fake accounts from its site - The Washington Post - Facebook said Thursday it had removed more than a billion fake accounts and taken action against millions of posts, photos and other forms of content that violated its prohibition against hate speech, terrorist propaganda and child exploitation, the latest sign that the social-networking giant faces an onslaught of online abuse as it builds new tools to spot it. (so they had more accounts than they are people in the world and they didn't suspect anything)
Jim Carrey Shreds Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg With Explicit 2-Word Message In Binary | HuffPost (Zuckerfucker)




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A Very Grim Forecast | by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books - Bill McKibben
Scientists acknowledge key errors in study of how fast the oceans are warming - The Washington Post - A major study claimed the oceans were warming much faster than previously thought. But researchers now say they can't necessarily make that claim.

The midterm results were a mandate for Congress to act on guns - The Washington Post


Study: US has spent nearly $6T on war since 9/11 : politics (what could have been)


How Brexit Broke Up Britain | by Fintan O'Toole (how Britain self-destructed) ... a completion of the deregulating neoliberal project set in motion by Margaret Thatcher in 1979. The Brexit fantasy is of an "open" and "global" Britain, unshackled from EU regulation, that can lower its environmental, health, and labor standards and unleash a new golden age of buccaneering hyper-capitalism ... "Unable to exit Britain, the English did the next-best thing and told the EU to fuck off." (Corbyn is like an evil Bernie and the "English" are racist and don't give a shit about NI)
Eschaton: BREXIT - I'm too lazy right now to parse the latest "deal" but as usual rumors are being floated of DUP defections and Tory Rebels and ... hahaha. not gonna happen. They'll fall in line and keep supporting May. I don't entirely know why, but...

In Yemen, a race to save a boy from al-Qaida and a US drone

This Is a Reality, Not a Threat - The Future of War & Future War Reviews


Trump's insults to France 'unimaginable' from predecessors, Harvard expert says
As relationship sours, Macron tells Trump France is not vassal of U.S. | Reuters
Retired Army general says Trump skipped veterans event in France to 'eat cheeseburgers' and 'watch TV' (cartoons, probably) "Not many people realize that around 65% of white people during the 1960s disagreed with the passage of the Civil Rights Act. That's right, 60%+. Many of them are still alive today." (and that's total white people, so it's 95% in the South)
Five days of fury: Inside Trump's Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval



A Week After the Midterms, Trump Seems to Forget the Caravan - The New York Times
Eschaton: I Didn't Do It - Good thing nobody reads OUR newspaper. Maggie:
STUDY: Trump's phony caravan "crisis" consumed Wash. Post, NY Times - Leading paper That seems to create a whole slew of other potential legal problems no one has yet considered.s produced 115 news stories referencing the caravan, put 25 on A1 (oh, hello, Haberputz_


A frightful portrait of a president out of control - The Washington Post
The White House is in meltdown - The Washington Post - New reporting paints a picture of the administration descending into a thunderdome of backstabbing and resentment as staffers jockey for position or wonder whether they should get the heck out, all presided over by an erratic, unhappy president.
Staff anger spills over at White House - POLITICO - A drumbeat of exits is mixing with Trump's anger after the midterms and a much-criticized trip to Europe.

Con man exposed: Trump's acting so erratic because midterms made him look like a loser -- Once a con man is exposed, he blows town and moves on to the next mark. But Donald Trump is the president of the United States. He's trapped and he has nowhere else to go.
Con man exposed: Trump's acting so erratic because midterms made him look like a loser
Everything Is Fine - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Another week in our great experiment to determine what would happen if a dedicated Fox News viewer with below-average hinging became President of the United States:

Melania Trump Exploits the John Kelly Power Vacuum - She can be a knife fighter

National security aide headed for exit after clash with Melania Trump's office (decent into more chaos)
Trump's mood takes a foul turn: 'He's pissed -- at damn near everyone' (psychotic meltdown in process)

Trump claims an ID is needed to buy cereal and that fraudulent voters simply switch hats - The Washington Post (loop-di-loop)
Donald Trump Makes Absurd Claim That Illegal Voters Change Into Disguise In Their Car And That's Why Republicans Lose : politics
Trump's latest make-believe about voter fraud: Dems change shirts and vote twice - Beyond parody

Trump Campaign Paid Millions to Trump Businesses During Midterms : politics (win-win, suckers)

Conservative Lawyers Say Trump Has Undermined the Rule of Law - The New York Times - The annual convention of the Federalist Society (hilarious)
Almost six in 10 Americans believe Trump should not be reelected : politics

Just how far will Republicans go to win? - The Washington Post

Mystery Robert Mueller Opponent Previously Thought to Be Trump Files Lengthy Sealed Document : politics
Kelly erroneously claimed Wilson took credit for building funding - CNNPolitics (classic Kelly reference)
John Kelly's Legally Fraught Role in the Sessions Ouster (Marcy thinks it's Kelly) So the guy whose testimony Mueller may be most actively pursuing (indeed, one who might even be in a legal dispute with), effectuated a plan to undercut Mueller's plans going forward. That seems to create a whole slew of other potential legal problems no one has yet considered.

Mitch McConnell Blocks Bill To Protect Robert Mueller's Russia Investigation - Sen. Jeff Flake vowed not to vote for any more of President Trump's judicial nominees until the Senate votes to protect Mueller, putting pressure on McConnell to change his mind.
Mueller protection bill: Jeff Flake threatens to vote against judges after GOP blocks bill - CNNPolitics

How Trump's move to put a loyalist over Mueller is already backfiring - Bipartisan criticism and legal maneuvering may limit Matthew Whitaker's options
Whitaker abandoned taxpayer-funded project in Iowa in 2016
The Acting Attorney General Helped an Alleged Scam Company Hawk Bizarre Products - Mother Jones - Matthew Whitaker lent his name and status as an ex-US attorney to a firm touting time travel cryptocurrency and a toilet for the "well-endowed" (big-dick toilets!)
An Exhaustive Timeline of Our New Acting Attorney General's Astoundingly Crooked Career - Year by year, the onetime Iowa tight end descended into grifting and scamming. He's a perfect match for his new boss

Does Trump actually believe his own hype? - The Washington Post

Forget Impeachment. Mueller's Real Threat to Trump Is in 2020.
Timeline: Stone repeatedly claimed contact with Trump and his campaign while touting WikiLeaks connections - CNNPolitics
Mueller Probes Possible Witness Intimidation by Roger Stone - WSJ - Former Trump adviser angry that radio personality Randy Credico denies being WikiLeaks conduit

CNN Will Win Its Lawsuit to Have Jim Acosta's White House Press Pass Restored (they lied, lock them up)
Trump's relationship with Fox News starts to show cracks - POLITICO - The network backed CNN over White House access, just the latest sign of distance between Fox and the president.

Public Wants Congress to be a Check on Trump | Monmouth University Polling Institute - Few support re-electing the president in 2020; not too keen on Pelosi, McConnell as leaders

Trump meddles in McCarthy-Jordan leadership brawl - POLITICO - Trump has privately urged the House majority leader to strike a deal with the conservative Freedom Caucus founder, who is challenging McCarthy for the minority leader post next Congress,


Top Census Scientist's Testimony Casts Doubt On Motives For S\tudy On Citizenship Question | HuffPost - Top Census Scientist's Testimony Casts Doubt On Motives For Study On Citizenship Question - The researcher says he outlined the cost a\ nd harm of adding the question. It didn't matter

The Turtle Who Had No Shame - Lawyers, Guns & Money (bi-partisan Turtle-face warns Dems not to be uncooperative!)
McConnell: The American People Didn't Vote for What They Voted For (they voted for me! Me!)
Mitch McConnell's Spectacularly Tone-Deaf 'Partisan Politics' Rant Backfires - attempt to slam incoming Democrats doesn't go over very well - "reach across the aisle" (just like he didn't)
Norman Ornstein on Twitter: "Merrick is only one, albeit an important, data point. McConnells outrageous obstruction goes back much further. He tried to block and delegitimize every action taken during the Obama presidency. He blew up long-standing norms to block many dozens of judges. 1 https://t.co/7326d3YYsv"
Eater of Souls #VetsResistSquadron on Twitter: " "

Adam Schiff wants 'comity' for the House Intelligence Committee. It won't be easy (lock up fucking traitor Nunes, Adam, then we'll talk about 'comity)


The 2018 Midterms, In 4 Charts | FiveThirtyEight
Yes, It Was A Blue Wave | FiveThirtyEight (sorry, Nick, you are stupid)
Democrats Pick Up Most House Seats In A Generation : NPR

White Nationalist Tied to Pittsburgh Shooter Arrested in Washington, D.C. - America Has a Problem - If it had a real president, he'd get on television and denounce it ... Now, though, they have a president* who, at the very least, throws them a juicy rhetorical bone every couple of months, and a fairly well defanged Justice Department headed, at the moment, by a guy who not long ago was scamming people with toilets designed for people with big dicks. (like minds)

Nancy Pelosi's Democratic Opposition in Speaker Race Is Led by #FiveWhiteGuys Including Tim Ryan, Seth Moulton - There is no need for any of this ... Alas, it is my painful duty to report that the #FiveWhiteGuys are led by Seth Moulton, congresscritter from the Sixth Congressional District here in the Commonwealth (God save it!), and a man who has been farting higher than his own arse ever since he got elected in 2014 ... The #FiveWhiteGuys are Moulton, Ryan, Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, and Bill Foster of Illinois ... The #FiveWhiteGuys are of the school that believes that the Democratic Party's needs are best served winning back all those disgruntled folks at diners in the Mahoning Valley, a theory fairly well demolished last Tuesday (Moulton is a narcissistic self-serving asshole)


Judges ensure ballot counts continue in Georgia - Abrams gains ground as judges order more Georgia votes to be counted

Trump's authoritarian response to Florida shenanigans hints at worse to come
Trump calls for Brenda Snipes, Democratic election official in Florida, to be fired - CNNPolitics

Nelson will likely come up short in recount battle against Scott
Why we're still waiting for election results from Florida and Georgia -- and why newly counted ballots favor Democrats
The Latest: Palm Beach machines overheat, miss recount votes
Opinion | Marco Rubio, Trumpified - The New York Times (Dubious little Flubio)
Marco Rubio has become unhinged since Election Day: 68 tweets fighting Florida recount : politics
Marco Rubio roasted for '3 pt kick' tweet about Florida election

GOP Rep. Denham loses as latest ballot counts show Republicans Walters and Kim in growing danger - Los Angeles Times

Women flipped the House. Why that matters - The Boston Globe (they're coming for your balls, guys)
Laura Ingraham Goes On 10-Minute Rant Against Diverse New Members Of Congress | HuffPost - "four horsewomen of the apocalypse<" (racist Fuckgraham) /a>

Michael Avenatti in police custody after domestic violence allegation - The Boston Globe

Jim Carrey on Twitter: "Matt Whitaker. Unconfirmed. Unconstitutional. A Kangaroo Attorney General, happy to hop for our Baby-in-Chief. "
Jimmy Kimmel Tricks Trump Fans Into Believing He's Deporting Statue Of Liberty (Trumpsters hate liberty, applaud Trump's decision, "lock her up!" they said)
Robert De Niro Bashes Trump Again: 'Down With This Motherfucker!'

Fox News Aired a Segment About Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Made Her Look Cool As Hell - Laura Ingraham tried to attack Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar. It backfired.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Oh no! They discovered our vast conspiracy to take care of children and save the planet ?? "
Andrew Lawrence on Twitter: "look at this "

Divided We Stand The country is hopelessly split. So why not make it official and break up? (b/c the stupid states wouldn't have any money)


MacArthur loses New Jersey House race to Democratic challenger Andy Kim | TheHill (one Rethug left in NJ)

Georgia Legislator, Arrested At Work, Says She Was 'Singled Out As A Black Female Senator'

Meet the Native American Woman Who Beat the Sponsor of North Dakota's ID Law

Progressives unseated all 59 Republican judges up for re-election in Houston in the midterms : politics

Betsy DeVos set to bolster rights of accused in rewrite of sexual assault rules - The Washington Post

In Midterms White Evangelicals Stood Up For Their Party (of Satan)

VIDEO: Protesters Chant 'John McCain's Dead' Outside Shapiro Lecture -- Students put on a shameful display Tuesday at Ohio State University, where conservative commentator Ben Shapiro appeared as part of his campus lecture tour ... Leftist protesters who gathered outside the doors to the venue led chants of "Reagan's dead" and ... (almost as uncivil as locking up babies in cages!)


White Lecturer Calls Cops On Black Student Who Had Her Feet Up In Class | HuffPost - University of Texas at San Antonio said it's carrying out two investigations into the matter.
Apurva Rawal on Twitter: "So this happened today in class, a girl had her feet up and the professor called the police after calling our class uncivil ?? https://t.co/9lN22lFCZ7" (oh, hi, Anita Moss, 2053 Bio, you stupid racist bitch now famous on the internets for all eternity b/c you never heard of "cellphones")
Apurva Rawal on Twitter: "So this happened today in class, a girl had her feet up and the professor called the police after calling our class uncivil ?? https://t.co/9lN22lFCZ7"
Chantel Cole on Twitter: "Obvs your girl had to take a moment to give Professor Moss (anita.moss@utsa.edu) a shout " (hahaha send the bitch an email)


DC Neo-Nazi Who Called Pittsburgh Murders A 'Dry Run' Arrested; Has Deep Ties To 'Alt Right' - Jeffrey Clark wasn't shy about being a white supremacist. But it was only after his family reported him that authorities arrested him on gun charges.

To the Catholic Church: I'm Out - Joan Vennochi

Scottish Insult Generator


Hospital leaders apologize, acknowledge mistakes cost Laura Levis her life - The Boston Globe

I'm Adopted, But I Won't Be Celebrating National Adoption Month


Catholic prelates are subject of blistering criticism at leadership meeting - The Boston Globe
'I've been dealing with this stuff now for 16 years. Can't we just get this right?'


Massachusetts marijuana shopping for rookies: Answers to your questions - The Boston Globe
Somerville moves on equity for marijuana businesses - The Boston Globe

Police Lock Up Angry Raccoons Drunk On Crabapple Hooch Until They Sober Up | HuffPost


Why is there a time-energy uncertainty relation when time is not an operator in Quantum Mechanics? : askscience

Pain can be a self-fulfilling prophecy: New brain imaging research shows that when we expect something to hurt it does, even if the stimulus isn't so painful. Surprisingly, those false expectations can persist even when reality repeatedly demonstrates otherwise, reported in Nature Human Behaviour. : science


/u/gorgewall explains what the TSA will let you get away with in your checked luggage : bestof


Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis (you've been fuckerberged)
It Will Be Because You're An Asshole - Lawyers, Guns & Money - When we have a full Airing of Grievances about 2016, Facebook belongs right up there with Comey. And it gets worse from there: (so Sheryl Sandberg is an clueles idiot and another Jew who likes anti-semitic slurs)
Facebook reportedly had its Republican-linked PR firm try to blame George Soros for the anti-Facebook movement : politics (see?)
Eschaton: Lean All The Fucking Way In - Did I mention THE JEEEWWWS? ... Our critics are tools of THE JEWS and also they hate Jews. (and they ARE Jews) "Who could have anticipated that a website developed by an ivy league bro to rate chicks would end up being evil?"
Facebook denies hiding Russian sabotage after shocking New York Times investigation

The Best of the Biggest U.S. Airports - WSJ (BOS #10)

Inside Georgia's s secret bid for Amazon's second headquarters (suckers)
As Jeff Bezos Earns $191K Per Minute, Why Are NY & VA Giving Amazon $3 Billion in Corporate Welfare? : politics
Why New York Is Resorting to Paying Amazon $3 Billion for What Google Will Do for Free
Was Amazon's headquarters search 'a giant ruse'? NYC, D.C. centers of power prevail
NY Assembly Member Has Better Idea: Cancel $3 Billion Amazon Giveaway, Buy Up Crushing Student Debt Instead : politics




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Grim calculus: Coroners search for those killed in wildfire
Toll jumps in deadliest fire in California history - StarTribune.com - At least 42 people were confirmed dead in the wildfire that turned the Northern California town of Paradise and outlying areas into hell on earth.
For Trump, even disaster response is colored in red and blue - The Washington Post
Camp Fire - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The fact that climate denialists are in charge of the federal government strikes me a suboptimal. (la-di-la, fuck off and give me all your money before you die, suckers)

U.S. Top Court Rejects Trump Administration Bid to Halt Climate Trial : politics

I looked for a state that'S taking gun violence seriously. I found Massachusetts. - Massachusetts offers a model for dealing with gun violence that the rest of the country could follow.


Trump says 'nothing new' in report on hidden missile bases in North Korea (conman got conned, hahaha) "Trump voters are too stupid to know what a mess they created."

Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of Amnesty's highest honour over 'shameful betrayal' : news

Iron dome anti missile system intercepts several inbound missiles, but one still goes through (Ashkelon city, yesterday) : videos


Is Boris Johnson Britain's Next Prime Minister? | The New Republic - How the court jester of post-truth politics has positioned himself to become Britain'S next prime minister (the clownification of UK politics b/c Corbyn is intolerable)
Mueller seeking more details on Nigel Farage, key Russia inquiry target says | US news | The Guardian - Key Brexit figure Farage has denied involvement with Russia ("no involvment at all" he lied)


John Bolton says Khashoggi murder audio does not implicate Saudi crown prince - The Washington Post (Bolton says Mohommed Bull Shit is innocent, it could have been any "boss")
Former CIA officer: Trump WH helping Saudi Crown Prince cover-up murder : politics

Trump: Secret Service at fault for cancelling cemetery trip in France : politics ("it had nothing, nothing I tell you, with my fake hair!")
Trump Points to Polls in France, Where 80 Percent Say He's a Dangerous, Incompetent Racist
In a morning tweetstorm, Trump takes repeated aim at France's Macron (idiot)
Aisne Marne American Cemetery: French Army trolls Trump over canceled visit - The Washington Post
Can Trump's Helicopter, Marine One, Fly in the Rain? - The Atlantic - Trump's absence from a ceremony in France raises more questions than it answers.

Remember the caravan? After vote, focus on migrants fades (suckers, and where is Soros when you need him?)
White House Created 'Policy time' to Get Donald Trump to Focus on Work Instead of 'Executive Time' (managing the toddler-in-chief, what about "nap time" and "juice time?")

Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties - Los Angeles Times
Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties : politics
Eschaton: Pouty McPoutFace

Melania Trump demands top national security official be fired - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Hate crimes rose 17 percent last year, according to new FBI data - The Washington Post - the third consecutive year that such crimes increased, according to newly released FBI data that showed an even larger increase in anti-Semitic attacks. (make America hate again)

Trump's likely pick for UN ambassador, former 'Fox & Friends' host Heather Nauert, would be the least experienced person to ever hold the job : politics

PrOn: @PaulaReidCBS reports: "I've spoken with many sources with knowledge of the Special Counsel investigation, and we do expect new indictments to be coming as soon as today."
Mueller reportedly plans to issue new indictments in the Russia investigation as soon as Tuesday : politics

State of Maryland asks judge to declare Rosenstein acting attorney general - Trump bypassed Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who is overseeing the special counsel investigation, in favor of Matt Whitaker for acting AG.
The rules are clear: Whitaker can't supervise Mueller's nvestigation - I wrote the special counsel regulations. We never would have imagined a situation like this - Neal Katyal
Whitaker's Appointment as Acting Attorney General Faces Court Challenge

Robert Mueller's Written Questions for President Trump May Signal the Beginning of the End
Prosecutors Had A Whopping 80-Page Indictment Ready For Michael Cohen : politics
Opinion | Nixon's Vietname Treachery (yeah, Republican have always been traitors)

Trump supports democracy -- except when he is losing
Truth and Virtue in the Age of Trump - You're a hero if and only if you serve The Leader's interests

This Is All Donald Trump Has Left - President Donald Trump often stands near a helicopter on the White House's South Lawn while reporters shout questions at him. Certain elements of this ritual are the same every time. The wheedling honk of Trump's voice and the uneasy tilt of his standing-on-a-hoverboard-for-the-first-time posture are constants, as is his customary air of triumphal huffiness. The whining white noise wash from the helicopter bends everything in the same strange direction, with everyone involved only kind of getting maybe three-quarters of what everyone else is saying ... (nice)


Eschaton: Horrible And The Next One Will Be Worse - The basic theme of Trumpkins going forward. -- President Trump has decided to remove Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and her departure from the administration is likely to occur in the coming weeks, if not sooner, according to five current and former White House officials. (she is horrible but Trumpster will find someone worse)
Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say - The Washington Post

After clashes with first lady and others, Kelly may soon exit White House - The White House Chief of Staff has had an array of disputes with officials from the NSC and the East Wing in recent months.

CNN sues President Trump and top White House aides for barring Jim Acoesta - CNN
CNN sues White House for using doctored video to bar Jim Acosta - Vox - Spreading fake news has consequences.
The White House is changing its tune on why it yanked Jim Acosta's press pass (they back of the "he chopped off her arm" story)
CNN sues Trump administration over barring of Jim Acosta from White House - Lawyers, Guns & Money
CNN sues President Trump and White House for banning reporter Jim Acosta : news

The Trump-GOP 2020 doomsday scenario - Axios - In fact, all the big trends are working against Trump and the GOP, based on factors that are hiding in plain sight. Despite the conventional wisdom, many people around Trump and in GOP leadership share this dim view ... Two years of probing hell await.

Trump's southeast regional EPA administrator indicted on Alabama ethics charges

2018 elections rewrote the main rule of US politics - CNNPolitics - The continued nationalization of American politics threatens greater polarization and social tension as the lines harden between these two distinct political coalitions. But paradoxically, it means that the party that can generate the most exceptions to these solidifying trends may be the one most likely to control Congress and the White House. (old white fuckers still fucking the country)

Worst Fanfic Ever - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Hillary Clinton recently gave an interview in which she redundantly said that while she thinks she would be a good president -- she will not run for president again. The reaction of the nation's least essential and most-Clinton-minutia obsessed pundit was predictable: (teh Cillizard)
No, Hillary Clinton Is Not Going to Be the Democratic Nominee in 2020 - Penn and Stein should be investigated as political pornographers.

Democrat's blue wave was much larger than early takes suggested -- With all votes counted, it's a larger landslide than 1994 or 2010. (Nick Fuckoff at the NYT called it a "blue trickle' hahahha)
Analysis: Midterm voting highest in 104 years : politics

Voters just approved the biggest expansion of the voting franchise in half a century - The Washington Post - President George W. Bush was eventually declared winner in the Sunshine State (and thus the election) by 537 votes out of about 6 million cast. But for 35 long days of counting and challenging and pleading, it was mainly the lawyers in charge. (and the world died)

Republicans Are Casting Doubt On Normal Election Processes For The Sake Of Winning | HuffPost - By characterizing basic safeguards as illegitimate, Rick Scott and President Trump are undermining democracy.
In at least three states, Republicans lost the popular vote but won the House : politics

Miami-Dade is halfway through its recount. Broward hasn't started yet

Opinion | A Tool of Autocrats - The New York Times - Marco Rubio and other top Republicans would rather undermine democracy than lose fairly. (little Flubio)

Georgia Election 2018: Federal judge rules on provisional ballots ... why many voters were required to use provisional ballots. (that's obvious)
Federal judge finds Georgia county violated Civil Rights Act by rejecting ballots : politics

The Blue Wave Swept Many Of The GOP's Anti-Gay Bigots Out To Sea - Rohrabacher was a lieutenant of President Ronald Reagan throughout his two terms as a speechwriter and special assistant, helping Reagan court the evangelical right, which Reagan has been credited with bringing into politics. Reagan, bowing to the zealots from whom he helped amass enormous power (power they still wield with President Donald Trump), was among the most anti-gay presidents in history, ignoring the AIDS epidemic until far too late. (fuckers rose from the depths of Republican slime)

Poliquin sues in federal court to stop ranked-choice vote count - Portland Press Herald - As Maine's secretary of state continues the process to determine winner in the 2nd Congressional District, attorneys for the campaigns of Jared Golden and Bruce Poliquin head to court. (more Republican crooks)


Democrats Gain Veto-Proof Majority in California Legislature | California News | US News - Democrats win two Senate seats in California's Central Valley, gain veto-proof supermajorities in state Legislature.


Fox News Boycotts Twitter For Fourth Day - Variety (we're cryin', Foxers)

Fox News's Kat Timpf Chased Out of Brooklyn Bar | National Review - Fox News personality and National Review contributor Kat Timpf was forced to leave a bar in Brooklyn over the weekend after a woman she had never met became enraged upon learning she worked in conservative media.

Nazi and Confederate flags outside Colorada home draw protest - CNN
A man flew Nazi and Confederate flags outside his home and dozens of protesters showed up : news


Gavin McInnes Whines His Fellow Rich Neighbors Don't Like Him -- The self-styled conservative punk lives in a liberal New York enclave where he says he's the victim of everyone from soccer moms to George Soros. -- Proud Boys

Photo of More Than 60 Students Giving Apparent Nazi Salute Is Being Investigated - The New York Times - Police and school officials in a small town in Wisconsin are investigating a photograph taken last spring of about 60 male high school students, many of them making what appears to be a Nazi salute. (parents are rabid white nationalist Trumpsters)

Retired firefighter who fired shotgun at black teen gets up to 10 years in prison : news

Kansas City Health Department pours bleach on food meant for homeless people - Story | WFLD


Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions | Berkeley News

Young People Are Having Less Sex - The Atlantic - Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.
Why Humans Have Sex - Cindy M. Meston, David M. Buss (PDF)

AFM: Experts chase the cause acute flaccid myelitis - The Washington Post

Chemicals used in Teflon and Scotchgard are a much bigger health threat than previously disclosed : news (you trusted us when we said you weren't going to die, hahaha)

Divers find 26 ft. long deep-sea worm made up of thousands of organisms : gifs

TIL that 3 US States (Texas, New York & California) individually each have a larger economy than Russia. : todayilearned - Also interesting, Illinois and Pennsylvania have larger GDPs than Saudi Arabia.

Professor sues over rebuke for calling female transgender student sir' : news - Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor and evangelical Christian, filed a federal lawsuit this month against officials at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, roughly 85 miles south of Columbus

My 6 month weight loss journey to hike up a mountain. : videos

How do you think you will die? : AskReddit
Doctors and nurses, what are the weirdest last words you've heard? : AskReddit

What's a weird/scary childhood memory you didn't realize the seriousness of until you were an adult?

What's your best "Fire me, I fucking dare you" moment from work? : AskReddit

Still my favorite DUI sobriety test video. Courtesy of Reno 9-11 : videos

Trash bandit 3: The Crane : funny

What is the best post of reddit of all time? : AskReddit

If you found out your partner is cuddling with a friend of the opposite sex, is that cheating? Why? : AskReddit


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Amazon's imminent arrival in Queens (Queens, the new Brooklyn)

Amazon and America's Real Divide -- Robert Reich -- The company's HQ2 will only widen the growing inequality of place. (red states are dumb and have no new ideas so AZ said screw you +Boston gets no love as a "talent hub")
Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations - WSJ

Eschaton - But the one thing that stood in Amazon's spirit quest was that they were interested in more affordable housing costs. Places that could actually absorb those jobs.. So, you know, congratulations on putting your major white collar presence in [checks notes] Seattle, San Francisco, and now the DC area, and New York City.

Oh Look, Wireless Sector Investment Is Declining Despite Tax Cuts, Repeal Of Net Neutrality : politics (suckers)




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Death toll rises to 42 in California' Camp Fire, making it the deadliest wildfire ever in the state
California Fires Rage At Both Ends Of State, Leaving At Least 31 Dead | HuffPost - Another 228 remain unaccounted for as crews stepped up the search for bodies and missing people.
Freeway in California today : gifs (holy crap, the new normal)
CNN Meteorologist Brutally Fact-Checks Trump's Claims California Fires Due to Poor Forest Management ... "It's like taking funds from the National Hurricane Center until you stop all these hurricanes. I mean, it's the same notion."

Trump wants no more relief funds for Puerto Rico - Axios (sorry, gotta lock more kids up)

Ventura shooting: They survived the Las Vegas massacre. In a California country bar, it happened again. - The Washington Post
'Being silenced is not acceptable' : Doctors express outrage after NRA tells them 'to stay in their lane' (the lane of dead people which the gunfucks could give a shit about)
Doctors post blood-soaked photos after NRA tells them to "stay in their lane" : news
Doctors post blood-soaked photos after NRA tells them to pipe down over gun restrictions - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Medical Marijuana Patients Federally Barred from buying firearms : news

Eschaton: High School History Modern American History, 2040 - It occurs to me the Iraq war won't even exist. -- It barely exists now. -- Those of us who did our own small (very small) part trying to stop it remember how it was the most important conflict since Normandy.

In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception - The New York Times (cons conning cons)

Trudeau acknowledges Canada has listened to Khashoggi tapes - Trudeau is the first Western leader to confirm that his country's intelligence services have heard the recordings of what happened to Jamal Khashoggi.
'Tell Your Boss' : Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince More Strongly to Khashoggi Killing ... believed to be Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, that the operatives had carried out their mission

In Paris, a relatively understated Trump finds he's still the center of the world's attention -- and ouitrage


UK opposition at odds over whether Brexit can be stopped -- seeming to contradict party leader Jeremy Corbyn's insistence that Brexit can't be stopped (Corbyn is a virtual Tory)

German NGO rescinds award to US Women's March due to antisemitism charge - International news - Jerusalem Post - Social democrats accused US Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour of antisemitism. (b/c BDS is so anti-Jewish)

ICE Is Imprisoning a Record 44,000 People - Congress told the immigration agency to reduce its detentions. Instead, ICE detained more people than ever, The Daily Beast has learned. Where did it find the money? (hello, hurricane survivors!)

Veterans haven't received GI Bill benefits for months due to ongoing IT issues at VA (just a little glitch)
Support for Trump is fading among active-duty troops, new poll shows : politics (unthinking loyalty starts to think)

White House confirms Trump will not visit Arlington cemetery on Veterans Day as rain is expected (not the Onion)
Trump Decides Not To Leave WH To Visit Arlington Cemetery On Veteran's Day - Notice how in his disastrous press conference how he was paralyzed by fear and way more contemptuous than usual. His skipping multiple events. Something's changed when Whitaker took over the investigation. Trump knows he's fucked and the midterms have sealed it. His corrupt children are fucked (I may be too generous to Tiffany but whatever, she seems redeemable). His business is fucked.
Trump, Pence miss Veterans Day observance at Arlington Cemetery : politics (very disloyal and insulting)

Inside Trump's car obsession - With each passing month, his zest for car tariffs only swells. (let's make Americans pay more for cars! see, we win!)

Special counsel witness says he expects to be charged in Mueller probe - ABC News - Jerome Corsi
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, mysteriously arrives in Washington, D.C.

Yes, Whitaker's Appointment is Unconstitutional. Here's How To Challenge It -- Laurence H. Tribe -- Let's be clear: Trump fired Sessions for doing the one unquestionably ethical and decent thing in his tenure as attorney general
Adam Schiff: Matthew Whitaker, we're watching you - Adam Schiff (what's wrong with their heads?)

Democrats load "subpoena cannon" with 85+ Trump targets
Democratic hit list: At least 85 Trump investigation targets - Axios

Should the Press Boycott Trump? Political Strategists Weigh In - The New York Times (give it try, see what happens)

Kellyanne Conway on Jim Acosta video 'That's not altered. that's sped up. They do it all the time in sports.' (empty-souled mouth of Satan)


Who Lost The House? John McCain - WSJ - His July 2017 vote killed ObamaCare repeal and made Democratic lies impossible to refute. (hahahahahaha WSJ you fucking liars lie to yourselves and but no one believes you)

Florida's election chaos is a nightmare. 2020 could be so much worse - most terrifyingly of all, the 2018 Florida elections have demonstrated the real possibility that President Donald Trump might attempt to ignore an unfavorable 2020 election outcome if the result is a slim loss by the president, a possibility that should give us all chills.
Will Trump leave the White House voluntarily? - Lawyers, Guns & Money (impeach him while you can) (3) Something basically unimaginable right now (I don't trust the show runners at all at this point). (good point)
Trump is cracking - The Washington Post - President Trump is back in the United States -- and back to attacking democracy:

Trump, without evidence, calls Florida ballots 'massively infected,' demands end to recounts (he's talking about his syphilitic brain)
Donald Trump Calls For End To Florida Recounts, Flouting Democratic Process | HuffPost (elect a crook, get a crook)
Trump is lying about voter fraud in Florida, and media outlets are spreading it : politics
Broward Judge Will NOT Issue Injuction In Rick Scott Motion To Impound Broward Election Equipment & Records + CBS Miami - Injunction denied. That's the decision Monday from a Broward Circuit Court judge at an emergency hearing involving a lawsuit filed by Florida Governor Rick Scott, asking to impound ballots and machines at the Broward Election office. (yeah, they tried to lock up the ballots)
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'It's impossible' to finish recount by deadline, Palm Beach county election supervisor says
'Incompetence': Broward election chief likely to be forced from office by Scott, DeSantis
Al Franken is rare example of a recount changing an election | Miami Herald - In 26 recounts in major races around the nation since 2000, only 3 outcomes changed


Opinion | Let the People Vote - The New York Times - America finally has a pro-democracy movement

Opinion | Do the Math. Moderate Democrats Will Not Win in 2020. - The New York Times - Learning the right lessons from the midterms is key for the party (moderates "crazy Clair" and "low energy Phil" go down)

Kyrsten Sinema beats Martha McSally to become Arizona's first female senator
Grand Canyon State Flips to Democrats - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Greg Sargent on Twitter: "AP calls it. Remember, this state served as a kind of Ground Zero for Trumpism. He gave his big immigration speech there in 2016. He pardoned local racist Arpaio. This seat was open precisely because Flake was hounded out of the Senate for not being worshipful enough of Trump. https://t.co/e4lVP5TmUg"

Two more Republicans go down in California as the blue wave grows : politics

When Will Bret Stephens Stop Getting Picked On? - Hmm Daily - Bret Stephens got mad yesterday because people were making fun of him. They were making fun of him because he wrote a bad column rebuking Democrats for not having a winning election message, after which he got his feet tangled up in the late-breaking returns and he took a pratfall.

lvl 45 CHAOS POTUS on Twitter: "bret do you remember when you wrote an article saying you were leaving twitter? like a full one? claiming your editorial assistant would be the only one on here? are you even slightly embarrassed by this? https://t.co/8z4YoAQPT1 https://t.co/gZW4S1R5Fy" (toasty)

Critics rebuke Mississippi senator's 'public hanging' remark Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces a black Democratic challenger in a Nov. 27 runoff, said Sunday that her Nov. 2 remark was "exaggerated expression of regard" (graduate of the KellyAnne Conway School of Obvious Lies)
A senator refuses to apologize for joking about 'public hanging' in a state known for lynchings (racist fuckers to the core)



A bunch of people were sold a bill of goods by the host of a white nationalist show on Trump's personal propaganda network (but, the tambourines!)
Rebecca J. Kavanagh on Twitter: "One last point on the Tucker Carlson protest, you don't wanna believe the protestors, why not go with the police version of events? Cause there is a police report. I'm gonna say that's a more reliable source than Mr. Carlson. And it completely contradicts him. Here goes."


Vatican tells U.S. bishops not to vote on proposals to tackle sexual abuse, spurns lay and civil investigations - The Washington Post
Vatican orders US bishops to delay taking action on sexual abuse crisis : news


How Did Larry Nassar Deceive So Many for So Long?

'They basically saw a black man with a gun' : Police kill armed guard while responding to call



A Former Underground Chemist explains the Fentanyl crisis rocking Vancouver. : bestof


New York City Raids Condo Building in Crackdown on Airbnb Rentals - WSJ - In one of the largest actions against short-term rentals, city issues violations to apartment owners in a Midtown luxury building -- The violations went to 20 different apartment owners who allegedly rented to guests from at least 15 countries including Argentina and Spain. Some guests paid $400 a night, and one group of six from Switzerland paid a total bill of $3,823 for a short-term stay, according to city records.


Season of the Witch - YouTube
Donovan - Sunshine Superman (live France 1966) *Rare Footage* - YouTube

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Season 13 Ep. 10: Mac's Dance Scene


Didn't the person who wrote world's first compiler have to, well, compile it somehow?Did he compile it at all, and if he did, how did he do that? : askscience

Study finds most of Earth's water is asteroidal in origin, but some, perhaps as much as 2%, came from the solar nebula : science


A great rundown of how dumb and rude people are according to age and location : bestof (call center demographics politness)


An Edmonton woman who spent two years battling her bank for information about her own account is defying a confidentiality agreement to go public about what happened, in a bid to shed light on a highly secretive system she says is stacked against the customer. : news

YouTube CEO calls EU's proposed copyright regulation financially impossible




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Vital to the region's waters, kelp suffers as the Gulf of Maine warms

'Only bones and fragments': California wildfire toll at 25 as grim searches go on : news
Photos of the Camp and Woolsey Fires Burning in California | Time
California wildfires: Trump tweets, death toll rises to 25 as people flee Camp Fire, Malibu - The Washington Post
At Least 23 Killed During Raging Camp Fire: Butte Sheriff - The Butte County Sheriff's Office is reporting that 23 people were killed as a result of the Camp Fire burning in northeastern Butte County.
Camp Fire - YouTube (don't watch)

"In many fields of medicine nowadays, a dose of dynamite can do a world of good." (NRA tells docs to "stay in their lane" b/c they don't know anything about death freedom
Presidential Elections Are Important - Lawyers, Guns & Money - California banned the kind high capacity magazine used in the mass killing in Thousand Oaks, but were thwarted by a neoconfederate hack:


China's annual shopping frenzy shatters records again - The spending binge has for years eclipsed Cyber Monday in the U.S. for online purchases made on a single day. This year's tally breaks from gloomy forecasts about the world's second-largest economy, which is struggling with a tariff war with the U.S., a stock market slump and slowing overall growth ... Singles Day


Saudis Close to Crown Prince Discussed Assassinating Enemies a Year Before Khashoggi Killing - The New York Times


We're still haunted by our failure to grapple with the dark side of World War I - Changes wrought by the war still shape America today
They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson's WW1 documentary, should be seen by as many people as possible : movies
Gallipoli: The Scale of our War (2015) ; Weta Workshop
The Great War Exhibition - Wellington NZ - Created by Sir Peter Jackson
Today marks 100 years since the end of world war 1. What are some stories and facts that we should hear or know about this "War to end all Wars"? : AskReddit
Kurt Vonnegut on Armistice Day from Breakfast of Champions (1973) : books
The Great War Series has just ended! Here is its final episode - Week 225 : videos
TIL Robert Frost wrote "The Road Not Taken" to tease his chronically indecisive friend, Edward Thomas, who misinterpreted the meaning and enlisted in the military shortly thereafter, only to be killed two years later in WWI
Armistice Day - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The centenary of the end of the First World War is getting coverage in a lot of different places, some because the President of the United States is a disgrace to the human race, and some for good reasons.

Strategy Without Politics is No Strategy: A Lesson of World War I for the Trump Era - Lawfare - On this 100th anniversary of the war's armistice, as we grieve the loss of 19 million lives and the shattering of fin de ciecle European societies, another consequential lesson for our current wars rings out from the battlefields of the Somme and Bealleau Wood: politics must be integral for military planning to rise to the level of strategy.

Macron takes implicit dig at Trump, denouncing 'nationalism' - At World War I commemoration, the French president brought contemporary politics to fore
Churchill's grandson slams Trump for skipping cemetery visit because of weather
Eschaton: Did You Know Helicopters Can't Fly In The Rain? - Wow reporters are gullible.
Growing criticism of Trump cemetery no-show : politics
Twitter Pelts Trump With Photos Of Obama In The Rain After He Ditches Cemetery Visit : politics
Imgur: The magic of the Internet - Trump's rain hat and chin bloat
Denizcan Grimes on Twitter: "This might be my favorite pic of Obama. And it's in the rain. "
Concetta on Twitter: "Obama in the rain.... Notice Michelle is using the umbrella..What difference between the two men! "
Bethany Primrose on Twitter: "You commemorate wars, not celebrate them. Also, you don't pull a no-show because of rain. What a joke of leadership and respect. Thank God @BarackObama wasn't afraid of melting in the rain.
katgal on Twitter: " "
Twitter Pelts Trump With Photos Of Obama In The Rain After He Ditches Cemetery Visit | HuffPost
In the Paris rain, May 1961, JFK and de Gaulle honor soldiers who gave their lives: : pics

The Trump Doctrine - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Evidently, the Trump Doctrine is making the United States a global laughingstock by yelling at all other nations incoherently and ignorantly.
Trump confused the Baltics with Balkans -- and accused confused leaders of starting Yugoslav wars : report (whut, they both start with "Bal" whaddya want? I'm 'sposed to know where Melania comes from?)

Deep Inside a Pro-Putin Network That's Helping Trump Divide America - what experts learned tracking millions of tweets from 600 Kremlin-linked trolls. (Trump is Putin's favorite traitor)
Watch: Putin's warm thumbs-up to Trump at Paris commemorations | Euronews

Who's the Real American Psycho? ... "Here's the question. Would you rather have a professional assassin after you or a frothing maniac with a meat cleaver? I'd rather have a maniac with a meat cleaver after me, so I think Cheney is way worse. And also, if you look at the body count, more than 600,000 people died in Iraq. It's not even close, right?

Hate-filled followers act on Trump's code words

/u/DontCountToday lists some of the Trump Administration scandals that Congress has not investigated. : bestof

The Election of Donald Trump Was a Devastating Blow to Neoliberalism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Thankfully, we elected a man of the people in 2016 ... President Donald Trump watched election returns Tuesday with dozens of friends in the palatial East Room of the White House, including Republican megadonors Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, and Blackstone Group chief executive Steve Schwarzman.

Scoop: Democrats to probe Trump for targeting CNN, Washington Post - Axios (Trump is the enemy of the non-instinctual people)
Senior Democrat Waters hits back after Republicans warn of consequences if she tries to investigate Trump | The Independent - House Republican Patrick McHenry, who is set to be the ranking Republican on the committee, said if Ms Waters goes after Mr Trump's personal finances he would stop her, warning Democrats they cannot use the committee "as the launch pad for endless, partisan investigations" (Benghahahahahazizizizi! +"Mr" Trump)
Senior Democrat Waters hits back after Republicans warn of consequences if she tries to investigate Trump : politics

Did Trump's Deal With AMI Break Campaign-Finance Laws? - The Atlantic - It is a strange turn of events when a president famous for denouncing "fake news" is discovered to have entered into an agreement with a media organization to finance the concealment of very real, but politically unfavorable, newsworthy information.

Jeff Sessions, Robert De Niro and Adele: SNL's cold open brings back a guest star (and packs a punch)

Eschaton: The Suffering of Others - While it is a defining pleasure for conservatives, I admit it seems to be part of human nature Even deep red states like Kansas and Oklahoma are turning away from the tea party brand re generally.


Opinion | America Needs a Bigger House - The New York Times

Opinion | The Resistance Strikes Back - The New York Times - Two years of progressive organizing built the blue wave.
The political pendulum is swinging back from conservative control in so many ways | TheHill
The message from the midterms: a new, progressive US is slowly taking shape : politics

Momentum builds for Dems to take on campaign finance reform : politics


Moderate Republicans aren't dead. They're hiding in plain sight. - Even deep red states like Kansas and Oklahoma are turning away from the tea party brand (and oh look! Charlie Baker!)

How Democrats flipped the House: With help from high-income voters - Washington Post

Tight race in Georgia shines light on voting restrictions - Most of those rules have come since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013.

See How Close the Results Are in Florida, Georgia and Arizona - The New York Times

Dana Rohrabacher Loses, Eroding Republican Foothold in California - The New York Times - Mr. Rohrabacher, 71, was viewed as particularly vulnerable because he defended Russia in the midst of allegations about its efforts to intervene in elections in the United States.
Dana Rohrabacher, a pro-Russia Republican, narrowly loses House seat - The Washington Post (he wears the American flag pin, suckers)
GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher loses, and the Republican's 'bad year' may get worse yet - Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has lost the congressional seat he held for 30 years in one of the most conservative stretches of Orange County, a stunning defeat for the GOP as other Republicans' early leads receded in the latest ballot counts, putting the party in fear of losing all six tightly contested House races in California ... no county -- no part of a county -- has been at the heart of conservatism since the 1960s like the coast between Dana Point and the Los Angeles County line. This was John Wayne country. (and the horse you rode in on ... complete washout)

Steve King calls Mexican migrants 'dirt,' then caught in blatant lie denying the slur

Scott Walker Thought He Could Get Away With Corporate Welfare | The New Republic - disastrous deal with Foxconn cost him his seat in Tuesday's midterm elections ... the deal was just a way to flush out taxpayer money, without getting much from Foxconn in return. Walker was nothing but a bagman for a coordinated hit on Wisconsin's s treasury, and he paid for it. ("welfare" = "complete scam")

Sinema's lead over McSally increases in Arizona Senate race -- Sinema ahead by just 28,000 votes (SallyMcSallySally is a loser)

Bishops meet to resolve sexual abuse crisis, but does self-policing work in the Catholic church? - The Boston Globe

McGovern: I'll let House debate marijuana reform

Union boss who defended troubled State Police troopers faces his own fraud investigation - The Boston Globe (crooked from top to bottom)

Firefighter loses jobs after suggesting hunting of migrants : news

4 men charged in murder of store clerk Hafeez Qureshi in SW Houston | abc13.com


LGM Review of Books: Dan Flores, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History - Lawyers, Guns & Money (governement-supported genocidal white ranchers)

Boudica: how a widowed queen became a rebellious woman warrior | Aeon Essays
Making an Ancient Roman Murderer | Lapham -- The story of how Nero plotted -- and initially failed -- to kill his mother

Psychologists complain of licensing delays - The Boston Globe - Recently, it took the board more than two years to resolve a credible accusation that a psychologist had sex with a patient, one of the most severe forms of misconduct. In June, four days after the Globe reported on the case, the psychologist, Melvin Rabin, turned in his license ... average time to process an application ... is 80 days and has remained steady for the last five to seven years, with occasional slowdowns during peak months.


Eschaton: Dentistry - That people can't afford dentistry, which is probably more important than regular medical checkups, is why america is great.

My husband is 70. I'm 35. I've become a Dear Abby for others in relationships with large age gaps.


New psychology research provides evidence that Republicans tend to have slightly more psychopathic personality traits compared to Democrats. The researchers found that psychopathic boldness and meanness tended to be higher in Republicans compared to Democrats. : science


TIL Gay people have a 39% chance to be left-handed, while in the general population is 10-13% : todayilearned

TIL that there is a chance that overweight males can, though epigenetic information, pass genetic obesity risk onto their offspring : todayilearned

Vitamin D And Fish Oil Supplements Disappoint In Long-Awaited Study Results; a randomized, placebo-controlled trial (n=25,871) which showed that neither supplement significantly lowered the incidence of major cardiovascular events or cancer compared to placebo : science

New research suggests that even non-verbal displays of synchrony (when movements between people become coordinated and synchronized) during ordinary activities in everyday lives can deepen the experience of closeness and sexual desire between partners. : science

RunDNA comments on TIL of the "Jefferson Bible." Thomas Jefferson cut-and-pasted together his own version of the philosophical and moral teachings and doctrines of Jesus, "notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural," including his resurrection.

Dopamine primes the brain for enhanced vigilance | MIT News - Neuroscientists discover a circuit that helps redirect attention to focus on potential threats.

What if the Placebo Effect Isn't a Trick? - New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect -- possibly opening a Pandora's box for Western medicine

The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50,000 High-Res Images from Their Collection Online


Why don't you talk to your once "best friend" anymore? : AskReddit




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California Fire: Trump tweets as people flee Camp Fire, Malibu - The Washington Post
MANDATORY EVACUATION - now for all City of Malibu + areas S of 101 Fwy, Ventura line to Malibu Cyn : news
A State in Flames: The California Wildfires in Photos - The New York Times
Paradise is Gone : California Fires Devastate Communities and Threaten Others

Mayor__Defacto comments on A Fifth of China's Homes Are Empty. That's 50 Million Apartments

Trump says Macron's "EU Army" plan is "insulting"
'Real low energy' : Critics pile on after Trump cancels visit to U.S. military cemetery outside Paris
Trump cancels World War One memorial visit to US cemetery because of 'poor weather' : politics
When the U.S. had a president who wouldn't let a little rain stop him from honoring the troops (too much wind for Trumps hair +the gif of Trump tossing his umbrella) )
FACT CHECK: Is This Trump's Hair Blowing in the Wind? - A video shows President Trump's hair getting blown in the wind, revealing a large bald spot.
A Noble Tribute to Human Courage - Lawyers, Guns & Money - You didn't expect him to get wet, did you? -- "It's incredible that a president would travel to France for this significant anniversary -- and then remain in his hotel room watching TV rather than pay in person his respects to the Americans who gave their lives in France for the victory gained 100 years ago tomorrow,"
Jim Acosta on Twitter: "Greetings from Paris where we are on the ground for Trump's trip to France


Tape of Khashoggi's killing has been given to U.S., Saudi, Europeans, Erdogan says
Twitter gave Saudi Arabia information about journalist who ended up dead


The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome | The New Yorker - Unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies. What happened?

Deployed Inside the United States: The Military Waits for the Migrant Caravan - The New York Times - With little electricity, no combat pay and holidays away from home, the 5,600 American troops on the southwest border are on a mission ordered by a politically determined commander in chief and a Pentagon unable to convince him of its perils.
Fox News Weirdly Drops Their Racist Caravan Segments After the Midterms : politics

Team Mueller is Holding 'Dozens of Sealed Indictments' According to Intel Source (Don Jr)


FBI Is Investigating Florida Company Where Whitaker Was Advisory-Board Member - WSJ - Active case is being handled by FBI Miami office; acting attorney general oversees FBI
Matthew Whitaker: An Attack Dog With Ambition Beyond Protecting Trump - The New York Times
Whitaker said he supports state's rights to nullify federal law (and hold slaves! and give their votes to white Republicans!)

Concerned about acting attorney general, Sen. Collins says she backs bill to protect Russia probe : politics (sure, Susie Doozy, we really believe you)

Did Someone Say....EMAILS? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Extremely careless: Fired FBI chief James Comey used his private Gmail account hundreds of times to conduct government business -- and at least seven of those messages were deemed so sensitive by the Justice Department that they declined to release them. (the depths of evil hypocrisy)

Even for This President, It Was a Remarkable Week of Attacks on American Institutions - The New York Times

Hear the one about Trump? You've probably heard a lot - A think tank that has studied the content of late-night comedy for the past 26 years said Donald Trump was the butt of more jokes in 2017 than any other public figure has for a single year. By a lot.

Wife of GOP megadonor to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom - POLITICO - Miriam Adelson will receive the medal -- the nation's highest civilian honor ...


The Economoy Didn't Save Republicans After All = Neither strong growth nor a $1.5 trillion tax cut helped (let's give all the money to 23 billionaires, that'll work!)
The government is raking in billions of dollars from Trump's tariffs. Americans are the ones paying. : politics (hahha suckers, you didn't know what a "tariff" is, you thought China would give you a lot of free money)

Barack Obama Crushed Donald Trump in the Midterms With Endorsements Winning Far More Races : politics
Ally Maynard on Twitter: "Trump has endorsed 11 Republicans running for Governor, 31 House candidates and 13 Senate candidates and I've screenshot every one of them and will let him know every one that loses."
Trump voters stood by Trump in the midterms -- but there just weren't enough of them -- From 2010 to 2018 GOP midterm vote increased by 3 million. Dem vote increased by 14 million.
Mr. Rogers is a evil Man.mp4 - YouTube (says Fox News!)
An empty Capitol, but Mitch McConnell is receiving visitors. Rupert Murdoch in this case
Mitch McConnell met with Rupert Murdoch on Thursday : politics

Eschaton: Pareene Is A Big Boy Now - Use it because of course you're going to lose it -- Your job is not to win power and then maintain it. Your job is to win power and then use it, with the knowledge that you won't have it forever or even, most likely, for very long at all (hello, float-above-it-all Barry)

Waiting For Infrastructure Week - Lawyers, Guns & Money - been a lot of discussion about these comments by Bernie in an interview with Matt Taibbi: (clueless Bernie implodes, reveals the reasons black people didn't trust him. go home, old man)

For Democrats, a midterm election that keeps on giving - The Washington Post


Trump's new target: the electoral process

In Arizona Senate race, Democrat expands lead as vote count continues - The Washington Post - Sinema now leads McSally, 49.3 percent to 48.3 percent,
Kyrsten Sinema's lead over Martha McSally widens in Senate race

Whoops! Brenda Snipes' office mixed bad provisional ballots with good ones
Florida Recount: Ballots Are Still Inside a Miami-Dade Post Office | Miami New Times

Florida recounts begin as tensions escalate across state - CNNPolitics
See How the Close the Results Are in Florida, Georgia and Arizona - The New York Times
Recount to begin in Florida Senate and governor's races, in echo of 2000 presidential election (where are the rioting Republican DC lawyers in suits?)

Georgia Vote Shows Signs of Tampering, Civil Rights Group Says : politics


17 Black Women Sweep to Judgeships in Texas County - The New York Times

After years of Governor Paul LePage, Maine went very blue in Tuesday's midterms - The Boston Globe (Gov LeFuck is out, finally)

GOP Rep. Denham falls behind Democrat as 3 other Republicans lose ground in Friday's ballot tally .. updated ballot counts showed the GOP in growing danger of losing as many as six House seats in the state ... GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa fell further behind Democrat Harley Rouda, who is now more than 7,300 votes ahead of the 15-term congressman. (Russian Rohrafucker falls)


I was at the protest outside Tucker Carlson's house. Here's what actually happened. -- Less than 15 people chanting in the dark, with a tambourine ... 10-minute demonstration ... (violent mob! armed with tambourines!)


/U/Procrastinare outlines the EXACT purpose of putting up a flyer around college campuses that says "It's ok to be white." : bestof
Sort By Controversial | Slate Star Codex


9 people linked to Aryan Brotherhood arrested after investigation in Indiana : news

Woman goes on racist, homophobic rant on plane, reportedly threatens a flight attendant | Fox News

Victoria's Secret Doesn't Want Plus-Size or Trans Women Walking the Runway ... chief marketing officer of L Brands, Ed Razek ... The 70-year-old Razek, who is part of the casting team that chooses the models for each show, gave some bizarrely out-of-touch answers in the interview ... He comes off as a complete joke and absolute asshole and is clearly the reason the company is stuck in 2005.

How to Date a Lot of Billionaires - The New York Times
And the Matharoos meet their waterloo! Canadian twin-menace, Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo, in police net for trying to blackmail Femi Otedola with their website, naijagistlive | TheCapital
The 'Sugar Dater' -- How one man used SeekingArrangement to deceive a number of women in Brooklyn - The man is Imran U. Khan, 36, of Brooklyn.



Fish-oil drugs protect heart health, two studies say - The Washington Post - Omega-3 ... In a look at another commonly consumed supplement, vitamin D, researchers found no effect on heart disease but saw a link to a decline in cancer deaths over time.

Feeding a population of 9 billion in 2050 will require much more food than previously calculated, as people on average become taller and heavier. An average adult in 2014 was 14% heavier, about 1.3% taller and needed 6.1% more energy than in 1975. Human consumption increased by 129% over this time. : science

US cigarette smoking rate reaches new low -- Cigarette use among American adults is at the lowest it's been since the CDC started collecting data on the issue in 1965, down to 14% from over 40% in the mid-1960s, according to a new report.

Preliminary research provides evidence that the use of birth control pills is associated with an increased frequency of mind wandering in women. The study, published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, could help explain why women face higher risks of depression and other mood disorders. : science - undefined

ELI5: Why are the physical symptoms of shell shock from WW1 not seen in people with PTSD today? : explainlikeimfive - some people were called shellshocked when they were physically injured or had disorders other than PTSD.


ViAik comments on I want to comit suicide. I cant take this anymore.


What has been the most incredible coincidence in history? : AskReddit

Firefight during the battle of Aleppo. Looks like something from the apocalypse : videos
The New York Times Doesn't Know What Aleppo Is, Either

Amazon must give up Echo recordings in double murder case, judge rules : technology

Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site : news




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20,000-acre wildfire all but destroys Paradise, California - "The whole lower side of Paradise is totally engulfed in flames right now ... Not one home will be left standing. I'm devastated."
5 found dead as Northern California wildfire quadruples in size - The Boston Globe
Boston area hit with 12 to 15 inches of rain in last two months - The Boston Globe - 5 to 6 inches above normal.

Thousand Oaks Bar Shooter Ian Long Posted on Instagram During Killings | TMZ.com - Thousand Oaks Bar Shooting Suspect Posted on Instagram During Massacre Possible Revenge Motive
Thousand Oaks Gunman's High School Coach Speaks About Sexual Assault ... But Colell says she was encouraged by other coaches and the school to accept an apology to not ruin his future in the Marine Corps (and psychopathic mass killings)

Democrats Plan to Pursue Most Aggressive Gun-Control Legislation in Decades - WSJ


What We Know About the Lion Air Flight 610 Crash - The New York Times - new plane's automated systems may have played a role, but the precise cause remains unknown.

Interview with Labour Leader Corbyn: 'We Can't Stop Brexit' - SPIEGEL ONLINE


The caravan has all but vanished from cable news - The Washington Post (hahaha suckers)


Momentum builds against acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker - Axios
After Two People Said No, Chris Christie Now Being Seriously Considered For AG
Trump says he doesn't know acting AG, despite reports of Oval Office meetings ("never met the guy")

Almost everything about Matthew Whitaker's appointment is problematic
'He's a Fucking Fool' : Justice Department Officials Trash Matt Whitaker, Their New Boss
Matthew Whitaker is a crackpot - The Washington Post
10 Reasons Whitaker Might Not Foil Mueller - The Atlantic - The prospects for interference are dimmer than many imagine.

Tensions rising between Mueller, Manafort over level of cooperation: Sources - ABC News

Sessions, in Last-Minute Act, Sharply Limits Use of Consent Decrees to Curb Police Abuses - The New York Times

Trump threatens to retaliate against reporters who don't show 'repect' ("bow down to the supreme leader")


Donald Trump Played Central Role in Hush Payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal - WSJ - Federal prosecutors have gathered evidence of president's participation in transactions that violated campaign-finance laws (lock his orange ass up)
Trump conspired with David Pecker to quash stories about his affairs - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Trump Threatens to Retaliate Against Reporters Who Don't Show 'Respect'(to the "White House" and "the presidency")



Why Aren't Democrats More Excited About the 2018 Results - Democrats didn't flip any district that Trump had carried by 55 percent or more. (Trumpangelicals voted for Satan)
Three days later: Hey, Republicans really did get clobbered - The Washington Post
2018 Was a Wave Election - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Worst of All Election Takes - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Elaina Plott at the Atlantic


The U.S. is in a state of perpetual minority rule - The Washington Post

This Sequel To Groundhog Day Is Terrible - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The showrunners have run out of ideas:

Something Looks Weird In Broward County. Here's What We Know About A Possible Florida Recount

Rick Scott Cites Rampant Fraud in Florida, as Senate and Governor Races Tighten - The New York Times
Rick Scott sues Broward, Palm Beach elections supervisors | Miami Herald
Trump's s authoritarian response to Florida shenanigans hints at worse to come ... This "big corruption having to do with Election Fraud" is that Democrats want the votes to be fully counted in Democratic areas ... But the president of the United States is declaring the Senate contest over before the vote-counting is done, and declaring that demands for a full count constitute fraud
Trump, without evidence, accuses Democrats of 'election theft' in Florida Senate race
Republicans Freak Out as New Ballots Threaten Florida Senate Win - New ballots in Broward County have conspiracy theorists -- including the state's top elected officials -- calling for an investigation of Democrats. (the Dems did it!)


Inside Kris Kobach's losing Kansas campaign: 'Check logic and reason at the door'

Katie Arrington blames Mark Sanford and his supporters for her defeat in SC | Palmetto Politics | postandcourier.com - But to Arrington, her loss came down to Sanford, his silence during the general election and his supporters (Trumpster loses)

Exit polling gives Golden an edge in 2nd District ranked-choice count -- Assistant Maine House Majority Leader Jared Golden is favored to beat U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin in a ranked-choice voting count that could decide the tight race in the 2nd Congressional District


Vox's Matt Yglesias got doxed on Twitter for his Tucker Carlson comments. Twitter allowed it.

We Thought We Knew Faith, Until We Didn't The making of a white-nationalist poster girl.


Leak: Axios Editor Concedes Problems With HBO 'Shitshow' But Assures Staff That Haters Are Just Jealous - "They hate ya cause they ain't ya"


Crumbling concrete, leaking roofs, and busted elevators: the state of the T - The Boston Globe (Charlie Baker says he "had no idea")

Cyclist struck and killed near Museum of Science - The Boston Globe


Crossing From Asia, the First Americans Rushed Into the Unknown - The New York Times - Three new genetic analyses lend detail, and mystery, to the migration of prehistoric humans throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Scientists Trace an Ancient DNA Link Between Amazonians and Australasians - The New York Times




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Democrats Said to Plan Revival of Climate Change Panel in House - Bloomberg - disbanded by Republicans after they took control of the House in January 2011. (as the deathmongers took the planet off the cliff)
"South Park" apologizes to Al Gore and admits it was wrong about global warming

Thousand Oaks shooting leaves 13 people dead, including gunman, and 18 injured - Los Angeles Times
After Thousand Oaks shooting, picture emerges of a troubled ex-Marine known to authorities - Los Angeles Times
Multiple people shot as gunman opens fire in California bar : news
Sheriff's sergeant told wife 'I love you,' then rushed into Thousand Oaks shooting scene before he fell
At Least 12 Killed In Mass Shooting At Borderline Bar & Grill In Thousand Oaks, California | HuffPost - The gunman was found dead when authorities entered the bar ... The bar is a popular spot for college students from nearby California Lutheran University, Moorpark College and Pepperdine University
What we know about Thousand Oaks shooting suspect, Ian David Long | 6abc.com ("trained killer" and doesn't look like a "dark-skinned middle-easterner")

Thousand Oaks Mass Shooting Is Another Unfortunate Exercise of Second Amendment Rights - Tell me that the Constitution was designed so that people can be witness to two mass shootings in 13 months.

Mass shootings in the US since 1950 resulting in eight or more murders - Lawyers, Guns & Money


A $240-Billion-a-Day Market Is Leaving London Ahead of Brexit - Bloomberg - CME Group Inc. is moving its European market for short-term financing, the largest in the region, out of London because the exchange operator wants to guarantee continental firms can continue to use it if there is a no-deal Brexit. (la-di-la with the Tories and Russians off the cliff)


If Jamal Khashoggi's killers elude justice, Iran will exploit the consequences - Boris Johnson (lies get disassembled in comments and MuslimBullShitter is another fat face of evil )


Rising death rate prompts some in Congress to reassess "war on terror" ...in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq has directly killed at least 480,000 people since 2001, according to a new report by the Costs of War Project at Brown University. This is an increase of 113,000 over the last count, issued just two years ago. (Republican deathmongers and their Dem enablers and war continuers, hello Barry and Hillary)


Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized after fall - Axios
Supreme Court: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall at court : news

How Tuesday's Sheriff Elections Dealt a Blow to ICE - Local allies of the Trump administration fought challengers over immigration policy.
Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on Canceling DACA Protections - WSJ - Issue likely to go to the Supreme Court (where #BeerKav will decide)

Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Continues Receiving Threats, Lawyers Say : NPR


Eschaton: Good stuff - Look, I've been infuriated for a couple of decades now over the complete lack of movement the Democratic leadership has shown on going after voter suppression and election fraud. We all know who is doing it and we all know it is not a conspiracy theory that some pretty unlikely election results are the outcome, but the Kobachs and Kemps belong in jail, not in office. It should be a federal crime to interfere with an eligible voter's right to vote. (sorry, Barry and Hilliary were busy bombing brown people in far-off lands)


President Trump Fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Taps Matt Whitaker as Acting Attorney General - President Trump fires Jeff Sessions and ushers in a pet attorney general. Welcome to the madhouse.

Trump's acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, has no intention of recusing from Russia probe, associates say
Trump's Appointment of the Acting Attorney General Is Unconstitutional - The president is evading the requirement to seek the Senate's advice and consent for the nation's chief law envorcement officer and the person who will oversee the Mueller investigation.
Why Trump could face legal challenges over Whitaker - Axios
President Trump Fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Taps Matt Whitaker as Acting Attorney General - Sam Clovis from Iowa is a loyal Trumper who has testified before Mueller's grand jury. Guess who was Sam's campaign director when Sam ran for state treasurer in Iowa? Outstanding ... (just when you think the shit can't get any deeper)
Trump Installs a Critic of the Mueller Investigation to Oversee It - The New York Times (another weird-looking asshole)
Jeff Session's Replacement, Matthew Whitaker, Led Secretive Anti-Dem Group
Chris Christie Considered To Replace Jeff Sessions As Attorney General | WCBS Newsradio (hilariious)

Trump's acting attorney general was part of firm US accused of vast scam | US news | The Guardian - Matthew Whitaker sat on advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which was ordered to pay $26m settlement in May
Matthew Whitaker's troubling opinion: Judges need a biblical view
A Quick Primer on the Legality of Appointing Matthew Whitaker as "Acting" Attorney General, and Whitaker's Power to Influence the Russia Investigation
After Sessions, who will Trump dump next? - POLITICO - The president has been discussing multiple Cabinet shakeup options with his advisers.


Eschaton: Pr0n - Such fun. - In recent days, according to three sources, Don Jr. has been telling friends he is worried about being indicted as early as this week. ... "Never heard of him," said Donald Trump Sr.
"The President Is Very Depressed' : With Don Jr. Facing Possible Indictment, and Endless House Investigations Forthcoming, No Wonder Trump Is in a Bad Mood - He finally got rid of Jeff Sessions -- but Donald Trump's life is about to get much harder.


Video: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Used Doctored InfoWars Footage to Justify Acosta Ban (reality wins +#sarahmouthofsatan)
Jim Acosta should sue Trump, and Americans should shun Sarah Sanders - The Washington Post (the 4x vid w/sound is great)
White House shares doctored video to support punishment of journalist Jim Acosta - The Washington Post - A frame-by-frame breakdown by Storyful, a social-media intelligence firm that verifies media content, found that the edited video included repeated frames that did not appear in the original footage (#fakevideo)
Jim Acosta "placing his hands on a young woman," according to the White House : gifs ... Wtf did I just listen to. I feel like I was sitting at a middle school lunch table listening to a bully being called out and getting pissed ahahaha ... That is exactly what you just listened to
Michelle Fields: Jim Acosta Smear Is Projection - The Atlantic - Trump supporters accused me of smearing his campaign manager. Today they're smearing Jim Acosta.
Watch Now: President Donald Trump's full press conference after Midterm Elections results - YouTube (with CC)
BrUtAl nInJa KaRaTe ChOpS wHiTe HoUsE iNtErN's ArM aNd ShE fUcKiNg DiEs : PeopleFuckingDying

People Are Arguing About Whether This Trump Press Conference Video Is Doctored - An editor from the conspiracy site Infowars has provided us with a dizzying example of video manipulation that's created a "choose your own reality" crisis

Jim Acosta video shared by White House appears to be from Infowars - Business Insider (#fakevideo #fakepresident #SHSisaliar #fuckabee)
Paul Joseph Watson on Twitter: "Sarah Sanders claims Jim Acosta 'placed his hands on a woman'. Jim Acosta says this is a "lie". Here's the video. You be the judge. https://t.co/dpJjU5pQCf" (#fakevideo)
Jeff Mason on Twitter: "I was seated next to ?@Acosta? at today's press conference and did not witness him "placing his hands" on the young intern, as the White House alleges. He held on to the microphone as she reached for it. The ?@Reuters? pictures below depict what happened accurately. (#fakepresident @lyingturd)
Trump Can't Fire CNN - Jeff Sessions is gone, but Jim Acosta isn't going anywhere

Man Charged with Threatening to Kill CNN Anchor : news - "Could I be directed to Don Lemons's hanging from a tree?" "Is Don Lemon dead yet? Can you help me kill that [redacted]" ... Matthew's telephone records indicate that he had also made calls to MSNBC; U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; attorney Michael Avenatti; Washington Speakers Bureau; and Planned Parenthood ...

Mob Gathers Outside Tucker Carlson's home: 'We Know Where You Sleep at Night!' (very uncivil to the racist nazi)

Bernie Sanders absolves racists of their racism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - White Southerners just need a little more time to get used to black people and understand that racist attacks against them aren't true ... I am tired of this man's loud mouth, his soft-core racism and his persistent, idiotic refusal to understand basic things like 14% of the population or the nature of the political party he keeps crashing. If he runs for president as a Democrat again the only thing that will make it bearable is watching him spin out, again. (shut up and go home, Bernie, play cards with JoeBi)

Opinion | The Midterm Results Are a Warning to the Democrats - The New York Times - Stop manning imaginary barricades, and start building real bridges to the other America. (Bret (one "T") Stephens, for the laughs)
Democrats Have a Long Way to Go to Defeat Trump - The Atlantic - The midterms showed that the president has a real political constituency -- one that gerrymandering and voter suppression make it hard to defeat (crooks will crook, #lockthemup but no mention of the actual 47,000,000 number)

Eschaton: Fear - I have no idea how you live in rural Ohio and fear black people from Philadelphia, but basically that was it.

Recounts loom larger, legal action begins as margins tighten in key Florida races | Tampa Bay Times - Legal confrontations begin as Florida's close Senate race moves to treacherous recount territory (they #florifucked the vote, again)
How Bill Nelson could ultimately win the recount in Florida's Senate race (and the 30,000 disappeared votes for Gov in Boward)
Florida Governor Race Recount Now Likely, Andrew Gillum Claims Vote Gap Down To 15,000 Votes Behind DeSantis
As Broward, Palm Beach vote counting continues, statewide recounts likely in governor, Senate, Ag commissioner races - Sun Sentinel -- Meanwhile, questions continued about why more than 24,000 people voted for governor but not for Senate in Broward. (dunno, they just disappeared, or something)

The Latest: Abrams campaign says it will fight on

Republicans won 50.3 percent of NC's votes for Congress. They took 10 of 13 seats.

GEORGIA'S 6TH DISTRICT RACE KAREN HANDEL, LUCY MCBATH: Karen Handel concedes 6th District race to Lucy McBath | WSB-TV (Kemp threw the last election to her)

An obituary for old Orange County, dead at age 129 -- the California collection of 34 cities and 3.2 million residents once described by President Reagan as where "all the good Republicans go to die," dies Tuesday. It was 129 years old ... Once reliably red, the official cause of Of O.C.'s passing is a case of the blue flu, which turned its politics more purple than Barney the dinosaur.

A Trump-Fueled 'Wipeout' for House Republicans in Northeast (except for Charlie Faker) Of the 60 congressional races on Tuesday in eight Northeastern states, including New York and New Jersey, not a single Republican is on pace to top 57 percent of the vote ballot

Down two, California Republicans could lose up to four more House seats - Los Angeles Times - The reason is simple: Early voters, often older white Californians who start mailing in their ballots weeks before election day, lean Republican, and later voters, many of them young and minority, tend to prefer Democrats.


In Dallas County, Republican gerrymandering backfired in 2018 | The Texas Tribune - Republicans hoped to keep a majority Texas House seats from Dallas County when they redrew district boundaries in 2011. Seven years later, they've only held onto two of 14


Former Rep. Steve Stockman Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison - The Daily Beast - Former Rep. Stephen Stockman (R-TX) was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for orchestrating a scheme to defraud donors and using the money for personal and campaign use (#republicrook)

No charges against former NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman No charges for former NY AG Schneiderman in abuse investigation - CNNPolitics (#schneidermandick)


Which U.S. States Have the Highest Concentration of Veterans? - The number of veterans varies from state to state, according to the Census Bureau. New York has the least amount of resident veterans of any state, at 4.5 percent of the adult population. Alaska, which has the most, at 11.9 percent, has more than twice as many veterans as New York. (statistics are hard for journos, particularly if they are trying to make red states look good -- actual number of vets/state, not percentages: NY: 628,000 AL: 64,000 -- oh look 10x more than your "highest state" #getaneducation #fakenews)


A 69-year-old man asks to be declared 49, claiming age is as fluid as gender - The Washington Post ... Being in his 40s would make his life much better, he explained ... "If you're 69 on Tinder, you're outdated," reasoned Ratelband ...


Your Office Doesn't Have Nap Time Because You Are Not a Child -- Being a grown-up means being responsible for your choices. Like many grown-ups, you can also decide you don't need to care ... (and) A Man Asks the Obvious Obviously (and) "He's a Murderbot 6000." (yo, good writing!)

Red Dead Redemption 2: game criticised over killing of suffragette | Games | The Guardian


A new study shows that young men who are overly preoccupied with building muscle have a significantly higher risk of depression, weekend binge drinking, dieting that is not connected to obesity, and four times the probability of using legal and illegal supplements, and anabolic steroids. : science

World's oldest-known animal cave art painted at least 40,000 years ago in Borneo - Science News - ABC News
World's oldest-known animal cave art painted at least 40,000 years ago in Borneo : science


TIL Alduos Huxley was injected with LSD on his deathbed and essentially tripped into death. : todayilearned - Huxley died on the same day as CS Lewis. Both deaths were overshadowed by a third, the assassination of John F Kennedy ... And the very first episode of Doctor Who aired the day after.


Cord cutting accelerates as pay TV loses 1 million customers in largest-ever quarterly loss : news




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People Who Accept Climate Change Now Control the House Science Committee : politics


A 4 year old girl was gang-raped in an ICU in india. : news

Pompeo's meeting with North Korean counterpart called off at last minute

Eschaton: The Caravan Of Doom - Going to be "fun" watching defensive reporters justify it as it disappears from the front pages where it had been for 2 weeks.
Fox News barely mentions caravan first morning after midterms : politics

Eschaton: Benghazighazi - Reporters who enabled and cheered on every bullshit GOP investigation of the Obama era (and, frankly, the Republican were so stupid and lazy that they were *bad* at anything except getting reporters to run after their catnip) will suddenly find congressional oversight very troubling. - Those are the rules.

Eschaton: Whatever Happens This Election Proves Me Right About Everything - tl;dr: some, not all, lefty policies are actually quite popular! Sound like you believe what you're saying and that everybody can have nice things instead of hoping "not quite as evil as the other guys" works. If people want evil they're gonna vote for the evil party. It isn't a secret which one it is.


Republicans lost the House, so Trump took it out on the media - The Washington Post - "I think you should let me run the country, you run CNN and, if you did it well, your ratings would be much better" (Tantrump!)

Transcript: Trump's contentious press conference about midterm election (Christ what a demented asshole)
7 times Trump clashed with reporters in hostile post-midterms press conference | TheHill (meltdown: "fake news, enemy of the people")
Trump press conference following midterm elections - YouTube
Trump's heated post-midterm press conference
Watch Now: President Donald Trump's full press conference after Midterm Elections results - YouTube

White House suspends CNN reporter's access : news (with videos of Acosta karate-chopping an intern's arm off)
NBC News on Twitter: "White House aide grabs and tries to physically remove a microphone from CNN Correspondent Jim Acosta during a contentious exchange with President Trump at a news conference. https://t.co/ogHhRsO0AI https://t.co/VBLROJXOya"
Sarah Sanders on Twitter: "President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his Administration. We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern..."
Amee Vanderpool on Twitter: "I'm posting this close up not to bolster my argument that Jim Acosta did nothing wrong, because I think that's pretty clear. Instead, look at the way this staffer keeps looking to Trump for confirmation on each attempt. It's so creepy. This blind obedience is cult like. https://t.co/dQe9t1iV97"

Trump Stops Briefing To Berate CNN's Jim Acosta: 'You Are A Rude, Terrible Person' (projection is all he can see) Wow he just blamed Obama for Russia taking Crimea. ... The reporter kept telling him it was Putin haha ... After the reporter had to correct him when he said he met Putin in Russia. Actually it was Helsinki but try explaining that to a demented lunatic who can barely fucking read.

Trump scolds CNN reporter for being rude as WH staffer wrestles microphone away during presser : politics

The president of the United States as a crazy mob boss - Lawyers, Guns & Money

'A Red Line Crossed': Nationwide Protests Declared for Thursday at 5PM After Jeff Sessions Fired : politics
Activists threatened mass protests if Rod Rosenstein is removed from the Mueller investigation : politics

Schiff: It's 'Aburndantly Clear' Sessions Was Forced Out For Not Ending Mueller Probe
Pelosi calls on acting AG to recuse himself from Russia probe : politics


Jeff Sessions Is Forced Out as Attorney General as Trump Installs Loyalist - The New York Times - Matthew Whitaker, Mr. Sessions's chief of staff, as acting attorney general - In that capacity, Mr. Whitaker assumes control of the Russia investigation, raising questions about the future of the inquiry led by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.
Sessions Gives Trump Resignation Letter - Bloomberg
Megathread: Attorney General Jefferson Sessions Resigns at Request of President Donald Trump : politics
Trump's new acting attorney general once mused about defunding Robert Mueller
President Trump Has Forced Attorney General Jeff Sessions To Resign - Sessions was one of President Trump's earlist supporters
Trump'ss Acting Attorney General Was Part of Miami-Based Invention Scam Company

Paul Manafort's ex-son-in-law Yohai charged with another real estate scam in LA - Jeffrey Yohai was out on bond while awaiting sentencing when he committed the new crimes, say federal prosecutors


Here come the subpoenas: What House Democrats plan for their Russia probe - In January, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee will be able to compel testimony, and perhaps to force the release of Mueller's report
Dems plan to bring in Mueller for televised hearings if Trump fires him : politics
Schumer: Interfering with Mueller would spark 'constitutional crisis (which is why Trump will roll out his gold-plated Trumpstitution)
Trump's free ride from Congress just ended - Investigations, legislative fights, impeachment?
Mueller has powerful new House allies as he bears down on Trump - POLITICO - Democrats are primed to help the special counsel shed light on any illicit behavior by the president and his allies.
Trump says government will halt if Dems investigate him - ABC News

Make No Mistake, the Midterms Were a Democratic Victory and a Rebuke of Trump : politics
Election results 2018: Republicans are paying the Trump tax - Vox - Trump's political strategy is failing.
Mid-term elections: Democrats win House in setback for Trump - BBC News
Election 2018 exit poll analysis: Voter turnout soars, Democrats take back the House, ABC News projects - ABC News
Election results 2018 by state, county and district - POLITICO
Discussion Megathread: US Midterm Elections 2018 (Part 5) : politics

Donald Trump Jr. Expecting to be Indicted by Mueller Soon - The Trump family lies all the time, of course, but doing it under oath is a crime. (remember "I'm very worried about Don Jr." from Gabe Sherman's piece two days ago?)
Donald Trump Jr. Expecting to be Indicted by Mueller Soon : politics
Democrats' victory in House provides crucial protection for Mueller : politics - Indiana, Missouri, and Florida probably screwed this country for 8+ years tonight.

Tapper: If Trump thinks media is annoying, 'wait till he meets a Democratic House' with subpoena power
Schiff: Democratic House will tackle the oversight that GOP 'abdicated' ("treasoned")
There Is Now an Institution of the American Government That Isn't Controlled By -- or Afraid of -- Donald Trump -- For the first time in two years, there will be oversight of the Executive Branch.
Democrats' victory in House provides crucial protection for Mueller

Trump and the Harsh Truth Exposed by the Midterms - The Atlantic - It's not Trump who is running uphill against American tradition -- it's the people who are trying -- with mixed success -- to stop him (up the racist fascist hill of America)
A Landslide Victory for Democrats Is Tempered by America's Broken Electoral System (another one of Barry's low priorities)

Trump boasts of 'tremendous success' despite painful House defeat
Trump says 'success' despite Democrats projected to take House
Trump readies for 2020 campaign with no plans to change his approach - The Washington Post - " The president has energized a staggering number of Americans at packed arenas and in overflow crowds at rallies across the country," Sanders said said as the polls began to close Tuesday night.
Trump tells confidants Ryan is to blame for Republican election setbacks - for not doing enough to support his agenda and keep the House in Republican hands.

Exasperated Steve Bannon: 'Thank you Fox News' - Fox News threw a lot of election-watchers for a loop Tuesday with its early-evening projection that Democrats would win the House (Stevie doesn't believe in your so-called "projections" based on "fake statistics," deflects blame of his awefulness)

Two Americas: amplified, tearing apart - Axios - Two parties with two wildly different bases and philosophies are pulling farther and farther apart -- and are certain to double down on divisiveness heading into 2020 ... record conservative turnout in rural Trump country


Trump's Narrative vs. Pelosi's Subpoenas - Both sides see a victory in Tuesday's results. But the ground is shifting beneath Republicans' feet.
Republicans declared war on Nancy Pelosi -- and she won
Democrats win House majority: Blue wave sweeps Election Day | McClatchy Washington Bureau
How the House Fell: Republican Chaos and Democratic Focus - The New York Times
Why Democrat's Gain Was More Impressive Than It Appears - They are poised to win more seats this year than they did in 2006, despite far fewer opportunities.


Voters send record number of women to Congress - POLITICO - Democratic female candidates won victories in swing districts where suburban women helped pave the way to unseating the GOP majority ... made history on Tuesday night, with more than 100 women sweeping into office on the strength of a Democratic House takeover powered in large part by college-educated female voters.

Out of many, several trailblazing 'firsts' elected across country - The first Muslim women and Native Americans, among others, will be headed to Congress.
7 takeaways from a wild midterm election - POLITICO - The suburbs were brutal for Republicans. (rural deadheads now ruling America)

Georgia Governors Race: Minute-By-Minute: Showdown for governor too close to call | WSB-TV

Democrat Laura Kelly defeats Kris Kobach to become Kansas' next governor
Election Night Open Thread 3: What's Not the Matter With Kansas - Lawyers, Guns & Money - One of the reddest states in the country just elected a Democrat in its governor race, rejecting a hardline anti-immigration activist whose rhetoric echoed and anticipated President Donald Trump.

Josh Hawley will defeat Claire McCaskill in Senate race in Missouri, ABC News projects, based on an analysis of the vote - ABC News (Claire and Heidi, last of the loser Blue Dog Bitches)
'Just like Hillary' : Senate candidate Josh Hawley casts Claire McCaskill as out-of-touch liberal
Nelson Won't Concede In Florida Senate Race: 'We Are Proceeding to a Recount

Kevin Cramer ousts Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota - politico (rabid Trumpster wins)

"I'm so fucking pround of you guys" : watch Beto O'Rourke's emotional concession speech
Ted Cruz wins reelection over Beto O'Rourke

Republican Mike Braun wins Indiana Senate race, defeating Joe Donnelly - Vox - Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly fell short in his reelection bid in the Midwest's reddest state (Fuckiana)

The McSally-Sinema Senate race is too close to call. Now what happens?
Ex-Green Party candidate earns more votes than difference between Sinema, McSally - The Washington Post (the Jill Steinfucker effect)

Steve King survives to win reelection in Iowa - The Washington Post - once-fringe views have moved further into the mainstream under the Trump presidency, and he retained support from party bigwigs, such as Sen. Charles E. Grassley, also of Iowa.
Des Moines Register on Steve King: "Iowa's national embarrassment continues'
Sen. Tim Kaine easily beats neo-Confederate Trump endorsed in Virginia - Democrat Tim Kaine sent Trump-endorsed racist Corey Stewart packing early on election night.
Virginia Senate election: Tim Kaine victory means uncertain future for Corey Stewart - The Washington Post - Today, Stewart stands in the ashes of what unofficial results show was a 16 percentage point loss to Kaine (D-Va.), unsure of what he'll do next and whether his 15-year political career has also finally gone up in smoke ... Brat first won the seat four years ago after defeating then-Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a stunning upset of an establishment figure that presaged the rise of Donald Trump

Democrat Jared Polis wins Colorado governor race: first openly gay person elected governor - Vox - The Democrat ran on a progressive platform, contrasting himself from his Republican opponent.

Marsha Blackburn beats Phil Bredesen to retain Tennessee seat for GOP - politico (terrible old Dem)

Dana Rohrabacher, Putin's Favorite Congressman, on Verge of Losing His Seat to Democrat Harley Rouda

Tony Evers denies Scott Walker a third term as Wisconsin
Wisconsin recount law changed by Gov. Scott Walker -- who may be seeking a recount after loss to Evers (haha, almost as good as Kemp's id not valid)

Steve Sisolak becomes Nevada's first Democratic governor in decades
Dennis Hof, the brothel owner who died last month, wins election - The reality TV star was found dead on Oct. 16 after a weekend of parties celebrating his 72nd birthday ... has won a heavily GOP state legislative district (Rethugs love their walking dead)

Georgia's Sixth House District Election Results: Lucy McBath vs. Karen Handel - Lucy McBath leads by 0.7 percentage points, or 2,145 votes, over Karen Handel with 100 percent of precincts reporting. (Kemp handed it to her last time)

Sharice Davids makes history: Kansas' 1st gay rep, 1st Native American woman in Congress

Rep. Mike Bishop concedes race to Democrat Elissa Slotkin in MI's 8th Congressional district

Montana's Jon Tester Beats Back the Trump Cavalry to Win Another Term - The president had sought personal vengeance by trying to oust the Montana Democrat, but it didn't work - an accomplishment for the incumbent Democrat after President Donald Trump won Montana by 20 percentage points in 2016

Utah, Idaho and Nebraska approve Medicaid expansion ballot measures - Utah, Nebraska and Idaho were set to pass propositions to broaden the federal and state health insurance program.

Kendra Horn upsets Steve Russell in an Oklahoma City stunner - In a political upset for the history books, Kendra Horn broke a 44-year Republican hold on Oklahoma's 5th congressional district Tuesday, turning the Oklahoma City-area district blue for the first time since the mid-1970s

Florida Amendment 4 results: ex-felon voting rights restored via ballot initiative - Vox - The victory means more than 1 million people will regain the right to vote.

Michigan Voters Have Legalized Marijuana - While North Dakota voters rejected their own legalization measure Tuesday night, roughly one-fifth of Americans now live in a state that has legalized marijuana

Prop. 6: Californians reject gas tax repeal measure - SFChronicle.com (the destroy Cali's infrastructure plan fails)

Democrats win majority in New York's Senate, ending GOP control - The Democratic Party won at least 35 of the Senate's 63 seats as of late Tuesday night, wrestling control from Republicans who have led the chamber for much of the last century ... Democrats now control every branch of NY's government. The New York Health Act which routinely passed the Assembly and failed in the republican controlled Senate can now be passed!

Michigan Rep. Jason Lewis, who once lamented not being able to call women "sluts," loses to Democrat Angie Craig - CNNPolitics
GOP congressman, who once lamented not being able to call women 'sluts,' loses to a woman : politics

Democratic 'blue wave' makes landfall in Texas House, flipping 11 red seats across the state

Repealing "One of Country's Worst Jim Crow Laws," Florida Restores Voting Rights for 1.4 Million People With Past Felony Convictions

House GOP fight begins: Jordan challenges McCarthy | TheHill (the pedo coverup guy)

Tom Sullivan Wins an Unlikely Campaign for a Colorado House Seat | 5280 - six years and nearly four months since Tom Sullivan's son, Alex, was murdered in the Aurora theater shooting.

Michigan Just Made It A Lot Easier To Vote | HuffPost - The state now has automatic and same-day registration, in addition to a slew of other voting reforms.

Janet Mills makes history by becoming Maine's first female governor : news


Man who defended his 2 moms in gay marriage viral video wins Iowa Senate seat : politics

Michigan now has legal recreational marijuana : news
How Election Day changed marijuana policy across the country - The Boston Globe - In Newton, voters rejected two ballot questions that would have banned or limited marijuana shops from opening in the city

Washington state voters pass ballot measure to further regulate guns, including semi-automatic rifles : news

Former HR director says University of Wyoming Foundation President told her not to hire another "retard" and fired her after she filed a complaint : news


Foundation behind MormonLeaks urges Utah lawmakers to remove clergy exemption from child abuse reporting laws (they exempted themselves from child rape, good Mormons!)

Medical classification change led to 'Whitey' Bulger's prison transfer ... medical classification was suddenly and inexplicably changed to suggest his health had improved, leading to his transfer to the West Virginia prison where he was murdered last week, US Bureau of Prisons records show. (someone decided, time to go, Whitey)

Laura Levis died outside a Boston-area ER. The doors were locked. Why? - The Boston Globe

Uber driver ordered charged in rape of woman in Dorchester - The Boston Globe


A new immunotherapy technique identifies T cell receptors with 100-percent specificity for individual tumors within just a few days, that can quickly create individualized cancer treatments that will allow physicians to effectively target tumors without the side effects of standard cancer drugs. : science

The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidance discouraging any use of corporal punishment with children because of the increased risk of negative behavioral, cognitive, psychosocial, and emotional outcomes. : science

Although long life tends to run in families, genetics has far less influence on life span than previously thought, according to a new analysis of an aggregated set of family trees of more than 400 million people. : science

Giving birth to a boy increases the odds of postnatal depression in the mother by 71-79% compared to girls, finds a new study. This may be because being pregnant with a boy has documented associations with increased inflammation, which may be linked to depression.

Energy cost of 'mining' bitcoin more than twice that of copper or gold: New research reveals that cryptocurrencies require far more electricity per-dollar than it takes to mine most real metals : science


Children urged to play outdoors to cut risk of shortsightedness - looking into the distance and exposure to outdoor light may be key. New research also suggests other links to rising cases of myopia, including playing computer games, being born in the summer and having a more highly educated mother. : science

TIL about The Schreber Case: a paranoid schizophrenic man whose diary served as Freud's primary source to understand the condition. Schreber believed he was receiving cosmic rays through his anal glands by God in order to transform him into a woman so that he could herald and breed a new race. : todayilearned


What is the biggest "I shouldn't have said that" moment you've ever had RIGHT AFTER you said it? : AskReddit

#NetNeutrality: Supreme Court Hands Over a Major Victory for Open Internet Advocates : technology

Vice Media to Shrink Workforce by as Much as 15% as Growth Stalls - WSJ - Workforce reduction will happen through hiring freeze and attrition< /a>




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Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing - BBC News

'Almost all' Pakistani banks hacked in security breach, says FIA cybercrime head : technology


Live Forecast: Who Will Win the House?
Live U.S. House Election Results - The New York Times - 51,531,597 votes (51.2%) Dem 47,363,830 votes (47.1%) (Rethug)
Midterm Elections 2018: Democrats Pick Up Two House Seats - The New York Times
Live results: Midterm election 2018 updates, news and analysis - NBC News
2018 Election Day: Live Coverage And Results
Discussion Megathread: US Midterm Elections 2018 (Part 3) : politics


Majority says Election Day should be a federal holiday, poll finds : politics

Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This 2018 Midterm Election Playlist from Charles P. Pierce Slaps! - Listen up!

Joe Biden 'Guarantees' Donald Trump Will 'Challenge the Legitimacy' Of The Midterm Elections If GOP Loses


One Legacy of Merkel? Angry East German Men Fueling the Far Right - The New York Times (they long for their Hitler)



Noam Chomsky on Midterms: Republican Party Is the "Most Dangerous Oganization in Human History (vote Republican, destroy the planet!)


Russian business trio told to stay away from Davos | Financial Times - Oleg Deripaska among those in effect barred from elite gathering under US pressure
Factory of lies: Russia's disinformation playbook exposed - "Twenty years ago the Russians had to recruit journalists to find people to disseminate something ... nowadays they just have to start a meme"
Russian trolling ahead of the midterm elections is a mixture of the weird and the pathetic - A new website tracks back to a Russian company cited in one of Robert Mueller's indictments.

Rep. Adam Schiff talks about renewing Russia probe if Democrats flip the House

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Russian oligarch who bought mansion from Trump detained and questioned on corruption charges: report | TheHill - in Monaco

China grants more trademark approvals for Ivanka Trump firm - including voting machines : news (Trump's long game)

Facebook discloses possible foreign election meddling before midterms


Trump says he regrets the tone he used during first 2 years in office | WJLA (oh sure)
Trump Begins Midterm Election Day Bracing for Grim Political News, Aides Say - The New York Times
Trump has the worst approval rating of any president in modern US history heading into their first midterm election : politics - President Donald Trump is historically unpopular heading in the 2018 midterm elections, with an approval rating of 40%. (but Rasmussen told us it was 49%?)

Four big-picture principles for making our democracy work better - The Washington Post - #1: You Shouldn't be able to count the ballots for a race in which you're running (hello, fascist state of Georgia)

GOP's looming spin about the 2018 election is a fallacy (Trump will win Senate bigly)

Early returns in 6 key races that will foretell Democrats' 2018 election fate
These 11 places could seal Trump's midterm fate - Orange County, upstate New York and the Phoenix metro area are among the key spots that will decide the outcome on election night.

Why is the New York Times publishing fascist propaganda? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Trump bootlicker and publisher of American Greatness Christopher Buskirk was given 800 words on America's most prominent editorial page yesterday to sanitize support for Trump as being the fault of Democrats who slandered poor Brett Kavanaugh. The Times did this on the very weekend that Trump was explicitly calling for political violence to be meted out to his opponents if they don't stop criticizing him
Krugman Subtweets, An Excellent Series - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Paul Krugman on Twitter: "Exactly. All these takes about "Why aren't Democrats walking away with this" are innumerate; if the playing field were level, they would be overwhelming favorites to take control of Congress (GOP blowouts in 92 and 10 were only ~7 points) 1/ https://t.co/R1QeeAH6gK"

Without evidence, Trump and Sessions warn of voter fraud in Tuesday's elections (evidence? my mouth is all the evidence you need)

Ryan Zinke's house guest impersonated the secretary Monday night. Then he called Park Police on the neighbors - Neighbor: 'Dude, you're not Zinke. Who are you? (so much crooked shit) )

Voting Problems Crop Up as Americans Go to the Polls - The New York Times
Long Lines and Jammed Machines Frustrate Voters in New York City - The New York Times (de Blas says not his fault)
Long lines, difficulties, at multiple polling places across Houston - Houston Chronicle
Long lines, machine breakdowns mar vote on Election Day
Equipment Malfunctions and Voting Machine Shortages Bring Long Lines in Georgia - Voters are waiting for hours in heavily African American precincts.
Jesse Jackson: Issue at Fulton precinct is 'classic vogter suppression'
Rachel Thompson on Twitter: "This line is so disheartening, that Jessie Jackson has turned up and is rallying up voters, telling them not to leave @ajc @wsbtv @cbs46 @CityofAtlanta @staceyabrams #wewillvote https://t.co/NVhu4jxlH8"
Voting in Gwinnett: Technial issues, long delays reported - Technical issues cause problems for Gwinnett voters - technical issues that caused long lines and forced many voter to resort to paper ballots. (which won't be counted, of course, but it's just "technical" +looks like the Mass RMV)
Voters turned away due to missing voting machines at precinct in Detroit - WXYZ.com (dunno where they went)

In Journalism About Race, A Tinge Of Denial | HuffPost - The only appeal the conservative movement has left is white panic. Why is that story still so hard to tell? - Alex Pareene

Fox's Hannity speaks onstage at Trump campaign rally (state TV)
'It disturbs me to my core' : Fox News staffers express outrage over Hannity
Fox news employees unaware they are working for a right wing propaganda outlet - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Fox News Personalities Embrace Trump at His Final Rally Before the Election - The New York Times (the pic!)
Sean Hannity said he wouldn't campaign on stage at Trump's rally. Hours later, he did exactly that ("soft-faced" Hannity)
Sean Hannity owns Fox News - The Washington Post (they used to have a little "ethics")

Anti-Semitic ads: Republicans attack Jewish Democratic candidates with ads showing fistfuls of cash - The Washington Post ... "Some genie is being let out of the bottle" (you mean "devil" +Jews for the Holocaust!)

Election Hoax of Democrats Burning Flags to Celebrate 'Blue Wave' Goes Viral on Twitter and Facebook - The polls hadn't even opened in parts of America before disinformation, this time pretending to be CNN, started circulating online. (and black guy Don Lemon is laughing)

All the ugliness of the Trump campaign is on display in Georgia - The Washington Post -- THE REPUBLICAN campaign for governor in Georgia has been marked by dehumanizing immigrant phobia, invidious vote suppression, conspiratorial accusations about Democratic vote tampering, and racism. In other words, it shows in microcosm the direction President Trump would take the GOP. (racist asshole will racist asshlole)

Arizona will be the clearest test of Trump's dire immigration rhetoric (AZ and Sally McSally)

Surprising Support for the Term 'Feminist' on the Campaign Trail - Polling shows a level of backing that would have been unthinkable even in recent elections, scholars say. (feminist is a dirty word in Republican hate speech)

MSNBC Puts Florida Governor Race Vote -- Total Graphic Onscreen A Wee Bit Early (yeah it really is a "race vote")
As Counties Place Polls In Gated Communities, Florida Voters Are Left Out | WLRN


Darrell Issa says Dem will flip his seat | TheHill (bye-bye, fucker)

Steve King bars 'leftist propaganda' outlet Des Moines Register from election night event (reported by the 'leftist' Des Moines Register)

As pundits fumble figuring out young voters, here are the facts as millennials flood the polls (blue flood!)

Are Voting Selfies Legal? Not Always - The New York Times (sometimes, MA "unclear")

First-time voter Gracie Lou Phillips of Grand Prairie Texas died at 82 days after casting first ballot - The Washington Post


Border Patrol To Conduct 'Crowd Control' Exercise on Election Day - The exercise will be conducted in El Paso, the home of U.S. Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke (just a little coincidence, might have to shoot anyone not wearing a Red Trump Hat) )
Border Patrol cancels El Paso crowd-control exercise amid concerns about voter suppression - The Washington Post - abruptly canceled a crowd-control exercise it had planned near a Hispanic neighborhood in El Paso

Poll worker directs racist language at a north Houston voter - Houston Chronicle - A poll worker has been relieved of her duties and faces a criminal assault charge after she bumped into a voter and yelled racist remarks at her after some confusion over her voter registration. One poll worker walked off the job following the incident, and another was left in tears as she gave a statement to a Harris County sheriff's deputy about the altercation ... Barnes, who is white, then told Anthony, who is black "Maybe if Id worn my blackface makeup today you could comprehend what I'm saying to you." ... "I'm white. Have you seen the news? If you call the police, they're going to take you to jail and do something to you, because I'm white," Barnes told her in front of several witnesses ... "She did it because she wanted to prove that she had some kind of white supremacy over me," Anthony said. "She did that purposely and intentionally to intimidate me but I will not be intimidated."

The New Southern Secession Happening in Metro Atlanta - CityLab - The wealthy residents of Eagle's Landing are voting Tuesday on whether to secede from the metro Atlanta city of Stockbridge, just after a black mayor and an all-black city council took office. (meanwhile, in disgusting white people, where is Sherman when you really need him?)

An Openly Gay City Councilman's Grindr Photos Were Leaked. Is There a Conspiracy to Oust Him? - A young city councilman's Grindr photos were leaked, and he now faces a recall election. Was there a conspiracy to oust him, and did it come from inside City Hall? ... and the text conversation included several nude selfies that Coburn had sent. (dude, pls, wake up)

PolitiFact is not biased -- here's why

Williamson County election judge resigns after video shows her screaming at voter | kvue.com - Williamson County election judge Lila Guzman has resigned after a video was posted of her yelling at a confused voter (Tehas)

UPDATE: Republicans to ask judge to reconsider his ruling that 12 Porter County polls should remain open later than scheduled | Porter County News | nwitimes.com - UPDATE: Republicans to ask judge to reconsider his ruling that 12 Porter County polls should remain open later than scheduled (Indifuckingana)

Celebrating democracy in the USA! : gifs (Indiana polling machines won't let you vote Dem)

The Parody Cannot Hear the Parodyer - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I've had multiple requests to eviscerate analyze that Slate MESSAGING thing, but since I'm too tired right now on a related note allow me to observe that poor Glem has the toughest job on the internets (where has GG been during all this? you aks) Apparently multiplying the electoral analyses of Stoller and Greenwald produces a howling void that is the opposite of wisdom.

2018 Midterm Election in Kansas Features Kris Kobach - Watching from Topeka Schoolhouse - Watching the 2018 election from the Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Landmark. (as always, Charlie for the history)

29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is poised to become the youngest woman in Congress : politics

Man arrested for threatening to 'shoot up' Pennsylvania polling - NBC2 News (click for the pic)
Man arrested for threatening to 'shoot up' Pennsylvania polling place : news

Former Arkansas Democratic Party Spokesman Arrested for Child Porn : news

Former Detective Jeff Payne isn't sorry for arresting Alex Wubbels and he plans to sue for $1.5 million

$100K raised for California teacher who punched student : news

Kim Davis, clerk who refused to sign marriage licenses for gay couples, loses to Democrat : politics

Recreational cannabis sales to start within two weeks in Massachusetts, state says : bostontrees


That Cute Baby-Bear Video Reveals a Problem With Drones - The Atlantic

Scientists say mysterious "Oumuamua' object could be an alien spacecraft - Harvard researchers raise the possibility that it's a probe sent by extraterrestrials. (but they said it totally doesn't look like an alien spacecraft!)
Oumuamua Space Object May Be Alien Ship, Scientists Hypothesize - The Actual Aliens Are Invading - Forget the Caravan, Mr. President!


AI predicts Alzheimer's disease years before diagnosis - By using a special brain scan, a deep learning algorithm developed for early prediction of Alzheimer disease achieved 82% specificity at 100% sensitivity, an average of 75.8 months prior to the final diagnosis.

Nuclear physicist describes problems with thorium reactors. Trigger warning: shortbread metaphor. : bestof

Measles outbreak in Israel prompts warning in New York : news


I made a free alternative to Photoshop, that is used by 1.5 millions of people. Ask me Anything! : IAmA
Photopea on Twitter: "We have many new users from Brazil, Turkey and Czechia! :) " (Brazil is huger than India)


Canberra woman admits to falsifying rape claim that saw her former partner jailed : news

Guy acts calm as a fight breaks out : funny



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On climate change, Trump disavows his own scientists, government - Axios (his brain is the best and he had an uncle who was a scientist)


I killed soccer star and cut off his genitals for raping my wife - The businessman who allegedly killed Brazilian soccer player Daniel Correa Freitas says he did so after finding the midfielder in his underwear trying to rape his wife ... "When I threw him off my wife, I threw him on the floor and stopped her being raped by that monstrous scumbag."


Liverpool makes a stand and runs far-right marchers out of town | UK news | The Guardian - Fringe far-right group abandon plans due to numbers of counter-demonstrators


Khashoggi sons issue emotional appeal for the return of their father's body ... A source close to the Saudi Royal Palace has denied any knowledge of the body's whereabouts ("last seen walking out of the embassy in tiny pieces")


Russian news sites are claiming an American civil war will erupt during the 2020 presidential election : politics


Their Soybeans Piling Up, Farmers Hope Trade War Ends Before Beans Rot : politics (NoDak will vote for Trump until they all die)
Eschaton: Hard To Beat A Foe That Doesn't Give A Shit - . The latest federal data, through mid-October, shows American soybean sales to China have declined by 94 percent from last year's harvest
19 things Donald Trump knows better than anyone else, according to Donald Trump - The Washington Post


Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Takes Mystery Trips to Russia, Armenia and Ukraine: Report : politics (reporting to the oligarches)

'Crisis for American Democracy': It's 2018, in the Richest Nation on Earth, and Voting Machines Still Distorting Elections : politics
Hackers targeting election networks across country in lead up to midterms - The Boston Globe -- The pace of suspicious activity has picked up in recent weeks -- up to 10 incidents each day

Trump's DOJ Just Admitted under Oath That Citizenship Question 'not necessary'


A Familiar Force Nurtures Trump's Instincts on Immigration: Stephen Miller (the Jew who encouraged the "kill all the Jews" killers)


Defensive, caravan-fixated and Trump-obsessed, the media blow it again. Just not as badly. - The Washington Post
'Trump has hijacked the election': House Republicans in panic mode : politics

The moment is now upon us. All the lies must be defeated -- decisively
As Trump Spreads A Fog Of Falsehoods, His Fans Believe Them And Make Excuses For Him | HuffPost
Wonder How Trump Will Handle Defeat? Don't Bother with History. - The behavior of other presidents who dealt with midterm rebukes won't be much use

Trump Accuses Oprah of Burning Tapes That Don't Exist to Hide Interview That Never Happened (sounds typical Trumpfucks) >
Trump administration prepares for massive shake-up after midterms - The Washington Post

NBCUniversal Pulls Controversial Trump Campaign Ad : politics
NBC reverses course, decides to stop airing controversial Trump ad on immigration : politics
That Racist Trump Ad CNN Refused To Air? NBC Just Ran It In Prime Time. | HuffPost

Cook Report shifts 9 House races toward Dems day before election : politics (red wave coming!)
Poll: Dems lead Republicans by 13 points on generic congressional ballot : politics (huge red wave!)
A new poll shows the secret truth of 2018: Not much has changed in months - The Washington Post
Election 2018 poll: In final days, Democrats maintain advantage - CNNPolitics
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; Final picks for 2018 (Dems: House +34, Senate -1)

Majorities of millennials who plan to vote support Democrats -- except white men

Voting machine errors already roil Texas and Georgia races : politics (only Rs allowed)

Voters wait hours in North Miami, and there weren't enough ballots for everyone (Rick Scott spent all the money on himself)
Democrats have slight edge in close Florida Senate, governor races - Both Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson lead by four percentage points, within the poll's margin of error

'Axis Of Evil' : Twitter Users Torch Trump's Rally With Sean Hannity And Rush Limbaugh

Brian Kemp Is Getting Desperate : politics
Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn't Exist

Democrat McCaskill holds narrow lead over Republican Hawley in key Missouri Senate race: NBC News/Marist poll : politics
Poll: Missouri Senate race is a margin-of-error contest

The 2018 Facebook Midterms, Part II: Shadow Organizing ("Groups" are the new propaganda hose)

Trump ally Kris Kobach accepted donations from white nationalists | US news | The Guardian

Why Old Clinton Sleazeball Mark Penn Loves Trump - Penn, the former adviser to President Clinton and campaign manager for Hillary Clinton in 2008 (she blew it, twice)


Woman pretends to be persecuted Trump supporter -- and scams conservatives out of $150,000

Woman Turns Herself In After Being Filmed Harassing Black Sisters Awaiting AAA | HuffPost - Susan Westwood, widely dubbed "South Park Susan"

Woman, 71, punched in head on Red Line train after asking for seat - The Boston Globe


America's marijuana map: how things might change after the midterms | US news | The Guardian


LinkedIn Is Now Home To Hyperpartisan Political Content, False Memes, And Troll Battles

Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities - WSJ




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It's not rocket science: Climate change was behind this summer's extreme weather

TIL that from 1907 to 1940, American women could lose their US citizenship if they married non-American men. American men could marry whomever they wanted. : todayilearned (deep roots of the Fuckiearchy)

Italian storms claim 17th life, and 14 million trees | Reuters - "We'll need at least a century to return to normality," (good luck with that)

Rubella's elimination from Australia 'shows vaccinations work' : news

Tanzania forms surveillance squad to identify gays on social media and arrest them : technology
She's a witch! - YouTube
Electric Wizard - I, The Witchfinder - YouTube - one of the blackest pages in the history of man

Khashoggi's body parts transported in suitcases : worldnews (and ... MbS = Mohammed Bone Saw!)

WikiLeak's' pernicious legacy -- empty lulz, bothsidesism and moral flexibility

Utah mayor killed while deployed in Afghanistan : news

American Military Apologizes for Booklet With Racially Offensive Language - The New York Times ... neighboring Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels since 2015, leaving millions displaced and tens of thousands of people killed

Labour Party branch 'voted down motion condemning Pittsburgh synagogue attack' - Members reject motion after saying there is too much focus on 'antisemitism this, antisemitism that' (Corbyn and crew sounds like Trumpster, vote in favor of "killing all the jews")

TIL that pro-Nazi Party rallies were held at Madison Square Garden in 1934, 1935 and 1939 : todayilearned

U.S. militia groups head to border, stirred by Trump's call to arms ... Kleberg, who has lived most of his life on the 825,000-acre King Ranch outside of Kingsville, said that he will allow militia groups on his ranch, which is larger than the state of Rhode Island. (and has more people than North Dakata!)

Trump Keeps Lying About Having Started His Wall, And His Supporters Don't Care : politics (Fox told them the wall was huge!) ... "All politicians are liars. They're all weasels," said the 60-year-old from Panama City. "You know why he'sso good? Because he's up there breaking all the furniture. If he wanted to shoot somebody on Broadway, I'd vote 'not guilty' (break all the furniture in the minds of fellow toddlers)

Falsehood shames Clapper, Brennan and pledge to protect whistleblowers | TheHill (lying fuckers, along with Barry)


John Dean: Trump makes Watergate look like a 'brief idyllic daydream' (follow the blossoming of Repubican evil)


The Election of Donald Trump Was a Crushing Blow to Neoliberal Elites - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Many people have said that the Obama administration was too lax on malfeasance by the financial industry ... and they were right! Donald Trump has been far, far worse: ... In conslusion, the anti-anti-Trump "left" constitutes the dumbest group of people on Earth.

This election is a referendum on Donald Trump's corrosive impact on our politics (yet another Republican)
This midterm election is like no other in a generation - The Washington Post - about something more elemental: what kind of country Americans see today and want to see in the future. That makes these midterms unlike any in the recent past ... In 1994, anger with government, corruption scandals in the House and legislative missteps by then-President Bill Clinton and congressional Democrats led to a historic revolt by the voters. After 40 years of Democratic rule in the House, Republicans led by soon-to-be-speaker Newt Gingrich swept to power on a tide of anti-government sentiment. (sound familiar, Barry?)

Fox News Is Poisoning America. Rupert Murdoch and His Heirs Should Be Shunned. : politics (is that all?)
FoxFiction

Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread : politics

Eschaton: A Time To Compromise - If the Dems do actually take the House (or even the Senate!) the usual press calls for them to compromise with Republicans, which involves giving the Republicans as much baby cage money as they ask for, will return. Because those are the rules. (as written by David Brooks and Maggie the Putz)

The GOP Is Flooding The Airwaves With Ads About Crime | HuffPost - Donald Trump has resurrected crime as a political issue. (carnage in the white suburbs!)

CNN Aired Trump's Racist Ad Way More Than Even Fox News Did -- Trump's penchant for fact-free stunts poses a challenge for news outlets on how to cover his presidency. The most recent example? His racist anti-immigrant ad, released this week.
Donald Trump Jr. Is Basically Tweeting About White Genocide Now
'No Blame'? ABC News finds 17 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats or alleged assaults
'Full Trumpism' : The president's apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of falsity

Trump stumps in cities that don't look that much like US (hundreds of people, I tell you!)
A 'there-it-is' moment: Trump wows fans by using Air Force One as a campaign prop - raising questions about the ethics and protocol of using a military asset for political purposes. (he can't fill a statium anymore, just a crowd on the runway of his awesome plane)


Democrats hold 7 point advantage ahead of midterm election as Trump base 'comes home' (huge red wave of Trumpster zombies will bury crying libtards!)
Democrats hold 7-point edge in final national NBC/WSJ poll - Fifty percent of likely voters say they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, while 43 percent want Republicans in charge. (don't believe fake polls!)


Redistricting on the ballot: Midterms will decide who controls Congress for a decade - governors and state lawmakers elected in 2018 and 2020 will redo the congressional maps in 2021

Satire Sunday Megathread : politics
Americans Would Feel Safer If a Huge Caravan of Angry White Men Left the Country | The New Yorker
Trump Turns On Fox News And Tells Aides To Make Whatever They're Saying A Law

Massachusetts could lead way in overturning Citizens United | Boston.com
Massachusetts could lead way in overturning Citizens United : politics

Suburban House battlegrounds: Which districts to watch for 2020 - Washington Post

More than 4.5 million people vote early in Texas : politics

'They Don't Really Want Us to Vote' : How Republicans Made it Harder


In Illinois, a world turned upside down: once-red suburbs swing blue | US news | The Guardian - Peter Roskam and Randy Hultgren, Republicans in wealthy districts with long service records, face Democratic challenges

Trump Official Says Florida Governor Race Is 'Cotton-Pickin' Important' - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue used the racially tinged phrase while campaigning for Ron DeSantis, whose opponent could be Florida's first black governor (Purdue, grinning face of evil)

Kemp charges Georgia Democrats with attempted voter hack. Abrams fires back: 'Desperate' - The secretary of state provided no evidence for his claim. Democrats called it a 'political stunt' two days before the election
Brian Kemp orders 'hacking' probe of Georgia Democrats on eve of election he's competing in (speaking of hacks - his website was leaking voter information to Putin, it's the Dem's fault!)
Racist 'magical Negro' robo-call from 'Oprah' targets Stacey Abrams in Georgia governor's race ... "This is the magical Negro Oprah Winfrey asking you to make my fellow Negress Stacey Abrams the governor of Georgia," the robo-call begins, before spewing nearly 60 seconds of racism coupled with a dash of anti-Semitism (Make America Revolting Again)
Brian Kemp Just Engaged in a Last-Minute Act of Banana-Republic Level Voter Manipulation in Georgia : politics

Senate Latest, Brian Kemp and Alleged 'Hack,' Gun Mailer in Florida: 2 Days to Go ... Mr. Trump is set to campaign for Mr. Hawley in Missouri on Monday night, joined by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. (big guns!)

Predictions for Tuesday - The Nevada Independent (Heller may not survive)

Voter turnout for Michigan's midterm election may spike - The number of absentee ballots issued and returned statewide is up by more than 50 percent from the same point in 2014 (Trumpians flood the polls!)

At Trump Rallies, Women See a Hero Protecting a Way of Life - The New York Times (blond zombie bitches for Satan!)

Guess who's championing Homer? Radical online conservatives (Alex Beamzzzz is a well-known conservative "public intellectual!)

Trump Invents Poll: No 'New Fox Poll' Shows '40% Approval' from African Americans

Tracing a Meme From the Internet's Fringe to a Republican Slogan - #JobsNotMobs

One of Life's Most Perplexing Mysteries - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Officer Damon Miller, a spokesman for the Tallahassee Police Department, said investigators are trying to determine a motive ... Seems like a bad case of Elliot Rodger economic anxiety syndrome. (shoulda watched more Jordan and cleaned up his room)
Florida Yoga Studio Shooting Suspect Was A Far-Right Misogynist : politics (and a voluntary asshole)


A fast-rising journalist hits a speed bump with his latest scoop about Trump - The Washington Post - Jonathan Swan landed a big scoop about President Trump last week, another in a series of big scoops the young reporter has landed since Trump took office.
Another Trump Scoop, a Giddy Reaction and a Reporter Under Fire - The New York Times (the hands)

Review: House of Cards Collapses, Finally : television

Three reasons to vote No on Question 3 - The Boston Globe (Jeff Jacoby gets trashed in comments)

Building facade collapse in Allston leaves two injured - The Boston Globe - The collapse occurred at the one-story building at 75-85 Harvard Ave., which houses the Common Ground bar and restaurant,


Oumuamua: Harvard researchers suggest strange interstellar object may be alien light sail : news (remember when they said "It's definitely not an alien light-sail?")


Anti-male discrimination complaint gets UMN to change scholarship rules : news

Fictitious Scientific Journals are More than a Prank: It Reveals Flaws in Science and Academia : science

Revolutionary work on the body's immune system and a host of new drug trials mean that beating cancer may be achievable

Lab-grown chicken nuggets to go on sale by end of year, company says : news

Neanderthals might not be the hunched cavemen we thought they were, study says : news


Jehovah's Witness parents refuse blood transfusion despite court order ("God told us to let him die")


what single moment killed off an entire industry? : AskReddit

TIL there are 31 different American cities with a larger population than the state of Wyoming. : todayilearned (which is why Dick Cheney is hiding out there) : Interestingly enough there are more cattle in Wyoming than people.


Solice in knowing snapchat will be going out of business (possibly next year) : windowsphone (RIP Evan Spiegelfuck)

Apple's latest anti-tracking feature in Safari takes toll on digital advertising : technology



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Noam Chomsky Calls Trump and Republican Allies "Criminally Insane" - The great linguist and political critic remains hopeful that we can overcome global warming and other threats ... In brief, let's rob while the planet burns, putting poor Nero in the shadows ... This surely qualifies as a contender for the most evil document in history.
Noam Chomsky Calls Trump and Republican Allies "Criminally Insane" : politics


Vegan woman fined $1,170 for threatening to kill her Italian mother for making meat sauce : news


How a Taliban Assassin Got Close Enough to Kill a General - The New York Times - Though only a teenager, the assassin managed to get hired as an elite guard, slipping into government service with a fake ID and no background check.
U.S. service member killed in insider attack in Afghanistan - The Washington Post - A U.S. service member was killed and another wounded in an insider attack in Kabul on Saturday, when a member of Afghan security forces opened fire on them, officials said
After slaying of 'father of Taliban' in Pakistan, mourners underscore complex legacy

Behind Saudi Prince'ssss Crackdown Was Confidant Tied to Khashoggi Killing - Media adviser gave the order to assemble the group that killed journalist, complicating kingdom's efforts to separate Prince Mohammed from hit job ... coming amid several days of nationwide violent protests by traditionally moderate Sunni groups in Pakistan enraged by the Supreme Court's acquittal of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy ("moderate" Islamofucks financed by Saudi Wahhabifucks)
Pakistan's top court acquits Christian woman facing death penalty for blasphemy
Saudi Arabia denies involvement in death of sisters in New York : news

The Inside Story of How Uber Got Into Business With the Saudi Arabian Government - Bloomberg ... in 2016. That spring, then Uber executive David Plouffe, Barack Obama's former campaign manager, was making a three-city tour to Cairo, Dubai and Riyadh.


To be clear: Seeking asylum at the border is not illegal : politics
The military deployment to the border is a shameless, and dangerous, stunt - The Washington Post


Local man, born in California, says Border Patrol wrongfully deported him : news

Will 'Deepfakes' Disrupt the Midterm Election?

It's just a shot away - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Burkman-Wohl fiasco was/is amusing as far as it goes, but it's also distrubing ... What's not amusing is the total cultural depravity from which such a scheme springs ... the startling fact that self-proclaimed evangelical Christians form the electoral core of Trump's support. That the leader of postmodern political nihilism in America should find his strongest support among conservative Christians is the sort of development that probably would have shocked even such acute observers of the gathering storm of modern existential despair as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. (Satangelicals rise +" permanent pugnacity")
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Kafka and Weakness | Richard A Cohen - Academia.edu (and nihilism)
Two Visionaries - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "I think Jacob is a child prodigy who has eclipsed Mozart" ...As a young Republican grifter he hasn't even eclipsed Ben Shapiro.


Week 76: Is Mueller About to Roll Out the Barrels? - POLITICO Magazine - quiet period is nearly over, many Russia-scandal observers expect dramatic news from the long-silent investigation.
Drama builds around Stone in Mueller probe | TheHill


Anxiety high in campaign's final days as voters prepare to render judgment on Trumpism
Nihilist Nation - The Empty Core of the Trump Mystique | The New Republic
A Nation in Turmoil Prepares to Deliver a Verdict on Trump - The New York Times
George Papadopoulos's Own Family Reported His Accused-Kremlin Agent Wife to ICE - George Papadopoulos was introduced to his wife by Joseph Mifsud, the same guy who told him the Russians were in possession of thousands of emails that were damaging to Hillary Clinton. Mifsud has now been missing since 2017 and George's family thinks his wife is a Kremlin Agent. Nothing suspicious about any of this. /s


Pence says Republicans will keep control of the House | TheHill (Vlad told him so)
Trump: Democrats gaining control of the House "could happen" ("we'll see" if Putin does his job)
Trump says Democrats could take House: 'I can't go everywhere'
Is Another Silent Red Wave Coming? - Rasmussen Reports (hedache warning on click)

Democrats, beware: We are leaning left too far | TheHill - By Former Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) (shut up, Ed we don't need your stupid centrist "advice")


Donald Trump Is A Huge Racist - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Who could have seen this coming?

Both Sides Do It Is A Hell of a Drug - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Haberputz is the worst and Farrakhan is a Trump-voing Repuublican!)

Racist Slur Defaces African Burial Ground Monument in Lower Manhattan - The New York Times


Administrator Seema Verma on Twitter: "This year's scariest Halloween costume goes to...
Today's Winner in "Worst Person in the Trump Administration" - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Verma is someone who I think must have something wrong with her. How could one be this evil? And I feel that way about pretty much all these people.

STUDY: Over the past 3 months, guest panels on Sunday shows have been overwhelmingly conservative (48% wingnut, 42% neutral, 9% libtard, go LIBERAL MEDIA!)
Eschaton: Your Liberal Media - For the 10th time in the last 11 days, the New York Times and Washington Post have put the caravan of migrants -- currently weeks away in southern Mexico and dwindling -- on their front pages. https://t.co/Frn76NYVNP pic.twitter.com/soDS6geyhp
Trump's phony caravan "crisis" - consumed Wash. Post, NY Times - Leading papers produced 115 news stories referencing the caravan, put 25 on A1 (but her emailzzzzz!)

When You Couldn't Call A Lie A Lie - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Krugman has a walk down memory lane: "During my first year as an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, I wasn't allowed to use the word "lie." (Sulzfucks been fucking the truth forever) remarkable is that Krugman was given his gig to write about international economics; that he turned into someone willing to tell the truth about Bush et al. was a complete fluke. Meanwhile, Frank Bruni spend the 2000 campaign fawning over Bush, and of course there was Judy Miller to fawn all over the Iraq War.

Daniel Dale on Twitter: "Trump to Christian Broadcasting on Air Force One: "Nobody's done more for Christians or evangelicals or frankly religion than I have." https://t.co/qxW2H8LbYo" (Satan has a point)

U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don't Know How to Stop It. - For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized. ("law enforcement" = "Republicans")
Far-right extremists have killed close to 500 people in the US since 1990 - and 10% were targeted based on religion

Scott Beierle: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com - Beierle was a member of two groups on his Facebook page, FSU College Republicans and We Are Conservatives (and arrested for butt-grabbing, so typical incel)
Scott Beierle, suspected gunman in Tallahassee yoga studio shooting, had history of arrests for grabbing women : news
Tallahassee Yoga Shooter Was A Far-Right Misogynist Who Railed Against Women And Minorities Online - appeared to identify ans an "involuntary celibate." This is the second deadly attack by an "involuntary celibate" in 2018

Ahead of Midterms, 'Rigged' Exposes GOP's 10-Year Effort To Sabotage Democracy by Undermining Voting Rights : politics

Federal Judge Makes Novel Decision to Enforce Federal Law - Lawyers, Guns & Money - At least the courts are actually stopping some of Brian Kemp's vote suppression, as opposed to the matador routine they've given Jim Crow in North Dakota:
Judge Rules Native Americans In North Dakota Must Comply With Voter ID Law : NPR (hahaha we didn't give you a real address on purpose)
Great Own-Goals In History - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Erstwhile Never-Trumper David French has the perfect example of a Republican politician who proves that racism plays no role in Southern conservatism: (Brian Kemp proves that "Southern men" are not racist, hahahha)

Racist robocall targets Stacey Abrams, Oprah in Georgia governor'S race - The group behind the robocall is The Road to Power, a white supremacist and anti-Semitic video podcast hosted by Scott Rhodes of Idaho.

Idaho school superintendent to investigate 'inappropriate' staff Halloween costume : news (Trumpsters)

Time to Expose the Women Still Celebrating the Confederacy : politics

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Catholic bishops promised reform in sex-abuse scandal. But they didn't look at their own misdeeds - American bishops promised reform after the clergy sexual abuse scandal exploded in Boston. But they largely ignored the misdeeds of one group: themselves (no, really?)


Five teens charged with rape counts amid Damascus football hazing investigation - The Washington Post (definitely not gay)


NY family thinks bones under home are long-missing father | KSL.com - A sister summoned paranormal investigators, who said there was an "energy" in the home, he said. Other people, including a psychic, felt that George Carroll was somewhere in the basement.


Let us praise the giants of science fiction: Campbell, Asimov and, yes, L. Ron Hubbard - Asimov, alas, relentlessly pawed young women, fancying himself a lovable Dirty Old Man


ELI5: If brain cells (neurons) are specialized cells which don't divide, how does brain cancer exist? : explainlikeimfive

Dads may be more likely to vote for female political candidates if they have a daughter - but only if the daughter is their first-born child, finds new research. This phenomenon is called the "first-daughter effect," and is stronger in Democrats than Republicans.

What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - Scientific American Blog Network

Kilauea Isn't Erupting (at the moment), but the Science Goes On - Scientific American Blog Network - We haven't heard the end of Kilauea, folks. There is more. So very much more.
If you jump into a volcano filled with flaming hot magma would you splash or splat? : askscience (splat and vaporize)


US declines in internet freedom rankings, thanks to net neutrality repeal and fake news | TechCrunch

Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale - BBC News - The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell, although there are reasons to be sceptical about that figure.

'Real Teeth': Senator's Bill Would Punish CEOs With Up to 20 Years in Jail for Violating Consumer Privacy Rules : technology (accountability, what a concept)




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Just 23% of the world's landmass can now be considered wilderness, with the rest, excluding Antarctica, lost to the direct effects of human activities, finds the first comprehensive fine-scale map of the world's remaining marine and terrestrial wild places in the journal Nature. : science

Senate Intelligence Wants Documents on NRA's Russia Trip

John Bolton praised Brazil's new far-right, pro-torture president, and called him a 'like-minded leader'

Opinion | The News Is Bad in Hungary - The New York Times - Viktor Organ didn't like what the press was reporting, so he took it over.

Julian Assange: The Real Houseguest of the Ecuadorian Embassy | WIRED

What it is like inside a tightknit, reclusive community of Irish Travellers - The Washington Post

Trump administration to reinstate all Iran sanctions - BBC News
CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.


Nigerian Army Uses Trump's Words to Justify Fatal Shooting of Rock-Throwing Protesters

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Saudi Arabia still has many questions to answer about Jamal Khashoggi's killing
In the Aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi's Murder, Saudi Arabia Enters a Dangerous Period (off with his head!)
Netanyahu: Saudi Arabia deserves a pass for Khashoggi murder


The Pentagon has prepared a cyber attack against Russia | Center for Public Integrity - U.S. military hackers have been given the go-ahead to gain access to Russian cyber systems as part of potential retaliation for any meddling in America'a elections

File-Sharing Software on State Election Servers Could Expose Them to Intruders - A ProPublica analysis found election computer servers in Wisconsin and Kentucky could be susceptible to hacking. Wisconsin shut down its service in response to our inquiries. (Mitch the Bitch said "you don't understand our security" and left access to Putin open)


Noam Chomsky: Members of Migrant Caravan Are Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created by the U.S. : politics (Chomsky speaks the unspeakable deselected fact that America created the mess the poor diseased people and children are fleeing from)

Trump's Surprise Border Mission Is a Politically Motivated Waste of Money: Pentagon Sources
Troop deployment creates tense atmosphere on US border


President Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims over 649 days - The Washington Post - In the first nine months of his presidency, Trump made 1,318 false or misleading claims, an average of five a day. But in the seven weeks leading up the midterm elections, the president made 1,419 false or misleading claims -- an average of 30 a day.

Trump's immigration obsession could backfire, some Republicans fear - Ignoring pleas for a closing focus on the economy, Trump embraces a fiery finale that has distressed vulnerable GOP candidates.
Trump deploys the fascist playbook for the midterms - The Washington Post
The President* Is Rooting for a Bloodbath : politics < ... Presidon't Trump and the American'ts./a>

Ilana Glazer Event at Synagogue Is Canceled After Anti-Semitic Graffiti Is Found - The New York Times
Twitter Listed A Trending Topic For "Kill All Jews" After A Brooklyn Synagogue Was Vandalized


Michael Cohen Says Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language Before His Presidency | Vanity Fair - As he awaits sentencing, Trump's former lawyer says that he wants to clear his conscience and warn voters about what he sees as the president's true nature in advance of the midterm elections.

Judge denies Trump's request for stay in emoluments case ... a decision that paves the way for plaintiffs to seek information about customers at his D.C. hotel.

Supreme Court allows census trial to go forward - ABC News

Pelosi works to outwit her critics once again - POLITICO - The minority leader is quietly courting Democratic candidates who threaten to block her path back to power.

No One Wants to Campaign With Bill Clinton Anymore - The New York Times

Heidi Heitkamp Doesn't Care That You Think She's Going to Lose She thinks she can win in North Dakota, even after her "no" on Kavanaugh


A blue wave is predicted for the midterms. I'm not convinced By Paul Theroux
How big will the 'blue wave' be in the House?

The GOP has become the party of fake news and paranoid fantasies - The Washington Post (Fareed Z apologizes for his party)

Cordray leads GOP's DeWine by 5 points in Ohio governor's race

Democrat-supporting women strip off for 'Grab Them By The Ballot' | Daily Mail Online

Democrat struggles to keep hold on teetering Minnesota district | Reuters

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is 5 points behind his Democratic opponent in new poll : politics

56 Companies Take A Stand Against Trump's Transgender Policies
Study finds Massachusetts' public accommodations nondiscrimination laws that include gender identity do not affect the number or frequency of criminal incidents in restrooms, locker rooms, or changing rooms. In addition, reports of privacy and safety violations in these places are exceedingly rare.

Alec Baldwin Arrested After Fight Over Manhattan Parking Spot - NBC New York

'If you don't get at that rot, you just get more officers like Josh Hastings' The Little Rock police shooting of 15-year-old Bobby Moore revealed a horror show of misconduct, cover-up and cascading institutional failure at the department. (almost like a murderous criminal operation)

Doctor says she was racially profiled while trying to help fellow passenger : news


Charlie Kirk Was Power User On Premium Adult Escort Website While Living Rent Free With Parents, Data Leak Shows - Bernard Media


Merely desiring to alter your personality is not enough, and may backfire unless you take concrete action to change, suggests a new study. Failing to support one'sgoals with concrete action appears to backfire, leading to personality drift in the opposite direction to what was desired.


ELI5: What is "intersectionality"? : explainlikeimfive


/u/old_goat_mountain responds to someone suspicious of SO's infidelity with code to determine when they are actually cheating by isolating breaks in their texting cycle. : bestof

What do you feel like you're missing out on? : AskReddit




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Yemen Girl Who Turned World's Eyes to Famine Is Dead (fuck you, World)


On a Tiny Finnish Island, a Helipad, 9 Piers -- and the Russian Military? (meanwhile)


Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi crown prince described slain journalist as a dangerous Islamist in call with White House - The Washington Post (so what is Wahhabifuckism? +Kushfuck and Bolton ... and:) "Turkish media reports of the calls, and another to the US, cast doubt on Saudi claim government didn't know of operation to kill journalist (Jared was on the phone when they were cutting him up into little pieces)
Khashoggi Case- Analysis of an Information Operation - Security Studies Group ... The Turkish government successfully used an information operation to elevate the case of Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance into a major international incident with strategic implications. The disappearance of Khashoggi is contemporaneous with the disappearance, and possible murder, of the head of INTERPOL, Meng Hongwei ... (true, but what's your agenda?)
Fink Calls Khashoggi Murder a Mystery, Will Keep Saudi Ties - Bloomberg - BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink struck a supportive tone on crisis-torn Saudi Arabia Thursday, saying that he expects to continue to invest in the country and that it's unclear who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi ... "We don't know who is responsible for the murder," Fink said ...

Two Saudi Arabian Sisters Found Dead Hudson River (another "incident")


Riddle Resolved: Who Dimed Out American Traitor and Super-Spy, Robert Hanssen?

Plot to Spy on Obama Officials Was Espionage for Dimwits - Bloomberg - An effort by a private Israeli firm to reveal Iranian assets for seizure was poorly conceived and executed. (the dread Black Cube)

Venezuela's s Health Crisis Is Crossing the Border -- Desperate refugees spread malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, dengue and tuberculosis to neighboring countries as health-care system implodes (WSJ warns us about diseased brown people seeking help b/c we won't even give medicine to white people

ohio- neil young - YouTube


On Freedom - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Freedom From Poverty, Freedom For Workers, and Freedom From Corporate Power.
Eight simple steps to fix American democracy - Democrats may soon be handed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fix America's ailing democratic institutions. (#8: lower voting age to 16, b/c if you're old enough to get NRA's to death, you're old enough to vote)

Republican Policy Preferences - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Remember folks, Republicans hate you and don't care if you live or die Five days ahead of the midterm elections, President Donald Trump's top economic adviser took to trashing the minimum wage. (next up, child labor is good)


Chat show presenter to be new US ambassador to the United Nations - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Heather (because of course) Nauert has a history of government service, of a sort, stretching back to last year (Fox/Murdoch takeover of US government and SHARIA LAW IS COMING)


Jack Burkman & Jacob Wohl's Story Exposed Through Exclusive Conversations | Hill Reporter
Mueller Smear Pushed by Pro-Trump Activists Falls Apart At Press Conference - Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman struggled to explain even basic details of their allegations -- like the spelling of the accuser's name ... collapsed in spectacular fashion on Thursday, after the pro-Trump operatives behind the event failed to demonstrate a grasp of even basic details about their accuser or explain why they had repeatedly lied about their project ... "I think Jacob is a child prodigy who has eclipsed Mozart," Burkman said
Alleged Mueller accuser fails to show up at press conference : politics
Jared Holt on Twitter: "I'm at the press conference with Burkman and Wohl ... Jack Burkman's fly is down the whole time
The Comically Flawed Attempt to Smear Robert Mueller, Explained

The election is almost here. That means Mueller's next move is coming soon. What would happen if the special counsel indicts Roger Stone?


Roger Stone Sold Himself to Trump's Campaign as a WikiLeaks Pipeline. Was He? - Newly revealed messages show how the political operative Roger J. Stone Jr. sold himself to Trump campaign advisers as a potential conduit to WikiLeaks, which published thousands of emails in 2016 damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign
OPINION: The Treachery Of Steve Bannon | The Daily Caller - The Washington Post reported that former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon testified for the Grand Jury yesterday regarding his communications with me regarding the Wikileaks disclosures in October 2016. (Daily Fucker, hahaha)

Trump thinks he can rewrite the Constitution. Guess what comes next. - The Washington Post (The Trumpstitution, written in gold inkordering you to worship Trump)

The Late Show on Twitter: "TONIGHT: Trump takes a new approach to scaring conservatives into voting. #LSSC "


Trump Still Enabling George Soros Conspiracy Theory After Bomb Threats, Synagogue Shooting | HuffPost - "I woudn't be surprised," Trump said when asked if he thought George Soros was funding the migrant caravan.

Trump and Aides Getting 'Spooked' About a Coming GOP Midterms 'Slaughter' - Publicly, the talk is of retaining control of the House. Privately, they're getting ready for Democratic-led investigations.

Trump shocks with racist new ad days before midterms - CNNPolitics
Trump Produces Racist Ad on Immigration, Reminscient of 'Willie Horton' Ad from George H.W. Bush - Donald Trump is betting that we're not.
Actual CNN headline: "Trump Campaign Releases Racist Ad" - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Trump ad: Willie Horton is alive, and shame is dead - The Washington Post
Trump's racist ad shows how low Republicans have sunk ("sunk" is our problem, Jennifer)
Trump Pushes Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Cited by Pittsburgh Shooter Days After Attack - Trump is pushing propaganda about immigrants, fueling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and failing to address political violence.
Trump May Finally Be Getting Too Racist for America : politics

Luis Bracamontes, Cop-Killer in Trump's Twitter Video, Actually Came Back to U.S. Under Bush - Trump also failed to mention that Bracamontes used an AR-15, a weapon that Republicans, including the president, don't want to outlaw
Fact Check: Trump's claim that Democrats let cop killer stay in U.S. is false
Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim that Democrats let a cop-killing immigrant into the country : politics (in the end, our broken democracy is another problem Barry floated above)

Racist Anti-Immigrant Cartoons From the Turn of the 20th Century - The Atlantic - There was a time in America when the Irish were characterized as apes, Italians as street filth, and Chinese as parasitic locusts.
Nativism and Immigration
How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics | History | Smithsonian - From xenophobia to conspiracy theories, the Know Nothing party launched a nativist movement whose effects are still felt today (our hateful instincts are the best) - Appeals to ethnic hatreds allowed men whose livelihoods depended on winning elections to sidestep the more complex and politically dangerous divisions of class
Nativism and Immigration

Trump'ss Nationalism Is Breaking Point for Some Suburban Voters, Risking G.O.P. Coalition

Racist Vote Suppression: Not Just For the Confederacy Anymore - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- Despite Brian Kemp's best efforts, I think North Dakota has earned this year's Bull Connor Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Vote Suppression: (they erased Native American's addresses)

Election Update: Democrats Need A Systematic Polling Error To Win The Senate | FiveThirtyEight - And even that might not be enough. (Senate can't be fixed)
Final Week Fundamentals | The Cook Political Report - The election is a referendum on Trump.

How Are The Early Voters Voting? What the Hell Happened - Independents are breaking towards Democrats in the New York Times Upshot polls, and they are breaking heavily.
Young Americans signal record midterm turnout, reject Trump, GOP: Poll - Dump Trump! (but yesterday you said that Millenials were too busy on their phones to vote)
Poll: Majority blames both Trump and media for dividing country - POLITICO


Eschaton: America's Worst Fact Checker - Glenn Kessler (comment:) TEH REPUBLICANS WILL PROTECT PRE EXISTING CONDITIONS LIKE BEING A FETUS - MEANWHILE THE DEMS WANT TO BUST TEH BUDGET BY COVERING POST EXISTING CONDITIONS - WE CANT AFFROD THESE TAX CUTS IF WE ENACT TEH LOONY LEFT FAR FAR RADICAL ALEXANDRA OCASIO-CASTRO-CHAVEZ-LUMUMBA AGENDA SO WE NEED TO SAVE MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY BY SHRINKING IT TO A SAFE SIZE - OUR MOTTOE SHOULD BE: END IT TO MEND IT
3P Gives Glenn Kessler 8 Pinocchios for Healthcare Bungle - People's Policy Project


"It's Our Job To Call Them Out" : Inside the Trump Gold Rush at CNN - Amid terrorist threats and vindictive tweets, the programming executive who taught the president all about reality TV continues to transform CNN into a 24/7 platform for our national psychosis.

Eschaton: Anthropology And Sociology - The regular appearance of "we" versus "they" reporting is so laughably obvious in lifestyle/trend/real estate/gentrification stories (white people are always "discovering" neighborhoods, like the modern day Chris Columbuses that they are), but it also comes out a lot in basically any coverage of minority/immigration issues. Often it's subtle, but subtle doesn't make it better. I don't know how "objective" reporters can be so unaware of this in how they write.

FOXNEWSADVERTISERS.COM - A weekly list of the top advertisers of Fox News

See the scene of the California Democratic Party headquarters, evacuated over suspicious package in Sacramento | The Sacramento Bee - The California Democratic Party headquarters had to evacuate over a suspicious package on Oct. 31, 2018.

Democrat's draft privacy bill includes prison time for execs : politics - The fact that Equifax could negatively impact tens of millions of people, and nobody in power in the Republican government bothered to do a damn thing is a political club that Democrats should be using to go after Republicans non-stop.

Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test to Combat Donald Trump's Native American Heritage Attacks Gets Bad Coverage - We're having the wrong debate about all of this.
I am a Native American. I have some question Many environmental activists fear that David Bernhardt would be more effective than Zinke in executing Trump's agenda

Zinke's s heir apparent ready to step in -- Many environmental activists fear that David Bernhardt would be more effective than Zinke in executing Trump's agenda


'God Is Going to Have to Forgive Me' : Young Evangelicals Speak Out (God is a registered Republican)


Beto O'Rourke Boost: Texas Youth Vote Soars 500 Percent Ahead Of Midterm Election Against Ted Cruz

Nine days, $12.5 million: Rick Scott pumps his fortune into Florida's Senate race in last-minute push - With a week left, the Republican governor has spent more than $63 million to defeat Sen. Bill Nelson (all money stolen from the health care system)

Georgia GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Ditches Final Debate At The 'Last Minute' - Brian Kemp plans to join President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Macon instead

Steve King's District Is His Worst Nightmare | HuffPost - His district is very racist, but it's growning more tolerant ... or maybe not. It's complicated ... like King -- aging, white and isolated.
Rep. King yells at man questioning him about extremism, boots heckler from event

Someone Paid Thousands Of Foreigners 20 Cents Each To Hide HuffPost's Negative Coverage Of A Democratic PAC | HuffPost - Someone Paid Thousands Of Foreigners 20 Cents Each To Hide HuffPost's Negative Coverage Of A Democratic PAC - story about End Citizens United dropped to the second page of Google search results from right near the top.



The New York Times is on pace to earn more than $600 million in digital this year, halfway to its ambitious goal ; Nieman Journalism Lab - The paywall, now more than seven years old, still has room to grow - The Failing New York Times released its third-quarter numbers this morning and, well, if the rest of the news industry was doing this well, we could shut down Nieman Lab and grab some worry-free beach time in warmer climes.


Lawsuit Alleges Harvey Weinstein Sexually Assaulted Girl, 16 | HuffPost

She called herself 'white and hot' in a racist video. It went viral. Now she's unemployed he call was interrupted by Susan Westwood. She was slurring, she was unsteady and she was spewing hateful words (she lost her job and proably her house also, so problem solved)

Pro-Trump Activists Blame Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens for Losing Kanye West - "They really over-grifted that situation" .... "Blexit" campaign aimed at convincing black voters to leave the Democratic Party. (and vote for Trumpster! )

Epistemic Closure, Peonage Ball Edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In a sudden turn of events, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh fired football coach DJ Durkin on Wednesday night, less than a day after the university systemBoard of Regents reinstated the embattled coach (that worked out well) - But he'll walk away with a 10-15 record, one death, and more than five million more smackers for doing nothing. Ain't the Noble Ideals of Amateurism grand?

Law school shakeout update - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The number of fully accredited ABA law schools that have closed or have announced their closing doubled this week, from two to four.

The Spirits of the Dark... - Lawyers, Guns & Money - For Halloween, War Room (the blog of the Army War College) solicited responses to the following prompt:

Lena Dunham Says She's Sober After Quitting Klonopin

The Ghastly Tale Of South Philly's Cult of The Holy Ghost -- "These heterogeneous people are pervaded by ... new ideas imperfectly assimilated with the burden of folk faiths inherited from many sources in the past

50 States of McMansion Hell - : King County,... | McMansion Hell


Google Walkout Organizers Explain Their Demands


A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada - The New York Times




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Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming - The Washington Post - The findings mean the world might have less time to curb carbon emissions. (less than zero)

A Mandarin Duck Mysteriously Appears in Central Park, to Birders' Delight

Exclusive: FedEx drops NRA deal by snail-mail - a quiet reversal: eight months ago, FedEx stood by the gun-rights lobby group as other companies scrapped deals. (despite what they said yesterday)

U. S. workers see fastest wage growth in a decade, but inflation takes a toll - The Washington Post

This is how republics end - The Washington Post


UK confirms reports of Chinese mass internment camps for Uighur Muslims | World news | The Guardian - Criticism is mounting over reports of mass camps in the western territory of Xinjiang
Satellite images expose China's vast network of secret re-education camps in Xinjiang : news

Australia's Refugee Camps on Nauru and Other Pacific Islands Are Home to Human Rights Abuses - A democracy is dismantled law by law. (fear of poor immigrants fleeing from death terrorizes the soul of OZ, which implodes)


Rotherham grooming gangs: National Crime Agency investigating more than 420 suspects in 'unprecedented' operation : news

Canadian residents who admitted to past pot use turned away at U.S. border, mayor says : news


Asia Bibi: Pakistan acquits Christian woman on death row - BBC News (eight years in solitary for insulting Prophet Dumbfuck Asshole Child Rapist Mohammed)


Jamal Khashoggi strangled as soon as he entered consulate, prosecutor confirms : news

Saudi prosecutor discusses Khashoggi case with Turkish intelligence: Demiroren agency
Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered four weeks ago. We're still waiting ofr answers
Senior Saudi Prince Returns to Kingdom as Royals Confront Khashoggi Crisis - The New York Times - A senior member of the Saudi royal family, who had feared returning to the kingdom, flew back to Riyadh from London on Tuesday in the most significant move in the royal family since the killing of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi (chop off mBs's head)

Police probe mystery deaths of Saudi sisters found bound with tape in NYC river : news

Explore The Influencers: US president Donald Trump's allies in the Paradise Papers (he swallowed the swamp)

Americans Are Easy Marks for Russian Trolls, According to New Data - analysis of Twitter data shows the Kremlin troll farm's English-language propaganda is nine times more effective than its disinformation in Russian.


Has Mueller subpoenaed Trump? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President? - POLITICO Magazine - A careful reading of court filings suggests the special counsel hasn't been quiet. Far from it.
Reporter overhears courthouse clerk's conversation suggesting Mueller has subpoenaed Trump to testify
No, Mueller Proably Didn't Subpoena Trump, Yet

Rudy Giuliani's Mystery Trips to Russia, Armenia and Ukraine -- "Trump, Inc." Podcst - We spent weeks investigating his work and clients in the former Soviet Union. We have so many questions. (so, little Red Rudy)

2nd woman says she was offered money to talk about past encounters with Mueller in apparent hoax : politics
MAGA Trolls' Efforts to Take Down Robert Mueller Flame Out in Hilarious and Spectacular Fashion : politics - I've seen more effective plans from Scooby doo villains.
Scott Stedman on Twitter: "Wohl appeared to spend at least a year on this scheme and it fell apart before it ever began."
Ronan Farrow on Twitter: "They did. "

In Campaign's Homestretch, Trump Tosses Out Ideas to See What Sticks (tax cuts for white people! deport the browns!)
Inside What Even an Ally Calls Trump's 'Reality Distorntion Field' -- From nonexistent riots to conspiracy theories about migrants to false claims about his popularity and job-creating record, the president has offered a litany of falsehoods in the midterm campaign.
George Soros and the migrant caravan: How a lie multiplied online

George Conway and Neal Katyal: Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional
Trump's birthright citizenship comments just made life harder for Republicans in tight races
Rick Scott walks away when asked if he supports Trump ending birthright citizenship | Tampa Bay Times - Scott's campaign also declined to comment (goin' down, Lex)
How Trump's 'birthright' idea went from the fringe to the Oval Office A group of conservative intellectuals and activists have long pressed the notion, while warning that it would draw the 'wrath of the ruling class' (oh, look, Stevie)
Trump smacks Ryan for questioning his birthright citizenship plan - politico (threatens to revoke his citizenship)


'Homeland Security' Ignores White Terror, DHS Veterans Say -- As far-right terror attacks mount, DHS is concentrating on a migrant caravan 1000+ miles away -- and some FBI ev she said of Mr. Trump. terans say the bureau isn't taking white supremacy seriously enough.


Confederate-Friendly Ryan Zinke Likens Robert E. Lee To Martin Luther King Jr. | HuffPost


POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi: Democrats are going to win the House

Watch: Trump's motorcade forced to turn around after thousands of protesters flood Pittsburgh streets
Jews assail 'Christian rabbi' who appeared with Pence, and so does his own movement - Loren Jacobs, who spoke at a rally with the vice-president, was stripped of his ordination by the Messianic movement in 2003.

Gab's CEO Says Pittsburgh Suspect Doesn't Represent The Site. But He Spent Years Recruiting Racists Like Him. - Andrew Torba has promoted white nationalists and looked the other way as Gab users posted racist death threats on his platform.

Donald Trump Launches Operation Midterms Diversion | The New Yorker

Right-wing clowns are not all that funny - The Washington Post
Trump's s hate and lies are failing. Two new studies show why.
Trump understands that Republican policies aren't actually popular, but white supremacy is - Lawyers, Guns & Money (NRA invites gunnuts to kill Jews)

Ex-CIA Agent's Congressional Campaign Says James O'Keepfe's Project Veritas Infiltrated It - Staff became suspicious when the woman peppered junior staff with leading questions aimed at soliciting problematic answers - The campaign of Democratic challenger Abigail Spanberger announced on Thursday that it had discovered and removed an operative .

In a scathing series of tweets on Monday and Tuesday, Missouri Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal referred to McCaskill as "Dixie Claire," described her as a "piece of shit," compared her to a slave owner and accused "McCaskill and her racist democratic friends" of alientating the party's base voters (all true)

Don Lemon: 'White men' are biggest terror threat to US, and there is no travel ban on them : politics
Trump cuts funds to fight anti-right wing violence | TheHill (last year, in case you forgot)

Republicans Getting Borked on Healthcare - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The greatest act of incivility in American politics, as is well known, is to accurately describe a Republicans publicly stated positions. And it's happening to Martha McSally: "Well, Sean, I did vote to repeal and replace Obamacare on that House bill -- I'm getting my ass kicked for it right now because it's being misconstrued by the Democrats. They're trying to, you know, invoke fear in people who have family members or loved ones with pre-existing conditions" ("before I can kill them all" she laughed, evilly, noting the plan was really "Repeal and Die")
Trump: Our Plan Covers Preexisting Conditions. It Doesn't. It Does the Exact Opposite. (believe our lies, suckers!)
Red-state governor races could bring Medicaid expansion to millions - POLITICO - A blue wave might drive the biggest enrollment spike since Obamacare was first implemented.

With $30 Million, Obscure Democratic Group Floods the Zone in House Races - The New York Times -- Floridians for a Fair Shake - The nautical caricature of Mr. Buchanan, a wealthy auto dealer, alluded to his purchase of a multimillion-dollar yacht on the same day he voted for a bill cutting upper-income tax rates.

Opinion | How to Punish Voters - The New York Times - The prosecution of individual voters for fraud is a trend that seems intended to intimidate. (we'll lock you up, granny)

Standing 'Against White Supremacy,' G.O.P. Campaign Chief Rebukes Steve King

This Is What It Looks Like When A Political Movement Gets Desperate | HuffPost - Campaign ads in Michigan show just how brazen the lying has become. (anti-anti-gerrymandering)h

As House Republicans Brace for Losses, Freedom Caucus Prepares for Growth - Hard-line conservative bloc has been raising millions to help recruit new members (the hard core nutcases will be all that's left)

Jon Tester in danger as Trump seeks vengeance - POLITICO - The Democratic senator is trying to hang on in Trump country, but the president is coming after him this weekend.


Eschaton: Fox Con - The willingness of (especially but certainly not just) Republican state governments to just throw absurd amounts of cash at companies with few strings attached is incredible. Also that these sorts of things aren't always treated as "scandals." (instead of fixing WI schools/infrastructure, Republicans gave all the money to corporate grifters, of course)
Wisconsin's $4.1 billion Foxconn boondoggle -- Gov. Scott Walker promised billions to get a Foxconn factory, but now he's running away from it - The size of the subsidy was stunning. It was far and away the largest in Wisconsin history and the largest government handout to a foreign company ever given in America. Like most states, Wisconsin had given subsidies to companies in the past, but never higher than $35,000 per job. Foxconn's subsidy was $230,000 per job. ("boondoggle" is not quite the right word, dudes)

Steve Bannon draws crowd of tens to rally for Steve Watkins in Topeka - According to Smith, approximately 17 people showed up at the Holiday Inn. Bannon said some things, such as: (vote for RINO's!)

Oprah Is Going To Georgia To Campaign With Stacey Abrams : politics (let's see if O can get more of a crowd than Stevie)
Judge declines Kemp's request to pause absentee ballot injunction
Kemp won't debate Abrams on Channel 2 as scheduled (chickenshit)


If Voting Meant Anything They Wouldn't Let You Vote, And Other Extremely Dumb Things People Believe - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dylan Matthews on Twitter: " "
The American Chopper meme, explained - Vox


Federal judges order Ohio to allow purged voters back in : politics

Sen. Joe Donnelly says he has black and Indian American staffers, 'but' they're terrific (not like your usual blacks and indians) Sen. Joe Donnelly (Ind.), a conservative Democrat in one of the tightest reelection battles in the country, made a cringeworthy and puzzling statement about some minorities on his staff during a debate Tuesday night.

Former Sen. John Warner, longtime dean of Virginia's GOP, says he supports Cockburn - who spent 30 years representing Virginia as a Republican, is lending his support to Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat and former investigative journalist vying to represent the 5th District in the U.S. House.

Record turnout? Not for millennials -- justa thrid say they'll vote - hat number has remained steady since August (sorry, we're on our iPhones)

Colorado governor says he's 'leaning strongly' toward presidential run (Hickenflooper will run as a moderate Republican)

Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; New polls: Democrats lead marquee Florida races; Arizona Senate, Kansas governor effectively tied

Aftab Pureval's campaign manager resigns based on 'new information' - Now some see his challenge to Republican Congressman Steve Chabot, R-Westwood, in jeopardy.

Our descent into vitriol began long before Trump and Democrats are culpable too - The Washington Post (Trumpster Thiessen gets rideculed in comments, called a "worm")

The creator of 'Dilbert,' a Reddit user and Newt Gingrich all helped to make a random tweet part of Trump midterm stump speech. - #JobsNotMobs.


Man gets early release after being sentenced to 17 years for minor first time drug offense. : news
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Priest sexually battered 17-year-old altar girl who is now pregnant, Ohio cops say : news

Mom sues after video shows toddlers in "fight club" at St. Louis daycare : news


Donations Pour Into Northwest Iowa Library After Man Burns LGBTQ Books | Iowa Public Radio - Paul Dorr from Rescue The Perishing read aloud from a book mid-October before burning it.


TIL there is a new drug for treating schizophrenia that consists of being given a shot 4 times a year, making it the first successful medication of its kind that doesn't require patients to take daily pills - Monthly injection approximate price $2,200.

The appendix may contribute to a person's chances of developing Parkinson's disease. Removing the organ was associated with a 19 percent drop in the risk of developing the disease.

Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up with Age? - Scientific American
TIL that the feeling that time passes faster as you age is actually a thing, and it happens because of the pace of new memories your brain records : todayilearned


Hawaii's Supreme Court has approved construction of what will be the largest single telescope in the world on the controversial site of Mauna Kea : news
Overview | Giant Magellan Telescope


Mass arrests in India after RCMP takes action against CRA phone scam : news
Police raid Indian call centres linked to 'CRA phone scam' that have victimized Canadians | CBC News (if you'll fall for this, you could vote for Trump)

The Satanic Temple says Netflix's 'Sabrina' stole Baphomet statue design, is 'taking legal action' : news




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Scientists Confirm China as Major Source of Banned Ozone-Depleting Chemicals : news

Indonesia: 'No survivors' after Lion Air flight crashes into sea : news

CDC's handling of polio-like illness criticized by its own advisers : news

FedEx cuts ties with the NRA : politics (not really)

Going Nuclear on Higher Ed - Lawyers, Guns & Money - According to the Financial Times, the Trump administration considered rejecting all visa applications by Chinese students. The proposal was spearheaded by Stephen Miller, whom many suspect of driving a nationalist agenda on immigration. This was on top of the new restrictions and requirements placed earlier this year on students working in fields of science and engineering.

Red Cross: Over 100,000 missing people is a global crisis - ABC News - We know that this is the tip of the iceberg and that it represents only a fraction of those estimated to be missing because of past and ongoing conflicts


Report: Israel sold $250m. of sophisticated spy systems to Saudi Arabia - Middle East - Jerusalem Post - Israel sold $250m. of sophisticated spy systems to Saudi Arabia - These are the most sophisticated systems Israel has ever sold to any Arab country. (autocrats love each other)


Snitch on a teacher: Bolsonaro win sparks push against 'indoctrination' ("with your leftist 1+1-2's")


German nurse admits to killing 100 patients as trial opens | World news | The Guardian - Niels Hoegel, already serving 15 years, has been accused of deliberately overdosing victims


Russia Is Meddling In The Midterms. The White House Just Isn't Talking About It. : politics

Trump Responds To Migrant Caravan By Deploying 5,200 More Troops To Mexican Border | HuffPost - There will be more troops deployed to the border than are currently stationed in Iraq and Syria. (huge threat to Trump's smoldering ego)
Border deployment puts Mattis and the military in political crosshairs - The Washington Post - he largest deployment of active-duty troops to the U.S. border in a century


If Trump Fires Mueller | The New Republic - How a Democratic-controlled House can salvage the Russia investigation - By Marcy Wheeler
Mueller Investigators Probe Roger Stone Conference Calls - WSJ - Longtime Trump adviser spoke of WikiLeaks's plans to release emails ahead of 2016 election

Mueller refers sex assault scheme targeting him to FBI for investigation ... pointed to Jacob Wohl, a disgraced hedge fund manager turned pro-Trump conspiracy theorist and Surefire Intelligence, a company connected to him, as being involved ...
Looks Like Someone May Be Planning False Sexual Assault Accusations Against Robert Mueller : politics
Special Counsel Refers Scheme Targeting Mueller to FBI : politics
Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller - A Seth Rich conspiracy pusher and fringe online figures appear to be working behind the scenes.
Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller - A Seth Rich conspiracy pusher and fringe online figures appear to be working behind the scenes.
Bari Weiss and Katie Roiphe warned us this would happen - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Another brick in the Wohl - Lawyers, Guns & Money
KeyserSozeBro on Twitter: "My little Jacob Wohl story: August 2016, we're sitting around the trading turrets at my office on a bored to tears slow day. Our receptionist said someone was here for his 2pm appointment. None of us had an appointment on schedule. Who is it? we ask? Some guy named Jacob Wohl 1/"
This 19-Year-Old Is Trump's Latest Market Whisperer (Bloomfuck paywall, but Jacob Wohl)


President Wants to Use Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship - The New York Times (BeerKav said Trump could revoke Dem's citizenship and lock them all up and deport them to Russia!)
Trump claims he can defy Constitution and end birthright citizenship - CNNPolitics (he's writing his own "Trumpstitution," bow down to the God-Fuhrer)
Trump eyes ending birthright citizenship with executive order - The Washington Post (9K comments compared to NYT 2K)
Trump to end birthright citizenship by executive order - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Axios of Evil - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Axios Reporter Bounces in His Chair With Glee as Trump Announced Xenophobic Policy - but the new video clip debuted today by Axios may be the ne plus ultra of media toadying. Axios has become a political media sensation in a very short amount of time, excelling at both cranking out access-based White House scoops and servility, like some sort of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue-based Roomba. (!)
Axios Helps Tee Up Trump's Birthright Citizenship Bid
Steve Kantrowitz on Twitter: "1/ On birthright citizenship, read the debate in the U.S. Senate, Jan. 30, 1866. The framers of the Civil Rights Act--the immediate precursor to the 14th Amendment, and the first place national citizenship was codified--knew exactly what they were doing."
Trump has 'zero authority' to end birthright citizenship, and this is a 'Hail Mary' a week before the midterms, legal experts say : politics

Eschaton: Not Just Trump - If Trump leaves office, things just don't snap back to "normal" as too many people seem to believe. The biggest mistake a Democrat will make in 2020 is running on the "let's make Washington bipartisan and good again" as if the only problem is Trump, as if bipartisanship is good, as if letting Republicans off the hook is a noble goal, as if we are a nation of West Wing fans who think Washington ever was or ever will be "good." (oh, helllo, Barry)

Eschaton: Pithy - I have tried to find a short way to express this: It's notable that the last moment of purported "unity"was GWB and the Iraq war -- when the traditional media flocked to Fox's view of the world, rather than vice versa.

Trump complains of different news coverage of him compared to Obama after S.C. church massacre - The Washington Post

Local, national officials decline to appear with Trump in Pittsburgh - CNNPolitics
Shooting victim's family shuns President Trump in Pittsburgh as top officials decline to join him
Pittsburgh suspect echoed talking point that dominated Fox News in October - CNN

Zinke's own agency watchdog just referred him to the Justice Department - Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has come under scrutiny on multiple fronts (stinky Zinke)

Middle-class jobs fall short: 62% fail to support lifestyle in US


Poll: Sinema leads McSally in Arizona Senate race - Democrat Kyrsten Sinema holds a 6-point lead over Republican Martha McSally, fueled by leads among Latinos, independents and women.

Texas Congressman Won't Say Why He Labeled Opponent 'Indo-American Carpetbagger' - Republican Pete Olson also led supporters in a chant of "CNN sucks" (zucks, actually)

Dem's s Lead Inches Higher in CD19 - Democratic candidate Antonio Delgado has increased his lead over first-term Congressman John Faso in New York's 9th Congressional District race

Republican Campaign Mailer Fuels Anti-Semitism Complaints In State Senate Race - Hartford Courant - campaign mailer showing a Jewish candidate for state Senate with a fistful of money is drawing condemnation for what critics say is its blatant anti-Semitic imagery. > It was sent out by Republican Ed Charamut and targets Democratic state Rep. Matthew Lesser, his opponent in the race for the 9th Senate District seat,

Chuck Todd and Meet The Press sanitize Erick Erickson's garbage (Toddler's speciality lately ... among other garage scraps:) Erickson pushed debunked lies about transgender people, whom he described as "perverts and the mentally ill"

The Democrats' Culture Divide Energized progressives are thrilled with their momentum in the Trump era. But the party's blue-collar base might not want what the new left is delivering. (heard that before?)

12 Young People on Why They Probably Won't Vote (looks like all-white)


Children of Mo. candidate who espouses anti-Semitism has a message: don't vote for him

'What Are You Doing Here?' White Woman Fired for Racist Rant at Black Neighbor : news
White woman loses job after racist rant toward black neighbor in North Carolina


Anti-vaccine billboards appear in several states : news
Anti-vaccine billboards appear in several states - More than 30 similar billboards have cropped up in West Va. Pennsylvania, New York and other states.



Fox News Undermined Megyn Kelly Long After She Left for NBC - For 18 turbulent months at NBC, when Megyn Kelly stumbled, her former employer was lurking in the shadows - notoriously ruthless public-relations and communications arm began encouraging outside reporters to cover negative stories about Kelly
Megyn Kelly, NBC Grapple Over Money and NDA in Exit Talks | Hollywood Reporter


Whitey Bulger Killed at West Virginia Prison: Report - The notorious Boston gangster was transferred to the prison yesterday.
Whitey Bulger Found Dead at West Virginia Prison : news
Freddy Geas, suspected killer of Whitey Bulger, didn't ike informants
Whitey Bulger Killed in West Virginia Prison at 89 Years Old - Boston Mobster Didn't Die a Legend - Whitey Bulger was killed at a federal prison in West Virginia Tuesday at 89 years old.

What generally well liked celebrity or athlete has/had a dark past that many of us may not know about? : AskReddit

2 Sisters Were Found Dead in the River, Duct-Taped Together. Police Have Few Answers. - The New York Times - By Friday, detectives had learned the women were sisters from Saudi Arabia who lived in Fairfax, Va. ... The mother also received a call from the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington, informing her that her daughters had applied for asylum, the police said. (new verb: khashoggied"


Researchers have found that one month of abstaining from cannabis use resulted in measurable improvement in memory functions important for learning among adolescents and young adults who are regular cannabis users : science


iPad Pro | Hacker News




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School-Shooting Survivors Bear Their Scars, and Bear Witness


Pittsburgh massacre: Netanyahu's Diplomats Add Insult to Injury by Defending Trump and Implicating the Left - Ambassador Dermer and Consul General Dayan mimic the president's false equivalence, which enrages U.S. Jews (you know, there's good and bad on both sides, the dead jww side, and the nazi with assault rifle side)


The Message of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's New President-Elect - Read His Extremist, Far-Right Positions in His Own Words.
Jair Bolsonaro Wins Brazil's Presidency, in a Shift to the Far Right
Bolsonaro surfed a tsunami of anger to win the presidency - The Washington Post

Merkel Steps Down as Party Leader as Election Setbacks Take Toll - Bloomberg

Assange says Ecuador seeking to end his asylum

American ISIS Suspect Is Freed After Being Held More Than a Year - The New York Times - His release means that a major question his detention raised about how the United States fights war -- whether the government has authority to use wartime powers against the Islamic State without explicit congressional authorization -- will evade a definitive court ruling, for now. Even so, his case established an important historical precedent: The American government locked up a citizen for more than a year without charging him with a crime. (hello, Barry-in-the-basement)

Khashoggi was to disclose Saudi use of chemical weapons in Yemen: source : worldnews

Russian held as agent studied US groups


Migrant Caravan: U.S. Military Will Have Up to 14,000 Troops, Many Armed, Ready to Intervene at Mexico Border (bombers, tanks, rockets)
Military to Deploy 5,000 Troops to Southern Border - WSJ - Deployment numbers are increased from initial estimates of 800 troops, in anticipation of migrant caravan
Fox News Guest Claims Migrant Caravan Carries 'Leprosy,' will 'Infect Our People," Offers No Evidence
Fox News Commentator Says Migrants Are Carrying Smallpox, a Disease Eradicated in 1980

9 hours of 'Executive Time': : Trump's unstructured days define his presidency - schedule shows huge swaths of his day unplanned, allowing his whims and momentary interests to drive White House business. (toddler time!)(Fuckabee says he's a "workaholic")
Report: Trump Clocks in About Three Hours of Work on a Good Day : politics - 54 percent of respondent

Majority says Trump's behavior encourages white supremacists: poll : politics

Trump's Corruption: The Definitive List - The many ways that the president, his family and his aides are lining their own pockets (hahaha suckers, you fell for the emailzzz scam)
Trump Persuaded Struggling People to Invest in Scams, Lawsuit Says - The New York Times (scam artist and his suckers)

Trump's hate and lies are inciting extremists. Just ask the analyst who warned us.
Enough platitudes: Let's name names
Don't tell me that 'both sides' need to do better
Darkness falls in America: After a week of horror, Trump refuses to admit any responsibility : politics
We're witnessing a massive surge in far-right violence.It's unlikely to end soon

A conspiracy theory about George Soros and a migrant caravan inspired horror - The Washington Post
Fox condemns rhetoric used by Lou Dobbs guest as channel's star host faces growing criticism
The untrackable horror of Fox Business and Fox News - The Washington Post
U.S.-Funded Broadcaster to Suspend Employees Behind 'Multimillionaire Jew' Soros Report - The taxpayer-funded U.S. Agency for Global Media is auditing content at its Cuba broadcasting office after seemingly anti-Semitic report surfaced.
Progressive Jewish leaders tell Trump he's not welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism

Trump Attacks Press As 'True Enemy Of The People' Days After Bomb Sent To CNN - "Fake News Must End!" ("bomb them all" he said)
CNN's Jim Acosta to Sarah Sanders: 'Shouldn't you have the guts' to name which media are 'enemy of the people?' : politics
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Trump brands media 'true enemy of the people' just days after pipe bomb sent to CNN offices : politics
Suspicious Package Bound For CNN Intercepted In Atlanta, CNN Reports | HuffPost
Another suspicious package intercepted, this one headed for CNN's headquarters in Atlanta : news
Cesar Sayoc: Mail bomber suspect was at Trump rally, video from Michael Moore shows - The Washington Post

Pittsburgh shooting: It's too late for Trump to be credible on uniting US against hate
Trump's America is not a safe place for Jews (or blacks, or browns, or ... )
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Had to Persuade President to Explicitly Denounce Anti-Semitism After Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: Report (hard for a pro-nazi)
Opinion | When Hate Goes Mainstream - The New York Times - The Pittsburgh massacre is only the latest, worst instance of rising anti-Semitism. Americans of conscience must now push back.

nside a Trump rally: Stelter's view from the press pen

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Claims Donald Trump Won the Popular Vote by 'Overwhelming Majority,' When He Lost by Millions of Votes (lyin' Sarah Fuckabee)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims Donald Trump won the popular vote by "overwhelming majority," when he lost by millions : politics

Fox News and the rest of the right-wing media can't escape responsibility - It was Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network who asked Grassley if Soros was behind the Kavanaugh protests -- and after Grassley endorsed the charge, Trump gave it his imprimatur. The Wall Street Journal, in turn, ran an op-ed endorsing this calumny. Last week, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs interviewed Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch ...

Eschaton: Nazis Are Good Except Liberals Are Nazis and They Are Bad - That really is the state of the discourse at the moment. Nazis have a point and should be listened to, also liberals are bad because they are the real Nazis. Especially Jewish liberals. Total Nazis.

Let'ss stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies (comfort me, big orange pedo-daddy!)

The Midterms Are Our Chance To Vote Out White Supremacy | HuffPost
White Supremacist Shooting in Louisville, Kentucky Kroger (the eyes)

The Pittsburgh Shooting and the Dark, Specific Logic of Online Hatred | The New Yorker
Gab.com goes down in wake of Pittsburgh shooting, after far-right social network is dropped by tech companies : news

Jimmy Carter Calls On Georgia Secretary Of State Brian Kemp To Resign | HuffPost

Two years after Trump's big wins, Rust Belt states go sour on Republicans

Republican Brat and Democrat Spanberger in dead heat as Virginia - The Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy


Will Fort Worth's Tarrant County remain America's most conservative large county?

Republican Party headquarters vandalized by gunfire in Volusia - News - Daytona Beach News-Journal Online - Daytona Beach, FL - chairman blamed Democrats for the vandalism.

Partisan Polarization Dominates Trump Era: Findings from the 2018 American Values Survey | PRRI -- , Republicans are more likely than Democrats to prioritize the economy (44% vs. 24%), national security (40% vs. 9%), and immigration (36% vs. 18%) ("prioritize the economy" hahaha)

EXCLUSIVE POLL: 4th Congressional District race between Love, McAdams widens by 6 points | KUTV - 4th Congressional District reports a 6 point lead for Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams over Republican incumbent Rep. Mia Love.

Beto O'Rourke within striking distance of Ted Cruz, new poll finds : politics

'Well, I'd like to be president': Hillary Clinton sends mixed signals on a 2020 White House bid (stfu, gtfo)

Trump's deporting your illegal cousins today!' man shouts at mother who was on her way to vote - racist rant against a Houston mother was recorded and uploaded to Facebook ... On Saturday, the man in the video, who identified himself to KTRK News as Kevin, apologized for the incident after claiming he had received death threats (hello, you're on Facebook, asshole)


Officials say Charlottesville suspect James Alex Fields assaulted in jail : news


The Cop Said He 'Slipped." The Video Shows Him Forcing An 11-Year-Old Girl To The Ground. He Wasn't Punished - then- NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton shut down disciplinary proceedings. The officer has also shared Facebook posts that denigrate black people and Muslims.


NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton shut down disciplinary proceedings. The officer has also shared Facebook posts that denigrate black people and Muslims. Support is dropping for ballot question on nurse staffing, poll shows - The Boston Globe (inundated with lobbyist money)


Study: Religious fundamentalists and dogmatic individuals are more likely to believe fake news

76% of participants receiving MDMA-assisted psychotherapy did not meet PTSD diagnostic criteria at the 12-month follow-up, results published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology : science

Why isn't Psychopathy/Sociopathy in the DSM-5? : askscience


FCC falsely claims community broadband an 'ominous threat to the first amendment.' : technology (b/c corps won't control you info)




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Sri Lankan minister's bodyguards open fire on protesters - One person killed and two injured in violence amid growing constitutional crisis


US Troops Deploy 'Overwhelming Force' Against Iceland's Beer Supplies - U.S. troops landed in Iceland last week ahead of the start the largest NATO military exercise since the Cold War, and apparently, they left their mark in the most appropriate way possible: by drinking every last beer in the nation's capital

Pornhub Reacts to India Blocking Adult Sites : technology

One of Saudi Arabia's most prominent exiled activists has quit Twitter and Facebook, saying that the social media giants have become tools for oppressive governments and trolls to harass and silence campaigners
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's agents attacked me outside Harrods, says activist Ghanem al-Dosari - After Jamal Khashoggi's murder, police are taking another look at video footage of an assault in August in broad daylight

The midterms are already hacked. You just don't know it yet - An investigation into the US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level.

Trump's apped Smartphone Mirrors His Entire Foreign Policy (it's gold-plated with his golden face and brand)


Pittsburgh Shooter Used the Same Deadly Weapon That Led to Mass Murders in Parkland and Las Vegas : politics (NRA=funded WMDs, the weapon of choice for hateful white guys)


White House tempers hopes of retaining House control - politico (but Fox told us a huge red wave of blood would bury all the Jewish libtards)

Stock correction comes at bad time for Trump, GOP : politics (their give all the money to the rich for stock buybacks so we win the midterms isn't working out)
U.S. Economy Has 'Peaked' And Will Slow Down, Economists Say, Despite Trump's Projections ("projections")

Donald Trump Jokes About His Hair Being Ruined by Having to Answer Questions in the Rain About Pittsburgh Shooting (very funny)
Trump mixes politics and the pain of a national tragedy in address at Illinois rally - ABC News

Trump Makes Up Story to Justify Political Rally On Same Day As Pittsburg Synagogue Shooting - But the president justified moving forward with the rally in southern Illinois hours after the shooting took place by saying the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) had remained open after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It had not. (but he was there watching out his window, he must know, don't believe fake leftist news)
No, President Trump, the NYSE did not open the day after the Sept. 11 attacks - The Washington Post (the delusions in his very stable genius brain get four snozzes from Kessler)
Trump Lies About Sept. 11 to Justify Holding Campaign Rally After Synagogue Shooting : politics - undefined

Trumpism Is Bent on Creating a Police State : politics
Trump warns of violence if GOP loses midterms : politics ("leftists" will "carnage in the streets" if they win)

Avoid temptation to seek partisan advantage from pipe bomb arrest | TheHill - By Alan Dershowitz (yes, Dershofuck, that'll never happen you fucker)


Pittsburgh shooting victims names ID'd, most of the 11 were elderly

Echidne of The Snakes: This Dismal Week in American Politics. Or Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre.
The center cannot hold - Lawyers, Guns & Money - undefined

The Worst of Our Country -- And the Best
Was Gary Hart Set Up? Readers Respond to James Fallows - The Atlantic

What is happening to our country? - The Washington Post
Opinion | Shaking My Faith in America - The New York Times - The bloodshed in the Tree of Life synagogue is a sign that hatred of The Other is poisoning our public life. (Republicans have been selling hate since St Ronnie the Devil)

A Week Of American Hate: Bombs Mailed, Black People Executed, Jews Slaughtered | HuffPost - Hate showed what it is truly capable of in America this week.

Twitter Melts Down After Trump Says Synagogue Needed An Armed Guard | HuffPost ... Rabbis with rifles. That's the answer.
spaniel on Twitter: "@POTUS @RealDonaldTrump The police were located right around the corner, arrived in one minute, and three of them were shot. The problem is that the killer had an #AssaultWeapon. That's why he killed 11 people before armed police could stop him. #BanAssaultWeapons! Be #ProLife https://t.co/J5KNaLN3m4"
Twitter Melts Down After Trump Says Synagogue Needed An Armed Guard : politics

Synagogue Shooting Suspect Said Jews Were Committing Genocide: Police | HuffPost - Robert Gregory Bowers killed 8 men and 3 women inside the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday(holocaust was fake news, Jews are the real Hitler) .
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting and the Return of Anti-Semitism to American Life | The New Yorker (Hitler won, after all)
Why the Tree of Life Shooter Was Fixated on the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society | The New Yorker

How much responsibility does Trump bear for the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh? - The Washington Post - Political rhetoric matters, and he has had some unfortunate things to say about Jews (very "unfortunate") .
Critics say Trump has fostered the toxic environment for the political violence he denounces - The Washington Post ("Critics say" one thing, fascist Trumpsters say another, but the Russians will troll)
Trump's Attacks on the News Media Are Working

Bowers blamed Jews for helping 'invaders' in the migrant caravans (Soros funded the caravan to get attention for invaders but it got too much attention so he had to mailbomb himself to distract you)
Trump's Caravan Hysteria Led to This - The president and his supporters insisted that several thousand Honduran migrants were a looming menace -- and the Pittsburgh gunman took that seriously ... They can never undo what they have done, and what they have done will never be forgotten. (defending the white race from Jews like Trump wanted)
"Soros-Occupied State Department" - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Just moments ago, Lou Dobbs guest Chris Farrell (head of Judicial Watch) says Caravan is being funded/directed by the "Soros-occupied State Department (Dobbs knew exactly what we was going to get)
Why Did Synagogue Suspect Believe Migrant Caravan Is Jewish Conspiracy? Maybe He Watched Fox News - On Thursday, merely two days before Bowers reportedly opened fire at the Pittsburgh synagogue, Lou Dobbs had a guest on the show who directly made the connection between Soros and the caravan (Lou Dobbs, pipeline of racist propanda)
Fox Business looks to paper over its promotion of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories : politics

Study: Online attacks on Jews ramp up before Election Day
Rep. Kevin McCarthy Deletes Tweet Singling Out 3 Jews Helping Bankroll Democrats | HuffPost - The Republican leader warned that the wealthy donors are trying to ""buy" the midterm election. (convieniently overlooking/erasing the biggest mouth of Satan in the room: Sherman Slimeball Adelson)

The Pittsburgh Suspect's Internet of Hate - Robert Bowers was an avid user of Gab, a social network popular among white nationalists and the alt-right.
On Gab, an Extremist-Friendly Site, Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Aired His Hatred in Full - The New York Times
Paypal bans Gab following Pittsburgh shooting - The Verge - The gunman had a history of anti-Semitic posts on the site (pepe-chat)
What's Gab, the social platform used by the Pittsburgh shooting suspect? - CNN (white supremecist platform)

AnotherPersonPerhaps comments on After arrest, Republicans struggle with mail bombs fallout
Reagan White House Reaction to the AIDS Crisis on Vimeo (remember Larry Speakes? well, his brain rotted out and then he went to hell)


Mail bomb suspect made numerous references on Facebook to Russian associates and echoed pro-Kremlin views - The Washington Post
'He felt that somebody was finally talking to him' : How the package-bomb suspect found inspiration in Trump (found his abusive daddy-figure)



The Conspiratorial Hate We See Online Is Increasingly Appearing In Real Life - Why toxic online behavior is spilling into the streets.
Domestic terrorism is on the rise. Cable news networks won't cable news networks say so? - Cable news aims not to inform but to placate. It facilitated the rise of our current hellscape. ("cable news" = Fox, Voxers)

Campbell Soup VP who tweeted Soros conspiracy is out - CNN - Kelly Johnston, formerly Campbell's vice president of government affairs, tweeted on Monday that the Open Society Foundations arranged for "troop carriers" and "rail cars" to support the caravan, which formed earlier this month in Central America. Johnston has since deleted his Twitter account. (bye-bye, asshole)


Voter fraud exists -- Even though many in the media claim it doesn't (hahaha we fraudulated the shit out of your voting, libtard leftist Maoists)

Trump Cabinet exodus likely after midterms - POLITICO - After two years of already-high turnover, the president is expected to push out or accept the resignations of several more department chiefs by January. (they are going to jail anyway)


Man of the People - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Bruce Rauner'sattempt to fit in with Trump voters at today rally is quite compelling (maga hat and bike jacket with as many stickers as the terrorist van)

GOP congressman sympathizes with Austrian far-right after Auschwitz visit | The Times of Israel - After going on trip to Poland funded by education group, Steve King meets with Freedom Party, says Germans shoulnn't have to apologize for Holocaust anymore. ("It was a long time ago, there were good people on both sides" the racist asshole from Iowas said, ginning evily)

White Nationalist Who Threatened Stacey Abrams' Campaign Poses for Picture with Brian Kemp : politics
Georgia's Kemp Purged 340,134 Voters, Falsely Asserting They Had Moved

Election expert Greg Palast: Thanks to GOP voter suppression, "Democrats may have effectively lost"

Trump Administration Proposal on Gender is Discrimination, Not Science : politics
Trump's Plan to Redefine Gender Makes No Scientific Sense : politics


Charlotte woman faces charges after harassing black neighbors, telling them to leave : news (she's white and makes $125,000 a year) Her boss: "one of those things will still be true when you walk out of here"

2 bodies found in Hudson River were a missing Virginia teen and her sister : news

Body cam footage: A grand jury cleared this officer in the shooting of a jaywalker : news

Eschaton: The Vitriol Is Coming From Inside The Studio - A delightful interview of Chuck Todd by Hugh Hewitt about Bill "Tiller the baby Killer" O'Reilly. (your bubble is suffocatingly stupid, Toddler)

WBUR Poll: Ballot Question About Mass. Nurse Staffing Is A Dead Heat : boston


The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture | The New Yorker - For centuries, archeologists and museum curators had been scrubbing away these traces of color before presenting statues and architectural reliefs to the public. (pure whiteness of white art historians)
Scholars Respond to Racist Backlash against Black Achilles, Part 1: Ancient Greek Attitudes toward Africans :: Pharos

Canada after legalisation Maryjane : funny

Picasso Halloween Costume : pics

Lil Tay's Account Is Absolutely Out Of Control. Instagram Won't comment on it


A new survey of more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users finds that 44 percent of users ages 18 to 29 have deleted the app from their phones in the past year. : technology


What are people slowly starting to forget? : AskReddit

TIL of "the Truman Show Delusion" a term used in psychology to describe patients who believe they are part of a staged reality. Psychiatrist reported on one patient who had traveled to New York after 9/11 to ensure the event really happened and wasn't just a plot twist in his show. : todayilearned

Psychopaths are attracted to other psychopaths, suggests a new study, which found that most people do not view psychopathic personality traits as particularly desirable in a romantic partner, but there is evidence that psychopaths are more attracted to other psychopaths. : science - undefined


People who's work involves death (e.g Paramedics, Hospice Carers, Morgue Attendants, etc.) - what is the weirdest thing you've ever seen? [Serious] : AskReddit

What is your favorite "Holy Shit" fact? : AskReddit

u/lordperiwinkle gives a detailed insight in to being a 20 something during the 80s : bestof

/u/LiquidPhoenix explains variations in the clitoris, and also why sex toys are awesome : bestof
Guys of Reddit, what are some NSFW tips you wish every girl knew? : AskReddit
What's the dumbest thing you've done because of a girl? : AskReddit

What is socially unacceptable today that was considered normal 20 years ago? : AskReddit

I can't be the only one : AdviceAnimals (Best vs Hot)

IT'S OFFICIAL: IBM is acquiring software company Red Hat for $34 billion : technology (getting back into the OS2 business)




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Iron dome anti missile system intercepts a large missile barrage fired on the city of Sderot, about an hour ago. : videos

Prime minister sacked, and parliament suspended; Sri Lanka veers toward constitutional crisis - The Washington Post


With pot legalized, job openings surge in Canada's cannabis industry (while Chawlie Baker flushes another billion down the conservative toilet so you can't have education and roads)


Khashoggi: Mattis condems killing as Saudi foreign minister decries 'hysertia' - The Washington Post
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says global outrage over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi is 'fairly hysterical' : worldnews


'It's like playing whack-a-mole': A string of recent revelations paints a stark picture of Russia's ongoing campaign to meddle in the 2018 midterms : politics
Midterms 2018: Cybersecurity and Russian hacking remain a major concern - Vox - The midterms are already hacked. You just don't know it yet.An investigation into the US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level. (Russians, and another thing Barry ignored)


Trump preparing to deliver major immigration speech just days before midterms - The Washington Post (worst threat America has ever faced ... is Trump)

Trump's Charlotte Rally After Cesar Sayoc's Arrest - The Atlantic - Trump's s Incoherent Rally in Charlotte - The president calls for harmony, then attacks. He demands honesty, then lies. He insists on an end to personal attacks, then insults his opponents.


Pittsburgh shooting Squirrel Hill: Multiple casualties at Tree of Life synagogue - The Washington Post - Robert Bowers -- a 46-year-old man with a history of making anti-Semitic statements online -- surrendered to police after a gun battle and is expected to face hate crime charges -- Trump has repeatedly slammed "globalists" in his public rhetoric, despite warnings that the term is understood to mean Jews in anti-Semitic circles ... "There is no #MAGA as long as there is a kike infestation," he wrote
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Trump responds - Vox - Read his full remarks.
Trump decries Pittsburgh shooting as 'pure evil' then slips into campaign mode (lock up Soros)

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Identified As Robert Bowers, Yelled "All Jews Must Die' As He Opened Fire
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies - The suspect frequently wrote on the social network Gab, where he made a specific threat against Jews hours before
Robert Bowers: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

American anti-Semitism: It's getting worse

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: 11 Dead, Several Others Injured; Suspect In Custody + CBS Pittsburgh - FBI Leading Investigation As Shooting Deemed A 'Hate Crime' (hate unleashed by Trump)
Active shooter reported at Pitfsburgh synagogue : news - "All these Jews need to die" (another Trumpster)

And If That Doesn't Work, Try Having Some Kids Rush Him - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Descent of America - Lawyers, Guns & Money
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy deletes tweet saying George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg are buying this year's elections (he forgot the biggest Jew in the room: Sherman Adelson)
Why did you delete the tweet where you accused three Jewish financiers of buying this election? It would be nice if you could give some additional color on those thoughts today, Kevin
Ari Berman on Twitter: "37,000 gun deaths in US a year: let's make it easier to buy guns! 31 cases of voter impersonation since 2000: let's make it harder to vote!"

Attacks on Jewish people rising on Instagram and Twitter, researchers say - Many but not all of the posts mention billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, who was among the targets in a series of attempted bombings.

In a week of domestic terrorism, a commander in chief mostly missing in action - Los Angeles Times
Trump Comes Face to Face With His Nightmare: A News Cycle He Can't Control The president is frustrated as his efforts to drum up fear of the caravan get pushed off the front page.
Eschaton: Today Is The Day He Became President - At least those takes have mostly stopped.

Stochastic terror and the cycle of hate that pushes unstable Americans to violence : politics

Karl Rove and David Axelrod Partner on Masterclass in Proof Trumpism Will Outlive Trump - Karl Rove and David Axelrod partner on an abomination. (Obama's environment)
This Conscience-Free Bullshit Is Why Trumpism Will Outlive Trump : politics
The President* Is Totally Unaffected By Events in the Country He Governs : politics

Trump Rants Like Racist Grandpa in Speech to MAGA Negroes : politics - Donald Trump set aside some time between racist rants to go on a racist rant with young black conservatives gathered at the White House to listen to the president give a rambling speech that hailed Kanye West, praised Jim Brown, gave a shout out to black people getting out of prison and asked the crowd of black supporters if any of them were "the bad ones." ... It's worse than that, he was talking about ex-cons and was saying some were good ex-cons and some were bad ex-cons, then he told them he assumed there were some "bad ones" in the crowd already. - The president of the united states just told a group of black supporters he just naturally assumed there were some bad ex-cons among them. But he's totally not racist.

President Trump bears 'no' responsibility in pipe bomb scare: VP Pence

Of Course Donald Trump Inspired Cesar Sayoc's Alleged Terrorism - Sorry, Trumpies, this was no false-flag leftie or Unabomber in the woods. He is Trumpism uncut and unplugged. Deal with it.

Trump, at Charlotte Rally, Tries to Rebuild Political 'Momentum' by Reviving Old Attacks (+blond zombie bitches for Trumpster)

Trump's Party Is the Petri Dish for Diseased Minds That Grew Cesar Sayoc

Cesar Sayoc suspected bomber: What we know about the Florida man - The Washington Post
Cory Booker and James Clapper bombs: Who were the 12 mail bomb packages sent to? - The Washington Post

Living in a Van Plastered With Hate, Bombing Suspect Was Filled With Right-Wing Rage - The New York Times
The mail-bomb suspect's van, annotated

Cesar Sayoc Blasted Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee Claim. But His Own Seminole Boast Is Bogus. -- He tweeted as though he was part of the tribe. They checked and say it's not true (embodies every Republican contradiction)


Cesar Sayoc's Home Was Foreclosed on By Steve Mnuchin's Bank, Using Dodgy Paperwork (archetypal sucker for fascist propaganda)
Mail-Bomb Suspect Cesar Sayoc Owned $7,000 Worth of Trump-Branded Clothing: Police Report - The Daily Beast (over-priced cheap shit from China)

Mail Bombing Suspect Cesar Sayoc Tweeted Threats
He Seems Very Economically Anxious - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Cesar Sayoc Jr. is what will happen more and more as long as conservative propaganda networks remain what they are:

WATCH: Trump Supporter Insists Obama Probably Sent Bomb to Himself to Bring People to His Side

Here Is a List of Far-Right Attackers Trump Inspired. Cesar Sayoc Wasn't the First -- and Won't Be the Last

The Arrest of Bomber Cesar Sayoc and the False Flag Conservatives - Some talking heads in Trumpworld, you see, had backed themselves into a bit of a corner over the last few days, making increasingly bombastic pronouncements and speculations -- they were just asking questions! -- that the perpetrator was not a mentally imbalanced Republican, but a crooked, calculating libtard looking to drum up sympathy for the Democratic party before the midterms. (even the Weekly Standard)

Bomb Scare Shows That Alex Jones's Legacy Is More Conspiracy Theorists
Shame on the false-flag crew: At least Geraldo Rivera had the decency to own up to his terrible behavior : politics

Blaming Victims For Mail Bombs Carries Echoes Of Civil Rights Bombings : politics
Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and others stick with conspiracy theories after mail-bomb suspect's arrest ... ""And the guy in Pittsburgh was sent by a Jew to kill jews"
Insurrectionism Timeline - The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence - On June 26, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court embraced the National Rifle Association's contention that the Second Amendment provides individuals with the right to take violent action against our government should it become 'tyrannical." The following timeline catalogs incidents of insurrectionist violence (or the promotion of such violence) that have occurred since that decision was issued.

Mail Bomber Cesar Sayoc Wasn't Charged With Terrorism - The Atlantic - The government rarely charges domestic extremists as terrorists.

Ashley Parker on Twitter: "It's not that Trump is struggling to unite the nation. It's that unlike his predecessors, he's simply uninterested in offering moral leadership during moments of crisis and tragedy. (no, Ashley, he's actively offering evil leadership, too bad you can't say that)

Republicans Look to Safety Net Programs as Deficit Balloons - The New York Times (hahaha we gave all the money to the rich, now you have to die, suckers)
Health care companies' huge tax windfalls -- The Republican tax law has rerouted billions of dollars from the federal treasury into the bank accounts of health care companies and Wall Street investors. (hahahha)


Republicans Are Who They Say They Are - Lawyers, Guns & Money - What a time to be alive -- A senior official at the Veterans Affairs Department hung a painting of the first Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and Confederate general in his office but removed it after some employees circulated a petition to force him to take it down. David Thomas (only best asshole racists)

Republicans Rushing to Save House Seats From Onslaught of Democratic Money - The New York Times

Reports: Votes in Texas, Georgia are being changed at polls : politics
Staggering Voter Suppression In Georgia Could Keep Democrats Out of Power : politics

Control of U.S. Senate may hinge on possible Mississippi runoff | Reuters - A crowded U.S. Senate race in Republican stronghold Mississippi could set the stage for weeks of uncertainty over which party ends up controlling the upper chamber of Congress after the Nov. 6 elections.

Reports of Voter Intimidation at Polling Places in Texas Election official in Dallas County says it's the worst she's seen in decades (just a little "Southern Tradition")

Dodge City's out-of-town polling place adds to fears of voter suppression in Kansas ("adds to" in Kofuckistan) "LOL," she wrote in an email to Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office (hello, Debbie Cox, totally impartial election official, lol)
Eschaton: LOL - Debbie Cox, the internet will remember your name. -- Dodge City
To Cast Their Ballots, These Voters Will Have to Get Out of Dodge - The New York Times - "This has gotten way out of hand," said Debbie Cox, the local county clerk, who made the decision to move to the new polling site and is named as a defendant in the A.C.L.U. lawsuit. Ms. Cox, a Republican who, like most elected officials here, is white, vehemently rejected suggestions that the decision had anything to do with trying to prevent any group of people from voting.

OUR OPINION: Scholten represents best choice in 4th | Editorial | siouxcityjournal.com - over incumbent Republican Steve King in the race for the U.S. House seat in Iowa's 4th District. Those were not easy words for us to write. (no doubt, you dumbshits endorsed him all through his career because he is an "honest family man")

katqanna comments on Reporter's attorney alleges that Gianforte is lying about assault and settlement (Satan's hands always lie about everything)

Pro-Trump #WalkAway March has all the signs of a grifting operation - ThinkProgress - "The people. The power. The hashtag" ("renouncing liberalism by making them cry" mass march on Washington tomorrow, millions will attend in new MAGA hats)


Bill Maher's Gross Slut-Shaming of Stormy Daniels on 'Real Tinme' Friday night saw a weirdly condescending interview between the political satirist and the alleged Trump mistress (male jerks will be male jerks)


Eschaton: Bye Megyn - Gone from NBC. -- I didn't care all that much that she was on TV. It was more just another example of "racist white mediocrities promoting and overpaying other racist white mediocrities." -- Andy Lack's the problem.



In Massachusetts, nearly 5% of people over 11 abuse opioids. The study found that 4.6% of people over the age of 11, or more than 275,000 in the state, abuse opioids. That's nearly four times higher than previous estimates based on national data, the study authors said. : science (at least 1 in 20)


A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley - The New York Times - "I am convinced the devil lives in our phones." -- A wariness that has been slowly brewing is turning into a regionwide consensus: The benefits of screens as a learning tool are overblown, and the risks for addiction and stunting development seem high. The debate in Silicon Valley now is about how much exposure to phones is O.K. (none)

Parents refuse the HPV vaccine because of safety concerns and lack of knowledge, with only a minority of parents concerned that vaccination would encourage youth sexual activity, a reason frequently cited by doctors as a barrier to advocating for this vaccine, finds a new Johns Hopkins study. : science


Study suggest that the cerebellum has a hand in every aspect of higher brain functions -- not just movement, but attention, thinking, planning and decision-making. As it serves as a quality check on movement, it also checks thoughts as well -- smoothing them out, correcting them, perfecting things.


Omega-3 DHA in Phospholipid Form May Bypass Faulty Brain Transport in Alzheimer's Disease : science - The APOE report is free but only works if you have 23andMe. The SNPs are excluded from many providers for some reason. If you're on the 23andMe raw data page, you can look up rs429358 and rs7412 and use SNPedia's convenient table for looking the genotype up. There are clinical tests available for directly validating APOE genotype as well.


New 'two-faced' membrane can convert 35.7% of the chemical energy stored in salty sea water into useable electricity. That's as efficient as most wind turbines and higher than most solar cells


Study confirms that "vaginal jade eggs" are not an ancient Chinese practice despite deceptive marketing claiming otherwise : science

TIL for a long while, in Christianity, Satan was not feared. He was more 'comic relief' and the butt of jokes. It was the increased belief in Witchcraft which eventually caused Satan to be feared. : todayilearned

ELI5: why do women's pants all have stupid little pockets? : explainlikeimfive

Redditors who are married to someone with an identical twin: what are your feelings towards that twin? : AskReddit




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Location of large mystery source of banned ozone depleting substance uncovered. "Our results show that emissions of carbon tetrachloride from the eastern Asia region account for a large proportion of global emissions and are significantly larger than some previous studies have suggested" : science (China, you know)


The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia's War - Amal Hussain, 7, is wasting away from hunger. The Saudi-led war in Yemen has pushed millions to the brink of starvation. (Barry encouraged this)
The Ongoing Catastrophe in Yemen - Lawyers, Guns & Money (the one piece of Obma's legacy Trump loves)

'Escape the corset': South Korean women rebel against strict beauty standards -- Women destroy makeup as part of backlash against culture of laborious skincare regimes and pressure to look perfect


Bolsonaro threatens the world, not just Brazil's fledgling democracy - Women and LGBT activists, human rights defenders, environmentalists and indigenous peoples are all at risk from the far-right candidate - On 7 October, in the first round of the presidential election, far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro obtained an impressive 46.03% of the votes cast, or one-third of the registered voters. This result triggered a first wave of hate violence: more than 70 attacks were recorded against LGBT people, against women, against any opponents of extreme rightwing candidates or against journalists. (the rise of Trumpism)


Defaming Prophet Muhammed not free expression: ECHR - Such defamation could stir up prejudice and risk religious peace, says European Court of Human Rights (fuck you, child-rapist Mohummed, and the European Court you rode in on)


Eschaton: As Was Foretold - Surprising nobody. -- International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said his plan to quickly normalize the U.K.'s World Trade Organization commitments had failed, forcing the government to enter into what will likely be lengthy negotiations with other members on basic terms of trade after Brexit. -- Essentially the rest of the world has some quota arrangements with the EU and the UK thought they would just divide out their allocation and proceed. Nobody else thought they could do that. Negotiations are hard, man.

Salisbury Cathedral evacuated after visitor attempted to destroy Magna Carta | Salisbury Journal (symbolic?)


Why was MBS so afraid of Jamal Khashoggi? - The Washington Post - Khashoggi was seen as dangerous for the simple reason that he couldn't e intimidated or controlled.
Can Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, Survive the Jamal Khashoggi Murder? -- The royal family is sprawling. Ibn Saud, the founder, had more than forty sons and even more daughters. Saud, his son, had more than a hundred children. The family now has thousands of members. (they loved to fuck their 70 virgins)



The border is tougher to cross than ever. But there's still one way into America. - Asylum claims are soaring as migrant families take an administrative path, buckling the immigration system. (interesting, Bush years had by far the largest border arrests)
Bolton Kept DHS in the Dark in His Push to Seal the Border Against the Migrant Caravan - Trump's national security adviser iced out Homeland Security and the Pentagon as he 'yelled fire in the crowded movie theater that is Trump's mind'
Nielsen: 'Every option is on the table' to stop migrants at border ("we're considering carpet bombs and napalm" she said)

U.S. economy grew at annual rate of 3.5% in 2018's third quarter
Dow dives nearly 300 points, S&P 500 dips into correction levels

Vladimir Putin invited to Washington in early 2019: John Bolton | Fox News (Bolton leaks to Fox, who tells Trump about it)
D.C.-Based Russian Media Venture Boasts that Indicted Kremlin Operative Is Its CFO


DOJ Ties a Trump FISA Release to Obstruction | RealClearInvestigations - In court filings last week the Department of Justice deployed what could be the nuclear option in its latest effort to prevent President Trump from declassifying information regarding FISA warrants used to spy on his campaign aide Carter Page: It is claiming that such a move would interfere with Special Counsel Robert Muelle

George Papadopoulos Requests Immunity From Senate - The Atlantic - The former Trump-campaign adviser may be worried that his testimony could implicate him in a crime


How Repeal of the Individual Mandate and Expansion of Loosely Regulated Plans are Affecting 2019 Premiums | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - this analysis suggests on-exchange benchmark silver premiums will be about 16% higher in 2019 than would otherwise be the case. (and the money flows up, suckers)


Obama: If Republicans really cared about Clinton's emails they would be 'up in arms' over Trump's iPhone : politics


Trump has called package recipients 'a lying machine,' 'weak,' 'low IQ,' 'neurotic' and worse
Trump says 'lock 'em up' after calling for unity Is this the presidential pivot pundits have been waiting for? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The switch: From decrying violence and calling for unity in the wake of assassination attempts that targeted several people he has attacked, to attacking one of the targets of the attempt probably isn't what the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Serious & Objective Trump Watchers have in mind ...


Who is Cesar Sayoc, Florida suspect in the mail pipe bombs? | Miami Herald - Sayoc appears to have been an avid supporter of President Donald Trump. His van, which was seized by federal agents, was covered in pro-Donald Trump and right-wing stickers. Photos on his Facebook page shows Sayoc wearing a red Make American Great Again baseball cap. He also posted multiple videos from a Trump rally. His Facebook feed is a mishmash of pro-Trump news stories, racist memes and fake news about Democrats. Popular targets include Islam -- which one meme calls "a barbaric evil cult" -- and Hillary Clinton (Hilz is the dark heart of evil for conservatives)

Megathread: Likely Explosive Devices Addressed to Multiple Political Figures, Suspect in Custody : politics
Mail bomb suspect: Cesar Sayoc in custody for allegedly sending pipe bombs to Trump critics : news

Package bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc charged with five federal crimes after arrest in Plantation, Florida, today in connection with recent pipe bomb live devices that threatened NYC, Democrats and others - live updates - CBS News (fingerprint and DNA, otherwise he would have gotten away with it)

Suspect Texted Story About Attempted Soros Bombing to Business Partner - Mother Jones - A former male stripper says Cesar Sayoc had been sending him right-wing memes.

Suspected MAGA bomber identified as 'Native American Trump supporter' Cesar Sayoc

Mahmud mohamed on Twitter: "@CBSMiami I have some pictures of this van I saw him at a stoplight one day and thought is was very strange. "
The MAGA-Bomber's van
Wind blows cover off pipe bomb suspect's van to reveal pro-Trump stickers - video | US news | The Guardian (haha, cops tried to cover for Trump)
Florida Man with MAGA van - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The mail bomb suspect and the right-wing conspiracy machine - The Washington Post
Cesar Sayoc: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Cesar Sayoc Jr., Alleged Mail Bomber, Threatened Democrats on Twitter - has a significant criminal history and frequently posted far-right conspiracy theories about Trump's oppenents (literally a #magabomber complete with hat +the whole "crisis actor" delusion)

All The Incendiary Garbage Fox News Has Broadcast About George Soros Since April | HuffPost - At Fox News, Soros is treated as the Moriarty of liberal America, the spider at the center of a vast web.
Bombgate and the new species of political theatre | Spectator USA (conservatives flail away but reality catches up and makes them look stupid)


Crowd Chants "CNN sucks" at White House Event as Pictures Emerge of "CNN Sucks" Sticker on Alleged Bomber's Van (so that means ...)
Awaiting Trump: A packed room in the White House full of young conservative black people chanting:
Crowd Chants "CNN Sucks" at White House Event as Pictures Emerge of "CNN Sucks" Sticker on Alleged Bomber's Van

The Late Show on Twitter: "TONIGHT: Trump reminds us all about how civil he is while being uncivil. #LSSC "
Tucker Carlson Asks How We Got So Divided. Twitter Savagely Answers. | HuffPost - "Imagine lacking this much self awareness'
Karina on Twitter: "How .... how.... how... (Carrey on Trump inciting violence)
Trump's Response to the Bombs Breaks a Basic Rule of Democracy - The Atlantic - A President Who Condones Political Violence - Trump's statements over the past 48 hours reveal a president willing to breach a core rule of democracy.


False report of Democratic, CNN ties to pipe bombs | PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks (Hillary did it!)

Eschaton: The Art of the Hissy Fit - So much daily political coverage - the kind of cable news dominating flood the zone stuff - is driven by (as Brian Beutler put it on twitter) Republicans pretending to be outraged by things and reporters pretending to believe them ... Even when bombs are being sent to Democrats, stuff Republicans are upset about (such snowflakes) dominate the coverage.


Eschaton: What Did He Hire The Racist White Lady For - Megyn Kelly was hired because she is a racist white lady, and she certainly was not fired because she is a racist white lady. The racism was an excuse. -- The man who hired her is the one with the racism problem ... "Still love the line about her minstrel period" ... "Her minstrel cycle?"
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Megyn Kelly, Blackface and NBC's "Hate Crime-Adjacent" Problem
Black employees at NBC hurt that Megyn Kelly is playing #MeToo card to collect her $69M payout | Daily Mail Online - "This is the worst white privilege I have ever seen" ... "Lots of people were will to give her a clean slate after the whole white Santa thing, but she showed her true colors this week"

PoppinKREAM comments on CNN to Trump: You incited this

Opinion | F-Bombs and Real Bombs - The New York Times - Our problem isn't "invivility." It's right-wing violence


Poll: Trump Seen As Important Factor In American's Vote, As Democrats Open Up Lead - Roughly two-thirds of voters say President Trump is a factor (either major or minor) in their vote

Eleven donors have plowed $1 billion into super PACs since they were created - The Washington Post - The largest super-PAC contributors are casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and physician Miriam Adelson, the married couple who have given $287 million to conservative super PACs

Trump fears Florida wipeout - POLITICO - The president is mounting an 11th-hour effort to head off high-profile losses for governor and Senate in his adopted home state.

Senate: 11 Days Out; NJ Moves to Toss Up | The Cook Political Report - With Democratic U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp heading for defeat in North Dakota, Democrats now need a net gain of three seats to win the majority. One way would be to hold the five Democratic seats in Toss Up, and pick up three of the four Republican-held seats in Toss Up. That's just not a realistic scenario ... There is an addition to the Toss Up column as the race in New Jersey moves there from the Lean Democratic column. The contest isn't about anything else but Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his ethics problems.

Democrats outraise Republicans in 90 percent of competitive House races during 17-day fundraising period - NBC News

Ted Cruz leads Beto O'Rourke by 6 in Texas Senate race, UT/TT poll finds - Republican incumbents lead their Democratic challengers in the top four races on the general election ballot
Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices : politics (the default is R, you have to scroll to D)


Sen. Chuck Grassley warns that Democrat could replace him in Senate if Gov. Reynolds loses (he's 85 yrs old and afraid he'll drop dead soon, which would be a gift to humanity)


Steven Pinker's valiant battle against political correctness - Lawyers, Guns & Money - the Pinker-Gelernter Continuum (very heterodoxy and stupid)


Kroger Shooting Suspect Tried to Enter Black Church Before Killing 2, Police Say - The New York Times

Proud Boys member shaves beard, cuts hair for assault trial

Flordia man dies in explosion from microwaving a microwave. : funny


I'm Kasey Suffredini, a transgender man, and the campaign co-chair for Freedom for All MA, the organization behind the Yes on 3 campaign to uphold transgender protections in Massachusetts. AMA! : politics


Exposure to nature improves well-being by expanding space perception and reducing impulsivity, finds a new study (n = 609). : science


u/Portarossa explains the rise of #WeWillNotBeErased and the science of sex and gender : bestof


I just finished Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. This book had several great passages throughout and was an overall great read. : books

What's a non-obvious sign that somebody is wealthy?


Who Humans Would Rather Kill in Autonomous Car Crashes - #1 cats! #2 criminals! #3 dogs!

Tesla Faces Deepening Criminal Probe Over Whether It Misstated Production Figures - WSJ




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Five Category 4+ tropical cyclones have struck U.S. soil in 14 months. This is probably without precedent. - The Washington Post

'Catastrophic' Super Typhoon Yutu Slams Into U.S. Commonwealth in the Pacific - the Northern Mariana Islands (jfc, look at the image)


Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi Arabia now says murder was 'premeditated' - The Washington Post (flop-flip-flip-flop) In another sign that the kingdom is seeking to contain the widespread fallout, Salah Khashoggi, the eldest son of Jamal Khashoggi, has left Saudi Arabia

Saudi Spy Met With Team Trump About Taking Down Iran - Mueller's investigators examined a series of meetings between an Israeli social media strategist, the general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi's murder, and Trump adviser Michael Flynn.


Tumbling markets complicate Trump's midterm messaging


Migrant caravan: Mattis expected to send 800 troops to help border authorities - CNNPolitics (invasion! load up the bombers!)


Donald Trump Attacks 'Hateful' Media Amid Flurry Of Suspicious Packages -- "Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!" the president tweeted after CNN and prominent Democrats were targeted. (might have to lock you all up, hahaha, he said)
Trump doubles down on blaming media as suspicious packages continue to surface - The Washington Post
Amid incendiary rhetoric, targets of Trump's words become targets of bombs

House Republicans Launch New Anti-Soros Ad After Bomb Attempt on Billionaire Democrat Donor - The GOP is still portraying Soros as a shadowy figure who "owns" Democrats even after a bomb was discovered in his mailbox. (and who "owns" the fascist Repubicans?)

Joint Statement from Leaders Pelosi and Schumer on President Trump's Remarks on Suspicious Packages Sent to Democratic leaders, CNN - "Time and time again, the President has condoned physical violence and divided Americans with his words and his actions: expressing support for the Congressman who body-slammed a reporter, the neo-Nazis who killed a young woman in Charlottesville, his supporters at rallies who get violent with protestors, dictators around the world who murder their own citizens, and referring to the free press as the enemy of the people"

Rep. Steve Scalise: After bombing attempts, all must agree that violence and terror have no place in politics | Fox News (b/c Dems are a violent, bomb-throwing Nazi mob, said Fox and Murdoch, mouth of Satan)

Opinion | Rhetoric, Mobs and Terror - The New York Times - The explosive devices were released into a toxic atmosphere created by Trump.

Former McCain adviser: Trump has stoked a cold civil war in America

Ninth Suspicious Package Found In Delaware Addressed To Joe Biden : politics

Biden and De Niro mail bombs: Officials say suspicious packages sent to former vice president - The Washington Post
Bomb timeline: What we know about the 10 devices sent to Democrats, Trump critics - The Washington Post

The Latest: Source: Some explosives mailed from Florida

Explosive device sent to CNN featured parody ISIS flag, 'Get Ir Done' nscription - The manila envelopes featured former Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz listed as a bogus return address.
Two packages sent to Joe Biden, one to Robert De Niro match other mailed pipe bombs - The actor and the former vice president join a list of other Trump critics who have been targets of the bombs.
Second Suspicious Package Addressed to Joe Biden Seized in Delaware, One Sent to Robert De Niro in New York - NBC New York

GOP sees new bomb scare victim: Trump - POLITICO - Many Trump allies say a terroristic attack on Democratic leaders has become a media conspiracy to undermine the president ahead of the November midterms. (it's not that they are incredibily stupid)

Pipe bombs and sidearms (Trump unleases hate)
JustOneMinute: Flashback: Mass Murder Mailing of 2005 - 8:05 p.m. EST, November 17, 2006 -- WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cookies mailed to the U.S. Supreme Court last year contained enough rat poison to kill all nine justices, retired member Sandra Day O'Connor said ...

Trump is responsible for the descent into thuggery - The Washington Post

US terror attacks are increasingly motivated by right-wing views : politics

Twitter Explodes After 'Gaslighter' Sarah Sanders Accuses CNN Of Dividing America
State Sen. Carl Marcellino likes tweet saying pipe bombs sent to Dems and media is 'sort of poetic'; says it was a mistake : politics (pic of the fat fuck)

Republicans suppress votes to win because voters don't like their policies - Republicans are suppressing votes and trying to remake the electorate to win in states like Georgia and North Dakota. That's un-American. (but not un-Russian)


Mueller Has Evidence Suggesting Stone Associate Knew Clinton Emails Would Be Leaked: Source : politics
Text Messages Show Roger Stone Was Working to Get a Pardon for Julian Assange : politics
Mueller has evidence suggesting Stone associate knew Clinton emails would be leaked - team is investigating whether Jerome Corsi knew stolen emails would be leaked and passed information about them to Trump associate Roger Stone.


Eschaton: The Puke Funnel - Maggie wants us to believe that Trump is a genius who Rules Their World much like Matt Drudge once world Mark Halperin's World. Not because journalists have agency, but because their powers are just so strong. - But Trump doesn't rule their world, because Trump doesn't rule Trump's world. - Fox and Friends dictates the agenda. - Fox. And. Friends.

Eschaton: But Her Emails - Gonna be some flood the zone coverage on this I bet (yes it's *in* the Times, but will it be for the next 3 months?) - Mr. Trump's aides have repeatedly warned him that his cellphone calls are not secure, and they have told him that Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on the calls, as well. But aides say the voluble president, who has been pressured into using his secure White House landline more often these days, has still refused to give up his iPhones. White House officials say they can only hope he refrains from discussing classified information when he is on them. (traitor-in-chief(
LOCK HER UP! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The fact that Trump is far, far, far worse than Clinton on the issue of information security is truly 10,000 spoons when all we need are political desks that are capable of recognizing a Republican snipe hunt when they see one:

Meanwhile - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Donald Trump makes frequent phone calls on unsecured cellphones, which if I understand the various technologies involved, means that those calls are probably being surveilled by foreign intelligence agencies ... "There is so much gross misconduct in this administration, it's not clear Democrats will even bother holding hearings on this issue if they gain control of Congress. That is itself telling: Trump has clearly exceeded his opponent's culpability on her worst scandal, and it's probably not even one of the 100 worst things he's done, so far." (tell us again why that was so important, Maggie)

Trump's tapped phone may be the largest White House breach ever: former official (lock him up)
When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn - The New York Times
Trump denies report of frequent use of unsecure iPhones, allowing spies to listen - The Washington Post (mouth of Satan spouts lies)
Trump's tweet claiming he only uses government phones was sent from an iPhone (past the event horizon)

John Bolton is living his best life - POLITICO - As his power and influence grow, the national security adviser is helping to tear up international agreements he's railed againsgt for years.


Election Update: Romney-Clinton Districts Are Overrated. Obama-Trump Districts Are Underrated. | FiveThirtyEight


Gillum Scorches DeSantis In Florida Governor Debate: 'I'm not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I'm simply saying the racists believe he's racist' (and a fucking Nazi)
A Florida governor's debate so intense a racial slur was spelled out on live TV
Florida felon voting rights: Who got theirs back under Scott? - News - The Palm Beach Post - West Palm Beach, FL - The governor restored rights to the lowest percentage of blacks, highest percentage of Republicans in 50 years


The GOP mailed wrong information to voters in a Senate battleground. - Republicans said late votes in Montana Senate race would count. It was a mistake, they said. - The Washington Post

Republican congressman gives students the wrong date for absentee ballot deadline -- again (almost like he did that on purpose twice)


Voters In 4 Red States Could Give Health Care To 400,000 On Election Day | HuffPost - Fed up with waiting for elected officials to act on Medicaid expansion, organizers in Idaho, Montana, Nebraska and Utah got the question on the ballot to let the people decide. (b/c Republican death-mongers will just kill you)


Arrest Made After Black Campaign Worker Threatened at Early-Voting Location : politics

Former GOP Candidate Arrested for Attempting to Kill With 'Radioactive Material' -- the man arrested was the same Jeremy Ryan who lost the August Republican primary while running for Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives.


2 killed in Kroger shooting in Kentucky; store to remain closed Thursday - 2 shot dead at busy grocery store; suspect taken into custody - One witness told WAVE 3 News that the shooter at one point said "white don't kill whites"


The creation of the moral panic over "political correctness" - Lawyers, Guns & Money (it really worked, 80% of Americans believe this righting bullshit covering up white entitlement and priviledge +Allen Bloom and Dinesh D'Fucking Souza)


Inevitable Failure Fails - Lawyers, Guns & Money - NBC sent (sic) $17 million a year on fire, and now has a reason to cut bait:

Megyn Kelly Off Air Rest Of Week Amid Cancellation Rumors | HuffPost (racist bitch couldn't keep her fucking trap shut: "I'm not very 'pc')
'Just get rid of her' : Megyn Kelly is again in trouble, but NBC colleagues rejected her long before
Has Megyn Kelly broadcast her last show on NBC? - CNN (junk the racist bitch, who's always been racist)
Megyn Kelly's Blackface Comments Are Just the Tip of the Racism Iceberg -- Why the talk-show host's apology for her appallingly ignorant comments rang particularly hollow. (something to do with the emptiness in her soul? +her history of racism)

Caitlyn Jenner: I thought Trump would help trans people. I was wrong. - The Washington Post (speaking of empty)

Her Dispatches From Trump Country Are Perfect. Maybe Too Perfect. - Selena Zito (Trump whisperer)


Democrats Hope Legal Weed Will Smoke GOP At The Ballot Box | HuffPost - The blue wave the party seeks may be more green than you think.

Coach calls the cops when parents yell at Hispanic soccer players: 'Speak English, this is America' : news


Democratic Consulting Firm Teams Up With Hospital Industry to Battle Nurses Union
Backers Of Nurse Staffing Proposal Object To Agency's Study
Question 1: Massachusetts nurses say hospitals are deceiving voters | Boston 25 News
Encore: Should There Be A Legal Limit On The Number Of Patients Assigned To Nurses?




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Slumping Stock Market Enters Negative Territory for the Year - The New York Times - Stocks dropped yet again on Wednesday, as the S.&P. 500 gave up its gains for 2018.
Dow erases gains for the year, tumbles 600 points as stocks extend October swoon

Nazis, cash and tragedy: A day in the life of Brexit - POLITICO - descent into squabbling.

Eschaton: Disbelief - Maybe Brexit is good, but the process has underscored how just about every Tory is a blithering idiot who couldn't put together the simplest Ikea bookcase even if he had to in order to keep mummy's inheritance.

The British #MeToo scandal which cannot be revealed (no speech that threatens power)


Inside China's internment camps: tear gas, Tasers and textbooks


Arab states fear Khashoggi case could trigger regional instability - The Washington Post
Saudi crown prince calls Khashoggi's slaying a 'heinous crime' vows perpetrators will be brought to justice (Salmanella will chop his own head off)

A young Saudi woman is facing execution -- for taking part in nonviolent protests


All the reasons the migrant caravan is totally a national emergency - The Washington Post ... A caravan of unarmed, destitute people, many of them women and children, is snaking its way through Mexico toward the United States at the breakneck pace of about three miles per hour. Still 1,000 miles from America, the ill-nourished pedestrians travel as a pack for protection against gangs; the few who make it to the border, perhaps next month, will likely apply, legally, for asylum. But the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth is in a panic.

Trump, Republicans Drive Outsize Media Coverage of The Caravan, Like Hillary Clinton Emails and Ebola - This is not a crisis, and it's not important in the homestretch of an election (oh, hello, Maggie)
Mark Copelovitch on Twitter: "Now two days in a row. Happening all over again. " ("Mark Kruger" plays the usual game)

Second Caravan Gathers in Guatemala as Migrants Try to Avoid Traffickers - WSJ - Charity workers see new dynamic as migrants band together to seek to avoid hiring human traffickers and find more safety in numbers in dangerous trek (meanwhile, in a-historical America)
How a six-year-old photo of a bleeding policeman is being used to stoke fears about the migrant caravan - The Washington Post ... shared by tens of thousands including Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist who is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ... "Many of the worst sources of political news and information are now covering the movements of the immigrant caravan"
Gohmert: Trump Could Declare Martial Law Along Border | Todd Starnes (Louie Gumball floats the idea for Trumpster)


A convenient omission? Trump campaign adviser denied collusion to FBI source early on | TheHill - George Papadopoulos says his spontaneous admission to London-based professor Stefan Halper occurred in mid-September 2016

Photo Alleging Large Crowd at Texas Trump Rally is Actually From Cavs Championship Parade : politics

Donald Trump's fast and furious campaign lies -- In the run-up to the midterms, Trump is acting less like a toddler and more like a liar. ... (comment:) All along, has Republicans blamed globalization or immigrants or Democrats or China or E.U. or some conspiracy from the rest of the world.... when the truth iS it's your 1% who are robbing you blind. So here we are, the table was set for a demagogue!s it
Daniel W. Drezner on Twitter: "I'll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when his staff stops talking about him like a toddler. https://t.co/yAZg1uZnpy https://t.co/tFpQtxJYEA"

Trump Launches a Nationalist Salvo at the Midterms - Bloomberg - president's brand of allegiance to country is steeped in uncomfortable, racially charged echoes.
Fear Dominates Final Weeks Of The 2018 Campaign | HuffPost - President Donald Trump is leading a strategy of scaring Republicans into voting.
: Officials scramble to make Trump's false assertions real ("false assertions" = "lies")


The apparent attempts at terrorist bombings were absolutely predictable - The Washington Post ... In fact, it's a wonder it took this long.
CNN to Trump: You incited this - The Washington Post
CNN to Trump: You incited this : politics (+PoppinKREAM)
Hazmat team examining suspicious envelopes mailed to Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles Times
San Diego Union-Tribune staff, others briefly evacuated after suspicious packages spotted - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and CNN Offices Are Sent Pipe Bombs - The New York Times - undefined
Explosive Devices Found in Mail Sent to Hillary Clinton and Obama : news
Megathread: Likely Explosive Devices Addressed to Former President Obama and Former Secretary Clinton Intercepted by Law Enforcement, Linked to Device Sent to Democratic Donor George Soros : politics
Suspicious Packages With 'Potential Explosive Devices' Sent To Obama, Clintons, CNN - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the packages, calling them "an act of terror"
Meghan McCain Compares Suspicious Packages Sent To Dems, CNN To GOP Restaurant Heckling | HuffPost (pipe-bombs and heckling, just the same)

False flags - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Predictably, many Trump supporters have already dismissed the wave of attempted bombings of Democratic political figures over the past two days as a false flag operation, carried out by nefariou "leftists," in a bid to steal the coming election.
No More Mister Nice Blog: OF COURSE THE WINGNUTS THINK THE SOROS BOMB WAS A FALSE FLAG
Right-Wing Commentators Have Already Decided the Explosive Packages Are a False Flag : politics ... If in doubt, Hamilton68 will confirm. The Russians are all over the bombings, amping them to hell and gone. False flag has seen a 1400% increase in activity from them on Twitter. ... So he (Soros) created the caravan to get attention on it but now that it has attention he tried to blow up himself and leading "enemies" of the Right Wing as a distraction? Do they even listen to themselves say this BS? (trending on Hamilton68; MAGABOMBER and FALSEFLAG promoted by Russians)
Hamilton 68: Tracking Putin's Propaganda Push... To America

Republicans Hate You | GQ - Republicans hate a true representative democracy, writes Drew Magary. And if they hate that, then they hate America. And if they hate America, then they hate you. Vote them out.
Why Trump's Supporters Will Believe Any Lie He Tells - From Kavanaugh to Khashoggi, they are immune to the truth. (our instincts are better than your so-called "logic")
2019 - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "Acts or threats of political violence have no place in the United States." (except when I do it, said Trump +read to the end for another NYT idiocy)
Bombs Sent to CNN, Obama, Clintons, George Soros, Other Democrats - Don't Ask How It Could Happen Here - We've seen demonstrations, at the rallies and in the streets, that it was bound to happen.
America has a right-wing terrorism problem : politics (you said the same thing twice)


American's anger may help Democrats in Nov. 6 vote: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Senate slipping away as Dems fight to preserve blue wave (Trump wave will drown the libtard mob)
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; New polls: Nevada, Texas, Wisconsin - Republicans lead in Nevada, Democrats in Wisconsin; Cruz ahead in high-profile Texas Senate race

Same as It Ever Was... | The Cook Political Report - Opinions about the president today basically mirror the vote for the president in 2016. The coalition that brought Trump to the White House, (white, non-college, overwhelmingly male), continue to give him high marks. (men like him even more)

USA TODAY/Suffolk poll: There is a 'Kavanaugh effect,' and it boosts Democrats more than the GOP in midterms (wait, last week you said the opposite)
Kamala Harris Has Cult Status In Iowa After The Kavanaugh Hearings - The Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings helped make the California senator famous, if only among a certain set of news-obsessed voters.

Democrat Candidates Maintain Lead in U.S. Senate, Secretary of State and Attorney General Races - Marketing Resource Group - Stabenow, Benson, and Nessel continue to lead in the polls

Poll: Abrams and Kemp virtually tied in Georgia governor's race - 49 percent for Republican Brian Kemp and 47 percent for Democrat Stacey Abrams (100% for voter surpression)
Georgia NAACP filed a complaint about voting errors in some counties - some voting machines mistakenly showed votes cast for Democrat Stacey Abrams registering for her opponent Republican Brian Kemp (just a 'glitch" "no idea" "how that happened")
Georgia Candidate Brian Kemp Claims Voter Suppression Is A 'Farce,' Blames Obama -- Kemp also said that if his race against Stacey Abrams were to end in a recount, he wouldn't recuse himself as secretary of state. ("I will personally count all the votes, muhahahaha" he said)
Brian Kemp owes more than $800,000 in insider loans to bank he helped start - Story | WAGA (another "soft-faced" asshole racist)

Disgustingly Racist Robocall Goes Out Against Andrew Gillum In Florida | HuffPost - A neo-Nazi group in Idaho is behind the calls, and it's gone after the Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate before ... Speaking in an exaggerated minstrel dialect, an actor pretends to be Gillum, saying "Well hello there. I is the Negro Andrew Gillum, and I be asking you to make me governor of this here state of Florida."

'I thought it was very nice' : VA official showcased portrait of KKK's first grand wizard ... A senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs said he removed a portrait ... after offended employees began signing a petition to present to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie ... David J. Thomas Sr. ... "You don't hire someone who puts a picture of the Klan in his office unless you're racially insensitive" (pic of murderous, slave-trading terrorist Nathan B. Forrest)

South Dakota 2018 election: Kristi Noem, Billie Sutton tied in poll


Megyn Kelly in on-air apology' : I have never been a PC kind of person' -- Enough of that garbage. ("I've always been a racist" +very 'pc' not to kill black people) ... (Bouie:) "It is misleading to discuss Kelly's work and future without grappling with her willingness, and occasional eagerness, to spread racist conspiracies and racial fictions"
Megyn Kelly Issues On-Air Apology For Blackface Defense | HuffPost - The NBC host faced backlash after questioning what was racist about white people darkening their skin for Halloween costumes.
"Today" Show Went Off On Coworker Megyn Kelly For Her Blackface Comments - "I'm old enough to have lived through Amos 'n' Andy where you had white people in blackface playing two black characters, magnifying the worst stereotypes about black people. And that's what the big problem is. That's what the issue is." said Al Roker
Eschaton: Blackface is Bad - The Megyn Kelly incident is a typical example of a kind of wypipo racism, which at its best is an extreme form of ignorance (though that Kelly is a big racist has long been established so I am not let her off the hook here). You know, "I haven't really thought much about this blackface thing but I heard blackface was bad but it doesn't make any sense to me because blackface seems, like, ok?"
Megyn Kelly doesn't understand why blackface is offensive -- "Back when I was a kid that was OK" ("in my all-white racist Republican neighborhood")
Megyn Kelly No Longer at CAA (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter (dumped her)
Eschaton: Blackface Good, Black Santa Bad - Your liberal media.


DOJ: Businesses Can Discriminate Against Transgender Workers (1) - The Justice Department today told the U.S. Supreme Court that businesses can discriminate against workers based on their gender identity without violating federal law. (first, they came for the trannies ...)
For parents of transgender children, Trump administration policy would be a 'punch to the gut'



White Nationalist Richard Spencer's Wife Says In Divorce Filings That He Physically And Emotionally Abused Her -- "The only language women understand is violence"

F.B.I. Arrests White Nationalist Leader Who Fled the Country for Central America - The New York Times - The F.B.I. arrested the leader of a violent California neo-Nazi gang on a federal conspiracy charge after he fled the country earlier this month. Robert Rundo, 28, of Huntington Beach, Calif., is being held at the federal jail in downtown Los Angeles.


Election guide: A primer on Question 1 on nurse staffing - The Boston Globe


Historic Wakefield church will be torn down after lightning strike sparks devastating fire - The Boston Globe


Taller people have a greater risk of cancer because they are bigger and so have more cells in their bodies in which dangerous mutations can occur, new research has suggested, with a 13% increased risk for women for every additional 10cm, and an 11% predicted increase in men for every 10cm. : science - undefined


Psychedelic psilocybin therapy for depression granted Breakthrough Therapy status by FDA : news


'Twisted' fibre optic light breakthrough could make internet 100 times faster : news


Two Middle School Girls Arrested for Plotting to Kill Classmates and Drink Their Blood : news

What is something many people find sexy, but you don't?

12 year old girl leaves hidden note in her parent's car. OP find its 12 years later and the post is discovered by the (now grown up) girl. She's been a redditor for nearly a year. : bestof




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Trump says Saudis engaged in 'worst coverup ever' as U.S. imposes penalties ("they should have asked me for advice," he said)

Report: Saudi journalist Khashoggi's remains found - Middle East News - Haaretz.com - body was found in the garden of the Saudi consul general's home (no one would think of that)
Erdogan Says Saudis Planned Khashoggi's Killing in Turkey
Turkish president claims Saudis planned for days to kill Khashoggi - POLITICO
'Bring Me the Head of the Dog' : How the Top MBS Aide Behind Khashoggi's Murder Ran the Killing via Skype - According to one high-ranking Arab source, Qahtani was beamed into a room of the Saudi consulate via Skype hurling insults at Khashoggi until he gave the go-ahead to the 15 Saudi intelligence operatives to kill him (how Saudi can you get?)
The Saudi Butcher Stole a Page From the Crew That Ran Hell's Kitchen - The Saudis do not seem to have followed the usual Irish-American mob protocol of waiting for the blood to congeal before cutting up the corpse.

'Where is Jared?' no more: Kushner cornered on Saudi debacle - The president's son-in-law has balanced his reputation with his desire to maintain relations with a Saudi prince who has been accused of ordering a journalist's execution (blood on his lizard hands)


Pence leaves open the possibility of nuclear weapons in space: peace comes through strength'

'Simply irresponsible' : Air Force spent $326,000 on coffee cups it kept breaking - multiple purchases of coffee cups that break easily and cost $1,280 each (increase war spending!)


Forget Trump Hysteria, Here's How the Migrant Caravan 'Crisis' Really Began
Geraldo Rivera Taunts Sean Hannity Over Migrant Fear: 'Are You Gonna Shoot 'Em, Sean?' ... Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka then stepped in. ( "might have to deport you, Hispanic" : full state TV)

2018 midterms: President Donald Trump to hold at least 10 more rallies


Trump takes an old Republican lie and makes it even worse - The Washington Post - "You know what I am? I'm a nationalist, okay?"
Donald Trump's 'Nationalist' Boast Leaves CNN's - Don Lemon Almost Speechless - "What has happened here?" (Trump goes full Nazi)
Trump's Last-minute 'Arabs Are Voting in Droves' Campaign Push - Trump tweeted, without citing any evidence

Explosive Device Is Found in Mailbox at Soros's Home in N.Y. Suburb

Opinion | Attack of the Right-Wing Snowflakes - The New York Times - Angry men go to court to silence their critics.

Trump and Republicans settle on fear -- and falsehoods -- as a midterm strategy
Republicans aren't acting like they'll keep the House in the midterms - Axios

GOP Candidate Adam Laxalt's Family Blasts Him: 'Wrong for Nevada' - 12 members of Nevada Republican gubernatorial nominee Adam Laxalt's family took to the pages of the Reno Gazette-Journal to advocate against voting for their own family member.


I've never seen these positions politicized': White House rejection of veterans judges raises concerns of partisanship -- The rejections came after the White House required them to disclose their party affiliation and other details of their political leanings (goodies for crooks)


Battleground House districts remain close in new poll - The Washington Post
Ten Rating Changes as Democrats' Enthusiasm Edge Narrows and Fundraising Advantage Widens | The Cook Political Report (one R to D)
Cook shifts 8 House races toward Dems | TheHill

Where low 2016 voter turnout overlaps with key races this year - Washington Post

For the first time in decades, the race for Congress is close in Eastern Washington | The Seattle Times

The Post-Shelby County World - Lawyers, Guns & Money (fuck you, John Roberts and the Republican horses you rode in on)
Exclusive: In Leaked Audio, Brian Kemp Expresses Concern Over Georgians Exercising Their Right to Vote
Voter Suppression Efforts By Republicans Target Minorities, Journalist Says : NPR - Since the 2010 election, 24 states have implemented new restrictions on voting. Alabama now requires a photo ID to cast a ballot. Other states, like Ohio and Georgia, have enacted "use it or lose it" laws, which strike voters from registration rolls if they have not participated in an election within a prescribed period of time. (the fruits of Shelby County)

NYPD Arrests Three More Proud Boys for Manhattan Brawl With Antifa - A total of five now face charges. (proud Nazis)

For the many, not the few - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Yale computer scientist David Gelernter appears on the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page, unveiling what is, even by the abysmal standards of that propagandistic garbage dump, an exceptionally ludicrous panegyric to America's leading anti-intellectual, Donald Trump - The thesis of this member of the artificial intelligentsia is that "leftists" hate Donald Trump because he's just an ordinary American. Of course this is a favorite theme of WSJ columnists, with the platonic form of the genre being Peggy Noonn's encomium to George Bush the lesser's aggressive idiocy. (stupidity is a core Republican value)
"The Idea That He's Racist Is Absurd" - That Yale professor who knows "the real reason" liberals hate Trump defends his op-ed, the president, and birtherism. (little Jewish nerd guy is racist)

Man arrested for groping woman on flight says 'President says it's OK to grab women's private parts' - According to the complaint, after Alexander was placed under arrest, he asked police what the sentence was for the charge he was being arrested for. Later, in the police vehicle, Alexander told officers that the president of the United States "says it's OK to grab women by their private parts."

Sarah Silverman apologises after Louis CK masturbation comments | Television & radio | The Guardian


The Subway Is a Major Problem for Cuomo. Here Are 7 Reasons Why. - The New York Times - The system descended into crisis on the governor's watch Here are some decisions he made in his first two terms that have come under fire. (speaking of crooked dicks)

His Body Was Behind the Wheel for a Week Before It Was Discovered. This Was His Life. - The New York Times


Man in Ryanair racism incident identified, police say | UK news | The Guardian (but they aren't tell you)


The Case Against Kylie Jenner: Beauty Mogul Accused of Ripping Off Makeup Line ("Born to Steal")


"Dive-bar Dharma" in Salon - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Dive-bar dharma | Salon.com - To attract a new generation of Buddhists, two teachers are replacing the old hippie trappings with a tattooed aesthetic and references to Jay-Z.
Listen : Teaching What We Need To Learn (Buddhist/NA)


"He's not good enough and he never will be." -- David Crosby has hit back at Ted Nugent's claims he should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (try Infamy, asshole`)

World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea | Science | The Guardian - Archaeologists say the 23-metre vessel has lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years


Men and Women have different warning signs for a heart attack, why is that? : askscience

What are the worst injuries you have sustained doing the simplest, most mundane tasks that should not have caused any injuries? : AskReddit




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Yes, Republicans are still denying climate change : politics


Two in Three Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana

Tsarnaev's hospital interrogation submitted as part of death penalty appeal (Globe comments have no capacity for history)


National Security as Magical Thinking - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Trump just announced that the United States will be exiting the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, which Reagan and Gorbachev signed in 1987. The treaty was a key inflection point in the process that ended the Cold War, so it seems almost fitting that an administration captured by interwar conservative foreign-policy thinking would give it that axe
Going Rogue on the INF - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Wajahat Ali: Trump appears to be completely impotent around authoritarian leaders : politics (daddy complex)


Joachim Ronneberg, Leader of Raid That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb, Dies at 99 - The New York Times - The Norwegian saboteurs skied across the Telemark pine forest in winter whites, phantom apparitions gliding over moonlit snow. They halted at a steep river gorge and gazed down at a humming hydroelectric power plant where Nazi scientists had developed a mysterious, top-secret project.

The Army Stymied Its Own Study of the Iraq War - WSJ - hief wanted to memorialize lessons from the conflict before memories faded. A draft was finished in 2016. It has yet to be published. (hahaha, no learning from dreadful trillion dollar deady fuckups for you +fuck you, WSJ with your Cross-Site Scripting attack)


Russian paper: Indicted Prigozhin ordered beatings, killing - A security aide to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman who has been indicted by American investigators for allegedly trying to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election, says the mogul has been involved in attacks on several people and at least one killing

China's top Macau representative dead after falling from his building (sounds like Putin's playbook)


Khashoggi case has put Saudi prince right where Erdogan wants him | World news | The Guardian - Turkish president on losing end of regional power struggle with Bin Salman now finds himself in the ascendant - Three weeks to the day since Khashoggi vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Erdogan has pledged to table the "naked truth" about what happened to the columnist and critic, whose fate continues to grip both countries and polarise the Middle East ... Setting the scene on Monday, a spokesman for the ruling party for the first time described Khasoghoggi's death as a "complicated murder" that was "monstrously planned" ... Sisi is the secularist general who locked up political Islamists. And Erdogan is the political Islamist who locked up secularist generals (how the wheel turns)

CIA director flies to Turkey amid growing controversy over Jamal Khashoggi killing - The Washington Post (Torture Gina) "The video tapes of these atrocities were destroyed by Gina Haspel - who for her unauthorized destruction of the evidence was promoted to CIA Director. If anybody can hide the evidence, she can. That's why your trump just sent her to Turkey."

Here's how the Saudi crown prince could face international justice

How the man behind Khashoggi murder ran the killing via Skype | Reuters (he's a rogue, we tell you!)
Saudi crown prince 'phoned Khashoggi at the consulate right before he was killed' (come to Saudi and get killed or we'll kill you now" ... a "rogue operation")

Surveillance footage shows Saudi 'body double' in Khashoggi's clothes after he was killed, Turkish source says
??Saudis reportedly scrap coverup plan because Khashoggi 'body double' wore the wrong shoes : politics
Khashoggi Double Sent to Create False Trail in Turkey, Surveillance Images Show - The New York Times

Saudi Operative Seen Wearing Jamal Khashoggi's Clothes After Killing - Surveillance footage shows an alleged Saudi hit team member posing as the slain journalist's body double (that'll work, for sure!)

New Day on Twitter: "EXCLUSIVE: Surveillance footage shows Saudi operative in Jamal Khashoggi's clothes in Istanbul after the journalist was killed, Turkish source says. @ClarissaWard has more, live from Istanbul: https://t.co/AeUvdkI9LF" - Always bring a body double, fake beard and a bone saw to an interrogation - just in case there is a fist fight.

Inside the Saudi's Washington influence machine: How the kingdom gained power through fierce lobbying and charm offensives (why is Kushfuck always in the background?)

Saudi king and crown prince call Khashoggi's son to express condolences ("condolences" = "evil laughter")

Durbin: Expel Saudi ambassador from U.S. - POLITICO - undefined
Germany halts arms deals with Saudi Arabia, encourages allies to do the same until further clarity on Khashoggi - The Washington Post

Jared Kushner declines to say whether he believes Saudi account of Khashoggi's death (slimy evil lizard)


Eschaton: Nothing Really Matters, Anyone Can See - The question of whether Jim VandeHei's children belong in cages isn't about policy; it is about both sides making a cultural argument to turn out their base voters.
Great Moments in Both Sides Do It - Lawyers, Guns & Money - like, how much more Axios could this be?
The caravan is coming! And it's high time to calm the rising media frenzy. (Trump: ISIS is invading)

Relax. Trump Won't Put All the Jews in Camps. Only the Democrats : politics

Paul Krugman Warns Trump I The major labor union in the state has been hitting the pavement hard as early voting begins. The numbers, so far, are staggering.
s Poised To Disregard Democratic House Victory | HuffPost - "voter fraud" could be used to deny legitimacy of Democratic victory in the midterm election. (you know who the biggest "frauds" are)

The Mueller Report Is More Important Than Ever | The New Republic
Malta academic in Trump probe has history of vanishing acts - Mifsud has since shot to international prominence as a lynchpin of the investigation into Donald Trump's s presidential campaign and its ties to the Russian government. (crooks from top to bottom)
Roger Stone Is Running Out of Options | Vanity Fair
Mueller Reportedly Has Recordings of Roger Stone in His Possession : politics
Trump lawyer: Manafort said nothing damaging in Mueller interviews | Reuters (said lyin' Rudy)

Democrats eye revival of Russia probe if they win House (arrest ratfucker Nunes, pls)


Trump distances himself from a potential GOP thumping - POLITICO - In public the president says the 2018 election is about him. In private, he talks about pointing the finger after likely Democratic gains.

John Cleese on Twitter: "I'm merely giving pointing out that Mr Trump is a sleazy, corrupt, egotistical and mendacious sociopath. What I'm trying to understand is why Evangelicals approve of him. Have they not read the New Testament ? Or do they think it's not meant to be taken literally ? https://t.co/QvEtqOeU5B" (hands of Satan, John)
John Cleese on Twitter: "I think you will find there are TEN commandments If God required only one, I think he would have said so "

Trump, Kashoggi, and the Ben Jacobs body-slam: it's about truty -- o defend journalism, we need to defend the truth and not just journalists - Trump embraces physical attacks on journalists because he wants to get away with lying.
Next time you wonder why New York Times people get so defensive, read this. - PressThink - It may help explain. ... (And they do not want to open the box that is marked Coverage of Hillary Clinton, 2016.) (you've been Sulzfucked)


'Winter is coming' : Companies brace for flurry of investigations - Pharmaceuticals and tech are obvious targets, and chemical and oil and gas companies are also vulnerable (crooked fucks didn't think Rethugs would lose, ever)


House Republicans' day after (Ryan bugging out of town, asshole McCarthy will take his place)


Shocking turnout for first day of early voting in Houston - HoustonChronicle.com - Thousands of people were already camped out at a key early voting location in Houston on Monday morning, hours before voting was even set to begin.

Democrat says she felt 'sheer disbelief' after being left off ballot in 1 Arkansas county : politics (just a little mistake, haha, can't vote for you if you ain't on the ballot)

The data suggests enthusiasm among early GOP voters that could put a dent in Democratic hopes for a "blue wave" in the midterm (no, it's a red wave!)

Will Trump's Houston rally for Ted Cruz motivate Republicans -- or Democrats?

The man running for governor also oversees the election as Secretary of State. He's also sitting on voter registrations, sparking a wave of skepticism among voters. (what crooks always do)

Miami Herald Editorial Board recommends Andrew Gillum for FL governor | Miami Herald
How to Win Florida - POLITICO Magazine - the southernmost section of the Deep South, the sixth borough of New York City, and the northernmost nation of Latin America. But even in the ultimate swing state, some voters are more equal than others.

Harry Reid's Political Machine Roars Again in Nevada, With an Assist From Trump - The major labor union in the state has been hitting the pavement hard as early voting begins. The numbers, so far, are staggering.

With the midterm campaign in its final weeks, poll signals a Democratic edge for the House and widespread doubts about Kavanaugh - Los Angeles Times

New Report Shows Racist, Anti-Muslim Candidates Are Losing Their Elections | HuffPost

MaximumEffort443 does the Math on Republican hypocrisy. : bestof
MaximumEffort433 comments on How to Explain What Happened to the Republican Party to your Kids

Republicans Hold Cash Edge Heading Into Final Stretch of the Midterms - The New York Times (Adelson swamped Bloomfuck)
Midterms: Poorest states have Republican legislatures - Eighteen of the 19 poorest states have legislatures where both chambers are Republican controlled. New Mexico (46th richest, fifth poorest) is Democratic (Republicans keep their states poor and uneducated so they can mooch off blue states and run on "fiscal responsibility")

Opinion | What Happened to Center-Right America? - The New York Times - If moderate Republicans vote for Democrats, it may not change the Democratic Party for the better. ("moderate Republicans" hahahaha)

Tribalism Isn't Our Democracy's Main Problem. The Conservative Movement Is. (crooks and liars?)

Do Liberals Hate Trump Because He's a Typical American? ... Anti-intellectualism is an enduring feature of modern Republican politics, and accordingly, conservative intellectuals have taken up the job of justifying this state of affairs (very, very, best, typical best American corrupt asshole crook, yes)

Dem Senate hopes shift from winning majority to limiting losses - POLITICO - Republicans could lock up a multi-cycle Senate majority by winning Indiana and other states like it this fall.
Senate races: Klobuchar out front; Housley gains on Smith - StarTribune.com - The Democrats still lead the two U.S. Senate races, but GOP challenger Karin Housley has closed the gap slightly on Tina Smith.

Judge strikes down New Hampshire's restrictive voter registration law - amid concerns from critics who said it deliberately targets college students and others who are more likely to vote Democratic.

Tax cuts a bust for Republicans in midterms - politico (but not for slimy Shermy)

GOP Senator David Perdue Sued for Battery | Law & Crime

'Antifa' Facebook prank sends Trump supporters to protect North Carolina outdoors store (hahaha they showed up with their treason in defense of slavery and Trump flags)

Black seniors pulled off 'Get Out the Vote' bus : politics (they were going to vote for a black person)
Dispatches From the New Jim Crow - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This is just flat-out election theft:

To hell with civility: Enough with the pity party for Mitch McConnell, please : politics - How insane is it that the political party wearing "fuck your feelings" t-shirts is now getting butt-hurt over getting called bad names during dinner...

The Civil Rights Vicious Circle - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This is a terrific story about pregnant employees being forced to do heavy lifting until they miscarry, in the midst of working conditions that are horrible for everyone: (Verizon)


Passenger filmed racist tirade on Ryanair flight 'to show world' : news (and that's exactly what happened)


To the Next 'BBQ Becky': Don't Call 911. Call 1-844-WYT-FEAR. = A new emergency hotline for when it's not an emergency, just harassment ... Below is a list of 39 known instances just this year when someone called the police to complain about black people doing everyday activities:


Why Do Virgins Have the Happiest Marriages? - The Atlantic - People who have had sex with fewer people seem to be more satisfied after they tie the knot. Is there hope for promiscuous romantics?

Sleep now in the fire - Lawyers, Guns & Money (many men are assholes)

Colorado cracks a billion in annual marijuana sales in record time, generating $200M in tax revenue : news (someone email Charlie Baker)

The Hell That Was Watching Kim Kardashian and Alec Baldwin Chat for an Hour (the heart of emptiness)


NYPD boss accused of stuffing her panties in co-worker's mouth
'Panty-stuffing' NYPD boss insulted 'little dick' cop: complaint


Here's a list of 100 free mythology and folklore ebooks I made. I thought you all might be interested.


I took a candid pic of my dog at the park and its basically the dog version of this meme lol : aww (OMG LOL)

What's the real life equivalent of getting downvoted?

Your move, Bloomberg - The Washington Post - John Micklethwait, the editor in chief of Bloomberg News, told a group of top editors a week ago that their news organization no longer had to groom young, raw talent. It could go after the best journalists around. As an example of its capabilities in high-impact reporting, Micklethwait cited an Oct. 4 piece under the headline "The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies." (that worked out well, as usual)

Elon Musk: LA tunnel used for Boring Company tests to open to public ... a "stretch" ... "up to two miles"




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Measles outbreak raging in Europe could be brought to U.S., doctors warn : news


Ontario school board accused of pressuring teachers not to teach 'racis't To Kill a Mockingbird


Hundreds Of Thousands March In London Demanding A Second Brexit Vote | HuffPost - An estimated 700,000 people took to the streets in support of the European Union on Saturday - BROOPSIE!
Raab floats extended transition as 'alternative' to Ireland backstop (off the cliff, suckers)


Spain's plan to exhume Franco revives memories of an unsettled past


U.S. general wounded in attack in Afghanistan - The Washington Post - A U.S. general was wounded in an attack last week in Afghanistan's Kandahar province that killed two senior Afghan provincial officials and targeted a group that included the senior U.S. commander in the country, (kept that secret for a week b/c "sensitive issue" "we're not going to talk about it")


Erdogan says will reveal details of Khashoggi case Tuesday - Daily Sabah (playing this likek a master)

Today In Our Overcompensated, Underachieving, and Tyranny-Supporting Elites - Lawyers, Guns & Money - And they stepped on the ball ... McKinsey & Company, the consulting firm, measured the public reception of those policies ... (meanwhile, in silencing dissent and killing people for having twitter accounts +they really did shine a spotlight on their evil, in a much bigger way than any of their dissenters, didn't they? maybe there's a word for that)

Trump doubts Saudi account of journalist's death: 'There's been deception, and there's been lies ("and there's been crooked morons")
Amid scepticism, Saudi official provides another version of Khashoggi death | Reuters (he beat himself to death, self-dismembered, and then buried himself in the Turkist forest ... it's almost like they've never, ever, had to deal with the truth, sound familiar?)
Khassoggi's death was a 'rotue operation' that the crown prince was not aware of, Saudi foreign minister says (hahaha)
Trump will accept Saudi 'crown price's denials': Schiff
Saudi attempts to distance crown prince from Khashoggi killing haven't quieted uproar

The myth of the modernizing dictator - The Washington Post

Jamal Khashoggi: murder in the consulate | World news | The Guardian

A Saudi Prince's Fairy Tale - The crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, issues another incredible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi (oh, and Kushfuck)

Jamal Khashoggi was barred from writing in Saudi Arabia after he criticized Trump, then left his native country : politics (you can see where this started)

Corker says Saudi prince likely directed journalist's murder (stops short of calling MbS a "lying muzzfuck murderer')
Khashoggi murder exposes Trump administration's dependency on Saudis -- It's not just arms sales and business contacts, Trump needs Saudi Arabia to boost oil production when Iran sanctions kick in and to fund US plans for Syria (and this muzzie midget is taller than Trumpster by two inches?)

The Saudi explanation for Jamal Khashoggi's death is a fable. Still Trump plays along ... SAUDI ARABIA now has acknowledged that it lied to the world for 17 days about what happened to journalist Jamal Khashoggi ... As Mr. Trump surely knows, the new Saudi cover story is contradicted not just by evidence collected by Turkish authorities and by journalists but also by the reporting of the U.S. intelligence community. (Trump hates intelligence)
Saudi Official Provides New Version Of Jamal Khashoggi's Death - This narrative is the latest Saudi account that has changed multiple times. (truth is hard for muzzfucks)

Saudi Arabia's information war to bury news of Jamal Khashoggi - For the past several days, the Saudi Twittersphere has been awash with patriotism. Saudi accounts have tweeted, in Arabic, a "#message of love for Mohammed bin Salman" ... (yeah, that'll work)


If You're Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be

Special counsel examines conflicting accounts as scrutiny of Roger Stone and WikiLeaks deepens : politics

Carl Bernstein: Trump preparing to call midterm elections 'illegitimate' if Democrats take power : politics

Trump's Pre-Election Tax-Cut Promise Leaves GOP Leaders Baffled - Bloomberg - s Pre-Election Tax-Cut Promise Leaves GOP Leaders Baffled (he will shut down all the Post Offices to pay for it)

House Democrat's hope for wave election diminishes as Republicans rebound (huge red wave will drown America in fascism) )
Interest in Midterms Surges, Along With Trump Approval Rating - WSJ (surges! WSJ tells you!)
Democrats more likely to vote in midterms than GOP: NBC-WSJ poll (wait, what?)
e NBC/WSJ Poll: Democrats hold 9-point advantage for midterm elections - Two weeks out, Democrats retain an edge but "unprecedented enthusiasm" is fueling both parties. (and the russians!)
Trump approval jumps ahead of Obama's midterm approval rating ... Trump's approval rating at its highest level for that poll yet, at 47 percent. Obama's approval rating was 45 percent around the same time in 2010 (Trump wildly popular, much more than that black kenyan guy and contrast their first two years, with Barry repairing the damage Bush did and Trump profiting from Obama's work)
Despite rampant voter enthusiasm, the reality: Many don't plan to vote in November (politics "too divisive" to choose between good and obvious evil)

5 major issues dominating the midterm elections: ANALYSIS - ABC News (Dumpster)

Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence - The New York Times - a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law. (next up: blacks and other non-whites will cease to exist)
The Trump administration reportedly wants the government to revoke civil rights protections from transgender people : politics
'Not fair' : World cycling bronze medalist cries foul after transgender woman wins gold

Why Your Vote Matters: North Carolina - Thanks to a lax state constitution, partisans have had more opportunity in North Carolina to separate government from voters than in any other state in the Union.

CNN Poll: Democrats up in Florida with two weeks to go - CNNPolitics (red wave, we tell you!)

Georgia's 'exact match' law could disenfranchise 909,540 eligible voters, my research finds (disgusting racist fuckers at work)

Arizona newspaper backs Democrat for Senate for first time since 2000 - Axios (over Sally McSally)

'I was wrong' : Matt Gaetz admits his 'caravan' conspiracy video is based on a lie -- but defends it anyway - Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) ... immigrants getting paid to "storm the border"


Williams is by far the better candidate for US House | Editorial | missoulian.com - The Missoulian initially endorsed Gianforte for that race, with strong reservations, but was forced to take the unprecedented step of rescinding our endorsement immediately after Gianforte lost his temper and physically attacked a reporter, and then issued statements to police and through his staff that directly contradict his own official admission of guilt.

This New Right-Wing Site Falsely Blamed A UNC Professor For Heather Heyer's Death -- Patrick Howley's Big League Politics is for people who find Breitbart too reasonable. And it's just getting started (it's a howler)


Evangelicals must get past abortion, Trump to regain moral high ground - Evangelicals are paying high moral price for anti-abortion gains. What would Jesus do? (cast them into a lake of fire?)

Giant 'Beto' sign stays, Houston-area couple tells HOA officials who want it gone : politics

Woman Harasses Family for Speaking Spanish in Virginia Restaurant - NBC4 Washington - The Spanish-speaking victim said her 7-year-old daughter was present during the profanity-laced attack at Andy's restaurant in Lovettsville ... "She asked for passports; she said that she knew everybody in Loudoun County to get us out of here, and she started saying that we were supposed to speak English" (Trump has deputized racists to be in ICE)

NJ journalist dies 6 months after brutal 'hate crime' attack : news
Video shows Florida officer hitting 14-year-old twice during arrest : news

Nice Guys and Damsels in Distress - Lawyers, Guns & Money (comments and Lewis Carroll)

What Is Harvard Trying to Hide? - politico Magazine (a lot)


'How could you?" - The day Jackie Kennedy became Jackie Onassis - On Oct. 20, 1968, the widowed first lady stunned the world when she remarried.

Devil in a white dress -- "Bridezilla" was first used in 1995 by Boston Globe writer Diane White, in an article about tacky brides and the horrors they inflict.


New research has found no compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher levels of the sex hormones estradiol and progesterone. The study, which appears in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, is a major blow to a popular theory in evolutionary psychology. : science (male science wrong again)

An analysis indicates that supervised aerobic exercise has large antidepressant treatment effects for patients with major depression. It showed a significantly large overall antidepressant effect compared with antidepressant medication and/or psychological therapies. : science ... Does this mean my therapist has to watch me run? Because that might lead to a new disorder.

A new study suggests that you can conquer social anxiety by putting a ban on the thoughts that heighten it. If you're someone who not only ruminates before an important event, but believe it's helpful to do so, he present findings suggest that you consider a "ban" on this nonproductive thinking. (yeah, that'll work)




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United States Drops 21 Spots in Global Life Expectancy Rankings : news (Repubican death policies pay off)

How the Gun Made America Great (and murder a constitutional right)

TIL starting in 1782 the official motto of the United States was "Out of many, one" until it was changed in 1952 to "In god we trust" : todayilearned (rise of the Satangelicals)


Disinformation Spreads on WhatsApp Ahead of Brazilian Election - The New York Times

Moscow bans ceremony honouring victims of Stalin's Terror -- Organisers of event where names of victims are recited say withdrawal of permission is outrageous (Putin-fuck is a big fan of terror)

Three Internet Trolls Convicted of Systematic Defamation Against Journalist in Finland - The New York Times - For more than three years, a Finnish journalist who investigated Russia's army of vicious internet trolls faced a barrage of false accusations online that she was an American intelligence operative, a drug dealer and an unhinged bimbo driven by Russophobia.


Thousands take to streets in London demanding second Brexit vote : news ... BROOPSIE!
Facebook Ads From Unknown Backer Take Aim at Brexit Plan - The New York Times - the organization spent more than 250,000 pounds on ads pushing for a more severe break from the European Union than Mrs. May has planned (could it be ... Russia? ... again??)


Interpol ex-chief may be dead, wife fears, after capture by Chinese | Law | The Guardian - Grace Meng speaks out about 'cruel, dirty' Chinese authorities after disappearance of France-based Meng Hongwei (sound familiar? the Chinese are better at their abduction/murder/dismemberments)


This is the front line of Saudi Arabia's invisible war (Barry's war on Yemen)


Investigators likely to discover what happened to Khashoggi body 'before long' : Turkish official - killers may have dumped his remains in Belgrad Forest adjacent to Istanbul,
How Turkey's president pressured the Saudis to account for Khashoggi's death ... Erdogan and his aides did more than just quietly investigate: They narrated the crisis, focusing the world's attention on what they said was a brazen, state-sponsored assassination on its soil. (when Erdogan is your moral light and Trump shrugs and ambles off into the darkness)

Trump Says Saudi Explanation of Journalist's Death Is Credible, in Break With U.S. Intelligence ("break with intelligence" Trumps has the best instincts)
Donald Trump says he finds Saudi explanation of Khashoggi death
There can be no coverup of this act of pure evil : politics ... Remember when Americans would invade countries and hang their leaders on flimsy evidence of non-existent WMD's? ... The Saudis fund terrorism all over the world, including the 9/11 terrorists. It's time for them to face justice. Evil fucks. (terrorist state)

Saudis Shocked by Official Flip-Flop on Khashoggi - Bloomberg (and fuck your fucking paywall, Bloomfuck)
Uproar Over Dissident Rattles Saudi Royal Family - The New York Times (chop his fucking head off)
Mohammed bin Salman could bring his kingdom crumbling down - The Washington Post (ditto)
Saudi crown prince had no knowledge of 'specific' Khashoggi operation: source (no one believes him)

Opinion | More Insulting Lies From Saudi Arabia - The New York Times - What we face now is a test for President Trump and America itself. (chickenship America will fold and support lying corrupt murderous b/c Trumps is one)



Saudi Arabia claims Khashoggi was killed in a fight, contrary to other accounts ("he hid in the basement for two weeks after we though he left and then he attacked himself and self-dismembered")
Saudi Arabia fires 5 top officials, arrests 18 Saudis, saying Khashoggi was killed in fight at consulate - The Washington Post (two weeks after saying he walked out)

Merkel Leads European Call for Full Facts on Khashoggi

Saudi account of Khashoggi killing is widely denounced
What's Missing From the Saudis' Khashoggi Story - The official narrative will resonate differently inside and outside of the kingdom.

Saudi claims that Khashoggi died in a 'brawl' draw immediate skepticism ... The Saudi findings, which all but absolved the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ("he attacked our 15 arab ninjas and was winning before we managed to kill him")
Saudi Explanation of Jamal Khashoggi's Killing Fails to Squelch Skepticism

The Saudi explanation for Jamal Khashoggi's death is a fable. Still Trump plays along. ("plays along" = "brainstorms for the right lie") -- SAUDI ARABIA now has acknowledged that it lied to the world for 17 days ... But the new account offered by the regime of King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is utterly devoid of credibility (world is laughing at your ridiculous lies, dumb-fuck murderous muzzies)

What the Europeans get about Khashoggi that Trump doesn't ... The case of a persecuted individual who fled his home country for the safety of the United States and then is slain in a diplomatic office abroad should be of extreme concern. ("he wasn't a citizen" shrug ... big snozzes and small foreheads hidden by pink hoods)
It Was Self-Defense - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Saudi's Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider

Corey Stewart calls Khashoggi a 'mystery guy' and says killing isn't worth clashing with Saudis ... tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden. (neo-confederate zombie lies zombie lies)
How Will the Republican Conference Help Trump Try to Cover Up the Saudi Torture-Killing? - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Russian Electoral Interference: 2018 Midterms Edition - Lawfare

Did Michael Flynn Have a Campaign Back Channel to Hackers?
Mueller May Have Evidence GOP Operative Who Took His Own Life Had Foreknowledge of Hacks ... oooh, and as a bonus, ties to Roger Stone.

'This country doesn't want them' : Trump rails against migrants trying to enter the U.S.
Newt Gingrich: The caravan is an attack on America -- Stop the caravan now | Fox News ("bomb them, use napalm and clusterbombs" he said, grinning evilly)


What Donald Trump did Thursday night in Montana is really dangerous - CNNPolitics ("beat them up and cut them into little pieces")
My Kind of Guy - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The mind of an authoritarian: (beat them up!)

Those Rats Won't Fuck Themselves - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The desperate Democrat Party is trying to bail out its failing candidates by talking about PUTIN:

'It doesn't matter' 'We'll see.' The Trump Doctrine is sounding more fatalistic every day ... "you do this, you do that, and then you have earthquakes in India where 400,000 people get killed. Honestly, it doesn't matter ... the hereditary specter of Alzheimer's disease, which afflicted his father ... The only thing that matters, is to win"

Opinion | What if the Republicans Win Everything Again? - The New York Times - Total victory for the G.O.P. would mean Trump unleashed.

T.I.'s Melania Trump Look-alike Stripper Video Pisses Off Her Office | TMZ.com

Mitch McConnell says it out loud: Republicans are gunning for Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare next : politics (the Party of You Die, haha suckers)
Senator Mitch McConnell Confronted at Restaurant ... By Angry Customers (in Kenfucky!) ... tried not to pay his bill ...

The gods that failed - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Max Boot's journey into the light)

Rep. Steve King Goes Full White Nationalist In Interview With Austrian Site | HuffPost - A shocking interview with a far-right propaganda site offers the clearest look yet at the congressman's racist ideology - "If we don't defend Western civilization, then we will become subjugated by the people who are the enemies of faith, the enemies of justice" King said


Alaska Gov. Bill Walker ends campaign for re-election, endorses Mark Begich - Anchorage Daily News - three days after former Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott abruptly stepped down from both his office and the re-election campaign over unspecified "inappropriate comments" he made to a woman.

Iconic Dodge City moves its only polling place outside town | The Wichita Eagle - Hispanics now make up 60 percent of its population ... (white people didn't want the jobs) ... local officials have moved it outside the city limits to a facility more than a mile from the nearest bus stop, citing road construction that blocked the previous site. (Kofucked)

Pelosi Mobbed By Anti-Communists In Florida | The Daily Caller (said the Russian mob)

Georgia Voting Begins Amid Accusations of Voter Suppression - The New York Times
Texas May Seem Like a Red State Because It's a Gerrymandered One (all the Republifuck states are)
GOP candidate improperly purged 340,000 from Georgia voter rolls, investigation claims | US news | The Guardian
Republican mailers with false info sent to Missouri voters | The Kansas City Star (almost a pattern here, claims "miscommunication")

GOP women's group backs Dem candidates in Michigan

Nine kinds of races that will decide the fate of the House

Talkin' about massive turnover no matter who wins the House
Early voting hints at huge turnout | TheHill (hug red wave coming)

1st black woman legislator in Vermont resigns after white supremacists threaten safety of her family : news

Audio Surfaces of Republican Rep. Jason Lewis Mocking Sexual Harassment Victim - Before he was elected, Minnesota congressman hosted conservative radio talk show and made disparaging on-air comments about women (looks like a real pig)
Audio Surfaces of Republican Rep. Jason Lewis Mocking Sexual Harassment Victim : politics


This Seemed Like a Great Idea, What Went Wrong? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Sturgeon's Law on Twitter: "TL;DR: guy takes his girlfriend to see Jordan Peterson speak, she immediately tells him she wants to see other people, he doesn't understand why. https://t.co/SJjaBblYiQ"
Count Dankula? on Twitter: "Well done /pol/, 20k likes. They bought it hard. "

TIL Jesus is referenced in the Quran, directly or indirectly, 187 times. Making him the most referenced person in the Quran. : todayilearned


5-year-old not expected to survive head injuries his mom and her fiance are believed to have caused. : news


As U.S. fertility rates collapse, finger-pointing and blame follow - The Washington Post


No such thing as too much exercise, study finds


Jack Dorsey complains about'unfairness' in San Francisco homeless tax on corporations (techbro stupidfuck asshole)




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Fentanyl smuggled from China is killing thousands of Americans - Los Angeles Times

I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake | Life and style | The Guardian


How The Khashoggi Scandal Looks When You've Been Bombed And Starved By Saudi Arabia For Years (Barry started this disaster)


Saudi Arabia admits journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed after a fight broke out in consulate : politics (he objected to being dismembered while alive so we had to kill him)

U.S. intel officials: Inconceivable Saudi prince had no link to Khashoggi death - Critics of Saudi Arabia are concerned Trump is allowing the Saudis to come up with a cover story that will clear Saudi leadership of any responsibility ("critics" = "people against murder and dismemberment")
In Shift on Khashoggi Killing, Trump Edges Closer to Acknowledging a Saudi Role - The New York Times

As Khashoggi crisis grows, Saudi king asserts authority, checks son's power: sources (source: Kushfuck and if you believe this shit you're nuts)

Turkish source says Pompeo heard recording of Khashoggi murder, State Department denies - ABC News

Eschaton: Good Enough For Susan Collins - Or, if not, they'll decide on another story. It is funny how out in the open it is..."well, how about this idea? No, maybe this one." - ISTANBUL - The plan to assign blame to Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri, a high-ranking adviser to the crown prince, would be an extraordinary recognition of the magnitude of international backlash to hit the kingdom since the disappearance of Mr. Khashoggi -- "The plan to assign blame"

Conservatives mount a whisper campaign smearing Khashoggi in defense of Trump - The Washington Post (party of lies)

Twitter pulls down bot network that pushed pro-Saudi talking points about disappeared journalist - Twitter became aware of some of the bots on Thursday when NBC News presented the company with evidence of coordinated activity. (Putin trying to save Trump's dick)

Jamal Khashoggi's Killing Left Experts Scrambling for Answers - The Atlantic - he killing of Jamal Khashoggi has upended Washington's policy debates (will America the Great chicken-shit out in the face of a corrupt murderous gas-station oil power which we don't need anymore anyway?)

Obama's First National Security Adviser Now Works for the Saudis -- We know how much Trumpland loves the Saudis. Turns out that some in Obama World are fans of the kingdom (Obama pardoned Saudi for 9/11 and "looked forward" b/c money)


Migrant caravan's Arduous Journey Through Central America Toward U.S. Captured In Photos - Thousands of people are escaping Honduras and Guatemala. (destroy Central America w/40 yrs of coups and war on drugz and secret assassinations, shoot the refugees when they try to escape)


A President Who Believes He Is Entitled to His Own Facts - The New York Times
Trump's closing argument is full of conspiracy theories and brute force. And it just might work. (just how crazy is America?)


President Trump Just Explicitly Endorsed Political Violence by Praising Rep. Greg Gianforte
The President of the United States Just Explicitly Endorsed Political Violence : politics

'He's My Kind of Guy' : Trump Celebrates Congressman Who Body-Slammed Reporter
? _dingl???? on Twitter: "Trump Tells Missoula Montana crowd dont mess with Congressman Greg Gianforte who famously Body-slammed Reporter Ben Jacobs lol #MontanaRally https://t.co/U5b1qS6cCY"
Steve Thomma on Twitter: "This was a crime. Gianforte pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for that body slam of a reporter. Sentenced to community service, treatment for anger management and fined. https://t.co/dcAFtdOGXU"
Nathan Quarry on Twitter: "Yeah the Dems are the party of violence. Trump just applauded an assault on a reporter. Shocked. I'm just shocked

Justice Dept. Rank-and-File Tell of Discontent Over Sessions's Approach (to wrecking the Dept.)


comments were even more painful than Trump's (Bill's bj's from Monica not "an abuse of power")
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hillary? -- She's not going away -- and Dmocrats aren't sure what to do about it. (see her very expensive haircut)


For a Change, Democrats Seem Set to Equal or Exceed Republicans in Turnout - The New York Times - Polls show enthusiasm surging in many mostly white suburban districts, but less so among young and nonwhite voters.

Absentee voting spikes in Virginia

Eschaton: Cruz - Houston Chronicle: ... How did he get all the way there? I'm sure this could all be explained to me. But I don't care so much about Ted Cruz specifically, just how so many horrible people somehow manage to become US senators. Not just horrible to me, but seemingly just... horrible.
For U.S. Senate: Beto O'Rourke - HoustonChronicle.com
Heidi Cruz Torched Over 'Tone-Deaf' Lament About Ted Cruz's 6-Figure Senate Salary - Heidi Cruz, a Goldman Sachs executive, said she has to work 70-hour weeks as the family "primary breadwinner"
Paul Rudnick on Twitter: "Heidi Cruz insists that "we won't be buying a second home any time soon" on husband Ted's 174K salary, pinpointing the Republican Party's central, hardhitting issue: the second homeless #HeidiCruz"
Joan Walsh on Twitter: "Poor Heidi Cruz is whining about being the "primary breadwinner" when her husband makes $174K as a US Senator: "We're not buying a second home anytime soon." My heart hurts for them. https://t.co/pGDI4YkKOb"
Heidi Cruz on Ted, His Senate Bid, and the 2016 Race - The Atlantic - She had her whole future mapped out when she met Ted Cruz, starting with her dream job in Washington. This is the story of what came after.

GOP Candidate Improperly Purged 340,000 From Georgia Voter Rolls, Investigation Claims : politics (we fought the Civil War for this shit?)

Arkansas Radio Ads Invoke Lynchings To Scare Black Voters Away From Democratic Candidate | HuffPost - Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) said he did not endorse the ads, which were paid for by a PAC called Black Americans for the President's Agenda (white women will accuse you of rape, vote Trump!)

Defense Lobbyists Hope to Scare Voters Into Voting for Indicted Congressman - Duncan Hunter's campaign is painting his opponent as a terrorist, with help from three generals with huge interests before his committee. (betting on the red wave, fools)

Republicans are short on policy wins so they are trying to alarm Trump's base with extreme attack ads

Republicans who tried to kill Obamacare now claim they want to save its popular parts - Los Angeles Times (srsly, who you gonna believe? the truth, or lying Russian Rohrafucker)

South Dakota hasn't had a Democratic governor in decades. Republicans fear that could change.


De Blasio's "Progressive" Nonprofit Was A Spectacular Failure - non-profit ventures were thoroughly troubled and mostly just an avenue for corruption, particularly his Campaign for One New York.; earlier this year, two lobbyists agreed to pay fines for donating to the Campaign for One New York.


93 Women Accuse Former USC Gynecologist George Tyndall Of Sexual Abuse | HuffPost - The women contend that University of Southern California ignored decades of complaints.


Florida teacher pleads guilty to sex with 14-year-old student - A former middle school teacher in Florida pleaded guilty to having sex with a 14-year-student in her car and in a barn


'Apartment Patty' is married to a man of color



We are L.A. Times reporters who write about rent control and housing affordability in California. Ask us anything! : IAmA


Youngest children in the classroom are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, suggesting that some teachers are mistaking the immaturity of the youngest children in their class for ADHD and labeling normal development as pathology, finds new research with 14 million children from various countries. : science

Scientists gave nicotine-dependent rats an engineered enzyme that breaks down nicotine in the bloodstream before it can reach the brain. Treatment quickly reduced the animals' motivation to take nicotine, reversed their signs of nicotine dependence, and kept them from relapsing : science


Which trope annoys you the most? : books


What are your best ways to shut down a conversation? : AskReddit - Would you like to be your own boss and sell some essential oils?

What's the worst place you have laughed uncontrollably? : AskReddit




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Will humanity survive the 21st century? - Vox - But he's still an optimist.


Toronto police: marijuana is now legal in Canada, so stop calling 911 about it - Vox


Taliban attack meeting attended by General Miller, kills Kandahar police chief | FDD's Long War Journal


How One Journalist's Death Provoked a Backlash That Thousands Dead in Yemen Did Not (Barry loved killing people too)

Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world neesd https://t.co/S9QM7eUc5X"
most is free expression - The Washington Post (and then they killed him)

Trump administration tries to cover up the Saudi government's torture and murder of a dissident journalist - Lawyers, Guns & Money - By far the most probable explanation for this behavior is that Donald Trump and Jared Kushner are being bribed by the Saudis. - These people are the scum of the earth.
John Harwood on Twitter: "Trump on conversation w/Saudi king about Jamal Khashoggi's murder: "it just sounded to me like he felt like he did not do it" (best criminal instincts)
Kushner reportedly wants Trump to stand by Saudi Arabia and thinks the outrage over Khashoggi 'will pass' : politics (it'll blow over the genius said) "The only person dumber than Kushner is the person following his advice."

Crown prince under scrutiny in journalist's disappearance even as Saudis search for exculpatory explanation

Mike Pompeo's private prod to the Saudis about Jamal Khashoggi - Axios - Mike Pompeo told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman he had 72 hours to complete his "investigation" into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, or risk wrecking the kingdom's place on the world stage.
Pompeo warns Saudi prince his future as king is in peril over Khashoggi, source says - CNNPolitics

Saudi Arabia Weighs Blaming Intelligence Official for Khashoggi Killing - The New York Times - Saudi rulers are weighing whether to blame Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri, a high-ranking adviser to the crown prince, for the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.
Opinion | Why King Salman Must Replace M.B.S. - The New York Times - To save its reputation and avoid becoming a pariah state in the aftermath of the Khashoggi murder, Saudi Arabia should replace its crown prince. (you mispelled "clown")

If Trump helps cover up Khashoggi's alleged murder, that will also come out ("if?")
Trump's Jamal Khashoggi reaction sure makes him seem bought and paid for by Saudi Arabia

Kushner and Saudi crown prince communicated informally on WhatsApp: report | TheHill (Kushfuck is a murderous slimy traitor)

Saudi in Turkey day of Khashoggi 'murder' dies in 'traffic accident' (just the beginning)

Man linked to Saudi prince at consulate when writer vanished - Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb
Khashoggi suspects: Turkish newspaper publishes fresh images | World news | The Guardian - CCTV images show one of alleged 15-man team at Saudi consulate the day journalist disappeared
U.S. Spy Agencies Are Increasingly Convinced of Saudi Prince's Ties to Journalist's Disappearance

Saudis tried to silence associate of Jamal Khashoggi, recordings show - The Washington Post

Opinion | A President Kowtowing to a Mad Prince - The New York Times (from the pic, Salmanella is 2" taller than Trumpster)
Amid global outrage over Khashoggi, Trump takes soft stance toward Saudis - The Washington Post

Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi Arabia transfers $100 million to U.S. amid crisis over journalist - The Washington Post - The timing of the transfer, first reported by the New York Times, raised questions about a potential payoff as Riyadh seeks to manage the blowback over allegations that Saudi agents were responsible for Khashoggi's disappearance.

Trump Inflates Saudi Arms Deal But Stays Silent On Saudi Cash In His Own Pocket | HuffPost - The president claims Saudi Arabia is buying $110 billion in arms, but it stands at $14.5 billion. And he personally has reaped tens of millions of dollars in Saudi business.


Revealed: Russian billionaire set up US company before Trump Tower meeting | US news | The Guardian - Aras Agalarov, who helped arrange the meeting with Donald Trump Jr in June 2016, formed a shell company with an accountant who has had clients accused of money laundering and embezzlement


Trump threatens to call US military to close southern border as 4,000-strong migrant caravan pushes north | Fox News

Donald Trump Says He's Too 'Busy' to Visit U.S. Troops Overseas but Has Played Golf Almost 70 Times : politics
Trump Golf Count -- 149 rounds, $79,000,000 in taxpayer money

Read the transcript of AP's interview with President Trump

Is Fraud Part of the Trump Organization's Business MOdel (you're kidding, right?)
Legal Experts: Ivanka Trump May Have Committed Felony Fraud : politics (lock her up! and take-the-bribe Vance!) Gold comment: "The Trump family is a full display of the most heinous abuse of privilege America has seen in modern times."
Here Are the Trump Projects Where Ivanka and Her Dad Misled Buyers : politics
Donald Trump more involved in stopping FBI HQ move than previously known, emails show - CNNPolitics


Paul Manafort Has Begun Dishing on Roger Stone : politics


'I am on the ticket': Trump seeks to make the election about him, even if some don't want it to be
OF COURSE, OF COURSE -- Trump Believed His Stormy Daniels 'HOrseface' Tweet Was Politically Brilliant - The president workshopped it before tweeting it out (huh?
Trump's Popularity Is Key to Outcome of Midterm Races - The Atlantic - Republicans are surging in pro-Trump rural areas as a Democratic wave gathers in many anti-Trump suburbs, continuing a long-term shift toward nationalized congressional elections. (red wave of stupid farmers coming!)

Jimmy Carter: Brett Kavanaugh 'Unfit' to Serve on Supreme Court


Kelly, Bolton Get in Profane Shouting Match Outside the Oval Office - Bloomberg - Dispute may have centered on border crossings, Nielsen (how's your paywall working out, Bloomfuck?)
Bolton and Kelly get into heated shouting match sparking resignation fears - CNNPolitics (Bolton want to bomb caravan, has Trump's support)

Wilbur Ross Lied to Congress About the GOP's Plot to Rig the Census. This Should Be a National Scandal.

What Mitch McConnell is up to is even worse than Democrats say - The Washington Post (he's making it a bi-partisan issue)


Forecasting the midterms: Uncertainty with a chance of finger-pointing - Columbia Journalism Review

Senate Truce Collapses as G.O.P. Rush to Confirm More Judges Begins Anew - The New York Times (once again, Dems took the bait, having learned nothing, and screwed everybody, hello, Chuckie)

The Demoocrats' Left Turn Is Not an Illusion - Like many overnight sensations, it has been years in the making.
America Already Has a Centrist Party. It's Called the Democrats (well, Schumer-Doomer anyway) The GOP's message-makers are working round-the-clock to collapse the distinctions between the Democratic Party and the most radical activists at the far-left fringes of its big tent (while also, of course, caricaturing the latter).

Bernie 2016 alums wary of 2020 sequel - POLITICO - A large contingent of his former staffers is looking to other candidates to carry the torch. (you're history, old man)

Hillary Clinton's Master Class in Distraction -- Democrats need to be focused on the midterms. (apparently "fight back" is too extreme for Cottle)
Dear God, Hillary Clinton. Please, Just Go. - No one benefits from her latest venture back onto the political scene. -- Clinton is popping up again like a Halloween ghoul who keeps rising from the grave to terrorize the American public; only this time accompanied by the increasingly #MeToo burdened uber-villain, Bubba. (everyone hates her)

politico race ratings: Democrats breach GOP statehouse walls - POLITICO - Seven states -- all currently led by GOP governors -- are considered toss-ups.

Former GOP governor of Kansas supports Democrat over Kobach | The Kansas City Star - Former Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden, who served from 1987 to 1991,


Just about everything you've read on the Warren DNA test is wrong (she actually has indian genes, much more than your average "European-American" contra Rethug lies)

Here's A Running List Of Racist Attacks On Candidates Of Color - Some attacks are coded. Others are clear.

Beto O'Rourke says Ted Cruz has second-worst bipartisanship record of all senators in 25 years : politics (one of the creepiest lizard people ever +Bernie is almost as bad, but in a good way)
Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke's Debate in Texas Senate Race Makes Cruz Look Stale, Past His Time
Ted Cruz Looks Stale and Old and Past His Time : politics

Fourth former Scott Walker secretary comes forward to criticize governor | Politics and Elections | madison.com (the zombie-eyed granny-starver)
Donald Trump and Scott Walker to hold rally next week near Wausau | Politics and Elections | madison.com

Democrat Randy Bryce's ex-wife pushes back against 'deadbeat' attack ad | Politics and Elections | madison.com

Shalala walks into anti-Castro buzz saw - POLITICO - How a campaign event with Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee went terribly wrong. (Shalalalala off the cliff)

The Proud Boys, The GOP And 'The Fascist Creep' | HuffPost (he is his image)

Blackburn backlash shocks Mt. Juliet restaurant owner | Community | wilsonpost.com (shocked, I tell you!)

The slime gets deep in the race for 2nd District UPDATE | Arkansas Blog - Whoa. A conservative group claiming to be representative of black people supporting Donald Trump has bought radio advertising on black-oriented stations in Little Rock to help Republican Rep. French Hill. It's provocative to put it mildly. In short, the ad suggests French Hill would serve as a protector against white women making unfounded charges of rape against black men. It ties into the guilty-until-proven-innocence theme developed during Trump's defense of sexual assault allegations made by multiple women against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (gotta control those rape-accusing women)


Opinion | Eight Stories of Men's Regret (another NYT let's do a sympathetic tour of evil thinkpiece)


Justice Department investigates abuse by Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania - The Washington Post - The Justice Department has launched an investigation into alleged sexual abuse of youth by Catholic clergy across the state of Pennsylvania, according to people familiar with the matter. (lock them all up and burn it down )

In Admissions, Harvard Favors Those Who Fund It, Internal Emails Show | News | The Harvard Crimson - [Redacted] and [redacted] are all big wins. [Redacted] has already committed to a building.


La Jolla Elementary School principal apologizes for email warning parents about a black man at Starbucks - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Plug pulled on Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter website

Burlington police chief reacts to Madelyn Ellen Linsenmeir obituary: 'I have a problem'


Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You - YouTube
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You - YouTube


A New Facebook Suit Makes 'Pivot to Video' Seem Even More Shortsighted (o rly? +lizardface Zuckerfuck) Outlets like Mic, Fox Sports, and MTV News laid off writers to focus on video. Not long after, page views plummeted. Just two years later, in early 2018, Facebook changed the News Feed again, this time giving videos a demotion.




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UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It's Actually Worse Than That.
Trump says he has 'natural instinct for science' when it comes to climate change ("I'm the best scientist!")
Trump: My 'Natural Instinct for Science' Tells Me Climate Science Is Wrong
Climate of denial - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Walsh calls for major investment to guard city against flooding - The Boston Globe (billions in waterfront parks! that'll work!)

Over 1,000 Remain Missing A Week After Hurricane Michael | HuffPost - Most of those missing are from Panama City and many are elderly, disabled, impoverished, or live alone, officials said. (looking more like PR)

Eschaton: Dumb Politics Elsewhere - I continue to be fascinated by people in the UK who demand "extreme Brexit" and then say, effectively, "what do you mean leaving the customs union and ending freedom of movement means leaving the customs union and ending freedom of movement?" Like the realization that they won't just be able to go work in France anymore is making them mad. How are people so dumb.


Audio Offers Gruesome Details of Jamal Khashoggi Killing, Turkish Official Says - The New York Times
Opinion | The Saudi Cover-Up Crumbles - The New York Times - Evidence mounts of a ghastly crime in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. President Trump still seems inclined to buy the kingdom's lame denials ... (comment:) As a Saudi, to the people in the west who are outraged and anger this is incident of the killing of a famous guy, has happened in front of your eyes what do you think is happening inside the kingdom?

The Jamal Khashoggi Case: Suspects Had Ties to Saudi Crown Prince - The New York Times
Jamal Khashoggi's killing took seven minutes, Turkish source tells MEE | Middle East Eye
'The greatest embarrassment' : Inside the kingdom, Saudis rattled by handling of Jamal Khashoggi case - Saudi Clown Prince's attempts to consolidate his power, eliminate rival royals, and seize the assets of his country's billionaires
MBS's rampaging anger will not silence questions about Jamal Khashoggi
In the Wake of Khashoggi's Disappearance, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Is Pushed to the Brink (push the toxic muzzie murderer off the cliff)

Trump criticizes rush to condemn Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi
Why is the Trump administration cleaning up Saudi Arabia's mess? (haha b/c Kushfuck) Mr. Pompeo, who smiled broadly as he greeted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, appeared less intent on determining the truth than in helping the de?facto Saudi ruler escape from the crisis he triggered.
Khashoggi disappearance prompts Kushner retreat from Saudi frontlines - CNNPolitics - as West Wing officials feared a more public role would prompt backlash,
Story on Saudi consul in Istanbul is withdrawn - 'Saudi consul in Istanbul relieved of post, to be investigated-report' is withdrawn. There will be replacement story (getting fast and furioius behind the pink muzzie screen)
Saudi Arabia's spat with Canada was a lesson. Trump ignored it. (encouraged it)

Eschaton: If I Did It - I'm pretty fascinated by the Saudi Arabia issue. Could one bad act reshape official Washington? Saudi money runs that town.

Why the Khashoggi murder is a disaster for Israel - Israel News - Haaretz.com - The grisly hit-job on Khashoggi has implications far beyond its exposure of the Saudi Crown Prince as brutal and reckless. In Jerusalem and D.C., they're mourning their whole strategic concept for the Mideast - not least, for countering Iran (Netanfuckyu not happy his bromance with murderous Arab fuckers doesn't look so good, but its' : politics
all about the circle of autocrats)
Prominent evangelical leader on Khashoggi crisis: let's not risk "100 billion worth of arms sales" - Pat Robertson urged caution over US-Saudi relations (Satangelical supporter of murder)


Rod Rosenstein says the Russia probe has uncovered a widespread Russian effort to meddle in the 2016 race : politics
Mueller Ready to Deliver Key Findings in His Trump Probe, Sources Say - Bloomberg (after the election, b/c Rosenstein said wind it down)
On Corey Lewandowsk's Big Legal Bills and Mueller's Deadline from Rosenstein

Michael Cohen meets with prosecutors investigating Trump's family business, charity

Media too quick to dismiss Trump/Alfa Bank server contact story : politics

Trump's fanciful, falsehood-filled AP interview, annotated


Trump's latest absurdity about the elections hints at much worse to come -- Trump claimed it won't be his fault if Republicans lose control of the House.

Trump is 'the most honest president in modern history'? Give me a break - Marc Thiessen has written a column here at The Post arguing that President Trump is not, as most people acknowledge, the most prodigious liar in the history of the presidency, but in fact 'may be remembered as the most honest president in modern American history,' (commenters don't agree. laugh at Thieseen, but it's Hiatt who should be fired)

Pump and Trump - Donald Trump claims he only licensed his name for real estate projects developed by others. But an investigation of a dozen Trump deals shows deep family involvement in projects that often involved deceptive practices. (corruption everywhere you look, how did this happen?)

'Horseface,' 'Lowlife,' 'Fat, Ugly' : How the President Demeans Women - President Trump has a history of attacking women by mocking their bodily functions, demeaning their looks or comparing them to animals.



Eschaton: I Was Dumb - I used to naively think that at least they couldn't cut Social Security. And, hey, we did win the privatization war in 2005. Yay blogs! We helped do that (really we did). I thought, well, hey, old people vote, so don't fuck with them. But they'll go after it by cutting it for people under 55 or whatever. Boomers get very mad when you blame them, but really, Boomers, you're gonna do this. #notallboomers

Showrunner Continues to Recycle Script Ideas - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Mitch McConnell makes the inevitable pivot: After instituting a $1.5 trillion tax cut and signing off on a $675 billion budget for the Department of Defense, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the only way to lower the record-high federal deficit would be to cut entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. (hahahaha suckers)
McConnell says Senate Republicans might revisit Obamacare repeal | Reuters (hahaha, we'll kill you yet)
McConnell: My Biggest Disappointment Is Not Cutting Medicare (accuses Dems of attacking medicare)


2018 Governors Forecast | FiveThirtyEight (the 40% will rule the 60%)


Georgia Election 2018: Seniors ordered off bus for black voters (no riding the bus while black while trying to vote)

Vermont hits record 92.5 percent voter registration ahead of election : politics


In unsealed divorce filings, Rep. Keith Ellison says ex-wife abused him Twin Cities - Kim Ellison repeatedly hit him during their 25-year marriage. (pussy pass)


FBI looking at Manhattan district attorney's office over potential undue influence in handling of cases: sources - NY Daily News (lock up Vance, he's so dirty)


Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott abruptly resigns following 'inappropriate comments' (a Dem)

Jay Gonzalez puts Charlie Baker on the ropes in TV debate in Massachusetts governor's race - The Boston Globe (globies pretty negative on Charlie Faker)

Shiva Ayyadurai: the provocative candidate who represents our bizarre political climate - The Boston Globe - Ayyadurai, an independent who supports President Trump, is truly a candidate of our times (he invented email when he was 14 and many other wonderful things and he's not a fake indian)



'Golfcart Gail' calls cops on black dad at his kid's soccer game (it's almost always a white woman)
White woman dubbed 'Golfcart Gail' calls police on black father at soccer game : news

The New York Times' Profile Of Gavin McInnes Is Incredibly Tone-Deaf - The New York Times went to great lengths to avoid calling the Proud Boys founder a racist, sexist, fascist gang leader, even though he could be accurately described as all of these things. (they keep repeating the same mistakes)
NYT Metro on Twitter: "Gavin McInnes has set himself apart from the current crop of professionally outraged right-wing pundits, not only for being able to spout aggressive rhetoric, but also for being willing to get physical at times. https://t.co/VUKGukCKGc"

Michigan pharmacist refuses medicine to woman having miscarriage : news

Video shows off-duty Chicago police officer shooting unarmed, autistic man : news (cop does drive-by shooting)


Massachusetts boy who was missing for 2 years found alive in Florida : news

Overparenting or helicopter parenting, a narcissistic parenting style, may impede the development of young adult independence, and be linked to development of narcissistic traits, which may be how narcissism can be passed on from generation to generation, suggests new study (n=380 college students). : science

TIL in China, the one-child policy has wreaked havoc. By encouraging the birth of boys rather than girls, an imbalance of the sexes has emerged. China will now have a surplus of 30 to 40 million men under the age of 19. That's the equivalent of the entire population of young men in the United States

Scientists find the shape of the electron is perfectly round, casting doubt on supersymmetry and theories of baryogenesis : science


Facebook Lied, Careers Died - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Remember when one news organization after another fired people en masse to PIVOT TO VIDEO, even though who the hell wants to consume their news through online video rather than reading it? The intuition that this made no sense was, in fact, correct -- Facebook just used bad data to massively inflate video viewership and then lied about it (FUCKING PIVOT TO VIDEO WAS A MARK FUCKERBERG LIE AND PEOPLE LOST THEIR JOBS BECAUSE OF HIS LIES)

Chris Conroy on Twitter: "If you missed it: today it was confirmed that Facebook massively & knowingly inflated its video-view statistics, which had the DIRECT consequence of 90% of media orgs firing writers in favor of expensive video producers, who also got fired when it turned out video was worthless https://t.co/mX163N4N4q"
Barry Petchesky on Twitter: "Facebook should be in jail, obviously, but let's not forget about all the smooth-brained media execs who bought into the pivot to video when literally every person who works on the ground in media, or even just uses the internet every day, knew it was complete bullshit.



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By annihilating wildlife, humanity is cutting down the tree of life, warn scientiest, 'including the barnk we are sitting on' (more "scientists" with a "political agenda" Trump will say)
'Hyperalarming' study shows massive insect loss (yeah, humans just sawed off the biggest branch outside bacteria b/c Republicans hate your environment)

FBI raids San Juan city offices weeks after Trump alleges corruption : politics (how very Trumpian; he should raid himself)

Unvaccinated child from Florida becomes first death of the flu season : news (16K flu deaths in 2018, 80% over 65)


Julian Assange ordered by Ecuador to curb speech, clean bathroom, look after cat if he wants internet : news -- Clean your room Assange if you want to wifi password! ... But Ecuadorian mooooom ... "No Mijo, you want the wifi, you clean this room, or so help me god, you won't be able to visit any websites for a month. Debo golpearte con un cintursn como solmamos hacer en los viejos tiempos, pero no, el CPS vendra a nuestra puerta en la oscuridad de la noche. Tal vez te puedan alejar de mm, estzpido niqo."


American Mercenaries Were Hired To Assassinate Politicians In The Middle East - "There was a targeted assassination program in Yemen. I was running it. We did it" (oh look, Barry in the basement killing people)


Jamal Khashoggi Case: Suspects Had Ties to Saudi Crown Prince - The New York Times - Turkish officials have said they possess evidence that the 15 Saudi agents flew into Istanbul on Oct. 2, assassinated Mr. Khashoggi, dismembered his body with a bone saw they had brought for the purpose, and flew out the same day. (all fingers point to MbS who was enabled by Kushfuck, who whatsapp'd with Salmonella to come up with the "ROGUE killer" fabrication)
Donald Trump is 'PR Agent' for Saudi Arabia After Journalist's Apparent Killing, Senate Democrat Says : politics
Who needs Saudi Arabia? - The Washington Post

Jamal Khashoggi's killing took seven minutes, Turkish source tells MEE : news

Trump has it 'totally and completely backwards' on Saudi arms sales (as usual)

Turkey releases passport scans of men it says were involved in journalist's killing
Jamal Khashoggi killed in botched interrogation, Saudis will claim: CNN - Business Insider ("He accidentally died after we beat the shit out of him and cut him up into little pieces")

We didn't mean to murder him (pinky promise), we only meant to torture him as part of his kidnapping - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman allegedly bragged to the Emirati crown prince and others that U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was "in his pocket" (and "my dick is so far up his ass he can't see straight") Crown Prince Mohammed told confidants that Kushner had discussed the names of Saudis disloyal to the crown prince, according to three sources who have been in contact with members of the Saudi and Emirati royal families since the crackdown.

Don't Ditch Riyadh in a Fit of Righteousness (WSJ: "what's a little murder of an Arab guy? Don't mess with our business interests")
Lindsey Graham says "toxic" Mohammed bin Salman "has to go"
Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election - The New York Times (may 2018 for the backstory)

Trump joins Saudi Arabia's Khashoggi coverup
Saudi Arabia bans journalist for criticising Donald Trump | The Independent (right after the election, you can see where this went)
Trump campaign veterans were paid $5.4 million by Saudi Arabia for doing virtually nothing : politics
Trump: 'I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia' : politics (don't miss the sword dance in comments)

Jared Kushner 'deeply involved' in White House response to Khashogg
Prince Jared finds himself in the wrong fairytale - The Washington Post
Trump-Russia Was Never "Just" Russia -- In late October of 2017, Jared Kushner made an unannounced visit to Saudi, where he stayed several nights and is reported to have stayed up until 4am talking with bin Salman. ("in his pocket") ... On November 4, 2017, one week after Kushner's surprise visit, bin Salman launched a purge of the Saudi royal family ... On November 6 2017, two days after the roundups began, Donald Trump took to Twitter to defend bin Salman, saying that those arrested had been "milking their country for years"


Top 10 Russophobes of 2018: See who made RT's prestigious list this year (top 3 all women: Rachel, Theresa and Hillary)

voting rights act led to hundreds of closed polls An exclusive VICE News investigation into a controversial supreme court decision and its impact on minority voters - In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the core of one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement: the Voting Rights Act. (Roberts' "post-racial" society)

President Trump threatens to end aid to Honduras if migrant caravan isn't stopped


Bob Woodward's 'Fear' Missed What Matters About Trump - The Atlantic - The ultimate White House tell-all actually tells disturbingly little of what the American public most needs to know ... Among the biggest media boosters of the Saudi crown prince was Bob Woodward in his new book, Fear. Woodward observed that a National Security Council staffer, Derek Harvey, believed that "MBS was the future. MBS saw that transformative change in Saudi Arabia was the only path to survival for the Kingdom." ... Harvey now works on the staff of Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee. No person in Woodward's book is more lavishly praised than Harvey ... Trump's staff needed an external validator, a person of unimpeachable integrity and prestige who would endorse their view of themselves as victims of an out-of-control FBI. And on January 15, 2017, that's exactly the service Woodward performed for them (Frum is on fire, Woodward's backstory stinks and his judgement sucks)


Millennials Need to Start Voting Before the Gerontocracy Kills Us All : politics

Donald Trump's Voters To Rally In 'The Biggest Stadium In Texas' Falls 94,000 Seat Short ... Trump's Oct. 22 event for the senator he used to routinely mock as "Lying Ted" will be held at the NRG Arena in Houston, which seats about 8,000

Eschaton: Trumpism Sure...but Trump? - One thing I never get about conservatives is that their heroes are so disgusting. Trump is repulsive. Love the politics, sure, I get that, but the man? I do not get. (Republicans have no moral sense or vision b/c they are acolytes of the the Antichrist)

Trump posts first ever tweet naming Stormy Daniels, calls her 'horseface' and misspells her name : politics ... The president of the United States is insulting a porn star on twitter, let that sink in for a minute ... A porn star he had a sexual relationship with while married to his third wife ... his third wife who was at the time caring for his newborn son ... I'm starting to get the feeling like this guy is a scumbag. Anyone else? ... his third wife that he met while cheating on his second wife ... .while he was fucking a porn star bareback
Stormy Daniels Mocks Trump Over 'Horseface' Tweet: Perhaps He's Into 'Bestiality' (among other perversions)


McConnell Bloomberg Interview on Entitlements, Rising Deficits - Bloomberg (those welfare queens, not us plutocrats, took your money, suckers)
Mitch McConnell Just Unveiled the Most Inevitable Political Development of 2018 (Mitch the Bitch: we doubled the deficit with tax cuts for the very rich, now we have to eliminate Medicare and Social Security b/c moochers, hahahaha suckers)
Report: If Not for Republican Policies, the Federal Government Would Be Running a Surplus : politics
Mitch McConnell Calls for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid Cuts After Passing Tax Cuts, Massive Defense Spending : politics
Republicans Are Outraged about the Deficit They Caused : politics


2018 Values Voter Summit (roster of evil)
Here's a list of every vulnerable House Republican who voted to gut pre-existing conditions coverage

Trump Has Raised More Than $100 Million For 2020 Re-Election Effort | HuffPost - Only 25 months to go until the next presidential election. (or jail)

Trump allies double down on 'mob' attack in final stretch of midterms ("we're not the mob, they're the mob!)
Origins of Progressive Agony | National Review - What has transformed the Democratic party into an anguished progressive movement that incorporates the tactics of the street, embraces maenadism, reverts to Sixties carnival barking, and is radicalized by a new young socialist movement? (Victor Davis Fuckhead +"maenadism" = "raging or wild behavior in women")


White House moves to replace Interior Department IG amid probe of Secretary Ryan Zinke - An internal HUD email announced Suzanne Tufts will become the acting inspector general for the Interior Department. The Interior IG's office was unaware (everything they do is crooked)


Nate Silver will make one firm prediction about the midterms. Most journalists won't want to hear it. (it's called "statistics" and math is hard +Beto will lose)

Don't expect a big Democratic wave this fall, a new CNBC poll says (Dems have no enthusiasm, conservative financial guys say)

Armed protesters were on Portland rooftop in August, police now say | OregonLive.com - "Patriot Prayer"

Dems angered by GOP plan to hold judicial hearings in October | TheHill (when Dems are campaigning, the fuckers will fuck you any way they can)

Former senior Trump aide Jason Miller sues website who 'teamed up with his ex for false article' | Daily Mail Online - Jason Miller sues Gizmodo for $100million claiming it teamed up with his ex who 'hatched a plot' to ruin his reputation with article accusing him of slipping abortion pill to a stripper he got pregnant ... The unnamed woman, who worked at a gentleman's club in south Florida, allegedly lost her child and nearly slipped into a coma from the drug (yeah, definitely not true, no Christian Republican would do that)


President Trump is nationalizing the midterm elections. That's a big mistake -- Trump is following the path that got Woodrow Wilson clobbered. (it's alway about him, all the time +both were/are toxic narcissists)

Democrats Fear Obama Is Going Soft for the Midterms - allies say his distance has been strategic and that he will ramp up his presence as voting nears. But some alums wonder if that plan is wise. (which midterms are we talking about? 2010? 2016?)

The pink resistance is growing - The Washington Post -- Republicans, soaked in their male grievance mentality, remain largely oblivious to the potential for a shift in politics from tribal rigidity to public morality, from one based on bluster and bullying to one that elevates public virtue, something Republicans used to believe in. (supposedly)

Race by race: Here's the Democrats' path to a House majority in November

Alumni and faculty call on St. Lawrence University to rescind Susan Collins' honorary degree : politics


Trump responds to Elizabeth Warren DNA test by repeating racial slur : politics ... We filter Trump's idiocy through the lens of our functioning minds, when really I think it boils down to him just propping his own frail ego up with his gish gallop diarrhea concocted from his spongy, misfiring brain ... As usual they're just moving goalposts. First it was "she isn't native," now it's "she isn't native enough.

Warren Says Trump's Desire To Personally Test Her DNA Is 'Creepy'
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "@CoachClintSwan Tell me, what were they doing in the Park, playing checkers?" / Twitter (2013: Central Park Five)

Cherokee Nation responds to Senator Warren's DNA Test - Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage
Cherokee Nation issues statement on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's DNA test results : news
'It broke my heart': Waneek Horn-Miller fought Kahnawake's 'marry out, get out' policy' -- and won
Is Elizabeth Warren's genetic test conclusive? - Warren has never claimed membership in a particular tribe, only that she has ancestors who were Native American.
Elizabeth Warren's DNA results don't silence attacks against her

4,000 Square Miles. One Post Office. Why It's So Hard to Vote in Arizona's Indian Country (it's almost like they designed it that way)

Indicted GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter Slings Racist Falsehoods In Effort To Save His Seat | HuffPost - The embattled California lawmaker is accusing his Arab Christian opponent of sympathizing with terrorists.

New Ad Burns Ted Cruz For His Love Of Un-Texan White Castle Burgers | HuffPost ... "There's no even a White Castle Burger within 900 miles of Texas, Ted. Maybe up in Canada."


GOP Senate Candidate In Michigan Admits 'Terrible Error' For Showing Swastika In Ad | HuffPost - The ad began airing two weeks ago when a left-leaning blog and then the liberal advocacy group Progress Michigan brought attention to the image. (vote Nazi! +all the waiters in the vid are black)

Turning Point USA FIU Chapter Shares Racist, Sexist, Pepe Memes | Miami New Times - Florida International University's Campus Republicans (why, it's almost like they are all racists)

Rep. Mia Love has lost her lead and is now tied with Ben McAdams in Utah's 4th District race (black woman running in party of racists)

Georgia Election 2018: Gwinnett rejects many absentee ballots - Nearly one in 10 vote-by-mail ballots have been rejected by Gwinnett County election officials, alarming voting rights groups. (as they go full racist voter surpression)

At Least 90,000 Voters Purged From Nevada Voter Rolls, Voting Rights Group Claims : politics (every time they get control)

I wrap my conscience up, I want to win that cup and get my money baby - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Man, the writing for this series is getting incredibly hacky: (the Duncan Hunter sub-subplot) A cartoonishly corrupt asshole trying to eke out a win with flagrantly dishonest racist appeals -- didn't we already see this story line in 2016?

Big advertisers still shunning Ingraham's Fox News show months after boycotts

Donald Daters, a dating app for Trump supporters, leaked its users' data (hahaha suckers, as usual)

USA Gymnastics Head Out After Less Than A Week As Interim President | HuffPost - Mary Bono was met with swift criticism after a tweet surfaced of her protesting Nike over its partnership with Colin Kaepernick ... Bono, a former gymnast and Republican congresswoman from California (who would have though she'd be a racist?)



Did we learn anything from Proposition 13? Proposition 5 says no - If passed, this measure would hand $1 billion to 4 million property owners who have already enjoyed the greatest benefits from Proposition 13. Renters get nothing. Recipients of government services, including students, Medi-Cal enrollees, and anyone who drives on a road or spends time in a state park, gets shortchanged.
u/isleepinahammock explains how L.A. is repeating historical mistakes with regards to squalor and disease : bestof


Utah appeals court says if your ex shacks up with someone else, you may not have to pay alimony : news


Racist white woman fired for being a racist #politicalcorrectnessgoneamok - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Leukemia patient says he was beaten by Galveston police | abc13.com - They beat him, they put handcuffs on him, throw him in the back of a car, they don't charge him with anything, they tell him he's not under arrest, then they drop him off at an emergency room, and they just leave them there," (walking while mixed-race)

Man shot by own booby trap while trying to feed squirrels - Deputies said the shotgun was just on of several booby traps the man had set up around his home.


Former Fessenden students sue school, alleging officials ignored abuse - The Boston Globe - Two former students of the Fessenden School in Newton said Monday they are suing the private boarding school, claiming officials failed to protect them from years of sexual abuse by staff members, including the assistant headmaster.

Somerville mayor says he'll; break his Sam Adams boycott if Geoff Diehl wins Senate seat

Fall River mayor served eviction notice days after arrest - The Boston Globe - Days after he was arrested on fraud charges, Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia II is now facing an eviction. (sleazy little fuck)

Obituary: Madelyn Linsenmeir, 1988-2018 | Obituaries | Seven Days | Vermont's Independent Voice

Watertown police facing sudden spike in opioid overdoses since Sunday - The Boston Globe


National bans on slapping children linked to less youth violence. In countries with full bans at home and school, rates of physical fighting are 42 percent --69 percent lower : science
Imgur: Legaily of corporal punishment of minors in the United States as of December 2015 (Red States, surprise)

Countries that ban the smacking of children appear to be safer for young people to grow up in, according to research revealing that fighting between youths -- particularly females -- is less common where corporal punishment has been outlawed.

TIL that of all the humans tested so far, everyone has contained the same DNA from 1 of at least 2 ancestors. Mitochondrial DNA being traced back matrilineally to a specific "mT-Eve," and a Y-chromosome being traced back patrilineally to a specific "Y-chromosomal Adam." : todayilearned


Men of reddit, what do women do that they think is sexy, but actually isn't? : AskReddit

What's the dumbest thing you've heard someone say that made you wonder how they function on a day to day basis?

Married for 41 years, retiring together, impromptu AMA in comments and wife reveals why husband may just be the greatest partner of all time : bestof

Men of Reddit, what thing do female coworkers do that is not quite sexual harassment, but you wish they would stop doing it so you can be comfortable at work? : AskReddit

What is something that HAS aged well? : AskReddit


Eschaton: Tech Bros - Levandowski, who was acting as the safety driver, swerved hard to avoid colliding with the Camry, causing Taylor to injure his spine so severely that he eventually required multiple surgeries. The Prius regained control and turned a corner on the freeway, leaving the Camry behind. Levandowski and Taylor didn't know how badly damaged the Camry was. They didn't go back to check on the other driver or to see if anyone else had been hurt. Neither they nor other Google executives made inquiries with the authorities. The police were not informed that a self-driving algorithm had contributed to the accident.



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'They're Doing Us Like They Did New Orleans': Anger at Trump Inaction as Hurricane Michael Leaves Millions Without Power and Basic Needs : politics (how many of you white assholes voted for him?)
Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built 'for the Big One'


A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar's Miltary (which makes Zuckerberg ...)

Python drops from ceiling during a staff meeting at China bank - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) It eventually took a rest under a couch, showing little interest in opening a new account.

Cannabis in Canada: Who wins and who loses under new law - BBC News (the "losers" are landlords worried about "pot smoke" so no losers)

Hostage safe after Cologne railway station drama - BBC News

Jamal Khashoggi: Saudis preparing to admit that journalist was killed, sources say - CNN
The latest on the missing Saudi journalist: Live updates - CNN
Saudi Arabia Breaks 45-Year Taboo With Veiled Threat to Use Oil as a Weapon - Bloomberg
Endeavor Pulling Out of $400 Million Saudi Arabia Deal (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter
Fox Business and Al Arabiya Are Last Media Partners of Saudi Conference (Murdoch had MBS for lunch in the Hamptons this summer)
Trump says 'Rogue Killers' May Be Involved in Jamal Khashoggi Case
Trump suggests 'rogue killers' may be responsible for Khashoggi's disappearance (hired by Soros, he suggested)
Investigators enter Saudi Consulate where writer vanished : news
Borzou Daragahi ???? on Twitter: "Journalists at Saudi consulate in Istanbul spotting cleaners coming into building just before Turkish investigators are scheduled to arrive to probe Jamal Khashoggi disappearance (via APTN feed) https://t.co/k1AZlRQBVa" -- Cuz the way to preserve the integrity of a possible crime scene and bolster confidence in the investigation is to bring in a bunch of cleaners through the front door before the detectives arrive
10 Questions To Answer About Khashoggi Before Buying The Narrative (Federalist completely disconnected from reality, which is their job; what will they say tomorrow when they confess to killing him?)


US budget deficit expands to $779 billion in fiscal 2018 as spending surges


This Photo Of A Cat Wearing Cookie Monster Pyjamas Was Accidentally Emailed Out By The US State Department


DHS finds increasing attempts to hack U.S. election systems ahead of midterms (Kirstjen says she doesn't have clue who's doing it)


Trump firing Mattis is a worry for D.C. Republicans and Democrats - Axios

'I'm not a baby. I know': Donald Trump snaps before admitting to '60 Minutes' he doesn't know if North Korea is closing nuclear sites
Trump, defiant, unloads on '60 Minutes' - The president portrayed himself as an isolated but eminently empowered commander in chief.
6 takeaways from Trump's '60 Minutes' interview
6 Of The Wildest Moments From Donald Trump's '60 Minutes' Interview
Trump Says Without His Mockery Of Christine Blasey Ford, 'We Would Not Have Won' (but he didn't "mock' her)
Trump's '60 Minutes' interview causes the 'Fox & Friends' hosts' monocles to pop out ("very disrespectful" to ask questions)
Trump's ugly, dishonest CBS interview reveals GOP's predicament in midterms

Mar-a-Lago member gives $150,000 to help Trump aides mired in Mueller probe - POLITICO

Little Partisan Agreement on the Pressing Problems Facing the U.S. | Pew Research Center (out of 17 categories, Repubs lead in five: violent crim, drug addiction, the deficit! terrorism and ... immigration!! ... Only about half of registered voters younger than 30 (48%) say partisan control of Congress really matters, the lowest percentage for any age group and nearly 40 points lower than the share of voters 65 and older (83%) saying this. (and they will reap the boomer whirlwind)

White House not prepared for Democrat attack after election | McClatchy Washington Bureau - Republicans worry that Trump and his aides have no idea the hell that may await
GOP plays blame game while fighting to save House majority


Trump hangs 'Tacky' Fantasy Painting of Himself With GOP Presidents in White House - Rep. Darrell Issa gave the painting to Trump, who called artist Andy Thomas to say he really liked how he looked ... it shows a slimmed-down Trump ...
Trump painting: Andy Thomas's 'The Republican Club' seen at the White House - The Washington Post
Staz Trudeaux on Twitter: "Made it slightly more realistic. #60Minutes "

Trump Says Sears Was Mismanaged. Mnuchin Was on Its Board for Years - Bloomberg

Military Officials Aren't Supposed To Associate With Hate Groups. So Why Are These Generals Speaking at Frank Gaffney's Confab?

How Newt Gingrich Destroyed American Politics - The Atlantic - Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump's rise. Now he's reveling in his achievements

Elizabeth Warren releases results of DNA test on Native American ancesty - The Boston Globe
Warren releases DNA test suggesting distant Native American ancestor - The Washington Post
Elizabeth Warren Releases DNA Test Results : politics
Elizabeth Warren Mocks Donald Trump's Memory, Mental Capacity Over $1M Charity Pledge Denial ... and a doctor might need to help him after the president denied ever offering Warren $1 million for her favorite charity if she could prove her Native American heritage.

Elizabeth Warren DNA test: Trump responds to question of $1 million charity promise - The Washington Post
Warren reminds Trump he offered $1 million if she proved her Native American heritage, calls on him to donate it : politics ... Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, dismissed Warren's DNA test as "junk science" an early indication that Trump is not likely to follow through on the donation. (after he said he'd throw one at her very gently)
Trump denies offering $1 million for Warren DNA test, even though he did : politics - Give him until Wednesday and he'll start that "Pocahontas" shit right back up again ... In the end he'll claim that Hillary started the rumor that Warren doesn't have a native ancestor and boast that he proved that she does. "I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean."
Elizabeth Warren DNA test does NOT prove she's Native American, contrary to the hype (b/c wingnut lawyers know more than geneticists as they shift the goalposts to "she's not wearing a headdress")

Government spends millions to guard Confederate cemeteries

Attack Ads Against Some Democrats Try to Portray Them as Terrorists - The New York Times


Dammit Joe Biden and Michelle Obama, Stop Rehabilitating George W Bush! : politics


If You're Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be

MythBuster Adam Savage Busts The Biggest Myth About Voting In The Midterm Election | HuffPost - This might be the most important election in United States history



Texas Purges Thousands Of Voters To Help Ted Cruz Win Re-Election : politics

Kemp: Ridiculous To Suggest I Step Down For Stalling 53K Voter Registrations ("It's what old white racists elected me to do," he said)
This is live voter suppression : Black Voters Matter blocked from taking Georgia seniors to vote
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Voter Registration Extended for Four Georgia Counties | Georgia Public Broadcasting - due to Hurricane Michael (not massive voter-surpression)

Minnesota GOP Senate Contender Compared Michelle Obama To A 'Chimp' On Facebook | HuffPost
Minnesota GOP Senate Contender Compared Michelle Obama To A Chimp on Facebook


Poll: Democrats Surging in Pennsylvania - POLITICO Magazine - Health care is powering a blue comeback.
In Trump country, Republican candidates this year fall flat - The Washington Post ... Pennsylvania ... In nearby Iowa (they're using that famous map of how America looks to New Yorkers)

Next governor -- not Rick Scott -- to appoint new justices, court rules - a decision that raises the stakes on the governor's race with the winner possibly deciding the ideological balance of the court for years to come. (fucker tried to rig it)

Murphy staffer accused of sexual assault stayed in job for months after accuser was told he would be out | NJ.com

I shot a whole family of baboons: Idaho Fish and Game official faces fury after Africa trophy hunting boasts ("then I crushed the babies' heads with my jackboot!")

Police presence at Collins' Bangor home Monday afternoon after suspicious letter received

Manhattan Republicans Are Defending Their Invitation To A Violent Far-Right Group
NYPD Looks to Charge 9 "Proud Boys" With Assault for Manhattan Fight (Fox said they were Antifa)
Fox News on Twitter: "Antifa attacks again -- swords and vandalism at New York GOP office @FoxNewsNight (no lie too far for the Mouth of Satan)

Homeless in New York Public Schools at a Record High: 114,659 Students - The New York Times - One out of every 10 students lived in temporary housing during the last school year.


Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten sports a Make America Great Again t-shirt as he puffs on a cigarette | Daily Mail Online (to the core)


Woman Is Fired After Video Shows Her Blocking a Black Man From His Condo : news - She was so uncomfortable she followed this dude around for half an hour?
Woman Is Fired After Video Shows Her Blocking a Black Man From His Condo - The New York Times

Cops used 'Big Blue' dildo to harass men and women, so town says lawsuit should be tossed : news
Cruising (1980) - Full interrogation scene. - YouTube

DC woman who died after dog attack identified | WTOP - A 55-year-old D.C. woman died after she was attacked by what police say was a pitbull inside a Southeast home Sunday evening.

Surveillance video shows Lakeland city commissioner shooting alleged shoplifter



'You shouldn't be doing this' She was 16. He was 25. Should marrying a child be allowed? - Two attorneys who reviewed the video at the request of the Tampa Bay Times said it seems to contradict the idea that Dunn was in fear for his life when he fired.


Archaeologists find 'vampire burial' site of a child feared capable of rising from the dead


80% of diet, weight loss and sex supplements are tainted with unapproved drugs : science

Since the implementation of school-based HPV vaccination program in British Columbia, sexual risk behaviours reported by adolescent girls either reduced or stayed the same. These findings contribute evidence against any association between HPV vaccination and risky sexual behaviours. : science (making sure she won't get cancer turns her into a slut-machine)

Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis : science

A new study shows that the reason why a majority (76%) of us struggle to solve statistical problems is because of fixed mindset: we tend to stick with the familiar methods we previously learned in school, which could blind us to the existence and application of potentially simpler solutions. : science


The issue with nondualism : Dzogchen

Dune by Frank Herbert was AMAZING : books

People of Redddit, have you ever dated a celebrity, if so how did it go? Whats the story? [Serious] : AskReddit

'Do Not Track,' the privacy tool used by millions of people, doesn't do anything. : technology


Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer at age 65 : news (recurrence of non-Hodgkins's, died in two weeks)



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Rubio On Climate: 'Not Realistic' to Move Toward 'All Solar Panels' And 'All That Stuff' (dumb little fucker)

Large West Virginia coal mine with 400 workers closing : news


: Voters in Bavaria spurn Merkel's allies, boost parties on the left and right


Canadians Smoke a Lot of Pot Now. When It's Legal, How Will the Culture Change? - On Wednesday, after 95 years of prohibition, Canada will become the second country in the world to legalize cannabis, after Uruguay -- a country with less than one-10th its population. (NYT is afraid of pot, meanwhile, MA says maybe by 2029)
White House to unveil federal cannabis reform 'very soon,' says GOP lawmaker : bostontrees
Little variety in THC levels with different cannabis strains, says new study - Cowichan Valley Citizen : bostontrees
Chemometric Analysis of Cannabinoids: Chemotaxonomy and Domestication Syndrome | Scientific Reports


Joint statement on the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi by Foreign Ministers from the UK, France and Germany - GOV.UK - Joint Statement by the French, German and UK Foreign Ministers following the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi -- We encourage joint Saudi-Turkish efforts in that regard, and expect the Saudi Government to provide a complete and detailed response. We have conveyed this message directly to the Saudi authorities.

Saudis reject threats as stocks plunge after Trump comments
Oil could hit $200 or even double that figure': Saudis threaten to retaliate against any sanctions over Khashoggi disappearance The Saudi stock market lost $33 billion of its value on Sunday (bully boy tries to bully his way out)
Reality Breaks Up a (Saudi) Prince Charming's Media Narrative
Two princes: Kushner now faces a reckoning for Trump's bet on the heir to the Saudi throne (MBS and Kush cut from the same mold of dumbness)
Saudi Arabia's stock market plunges on fear of sanctions over Khashoggi : news
Saudis Threaten to Retaliate Against Punitive Action Over Critic - Bloomberg (by flying airplanes into more buildings)
Senators urge swift action if Saudi Arabia is found responsible for Khashoggi death - The Washington Post
a Saudi Prince's Glittering Showcase, Is Stained by a Grisly Accusation (pink is their color) <./a>
Money trumps all - The Washington Post

5-year jail, 3 million fine for rumormongers - Saudi Gazette - Sharing or spreading rumors or fake news that might affect public order and security is considered cybercrime punishable by 5-year imprisonment and SR 3 million fine, the Public Prosecution reiterated on Saturday (anything we don't like is fake news b/c Trumpster)

Trump with golden ball - Google Search

123 missing children recovered in Michigan, US Marshals Service says | St. Louis News | kmov.com

Trump suggests support for family separations, after earlier practice caused outcry - "I will say this: If they feel there will be separation, they don't come" (lying evil said)
G.O.P. Finds an Unexpectedly Potent Line of Attack: Immigration - The New York Times (white Americans love tearing kids aways from their parents and locking them up in little cages )

Today in American Ethnic Cleansing - Lawyers, Guns & Money - These fucking people: The White House is actively considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to cross illegally into the United States -- Miller will go down as one of the worst humans in American history, and as anyone who follows my grave series knows, that's stiff competition. And dollars to donuts (whatever that actually means) ... Maybe if the United States hadn't destroyed Central America through fruit company domination, CIA-led coups, an endless demand for drugs, and guns flowing over the US border south to the cartels, all these people wouldn't want to live here ... Miller and Sessions and Kelly and the other ethnic cleansers believe this will help gin up midterm votes for Republicans too (true, apparently b/c Republicans love/are evil and Americans don't remember anything)

G.O.P. Finds an Unexpectedly Potent Line of Attack: Immigration - The New York Times ... Trump: Democrats, he said, support "sanctuary cities of death" where "danger lurks around every corner" (there you go +idiot farmers have never been to an actual death city but will take Trump's word for it)


How the Secret Service Foiled an Assassination Plot Against Trump by ISIS - A pair of Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Trump open up about the anxieties of their jobs and a pair of credible assassination threats they stopped in Manila.

"Who did you vote for": Trump's welcome-home question for the US pastor released by Turkey -- "No matter what, It's all about Trump. Narcissistic piece of shit."

Stop worrying about a second civil war - The Washington Post - Americans are too pessimistic to believe war can solve our problems. (tell that to Republicans, please)

How to register to vote #RegisterToVote - Washington Post

Is Trump on a Collision Course With Impeachment? - The New York Times - Democrats are largely ducking the topic on the campaign trail, but few people in Washington doubt that it will be on the table if they win the House.

Trump Doesn't Comfort or Celebrate the Nation Very Well - The Atlantic - The New York billionaire seems unable to comfort the nation in times of tragedy or celebrate its moments of triumph.

SNL Mocks Kanye West's Weite House Visit With President Trump
SNL has skewered every president since Ford. All of them reacted the same way (until now)


CNN Poll: More see Trump win likely as Biden leads crowded Democratic field - CNNPolitics (will JoeBi fuck the dems again?)
Joe Biden's Endless Rumination About Running for President (lookin' old, Joe)

Zinke's calendar omissions date to his very first day in office (they all hit the ground grifting )

Will Kavanaugh Make Democrats Care About the Court? - Lawyers, Guns & Money (women, a little bit; men with no vaginas, not so much)
Why The House And Senate Are Moving In Opposite Directions | FiveThirtyEight - House battlegrounds are more educated than the country overall, while Senate ones are less so.

Opinion | The Center Is Sexier Than You Think - The New York Times - By Frank Bruni (stupid from the font of stupid)

GOP claims of voter fraud threat fuel worries about ballot access in November - The Washington Post

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's family benefited from U.S. program for minorities based on disputed ancestry - Wages says he is one-eighth Cherokee. An examination of government and tribal records by The Times and a leading Cherokee genealogist casts doubt on that claim, however. He is a member of a group called the Northern Cherokee Nation, which has no federal or state recognition as a legitimate tribe. It is considered a fraud by leaders of tribes that have federal recognition. (oh, his family is a bunch of "fake indians?" who profited from being fake? fake cherokees, even? call Elizabeth Warren and that Shiva dude and send him a genetic test)

Arizona election: Rep. Lesko takes down false 'fake doctor' signs - The reversal comes days after Tipirneni, a licensed physician and cancer-research advocate, strongly pushed back on the signs, calling Lesko's tactics "despicable" (but white doctor dudes love Trumpster)

The Register's endorsements for Congress: GOP has failed to govern; give Democrats a chance (Ioway)
Iowa Newspaper Says GOP Congressman Spends all his Time With 'Neo-Nazis' and 'Fascists', Endorses Democrats Instead : politics

House candidate Spanberger raises $3.6 million in latest quarter -- more than Rep. Brat's total for past two campaigns. (yeah, that asshole)

Ted Cruz makes a joke about Chappaquiddick at Joe Kennedy's expense .. "He had Joe Kennedy down here campaigning with him. And Joe Kennedy was driving him around. I have to admit, it may be the first time in history anyone's ever asked a Kennedy to drive"

Did Charlie Baker keep his campaign promises? - The Boston Globe

A senator snatched a student's while being asked about Georgia voter registration uproar (Perdue is a real asshole/Republican)
A senator snatched a student's phone while being asked about Georgia voter registration uproar (he never learns)

Arizona journalists debunk edited video used by conservatives to smear Democratic Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema (it's what they always do)



Max Boot Is Very Sorry for Backing the GOP and the Iraq Invasion. Why Is He Being Praised for This? ... Boot, a leading intellectual in the conservative movement for the past two decades, is now apologizing for nearly everything he has done and abided. He is denouncing not just Donald Trump, but the Republican Party as a whole. (show us the Bootster's fucking bald head, for Christ's sake)

University of Michigan punishes professor for boycotting Israel : news (punished for not recommending a student for a program he doesn't support but UMich supports Israel)


Savannah police on the case after Nathanael Greene Monument gets googly eye makeover - News - Savannah Morning News - Savannah, GA

Bear spray, bloody brawls at Patriot Prayer 'law and order' march in Portland | OregonLive.com


Woman confronts, blocks St. Louis man from entering his luxury downtown loft : news
Woman fired after video of her blocking man from entering his downtown loft goes viral | St. Louis News | kmov.com ... The video has over 2 million views and has been shared over 70,000 times. (Ambien Alice or Becky Building Guard and why is it always white women?)
Liveleak.com - Tenant Refuses Entry To Fellow Tenant


Little Rock's dangerous and illegal drug war (meanwhile, in the Confederacy) The vast majority of the warrants I reviewed were approved by two judges, both of whom who served the Little Rock District Court between 2016 and 2018. Alice Lightle signed most of the warrants from 2016 through her retirement at the end of April 2017. Hugh Finkelstein was appointed as her replacement and signed most of the warrants thereafter ... The court ruled 5-4 that even if police officers violate the knock-and-announce rule, they can still use any incriminating evidence they find against you (Scalia and Tony)

Trapped by the 'Walmart of Heroin' A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.
Antonella Barba, Point Pleasant's teen 'American Idol' star, accused of dealing heroin - The Jersey Shore native


Banishment of an acclaimed UC Irvine professor sparks debate over whether #MeToo can go too far - Los Angeles Times - For years, the professor told the assistant dean that she was beautiful and greeted her with hugs and a kiss on each cheek. (just a little Spanish affection) Elizabeth Loftus, a UCI professor of social ecology, law and cognitive science, said she found Ayala's hugs and cheek kisses "adorable" (the old lady who says people don't remember getting traumatized) Shipley, who said Ayala also on occasion rubbed his hands up and down her sides when hugging, viewed his behavior as "more than creepy" ... Others who witnessed Ayala's actions called them inappropriate. One called him a "dirty old man" ... Candace Hetzner, Boston College's associate dean for academic affairs who has spoken out about academic sexual harassment, said (it's fine for creepy old men to ask women to sit on their laps)


Nicole Maines on Becoming TV's First Transgender Superhero

Massachusetts Must Vote Yes on Ballot Question 3 to Protect Transgender Rights : boston
Ballot Question #3 - Clarifying Misconceptions About the Transgender Anti-Discrimination Ballot Question : boston

Cats v. Rats? In New York, the Rats Win - The New York Times - At a recycling plant in Brooklyn, fat, stealthy rats were more than a match for feral cats, scientists found.


A Map of Every Building in America - The New York Times (not really)


Not all nurses back ballot question to regulate staffing - The Boston Globe - an oft-cited survey from the nurses union says 86 percent of nurses support patient limits. But other nursing organizations oppose Question 1. (the 11th paragraph after tons of words about "flexibility" you can see what side the anti-union-except-for-cops Globe is on)

Could a pregnant woman's antidepressants cause autism in her child? (probably not and the risk factors vary)

Diabetics up to 10 times more likely to die from alcoholism, study warns. Sufferers are significantly more likely to die by suicide or from alcohol related issues because of the toll on their mental health caused by managing the condition, a study has found. : science

TIL that the Haast's Eagle went extinct 500 years ago, was the largest eagle to have ever existed, and evidence shows it may have occasionally preyed on humans. : todayilearned
Badass of the Week: Haast's Eagle

How can Radon be dangerous if it's a noble gas? : askscience


Anyone experienced getting recruited to the Odyssey Study Group? It's a cult. : boston

This 1944 US Military guide on courtesy to ladies : funny
OldSchoolCool: History's cool kids, looking fantastic

Older people of Reddit, what is something of the old days that you don't miss at all, but younger people tend to romanticize about? < br />
OP's mom joins a MLM scheme, OP learns their mom now sells dildos in the comments : bestof

Which subreddit makes you go, "Ahhh... I guess there's a sub for everything"? : AskReddit

Around 62% of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks. : technology




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EPA to Disband a Scientific Review Panel on Air Pollution : news (next step Trump will rebrand it as Environmental Destruction Agency)
US National Guard chief: 'The climate is changing. I do't know why" (shrug)

No Food, No FEMA: Hurricane Michael's Survivors Are Furious - Miles and miles of Florida are obliterated, leaving residents to fend for themselves with a lack of help from the government.
'We're back to frontier days': Micahel's aftermath in Florida
According to residents and officials in the hardest hit parts of Florida, FEMA isn't helping (they spent all the money on locking up kids in cages, sorry)

Magma River, Hawaii : gifs

FCC defends repeal in court, claims broadband isn't "telecommunications" (can't regulate it unless states try to regulate it because they won't)
No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This - The company knew about a privacy glitch and kept quiet. That has to stop. : technology


After journalist vanishes, focus shifts to young prince's 'dark' and bullying side ... While many royal males are educated abroad and rise in the Saudi military, or both, Mohammed attended King Saud University at home and quickly became a senior political aide to his father.
Saudi isolation grows over Khashoggi disappearance | World news : news
Can Saudi Arabia's 'great reformer' survive the death in the consulate? - The disappearance in Turkey of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has shaken confidence in Riyadh even among close allies
Trump Jr. promotes tweet smearing missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a secret terrorist ally (not far from the orange tree)
Donald Trump Jr. Peddles Tweet Linking Jamal Khashoggi To 'Jihadists' (you know, America-supported Afgans fighting Russian invasion but the Trump brains don't do history)
After the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's multi-million dollar public relations effort in the US is called into question : politics
Opinion | If a Prince Murders a Journalist, That's Not a Hiccup - In the end, Saudi Arabia played Kushner, Trump and his other American acolytes for suckers.

Death of American diplomat in Madagascar being investigated as homicide : news



ICE Is Sending Separated Children Home With No One To Pick Them Up | HuffPost - Immigration officials sent a 4-year-old separated child from the U.S. to Guatemala City without telling her family she was coming home. (fuckers)

40% of American middle class face poverty in retirement, study says (Reublicans to non-rich: retire and die)
40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement : politics
Icelandic woman tells Americans why she doesn't want to live in the USA


From the bowels of the White House he shrieked, hurled curses and tweeted bile -- because that's what demons do. YOU are the Exorcist. Vote Democrat for goodness' sake


U.S. Border Agency Says Hundreds of Employees Have Been Arrested Over 2 Years - The New York Times - More than 500 employees of the United States' primary border security agency were charged with drug trafficking, accepting bribes and a range of other crimes over a two-year period, (why, it's almost like ... )

Trump calls on blacks to 'honor' Republicans with votes, then praises Confederate general Robert E. Lee (Trump is sorry he lost and it's no longer a whistle, it's a mad-dog barking)
Trump praises Robert E. Lee during Ohio rally - POLITICO

Kushner Likely Paid No Federal Income Taxes for Years, Documents Show - The New York Times - Confidential documents reviewed by The Times indicate that Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, probably paid little or no income tax from 2009 to 2016. (drain the swamp, lock him up!)
How Jared Kushner Avoided Paying Taxes - The New York Times
Kushner Likely Paid No Federal Income Taxes for Years, Documents Show : politics
Lucky Ducky! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Like father-in-law, like son-in-law:
TOM THE DANCING BUG: Lucky Ducky, in "State of Denial" / Boing Boing


Adam Schiff: Republicans have abdicated their oversight duties. Time for a new majority. - The Washington Post

There's Been a George Soros for Every Era of Anti-Semitic Panic : politics
Jew Watch - Leaders - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Collins blasted 'dark money' groups in Kavanaugh fight. One just paid to thank her for her vote ... President Trump shakes hands with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) at the White House on Wednesday.

Brett Kavanagh on Twitter: "This is a terrible time to be named Brett Kavanagh"

Only simple men can see the lo gic in whatever smarter men can whittle down till you can fit it on a sticker - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Hmmm, I wonder if vote suppression guru and Trump-level conflict of interest Brian Kemp has anything to say for himself ... outside agitators! (union troops freeing the slaves)

'We've never seen anything like this': GOP overwhelmed by Democratic cash - The gush of spending in House races has triggered recriminations on the right as the party tries to salvage its majority.

Blue Wave Goodbye: Polls Show Crushing Midterm Defeats for Dems and a Maintained Republican Senate Majority In the Cards (Kavanaugh crushed Dem's hopes)

alicublog: MOB DERP. - This is the most concentrated pellet of IOKIYR in recorded history ... So Lewis, like other conservatives these days, shifts emphasis from radical policies to radical behavior, calling the Democrats a "mob" that assaults Republican politicians by telling them they don't ike them, which is what Hitler did. (the cogitive gap will only get wider)
Calling Democrats the 'Angry Mob' is Trump's Biggest Lie Yet

As Suburban Women Turn to Democrats, Many Suburban Men Stand With Trump - The New York Times - Robert Peters and George Fidelibus walked off the 18th green at the Golf Club of Dublin, then carried pints of beer to the patio overlooking the course, which was framed by $500,000 homes. (NYT does another lets someone to interview Trump voters in the dinner/country club) Mr. Kaplan, 63, who is a Republican activist, (who just happen to be Republican "activists" and Confederate monument supporters)

North Dakota soybean farmers, caught in the trade war, watch the season run out on their crop : politics (and they will still vote to fuck themselves next month)

Crackdowns on potential voter fraud fuel worries about ballot access in November - The Washington Post - GOP officials across the country are cracking down on what they describe as threats to voting integrity
In This State, Many Rural Voters Trust Strangers To Deliver Their Ballots ... "ballot harvesting" = helping old people/native americans vote

Matt McDermott on Twitter: "Full video of GOP candidate Scott Wagner threatening Gov. Tom Wolf: "You better put a catcher's mask on your face because I'm going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes." https://t.co/D3JtA6G8yT"
Twitter Users Jeer GOP Candidate Over 'Most Elitist Threat I've Ever Heard' | HuffPost ... "only thing more elitist would be to threaten democrats with a polo mallet"

Endorsement: Mike Coffman's morality must be rewarded in this age of Trump (DP endorses Trump Republican for "standing up to Trump")

Wardlow says he'd fire Democrats in Minnesota AG's office (fire them all for insufficient loyalty to the Trumpster!)

Florida Congressman Dupes Banks for Mortgages ... Republican Diaz-Balart's claim of Two 'Primary Rediences' in Miami and D.C. Violates Federal Lending Rules (lie, cheat, steal)
Miami Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart Under Mortgage Fraud Investigation | Miami New Times


How Taylor Swift's political endorsement could become the 'biggest ripple ever' at the polls : politics
Senior Citizens Mock Non-Voting Millenials in New Ad | Time

Members Of A Far-Right Men's Group Violently Beat Up Protesters And Weren't Arrested. New York Police Won't Say Why
Far-Right Proud Boys Kick, Punch People in New York (def not a "mob" +buttplugs)

Political tracker posed as Courier Times reporter at Scott Wallace event - News - Bucks County Courier Times - Levittown, PA (you have to read way down but yes he's a Republican)

How The 'NPC' Tries To Dehumanize 'SJWs'
The Meme the Gaming Community Created to Label SJW's Is Pretty Brilliant ("we're owning the libs, I tell you!"

Stephen Elliot Sues Moira Donegan, the Creator of the Shitty Media Men List


If Bret Stephens Columns Were A Food, They Would Be Spoiled Milk Poured Over Wonder Bread - Lawyers, Guns & Money ("tongue-piercing" is his misogyny)

A Stupid Death in a Stupid War: Remembering Michael Kelly - War is stupid. War kills people. War kills people in stupid ways, and in unanticipated ways, and in multiples. These are not complicated facts, but they were too complicated for Michael Kelly. They were too complicated for a lot of people, 10 years ago and, despite everything, remain so even now ... "The will of one man, George W. Bush, changed all this." (+oh shit, and Bret Stephens writing for the WSJ years before the NYT hired him to lie more)

The truth about the New Republic: Kinsley, Krauthammer, Oliver North and a liberal magazine's demented war on liberalism - TNR spent the '80s bed with Reagan and Ollie North, backing tax cuts, proxy wars -- and screwing liberalism hard ... "even the liberal New Republic" ... The ubiquitous presence of Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Morton Kondracke, Fred Barnes and Leon Wieseltier (and ...) Sullivan was deemed by some staff members to care more about posing for GAP ads than editing the actual magazine. The changes he did bring to the magazine were almost uniformly awful. He put a young man named Stephen Glass in charge of fact-checking, who turned out to be a serial plagiarist. He featured Charles Murray's racist pseudo-science on the cover and encouraged essays by Camille Paglia in which she wrote of "Hillary the man-woman and bitch goddess" (you can see how all this evolved)



New York Times scrambles to defuse a full-blown staff rebellion ... "This public fragging of journalists by a Times manager with a manufactured narrative of staff obstinacy -- should make every decent member of management cringe," ... Sulzberger said it didn't " land in his brain the same way it landed in the collective mind of the metro desk," (his brain IS the problem)


'Hurt me so deep': Cancer survivor says he was asked to hide face in South Carolina store : news

A White Woman, Teresa Klein, Called the Police on a Black Child She Falsely Said Groped Her - The New York Times - the video showed the child turning to someone behind him and his backpack brushing Ms. Klein's backside as she leaned over the counter ... "Cornerstore Caroline" ... Teresa Klein ... "I was just sexually assaulted by a child" ... "grabbed my ass" ... The public shaming of people who behave boorishly or spout racist views has become a feature of modern life in New York City, where nearly every person has a cellphone and residents are not shy about confronting one another, often in colorful language ... Facebook recording of the incident had been viewed 4 million times by Friday evening.
Kay Oldroyd on Twitter: "You're disgusting #teresasueklein - I really hope that somewhere inside of you, you feel some kind of regret and shame about your actions and the distress that you caused to this child and his family. #CornerstoneCaroline << they're everywhere ?? https://t.co/7NtmAgL4sC" ... mother said ... "nobody wanna grab your flat ass"
'Cornerstone Caroline' oughta be mortified right about now
A White Woman, Teresa Klein, Called the Police on a Black Child She Falsely Said Groped Her : news

Man run over by lawn mower while trying to kill son with chainsaw | WREG.com

Someone called 911 to report a gun -- but it was just a guy playing his bassoon

Retired firefighter found guilty for shooting at lost black teen on doorstep - In April WDIV reported that, according to court records, Zeigler faced 2006 charges that he aimed a firearm at a person (he was white so he was a "victim')

Central Texas man sentenced to 244 years in prison for raping 38-day-old daughter : news

22 year sentence for attempted murder after spiking girlfriend's milkshake with abortion pill

2-year-old girl mauled to death by family dog in Alvin : news


Justin Bieber a factor in Selena Gomez's trip to rehab, insider says (she looks about 9 years old )

Beverly Hills schools call on Trump administration to strip Purple Line funding - Curbed LA (Repubicans hate public transit)


FluidDATA Podcast Search Engine - transcript search for millions of podcasts (will find words in podcasts)


Having braces as an adult is like finding the fountain of youth - The Washington Post


Redditors over 60, what are some of the less noticeable changes you're witnessed in the world?
Married folk, what's the most underrated part of marriage? : AskReddit
A strong libido and bored by monogamy: the truth about women and sex | Life and style | The Guardian

Women of Reddit, aside from physical features what makes a guy attractive? : AskReddit




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Death toll in Hurricane Michael rises to at least 13 - The Boston Globe
Death Toll From Hurricane Michael Rises To 6 | HuffPost - "So many lives have been changed forever. So many families have lost everything," said Gov. Rick Scott (who like no government except him and doesn't really believe in your climate bullshit)
Hurricane Michael: Death, devastation in Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Carolinas - The Washington Post
On land of former slaves, a sturdy home gives shelter from the storm
Photo and video of catastrophic damage in Hurricane Michael's historic path


Foiled Paris bomb plot raises fears that Iran is planning attacks in Europe - The Washington Post

Khashoggi intrigue: A text from the Saudi ambassador, then silence - Axios
Trump, Khashoggi, and Saudi money: America deserves to know - Vox - His corruption is a national security issue.
'It's not a citizen' : Trump telegraphs a soft line on Jamal Khashoggi -- even as evidence becomes more damning
Trump Is at Fault for Jamal Khashoggi's Disappearance - The Atlantic
Khashoggi friend says journalist angered Saudi government with column - Khashoggi friend says journalist angered Saudi government with column during its 'charm campaign' (Trump enabled murderers)
Trump Calls 'Media The Enemy Of The People.' Maybe The Saudis Took Him Literally. - Khasoggi's fate may be tied to the president's habit of attacking the press, now mimicked by autocrats worldwide.(setting a good example for evil)
Jamie Dimon, Steve Mnuchin And Big Bank CEOs Set To Attend Saudi Conference Despite Journalist's Disappearance -- "Davos on the Desert" (is on! because evil capitalists)
Turkey reportedly has proof Saudi writer was killed - The Boston Globe
What makes Jamal Khashoggi's murder so depraved - its sheer brazenness. (enabled by the Trumpster's global war on truth)

Andrew Brunson: Turkish court orders release of U.S. pastor - The Washington Post


Eschaton: Good Guys, Bad Guys - The State Department might not be able to come out and say "sure, he's a bastard, but he's our bastard" but journalists can. Instead we tend to get a good dictator/bad dictator split coverage. The good ones are our good pals, the bad ones do truly horrible and despicable human rights violations just like the good ones.


Eschaton: We Feel A Bit Bad About The Gulags, But The Cons Left Us With Little Choice - The reasonable "overreach" argument is something like "oh wow George Bush wanted to privatize Social Security and the backlash to that brought voters to the polls and elected a bunch of Democrats." - The conservative version - which is taken very seriously - is more like "oh wow the liberals disrespected us on Twitter so we really had no choice but to start putting babies in cages. Their fault, really, the baby cages."


Pope Francis Accepts Resignation Of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl | HuffPost - Wuerl is accused of helping to protect some child-molesting priests while he was bishop of Pittsburgh.

Wilbur Ross Changes Story on Discussions of Citizenship Question for Census - The New York Times (oh, he lied? )

Why is the mob angry? Because Trump is ripping us apart with bigotry and hatred. - The Washington Post (and lies)

The attempted destruction of American democracy, an unending series - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Here's Every Word of Kanye's 10-Minute Monologue to Trump - Speaking in a nearly ten-minute run-on sentence (finally, the transcript of insanity: they are both 5 star free-associating ranters, and Ye pulls the "welfare queen" lie out of his head)
First lady has 'more important things to think about' than Trump's alleged affairs - ABC News ("and where he's sticking his mushroom")

'Hell On Earth': Celebrities Unload On Kanye West Over Bonkers Meeting With Donald Trump | HuffPost - "This is the most repulsive, disgraceful, embarrassing act of desperation & auctioning off of ones' soul to gain power I've ever seen"
Chelsea Peretti on Twitter: "hell on earth "
Republicans who clucked that Clinton and Obama disrespected the Oval Office never heard Kanye West's f-bomb (cluck-cluck)
Fox swooned over Kanye West at the White House. Here's how it covered rappers visiting Obama
Lana Del Rey Invites Azealia Banks to Come to Her House and Physically Fight Her, If She's So Tough - After singer/hot beef machine Azealia Banks criticized Lana Del Rey' criticism of Kanye West's MAGA hat ...
The Azealia Banks/Elon Musk/Grimes Drama Rages On - Banks called Grimes a "dirty-sneaker-inbred-out of the woods-Pabst beer pussy methhead-junkie" and Musk a "beta male who took steroids and got hairplugs to convince himself he was alpha"


I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October. You Should, Too | The New Yorker - It's not a reality show. It's real (it's a real reality show of evil)

A cartoon depicting Kavanaugh's daughter sparks a fierce backlash - "Kavanaugh is the one who ushered his own daughter into the national conversation by telling us his story" Britt said (+"social media" = "Russian trolls")
What the Black Men Who Identify With Brett Kavanaugh Miss - The Atlantic - When men of color see themselves in the embattled Supreme Court justice, they're not seeing the bigger picgture - If anyone has the right to complain about unproved allegations or cry #HimToo, it's black men. A report released last year, examining 1,900 exonerations over the past three decades, found that 47 percent of the people exonerated were black, despite the fact that blacks make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population. In sexual-assault cases, blacks accounted for 22 percent of convictions, but 59 percent of exonerations.
Protester Asks GOP Senator To 'Apologize' to Her Children -- His Response Makes Her Angry -- "Hey, guess what ... I know your parents are using you as tools." (owning the libs, hahah Daily Fucker)

Eschaton: Tucker's White Power Hour - I admit I got one wrong with Tucker Carlson. For some reason (not that it really a mattered) I thought hem ostly played a jerk on TV but he wasn't that much of a jerk. Sure he was a conservative asshole - I'm not pretending he was Good - but not, you know, Nazi level bad. Better than your typical conservative asshole even before they all embraced Nazis, even. - Who knows or cares what's in his heart but wow he's bad.

Clinton's Voters Were More Economically Anxious - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The fact that people of color in economic distress don't respond by voting Republican has always been one of the most obvious flaws in the whole "it was economic anxiety" narrative (your "liberal" media told us that b/c they are basically racist also) - "the electorally significant Trump voter is a union welder whose sister has a pill problem, the average Trump voter is a dentist with a boat"
Derp, They Did It Again - Lawyers, Guns & Money - An affluent white businesswoman with a long history of neoconfederate activism is basically the most overdetermined Trump supporter imaginable. How can you work at the NYT political desk and not know this? (see above)

The Epicenter of Republican Vulnerability in the House - Trump Is Hurting the GOP in Key Suburban Districts - The Atlantic - chances are dim in the districts Hillary Clinton won in 2016 -- Trump's fault
House Rating Changes: Post-Kavanaugh Polls Reveal an Even More Polarized Landscape | The Cook Political Report - House Republicans have seen more bright spots in the past week of polling since the Kavanaugh confirmation fight than they saw in over a month. (Kavanaugh insanely popular, will drive red wave)

John Kelly once reportedly called Elizabeth Warren 'impolite' and 'arrogant' - "She immediately began insulting our people accusing them of not following the court order, insulting and abusive behavior towards those covered by the pause, blah, blah, blah" (he could give a shit about your "laws" +for the local commenters and the BoGlo leaves out the biggest insult: "woman")

Four worthy endeavors for Democrats next year - The Washington Post - 1) ethics reform 2) daily press briefings from congress 3) update voting rights act 4) 1st amendment protection
Democratic Aide Arrested Advocating For Voting Rights In Texas | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC - YouTube

Beto O'Rourke breaks fundraising record, raises $38 million in 3 months - Axios - " No PACs, no special interests, no corporations. All people, all the time, everywhere, every single day."
No, Beto O'Rourke's insane $38 million fundraising haul does not mean he can win Texas

New emails reveal a central political motivation for changing the census - The Washington Post - Ross had also spoken with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, as shown in an email Kobach sent to the secretary. Kobach has long crusaded against the essentially nonexistent scourge of rampant voter fraud and served as the vice chairman of Trump's vogter fraud commission
GOP Split in Kansas Gives Democrats a Shot at Governor - The Atlantic - GOP moderates in the state have recoiled at the party's polarizing gubernatorial nominee, Kris Kobach, a staunch Trump ally.

The New Jim Crow - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The always invaluable Michelle Goldberg summarizes the attempts of Georgia to rig the 2018 election with a diverse array of vote suppression tactics:

Republican pair apparently pose as communists to make Democratic donation | US news | The Guardian - Men visit office of Arizona's Tom O'Halleran with jar of money in apparent effort to create link to far-left ("we're not commies, they''re commies" said the commies

He Settled a Sex Discrimination Complaint. Now He Wants to Lead Maine. - The New York Times - Mr. Shawn Moody, the Republican nominee in one of the country's most competitive races for governor. (sexual harassment is a qualification for Refucks)

The Daily 202: How Mike Bloomberg scared off Anthony Weiner from challenging him in 2009 - The Washington Post - As crazy as it sounds a decade later, Michael Bloomberg considered Anthony Weiner his most formidable potential challenger as he prepared to seek a third term as mayor of New York City in 2009. (Bloomfuck and Weinerdick)

Stanford GOP president John Rice-Cameron alleges assault - But on the other side of the country, her son, a Republican activist at Stanford University who's s a fan of President Trump, found himself in a fracas over his support for the newly confirmed justice ... John Rice-Cameron, the president of the Stanford College Republicans, is pressing charges against another student who he says shoved him in the chest Tuesday while he was displaying support for Kavanaugh on campus ... The student he accused, sophomore Melissa Hernandez, was given a citation for misdemeanor battery (talk about snowflakes, and looks like Susan should have stayed home and taught him not to be evil)

Witches to Hex Justice Kavanaugh in Occult Ritual in NYC

GOP Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate says he'll "stomp"on opponent's face with golf spikes (and E.W. is "impolite" and dems are a "mob")

Kyrsten Sinema: "Arizona Is Clearly The Meth Lab Of Democray" - YouTube (haha, CPP will pick this up)

California Today: Devin Nunes vs. The Fresno Bee - The New York Times

Connecticut Legislative Candidate Quits After Uproar Over Online Comments About Parkland Victims - Courant Community

Sherrod Brown reports huge fundraising haul in latest report - Sen. Sherrod Brown has raised nearly $27.1 million so far in his quest to receive a third term in the U.S. Senate


Incarcerated Pennsylvanians now have to pay $150 to read. We should all be outraged. - The Washington Post (Rethug/cop industry sadists)

Creator of notorious 'Media Men' list of anonymous sexual accusations is sued by writer who says it nearly ruined him - Stephen Elliot (maybe he shouldn't have abosed women? His ex says he did)


Merrimack Valley explosions intensify calls to wean state off gas - The Boston Globe
Sen. Markey rips Columbia Gas for response to Merrimack Valley fires, explosions - The Boston Globe (and boy, do the globie commenters hate Markey)


Causes of colorectal cancer: obesity may play a role - Vox - rising rates of obesity ... associated with inflammation in the body ... pro-inflammatory diets - heavy in processed meat, red meat, organ meat, sugary beverages, and refined grains




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GOP shrugs off dire study warning of global warming | TheHill
Global Warming: IPCC Doubles Down on Alarmism | National Review (for example +pic of fat Al Gore, they are desperate)

'Changed Forever' : Florida Panhandle devastated by Michael (not really, Blue States will pay to rebuild them, do it again next year)
Hurricane Michael: Death, destruction in Florida before violent storm moves to Georgia, Carolinas - The Washington Post
Hurricane Michael Was the Third Most Intense Continental U.S. Landfall on Record, an Unprecedented Location for a Category 4 Landfall | The Weather Channel
Florida's argest psychiatric hospital 'entirely cut off' by Hurricane Michael - Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, which had 1,400 people staying inside, was left with no way to communicate with first responders or the outside world.

Astronauts escape malfunctioning rocket : news


Top Corruption Investigator Shot Dead In Moscow Region

Turks tell U.S. officials they have audio and video recordings that support conclusion Khashoggi was killed - The Washington Post
EXCLUSIVE: Jamal Khashoggi dragged from consulate office, killed and dismembered | Middle East Eye
'Sweep it under the rug': Fears grow Trump won't confront Saudis over journalist's disappearance - 'If the Saudis don't come up with a credible answer to this, they're done in this town,' one D.C.-based analyst said (Trump is very jealous of journo-killing)
Trump resists limiting Saudi arms sales amid growing diplomatic crisis over journalist's disapearance (predictable)
Jamal Khashoggi: Crown prince sought to lure journalist back to Saudi Arabia and detain him, U.S. intercepts show - The Washington Post
The Latest: Senators trigger probe into missing Saudi writer - The Washington Post
Khashoggi's Disappearance Puts Kushner's Bet on Saudi Crown Prince at Risk
'I like them very much' : Trump has long-standing business ties with Saudis, who have boosted his hotels since he took office (it's always about him and his crooked business)
Saudi Journalist's Disappearance Sends Chill Through Foreign Investors, Firms - Companies and individuals are re-examining ties to crown prince
Only the Finest Foreign Policy - Lawyers, Guns & Money (you will kiss the orb!)
EXCLUSIVE: Jamal Khashoggi dragged from consulate office, killed and dismembered : news

Eschaton: Suddenly It Occurs To Me That Maybe The Saudi State Is Bad? - Be the darling of the US elite foreign policy establishment and then you have to go and slaughter someone Tom Friedman knows...


Secret deal with Turkey paves way for American pastor's release - North Carolina pastor Andrew Brunson is expected to be released in coming days after two years of detention in Turkey.


Dow and stock market turbulence continues - CNN

The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights | The New Yorker
APNewsBreak: Army expelled 500 immigrant recruits in 1 year (evil fuckers fucking good people over, constantly)

Judge questions 'highly unusual' Manafort plea deal with Mueller (Republican judge still fucking with trial)
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, is now a Democrat - Axios

Chief justice refers Kavanaugh ethics complaints to judges outside Washington - POLITICO

Memo to the media: Stop spreading Trump's fake news - On Wednesday, USA Today published a piece by Trump in which "almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood,"

Trump, no longer ratings gold, loses his prime-time spot on Fox News - POLITICO - In a crucial period with the midterms less than a month away, some in the White House are worried that the president is losing a megaphone to his base.
Economic Anxiety Didn't Elect Trump and It May Hurt His Party in the Midterms - The president is less popular than overall growth would predict (stupidity and racism did the trick but tax cuts for the rich didn't help stupid racists)
Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia as crowd chants 'lock her up' (she did it! not me!)

John Kelly Called Elizabeth Warren An "Impolite Arrogant Woman" in An Email (in case you're wondering why he's still with the AntiChrist)

Another day in paradise - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Text summary for those who don't like to watch
Air Force Won't Say Whether It Will Replace Air Force One With Kanye's Hydrogen-Powered iPlane
Kanye West Storms D.C. Apple Store, Gives 'Keynote Speech' on Table, Says He' Leaving for Africa ("and I'm definitely not bi-polar," he said)
Opinion | I Loved Kanye West and Hated Taylor Swift. Then 2018 Happened. - The New York Times - Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I would ever side with Swifties.
Kanye West Meets with President Trump in Oval Office While Congress Confirms His Controversial Appointments ... "Yeezy ideation centers." ... Meanwhile, down at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, and while people were piecing through the rubble of the Florida Panhandle, the Senate was confirming a climate denier to lead the Justice Department's environmental division ... Also, the Senate confirmed a guy named Eric Drieband to be the assistant attorney general for civil rights (who hates civil rights, of course)

Jim Acosta on Twitter: "This looks a lot like the pic I tweeted earlier today. ?? (note the lady with the sunglasses in the left side of the photo) https://t.co/uE280q39uT" (Trump steals reporter he hates' tweet)
????VOTE! 26 Days???? on Twitter: "Did you see the ad for tonight? " (Trump pay $100/person to stand in line for his rally so he can tweet the pic of all the people standing in line for his rally but you have to be white)


The Aristocrats - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It goes on like that for a long, long time, and it is all completely bonkers. (our moronocracy)
"...the thrum of vindictive satisfaction" - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "The underlying principle here is that the men who have been accused are the heroes, and that those who accuse them, and listen to the accusations, are the villains."

The voter, an Italian who has lived in the U.S. since 1985, said he did't check whether he was ineligible. (millions!)

One Year of #MeToo: What Women's Speech Is Still Not Allowed to Do (it's a moment, not a movement, enraged men say)
Stephen Elliott Sues Spreadsheet Creator Moira Donegan
What 5 Shitty Media Men Think of Stephen Elliott's Lawsuit Against Moira Donegan

Rep. Steve Scalise: When Eric Holder, other Dems call for violence, that's a direct threat to our democracy (but when Trump does it, it's ok)
Yes, It's A Mob. one thing to have activists act like bullies, another things for Democrats to egg them on. (Trump considers martial law to control the "mob" of libs)
Progressive Mobs Dangerous, Even If Democrats Pretend Otherwise | National Review (it's a mob, we tell you!)
#NeverTrump becomes #Trump, an endless series - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Principled Trump opponent David French argues that lefty protestors are much worse than the president of the United States arguing that his political opponents should be put in prison:
Roy Edroso on Twitter: "David French is always full of shit, but today he's so full of shit that JONATHAN CHAIT is calling him out

Democrats aim for big gains in state legislatures | TheHill (repairing float-above-it-all-non-partisan Barry's damage)
Republicans Abandon Vulnerable Lawmakers, Striving to Keep House - The New York Times
With Ann Kirkpatrick ahead in CD2 polling, GOP pulls TV time in Tucson

Poll: Gov. Walker of Wisconsin trails in re-election bid - Democrat Tony Evers has 53 percent support from likely voters, while Scott Walker, the Republican incumbent, has 43 percent.
How the NBC/Marist poll of Wisconsin is different than Marquette's - Our NBC News/Marist poll of Wisconsin shows Democrat Tony Evers leading Republican Gov. Scott Walker by 10 points in a head-to-head contest, and by 8 points in an expanded ballot that includes the Libertarian and Green Party candidates. A day earlier, however, a Marquette Law School poll had Walker ahead by 1 point.
Evaluating Enthusiasm With Less Than a Month to Go | The Cook Political Report (Refucks more "fired up" than their teaparty wave)

Adelson drops tens of millions more to save the GOP Congress - POLITICO (Satan's hand at work, buries Bloomberg)

Democrats are now forbidden by law from controlling more than one half of one branch of government - The Washington Post

GOP closes in on Heitkamp knockout -- and control of the Senate -- The North Dakota Democrat is down in polls. And if she loses, Democrats can all but kiss their hopes of winning the Senate goodbye.

As laughable claims go, Collins' talk of fundraising 'extoriton takes the cake - The senator, who has benefited from copious donations, dismisses a legitimate crowdfunding effort to buoy a future opponent as a 'bribe' - Then, in her interview with Pelley over the weekend, she went full Pollyanna with her lament that "people" are trying to use their money (gasp) to affect what happens on Capitol Hill ... Since she first ran for the Senate in 1995, according to OpenSecrets, Collins has taken in $21,244,022 in donations from all kinds of "people."

Bredesen Campaign Workers Admit on Video 'Fibber Phil' Lied about Kavanaugh Vote in 'Poolitical Move' to 'Make Up Those Points'
Volunteers bolt Bredesen over Kavanaugh support - POLITICO - "I felt torpedoed by that statement" (another dumb dem torpedos himself)

Ted Cruz Rejects CNN Town Hall; Beto O'Rourke Will Get Full Hour | HuffPost ("unable to participate" = "chickened out")
Cruz Aide Worked for Dictator Now on Trial for Crimes Against Humanity

Voting Rights Become A Flashpoint In Georgia Governor's Race | HuffPost - Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, is in charge of elections and voter registration in Georgia. (what could go wrong with that?)
Stacey Abrams campaign demands GOP's Kemp resign as Georgia secretary of state amid voter registration uproar

Poll: Miami Democrat Shalala trailing Republican Salazar | Miami Herald - in a district Trump lost badly (Shalalalalala off the cliff, anyone else would have won)

A Minnesota Republican snatched his opponent's mic, then dropped it in front of her

Ted Nesi on Twitter: "Last week in R.I. politics: independent governor candidate is taken in on drug charges. Today in R.I. politics: different independent governor candidate admits he punched the Speaker of the House when the speaker was a teen. https://t.co/LoVNw8djgR"


Second Massachusetts Drug Testing Lab Technician Implicated in Evidence Scandal for Justice System - The 'War' on Drugs Corrupts Everything It Touches - It's not just that it's never made sense ... Farak's tampering with evidence samples to feed her drug habit and the subsequent failure by two former assistant attorneys general to share what they learned about Farak's personal history ... cost of Dookhan's and Farak's misdeeds could be "north of 10 million" which is pretty north indeed. (Charlie Fucker says he will cut services to pay for it)


Harvey Weinstein Bombshell: Detective Didn't Tell D.A. About Witness Who Said Sex-Assault Accuser Consented - A year and a day after she went public, Lucia Evan's llegation she was forced to perform oral sex was tossed by a judge.


Lost 14-year-old boy asking for directions gets shot at. Shooter on trial for attempted murder. [SFW] : videos - Fat, white, shirtless and a pump action. You couldn't write a more stereotypical white trash racist if you tried lol.


Marriott hotel strike leads to mass employee walkouts : news

The Secrets of Getting Into Harvard Were Once Closely Guarded. That's About to Change - Trial beginning Monday will examine how the elite institution uses race to shape its student body; decision could upend practices of other colleges - This year, 42,749 students applied to Harvard College, and only 1,962 were admitted. How Harvard decides who makes the cut has long been a mystery.


The Viral Story About A Competitive Barefoot Runner Demanding People Sweep Up Acorns Is A Hoax
Alex ACORNover on Twitter: "This post in my neighborhood FB group is getting absolutely destroyed "


NTSB report: Overpressurized gas lines caused Lawrence-area explosions, fires - The Boston Globe (well, no shit, that took you a month?)


3rd State Police trooper pleads guilty in federal bogus OT case - The Boston Globe

Fall River Mayor says he's innocent of fraud charges, won't be resigning - Fall River Mayor Jasiel F. Correia II allegedly stole more than $230,000 from people who invested in his Internet startup, using their funds not for the business but for personal expenses including a Mercedes-Benz, designer clothes, and adult entertainment, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday. (yeah, totally innocent)
FBI Boston: Special agents have arrested Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia earlier this a.m. on charges he defrauded investors & used funds to pay for lavish lifestyle & political campaign. : boston

Boston ranks #5 on the "Broom Closet Index," an index that rates your likelihood of living in a cramped space. : boston -- NYC, SF, LA, Miami, Boston - 666 sqft -- Seattle, Portland, DC, Chicago, Philly, Tucson ...

Cleveland Circle merchants, BC and some residents vow to fight bar's conversion into a pot shop : boston (20 liquor stores ok)

Color Photos That Show What Boston Looked Like in the Early 1960s : boston

Here's why you should VOTE NO on Question 1 : boston (or yes, after reading all the comments)

Truck driver facing charges for crash in Cambridge that killed pedestrian, 27 : boston

O'Malley broadens review of sexual misconduct allegations at seminaries, hires outside law firm

In a Suffolk courtroom, tears of rage follow cries of remorse - The Boston Globe - Xiao Ying Zhou looked up at the woman she struck with her SUV two years ago, the woman she dragged for more than three miles through the streets, and wept.


Experts in violence prevention say transgender law protects people, doesn't endanger women
Karen White: Transgender prisoner jailed for life for sexually assaulting female inmates and raping two other women : news


Lung cancer deaths are 28 percent lower in California compared to the rest of the country and the gap is widening each year by almost a percentage point. The State's long-term, aggressive tobacco control programs are cited as the primary reason.

Growing up in a house full of books is major boost to literacy and numeracy, study finds : books

Percentage of young U.S. children who don't receive any vaccines has quadrupled since 2001 - Of children born in 2015, 1.3 percent had not received any of the recommended vaccinations, according to a CDC analysis of a national 2017 immunization survey (walking death-bombs)

ELI5: Why do showers/baths refresh and energize? : explainlikeimfive

The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it's too late : technology

Cancer is so expensive to treat that 42% of patients deplete their entire life's assets to afford treatment within the first 2 years, according to a new study. Patients faced higher likelihood of asset depletion with worsening cancer, continuing treatment, and increasing age. : science - congrats American citizen. you have cancer. You and your family will also be broke soon and you'll die leaving them penniless. 'murka


The Story of Kony 2012 | Internet Historian : videos
Former Reddit product head Dan McComas: 'I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place' : technology

What was your 'once in a lifetime' experience? : AskReddit
What is the most undeserved post to ever make the front page? : AskReddit


Facebook purged over 800 accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit - The Washington Post
Made and Distributed in the U.S.A.: Online Disinformation - The New York Times
Eschaton: Fox News Always Was - Coverage of Obama elsewhere in the media was more...normal. It was good and bad in complicated ways but not insanely one sided. But the sharp contrast with how Fox covered things made the differences impossible to ignore. Fox didn't change, though, everybody else did.



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Administration mum on climate change report as Trump says: 'I want to look at who drew it' (and what color crayons they used)

Hurricane Michael forecast: 'Catastrophic' storm hits Mexico Beach - The Washington Post -- Record-setting storm charges inland toward Georgia, unleashing hurricane-force winds
Florida Panhandle Bracing for Category 4 Hit from Michael by Bob Henson | Category 6 | Weather Underground
Hurricane Michael forecast: 'Potentially catastrophic' storm could become the strongest on record to strike Florida Panhandle - It would be the first time a Category 4 hurricane strikes the Florida Panhandle since records began in 1851. (and you know what Rick Scott thinks of AGW)


Opinion | Why Is Israel Scared of This Young American? - The New York Times - Societies that bar their critics aren't protecting themselves. They are advertising their weakness. (Stephens/Weiss)


Saudis are said to have lain in wait for Jamal Khashoggi - The Washington Post
Turkish Officials Say Khashoggi Was Killed on Order of Saudi Leadership - The New York Times
Welcome to the jungle - The Washington Post - Sometimes a particular event, the fate of a particular individual, becomes a symbol of a global, historical trend. The reported murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Post contributor, in a consulate in Istanbul is one of thosem loloments. It symbolizes the departure of the United States as a restraining force against evil actors in the world
Turkish video shows Saudi team accused in Jamal Khashoggi disappearance - The Washington Post
Images surface of Saudis allegedly sent to target writer
Naming Names, Turks Turn Up Heat on Saudis in Consulate Case - The New York Times

How Trump enabled the abuses of Saudi Arabia's crown prince
Why Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance will haunt the Saudi government - Elliot Fucking Abrams


A Trio of Wealthy Russians Made an Enemy of Putin. Now They're All Dead - Nikolai Glushkov, a close associate of the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, was preparing to testify that Aeroflot was a corrupt instrument of Russian intelligence

Russian Whistleblower Assassinated After Uncovering $200 Billion Dirty-Money Scandal - Andrei Kozlov was gunned down in 2006, weeks after trying to shutter the world's biggest money-laundering scam -- one reportedly used by Putin's family and the FSB


What'ss the Real Reason Nikki Haley Resigned as U.N. Ambassador?

Abrupt release of hundreds of migrants in Phoenix is 'start of dam breaking' -- "You'll start to see this all across the southern border soon" (kicked out into the street with no money, no directions and an ankle bracelet! - your fucking Trump mother fuckers at work)

The US Is Set To Deport Witnesses Who Dispute The Border Patrol's Version Of A Fatal Shooting - The migrant men have told authorities there was no attack on the agent who killed Claudia Patricia Gsmez Gonzalez, according to the Guatemalan consul. (enabling total evil)


Rosenstein-McCabe feud dates back to angry standoff in front of Mueller - The Washington Post
Late GOP Activist Peter W. Smith Met With Former Trump Adviser Michael Flynn in 2015 - WSJ - New email and interviews indicate the Republican operative who sought to obtain Hillary Clinton's emails had established a relationship with Mr. Flynn


How Trump views his Cabinet hires as a casting call - Axios (as actors on his reality show)
Trump talked with Jeff Sessions's own chief of staff about replacing him as attorney general

Trump's Patron-in-Chief : Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has never been more powerful. The Trump administration has advanced his ideological and financial interests, including an assist in his quest to build a casino in Japan. (another face of evil, up there with Murdoch)



Wave watch: Democratic primary turnout should have Republicans worried - Axios
Dems appear more fired up than Republicans over Kavanaugh nomination: poll | TheHill (two days ago, it was a huge red Kavanaugh wave)

Conway: Blue wave forecasts coming from 'same geniouses' who predicted Clinton win (what will she say next month?)
Kavanaugh Casualties: The Left, Never Trumpers, #MeToo | National Review - In tatters: The mainstream Left, Never Trumpers, conventional wisdom, #MeToo, the media . . . (huge victory, all women will vote for Trump)

It's Not Just Antifa: Now GOP Wants to Lock Up Liberal Women -- Rhetoric once reserved for the radical left is now leveled against more mainstream protesters who challenge conservatives like Trump and Kavanaugh.

Voting Rights Become A Flashpoint In Georgia Governor's Race (black people deleted)

Brett Kavanaugh Didn't Buy His URL. It's Now A Resource For Sexual Assault Survivors. | HuffPost

Stephen Miller's Third-Grade Teacher: He Was a "Loner" and Ate Glue

Joe Biden: Campaign Supergenius - Lawyers, Guns & Money (he's giving W a medalfor creating a lot of injured and underserved veterans in a tragic, useless war that destabilzed the ME and cost $2+ trillion)

Quam's mic grab creates a commotion - ncumbent GOP state Rep. Duane Quam grabs the microphone from the hand of DFL challenger Jamie Mahlberg during a legislative form held by the League of Women Voters Rochester Monday ... Quam, an engineer and Byron resident, is seeking a fifth two-year term in the Minnesota House of Representatives,


Dan Bongino Devotes His Life to 'Owning the Libs.' Trump Hangs on His Every Word - Inside the remarkable, insane rise of a thrice-failed congressional candidate to Trump whisperer.


What Do The Worst-Run States Have In Common? They're Run By Tax-And-Spend Democrats (MA fourth from the bottom of worst states in the country, NE and SD are the best states to live in!)


Rockland County man arrested for building 200-pound bomb, plotting to detonate it in DC on election day - NY Daily News


Should women be spelt womxn? - BBC News - Suzie Leighton said she would not be referred to as a womxn until men became mxn.

Intellectual Dark Web Frays After Jordan Peterson Tweets Critically About Brett Kavanaugh ... Scott Adams, voice of internet Trumpism, said in a video that he was stunned by the idea that Peterson opposed Kavanaugh taking a seat on the court.


Japanese people of Reddit, what are things you don't get about western people? : AskReddit

Guys of Reddit, what's the worst thing about being a guy? [Serious]

Who was your most boring/awkward sexual partner? What made them so bad in bed? : AskReddit

What is perfectly legal but creepy as hell? : AskReddit

Wholesome comment chain of reddit users posting videos of bands realizing the first time that they've made it. : bestof

TIL that there is a monument in Georgia which gives instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society after an unknown apocalyptic event, whilst also functioning as a compass, calendar and clock : todayilearned

125-year-old Sears to file for bankruptcy: report : news
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Google's new phone software aims to end telemarketer calls for good : technology

Soldiers in Facebook's War on Fake News Are Feeling Overrun (all nine of them)
Facebook Isn't Sorry It Just Wants Your Daa -- Facebook knows us well enough to know the truth: We don't care enough about our privacy to stop using it.




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The planet is on a fast path to destruction. The media must cover this like it's the only story that matters. (well, one side says this, the other says that)
Our planet is in crisis. We don't have time for Trump's foolishness (you mean pure evil)

Hurricane Michael strengthens to Category 3 storm - The Boston Globe
These maps shed light on when and where Hurricane Michael will hit - The Boston Globe
Hurricane Michael Takes Aim At North Florida While Strengthening Into Category 2 | HuffPost - The storm is expected to strike the Panhandle on Wednesday as a major hurricane.
Hurricane Michael Intensifies to Category 2; May Be Florida Panhandle's Strongest Landfall in 13 Years Wednesday | The Weather Channel

Rare, polio-like paralyzing disorder affecting children on the rise, CDC says : news


State pension age rise: thousands of women expected to join march | Money | The Guardian - Parliament protest comes as anger rises among the 3.9m UK women affected by the changes (Tories raise pension age from 60 to 66, don't tell anyone, leaving thousands of women destiture)


Opinion | Trump Gives Dictators the Green Light - The New York Times - No wonder Saudi Arabia feels emboldened.
Evidence of what happened to Jamal Khashoggi exists. It must be released. - The Washington Post - Turkish officials also have disseminated a report that 15 Saudi nationals flew into Istanbul on the day of Mr. Khashoggi's disappearance and were inside the consulate when Mr. Khashoggi disappeared (Saudi death Squad)
Turkey prepares to search Saudi Consulate for missing journalist - as officials from the kingdom said they would agree to allow local authorities to search the premises. (as soon as they clean up all the blood and finish dumping cut up body parts down the tollet)
Khashoggi case: CCTV disappears from Saudi consulate in Turkey | World news | The Guardian - Security footage removed and Turkish staff told to go home on day missing journalist visits
Turkish Investigation of Missing Saudi Journalist Shifts Focus to Mercedes Van - WSJ - Police are examining possibility that Jamal Khashoggi was abducted and carried away, alive or dead, in vehicle seen at consulate in video footage


US student detained in Israel for alleged boycott support - In a first-of-its-kind case, Israel has held an American graduate student at its international airport for a whole week, accusing her of supporting a Palestinian-led boycott movement against the Jewish state. - Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old American citizen with Palestinian grandparents, landed at Ben-Gurion Airport last Tuesday with a valid student visa. (Netanfuckyu, encouraged by the Trumpster)


Infamous St. Petersburg 'Troll Factory' Set on Fire

A year after it began, has #MeToo become a global movement? - The Washington Post - But for all the early anticipation that things had changed forever, in many countries the #MeToo movement either fizzled or never took flight ... In Russia, sub-Saharan Africa and China, the #MeToo movement has struggled to take off ... a group of women stripped naked in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, hoisting a sign saying "Harvey Weinstein Welcome to Russia" .
After a Long Wait, India's #MeToo Movement Suddenly Takes Off -- Over the weekend, for example, more than 30 girls at a rural school in northern India were beaten up by local boys and some of their parents after trying to stop months of harassment and lewd graffiti. (shaking the patriarchy)


Migrant Children in Search of Justice: A 2-Year-Old's Day in Immigration Court (truely, the party of Satan)
They Want to Steal My Daughter : Deported Parents May Lose Kids to Adoption, AP Report Finds ("may")

ICE Arrests Miami Man Who Lost Wallet in Ohio | Miami New Times (meanwhile, in Trumpland)


Trump Campaign Aide Requested Online Manipulation Plans From Israeli Intelligence Firm - The New York Times (Rick Gates)

8 Questions About Social Security Answered as Election Day Nears - The New York Times


Trump says 'no one more competent in the world' than daughter Ivanka to replace Nikki Hayley as UN ambassador : politics
Megathread: President Trump accepts resignation of UN ambassador Nikki Haley, prepare to meet in the Oval Office : politics
Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation
Nikki Haley has up to $1 million in debt as she steps down as U.N. ambassador | News | postandcourier.com
Watchdog wants investigation of Nikki Haley's private jet flights to SC | Palmetto Politics | postandcourier.com (lock her up and deport her)
Ethics watchdog questions Nikki Haley's private plane flights
'Something doesn't smell right': The curious timing of Nikki Haley's exit ... But she and the White House chose to announce this four weeks before the 2018 election? The White House is effectively announcing the exit of its most popular Cabinet official
Jonathan Swan on Twitter: "And a number of senior foreign policy officials were blindsided "
Nikki Haley Resigns as Trump's U.N. Ambassador - Is There a More Sinister Plot in the Works? - One thing we do know: the now-former U.N. ambassador is one of a handful to leave Trumpworld in one piece.


While Mueller Stays Quiet, Suspicious Trump - Russia Clues Keep Popping Up (Chait) - Smith died in 2017, very shortly after being contacted by a reporter, bearing a suicide note explaining that he had a "life insurance of $5 million expiring" and his suicide involved "no foul play whatsoever." (and "Trump and the Russians definitely didn't kill me.") ... As Betsy Woodruff reported earlier this summer, and as Ryan Goodman noted, Mueller recently added to his team attorney Kathryn Rakoczy, "best known for her work on violent crime cases.." This would support the likelihood that Mueller is investigating Smith's death as a murder ... (+yes, he's been Russian oligarch-financed since his dad died)
While Mueller Stays Quiet, Suspicious Trump-Russia Clues Keep Popping Up - The projection of the Clinton and Seth Rich talking point comes into view - It's easy to suspect others of murder when you yourself would consider it.


The past 48 hours in Mueller investigation news, explained : politics
Opinion | The Mueller Investigation Is Bigger Than Rod Rosenstein - The New York Times - Even if he got fired, a replacement dead set on shutting down the investigation would find it nearly impossible to pull off.

Opinion | The Paranoid Style in G.O.P. Politics - The New York Times - Republicans are an authoritarian regime in waiting (Rethugs love their dictators)

After selling off his father's properties, Trump embraced unorthodox strategies to expand his empire ("unorthodox" = "totally crooked")
Trump Organization "at its core a criminal enterprise" : politics (you did it, America!)

President Trump tells police chiefs to bring back 'stop and frisk' policies : news (make America even more racist again)

The President Who Cried Hoax: Trump's Seven Biggest Conspiracy Calls : politics

It must be very strange to be slumlord and professional son-in-law Jared Kushner - Lawyers, Guns & Money



Trump officials plan maintenance downtime for healthcare.gov during ObamaCare sign-ups : politics (hahaha fuck you +not the first time, either)

GOP's Toasts to Kavanaugh Are Unspeakably Cruel - Political gloating is normal. Mocking human suffering is not.
Senator John Cornyn on Twitter: "Not quite #Beers4Brett but #Bubbly4Brett instead " (beers for rapists)

The dark side of American conservatism has taken over - The Washington Post (it was always dark, Max, but glad to see you completing with Jennifer for reformed evil)
The corruption of the GOP is complete: So what's Plan B? (duh, profit!)

Amid Kavanaugh uproar, changes to Congress's sexual harassment rules stall (Rethugs considering tax-cuts for harassers)
Republicans Threaten Lawsuit After Bar Declines to Host Pro-Kavanaugh Beers 4 Brett Party

Et tu, Dreyfus? - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Kav is just the same as a persecuted Jew!)

The one conspiracy theory that Republicans won't believe - Trump's personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani amplified the conspiracy theory, retweeting a comment calling Soros "the anti-Christ" and urging that his assets be frozen. Other Republican pundits also called for the survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary to be jailed and his wealth seized. (Ghouliani is a mouth of Satan, agrees w/Putin, sez Trump not the Beast from the Earth with the best instincts, it's an 87 yr-old Holocaust survivor! volcanoize the fucker)


Eschaton: The Smart Thing To Do Is Vote For The Child Molester - What would it take for you to vote for a Republican for, say, senator? Or be so disgusted with the alternative that you just wouldn't vote?


Brett Kavanaugh Swearing-in at White House - John Roberts and Rest of Supreme Court Justices Should Not Have Attended - The Worst Part of the Swearing-In Puppet Show Wasn't Brett Kavanaugh - It was the other eight justices of the United States Supreme Court. (good point)
POLITICO race ratings: The GOP House is crumbling - There are now 209 seats either firmly or leaning in the Democratic column (Republicans lead by 9 seats, sex politico!)
This is not what a pro-Kavanaugh electoral backlash looks like - The Washington Post
A blue wave next month could be the start of a progressive sea change : politics
A Big Blue Wave Could Overwhelm The GOP's Advantage In The House
CNN poll: Democrats are fired up and maintain a strong 2018 lead - CNNPolitics - with 54% of likely voters saying they support the Democrat in their district and 41% backing a Republican (women twice as likely to vote Dem but Trump sez red wave for sure because angry bitches)

'An angry mob': Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy (meeting with Trump to consider martial law and suspending elections)

Avenatti hits back at Trump Jr. over Anthony Weiner insult: You'll be indicted
EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler Engaged With Racist, Conspiratorial Posts On Social Media | HuffPost - The agency head brushed off his interactions with a Pizzagater and said he doesn't remember liking a racist picture of the Obamas.

Kavanaugh confirmation fight spurs huge spike in election fundraising - Axios - The Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight has led to a huge increase in donations to Democrats and groups that support them -- and Republicans say the battle has been good for their fundraising, too. (but they aren't releasing any numbers b/c they lie)

Sen. Collins' vote on Kavanaugh triggers calls to boycott Maine - Angry over the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, some customers and tourists vow to stay away from the state and its products ... "Many people have thanked me for my vote and have said that they were very pleased that I did the right thing" ... On Monday, it appeared there were still so many calls to her office that messages couldn't be left, and the website was down at one point for maintenance. (Susie Doozy lied again)
Susan Collins's wrong claim on Planned Parenthood and Supreme Court justices (little dancin' Susie lies, all the time)
Want to challenge Susan Collins in 2020? Get in line. - The Washington Post - Half a dozen Democratic prospects are openly considering running against the Republican political powerhouse, while an online fund has generated $3.6 million -- and counting -- or Collin's ultimate Democratic challenger ... In voting with her party, Collins exploded the myth that there is a viable moderate wing of the GOP at the national level. (She also voted for the Trump tax cuts.)

The Bredesen Situation - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Remember that it was Manchin threatening to quit the Senate that undermined the Democrat's attempt to shut down the government over immigration. But given the limitations of our political system, we are kind of stuck with people like this. And compared to who they are running against, I can't really get this kind of sentiment at all: (MoveOn will give all their money to Jill stein)

Women running for office: Which candidates could win in the 2018 midterms - Washington Post

Wisconsin Senate Race Debate Proves Every Race Is Referendum on Scott Walker - Tammy Baldwin and Leah Vukmir - That includes the senate race between Tammy Baldwin and Leah Vukmir.

Ted Cruz declines, so challenger Beto O'Rourke gets an hour on national TV by himself (slimey Ted slinks off)
TED CRUZ FOR HUMAN PRESIDENT
New ad suggests Ted Cruz not tough as Texas ("you let Trump bite you in the ass")
Ted Cruz should have dragged Trump out by the woodshed,
New Ad Shreds Ted Cruz's 'Tough As Texas' Campaign Slogan | HuffPost (HuffPo steals ad, puts ad in front of it so you can't watch it with an adblocker)

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan leads Democrat Ben Jealous by 20 points, Post-U. Md. poll finds - The Washington Post

politico playbook: Democrats reach into deep red Arkansas
11Alive poll: Georgia voters split on governor's race, approve of legal pot, arming teachers | 11alive.com (they dumped all their black voters)

Taylor Swift's Instagram Post Has Caused A Massive Spike In Voter Registration - The singer waded into politics on Sunday with a social media post encouraging her fans to register to vote before it was too late.
'A Betrayal behond words' : Taylor Swift's endorsement of Marsha Blackburn's opponent is a reality check for the alt-right - The Washington Post (b/c so many rich Republicans listened to her, hahaha)
'Thank God for Taylor Swift': Voter registration in Tennessee booms after pop star's Democratic endorsements : politics
Mike Huckabee Dismisses Taylor Swift's Political Endorsement Because '13-year-old girls don't vote'
Sinema announces raising nearly $7 million in third quarter | TheHill - Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) says she raised nearly $7 million in the third fundraising quarter of the year, shattering her previous fundraising records in the Senate race against Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) ... Similar to Sinema's fundraising, Rep. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), who's running against Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), raised more than $7 million and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) brought in $6 million.

Poll: Races in Nevada are a dead heat - Both the gubernatorial and Senate races are neck and neck.

Democrat Wexton leads Rep. Comstock by 12 points in northern Va. district, survey finds - The Washington Post

AP FACT CHECK: Indiana candidates make misleading claims - ABC News (Republicans lie through their teeth, Dem changed his reasons for opposing Kavafuck, both side are the same!)

Republican Governing Principles - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Mississippi GOP creating new taxes just for hybrid vehicles demonstrates their wonderful governance with its organizing principle of "fuck liberals" better than anything I can think of. I await new taxes for Democratic voters in 2020. (tax breaks for "rollin' Coal!")

GOP official on Davids: radical socialist, lesbian will be sent back to reservation - " The REAL REPUBLICANS will remember what the scum DEMONRATS tried to do to Kavanaugh in November. Your radical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian will be sent back packing to the reservation." Roughly 50 exclamation points followed the end of the message.

Anti-Trump Evangelicals Are On A Nationwide Bus Tour To Flip Congress : politics - Anti-trump evangelicals? a whole fucking bus load of unicorns... someone grab a camera, this is a rare sighting! (all 16 of them)

Heidi Heitkamp's opponent: Maybe sexual abuse victims just aren't "tough"

President Trump, NFL protests and ratings: Deep dive into numbers - Did Trump's attacks on player protests hurt NFL ratings? We looked at the numbers - The data show that quality football and home team loyalty drove the TV audience far more than political tribalism ... The five biggest ratings dips are in regions Trump won the 2016 vote. (sportsball dudes remain loyal to their sportsball unless they are losers; also, liberals play better football)

Eschaton - I have no idea precisely why the press does all the tautological "people who like Trump like Trump" stories, but it isn't surprising that his approval numbers are around 40%. My point is in this era basically any president can have approval numbers around 40%. It didn't make Obama particularly unpopular (as he was portrayed) and it certainly doesn't make Trump particularly popular (as the focus on his fans portrays him). - That Trump is inspiring the worst people to be emboldened, and that the mainstream press helps to embolden them, is what's scary. Not that 40% approve.

Why I'm not worried about my son being falsely accused of sexual assault

The New Yorker's Jane Mayer Is Holding the World's Most Powerful Men Accountable

'This is MY son' : : Navy vet horrified as mom's tweet miscasts him as #HimToo poster boy -- "He won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false sexual accusations by radical feminists with an axe to grind. I VOTE. #HimTo." (mom stabs son in back b/c she loves Republican rapists)
How #HimToo Became the Anti #MeToo of the Kavanaugh Hearings | WIRED

Barnes and Noble map of book sales shows polarized readers across US (NH loves their Republican propaganda)

Kanye West Expected to Visit Trump at the White House - The New York Times (planning his 2024 run for president, Kim will be VP +#racetraitor)

Owner of popular burger restaurant fires woman; his comments spark outrage ... "Thank God I have proof," Reid said ... "Otherwise, no one else would have believed me because in this day and age if you say this person did something to me then I'm trying to ruin their lives." (no one believes women after Kavanaugh, she implied) "I got fired because I was told I was not smiling enough"

White woman calls police on black man babysitting children | News | cbs46.com

No Charges in Deadly Police Shooting of Man Who Thought SWAT Officers Were Home Invaders : news


Treasure hunters challenge FBI over dig for Civil War gold (they lied and kept all the gold, what a surpise)


National Grid hopes to restore gas to 300 customers in Woburn by Thursday - The Boston Globe

Why the deadly 1918 flu pandemic began in Boston - The Boston Globe - 1918 - Th city's new health commissioner had to get the public to take the crisis seriously, without setting off a panic. When it was over, 50 million had died worldwide - THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC ended up killing an estimated 3 percent of the world's population, claiming in roughly one year many more lives than the combined military and civilian death toll from all four years of World War I. In Massachusetts, during just the last four months of that horrifying year, more than 22,000 people died from the flu or pneumonia. Nationally, it was so destructive that it actually lowered the average life expectancy by 12 years, from 51 to 39 ... Testifying before Congress in 1937, he argued that marijuana should be regulated but not outlawed. That's why the strait-laced, no-nonsense Woodward is considered a folk hero in parts of the cannabis crowd.


Births to Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S. | Center for Immigration Studies - In 2014, one in five births (791,000) in the United States was to an immigrant mother (legal or illegal). Our best estimate is that legal immigrants accounted for 12.4 percent (494,000) of all births, and illegal immigrants accounted for 7.5 percent (297,000).

"My-side bias" makes it difficult for us to see the logic in arguments we disagree with, finds a new study in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology (n=387). The results provide a striking demonstration of how our powers of reasoning are corrupted by our prior attitudes.

A huge rise in the number of people taking antidepressant drugs is potentially posing a threat to the environment - Antidepressant and antianxiety medications are found everywhere, in sewage, surface water, ground water, drinking water, soil, and accumulating in wildlife tissues

Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem | Quanta Magazine : science


Analysis of a Holocaust survivor's racism as depicted in "Maus" : bestof


What industry is shadier than most people realize? : AskReddit
What is something you enjoyed, after previously believing you wouldn't like it? : AskReddit
What innocent question has someone asked you that secretly crushed you a little inside? : AskReddit
In which OP thinks her doctor boyfriend has been drugging and raping her, when really she is suffering from bedbug bites. : bestof


Consumers urged to change PIN on Experian after flaw (not in article, of course: Experian's web site had a major flaw. It allowed anyone answering the questions to retrieve your PIN by simply selecting "none of the above" as the answer to all four security questions (they shouldn't be allowed near software)


This Election Offered A Window Into WhatsApp's Wild, Sometimes Fact-Free World - According to a study in 2016, nearly 100% of internet users in Brazil have WhatsApp. That means about 40% of the country's 207 million people are using the app.

The Cybersecurity World Is Debating WTF Is Going on With Bloomberg's Chinese Microchip Stories - No one is really sure who to believe
New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom - Bloomberg
Tampered Chinese Ethernet port used to hack 'major US telecom' says Bloomberg report - the first time a Bloomberg source has gone on the record following the original report from last week

Leaked Transcript of Private Meeting Contradicts Google's Official Story on China (they lied)

35 States Tell the FCC to Get Off Its Ass and Do Something About Spoofed Robocalls : technology




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Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 - The New York Times - Previous work had focused on estimating the damage if average temperatures were to rise by a larger number, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), because that was the threshold scientists previously considered for the most severe effects of climate change. - The new report, however, shows that many of those effects will come much sooner, at the 2.7-degree mark. (the planet is so screwed by the Republican death-cult, let's call them NECROMONGERS)

New UN Climate Report Dims Hope For Averting Catastrophic Global Warming | HuffPost - Keeping temperatures from rising beyond the Paris agreement's ambitious target will require unprecedented social changes. (soccer moms would have to give up their SUV's, ain't going to happen even if their kids will die)

The world has just over a decade to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say - The Washington Post - There is no documented historic precedent (well, since the last time, anyway)

We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN | Environment | The Guardian - Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC (Repubicans will block any attemps to save the planet, Mitch the Bitch is cackling as we speak)

The Most Honest Book About Climate Change Yet. William T. Vollmann's latest opus is brilliant, but it offers no comfort to its readers.
William Vollmann's Brutal Book About Climate Change < br />
The Trump administration has entered Stage 5 climate denial | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | The Guardian - Stage 5: It's too Late (1-4 were denial)
The Trump administration has entered Stage 5 climate denial : politics

Climate report: Scientists politely urge 'act now, idiots' : news


5,000 People Remain Missing, Are Feared Dead, After Devastating Indonesia Quake | HuffPost - The death toll from the disaster has risen to over 1,900 -- but that number could more than triple


In Jamal Khashoggi case,Turkey demands Saudi Arabia's "full cooperation" in probe of missing Saudi journalist - The Washington Post - The ambassador, Prince Khalid bin Salman, reiterated a statement made by other Saudi officials that video cameras at the consulate had not been recording on the day of Khashoggi's visit. What an amazing coincidence! ... It's a new low, when Erdogan gets to complain about the whereabouts of a missing journalist.
10 Bush-Bin Laden Connections That Raised A Few Eyebrows - Listverse (historical context)
'Deafening silence' : White House's response to Khashoggi disappearance (and when you're worse than Turkey ... )

Pakistani Islamist group warns 'terrible consequences' over blasphemy case : news (if they don't rape her first and then chop off her head)

Romanian Constitutional ban on Same-Sex Marriage Fails on Low Vote Turnout : news


Feds freeze Russian oligarch's assets, Upper East Side mansion
bellingcat - Second Skripal Poisoning Suspect Identified as Dr. Alexander Mishkin - bellingcat
Viral "Manspreading" Video is Staged Kremlin Propaganda
(18) Fighting Manspreading... With Bleach! (anti-feminist Russian propaganda)

Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign? | The New Yorker - A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers.

The press helped build Donald Trump's lie; now it has to reckon with that (hello, NYT)

Trump's successful neutering of the FBI's Kavanaugh investigation has scary implications -- A proof of concept for further erosion of the FBI.
Rod Rosenstein to Join Trump Aboard Air Force One - The New York Times (b/c Comey flew w/Obama all the time)


Eschaton: Roundtable Project - The Sunday Show guest imbalance used to be one of my weird obsessions. I sort of gave up when the response to Media Matters after they did a couple of comprehensive studies was basically "suck it." ... (this Sunday) Score 8 neutrals, 3 conservatives, and 0 unicorns. -- If it's Sunday... (Repubicans and "neutral journos" will be on TV! which is how we got here)


Trump Is Still Losing Millions at His Golf Resorts in Scotland - Bloomberg - Combined losses were 4.6 million pounds in 2017, filings show - Plans were submitted to invest another 150 million pounds


The Supreme Court's legitimacy crisis is here
The Supreme Court now works for the Republican Party and this Harvard law professor agrees : politics
On the Left, Eyeing More Radical Ways to Fight Kavanaugh - The New York Times
The counterminoritarian dilemma - Lawyers, Guns & Money (their 45% will be "the will of the people")

With Kavanaugh Confirmation, GOP Commits Again To Patriarchy, Misogyny | HuffPost - The GOP is now essentially the last bastion of male dominance in a Me Too world. (and they love waving their dicks at you)
The Kavanaugh case revealed a system rigged against women : politics
CNN analyst: Kavanaugh confirmation's message to women is 'you won't be taken seriously (or, "shut up, Bitches")
McConnell: GOP senators were 'literally under assault' in days before Kavanaugh vote ("they literally criticized us for being women-hating assholes," he said)
Bruce MacKinnon - Google Search


#MeToo Is a 'Movement Toward Victimization,' G.O.P. Senate Candidate Says - Representative Kevin Cramer of North Dakota has repeatedly made headlines this year in his race against Senator Heidi Heitkamp ("nothing happened to the lying bitches," he said)
Women voters see through Democrats' partisan use of Ford accusations - Democrats have unleashed a red wave of Brett Kavanaugh-believing women voters (they are lining up to be raped, says Republican woman)
Court Battle Shifts the Political Terrain for Senators in the Heartland - The New York Times (red wave coming, will wipe out the bitches! )
Republicans fear Democratic 'blue wave' spreading to once-safe districts : politics (who you gonna believe?)
Poll: College educated white women back Dems by 27 points in battleground districts : politics

Taylor Swift's stunning statement: Famously apolitical star slams Tennessee Republican, endorses Democrats ... Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) ... "Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me" (there's a reason for Marsha's name)
The person who really divides America? Taylor Swift (Murdoch's take on women)

Survey of battleground House districts shows Democrats with narrow edge - The Washington Post = likely voters in these districts favor Democrats by a slight margin: 50 percent prefer the Democratic nominee and 46 percent prefer the Republican. By way of comparison, in 2016 these same districts favored Republican candidates over Democratic ones by 15 percentage points, 56 percent to 41 percent. (Trump will do a few rallies and seal the deal)

Democrat Joe Manchin faces firestorm at home after voting for Kavanaugh : politics

This website will tell Georgia voters if they were purged but they must reregister by Tuesday | Salon.com - Journalist Greg Palast has created a website so that voters in Georgia can learn if they were wrongly purged (they kept it secret so you couldn't reregister, took a fucking journo to "create a website" but you only have one day)


'I feel terrible':: Stormy Daniels sorry for Trump 'mushroom' taunt (apologizes for "body-shaming" the giant orange turd with the mushroom dick)

Hope Hicks to Head Communications for New Fox - Variety (lock her up)

Why New Jersey Democrats Are Suddenly Worried About the Menendez Race - The New York Times (you have one job, Bob: not be a fucking crook)


Mormon Leader: Nicknames for Faith are 'Victory for Satan' : news (you will not call us Mormon Fuckers, you will call us Church of LDS fuckers)


Firm That Owned Limo in Deadly Crash Repeatedly Failed Inspections - The New York Times - a party bus that was supposed to pick up the group of friends to take them to a brewery had broken down on the way there (fateful)


Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco - The New York Times - The 300 block of Hyde Street in San Francisco received 2,227 complaints about street and sidewalk cleanliness over the past decade, more than any other.


Harvest Co-op Markets, unable to compete with major organic grocers, is closing - The Boston Globe (JP and CS)

Your Dog May Be Smart, but She's Not Exceptional - "I have found throughout the years that my clients who are rocket scientists and neurosurgeons always have the most cats" (most research done on doggies)

Gas shut off to hundreds of homes in Woburn due to spike in pressure - The Boston Globe (coming to a suburb near you)



Emerging Evidence for Cannabis' Role in Opioid Use Disorder - A review of the potential of medical cannabis in treating opioid substance abuse : bostontrees (reformed drunk and addiction specialist Mawty and Chawlie with a drug-addled kid, disagree strongly)
Medical marijuana will be available as early as mid-November, edibles and concentrates as early as early December. (Anger Intensfies over our Blue State's mishandling of both Medical and Recreational Cannabis) : bostontrees (Okla?)
Ardent Herbal - Herbal Decarboxylator
Sous Vide Decarboxylation Sous Weed

How To: Decarb Your Weed In 5 Super Easy Steps

Columbus, Ohio, will not observe Columbus Day : news - Critics say the holiday honors the mass genocide and colonization of Native Americans, who lived in the Americas long before Christopher Columbus arrived in October 1492, while Italian-American organizations say the movement comes at the expense of a time to celebrate their ethnic heritage.

8 Drag Queen Halloween Makeup Tutorials That'll Slay All Others | HuffPost Life - The perfect costume is nothing without the right makeup look.


How donor sperm is creating enormous genetic families around the world - Washington Post - A lack of regulation has created enormous genetic families. -- Now they are searching for one other.

What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction? - The Atlantic (asteroids or volcanos? one woman's fight against the patriarchy)

Cognitive Biases and the Human Brain - The Atlantic


Parents of Reddit, what lessons have to tried to teach your kids that completely backfired? : AskReddit


SpaceX has landed on the West Coast for the first time - This was SpaceX's 17th launch this year. : technology

Google did not disclose a security breach to its Google+ social network because it feared regulation, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing documents and people briefed on the incident. : technology
Google+ to shut down after coverup of data breach. : technology
Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+
Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public - WSJ

Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service



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A major climate report will say coal-generated electricity must be phased out globally by 2050 if the world is to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of global warming, including the total destruction of the Great Barrier Reef. : worldnews
Climate scientists meeting in Korea are being urged to avoid relying on untested technologies as a way of keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C. Early drafts said it would require machines to suck carbon out of the air. The ideas are unrealistic, said one expert, calling them "carbon unicorns". : worldnews

Haiti earthquake: Death toll grows | Miami Herald - At least 12 deaths have been confirmed following an earthquake in northwest Haiti, after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook the island late Saturday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Hate daylight savings time? Here's why getting rid of it would cost California dearly - If passed, Proposition 7 would repeal the Daylight Saving Time Act, a ballot measure approved by California voters in 1949


Driver plows through protesters in downtown Portland | KATU - Hundreds of people were marching in the street to protest police use of deadly force a week after officers shot and killed 27-year-old Patrick K. Kimmons. (the Republican "run 'em over" law)


Bulgarian Journalist Victoria Marinova Brutally Raped and Murdered - She is the fourth journalist murdered in Europe in the past 14 months.


Rar-Right Candidate Jair Bolsonaro Widens Lead in Brazil ("the people" love their authoritarian macho guys)

Pilot shot in helicopter crash which killed senior Putin prosecutor : worldnews (the ussual two bullets in the head)

Turkey Believes Prominent Saudi Critic Was Killed in Saudi Consulate in Istanbul - The New York Times - The critic of the Saudi government, Jamal Khashoggi, entered the consulate on Tuesday to obtain a document he needed to get married and never emerged, according to his fiancee, who had stayed outside.
Turkey concludes Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed by 'murder' teaam (Trump is jealouse)
Outrage as Washington Post writer is reportedly murdered in Saudi consulate in Istanbul : worldnews
Did the Saudis Murder Jamal Khashoggi? | The New Yorker

Interpol Chief, Detained by China, Resigns Under 'Supervision' of Party Watchdog - In a stunning move that could set back the country's efforts to expand its global presence - Mr Meng's appointment "was considered quite an achievement for China and a sign of its international presence and growing influence" ... "It is hard to imagine another international organization feeling comfortable placing a Chinese national in charge without feeling nervous that this might happen" ... His detention means that internal party dynamics supersede any concern from the party about international legitimacy or transparency.
Missing Interpol chief's wife reveals he sent her a photo of a knife before vanishing : news
Interpol says China's Meng resigns as president of organization (yeah, they arrested the chief of the world police haha)

Wife of Israeli prime minister goes on trial for fraud : worldnews - He also bravely announced that she would rather go to jail than return the money. Quite courageous of him to declare that someone else should go to jail.

Christian woman on death row in Pakistan for insulting Prophet Muhammad to make final court appeal : worldnews (fuck you, Mohammed)

French police officer caught selling confidential police location tracking software on the dark web : technology


FBI admits Patriot Act snooping powers didn't crack any major terrorism cases (thanks for only looking forward, Barry) (NRA says "it's not the government's responsbility to protect people who refuse to buy guns to defend themselves")

Colin Powell: It's now 'me the president' instead of 'we the people'
The joke about Chelsea Clinton that should have sunk John McCain | US news | The Guardian - "Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father" - The remark packed into its 15 words several layers of misogyny. It disparaged the looks of Chelsea, then 18 and barely out of high school; it portrayed Reno as a man at a time when she was serving as the first female US attorney general; and it implied that Hillary Clinton was engaged in a lesbian affair while the Monica Lewinsky scandal was blazing. Not bad going, Senator McCain. (for the history of noble John Maverick McCain and Republican assholery)
How the Bush administration sold the war -- and we bought it (2013) We knew WMD intelligence was flawed, but there was a larger failure of officials, media and public to halt the neocon juggernaut (sound familiar?)

Following Trump's money exposes the awful truth: Our president is a 'financial vampire' : politics

Scoop: White House begins prepping for Democratic legal storm - Axios

Trump warns of angry, left-wing mob ahead of midterms ("There will be carnage in the streets")
Defiant Republicans hope Kavanaugh fight will stoke their voters next month - The Washington Post (red wave will bury libtards forever)
'Rock bottom' : Supreme Court fight reveals a country on the brink
Republicans left no doubt what they think of women - The Washington Post
A New Survey Finds 81 Percent Of Women Have Experienced Sexual Harassment : The Two-Way : NPR

Kavanaugh's confirmation gives the GOP its most power since the Great Depression (and you know how that worked out)


Republicans don't care what you think - Republicans lost the argument, but they ultimately had the votes.

Eschaton: Was Always Going To Be Bad - Is it better to stop pretending the Court is some sort of sacred institution of sacredness? I think maybe!


The Coming Kavanaugh Court Doctrine: Democrats Are Unconstitutional | HuffPost

A Third Of The Men On The Supreme Court Now Face Sexual Misconduct Accusations | HuffPost - And Brett Kavanaugh was nominated by a president who faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct as well.

Democrats Fear They're the Wet Rag Party - Al Franken is a long-time liberal warrior accused of predatory sexual behavior who is now licking his wounds in exile. Brett Kavanaugh is a long-time conservative warrior accused of predatory sexual behavior who is now licking his wounds on the United States Supreme Court. Donald Trump -- who faces a more extensive roster of allegations than either man but has never seemed to be licking any wounds about them -- finds that contrast vastly entertaining. (thanks, Kirsten, that really worked)

The myth of the neutral non-partisan impartial justice - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The notion that political centrists are neutral and non-partisan is the kind of nonsense beloved of a whole line of pundits stretching back to time immemorial, but it's annoying to see Kagan repeating it. (she never was all that progressive, just by contrast)
It's Not That They Don't Know, It's That They Don't Care (fuck you, libtards) ... arguments that there's always some magical MESSAGING trick that could force Republican majorities to capitulate to Democratic minorities are almost always terrible for obvious reasons ... The very obvious problem with arguments that Democrats failed to CONTROL THE NARRATIVE or ask the POINTED FOLLOW-UP QUESTION that would turn the public against Kavanaugh is that, in fact, the public turned against Kavanaugh to an unprecedented extent for a Supreme Court nominee:

McConnell: Senate won't be "intimidated" by "mob-like tactics" of anti-Kavanaugh protesters

Kavanaugh vote: The junk science Susan Collins used to undermine Christine Blasey Ford - The Washington Post ("it's been scientifically proven that women are lying bitch ho's" Republicans said, while Susie Doozy nodded her head)

Republicans left no doubt what they think of women - The Washington Post


Trump's Woman In Maine Continues to Embarrass Herself - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Susan Rice: Please Run and Bounce That 53 Percenters Ass Out of the Senate (not a chance for an "out-of-stater" in Maine
Susan Collin's Declaration of Cowardice
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation is the ultimate affirmation of the patriarchy -- and Republican women let it happen - As I watched a parade of Republican senators like Susan Collins cast their votes for Kavanaugh, I saw women upholding male power and privilege

Senate races: GOP up in Texas, Tennessee; Dems up in Arizona, New Jersey (greasy Cruz cruzing to victory)
Dems see blue tsunami in House as Senate path narrows
The Political Aftermath of the Senate's Final Kavanaugh Vote

The Fresno Bee recommends Andrew Janz for 22nd congressional district | The Fresno Bee (Nunes is a greasy, corrupt, lying Russian agent which is why Republicans will reelect him)

Police Removed A Texas Yard Sign Showing A GOP Elephant With Its Trunk Up A Woman's Skirt : politics (no so-called "free speech" for Dems)
This US political sign was seized by police in Hamilton, TX. The creator, Marion Stanford, was threatened with arrest for putting this in her front yard. : pics

Brian Kemp's office to be sued for purging 700,000 voters from Georgia rolls : politics ("we've eliminated almost all of the Democrats," Kemp cackled)
This website will tell Georgia voters if they were purged but they must reregister by Tuesday : politics (they've purged all the "black-sounding" names)

Eschaton: With Great Power Comes Some Minor Inconveniences - Mr. Mayor has a convoy SUV escort to his gym in Brooklyn, daily, so he can be a man of the people by not talking to any of them. (Blas is above your questions)


Opinion | A Public Official, My Private Trauma - The New York Times - His name was Eric Schneiderman, and he was the New York State attorney general. (another violent little jewish dickster)


Limo Crash Kills 20 in Upstate New York; Nation's Deadliest Accident in 9 Years - All those killed were adults, the State Police said. They included at least two pairs of newlyweds and parents of young children, including a 16-month old (one little stop sign at the end of a steep hill)

Flowers and prayers for woman killed in Cambridge crash - The Boston Globe - Flowers were fastened around a street light Saturday at the Central Square corner where authorities said a young woman was fatally struck by a truck Friday night.

Hamptons residents building luxe panic rooms as MS-13 looms

UK Police drone finds girl, 16, who called 999 to report rape - The force said the thermal drone was used to find the girl and guide officers to her within minutes. : technology

Couple sentenced for torturing and murdering women in 'house of horrors'

Former NSW teacher Edward Smith Hall found guilty of 21 child sex offences : news - The 11 complainants were students at St Pius X High School ... When DK managed to break free, the court heard Hall told him not to talk or he would tell everyone he was a "poofter." He also threatened to kill his parents.


Aftermath of Khabib vs Mcgreggor Fight : videos

Roy Orbison hologram concert in L.A. invites awe and debate - Los Angeles Times - 65-minute show, which features 16 songs and orchestral accompaniment, is among the first full-length concerts to feature a holographic dead singer.

Weekend Update: Pete Davidson on Kanye West - SNL : television

The Witches of CharmedAre Out to Slay Demons. And the Patriarchy ... the first sign of the apocalypse is the election of President Trump ... "When the weakest of men reaches ill-gotten glory" (meme has gone mainstream)

ELI5: Why is acne so hard to get rid of? : explainlikeimfive

Scientists develop a universal vaccine platform that's cheaper and shelf stable, cutting the cost of vaccine production and storage by 80% without decreasing safety or effectiveness - the vaccine will not expire at warm temperatures and could be stockpiled at room temperature for years.

Practicing yoga can help reduce paranoid thoughts, memory problems, trouble concentrating, and obsessive thoughts in prison inmates, according to new research published in Frontiers in Psychiatry : science
Meditation: 3DimenZ comments on Can we please have a pinned thread with all the science behind it?
Yoga With Adriene - YouTube

NotQuiteNewt comments on Big boye getting head boops

What causes an ice age, and is it possible for us to have another one/when could the nearest one be? : askscience
Great Oxygenation Event - Wikipedia

Redditors who speak more than one language, which do you think in? Do you translate the other languages to one single language? : AskReddit

What's something "off" that you witnessed as a child, but were too young to understand? : AskReddit


Wayback Machine director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive

Elon Musk to pay for water stations, filtration at all Flint schools : news
Ground transport at 760 mph: New hyperloop passenger pod unveiled : news

The Autocracy App | by Jacob Weisberg | The New York Review of Books - Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Democracy has been zuckerfucked)



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Climate scientists are struggling to find the right words for very bad news: The group must not only tell governments what we know about climate change - but how close they have brought us to the edge. : worldnews


At least 50 dead, 100 burned in Congo tanker truck fire : news - as villagers rushed to collect the leaking fuel


Russian plot to kill defector began with a false story of his death
The Kremlin Hates America's 'Malignant Feminism,' Love Brett Kavanaugh


America Is on the Road to Becoming a Fascist State - Truthdig
The Suffocation of Democracy | by Christopher R. Browning | The New York Review of Books


Nunes buried evidence on Russian meddling to protect Trump. I know because I'm on the committee


Senators representing less than half the U.S. are about to confirm a nominee opposed by most Americans : politics


Kavanaugh Is Sworn In After Close Confirmation Vote in Senate - The New York Times (they boofed it through, all right )
Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court by Senate -- live updates : news
Kavanaugh sworn in after Senate approves him by 50-48 vote - The Boston Globe (either the globe commenters suddently went full wingnut, or the Russians have arrived) timate Betrayal
D.C. Circuit sent complaints about Kavanaugh's testimony to Chief Justice Roberts - Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has received more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints in recent weeks against Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice Saturday, but has chosen for the time being not to refer them to a judicial panel for investigation. (no cover up here)

Suan Collin's Enraging Speech Led Donors to Crash a Site Raising Money for Her Opponent (she doesn't give a shit, she's retiring to AEI and Fox)
Susan Collins, never a maverick, fell right into line. Why did anyone expect otherwise? - The Boston Globe
Susan Collin's decision reverberates in Maine (hahaha suckers, she was heard thinking)
Susan Collins' Bad Faith - Her pro-Kavanaugh speech on the Senate floor was an insult to American
Sens. Susan Collins and Jeff Flake Are Frauds, Plain and Simple. Their Kavanaugh Votes Show It.
Brett Kavanaugh's College Drinking, Shady Finances, Possible Gambling Will Be Subject to Investigations for Years -- Susan Collin's Brett Kavanaugh Speech Was the Final Nail in the Coffin for Her Political Identity
Susan Collins's Brett Kavanaugh Speech Was the Final Nail in the Coffin for Her Political Identity (which was always fake)
Susan Collins once pledged to only serve two terms (you don't mean she actually lied?)

The Senate has lost its way - The Washington Post
Opinion | The High Court Brought Low - The New York Times

New evidence of a Kavanaugh cover up : politics
Did Michael Avenatti help doom the case against Brett Kavanaugh? - The Washington Post
F.B.I. Review of Kavanaugh Was Limited From the Start - The New York Times
Murc's Law Is A Harsh Mistress - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Um, so you're writing about politics, for money, and didn't know that an investigation that is formally limited in scope and was universally described as such would be limited in scope? OK (dumb and dumber)
Among the Thousands of FBI Tips, a Statement From an Aggrieved Truck Owner - One of thousands of tips the FBI received is a Yale classmate's allegation that Brett Kavanaugh vandalized his Ford Courier in 1986, damaging the black cargo box visible in the bed. Judge Kavanaugh has denied the allegation.

I reported my rapist today so he can't become a Supreme Court justice later
Kavanaugh defender admits on CNN he would question his own daughter's sexual assault claim if her friends didn't back her up ("little bitch lies all the time anyway" he almost said)
Kavanaugh Accuser Deborah Ramirez: "This Is How Victims Are Isolated and Silenced. I feel like I'm right back at Yale where half the room is laughing and looking the other way."

Impeaching a Supreme Court Justice, Explained : politics

Grassley Says Workload Discourages Women Senators From Joining Judiciary Panel, Then Walks Back Remark -- "It's a lot of work -- maybe they do't want to do it," (Grassfuck says women don't want to work hard)
Grassley explains all-male, all-white Senate Republican judiciary panel: Women don't want to do the work
McConnell calls opposition to Kavanaugh a great political gift to Republicans - "Whether you're a Trump Republican or a Bush Republican or whatever kind of Republican you are, we all think putting strict constructionists on the courts is important" (dogwhistle for "racist asshole" +women all over America going Republican)

Jed Rubenfeld investigation at Yale Law School: misconduct allegations, a broken Title IX process, and Amy Chua's power ovr clerkships -- Investigation at Yale Law School - An inquiry into the actions of a prominent professor reveals why it's so hard to report inappropriate behavior at the top law school in the country. (rigged to favor male rapists)


Zero Republicans Have Backed the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act : politics (it's a core Republican value)


Trump abruptly replaces federal personnel director after just 7 months - The Washington Post - leaving the agency that oversees 2.1 million civil servants with no permanent leadership at a time when the White House has proposed drastically shrinking its mission. ("we're getting rid of all those fake "civil servants" Trump said)


Texas Secretary of State Continues to Reject Thousands of Voter Registrations : politics (like always, a few weeks before the election, you can't vote)


Transgender student barred from shelter in locker rooms during school safety drill : news

Parents sue 'mean girls' for conspiracy to falsely accuse son of sexual assault : news - As a result, T.F. was fired from his job at the pool and ".forced to endure multiple court appearances, detention in a juvenile facility, detention at home, loss of his liberty, and other damages until several of the girls reluctantly admitted that their accusations were false.'


Bellaire PD hires officer who shot Tamir Rice : news
Cleveland officer not guilty over deaths of two people shot at 137 times by police | US news | The Guardian - Mayor, councilmen call for calm after Michael Brelo acquitted - Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell were killed in 2012

TIL Baltimore assistant attorney Jonathan Luna was found stabbed 36 times, his hands, scrotum, and throat slashed. Nevertheless, the FBI theorised he committed suicide. : todayilearned (like committing suicide by "jumping" out a window and shooting yourself twice in the back of the head)

7-month old baby girl killed by family pet : news

Ohio Parole Board releases man who repeatedly raped toddler son : news


Typhus reaches 'epidemic levels' in parts of Los Angeles area : news ... Some experts, however, say the true culprit is the inhumane conditions the county's expanding homeless population lives in ... They say the disease has nothing to do with homelessness in their high-income city.

Six Minnesota kids suffer rare, polio-like disorder : news

WA tells marijuana edibles makers to end output of gummies, hard candies : bostontrees (b/c kids will eat anything)
Polishing extracts | Skunk Pharm Research
edibles: a friendly place to post recipes that get you high!
Cannabis Extracts: Hash, oil, rosin


ELI5: What caused the deserts across the Sahara, Middle East, and Central Asia? : explainlikeimfive


Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update after reports of documents being deleted : technology



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Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War - The New York Times (so you can undertand what's happening now)


Interpol chief missing: French police launch investigation into President Meng Hongwei's disappearance | The Independent (another "we don't know where he went")
Interpol chief Meng Hongwei vanishes on trip to China : news

Nobel Peace Prize for anti-rape activists Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege - BBC News
BBC News: Nobel Peace Prize for anti-rape activists : news


US jobless rate hits 49-year low : news

Immigrant Girl Will Be Deported Because Adoptive Father Missed Deadline While Serving in Afghanistan : politics (meanwhile in Republican sadism and cruelty land)


The Supreme Court tumbles into political dysfunction - The Washington Post - The court was one of the last bastions in Washington that towered above the political fray. It is now part of the dysfunction that has overwhelmed almost the entire American system. (it was always a myth but Trump is the great clarifier)

Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination secures votes for passage - The Washington Post (and fun fact: the top three richest men (Gates, Bezos, and Buffet) have more money than the lower 50% of the domestic population of the U.S.)
Discussion Megathread: Senate Vote On Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation : politics (but Susie Doozy is fine with a rapist on the SC)
Susan Collins: I Want An Angry Partisan Credibly Accused of Rape to Overrule Roe v. Wade - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Susan Collins has announced that credible sexual assault accusations, repeated lying under oath, naked partisanship, and opposition to a woman's fundamental reproductive freedom should not disqualify someone from the Supreme Court, making Kavanaugh's confirmation inevitable ... "Fuck off, Susan. Pray they have lobbyist gigs in hell."
Activists Pledge $1.9 Million to Susan Collins's Democratic Challenger If She Votes to Confirm Brett Kavanaugh (she ain't running)
Murkowski Votes No On Procedural Vote For Kavanaugh : politics

Remember when Trump paid actors to cheer during his presidential campaign announcement? - On Friday morning, President Trump claimed that the sexual assault survivors who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) in an elevator were "paid professionals" as are the protesters who continue to oppose Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation. (Predictably, it seems Trump got this wild idea from Fox News.) (from MURDocks mouth to Trump's brain)
Remember when Trump paid actors to cheer during his presidential campaign announcement? : politics

Big little lies - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In 2016, Kavanaugh had between $60,000 and $200,000 credit card debt. In sworn written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he claimed this debt was the product of a baseball ticket exchange pool he participated in with various friends: (follow the money, impeach the lying fucker)
Ford-Kavanaugh Ratings: Hearing Brings 20 Million Viewers to Cable and Broadcast | Hollywood Reporter - Fox News Channel led coverage with 5.7 million viewers between 10 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. ET. It also boasted the highest score among adults 25-54, with a peak audience of 1.4 million during Kavanaugh's time on the floor. On broadcast, ABC News had the edge with 3.3 million viewers, barely edging CBS; 3.1 million and NBC's 2.9 million (so, Millenials are all watching Fox, we're doomed)
Facebook to hold town hall after exec Joel Kaplan attends Kavanaugh hearing - Business Insider (posted for the pic)

The Continuing Rise of American-style Fascism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Yesterday, Tucker Carlson, in the process of attacking opponents of Brett "Yalie MacYaleface" Kavanaugh, had this to say: (Trump tweets Soros hate for the first time b/c Stephen "Jewface" Miller told him to) )
The end of something - Lawyers, Guns & Money - (1) It's been increasingly evident for decades now that the SCOTUS as it's currently constituted is an absurd institution. In a constitutional republic that features both a 230-year old constitution that is almost impossible to amend, and a judiciary that has arrogated to itself the final word on "interpreting" that document, the supreme court cannot possibly avoid becoming a kind of quasi-legislature.


Governors: Rating Changes Four States | The Cook Political Report (Dems gain)


Utah Spent Half-a-Million in Taxpayer Cash to Sue a Movie Theater for Showing Deadpool - This is your democracy, America. Cherish it (Red-state retards doing what they do)


Twitter still awash in fake news, study finds - politico - 700,000 Twitter accounts, which linked to more than 600 sites spreading misinformation or conspiracy stories.

Tronc changing name back to Tribune Publishing - Chicago Tribune (what idiot hedgie that that sounded good?)

More cuts at the Herald - CommonWealth Magazine - Tabloid lays off two photographers, half the sports desk (failing Republican newspaper)


Verdict reached in Chicago officer's trial in Laquan McDonald killing : news (he thought his life was in danger and had to pump 15 bullets into the black guy lying on the ground)
Jason Van Dyke Found Guilty - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Live updates: Jury never wavered on Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke's guilt - Van Dyke is the first Chicago police officer in half a century to be found guilty of murder for an on-duty shooting (police will riot in the streets)


Child marriage in the U.S. is surprisingly prevalent. Now states are passing laws to make it harder. - The Washington Post - She was 16. He was 25. Should marrying a child be allowed?


Two-week-old baby in intensive care after alleged rape : news

Texas HS football player choked, slammed down on field : news - That is a crock of shit. High school football isn't the pros, for God's sake. The kids coach that slammed and choked him should be fired, and the kid ineligible to play.

Man claiming to defend women's rights, caught on cam kicking female anti-abortionist : news - The man in the video, who has been identified on social media as Jordan Hunt, has been fired from his job as a hairdresser

Rape kit sits untested for 10 years before processing and catching the bad guy. : news (why, it's almost like they didn't want to catch any rapists, wonder why?)
After 10-year rape kit delay, man charged with raping, kidnapping teen in Seattle | KOMO - Eleven years after the attack, a 52-year-old man is arrested for the kidnapping and repeated rape of a 14-year-old girl he allegedly abducted in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of South Seattle.

Portland mom arrested after her gun goes off in school cafeteria, police say : news

Angry girlfriend allegedly sets fire to ex-boyfriend's apartment building, displacing 130 people : news - When they say don't stick your dick in crazy this is what they are referencing

Police in Andover, Massachusetts received reports of loose donkeys on Lowell Street. "Staff came and retrieved their asses." : news

Mattress Firm closing 700 stores. : news
Mattress Firm closing stores, files Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - Mattress Firm, which has been grappling with declining sales after an acquisition spree gone bad and a scandal at its parent company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday. (hedgies at work)
Mattress Firm Conspiracy Theory - Getting to the Bottom of It - YouTube - s a relatively new conspiracy theory going around that says Mattress Firm and possibly all the mattress stores are a front for money laundering. This video tries to get to the bottom of it.


60 students without vaccines kept out of school in Fargo, West Fargo : news - If my kid can't bring a peanut butter sandwich to school; why can yours bring polio?


The Way We Look Now, According to Mary Beard - The New York Times

Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following - The New York Times - Israeli philosopher Irad Kimhi - Thinking emerges as a unique and peculiar activity, something that is part of the natural world, but which cannot be understood in the manner of other events in the natural world. (no shit)

Researchers have determined that couples who regularly use the pronouns 'we' and 'us' when they speak have more successful relationships and are healthier and happier. : science

Astronomers find evidence suggesting the very first stars formed nearly 13.5 billion years ago, just 180 million years after the Big Bang. : science

Vitamin D supplements don't help bone health, finds a new meta-analysis of 81 randomised controlled trials (n=53,537). The researchers believed that on the strength of existing evidence, there is little justification for more trials of vitamin D supplements looking at musculoskeletal outcomes. : science

Daytime naps help us acquire information not consciously perceived, study finds. The findings further reveal thebenefits of a short bout of sleep on cognitive brain function and found that even during short bouts of sleep we process information that we are not consciously aware of. : science

/u/Elyot catches the reddit corporation using his copyrighted art in an advertisement without permission. Instead of asking them to take it down, he releases the art into the public domain to help promote a small subreddit. : bestof
Sciences - Reddit


We are The Sex Wrap -- two sex researchers who answer your questions about sex, love, and relationships. Ask Us Anything! : IAmA




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Bihar woman gangraped while taking dip in Ganga; incident filmed, circulated on social media : news - Local villagers alleged that when the woman reached the concerned police station to lodge her complaint against the culprits, the policemen refused to register a first information report. (burn it all down)

Jamal Khashoggi: Mystery over missing Saudi journalist deepens - BBC News - Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul insists a prominent journalist critical of the Saudi government had already left its building before he vanished. (yeah, sure and dictators love killing their critics)

Russian Official Linked to Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Trump Tower Lawyer, Is Dead - Deputy Attorney General Saak Karapetyan was exposed this year for running a foreign recruitment operation with Natalia Veselnitskaya. (remember her?)
Russian Official Tied to Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Trump Tower Lawyer, Is Dead : politics
This Russian Double Agent Is A Lot Less Dead Than He Seemed - The Kremlin wanted people to believe their defector was dead. The US did, too. But Alexander Poteyev couldn't help himself
bellingcat - 305 Car Registrations May Point to Massive GRU Security Breach - bellingcat


Texas detention camp swells fivefold with migrant children : news (meanwhile, in Repubican-created hell for non-white people, we love the children)

L.A. County deputies stopped thousands of innocent Latinos on the 5 Freeway in hopes of their next drug bust - Los Angeles Times


The New York Times revealed how Fred Trump funneled $413 million to his son Donald. Will that change American opinion? : politics (fake news from the failing about to be sued out of existence NYT, are you kidding?)
A pied-`-terre tax is smart policy -- and it's constitutional - City Hall is wrong: New York can tax wealthy absentee owners. (Blas loves his chinese billionaires)
Trump's grotesque fraud
Republicans Rigged the System to Enable Crimes Like Trump's tax evasion
The news this week confirms it: Donald Trump is the worst person ever to be president : politics - This Vicious Buffoon Is a Vessel for All the Worst Elements of the American Condition - And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators
President Trump Mocks Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Story of Sexual Assault in Vicious, Disgraceful Moment


Dishing up lies while proclaiming the love of facts, Trump and Sarah Sanders gaslight America - The Washington Post

Mitch McConnell, conspiracy theorist - The Washington Post (Mitch the Bitch has Putin's dick in his ass)

Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation may be how every Trump associate permanently avoids prosecution : politics (his counter to Mueller)

FBI confidential Kavanaugh report handed to White House, Senate - If the motion passes, there will be up to 30 hours of debate, followed by a final confirmation vote, possibly Saturday.
Senate panel receives FBI report on Kavanaugh : news

Investigation that didn't investigate anything doesn't find what it wasn't looking for - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The FBI Finished Its New Brett Kavanaugh Investigation Without Interviewing Brett Kavanaugh - Investigators did not interview Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, either.
McConnell Will Now Use Sham Investigation As a Pretext to Ram Kavanaugh Through - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Feinstein: White House May Have Blocked FBI From Doing its Job : politics ("may," thanks, DiFi)
Lindsey Graham Won't Read the FBI Report on Brett Kavanaugh, But He's Read to Vote

Kavanaugh latest: Sen. Collins, a key GOP vote, says FBI investigation appears 'very thorough' (was there ever any doubt?
The "Fix Is In, Folks": Though She Admits Not Fully Reading It, Susan Collins Describes FBI Probe as "Very Thorough" : politics (Susie Doozy does it again)
Flake: No corroboration for Ford's claims in FBI report

FBI interviewed 9 people over Brett Kavanaugh, ignored drinking: NYT - Business Insider
The Real Reason the White House Told the FBI Not to Interview Christine Blasey Ford? - Mother Jones - The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have a theory ... "When you're in front of the FBI, you cannot refuse to answer questions, you cannot attack the agents, you cannot change the subject"
The F.B.I. Ignores Testimonies from Kavanaugh's Former Classmates

What's going on with that FBI investigation? (wouldn't you like to know)
Here's a list of people the FBI did NOT interview. Okay with this, Flake and Collins? (you betcha)
White House Finds No Support in FBI Report for Claims Against Kavanaugh - WSJ - Senators are set to review the FBI's findings Thursday (move along, nothing to see here)

New witness comes forward claiming she saw Brett Kavanaugh spike drinks during parties : politics (sorry, too late)
GOP County Chair Shares Fake 1980s Christine Blasey Ford Picture, Suggests She's Too Ugly to Sexually Assault

Doug Jones says female staffers have been threatened by Brett Kavanaugh supporters : politics --> Rapeublicans

Poe's Law Watch: Brett Kavanaugh Edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In the Wall Street Journal, because of course, Allysia Finley, compares an |ber-privileged appellate judge to a fictional African-American victim of Jim Crow, and everything is terrible ... Sure, be gobsmacked and horrified. But this is a pretty good window into the Republican base ... We need to be clear: 2016 was not the bottom, but rather one stop on a downward spiral. Imagine the hellscape of demagoguery and propaganda that we'll likely see in 2020. And enjoy the rest of the day.


Eschaton: Silver Linings - At least Elite Law, one of the few reminaing priesthoods in America, has revealed itself to be a bunch of corrupt bullshit. - These people think Respect For Our Institutions is so important that if we stop clapping for them for 5 seconds then Tinker Bell dies. Then they burn them down from the inside and demand still clap for them. -"Supreme Court Justice" will make me laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh (and cry) forever.

Lindsey Graham gets booed while defending Kavanaugh : politics - "Yeah, well, boo yourself," he calmly ranted

Time Magazine puts Christine Blasey Ford on cover - CNN
How Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony Changed America - Time

A chart about sexual assault prevention is going viral. Here's the story behind it


The GOP is seeing a "Kavanaugh bounce" ahead of the 2018 midterms - Axios - The Kavanaugh debate has dropped a political grenade into the middle of an electorate that had been largely locked in Democrats' favor for the past six months," said Josh Holmes, a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ... "tidal shift" (rapist has energized Republican women, red wave coming, Heidi Fuckamp is toast)
Trump, GOP Get A Big Kavanaugh Bounce (Trump now very strong)
EXCLUSIVE: Heitkamp reveals Kavanaugh vote and reasoning to WDAY News | WDAY - U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp will vote NO

Is Kavanaugh Helping Republicans' Midterm Chances? (red wave of rape-loving Republican women!)
Wexton leads Comstock by 7 pts in VA CD 10, Democrats Enjoy 15 pt "Enthusiasm Gap"
Republicans face big risks in contested California races as Democrats fight for control of the House - Los Angeles Times - But if the tide ebbs only slightly, the GOP could emerge with much of its control intact (with a little help from Russian Nunes Russian friends)
Senate: Rating Changes in Four Races | The Cook Political Report (red/Russian wave coming)
Cook Political Report shifts 7 more races towards Dems | TheHill

Beto O'Rourke on possible endorsement from Obama: "I don't think we're interested" (in mobilizing Republican hatred of black people)

Alex Trebek apologizes for his performance as moderator of Pa. Gov. debate (hired by the PA Chamber of Republican Commerce, how did that happen, please?)

A Former Obama Operative Built a New Anti-Republican Attack Machine - Bloomberg - John Burton hopes an army of dirt diggers can deliver an October surprise for Democrats.

Will Anti-Trump Millennials Actually Turn Up to Vote? | Vanity Fair - Many young women are angry, engaged, and more active than ever. But a new poll from the Hive, theSkimm, and SurveyMonkey suggests they are disenchanted with the political process.
Millennial Men And Women Are Divided On Race And Gender Issues, New Poll Finds - About a third of millennial men surveyed say they would prefer white political candidates, if everything else was equal. (i/3 of millenial men are Republicans and Fox watchers)


Republicans' misogyny will come back to haunt them


Colbert on CNN report about Vincent Favale, CBS exec accused of inappropriate language - The Washington Post - "powerful men protecting other men in power." - Vincent "Vinnie" Favale, senior vice president of talent for CBS Television Studios -- used to be the liaison to "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" (complained twice to HR, nothing happened)


Two People Were Being Harassed For Speaking Spanish In A Grocery Store. Then This Woman Stepped In. (America is for white people only, the woman said) In a call with BuzzFeed News, Dwire maintained that she is not racist and that she was not harassing the women. (do not believe the video of me, she said)
StanceGrounded on Twitter: "2 Hispanic women were approached and verbally assaulted by a racist white lady for speaking Spanish in store. Another white woman who saw and heard this happening immediately stepped in to defend them. SHERO! WE NEED MORE OF THIS! SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING! RETWEET THIS! https://t.co/5Vbb0hqkBb"


Father used homemade bomb in Allentown car explosion to kill son, friend : news

Suge Knight sentenced to 28 years behind bars for fatal hit-and-run - The former hip-hop mogul pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter for running over Terry Carter in January 2015.

Toddler accidentally shreds $1,000 in cash : news
Lost elderly couple drives for five days through three states before being found : news


Here Are The Winners Of The 2018 MacArthur 'Genius' Grants


The First Thing This Man Heard After Turning On His Cochlear Implant Was His Partner Proposing


Fentanyl test strips lead to more caution among illicit drug users : news

For fucks sake : boston ("shots fired scare on Simmons University")

First retail pot shops in Massachusetts approved by commission - The Boston Globe : bostontrees
Slow start for marijuana retail shops and resulting loss of state revenue not a big deal, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker says : bostontrees
This is why Elizabeth Warren faced criticism from local police | Boston.com (cops are outraged that she said justice system racist "front to back" because many are racist)


TIL that 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and 90% by the third : todayilearned

Neanderthal sex caused hybrid children to inherit life-saving genetic adaptations against RNA viruses : science

A 15 minute jog is better for the mind than 15 minutes of calm relaxation, as a brief jog sharpens the mind, boosting attentional control and perceptual speed, in part through a subjective sense of having more energy (in contrast to the relaxation group who felt less energetic), suggests new study. : science


JF Ptak Science Books: An Almost-Alphabet of Apocalypses
JF Ptak Science Books: Absurdist, Unintentional - Radioactive Suppository Sex Aids & Radium Toothpaste: Shining Lethal Nonsense
JF Ptak Science Books: Darkpunk City Architecture: Psycho-Noir Cityscapes of Hugh Ferriss

Has anyone ever realised that a high rated reddit post was actually about themselves? If so, what was it? : AskReddit

What is easy to get into but hard to get out of? : AskReddit

What is the scariest film that doesn't resort to cheap jump scares? : AskReddit


You have thousands of questions, I have dozens of answers! Reddit CEO here, AMA. : announcements


The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies - Bloomberg - The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America's echnology supply chain ... "Having a well-done, nation-state-level hardware implant surface would be like witnessing a unicorn jumping over a rainbow"
Chinese spy chips are found in hardware used by Apple, Amazon, Bloomberg says; Apple says no way
Chinese spy chips are found in hardware used by Apple, Amazon, Bloomberg says; Apple, AWS say no way : technology

Elon Musk taunts the SEC days after fraud settlement - The Washington Post - "Just want to [say] that the Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible work. And the name change is so on point!"




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New study reconciles a dispute about how fast global warming will happen - Unfortunately, mainstream climate scientists are still right, and we're running out of time to avoid dangerous global warming
Summer rainfall: opposite extremes split the nation - Washington Post
On the ground in Indonesia: Photo and video show earthquake, tsunami devastation - The Washington Post - undefined

Two Democratic senators demand probe into FEMA awards in aftermath of Hurricane Maria | McClatchy Washington Bureau (it was a con all the way down)


German youths stab journalist then perform Hitler salute : news (history evaporates very quickly)


TPS recipients get a reprieve from federal judge - CNNPolitics - Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who feared they could soon be facing deportation got a reprieve Wednesday (Trump/Republican's ethnic cleansing)


DEA's Colombia post roiled by misconduct probes ... including accusations that one passed secrets to drug cartels and another used government resources to hire prostitutes.


Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | National Survey Finds Just 1 in 3 Americans Would Pass Citizenship Test ... 60 percent) didn't know which countries the United States fought in World War II ... (why the nazis now) ... Twelve percent incorrectly thought WWII General Dwight Eisenhower led troops in the Civil War (America has a stupid problem) ... Those 65 years and older scored the best, with 74 percent answering at least six in 10 questions correctly. For those under the age of 45, only 19 percent passed with the exam, with 81 percent scoring a 59 percent or lower. (and it's getting worse)


This Ohio Woman's Run-In With The FBI Gives Us A Window Into Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia Probe - The probe into Cassandra Ford's Twitter account provides a window into how exhaustive Robert Mueller's investigation has been


Eschaton: They Mean It - You can have some respect (some) for the game, even when played by vicious evil liars. But what's happened with Trump (it started with Bush) is that you've basically put the dumbass people who were right wing bloggers in charge of everything. And they're so dumb they believe the stupid shit they say and write ... comment: Perhaps lost in the noise this week was the minor bit that Steven Miller wanted to stop all Chinese students from entering the US. All of them. Apart from that being a phenomenally stupid idea to start with, Higher Ed would collapse without these students. Granted, that may be the point. +Elain Lan Chao is a Chinese immigrant born in Taipei. (deport her)


How Times Journalists Uncovered the Original Source of the President's Wealth Three reporters spent over a year digging through more than 100,000 pages of documents and chasing down key sources familiar with President Trump's ather and his empire.
Trump Even Inherited His Father's Self-Made Myth - Bloomberg - His wealth had everything to do with his father, including the fable of how it happened.
The Party of the Plutocracy - Lawyers, Guns & Money
s attorney suggests he may sue the New York Times. Don't bet on it
We knew Trump was incredibly corrupt. Turns out he may also be an epic tax cheat. - The Washington Post ("may")
Hatch: Trump 'may have to give up' tax returns : politics
Seriously, we need to see Donald Trump's tax returns


Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford - The Washington Post (Dem campaign spots coming up)
FBI Said to Lack White House Approval to Talk to Kavanaugh, Ford - Bloomberg (Trump now the head of the FBI)
Brett Kavanaugh: GOP to safeguard FBI report on nominee ... Perhaps the most symbolic pullback, though, came from conservative legal scholar Benjamin Wittes (who was very skeptical of Ford)

Opinion | The Senate Should Not Confirm Kavanaugh. Signed, 650+ Law Professors (and Counting). - The New York Times
100,000 U.S. Christian Churches Demand Withdrawal of Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Nomination : politics

Republicans on Senate panel release explicit statement about Kavanaugh accuser's sex life
Men Who Hate Women - Lawyers, Guns & Money - When going low hasn't secured 51 votes, go lower: Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday released an explicit statement that purports to describe the sexual preferences of a woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of misconduct.

Dozens of potential sources of information have not been contacted by the FBI in Kavanaugh investigation - With the investigation winding down, multiple individuals who have tried to contact the bureau have not heard back.
FBI Says It Lacks White House Approval to Talk to Kavanaugh and Ford : politics

FBI expands inquiry into Ford allegations - CNNPolitics
As FBI background check of Kavanaugh nears its end, probe appears to have been highly curtailed - The Washington Post (honestly, who you gonna believe?)

Opposition to Kavanaugh grows after Senate hearing: Reuters/Ipsos poll | Reuters - Opposition to Kavanaugh grew 4 percentage points after the Sept. 27 Judiciary Committee hearing
Americans Still Closely Divided on Kavanaugh Confirmation - 6% say Kavanaugh should be confirmed; 45% say he should not be
Amid Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Battle, Democratic Enthusiasm Edge Evaporates : NPR - the wide Democratic enthusiasm advantage that has defined the 2018 campaign up to this point has disappeared,
House Rating Changes: Eight More GOP Seats Move Towards Democrats | The Cook Political Report (there's your enthusiasm gap)

A terrifying summary of Brett Kavanaugh's judicial record : bestof

Brett Kavanaugh'ss anger may be backfiring
Michael Avenatti Releases New Statement from Unidentified Witness Alleging 'Inappropriate Conduct' by Kavanaugh
Conservatives should be cautious about letter from Christine Blasey Ford's ex-boyfriend ... Update: Since publishing this, the friend referenced here denied having ever received polygraph advice from Ford or anybody else. (Rethug ex is a convienent liar)

Sen. Leahy says Trump's claims about his drinking are 'bogus baloney'

The President of the United States Is a Reprehensible Piece of Shit - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Trump Mocks Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony And Me Too Movement At Mississippi Rally - The president argued that the real victims are men like his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, when sexual assault accusations are made.
'Women for Trump' Cheer As President Mocks Christine Blasey Ford (Repubican women love rape)
Conservative Women Are Angry About Kavanaugh -- and They Think Other Voters Are, Too -- Local- and state-level leaders across the country say they're ready to lash out against Democrats in the midterm elections. (rape loving women are ready to "lash out")
Bar Association Questioned Kavanaugh's Temperament and Honesty in 2006 (only the worst of the worst for Trumpster)

Brett Kavanaugh and the Information Terrorists Trying to Reshape America | WIRED


Far From United: Political Divide In America The Worst It's Evr Been (couldn't have anything to do with Republicans going full evil)

After money surge, GOP frets Democrats can 'buy rage in bulk' (said the rage wholesalers)

Federal Anti-Discrimination Official Under Fire for Racial Comments - The New York Times - Eric Blankenstein, (of course, again +a Stephen Miller Jew)

The Cruelty Is the Point - The Atlantic - President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
"Once malice is embraced as a virtue, it is impossible to contain." - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Eschaton - On one side we have people who want everyone to have health care, on the other side we have people who cheer on putting toddlers in cages. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Vote Bloomberg.

Someone Planned to Make Ad With Fake Iranian President Endorsing Beto O'Rourke - A neoconservative group appears to be behind a listing recruiting voice actors to pretend to be President Rouhani in an effort to portray him as backing the Texas Democrat. (it couldn't possibly have been greasy Ted Cruz)

A Look Inside The 40-Page Nunes Mailer Targeting The Fresno Bee | Valley Public Radio (little Russian Devin is stamping his feet)

GOP candidates pay the price for attempts to kill Obamacare and its guarantee of coverage for preexisting conditions - The Washington Post

Missouri down to 1 abortion clinic amid legal battle : news


QAnoners Cheer Trump's Text Alert Test, See It As a Step Towards Martial Law -- That is how we will receive orders if all else fails ("rape and kill all the libtards in your neighborhood")
Presidential alerts: Can I turn off notifications from FEMA, Trump? (of course not, you're only renting your phone from Trump)

Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers's Bizarre New Mascot, Is Antifa Now ... Anti-fascists have claimed the NHL's new orange Muppet as their own anti-Trump


Brad Kern Fired by CBS Amid Abuse Claims | Hollywood Reporter - Kern harassed and unfairly penalized women, repeatedly bullied a nursing mother and made racially insensitive statements, among other allegations. (another male asshole down, just look at his pic)
Vinnie Favale: CBS executive placed on leave following allegations of sexual and homophobic language in the workplace - CNN - senior vice president of talent for CBS Televisions Studios, Vincent "Vinnie" Favale, of using sexual and homophobic language in the workplace. ... "I'll never forget the day he told me he got four erections while watching Jennifer Hudson rehearse," a female former CBS executive recalled to CNN. (these are very primative and not very good men - it's all about their dicks +2 CBS assholes in one day?)

Harvard places head diving coach on leave amid sexual misconduct allegations - The Boston Globe - Just weeks after hiring a new head diving coach, Harvard University has placed the man on leave following sexual misconduct allegations made against him in a federal lawsuit out of Indiana (three in one day)


Boys More Likely To Be Victims Of Teen Dating Violence Than Girls, Study Shows - Study Finds - Five percent of teens reported physical abuse from their dating partners in 2013, down from 6 percent in 2003. But in the last year, 5.8 percent of boys reported dating violence compared to 4.2 percent of girls. (who taught the bitches to hit people? +pussy pass)


Female bystander viciously mauled by police dog is denied by federal judge in lawsuit. : news

Florence County deputy shot near Hoffmeyer Road in Florence

Chicago cop's trial could come down to jury's view of video - The video shows Van Dyke stepping forward and opening fire as McDonald walks at an angle away from him, a small knife in his right hand, which hangs at his side. McDonald spins and crumples to the ground. The barrage of gunfire continues, smoke coming off of his prone body. (he felt the guy's corpse was threatening him)


Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship - Areo
Move over, Sokal Hoax Crooked Timber

David Schieber on Twitter: "I was Reviewer 1 for the Masturbation = Rape hoax paper that tried to get published in Sociological Theory. As a grad student, it was my first time being asked to review a paper for a journal. I'm glad I recommended a reject, and the paper was rejected 1/5"
Cultural Studies Is the Target of Another Hoax -- And This One Stings
Fake News Comes to Academia - WSJ - How three scholars gulled academic journals to publish hoax papers on 'grievance studies'


VICE - Official Trailer : movies


Women who have been sexually assaulted or harassed are more likely to suffer from poor sleep, anxiety, high blood pressure, and symptoms of depression. While the findings cant prove the events are behind the greater likelihood of such health problems, researchers say it highlights an important link. : science

Women who drink more water get fewer UTIs : science - undefined

Cervical cancer set to be eliminated from Australia in global first - Cervical cancer is set to be rendered so uncommon by 2028 it will be deemed eliminated as a public health problem for the first time anywhere in the world, as detailed in research in the Lancet Public Health Journal. : science (US doesn't want girls vaccinated, of course)

ELI5: How is lithium, a monoatomic element, such an effective treatment for Bipolar Disorder? How does it work and how was its function discovered? : explainlikeimfive


25 years ago today during her performance on SNL, Snead O'Connor called out the Catholic churches pedophile culture. It was viewed as a radical stance at that time. : videos

What'S a fact you wish you didn't know?

Caitlyn Jenner confuses Norm Macdonald : funny
Caitlyn Jenner Isn't A Hero | South Park - YouTube

What is the scariest conspiracy theory if true? : AskReddit

Besides /r/askreddit, what are some really good Text Based subreddits that one could spend a lot of time on? : AskReddit

What is your best "My friend is dating a terrible person and nobody can get through to them." story? : AskReddit


The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure | WIRED (never do single sign-on which was always a way to vacuum up your data without your consent)



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Why Sulawesi's tsunami is puzzling scientists - BBC News - The first is the suspicion that the quake triggered some sort of underwater landslide.

APNewsBreak: Trump's EPA moving to loosen radiation limits (like the melting planet and Mercury, take you radiation, it's good for you! )
Trump EPA Proposes Loosening Regulations on Radiation Exposure Using Fringe Science -- Getting Radiation Poisoning to Own the Libs -- Radiation Is Good For You may be the hottest take of all time.


Chinese destroyer made 'unsafe and unprofessional move' toward USS Decatur in South China Sea, official says : news

U.S. would destroy banned Russian warheads if necessary: NATO envoy | Reuters - Russia must halt its covert development of a banned cruise missile system or the United States will seek to destroy it before it becomes operational


Juncker: Those who want no-deal Brexit 'not are' of 'difficulties' - MEPs take aim at British politicians and 'mess of Brexit' (lala-di-la off the cliff with the brain-dead Tories)


United States Voting Machines Vulerable to Hacking in 2018 Elections - Federalize the Voting System (thanks alot, Barry-in-the-basement droning brown people in far-off countries and the stupid 'intelligence" community ignoring the real problem)

Homeland Security watchdog confirms chaos caused by zero-tolerance policy - Axios (evil fuckers)

Donald Trump's Free-Floating Hatreds Have Material Consequences - Lawyers, Guns & Money - As you may have noticed, we are being governed by despicable people: But the rule creates difficulties for those diplomats from countries where same-sex marriage is still illegal. The majority of countries in the U.N. do not allow same-sex marriage, and some countries that criminalize it could prosecute those couples who do marry abroad upon their return.


Trump Directed Legal Action to Enforce Stormy Daniels's Hush Agreement - President in February instructed Michael Cohen to seek restraining order against adult-film actress, people familiar with the effort say

Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father - The New York Times - The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father's real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s. (lock up the lying asshole)
11 Takeaways From The Times's Investigation Into Trump's Wealth
4 Ways Fred Trump Made Donald Trump and His Siblings Rich - The New York Times

New York Times Report Finds President Donald Trump Was Involved in Tax Fraud with Father Fred Trump in 1990s - It turns out the story Donald Trump has always told about himself may have been a literal fraud ... a narrative that was long amplified by often-credulous coverage from news organizations, including The Times ... Well, that's a nifty bit of Opus Dei-level self-flagellation right there.

How Trump Is Trying -- And Failing -- To Get Rich Off His Presidency - By refusing to divest, Trump raised an unprecedented question: How would the most divisive presidency in modern American history affect a company built on the president's persona (Republicans are the biggest crooks)
Donald Trump earned his money the old-fashioned way - Lawyers, Guns & Money - He inherited it from his father Fred, in large part by defrauding the government from receiving that share of Fred Trump's wealth that was owed to the public

Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father : news
New York State Tax Department reviewing fraud allegations involving Trump in NYT article : politics

The New York Times Proves President Trump Is a Crook : politics - "The art of the steal"
Jeremy Chao, But Like a Ghost or Something on Twitter: "Yup." If you look deep in the article, there's reference to the documents being stuffed in the basement of a Trump relative who died in January.
The New York Times Proves President Trump Is a Crook : politics (Catch-22 ref)
Eschaton: The Real American Dream (another Catch-22 catch)

Eschaton: Just On Twitter For The Quality Dunks (David Frum gets dunked by Nathan J Robinson)
Nathan J Robinson on Twitter: "Thank you for the retweet but you're still complicit in mass murder. "

White House Edits Trump Insult to Reporter Out of Official Transcript - The Daily Beast (it never happened, shut up!)
You're not thinking. You never do,' Trump tells a female reporter


Trump: "It's a very scary time for young men in America" - But "women are doing great" (as long as they don't scare the boys with their false accusations)

FBI Probe of Kavanaugh Is Expected to Wrap Up Very Soon (in fact, it's probably already over)
McConnell says only senators wiel see FBI's Kavanaugh report (we thoroughly investigated that's all you need to know)
FBI investigation expected to be complete tomorrow, with vote on Kavanaugh scheduled for later in the week - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Tonight's revelation that Kavanaugh knew of allegations of sexual assault against him by Deborah Ramirez months before they became public is a game-changer -- but *only* if journalists realize its astounding implications. (way too complicated for them)

Kavanaugh's testimony is starting to look more and more problematic ("starting")
Kavanaugh's 1983 Letter Offers Inside Look at High School Clique
Friend Who Said Kavanaugh Wasn't Aggressive When Drunk Was Arrested in Bar Fight Kavanaugh Allegedly Started (it's the Inception of lies!)

Brett Kavanaugh Slapped With Two Official Ethics Complaints in Merrick Garland's Jurisdiction : politics

Eschaton: Never Go The Full Asshole - But I'm not entirely sure being the Morton Downey Jr. of the Supreme Court is really the best thing for your lifelong reputation. No I think he was told he had to impress one man or his nomination would be in jeopardy. That man was not Jeff Flake, but a man who understands the world through the logic (or illogic) of professional wrestling and who happens to be the president of the United States. He did it to impress Trump.

Rep. Ted Lieu: Kavanaugh Lied About A Central Fact In All 3 Sex Accusations : politics
Mitch McConnell wants you to believe Dr. Ford's allegation is 'uncorroborated.' Don't buy it (b/c he's lying, as usual)
Brett Kavanaugh's Career as Republican Operative in Kenneth Starr Office, George Bush White House Is Disqualifying - Brett Kavanaugh's record is clear.

Brett Kavanaugh and alcohol: Two dueling narratives - The Washington Post (there are always two "dueling narratives" in Glenn's head, even when one is a landslide of testimony and the other is a weal denial)
Republicans don't care if Kavanaugh is guilty because they don't think what he did was wrong (Republicans love raping people, one way or another)
Brett Kavanaugh and alcohol: Two dueling narratives - The Washington Post (more "dueling narratives")
Kavanaugh is unfit for Supreme Court - Bangor Daily News (you listening, little Susie?)

What a Book Critic Finds in Mark Judge's 'Wasted' 21 years later -- the story of a privileged young white man, a cocky princeling among cocky princelings, who loses his virginity, loses his religion, loses his lunch and nearly loses his mind. These things happen to a cassette-powered soundtrack by AC/DC, The Clash, Eurythmics, R.E.M. and The Replacements.

Eschaton: America's Worst Humans - Amy Wax.

Republican Senator Hides in Men's Bathroom When Confronted by Sexual-Assault Survivors
Republican Senator Ignores Assault Survivors in Bathroom -- "I know this is enjoyable to y'all' he said)


Dear dads: Your daughters told me about their assaults. This is why they never told you. - The Washington Post
Married Women May Be Moving Away From The GOP : NPR (ignoring their dumb husbands, except for Republican women who support rapists)

'The trauma for a man': Male fury and fear rises in GOP in defense of Kavanaugh (the 'trauma' is having to think about womens' experiences and feelings)

Clinton Impeachment House Speaker's Sex Scandals - A tweet claiming that all Republican Speakers of the House involved with Bill Clinton's impeachment experienced sex scandals was mostly accurate.


GOP operative who sued Trump says FBI referred hacking of her email to Mueller - POLITICO - Cheri Jacobus says she was subjected to a campaign of online harassment and sabotage after a public fight with the president and one of his top advisers (Trump sic'd his flying monkeys on her) .

Eschaton: Maybe Own Up To It - Political reporters really should own up to the fact that they were harder on Obama than Trump during their presidencies. I know the basic reporter belief is that if the other party raises a shitstorm about something they're obligated to cover it, and some will suggest that, well, Republicans are just better than Democrats at raising shitstorms so whatchagonnado. But really guys... tan suit? You let that be a thing. Come on.

Eschaton: Billionaires for the Same Old Bullshit - I know "democrats" on Mike Allen's contact list aren't representative, but neither the Starbucks guy nor Bloomberg are gonna go anywhere in a Democratic primary. -- The buzz: Democrats doubt there's room in the party's presidential race for two corporate celebrities to the right of Bernie. So watch whether Michael Bloomberg beats Schultz into the race. (it's a race! a billionaire race!)

NRA's spending is way down in the 2018 midterms. Does it have 'a popularity problem? - political action committee and political non-profit arm have spent just over $1.6 million in 2018 on outside expenditures, such as political attack ads, and direct campaign contributions to federal candidates and groups, compared to more than $16 million on similar expenses at this point in 2014. (no, Putin cut off their money temporarily)

Will the Democrats wake up before 2020? A definitive inquiry into the state of the party. - The Washington Post - They have no unifying leader and no clear message (let's go to the Iowa state fair!)
Joe Biden Should Not And Will Not Be the Democratic Nominee in 2020 - Lawyers, Guns & Money (it's always been all about him)

What an Explosive Story About Devin Nunes' Family Farm Means for His High-Profile House Race (lying little Russian creep)
Grassley applies for farm bailout money : politics (he's from Iowa, doing the same scam as Nunes)

Michael Bloomberg jolts Senate battle with $20 million for Democrats - The Washington Post

Voter-Suppression Backlash Begins With Kris Kobach, Florida Felon Referendum, Michigan Reform Referendums - The backlash against voter suppression may have truly begun.

New poll: Florida Gov., Senate races too close to call (the Nazi is surging)

Alex Trebek moderated a gubernatorial debate in Pennsylvania. It didn't go well -- Initially joking that he had been drunk when he accepted the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry's request (so why did a bunch of dimbulb Republicans get to choose the moderator??)

Hazmat Team Sent to Cruz Campaign Office in Houston (Cruz was stinking)
2 hospitalized after exposure to powdery substance at Cruz's Houston campaign office (not because Cruz himself is highly toxic)
2 hospitalized after exposure to powdery substance at Cruz's Houston campaign office : news
Ricin detected in mail sent to Pentagon - CNNPolitics

Colorado governor's race: Jared Polis leads Walker Stapleton in first poll

Truck smashes into group of protesters that included Gretchen Whitmer | MLive.com - FLINT, MI - Eight people were hospitalized when a truck crashed into a large group of people protesting early Tuesday.

4 White Supremacists Hit With Federal Charges Over Charlottesville Unite The Right Weekend | HuffPost

D.C. Council takes initial vote to overturn wage hike for bartenders, servers - four months after voters approved it - The Washington Post

The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America - The New York Times - Becoming a mother used to be seen as a unifying milestone for women in the United States. But a new analysis of four decades of births shows that the age that women become mothers varies significantly by geography and education. The result is that children are born into very different family lives, heading for diverging economic futures. (patriarchal red state problem and you pay for it +SF #1 and Middlesex County #10 for oldest first-time moms)



FBI agent shot by booby-trapped wheelchair inside southern Oregon home : news

Sources: 350 guns stolen in Memphis intercepted on way to Chicago : news

This wasn't innocent hazing: Utah teen athlete accused of sexually abusing nine juveniles

Police: Man tried to buy girl from mother at Florida Walmart : news

Surveillance video shows violent, unprovoked attack on a child at Florida gas station : news

statement - n August 18th 2017 I lied and accused Malcolm Harris of rape and sexual harassment of women, particularly of women he works with. These allegations were completely untrue (Freddie DeBoer)


Video of man apparently using Portland police cruiser mirror to shoot heroin goes viral

Four California dentists have rape charges dropped after video contradicts woman's story | KSNV
Rape charges against 4 California dentists dismissed after video contradicts woman's story : news


Supreme court rejects California billionaire's 'private beach' case - Vinod Khosla bought $32.5m property south of San Francisco and cut off public access to popular surf spot : news


Ridiculously Massive Tote Bags Are Going To Be All The Rage For Spring 2019 | HuffPost Life (look like big dead animals)


Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission should 'pick up the pace' on retail pot shops, legalization advocates say : bostontrees (what "pace?")
Ripple Dissolvable THC - Pure 10 by Stillwater Brands : Information & Reviews - Leafly


Cern scientist Alessandro Strumia suspended after comments - BBC News - A senior scientist who said physics "was invented and built by men" has been suspended with immediate effect from working with the European nuclear research centre Cern. (men invented the laws of the universe!)
Cern scientist Alessandro Strumia suspended after comments : news
Physics Nobel for laser pioneers includes first woman in 55 years : news

Dwarf planet 'The Goblin' discovery redefining solar system | Science | The Guardian

A colossal elevator to space could be going up sooner than you ever imagined - Researchers are racing to make this science-fiction idea a reality. (surprising this isn't run by Elon)

Is fasting the fountain of youth? - CNN - Research involving animals has revealed that intermittent fasting can reduce the risk of obesity and its related diseases, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, diabetes and cancer.


California Law Bans Bots From Pretending to Be Human : news

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified by Russian Trolls, Study Finds - An academic paper finds that half of criticism aimed at director Rian Johnson was politically motivated.

Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All U.S. Employees
After facing criticism, Amazon announces it will boost minimum wage to $15 for all workers - The Washington Post
Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees : news


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Great Falls flooded again this weekend. It's the fourth time since May.



Saudi economist who criticized Aramco IPO charged with terrorism: activists | Reuters


Vatican's handling of sexual misconduct complaints about ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick reveals a lot about the Catholic Church (burn it all down)

Analyst Who Accidentally Leaked NSA Software Given Five More Years In Prison Than General Who Handed Classified Info To His Mistress : technology

Trump Administration to Deny Visas to Same-Sex Partners of Diplomats, U.N. Officials : politics

The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law - The Washington Post (Trump wants his state TV/Fox to be your only news source)


U.S. reaches trade deal with Canada and Mexico, providing Trump a crucial win - POLITICO

After Budget Cuts, the IRS' Work Against Tax Cheats Is Facing "Collapse" -- Audits and criminal referrals are down sharply since Congress cut the tax agency's budget and management changed priorities. (win-win-win)

Hundreds of Children Rot in the Desert. End Trump's Draconian Policies. - The administration created this crisis.
The Trump Administration Is Still A Nightmare - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.
Trump Administration Moves Migrant Children From Shelters to West Texas Tent Camp in Middle of Night - Unaccompanied Minors - The United States government is shipping children to the Texas desert in the middle of the night.

Manafort meets with Mueller prosecutors - POLITICO - The sit-down stems from a guilty plea that requires the former Trump campaign chairman to cooperate with the special counsel


Predictions of a "Kavanaugh wave' in November. But for Democrats or GOP? - The dramatic daylong testimony focused attention on the troubles facing Trump's nominee and the possible political fallout.- " It looks like putting your high school rapist in charge of abortion"

Kavanaugh's Comments In That Hearing Raise Ethics Questions That Will Likely Follow Him Whether Or Not He's Confirmed

Kavanaugh Was Questioned by Police After Bar Fight in 1985 - The New York Times (violent drunk)
Brett Kavanaugh'ss Lies Are Catching Up With Him
He's Not A Man, He's A Remorseless Perjury Machine - Lawyers, Guns & Money
How are Kavanaugh's defenders in the conservative media dealing with his constant brazen lying?

Chad Ludington's Statement on Kavanaugh's Drinking and Senate Testimony - On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer. When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive. (Chad!)
Democrats Denounce Limits on F.B.I.'s Kavanaugh Inquiry as a 'Farce'
Eschaton: Jeff Flake, American Hero - Of course -- "I thought it was going to be an investigation," the Yale classmate said, "but instead it seems it's just an alibi for Republicans to vote for Kavanaugh." - Every Republican senator is bad. Once upon a time the liberal fantasy was that maybe they'd occasionally do something kinda sorta liberal, to earn that "moderate" badge the press was too willing to bestow on them. Now it's just that maybe they'll occasionally do something kinda sorta not entirely evil. It isn't going to happen. < br/>
'What am I going to tell my daughter?' : Mainers implore Susan Collins to vote against Kavanaugh (she won't)

The Confusion Surrounding the F.B.I.'s Renewed Investigation of Brett Kavanaugh - By Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow -- A Yale classmate attempting to corroborate Deborah Ramirez's account that, during her freshman year at Yale, Kavanaugh thrust his penis in her face at a drunken party, said that he, too, has struggled unsuccessfully to reach the F.B.I (they aren't answering the phone b/c Trump told them not to)

Trump calls for 'comprehensive' but 'quick' FBI investigation: 'We don't want to go on a witch hunt, do we? (should have seen that one coming)
White House Tells F.B.I. to Interview Anyone Necessary for Kavanaugh Inquiry - The New York Times (as long as they do it in the four days, otherwise witchhunt)

Another Trump coverup? Former FBI agents question limits on probe of Kavanaugh. - The Washington Post - undefined
The big gulf on Kavanaugh is partisan. The big change in the last month was among women. - The Washington Post (Republican women love being raped, the only category that increased their support)
Opinion | Judge Kavanaugh Is One Angry Man - The New York Times - can he rule dispassionately?
FBI spoke with Deborah Ramirez, second Kavanaugh accuser - CNNPolitics
Text messages suggest Kavanaugh wanted to refute accuser's claim before it became public
Brett Kavanaugh is "too big to fail"
Flake: If I were running for reelection 'not a chance' I'd call for Kavanaugh investigation (Trump wave coming)

In memo, outside prosecutor argues why she would not bring criminal charges against Kavanaugh - The Washington Post - (comment) - "So the hired gun with her huge experience in Maricopa County (of all places) who didn't question any witnesses nor experts offers her opinion to the partisan bunch that hired her. Where's the waste basket?"
Hack Hired To Represent Republican Senators Issues Farcically Partisan Document - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Rachel Mitchell's Former Colleague Slams Her Kavanaugh Memo as "Absolutely Disingenuous" (i.e. hack, it was in her contract)

This Is No Mere 'Job Interview' - Even in the court of public opinion, basic fairness should preclude conviction without clear evidence. By Alan M. Dershowitz (the "liberal" and "progressive" Dershofuck and the WSJ comments are all pawns of Satan)
Rachel Mitchell Is Not Very Good at Propaganda - emptywheel
Eschaton: Smelling Their Own Farts - Anyway, the idea that attending any of these schools is proof of much of anything other than doing the right thing (often with significant help from your prep school) at one particular moment in your life (ages 15-16) is ridiculous, and that's before we get to legacy bonus points.

Brett Kavanaugh's Fox News Interview Is Now Testimony Under Oath - The judge's potentially dubious claims about drinking and virginity carry penalty of perjury

Brett Kavanaugh and Negative Polarization - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Kavanaugh's gamble was that marginal Republican Senate votes care more about Republican voters than the electorate as a whole. Regrettably, he is almost certainly right.
Take me out to the ball game - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A crucial fact that's been revealed about Brett Kavanaugh gradually over the last couple of months, and then undeniably over the course of the last week, is that he lies all the time about everything. (Satan always lies)
Fucking Consent, How Does It Work - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Republican women love to be raped)
Republicans can't hold Kavanaugh or anyone else accountable -- because Trump is president - The conservative movement is becoming a no-standards zone.
'The trauma for a man' : Male fury and fear rises in GOP in defense of Kavanaugh (why, it's almost like you have something you're hiding)

The rape culture of the 1980s, explained by Sixteen Candles - Vox - date rape scene provides important context for the Brett Kavanaugh accusations.

The Latest: Trump cites Kavanaugh to rally voters - The Washington Post (just look at the pic)
Another state, another Trump campaign rally, W.Va. this time - The Washington Post - another Therapy Tour Rally for Donald Trump. This is his weekly running away from the White House, and bellyaching about everything that didn't go his way THIS week. He spends about a minute talking about the local politician, then it is all HIM. (he loves his rants)

A Thoroughly Decent And Honorable Person - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Benjamin Wittes is an awful person)

Jim Carrey Hits 'Hideous And Hateful' Lindsey Graham In New Portrait | HuffPost

Reckless Republicans aren't giving any thought to tomorrow (rape, pillage, loot, plunder, blame Dems)
The Kavanaugh hearings were another rumbling of the volcano. And the left can't hear it -- "Hewitt is in a fight to the death with Marc Thiessen for who can tell the most partisan lies in the pages of the WP. There is no vicious smear, racist innuendo, or cruel rumor that Hewitt and Thiessen will not repeat endlessly. They are low lying individuals. Then again, what do you expect from the racists, homophobes, sexual predators, and viciously selfish who are the core of the Republican Party and of Trump's support. Hugh Hewitt is a liar--just like Trump."

Don't be fooled: Working Americans are worse off under Trump - Median weekly earnings of all workers rose from $865 in the first quarter of 2017 to $876 in the quarter ending June 30, 2018. The typical working American's earnings increased $11 weekly over 18 months, barely more than one-quarter of the economic progress touted by the White House. (the economy is booming! and the rich got even richer!)


David Nune's Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret -- . So why did his parents and brother cover their tracks after quietly moving the farm to Iowa? Are they hiding something politically explosive? (wait, we thought he was a California "farmer")



Landmark poll shows tight race for Georgia gov, a divide over Kavanaugh - The poll by Landmark Communications showed Kemp leading Abrams 48-46 among likely Georgia voters
CNN Polls: Missouri, Nevada Senators face close races in re-election bids - CNNPolitics
SRA Poll shows ND Senate race numbers, reaction to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh case (ND loves their Republican rapists, Heidi going down)


The White House press room is overwhelmingly white. Does that matter? - The Washington Post - The New York Times hired its seventh reporter to cover the White House last month, giving the newspaper one of the largest contingents of correspondents on the beat. Aside from being top-flight journalists, the crew shares a common trait: All seven are white. (you've been sulzfucked)
There was only one White House press briefing in the entire month of September (lyin' Sarah hates that part of her job)

Biden Is Preparing for 2020. Can He Overcome the Hill-Thomas Hearings? - The New York Times (STFU and GTFO JoeBi)

The Matt Damon Kavanaugh Sketch Proves How Hard It Is to Do Politics on SNL Now

Kevin Jackson Rips Fox News: Jesse Watters, Ed Henry Had Affairs

The Washington Times settles lawsuit with Seth Rich's brother, issues retraction and apology for its coverage

APNewsBreak: Attorney: Ellison abuse claim unsubstantiated
California woman recants sex harassment claims made against Dem congressional hopeful | Fox News

Democrat/Republican divide is worst it's ever been, and neither party can shoulder the blame, as it doesn't matter which party is in charge, finds a new study published in journal Social Networks. : science

The Great White House Reporter Glow-Up | GQ - Thanks to the nonstop demands of cable news, the ink-stained wretches covering Trump have transformed into tightly tailored professional pundits.


Detailed New National Maps Show How Neighborhoods Shape Children for Life - The New York Times - Some places lift children out of poverty. Others trap them there. Now cities are trying to do something about the difference. (see Boston/Cambridge/Somerville map: Oxfore St is a "poor" neighborhood for everybody and Riverside for white people)


Martins Beach: U.S. Supreme Court denies appeal of Khosla - to weigh in on the long-running battle over Martins Beach in San Mateo County, turning down a case that could have potentially rewritten coastal access laws in California and across the United States - The most conservative and divided Supreme Court in my lifetime confirmed that even a billionaire, who refuses to acknowledge that the law applies to him, and retains the most expensive attorneys he can find, cannot create a private beach,


Inside the Secret Courts of Massachusetts - A Globe Spotlight report - Criminal charges often disappear without a trace. There are few rules and fewer records. In these private hearings, who you are -- and who you know -- may be just as important as right and wrong. (MA courts burying crimes based on who you know/how rich you are)

A Progressive Writer Was a Bad Boyfriend. And Then He Was Fired for It. - Slog - The Stranger - Jack Smith IV (should men be fired for being fakes and complete assholes if they don't rape you?)


The Movie Assassin - How The English Patient almost ruined my life.

The "Curvy Wife Guy" Is Threatening To Sue Babe For Comparing His Book To The Unabomber Manifesto - This is the legal battle of the century.
I Love This Woman and Her Curvy Body | Know Your Meme
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue | Know Your Meme


Boston inches forward with recreational marijuana permits : bostontrees
SIRANaturals Employment... ish... : bostontrees
Sira Naturals Reviews | Glassdoor
In Newton, battle lines drawn ahead of recreational pot votes - The Boston Globe : bostontrees
Marketing Scam: Cannabis Edibles Sold as Sativa or Indica for Desired Effects | SATIVAisticated


TIL violent crime in New York City has been dropping since 1991 and as of 2017, is among the lowest of major cities in the United States. In 2017, there were 290 homicides, the lowest number since the 1940s. : todayilearned

Hopkins researchers recommend reclassifying psilocybin, the drug in 'magic' mushrooms, from schedule I to schedule IV : news

If you stand on a skateboard, hold an umbrella in front of you, point a leafblower at it and turn it on, which direction will you move? : askscience


What is a name that has been ruined for you, and why? : AskReddit

/u/WrinklyScroteSack explains how a gay best friend taught him that the incel mindset was self-defeating and hypocritical : bestof

Couples whose wedding was an absolute catastrophe, what happened? : AskReddit

What popular life advice do you disagree with? : AskReddit


The FBI used a suspect's face to unlock his iPhone in Ohio case - 52 comments - There is a legal difference between a passcode and something like Face ID (+they've cracked Apple "security")

"They want us to be robots' : Whole Foods workers fear Amazon's changes - Employees have begun to organize in an attempt to push back on changes made since Amazon acquired the company in 2017



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Death toll soars past 800 in Indonesia earthquake, tsunami - The Washington Post
Death toll in Indonesia from earthquake and tsunami could reach into the thousands, nation

20-page UN report distilled from more than 6,000 scientific studies confronts nations with tough choices on climate : worldnews
Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules - The New York Times (take your mercury, it's good for you! )
Chinese Solar Giant to Make All Its Panels With Just Solar Power:

Probe ordered after traces of eradicated polio type 2 virus were found in some batches of oral vaccine manufactured by a Ghaziabad-based pharmaceutical company. The firm's managing director was arrested Saturday. : worldnews

The Sex Abuse of Deaf Orphans in Pope Francis's Backyard: The priests and monks created their own sick sign language to command the deaf and mute boys to perform oral sex and be sodomized.


Brexit costing UK #500M a week, study says POLITICO - Brexit vote caused #26 billion annual loss to the UK economy, according to the Center for European Reform. (UK self-destructs because idiots)
Brexit is already costing the public purse #500m a week, new research has found -- a stark contrast to the #350m "dividend" promised by the Leave campaign. (and the suckers believed the chronic liars)

Pakistani helicopter violates Indian airspace in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch, retreats after army sentries open fire - Firstpost
Boys' school blown up in Chitral

A Social Media Star Is Shot Dead in Baghdad. Iraqis Fear a Trend. - The New York Times (women-hating muzzie fuckers)
Former Miss Baghdad Shot Dead as She Drove Through Iraqi Capital in Latest of Series of Attacks on Women

Billions Found in Pakistani Street Vendor's Account, Investigators Trace it to Ex-Prez Zardari : worldnews


Eschaton: What a Country - Only the best people. -- In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in South Texas ... Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room. They received formal schooling and regular visits with legal representatives assigned to their immigration cases. But in the rows of sand-colored tents in Tornillo, Tex., children in groups of 20, separated by gender, sleep lined up in bunks. There is no school: The children are given workbooks that they have no obligation to complete. Access to legal services is limited.
Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border - The New York Times
Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border : news - Welcome to the Gulag, America Edition
The Billion-Dollar Business of Operating Shelters for Migrant Children - The New York Times (the sadism and prison industry is always there to eat your children)

Judge's ruling may force Kansas Army officer's adopted Korean daughter to leave US - U.S. - Stripes


Trump Goes Off On Weird Riff About How It's Really the 'Democrat' Party - It was often used by the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), orchestrator of many of the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s. Former President George W. Bush also employed it to needle the Democrats


Details of FBI's Kavanaugh Inquiry Show Its Restricted Range
Trump: No limits on FBI's investigation into allegations against Brett Kavanaugh ("no limits" = "big limits")
Opinion | James Comey: The F.B.I. Can Do This - The New York Times - Despite limitations and partisan attacks, the bureau can find out a lot about the Kavanaugh accusations in a week.
White House Directs FBI to Interview First Two Kavanaugh Accusers, But Not the Third - WSJ - FBI probe won't include interviewing Julie Swetnick, drawing criticism from her attorney
The Investigation is a Sham - Lawyers, Guns & Money (obstructer-in-chief)
Trump says FBI has 'free rein' in Kavanaugh investigation, yet he's put strict limits on agents' work : politics
White House Blocks Investigation Into Julie Swetnick Accusations Against Kavanaugh : politics
Klobuchar: 'White House should not be allowed to micromanage' FBI investigation into Kavanaugh : politics
White House Questioned on Its Role in Kavanaugh FBI Probe - WSJ

Bernie Sanders: FBI Must Determine If Kavanaugh Told The Truth Under Oath | HuffPost - "Lying to Congress is a federal crime," Sander noted (lock up the fucker)
How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying | Current Affairs

The Lies Of Lyin' Brett, Extra Lying Edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Kavanaugh-Ford Hearing Was Never About the Truth - The Atlantic (it's about waving the biggest dick and white men in suits)

Fewer Believe Brett Kavanaugh Than His Accuser, Poll Finds -- But most Americans say they have't changed their minds about his confirmation - 41 to 30 percent, that they believed Ford was telling the truth; they were split, 35 percent to 38 percent on whether Kavanaugh was similarly honest. (Those who reported having personally watched at least some of the hearings ? a majority of the country ? said, 52 to 36, that they believed Blasey. They were split 44 to 46 on whether they believed Kavanaugh.) (so, the Fux watchers love him )

Cotton: Feinstein to be investigated over leaked letter from Ford - politico - Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, also said lawyers recommended to Christine Blasey Ford by Democrats will face a Washington, D.C., bar investigation for telling her that Senate Judiciary Committee staffers would not travel to California to interview her about her sexual-assault allegation (truth hurts, doesn't it, Republifucks)

Any Klobuchar's big Brett Kavanaugh moment earned rave reviews. But is it what Democrats demand for 2020? (never fight back, so no)
Trump asks if Feinstein leaked allegation against Kavanaugh, says FBI probe may be 'blessing in disguise' - The president told reporters he fully supported his Supreme Court nominee and said he has no backup plan to replace him. (lies, lies and more lies)

Classmate: Kavanaugh drank heavily - CNN Video
Many teens drink. Rich ones like Kavanaugh are more likely to abuse alcohol. - The Washington Post - Affluence is a risk factor for dangerous behavior
Kavanaugh said he had 'No connections' to Yale. He was, in fact, a legacy student. : politics

Kavanaugh Confirmation: Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Says We're Seeing The 'Death and Decline of Democracy' (STFU Tony, you know exactly what you did)
It's 11 AM Somewhere - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Who could have possibly foreseen that handing a Supreme Court seat to Donald Trump would result in a complete shitshow? Did you know that when the Supreme Court lawlessly intervened to ensure the election of their preferred candidate, Anthony Kennedy wrote (although he did not have the courage to put his name on) the opinion? True story!

Kellyanne Conway: 'I'm a victim of secual assault' - She said perpetrators should bear the responsibility for their actions but that conservatives have become targets for political score-settling. (no Republican ever assaulted a woman and "gender has nothing to do with it")
Kellyanne Conway: 'I'm a victim of sexual assault' : news

Mitch McConnell makes it clear moral fitness does not matter : politics (Mitch the Bitch has no "morals")

The case against Kavanaugh isn't just about sex. It's about sexual humiliation.
Kavanaugh and 80s Pop Culture - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Michael's essay: The Republican Party 'seems to actively hate women' | CBC Radio : politics
I tracked down my rapist. I also found his wife. - The Washington Post
We Can't Just Let Boys Be Boys - Locker rooms are not the place to learn about sexual ethics. Neither is the internet.
Trajectory Analysis of the Campus Serial Rapist Assumption | Adolescent Medicine | JAMA Pediatrics | JAMA Network ... Across samples, 178 of 1642 participants (10.8%) reported having perpetrated at least 1 rape from 14 years of age through the end of college. (it's not just a few bad apples, it's one in ten men) )

The Republican Party Abandons Conservatism : politics (they were never "conservative")

Democrats find their answer to the Koch brothers - POLITICO - Democratic House candidates raised nearly $36 million online in August, giving many the resources to air early TV ads.

At Concert Attended by 50,000 Texans, Beto O'Rourke and Willie Nelson Team Up to Deliver Simple Message: 'Vote 'Em Out' : politics
Andy Langer on Twitter: "Some of @WillieNelson's new "Vote 'Em' Out" fro mthe Beto Rally

Warren says she will 'take a hard look at running for president'


Land O'Lakes CEO: Trade war 'has resulted in some real pain in the country' : politics (haha suckers)

Mainers weigh in on Susan Collins ahead of Brett Kavanaugh vote - The Boston Globe (doing her Susie-Doozy thing ... and ah, "Senator Hamlet")
Urban Dictionary: boofing
Urban Dictionary: Devils Triangle - A made up game of quarters with three cups arranged in a triangle. The rules are unknown because the inventor of the game, Brett Kavanaugh, could not explain them under oath.


Winnebago County GOP headquarters vandalized overnight - WREX

Why Trump Will Win a Second Term - The New York Times - Reality TV has always been the guidebook for this presidency. And most popular series last for six seasons ... the latest developments in the sprawling, intricate, unpredictable 24/7 show that is Donald Trump's presidency


Poll: Michigan backs legalizing marijuana, easier voting


How The Left Killed Universities (And Everything Else) | Current Affairs - This book gets released every few years, whether it is called The Closing of the American Mind, Illiberal Education, Indocrination U, Brainwashed, Tenured Radicals, or No Campus For White Men. Mac Donald's entry comes with blurbs from Jordan Peterson, Charles Murray, Peggy Noonan, and Steven Pinker ... Mac Donald reiterates a lot of her angry anti-Black Lives Matter material from her previous book The War on Cops (she's a real Heather)


Even with murder rates falling, big-city detectives face daunting caseloads - The Washington Post - Since 2012, someone has been murdered nearly every 24 hours in Detroit, a city long plagued by violence. Despite sweeping changes to make the homicide division more efficient, police arrest suspects in fewer than half of all killings.

Bellevue schools add cameras to buses to catch drivers who illegally pass : news
Car explosion reported in downtown Allentown, PA : news

Mugshots released of suspects arrested in $1M Apple Store robbery scheme

Lindsay Lohan Gets Punched in Face After Accusing Refugee Family of 'Trafficking' (Video) : news
Lindsay Lohan's mom Dina Lohan files for bankruptcy


Kanye West Delivers Pro-Trump Rant on 'SNL,' Gets Booed By Audience - The rapper/entrepreneur delivered a pro-Trump speech in a red MAGA hat - Gets Booed By Audience - The rapper/entrepreneur delivered a pro-Trump speech in a red MAGA hat - "Well, uh, if I was concerned about racism I would've moved out of America a long time ago" (dimbulb evil celeb is a ranter like Trumpster)
Kanye West and Lil Pump gave the worst SNL performance I have ever seen, and I say this as a big fan of both of them. : television

Michael Moore slams ex-wife's lawsuit as a 'smear campaign' | Fox News

Florida woman cuts man's face after he refuses to have sex with her : news


He Won $19 Million in the Lottery -- And Became a Bank Robber -- Jim Hayes won the jackpot of a lifetime and spent big on Lamborghinis and Vegas gambling trips. Then his life went south and he turned to crime ... "All that money changed him. He got a hotsty-totsy attitude." (the new hoity-toity)


Cost of lifesaving heroin withdrawal drug soars by 700% | Spike in the price of a drug used to wean addicts off heroin has caused alarm among treatment agencies, which warn of a rise in drug-related deaths unless urgent action is taken to make it more affordable. : worldnews

Skull-Shaped Death Comet Will Hurtle Past Earth After Halloween

ELI5: what is 'the golden ratio' and what is its relevance to the way plants grow? : explainlikeimfive

What's happening in our brains when we're trying to remember something? : askscience

Voters Are Trading Honesty for Loyalty - Novel experiments about loyalty indicate that people will overlook dishonesty if it benefits their group. Those who lied (and benefited their team) rated themselves as more ethical than those who told the truth, finds a new study. : science

More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don't Alway Add Up A Cornell food scientist's downfall could reveal a bigger problem in nutrition research.


Adam Driver may have just had the performance of his career last night on SNL. My word. : videos

What's the most unfair thing you've ever seen? : AskReddit
Teachers, what's the most disturbing thing you've confiscated off a student? : AskReddit
What is a stupid question you've always wanted to ask? : AskReddit

u/unknown becomes a reddit ghost, being able to post and comment while their username shows as [deleted] : bestof


Tim Berners-Lee launches open source project Solid to decentralize the web and place users in control of data : worldnews



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Trump Administration Acknowledges Anthropogenic Climate Change - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Shorter Trump administration: human civilization is going to collapse from catastrophic climate change, so why bother to reduce greenhouse emissions? This is not the Onion.
At Least 384 Killed After Major Earthquake And Tsunami Hit Indonesia | HuffPost - Waves as high as 18 feet smashed onshore at dusk, sweeping many to their death and destroying anything in their path, following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.


Unique underwater sculpture in the Maldives destroyed after deemed un-Islamic : news - religious leaders had complained that the sculpture represented idols, which are banned by Islam. Strict Islam bans any manmade depiction of the human form. (if you can't draw a picture of a human, you can't think about humanity +Muzztards and:)The main island is a slowly sinking pile of trash inhabited by batshit crazy religious zealots packed into the most densely-inhabited city on Earth. The other islands are rural and impoverished.
List of cities by population density - Wikipedia


Police clash with Catalan separatists in Barcelona : news

WATCH | Pakistani bureaucrat steals wallet of Kuwaiti delegate : news


US mid-terms: Hackers expose 'staggering' voter machine flaws - BBC News
DefCon: A voting machine that is currently used in 26 states is vulnerable to be remotely hacked via a network attack. Hacking just one of these machines could enable an attacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election. : technology (another thing Barry couldn't be bothered with )

Under the Fog of Kavanaugh, House Passes $3.8 Trillion More in Tax Cuts : politics (next week: end Social Security and health care oo the riches can have more riches and you can just die)
Amid Kavanaugh controversy, Trump administration plans to relax sexual assault rules on campus | CBC Radio : politics (distract, deny, distort, deflect)


Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread : politics (don't miss)

Eschaton: As I Keep Saying - If informing readers isn't the point of a newspaper, what is? (for the NYT, lying is a "skill")
Eschaton: Norms - I know it's a quaint notion, but a functioning society does require that most people obey "the rules" even without threat of law enforcement or other sanction. Letting the top judge get away with lying to Congress just makes us all go LOL NOTHING MATTERS. - I'm not one who ever believed in the golden age of the Grand Old Party, but this was the type of thing they used to pretend to care about.

More than 20 million viewers watched Kavanaugh hearing on TV : politics (not counting the internets, so maybe twice that)
Brett Kavanaugh exposed his political grudges -- now faith in a neutral Supreme Court may be lost for decades (the scam got a little too obvious)
The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh : politics

Nancy Pelosi calls Brett Kavanaugh "hysterical," says he is unfit to serve on the Supreme Court : politics - (good one, Nancy +top comment: "he should smile more" hahaha) [He has a resting rape face] (https://i.imgur.com/DcNsnNB.jpg +"Gammon" : " pejorative term used in British political culture since around 2012, which received press coverage in 2018. In 2018 it became particularly known as a term to describe older white men, especially those on the political right or who supported Brexit, who appear pink-faced when emotiona)
Kavanaugh Resting Rape Face

George W. Bush Is Still Bad : politics (daily reminder)

White House 'Shellshocked' by Developments; 'There's No Plan B' : politics

Bernie Sanders calls for FBI to investigate whether Kavanaugh told truth in hearing : politics

More Brett Kavanaugh Classmates Are Saying He Lied to Congress : politics - Kav has more secrets than he can keep tho, we already know he is a drunk, a gambler, a rapist, and a liar. Next we will find out he is a murderer and he will still be confirmed.
Brett Kavanaugh's Yale classmate says he told different story about virginity than in his Fox News interview : politics

My Impressions on Kavanaugh's Answers in Today's Judiciary Committee Hearings -- 1. Shouty McShoutyface.
Gustavo Luis on Twitter: "every woman in this pic tho "
On the Kavanaugh Nomination And Women's Reproductive Rights. Or Back to the Basics. Post One. (it's all about controlling women)

FBI reaches out to second woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct - The Washington Post - Deborah Ramirez, a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh's who alleges that he shoved his genitals in her face at a party
Christine Blasey Ford's friend is not refuting Ford's allegation, will cooperate with FBI, lawyer says
The miscalculation haunting Trump, Kavanaugh - Axios -- Republicans treated this like a bare-knuckles political fight. They calculated a Fox News appearance, a Trump endorsement, a headstrong Mitch McConnell, a fired-up base, a fast vote would hold the party together.
At Times, Kavanaugh's Defense Misleads or Veers Off Point
Opinion | Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory - The New York Times - It is both easy and common to drink, act and then have no memory of it.
The lies senators must tell themselves to support Brett Kavanaugh - The Boston Globe

Kavanaugh Could Help G.O.P. in Senate Midterms. But Not in House Races. - The New York Times - But Republicans expressed confidence that Judge Kavanaugh's testimony had rallied voters on the right, shoring up his chances of eventual confirmation and endangering Senate Democrats in red states who vote against him. (yeah, sure, NYT) ... "It's like they've got a strategy to drive their support among suburban women down into the teens and they're executing it brilliantly,"
A majority of voters say they won't re-elect senators if they confirm Kavanaugh : politics (who you gonna believe?)
Kavanaugh fight shows us that Washington is sick. Very sick. - Analysis: The Kavanaugh confirmation process will end with no winners. (don't be so sure)


In Rare Move, ACLU to Oppose Kavanaugh for Supreme Court | American Civil Liberties Union

Kavanaugh's Conduct At the Hearings Is More Than Sufficient Reason to Reject Him - Lawyers, Guns & Money (it's highly unlikely Greenwald watched the hearings live from Brazil but if he did, it's worse and in any case, he doesn't seem to like women)
Diversity! - Lawyers, Guns & Money (bearback Sully is a conservative shill and evil idiot but loves gay Lindsey, who is known in gay circles as "butter")
The Fundamental Incoherence of the Anti-Anti-Kavanaugh Position - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Since Paul has already dealt with Sully, let's look at the argument dressed up in a slightly nicer suit by Bret Stephens. (who is a dishonest conservative asshole and an official NYT lying jerk)
Lindsey Graham looks ahead to 2020 | The State - Graham's defense of Kavanaugh has conservatives applauding. How long will that last?

I Told Sen. Lindsey Graham I'd Been Raped. His Response Was Telling. ("call the cops, don't bother me")

How to Talk to the Women in Your Life Right Now | GQ - Put on your big-boy listening pants)
Opinion | Women Are Watching - The New York Times
America Is Finally Listening to Women. It's parking a National Crisis. - Women are now powerful enough to disrupt the male-dominated consensus that in previous eras silenced them. But they are not yet powerful enough to get justice.

Harvard Law School Dean Won't Say If Brett Kavanaugh Still Has A Job (very harvardy)


Democrats planning to examine Trump's tax returns after the midterms - A nearly 100-year old statute allows the chairmen of Congress' tax comittees to look at anyone's returns - That could bring a swift end to the long-running battle over Trump's returns, while generating loads of fodder for what promises to be an array of investigations into the administration if Democrats win power (Rethug voters support Trump's crimes)
Democrats planning to examine Trump's tax returns after the midterms


Bannon predicts 'three-way race' in 2020 (Bannon will recruit Bloomberg! to triangulate the Dems into oblivion! or Mittens!!)

'Mostly false:' Politifact vets 9 Rick Scott ads, finds all 9 are false : politics

Sarah Palin's Son arrested for Domestic Violence and Resisting Arrest


The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade - The New York Times - A localized recession in manufacturing-heavy areas can explain a lot of things. (the male economic geniuses were wrong, again)


Films No One Needs - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Bill Cosby may be in jail. Harvey Weinstein may be in hiding. But Roman Polanski is alive and well, and planning his first movie in the #MeToo era. He even has an Oscar-winning actor attached.

Kevin Spacey Sued for Sexual Battery : movies
Woman goes public with rape claim against Cristiano Ronaldo : news


Boy, 4, Thrown to His Death From Brooklyn Building by His Brother, Police Say - The New York Times

Two police officers dead after shootout in Mississippi : news


"The Pennsylvania Department is Corrections is banning prisoners from receiving books. Instead, they can buy a $149 e-reader, and pay between $2-$29 for e-books of work largely in the public domain. There are no dictionaries available" : books (the incarceration and sadism industry)


People who have left organized religion, why? What was the final straw? (Serious) : AskReddit


Evidence that increased BMI causes lower mental wellbeing. There is an increasing need to prevent obesity because of the consequences for mental as well as physical health, new research has found. : science

How much time passes between when something happens in front of us, when our eyes receive that visual information, and when our brain processes it? : askscience
Human Benchmark - Reaction Time Test

High Energy Particles Flying out of Antarctic Ice May Complicate, or Break, Physics' Standard Model


When you get possessed by Satan by you realise you are on you way to church : WTF


DuckDuckGo Traffic is Exploding : technology


Eschaton: Because This Joke Is As Inevitable As The Sun Rising In The East - Never tweet -- As part of the settlement, which is still subject to court approval, Musk will also pay a civil penalty of $20 million and give up his role as chairman of the board for at least three years. Additionally, Tesla will also pay a $20 million fine, and appoint two new independent directors to the board. (they need to do a med eval)

Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the the World Wide Web - decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it.



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Tsunami hits Indonesia's Palu after strong earthquake - BBC News
A large Tsunami has just hit Indonesia after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake earlier today : videos
Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100 - The Washington Post - But the administration did not offer this dire forecast as part of an argument to combat climate change. Just the opposite: The analysis assumes the planet's fate is already sealed (Republicans celebrate the end of the world, Jesus will transport them, hahaha suckers)
President Trump's Administration Says Catastrophic Global Warming Is Inevitable So We Should Just Burn More Carbon -- The Planet Is Doomed -- Let's Destroy it Faster - The Trump "administration" establishes the United States government as a death cult.
7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Indonesia : news - undefined

NASA Captures Polluted Carolina Rivers Spilling Into the Ocean After Hurricane : news (rivers pouribng Republican poop into the ocean) On the upside, Duke Energy's super expensive coal ash disposal problem has been solved at no cost to the shareholders.
"A bad science fiction movie": Large, aggressive mosquitoes swarm N.C. city after Florence : news


Netherlands foils 'major terror attack' : news Escapes Iraq, and wants to blow up the Netherlands. Swell...

Gay sex, adultery, women's rights: India's Supreme Court is taking on the patriarchy - The ruling gave women the right to enter a 12th century Hindu temple that was closed off to female devotees aged 10 to 50, roughly covering their menstruating years (men are weird)

Russian-US tycoon boasted of 'active' involvement in Trump election campaign - Exclusive: Simon Kukes was in contact with senior Kremlin official in 2016 while donating to Trump-supporting committee (and slimy Rudy)


Pentagon admits war on ISIS has killed more than 1,100 civilians in Syria and Iraq : news (x100)

US military's top enlisted leader is suspended amid investigation (you can see the problem)

Assange steps down as editor of Wikileaks : news
Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange: What They Believe | The New Republic (2014 good history)

Big donor to Trump campaign made overture to top Russian official, boasting of connections - The businessman, who donated $273,000 in 2016, wanted a face-to-face meeting with a Russian official.


Congressional Democrats'awsuit alleging Trump's private business is violating the Constitution can proceed, federal judge rules

We have minimum ages for candidates. Trump and Congress show we need an age cap, too. : politics - Chuck Grassley, for example, is 85 years old. He's been serving on the Senate since 1980 (when he was 47). He's been in the Senate for 38 years! Orin Hatch is a year younger (84), but has been on the Senate since 1977, putting him at 41 years.


Megathread: President Trump orders FBI investigation into Kavanaugh allegations : politics
Senator's dramatic demand spurs Trump to order FBI Kavanaugh probe
Former FBI agents say there are clues to follow from dramatic Kavanaugh hearing - Los Angeles Times
The FBI Probe Is Not Good News for Brett Kavanaugh - Jeff Flake Engineers Re-Opening the Background Investigation - The FBI will speak to Mark Judge -- and Judge's ex-girlfriend. The national media has another week to look into him.


Every time Ford and Kavanaugh dodged a question, in one chart - Vox
Supreme Fiasco: Did the Kavanaugh Drama Just Break the Senate? - POLITICO Magazine
American Politics Is Boofed - POLITICO Magazine - The Kavanaugh-Ford hearing was a spectacle three decades in the making.

Kavanaugh vote: Flake, Murkowski back FBI investigation; Senate committee advances nominee - The Washington Post
Republicans are giving some tortured explanations for moving ahead on Kavanaugh - The Washington Post
Kamala Harris leads walkout on Senate committee vote on Kavanaugh : politics

The most telling moment: Kavanaugh goes after Klobuchar - The Washington Post - "Have you?" (been black-out drunk, Amy you slut?")

Do we really want a man consumed with rage, self-pity and hate on the Supreme Court? - Los Angeles Times
Do we really want a man consumed with rage, self-pity and hate on the Supreme Court? : politics
Brett Kavanaugh's Hearing on Christine Blasey Ford's Sexual Assault Allegation Turns Into Republican Rage - Brett Kavanaugh's hearing devolved into an exhibition of furious contempt for those who would keep him from what he's entitled. (+"revenge of the Clintons")
Judge Brett Kavanaugh Lied Repeatedly in Confirmation Process - Jeff Flake Signals He'll Be Confirmed to Supreme Court

There Was One Credible Witness on Thursday - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Why Brett Kavanaugh's Hearings Convinced Me That He's Guilty
Christine Blasey Ford Is a Class Traitor - she is the archetypal Republican voter: A wealthy, white suburban woman, married, with children. Her parents are Republicans. Her father plays golf with Brett Kavanaugh's dad at Burning Tree. Her parents have been noticeably silent -- stonily so, with no letter of support, only the most begrudging words. It chilled me to read what her father, Ralph Blasey, wrung from himself to offer the Washington Post, in the conditional tense

Avenatti says he will 'thoroughly enjoy embarrassing' Senate GOP for advancing Kavanaugh's nomination : politics
Gamble v. United States - SCOTUSblog (Trump's escape hatch opens next month why they want kavbro there)
Avenatti wants "full" FBI Kavanaugh probe to be 2020 litmus test

The American Bar Association had concerns about Kavanaugh 12 years ago. Republicans dismissed those, too. - The Washington Post

Republicans reject effort to subpoena Mark Judge : politics
GOP barrels toward Kavanaugh vote with key Republicans undecided - POLITICO - The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving toward a Friday vote, and GOP leaders are planning to keep the chamber in session on Saturday.
When Is Kavanaugh's Senate Vote? - The Atlantic - lawmakers were confident enough to quickly schedule a vote.

Opinion | Why Brett Kavanaugh Wasn't Believable - And why Christine Blasey Ford was.
The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings Will Be Remembered As a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment | The New Yorker

E-mails Show That Republican Senate Staff Stymied a Kavanaugh Accuser's Effort to Give Testimony - By Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer

The Note: Broken Senate picks up pieces of Kavanaugh nomination - ABC News

Rachel Mitchell's disappearing act confirms GOP blunder - POLITICO - s disappearing act confirms GOP blunder

AP FACT CHECK: Kavanaugh's claim of exoneration

Brett Kavanaugh Disqualified Himself From the Supreme Court | The New Republic - The embattled nominee confirmed Democrat's fears that he would be a partisan warrior for the right.
Democrats talk of impeaching Kavanaugh - Axios
Alan Dershowitz: Postpone Kavanaugh confirmation until FBI can investigate accusations against him | Fox News
The Editors: It is time for the Kavanaugh nomination to be withdrawn | America Magazine
American Bar Association tells Senate: Delay Kavanaugh until FBI investigates assault allegations - CNNPolitics

Eschaton: I Tried To Tell You - I spent many years composing blog posts that basically said "George Bush is bad" and the desire to suggest that he was actually good has enraged me. -- George W. Bush has called several moderate Republican senators and Manchin to whip votes for Kavanaugh, per people briefed. Trump, who doesn't like Bush, has far less sway with the key voters.
Cheney's Toy Returns to Action - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Christine Blasey Ford's Sacrifice - Her testimony was heroic. Will it be pointless? By Michelle Goldberg


Brett Kavanaugh Let His Mask Slip | HuffPost - The Supreme Court nominee spoke like the partisan warrior that he is.
Christine Blasey Ford Didn't Have The Luxury Of Being Angry - The contrast between Blasey's politeness and Kavanaugh's fury wasn't lost on those who understand the cost of being an outraged woman.
Catholic Magazine Revokes Endorsement Of Brett Kavanaugh After Hearing | HuffPost - If Senate Republicans proceed with his nomination, they will be prioritizing policy aims over a woman's report of an assault

Destroy the Republican Party - Lawyers, Guns & Money - today demonstrated the utter moral rot at the center of the Republican Party. Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court precisely because of what he was today, screaming, dismissing Democratic senators as beneath contempt, and a complete liar about sexual assault and anything else he wants to lie about. Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham - they love it. Love it. (+Chaitster is getting marginalized and isn't happy)

"If I were allowed to curse in The New York Times, this column would be one word repeated over and over." - Lawyers, Guns & Money (raving racist asshole gay Lindsey)
'Special Place In Hell' : Twitter Users Shred Lindsey Graham After Kavanaugh Rant
Graham on Kavanaugh confirmation snag: 'Somebody has got to explain this to Trump' (priorities, dude)
Fox News goes all in on smearing Dr. Christine Blasey Ford : politics

Republicans Loved Kavanaugh Testimony at Senate Hearing -- What a Good Boy - the soft-faced man, alternately weeping and yelling

Alexander Burns on Twitter: "Amazing to me that people can make the "boys will be boys" argument but not follow that to the logical conclusion that boys should not be in charge of anything. https://t.co/jWJtYG8pJR"

Kavanaugh is lying. His upbringing explains why. : politics
I've Witnessed Him 'Stumbling Drunk': Brett Kavanaugh's Classmate Says Supreme Court Nominee is 'Blatantly Lying' : politics

How do you play Devil's Triangle, Brett Kavanaugh's 'Quarters' drinking game? | NJ.com - edited anonymously from the US House of Representatives shortly to describe it in the same terms as Kavanaugh. (no one will notice!)

Kavanaugh's most absurd lie - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Laurence Tribe on Twitter: "If Judge Kavanaugh truly didn't watch Dr. Ford's testimony, that's damning. If he did, then he lied under oath.
A Republican Yale drinking buddy of Kavanaugh's tells CNN he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee : politics

Sen. Jeff Flake will support Kavanaugh, a critical vote for the Supreme Court nominee's confirmation : politics
Sexual Assault Survivor Confronts Jeff Flake On CNN: 'Don't Look Away From Me' ... He can't even look rape survivors in the eyes let alone answer their questions. Absolute spineless POS. (in the end, they all bow down to Satan)
'Look at me when I'm talking to you!' : Crying protester confronts Jeff Flake in Capitol elevator

Kavanaugh confirmation: Sen. Joe Donnelly, a red-state Democrat, to oppose Supreme Court nominee - The Washington Post -- Flake is fine with the rapist

Today, In Being Part of the Problem - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Hey, remember Michael Ian Black, the comedian whose response to Louis CK's attempt to resurrect his career a mere ten months after being exposed as a gross sexual predator was to chastise us all for our lack of charity? ... "Kavanaugh ... helluva good guy" ... It should go without saying, but: a good guy doesn't lie under oath ...
Male attempts to extrapolate "goodness" from male abusers or make *nuanced* our notion of goodness could be a fucking Olympic sport ... You're a comedian, @michaelianblack, read the fucking room (some comedy guy thinks he's smart but isn't)

Kavanaugh Has Become a Hero to the Incel Community : politics - This guy is literally their definition of a "Chad" lol.
Behind Kavanaugh fight, a national struggle over trust, identity and sex roles - The Washington Post

Inside the law school scam, Brett Kavanaugh edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Good job Yale Law School. You not only originally excreted this lying sack of shit, this gin-blossomed wreck of a human being, this poser, this company man, but you then did everything you could to get him on the Supreme Court, because it would be good for business.
'Conservatism' seems to have lost all meaning ... Can a temper tantrum by an all-male majority of the Judiciary Committee stifle a victim just as surely as a hand over her mouth? For now, yes.
The Annihilation of Christine Blasey Ford
Amy Klobuchar Talks to CBS News About Brett Kavanaugh's Apology

Kavanaugh said his life is ruined. Parkland dad tweets: Try having a child murdered

The FBI is Now Investigating the Shady Vice Squad That Cuffed Stormy Daniels : politics (o rly?)

/u/PoppinKREAM details, with sources, the rise of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists who are running for major political offices in the United States : bestof


An editor tells of a past sexual assault, sparking dialogue about a crude newsroom culture - Los Angeles Times


Vermont's s only black female state representative resigns after racial harassment, threats - one of just four people of color in the overwhelmingly white Vermont Legislature in a 94 percent white state.


CBS faces NewY from the Beto rally:ork probe tied to ex-CEO Leslie Moonves | Reuters
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Hackers are increasingly targeting healthcare, with 176.4 million patient medical records exposed over the last 8 years, per a new study. These records sell for $300-$400 on the dark web, making them hundreds of times more valuable than credit card info. : science


'I can't have her': A slain jogger's case went cold. Then a sex offender went to see his pastor.

Crews discover body believed to be missing 6-year-old boy with autism : news

Homicide charges filed against Nashville police officer who shot, killed 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick as he ran away : news

Man arrested, held on $5M bail in police ambush : news - The shooting of the officer was the third time in six weeks Selma police have been ambushed with gunfire.

California authorities charge 17 people in Apple store theft scheme


For Rent: 98-Square-Foot BR in Co-Living Apt., Community Included - Millennials outsource life - $1,800 a month for his 98-square-foot room.

An explosive, record-breaking magnetic field - Axios

TIL That Men experience a significant/abrupt decrease in testosterone levels after sugar intake : todayilearned

The US now ranks 27th in the world for its levels of healthcare and education, according to a new study. This represents a significant decline from 1990, when it ranked sixth. : science


SEC charges Tesla, Elon Musk with fraud : news (meanwhile, in the lives of billionaires)
Facebook logs 90 million people out of their accounts after security breach - The Washington Post - hackers had stolen information that could have allowed them to take over 50 million user accounts, in the latest mishap for the social media company, which has spent months struggling to regain the confidence of policymakers and the public.
Facebook Confirms Giving Advertisers Access to User Phone Numbers : news - Yeah it's totally not suspicious when they repeatedly ask you to give your phone number "protect your account" - Seriously, fuck Facebook.
A hacker threatened to delete Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page - The event was scheduled to be streamed on Facebook Live
Facebook caught automatically blocking AP and Guardian stories about the their massive data breach : technology
Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach. : technology



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APNewsBreak: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in US : news
TIL that as the earth warms, scientists fear that ancient viruses and bacteria will be released from the permafrost. Deadly infections from hundreds of years ago may reemerge, especially from old cemeteries where victims of these diseases were buried. : todayilearned (meanwhile, doom rises from the melting of denial)

'South Park' Premiere Mocks America's School Shooting Epidemic


Ontario government to allow pot smoking wherever tobacco smoking allowed : news


Fancy Bear, the Russian Election Hackers, Have a Nasty New Weapon -- If Putin's new malware hits you, don't bother wiping your hard drive. Just throw out your computer -- "There's been no deterrence to Russian hacking," (why it's almost like ... )


U.S. court upholds Louisiana restriction on abortion clinics | Reuters - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a Louisiana provision that requires doctors who perform abortions in the state to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. (and if you perform abortions, they won't give you admitting priviledges, mission accomplished) The Texas law, whose language is similar to the Louisiana law, led to the closure of the majority of the state's abortion clinics and the number of women forced to drive over 150 miles to seek abortions increased by 350 percent (but no problem with that!)

'Give it to me' : Trump lets loose with 81 minutes of bluster, falsehoods and insults
Fact check: 8 things Trump got wrong at his news conference - In one case, the president claimed he rejected a meeting with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. But no meeting had even been requested.
President Trump's Surreal News Conference Didn't Do Kavanaugh Any Favors - The president says he'll listen to the women accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct. His caveat: Women "made false statements about me."

'This guy doesn't know anything': the inside story of Trump's shambolic transition team - bungled presidential transition set the template for his time in the White House (let's hire some Russians!)



FULL TEXT: Christine Blasey Ford's Opening Statement About Kavanaugh Allegation : NPR
Christine Blasey Ford concludes testimony, "100 percent" sure Kavanaugh assaulted her

Opinion | This Hearing Is Stacked Against Christine Blasey Ford - The New York Times - It is almost unthinkable that there will be a second Supreme Court justice taking his seat under suspicions of perjury and sexual misconduct. By Jill Abramson
Christine Blasey Ford's Victory Over Kavanaugh - The Atlantic -Once Christine Blasey Ford's Humanity Was on Display, It Was All Over - Testifying before the Senate, she showed what American politics might look like if Americans truly saw the people our society usually silences and grinds underfoot.

Republican Senators' Silence for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony About Brett Kavanaugh - They sat silent as tombstones as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified about what she alleges Brett Kavanaugh did to her. It is not often that you see a complete panorama of abject cowardice like you saw on the majority side of the dais of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning. Eleven white men, with the constitutional duty to advise and consent on the nomination of people to be justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, sitting as mute as a row of tombstones, refusing even personally to yield their time to the hired-gun woman who was questioning Dr. Christine Blasey Ford ... The hippocampus is the area of the brain in which memories are formed and stored, and this is where we get to the laughter.

What Mark Judge's Absence Reveals - The conspicuous absence of the only other witness to an alleged assault committed by Brett Kavanaugh reveals a Senate hearing held in bad faith.
Mark Judge's book validates Christine Ford's timeline of the alleged Kavanaugh assault
Republican senator on Kavanaugh accuser:'She's an attractive, good witness' -- Orrin Hatchfuck
Kavanaugh Strikes Angry Tone in Testimony: 'You'll Never Get Me to Quit' - 'My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations'
Silence on Wall Street. Tears in a retirement home. The country watches, transfixed, as Ford tells her story. - The Washington Post
Kavanaugh hearing live updates: 'This has destroyed my family'
Ford questioning leaves some Trump allies cringing - POLITICO - Some officials are dismayed by a GOP prosecutor quizzing Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford, while other Trump allies like the hearing's relatively low-key tenor
POLITICO Playbook PM: '100 Percent' - THERE ARE A LOT OF REPUBLICANS who are already hoping that the White House will pull BRETT KAVANAUGH's Supreme Court nomination -- "today"
Republican Support for Kavanaugh Is Driven by Fear - The Atlantic - Republicans worry that liberals are rewriting America's moral code (rape won't be ok, men are worried)

This Hearing In One Sentence - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Blasey Ford Hearing Open Thread II - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This is What the Republican Party Is - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Meeting the enemy - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The growing number of accusations against Brett Kavanaugh are neither part of some vast left wing conspiracy, nor products of a remarkable amount of random bad luck on his part. They are the predictable consequences of nominating men with backgrounds like Kavanaugh's to positions like this one. This is who they are.

Chris Wallace: My daughters disclosed incidents from their youth after Kavanaugh allegations : politics
Fox News's Chris Wallace: 'This Is A Disaster For The Republicans' --> They took the easiest thing in the world, confirming a Supreme Court Justice with no filibuster possible and total control of the Government, and turned it into a complete shit show circus nightmare scenario of doom that can only end badly for them no matter what they do. Everything Trump touches dies
Fox News's Chris Wallace: 'This is a Disaster for the Republicans comment: I think there's more to it ... I think many of the old male senators (on both sides probably, but one side especially) engaged in similar behavior. If they accept that taking advantage of a drunk girl is rape, then they are all rapists. They will fight this to the end because it's not just Kavanaugh on public trial here, it's the whole patriarchal organization of society. They will die on this hill, destroying their party and the county, before allowing women to be viewed as having equal worth as them.

The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh have finally given toxic bro culture a news peg - The fact that this examination of party culture is happening in tandem with Supreme Court confirmation hearings could help observers comprehend what these stories are actually about: the intersection of white, upper-class male impunity and contempt for young women that infects communities across the country
Say What You Want About the Tenets of "Bros Before Hos," At Least It's An Ethos - Lawyers, Guns & Money
GOP governors call for delaying Kavanaugh vote - POLITICO - Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, John Kasich of Ohio, Larry Hogan of Maryland and Phil Scott of Vermont are part of a small faction of Republicans who urged caution

Trump Jr. and the GOP's Obsession with Christine Blasey Ford's 'Fear of Flying' - Fearful fliers can and often do fly. Nevertheless, GOP lawmakers and conservative pundits have latched onto the argument that Ford lacks credibility because she flew to D.C. (deny, distract, deflect)


b-boy bouiebaisse on Twitter: "grassley sounds genuinely unhinged"
Denouncing 'Misogynistic Bullying' and 'Failed Leadership,' 50+ Groups Call on Grassley to Resign Immediately as Judiciary Committee Chair : politics (Grassfuck did not come across well)
The first time a woman tried to speak in the Kavanaugh hearing, she was interrupted : politics

"Spotlight" is a good movie imo (little gay lindsey doesn't believe women)
Graham tells rape victim who asked if he believes her, "Go to the cops"
Lindsey Graham Threatens to Falsify Accusations of Assault Against Democratic Supreme Court Nominees : politics (all the pervs are Republican so we'll lie and fix that)
Lindsey Graham's meltdown gives away the GOP game on Kavanaugh

Blumenthal: Trump's 'Failure' to Ask FBI For Probe Is 'Tantamount To A Cover Up'
Michael Avenatti on Twitter: "Breaking - Here is a group picture of the 13 individuals that made the decision that the FBI should not investigate the claims of Dr. Ford, my client, and other women. https://t.co/VfwmEDBeTA"

Men Are Defending Brett Kavanaugh Because They're Afraid - Why male emotions are running so high.
Bill Clinton's Rape Accuser Is at Kavanaugh Hearing and Highlighting Democrat's "Believe Women" Double Standard - Juanita Broaddrick showed up to the Kavanaugh hearings (just the same, both sides, whaddabout)

The Double Whelan - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Senate Judiciary Committee staff interviewed two men who said they believed that they, and not US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, had "the enounter" with the woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers ... Imagine how surprised everyone is going to be when they realize that, while Kavanaugh did indeed attack Ford, his doppelgangers actually attacked Ford's doppelgangers ... I'm geting quite the "new Twin Peaks" vibe from all this, honestly

Poll: 48% of white evangelicals would support Kavanaugh even if the allegations against him were true : politics (the hard satanic core of false Christianity)


Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds - WSJ - The flaw in Election Systems & Software's Model 650 high-speed ballot-counting machine was detailed in 2007 (thanks, Barry)


Texas sets voter registration record, with 1.6 million new voters since 2014 - Houston Chronicle

Indicted Incumbent Leads in CD50 | Monmouth University Polling Institute - Republican incumbent Duncan Hunter holds a sizable lead over Democratic challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar in the race for California's 50th Congressional District,

Staffers at DC restaurant where Cruz was confronted get death threats: owner | Fox News


QAnon Fan Arrested for Threatening Massacre at YouTube Headquarters - William Douglas claimed he was being censored, so like another paranoid vlogger he allegedly warned the company to stop -- or else
QAnon Fan Arrested for Threatening Massacre at YouTube Headquarters : news


Jehovah's Witnesses ordered by jury to pay $34M to abuse survivor : news

D.C. principal was taped mocking student's sex assault claim, lawsuit says

Texas backs school that expelled girl over pledge of allegiance : news

Soddy-Daisy High athletic director says to "blame the girls" because they "pretty much ruin everything," parents outraged : news


Revamping the Quarantine Function : announcements




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Charges dropped against woman who took in Hurricane Florence pets : news


US diplomat found dead in Madagascar : news

Distracted Boyfriend meme is sexist, rules Swedish ad watchdog | World news | The Guardian (waiting for the meta-meme)

bellingcat - Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga - bellingcat ("just a couple of civilians" Putin said)

Revealed: What Erik Prince and Moscow's Money Man Discussed in That Infamous Seychelles Meeting -- Mueller's team and congressional investigators have looked into a meeting in the Seychelles between allies of Trump and Putin. Now we have the Russian read-out of what was said. (dirty little Erik)

Eschaton: No Deal - is basically inevitable (I could be wrong!) at this point, so the only question is whether they hit the eject button at the last minute and agree to extend the status quo.


Donald Trump Is Giving an Insane Press Conference Right Now : politics
Josh Marshall on Twitter: "Trump asked how accusations against him affects his take on Kavanaugh. (It's a doozy.) " (completely disconnected)
Josh Marshall on Twitter: "Part 2 of Trump's discussion of how accusations against him affect his take on Kavanaugh. "
ABC News Politics on Twitter: "President Donald Trump: "If we brought George Washington here ... the Democrats would vote against him." "And he may have had a bad past, who knows ... George Washington would be voted against one hundred percent by Schumer and the con artists," he adds https://t.co/H9Yha41RJr https://t.co/z7KIqB9zUp"
Trump Press Conference - President Suggests His Sexual Assault Accusers Were Paid Off, Mentions George Washington and His Very Large Brain - His sentences were scattered, fragmented, and hard to understand -- including when he was smearing his accusers.
It's Difficult to Overstate How Unhinged, and Legitimately Scary, That Trump Presser Was : politics

Nikki Haley: United Nations Laughter Not A Diss But A Sign Of Respect For Trump's 'Honesty'
Trump' s Mystifying Victory Lap at the UN
Diplomats Say They Were Definitely Laughing At Trump At The UN
Fox News roasted on Twitter after editing out world leaders laughing at Trump : politics
Marky Mark Twain on Twitter: "Wait. Wouldn't a news organization show the whole thing? It's almost as if Fox is a propaganda machine rather than a news outlet. https://t.co/zgw0Re6Btd"
pPeople actually laughed at a president': At U.N. speech, Trump suffers the fate he always feared

The GOP's spin on the Russia probe doesn't add up

Rod Rosenstein Is (Reportedly) a World-Historic Wimp - Thus, the choice facing Rosenstein looked like an easy one: Stand strong to protect the republic from authoritarian assault -- or resign, to protect himself from angry Trump tweets. las, according to the New York Times, Rod opted for Door No. 2: But on the face of it, Rod Rosenstein appears to be more afraid of the Freedom Caucus and Donald Trump's twitter feed, than of abetting an attack on the rule of law in the United States. (don't have any illusions, they are all Republicans but see comments for nuanced view)
How Rosenstein can protect the Mueller investigation -- even if he's fired. - I wrote the special counsel regulations. This is what he should do before his meeting with Trump.

A Supreme Court Case Could Liberate Trump to Pardon His Associates : politics

The 22 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct : politics

Increasingly worried, Trump takes over Kavanaugh defense - CNNPolitics
No one seems to have the nerve to end this - The Washington Post

Megathread: Michael Avenatti releases affidavit from woman detailing new allegations against Brett Kavanaugh : politics
Christine Blasey Ford's prepared statement for the Senate Judiciary Committee - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Senate probing new allegation of misconduct against Kavanaugh - Supreme Court Nominee has been asked privately about an accusation of physical assault, sources tell NBC News.
Julie Swetnick's Allegations Likely to Finish Off Brett Kavanaugh
Collins privately raises concerns about new allegations and lack of subpoena for Kavanaugh friend - CNNPolitics ("concerns")
Explosive new allegations against Kavanaugh demand a full investigation -- now
Mark Judge'ss former girlfriend is ready to talk to FBI and Judiciary Committee, her lawyer says
Kavanaugh nomination: Judge says he is victim of 'character asssassination' as third woman comes forward ("if I had any character at all, I'd be dead" he said)
Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell is GOP choice to question Kavanaugh and accuser at hearing - The Washington Post (they don't want to see any campaign ads with them in it)
Julie Swetnick Says Kavanaugh Was Present During Gang Rape
Brett Kavanaugh Denied Gang-Rape Allegation Under Oath | Time
Julie Swetnick's Allegations Likely to Finish Off Brett Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh's College Classmates Out Him As 'Sloppy Drunk' they all said Kavanaugh was a heavy drinker at Yale. ("And to think Kimba Wood was withdrawn from AG consideration because she had hired an illegal immigrant, even though she paid the taxes and it wasn't illegal to hire an illegal at the time.")
Kavanaugh's 1982 calendar, annotated

Avenatti: I wasn't scammed ... "Give me a break"
Michael Avenatti, media gatekeeper - The Washington Post

Brett Kavanaugh: 4 back Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault claims
Kavanaugh's 'choir boy' image on Fox interview rankles former Yale classmates
Eschaton: He Likes That Joke - Dudes...we all got fucked up on a bus... and fortunately, what happens on the bus, stays on the bus. ... Cool story, [checks notes] 49-year-old bro.

Cramer questions whether Kavanaugh assault allegation is disqualifying -- even if true ("it was just a woman")
Conservative media figures won't listen to multiple women about Brett Kavanaugh, but they did take an anonymous 4chan post at face value ... (hahahaha Erick son of Erick is on the case! and Redstate! and Instafuck! and Jack "Pizzagate" Posobiec! and Fox!)

"I Was Ashamed" : After Ford's Accusation, a Generation of Holton-Arms Alumnae Wrestle with Their Own Truths -- Together

Trump Supporter on MSNBC Tells Her Daughters That Groping is 'No Big Deal ("just let him grab your pussy and stick his fingers in you, it's not a big deal" she said) e

Sen. Dick Durbin Wishes Trump Could Appoint Even More Judges (DumDems have very short memory and struggle with historical context, see Barry)


High on their own supply - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The election of Donald Trump is the most obvious consequence of this exploitation of the paranoid and rage-filled by the avaricious and power-hungry. And the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh is a perfect example of how perverse that exploitative relationship has become.


Republican Women Lose Faith in Kavanaugh -- and Trump -- After Week of Accusations - Fewer than half of GOP women now think Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed
With growing support from women, Democrats poised for major gains in midterm, new poll shows - Los Angeles Times
Voter Enthusiasm at Record High in Nationalized Midterm Environment | Pew Research Center - Top voting issues: Supreme Court, health care, economy

Republicans are about to lose more than 450 years of experience in Congress - The Washington Post

Republicans start to pull plug on members | TheHill - Republicans are performing critical triage to their midterm spending strategy as they seek to hold on to their House majority in a difficult midterm year.
NBC News poll: Ohio gubernatorial race tied, Brown leads big in Senate race - The race to replace outgoing Gov. John Kasich is in a dead heat weeks before Election Day.
Baker Holds Commanding Lead Over Gonzalez In WBUR Poll | WBUR News - 68 percent of the vote, to Gonzalez's 24 percent. Just 6 percent of likely voters polled remain undecided.


Website Revs Up, With New York Magazine<'s Help to Cover More Local News - a new nonprofit website called The City (no link/url) /a>

What Fresh Hell Is Barstool Sports? (cesspool of misogyny)


How 'Coddled' Are American College Students, Anyway? By Jesse Singal - The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, the new book by Greg Lukianoff, the head of the campus free-speech group the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education and Jonathan Haidt, an NYU social psychologist


Stolen Bits of Time Turned Into a Lifetime Together - The New York Times

Girl can attend school with her cannabis-based medicine, California court rules : news


Donna Sue Hudgins accused of hiding her mother's body so she could watch 'stages of death,' police say

Video shows Macomb County bodybuilder's violent attack of girlfriend : news



LAX now allows passengers to travel with marijuana under California's Proposition 64 : news

Male Redditors of over 30yo+, what are some tips that you will share with younger guys, about mans Health ? : AskReddit

Psychologists define the 'dark core of personality'. All dark personality traits can be traced back to the general tendency of placing one's own goals and interests over those of others even to the extent of taking pleasure in hurting other's : science
D: The Dark Factor of Personality (take the test: how evil are you?)

New research provides evidence that the personal religious beliefs of United States Senators influence their legislative behavior (n = 150 senators). : science

Have humans always had an all year round "mating season", or is there any research that suggests we could have been seasonal breeders? If so, what caused the change, or if not, why have we never been seasonal breeders? : askscience


What's sure to happen in the near future that almost no one is prepared for?

Seal slaps a kayaker in the face with an octopus : gifs
Whale throws seal 80ft in the air - YouTube

Reddit, if the devil punishes bad people for being bad does that make him a good guy? Why or why not? : AskReddit

Sex workers of reddit: What is the saddest experience (client wise) you've had while on the job? : AskReddit

I am Dr. Andy Yen, a particle physicist who left CERN after the Snowden leaks to start ProtonMail, the world's largest encrypted email service. AMA

Exclusive: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind

Eschaton: When The Loop Comes To Town - Now, a handful of state legislators want Pennsylvania to hop on board nascent Hyperloop planning, calling for a study of a Keystone State connection between proposed Hyperloop routes along the Northeast corridor and in the Midwest. -- People are so stupid

GOP ground game focuses on abortion to turn out base - POLITICO - Republican and anti-abortion groups have made the issue a major part of their ground game - world's most valuable company is wooing the media with a human touch and a huge audience. One thing it hasnn't delivered: money

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Trump's Boastful Comments Draw Laughter At United Nations General Assembly -- "Didn't expect that raction but that's OK," the president said
Trump bragged about his presidency and world leaders laughed - POLITICO
UN audience laughs when Trump boasts of achievements | TheHill
Read Trump's speech to the UN General Assembly -- "We reject the ideology of globalism and accept the doctrine of patriotism" ("patriotic to me")
President Trump's U.N. Speech Prompts Laughter from Audience - Takes on Saudi Arabia, Poland, Globalism Are Worrying - The rest of the world wasn't giggling in the end.
Watch: Donald Trump laughed at by U.N. General Assembly for claiming his administration is greatest in history : politics
Womp womp. : AdviceAnimals


Trump says he has 'no plans' to meet with Iranian leader at the U.N.


Newly released memo reveals secretary of homeland security signed off on family separation policy | OpenTheGovernment.org - Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen previously denied existence of policy (they lie.all.the.time)
We Now Have Even More Proof That Family Separation Was the Policy : politics - Forget everything else for a moment: toddlers sleeping on concrete floors of cages. That's all you need to know. Now vote.

On Reddit, Russian propagandists try new tricks : politics

Admiral Craig Faller Faces Questions from Congress About 'Fat Leonard' Navy Corruption Scandal - Answer the question, Admiral.


Michael Avenatti Says He Represents Another Brett Kavanaugh Accuser - Big Ego, Self-Promoter, Never Wrong Yet

Republicans Hire Woman to Question Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Brett Kavanaugh in Transparent Political Strategy - They don't want to see campaign ads featuring them badgering Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. That's it.
Lisa Murkowski Delivers Message: Take Kavanaugh Accusations Seriously - The New York Times
Trump Accuses Democrats of Running 'Con Game' Against Kavanaugh (said the giant orange con-man +the "con" is believing a drunk woman)
Opinion | Supreme Confusion - The New York Times - Revelations about Brett Kavanaugh and Rod Rosenstein got the week started on a tumultuous note. Where are we headed now?
Gross Story, Bro - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Remember that list of 65 women Brett Kavanaugh didn't try to sexually assault? Wonder how well that many women could have known a guy who attended an all-male school? Well, you can probably see where this is going ...
The Virginity Claim - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Republicans repeatedly demonstrate their contempt for the public by openly lying to them. That is what Brett Kavanaugh is doing here with his utterly ridiculous virginity claim.
GOP hires female attorney to question Kavanaugh accuser - POLITICO - Republicans, however, won't name her
Democrats believe Ramirez but stiff-arm Avenatti - POLITICO - Senators in the minority demand more time to look into another sexual assault claim against Brett Kavanaugh (Schumer-Doomer sides with Grassfuck)
New Yorker under fire over latest Kavanaugh allegations - POLITICO - The magazine faced questions from conservative and mainstream outlets about the lack of corroborating eye-witnesses
Delusions of squalor - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Because apparently I hate myself, I decided it would be fun to wander over to the putatively respectable right wing media, to see what they're saying right now about l'affaire Kavanaugh (alternate stupid realities)

What more evidence of contempt for women is needed? - The Washington Post - A vote with no investigation, without a key witness (Mark Judge, who is just hanging out in Delaware), without calling Ramirez to testify, vindicates the Trump/McConnell strategy in which women are used as fodder in the culture wars

Schumer demands McConnell apologize to Kavanaugh accuser : politics
Brett Kavanaugh Is A Man The Right Can Get Behind - the moral and intellectual decay whereby the American right eventually dropped all its pretenses and became, straight out, the Neener Neener Neener You Can't Stop Us movementr. very specifically a vengeful tantrum by a shrinking class of wounded bullies eager to reassert by force and at all costs their hold on society's controls. When they eventually ram Kavanaugh through, and they will, it won't be despite all of this. It will be because of it.
Brett Kavanaugh allegations and male bonding. - When being one of the guys comes at a woman's expense
I Was The US Treasurer. I Didn't Tell The FBI Background Checkers About My Abuser.
Donald Trump: Kavanaugh's 2nd Accurser 'Has Nothing' Because She 'Admints She Was Drunk' (and it was just a little dick-waving)
Supreme Court Fight Goes Prime Time With Kavanaugh's Fox New Interview ("Fox News")
Ted Cruz forced from restaurant amid Kavanaugh drama - CNNPolitics - after left-wing activists swarmed the senator, heckling him with chants and demanding to know his position on embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
We no longer want to just win. We want to destroy. - The Washington Post (this is your last reminder to never read a Michael Gerson column)


There's a suburban tsunami driving 2018 - Converging crises are compounding the risk that Republicans could suffer historic 2018 losses in suburban communities that could harden a starkly polarized alignment in American politics (blue-collar, evangelical and rural whites. and everybody else. places where people live, and places they don't but have a bunch of senators)


A TV ad that crystallizes the biggest GOP lie about health care - The Washington Post - But you don't usually see them claiming to be the savior of the very thing they're trying to destroy. What could be more 2018 than that?

Poll: Democrats have narrow lead in top Florida contests - In the Senate race, Bill Nelson, the incumbent Democrat, is favored by 48 percent of likely voters, while Republican Rick Scott, the state's governor, gets 45 percent.

A Colorado Republican Has Defied Political Gravity For Years. Trump Could Send Him Crashing Down. - Mike Coffman is trying to keep his House race local.

New Mexico Democrats Blast Gary Johnson For Backing Higher Social Security Retirement Age | HuffPost - The former governor and Libertarian presidential candidate receives a state pension, the state Democratic Party's lead noted


Eschaton: Hey, Hey, Hey - Cosby sentenced to no less than 3 years in state prison. (violent sexual predator with long rape history gets slap on his wrist)
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Justice denied - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison for Andrea Constand sexual assault : news

Opinion | Padma Lakshmi: I Was Raped at 16 and I Kept Silent - The New York Times - I understand why a woman would wait years to disclose a sexual assault.

Star Tribune sues to unseal U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison's divorce records - Ellison, Democratic candidate for attorney general accused by ex-girlfriend of abuse, was divorced in 2012. (meanwhile, in creepy muzzie Demville)

Mic Fires Reporter After 'Multiple, Disturbing Allegations' of Misconduct - Jack Smith IV was accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct on Monday (seriously, by the time you hit 4 you're out of gas +masquerade)

Opinion | The Perils of Publishing in a #MeToo Moment - The New York Times - Ian Buruma's exit from The New York Review of Books threatens to inhibit our intellectual culture. (that's what they always say)


Facebook Has Removed More Than A Dozen Big Conservative And Liberal Political Pages - Facebook said the pages were managed by a fake account and were spamming content from LifeZette, a conservative site - All of the removed pages had recently, and almost exclusively, been promoting links to LifeZette.com, the conservative website founded by Fox News host Laura Ingraham. It was sold last year to Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz, though Ingraham maintains a minority stake in the company (conservative network of shit)

Texas school official fired for expletive-filled message to Stormy Daniels' attorney : news

North Carolina ranked one of the worst states for teachers : news


Ex-boyfriend douses Tennessee teen in gasoline, threatens to 'cut her head off' : news


U.S. Divorce Rate: Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet - Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They're staying married. - New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on. Generation X and especially millennials are being pickier about who they marry, tying the knot at older ages when education, careers and finances are on track. The result is a U.S. divorce rate that dropped 18 percent from 2008 to 2016, /a>


'The Voice' premiere: This 13-year-old contestant made the judges lose their minds


Doctors and nurses of Reddit, What is the funniest thing you've heard when a patient was on anesthesia but you couldn't laugh?

I just finished reading all of the Sci-Fi on Reddit's 200 most recommended books : books

Teacher says she was fired for giving zeroes to students who didn't turn in their work : news


When was the most awkward time you walked in on someone masturbating? : AskReddit



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Our Educated Populace - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It's a real wonder this nation is falling apart - A photoshopped picture depicting Trump rescuing people during Hurricane Florence has been shared 275,000 times on Facebook. The original is from Texas flooding in 2015. - Imagine if Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg actually thought about morals, how knowledge is created, or ways power could be abused. Nah, better just cancel all Humanities courses and teach STEM, STEM, STEM!


Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Humiliated by Attack, Vow to Retaliate

Indonesian teenager survives 49 days adrift at sea in fishing hut | World news | The Guardian - Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was working alone in a "rompong" when heavy winds snapped its moorings


Saudi Arabia is at its least stable in 50 years

Putin's war is transforming Ukraine

Rihanna appointed ambassador for her native Barbados | Music | The Guardian - The singer and entrepreneur will promote education, tourism and investment in her home country.


Putin's most prominent critic leaves jail, then arrested again on his way out : news

Boy, 13, leads British police on 100mph chase : news

Roger Stone sought contact with WikiLeak's Julian Assange, Email suggests - The July 31, 2016, email appears to be an explicit attempt by Stone to connect with Assange using Corsi and Malloch as intermediaries.

Trump is proposing a regulation that could change the face of legal immigration -- by restricting low-income immigrants - Immigrants could be barred from green cards based on use of food stamps or Medicaid. (only rich Saudis and Russians allowed)

Emptywheel's Marcy Wheeler knows more than she tells, but she tells a lot

How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump | The New Yorker - A meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive. By Jane Mayer (Trump is an illegitmate Pres and Russian plant, should be jailed for the rest of his life but the story is too complicated for your media)

Mueller's long game on Russia pays off on Trump, Rosenstein, midterms

Rod Rosenstein's Job Is Safe, for Now: Inside His Dramatic Day
Life during wartime - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The reporting on this is still all over the place, but the latest indicates that Trump is firing the DOJ's head of the Mueller investigation, as opposed to "accepting his resignation." Apparently the distinction is critical, because the Vacancies Act applies to resignations but not firings. Good job New York Times. When the list is made of who fucked up this country, you'll be right up there with Trump himself.
Megathread: Deupty AG Rod Rosenstein to remain in job, meeting with President Trump on Thursday : politics
If Trump Fires Rosenstein... Here's the Rapid Response Plan to Flood the Nation's Street : politics
McCabe: I'm 'Deeply Concerned' Russia Probe 'At Risk' If Rosenstein leaves
Kamala Harris calls for Senate to protect Mueller probe as Rosenstein faces potential dismissal : politics
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is reportedly resigning : news
The Latest: AP source says Rosenstein expecting to be fired : politics
Rod Rosenstein's Departure Is a National Emergency
"The Strategy Was to Try and Do Something Really Big" Trump Wanted to Nuke Rosenstein to Save Kavanaugh's Bacon
New York Times Rod Rosenstein scoop: Michael Schmidt discusses reported secret recording and 25th amendment conversations.


Eschaton: Coal Rollers With Homicidal Road Rage - That's the Republican party base, and many of their elected officials, right now.

Opinion | Pigs All the Way Down - The New York Times - Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class ... Jed Rubenfeld, The Guardian reports, is currently the subject of an internal investigation regarding his conduct with female law students. (choo-choo's hubby)
Amnesty International calls to halt Kavanaugh nomination : politics
Another female accuser just stepped forward. So why won't Republicans call in the FBI?
The Decision Not to Call in the FBI is Looking Worse and Worse : politics
Christine Blasey Ford Is Beating Senate Republicans in Brett Kavanaugh Hearing Negotiations - They've yet to figure out that they have no decent options ... Nancy French -- wife of David French -- and a staunch wingnut in her own right 00 had a piece in The Washington Post on Friday about the Brett Kavanaugh situation and, in it, she slow-dances with one of the unkillable zombie lies of my career. To wit: (jfc, the evil is deep)
Anita Hill And Christine Blasey Ford - Lawyers, Guns & Money - future vice president Joe Biden was in charge of the Judiciary Committee. (JoeBi has always been an asshole)
David Roberts on Twitter: "There were endless sexist attacks on @SenGillibrand for supposedly single-handedly driving Franken from the Senate (??). Now it's become clear that she strengthened Dem credibility on these issues just in time for Kavanaugh. I look forward to all the apologies. [dies waiting]"

Trump Demands His Kavanaugh - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Antsy and impatient, President Trump called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday with an unmistakable message: Call the vote on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination and call it soon
New Yorker's Mayer: Ramirez Was Not Initial Source -- Other Yale Grads Were
Kavanaugh Accuser Deborah Ramirez Will Be Represented by Two Powerhouse Attorneys : politics
Yale cancels classes as law students protest Brett Kavanaugh nomination : politics
Attempted rape isn't boys will be boys. It's criminals will be criminals
Two Kavanaugh Allies Withdraw From Statement Disputing New Yorker Allegation : politics
Brett Kavanaugh and pals accused of gang rapes in high school, says lawyer Michael Avenatti - NY Daily News
A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Poor Inspector Ed is going to have to lay low for a bit from his primary sinecure on the Wingnut Welfare circuit: His party is, inter alia, the party of the conspiracy theories.
Jeet Heer on Twitter: "1. Let's talk about the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Sounds good, doesn't it? Who could disagree with Ethics and Public Policy?" 2. From 1996 to 2001, the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center was Elliott Abrams, who had perviously been convicted of felony for lying to Congress during the Iran/Contra scandal. 3. Abrams, former President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, also played a key role in helping cover the El Mozote massacre in El Savador in 1981, which saw death squads kill 800 civilians. (nice "ethics" you got there)
August J. Pollak on Twitter: "Plan E: 1. He kept an appointment book 2. When he was 17 3. He kept it for 30 years 4. He would have put "go illegally drink at friend's house" in it Okay yeah you know what, maybe they should go back to the evil twin thing"
White punks on dope - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Michael Avenatti has been gathering evidence involving claims by several witnesses that Brett Kavanaugh and his preppie friends "ran trains" on women they had subdued via intoxication ... slang for a gang rape of a woman by a succession of men (preppie slang, you mean)
Clip of Kavanaugh joking about high school has resurfaced - Business Insider
Eschaton: Send Them - What a country! - Chua said in the statement that, contrary to allegations that she told students that it was "no accident" that Kavanaugh hired attractive clerks, she "always" told her students to prep "insanely hard" and that substance was "the most important thing." But another former law student who was advised by Chua and approached the Guardian after its original story was published on Thursday said his experience was consistent with the allegations presented in the article. (Kavanaugh's role as a "feeder" judge, sending womend to John Roberts to get ogled)
Eschaton: Elites - Yet a woman who recently graduated from Yale Law School and received advice from Chua on interviewing for a coveted clerkship position with Kavanaugh, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, disputed the professor's statement. "She's ly9ing," the woman told HuffPost (Any Chua-Chua is a tiger-liar)
Eschaton: Good Grief - For me, the big story is still the fact that they all knew Kavanaugh had a sketchy background. They just didn't care. They are probably still hoping to plow this nomination through. They are, also, probably placing the entire blame on the women coming forward, instead of on K or themselves. Nasty women, one and all.
Misty water-colored memories - Lawyers, Guns & Money - On October 29, 1987, just six days after Bork's nomination was voted down by the full Senate, Ronald Reagan nominated DC Circuit judge Douglas Ginsburg. His nomination survived for exactly nine days. Ginsburg's unforgivable crime, that caused the entire Republican establishment to instantly turn on him when it was revealed, was that he had smoked marijuana on "a few occasions" as a college student in the 1960s, and as an assistant professor at Harvard Law School in the early 1970s. And that was it ... In other words it was exactly like underage drinking, except with a lot less raping and looting.
https://t.co/Y8vlqPgxA4"

#notmetoo - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The idea that someone who is credibly accused of multiple major sex assaults should still be considered for a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS is obviously insane on its face, and it's a symptom of that insanity that Kavanaugh's alleged conduct is being compared to the Clinton and Thomas affairs.

Cat Calling: A History - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Why It's Bad When It's "Not That Bad"
Decent Men Don't Do These Things.
Boys Will Be Boys -- Sexual Assault and College


Devin Nunes Is Infamous For Sabotaging The Trump-Russia Investigation. His Opponent Andrew Janz Is Running On Water. | HuffPost - The attorney is trying to convince voters that their congressman is too busy protecting the president to focus on fixing central California's water crisis

Alex Thomas on Twitter: "ICYMI: Beto O'Rouke went to Whataburger after the Ted Cruz debate last night and played the airdrums to Baba O'Reilly

Republican Party Favorability Highest in Seven Years - Republican favorability at 45%, Democrats at 44% - Democrats generally have had the upper hand in favorability ratings - Major gains for Republican Party within the party, including leaners - most positive image since it registered 47% in January 2011, shortly after taking control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections. (TeaParty wave coming)
We Looked At Hundreds Of Endorsements. Here's Who Republicans Are Listening To.

Editor Shamefully Denied Dude Process - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Buruma, in other words, plainly committed multiple eminently fireable offenses here. This would be true irrespective of his background, but it's worth noting that the Indispensable Man narrative is particularly ridiculous in this case

The Next Step for #MeToo Is Into the Gray Areas - Jack Smith IV has made a name for himself (sociopath)


Asia Argento accuser speaks out on sexual assault allegations : news

Inside Barstool Sports' Culture of Online Hate: 'They Treat Sexual Harassment and Cyberbullying as a Game' - place much of the blame on Dave 'El Presidente' Portnoy its misogynistic troll-king. (another Jewish dick)
Pres Was Featured In An Article About The Internet's Most Famous Jews And It's The Meanest Thing Ever
I Just Found Out Pres Thinks I'm Really Jewish

The male cultural elite is staggeringly blind to #MeToo. Now it's paying for it | Moira Donegan | Opinion | The Guardian - Harper's and New York Review of Books both published problematic essays by men disgraced by #MeToo. Here is what that reveals - Ian Buruma, who has now resigned from the New York Review of Book (the pic, as usual)

3D gun advocate Cody Wilson posts $150,000 bail, released in Houston

Dallas police officer Amber Guyger fired over Botham Jean shooting : news

Those Motherf**kers Are Dead Meat : Far-Right Militia Threatens Muslims on Leaked Audio

Politics - I am Alexandria Brown, a dominatrix who recently published a book on my relationship to Charlottesville organizer and former neo-Nazi candidate for U.S. Senator


The Strwa: Trump Wanted to Nuke Rosenstein to Save Kavanaughberry Capital of the World is the early death capital of the U.S.: lessons from a landmark dataset - The Washington Post - This week, Stilwell earned a more discouraging distinction: It has the lowest life expectancy in the country just 56.3 years. That means folks there are expected to die 22.5 years -- an entire generation -- earlier than the comparable national average of 78.8 years ... The data set excludes Maine and Wisconsin, which haven't yet released five years of mappable death data (LePage and Scott Walker keeping you in the dark)


England: Religion - Druids Service 1931 At Stonehenge - British Pathi


Obesity 'to be linked to more female cancers' than smoking : news

Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis : news
Visualizing the Riemann hypothesis and analytic continuation - YouTube


Russian troll sites infiltrated Donald Trump subreddit as recently as this month : technology
Reddit's Largest Pro-Trump Subreddit Appears To Have Been Targeted By Russian Propaganda For Years : technology
u/Zero_Aspect Breaks down how the GOP/Republican party uses their Operatives to pretend to be regular citizens for Propaganda : bestof


Reddit, what is the movie where the bad guy is the main character? : AskReddit

30 hits of LSD : videos

This little girl absolutely crushes the national anthem at an MLS soccer match last night. : videos



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I saw Florence sending millions of gallons of animal feces flooding across North Carolina. - The Washington Post (Republican pig-poop everywhere, there ought to be a regualation ...)
Saving pets without a permit: Good Samaritan arrested after helping animals survive Florence : news


Comcast Wins Bid to Purchase Sky and Here's What That Means - Comcast outbid 21st Century Fox for the right to purchase British pay-tv service Sky (Murdoch loses, bigger evil wins)

Brazil Police Arrest Hezbollah Financier
Slave labor found at Starbucks-certified Brazil coffee plantation : news

For some women in China, 'love markets' are the last resort to find a husband

The Lachlan ascendancy: is News Corp heading for a cultural change? | Media | The Guardian


Russian passport leak after Salisbury may reveal spy methods | World news | The Guardian ("just civilians" with top-secret clearances)

FCC Shielding Evidence Of Suspected Russian Role In Ending Net Neutrality: Lawsuit (FCC now a Russian agency)
FCC Now Says There Is No Documented 'Analysis' of the Cyberattack It Claims Crippled Its Website in May : technology (1 yr ago, 63x gold)
u/SpockShotFirst writes an open letter to Republican voters after the NYT files a lawsuit against the FCC claiming they are covering up Russian involvement in killing net neutrality : bestof


As aid checks go out, farmers worry bailout won't be enough -- Reality is these farmers have lost their export markets and they aren't likely to be returning anytime soon. I read somewhere earlier this week that the US government has already paid out almost $24 billion with no end in sight. Gonna get uglier. (Red state suckers vote for Satan who destroys their farms but Blue States taxes will bail them out, so everything is fine)
Psst, President Trump! The Chinese aren't paying for the tariffs you're imposing. We are. (too complicated for Red state farmer-brains)

Rudy Giuliani Says US Will Overthrow Iranian Regime, Blowing Official White House Line : politics
Foreign policy bigwigs: Trump risking war with Iran - politico (martial law is his/their backup plan)

America's Jews are watching Israel in horror - Israel's transformation under Benjamin Netanyahu: the rise of ultranationalism tied to religious extremism, the upsurge in settler violence, the overriding of Supreme Court rulings upholding democracy and human rights, a crackdown on dissent, harassment of critics and nonprofits, confiscation of Arab villages and alliances with regimes that forment anti-Semitism (yeah, sure they are)

Trump Administration Aims to Sharply Restrict New Green Cards for Those on Public Aid - The New York Times


Michael Cohen provided 'critical information' to Robert Mueller : politics


Drudge Says Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer Set to Break Report on Kavanaugh: 'Another Woman?' ... that involves a new woman and a 'dildo'
Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from Brett Kavanaugh's College Years - By Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer - "This is another serious, credible, and disturbing allegation against Brett Kavanaugh. It should be fully investigated," Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, said ... Ramirez ... remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.
Things Moving Very Fast Talking Points Memo - Adding more gas to this fire, Michael Avenatti is out this evening saying he is representing more witnesses. As things unfolded tonight, it became clear that he is representing some person or persons who say that Kavanaugh and Judge were known to prey on fellow students with alcohol and do things which sound like the paragraph above.
Megathread: Additional accusations of sexual misconduct made against Brett Kavanaugh : politics - Gorsuch attended the same high school as Kava & Judge, two years behind.
Brett Kavanaugh is Probably a Goner Now - Kavanaugh is massive liability now for a party that is already heavily identified with the grossest and most predatory aspects of male sexual entitlement. Keeping Kavanaugh at this point would be an act of sheer madness. (so?)

#WhyIDidntReport: Survivors of Sexual Assault Share Their Stories After Trump Tweet - The New York Times

Fox News Poll: Record number of voters oppose Kavanaugh nomination | Fox News (50%)
Kavanaugh Was Supposed to Be a Midterm Boon for G.O.P. Not Anymore. - The New York Times (are Republicans stupid?)

The party of men: Kavanaugh fight risks worsening the Trump GOP's gender problem ... Ben Shapiro ... "Good men must teach their sons the art of manliness, or societies crumble"
'Incredibly frustrated' : Inside the GOP effort to save Kavanaugh amid assault allegation (Dems' questions "over the line')
It's Like Wanting A Free Ride Because A Democrat Already Paid - Lawyers, Guns & Money - But Kavanaugh grew frustrated when it came to questions that dug into his private life, particularly his drinking habits and his sexual proclivities, (frat boy doesn't want to frat-talk with Senate)

If Republicans don't get answers, Democrats will in 2019
Do I Have to Come Right Flat Out And Tell You Everything - Lawyers, Guns & Money - allegations are the most serious charges against Kavanaugh. But Stephanie Mencimer has a good roundup up his black box finances, which are a potentially major problem for a Supreme Court justice. Or, for that matter, a judge on the D.C. Circuit: (all Republicans are crooks)

Eschaton: Setback for the Team - Maybe try the Philly Philly, coach? - It's absurd that anyone would remember a small high school house party from 35 years ago, if nothing notable happened to you personally at that party, but more than that, what kind of monster sees this as a clash between "teams." What the hell is the "Ford team"? - People who work at the New York Times are truly weird.
Eschaton: Who Talks Like This - I have some really smart friends (I mean you, my friend, if you are reading this). I say things like "wow my friend is really smart" sometimes. Smart is good! Smart is impressive! But when people in that world wax idiotic about the deep intellect of their pals... and their pals are frat boy rapey types... I realize that no, actually you don't know any smart people.

And now don't tell me that all of this was the work of one Edward Whelan - Lawyers, Guns & Money (snooped Ford's Linkedin before her name was released)
Ed Whelan offers to resign from conservative think tank he led - The Washington Post - Before becoming president of the Ethics and Policy Center, Whelan served as an aide to Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and worked in the administration of President George W. Bush, along with Kavanaugh. Earlier, Whelan was a clerk for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. (evil all the way down)
Was Kavanaugh Involved In Ed Whelan's Doppelganger Theory - Kavanaugh Ally Regrets Tweeting Sexual-Assault Allegation on Basis of Google Maps Search

Yale Students To Prof Who Denies Coaching Kavanaugh Clerks: You're Lying Amy Chua has pushed back hard against claims she groomed students for Kavanaugh. ("pushed back" = lied through her tiger teeth) The professor specifically told her not to wear a suit when she met Kavanaugh, the woman said, requesting anonymity for fear of career reprisals.
Graham: Ford's testimony won't change my vote ("I don't care how many women he raped," said the gay guy)
Trump Asks Why Kavanaugh Accuser Didn't Just Immediately Request Hush Money

Donald Trump's Racism Has Material Consequences - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Both Sides Do It but the Democrat Party is more neoliberal: immigrants who legally use public benefits like food assistance and Section 8 housing vouchers could be denied green cards under new rules aimed at keeping out people the administration deems a drain on the country. (you know who is a drain on the country?)

Poll: Democrats open largest margin-ever over GOP in Congressional preference : politics
GOP heading for midterm wipeout as 'blue wave' scenario gives Democrats a 12-point generic ballot lead
NBC News/WSJ poll: Democrats hold the advantage in November's elections - But the same poll shows that Republican enthusiasm about the upcoming election has increased, drawing nearly even with Democrats.
Fox News Poll: Health care boosts Democrats in upcoming midterm elections | Fox News (Dumbsters waking up/dying off)
Tough news for GOP in Minnesota Poll - StarTribune.com = approval rating has dropped from 45 percent to 39 percent, while 56 percent disapprove of his handling of the job, (they love him, I tell you)

Former congressman: 'Trump has completely destroyed the Republican Party' : politics (you destroyed yourselves, you evil idiots) Don't blame us for the coordinated behavior we've condoned for decades! It was just a few dozen bad apples!
Ron DeSantis Clarifies That 'Monkey' Comment Was Intended As Subtle Enough Dog Whistle To Get Away With

This Year's Akin - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I see Republicans have discovered another rape philosopher to run in a marginal Senate seat:
GOP Congressman Uses Alleged Kavanaugh Sexual Assault To Crack A Joke | HuffPost - Quite a stand-up routine from Rep. Ralph Norman!
/u/korkalot gives insight into why the GOP is occupied by so many rapists and pedophiles : bestof
Korkalot comments on Accused pedophile Roy Moore has come to Brett Kavanaugh's defense - they aren't comrpomising their morals so much as living them +Mitch the Bitch: "Plough right through it" (pedophilia is a Republican "family value")
KUOW - Rep. Matt Manweller accused of underage relationship with former student - A former Idaho high school student of embattled Washington legislator and longtime educator Rep. Matt Manweller (R-Cle Elum) says she had a sexual relationship with him beginning after she graduated in 1997, when she was 17 years old and he was a decade her senior. Under Idaho state law at the time, sex between an adult male and a female younger than 18 constituted statutory rape.
Rep. Matt Manweller accused of underage relationship with former student : news - Are we surprised that the party most vocal about family values is also a haven of rapists and kiddy-fiddlers? (with more lists)

Scandal Shakes a Virginia House Republican, Adding to Electoral Tremors - The New York Times

New Cruz ad: Can you believe O'Rourke is siding with the guy who got shot by a cop in his own home for no reason? (even Hot Air)
Viral video shows O'Rourke air-drumming to the Who's 'Baba O'Riley' after Cruz debate

Baby Trump Balloon Appears at Rally in Florida

America's Most Useless Pundit Makes America's Most Useless Argument - Lawyers, Guns & Money - the danger here is not that he has any chance of being the Democratic nominee, but that after he finishes 9th in Iowa after an endless supply of media puffery he gets pissy and runs a vanity wank campaign. (Frank Bruni supports Mike Bloomberg!)

A Grassroots Call to Ban Gerrymandering : politics


A Modern Jeremiah Sees National Decline Everywhere He Looks - The New York Times - "America, A Farewell Tour" -- "This moment in history marks the end of a long, sad tale of greed and murder by the white races. It is inevitable that for the final show we vomited up a figure like Trump."


The Education Department data shows how rare loan forgiveness is : news (the Amway lady rigged the system to screw you, hahaha)

Nike's Market Value Surges By $6 Billion After Controversial Kaepernick Ad | HuffPost - stock has skyrocketed to a near all-time high. (haha racists)
Nike has donated three times as much money to Republicans as Democrats this year : politics (haha black atheletes)

How Michael Moore Lost His Audience - Variety


A Rise in Murder? Let's Talk About the Weather


2 men who allegedly shot neighbor in mattress dispute arrested - again : news
Abilene shooting: John and Michael Miller arrested again after mattress video surfaces - The Washington Post (cops waited 3 weeks, then the video came out)

Man accused of kidnapping woman and masturbating on her is given 'one pass,' won't go to prison - "told her that he wasn't really going to kill her, that he needed her to believe she was going to die so that he could be sexually fulfilled" ... So he'll be doing this again then and relatively soon (the Alaska "one free rape for white men" law) ... masturbation onto someone is not categorized as a sex crime in Alaskan law
Man Accused Of Choking Woman Unconscious Takes Plea Deal For No Jail Time | HuffPost - ustin Schneider allegedly offered a woman a ride, choked her until she passed out and ejaculated on her. He got his "one pass," an Alaska prosecutor said.

US man jailed for 35 years for grooming 16yo Sydney girl online to travel overseas for sex : news

The moment Brian Banks is exonerated after 6 years of prison after his alleged rape victim admits it never happened. : pics

Florida man gets 20 years in state prison for stealing $600 worth of cigarettes : news (and a bunch of other crimes)

Plot to kidnap, rape, kill child leads to charges against 4 in Michigan : news


Bachelor in Paradise 2018: Jenna Wants Her Messages Examined - "I think her bleach job has seeped into her brain"
Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston Split Gently

Fired up about Dragon Pizza in Somerville's Davis Square

Alcohol causes one in 20 deaths worldwide, says WHO | Society | The Guardian - Report finds 13.5% of deaths among people in their 20s are linked to alcohol
One in 20 of all deaths due to alcohol, says WHO : news

Clovis74 comments on TIL: Paleontologists have dug up a 130,000-year-old mastodon skeleton that looks like it was butchered by humans. But they found it in America, where people were not supposed to have arrived for another 100,000 years.

Newly discovered photographs reveal family life of the Romanovs - in pictures | World news | The Guardian


Racism Can Affect Your Mental Health From As Early As Childhood. The study, which researchers say is the first meta-analysis to look into racism's effects on adolescents (as opposed to adults), examined 214 peer-reviewed articles examining over 91,000 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 20. : science

Harmful use of alcohol kills more than 3 million people each year, most of them men : science


What are some psychological tricks you know? : AskReddit

Maine investigates restaurant that gave lobsters marijuana: restaurant owner says blowing smoke over the crustaceans is meant to lessen their suffering before they are dropped in boiling water : news - So you can't get them high but you can drop them living into boiling water?

Iceland has recently proposed a ban on circumcision. How would you feel about this in your own country? : AskReddit

Teachers with 20+ experience, what's the difference between the kids then vs the kids now? : AskReddit


When your more social capable friend invites you to a party and you know no one : funny
Emperor Penguins Huddle for Warmth | Nature on PBS - YouTube
Hypnotizing circle dance by Sufi Zikr - YouTube

Ban anonymous accounts, Angela Rayner tells social media firms : technology

There was a thread a few days ago criticizing Netflix for only having 35 films of the IMDb Top 250. I went through the major streaming services to find out how they compared. Here's a spreadsheet with my findings. : movies
[DISCUSSION] Google's Maps is the service you should be the most worried about : technology
Why I'm done with Chrome



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The storm itself is not our biggest problem. Our problem is what comes next. (millions of tons of Republican pig shit everywhere, could it be a metaphor?)

The lesson from Hurricane Florence? Don't elect Republicans, readers say - Los Angeles Times
The lesson from Hurricane Florence? Don't elect Republicans, readers say : politics
Soldier who helped with Florence relief efforts returns to ransacked home | | kptv.com

New emails show NRA's sway over Florida government officials

Report: Google suppressed an explosive memo about its Chinese search engine : news


Eschaton: Gonna Stamp Her Feet - This isn't even true. Roughly the options are no deal (the apocalypse option), stay in the EU (status quo), Norway, or "Canada" which isn't even quite real, just no deal plus some random agreements that are actually agreed to.
Jon Stone on Twitter: "May's problem: - She says the two options the EU is offering Britain (Canada or Norway) are both unacceptable - Says they need to offer her another one - Or what??? (bluster and stamp her tiny feet)


China cancels trade talks with U.S. as new Trump tariffs loom - The Washington Post

How a British music publicist ended up in the middle of the Russia storm - The Washington Post

Military Worship Hurts U.S. Democracy. : politics (there's a special kind of thinking that only military people can do)

NYT Gives Trump His Excuse to Fire Rod Rosenstein
Eschaton: There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so (NYT has been carrying Republican water forever)
Nick Confessore on Twitter: "I hope anyone who has thrilled to @nytmike's scoops when they cut in one direction will at least trust that he is reporting in good faith when they cut in a different direction. ("facts" is one direction, "propaganda for a tyrant" is another, both the same)
Eschaton: America's Worst Newspaper - The New York Times. -- As is always the case, liberalish critiques of the paper of record will be chalked up to "you just want us to be propagandists for your side," which has never been the liberal critique of the media, just a comforting bothsides critique from shitty journalists.
New York Times Rod Rosenstein scoop: Michael Schmidt discusses reported secret recording and 25th amendment conversations. - Reporter Michael Schmidt talks about his sources
Trumpworld divided on Rosenstein -- not whether to fire him, but when - The disagreement between his advisers in the West Wing and those on Fox News ... (Murdooch is your shadow pres)

Former top White House official revises statement to special counsel about Flynn's calls with Russian ambassador - K.T. McFarland (lied, of course, lock her up)

Donald Trump Jr.: Democrats are now the party of lawlessness and anarchy (said the greasy failson stupid crookster)

Eschaton: Guys I Have Some Bad News - It seems that at least one of our great political parties is entirely filled with corrupt racists and misogynists.

Senate's seniority rules raise questions when presidential succession is at stake (geezeville)

Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford say she has accepted Senate Judiciary Committee's s request to testify against Kavanaugh
GOP Leaders Can't Even Fake Respect for Christine Blasey Ford - They are struggling to pretend they will fairly weigh her accusations against Brett Kavanaugh.

Spokesman for GOP on Kavanaugh nomination resigns; has been accused of harassment in the past - An adviser for the Senate Judiciary Committee has resigned amid questions from NBC News about a previous sexual harassment complaint ... Garrett Ventry, 29, who served as a communications aide to the committee chaired by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, (they are all fuckers)
An ugly new twist in the Kavanaugh saga raises very unpleasant questions - The Washington Post (Whelan's crazy bullshit)
Ed Whelan's Troubles Might Be Just Beginning - He's playing a dangerous game with the law. (he even looks like a corrupt Republican)
Brett Kavanaugh Bears the Burden of Proof - The Atlantic - whether he can defend against the charge he faces in a manner that is both persuasive and honorable.

Brett Kavanaugh Allegations Should be Investigated by FBI, Say Nearly 50 Yale Law Faculty Members : politics

Eschaton: What A Time To Be Alive (Grassfuck:)
ChuckGrassley on Twitter: "Judge Kavanaugh I just granted another extension to Dr Ford to decide if she wants to proceed w the statement she made last week to testify to the senate She shld decide so we can move on I want to hear her. I hope u understand. It's not my normal approach to b indecisive ("my usual approach is to be a dunderhead asshole" )
Eschaton: Trendspotting - This is ridiculous. I have nothing to do with anybody. I spotted a trend and explored it. That's it. I was as shocked as anyone by Whelan's tweets. On deadline, moving on. -- kathleenparker (@kathleenparker) September 21, 2018 (moving right along after showing us how it all works)
Congressman Discounts Kavanaugh's 'Supposed' Assault That Didn't Go 'Anywhere' Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) blasted professor Christine Blasey Ford (just a few minutes of "action")
GOP Extends Christine Blasey Ford's Deadline To Decide On Senate Hearing Request - accuser claimed they were bullying her with the tight deadline.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson: Kavanaugh allegation is part of a socialist plot - a long-running plot by Socialists to take over America was fueling recent allegations of sexual assault - sexual harrassers and rapists will "think twice" about accepting high-paying government jobs in case their "reputations get sullied"
Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford moved 3,000 miles to reinvent her life. It wasn't far enough
As Kavanaugh debate rages, teens push back on adults who act like sexual assault in high school is no big deal - The Washington Post

The Right-Wing Media Machine Was Built to Destroy People Like Christine Blasey Ford : politics

Ronald Reagan'ss Daughter Comes Out As Sexual Assault Survivor in Op-Ed Defending Kavanaugh Accuser - Patti Davis, daughter of President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan, has revealed that she was a victim of sexual assault
Woman says she was assaulted at home of man testifying for Kavanaugh's character (they are all rapists)
Wacky Hijinks from 80s Comedies Were Mostly Rape - YouTube
The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory - YouTube

Court Docs Allege Ex-Trump Staffer Drugged Woman He Got Pregnant With 'Abortion Pill'

Rep Devin Nunes Called Out By Rival Over Proud Boys Photo : politics

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to be deposed about plan to rig 2020 census : politics


Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke clash over immigration, Trump, guns during intense debate

These six -- yes, six -- siblings of a Republican congressman just endorsed his opponent

Lawmaker quits race after daughter says he molested her for more than a decade : politics
'The Younger the Better': Evidence Unsealed in Case of Pro-Trump Lawmaker Who Searched Craigslist for 'A Boy' : politics
2017-18 United States political sexual scandals - Wikipedia
Handy List of Republican Sex Offenders - The Constantine Report (2015)
BUSTED: Trump campaign chair caught in a motel room with an underage boy - Oklahoma state Sen. Ralph Shortey pictured with Donald Trump, Jr. (history)


Accused Sexual Harassers Thrived Under NBC News Chief Andy Lack - A Sony executive who sent porn to women at work. An alleged harasser who reviewed NBC's Weinstein story. From one company to another, scandals emerge under Andy Lack's leadership (another Jewish dickster)


Bergen Sheriff Resigns After Racist Remarks Caught on Tape | WNYC News | WNYC - after WNYC broadcast a secretly taped conversation that included the sheriff making racist remarks about black people and the state attorney general.

8 prisoners released, 263 cases under review after Florida deputy accused of planting drugs


College-bound high school football player ruled ineligible because he's homeless : news


SF's new HIV cases hit record low, but disparities widening among groups - The bulk of older people living with HIV are gay men who have been infected for 20 or more years and whose health needs stretch beyond just keeping the infection under control ... More than 60 percent of the 221 new diagnoses in the city in 2017 were in people younger than 40.


In 1960, about a half-million teens took a test. Now it could predict the risk of Alzheimer's disease - A study released this month found that subjects who did well on test questions as teenagers had a lower incidence of Alzheimer's and related dementias in their 60s and 70s than those who scored poorly ... Men in the lower-scoring half were 17 percent more likely, while women with lower scores were 16 percent more likely. (comment:) The hypothesis is that the higher cognitive reserve masks developing deficits and provides alternative cognitive processes to compensate for a bit, but that when the disease exceeds the capacity for compensation, the decline appears more sudden and dramatic.

The Guardian view on lengthening books: The judges of the Man Booker prize have complained that some entries needed editing. As titles grow longer, the patience of readers can shorten : books

People can handle the truth more than you think, suggests a new study. Most people value the moral principle of honesty. At the same time, they frequently avoid being honest with people in their everyday lives. New research suggests people can often afford to be more honest than they think. : science



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APNewsBreak: Dam breach at Duke plant; coal ash could spill - The ash left over when coal is burned to generate electricity contains an array of components, including mercury, lead, arsenic and other toxic heavy metals. Duke said Friday that the inundated basin at the plant contains about 400,000 cubic yards (305,820 cubic meters) of ash.

Russia's Pro-Gun Influence Account Tentative plot to whisk fugitive from London embassy on Christmas Eve was considered too risky
s Copied The NRA -- And Sometimes, Vice Versa (gun-traitors)


Revealed: Russia's s secret plan to help Julian Assange escape from UK -- Tentative plot to whisk fugitive from London embassy on Christmas Eve was considered too risky

Europe's papers in a froth over Theresa May's 'Salzburg disaster' - but in France, Brexit's a snooze (off the cliff with bluster lady)


Yale Study Finds Twice as Many Undocumented Immigrants as Previous Estimates | Yale Insights - Generally accepted estimates put the population of undocumented immigrants in the United States at approximately 11.3 million. A new study, using mathematical modeling on a range of demographic and immigration operations data, suggests that the actual undocumented immigrant population may be more than 22 million.


Muslim-American can sue over 'no-fly list': U.S. appeals court : news

The Planners Of The Trump Tower Meeting Moved Millions, And Mueller Is Now Investigating - Documents show suspicious transfers began six days before the controversial meeting.

Trump ditches plans to quickly release Russia probe documents - POLITICO ... concerns raised by "key allies" about dumping the materials. (anything to save his orange ass inc. jeopardizing US security)
So Why Did Trump Get Cold Feet About Declassifying Those Russia Probe Documents? - Maybe it was something more than just the requests of our allies.

Bob Woodward's Book Sold Almost as Many Copies in 1 Week as Donald Trump's 'Art of the Deal' Has in 30 years

Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment - The New York Times
Cancel my subscription to American Reality: The Series - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last year suggested secretly recording President Donald Trump and using the 25th Amendment to forcibly remove him from offic
The New York Times' Rod Rosenstein Story Has Poor Sourcing - Great News for President Trump - There is some seriously wicked maneuvering going on here - On the whole, The New York Times is an essential publication. On occasion, however, it gets played like a $5 fiddle. Friday was one of those days.

Trump Sees a 'Red Wave' Where His Party Sees a Red Alert (Fox says no need for Republicans to even vote)

Internal GOP Poll: 'We've Lost the Messaging Battle' on Tax Cuts - Voters say 2-to-1 the tax law benefits rich over middle class (they gambled on their stupid suckers being stupider than they are and lost)
Republicans stunned to learn voters understand exactly what their tax cut did - The Washington Post (dumber than dumb)

The 35 most mind-blowing lines from Donald Trump's Las Vegas speech

Trump Says if Attack on Kavanaugh Accuser Was 'as Bad as She Says,' Charges Would Have Been Filed (said the molester-in-chief)
Trump questions why Brett Kavanaugh's accuser waited to report alleged assault
Donald Trump Goes After Kavanaugh Accuser, Asks Why She Didn't Call Cops After Alleged Assault - The president's weet about Christine Blasey Ford is exactly the kind of reaction she feared

Eschaton: The Shit Shotgun - Yesterday began rather strangely, with all of us wondering if Kathleen Parker's paint huffing habit had finally taken its toll. -- Is there a Kavanaugh doppelganger? -- This nonsense was circulating for days! And reporters (#notallreporters) could not wait to run with it! Of course it was coordinated among all the leading lights ... (it's always all coordinated with the leading lights of journalism like Kathleen "yes, I'm not that smart but I'm a Republican" Parker)
Is Ed Whelan's Conspiracy the Best the GOP Has? nomination is in dire straits. (but Mitch the Bitch is very confident +conspiracy theories is who they are)
McConnell confident Kavanaugh will be confirmed: 'Don't get rattled' ("I've got little Susia by the crotch," Mitch smiled)
Video: Collins 'appalled' by Trump's tweet criticizing Kavanaugh accuse - The Maine senator said the president was 'completely inappropriate' in his tweets about Christine Blasey Ford this morning. (Susie Doozy does her kabuki dance)
The Kavanaugh doppelganger theory shows how far the right has descended into madness - The Washington Post ... That Kavanaugh is the victim of mistaken identity was the implausible theory put forward by Ed Whelan, president of the ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER in Washington. (hilarious) What shall it profit them if they gain the Supreme Court and suffer the loss of their souls? (Max thinks they have souls and have they really "descended?")
PR firm helped Whelan stoke half-baked Kavanaugh alibi - POLITICO - CRC Public Relations, a powerhouse conservative firm, guided Ed Whelan on a bad Twitter adventure. (who coordinated with all the "leading lights" of journalism)
Case Closed - Lawyers, Guns & Money (here's where Whelan started to dig his reputational grave)
Lawyering out - Lawyers, Guns & Money
"We've surely made our mark in history." - Lawyers, Guns & Money - If you wondered how Ed Whelan created such an over-hyped clusterfuck all on his own, wonder no more. CRC Public Relations, better known for its work with the Swift Boat Veterans, gave him an assist.
Ed Whelan's Theory About Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh Is Batshit - Senate Republicans can't get out of their own way on this matter.
Dude Process - Lawyers, Guns & Money (a special due process for men)
Deadspin on Kavanaugh - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The thing that must happen is that those people must be defeated. That is the whole point. What must be shown to the whole world is that this, even this, cannot stop him. (nothing is too bad for a Republican)

Andrew Perez on Twitter: "That went well https://t.co/JGxqiMs8cN " - Ed Whelan feverishly flipping through local prep school yearbooks for someone else who looks like a potato
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G O L D I E. on Twitter: "So, the possibility exists that Kavanaugh may have bought into Wheland's lunacy and encouraged it?

What makes Cory Booker's groping incident different than the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh

Opinion | The Case for Impeaching Kavanaugh - The New York Times - If the Democrats win the House this fall, they can investigate the charges against him, should he be confirmed.
Poll: More Americans oppose Kavanaugh confirmation than support it - Brett Kavanaugh is first Supreme Court nominee below water in the history of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Officials in overdrive to keep Trump from attacking Kavanaugh accuser - Axios (that didn't work)
After the Kavanaugh Allegations, Republicans Offer a Shocking Defense: Sexual Assault Isn't a Big Deal ("We do it all the time," Republicans said)
Poll: Brett Kavanaugh faces strong opposition amid Ford assault claim
GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski Just Got Even More Pressure To Vote Against Brett Kavanaugh | HuffPost - Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott (D) announced their opposition to the Supreme Court nominee.

Sen. Whitehouse: Dems Will Investigate Kavanaugh After Election (and Megyn Kelly is a real evil bitch)
Opinion | How Strong Does the Evidence Against Kavanaugh Need to Be? - The New York Times - a merely credible allegation is enough to disqualify him.
Feinstein's office receiving 'threats of bodily and sexual harm against staff' (Dumpster told them to do it and Susie Doozy too)
SC GOP congressman jokes about Abraham Lincoln groping amid Kavanaugh Supreme Court drama | Palmetto Politics | postandcourier.com
A flag of underwear: Photo from Kavanaugh's time shows DKE hijinks
Fox Says Democrats Are To Blame For Kavanaugh Accuser Receiving Death Threats | HuffPost

Biden confronts the ghost of Anita Hill - politico - "It's not going to be something he can charm out of. I think in 2018, you can't just smile it away' (if by "confront" you mean "dodge")

Trump's Clown Insult Of Gavin Newsom Backfires
Gavin Newsom on Twitter: "lol, hi @realDonaldTrump. ?? Interesting description coming from the guy who is literally locking up kids like Pennywise. https://t.co/nxZo22sRyD"


Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar's Siblings Endorse Rival in New Campaign Ads -- A Democrat running against Arizona Representative Paul Gosar unveiled a powerful series of ads on Thursday that feature six people who denounce Gosar and endorse his rival. They're Gosar's sibling

MN Rep. Jim Knoblach ends campaign ahead of MPR abuse allegations story | MPR News - as MPR News prepared to publish detailed accusations from his daughter of inappropriate behavior toward her since childhood. (another one)

Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono Calls Bullshit on Republicans' Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Process - It's about time someone in elected office called "bullshit" on this process.

Discussion Megathread: Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke Debate : politics


Jordan Peterson Threatened to Sue Feminist Critic Kate Manne for Calling Him a Misogynist ... Best-selling author Jordan Peterson first shot to fame by styling himself as a free-speech warrior at the University of Toronto ... (misogynist asshole is a huff-and-puff bully who needs a safe space from any criticism how very masculine)
They think that I've got no respect, but everything means less than zero - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Special snowflake seeks safe space. Constructed by threatening others: (ideal masulinity)


Former Montana high school athletic trainer accused of "sophisticated system of ritual sexual abuse"

Infants among 5 stabbed at New York City daycare : news

Prince George's police officers are shot after mistakenly bursting into home of innocent man

Indiana man, 34, who impregnated 10-year-old girl, gets over 100 years in prison : news

Suge Knight Sentenced to 28 Years Over 2015 Hit-and-Run Death : news

Snoop tells Kanye "Fuck You" : Music (Kanye is stupid enough to be a Republican)

Beyonci's Former Drummer Claims Singer Molested Her with 'Dark Magic' and 'Extreme Witchcraft'


Obesity rates now top 35 percent in 7 states : news

Commitment to democratic values (belief in free elections, freedom of speech, religion, press, and lack of Internet censorship) is strongest predictor of climate change concern, except in English-speaking Western democracies like US where party identification matters more, finds study of 36 nations. : science


Ballooning pot stocks are now bigger than Chipotle and Macy's : news
Marijuana use is now as common among baby boomers as it is among teens, federal data shows - The Washington Post

Psychedelic cacti - PsychonautWiki
Peruvian torch cactus (Trichocereus Peruvianus) | Psychedelics | Smart shop
Peruvian Torch: Plants | eBay
Trichocereus BRIDGESII bolivian torch cactus 2X12" healthy tip cutting | eBay
My first trip experience with low dose of Bridgesii the Bolivian Torch, entheogen - Dynamic Spirit Mamma
bolivian torch | Simon's Legal Highs
Best type of cactus, Bolivian vs. Peruvian vs. San Pedro & best method of preperation - The Pub - Shroomery Message Board

The 'game-changing' technique to create babies from skin cells just stepped forward - in vitro gametogenesis -- a method of creating eggs and sperm in a dish. (and will they have souls?)


What is the hardest you've ever been shot down by someone you were interested in? : AskReddit

Men who have been proposed to by their girlfriends, how did you feel about it? : AskReddit



092018
WATCH: Reporter gasps after Trump tells storm victim to 'have a good time'


Greece spider web: Terrifying SPIDER infestation as GIANT web appears overnight | Weird | News | Express.co.uk


Marine Le Pen ordered to submit to psychiatric evaluation over Islamic State execution tweets : news

Donald Tusk: Theresa May's Brexit trade plan won't work - BBC News (off the cliff with the bluster lady)
Eschaton: No Deal - suppose there were two versions (roughly) of the path May chose. One was that she would bluster bluster bluster and then at the last minute "cave" to a deal which basically made the UK into Norway, with respect to its relationship with the EU. The other was that she would bluster bluster bluster wishing for some Deus ex Machina to fix her disaster until it was too late and then... "no deal." Can't hide under the covers forever. ... I don't think even the harsh cynical skeptics have come to terms with just what a disaster "no deal" is

Met police reveals the "Croydon Cat Killer" were foxes after a three year probe and 500 deaths : news


Top U.S. Diplomat Backed Continuing Support for Saudi War in Yemen Over Objections of Staff - WSJ - Mike Pompeo made decision after being warned that a cutoff could jeopardize $2 billion in weapons sales to America's Gulf allies


The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far - The New York Times (2 years and a dollar short)
A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia's Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath
ZEMBLA - The dubious friends of Donald Trump: the Russians - YouTube

Michael Cohen spoke to Mueller team for hours; asked about Russia, possible collusion : politics

Trump's declassification order is an obvious abuse of presidential power
Trump feels angry, unprotected amid mounting crises - The Washington Post -- "He wants a consigliere, not an attorney general. On the one hand, it's also deadly serious, because the attorney general does not protect the president. The attorney general protects the American people. And the fact that we have a president who doesn't understand that is alarming. (Made America Amercia Again)
The President's Mental Deficiencies Have Been Normalized - he President of the United States just said that he should have fired the FBI director as soon as he won the primaries or right after the Republican convention. In other words, before he was even elected. Is he really unaware of the fact that he couldn't do that? (no)

How Does Trump 'Even Sleep at Night'? Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women's Shelters Among $226 Million Diverted to Pay for Child Detention : politics - Holy shit. They're siphoning social safety net program coffers for private prison expenses.
The Trump team keeps saying the Lester Holt tape was unfairly edited. Here's the truth

Republicans, be forewarned: Kavanaugh's accuser has options -- In short, Ford has a powerful story to tell. In trying to jam her into their abbreviated, one-sided process, Senate Republicans open the door to far more dangerous options, where the American people get to judge for themselves whether she is credible.
Over $200,000 Raised For Christine Blasey Ford's Security Costs : politics

Just for one day - Lawyers, Guns & Money - You know the very last thing the GOP wants is for Blasey to testify. (Actually the very last thing they want is a real investigation, but they can stop that from happening at what no doubt seems like an acceptable cost to them)
Because you don't really give a damn about this year's girl - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Guardian has a lot more on Amy "Dress for Success" Chua's adive to female law students looking to catch Brett Kavanaugh's eye ... Chua's own daughter was due to clerk for Kavanaugh. (! +good job, Tiger Mom)

Grassley in firing line on Kavanaugh assault allegation - POLITICO - legacy is at stake as he navigates both sides of the Supreme Court nomination chaos. ("both sides" uh-huh)
Preacher Franklin Graham Claims Brett Kavanaugh Abuse Allegation Is Irrelevant | HuffPost - The son of the late Billy Graham said that even if Christine Blasey Ford's allegation of sexual assault is true, it shouldn't matter. ("What matters is allegience to the AntiChrist," he said)
The most infuriating aspect of the Kavanaugh conversation - The Washington Post - Republicans hate it whenever anyone brings up Garland precisely because the episode is such a clear demonstration of their determination to muscle their way to an ideological majority on the Supreme Court.
'These are the sotries of our lives' : Prep school alumni hear echoes in assault claim
How 65 women came to Kavanaugh's defense in a matter of hours (oh, and they are all Republican women which is statistically unlikely)
Brett Kavanaugh Liked Female Clerks Who Looked A 'Certain Way, Yale Student Was Told - Yale professor and 'Tiger Mom' Any Chua, whos a Kavanaugh cheerleader, told the young woman to look "outgoing"
Rush Limbaugh Spreads Fake News Story About Brett Kavanaugh's Accuser Christine Blasey Ford : politics


FEMA chief considered quitting as feud with Homeland Security secretary boiled over - The Washington Post


Key sign for 2018 midterms elections: GOP lost on primary turnout - Axios - New data: Democrats crushing Republicans in 2018 elections

RNC surpasses $250 million in fundraising for midterms | TheHill


Florida elections 2018: Andrew Gillum vs. Ron DeSantis for governor - Vox - Andrew Gillum versus Ron DeSantis is one of 2018's most important campaigns
New racial controversy batters DeSantis - POLITICO - This is the fifth race-related issue concerning the Florida candidate, his gubernatorial campaign or one of its supporters. ... "F------- MUSLIM N-----"
Why do all these racists keep joining the GOP? - The Washington Post (it's a mystery)

Hanging On With Loud Desperation is the Ted Cruz Way - Lawyers, Guns & Money


NJ Gov. Murphy Calls for Bergen County Sheriff'S Resignation, After Racist Remarks Caught on Tape


Colorado Democratic Candidate's Truck Shot While She Was In It


Being Fired Because You're Bad At Your Job Is Not a Violation of Due Process - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The former editor at the New York Review of Books says he stands by his decision to publish a controversial essay by former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi.


U.S. court rules for Colorado 'intersex' veteran denied passport : news

Project Veritas Targets Government Staffers To Prove A 'Deep State' Exists (the government actually employs people!)


I lead Texas's education board. Here's why we ditched Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.


Caught on camera: Abilene father, son kill neighbor over trash : news

More Victims Come Forward After California Surgeon & Girlfriend Charged With Rape | HuffPost - Authorities have received more calls about Grant Robicheaux, who appeared in a Bravo reality show, and Cerissa Riley. (and of course it was all on his cell phone)


Chevy Chase is 74, sober and ready to work. The problem? Nobody wants to work with him. - Washington Post (but still an obnoxious asshole)


A top Cornell food researcher has had 13 studies retracted. That's a lot. Brian Wansink has six new high-profile study retractions. He's a cautionary tale in bad incentives in science ... Update: On September 20, 2018, Brian Wansink announced his retirement from Cornell ... "eating behavior" (was all fake) (and he doesn't even work for Tufts)


Child pornography reason behind Sunspot Observatory closure, according to court documents (def not aliens)

Man who posed as a housewife pleads guilty to making secret sex tapes with 150 men : news

Vaping for Beginners Tutorial for 2018 - Pro Vaping | License to Vape

100 Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)

TIL almost all calico cats are female. The gene for coat color is on the female (X) chromosome. To get a calico coat, a cat must have a black gene from one parent and an orange gene from the other parent, resulting in all XX females. Sometimes a male calico is born who is XXY, but they're sterile. : todayilearned


The number of individuals who do not identify with any organized religion is rapidly growing in the US. New research suggests this may in part be driven by a disconnection between parents and their children, and a failure of religious parents to transmit religion to their children. : science


[Serious] Murder attempt Survivors of Reddit: Who has had an attempted murder upon them, how did you survive? Was there a point that you accepted you was going to die? : AskReddit

[Serious] What are some of the creepiest moments in Reddit history that people have seem to have forgotten? : AskReddit



091918

Today in the Sixth Extinction - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Mike Donovan on Twitter: "One of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water." THIS JUST IN FOLKS!!!! ("wahduh")
Donald Trump Makes A Stunning Observation About The Wetness Of Water | HuffPost - comments caused the jokes to rain down on Twitter.
Free boat! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - #TheStupidestPresidentEver thinks he has found the silver lining to hurricanes: Free stuff!
S.C. Florence deaths: Horry County Sheriff's van drown in S.C. floodwaters - when deputies tried to drive down a South Carolina road flooded by tropical storm Florence.

Eschaton: The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth - Rich space nerds have this fantasy that the Earth is going to be turned into a smoldering fireball, or an unlivable post-climate change dystopian hellscape, and, well, there's just nothing we can do about that so we'd better figure out how to send 8 smart unappreciated rich guys and A LOT of hot breeding age women and some robot babysitters to do the hard work to, say, Mars, where they will solve the simple problem of interplanetary colonization and terraforming and begin the new utopian future dedicated to freedom and rule by rich nerds. To save humanity! -- Probably a bit easier to clean things up a bit here at home, I imagine, but what do I know.


Danske CEO Resigns After Money-Laundering Probe Expands to $230 Billion in Transactions - WSJ - clients used Estonia branch to move money into Europe, often from Russia


Remembering Our Sites of Genocide - Lawyers, Guns & Money

u/StrictScrutiny Explains why 3rd party candidates are really only spoilers in a first past the post voting system : bestof

NSA leak fuels rise in hacking for crypto mining: report
Bitcoin Miners Flock to New York's Remote Corners, but Get Chilly Reception - A region that once attracted heavy industry is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity.

This Is Christmas in September for People Who Don't Think Money Should Completely Rule Our Politics - I am not optimistic about the future, but this was a nice moment.

Poland used to be okay with Trump. Then, he posted a photo. - The Washington Post (Dumpster glowering)
Donald Trump suggested building a wall across the SAHARA to solve Europe's migrant crisis, Spanish minster (sic) claims - he US President suggested building an insanely immense barrier across North Africa to curb the numbers of African migrants surging into Europe
Trump slams Bush for 'worst single mistake' in U.S. history ("until you suckers elected me, anyway)

Trump's Lies Have Grown Far More Frequent -- and More Dangerous - The president is accelerating a dark phenomenon called "truth decay." (brush your truth, America) RAND Corporation warns that a growing disregard for basic facts could have dire longterm consequences for American democracy.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump says exposing 'corrupt' FBI probe could be 'crowning achievement' of presidency

'The Apprentice' book excerpt: At CIA's Russia House,' growing alarm about 2016 election interference

Donald Trump Torches Jeff Sessions: 'I Don't Have An Attorney General' -- "I'm not happy with numerous things," the president said (he doesn't realize Session's salary is paid by taxpayers)
s war on the rule of law is bad now? Just you wait - The United States of America has an attorney general. Whatever you think of his priorities and performance, the position is not vacant. But Donald Trump does not personally have an attorney general, because as far as he's concerned, having an attorney general means that the person occupying that post will work to protect him from any legal jeopardy. (Trumpocracy)

Accuser's schoolmate says she recalls hearing of alleged Kavanaugh incident - Cristina King Miranda says she recalls it being discussed at their school,
Debunking 5 Viral Rumors About Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh's Accuser - Dr. Blasey has been the target of widespread social media disinformation since she came forward with accusations of sexual assault against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh
Republicans have no good options on Brett Kavanaugh - The Washington Post
Trump says alleged assault by Kavanaugh is very hard for me to imagine' (said the pussy-graber)
Christine Blasey Ford wants FBI investigation before testifying - CNNPolitics
Opposition to Kavanaugh grows, support at historic low: Reuters/Ipsos poll | Reuters - 36 percent of adults surveyed did not want Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court, up 6 points from a similar poll conducted a month earlier. Only 31 percent of U.S. adults polled said they were in favor (33% never heard of him)
"Cut Bait" : As the Kavanaugh Nightmare Escalates, Trump Is Gripped with Uncertainty as Ivanka Suggests Cutting the Judge Loose - The threat of losing the House and Senate has stopped Trump from going scorched-earth on Christine Blasey Ford. If Trump antagonizes women voters, it could increase the odds Republicans would lose both houses in Congress.
Sen. Chuck Grassley: No Need For FBI To Investigate Kavanaugh Allegation | HuffPost
Why Was She Reticent About Coming Forward? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Almost as mysterious as her decision to contact her congressional representative rather than President Grab Em By The Pussy, really. And, to state the obvious, for anti-anti Trumpers on the nominal left to make this about the perfidy of the Democratic senator who adhered to Ford's wishes is disgusting. (death threats, forced out of her house)
Katy Tur dismantles Orrin Hatch with epic mashup of his comments smearing female victims -- MSNBC anchor Katy Tur noted that two Republicans 00 Sen. Hatch and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) -- voted to confirm Thomas in 1991 and remain on the Judiciary Committee. Hatch is now the President pro tempore of the Senate and is third in the line of presidential succession. (he's always been an evil little lying fuck)
Sen. Susan Collins on Twitter: "I hope that Dr. Ford will reconsider and testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. It is my understanding that the Committee has offered to hold either a public or a private session, whichever would make her more comfortable." (Susie Doozy hops on the propaganda train)
The 'But Kavanaugh Was in High School' Defense Is Gross - We need to stop acting like teenage boys -- and let's e honest, white teenage boys -- are somehow incapable of having a moral compass.
Brett Kavanaugh assault allegation: The locker room is now the bedroom. - Why Kavanaugh advocates would rather defend malfeasance than deny it.
Kavanaugh in 2015: "What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep"
Former classmate of Kavanaugh's denies being at party in sexual assault allegation
599 alumnae from Christine Blasey Ford's high school sign letter saying they support her -- "Ford's experience is all too consistent with stories we heard"
When 11 men interrogate: GOP tries to head off Kavanaugh debacle - POLITICO - The specter of Anita Hill looms over next week's hearing

Richard Epstein thinks attempted rape accuser is doing it all wrong - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Brett Kavanaugh Should Cause Republicans Problems with Women in Midterm Elections - Brett Kavanaugh should be radioactive for Republicans in the midterms



Trump hints at new executive action on immigration, wants filibuster-proof Senate majority | TheHill


MAGA! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Trump is definitely the savior for coal miners ... Trump has totally turned around the fortune of the whites of southern Appalachia.

History Will Remember Mitch McConnell as One of the Very Worst (shame is not a Republican feeling)

The Five Battlefields for Control of the House - The New York Times

Tightening Texas race boosts Democrats' hopes of taking Senate - Among the bright spots for Democrats: U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas had a 2-percentage-point lead over Cruz among likely voters in the state and U.S. Representative Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona had a 3-point lead over Republican congresswoman Martha McSally in the race to succeed U.S. Senator Jeff Flake,
O'Rourke leads Ted Cruz by 2 among likely voters in U.S. Senate race, new poll finds
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; New polls: Tight Senate races across the Sun Belt - Florida, Texas effectively tied; mixed bag for both parties in Arizona, Nevada

Democrats fear Shalala campaign is in 'sleep mode' while challenger surges - But Shalala, 77, doesn't speak Spanish. Salazar, 56, does. (Shalalalala)

Flores defeats Gallego in Senate District 19 - San Antonio Express-News - Voters elected political newcomer Pete Flores to the Texas Senate on Tuesday, flipping a Democratic district red for the first time in 139 years and bolstering Republicans' supermajority in the chamber ahead of the November elections ... A retired game warden, Flores ...

Why did the Ben Jealous campaign attempt to ban a reporter from the Maryland gubernatorial debate? - The Washington Post (Dem)

'I'd Do Her': Mike Bloomberg and the Underbelly of #MeToo - Disparaging comments. Demeaning jokes. As the mogul reportedly considers a 2020 presidential run, it remains an open question whether his long-alleged history of undermining women will affect his chances. (another Jewish dick)

Filmmaker Peter Jackson may testify against Harvey Weinstein in Ashley Judd case : news

Ex-Harper's Editor Says Staff Was 'Sidelined' During Hockenberry, Roiphe Pieces - "The entire editorial staff shared a feeling, and it was dismissed," - publisher John MacArthur (overruled staff because he knows better and lied about it)
On a book entitled "Lolita" - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Hockenberry ... Being an extremely difficult person to work with is actually a great reason for getting fired. (and some gut-wrenching Nabokov and read the last two paragraphs)
Harper's Publisher Worried That Women Can't Tell the Difference Between Assault and Harassment ... "The Straw Girl" a technique that "posits the existence of a hypothetical observer who is conflating things that should not be conflated. It discredits the testimony of real women by implying that other, imaginary, women are too stupid to know the difference between getting raped and having a guy be 'creepy in the DMs'" (resign, John, you've written the epitaph of your career on #MeToo Wall, which will be there for the future to see, and judge)

New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay - The New York Times - Ian Buruma, the editor of The New York Review of Books, left his position on Wednesday amid an uproar over the magazine's publication of an essay by a disgraced Canadian radio broadcaster who had been accused of sexually assaulting and battering women. ("consent?" "shrug")
Ian Buruma Out After NYRB Jian Ghomesi Piece - Ian Buruma is out as the editor of the New York Review of Books, a spokesperson for the magazine confirmed to Jezebel. The move comes just days after the magazine published an essay from former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi, billed as "Jian Ghomeshi on Jian Ghomeshi" on the MYRB's October cover called "The Fall of Men"
The Myth of the Indispensable Man - Lawyers, Guns & Money (unfortunately) MacArthur owns the place. It's worth noting that under Buruma the NYRB continued the worst record of publishing women of any comparable publication.

Chelsea Handler On Louis C.K.: 'You Can't Just Come Back And Act Like Nothing Happened' -- She also called the Trump family 'a bunch of monsters' (some dumbfuck asshole comedian guy can't figure out not to masturbate in front of women, makes further blunnders +monsters, yes)


Controversy over sexual misconduct case roils Yale University - The Washington Post - A medical school researcher who was punished five years ago was given a new honor - A survey published in JAMA found that 30 percent of women who worked in academic medical facilities reported being harassed between 2014 and 2016. (so, male doctors are the worst? can you do a study on that? and the percentage of Jewish male doctors would be interesting)


R.I.P., the Celebrity Profile - The New York Times (said the home of the Celebrity Profile )


Constituent called 911, suspecting drug deal, on Dane County Supervisor Shelia Stubbs while she canvassed for Assembly seat | Politics and Elections | madison.com


The murder evidence evaporated, but Jeffrey Havard still sits in a Mississippi prison - The Washington Post

She reported her 2006 rape. Then nothing happened. In the #metoo era, what do we owe her? - Washington Post - Twelve years ago, Amber Wyatt reported her rape. Few believed her. Her hometown turned against her. The authorities failed her. (plus deer-killers)

Cody Wilson, 3-D Printed Gun Advocate, Charged With Child Sexual Abuse - The far-right figure allegedly met a teen on SugarDaddyMeet.com, where he told her he was a 'big deal'
Austin man behind 3D-printed gun company charged with child sex assault : news - After all of the alt right screeching about pedophilia, the founder of an alt right website is charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl.

Andrea L. Washington: Navy sailor found dead weeks after filing domestic violence protective order - The Washington Post

Four injured, no fatalities in Middleton workplace shooting


Iowa County district attorney Larry Nelson arrested on first-offense OWI, sheriff's office says -- after he inadvertently called for help using his OnStar alert system ... around 8:30 am

Norstrilia and Dune - Cordwainer Smith Blog
Remembering Paul M. A. Linebarger, who was Cordwainer Smith: A Daughter's Memorie

Woman's perfect Tinder date with 'The One' shattered by five simple words - They had been messaging for a while and she thought she knew him pretty well - but she was very, very wrong
Mystery shackled woman seen ringing doorbell reveals she 'was fleeing boyfriend who duct-taped her head and raped her

Pedestrian killed, driver subsequently attacked in Watertown - The Boston Globe
Somerville man charged with hate crime after allegedly yelling racial slurs - The Boston Globe "But later, he told officers the clerk should go back to his own country, declaring there was nothing wrong with saying so and noting that "Donald Trump is the president" (and there yuo are)


Columbia Gas withdraws $33 million rate increase - The Boston Globe

A delivery truck took down wires and power to a Watertown neighborhood. The truck owner says it's not to blame


You only need a one-question test to identify a narcissist - The Washington Post - Are you a narcissist? ... narcissism is becoming a more common trait.

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong - The Huffington Post - For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It's time for a new paradigm.

TIL A 17 year old was once charged with 10 counts of sexual exploitation and placed on the sex offenders list for possessing nude selfies of himself. : todayilearned


Astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of Earth orbiting the nearby star 40 Eridani -- precisely where Star Trek character Spock's home planet Vulcan supposedly lies.


I'm a Catholic Bishop and Philosopher Who Loves Dialoguing with Atheists and Agnostics Online. AMA! : IAmA

How Lil Tay Conned Her Way to Stardom With Scripted Feuds, Scandals, and Racism

Just finished Desmond Lee's translation of Plato's The Republic. Thank God. : books - Thrasymachus reincarnated as OP, briefly enjoying his moment of internet glory after the thrashing he received in Book 1, some 2500 years back.

Autistic people of Reddit, what's an interesting fact about a special interest of yours? : AskReddit



091818

'We need help' : N.C. towns plead for dam, levee upgrades after second major flood in two years (maybe you shouldn't have you know voted for Republican and commenters are literally merciless)
How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich | GQ - A year after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, the 51st state has become the favorite playground for extremely wealthy Americans looking to keep their money from the taxman. The only catch? They have to cut all ties to the mainland (wink, wink).


Russian military aircraft downed by Syrian forces, killing 15; Moscow blames Israeli aggression : news
Russia blames Israel for plane shot down by Syrian missile - The Washington Post
Putin: Maybe Jews or minorities behind US election interference - CNNPolitics

'Highly probable' Pussy Riot activist was poisoned, say German doctors | World news : news (the Putin snake bites again)


Trade war escalates as China announces tariffs on US imports (Trump says China will pay for tariffs, not you)
Eschaton: A Tax On The Buyer - One could spend all day doing "haha Trump is dumb" posts but this is something you know they have explained to him 700 times and he still doesn't get it. -- At the White House, Trump wrongly said that "China is now paying us billions of dollars in tariffs" and he celebrated the Treasury Department collecting "tremendous amounts of money, which is great for our country." -- In fact, tariffs are taxes that are paid by Americans who import goods from abroad. Through the end of August, the administration had collected nearly $22 billion in revenue because of its new tariffs. (from poor people and the suckers who voted for him)
China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwindling. - The New York Times


/u/H4lebob suggests that Trump's order to the Justice Dept to release classified Russia related material is actually the first step in firing Jeff Sessions, whereby the declassification order is a ruse "to create a Saturday night massacre but under the cover of transparency." : bestof

Trump-proof aspects of Manafort deal rankle lawyers - POLITICO - Robert Mueller seems to have built in safeguards to discourage the president from pardoning Manafort.

Adam Schiff: 'Clear abuse of power' for Trump to have Russia-related documents declassified
Pelosi Statement on Trump's Selective Declassification of Carter Page Surveillance Application and Other Classified, Highly Sensitive Materials

NYT: Trump's Legal Team Still Largely Unsure What Mueller Knows
Trump's Growing Legal Team Has a Problem: It's Operating Partly in the Dark (the darkness of his soul, if he has one)


Mystery Nunes event requires guests to submit to personal search, no cell phone photos : politics
Devin Nunes explains 'antifa' and 'all of these riots': Because we're winning - Nunes also directly linked the declassification of documents to Republican victory in November
Janz is only six points behind Devin Nunes now : politics
Andrew Janz | California's 22nd | Andrew Janz for Congress

The Corrupt Republican Plot to Maintain Control of Government | Crooked Media - Facing the real prospect that their long-sought fifth anti-abortion Supreme Court justice might go unseated, and President Trump's growing legal exposure, the Republican Party is charging into election season with a two-fronted disinformation campaign, in a desperate effort to salvage conservative control not just of the Court, but of Congress and the White House as well.

Opinion | Anita Hill: How to Get the Kavanaugh Hearings Right - The New York Times - The Senate Judiciary Committee has a chance to do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago.

What the man accused of being part of Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault had to say about women's sexuality - "Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs"
The Brett Kavanaugh accusation isn't a 'he said, she said' anymore
A former sex-crimes prosecutor analyzed Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh. Here's her take
We Know Brett Kavanaugh Has Lied Already | HuffPost - Russ Feingold
Republicans fear reversals in November due to accusation against Supreme Court nominee - The Washington Post

Kavanaugh accuser, a Palo Alto professor, is respected among academic colleagues - SFChronicle.com

Eschaton: As I Have Been Trying To Tell You - George W. Bush is bad. I did point it out a couple of times somewhere in the archive of this dumb blog. Exclusive: George W. Bush is standing by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, whose confirmation has been thrown into doubt amid sexual assault allegations
Eschaton: It Was Only Horseplay That Did Not Happen At That Party He Definitely Did Not Attend Maybe - The thing about the conservative shit cannon is that it is always full of shit, but journalists love to explore each flung piece lovingly. -- Notable update: Hatch spokesman now says Kavanaugh did not say what Hatch said he did. Instead, he says, Kavanaugh only said he was "not at any party like the one she describes"
No. 2 Senate Republican sharply questions credibility of Kavanaugh accuser - The Washington Post - Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.)
The Kavanaugh assault allegations are a reminder that Democrats were smart to push Al Franken out : politics
Angry calls. Threats. Thousands of hangers. Susan Collins is in the middle of a political firestorm - The Boston Globe
Exactly How Many Women Does a Guy Have to Attack Before You Conclude He's Got Problems With Women? : politics
Drudge Report Dragged For Promoting Hit Piece On The Wrong 'Christine Ford' : politics
Senate Republicans Seek To Delay Kavanaugh Vote Until Accuser Properly Smeared

WSJ Offers Inevitably Scorching Kavanaugh Take - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Anita Hill's coming truthfully forward about Thomas's abuse was a DIRTY TRICK)
Liberal law professor argues we shouldn't hold a little attempted rape against Brett Kavanaugh all these years later - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Rosa Brooks is uncomfortable with the idea of opposing the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court because he allegedly tried to rape a 15-year-old girl when he was a 17-year-old preppie.
Kavanaugh, Trump and Conservative Ressentiment - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Opinion | Boys Will Be Supreme Court Justices - The New York Times - accuser is credible. Will it matter?
Lindsey Graham'ss bizarre defense of not making Mark Judge testify - he suggested that the most important alleged witness of an alleged incident that could decide a Supreme Court confirmation isnn't worth putting under oath.
Pro-Trump sycophants launch another smear of Christine Blasey Ford, trying to tie her to Fusion GPS
WSJ columnist dismisses Kavanaugh sex assault accusation because no 'sexual penetration occurred'

Ronan Farrow has the long-rumored Donald Trump tapes from The Apprentice: report

Stormy Daniels' tell-all book on Trump: salacious detail and claims of cheating
WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK on Twitter: "Toad from Mario Kart... #YouKnowYouWannaKnow #Trump " (trending)

Internal RNC Poll: Complacent Trump Voters May Cost GOP Control of Congress
Fully half of self-identified Republicans don't believe Democrats are likely to win back the House. And within that group, 57 percent of people who describe themselves as strong Trump supporters don't believe Democrats have a chance (37 percent believe they do) (see below)

The pattern continues: Fox News spends far less time discussing Trump's law-breaking allies


Utah's Mormon Republican establishment is backing Trump's assault on public lands : politics (of course they are)
Gun goes off inside Mormon meetinghouse in Provo; church leader is recorded urging teenage girls not to spread news on social media : news

Identity politics is undermining democracy, says Francis Fukuyama - The Washington Post (yeah, the neo-con)

Judge to Georgia voting officials: 'You're terrible at digital security' (GA to Judge: "but we're great at not letting Democrats vote, so there!"


There's overwhelming evidence that the criminal-justice system is racist. Here's the proof


R.I. residents blast town council vote requesting ban on Nike purchases - The Boston Globe (North Smithfield MA has a racist town-council)

Why college students don't vote absentee? They don't know where to buy a postage stamp


Pennsylvania's eight Catholic dioceses sued over disclosure of abuse allegations : news


McDonald's workers walk out in 10 US cities over 'sexual harassment epidemic' : news

Asia Argento Tells Rose McGowan To Retract Assault Statement

Dylan Farrow Responds to New York Mag Soon-Yi Previn Profile

Atlanta man gets life sentence for rape after victim recognizes him at train station six years later : news

Laquan McDonald death: jury shown video of black teen shot 16 times by police officer : news

Amber Guyger Is Free on Bail, But Activists Who Peacefully Protested Her Are Still in Jail : politics
Activist says 'mber Guyger deliberately went to Botham Jean's apartment in anger' after previous noise complaint

Uvalde Police officer arrested for child sexual assault - Uvalde Leader-News - Texas Rangers on Thursday arrested Uvalde Police Department Officer Laurance Martinez on charges of sexual assault of a child.

Wyoming Animal Shelter President orders pepper spraying of 8-month old pit bull before euthanasia : news

The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock | The New Yorker

In houses where household disinfectants are used at least weekly, babies have different gut bacteria, and are more likely to be overweight at age 3 : science

TIL an article in 1968 revealed widespread marijuana use among US soldiers in Vietnam. As a result of the media uproar stateside and subsequent crackdown by the army, soldiers shifted to heroin, which was odorless and harder to detect. By 1973, up to 20% of the soldiers were habitual heroin users. : todayilearned

A new study has shown that people with autism are 3x as likely as the general population to have depression, and that the higher-functioning a person with autism is, the more likely they are to be depressed. : science

Semen from men who have only abstained from ejaculation for just an hour or two had faster, healthier sperm that led to more successful IVF births, finds a new clinical trial, suggesting that advice to conceive should be updated to more frequent sex around ovulation rather than less. : science

Our brains may be hard-wired to prefer lying on the couch and avoid physical activity due to reinforcement through evolution, finds a new EEG brainwave study, which may explain the "exercise paradox" where despite our best intentions, we are actually becoming less active.

TIL When severely depressed patients were treated with psilocybin, all enjoyed some improvement, 2/3rds were in remission at 1 week, and 42% remained depression-free at 3 months. : todayilearned

TIL that DMT has been found to bind to the sigma-1 receptor, which plays a key role in protecting cells from dying when oxygen is low, making room for the argument that DMT may indeed be released in large quantities during death in a last-gasp attempt to keep our cells alive. : todayilearned

Cancer spreads from organ donor to 4 people in "extraordinary case" : science
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Diver who helped with Thai cave rescue sues Elon Musk : news

Inman Square redesign gets 7-2 council vote, promises of help for affected small businesses | Cambridge Day



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'We're just getting prepared for the worst' : Florence pounds flooded Carolinas as death toll rises to 24
NCDOT on Twitter: "This isn't a river...this is Interstate 40. @NCAviation captured this drone footage today as part of damage assessment near mile marker 387 in Pender County. This illustrates our message that travel in this area is impassable and unsafe. #FlorenceNC https://t.co/qnU0U3SUpR"
The Latest: 3 North Carolina TV stations running out of fuel
When Predictable Disasters Happen - Lawyers, Guns & Money - As I discussed when Hurricane Florence was about to strike, natural disasters are really natural forces exposing the inequalities and poor planning of human society. Thus, the example of coal ash ponds collapsing has come to pass.
Probe of FEMA Chief Brock Long Referred to Prosecutors - WSJ - Investigators asked U.S. attorney's office to look into whether criminal statutes were violated by Long and two aides (crooks, all the way down)


IMF: No-deal Brexit would have 'substantial costs' for UK economy (off the cliff, suckers)

AP Exclusive: Leaked docs show Assange bid for Russian visa ... links to the Kremlin would become increasingly salient before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when the FBI says Russia's military intelligence agency directly supplied WikiLeaks with stolen emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman and other Democratic figures.
https://t.co/de5JsEnpqc"


Revealed: The Justice Dept's secret rules for targeting journalists with FISA court orders - Trevor Timm


Mueller asks court to schedule Flynn sentencing | TheHill

Feinstein Says There's More That Senators Don't Know About Kavanaugh
Attorney Sent Letter to Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein Claiming Federal Court Employees Willing to Speak About Brett Kavanaugh
McConnell Tries to Nudge Trump Toward Two Supreme Court Options - The New York Times (July, Trump went with Kavafuck b/c the rapist promised to pardon the treasonous rapist)
Daniel Lippman on Twitter: ".@AndrewRestuccia and I called many of Kavanaugh's 65 female HS acquittances who signed a letter supporting him. After his accuser came out on Sunday, only TWO said they still stood by him. More than two dozen didn't respond, and two declined to comment. https://t.co/Q7ux6pmzrf"

Brett Kavanaugh is bad at lying - Lawyers, Guns & Money - What truthful 53-year-old man can be confident that he wasn't at some informal, vaguely described get-together, 36 years earlier?
Trump Flunky Gives Ridiculous Defense of Trumpian Trump Nominee - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Orrin Hatch has always been very evil)
Everything Old is Eww Again - Lawyers, Guns & Money - but it does make clear that Mark Judge -- a character witness for Kavanaugh -- is a stone-cold nutter
Ashley Feinberg on Twitter: "kavanaugh's friend (mark judge) appears to have deleted his youtube page since i took this screenshot https://www.youtube.com/user/MarkGauvreau/videos (only the best characters)
No more Mr. Nice Guy - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Full Misogyny Ahead - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Alumnae Of Christine Blasey Ford's High School Circulate Letter Of Support ... allegations ... " all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton," they wrote
Kavanaugh's Character Witness Once Wrote About His Family for Washingtonian. Check Out What His Brother Wrote in to Rebut Him. (they are all drunks)
The claim against Kavanaugh is not a suspicious 11th-hour bombshell. Because we're not in the 11th hour (Republifucks says it's the 13th hour)
After professor reports that Kavanaugh assaulted her, pro-Trump idiots go after student reviews for wrong Christine Ford - Jim Hoft, head of the conspiracy theorist website Gateway Pundit and the Dumbest Man on the Internet ...
Brett Kavanaugh's odd response
American politics is about power, not principle. If anyone should know this, it's Brett Kavanaugh
Collins knocks Democrats over handling of Kavanaugh assault allegation | TheHill - Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is knocking Senate Democrats (Susie-Doozy was never in doubt)
Megyn Kelly lays out what Kavanaugh's defenders will say: 'Maybe he blew her off and she had an axe to grind' (Megyn defending rapists because she's always been a good Republican Fox girl)

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump's Battering Ram (mouth strangely like the antichrist's)

Hillary Clinton: American Democracy Is in Crisis - The Atlantic - Our democratic institutions and traditions are under siege. We need to do everything we can to fight back. (said a major cause of the problem)


' Paul Manafort got Ben Shapiro to push his pro-Russia propaganda : politics

Internal polling highlights Republican fears and opportunities for 2018 midterms - Axios - t a majority of Trump voters don't believe the mountain of evidence that Democrats will win back the House in November - 57% of strong Trump supporters believe it's unlikely Democrats win the House ... president predicting a "red wave" ... (couldn't be because they are all watching ... Fox Treason Network?) .

NPR/Marist Poll: 40 Percent Of Americans Think Elections Aren't Fair ... Nonwhite voters, women and Democrats all report substantially greater doubts abotu comment ta comment at the bottom is from senior HUD official @LynnePattonHUD. the bottom is from senior HUD official @LynnePattonHUD. pic.twitter.com/nzRqMN0sIG
the fairness of elections compared to Republicans, 91 percent of whom believe elections are fair. (fair for white people, anyway)
https://t.co/Qms5UOLRKp"

Ted Cruz Campaign is Mailing Donation Requests Disguised as Legal Summonses

andrew kaczynski?? on Twitter: "I didn't think this was real. The president's son posted this on Instagram yesterday. The (emoji) comment at the bottom is from senior HUD official @LynnePattonHUD. (laughs about rape)
Joe Walsh: Trump Jr. is an uncaring, narrow-minded idiot
Donald Trump Jr. post mocks sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh - The Boston Globe
Fucking Consent, How Does It Work? - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Junior thinks he's making libtards cry)
Eschaton: The Worst People In The World (Lynne Patton)

Trump Is Making American Diplomacy White Again - POLITICO Magazine - I worked at the State Department for 27 years and was proud to watch it become more diverse. Until President Trump.

Bloomberg May Run for President as a Democrat. His Views on Policing and #MeToo Could Be a Problem. - The New York Times (among other shit like Bloomfuck's "centrism")

CNN Polls: Democrats hold upper hand two key red state Senate races - CNNPolitics - an advantage in two states that are critical to the party's chances of taking control of the US Senate - In Arizona, Sinema tops Republican Rep. Martha McSally by 7 points, 50% to 43% among likely voters, while in Tennessee, Bredesen holds a 5-point edge over Rep. Marsha Blackburn, 50% to 45% among likely voters there. (two very bad women)

Trump Loses Altitude in Ohio Ahead of Midterms - POLITICO Magazine In 2016, Ohio voters liked the president's pitch on trade and jobs. That may be changing. (yeah, just "trade' and "jobs" not "racisim")

Kansas Woman Told Her Birth Certificate Doesn't Prove Citizenship for Passport Application - Anyone Can Get Caught Up in the Brainless Authoritarian Machine - A woman born and raised in Kansas learns her birth certificate is not proof of her citizenship.

Dan Koh concedes to Lori Trahan in Third District primary - The Boston Globe (Marty loses again)

Bombshell Washington Post Story On Trump Passport Crackdown Withheld, Distorted Key Facts | HuffPost - The piece has been substantially altered three times, including Thursday after multiple queries from HuffPost.
WaPo Adds Huge Editor's Note to Story Blaming Trump for Denial of Passports to Hispanic U.S. Citizens

The board of a West Virginia library reverses decision to refuse 'Fear' ... There are fearless libraries, and then there are libraries without 'Fear.' (sorry, only pro-Trump books with your taxpayer dollars alreadY)

Former LDS bishop Sam Young, leader of Protect LDS Children, officially ex-communicated : news - he is calling for church leaders to end one-on-one ecclesiastical interviews between bishops and children, as well as the sexually explicit questions that are sometimes asked during the interviews.

Sean Penn Says #MeToo Movement Divides Men and Women: "It's Too Black and White" ... "This is a movement that was largely shouldered by a kind of receptacle of the salacious," Penn said. (and you know who has "salacious" "receptacles" you dumbfuck movie star)

Soon-Yi Previn on Mia Farrow and Woody Allen - Introducing Soon-Yi Previn As controversies tumbled around her, the daughter of Mia Farrow and wife of Woody Allen stayed silent for decades. No more. (among other tidbits:) Soon-Yi had seen Andri Previn shortly after the photos were discovered, and he told her he would no longer pay for her education. (and) On Valentine's Day 1992, Farrow sent Allen an elaborately gothic collage, in which she'd pasted a family photo on a flower-encrusted, gilded heart and then stuck skewers through the hearts of the images of the children and a real knife through her own heart ... (and) two of Mia's lawyers, Alan Dershowitz and David Levett ...

And You Thought Trump Voters Were Mad American women are furious


I lost my infant son to a drunk driver. This change could save countless lives. - The Washington Post - Police later estimated that the car was going 35 to 40 mph as it smashed into Liam and my sister-in-law. The car was driven by a 72-year-old woman. She was drunk and behind the wheel at 3:30 in the afternoon ... Liam was one of the 10,497 people whose lives were taken by drunk drivers in the United States in 2016 ... every U.S. state sets the blood alcohol concentration limit at 0.08 00 and that if the limit were lowered to 0.05, countless lives would be saved

Lawsuit: woman jailed over a month due to mistaken identity : news

Oklahoma Police Chief Resigns Over Neo-Nazi Ties, Gets Job in Neighboring Police Force : news


Recovery effort intensifies after wave of fire and gas explosions in Merrimack Valley - The Boston Globe

After the FBI investigated allegations of theft at Winchester church, a youth minister began asking questions. Now, he may lose his job. - The Boston Globe - In the spring of 2016, officials at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston began suspecting that someone was stealing from the collection plate at St. Mary's a Catholic parish in Winchester.

After police encounter, an uneasy return to Smith College - The Boston Globe

Baker, Walsh were anti-cannabis, but they still take donations from cannabis companies : bostontrees
Massachusetts' First Recreational Pot Sales Could Be Days Away : bostontrees ("could be")
Coca-Cola, Aurora Cannabis in Talks About CBD Oil Soda - Bloomberg - Drinks maker in talks with Aurora Cannabis ... eyeing the cannabis drinks market (will market as Coca-Loca)

How an Unsolved Mystery Changed the Way We Take Pills - The New York Times - The origins of tamper-resistant packaging lie in a deadly episode in 1982, when cyanide-laced Tylenol killed seven people. (Clyde still reporting)

Scientists thought they had created the perfect tree. But it became a nightmare. - The Washington Post - the Bradford pear crossed over to something darker. It turned from thornless to spiky, limber to brittle, chaste to promiscuous, tame to feral. Most of all, it became invasive. It is now an ecological marauder destined to continue its spread for decades, long after those suburban tract houses have faded away. Generations yet to be born will come to know this tree and learn to hate it.

Daily exposure to BPA in amounts that are FDA-approved to be "safe" may still be altering insulin release and be enough to have implications for the development of Type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases, finds the first study of its kind.

People like you more than you know, suggests a new study published last week in Psychological Science, which reports that the common concern that new people may not like us, or that they may not enjoy our company, is largely unfounded. : science

One of Conan O'Brien's best moments was when he interviewed sex educator, Sue Johanson. : television

Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading? Here's What Experts Say -- "We found no significant differences in comprehension between reading, listening, or reading and listening simultaneously."

Surface Go Review - An Artist Take : Surface

Montana photographer sues Netflix over copyright law : news (first they copyright your shit, then they tell you to take down your own shit)

Tesla's Elon Musk is sued for defamation by Thai cave rescuer over 'pedo' tweet


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Florence: At least 14 deaths reported as storm slogs across Carolinas - The Washington Post
"A life and death situation' : Typhoon Mangkhut lashes the northern Philippines

FEMA head blames "spousal abuse" for more deaths in Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria - The DOJ doesn't consider domestic abuse to be a reason to qualify for asylum at our borders, yet FEMA, another Executive Branch office, does consider domestic abuse a legitimate cause for deaths instead of a hurricane.

Solar observatory closed due to "ongoing security concern," officials say : news ("definitely nothing to do with aliens, so shut up" an offical said)


Israeli lawmaker to PM: Dismiss US envoy over aide scandal - called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dismiss his ambassador to the United States for failing to report sexual assault allegations against a top Netanyahu aide, ballooning an already embarrassing scandal for the Israeli leader. (yeah, and what number is this one?)


Sunday Book Review: The Silk Roads - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Frankopan argues that trade across Central Asia was critical not only for the development of the civilizations on either side, but also gave rise to world historical developments within the area, including the expansion of the Persian Empires, the rise of Islam, and the development of a global system of trade in the immediate pre-modern era.


Justice Department Attempts to Suppress Evidence That the Border Patrol Targeted Humanitarian Volunteers : politics

Russian Cyberwarfare Is Much Worse Than You Think. Donald Trump's Indifference to It Is Much More Criminal Than You Think. ("indifference" = "active promotion")
trollfare
Lying Ted is back at it again, by having bots share his propaganda. : trollfare (Russians for Cruz!)
Reddit bans QAnon subreddit : trollfare
A map of the links between (not yet) every person, company and group involved in the Russia/Trump/Brexit/Cambridge Analytica Shenanigans (Work in progress!) : trollfare (why it's too complicated for your media to report +Seth Abramson)
Meet PoppinKREAM, the Reddit Power User Fighting a One-Person Battle for a Fact-Based Internet : trollfare (almost MSM finally notices, but it's way more complicated than QAnon)
Who is PoppinKREAM? The Reddit user fighting for a fact-based internet. - Since the start of the Mueller investigation, this anonymous poster has made a mission of delivering evidence-based analysis. It's paid off in popularity
PoppinKream lays down the sources
/r/Politics needs to reflect on its own policies. : trollfare
I made a bot that analyzes a user's history for easy shill detecting : trollfare
r/great@kening users. Does anyone have list of moderators and a breakdown of total users and number of posts and comments before banned? It's time for Leg@l action and I'm ready to file in Federal Court. : conspiracy (r/conspiracy in full meltdown)
Q Forced To Resign From Department Of Agriculture For Improper Filing Of Expense Reports


The State Department's silence on racism is deafening : politics


Paul Manafort's Modus Operandi: Accuse the Female Politician of Crimes She Didn't Commit, Then Dodge Sanctions - Hopefully, this will stop me from having to bitch incessantly about how many journalists have swallowed Rudy Giuliani's claims about Mueller writing up a report. As I keep saying (and as Mueller's boss Rod Rosenstein has said in testimony), there won't be a report, there will be indictments ... The criminal information provided far more detail about something we had only seen snippets of in the Alex Van der Zwaan plea:
Speed Read: 'Obama Jews' and Other Shocking Highlights From New Manafort Docs - Special counsel Robert Mueller dropped fresh revelations about Paul Manafort
Obama ethics chief: Trump is not going to survive Manafort testimony

Schiff: Trump team 'terrified' of what Manafort could tell Mueller : politics
Schiff to special counsel targets: 'Anyone who gets indicted by Bob Mueller goes down' : politics
$$ Time to add "Successful Businessman" to Mueller's already long list of accomplishments $$ : The_Mueller

?? 2018 "Active Measures" TRUMP HILLARY MCCAIN PUTIN RUSSIA FULL DOCUMENTARY HD TV 1080p (trailer) - YouTube
Putin's Revenge | Part One | FRONTLINE | PBS

The Shilling of the Shapiro - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Who would have guessed that Ben Shapiro as a "unsitting dupe" of a foreign plot? Well, everyone, I suppose (not enough "wit" to be "witting")
David Roth on Twitter: "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Liberal Misconception That Freeze-Dried Beef Stroganoff Can't Be Nourishing And Delicious https://t.co/r7U51O11y5" (Shapiro hawking "Patriot Foods")


The Solution to the Democratic Defects of American Constitutionalism is not Less Democracy - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Threat to Democracy Isn't Coming From Its People - Jeffrey Rosen, head of the National Constitution Center, says yes (the elite Republican capitalists will save us! c.f. techbros)

Biden: I wish I had spoken out against Trump sooner : politics (shut up and go home, Joe)

The Indefensible Electoral College - Despite its deep-seated problems, ditching the Electoral College is easier said than done. For now, Democrats should emphasize that Trump was not the people's choice

Eschaton: Everything's All Right - I doubt there's anyone around Trump who can actually bring themselves to tell him anything resembling the truth about anything. Being a lying irrational rage monster does not encourage others to try to level with you.

Report: Trump Is Worried Mattis Is Secretly A Democrat : politics

AGs suing Trump ask for all communications with foreign officials about Trump Hotel : politics

Durbin calls for delay in Kavanaugh vote : politics - comment: When the people the president chooses keep getting arrested and pleading guilty it might make sense to stop letting him appoint people to any position.
California professor Christine Blasey Ford, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about sexual assault allegation - The Washington Post
"Why suffer through the annihilation if it's Not Going to Matter?"
Ian Millhiser on Twitter: "So, to summarize, a confessed serial sexual predator nominated a man who is credibly accused of attempted rape to be the key vote to strip women of reproductive freedom."
Kavanaugh'sThe alleged witness in the Kavanaugh case wrote a memoir about his own schoolboy days as black-out drunks High School Friend Isn't Helping the Nominee's Case - The alleged witness wrote a memoir about his own schoolboy days as black-out drunk (how very Republican)


Primary turnout soars in 2018 with Dems leading charge | TheHill - more than 22.7 million Democrats had cast ballots in party primaries, compared with just 13.8 million in 2014.

Some change, for a change: But Cuomo insist 'nothing to see here' after a liberal wave s


Opinion | Conservatism After Christianity - The New York Times - A new survey reveals the Republican Party's religious divide (as usual, Douthat get it backwards despite all those Trumpster antichrist satangelicals)

In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting - The Washington Post - the only one in the country that is centrally run and relies upon computerized touch screen voting machines for Georgia's 6.8 million voters (the Russian state of Georgia run by traitor Kemp)

Ted Cruz Is Furious Because People Are Comparing Beto O'Rourke to JFK: 'They've Lost Their Minds' (said the Cuban pro-Russian)
Tight races in Missouri, Montana Senate, CBS News poll finds - CBS News - Tester is up two points with likely voters over Republican Matt Rosendale, 47-45 percent in Montana, while in Missouri, McCaskill and Republican John Hawley are even in support among likely voters at 45-45 percent.

To Recapture Michigan, Democrats Go Back to Square One: Union Voters - The New York Times

Who are you, really? - Lawyers, Guns & Money (only Republicans allowed to vote under Trump +Kobachistan)




Missouri town gets new newspaper, The Uranus Examiner : news - They are known for their deep probing questions.


Incredible Triple Whale Breach Stuns Onlookers in Canada [Video]

"Right out of that movie 'Jaws'" - Cape Cod shark attack: Man dies after shark attack at a beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts today; local fisherman says "it was like right out of that movie, Jaws" - CBS News
Authorities ID 26-year-old killed in Cape Cod shark attack - Authorities identified the victim as Arthur Medici of Revere.


Speeding cop who struck and killed 18-year-old pedestrian handed 8 month sentence : news

ICE officer arrested on sodomy charges in Jackson County : news

Postal worker admits stealing more than 6,000 greeting cards filled with cash and checks : news


Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller could soon be out of Texas classrooms. Moses gets to stay in. : politics (and Hitler! don't forget the Nazis!)

The Tyranny of Personality Testing | The New Republic - The inventors of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator saw it as a path to self-discovery -- and a tool of workplace management.
The personality test that conned the world | The Spectator - The Myers-Briggs test was widely used in 20th-century business enterprises. But the mother and daughter behind it were blatant opportunists
Facts About the 16 Myers-Briggs. Personality Types
IsItBullshit: Myers-Briggs Personality Types : IsItBullshit
Adam Ruins Everything - Why the Myers-Briggs Test is Total B.S. | truTV - YouTube
The Myers Briggs is the horoscope of psychology. : TrueOffMyChest
Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia


Researchers Discover a Pattern to the Random Distribution of Prime Numbers and to predict them : science

Yes, Animals Think And Feel. Here's How We Know - The author of a new book also says that animals can feel empathy, like the humpback whale that rescued a seal. : books (but do humans?)

Finally, a cure for insomnia? | News | The Guardian - "sleep effeciency training" - a calibrated reduction of the amount of time the patient spends in bed ... Nemorexant, works differently. It limits the production of orexin, the hormone that keeps insomniacs awake, or causes them to wake up at the mildest provocation ... Nevertheless, in a country that is seemingly years away from rolling-out nationwide CBT programmes to treat insomnia. (yes, more CBT)

My take on Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS) with further readings - AMA @ The Freedom Rally Education Village tonight at 6:30MPM! : bostontrees

Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people. : news (if you don't count living longer as "an effect")

Kindergartners and first-graders suspended from school, especially boys and African-Americans, are more likely to be suspended again later in elementary school, finds new research, which brings into question how effective suspension can be in addressing future behavior problems. : science

TIL all men have a scar of what was supposed to be the vagina. During embryotic development, everyone has a genital opening. In females, it develops into the labia and vagina. When male hormones enter, it is fused together, leaving a scar that runs from the anus, over the scrotum and up the penis. : todayilearned

ELI5 - How do eggs and sperm merge and when, precisely, is the unique DNA coded? : explainlikeimfive


/u/Loveinthemud beautifully explains why voting Democrat is in everyone's best interests : bestof - Make America America Again

(SERIOUS) People who were named for negative reasons in suicide letters, what is your story? How did their death impact your life? : AskReddit

Reddit, what's the most "Chaotic Good" thing you've ever seen?



Apple's $1,000 iPhones are turning it into a luxury brand -- and it could lose a whole generation of customers



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Hurricane Florence Drenches The Carolinas, Leaves At Least 7 Dead | HuffPost - The storm knocked out power to nearly 930,000 homes and businesses, and the number could keep rising.
These Photos Show The Devastation Caused By Hurricane Florence | HuffPost
Florence by the numbers: 7 dead, more than 900K without power, strongest wind gust in 60 years hits Wilmington - ABC News (non-south coastal elites will pay to rebuild their beachfront mansions for the 10th time)
Weather Channel correspondent busted for dramatic wind lean-in - The Washington Post
Tony scar. on Twitter: "So dramatic! Dude from the weather channel bracing for his life, as 2 dudes just stroll past. #HurricaneFlorence "

Coast Guard member flashes white power hand signal on TV - The man shown in the background as a captain was being interviewed about Tropical Storm Florence was later removed from response duty, officials said.

Trump is reportedly upset about old video footage showing him throwing rolls of paper towels at first-responders in Puerto Rico : politics

How Assad Made Truth a Casualty of War | by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books - Hospitals are the most endangered spaces in opposition-held areas. Of the 492 medical facilities destroyed in the war, Physicians for Human Rights attributes the destruction of 446 to Assad and his allies. (first, bomb the hospitals)

How badly did Russsia'ss interview with the Skripal poisoning suspects backfire?
Russian press: Doubts over Salisbury suspects interview - BBC Monitoring - "the tourists who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, whom the British present as poisoners to stir up anti-Russia hysteria" does not fall into place"


Japan's attempt to overturn commercial whaling ban fails : news

Maduro's huge salary hike deals fatal blow to 40 percent of Venezuelan stores - after the government of President Nicolas Maduro increased the minimum salary by nearly 3,500 percent in one fell swoop (a forbid price raises to pay for it, Maduro never passed a math class in third grade)


A solar observatory in New Mexico is evacuated for a week and the FBI is investigating. No one will say why. - The Washington Post

Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Sheriff: US border patrol agent arrested, suspected of killing 4 women : news (serial killer cop )
Sheriff: US border patrol agent arrested, suspected of killing 4 women | wgrz.com - Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, fled from state troopers and was found hiding in a truck in a hotel parking lot in Laredo at around 2 a.m. Saturday,

Meeting the Challenge of the Transnational Right - Lawyers, Guns & Money - progressives too often have their heads in the sand about the transnational dimensions of right-wing extremism, kleptocracy, and oligarchy ... You would think, for example, that the socialist left would recognize the parallels with the first half of the century and adjust their geopolitical vision accordingly. Moreover, trying to counter this challenge should not be a hard call for the center-left and the social-democratic left ... So I'm extremely heartened to read an essay by Bernie Sanders in The Guardian that connects the dots and draws the key conclusions.
Why the Left Needs a New Foreign Policy Agenda - Toward a Neo-Progressive Foreign Policy - The Case for an Internationalist Left

The Next Financial Calamity Is Coming. Here's What to Watch - Financial crises strike rich countries every 28 years on average. Often, the break between busts is much shorter ... Fast-growing pockets of debt, as in the last time around, look like potential sources of problems. (the fucked the kids, now they'll blame them just like "it was all those black people borrowing too much" last time +"hackers")

Trump to Announce New Tariffs on $200 Billion in Chinese Goods - WSJ - The plan comes ahead of high-level trade talks between the U.S. and China to try to resolve differences


Fraying Ties With Trump Put Mattis's Fate in Doubt (not sufficiently stupid and evil enough)
Donald Trump is Tiring of Defense Secretary James Mattis, Thinks He is Secretly a Democrat: Report (because you can't be a Republican and not worship Trumpster)

Thousands of mental health professionals agree with Woodward and the New York Times op-ed author: Trump is dangerous : politics

The Manafort Guilty Plea, the Mueller Investigation, and the President - Lawfare
'Robert Mueller's real quest here is for the truth' : How Paul Manfort's plea brings the special counsel probe closer to its endgame - Giuliani declined Friday to say whether Trump is leaning toward pardoning Manafort. (lock up the fat stupid asshole)
Plea deal surprise for Trump: Manafort agreed to cooperate with Mueller ... Trump's worst nightmare. He's on to him (lock him up permanently)
Trump can start panicking now: Manafort will cooperate with the special counsel - The Washington Post
Opinion | Manafort Folds. Now What? - The New York Times - His cooperation agreement with Robert Mueller is the start of a new chapter
More People Will Likely Be Charged Based on Manafort's Cooperation, Says Former U.S. Attorney

A lot of people don't like Trump, and in recent weeks, even more don't like him (and a few "minor" wars that killed hundreds of thousands of brown people)

Trump Faults Former Lawyer for Writing Book, Says It May Violate Attorney-Client Privilege - WSJ - Goldberg says barrage of criticism weighs on president, legal team erred in Cohen reversal (hahaha should have paid him, Dopus )
Michael Avenatti Says Michael Cohen Helped Donald Trump 'Rig the Election' and He 'Deserves the Max Penalty' : politics

Our system is too broken to assess the sexual assault claim against Kavanaugh. - No wonder the accuser wants to stay silent.
Eschaton: Impressive Work - Finding 65 female classmates at an all boys prep school.
I Am Horrified That Brett Kavanaugh Used Girls From My School as a Prop | Washingtonian - I went to Blessed Sacrament, and I call BS.


Deficit hawks are dead, and few in Washington can muster any outrage - The Washington Post (hahaha suckers, we'll be back when the Dems take over and you'll have forgotten who did it)

121,965,000 on Government Health Insurance; 52.2% of Those With Incomes Under $75,000 (and we'll kill your health insurance and you and keep the money)

The Economy Is Humming, but Trump Is Tweeting. Republicans Are Worried. - The New York Times

The Trump albatross - The Washington Post - New evidence indicates that the midterm elections in seven weeks will be the clearest referendum on a president in at least 80 years.
Democrats may have more polling upside in House races than GOP - CNNPolitics


Les Wexner renounces Republican Party affiliation after Obama stops in Columbus - News - The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, OH - the wealthiest Republican supporter in the state told a small audience at a Downtown event that he is fed up and has quit the Republican Party.

Andrew Cuomo says progressive wave is 'not even a ripple' after primary win ... calling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's win 'a fluke' (and those IDC fuckers losing? crickets but he will still run for Pres!)

Julia Salazar, the Left's Post-Truth Politician - The democratic socialist lied. And lied. And lied. Then she won handily in Brooklyn. (but Bari Weiss is on the case b/c Cuomo has never lied about anything)

A Grassroots Uprising in Amish Country Begins to Find Meaning in Politics - A Grassroots Uprising in Amish Country Begins to Find Meaning in Politics - Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is what might be called Trump Country. The region, rural and deeply religious, went solidly for Republicans in 2016, as it had consistently in years past.


LeBron James Gloats As Nike Shares Hit Record High After Colin Kaepernick Ad | HuffPost (burn)


Jian Ghomeshi in the New York Review of Books: We asked Ian Buruma why ... Ian Buruma, the editor of the New York Review of Books, about the decision to publish the Ghomeshi piece, which has already proven controversial. (oh no, not another "redeemed" male asshole injecting "nuance" into his "story" +Katie Roiphe and same old shit from Harpers)
Let's have a cover story for the douchebags, let's have a cover story for the assholes - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Apparently trying to horn in on the same racket, NYRB editor Ian Buruma decided to give a cover story to disgraced CBC host Jian Ghomeshi. It is terrible ... Buruma was interviewed by Isaac Chotiner, with the same result of virtually all Chotiner interviews: ... This is not complicated or interesting & there is no new perspective being discovered. I wish Ghomeshi's editor could've been honest enough to say (or understand) what is super, super obvious in that Slate interview: he ran that piece because he thinks Ghomeshi is right. (NYRB is pro-rape by men)
Nicole Cliffe on Twitter: "Here we go: https://t.co/odTbjft7OA"
Jian Ghomeshi's New York Review of Books Essay is a Lie -- What I Know About Jian Ghomeshi - By Ruth Spencer - "Captain Canada" -- In about 3,400 words, if you care to read them all, Ghomeshi does his best to remind us how likable he is, that underneath all that "sexual assault" nonsense he's still the charming guy we know and love.

Quit Using Lolita To Absolve Your Guilt, John Hockenberry - But Hockenberry wasn't atisfied to follow the usual narcissistic playbook. He had to bring Lolita into it. (Fuckenberry is clueless and dug his hole deeper: he was exploited just like Lolita)
That Harper's Essay, Part One | Linda Tirado on Patreon - There is a man called John Hockenberry, who you have never heard of if you don't live in New York City or listen to NPR. He thinks he is a household name. He also was forced out of his job after it came to light that he had for years behaved abominably in the workplace. For no reason that I can fathom, Harper's Magazine has chosen to publish a disjointed, rambling essay in which he makes clear that he has absolutely no idea why it is wrong to behave like that.

Terry Crews posts apology note from man he says sexually assaulted him : news ("non-apology" note)


Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum | Education | Dallas News (crooked women and libtards erased from TX history)


Check Out What Appears To Be Amber Guyger's Pinterest Account - In the hours and days between shooting Botham Jean and her name being made public, Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger appeared to scrub as much of her life as possible from the internet. (another racist asshole cop kills an innocent black guy and erases her racist posts b/c that couldn't have anything to do with it) A Dallas Police Officer Shot Her Neighbor, and a City Is Full of Questions - The New York Times (she lied, a lot)

Bronx teacher who performed oral sex on 14-year-old gets 10 years probation, avoids jail, keeps teaching certificate : news
Bronx teacher who performed oral sex on 14-year-old gets 10 years probation, avoids jail, keeps teaching certificate - The San Diego Union-Tribune ("she")

No Bond for Miami Cop who Held Gun to Girl's Head and Molested Her : news


Alvin ISD male cosmetology student suspended for wearing makeup : news (Texas, natch)

In Lawrence, the things they carried - The Boston Globe - Lawrence neighborhood is now carrying a heavy load
Outrage mounts as questions about cause of gas explosions go unanswered - The Boston Globe - As many as 80 buildings burned. Lawrence General Hospital reported treating 13 victims with injuries ranging from smoke inhalation to blast trauma
Fires raged Thursday, questions rage now - The Boston Globe - a team of about 10 investigators was already on the ground and an inquiry would take 12 to 18 months (or maybe years)

During Gas Emergency, Mass. State Police Reveal They're Keeping Tabs On Activist Groups (priorities, man)
Berkeley police posted activists' mugshots on Twitter and celebrated retweets, emails reveal | US news : news (copsters)


The First Great Awakening, Divining America, TeacherServe., National Humanities Center - In all these Protestant cultures during the middle decades of the eighteenth century, a new Age of Faith rose to counter the currents of the Age of Enlightenment, to reaffirm the view that being truly religious meant trusting the heart rather than the head, prizing feeling more than thinking, and relying on biblical revelation rather than human reason. ... Originally know as "the Log College," it is better known today as Princeton University. (angry white guys don't need no science)
QAnon Great Awakening Subreddit Banned, Conspiracy Theorists Incensed - The QAnon theory is essentially a fervent, faith-based desire for the government to be overthrown by Republican authoritarian powers ... a signal that The Storm has begun, finally fulfilling the thus-far faith-based promise of mass arrests and a coup. (so, traitors, and it's about "awakening" to a wingnut mind-control state??)
Fogel, The Phases of the Four Great Awakening


Colbert Links Big Pharma's Sackler Family To America's Opioid Crisis : television (win-win)


New report: Most teens say social media makes them feel better, not worse, about themselves - The Washington Post - Eighty-nine percent of teens have their own smartphones (compared with 41 percent in 2012) ... In 2012, about half of all teens still said their favorite way to communicate with friends was in person; today, less than a third say so.
HBO's documentary 'Swiped' paints a bleak portrait of the dating scence - "dating apocalypse" - apps advantage people who are looking for just a hookup

Men, Please Brush Your Teeth | GQ - According to a survey from the Academy of General Dentistry, this is more than just an anecdotal problem. American women are more likely to get preventative dental care than men, and according to a different study from the Journal of Periodontology said men were less likely to brush regularly and do things like schedule regular dental checkups

Researcher calls on NIH to retract statement about alcohol and cancer risk - STAT - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that says "Drinking too much alcohol can increase your risk of developing certain cancers" especially as it regards breast cancer ... "This is in direct contradiction with the scientific evidence which shows that even light to moderate drinking increases women<'s risk of breast cancer ... By implying that only "too much' rinking is a cancer risk, "the NIAAA is deceiving and potentially harming women while furthering the agenda of the alcohol industry (o rly) /a>

TIL The country of Chile is so long that it would stretch from the northernmost point of Norway all the way south to Morocco : todayilearned

The same researcher who 20 years ago made the discovery that linked abnormalities in egg chromosomes in mice to BPA, has just published a new study that found reproductive defects in mice housed in plastic cages made with BPA alternatives, suggesting that BPA-free products may not be safe. : science

If numbers can be infinitely large, can they also be infinitely small? : askscience ... Zeno ... but time can also be divided the same way ... Greeks didn't know an infinite series can have a finite sum


pisolivadi comments on 19-year-old Brigitte Bardot during the Cannes Film Festival, 1953 (the Beatles and Bardot)

Redditors who have opted out of a standard approach to life (study then full time work, mortgage etc), please share your stories. What are the best and worst things about your lifestyle, and do you have any regrets? : AskReddit
What is something in YOUR life that is SUPER FUCKING AWESOME? : AskReddit

ELI5: How do certain websites prevent you from backing out of them to the previous page no matter how many times you click on the back button : explainlikeimfive

This thrilling sniper scene from a UK TV Show is enough to put big budget films to shame : videos

People who received no or terrible sex education: what was the mostw thing youildly inaccurate thing you were taught or told about sex and sexual health? : AskReddit
Bad Women's Anatomy: Sure I know!
For those who like livestock and lacation play


Why PayPal's crackdown on ASMR creators should worry you -- Breaking news: you still shouldnnt use PayPal to receive funds, and if you do, take the money out ASAP. (Paypal stealing your money)
Why PayPal's crackdown on ASMR content should worry you - autonomous sensory meridian response (8chan war on women, again, Paypal said sure)
Congress just legalized sex censorship: What to know (April, in case you missed it, Satangelicals at work)

Tesla Model 3 Stolen From Mall of America Using Only a Smartphone : news

Almost half of US cellphone calls will be scams by next year, says report : news

Let's Encrypt has issued over 380 million HTTPS certificates



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Super Typhoon Nears Philippines With 170 M.P.H. Winds - The New York Times
Florence kills 4 in North Carolina, officials say - CNN
Where Is Hurricane Florence? Tracking the Storm's Path Damage and Impact - The eye of Hurricane Florence, whose winds and rain had already battered the North Carolina coast, reached landfall on Friday around 7:15 a.m.
Florence's Path Is Strewn With Toxic Hazards (i.e. Republians -- and boy does NC love their pig shit)
This reporter deserves an Emmy Award for his performance : gifs
Trump echoes far-right websites on Puerto Rico - For almost a year, conservative voices and publications on the internet have been casting doubt on the severity of Hurricane Maria's impact on Puerto Rico. (fake hurricanes invented by libtards to make towel-tossing Dumpster look bad)

Flu Takes a Toll in NYC, With 4 Children Reported Dead in Seasonal Outbreak - ABC News

France admits systematic torture during Algeria war for first time : news
The Battle of Algiers (sequence of bombings) Part B - YouTube (whitewash)


11 Troops Kicked Out After Court-Martial in Wake of Marines United Scandal | Military.com - The Marine Corps continues to wade through prosecutions of active-duty troops found to have been involved in the swapping of nude photos of troops

Bookshops threatened with legal action over book about Malaysian 'playboy banker' - London-based libel lawyers representing a playboy financier have sent threatening letters to bookshops around the world in an attempt to block distribution of a new book detailing his alleged involvement in one of the biggest financial scandals in history. (UK protect the rich bullshit)


Suspect Indeed: Odd Moments From RT's Interview With The Novichok 'Lads'
Skripal Poisoning Suspect's Passport Data Shows Link to Security Services
Russians Planned Attack on Lab Testing Salisbury Nerve Agent, Swiss Say - The New York Times


Landslide at Shipwreck Island in Zakynthos, Greece, injures seven - The Washington Post - In all, seven people were injured in the hail of rocks, including a 34-year-old woman from the Czech Republic

UK union boss suggests Israel is behind Labour anti-Semitism row | The Times of Israel - controversy engulfing Jeremy Corbyn and his party is 'a story that does not exist' design to mask 'atrociities' against the Palestinians.


Netanyahu Aide Steps Aside After Sexual Assault Allegations - The New York Times - A top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel stepped aside Thursday after several women accused him of sexual assault, denouncing what they called his "predatory" behavior ... David Keyes, Mr. Netanyahu's English-language spokesman, was publicly accused of sexual misconduct on Tuesday by two women, Julia Salazar, a New York State Senate candidate, and Shayndi Raice, a Wall Street Journal reporter. Two other women made similar accusations in interviews with The New York Times. (the reckoning is coming for Jewish dicks)

Kushner Says Punishing Palestinians Won't Hurt Chance for Peace Deal (which was zero anyway +soulless fuck)

We're Measuring the Economy All Wrong -- The official statistics say that the financial crisis is behind us. it's not ... The main reason is inequality. A small, affluent segment of the population receives a large and growing share of the economy. (thanks, again, Barry)


Opinion | Michael Avenatti: The Case for Indicting the President - The New York Times - Justice Department lawyers have said a sitting president cannot be indicted. It's time to test that proposition by bringing an indictment that can be reviewed by the Supreme Court. (Kavafuck has Trump's back)

Barack Obama's return just reminds us how he fueled the distrust that led to Donald Trump - Who cares if Obama belatedly cheers for transparency and accountability? He should admit that he made the government more dangerous at home and abroad.


Legal Experts Urge Release of Watergate Report to Offer Mueller a Road Map - The New York Times ... And on Friday, seeking to draw more attention to that option, three prominent legal analysts asked a court to lift a veil of secrecy that has long kept that Watergate-era report hidden. (what.the.fuck? and ... thanks again, Barry)
The Watergate 'Road Map' and the Coming Mueller Report

Checkmate: The Manafort Cooperation Is Pardon Proof (Wheeler)
Trump cannot use a pardon to stop Manafort's cooperation
Paul Manafort becomes the fifth Trump campaign team member to plead guilty to criminal charges - The Washington Post - The special counsel has secured two additional guilty pleas and obtained indictments against 26 others ... Quite a witch hunt. (the Trump treason and crime ring is going down, lock him up permanently)
Paul Manafort plea deal includes 'broad' cooperation with special counsel
What can Paul Manafort tell Mueller? Adam Schiff offers some suggestions. - The Washington Post
Manafort will cooperate with Mueller as part of guilty plea, prosecutor says - The Washington Post
Paul Manafort will cooperate with Robert Mueller -- The former Trump campaign chair appeared in court and pleaded guilty Friday. (another Skadden Arps crook)
Paul Manafort's $46 Million Plea Deal
Robert Mueller may have just eliminated one of Trump's biggest complaints - Trump likes to complain about the cost of the Mueller probe. It might just have paid for itself. (Manafort's $46mil hahahha)

Megathread: Trump ex-campaign chief Manafort to help Russia inquiry in plea deal : politics -- Mueller built a wall around Paul Manafort and made Paul Manafort pay for it #MuellerMakesTheBestDeals
Paul Manafort is the first Trump Tower meeting attendee to flip : politics - The Trump Tower meeting could not be more in-scope of the Mueller Mandate if it was doused in vodka and sucked out through the drill hole of the Soyuz capsule.
Paul Manafort Will Give Robert Mueller "Complete Cooperation," His Attorney Says

Federal prosecutors weigh charges against Democratic powerbroker in Manafort-linked probe - CNNPolitics - former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig as part of an investigation into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent in a probe that is linked to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort

Paul Manafort Cooperates with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Putting Mike Pence in the Conversation Too - Don't forget Paul Manafort got Mike Pence the VP job. (oh, yeah, forgot about that)

Michael Cohen Is the Latest Former Trump Ally to Talk to Mueller | Vanity Fair (the noose is tightening around Trump's tiny balls)

Bob Woodward's "Fear" is acting like a sales hit : books

A Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Stirs Tension Among Democrats in Congress | The New Yorker
Nothing to See Here! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Needless to say, I have no idea about whether the allegations being made against Brett Kavanaugh are true. They simply deserve to be taken seriously. As Republicans are implicitly conceding: Really, what Supreme Court nominee doesn't have a list of 65 random women they didn't sexually assault while attending an all-boys high school lined up? (Grassfuck getting frantic +child rapist hates abortions)
Brett Kavanaugh stands accused of sexually assaulting a high school classmate. And Feinstein seems to have concluded that the public didn't need to know this (she's always covered for crooks and liars, dump her, CA)
Brett Kavanaugh Accused Of Attempting To Rape A Woman In High School | HuffPost - The bombshell revelation comes a week before the Supreme Court nominee is set to receive a vote before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Collins and Murkowski won't fool concerned constituents -- The PRRI poll shows voters overwhelmingly think Kavanaugh is going to vote to eviscerate Roe v. Wade (Susie-Doozy is hoping you're are as stupid as she is)
Shorter Susan Collins: Democracy is Extortion - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... "Collins has a reputation as a centrist though she is a mostly reliable Republican voter," which seriously understates the reality ... Collins is up in 2020, and this should be the vote that finally strips off the teflon and makes it clear that she's a completely generic Republican hack.
Here's How That Letter From 65 Women Supporting Brett Kavanaugh Came Together So Quickly - A woman who has known Kavanaugh since high school told BuzzFeed News she helped organized the letter on Thursday and sent it to friends in the area following reports of a secret allegation against the nominee. (he went to an all-boys Catholic highschool but 65 women say they knew him)


Nikki Haley's View of New York Is Priceless. Her Curtains? $52,701.The State Department spent $52,701 last year buying customized and mechanized curtains for the picture windows in Nikki R. Haley's official residence as ambassador to the United Nations, just as the department was undergoing deep budget cuts and had frozen hiring. (they are all crooked, stupid and evil)

The Secret to Cracking Trump's Base -- New polls show that some of the most hard-core Trumpsters are starting to get a clue. It might be because he finally crossed a line: He's now insulting them -- Dogs, though known for their loyalty, can only take so much from one abusive human. Alas, the same cannot be said for the aging, white, rural and southern people who make up Trump ("dumbfuck southern retards" got suckered, again) ... We'll soon be running a trillion-dollar deficit, up 32 percent this fiscal year, thanks to the tax cut. Wasn't this the sort of thing that roused Tea Party opposition to President Obama -- crippling our children with a legacy of debt? (fuck the children, Rethugs say)

Republican Extremism Turning Democrats Left on Health Care (they took away the nutcases' healthcare and they noticed)

How does Paul Ryan keep a straight face? - The Washington Post (Rethugs have no hypocrisy gene)

Nervous Republicans Revive 'Carnage' as Turnout Strategy -- Steve Bannon is back with a new fearmongering movie that's firing up conservative media about left-wing violence. (gun-loving moonbats will riot in the streets if they win a house seat)
The biggest threat to the GOP majority no one's talking about - Forty-four House Republicans are heading for the exits, and almost half of their seats have become top Democratic targets.

Democratic Insurgents Topple 6 New York Senate Incumbents - The New York Times - Years of anger at a group of Democratic state senators who had collaborated with Republicans boiled over on Thursday, ... The losses were not only a resounding upset for the members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who outspent their challengers several times over, but also a sign that the progressive fervor sweeping national politics had hobbled New York's once-mighty Democratic machine, at least on a local level ... The center of gravity has shifted, and Andrew Cuomo will face a radically different Albany ... (Cuomo dicking up the state)
If You Want to Defang Andrew Cuomo, the New York Primary Results Are Good News - The governor lost his cushion in the state legislature. (and, guess how all that pig shit happened and) Margaret Chase Smith was a Republican. From Maine. (and) Michigan ranks 50th out of the 50 states on the subject of transparency and accountability in campaign finance.
Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "Nixon, it should be said, really took one for the team here. No real politicians wanted to run a hopeless race, she stepped up, pushed Cuomo left on issues, shed light on the IDC situation and contributed meaningfully to their defeat. Not bad work at all."
Nixon and the Machine - Lawyers, Guns & Money - For my entire adult political life, indeed, for literally my entire life period (and I am not a young man) there has been an ... understanding ... in this state when it came to the Republican Party and the New York State Senate. That's dead now.
David Dayen on Twitter: "The debate, where Maloney and James teamed up on Teachout, made this more than clear. "
If you lose, you still win. - Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York primary: Gov. Andrew Cuomo wins but his 2020 presidential aspirations are dead. - Vox - Cuomo zigged when the national party zagged ... Had Cuomo simply done the normal thing and supported Democratic state Senate candidates and gotten the chance he feared to sign ambitious progressive bills, he'd be perfectly positioned for the circumstances of 2020. (what a dick)
Andrew Cuomo Is America's Problem Now -- Prepare for still another unpleasant son of Queens trying to claim the national stage. (Sanders/Cuomo 2020!)

Sanders allies expect him to make second White House bid | TheHill (Bernie will try to fuck up another election)

September Governors Overview | The Cook Political Report - Republicans' exposure to losses in November has increased.
Florida Governor: Gillum (D) 48%, DeSantis (R) 42% : politics

Cruz intern arrested on Capitol Hill for unregistered ammunition - CNNPolitics

Fareed Zakaria: The Left is Threatening Democracy By Suppressing Voices Like Steve Bannon's (Fuckhead Zaharia)


Guy who says dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark tapped to review Arizona's evolution standards : politics


Opinion | The Shame of the MeToo Men - The New York Times - I feel bad for them. Do they feel bad for women? (Fuckenberry not so much and Bill "I'm an asshole consistently" Maher)
[Memoir] Exile | Harper's Magazine - And a year of trying to find a road back from personal and public shame -- By John Hockenberry (shut up, asshole)


Ex-Disneyland princess convicted of being accessory in double slaying | Fox News - A few days after the slayings, Wozniak was arrested at his bachelor party in Huntington Beach, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Maryland man accused in 'horrific' child rape cases convicted of video-recording the assaults (not the assaults, just the recordings)

Dallas police accused of smearing man killed by cop in his own apartment : news (did they search killer-copster's apartment? what do you think?)

Miami-Dade police lieutenant accused of molesting girl over course of 2 years : news

Texas radio host admits sexually abusing kids, paying $45,000 to have prosecutor killed : news

These Cops Threw Their Lives Away for $20 Sex - Two NYPD officers allegedly offered info to a prostitution and gambling ring in exchange for $20 off sex. But they're hardly the worst cops linked to the organization. (lock them all up)

Racist killer found dead in prison seven months into life sentence : news (woah, look at the pic +ran over victim's mom years before, no big deal b/c white)

TV crew reporting on car break-ins in SF has both bait car and camera crew vehicle robbed : news


Eminem's response to MGK

Governor Baker declares state of emergency, puts Eversource in charge - The Boston Globe
State Police helicopter detected underground gas leak in Lawrence after explosions - The Boston Globe
u\ Dozens of Homes Burn in Andover and Lawrence, Mass., Gas Explosions - The New York Times
Officials warn it will be a slow return to normalcy in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover - The Boston Globe


Mass. credit union will serve recreational marijuana companies - The Boston Globe - GFA will begin accepting marijuana clients by Oct. 1, offering them basic services such as cash management, checking accounts, payroll, wire transfers, and bill payments.


/r/MillionDollarExtreme has been banned! : TopMindsOfReddit
r/GreatAwakening has been BANNED : TopMindsOfReddit
TopMindsOfReddit
Reddit bans QAnon subreddit : technology
"It was a pleasure to meet all off you , " or; /r/greatawakening's ban leaves a TopMind with no one but himself to talk to. : TopMindsOfReddit
The QAnon Code - Episode Aired on June 7, 2018
Announcement: We are undoing all bans. | theawakening

asktransgender: questions and comments
A Safe Haven for MAAB Transgender People
8 months HRT - left picture year 2016, right pictures today. Just out of the curiosity: age and gender me please? :) #transisbeautiful : transpassing


Wikipedia generated over $114k revenue for Reddit in 2016, because posts with Wikipedia links get more views and generate more ad revenue. While Wikipedia content generates revenue for Reddit and Stack Overflow, those sites do not bring any benefit back to Wikipedia : science

Google Employees Are Quitting Over The Company's Secretive China Search Project


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Hurricane Florence is slashing the Carolinas in the opening act of a 3-day, coastal disaster - CNN (will Hilton Head still elect Nazis?)
A newspaper diminished by cutbacks prepares to cover another monster storm - The Washington Post - the Raleigh News & Observer - , the Raleigh newspaper is a shadow of what it was in 1999. As a result of the kind of downsizing and layoffs that have affected newspapers everywhere, its newsroom has shrunk from 250 journalists to just 65. /a>
Trump's FEMA chief under investigation over use of official cars (after he crashed one of them, probably while drunk)
'Never give an inch': Trump keeps touting perceived failures as successes (just keep spouting a torrent of lies)
President Trump has made more than 5,000 false or misleading claims - The Washington Post
Eschaton: A Good Tweet! - A big new organization problem these days is that when Trump says or tweets something obviously and insanely false, they just tweet it as a news story, like "President Trump says that Ohio is not a state," without any suggestion that it might possibly not be true -- So kudos to NBC. This is how you do it!
Donald Trump Denies That 3,000 People Died In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria | HuffPost - The president accused Democrats of making up "really large numbers" of deaths to make him "look as bad as possible" (like he needs help with that)
u/doodcool612 realizse in their methodology. : bestof
doodcool612 comments on Trump says death toll in Puerto Rico inflated by democrats: 3,000 did not die
This is America - Lawyers, Guns & Money - 3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. (fake dead bodies)
Democrats, Puerto Ricans blast Trump's 'beyond ridiculous' Hurricane Maria death toll claims - Lawmakers, governors, candidates and island residents denounced Trump
Why Trump's tweets about Puerto Rico are obviously untrue
Republicans dodge, weave around Trump's hurricane tweets
"It totally belittled the moment" : Many look back in dismay at Trump's tossing of paper towels in Puerto Rico

Six dead in southeast Bakersfield mass shooting
Pittsburgh high school to have school active shooter drill with blanks shot in hallways to expose students to the sound of gunfire : news (how about a few dead bodies to get them used to that also)
N.R.A. Show Puts Thomas the Tank Engine in White Hood to Criticize Diversity Move - The New York Times - as Dana Loesch, a spokeswoman for the gun rights group, took the show to task for diversifying its cast. (yes, they are that stupid)
Mike on Twitter: "This is the NRA's totally reasonable, super clever, and not a little bit racist response to a Nigerian train character being introduced. Because... that character existing means...Thomas was in the KKK before? Or something? Ok, I give up. This is disturbing as hell.

Closure of NM solar observatory a mystery | Albuquerque Journal
Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theories - CNET - The FBI showed up and evacuated the remote Sunspot solar observatory in southern New Mexico. Almost a week later, no one knows why ... Corners of the internet are atwitter about a possible alien coverup after reports that a Blackhawk helicopter and federal agents swooped in and inexplicably evacuated a remote part of New Mexico, including a prominent solar observatory. ("it was just a software upgrade") < This Is How It Starts: FBI Suspiciously Locks Down, Evacuates AURA Solar Observatory in New Mexico
New Mexico Solar Observatory Near Roswell Closed Amid FBI Investigation - Is It Aliens? - Sunspot, I would point out is only 134 miles from Roswell, as the alien gravity-powered spacecraft flies. (they're coming for Trump)


Number of white people arrested for terror offences outstrip any other single ethnic group, new figures show : news ("white" = ME Muzzies)


Here's A Totally Incredible Story About Pro-Russian Mercenaries And A Close Aide To Italy's De Facto Leader -- Gianluca Savoini is not under investigation, but his alleged links to far-right extremists

U.S. Spies Rush to Protect Defectors After Skripal Poisoning - The New York Times
'We're not agents': UK's suspects in Skripal case talk exclusively with RT (Putin interviews his hitmen, declares them totaly innocent)
Salisbury nerve attack suspects say they were tourists visiting cathedral : news (and they totally aren't gay)
Russia: Pussy Riot activist treated for possible poisoning : news

It happened there: how democracy died in Hungary -- A new kind of authoritarianism is taking root in Europe -- and there are warning signs for America - Viktor Orbin destroyed democracy (and it wasn't that hard - while dimbulb America (hello, war on terra) was spending trillions of "defense," Putin took over with a few bribes)

Trump's second tax cuts would add $3.8 trillion to deficit (hahaha suckers, "fiscal responbility" Refucks bankrupting America

DHS transferred $169 million from other programs to ICE for migrant detention


McRaven, former SOCOM head, resigns from Pentagon board following Trump criticism - four days after he posted a scathing op-ed in the Washington Post calling out Trump for revoking the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan. (Trump crying witch hunt when he was witch-hunting the whole government, esp. smart people who know things, natch)


Paul Manafort and special counsel reach tentative plea deal: Sources - ABC News
Trump and Manafort Are Coordinating in the Russia Probe - The Atlantic -

Mueller circles Roger Stone - CNN.com

"Trump Believes There's A Coup" : Freaked by the Times Op-Ed, the President Is Seeing Enemies Everywhere
Trump really hates apologizing for misogyny and racism. New reporting explains why. - The Washington Post (literally, a fathead and bow down before my lies)


Kavanaugh accused of sexual misconduct by woman affiliated with Stanford University - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Senate Democrats Have Referred A Secret Letter About Brett Kavanaugh To The FBI
Bitter Senate fight to confirm Kavanaugh plunges deeper into chaos over letter - The Washington Post (animatronic face)

2018 Senate Forecast | FiveThirtyEight - 1 in 3 chance for Dems taking control
The Senate in 2018 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Audio Reveals Potentially Illegal Coordination Between NRA and Montana Senate Hopeful Matt Rosendale - The gun-rights group gave Jon Tester's challenger a heads-up that it'd be spending money trying to defeat the senator.


Voting Problems in Thrusday's Primaries Expose New York's Broken Election System - Voters are being told they're not registered as they go to the polls -- New York has some of the worst voting laws in the country. (Cuomo making sure you don't vote)
Voting in New York Is an Undemocratic Disgrace
New York State Primary Election : politics - Shocker -- a candidate who was Governor, State Attorney General, and Housing Secretary didn't lose to a Sex in the City actress from the East Village.

Mailer linking Cynthia Nixon to anti-Semitism was drafted by top Cuomo aides (lying crooked Cuomo-fuck)

Michael Bloomberg set to run for Democrats against Trump for presidency in 2020 | World | The Times (hahahahahaha)
Liberty, fraternity, plutocracy - Lawyers, Guns & Money - really starting to hate this novel: Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire founder of a business news empire, is preparing to run for president as a Democrat,

Willie Nelson fans furious over announcement that he'll headline a rally for a Dem candidate (haha Fox can't even use the Beto-word)
Willie for Beto: Nelson to headline rally for O'Rourke


CBS Journalist Speaks Out About Jeff Fager's Text Trying To Shut Down Her Reporting - It was the text to Jericka Duncan that led to the "60 Minutes" executive producer's ouster, not the sexual harassment allegations. (which was just fine with them, but telling her not to talk about it wasn't) "When he grabbed my ass, it was just, like, 'Welcome to '60 Minutes.'' You'e one of us now"
Threats and Deception: Why CBS's Board Turned Against Leslie Moonves - "Mr. Farrow, maybe William Cohen and Arnold Kopelson are now worth training your sights on. They abuse women by what they cover up, but it might go deeper than that." (Clinton's Sec Def not surprising)
Abusive media moguls harmed more than just individual women. They shaped a misogynistic culture. - The Washington Post - "There is no better excuse for hitting a woman than the fact that she looks just like a man" (said yet another abusive Jewish guy Art Fuckhwald)


Debra Messing vs. Susan Sarandon: A comment about Trump turned into a quarrel on Twitter - The Washington Post - I mean how else are you able to walk out on the street. Convince yourself that that this CATASTROPHE of a President who you said was better that HRC IS NOT ripping children away from parents seeking asylum, holding children. (dimbulb celebrity little Susie couldn't bring herself to vote for crooked Hillary, went for Russian Jill Stein, now she wants us to listen to her political expertise)


Two Republican Congressmen Hobnob With an Alleged Holocaust Denier. Again. Mother Jones - Reps. Matt Gaetz and Dana Rohrabacher just can't quit Charles C. Johson




Georgia Charter School Asks Parents If They Want Their Kids Paddled or Given 5 Days Detention

Kids Don't Damage Women's Careers -- Men Do - Stop blaming motherhood for a problem created by fathers (men are the weaker sex)

Lawyers "disgusted" by release of search warrant showing marijuana found in Botham Jean's apartment (they had to search it to make sure it was his)

The Colin Kaepernick Nike Protests Have Made Idiots Of Us All

Former Kentucky Police Officer Sentenced for Wrongful Arrest : news - Officer Dukes


So much for the Massachusetts miracle - The Boston Globe - But a broad and detailed survey to be released Thursday shows that the state trailed the rest of the nation in 2017 when it comes to middle-class income growth, poverty reduction, and the expansion of health insurance coverage. (while letting schools decay, bridges rot and delaying pot taxes, thanks Charlie Faker)


Merrimack Valley Explosions: What We Know + CBS Boston - undefined
'It looked Like Armageddon' : 1 Dead After Gas Explosions, Fires
Photos from the scene of fires and explosions in Lawrence, Andover areas - The Boston Globe
Police say 60-100 fires in progress in Lawrence, Andover, North Andover due to gas line emergency | News | eagletribune.com
` Fire, explosions due to gas main explosion reported in Lawrence area - The Boston Globe
State police: Columbia Gas customers in Lawrence, Andover, North Andover should evacuate - 18-year-old man killed by falling chimney from exploding house in Lawrence
One man dies as fires, explosions rock Lawrence area - The Boston Globe
State police: Columbia Gas customers in Lawrence, Andover, North Andover should evacuate
Mass State Police on Twitter: "Confirmed fires/explosions plotted on map by MSP Watch Center. As seen, incidents are across a wide swath of dozens of blocks across Lawrence and North Andover. https://t.co/tJD8okREz0"
Video shows fire raging out of control inside Merrimack Valley home
Multiple Gas Explosions, Fires in Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts : news
Eschaton: I Know Nothing About This Stuff - But how does this even make sense. - Methuen Police Chief Joseph Solomon said 60 to 100 fires are burning across the Merrimack Valley at 6:35 p.m., and multiple people were hurt, according to reports. (definitely not a terrorist attack by big gas)


Australian researchers have, for the first time, identified the presence of macrophage cells in the brain tissue of a subgroup of people with schizophrenia. The findings opens doors to new areas of research and drug development. : science


Reddit shuts down r/greatawakening. : technology
Reddit has banned the QAnon conspiracy subreddit r/GreatAwakening - The Verge
Reddit Banned A Page That Trafficked In White Supremacist Content, But The Problem Is Much Bigger
The Past, Present, and Future of Qanon, A Conspiracy That Is Very Dumb - SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube
Overview of the Great Awakening U.S. Religious Revival


What's > the weirdest sex dream you've ever had?

Sony Finally Admits It Doesn't Own Bach and It Only Took Public Pressure



091218

Hurricane Florence, 'storm of a lifetime' shifts toward South Carolina as 'extreme' threat (next year, more "storms of a lifetime')
6 Years Ago, North Carolina Chose To Ignore Rising Sea Levels. This Week It Braces For Disaster. | HuffPost - Confronted with Hurricane Florence, North Carolina prepares for a state of emergency. (once again, they will want the states of northern aggression to bail them out of their evil stupidity -- remember when they outlawed the phrase "sea-level?")
If Trump cares about Hurricane Florence, his policies don't show it -- Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit. (more tax cuts!)
SC officials won't evacuate prison ahead of hurricane (of course not, they are the wrong color)
TIL during Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of prisoners were left to die in their cells. They had no food or water for days, as waters rose to their chests. There were no lights and the toilets were backed up. Many were evacuated, but 517 went unaccounted for. : todayilearned (so, they learned nothing because they could give a shit)
Donald Trump Sparks Backlash With 'Unsung Success' Boast About Puerto Rico (says he was a "hero" and that PR "had no electricity" before the storm because it was a "shithole")
Heckuva Job - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Well, this should be very reassuring to the Carolinas: ("I did a heckuva job" Trump said)
More Than 2,000 Puerto Ricans Applied For Funeral Assistance After Hurricane Maria. FEMA Approved Just 75. (Trump heroically killing brown people)
Trump administration took nearly $10 million from FEMA's budget to support ICE, documents show
Possibly millions of water bottles meant for Hurricane Maria victims left on tarmac in Puerto Rico : news

America is now the world's largest oil producer . : news

Lawrence O'Donnell Shreds Donald Trump Over His Most 'Evil' Lie About 9/11 - claim during a 2016 GOP primary campaign debate that he lost "hundreds of friends" in the collapse of the Twin Towers (which he personally saw and then spent days cleaning up the rubble with his own tiny hands)


Polarization in Poland: A Warning From Europe - The Atlantic - Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.

German report details widespread and ongoing clerical child sex abuse - Study finds evidence of nearly 4,000 cases of abuse, and says it 'continues to take place' - German researchers have uncovered evidence of at least 3,677 cases of clerical physical and sexual abuse in the German church over seven decades. (jail the pedos and the enablers, fire the rest, confiscate their assets, burn the rest down)

MormonLeaks: leaked document sheds light on LDS church's handling of seven sex abuse cases (ditto and viz "Rape is the only violent crime in Utah that occurs at a higher rate than the rest of the nation.")

Cervical screening system was doomed to fail at some point, Scally report finds - The current cervical cancer controversy came about as a result of a whole system failure, the independent Scally review has found. (Ireland)


Putin Says U.K. Hit Suspects Aren't Agents, Should Go Public ("they just look lie hit-men" Putin said)


The Twitter Craic Was 90 After Donald Trump's Ireland Visit Was Postponed | HuffPost - Nobody wants this ignorant embarrassment anywhere! Funerals, weddings, countries...


AP FACT CHECK: Obama was harsh against leakers - Trump may use extraordinary rhetoric to undermine trust in the press, but Obama arguably went farther -- using extraordinary actions to block the flow of information to the public ... The Obama administration used the 1917 Espionage Act with unprecedented vigor (he barryed alot of his shit)

Authorities Can Now Deny Visa and Green Card Applications Without Giving Applicants a Chance to Fix Errors
Trump administration to triple size of Texas tent camp for migrant children - The Washington Post

Bob Woodward's 'Fear' sold 750,000 copies by the close of its first day

Ex-NSA Boss Mike Rogers: I Wish Trump Had Pressed Putin on Election Meddling in Helsinki - The Daily Beast

A Series Of Suspicious Money Transfers Followed The Trump Tower Meeting - Investigators are focused on two bursts of banking activity - one shortly after the June 2016 meeting, the other immediately after the presidential election.
Manafort in talks with prosecutors about possible plea, according to people familiar with the discussions - The Washington Post

This Election Is All About Trump -- Not Obama (well, your misrepresentation about Bush's 2002 popularity is telling)

With all the world' s crises, this is John Bolton's top concern? - a narrow and essentially irrelevant assault on the International Criminal Court (ICC).

approval rating stands at its highest level in CNN polling, rising 3 points since August, a shift within the poll's margin of sampling error. Trump's rating, meanwhile, dipped 4 points,

Trump eyes life under subpoena, influencing his 2018 midterm campaign strategy - Axios - He has already told confidants how he would run for reelection in 2020 if impeached (but not removed) by playing the victim card.

'Shipwreck' : GOP grows fearful about losing Senate as candidates struggle, Trump support tumbles (Mitch the Bitch still confident)
Surprisingly, the Senate Is Now in Play - Despite heavy odds stacked against them, Democrats are in the hunt

Trump and his flunkies: Why aren't staffers standing up to him? - NY Daily News

The Policymakers Saved the Financial System. And America Never Forgave Them. - The New York Times (please, it was Barry pardoning all the crooks that destroyed our confidence)

Three-quarters of secret political money comes from 15 groups (USA Today hides the groups: Planned Parenthood and 14 Rpublifucksters)


Education Dept. Reopens Rutgers Case Charging Discrimination Against Jewish Students - The New York Times - a seven-year-old case brought by a Zionist group against Rutgers University, saying the Obama administration, in closing the case, ignored evidence that suggested the school allowed a hostile environment for Jewish students. (not sufficiently pro-Palestinian genocide - American Jews ramping up this shit under Trumpster)

Laura Ingraham'ss Brother Goes to War Against Her - Curtis Ingraham wants people to know that his sister, the right-wing Fox News host Laura Ingraham, is the ultimate 'hypocrite' ... "I think she's a monster" (and a very evil person)
PA Smokey on Twitter: "@CurtisIngraham1 Your sister is at her worts again! "

Stormy Daniels promises new details on alleged Trump affair in forthcoming memoir - The Washington Post

House GOP is pushing a new round of tax cuts that could cost $2 trillion over 10 years - The Washington Post

Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They're Not ("just work harder")

The Kavanaugh's Tale - Lawyers, Guns & Money (they always do the dance -- hello, little Susie -- and then fuck you over)
Commentary: How SCOTUS can stop abortions without overruling Roe | Reuters (make it illegal to cross state lines for an abortion, throw women who are suddently no longer pregnant in prison)

Activists raised $1 million to defeat Susan Collins if she votes for Kavanaugh. She says it's bribery (dumb little Susie lies again and no republifuckliacan has every used money to stop a dem +political crowdfunding is becoming a thing)
Susan Collins Is Experiencing Citizens United Consequences with Brett Kavanaugh Opposition - Some Mainers are merely exercising their constitutional rights, as defined by Anthony Kennedy, to oppose Brett Kavanaugh.

A collection of outside groups wants the Freedom Caucus co-founder to succeed Paul Ryan. But rank-and-file members aren't like to abide (sexual assault coveruper)

Susan Collins claims Kavanaugh Crowdpac campaign is a bribe - Vox (Susie-Doozy has never taken a dime from Republicans)

NRCC spending almost $5 million on ads to help Barbara Comstock - NBC News (someone call little Susis-Doozy)

Email from Cuomo aide casts doubt on claims over anti-Semitic mailer (dick head Cuomo always, always lies)

Scott jets around on secrecy-heavy 'bus tour' (that private jet is a bus! I tell you)
How Florida's Puerto Rican Vote Is Changing Post-Hurricane Maria - a McClatchy examination of the most recent state voter file found that of the 3,147 voters with Puerto Rican telephone area codes who registered since Maria hit, over 55 percent selected no party (idiots will all vote for Rick Scott)

GOP Chief Shocked to Discover His Candidate Jim Hagedorn's Crazy Remarks - Jim Hagedorn is the Republican nominee in Minnesota's first congressional district, a prime Republican pickup opportunity (oh, another crazy racist nazi fuck)

Kansas woman told birth certificate wasn't enough to prove citizenship for passport - "They won t accept a birth certificate but they will accept a family Bible?' (Kobachvilee)

The Stop BEZOS Act - When you care enough to give the very least - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Bernie has always been not really a Democrat and fairly dumb)


Who Is Julia Salazar? New York Democratic Socialist Candidate Profile - Rolling Stone - This Is the Story of How a Campaign Goes Off the Rails - what her topsy-turvy summer may mean for future insurgent candidates on the far left (don't nominate total flakes even if they're girls)
Julia Salazar: State Senate Candidate Is Raising Questions - This Week in Julia Salazar She had a trust fund, her ancestors were Catholic elites, and she has a new version of her conversion story ... questions were raised about her religious background and political affiliation, after it was revealed she grew up in a Christian family and was a registered Republican who led an anti-abortion group in college before running for office as a Jewish socialist.
NY State Senate Candidate Accuses Daily Caller Of Plans To 'Out' Her As Sexual Assault Survivor (Dems have their own nuts, they're just less dangerous)

Kansas GOP lawmakers' silence on whether they support Kobach angers some within party

What's Dana Rohrabacher's Deal With the Racist Trope of Chinese People Eating Dogs? (little Russian Dana says Americans eat bunnies, so no big deal)

Roll Call Cartoonist Compares Russian Election Hacking to 9/11

A Trail of 'Bread Crumbs' Leading Conspiracy Theorists Into the Wilderness (why are conservative minds so stupid?)
Reddit bans QAnon subreddit : technology - Also, the idea that military officials tapped a washed up, geriatric reality tv star is so fucking stupid it...it... fuck, I'm out of analogies, because it is the stupidest shit I've ever heard. (fucking reddit nails it again)
Reddnt Bans Qanon Subreddits After Series of Violent Threats : news
r/GreatAwakening has been BANNED : TopMindsOfReddit
@S8n Q - Twitter Search
A non-comprehensive timeline of Q's failed predictions and mistakes and a list of tactics he uses to hook and drag followers. : Qult_Headquarters
Q proofs debunked

Tucker Carlson Gets Schooled By Brit Hume On His Own Show | HuffPost (racist nazi fucker " desecrating our national symbols")

Molon Blow - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm (dumbfuck fascists giving themselves colon cancer to own the libs)


'Designing Women' Creator Goes Public With Les Moonves War: Not All Harassment Is Sexual (Moonfuck thought he was better than everyone)
'60 Minutes' Chief Jeff Fager Leaving CBS After Violating Company Policy (Moonfuck had his back and a lot others')

Larry Nassar raped, impregnated athlete and Michigan State covered it up: lawsuit (should have burned it all down)

'Tonight Show' cancels Norm Macdonald after MeToo comments : news

World exclusive: Video shows Harvey Weinstein behaving inappropriately with businesswoman : news
The hints of Weinstein's behavior that went ignored (and fuck you, Hillary, Meryl and George)


Witness in Pa. casino fraud case turns up dead in creek : news

Novelist who wrote about 'How to Murder Your Husband' charged with murdering her husband
Novelist who wrote about How to Murder Your Husband charged with murdering her husband

/u/foreverwasted provides a painfully true explanation of the irony around the Dallas police shooting : bestof (go deeper)

Peter Bernard, president of the Massachusetts Grower Advocacy Council, threatens to sue Cannabis Control Commission to compel them to review the statutorily-required agreements between marijuana businesses and their host towns : bostontrees

'Miraculous': Boy survives after meat skewer pierces skull - A 10-year-old Missouri boy is recovering after he was attacked by insects and tumbled from a tree, landing on a meat skewer that penetrated his skull from his face to the back of his head.

FDA puts e-cig makers on notice: Fix 'epidemic' teen use or products may be pulled from market : news
World's biggest tobacco companies aim to kill Montana healthcare initiative: Industry heavyweights fiercely oppose proposed $2 tax on packs of cigarettes to be used to fund Medicaid in the state. : news

I Gave Up Dating Apps And Caught The Man Of My Dreams In A Thirst Trap On Instagram | HuffPost (whatever that means, times have changed, +tats and "brands" and boob sharing)


Scientists discover optimal magnetic fields for suppressing instabilities in tokamak fusion plasmas, to potentially create a virtually inexhaustible supply of power to generate electricity in what may be called a "star in a jar"


Closure of National Solar Observatory remains shrouded in secrecy : news

Toddlers and preschoolers from disadvantaged households who had access to food stamps have significantly better health outcomes at ages 6-16 than similar children who did not have access (the study uses variation in eligibility rules). : science


What is a subject that you have extensive knowledge on but never get to talk about? : AskReddit


Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10 : technology

Tesla workers speak out: 'Anything pro-union is shut down really fast' : news

Missing wages, grueling shifts, and bottles of urine: The disturbing accounts of Amazon delivery drivers may reveal the true human cost of 'free' shipping'


091118

Hurricane Florence tracker: path, impact times and maps - Washington Post
South Carolina 'orders evacuation of entire coastline' as trackers predict storm may reach category 5 : news
'Life-threatening' Florence spawns first hurricane watches, could bring 30" of rain
Hurricane Florence undercuts Miami Beach convention bid - POLITICO
What happends to NC'ss wild horses when a major hurricane like Florence hits?
Hurricane Risks Include Toxic Sludge and Lagoons of Pig Manure - Bloomberg (a real shit-hole, but will demand big government help)

The Only Existing Footage Of 1st Plane Hitting WTC : videos
Hunter S. Thompson's espn page 2 article from 9/12/01. I think it's important to re read this every year
ESPN.com - Page2 - When war drums roll - Hunter S. Thompson - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. (among other truths)
Hunter S. Thompson's Irreverent Eulogy for Nixon - The Atlantic - A scathing obituary of Richard Nixon, originally published in Rolling Stone on June 16, 1994
Hunter S. Thompson's Daily Routine | Mental Floss

The Republican Response to 9/11 Was to Start a Forever War - Keep the memories of those who exploited the attacks at arm's length.

Let us use this solemn occasion to remember that Donald Trump is the scum of the earth - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Scott Dworkin on Twitter: "Here's video of @realDonaldTrump claiming he helped look for survivors & clear rubble on 9/11. He didn't He was lying. #NeverForget
Opinion | The Real Lesson of Sept. 11 - The New York Times - this attack was a gift to the military industrial complex. Every politician- except for Russ Feingold- took the bait hook, line and sinker.
Trump's long history of lying about 9/11 and exploiting it for personal gain
Al Qaeda Won - Foreign Policy - Seventeen years after the 9/11 attacks, the terrorists have definitively won the battle for the American mind.
September 11: nearly 10,000 people affected by 'cesspool of cancer'


Pope Francis at Mass: Bishops must pray to overcome 'Great Accuser' - invites bishops to overcome the "Great Accuser" who seeks to create scandal, through prayer, humility, and nearness to God's people. (in other words, "the Truth." Fire the clueless fuck and burn the whole thing down and the pedos do love their "nearness" to people)


Viktor Orban says European Parliament 'verdict already written' ... "Pro-migration representatives have a majority in the European Parliament" (and not us nazis)

U.S. officials suspect Russia in mystery 'attacks' on diplomats in Cuba, China - The strong suspicion that Russia was behind the alleged attacks is backed by signals intelligence, meaning intercepted communications, say U.S. officials. (Putin shrank Trump's brain w/microwaves)

A CUNY Student Was Investigated For Criticizing Israel (insufficiently genocidal towards Palestinians, "zionist" now a hate-word)

Canadian woman arrested for allegedly slapping U.S. border officer : news

Why John Bolton vs. Int'l Criminal Court 2.0 is Different from Version 1.0 (insane genocidal maniac)


It's not just CNN's poll. All polling shows Trump's approval rating dropping. (Trump will arrest "fake polls)

Trump only trusts 'much smaller' group of aides in White House after op-ed, Donald Trump Jr. says (and you know who they are)

Maria Butina, Alleged Russian Agent, Offers to Flip on GOP Operative - Rolling Stone - Paul Erickson


Did Brett Kavanaugh signal he supports 'going after birth control'? (Kessler rushes to defend Kavafuck)

'You didn't get our message': key Trump aide Stephen Miller condemned by childhood rabbi (what a lizard)

Another big Woodward reveal: Trump's bottomless bad faith and nonstop lying (how vry Republican)
Don Jr. Claims NY Times Op-Ed Writer Committed Crime By 'Subverting the Will of the People' (here's some will of the people, Jr, lock you up!)

Independent poll asks Americans whether Trump is 'mentally stable' - No, he's not. 42% (half of Americans doubt Dump's stability)

The Resistance Will Not Come From Within White House - Lawyers, Guns & Money - 1)Trump's nominees are mostly not much more competent than he is, and 2)like congressional Republicans they mostly want him to pursue the ends he's already pursuing with less politically damaging tweets:
Gary Cohn takes on Bob Woodward over Trump book, "Fear" - Axios - but is declining to say what specifically Woodward has gotten wrong.

Fox Business Host Calls Former President George W. Bush a 'radical' Liberal (Lou "yes I'm an idiot" Dobbs)

Christians are suffering from complete spiritual blindness - The Washington Post (too much "social justice" - committed Republican Gerson can't call a Satangelical a disciple of the antichrist)

"The House Is Already Lost" : As the Midterms Approach, G.O.P. Insiders Prepare for an Electoral D-Day - Inside the swamp, Republican operatives have already made their peace with losing the House. But the coming Democratic wave won't affect all Republicans equally, purging moderates and leaving only Trump loyalists behind. The result could be a divided Congress in which Trump, ironically, is more powerful than ever. (yeah, b/c those "moderates" have been resisting Trumpster like crazy)

'Something has actually changed': Women, minorities, first-time candidates drive Democratic House hopes - White men are in the minority among Democratic House nominees.

The GOP finds yet another way to suppress the vote - The Washington Post - The subpoena sought a list of items which, if satisfied, would force state and local officials to produce at least 20 million documents in less than four weeks ... Nineteen illegal votes, out of more than 4.5 million ballots cast in North Carolina that year, is minuscule. (ICE now in charge of your elections)

Paul Ryan barely misses lifetime goal of kicking federal deficit up to one trillion dollars per year - Lawyers, Guns & Money (responsible fiscal conservative scammer)


Eschaton: He Lies About Everything - No, not Trump. That we know. Cuomo ... The governor and his administration have denied playing a role in the timetable for the bridge's opening (fucking liar lies all the time) Ahead of the Primary, Cuomo Administration Offered Sweeteners to Get New Bridge Open - The New York Times (christ, what an asshole)
Andrew Cuomo Keeps Hiring Republicans (esp. crooked ones)

Voter backlash to Trump, bathroom law has put conservative N.C. legislature in play. - The Washington Post


Facebook's idea of 'fact-checking' : Censoring ThinkProgress because conservative site told them to - A perfect example of how Facebook is catering to conservatives. (Weekly Standard controlling your facts -- Zuckerfucking democracy)
Eschaton: Why Do We Expect Them To Be Knowledgable - I don't even think we expect people who run publishing houses or cable news networks to be brilliant in the way there's this expectation that the techbros are brilliant, and there's more reason to think those types have a breadth of knowledge (whether they do or not). Zuck probably doesn't know anything about anything and I have no idea why we would expect otherwise? (there's "brilliant" and then there's "billionaire brilliant" which make them brilliant about everything b/c more money)
Today in Our Glorious TechBro Betters - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In conclusion, we should continue to deemphasize the humanities in higher education. STEM, STEM, STEM, that's all we need. Why would want our TechBro Kings to be able to understand basic questions of the humanities, such as those Zuckerberg finds completely flummoxing? (guess why they don't need the "humanities"?)


Gawker Set to Relaunch Under New Owner Bryan Goldberg (EXCLUSIVE) - Amanda Hale hired as publisher for new iteration of the media gossip blog (after Thiel sucked all its blood)


Man accused of stealing veteran's GoFundMe donations thrown in jail on unrelated warrants : news (the moral lesson continues to develop ... "People are more interested in the bad than the good")

Among Cries On The Medieval Battlefield: 'Me Too' At Ragnarok, one of America's most popular fantasy combat events, women face the greatest threats off the battlefield. (weird dudes, what could go wrong?)



Georgia school reinstating paddling to punish students : news (GA, the asshole of America)


Witnesses dispute Dallas cop's account in fatal shooting of neighbor, attorney says : news

Police detain black teen riding with his white grandmother after reports of robbery attempt : news (grandchilding while black, lucky cops didn't kill them both)

No, Hunters Did Not Open Fire on Australian Firefighters In Washington State : news


Ready to kick the plastic straw habit? We tested 8 reusable options to determine which is the best. - The Washington Post


Blood Test Can Predict Your Internal Clock, Improve Treatment - Called TimeSignature, the blood test utilizes a machine-learning algorithm. It can test for different patterns of gene expression based on the time of day. Of the 20,000 genes the team examined, around 40 were showing gene signals at certain times. Those genes were more likely to turn on at a specific point in the day, but it varied based on a person's internal clock.

SETI Scientists spot 72 signals from 'Alien Galaxy' : news


Who's the biggest loser your son/daughter has dated? : AskReddit


EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due to FIFA's loot boxes : news

091018

National Hurricane Center
As Hurricane Florence Threatens the Carolinas, 1 Million Ordered to Evacuate - The New York Times - undefined
The Latest: Evacuation ordered for 245,000 Virginians
Evacuations ordered for SC coast as Hurricane Florence nears, effective Tuesday | News | postandcourier.com
In rare event, Atlantic, Pacific churn with storms at same time - Storms in the northeast Pacific have generated the most 'accumulated cyclone energy' on record for the season thus far.


Sweden's ruling party hits election low as far right grows - handed Sweden's ruling party its worst-ever election result Sunday and delivered a parallel lift to a far-right party with white supremacist roots, leaving the ideological outline of the Scandinavian county's next government uncertain
Establishment survives far-right surge from Sweden Democrats in Swedish election - Axios - The Social Democrats, who had their worst election performance since World War I, led the previous government with a center-left coalition, but are neck-and-neck with a center-right coalition led by the Moderate Party


Cupich on scandal: 'We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this' (Catholic Church pedophile supporters don't see a problem)
Cardinal O'Malley tells panel in Rome church must hear the voices of abuse victims (said the coverup guy)


Trump Administration to Close Palestine Liberation Organization Office in Washington - WSJ - National security adviser John Bolton also plans to threaten sanctions against International Criminal Court, in a Monday speech
Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court and the P.L.O. - The New York Times (Dump is way above international law)

CNN Poll: Trump approval dips, hits low among independents - CNNPolitics - Overall, just 36% approve of the way the President is handling his job, down from 42% in August. Among independents, the drop has been sharper, from 47% approval last month to 31% now. (red wave of Trumpists will increase their majorities and declare Trump emperor for life)

Yes, let's wipe out Trump. But take neoliberal Democrats with him, too

Kavanaugh accused of 'untruthful testimony, under oath and on the record' : politics
As New Evidence Shows Judge Kavanaugh Committed Perjury Before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Government Watchdogs Call for an Impeachment Investigation : politics
Might Kavanaugh be headed for impeachment? : politics
Might Kavanaugh be headed for impeachment? - Baltimore Sun

Opinion | The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - The New York Times - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.

Excellent summary of the witches found by the Trump/Russia investigation, in a thread welcoming Obama back to the scene. : bestof

Trump's Impeachment Could Be in the Hands of Jerry Nadler - The Atlantic = who isn't sure it's warranted (71 yr-old centrist Brooklyn dem)

White House again changes phone policy amid heightened paranoia - CNNPolitics

The problems and crises that are stressing Trump's machine - Axios - It's hard to overstate the extremity and variety of pressures bearing down on President Trump and his understaffed White House. (a well-oiled pile of shit)

Omarosa Releases Tape of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Agreeing With Trump

Eschaton: They'll Play Along Every Time - I think there's some slight hope that THIS TIME the press won't fall for it when in about 8 weeks Republicans once again become the party of Fiscal Responsitude and start claiming that the greatest threat to your children is the deficit. But they "fall for it" every single time Republicans take power. This goes back to Reagan. They'll go right back to the script.


State of The 2018 House Race | Monmouth University Polling Institute - Dems do better in Dem precincts than GOP in GOP precincts; Race, gender and education divide core support from persuadable voters

The warning signs for Republicans ahead of the 2018 midterm elections - Axios - Yes, the punditocracy is being cautious about 2018 because it has fresh memories of how humiliating it felt to wake up on Nov. 9, 2016, with Donald Trump as president. But the graphic above tells a stark story and shows the pundit class may be underestimating the odds of a devastating election season for Republicans - The signals look every bit as bad for Republicans as they did for House Democrats when they got wiped out in the 2010 Tea Party wave. (for which we can thank float-above-it-all Barry)

The GOP Is Sweating Bullets Over Beto O'Rourke

Cynthia Nixon Anti-Semitism Association Backfires (not sufficiently Palestinian genocidal)
Eschaton: Passive Straphanger - Cuomo beats Rahm for "worst Democratic politician in America" and I'm including any that happen to be in prison now.
SEE IT: Cynthia Nixon Orders Cinnamon Raisin Bagel With... Lox And Capers: Gothamist

'Scott Walker fatigue' haunts Republicans - Signs that the Wisconsin governor is ripe to be taken down are everywhere. (after Kochbros destroy the state)


GOP Candidate For Florida Gov. Spoke At Events Organized By White Race War Theorist | HuffPost - Ron DeSantis has given speeches four times at the David Horowitz Freedom Center
DeWhite DeNationalist - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Why do all these white nationalist associations keep happening to Ron DeSantis? - I didn't think Florida Republicans would be able to come up with a more repulsive public official than Skeletor and Medicare fraudster Rick Scott, but they did it.

Rep. Mia Love's campaign admits to improperly raising primary election funds - CNNPolitics - U.S. Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) (crooked black Trumper)

Trump: Symptom or Cause? (Or, tomorrow's historical revisionism today) - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This debate is at bottom an argument between those who see deep structural and social forces as the prime movers of events, and those who believe that the decisions and acts of a handful of critically important individuals are paramount factors.

Bombs Away: Trump Has the I.Q. of an Inbred Tanning Bed, Says a Liberated Gary Cohn : politics
Trump reportedly exploded at his ex-lawyer after he heard Mueller was looking into his relationship with Deutsche Bank: 'This is bulls---!' : politics
Active Measures 2018 - YouTube

Top Republican: It's '50-50' that GOP will control House ... will "defy history" ... Ronna Romney McDainel

Schuette's latest attack ad uses images from Whitmer's sexual assault story - In his latest attack ad against Democratic candidate Gretchen Whitmer, the Republican candidate ...

This Mayor Just Banned Nike Products From His City's Recreation Facilities | HuffPost - The Louisiana mayor issued the order days after Nike hired former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for its advertising. (racist fucks)

Allegations of racism at Orange County high school football game underscore broader tension in the Trump era

Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? | The New Yorker - The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech. (empty soul)

Opinion | To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library - The New York Times - This crucial institution is being neglected just when we need it the most. (waste of taxpayer money, say Republican idiots)

Fox News' Tucker Carlson echoes white nationalists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis


Les Moonves Leaves CBS, Will Make $20 Million Donation To Me Too Movement | HuffPost - The network head has been one of the most powerful men in media.
Les Moonves' CBS Replacement Dodges Sexual Misconduct Issues In Email To Staff | HuffPost - Joseph Ianniello only briefly alludes to diversity and cultural issues. Meanwhile, Moonves stays on in an advisory role.
Leslie Moonves's departure is only the beginning. CBS needs a full airing ... That it took so long for CBS to acknowledge the problem, and that Mr. Moonves may be able to walk away with millions of dollars in severance, shows how far the country remains from workplace equality.

"Tone deaf" Playboy Club opens in New York, defying the #MeToo era - Club to open more than 30 years after Hefner declared Bunnies 'a symbol of the past' and 32 years after the city's orifginal closed ... The venue, where a top-tier membership will reportedly cost $250,000


What boycott? Nike sales are up 31 percent since the Kaepernick campaign : politics

Dallas Officer Arrested In Shooting Death Of Botham Shem Jean : news
Affidavit: Dallas officer Amber Guyger realized it was wrong apartment after shooting - The Washington Post


Deadly fire exposes wealthy man's secret underground tunnels
Man stops to help stranded motorist who turned out to be hitman hired to kill him : news

N.H. man ordered to stay out of Mass. after offering parents cash to 'buy' their daughter - Alfred Patterson, 20, of Raymond, N.H.
Two teens arrested Friday in sexual assault - 19-year old Zachary Patterson from Raymond
Police Log: Four Charged With Trespassing | Salem, NH Patch - Alfred Patterson, 20, of Twins Road in Raymond, is charged with criminal trespass and theft of services. Zachary Patterson, 17, of Twins Road in Raymond, is charged with criminal trespass and theft of services

Homophobic slurs were uttered during assault and battery downtown, police say

Sex Diary: Single Man Refusing to Answer Texts From His Ex - a 36-year-old man whose soon-to-be ex-husband left him for a 20-year-old: 36, gay, nonprofit employee, Midtown, separated. ("Growlr" "Scruff" and sounds like a Cut article but gay instead and do these people do anything but fuck?)


OxyContin creator being sued for 'significant role in causing opioid epidemic' : news (sacklers working on their own holocaust)


Bipolar disorder can be hard to tell from depression due to their similar symptoms, except for mania in bipolar. Researchers had 80% accuracy in distinguishing bipolar disorder from depression using special MRI scans based on how the amygdala reacted to different facial expressions in a new study. : science

New cancer vaccine is 100 percent successful in mouse model. Scientists have developed a new vaccine that -- in conjunction with existing therapies -- can not only treat aggressive melanoma, but also prevent its recurrence.

Does physical size have any effect on resistance to illness? : askscience

ADHD numbers are rising, and scientists are trying to understand why - The Washington Post - The number of children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyper-activity disorder (ADHD) has reached more than 10 percent ... rates of ADHD among girls rose from 3 percent to more than 6 percent (so, to get 10%, 14% of boys have ADHD, girls are "inattentive" more than "hyperactive" (boys))


The Wonky Donkey: viral video of grandmother makes picture book a bestseller. A Scottish woman's reading of the 2009 children's to her four-month-old grandson has seen demand for it skyrocket around the world
Best granny ever starts losing it reading a book about a donkey : ContagiousLaughter
Contagious Laughter

What's a product or service you should NEVER cheap out on? : AskReddit - 1) Lasik 2) electrician

How do you deal with memories of embarrassing or stupid things you did constantly popping into your head? : AskReddit
What is the sluttiest thing you've done? : AskReddit

[Serious] Travellers of Reddit, what are some of the creepiest/scariest experiences you've had abroad? : AskReddit (#creepiest)


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Hurricane Florence poses an extreme threat to Southeast and Mid-Atlantic - The Washington Post


Retired N.J. priest says his complaints were dismissed by Boston Archdiocese - The Boston Globe - efforts to report accusations of clergy sexual misconduct to Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley were rebuffed ... O'Malley, who is president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (hahahaha)
Catholic clergyman calls on Wuerl to resign, says he'll refuse to participate in Mass with him - forecasting Florence to become a strong Category 4 just prior to making landfall somewhere on the Southeast or Mid-Atlantic coast on Thursday. (SC reaps the whirlwind, will want government assistance, Trump will congratulate himself)

Bible prophecy fulfilled as 'first red heifer in 2,000 years born in Israel' | Daily Star -- The cow's birth and sacrifice is said to proceed the construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. And the Third Temple's construction -- ollowing the destruction of the previous two -- heralds the arrival of the Jewish Messiah. While some Evangelical Christian theologians have linked the building of the Third Temple to Judgement Day ... Temple Institute bosses founded their Raise a Red Heifer in Israel program three years ago and have trying to breed a perfectly red cow. Frozen embryos of red angus cows have been imported and implanted into traditional Israeli domestic cows, reports Breaking Israel News ... verified by a board of rabbis from the Temple Institute (Jews ignored the lesson of the first two times, will try again with worse results)

Christian news: Archaeologists find sunken ruins of ancient church in Turkey | Daily Star - A BIBLICAL bombshell has been uncovered as archaeologists found the sunken of one of the most important places in the history of Christianity. - the ruins of the church that hosted the First Council of Nicaea - which was held in 325AD.


They Killed Their Abusive Husbands. Their Acquittals Shocked Russia. - The New York Times - Whereas abusers had previously faced up to two years in jail, under the new statute they risked only 15 days, or a maximum fine of about $440, or 60 to 120 hours of community service. That was for any act against a spouse or child that causes bruising or bleeding but not a broken bone, as long as it did not happen more than once a year. (Putin's new rules for men to abuse women)


Trump Almost Sent a Tweet That Could Have Signaled War With North Korea - Mother Jones - Bob Woodward reveals just how close the president came to a major provocation.


Bob Woodward: "People better wake up to what's going on" in the Oval Office ... President Trump does not see America as the indispensable nation; he sees it as an international sucker taken advantage of by allies and trading partners (government as a for-profit business owned by rich people)

Trump campaign members were 'fully aware' of efforts to set Putin meeting: Papadopoulos

Brett Kavanaugh Thinks Using Stolen Emails Is Acceptable Behavior
I, Too, Grew Up in the Crime-Ridden Streets of Bethesda, Maryland - McSweeney's


Sheriffs who cheered Trump's attack on press have their own media run-ins - A group of sheriffs gave the president a troubling ovation after he called journalists 'very, very dishomest'. Here is a taste of local media scrutiny of 10 of them ... 2. Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, Bristol county, Massachusetts


Trump won't enforce Stormy Daniels nondisclosure agreement

Eschaton: NeverTrumpers - It is not "the deep state" as imagined by Trump or even by some liberals, but there is still a permanent floating class of elite professionals in DC who truly believe they do, or at least should, run the place. Mark Halperin (burning in hell somewhere, hopefully) used to call it the "gang of 500" and while his version was a bit heavy on the press and comms, the concept was sort of right ... . And besides elected Republicans, consider the "establishment" embrace of Gorsuch and then especially Kavanaugh. The latter clearly fails even the "good guy" test, as an obvious ratfucking liar, despite their bleatings, and he will kill their wives and daughters and mistresses and they don't care.

Ted Cruz warns that Beto O'Rourke will bring 'tofu, silicon and dyed hair' to Texas (so, more boob jobs? and what an ugly fucker he is)
A Playbook With One Play - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Republican are the true "identity politics" crowd)

Opinion | Dirty Politics in New York - The New York Times - A last-minute mailer from Democrats wrongly describing Cynthia Nixon as anti-Semitic is a disgrace. (Cuomo doing his Cuomo-dick thing)
A Delayed Bridge Opening and an 'Inappropriate' Mailer Puts Cuomo on the Defensive (it's not enough he got the damned thing named after his dad, he's trying to use it as a campaign prop +fucking Hillary)


The Wishful Thinking Historical Comparisons of the Media - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Ben Sasse may say he is not wedded to the GOP. There is exactly zero evidence of that assertion in his voting record. - What Sasse is clearly doing is seeking to become the next McCain, with three decades of Meet the Press appearances ahead of him.


As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims | The New Yorker - Ronan Farrow
Les Moonves Admits to Unwanted Kissing of His Doctor 19 Years Ago | Vanity Fair - Another wrinkle emerges in Moonve's negotiated exit from CBS, and within one of the more head-spinning #MeToo storylines yet. (another out-of-control rich Jewish jerk-off (registered Republican) dick has his "career distroyed" and oh, UCLA protected him, and left other women vulnerable, of course)
Leslie Moonves Poised to Depart CBS as New Sexual Assault Allegations Surface - Variety - The allegations come about six weeks after Farrow published his first New Yorker expose on Moonves on July 27. The report forced CBS's board of directors to hire two law firms to launch an internal investigation of Moonves' conduct



A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider's perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell - Former NYU department chair who hired Ronell, now suspended for sexual harassment, on what led to her downfall ... She is expert at translating incomprehensibility into pseudo-profundity ... (she turned the German Dept into the Dept of Avital the Great)


Federal officials investigating alleged marijuana delivery service in Hyde Park - The Boston Globe - Northern Herb - $13 million of controlled substances per year


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Deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo reaches city of 1.4 million : news

Body cam footage of Cincinnati Police officers rushing towards gunfire and taking down an active shooter. I have massive respect for anyone willing to run towards gunfire and risk their lives to save others. (no gore or blood, outline of motionless shooter is visible after 1:15) : videos
The Other Side Of School Safety: Students Are Getting Tasered And Beaten By Police | HuffPost - In the wake of the deadly Parkland shooting, more armed police officers are being stationed in schools. But what happens when they're the ones perpetrating violence? (let's put a bunch of sadistic assholes in charge of school "safety")


Zambia is defaulting on it's loans with China and now China is set to take over the national power utility ZESCO. : news (get corrupt officals to sign contracts, take over the country: the plan all along)

Vatican officials knew of McCarrick allegations in 2000, letter confirms | America Magazine (WLPR covered up as always)

Marine who warned of Afghan insider attack says government is violating court order


Why so many former intelligence officers are speaking out - The Washington Post

Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers - The New York Times - Many in the region still deeply resent the United States for backing previous rebellions, coups and plots in countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, Brazil and Chile, and for turning a blind eye to the abuses military regimes committed during the Cold War. (moar Kissinger!)

Trump has visited a Trump property or held a rally on more than half of the days in the past three months - The Washington Post

DNC Lawyers Raise Prospect That Papadopoulos' U.K. Contact May Be Dead ... the professor, Joseph Mifsud, may be dead. (Putin at work behind the scenes)

Trump says he could use MILITARY to build his wall if Congress won't fund it through DHS | Daily Mail Online

Trump Again Says NYT Committed 'Treason,' Suggest Op-Ed Written By 'Deep State'
According to Donald Trump, a lot of people are crying around Donald Trump | The Star

Yes, It's a White Power Sign - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Fuckanaugh and Zina Bash, the Montana rally replacement and Cathy Young is still/always an idiot)

#plaidshirtguy at Trump rally is ... a Billings high schooler | 406 Politics | billingsgazette.com
Several People Behind Trump Were Removed, Replaced During Rally In Montana | HuffPost (25K? people listened to this and didn't think anything is wrong)
Susan Simpson on Twitter: "When you realize halfway through a Trump rally that the people in the bleachers need to be peppier and blonder. "
Susan Simpson on Twitter: "Jesus it's some hunger games shit up in here. "
David Choi on Twitter: ""They had me stomping around screaming with anger, up in my area of the White House, where I lived with my wife and son ..." https://t.co/4Z93xnUHCA"

HE'S BACK! Obama refers to himself 102 times during 64-minute speech - The American Mirror (at least he didn't refer to himself in the third person)

Eric Trump's Tweet About Hatred Is Just Too Ironic For Folks Online | HuffPost - Does your dad know you are talking about him?


Michael Cohen Seeks To Tear Up Stormy Daniels Deal, Get Hush Money Back | HuffPost


Leahy says Kavanaugh was 'not truthful'' about Democratic documents (he even looks like a pig)
Lisa Murkowski's Biggest Reason To Oppose Brett Kavanaugh May Not Be Abortion Rights - Alaska Natives are urging the senator to vote no. She owes her re-election to them.
As Kavanaugh's hearing concludes, Collins says she's still undecided on Supreme Court nominee -- The moderate Republican wields a key vote and says she won't make a decision until she has a chance to review Brett Kavanaugh's paperwork and testimony.
Susan Collins Receives 3,000 Coat Hangers Ahead Of Kavanaugh Vote | HuffPost - Many believe Brett Kavanaugh would help roll back abortion access in the U.S.

Obama vs. Trump: The clash everyone's waited for arrives - But on Friday, at least, the current president barely mustered a response to the blistering critique leveled against him by his predecessor.

Top Trump Adviser Says Ted Cruz Could Lose Texas Senate Race - The New York Times
The 60 days of rage leading into the midterms - Axios
White House aide tells donors GOP can win midterms despite Trump's unpopularity (red wave coming!)



NYT columnist Maureen Dowd explains why Donald Trump isn't as bad as Dick Cheney

I Refused to Write Steve Bannon's Bio for The New Yorker Festival By Hilary Leichter (fire Remnick!)

Tucker and Mickey - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Fascinating career arcs for Tucker Carlson and Mickey Kaus. The former was an extremely good magazine journalist in the 90s who became a universally-recognized bigot; the latter was an extremely mediocre magazine journalist in the 90s who became a universally-ignored bigot.
R.I.P., Liberal Contrarianism : Democracy Journal - Before #Slatepitch became a punchline, Slate (and others) really did thrive on a certain kind of anti-liberalism. It's dead now -- well, almost ... And Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake -- same deal. No previous history of political involvement, no substantial awareness of how the American political system actually works. The biggest megastars of the left blogosphere were total noobs ... OK, I'll give you Greenwald. Good lord, the man's political illiteracy is exceeded only by his sense of self-righteousness
Slate hires Matthew Yglesias after dismissing his writing on Twitter - November 10, 2011


Today's Voter Suppression Tactics Have A 150 Year History - Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.
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The Battle For The Right To Vote Has Never Been Won - Talking Points Memo

George Zimmerman Made Threats Against Beyonci and Jay-Z


South Dakota journalist reports on her own daughter's tragic fentanyl overdose death : news - 155 Americans die each day in the U.S. (Sacklers profiting)
CBS This Morning's Interview with Angela Kennecke
> South Dakota journalist reports on her own daughter's tragic fentanyl overdose death | Fox News - Kennecke was surprised to learn her daughter had been shooting heroin given her middle-class upbringing, she said in a Friday interview.

Police raid home of couple who raised $400K for homeless Marine veteran (finally, pics)


Warrant delayed as Texas Rangers investigate Dallas cop who killed neighbor in own home : news
Dallas Police Officer Kills Her Neighbor in His Apartment, Saying She Mistook It for Her Own - The New York Times (they never drug-tested her b/c she felt her life "was in danger")
Mourners pay tribute to Botham Jean, the Caribbean transplant killed by Dallas officer in his own apartment | Dallas | Dallas News
Manslaughter charge for Dallas officer accused in neighbor's death : news
?? Monieoakley ?? on Twitter: "This is the guy that was killed by that #Dallas police officer and the lady on the left is the police officer ?? I said the story was suspicious ?? how did you accidentally walk in someone else https://t.co/iLTYtUbhkS" (so, she's white woman cop who knew him)

Woman, 86, hospitalized after pit bull attack : news
Louisiana woman burned baby alive, went to IHOP shift, records say | Miami Herald
Woman lit gasoline-soaked baby on fire, then started her IHOP shift, Louisiana records say : news

Former Hanscom AFB worker arrested for child porn after agents find 3,000 images, 'Child Love' manual : news

Cops are called on Cardi B - 'is escorted out' of Harper's Bazaar party after 'attacking' Nicki Minaj 'with shoe' | Daily Mail Online - leaving her with a ripped gown and a huge head bump


Instagram's Hottest CBD Beverage Tastes Like the Inside of a Tin Can and I Love It (the future is here and it's on Instagram and it costs $65 for no effects but you can trend)
Over 500 charged in LA crackdown on illegal pot businesses : news (high pot taxes keep black market going because that's what they always do)


Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole - Quillette - (GMVH) asserts that there are more idiots and more geniuses among men than among women
On Hill's work on 'Greater Male Variability Hypothesis' (GMVH) -- the argument that publishing and discussing GMVH is detrimental to the career aspirations of women, because of how individual women will internalize the result, depends on a host of sexist assumptions that are as if not more pernicious than GMVH. It is based on the idea that women as a whole need special protection from mathematical ideas in order to pursue careers in mathematics. (women need to be protected because their brains don't work as good oh wait +of course men are stupid so that doesn't count)
Greater Male Variability Hypothesis

Study finds antidepressants may cause antibiotic resistance : science

Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals - The New York Times - The researcher, Dr. Josi Baselga, a towering figure in the cancer world, is the chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Top Cancer Researcher at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals : news



A Couple Quit Sugar For A Month, Here's Their Results And Added Sugars Explained : videos


The BEZOS Act Is Bad Policy - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bernie Sanders is picking the wrong fight with Amazon - Bernie Sanders has been picking fights with Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos for months now ...

Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot | The Seattle Times

The only surprising thing about this is that people are surprised by it. -- According to a major new study, Uber, Lyft and their smaller rivals are clogging major U.S. cities -- not relieving congestion ...

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Murdered Russian exile survived earlier poisoning attempt, police believe | UK news | The Guardian - Nikolai Glushkov, a friend of the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky and a prominent Kremlin critic, was found dead in March at his home in New Malden, south-west London. He had been strangled.

Trump warns he could cause the 'ruination' of Canada


Russia-Linked Money-Laundering Probe Looks at $150 Billion in Transactions - WSJ - uncovered at Danske's Estonian branch highlight the growing concern about illicit money flows from the former Soviet Union

A Security Expert Tied to WikiLeaks Vanishes, and the Internet Is Abuzz - The New York Times

Frustration and Finger-Pointing as G.O.P. Pulls Out of Deal Talks on Hacked Materials - The New York Times - that would have effectively barred both parties from using hacked or stolen material on the campaign trail this fall. (that clarifies things)

The President's Broken Brain Was on Full Display in Montana : politics (good references)
Donald Trump's Montana Rally Speech Features Dumb Abraham Lincoln Reference, Ronny Jackson Rant - All is well!
Aaron Rupar on Twitter: "Trump is slurring heavily & making less sense than normal. In this clip he pivots from bashing the media, to praising Ben Carson, to bragging about beating "the Bush dynasty," to talking about "Crooked Hillary," all within 90 seconds. https://t.co/zUJKg2LTcr" (just fucking wow)
Aaron Rupar on Twitter: "Trump is out of his mind. Listen to this. "
Donald Trump Rally in Montana Features Slurring of Words, Incomprehensible Rants

19th Century Schizoid Men - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Superb Adam Serwer essay on the Second Redemption Court: (the trail of blood is written in the history but no one reads it)

Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Hearings Have Been Shrouded In Secrecy - Senators saw only a small fraction of the records relating to Trump's Supreme Court nominee. The public saw even fewer.
Brett Lied, Women Will Die - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Republicans just keep choosing to pay a Trump Tax on their own popularity because they refuse to hold Trump to a high standard of conduct.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be impeached for lying during his confirmation hearings. - He should be impeached, not elevated.
Newly Released Emails Show Brett Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself at Least Four Times - Formerly confidential emails have been released that show the Supreme Court nominee contradicting statements he made under oath to the Senate. (how about lock him up?)
Email Marked 'Confidential' by GOP Shows Kavanaugh Pushed for John Yoo, Legal Architect of Bush Torture Program, to Be a Federal Judge : politics
For Susan Collins, A Vote For Kavanaugh Would Be Political Suicide : politics (well, little Susie, whatcha gonna do?)
Either Sen. Collins VOTES NO on Kavanaugh OR we fund her future opponent | Crowdpac - $699,947 (so far)


'I Don't Talk' That Way, Trump Says. Except When He Does.

Barack Obama Just Threw the Partisan Punches I Never Thought He Would - He diagnosed the Republican Party's brain disease, and plainly assessed Donald Trump's place in the mayhem.
'This is not normal': Obama says midterm election consequences are dire (said the bi-partisan legacy polisher)
Barack Obama: Republicans Lack 'Backbone' To 'Safeguard The Institutions That Make Our Democracy Work' : politics (said the bipartisan guy without the backbone to stand up to Mitch the Bitch and screwed the country)
Obama Lays Out The Game Plan For Defeating Trump - YouTube

Crazytown: A Bob Woodward Book, an Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed, and a Growing Crisis for the Trump Presidency | The New Yorker ... what Woodward has written is not just the story of a deeply flawed President but also, finally, an account of what those surrounding him have chosen to do about it.
Who is the New York Times anonymous op-ed writer? The Obvious Suspect - The quest to unmask the New York Times op-ed writer has been filled with speculation. But the article's prose points to one person in particular - the most likely author, based on the op-ed's content and style, is the U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman. (McCain was the "lodestar")

Trump crosses a new threshold for anti-media rhetoric, jokingly praising a congressman for assaulting a reporter - The Washington Post ("joke")

Manafort Is Said to Weigh Plea Deal to Avoid New Criminal Trial - Bloomberg - Talks said to center on possible admissions, sentencing length
Papadopoulos breaks silence, 'can't guarantee' he didn't tell Trump campaign about Russian dirt

Roger Stone associate Randy Credico appears before Mueller grand jury - ABC News
Trump Executives Are Said to Face Campaign-Finance Probe by U.S. - Bloomberg - Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether anyone in the Trump Organization violated campaign-finance laws, in a follow-up to their conviction last month of Michael Cohen, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Elliot Broidy' s Mistress Shera Bechard Says He Demanded She Get Abortion - Shera Bechard also accused Elliott Broidy of having unprotected sex with her - 'without telling her he had genital herpes'
Chris Hayes on Twitter: "This person was the DEPUTY FINANCE CHAIR of the anti-abortion party. https://t.co/8XNJ8ur0my"

"I'm Tired of America Wasting Our Blood and Treasure": he Strange Ascent of Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince - Since the 1970s, the DeVos family has been quietly advancing a plan to make government act more like a private business. Now, they appear ready to take the next step. (it's only fitting that America would now be run by pyramid-scheme scammers dedicated to destroying education and privatizing the military)


The Double Crisis of the American Political System - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Since this dystopian regime began, I've wondered how Republicans who collaborate with Trump despite knowing he's a isaster live with themselves. (so, the Constitution was a nice idea, but it doesn't work anymore)
There's No Defense of Trump's Treason Travesty (no, you miss the point, disloyalty to Trump has always been treason)

Dems vow to grab Trump tax returns upon taking majority | TheHill


Yes, Democrats do have a legitimate path to win back the Senate

Record-breaking 100 women may be elected to the House in 2018 - The wave is being driven entirely by Democrats, a new race-by-race analysis shows. On the GOP side, the number of women serving in office is expected to dip.

Somerville is changing, and so are its voters. Just ask Ayanna Pressley. - The Boston Globe (20 years ago, all old white guys)


Republican Questions Native American Opponent's Ethnicity In Bizarre Fox Interview - New Mexico state Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones suggests Democratic rival Deb Haaland isn't Native American because she didn't grow up on a reservation. (another fake indian)


'Frahrenheit 11/9' : : Michael Moore Exposes Trump, The New York Times and Establishment Democrats - The new documentary, which premiered at TIFF, is a sprawling polemical collage thats less about Trump and more about how to build a progressive future - The connection to Trump is clear: like Trump, Snyder was a businessman rather than a politician. And like Trump, Snyder runs his district as an authoritarian criminal. If Snyder was able to harm so many, what could Trump do?


Someone posted photos of a young councilwoman in her underwear. She called it 'slut-shaming


Exclusive: Les Moonves Was Obsessed With Ruining Janet Jackson's Career (fucker, Timberlake was fine)
TIL after Janet Jackson's incident at the Super Bowl halftime show, Viacom retaliated by keeping her music off their properties including MTV, VH1, and radio stations. They also rescinded her invitation to the Grammys. Justin Timberlake was still allowed to go and actually picked up some awards. : todayilearned - TIL YouTube exists solely because of Janet Jackson's nipple.
Today Among Our Massively Sexist Media Moguls - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Christ, what an asshole: Although Moonves is embattled and likely to be ousted from CBS amid sexual harassment allegations (reportedly with a significant severance payment) (people are afraid to talk) a real mystery that the Republican candidate openly boasting about sexual assault never became a story on the level of, say, his opponent's compliance with email server management best practices.

'The Predator' actress Olivia Munn outed her castmate as a registered sex offender. His scene was cut.

The Empty Storefronts of New York: A Panoramic View - The New York Times

Gen. George Patton's wife put a Hawaiian curse on his ex-mistress. She was dead within days.

Family reveals crash video, details: South Bend cop ran red light at 90 mph and had siren off : news
Dallas officer goes home to wrong apartment, kills man inside, police say : news

Driver who allegedly ran over Cambridge woman called 911, drove away, prosecutors say - The Boston Globe - Ashley A. Monturio, 41, was arraigned for allegedly driving over Gallardo in the parking lot of Gallardo's building and fleeing the scene of the deadly crash. (she had a "job interview" to get to)

Connecticut woman severely injured her hand when she lit a quarter stick of dynamite that she mistook for a candle during a power outage. : news
Arrest in Massive New Haven Explosives Bust - NBC Connecticut
New Haven man takes plea deal in fireworks case - New Haven Register

Hot car: Katie Corbin got locked out of her car while her 1-year-old was inside - The Washington Post - The mother said she had stopped to get gas Tuesday at a service station in Northville Township, Mich., near Detroit, when the doors locked automatically, according to ABC affiliate WXYZ. Her purse, her cellphone and her keys were suddenly trapped inside the car ... the dealership told her that keeping the key fob in fabric, such as purse or diaper bag, may interrupt the signal. (or your fucking pocket)

Man fined $124 for kicking seagull that ate his cheeseburger at Hampton Beach : news

Cruise ship with 350 people onboard becomes disabled in Buzzards Bay - The Boston Globe

/u/BabstheBeagle chronicles the 26 phone calls it took to cancel an LA Fitness membership over the phone. : bestof


Opioid billionaire granted patent for addiction treatment | Financial Times - Purdue owner Richard Sackler listed as inventor of drug to wean addicts off painkillers (win-win!)




She made the discovery, but a man got the Nobel. A half-century later, she's won a $3 million prize (and he didn't say anything, either)


Popular Mac App Adware Doctor Actually Acts Like Spyware | WIRED - The researchers found that Adware Doctor collects data about its users, particularly browsing history and a list of other software and processes running on a machine, stores that data in a locked file, and periodically sends it out to a server that appears to be located in China (because Apple-heads think they don't have to worry about security)

After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks, AT&T's Promised Job Growth Magically Evaporates : technology (it always does)

Eschaton: Oh Elon - I thought he's been chained to the Tesla assembly line working 487 hour week - Billionaire Elon Musk took viewers by surprise late Thursday when he smoked marijuana and drank whiskey during a live interview.
Tesla shares crash after Elon Musk smokes joint on live web show | Technology | The Guardian - Two senior executives quit electric carmaker as market value falls 8%
Tesla stock falls as CEO appears to smoke marijuana on video : news


090618


The Brazil Museum Fire: What Was Lost - The New York Times - Some items in the collection are irreplaceable to science, as well as the country's national memory


From Mountain of CCTV Footage, Pay Dirt: 2 Russians Are Named in Spy Poisoning - The New York Times (Trump's friends)

Section 377 Verdict: Supreme Court Decriminalises Gay Sex, Heeds Indian LGBT Community's Long Struggle - verdict accords judicial sanction to the lives and loves of millions of Indians


Eschaton: Sometimes I Find It Comforting That Other People Have Governments That Are As Horrible And Stupid As Ours - Only sometimes, of course ... The incentives for pharma companies in this situation are quite obvious: run shortages and then demand billions from the government to miraculously fix the problem, after lots of people have died of course. "Please stockpile medicines" is not actually going to work. (bye-bye, Brits)


Grassley Rebuffed in Attempt to Obtain Steele Testimony - The Atlantic - Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa had sought the former British spy's deposition in a civil suit related to his Trump-Russia dossier, but a judge in Florida ruled Grassley would have to follow normal court procedures to get Steele's testimony (so many truely evil Republcians)

New York attorney general's office has issued subpoenas to every Catholic diocese in the state ... Missouri became the first state to launch an investigation in the wake of the Pennsylvania report ... New Mexico and Nebraska are also pursuing investigations ... but in Connecticut, for instance, an official wrote that the attorney general there lacks "any criminal law authority (outside of certain home improvement contractor violations)." (wonder why they did that?)
New York Catholic dioceses subpoenaed in sex abuse probe

Trump administration to circumvent court limits on detention of child migrants - The Washington Post -Kirstjen Nielsen. (face of evil)

White House officials flagged Trump's behavior to psychiatrist last year

rett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As 'Abortion-Inducing Drugs' At Confirmation Hearing (fucker)
Cory Booker and Senate Democrats just went into open revolt in the Kavanaugh hearings - The Washington Post
Newly released email suggests Kavanaugh did not tell the truth while he was under oath in 2006 - Maybe there's a reason Senate Republicans tried to keep Kavanaugh's emails secret?
Leaked Kavanaugh Documents Discuss Abortion and Affirmative Action - The New York Times
Brett Kavanaugh Hearings: Did the Nominee Mislead on Spying and Abortion? - The New York Times
A Little Light Perjury - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- remember when Kavanaugh spent $2 million to investigate whether Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster, years after the question had been dispositively settled?


Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened | World news | The Guardian - government photographer cropped space 'where crowd ended' (lies from day one, Trump "angered" by reality and Spicer-fuck was there to help)

Video surfaces refuting Trump's claim he's never called someone 'retarded'

The Constitution is failing - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Behold the howling narcissistic void that was once (perhaps) a man:

Trump's Nightmare: 'The snakes are everywhere' (especially in his head)
The Death of Parody in the Age of Trump, Cont'd (GG should really try shutting up for a few years)
Anonymous 'New York Times' Op-Ed Writer from White House Could Be Kellyanne Conway - The family is in agreement.

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the New York Times Opinion Desk - I work for the Gray Lady, but my loyalty is to the Take.

David S. Joachim on Twitter: "BREAKING: New York (AP) -- Trump will not answer federal investigators' questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Giuliani tells @AP"
The Hill on Twitter: "JUST IN: Warren calls for using the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office https://t.co/fIh5veaRJ4 "

Trump Hits Campaign Trail as Prospect of Midterm Defeat Looms - Bloomberg - Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to gain control of House
Live From the Battleground Districts: Polls of the Key Races for House Control - The New York Times - In a first, the Upshot and Siena College will publish polling results in real time.
Trump's approval ratings are pulled down by college-educated whites - His current numbers are only just above the low point of December 2017

The Republican Vote Suppression Machine Marches On - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The crisis isn't Trump. It's his Republican enablers. (that's literally a distinction without a difference, Ez)

Zephyr Teachout Sues Sean Patrick Maloney Over Campaign Finances | HuffPost - The Democratic congressman funneled $1.4 million from his federal re-election campaign to his state AG run.

The Best Reason to Replace Pelosi - Lawyers, Guns & Money - there is one good reason to replace her and the rest of the Democratic leadership, which is that it is going to take replacing them to get the off of living in Republican talking points land. (Pelosi will revive "pay-go" fiscal responsibilty because she's an idiot and needs to go)
Scoop: Confident Democrats plan push for after 2018 midterm elections - Axios - And Pelosi, despite opposition from some progressives, is committed to reviving the 'pay-go' rule she had during her previous run as speaker, requiring that new spending be paid for by budget cuts or revenue offsets.

Liberal insurgency targets Delaware senator next - POLITICO - Democratic Sen. Tom Carper faces a challenge from Kerri Harris, part of a movement of progressive primary challengers. (40 fucking years as a reliable "centrist" dem)


Health - The New York Times - As arguments play out in a Texas courtroom, Democrats push back with biting ads warning that protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions could fall. (hahah suckers, just die)

Judge Strikes Down Texas 'Fetal Burial' Law In Blow To Anti-Abortion Crusade (anything to fuck people over)


State Department's top candidate to lead efforts countering disinformation: A Fox News reporter (hahah suckers)

The mystery of Tucker Carlson - Columbia Journalism Review (always been a screaming asshole)
Gaslighting For White Nationalism: the Tucker Carlson Story - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars accounts (deplatformed)


CBS board in negotiations for CEO Moonves exit: Sources - The sources say the board wants the right to claw back some of that compensation if sexual harassment allegations against Moonves are confirmed.

Woman hauled off Mormon church podium after claiming former leader raped her - NY Daily News - McKenna Denson, 55, who lives in Colorado, walked into the Mormon church of Joseph Bishop, who oversaw hundreds of young adults as president of the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, in the 1980s (Bishop Fucker Bishop)


Police raid New Jersey couple's home after $400G in GoFundMe cash they raised for homeless veteran disappears : news


Parents outraged after man installs electric fence near Henrico County bus stop (Bryan Tucker expanded his "property" so he could electrocute kids)


Former Minneapolis cop's behavior before shooting death of Australian woman raised concerns, court filings say (they weren't required to turn on their cameras unti after they killed someone)

New video shows school cop Scot Peterson hiding as gunman shoots Parkland students - Sun Sentinel (chicken-shit hero cop)
Elaina Plott: The Bullet in My Arm - The Atlantic (sourthern gun-fuck culture)

Woman using walker killed in Cambridge hit-and-run - The Boston Globe


ELI5: What is the so called Axis of Evil and why does it trouble astronomers? : explainlikeimfive

As Animal-Assisted Therapy Thrives, Enter the Cats - The New York Times - More research is done on the therapeutic benefits of dogs than on cats and other animals. But there are signs of change.

Weird hexagon on Saturn is way bigger than scientists thought

Preventing Muscle Loss as We Age - The New York Times - Sarcopenia, a decline in skeletal muscle in older people, contributes to loss of independence.

Women who took and posted selfies to social media reported feeling more anxious, less confident, and less physically attractive afterwards compared to those in the control group. Harmful effects of selfies were found even when participants could retake and retouch their selfies. : science


Heartwarming surprise, two waitresses say 'Happy birthday' to a hearing-impaired four-year-old in sign language. : gifs


The future is here today: you can't play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions : Music


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Quarantined Sick Emirates Passengers From Dubai Report Fevers and Coughing - The CDC is holding 10 fliers who fell ill during a long trip from the UAE. One factor health officials may be watching: a flu outbreak among the millions on the hajj to Mecca.
Emirates superjumbo jet quarantined at JFK after 100 passengers fall ill : news


Britain would now vote 59-41 to stay in the EU, new poll shows : worldnews - undefined


Britain Charges 2 Russians Over Nerve Agent Novichok Poisoning In Salisbury | HuffPost - Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov are charged in absentia with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and use of the nerve agent Novichok. (central casting for the win)

India stepmother arrested for 'ordering' gang rape of girl, 9 : news ... The title leaves out the most gruesome part that she was then murdered with an ax and burned with acid...fuck, I hate humans ... And that one of the people ordered to rape her was her 14 year old step brother ... And that this was all because the stepmother was jealous of the little girl being the dad's favorite

Photographing an Indelicate but Deadly Subject - The New York Times - Girls from the village of Peepli Kheera, India, line up for school, where there is no working toilet. Most drop out when they start their period due to a lack of toilets and privacy (win-win)

Ex-hostage says husband abused her while family held captive in Afghanistan | World news | The Guardian (pseudo-muzzie fucker)


Laws Punishing Homeless People for Sleeping in Public Are Cruel and Unusual, Court Rules : news

Trump admin rejected report showing refugees did not pose major security threat - Hard-liners issued their own report that several ex-officials say misstates evidence and inflates the threat posed by people born outside the U.S.


Trump suggests that protesting should be illegal - The Washington Post ... "I think it's embarrassing for the country to allow protesters." (unless you're a nazi, in which case fine)

In 'Fear,' Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump's 'Crazytown'
Woodward book prompts West Wing witch hunt, sources say - CNNPolitics - But no sooner had the search for Woodward's sources begun than yet another devastating portrait of the President emerged, this time via a New York Times op-ed wrote by an unnamed senior Trump administration official.
Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration - The New York Times - I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. - The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure.
The 2 most overlooked, inexplicable stories from Bob Woodward's Trump book
Backed by hundreds of hours of tapes, Bob Woodward's "Fear" infuriates Trump - Axios
Donald Trump Cries About People Making Up Stories, Gets Brutally Taken To Task | HuffPost
The One Word In Bob Woodward's Trump Book People Can't stop tweeting about -- "Crazytown"
Woodward's Account of Trump's Mock Interview with Prosecutors Isn't Pretty (he can't not lie) ... In a stark moment of either self-awareness or arrogance, Woodward declares blithely in the book that his own denunciation of the dossier helped to launch the president down his destructive path. "The episode played a big role in launching Trump's war with the intelligence world," Woodward wrote, "excpecially the FBI and Comey" (they are all fuckers)
"Everybody on the inside knows it's true" : Woodward's Reality Bomb Is Blowing Up the West Wing

'The sleeper cells have awoken' :Trump and aides shaken by 'resistance' op-ed ... Trump reacted to the column with "volcanic" anger and was "absolutely lived" over what he considered a treasonous act of disloyalty, and told confidants he suspects the official works on national security issues or in the Justice Department

The calls are coming from inside the White House - Lawyers, Guns & Money - what we have here is the revelation of something akin to a soft coup by unelected officials against the nation's highest elected official. While this may be justified under such extraordinary circumstances, it's also extremely troubling, in some of the same ways a military coup would be. Again, this seems fundamentally unsustainable.
Bob Woodward Book: President Trump's Aides Effectively Staged a Coup to Prevent Disaster - Gary Cohn and James Mattis Intervene - And yet the president*'s aides did stop him from blowing up the world.
Anonymous Trump White House Official Pens New York Times Op-Ed Claiming to Resist Him - Nobody elected the Anonymous Heroes executing a de facto coup against Donald Trump's presidency*.
Be John Dean or STFU - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ed Burmila on Twitter: "Check out my new piece "I am in the Manson Family and Sure I Killed a Couple of Drifters to Earn their Trust but I am Resisting from the Inside" in @nytopinion"
Who uses a comma in their name, honestly? on Twitter: "Nah, your boy Pence is positioning himself to be the "lodestar" after your're gone. Too bad it won't work, since he's as guilty as you! But hey, at least Stormy isn't the only "load star" that'll take you down! #FuckingResignAlreadyYouTraitor https://t.co/kpEnSRaw4n"
One Word Has People Convinced Mike Pence Wrote Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed : politics - "Loadestar"

Donald Trump 'Openly, Publicly' Colluded with Russia and That's Been 'Well Established,' Says Dem Lawmaker : politics

Missing Kavanaugh Docs Being Kept Secret to Cover up Evidence of Crime, Fmr Fed Prosecutor Says : politics
CSPAN on Twitter: "Complete exchange between @senkamalaharris and Judge Kavanaugh on Mueller Investigation. "
Kavanaugh Declines to Say Whether Presidents Must Comply With a Subpoena : politics
Discussion Thread: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing Day 2 : politics
Report Finds Judge Kavanaugh Ruled Against Public Interest in Almost All of His District Court Cases | Democracy Now!

Southern Republican senators reject Trump's criticism of Sessions ... "we're a pretty smart bunch. We lost the Civil War, but I think we're winning the economic ar since then ..." (we got all the Northern states to pay us to be stupid and evil, and wah, yall, wall tallk lak dat)
Trump's contempt for his Southern base finally gets GOP senators riled up (Sen Johnny Jackson does not look human)
Trump's Attack on Woodward's Book Hits a Bump: He Actually Did Call Jeff Sessions a 'Retard' - It's shocking, we know, that this president would say such a thing
Crazytown, USA: Have we finally reached peak Trump? - The Boston Globe

Trump's approval rating drop looks real, and it could be a disaster for the GOP in 2018 - A new ABC News/Washington Post poll puts President Donald Trump's approval rating at just 36%. An IBD/TIPP poll also puts the President's approval rating at 36%. Finally, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll gives Trump an approval rating of 37%. All three are declines from the last poll by each pollster, which had Trump's approval rating in the low 40s.

Eschaton: Brain Worms - These things can happen slowly, but Trump is getting worse, not better. - As I have said throughout this nightmare, I've been hearing the Donald my whole adult life. He was always a narcissistic blowhard, but not like this. It isn't just a show he's putting on for the rubes.

Progressives Turn Their Anger On Chuck Schumer Over Brett Kavanaugh Hearing | HuffPost - Activists want the Democratic leader to put pressure on conservative members of the caucus to oppose Trump (chuckie Fuckie fuckieing things up as always)

Kavanaugh stumbled over two critical tripwires - The Washington Post - We have a president who may be allowed to pick a Supreme Court justice that will facilitate his evisceration of constitutional boundaries. That is why the Kavanaugh situation is unique and why we cannot treat it like just another court fight.
How bad will Trump's abuses get? Today's Kavanaugh hearing could provide a clue.

James Mattis Was a Front Man For a Massive Fraud - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Secretary of Defense James Mattis is implicated in one of the largest business scandals of the past decades, described by the Securities and Exchange Commission as an "elaborate, years-long fraud" through which Theranos, led by CEO Elizabeth Holmes and president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani ... Everyone in Washington is more or less convinced that his presence in the Pentagon is the only thing standing between us and possible nuclear Armageddon. It's an absurd, intolerable situation, but that's life in America in 2018 ... Mattis is insulated from consequences for being part of a massive scam, in part because he seems to have enough pull to stop Trump from doing impulsive stuff like illegal assassinations of foreign leaders. What a country.
4 years ago /u/meeblek explained how tech startup Theranos was using smoke and mirrors to mislead investors. Today the company has shut down, and the CEO is facing fraud charges. (formatted by /u/LaserBison) : bestof
I have a high-paying job in an organization based on lies and fear. Is this normal? : jobs (Theranos, 6 yrs ago)
Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve - WSJ - Firm, tarred by scandal, will pay creditors its remaining cash (her dad was an Enron exec)

On Capitol Hill, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg proves to be an experienced political operator - She and Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey were a study in contrasts Wednesday


Heading into the midterms, expect the polls to get it wrong - The Boston Globe

Ayanna Pressley's Victory in Massachusetts Shows the Democratic Party Is Looking More Like Its Base - Lessons from Ayanna Pressley's upset victory in Massachusetts Tuesday.

Ayanna Pressley Upsets Capuano in Massachusetts House Race - The New York Times
Ayanna Pressley Celebrates Victory and Sees a New Day in Massachusetts Politics - The New York Times - It ended with a surprisingly lopsided vote of 59 to 41 percent in Ms. Pressley's favor
Huge turnout in Ayanna Pressley's victory over Michael Capuano - NBC News
Ayanna Pressley's victory gives a win to Maura Healey
We've seen the future of Massachusetts politics, and it's female
Pressley's 'change can't wait' message may be potent in Democratic Party
With Pressley's win, a political earthquake in Massachusetts politics
Pressley v. Capuano - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Ayanna Pressley ate his lunch last night because of the people of that blue Massachusetts district wanted a lefty fighter, someone who would represent their anger and fury at what has happened to the nation. Capuano also embraced some blue lives matter ridiculousness toward the end and tried to make it an issue in the campaign, demonstrating that he was increasingly out of touch with his district
The Insurgency - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The liberal insurgency inside the Democratic Party has claimed another victory, with Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley defeating veteran Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-Mass.) on Tuesday with a message of generational change.
Third District race appears headed for a recount - The Boston Globe
Marty Walsh big loser in Massachusetts primaries

Jason Lewis Retains Fifth Middlesex District Senate Seat | Melrose, MA Patch - State Sen. Jason Lewis has held off Sam Hammar, according to reports. (booze industry outspent her 4-1, still got 45%)


Trump DOJ Official Overseeing Voter Fraud Hunt Subpoenas Millions Of Voting Records | HuffPost - A new broad request for voter information in North Carolina is raising alarm bells.
Election Officials Are Alarmed as Trump Administration Subpoenas Voter Data From 44 North Carolina Counties - The move, two months before the midterms, could interfere with election preparation and intimidate voters.

Hunter indictment sheds light on 'personal relationships' for congressman - "While there may be evidence of infidelity, irresponsibility or alcohol dependence, once properly understood, the underlying facts do not equate to criminal activity," (well, well)
Duncan Hunter Spent Campaign Cash On 5 Affairs, Prosecutors Allege | HuffPost - Hunter and his wife, Margaret, were indicted on 60 charges last month for allegedly misusing $250,000 in campaign funds on lavish vacations and dinners.



Heavily spliced Ted Cruz video falsely depicts Beto O'Rourke saying he's 'grateful' for flag burning
The GOP recycles everything - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Does Ted Cruz have enough sense not to laugh at an anti-Irish joke that contains strong racist under-, over- and mid-tones? ... "Send him back to Ireland" (without any self-awareness of the Cuban in front of him)

Man arrested after repeatedly crashing truck into Texas TV station: media : news

A Republican congressman helped a rival collect signatures to get on the ballot. Some of those signatures were fake. - The Washington Post - Rep. Scott W. Taylor (R-Va.) sat in the backroom of his campaign office in a strip mall. (looks ... crooked)
Richmond judge finds 'out-and-out fraud' in effort by Rep. Scott Taylor staff to get independent on ballot - Richmond Circuit Court Judge Gregory L. Rupe ruled that independent Shaun Brown should be removed from the 2nd District congressional ballot (yeah, crooked)

Nearly 6,000 teachers on strike as contract battles continue : news (WA)


Roy Moore suing Sacha Baron Cohen for defamation over TV sketch mocking him : news


Eschaton: The First Rule Of Elites Is - Don't Be Mean To Us - Now he's all washed up but club members still treat him like a big curiosity instead of a Saturday Night Live joke. Sure he's a white supremacist fascist, but the big problem is David Remnick obeying the twitter mob and his own unruly employee and disinviting him from an event which was in the process of losing the rest of its guests, shrieks Bret Stephens on America's Worst Oped page (you can find it yourself). This is the kind of defense which is only made for club members by other wannabe club members.


Takes That Are Correct - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Shake Shack, like Chipotle, exists in that Fancy Fast Casual category where you get to pretend you're being smarter and healthier for plunking down $4 extra to consume 1,500 calories worth of food inside the spiritual equivalent of an Apple store.


No evidence that moral reminders reduce cheating behavior, finds a new replication study (n=4,674). Scientists report they were unable to reproduce the results of a well-known study showing that people are less likely to cheat on a task after making a list of the Ten Commandments. : science


One man's bipolar symptoms have been linked to the lunar cycle. Typically, our circadian rhythm (biological clock) is linked to the sun, but this patient's circadian rhythm was also linked to the moon. Every new moon, he experienced insomnia and switched from a depressive episode to a manic episode. : science


I grew up in a polygamous cult in Utah. I escaped at age 17 to avoid an arranged marriage to my 1st cousin. AMA : IAmA (sounds like Chabad with more polygamy)

/u/GavinShipman explains British binge drinking culture : bestof


Many US Facebook users have changed privacy settings or taken a break | Pew Research Center - Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings in the past 12 months,

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Typhoon Jebi hit Japan today causing 300 thousand people to be evacuated, these are the videos of the storm in action. : videos

To the left, the Maracanc Stadium, recently renovated for USD 500 million. To the right, the National Museum of Brazil, which received as little as R$400,000 per year, which burned down last Sunday due to lack of smoke detectors. Cultural priorities. : pics



Saudi Arabia declares online satire punishable offence : news (no funny for you)


TIL that New York City alone has more people than Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and New Mexico combined : todayilearned


President Trump has made 4,713 false or misleading claims in 592 days - The Washington Post

Eschaton: Booby - I don't really like Woodward's weird "reporting" style which seems to always be like reading fictionalized versions of events, but have it at it ... By fictionalized I don't mean false, just that the quotes are more like paraphrases, the narratives dictated rather than uncovered. Truthy if that.
Bob Woodward's new book reveals a 'nervous breakdown' of Trump's presidency ... A central theme of the book is the stealthy machinations used by those in Trump's inner sanctum to try to control his impulses and prevent disasters, both for the president personally and for the nation he was elected to lead. ... Trump's bedroom ... "the devil's workshop" (literally) Sessions "This guy is mentally retarded. He's this dumb Southerner ... He couldn't even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama" (and Ivanka is a real shit)
Trump irritated he wasn't interviewed by Woodward for upcoming book (after refusing interviews b/c he would look really stupid and dangerous)
Transcript: Phone call between President Trump and journalist Bob Woodward - The Washington Post (it's all about his lies)
The most damning portrait of Trump's presidency yet -- by far
The Most Shocking Excerpts From Woodward's White House Memoir
Bob Woodward's new book reveals a 'nervous breakdown' of Trump's presidency

Woodward Book: Trump Staff Thinks Trump is an Idiot ... This is the most important and well-known fact about McCain and Trump got it backward. It's like attacking Harriet Tubman for her refusal to help escaped slaves. Woodward has repeatedly scolded the media for its unfairness to Trump, and expressed skepticism about the Russia investigation. ... Wolff's book, and its too-amazing-to-be-real anecdotes, was met with a fair amount of skepticism from the mainstream media. The additional support from Woodward seems to confirm its essential thrust, if not every detail. However dumb and crazy you might think Trump is, the reality always turns out to be even worse. (the consensus, is it developing?)

The Consistent Non-Interventionist Mindset of Donald Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Donald Trump, Champion of the Forgotten Man - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- In the meantime, feast your eyes upon what the anti-elitist, voice of the common man, Donald Trump had to say about Alabama's Jeff Sessions ... Oh dear, It's almost as if when our presient said he'd be an anti-establishment voice of the heartland he was full of shit. (dumb-fuck suckers)

Mueller Will Accept Some Written Answers From Trump - The New York Times
Fox & Friends hosts visibly deflated after legal analyst says Trump's latest tweet gives 'fodder' for Mueller's probe
FBI Director Christopher Wray becomes the latest target of Trump's ire (the raging baby)

Why Trump is so frantic right now - The Washington Post - Trump's incoherence grows to keep pace with his desperation. These days, he makes less sense than ever -- a sign that this malignant presidency has entered a new, more dangerous phase. (he's considering selling America to Putin for cheap!)

Are Democrats Or Republicans Winning The Race For Congress? | FiveThirtyEight (Dems +11)
Poll: Democrats regain clear advantage in midterms shaping up as referendum on President Trump - The Washington Post - More than 6 in 10 Americans say Trump and the Republican Party are out of touch with most people in the country. While Democrats fare better, a narrower 51 percent majority also judged them out of touch.

Voters want a check on this lawless, raging president. This new poll confirms it. - The Washington Post - Over the weekend, President Trump bashed his attorney general for refusing to place Republicans above the law - The Post-ABC poll shows Democrats leading the generic House ballot match-up, 52 percent to 38 percent, among registered voters
Trump's supporters swallow hook, line and sinker whatever he says - supporters need to take responsibility for their own willful ignorance.


Public split on Kavanaugh, views on abortion access shift - ABC News


They Found Beto O'Rourke's First Album, And It The Texas candidate continues to impress, despite counterefforts by Sen. Ted Cruz and the GOP.

Massachusetts primary clash tests Capuano - POLITICO
Democrats battle over results, representation in Boston primary - ABC News

Democrat who wants Paul Ryan's seat mocks opponent with silent film ad : https://t.co/VnptfDP0KJ"
Randy Bryce on Twitter: "Paul Ryan's handpicked replacement, Bryan Steil, just released three minutes of silent B roll footage in hopes a right wing Super PAC would use it to make an ad for him. They haven't made one yet, so we made one for them. -- "The Life of Bryan"


New Yorker Festival Pulls Steve Bannon as Headliner Following High-Profile Dropouts - The New York Times (Remnick destroyed the brand)
Eschaton: Trolling With Nazis - The New Yorker Festival, a hive of scum and villainy, the Aspen Ideas Festival for people too lazy (but not too poor!) to travel to Aspen, has decided to be controversial by having Steve Bannon be their headliner.
Eschaton: STEVE BANNON CENSORED BY INTOLERANT LEFT, ((NEW YORK)) ELITE MEDIA - Remnick changed his mind after everyone started dropping out of his shitshow festival.
your friend Helen on Twitter: "Somewhere in Australia, Bari Weiss's delicately filigreed hebrew nameplate necklace just started pulsing a pure white light against her clavicle
Eschaton: Have You Heard About Racism, Fascism, White Supremacy, Etho-Nationalism, And Ethnic Cleansing? - Aparently these are all new ideas for Malcolm Gladwell. Ideas to which an audience of wealthy elites must be exposed! (Gladfuck doing his stupid pro-nazi thing again)
Enough, already, with anything Steve Bannon has to say. We got it the first time. - The Washington Post (Remnick just destroyed his brand)
Reactionary centrism in one sentence - Lawyers, Guns & Money - That Bari Weiss loves this sort of reactionary centrist garbage is only to be expected, but Chuck Schumer? Yikes. (chuckie Fuckie being his usual asshole stupid)

Former GOP Kansas Gov. endorses Democrat over Kobach | The Kansas City Star (interesting)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he won't run for re-election next year (byebye Rahm)


Franklin's family says eulogy was offensive (like they didn't know the asshole would act like an asshole)
Aretha Franklin's family found eulogy by Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. 'distastful' (from the people who changed their dead relative's outfit seven times)
Ariana Grande sexually assaulted by bishop at Aretha Franklin funeral service - Celebgum (good slo-mo vid of creepy fake pastor groping her tit +lots of comments about stupid religious dudes at weddings/funerals)

Woman who alleges MTC president raped her is filmed testifying about him in church : news ... Not a pastor. It's worse than that, the pastor equivalent in the mormon church is a bishop. This guy was a president in charge of overseeing the training of missionaries i.e. the embodiment of ideal mormon behavior ... Are you guys talking about Sexual Assaulter, Bishop Charles H. Ellis III? (Mormons covering up their shit again blames victim for "hurting the church")

Miami Beach Police After Two Priests Caught Performing Sex Act In Car ... It was 3:20 in the afternoon.

'Cosby Show' actor Geoffrey Owens says he quit N.J. Trader Joe's after 'devastating' job-shaming : news


$400,000 raised for homeless man is gone, attorney says : news

Woman fakes her own kidnapping and robbery to avoid paying employees, police say - ABC News

DNA test proves man who paid $58k in child support isn't the dad : news

Wis. teen dies after extended fast, parents charged | kare11.com - Reedsburg Police Chief Timothy Becker says the father walked to the police station Sunday to report the death of his 15-year-old son. When police went to the family's home they found the dead boy and a second child, 11 years old, who was extremely emaciated ... According to the charges, there was no furniture, personal hygiene items of any kind or cookware inside the home.


San Francisco, rich and poor, turns to simple street solutions that underscore the city's complexities (ban straws, give away plastic heroin needle caps)

Eschaton: The Biggest Mistake - This is true. -- A 64-year-old woman waiting at a bus stop was struck and killed by a hit-and-run vehicle in Northeast Philadelphia Sunday afternoon. ... Absent drugs/alcohol or hit-and-run (of course the former leads to the latter) orq maybe clear evidence of texting, it's almost impossible to be prosecuted for running down a pedestrian, even if they're on a sidewalk, in the crosswalk, etc.


Sperm Count Zero - Men are doomed ... sperm counts in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and New Zealand have fallen by more than 50 percent over the past four decades - anogenital distance (AGD) -- he measurement between the anus and the genitals. Male AGD is typically twice the length of female, a much more dramatic difference than height or weight or musculature. (plastics)


When sign language users are medically confused, have dementia, or have mental illnesses, is sign language communication affected in a similar way speech can be? I'm wondering about things like "word salad" or "clanging"
Sign language users of reddit: what is the sign language equivalent of "muttering under your breath?"

The terrifying, hidden reality of Ridiculously Complicated Algorithms


Tom Petty, Prince, and more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" [Rock](2004) - Live from R&R Hall of Fame with legendary Prince solo. : Music


In A New Email, Elon Musk Accused A Cave Rescuer Of Being A "Child Rapist" and Said He "Hopes" There's A Lawsuit ... "Pedophilia is too serious an issue to leave unchallenged. If Mr. Musk believes his wealth affords him protection from his lies and Twibels, he is sadly mistaken" (meawhile in the meltdown in Musk's brain and did you catch "twibels?")

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Trump's pollution rules rollback to hit coal country hard (they voted literally to kill themselves because they are really dumb)

Opinion | The Death Blow Is Coming for Syrian Democracy - The New York Times - The Assad regime's imminent assault on Idlib will empower jihadists and crush the last of the revolution's democrats. Why is the world standing by?

Malaysian Muslim lesbian couple caned in public punishment : news

Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites 'insults' to Islam | Reuters - a 19-year-old Afghan with residency in Germany, who traveled to Amsterdam to carry out an attack because of what he said were repeated insults to God, the Koran and Islam's Prophet Mohammed

'Strange disappearance' of WikiLeaks consultant in Norway | News | DW | 02.09.2018 - of WikiLeaks consultant in Norway -- WikiLeaks has raised concern after Arjen Kamphuis, an associate of founder Julian Assange, went missing in Norway. The cybersecurity expert was last seen in northern Norway on August 20.

Pope Francis, facing sexual abuse cover-up claims, touts virtue of silence in Vatican Mass - CBS News - Pope Francis recommends silence and prayer to react to those seeking scandal and division ("just shut up and pray for me")

Brazil museum fire: incalculable loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted (Brazil is burning down)
Brazil's oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire. (they spent all the money on corruption)

Turkey's woes could be just the start as record global debt bills come due (Furkey headed for a crash, will bring down the global econony)

Millions of Venezuelans are fleeing to Latin American cities. The region may never be the same. - The Washington Post (stupid killed the country)

Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar over secrets act - BBC News (our genocide is a state secret! and fuck you buddhists, and your so-called "enlightenment")
Reuters Journalists In Myanmar Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison For Breaching State Secrets Act | HuffPost - The two reporters had been investigating a massacre of Rohingya villagers when they were arrested last year.
Myanmar: 7 Years for Reporting the Truth | Human Rights Watch - Conviction of Reuters Journalists a Major Setback for Press Freedom

Parents at Chinese kindergarten horrified by pole-dancing act | Reuters - The outrage at the unusual choice of performance followed nationwide complaints over the weekend by parents who had to sit through 12 minutes of television adverts with their children to watch a government-mandated program ahead of the start of the school year on Monday.

Richard Lui back in China after Minnesota arrest on sexual assault suspicion - The Washington Post - An Australian court revealed in July that the chief executive had sought to conceal information in the wake of a sexual assault that happened after a 2015 party at his Australian residence, according to the New York Times ... Liu is known for pushing the company toward "100 percent" automation and speaking at global conferences about reducing the need for workers (no workers, just robot slaves, will keep all the monies for himself)

Scandal-hit Danske branch handled $30bn of Russian money | Financial Times - Amounts flowing through Estonia each year raise questions for bank's (crooked) executives


Labor Day history: Lewis Hine photos helped end child labor in America - The Washington Post (Trump will bring back the good 'ol days)


Trump attacks Sessions, suggests DOJ hurt GOP in midterms - ABC News ("Republican crooks should never be prosecuted")
Trump excoriates his own AG for not quashing indictments of GOP politicians - Lawyers, Guns & Money

It's Not Just Robert Mueller. President Donald Trump Faces Six Separate Investigations And Lawsuits. - Prosecutors are digging into the president's business from which he refused to divest.

Bernie Sanders: Trump is a 'pathologial liar' (said the guy who gave us Trump)

How Rudy Giuliani Turned Into Trump's Clown (he always was an evil clown)
Fox 'News' Jeanine Pirro Says Trump Is Innocent and Has Been Framed

Omarosa secretly taped her victims using her personal cell phone - Axios ("taped" = "recorded")


8 questions for the midterm elections: A blue wave or not? - The Washington Post

Elizabeth Warren Was Treated As A White Woman By Every Law School That Hired Her - Lawyers, Guns & Money - An outstanding and important piece of journalism here:

A "vulnerability ratio" metric says Democrats could flip the House with ease - Axios - vulnerability ratio: the net number of seats at risk versus the number needed to flip.


You Cannot "Win" Debates on High-Profile Platforms With Bigots And Liars - The New Yorker incited anger on Monday after it was announced that Steve Bannon would be headlining the magazine's October festival. The New Yorker Festival, in its 19th year, is known for giving a platform to prominent figures across the political, literary and art worlds ... Remnick's marketplace of ideas justifications are incredibly naive. Bannon is very good at his job as a white nationalist propagandist, and there's no magic rhetorical bullet you can use to defeat his ideas. Debates are a forum that rewards rhetorical cleverness and extemporaneous speaking ability, not a forum for producing truth. He wins the second he's given the platform
roxane gay on Twitter: "I can't believe so many people are willing to appear at event where Steve Bannon will be headlining. And I can't believe @NewYorker invited him in the first place. (hahaha, they disinvited the asshole, but he wins anyway because libtard safe spaces)


'The Trump effect' How a norm-scrambling presidency and a viral video are changing the way black and white residents in Summerville, S.C., talk about race (make America Even More Racist Again)
"Barack Obama is to blame": 13 Alabama conservatives on Charlottesville (for their being fat stupid racist assholes, hello) Kerrick Whisenant, 41,
PA GOP Official Resigns Over Racist Facebook Posts, calls black NFL players, "baboons" : news (Obama made him do it)
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

S.C. woman accused of assaulting black teen who 'did not belong at pool' Stephanie Sebby-Strempel, 38, of Summerville, South Carolina,
Woman hits black teen at pool, bites cop, SC police say | News & Observer - Stephanie Sebby-Strempel, 38, ... "hit him in the face at least twice,"
Woman dubbed "Pool Patrol Paula" charged with assaulting black teen at swimming pool - Stephanie Sebby-Strempel, has been charged with one count of third-degree assault and battery and two counts of assaulting, beating or wounding a police officer while resisting arrest ... Sebby-Strempel was an independent consultant of skincare company Rodan + Fields

Texas woman died after being denied treatment in Mineral County jail : news - The board voted unanimously to buy out the corrections officer, so he could receive a higher pension rate after he did this.

The Worst Place on Earth, Revisited - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Salon spoke to several former and current employees and volunteers for Burning Man, who painted a picture of a dangerous and stressful work environment and a toxic management culture that contributed to a number of suicides of seasonal employees, at a rate far greater than the national average.

Want to minimize jet lag? Here's what the doctors order -- while our bodies are able to adjust to about one time zone change per day, jet lag sets in when we cross three or more of them, because it wreaks havoc on our circadian rhythms ... "That means going to bed earlier when going east and waking up much earlier"


The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin's Tree of Life - How the microbiologist Carl Woese fundamentally changed the way we think about evolution and the origins of life. (HGT)

A study has found that a person's ability to delay instant gratification is a more important determinant of higher income than variables like height, age and ethnicity. : science

TIL 676 human skulls was unearthed under the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City. These were the first evidence found that the Aztecs sacrificed women and children that they captured from other nations. As of 2017, the bottom of the pile of skulls still hasn't been reached by excavations. : todayilearned (Aztecs carved out 1.2 million hearts, and they didn't even have gas ovens ... the Aztecs killed 2.4% of their continnent's population. That's insane)


What common item has a feature that most people do not know? : AskReddit - undefined

What is something you genuinely do not understand? : AskReddit


[Serious] Whats the creepiest/scariest thing that you've seen but no one believes you? : AskReddit


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Former chief rabbi warns of 'existential threat' to UK Jews


Theresa May -- There will be no second referendum on Brexit-- it would be a gross betrayal of our Russian-rigged democracy


Trump's meeting with North Korea was 'failed summit' that was 'all about show'


Will Russian hackers affect this year's U.S. election? Risks extend beyond the midterms : politics

Political strategist: Trump seems to be trying to incite violence : politics

President Trump's Description of What's 'Fake' Is Expanding : politics
"laugh at those imaginary beings called kings and lords, and all the fraudulent trumpery" Thomas Paine | Common Sense by Tom Paine Today

The Worst of Washington, All in One Place - Lawyers, Guns & Money - If only we could come together in a bipartisan way and bomb Iran or Syria into oblivion, just like the good 'ol days Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney next to each other at John McCain's funeral ...
Ope Sandoval on Twitter: "I, too, long for the days when Republicans and Democrats did war crimes and crushed labor together. "

Paul Manafort's daughter files petition to change her name

Postmodernism didn't cause Trump. It explains him.
Why don't we hear about the working class anymore?
it would be a gross betrayal of our democracy
People don't vote for what they want. They vote for who they are. All politics is identity politics.

Kansas high court rules grand jury must be convened to investigate Kris Kobach

'We Netroes' robocall is an attempt to 'weaponize race' in Florida campaign, Gillum warns

Texas Democrats question why GOP congressman spent $50K in campaign funds on books, collectibles and Civil War memorabilia : politics ("Civil War" = "Confederate Treason")


Fundraiser by USA Latinx : Texas against Ted Cruz
GoFundMe raises thousands to place billboard of Trump's anti-Cruz tweet in Texas
O'Rourke Faces New Political Perils As Launch of Fall Campaign Begins


Ethnicity not a factor in Elizabeth Warren's rise in law


CNN Has Pulled Episodes Of "Parts Unknown" Featuring Asia Argento From Their Streaming Service - The decision follows news that Argento paid a financial settlement to young actor Jimmy Bennett, who accused her of sexual assault.


Pastor Accused of Groping Ariana Grande Apologizes for Being 'Too Friendly' (boob-squeezer)

TIL that "on January 13, 1958, Klansmen burned a cross on the lawn of a Lumbee American Indian woman in the town of St. Pauls, North Carolina as "a warning" because she was dating a white man." At their next rally, a group of 500 armed Lumbee encircled the klansmen and opened fire. : todayilearned

Louisiana state police circulated a fake Antifa members list taken from Neo-Nazi websites: Lawsuit : politics (Louisiana cops are nazis)

In strip club sting, undercover Louisiana agents 'cross the line' with big 'no-no,' experts say : news

DUI arrests cut in half since ride-sharing began in Louisville : news

Chinese Billionaire Released by Minnesota Police After Arrest on Alleged Sexual Misconduct - WSJ - E-commerce company JD.com says CEO Liu Qiangdong was released after what it says was a false accusation; Minneapolis Police say the case remains open


Texas doctor faces backlash after saying women make less because they 'don't work as hard'

The comeback of cursive: A new generation finds the tactile joys of an old-school art - The Washington Post

Some guy in 1990 buys a Satellite TV and records unedited raw sat feed. Results are mindblowing : videos


First ever trials on the effects of microdosing LSD set to begin. In Silicon Valley they say taking tiny amounts of the hallucinogenic drug increases creativity and productivity. : news

Brain volume may be tied to emotionally protective traits - A new study finds that people with larger volumes in the prefrontal cortical brain regions may be more likely to have greater personality traits such as optimism that can protect against emotional distress. : science

A study of 1000 adolescents has found in both ADHD and emotional instability disorders , the brain exhibits similar changes in overlapping areas, meaning that the two types of conditions should be seen as related and attention should be paid to both during diagnosis. : science


What's the most BS Ted talk you've ever seen?

What's the best dream you've ever had? : AskReddit
Have you ever felt a deep personal connection to a person you met in a dream only to wake up feeling terrible because you realize they never existed? : AskReddit

Seahawks owner Paul Allen gives $100,000 to help Republicans keep control of U.S. House | The Seattle Times (another rich asshole)

The memoir by Steve Jobs' daughter makes clear he was a truly rotten person whose bad behavior was repeatedly enabled by those around him : technology
Stop treating tech jerks like gods : technology
Everything that's wrong with the computers and laptops that Apple sells : technology

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Cambridge woman diagnosed with West Nile, one of five in Massachusetts; two hospitalized | Cambridge Day


Opinion | A Vengeful and Shortsighted Act - The New York Times - The Trump administration, currying favor with hard-liners in Israel, eliminates funding for the United Nations agency that aids Palestinian refugees. (helping racist fuckers everywhere)


Second Person Dies In Donetsk Cafe Blast That Killed Separatist Leader Zakharchenko - he leadership of the pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine has been thrown into disarray after the head of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic was killed in an explosion at a cafe designed to honor the separatists ... Many of the assassinations have been blamed on fellow separatists.


Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers - The New York Times - Doctors and scientists say microwave strikes may have caused sonic delusions and very real brain damage among embassy staff and family members.

John McCain's Service In Vietnam Was a Tragedy (if only the dirty spitting hippies hadn't lost the glorious war which McCain always supported)
Obama on McCain: 'We never doubted we were on the same team' : politics (thanks, Barry, that's why your we know better bipartisan bullshit got us to Dumpster you idiot)
Donald Trump Played Golf During John McCain's Funeral : politics (perfect)
Donald Trump attacks FBI, media on Twitter day of McCain's funeral
John McCain's Funeral Was a Council of War -- Just as He Meant It to Be - A dispatch from the National Cathedral.
John McCain's Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet - Two ex-Presidents and one eloquent daughter team up to rebuke the pointedly uninvited Donald Trump.
Trolling from the grave - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It would be easy to get annoyed at the pharaonic ceremonies and, especially, the utterly uncritical elite media coverage accompanying the internment of The Most Overrated Politician of His Time.

Former LaPorte County GOP chair blocks photographer at Trump rally in Evansville : politics

For Families Split at Border, an Anguished Wait for Children's Return


Don't be so sure Mueller will back off before midterms
Papadopoulos: Trump 'nodded' at suggestion of Putin meeting
"Young George" Papadopoulos Wants "Mercy and Compassio9n" (from Trump) for Something He Believes Is Treason
Agents Tried to Flip Russian Oligarchs. The Fallout Spread to Trump. - The New York Times - In the estimation of American officials, Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin, has faced credible accusations of extortion, bribery and even murder.

'Totally dishonest' : Trump asserts only he can be trusted over opponents and 'fake news' {"I'm the most honest person you will ever meet")

Trump Administration Withholds 100K Pages Of Brett Kavanaugh's Records - "a Friday night document massacre."

Bette Midler Taunts Donald Trump For Claiming Democrats Will Turn Violent After Midterms | HuffPost
PsBattle: This Trump staffer blocking a photographer from the Associated Press : photoshopbattles


#Prisonstrike: A Rebellion Inside America's Profitable Gulag Archipelago

Republicans give millions to the rich while shortchanging park rangers and postal carriers - The Washington Post (tax cuts for me, pay cuts for you, all balances out)

An Army Director Hired To A Top Immigration Post Spewed Anti-Muslim Comments On Facebook Then He Lost The Job - An Army Director Hired To A Top Immigration Post Spewed Anti-Muslim Comments On Facebook -- The He Lost Th Job Guy Sands-Pingot, who once compared Islam to the Nazi Party in a Facebook comment, was hired as a deputy director at US Citizenship and Immigration Services. He will now not fill the role. (only the best racist nazi fuckers)

Trump says he will go to deeply Republican Texas to campaign for Sen. Ted Cruz, as Democrat Beto O'Rourke surges in the polls

Trump's Approval Number Nose-Dives, Dems' Blue Wave Might Be Building

Whoever wins South Carolina will be the Democratic nominee {NH, IA and now, SC)

Plaintiffs in N.C. gerrymandering case say new maps not an option for November - The Washington Post (the fuckers fucked shit up and it stayed fucked up)

GOP lawmaker tweets out reporter's cell number over emailed question : politics ("I refuse to answer the question am I a racist fucking nazi?!")

Racist windbag Laura Ingraham says racist windbag Ron DeSantis should get an apology from Gillum : politics
Is Laura Ingraham a Nazi? - I'm not saying she is, but she might be.


Imagine a World Where the Nation's Most Prominent Leftist Publication Finally Turned Away from Counterproductive "Class Not Race" Analysis. Ah, What a World That Would Be - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Jacobin)


Funeral bishop accused of groping Ariana Grande apologises : Music
Must of been hard not to slap him right there and then : pics
Pastor GROPES Ariana Grande? - YouTube (he won't let go of her boob)
She was definitely uncomfortable - Album on Imgur
This Reality TV Pastor Is Accused of Stealing From a Dead Church Member | Bishop Charles Ellis | Celebrities | BET

NBC Has Made No Changes In Response To Blowing The Weinstein Story | HuffPost - No one at NBC has faced consequences for the network losing the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the year.

Matt Lauer tells fans, "don't worry, I'll be back on TV" after sexual misconduct allegations : television

Arts organizations with ties to The Middle East clarify connections, policies after sex allegation | Cambridge Day


FBI arrests five New Mexico compound suspects days after multiple charges were dropped : news

Police seized $10,000 of a couple's cash. They couldn't get it back -- until they went public


"Whites from counties that experienced historical civil rights protests are more likely to identify as Democrats and support affirmative action, and less likely to harbor racial resentment against blacks." Protest activity can cause long-run, attitudinal change. : science


The Village Voice, a New York Icon, Closes - The New York Times
The Rube Who Came to New York and Killed the Village Voice Lied To My Face - The guy who bought a $26 million penthouse in the Village and offered me a job that maybe didn't exist, now says he can't afford to keep putting articles on a website (more rich assholes destroying institutions because they are evil and stupid) That said, fuck Peter Barbey.


An update on the FireEye report and Reddit : announcements

With no municipal Internet seen on horizon, users turn to patchwork of smaller initiatives | Cambridge Day -- 12 percent of Cambridge households do not have an Internet subscription. Lack of Internet access is more severe for lower-income brackets: 21 percent for households with incomes of $20,000 to $34,999; 36 percent for $10,000 to $19,999; and 33 percent for under $10,000. (and they've never been honest about their blocking)

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How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born? - The New York Times


An explainer: Syrian attack on final rebel stronghold in Idlib could be imminent - The Washington Post - rebels nearing defeat after seven years at war, President Bashar al-Assad's army says it is turning its firepower against their final stronghold. The target, Idlib province, is largely controlled by an al-Qaeda-linked militant group.


Sept. 11 is still killing FBI agents: 'It's like Bin Laden reaching out from the grave'


Bombshell leak to Toronto Star upends NAFTA talks: In secret 'so insulting' remarks, Trump says he isn't compromising at all with Canada (orange Russian wrecking-ball)
NAFTA talks break off, expected to resume next week | CBC News

President Trump cancels pay raises for federal employees - CNNPolitics (tax cuts for the rich! pay cuts for the workers! hahaha suckers)

Washington consultant for Ukraine party pleads guilty to violating lobbyist disclosure law - The Washington Post - W. Samuel Patten, 47, was charged with one count of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act for failing to register with the Justice Department when he represented a Ukrainian political party known as the Opposition Bloc from 2014 through this year.
Lobbyist Pleads Guilty to Steering Foreign Funds to Trump Inaugural - The New York Times


Trump's latest rally rant is much more alarming and dangerous than usual

Understanding Trump vs. Bruce Ohr: Think Russia's top crime boss, Semion Mogilevich
AP sources: Lawyer was told Russia had 'Trump over a barrel'
Trump Targets Government's Top Organized-Crime Experts - The Atlantic - s Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime - Some of President Trump's favorite targets in the Russia probe have spent their careers in the Justice Department and the FBI investigating organized crime and money laundering, particularly as they pertain to Russia.

The walls are closing in. And Trump's lawyers know it
Two prosecutors leave Mueller's office : news

Trump Says He'll Keep Sessions Until November Despite 'Illegal' Probe
When liberals are rooting for Jeff Sessions, you know something's wrong

Trump Says Democrats Can't Impeach Him Because He's Doing a 'Great Job' ("and my ratings are through the roof")
Trump: 'When you get good ratings, you can say anything'

Poll: 60 percent disapprove of Trump, while clear majorities back Mueller and Sessions - The Washington Post
Trouble for Trump: Disapproval at a high, 63% back Mueller, half favor impeachment - ABC News
Trump's poll numbers take a dive. How worried should the GOP be? ... approval rating is down to 36 percent, matching his all-time low, and his 60 percent disapproval rating is at an all-time high. ... But his vow to drain the swamp might be one of the most egregious broken pledges in recent history. Trump built his campaign around "Crooked Hillary" and then launched an administration second to none in conflicts of interest, self-dealing, and convictions and plea deals by former officials and campaign aides. ... "Don't orangutan it up, Florida!"

Why on Earth Is Trump Making Infomercials From the Rose Garden?

The Coming Crisis - In little over two months, we'll face one of the most consequential elections of our lifetimes. That phrase is so often an empty cliche. Now it's true.

She Gambled on Her Claim to Link Russians and Trump. She Is Losing. - The New York Times - What began as a minor immigration charge has turned into a serious criminal case carrying the potential of 10 years of prison time in Thailand.

This is the new GOP: Angry and afraid - The Washington Post (Gerson's shady history)

This vile, unadulterated racism - The Washington Post - bigoted hatred of Latino immigrants has been clear from the beginning. Now his administration is aggressively persecuting Latino citizens as well.

Don't Count On Susan Collins To Save Roe v. Wade | HuffPost - The Maine senator greenlighted Brett Kavanaugh before Trump nominated him, a source close to her staff said. (little lyin' Susie, fix this Mainers)

'Tough decisions have to be made' House Republicans prepare for pain -- Party officials begin deciding which GOP lawmakers to save and which ones to cut loose ... Among those most in jeopardy of getting cut off, they say, are Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock, Pennsylvania Rep. Keith Rothfus, and Iowa Rep. Rod Blum, all of whom are precariously positioned in their districts.

Georgia Is Blocking Overseas Voters From Registering Online - The decision to block foreign internet traffic from its voter hub is just the latest controversy to touch the state's voting procedures. (oh look, Brian Nazi Kemp)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being held to a higher standard than men - Vox - male politicians aren't told to put training wheels back on after a fact check. (her sin? not jewish racist enough sez Norm Ornstein)
Double Standards and Magic Asterisks - Lawyers, Guns & Money

I Still Can't Believe It - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Era of Trump is truly buck wild.

Is Delaware's Kerri Evelyn Harris the next explosion to rock the Democrats? | Will Bunch


In Hilton Head mayor race, 1 candidate a 'Holocaust revisionist.' Another admires Hitler. (debate held on a planatation, natch)


The Village Voice Is Officially Dead: Gothamist (hedged to death)


Los Angeles billionaire's hospital system declares bankruptcy -- will attempt to sell some or all of its six hospitals after the failure of a yearlong effort by Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong to save the system. (which mainly consisted of running their billing through one of his companies)


Sources: NBC Threatened Ronan Farrow if He Kept Reporting on Harvey Weinstein - Ronan Farrow had already left NBC News. But a top lawyer at the network threatened to smear him if he continued to pursue the Hollywood mogul, multiple knowledgeable sources say ... NBC News General Counsel Susan Weiner made a series of phone calls to Farrow, threatening to smear him if he continued to report on Weinstein. (hello, Susan Weiner and Andy Lack of moral integrity)
Ronan Farrow's Ex-Producer Says NBC Impeded Weinstein Reporting ... "a massive breach of journalistic integrity." ... On Oct. 5, The Times published the first of its articles detailing allegations of sexual misconduct against Mr. Weinstein. That evening, CBS and ABC gave airtime to the explosive story on their newscasts. NBC did not. The next morning, "Today" gave it scant attention. (Matty Lauerfuck)
NBC Threatened Ronan Farrow If He Kept Reporting on Harvey Weinstein : news - Susan Weiner. She was the woman who threatened to smear Farrow if he kept working one the story after he was fired.
Daily Beast's NBC Bombshell is 'Only the Beginning', Much Bigger Expose Expect Soon ... of the networks's misconduct problems ... a major investigation into sexual harassment and misconduct at NBC News ...
Former NBC producer claims network spiked Harvey Weinstein story. | The New Republic (Susan Weiner}


I Worked With Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser. - The Chronicle of Higher Education ... (Except on formal occasions, she always went by that one name, "Avital," like Plato, or Cher ... Meanwhile, on social media and on their blog, the queer-studies scholars Lisa Duggan and Jack Halberstam dismissed the blowback against Avital as neoliberalism meets sex panic meets culture clash, straight people apparently being unable to decipher the coded queer intimacy of emails ... In a milquetoast take for The New Yorker, Masha Gessen applauded Duggan (-100 reputation points for Masha +the star-power abuse system)
On Avital Ronell's Celebrity Defenders - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Power in the Ivory Tower | The Nation - What on earth is going on at NYU? ... "I am a bit weepy and confused, a normal aftermath I suppose, and also a response to the separation from you ... But I will try to gain some ground with a visit to shrinky-winky." ... Ronell's work strikes me as a big bowl of word salad. But I understand that the general project of deconstruction is the analysis and dismantling of conscious and unconscious structures of power. How odd, then, that these professors could see domination operating everywhere except the one place they could actually do something about it: in their own relations with students. ("Theory" +she sure wouldn't have made it in any other job)
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Special Police Constable spared jail after being caught with indecent images of children : news

CEO who sexually assaulted son's 9 year-old classmate gets 14 years' jail and 24 strokes of the cane in Singapore : news

Judge gives Burlington County pair 24 hours to turn over donations for homeless man : news (they spent it all)


AG: Towns can't ban medical pot - Decision reverses earlier ruling that opened the door for communities to prohibit medical sales - IN A STARTLING TURNAROUND, Attorney General Maura Healey has reversed her office's decision that allowed communities to ban medical marijuana dispensaries after opening the door earlier this summer for cities and towns to block the dispensaries from coming to their communities. (mass towns fighting to keep opiod epidemic strong so more people die)
Wolf Administration Announces Temporary Regulations for Research Portion of Medical Marijuana Program - More than 60,000 patients in Pennsylvania have registered to participate in the medical marijuana program, nearly 38,000 of whom have received their identification cards and are able to purchase medical marijuana at a dispensary. Approximately 1,200 physicians have registered for the program, nearly 750 of whom have been approved as practitioners.


Religion can provide a sense of increased purpose in life for people who are socially disconnected, finds a new study (N = 19,775). : science

Eating in 10-hour window can override disease-causing genetic defects, nurture health - Salk scientists discover that periods of fasting can protect against obesity and diabetes, in a new study in mice published in Cell Metabolism. : science


What is commonly accepted as something that "everybody knows," and surprised you when you found somebody who didn't know it?

Married people of Reddit, what's something your SO does that you used to find cute when you were dating but now irritates/infuriates/ annoys you?

[Serious] People of Reddit who live in San Francisco where $100,000 a year is considered "low-income", and work retail, convenient store, Starbucks type jobs, how do you survive? : AskReddit


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Scientists calculate deadline for climate action and say the world is approaching a "point of no return" to limit global warming : science - 2035 is the deadline suggested in this article, if anyone was curious.
As temperatures keep trending up, 'heat belt' cities maneuver to stay livable (all the climate-denying states plus SoCal will die)


Catholics face a painful question: Is it true? - The Washington Post (if after decades of pedoshit, that's your question, you are seriously menatally ill and deluded)


Trump's team just took out one of the most dangerous terrorists since Bin Laden ... Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, al-Qaeda's chief bomb maker, was killed during a U.S. drone strike late last year (the government including the Army and CIA is his "team")

An Immigration Raid On A Rural Texas Assembly Plant Was ICE's Largest At A Worksite In 10 Years - ICE agents arrested 160 suspected undocumented workers at the north Texas worksite this week.
Bank of America freezes account after asking proof of residency | The Sacramento Bee


Calif. man charged with threatening to kill Globe employees he called 'enemy of the people'
California Man Arrested by FBI for Allegedly Threatening The Boston Globe : news ... Now where did he get that Enemy of the People line...?
stochastic terrorism - Wiktionary


Eschaton: All Perfectly Normal - Totally normal. -- Based on those suspicions, the State Department began during Barack Obama's administration to deny passports to people who were delivered by midwives in Texas' Rio Grande Valley. The use of midwives is a long-standing tradition in the region, in part because of the cost of hospital care. (Barry fingerprints are on a lot of this shit, thanks, Obama)


Chuck Todd Warns of Possible Mueller Bombshell:
The Mueller Investigation: What Happens on September 7? - emptywheel
Trump's ethics lawyer 'to leave White House today' : inthenews - This could mean something unethical is about to happen!


Trump bashes CNN, NBC media executives - POLITICO
Did Trump just admit that he tried to fire Mueller and Sessions? - The Washington Post
Donald Trump's Morning Tweet Storm Sounds Like Something Big Is Coming - It sounds a lot like something big is about to drop.

Don McGahn's Bullshit Report Covering Up the Flynn Firing

Trump, without evidence, says NBC fudged 2017 Russia interview | Reuters
Please be sensitive to our snowflake president's need for safe space

National Enquirer Had Decades of Trump Dirt. He Wanted to Buy It All. - The New York Times

Donald Trump and Republicans have swamped Washington with corruption - The Republican Party is now Trump's Corruption Party ... Rein in the lobbyists and special interests (yeah, that'll work)

The Virginia Midterms Get Ugly - A Democratic hopeful who once worked in the CIA is accusing a GOP super PAC of obtaining her classified federal security clearance application.

'Breathtaking' Stormy Daniels posts makeup-free bikini selfie a day after glamorous Vogue reveal

Getting Those Tax Returns - Lawyers, Guns & Money - when they spend the next 2 years investigating Trump and there's nothing he can do about it but whine on Twitter ... If Devin Nunes can act as a total stooge and Jason Chaffetz grandstanding with hearings about e-mails, imagine what Democrats can do around the many actual crimes committed by Donald Trump.


It Turns Out Mike Pence Has Been Working on Being Unlikable for Decades - Your vice president once turned in his fraternity brothers for - gasp - drinking beer.

Chuck Is Not a Wartime Consigliere - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Chuckie fuckie)

Getting to Know White Voters | The Cook Political Report

Beto O'Rourke yard signs are everywhere. Where are Ted Cruz's? (tailgunner cheaped out on the signs)

Is this a blue state? GOP governor looks unbeatable in Mass. (Chawlie Faker)

Teachers Just Purged Oklahoma's Statehouse of Their Enemies - For nearly a decade, Republican officials have been treating ordinary Oklahomans like the colonial subjects of an extractive empire ... tea party Republicans raided the state's rainy-day funds, and strip-mined its public-school system. Between 2008 and 2015, Oklahoma's slashed its per-student education spending by 23.6 percent, more than any other state in the country ... Nineteen Republicans voted against raising taxes to increase teacher pay last spring; only four will be on the ballot this November. (bye-bye teafuckers)

Now We're Talking - The Huffington Post - "What are these grave differences that the rest of the world is suffering under Donald Trump which they wouldn't have been suffering under Hillary Clinton?" (GG's Russian/libertarian bubble of stupid +he should try living in America for a while)

Judge Rules Against Alex Jones and Infowars in Sandy Hook Lawsuit - The New York Times


Oregon construction worker fired for refusing to attend Bible study sues former employer : news

Homeless man files lawsuit against couple who helped raise $400k for him : news


Founder of group 'Protect LD Children' could face excommunication : news (your time is coming, Mormies)

Girard Depardieu: French actor accused of rape - BBC News - The allegations against the 69-year-old were formally made to police by a 22-year-old French actress on Monday, French radio reports.

A Broken Relationship and Accusations of Emotional Abuse: The Case of Keith Ellison - The New York Times (far worse than Franken)

Barbara L'Italien vows to impeach Clarence Thomas if elected - Washington Times - A Democrat running for the U.S. House in Massachusetts has made an unusual political promise: Put me in Congress and I'll impeach Justice Clarence Thomas for sexual harassment and perjury.

Woody Allen's new film shelved by Amazon | Film | The Guardian

Opinion | Louis C.K. and Men Who Think Justice Takes as Long as They Want It To - The New York Times (fuck off, Szekely)


Cynthia Nixon asked to turn down the AC. It isn't silly. It's symbolic (men are assholes is not synmbolic)

Chicago shootings: 'Ain't nobody been locked up. And they ain't trying to solve nothing.' - The Washington Post - Since 2010, Chicago police have made arrests in only about 27 percent of homicides, according to a Washington Post analysis of homicide data in more than 50 major U.S. cities -- the lowest rate of any city The Post examined.


Meditations On Moloch | Slate Star Codex

Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed : news

Frequent sex may have cognitive benefits - A new study suggests that sexually active older adults perform better on memory tasks (N = 6,016). Participants who had sex more often had better performance on the memory test. : science

Teen dating violence is down, but boys still report more violence than girls - When it comes to teen dating violence, boys are more likely to report being the victim of violence -- than girls


Optimism can change brain volume, providing protection against emotional distress, study finds. The results support the hypothesis that personality traits and brain volume help protect against symptoms of anxiety - 'We can change the volume of the brain through experience and training.' : science

Brown University in row with transgender activists over claims gender dysphoria spreading among children ... "it's like recruiting from a white supremacist website to demonstrate that black people are an inferior race." (the "trannie epidemic")
Eschaton: "Daily Commuting" - This piece is about how a Russian Sovereign Wealth fund is investing lots of money in Elon's dream, but for my own personal interests this paragraph jumped out at me ... an alternative to a high-speed rail that had been proposed in California. (Mush is a total narcissist and not that smart, but the scam goes on)
Putin's Financial 'Consigliere' Is Trying to Make Elon Musk's Dream Come True -- A sanctioned Russian fund managed to invest in Hyperloop. And now, U.S. officials and lawmakers are taking a fresh look at the deal. (peas in a hyper-pod)

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Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First - The city has another serious water problem.
Florida's s unusually long red tide is killing wildlife, tourism and businesses (Rick Scott, ftw)


Senior executive of steel plant in Russia, Bruno Charles de Kooman, falls out of window in Moscow - de Kooman fell out of window of the ninth floor of the House on the Embankment on Serafimovich Street. The Telegram-channel Mash says he was sober. ("falls" might mean "tossed")


Corbyn's "Zionist" remarks were "most offensive" since Enoch Powell, says ex-chief rabbi ... in 2013 Corbyn said of a group of British "Zionists": "They clearly have two problems. One is they don't t want to study history and, secondly, having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, they don't understand English irony either." (oh, so offensive to the Jewfllakes)


U.S. to End All Funding to U.N. Agency That Aids Palestinian Refugees The Trump administration hopes to pressure Palestinians to return to bargaining table. (he has a real good bargain for them, with Netanfuckyu cackling in the background)

As his isolation intensifies, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces possible threat of eviction, extradition


More than 150 arrested in massive ICE raid in Texas : news

Sarah Palin is not invited to John McCain's funeral

Trump, without citing evidence, says China hacked Hillary Clinton's emails ... his tweets came shortly after the online publication of a story by the Daily Caller (and Sara "Yes I am really stupid" Carter)

After weeks of uncertainty, Papadopoulos decides to accept plea deal with Mueller - ABC News

Twitter Users Torch Trump Over Bizarre 'I Remember Pearl Harbor' Comments | HuffPost - Twitter Users Torch Trump Over Bizarre 'I Remember Peral Harbor' Comments

'These are violent people': Trump reportedly told Christian leaders there will be 'violence' if the GOP loses in midterms : politics (violent coastal elites will carnage the inner cities if Trump loses)
How many norms can Trump and evangelical leaders break in one meeting? - The Washington Post (Evilgelicals and their AntiChrist)


U.S. Probing Whether Malaysian Fugitive Laundered Funds to Pay Chris Christie and Trump Lawyer - WSJ - Jho Low under investigation for alleged embezzlement of $4.5 billion from 1MDB fund

No, Trump Is Far from Finished - The Manafort and Cohen convictions haven't changed the political realities (which are, Rethugs love their crooks)

The Flynn Tapes: A New Tell | by Murray Waas | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books (Trump obstructed justice)

"Suspicious" Transactions At Russian Embassy Sparked Deeper Bank Probe Than Previously Known - The former Russian ambassador received a salary payment twice as large as past years, and bankers blocked a $150,000 withdrawal.

U.S. denying passports to American citizens along Mexico border - The Washington Post (the Trump purge of those kinds of Americans)

In An Unprecedented Move, The US Postal Service Released A Former CIA Officer's Security Application To A Republican Group - The former officer, Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger, has suggested the information was released for partisan purposes. (Trump cancer rapidly metastisizing though government)
C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says PAC Obtained Her Security Application - The New York Times

Progressives Will Lead Democrats In Some Of 2018's Biggest Contests

Legal U.S. Immigrants Face Prison And Even Deportation For Voting | HuffPost - top federal prosecutors in North Carolina is going after noncitizen voters, and it could have dire consequences.

4 Takeaways From Tuesday's Primaries - Races for governor have often yielded centrist candidates. Voters in Florida, Oklahoma and Arizona chose a different route. And women, once again, made a strong showing in House races.

A winning stratergery from the Texas GOP - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ashley Feinberg on Twitter: "here's what ted cruz and beto o'rourke were doing to unwind during roughly the same period
Ted Cruz and the Texas GOP Tweet About Beto O'Rourke's Days in a Band
Texas GOP on Twitter: "Based on the reaction to our tweets we can confirm that Beto is in fact going to receive 100% of the vote from Buzzfeed contributors, out of state liberals, and people who use the word "rad." We feel very owned :'(" (hahaha)

Trump's choice and a liberal favorite win Florida gubernatorial nominations in Tuesday primaries, setting up a fierce November clash
Andrew Gillum's shocking Florida win sets up one of the left's biggest propositions - The Washington Post
DeSantis says Florida voters would 'monkey this up' if they elect Gillum as governor
Even Fox News isn't OK with this Trump-backed nominee's casual racism

The Ballad Of Kindly Bill Buckley - Lawyers, Guns & Money (bullshit on top of bullshit from young Shapiro)

Arizona voting problems: Who is to blame? - When voting began at 6 a.m. Tuesday, 62 Maricopa County polling places were not ready for voters. (Republicans fucking up poor voters forever)

Former Ariz. lawmaker said his ouster for harassment would appeal to voters. He got crushed. - The Washington Post ... Don Shooter (name is destiny)

Joe Kennedy Endorses Mike Capuano for Congress - Don't Sleep on Next Week's Primary Election in Massachusetts The national media smells a major upset in the seventh congressional district ... There was all the national attention that suddenly descended on the district, and there was the Boston Globe's surprising endorsement of Pressley, which came out of the blue.

Rep. Called Constituent In Effort To Bury First Allegation Of Signature Forgery (he looks ... crooked)

Liker, a Facebook Alternative for Liberals, Is Hive of False Claims About Trump

A New Book Details the Damage Done by the Right-Wing Media in 2016 | The New Yorker - Liberals embrace journalism; conservatives believe propaganda (well, they lie to themselves all the the time, so it's not hard)

Crawling Back From Under Their Rocks - Lawyers, Guns & Money - So Louis CK made a brief, unannounced comeback on the stage of a New York comedy club on Sunday night, popping up for a fifteen minute set
Louis CK and Matt Lauer: What Do Their Comebacks Mean?
We Don't Owe Louis C.K. Anything - Variety
"Folks, I know Im going to catch some flak for saying this. But It's time for me to bravely roll out the red carpet for our cast aside colleague, Steve" [Update -- "Rape Whistles"] - McSweeny's delivers a response to the Leave Louis C.K. Alooone! brigade, which could also be a response to any other person who has cried Unjustice! when one of their number faces the mildest of consequences for harming other people (well, that didn't work)


Nevada collects $69.8M in marijuana tax, exceeding expectations : news (MA has twice the population; Chawlie and the anti-pot brigard just tossed $150 million out the window so they can fuck up the state for non-rich people)
Inside The Trump Administration's Secret War On Weed - The Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee wants to counteract positive marijuana messages and identify problems with state legalization initiatives
Scientists unpick how cannabis component may fight psychosis : news

Missouri raises the minimum marriage age to 16. : news

New U.S. Sexual Misconduct Rules Bolster Rights of Accused and Protect Colleges - The New York Times


New York's Governor Has Suspended An Investigation Into The Handling Of A 2015 Weinstein Case (so is Cuomu getting bribed?)
Cuomo Received $25,000 From Weinstein Lawyer's Firm as He Suspended Probe (no kidding)


This is, by far, my favorite segment from Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Who Is America?': Building a Mosque in Kingman Arizona. : television
Nathan For You - The Ghost Realtor - YouTube

Co-owner of Middle East nightclub stepping down, denies online claims of sexual misconduct - The Boston Globe - Joseph Sater, one of two brothers who own the club, had been targeted on social media with allegations of sexual misconduct since the #MeToo movement began last October.

A 1-acre lot in Kendall Square sells for more than $50 million - The Boston Globe
Here are the big policy differences between the two Democrats running for governor - The Boston Globe


Judge dismisses all charges against 3 'extremist Muslim' New Mexico compound suspects : news

WV State Police seize $10K from couple without charging them with a crime : news


Body-cam vid shows Denver cops cuffed Indy editor as she photographed their badges - The Colorado Independent

Mom of 5 killed in crash after boyfriend cut her brake lines to make crack pipe, cops say : news
Key witness in prison sex case dies in car wreck : news


Several Women Say Airlines Don't Take Their Complaints About Men Masturbating Next To Them Seriously


Teen With Cancer Told To Remove Hat For School Picture Day | HuffPost

A serial 'dine-and-dasher' loved lavish meals and leaving women to pay for them, police say. He faces 10 felony charges.


A new treatment for Alzheimer's disease has been successfully tested in mice. It reduced the buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain and blocked the toxic effects of amyloid beta


The What-He-Did: The Poetic Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith | Tor.com


People with a conspiracy mentality tend to view experts and non-experts as equally credible sources of historical information, suggests new research. : science (dumb asses believe dumb shit)


[NSFW] Interesting Treadmill Exercise o.0 : WTF


The Cave Rescuer Elon Musk Called A "Pedo" Has Lawyered Up And Is Preparing A Libel Claim (a day after Musk tweeted he must be guility because he hasn't sued for libel ... and he so lied about it, dude is pretty craz)
Elon Musk doubles down on 'pedo' claims against UK cave diver : news

Eschaton: Those Self-Driving Cars Aren't Going To Drive Themselves. - Sure. -- Waymo also said it was still on course to launch its first commercial self-driving taxi service by the end of 2018, but every car will have a human "chaperone" inside to keep an eye on it. (the scam goes on)

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The School Shootings That Weren't

Mollie Tibbetus' Father Rob Tibbetts Took a Jab at Trump During His Daughter's Funeral - Not only did Rob Tibbetts tell the president* and all those reeking vampires on Fox News to keep his daughter out of their politics and her name out of their mouths, he was funny while he did it.


Vatican Power Struggle Bursts Into Open as Conservatives Pounce - The New York Times
Vatican erases pope's remarks about psychiatric help for gay children : news


'I remember Pearl Harbor': : Inside Trump's hot and cold relationship with Japan's prime minister (when he was five, if you believe him)

Opinion | The End of Impunity - The New York Times - What Democrats can do with subpoena power.

Trump Accuses Google Of Rigging Search Results To Feature 'Bad' New About Him - He said the search engine is suppressing conservative and 'fair' voices (only state media will be allowed to report on him)
Trump Threatens to Regulate 'Rigged' Google After Right-Wing Blog Post - The president wants to punish one of America's largest companies based on a meme boosted by Fox Business and Diamond & Silk.
McCain's s choice of Russian dissident as pallbearer is final dig at Putin, Trump
Any Iraqi Who Still Has Two Hands Is No Doubt Clapping For These McCain Takes - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jen Rubin may be a NeverTrumper, but it's important to remember that these people are themselves comically evil and want horrific policies, just with a different figurehead. (Jennifer "drive them into the sea like the cockroaches they are" Rubin)

Trump's economic adviser: 'We're take a look' at whether Google searches should be regulated
Trump's rage-tweets about Google reveal a frightening truth about the midterms ... Trump is unleashing endless lies and attacks directed at the mechanisms of accountability that actually are functioning right now ... if Republican voters don't show up to keep the GOP in charge of Congress, a Democratic-led House will exercise real oversight on Trump. (vote dictatorship!)
President Trump claims Google is rigging search results to make him look bad. : technology

One-Time Paul Manafort Banker Robbed of iPad, Briefcase in Mysterious Overnight Break-in at His NYC Penthouse: Sources - NBC New York - David Fallarino was one of three so-called key figures not called by Robert Mueller's office to testify at the trial of Paul Manafort

President non grata: Trump often unwelcome and unwilling to perform basic rituals of the office - The Washington Post

White House Releases Moving Statement Honoring Woman Who Called Obama An Arab In 2008 - In a timely tribute to a woman they are calling a fearless American hero, the White House released a statement Monday recognizing and honoring the woman who called then-presidential candidate Barack Obama an Arab during a town hall event in 2008.


Trump's Student Debt Policies Are Mind-bogglingly Corrupt (lock up the ugly Amway lady for the rest of her life)

Trump Privately Urges Pastors to Help Him From the Pulpit in Midterms - The New York Times (hands of Satan)
In closed-door meeting, Trump told Christian leaders he got rid of a law. He didn't ... a law forbidding churches and charitable organizations from endorsing political candidates (so, feel free to endorse the Antichrist from your Satanic pulpits)

Lindsey Graham is very confused - The Washington Post

C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says PAC Obtained Her Security Application - The New York Times - Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat running for Congress in Virginia, said that the Congressional Leadership Fund had provided a copy of her security clearance application to the news media.

The Democratic Party Nixed Superdelegates - Nixing superdelegates was a good thing.
On the DNC Reforms - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Scott Lemieux on Twitter: "Since some people are arguing in this thread that superdelegates indirectly but substantially affected the 2016 primaries because of national delegate counts, I thought I'd briefly point out why this is almost certainly false https://t.co/GIhwNPqBXI"

Florida primary: Andrew Gillum wins Dem governor nod - Vox - he Tallahassee mayor will be the Democratic nominee in one of 2018

Devin Nunes Seeks Intel on Christopher Steele in London - The Atlantic - The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee flew to London to gather intel on Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer who compiled the dossier alleging Trump-campaign ties with Russia. But MI5, MI6, and GCHQ didn't seem interested (little russian ratfucker)

Poll: Rep. Duncan Hunter leads by 8 points in reelection bid following federal indictment - The San Diego Union-Tribune (Republicans love their indicted crooks)

vEVermont's Only Black Woman Lawmaker Pulls Out Of Race In Wake Of Online Threats - State Rep. Kiah Morris is the only black woman in the Vermont Legislature.

Ken Starr's Baylor University Allegedly Spied on Sexual Assault Victims - MSNBC and NPR, do better. (they really don't have a moral center +Ken Fucking Starr)

The North Carolina Primaries Just Became a Logistical Nightmare - The latest federal court ruling means primary elections already held are now illegitimate. (once again, the depth of fucking things up for pure evil)

Suffolk poll: Tammy Baldwin in stronger position than Scott Walker


Puns N' Roses on Twitter: "As far as contemporary surrealism art, Greenwald getting paid a bunch of money by a Brazilian billionaire to tell left Americans there's nothing to worry about foreign & domestic oligarchs conspiring to hack their presidential election is just beautiful. https://t.co/i2AoXssLzB"

Jeet Heer on Twitter: "The Socialist Workers Party thinks Trump is trying to help working class Americans and is being targeted by an elite-driven "witch hunt" https://t.co/ogmTjtqKw2"
When the SWP Grows Up It's Going to Trump University

Socialism Is the New Black


u/ifanyinterest succinctly describes what republicans mean when they say they oppose gov't regulation : bestof
Albion's Seed, the Hillbilly Myth, and Slate Star Codex : badhistory


Student Who Took Classmate's MAGA Hat Says She Was Making Political Statement


Who is Rain Dove: Model at the Center of Asia Argento Assault Case (McGowan's themfriend)

Report: Baylor Secretly Infiltrated Sexual Assault Survivor Groups - Baylor officials placed a mole within several support groups for sexual assault survivors as a way to control their messaging and keep the university from looking bad ... Baylor football players have been accused of committing 52 rapes over four years ( oh, look, Ken Starr! and this doesn't make them look bad at all)


'Tarchel Maddow Show' Tops Cable For Fourth Consecutive Night, Even With Guest Host

Fox News Hassn't Always Shared Robert Driscoll's Credentials With Its Viewers - Fox News has repeatedly gone to former Justice Department official Robert Driscoll to comment on the Russia investigations, but what viewers don't hear is that he's also the attorney for Maria Butina, the suspected Russian spy charged with criminal counts. (Fox is deeply commie)


N.Y. State Senate Hopeful Julia Salazar 'Lied About Being Jewish'

Police investigators say 5 Arizona officers were justified in beating man : news

The Latest: Expert: Murder convictions rare in police cases


Legislators, advocates decry cannabis commission ruling - The Boston Globe - not to crack down on excessive payments from marijuana companies to municipalities ... the commission would have rejected license applications from companies whose agreements violate a state law capping payments under such agreements at 3 percent of the company's annual revenue and limiting their length to five years. (hahah big money always wins)

Are Cities Making Animals Smarter? - The Atlantic

Bees Swarm Times Square Hot Dog Stand - The New York Times


The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are Now Free Online : books

STDs continue rapid rise in U.S., setting new record, CDC says : news

Before the dinosaurs, a million-year long volcanic eruption destroyed the ozone layer. Scientists concluded that the large reservoir of halogens that was stored in the Siberian lithosphere was sent into the earth's atmosphere during the volcanic explosion, effectively destroying the ozone layer : science

What is the creepiest "glitch in the matrix" you've experienced?


Elon Musk renews attacks on British cave diver he once called 'pedo' : news (malignant narcissism)

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Air pollution causes huge reduction in intelligence, study reveals. Impact of high levels of toxic air 'is equivalent to having lost a year of education' (explains W.Va)

Baltimore man identified as gunman in Jacksonville shooting that left 2 victims dead - Baltimore Sun
Four dead and 11 injured in mass shooting in Florida during Madden online gaming tournament | Daily Mail Online
Jacksonville Councilman Reginald Gaffney:'We've Got A Gun Problem'
Read The Harrowing Tweets Jacksonville Shooting Victim Sent From The Scene | HuffPost - "I will never take anything for granted ever again"
It Took Us Just 38 Minutes To Buy An AR-15 In Orlando | HuffPost - Purchasing a killing machine, even after a national tragedy, is just too easy.
Report: Gunman Opens Fire at Madden Championship Event (Video) : news

Thieves replace Paraguay police rifles with toy replicas - BBC News ("thieves" = "cops")

If I hadnt intervened, they wouldve been murdered - Yair Elalouf, who aided the three Arab men who were attacked by Jewish youth last week on a Haifa beach, says 70-80 people witnessed the beating and did nothing; "I saw a group of young Russian men beating (the Arabs) with clubs and chains. They jumped three people there, who were already unconscious on the ground, covered with blood" ("young Russians")

Rupert Murdoch: The cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy - The uncomfortable truth is, since the coup of June 2010, Australian politics has become vicious, toxic and unstable. The core question is why? ... But on top of all the above, while manipulating each of them, has been Rupert Murdoch --he greatest cancer on the Australian democracy. (Morloch destroying humans, everywhere)

New Panama Papers Leak Includes Offshore Links To Lionel Messi, Cartier, Argentine Leader : news

Vigano letter exposes the putsch against Pope Francis | National Catholic Reporter
Nuns Killed Children, Say Former Residents Of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage - Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn't make it out alive
TIL that until 1965, the penalty in Ireland for attempted suicide was death by hanging. : todayilearned


High Profits and Misery Meet at Door of Smugglers' 'Stash Houses' - Smugglers are making millions of dollars by extorting migrants after sneaking them into the United States and shuttling them from house to house.

Trump's farmer bailout will cost $4.7 billion : politics

Robert Reich: Don't Just Impeach Trump -- Annul His Presidency

Manafort Sought Deal in Next Trial, but Talks Broke Down - WSJ - Negotiations stalled after Mueller raised issues

Trump turns McCain's death into another political firestorm about Trump
McCain appears to criticize Trump in farewell message to the nation - moving final words were read to the public by his close friend Rick Davis in Arizona. (very mavericky)
Obama, Bush Asked To Speak At John McCain's Funeral; Trump Told To Stay Away
Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCain - The Washington Post
Flags at White House return to full-staff after brief tribute to McCain - The Washington Post
Manafort saw managing the 2008 Republican Convention as almost a birthright. But McCain denied him the job. He couldn't abide Manafort's pro-Russian clients
Opinion | Death in the Age of Narcissism - The New York Times But enough about John McCain. Here's some more about me.

Eschaton: The Royals - I don't care if people like or don't like John McCain. Whatever. But the worship of John McCain which is almost entirely without mention of policies he supported or would have supported demonstrates what is wrong with our political press corps. It's a costume drama to them. When you or your wife or your cousin or your sister or your daughter needs necessary medical care, you can thank John McCain for making that impossible.


Trump fathered child with a housekeeper: doorman : news (they will just love him even more)
President Trump is so eager to pardon Paul Manafort he's reportedly considering hiring a new White House counsel : politics

It Would Take Only a Single Senator to Check Trump - The Atlantic - With Republicans clinging to a precarious 50-49 majority, every individual GOP senator It might even keep the special counsel from sending a report to Congress, shaking Democrats can serve as a check on Trump (not one single commie)

Worried GOPers Privately List Potential Probes If Dems Retake House (every stinking Republican commie agent)

'Sleeper' case could torpedo Mueller report - It might even keep the special counsel from sending a report to Congress, shaking Democrats' hopes that such a document could provide the impetus for impeachment proceedings ... A little-noticed court case stemming from the apparent murder of a Columbia University professor six decades ago could keep special counsel Robert Mueller from publishing any information about the Trump campaign and Russia that he obtains through a Washington grand jury.

"Trump Is Nuts. This Time Really Feels Different" : Trump Rejects "War Council" Intervention, Goes It Alone - With his closest allies defecting, the president increasingly trusts only his instincts ... . And after betrayals by Allen Weisselberg and David Pecker, a former White House official says, Trump "spent the weekend calling people and screaming" ... This is back to being a one-man show, and everyone is on the outside looking in

Michael Cohen's lawyer has done real damage to the case against Trump

Bruce Ohr Fought Russian Organized Crime. Now He's a Taerget of Trump (just following Putin's orders)

Federal Court Strikes Down North Carolina Congressional Map Again : politics

Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance | The New Yorker - A leftist jounalist's bruising crusade against establishment Democrats -- and their Russia obsession. ("total witchhunt" GG supporting racist fucks everywhere)
The Inevitable Pivot - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I will have more of this profile of libertarian pundit Glenn Greenwald when I've had time to read it in full. In the meantime, I present the inevitable transformation of Glenn's views from "saying that Russians ratfucked the elections is McCarthyism" to "if Putin ratfucked the elections on behalf of and with the collaboration of the Trump campaign it's no big deal."
Ryan O'Farrell on Twitter: "Man this never gets old "

Rick and Ann Scott's financial trail leads to Cayman Islands tax haven (Republican crook laundering money? really)


Kushner Companies and Michael Cohen Accused of Falsifying Building Permits to Push Out Tenants - The New York Times


Hard Partying and a Corruption Scandal: Duncan Hunter's Political Life Unravels


APNewsBreak: Nation's top student loan official resigns - citing what he says is the White House's open hostility toward protecting the nation's millions of student loan borrowers. /a>

Fired-up Democrats close ballot gap with GOP; turnout nears 1.9 million | Tampa Bay Times - More people have voted in the 2018 primary than in 2016, a presidential election year (FL)
Republican Poll Shows Tight Race for Montana Senate


Secret message board drives 'pizzagate'-style harassment campaign of small businesses - The theorists are inspired in part by a far-right news website that has been used by prominent Republicans for fundraising efforts ... Big League Politics, a far-right media outlet that often publishes conspiracy content and has been used to raise funds for prominent Republican politicians.
Revealed: Notorious Pro-Trump Misinformation Site True Pundit Is Run By An Ex-Journalist With A Grudge Against The FBI - Truepundit
4/ By the way, yes, I do know the Buzzfeed article mentions me, and (a) says I'm "#resistance", which is not a term I *ever* apply to myself (though RT and certain US media outlets do), and (b) ridicules the evidence-based work I did on True Pundit - which has since been confirmed. (they didn't even read the whole thread)
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "This underscores how *widely known* Manafort's shady Russian ties were when Trump hired him in March 2016 " (McCain doesn't let Manafort run his campaign because Russia ties, shows the whole rest of the Rethugs are commie crooks)

Bloomberg News reassigned reporter after Wells Fargo CEO called to complain

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette no longer prints a daily newspaper - Elevating the news in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh becomes largest US city without a daily print newspaper | TheHill

A million-dollar gift to journalism, without ties, and the reason for that | Poynter - Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder and head of Craig Newmark Philanthropies, has been on a roll in supporting journalism and journalism education. This morning, he's giving $1 million to Mother Jones ...


An N.Y.U. Sexual-Harassment Case Has Spurred a Necessary Conversation About #MeToo | The New Yorker ... Of all the accusations that have come out in the era of #MeToo, the case of Avital Ronell may be the messiest and most difficult to digest ... Ronell, who is sixty-six, is a literary scholar and philosopher at New York University and, by all accounts, one of the great academic minds of our time. ("all accounts" in the "very academic" field of "feminist studies" and "literary theory" and Zizek!)
On Power and Aporia in the Academy: A Response in Three Parts

Lawrence police officer charged in shooting of black man during traffic stop : news


Elizabeth Warren: Jeff Sessions Acted as "Catalyst" for Weed Legalization


Psychology continues to face a replication problem: researchers attempted to reproduce 21 high-profile studies published between 2010 and 2015. Of the 21 tested, only 13 could be replicated, and the effect sizes were about half as strong. : science


Amazon hired an army of employees to say nice things about it on Twitter, and it shows how big its reputation problem has gotten : news

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Jacksonville shooting: Gunman opens fire at Madden tournament
Multiple fatalities reported in mass shooting at Jacksonville, Fla., video game tournament
This American Life - Lawyers, Guns & Money - important not to be numb to this:


The true costs of the Afghan war, America's longest and most invisible war | Big Think - Nearly 17 years and several presidents later, amassing the staggering costs of 2,372 American military deaths, 1,720 U.S. civilians contractor fatalities, over 20,000 troops wounded and likely trillions of dollars spent, the war is still not over (and Bush/Cheney walked and no lessons were learned, because look forward or actually just keep your eyes closed, thanks, Barry)


Former Vatican ambassador says Pope Francis, Benedict knew of sexual misconduct allegations against McCarrick for years - The Washington Post (lock them all up)

UK to start work on satellite system to rival EU's Galileo: Sunday Telegraph : news - Eh, I'm sure the NHS can spare some of that 350 million/week that the side of the bus promised for this.
/u/TruthSpeaker explains the cynical reasons the rich backed Brexit : bestof


McCain - Lawyers, Guns & Money (an antidote to all the sickening fawning)
John McCain and the POW/MIA myth - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... What got Donald Trump elected is that in America today it's a much worse thing to call somebody a racist than to actually be a racist. Especially if the accusation happens to be accurate. (dude was an evil, racist turd, through and through +princess dumbass of the northwoods)
Arizona Senator John McCain has passed away at the age of 81 : news
Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward suggests John McCain statement on ending treatment timed to hurt her campaign | kare11.com ("he timed his dying to mess with me")
Arizona Republican blames McCain of dying just to hurt her campaign : politics
Yes, McCain was a hero. He was also a conservative Republican, and a politician. - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Whatever John McCain did with his life before or after his time as a POW, his behavior upon capture by the North Vietnamese is a genuine profile in courage. This passage from David Foster Wallace's 2000 Rolling Stone piece on McCain has been making the rounds. It underscores the full odiousness of Trump's on McCain's status as a war hero

NBC/WSJ poll: Trump approval 'remarkably stable' after a stormy week of bad news - But 56 percent of voters say Trump has not been honest and truthful about the Mueller probe. (highest approval ever!)

Dershowitz says New York probe, not Mueller, is 'greatest threat' to Trumop
Opinion | The Full-Spectrum Corruption of Donald Trump - The New York Times

Trump, Putin and the mob. Part 7: Jared Kushner, Erik Prince & the secret meetings connecting them

Trump's Contempt for the Law Will Be His Downfall (he IS the law)
'He can't get rid of any of this' : Trump's wall of secrecy erodes amid growing legal challenges

Republicans brace for Democrats' investigation spree after the midterm elections - Axios
Republicans, Save Your Party by Impeaching the President : politics
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Eschaton: Republican Daddies - . Roughly they're moderate Republicans in a world that doesn't actually have any moderate Republicans aside from them. They're Nice Polite Republicans.

August House Overview: The Bottom Line in the 66 Most Competitive Races | The Cook Political Report - Democrats remain clear but not overwhelming House favorites. On the low end, it's possible House control may not be decided until days after the election

Kansans drank contaminated water for years. The state didn't tell them (vote Republican and die!)

Chuck Todd blames Fox News for Americans' cratering trust in news media (ironically, they trust Hannity)

Endorsement: Democrats should choose Ayanna Pressley for the Seventh District - The Boston Globe (commenters disagreee)
Without proof, Geoff Diehl';s ad asserts 'over 7,000 people every year'; killed by undocumented immigrants (or maybe it was unlicensed drivers, close enough! speaking of Republican shits)

Republicans Don't Own Patriotism Anymore (now they are all commies)

New Mexico compound suspects allegedly planned to attack Atlanta's Grady Hospital ... due to the treatment she and her mother received there


Children made up story about white man urinating on black child: police | MLive.com - Prosecutors said the 60--year-old man had a "verifiable alibi"

3 injured after teen steals ambulance from Rhode Island fire station and crashes, police say : news


Hebrew College sells Newton campus for $18m - The Boston Globe

Senator Warren on weed legalization: 'The federal government should just back off' : politics


TIL of the Bronze Age collapse, in which incredibly rich, powerful, advanced civilizations, dependent on complex trade and agriculture, vanished in the span of a human lifetime. : todayilearned
The Bronze Age Collapse - I: Before the Storm - Extra History - YouTube
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Wikipedia
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD) - YouTube

Brains of doers differ from those of procrastinators - Procrastinators have a larger amygdala and poorer connections between it and part of the cortex that blocks emotions, so they may be more anxious about the negative consequences of an action, and tend to hesitate and put off things. : science

TIL burning incense sticks causes lung irritation and can lead to mutations in bacterial cultures. Despite not being on par with cigarette smoke, incense smoke is much worse than other scented alternatives. : todayilearned

New study finds financial fallout from breast cancer can last years and cause series of cascading economic consequences for survivors and families. Many reported use of savings, loans, or debt to cover medical costs, often so large that they compromise ability to manage needs like utility bills. : science

Study finds religion influences how you experience psychedelic drugs - The study of 119 participants found that religious people and those who took psychedelic drugs with religious intent tended to report stronger mystical experiences. : science
Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty | Slate Star Codex
Philosopher Neil Van Leeuwen explains how irrational conspiracy theorists manage to have seemingly rational answers to every objection : philosophy

ELI5: The 5th, 6th, and 7th Dimensions : explainlikeimfive
Seven-dimensional space - Wikipedia
Physicists outline 10 different dimensions and how you'd experience them
String Theory's Strange Second Life - String theory has so far failed to live up to its promise as a way to unite gravity and quantum mechanics. At the same time, it has blossomed into one of the most useful sets of tools in science.


As porn site pounds hard on piracy laws, Cox pulls out prematurely : technology

Generally calm people of Reddit, what made you lose your absolute shit that time? : AskReddit

What's something you could have gone without knowing?

Researchers reveal Android devices communicating with Google servers almost 90 times per hour : technology

Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized. Then They Were Dismissed : technology

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' A dirty plan that would kill Americans - The Washington Post (the Republican platform, in general)


U.N. Says Saudi-led Airstrike Killed at Least 22 Yemeni Children - The New York Times ("Saudi-led" with American planes and bombs!)

Saudi Arabia'ss barbaric price for protest


Didi woman passenger killed amid China ride-hailing safety concerns | Reuters - A ride-sharing passenger in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was raped and killed by a driver for China's largest ride-hailing firm


John McCain, 'maverick' of the Senate and former POW, dies at 81
Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee who was driven by a code of honor that defined and haunted him, dies at 81 : politics

Democrats Strip Superdelegates Of Power In Historic Reform Vote | HuffPost - changes aim to heal the lingering divisions of the 2016 presidential primary.
Democrats weaken 'superdelegates' in effort to avoid another bitter presidential primary - They also affirm the decision of six states to move from caucuses, which have favored insurgent candidates, to primaries, which tend to have higher turnout.

Trump Has Spent 150 Days, Or 25 Percent, of His Presidency at Trump golf clubs : politics

Roger Stone: Mueller Will Soon Indict Donald Trump Jr. For 'Lying to the FBI' : politics

Devin Nunes silent after Trump gang's 16 convictions and guilty pleas (he's next)
The three illegal acts that may have helped Trump win the presidency - The Washington Post

Trump renews attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, claiming 'real corruption goes untouched' (Hillary's Russian pizza child-sex ring)
Trump Threatens FBI Over Hillary Clinton Emails: 'I May Have To Get Involved'

Eschaton: I've Never Even Met Eric and Don Jr. - NEWS: TrumpWorld v worried the Weisselberg immunity deal is shifting the crosshairs onto the Trump children, I'm learning. Sources insist family member would have had to authorize payments to Michael Cohen. (Remember MC's first monthly invoice was not sent till Feb 2017.)

Aides expect Trump to go rogue on Manafort pardon - POLITICO - comments are being read as a signal that he wants to ignore his lawyers and exonerate his former campaign chairman.
Paula Duncan, the Manafort juror who could save America - The Washington Post - Paula Duncan (is an idiot, but not a complete traitor like the other Trumpster juror)

Paul Manafort Is Going to Jail. But in Ukraine, He Has Left Ghosts in His Wake. | Village Voice - For decades, Manafort gave guidance to murderers around the world. It was only in America, the country that had shaped his tactics, that he found a partial comeuppance

Fox fallout shows why Trump's lawyers don';t want Mueller to get an interview

EXCLUSIVE: ex-Trump World Tower doorman's "catch and kill" contract released

Jim Carrey on Twitter: "Spend your life shifting with the political wind when your country desperately needs you... Play hide-and-seek with your true self... In the end it will be as if you never really existed. https://t.co/NrLGWEFBsI https://t.co/canXHoRftX" ... "Who Was Lindsey Graham?"

u/imagepoem finds one of Trump's old tweets that draws an interesting parallel. While defending Trump university in 2013, he called the investigation a "liberal witch hunt." (he's been running this scam for a long time)
/u/Deggit breaks down a theory about the existence of Mr. Good Shit who is basically the Deep Throat of Russiagate, and is taking down a corrupt White House like the predecessor one revelation at a time. : bestof

Dave Eggers: An Immigrant Family Hides From Donald Trump in a Connecticut Church | The New Yorker - No One Is Safer. No One Is Served. (but hillbilly dimbulbs who've never seen an "immigarant" are thrilled)

Tucker Carlson walks back bogus South Africa scaremongering - The Washington Post (Fucker Smearson still ruining America)

Opinion | How Far America Has Fallen - The New York Times - The thing with every shocking revelation about Trump is that it's already baked into his image. I've never met a Trump supporter who did not know exactly who he is. (send them to jail with him)

Eschaton: Winning The War On Christmas - We have to start earlier, folks. Trump with the usual fiction: "They're saying Christmas again now, right. Remember at the beginning of my campaign, it was December and I'd go see these stores and they'd never say Merry Christmas. They're all saying Merry Christmas now."

Meghan McCain Forced To Live Out Socialist Nightmare Of Empathy For Sick Person
Donald Trump Seeking Immunity From Mueller in Exchange for Flipping on Don Jr And Melania ;)

Trump Meets QAnon Kook Who Believes Democrats Run Pedophile Cult - Lionel Lebron said he got a personal invite to the White Hous -- and took advantage to post photos and Q clues on social media.

Trump's Power to Fire Federal Workers Curtailed by Judge

After Careful Consideration, Brown Decides To Oppose Kavanaugh Nomination | Press Releases | United States Senator Sherrod Brown


Opinion | The New Socialists - The New York Times - Why the pitch from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders resonates in 2018.

Here's The Special Issue Of The MSU Alumni Magazine On Sexual Abuse That Was Spiked By School President John Engler
Former Michigan State Gymnastics Coach Kathie Klages Charged With Lying To Investigators

Former head of CDC Tom Frieden arrested and charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment - Frieden groped the woman in his Brooklyn home and that the woman reported the incident in July.

Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults may spread through groups of friends or online sources, and may be a harmful coping mechanism like drugs, alcohol or cutting, a new study suggests. More research is needed to determine whether it is temporary or likely to be long term. : science (the trannie plague)


$3.8 billion paid in lawsuits and claims over sex abuse allegations in Catholic Church since 1980s, group says : news

3-Year-Old-Boy Denied Medication at New Mexico Compound Where His Body Was Found, Prosecutors Say : news

Former pastor claims sex abuse against televangelist - A lawsuit filed by a former associate pastor at an Ohio megachurch claims televangelist Ernest Angley sexually abused and harassed him over a 10-year period starting in 2004.

Philadelphia homeless man's lawyer says couple who raised $400k for him is withholding money : news
They raised $400,000 for a homeless man - who claims they spent it on vacations, casinos and a BMW
Top 149 Reviews and Complaints about GoFundMe

K-9 officer quits, hit with a dishonorable discharge : news
K-9 officer quits, hit with a dishonorable discharge | Boston Herald - Leigha Genduso has quit her high-paying job with the state police and was issued a dishonorable discharge on the way out the door.

Leigha Genduso, State police trooper with 'illicit past' gone, leaders cleared - "An internal Massachusetts State Police investigation" (hahaha)

North Carolina student punished after calling teacher 'ma'am' | WJLA

Autopsy: Devils Lake, ND man killed in officer-involved shooting was shot in the back of the head : news (he felt his life was in danger)

Police: Drunken undocumented immigrant sets fire to Washington Adventist Hospital ER | WJLA

GoFundMe raises thousands for man who punched sex offender during sentencing : news

Mother, daughter killed in fiery crash ID'd; 18-year-old wrong-way driver was a YouTube star : news (decided to kill himself and 2 other people because Youtube)

Angelina Jolie is no longer the saint she set out to be | Page Six
Insiders explain why Ben Affleck can't kick his alcohol habit

Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life - The New York Times

Opinion | The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined - The New York Times (thanks, Barry and Arne)

Those Who Can Do, Can't teach -- Advice for college students: The best experts sometimes make the worst educators.

How does Vanta Black work when it comes to absorbing light? : askscience - Vantablack is made of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes.

Why do people believe in trainable speed reading? : books

Panasonic DMC-ZS100 Digitally Digested Review - YouTube


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Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin's Plans for Midterms
How Russian bots used Mollie Tibbetts' death to distract from Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort - A network of Russian-linked Twitter accounts are sharing thousands of divisive tweets
Russian Trolls Used Vaccine Debate to Sow Discord, Study Finds - The New York Times - Twitter accounts that were used to meddle in the 2016 presidential election also sent both pro- and anti-vaccine messages and insulted parents.
Volunteers found Iran's propaganda effort on Reddit -- but their warnings were ignored

Trump: "Please Ratfuck Our Elections Again. It's Our Only Hope." - Lawyers, Guns & Money (but lock up Reality for ever)

Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, granted immunity in investigation
Trump Organization Could Face Criminal Charges From Manhattan D.A. - The New York Times
Allen Weisselberg Immunity Is Potential Trump Game-Changer - Bloomberg - Prosecutors know that Allen Weisselberg is privy to the Trump Organization's most sensitive information.
You May Now Flip - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, was one of the executives who helped arrange $420,000 in payments to Donald Trump's longtime attorney Michael Cohen to help reimburse him for hush money he paid an adult-film star ... Weisselberg is the person identified in court filings as "Executive-1"

David Pecker's DARKEST TRUMP SECRETS: A National Enquirer Insider Tells All!

A Lone Holdout Juror Actually Made It MORE Likely That Paul Manafort Will Go to Jail Even if Trump Pardons Him (Republican traitor juror not that smart, kills double-jeopardy escape)

With a Vocabulary From 'Goodfellas,' Trump Evokes His Native New York (and his criminal mob foreground)
Trump's s fantasy legal system - "The expectation of unwavering loyalty is a core operating principle for Trump

Trump Organization Could Face Criminal Charges From Manhattan D.A. - The New York Times

House and Senate Republicans are all complicit - The Washington Post

The Trump-Nixon comparison - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Rich makes the useful point that Nixon retained most of his support among Republicans until the very end: ... but we're not in 1974 anymore)

The Conspiracy Memo About Obama Aides That Circulated in the Trump White House | The New Yorker - The 2017 document, titled "The Echo Chamber" accused former Obama officials of undermining the incoming Administration. (remember with the Bushies lied and said Clinton changed the keys on the typewriters so they couldn't write anything>? - it's like that with more insufficient loyalty to the criminal Trumpster)

QAnon Leaders Crack Down on Mentions of Cohen After He Turned on Trump - Trump isn't the only one freaking out about rats. The internet forum home to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory is struggling, too.

Anger over Ed Dept mulling federal money for guns in schools (the Amway lady doing her gun scan with your money)

Rep. Duncan Hunter and wife plead not guilty to charges of fraudulent campaign spending - The couple arrived separately with their attorneys and did not speak to each other in the courtroom, which was filled to capacity with reporters, investigators, attorneys and other onlookers. The Hunters held stoic expressions during the short hearing.
Indicted California Congressman Proposed Raising Retirement Age To 72 | HuffPost - "We're not working in caves anymore or hunting animals," Rep. Duncan Hunter (R) told constituents. ("Tbey can work until they die. I need their money.")
Eschaton: Home For The Holidays With The Hunters - Family life must be great. - (CNN)Rep. Duncan D. Hunter seemed to shift any blame onto his wife, Margaret, on Thursday for alleged campaign fund abuses, saying she was the one handling his finances. (he threw her under the bus and backed up over her three times)
After indictment, Duncan Hunter turns to the Bible for help - Lawyers, Guns & Money
'How do you stay married to a guy who does that?' Hill Republicans are appalled by Rep. Duncan Hunter, who is facing indictment, blaming his wife. ("family values" guy)
Duncan Hunter is Using Campaign Funds to Defend Himself Against ... Misusing Campaign Funds - Hunter and wife alleged to have siphoned $250,000 from campaign coffers for personal use

Why Trump Supporters Believe He Is Not Corrupt - What the president's supporters fear most isn't the corruption of American law, but the corruption of America's traditional identity. (crooked Hillary! Lock her up!)

Ill-fated plan to close polling places in Georgia county recalled lingering prejudice - The Washington Post (the whole thing is a racist criminal crime ring)

John McCain has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer : news

By a 3-to-1 margin, Trump supporters embrace his personality over his policies - The Washington Post (says a lot about their "personalities")


Opinion | The Tax-Cut Con Goes On - The New York Times - Why Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot.

Eschaton: This 4-Year-Old Scavenged Aluminum Cans Out Of The Trash At 3AM To Pay For Her Mom's Cancer Treatment - They are horror stories. (very uplifting)


Florida candidate says alien abduction doesn't define her - Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera has a long list of accomplishments to bolster her campaign in Florida. But she is perhaps best known for claiming that she was abducted by space aliens as a child. (they're called Republicans, dear)


Second Fox News reporter leaves amid objections to network - POLITICO - In the Trump era, hard reporting is being crowded out by opinionated panels, current and former staffers say - Adam Housley, a Los Angeles-based reporter who joined Fox in 2001 ... the number of talking-head panels during news shows proliferated ("news" = "3 Republicans and 1 libtard arguiong)

Eschaton: Rotating Cast of Deplorables - You hired him, CNN. - On CNN, new pro-Trump contributor confirms he is contractually forbidden from criticizing Trump. (jfc)


The Great Virginia 2nd Congressional District Rattus Rattus Intercourse Caper - Lawyers, Guns & Money - From the Virginian-Pilot, a tale of Republican ratfuckery. And some great reporting.

Watch the most misleading campaign ad so far this year. | Tampa Bay Times - Congratulations Frank White, Republican candidate for Florida Attorney General.


Letting Priests Marry Would Not Solve the Catholic Church's Pedophilia Problem - Just let priests have legit sex, some say, and all this hideousness will end. No, it won't Pedophiles are pedophiles, and we see them in milieus where men can marry. (but especially in the CC where they go to pedophile)

Domestic abuse husband 'let down' by authorities before murder. : news


Indiana high school student arrested after posting zombie video game clip to Facebook : news - Glad this hit national news so the principal can get humiliated.



Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She'll Thank You Later - The way we teach math in America hurts all students, but it may be hurting girls the most.


Racial beliefs can lead some Americans to minimize President Barack Obama'S economic accomplishments, finds a new study


TIL the insult of calling liberals "bleeding hearts" was first coined by a columnist who disapproved of politicians trying to stop lynchings : todayilearned (well, that makes perfect sense +Westbrook Pegler)


Bloke schools a stalker cop from his window : videos
What is the biggest load of bullshit you have ever been told? : AskReddit

Procter & Gamble attempting to trademark 'LOL', 'WTF', and other millennial acronyms : news

I've Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs Twitter

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Hurricane Lane edges closer to Hawaii, unleashing tremendous rainfall and flooding - The Washington Post
Climate change denial strongly linked to right-wing nationalism, finds a new study. : science (at the intersection of stupidity and evil)
The weirdest people in the world? - PubMed - NCBI - The findings suggest that members of WEIRD societies, including young children, are among the least representative populations one could find for generalizing about humans
What climate denial, oil addiction and xenophobia have in common: Neocons | Nafeez Ahmed | Politics | The Guardian


Reality Winner, Former N.S.A. Translator, Gets More Than 5 Years in Leak of Russian Hacking Report - The New York Times (because bipartisan Barry and comey sure wasn't going to tell us)
The Government's Argument That Reality Winner Harmed National Security Doesn't Hold Up. Here's Why. (you know who really harmed national security?)


White House blocks bill that would protect elections - has been held up in the Senate at the behest of the White House, which opposed the proposed legislation (now, why would Trump oppose election security?)
DNC says suspected hack attempt turned out to be a security test - The Washington Post
Attempted Hacking of Voter Database Was a False Alarm, Democratic Party Says - The New York Times

The Top 10 Reasons Why Most Trump Supporters Will Never Care About the Russia Investigation (#1: too complicated for their tiny Fox/Russian-controlled brains)


Giuliani: Trump Asked Lawyers For Opinions On Pardoning Manafort, Before Verdict
Manafort juror: One 'holdout' prevented jury from convicting Manafort on all 18 counts
Manafort juror reveals lone holdout prevented Mueller team from winning conviction on all counts | Fox News


Almost Literal Mob Boss Donald Trump Wants to Ban Flipping ("so unfair" to the Trumpster)
Trump says longstanding legal practice of flipping 'almost ought to be illegal'

David Pecker, CEO of National Enquirer Publisher, Granted Immunity in Michael Cohen Case - WSJ - Publishing executive met with prosecutors to describe involvement of Cohen, Trump in hush-money deals to women ahead of 2016 election
"Holy Shit, I Thought Pecker Would Be the Last One to Turn" : Trump's National Enquirer Allies Are the Latest to Defect - David Pecker and Dylan Howard corroborated Michael Cohen's account implicating the president in a federal crime. And Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis says there are more revelations to come.
Eschaton: Not So Safe

Opinion | This Conspiracy Theory Should Worry Trump - The New York Times - When two or more people join together to break the law, as Michael Cohen says he and the president did, the penalties can be harsh.

Trump and Sessions feud over the direction of the Justice Department - The Washington Post (Graham and Grassley ready to "move on" to Trump autocracy)

Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud - The Washington Post
The Latest: Trump says impeachment would cause economic dive

Trump lied about Stormy Daniels, from the Fact Checker - The Washington Post - The first denial that Donald Trump knew about hush-money payments to silence women came four days before he was elected president, when his spokeswoman Hope Hicks said, without hedging, "We have no knowledge of any of this"

Trump tweets the word 'Africa' for first time as president - in defense of whites in South Africa

Trump called this White House defender 'wonderful' He was fired from his previous job for alleged sexual harassment.
CNN Suspends Paris Dennard After WaPo Uncovers Past Sexual Misconduct Allegations : television

Trump chose Putin over America right in front of us. - Investigation or no, the evidence has always been right in front of us. Here it is.

'How Did We End UP Here?' Trump Wonders as the White House Soldiers On (Haberputz wonders)
Will Stancil on Twitter: "Haberman, just now " (Haberputz gets burned on the twitter for being stupid and a Trump access ass kisser making Trump's "isolation" something to sympathize about)
Eschaton: Zeno
I want to live alone in the desert I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe I want to live in a tacky Midtown tower and never go down in the street - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Maggie Duranty: Is the NY Times repeating its history of enabling apologists for corrupt regimes? ... The New York Times has failed to disclose to the public that she has family FINANCIAL ties to both Russia and the Trump-Kushner clan. This reporter is Maggie Haberman. (jfc, they really hired her for her "connections" to Russia and the Kushners)

Backlash grows over poll closures in predominantly black Georgia county : news (Brian Kemp doesn't want you to vote)

The GOP is a sewer of criminality, up and down the line

Betsy DeVos Is Said to Weigh Letting School Districts Use Federal Funds to Buy Guns - The New York Times (the Amway lady's new plan)
Help the boys making all the noise - Lawyers, Guns & Money (along the same lines, recruiting civilians to help cops instead of standing around taking videos of bad copsters chocking people)

ESPN's Michelle Beadle re-ups football boycott as she blasts Urban Meyer, Ohio State (sportsball is the boss of your education)
The Urban Meyer debacle - Lawyers, Guns & Money (speaking of DeVos, title IX has been gutted, so male abusers and supporters like Meyer go unpunished)

Think Elizabeth Warren And Bernie Sanders Are The Same? She Doesn't ... "He's a socialist, and I believe in markets" /a>
Progressive movement stirs Democrats - In another year, Donna Shalala might have had an easy ride to Washington. Running to become a first-time congresswoman in a Miami seat at age 77 (fuck off, Donna)

52.1% of Kids Live in Households Getting Means-Tested Government Assistance

Tomorrow's Lie of the Year Today - Lawyers, Guns & Money - the Mercatus Center put out a widely publicized study that inadvertently showed that Bernie's Medicare For All program would substantially reduce total health care expenditures. After Bernie pointed out the own goal, Mercatus basically decided to work the fact-checking refs, and get them to call Bernie a liar ... (and Kessler fell right into the scam)


The Jim Crow Roots of Trump's Republican Party - Lawyers, Guns & Money - As Adam Sewrer observes, Trumpism has clear roots in the kleptocratic apartheid police states of the Jim Crow South: (the evil is deep, and has always been there)

Millions of Texas voter records exposed online TechCrunch - Over 14 million detailed voter records were found on an unprotected server

Opinion | I Stood Up in Mass and Confronted My Priest. You Should, Too. - The New York Times - Catholics should not keep on filling the pews every Sunday. It is wrong to support the church.
How The Catholic Church Trains Its Own About Abuse : NPR (demons! your dick is a demon!)

Colleges cut ties with acclaimed Boston-area concert organist amid sex allegations - The Boston Globe - James David Christie, widely regarded as one of the greatest organists of his generation


Suspect who fatally stabbed black man in Pennsylvania 'liked' nearly 50 racist alt-right Facebook pages | Southern Poverty Law Center

Georgia school superintendent put on leave after alleged audio recording of racist rant | TheHill - making racist comments and saying he wanted to kill black construction workers who had upset him. (the mentality never changes)
Man accused of urinating on girl, 5, and calling her racial slur: police | MLive.com - The man was described as white and about 60 years old.


Steve Jobs Comes Across as a Jerk. His Daughter Forgives Him. Should We? - Lisa Brennan-Jobs has written a memoir about her famous father. The details are damning, but she doesn't want them to be ("I'm the most important person you will ever meet." ... a "more nuanced portrait" of a total asshole) ... Ms. Brennan-Jobs said she did not trust Walter Isaacson (who made her the villain, tell you a lot about him)


Safest level of alcohol consumption is none, worldwide study shows - The Washington Post

DNA study shows Everglades pythons could grow hardier | Miami Herald

Pod of heroic dolphins are filmed defending a humpback and her calf Sunny from five male whales | Daily Mail Online

After decades of searching, scientists have finally pinned down the protein responsible for turning the mechanical wiggling of hair cells in the inner ear into electrical signals for the brain to interpret as sound. : science

Microdosing is touted by 'shroomers and Reddit users. Science is starting to test their claims -- and finding some truth
TIL Prehistoric rock art in the Saharan desert indicates that there were ancient hallucinogenic mushroom cults as far back as 9,000 years ago. The mushrooms were used in rituals of a mystico-religious nature, with drawings of Gods draped with the venerated mushrooms appearing repeatedly : todayilearned
Artepreistorica.com | THE OLDEST REPRESENTATIONS OF HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS IN THE WORLD (SAHARA DESERT, 9000 7000 B.P.)

Deep Web Markets Links
Point / Tcccchka Free Market | Deep Dot Web
Tochka Market (Tcccchka/Point) | List of Darknet Markets
Tochka Market Announced Vendor Verification | Dark Web News
reddup: r/DarkNetMarketplaces

Canadian laser breakthrough has physicists close to cooling down antimatter : science


bittens comments on Largest live exporter of livestock in Australia hit with permanent ban after being found guilty of cruelty: 1.5 million sheep have died on their vessels due to extremely hot and brutal conditions.


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Trump's False Claims About Coal, the Environment and West Virginia - President Trump claimed that coal was "indestructible" that West Virginia had one of the strongest state economies and that the U.S. was the "cleanest country in the planet." None of that was true. ("In" the planet)


The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History | WIRED


Opinion | What the Manafort Verdict Means - The New York Times - Robert Mueller's biggest victory yet, in one of the most successful special counsel investigations in history.
A terrible day for Trump could foretell more bad days to come ... But members of Trump's amily can be indicted, and Mueller's tightening vise nonetheless poses tangible legal problems for the White House ... For the first time, a Trump aide has been found guilty of an offense directly related to the campaign

briantnelson comments on Prosecutors: Trump used 'sham' invoices to mask payments to Cohen

All the President's Crooks
The only reason that Trump hasn't been indicted is that he's the president
'It's the only excuse they'll need' : Legal blows fuel impeachment fears (yeah, politico, just an 'excuse')
With Michael Cohen's Guilty Plea, President Trump Has Been Implicated in a Criminal Conspiracy
The President is a Crook - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... "Trump himself is guilty of federal crimes"
A One-Two Punch Puts Trump Back on His Heels - The New York Times
Trump Didn't Consult McGahn About Hush-Money Payments, Source Says
Six Big Questions After the Cohen and Manafort Bombshells | WIRED
In Fox interview, Trump seems to confess a campaign finance violation while trying to deny it - He doesn't get what the illegal part was
\ These Are Not Very Bright Etc. - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Donald Trump essentially confessed to committing a felony under the not-exactly-intense scrutiny of Fox & Friends questioning:

Some random thoughts about reporting, prompted by a less-than-dull news cycle - Lawyers, Guns & Money

New York state subpoenas Cohen in Trump Foundation probe
Michael Cohen paid a mysterious tech company $50,000 'in connection with' Trump's campaign

Betsy Woodruff on Twitter: "On Hannity, Sara Carter decries "collusion between the FBI and the DOJ"" ... BREAKING NEWS: Investigators and prosecutors conspire to bring criminal charges (dumb and dumber)
In Trump's right-wing media universe, it was a day like any other (why not just say Fox?)
Hamza Shaban on Twitter: "Homepages leading with Cohen/Manafort news: The Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, BuzzFeed News, CNN, NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, MSNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, NPR, BBC - Homepages not leading with Cohen/Manafort news: Fox News (Looking for any others) https://t.co/9K63A9cVIr"

Scott Lemieux on Twitter: "Cf. also Kavanaugh's abysmal poll numbers, which aren't a product of the public reading his circuit court opinions https://t.co/ZQMFrLOtdr"
The "Let's Pretend Brett Kavanaugh Won't Overrule Roe" Kabuki - Lawyers, Guns & Money (little Susie will never wake up : "she isn't dumb, sh's lying.")

7 next steps for #FreePress | Poynter


Eschaton: Grifters - The scope is stunning. - The Hunters used campaign funds for ski trips, hotel stays and European vacations, according to the indictment. They dined everywhere from Spago to Taco Bell, from Mister A's to Weinerschnitzel. They golfed. They bought make-up. They paid for airline tickets for friends and relatives and invested in tequila shots and gourmet steaks ... They paid for their children's private Xian academy w campaign funds & lied about it. Irony is dead.
Duncan Hunter indictment: 10 of the ickiest allegations - The Washington Post ("I'm totally innocent")
Duncan Hunter Says His Indictment Is Part of a Deep-State Witch Hunt
Duncan Hunter overdrew his bank account an average of three times a week, every week, for seven years - The Washington Post

GOP's midterm nightmare: Party "looks like a criminal enterprise"

Undocumented immigrant charged in Mollie Tibbetts' death was working for family of prominent Iowa GOP figure
Cristhian Rivera, charged in Mollie Tibbetts' death, worked at a farm owned by a prominent Iowa Republican family
President Trump, Fox News Use Mollie Tibbets Death to Talk Illegal Immigration


Democrat O Rourke trails Ted Cruz by just 4 percentage points in Texas = O'ourke has 45 percent support among registered voters compared with Cruz's 49 percent;


Undebatable -- Geoff Diehl and John Kingston are afraid of Beth Lindstrom ... Lindstrom has expressed support for Roe v. Wade, and for Brett Kavanaugh, (you'd think her head would explode +whatever happened to Shivafuck?)

Georgia County Can't Back Up Its Excuse For Plan To Disenfranchise Black Voters | HuffPost

A revoltin' but not a surprisin' development - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Life is full of surprises. The fact that nearly half of polled DOPUS voters say they would support a presidential candidate if they knew he had used the n-word ins't one of them. Neither is the fact that more than half of the polled respondents who identify as Republican don't think it is a biggie if a sitting POTUS uses the word. (but) ... One surprise is near the beginning: Even 45's supporters aren't buying the idea that Russia is Our Friend. (and lots of "uncertain"ty)


The most sexist places in America - The Washington Post - Arkansas is the most sexist state in the nation while New Hampshire is the least, according to an index of sexist attitudes - Prevalence of sexist attitudes is highest in Arkansas, followed by Utah, Alabama, West Virginia and Tennessee. On the flip side, New Hampshire residents demonstrate the lowest levels of sexism, followed by Alaska, Wyoming, Vermont and Connecticut.


Asia Argento's response to sexual assault allegations is hugely troubling. #MeToo survivors deserve better. - By painting her accuser Jimmy Bennett as a grifter ..."I have never had any sexual relationship with Bennett" ... On Wednesday, TMZ released a photo apparently showing Bennett and Argento shirtless in bed together, and texts, purportedly from Argento, admitting to sex with Bennet (both sides of her lying mouth)
Asia Argento and 17-Year-Old Boy in Bed in Sexual Encounter | TMZ.com
Abuse begets abuse - The Washington Post (because Weinstein raped her, she raped Bennet)

St. Paul's report substantiates new allegations of sexual misconduct against 10 ex-staffers, including a late congressman - The three former faculty members who were previously not named in two prior reports include Gerry Eastman Studds ... "had acted as a predator" ... Studds, who spent 24 years in the House of Representatives, where he represented the 10th Congressional District ... In 1983, Studds was censured by the House after a former congressional page told investigators that he and Studds had a sexual relationship in 1973 when the page was just 17. ... Interesting side note ... The Globe endorsed Studds for reelection in 1984 even after the whole page affair and censure.

Singer claims he was drugged and raped in 2010 by classical music power couple - NY Daily News - An up-and-coming baritone singer alleges he was drugged and violently raped in 2010 by two of opera/classical music's shining stars, David Daniels and Scott Walters. (gay rapists)

Italian resident molested, robbed in Downtown Brooklyn: police - NY Daily News

I was the only one left behind. And I was the only one who was brown. But when he attempted to board a Concord Coach Lines bus in Rockland, the driver refused to let Ahmed on. The boy showed the driver the $35 ticket receipt on his phone, but the driver demanded to see Ahmed's identification. (Concord Coach lies)

Westport guard asks black bartender to make a 'Trayvon Martini' He's now on leave

Texas Deputy Accused of Molesting 4-Year-Old Is Found Dead in Jail, Officials Say : news
Texas Deputy Accused of Molesting 4-Year-Old Is Found Dead in Jail, Officials Say - The New York Times - Mr. Nunez was charged with super aggravated sexual assault of a child

These Economists Think It Was Guns, Not the Crack Epidemic, That Drove the '90's Murder Boom (not what Ghouliani told us)


'Addicts, crooks, thieves': : the campaign to kill Baltimore's light rail ... The Anne Arundel county police confirmed the details of the Hahn's report, but with two important discrepancies: there was nothing to link the suspect with the light rail and he wasn't rom Baltimore - he was local. (lying white racist assholes - Chris and Kim Hahn)


A Third of Teenagers Don't Read Books for Pleasure Anymore : books

Harvard expert's criticism of coconut oil widely shared online

A bunch of people told me to do an AMA since I'm deaf and I just got bilateral Cochlear Implants. So go ahead! : IAmA


Scientists tackle 150-year-old mystery about the nature of light-matter interactions, and were able to measure the force that light exerts on matter. The results confirm that light possesses momentum, an idea first proposed by Johannes Kepler in 1619. : science
Does light have gravity? - Quora

The Rebirth of Radio Astronomy | WIRED

Electrically charged volcanic ash short-circuited Earth's atmosphere in 1815, causing global poor weather and Napoleon's defeat

Porn use does not predict problems with porn, but religiosity does, finds a new meta-analysis, which suggests that Pornography Problems due to Moral Incongruence (PPMI) appear to be the driving force in many of the people who report dysregulated, uncontrollable, or problematic pornography use. : science

While some develop PTSD after trauma, most people recover, and some even report better mental health than they had before, so-called "post-traumatic growth" , which has to do with trauma triggering a form of mental training that increases some survivors' control over their own minds, finds new study.

Bones of ancient teenage girl reveal a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father, providing genetic proof ancient hominins mated across species. : science
Were Neanderthals a different species? | Genetic Literacy Project


Reddit, I lost 234 pounds in one year without surgery or pills. : pics

[Serious] Former Incels of Reddit. What brought you the ideology and what took you out? : AskReddit

drakeblood4 comments on My Statement and Commitment to the Magic Community
Heroin user going through withdrawals : videos


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Arctic's strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record - Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary (see below)
Cost of New E.P.A. Coal Rules: Up to 1,400 More Deaths a Year - The New York Times (hillbillies voted literally to kill themelves)
Killing 1,400 People a Year to Own the Libs - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Windmills, Our Deadliest Killers - Lawyers, Guns & Money
GOP's Climate of Paranoia - The Orwellification of the G.O.P. didn't start with Trump. On the contrary, the party has been moving in that direction for years; the mind-set Trump is exploiting was already well in place before he burst on the scene. (climate denial is just another Republican delusion with huge consequences)


37 dead as measles cases spike in Europe : news


Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court | US news | The Guardian - Suit against Christopher Steele by three Russian oligarchs thrown out by judge
Christopher Steele's Victory in a D.C. Court

New Russian Hacking Targeted Republican Groups, Microsoft Says - The New York Times

Trump threatens clearance of former official after seeing him in heated TV debate - The Washington Post - Trump tweeted: "totally unglued and weird... Mudd is in no mental condition to have such a Clearance" (sounds like someone he knows)
Trump Implies Taking Away Security Clearances Is Punishment For Criticizing Him | HuffPost

Trump denies report that he considered restricting Obama's intelligence briefings -- then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster had talked Trump out of the idea, which some White House officials were pushing last year in the wake of Trump's assertion, without evidence, that Obama had ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign. (read that again, their lunatic conspiracy theories are fucking up everything)

Flynn sentencing hearing delayed | TheHill - Special counsel Robert Mueller has again delayed scheduling a sentencing hearing for former national security adviser Michael Flynn.


Paul Manafort found guilty on 8 counts; judge will declare mistrial in 10 others - The Washington Post
Paul Manafort Guilty of 8 Charges in Fraud Trial - The New York Times - The verdict was a victory for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, whose prosecutors built a case that Mr. Manafort hid millions of dollars in foreign accounts to evade taxes and lied to banks repeatedly to obtain $20 million in loans.

Michael Cohen Says He Arranged Payments to Women at Trump's Direction
Michael Cohen says he worked to silence two women 'in coordination' with Trump to influence 2016 election
Cohen goes down with the ship - Lawyers, Guns & Money
These Are Unbelievably Horrible People - Lawyers, Guns & Money

I Lived Through Watergate. I Lived Through the Saturday Night Massacre. There Never Was Anything Like This. - The Cohen and Manafort developments could be a mortal blow to the Trump presidency -- and Brett Kavanaugh's nomination

Catastrophic day for Trump: Former campaign boss Paul Manafort and former lawyer Michael Cohen are now both felons : politics
With Sixteen "Guilty" Verdicts All in a Row, Hundreds of Thousands Ready to Hit Streets If Trump Issues Pardons or Moves Against Mueller : politics

Stormy Daniels on Twitter: "How ya like me now?! # teamstormy"
Stormy Daniels Sends A Brief Message After Michael Cohen Plea: 'How Ya Like Me Now>?'
Twitter Users Crack Up At Rudy Giuliani's Reaction To Manafort, Cohen Verdicts
Kathy Griffin Goes Topless To Celebrate Manafort, Cohen Guilty Verdicts | HuffPost

A 'perjury trap' isn't the real reason Trump won't answer Mueller's questions

It Is False to Claim There Was No Follow-Up to the June 9 Meeting
"They're Squeezing Don Jr. Right Now" : s the Mueller Siege Tightens, Trump's witter Rage Crests

Donald Trump: Three decades - 4,095 lawsuits

Fact checkers have a Medicare-for-all problem (addition and subtraction is hard)

Trump adviser Larry Kudlow hosted publisher of white nationalists at his home - The Washington Post

Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposes a new bill that would ban members of Congress and the White House staff from owning individual stocks.

GOP candidate jokes: 'The Russians are going to help me' win in November ("Russia, if you're listening ...")


How voting for Kavanaugh could hurt Susan Collins's re-election bid (little Susie doing what she always does, enabling evil)


Federal marshals removed from plane at MSP, cuffed; 1 of them 'flashed a gun'

Duncan Hunter and his wife indicted for using campaign funds for personal expenses - CNNPolitics


Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers (2) - by favoring immigrant visa holders for job openings



Nineteen former Miss America winners are calling for the entire pageant board to step down including chairwoman Gretchen Carlson over claims of bullying | Daily Mail Online - (the famous Fox News bully is a bully? no way.)


How the NY Times Omitted a Woman from a Silicon Valley Story (Nick Confessore doesn't think women are important, buys the guy's story)

'Sharp Objects' and the Unethical Female Journalist - The Atlantic - With Camille Preaker, Zoe Barnes, and Rory Gilmore, Hollywood's depictions of women reporters have never been further from reality. (lazy sluts who sleep with everybody to get stories written by male writers)



Christian Bahena-Rivera: Suspect in Mollie Tibbetts death charged with first-degree murder - The Washington Post

Video of Man Berating Officer Opens Debate Over Recording in Police Stations - The New York Times

How An Elite New York City Prep School Created A Safe Space For Angry Zionists | HuffPost


Prehistoric college football coaches are killing players. It's past time to stop them. (because you can't say "sadistic fuckers?")

When did parenting become so fearful? | The Outline - only 30 percent of parents said kids should be allowed to play in a public park unsupervised before they're 13 years old, though the country's streets have never been safer.

The Militarization of Police Does Not Reduce Crime - new study reveals that SWAT tends to be deployed in majority black communities. Further, militarization doesn't reduce crime or increase officer safety. Lastly, militarization was also found to reduce trust in police. : science

Creationism and conspiracy theories, two seemingly unrelated beliefs, share a common core thinking error, teleological bias, finds a new study (N > 2,000). : science

Light from ancient quasars helps confirm quantum entanglement: Results are among the strongest evidence yet for "spooky action at a distance"

"This is a lifesaver": Patients who accepted infected kidney transplants cured of hepatitis C : news

What Went Wrong With IBM's Watson - The A.I. project was supposed to change the state of cancer treatment. Here's what happened insteead. (IBM is shrinking)


What is the worst case of Princess behavior you've ever seen?


082018

Red hot planet: This summer's punishing and historic heat in 7 maps and charts
Sea level rise is already costing property owners on the coast - The Washington Post
Summer weather is getting 'stuck' due to Arctic warming. Rising arctic temperatures mean we face a future of extreme extremes where sunny days become heatwaves and rain becomes floods, study says
Is this a historically hot summer? Let's look at the data (basically, yes, +humidity because rain all the time)
Husband, wife from Mass. die in Seabrook, N.H., rip current incident - The Boston Globe


South Africa begins seizing white-owned farms - NZ Herald


Trump bus spotted in Copenhagen : gifs (hilarious)


Exclusive: Pentagon raises alarm about sharp drop in Iraqi refugees coming to U.S. | Reuters - The Pentagon is concerned that not providing safe haven to more of the Iraqis, many of whom interpreted and did other key tasks for U.S. forces, will harm national security by dissuading locals from cooperating with the United States in Iraq and other conflict zones, the officials said. (it's almost as if Putin ... )

Trump On Mueller Probe: 'I Could Run It If I Want' ("my power is unlimited! I will witch-hunt myself! And my lies are always true!")

Ken Starr Just Produced the Most Incredible Hypocrisy in the History of Cable News - The Lewinsky prosecutor expressed concerns about a "fishing expedition" from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Trump-Russia news: The past 72 hours, explained - Vox - Paul Manafort, Don McGahn, Michael Cohen, and everything else you might have missed.

John Brennan's Choice to Confront Trump
The Dangers in the Trump-Brennan Confrontation - Lawfare
John Bolton and GOP senators are enabling Trump's attacks on dissent (why is he always adjusting his glasses?)

Trump calls Mueller lawyers 'thugs' and 'a National Disgrace!' (it's always projection)

The most intense and dangerous period of the Trump presidency is about to begin - The Washington Post - the next 11 weeks could be the most intense and consequential of Donald Trump's presidency

What in the world is Rudy Giuliani talking about? - The Washington Post ("My lies are the truth! Shut up!)
Rudy Giuliani does not exist - The Washington Post
'Truth isn't truth' is the Trump era's epitaph (please, the whole Repubican party)

The New Enemies List - Trump's embrace of one of Richard Nixon's most notorious moves poses a question: Will voters still hold a president accountable for abusing his power?

Team Trump still isn't telling the truth about that 2016 Trump Tower meeting (fucking "Team Trump" is the new normal in reporting)

Congressman Alcee Hastings says 'something is tragically wrong' with Donald Trump's mind (if he even has one)

Trump's Strange Tweet About Joseph McCarthy - People who have actually studied the disgraced Wisconsin senator describe a man who bears similarities to some of the president's most notable attributes ... And given Trump's tenuous grip on history, not to mention his close, critical connection with McCarthy's foremost henchman, this instance of his transparent table-turning amounted to an awkward, unwitting exercise in self-portraiture.

Time for another round of "Gosh, is this racist?" - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Trump's Snake Oil Hasn't Helped Kentucky Coal Country - The gold-plated medicine wagon came to town and fleeced everybody. (don't worry, they'll blame the coastal elites with educations)

Pruitt called the White House once from his $43,000 phone booth, records show - The Washington Post

A leading Republican urges reform for Medicare and Social Security as deficits balloon after the GOP's tax cut (they always do that, see W's scam)

Opinion | Why Even a Blue Wave Could Have Limited Gains - The New York Times - The divergent geography of 2018 means we will really have two midterm elections, and one favors Republicans ... The Senate hinges on red, rural states where Democrats are on defense. But the House will be decided by swing, suburban seats where Republicans are highly vulnerable.

'Please come help' - Eastern Shore crab houses are suffering this summer because they didn't get the visas needed to hire enough pickers from Mexico. (voted for Trumpster, of course)

Media Keeps Giving Trump Benefit of the Doubt on Collusion
The rigged witch hunt - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... The Trump cult now controls somewhere in the neighborhood of 35% to 40% of the adult populace, and you need just one of these people on a jury to make any conviction next to impossible.
Windmills, Our Deadliest Killers - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Two and a half more years! At least! (incoherent moron)

How the Los Angeles Times could beat the New York Times in Washington: By covering politicc ... - Dan Froomkin


Brett Kavanaugh memo detailed explicit questions for President Clinton - The Washington Post ("Just exactly how long was your dick in Monica's mouth?)

This is what the average American looks like in 2018 - The Washington Post - he average American is a woman. 50.8 percent of Americans are women. The average American is white and not Hispanic. 60.7 percent of Americans fit that description ... She's an evangelical Baptist ... She probably won't vote

The Truth About Fake News | MastersInCommunications.org

Elizabeth Spiers on Twitter: "At some point @jack needs to understand that bias is not a greater sin than disinformation. Truth might reinforce a bias, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be prioritized over lies that appear to neutralize bias. https://t.co/Sl7zCnnKmk"

Erik Loomis on Twitter: "This is effectively the Republican Party view of the First Amendment " (Liberty U)

Catholic churches hold "Mass of forgiveness" after priest sex abuse report : news (forgiving themselves, as usual)
Cardinal Wuerl's Name Spray-Painted Over On North Catholic H.S. Sign
Clergy abuse hotline calls 'surging' after scathing grand jury report : news - Don't forget, people, that report was just Pennsylvania....with over 1,000 victims if I remember correctly. Nationwide? That number is fucking huge.
In the wake of more news of child abuse by the Catholic Church perhaps we owe Sinead O'Connor an apology. : videos
Sinead O'Connor reveals her torment after she was sent to a Magdalene Laundry
There may be 15,000 illegal adoptions, Barnardos head claims - Charlie Flanagan says it is highly likely that other agencies were involved
Pope on Pennsylvania abuse report: 'We abandoned the little ones' : news - Diocese of Erie: 41 out of 169 priests Diocese of Allentown: 37 out of 210 priests Diocese of Greensburg: 20 out of 96 priests Diocese of Harrisburg: 45 out of 150 priests Diocese of Pittsburgh: 99 out of 442 priests Diocese of Scranton: 59 out of 252 priests


Asia Argento, a #MeToo Leader, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser - The New York Times - Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy Bennett, a young actor and rock musician who said she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room years earlier, when he was only two months past his 17th birthday. She was 37. The age of consent in California is 18. ... The script, based on a book by the pseudonymous writer JT LeRoy, depicts the grim relationship between a drug-addicted prostitute played by Ms. Argento and her son, played by Mr. Bennett
Asia Argento Paid Off Sexual Assault Accuser (Report) | Hollywood Reporter
Weinstein accuser reportedly paid off her own accuser, a young male actor : news - BTW now Rose McGowan is urging her followers to not immediately believe the victim, effectively contradicting literally everything she's been fighting for since the #metoo movement started.
Asia Argento, Who Accused Weinstein, Made Deal With Her Own Accuser : movies
Asia Argento and Toxic Femininity - what has unfolded in the wake of Bourdain's death is a display of chronic, predatory narcissism from Argento and McGowan. These two women have used and abused the #MeToo movement -- which they have been at the front lines of since the beginning -- for their own personal gain. (and this was before the shit hit the fan / she really looks complicit/responsible in Bourdain's suicide +McGowan is also a very bad person)
Jimmy Bennett says Asia Argento assaulted him: what it means for #MeToo - Vox - Asia Argento has been accused of sexual assault by actor Jimmy Bennett. That doesn't invalidate her report about Harvey Weinstein
Vox Sentences: #MeToo leader faces sexual assault allegations - Vox

"Telling your graduate student to climb into bed with you to own the neolibs" - Lawyers, Guns & Money (get this: they are both gay Israelis)
Timothy Burke on Twitter: "The academic star system of the 1980s and 1990s in the humanities created a group of people who believed they were better than everyone else and a group of people who were invested in believing the stars were better than everyone else.1/"
Jesus frelling cripes. "Various registers." (see below)
Dialing : Back : Darkness - by Chris Kraus (defending Ronell: objecting to sexual harassment is 'anti-artistic')
The Erotic Professor - The Chronicle of Higher Education - Money and the murky boundary of teaching and sex
The Unsexy Truth About the Avital Ronell Scandal - The Chronicle of Higher Education - The erotic aspects obscure the fundamental issue: power ... If even one-quarter of what Reitman describes here is true, it suggests a more intense, more extreme, more abusive instance of a pervasive imbalance of power in academe. One that many graduate students have had to negotiate. And should not have to negotiate.
New Disclosures About an NYU Professor Reignite a War Over Gender and Harassment - The Chronicle of Higher Education (+for the Zizek shit)
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Blaming the victim is apparently OK when the accused in a Title IX proceeding is a feminist literary theorist
Riverside's Jennifer Doyle actually comes to the defense of Judith Butler's letter on behalf of Avital Ronell
New Disclosures About an NYU Professor Reignite a War Over Gender and Harassment - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Judith Butler Must Step Down as President-Elect of the MLA - Butler has put the organization in an untenable position. Would any victim willingly come forward to report abuses of power knowing that his or her reputation might be discredited by leading scholars, and that a senior faculty member is likely to be supported and defended?
"A Systematic Look at a Serial Problem: Sexual Harassment of Students b" by Nancy Chi Cantalupo and William C. Kidder - First, contrary to popular assumptions, faculty sexual harassers are not engaged primarily in verbal behavior. Rather, most of the cases reviewed for this study (53%) involved faculty alleged to have engaged in unwelcome physical contact dominated by groping, sexual assault, and domestic abuse-like behaviors. Second, more than half (53%) of cases involved professors allegedly engaged in serial sexual harassment.


A guide to the racism scandal that's tearing Beauty YouTube apart


Bryon Hefner made hundreds of harassing phone calls to his treatment facility, police say - The Boston Globe (all he had to do was stop being insane +McLean Hopsital: "the Residence accommodates up to eight people at a rate of $1,000 per day")

Wake Forest assistant basketball coach arrested after single punch kills marketing exec in N.Y. - The Washington Post ... Szabo may have been drunk at the time. On Thursday, the New York Post reported that Szabo had banged on multiple cars' windows, and had punched a local resident who came outside to confront him about the disturbance


R.I. woman falls off sailboat, makes it to island in Narragansett Bay - The Boston Globe - A Rhode Island woman fell off a sailboat operated by her husband who was drinking alcohol, and made it to a small Narragansett Bay island, where she was picked up by another boat hours later, the US Coast Guard said. (completely blotto, she was probably drunk too)

The New York Times Visits the Provinces, An Ongoing Series - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Safety culture or safety behavior?

TIL Chiropractic is actually a form of "alternative medicine", where studies have not found evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective and collectively found that spinal manipulation was ineffective at treating any condition. : todayilearned

A new study finds that a thinning retina corresponds with a known sign of Parkinson's disease, the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells - the thinner the retina, the greater the severity of disease. Neurologists may eventually be able to use a simple eye scan to detect early Parkinson's disease

Heavy use of social media by UK children has been linked to lower levels of literacy for the first time. : books (fake science)

Pro-inflammatory effects of e-cigarette vapour condensate on human alveolar macrophages : science

Contrary to popular psychological theory, believers in free will were no more generous or honest, and cheated just as often, finds a new study (combined N = 921). : science ("traditional" free will (i.e. 17th century)

Dartmouth College investigation has concluded that Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, one of the country's most prominent health care policy scholars, committed research misconduct in connection with a paper published in a top medical journal.

/u/sue_me_please destroys a redditor who argues that Nazi's were socialists with a harsh history lesson.

What are some of the most disturbing Wikipedia pages to read? : AskReddit

[Serious]What is something that really frightens you on an existential level? : AskReddit

gchamblee comments on Paying parents' bills is crushing me


Golfer pleads not guilty to biting other golfer's finger in bizarre golf course brawl

081918


How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump - MIT Technology Review


Australians who won't unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail (all your phones are belond to OZ)

The Mercatus Medicare-for-All Report in One Graph - Mercatus has concluded we can insure 30 million more people, virtually eliminate out-of-pocket expenses, and provide hearing, visual, and dental coverage for everyone - all for the same price we are currently paying for healthcare plus or minus 1 point of GDP ... Therefore, the only way to create a system that costs less than Medicare-for-All is to create a system that covers fewer people, which is to say to fall short of universal coverage. (deselected fact because Repubicans are sadistic and stupid)

End U.S. support for this misbegotten and unwinnable war - The Washington Post (Yemen)


NicoleSimpsonCantRap comments on Craig Unger: Trump is a Russian asset in the White House


Giuliani: 'Truth isn't truth' ("my lies are the truth!) Todd said: "This is going to become a bad meme." "facts are not in the eye of the beholder" ... "Yes, they are," Giuliani said. "Nowadays they are."
Giuliani Says 'Truth Isn't Truth' in Defense of Trump's Legal Strategy

Trump's epic Mueller gamble
Cohen, ?Trump's Ex-Lawyer, Investigated for Bank Fraud in Excess of $20 Million

Opinion | The Slippery Slope of Complicity - The New York Times (all Republicans should be locked up)
The NYT's latest McGahnObsgtructajPalooza : Sometime "Cooperation" Is Just Cover Your Ass - Over two thousand words and over a dozen sources, and Maggie and Mike never get around to explaining whether Don McGahn has any exposure in or provided testimony for the investigation in chief, the conspiracy with Russia to win the election. (Haberputz)
Why Would Don McGahn (and His Lawyer) Cooperate in a Piece Claiming He Cooperated with Mueller (on Obstruction)?
What John Dean Has to Say About the NYT's Blockbuster Don McGahn Story

Eschaton: All The Best Nazis - Fine people on both sides. - (CNN)A speechwriter for President Donald Trump who attended a conference frequented by white nationalists has left the White House. CNN's KFile reached out to the White House last week about Darren Beattie, a policy aide and speechwriter, who was listed as speaking at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club Conference.


Eschaton: The Man Does Not Like To Admit He Is Wrong - In some ways Jake Tapper is better than your average press bear, but also in some ways... not so much. The glibertarians did a study which showed Bernie's plan saved TWO TRILLION DOLLARS which wasn't what they wanted to highlight. They wanted to highlight the fact that government would spend TRILLIONS ON HEALTH CARE. Then the glibertarians decided that if you focused on some other plan then that other plan didn't save two trillion dollars so that meant that Bernie's plan didn't really save two trillion dollars. Of course that is good enough for the press, who get all their economics and policy stuff from right wing think tanks, which decided that lefties were wrong and dumb again. (Jake Fapper is stupid)

Maybe it all matters, all over the country - The Washington Post

In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches - The Washington Post (rapists)
TSA says air marshals don't follow 'ordingary' travelers. Some ordinary travelers beg to differ (oh, they lied?)

so some enormous dickhead at the DC nazi rally proudly declared that he was in favor of ethnic cleansing and the washington post's response was to publish an oped asking ppl to be nice to him bc "he's only 19" and "likes cute dogs posts on facebook." lol how abt fuck you

amy ???? on Twitter: "Landon, congrats to your grandfather for living to age 96. An incredible feat given that he never existed, and you never existed either. Here are some receipts: https://t.co/iO9wsSerTE"

Blake Farenthold Blames 'Fucktards,' Me Too Campaign For Hi Men are more likely than women to develop Parkinsos Downfall - Months after quitting Congress in disgrace, the Texas Republican insists his sexual harassment scandal was everyone's fault be his own (what an ugly little Republican fucktard)

Personal income has gone down in Kentucky coal counties | Lexington Herald Leader

'Wasted our lives' : Catholic sex abuse scandals again prompt a crisis of faith


The University of Akron will phase out 80 degree programs, about 20 percent of what it now offers, in part, to save money for the future, the university announced on Wednesday ... The 10 Ph.D. programs, 33 master's programs, 20 bachelor's programs, and 17 associate-degree programs that will be phased out ... As the university ends what it deems unpopular degrees, it is leaning into a current trend on college campuses: competitive video gaming, known as esports (degrees in video gaming!) ... Programs cut include bachelor's degrees in art history, French, geography, math and physics, along with master's degrees in history, physics, sociology and Spanish. (don't need no steenking history and physics shit)

Kevin McCarthy Mocked For Tweet Complaining Of Conservative Censorship On Twitter | Crooks and Liars (dumbshit)
GOP leader accuses Twitter of censoring conservatives, finds out his user settings was hiding tweets : technology


Georgia police chief defends officer who used Taser to stun grandmother, 87 : news

A man awarded millions of dollars after his wife cheated on him : videos


BrienneTheBadass comments on Medusa holding Perseus' head. Sculpture by Luciano Garbati, 92 inches.


We wouldn't have known if we hadn't looked - A fund at Yale is jump-starting new research on gender and health. -- Two-thirds of the 5.7 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease are women, as are 75 percent of people with autoimmune disorders. Men are more likely than women to develop Parkinson's disease, be compulsive gamblers, or make successful suicide attempts.

Engineers create most wear-resistant metal alloy in the world. It's 100 times more durable than high-strength steel, making it the first alloy, or combination of metals, in the same class as diamond and sapphire, nature's most wear-resistant materials : science

Brain connectivity study helps explain the neural link between depression and poor sleep quality - the functional connections between the areas of the brain associated with short-term memory, the self, and negative emotions are increased in both poor sleep and depressive participants. : science

Sexually fantasizing about one's partner inhibits relationship-damaging behaviors, suggests a new study. psypost.org/2018/0...

[SERIOUS] what was the scariest paranormal activity experience you have ever had? : AskReddit

Bisexuals who have been in relationships with both genders: what are some noticeable differences between dating a man and a woman? : AskReddit

What is the juiciest subreddit to binge read? : AskReddit

What's the most awkward position someone's ever put you in?

What is extremely rare but people think it's very common?


081818

The West may have Fires, But the East has Floods - This is the New Normal in the Anthropocene (Northeast is the new Northwest and Boston is the new Seattle)
N.Y. victim of shark bite in Truro upgraded to fair condition - The Boston Globe (with sharks)

TIL the September 11 terror attacks on the WTC released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan, with an estimated 410,000 people exposed. It is believed lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041 (four decades after 9/11) : todayilearned

Judge Bars Statements Made by Guantanamo Detainees During F.B.I. Interrogations - The New York Times ("interrogation" = "torture")

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused of destroying evidence in school massacre lawsuit : news

Kofi Annan, Who Redefined the U.N., Dies at 80 - The New York Times

Germany: Military Parade On Hitler's Birthday - British Pathi


Prisoner Recounts Secret Meeting With ISIS Leader Baghdadi - WSJ (Joe from Baghdad, another psycho nut-job didnt' want to hear bad news)

Bomb in Yemen school bus strike was US-supplied - CNN

Imran Khan is sworn in as prime minister, marking a new era in Pakistan - The Washington Post


National debt jumps $500 billion in less than six months (Make America Bankrupt Again, hahaha suckers)


White House Counsel Has Cooperated Extensively With Mueller's Obstruction Inquiry
Wow! W. H. Counsel McGahn, fearing Being Trump's Fall Guy, Co-operating "Extensively" w/ Mueller
These Are Not Very Bright Guys, And Things Got Out of Hand - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Trump Has Attacked the Russia Inquiry Over 250 Times. Here Is What's True (Trump is a traitor, lock him up)
Embracing Conspiracy Theory, Trump Escalates Attack on Bruce Ohr - The New York Times

Trump Is Making the DOJ Into His Own Private Goon Squad
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Inside the security clearance revolt - Axios (purging intelligence from government)
And if that doesn't work, there are always show trials. - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... But the decision to take that step was made this week to divert attention from nonstop coverage of a critical book released by fired Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. Consideration is being given to holding other prepared documents in reserve for similar opportunities in the future, the official said.

Alleged Russian Agent Marina Butina Moved to Virginia Jail, Unclear Why - Butina was moved from federal facility in D.C. to jail in Alexandria where Paul Manafort is currently being held

Trump Blasts Social Media 'Censorship': 'Discriminating Against Republican/Conservative Voices'

Her husband Joel Arrona was driving his wife to the hospital for a scheduled Cesarean section Wednesday afternoon when they had to stop to get gas (Trumpsters fucking people over)


'I'm not going there': As Trump hurls racial invective, most Republicans stay silent (Republicans refuse to say they aren't racists, hello, America)


Website Promised Free Anti-Antifa Shirts. Alt-Right Signed Up. It Was a Trap.


Cardinal in Pennsylvania withdraws from World Meeting of Families in Dublin - Cardinal Donald Wuerl was to give a keynote address on families at RDS on Wednesday
Sex Abuse Report Lists a Beloved Pastor, and a Pennsylvania Church Reels - The New York Times - The Rev. John David Crowley was once adored by his parishioners. Then came the news that he was among the priests who abused more than 1,000 children.
The Crusader Who Exposed Pennsylvania's adistic Priests - Without Richard Serbin's diligence and commitment, many of the atrocities committed by hundreds of Pennsylvania's Catholic priests would never have come to light ... Serbin received death threats and personal attacks throughout his career as he fought the grinding intransigence of the Catholic hierarchy and its lawyers.
The Church is tempted by power and obsessed with sex - The Washington Post

A Church in Denial, Still - Too many priests and bishops aren't treating the Catholic Church's abuse scandal with the gravity it deserves.(wonder why that is?) "I don't think this is some massive, massive crisis," said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., in a statement that could not possibly be more wrong. ("a couple of thousand kids, what's the big deal?" the Cardinal asked)
Rod Was Right and I Was Wrong - Crisis Magazine (inside the conservative Catholic cult)
Sexual Scandals Reveal A Problem of Belief - Crisis Magazine (believe better! it's your fault!)

Papered over | WORLD News Group - Biblical truth-telling at college newspapers can sometimes conflict with the way administrators want to portray the school. Here's a case study of how Liberty University handled the tension last spring (you will bow down to the evil antichrist)

Former students allege decades-old sexual abuse at Key School in Annapolis, Md. - The Washington Post

Zach Smith Ordered Sex Toys to Ohio State Offices, Had Sex With Staffer, Took Nude Photos at White House (just a litte sportsball dude fun)
Zach Smith Ordered Sex Toys to Ohio State Offices, Had Sex With Staffer, Took Nude Photos at White House : news


Victims speak: Man says his former child sex abuser is current LDS bishop : news


School board candidate describes black people as monkeys and 'wastes of life' ... Richard Jankowski, 51, of Williamstown, is running for a seat on the Monroe Township Board of Education ... "it's time to start firing bullets" to kill them ... "You are not Americans, you are animals who disgust me." ... Gays and those with disabilities were also mocked. (open racisim in the Trump era)
School board candidate describes black people as monkeys and 'wastes of life' in Facebook rant : news


Bedford, PA - DA receives no jail time after abusing his power by helping female defendants receive lesser sentences in exchange for sexual favors : news (cops always walk)


Friday Music Thread: Aretha, And How the Paranoid Style Deals With the Paranoid Style In American Politics - Lawyers, Guns & Money
National Review Writer Shredded For Declaring Aretha Franklin's Vocals Don't Match Kelly Clarkson's - Dan McLaughlin (conservative baseball crank and crank in general doesn't like black singers)

Boston's 46 best new restaurants


Dating Study: At What Age Are Men, Women Most Desirable? - The Atlantic - A massive new study of online dating finds that everyone dates aspirationally -- and that a woman's desirability peaks 32 years before a man's does (because 50 yr old men are so attractive)
The Myth of Wealthy Men and Beautiful Women - The Atlantic ... But McClintock found that outside of ailing tycoons and Donald Trump (in 2014)


Cases of type 2 diabetes among young people rise 41% in three years : news

We're in a new age of obesity. How did it happen? You'd be surprised (big sugar and corporatastic moralistic hypocognitive policy-makers and shitty inequality which is also your fault)

ELI5: How much time does it take for disposable plastic water bottles to become dangerous to refill/reuse? : explainlikeimfive

Among couples who are trying to get pregnant, eating a lot of fish is associated with more frequent intercourse, and with higher rates of conception. This holds even after controlling for background factors such as age, education level, and physical activity. : science

A study on personality change carried out over 50 years finds that broad patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors - personality - do change, and this change appears to accumulate with time.


The freezing point of carbon dioxide is -78.5C, while the coldest recorded air temperature on Earth has been as low as -92C, does this mean that it can/would snow carbon dioxide at these temperatures? : askscience


u/madeamashup explains how many competing brands of power tools are now made by the same company and why brand loyalty no longer means anything in the power tool market. : bestof

TIL the X-Files episode "Home" was so twisted, dark, and disturbing that it only aired on Fox once, was banned from re-runs on the network, and disappeared until the show re-aired on cable channel FX. : todayilearned


Pediatrics: 1 Anti-vaxers: 0 : pics


What are some stereotypically feminine things you think it should be more acceptable for men to do? : AskReddit

What real historical event, if it was the plot for a movie or book, would be called terrible plot design? : AskReddit

What real event in your life , had it happened in a book or movie, would be obvious foreshadowing? : AskReddit

A gallery of inexplicable stupidity r/facepalm

081718

Photos of the drought in Australia New South Wales - The Washington Post

Federal appeals court upholds Texas campus carry law | The Texas Tribune - A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a prior dismissal of a lawsuit filed by three professors at the University of Texas at Austin, which aimed to block the law and allow professors to prohibit firearms in their classrooms. (gunz everywhere, shoot your prof)


'The Fighters' Review: An Honest Reckoning - C.J. Chivers, an artist among war correspondents, fashions a vast mosaic of bravery and miscalculation from the lives of American combatants in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Those who think that they will break Julian Assange are mistaken

Austria's far-right government ordered a raid on its own intelligence service. Now allies are freezing the country out ... The Freedom Party came to power in Austria at the end of last year as the junior partner in a coalition with the center-right. The party was founded by former SS officers in the 1950s ... (Russian agents)

German restaurant imposes 'no children allowed' dinner policy : news

Danish finance minister puts risk of 'no deal' Brexit at 50-50 - Jensen said the EU and the UK are running out of time to reach an agreement. (driving the UK over the cliff: crash)


Diocese holds forgiveness Mass in wake of grand jury report : news (they are "forgiving" themselves)


Officials worry Trump may back Erik Prince plan to privatize war in Afghanistan

Trump cuts funding for projects to stabilize Syria - Axios

Eschaton: Remember When The New York Times Ran An Op-Ed By Erik Prince Asking If We Could Pay Him To Do All The Murders - Gonna get his wish.

Top former intelligence bosses sign letter supporting John Brennan - CBS News - undefined
Admiral William McRaven's Op-Ed Slamming President Trump Leaves a Mark - Retired Admiral William McRaven is a different breed of cat.
Revoking Clearance, Trump Aims Presidential Power at Russia Inquiry - The New York Times
Trump gears up to strip more clearances from officials tied to Russia investigation - The Washington Post (his forehead is definitely shrinking)

s thin skin is now influencing important decisions

Book review of House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia by Craig Unger - The Washington Post

Trump Says Newspapers Are 'in Collution' on Championing a Free Press (he can't not project -- "They are free to love me")

Trump: Manafort trial is a 'very sad day for our country' (i.e., "hinm")
Mueller's team has 3 times the evidence for Paul Manafort's next trial than his current trial
Judge in Paul Manafort trial says he has been threatened and is now under U.S. Marshal protection : news

Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels only after the Access Hollywood tape emerged. That's big. - The new revelation about Cohen refusing to pay Daniels in September 2016 is big, circumstantial evidence that could further open up Cohen to facing criminal campaign finance charges. This could also reach all the way to Trump himself.
Urging Stormy Daniels to abandon fields and castles - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Field Commander Cohen decided after the Access Hollywood tape that his fixee should buy off Stormy Daniels:

The Times Are Dark, but the Work Goes On, and the Cause Endures - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Trump Unhinged in Sun City, SC - YouTube (completely fucking incoherent, three years ago, even the deplorables are puzzled)


Trump cancels military parade, blames 'local politician' or ballooning cost (he wanted them all in uniforms designed by Ivanka)

The Denmark Diversion - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Republicans say Denmark is a crime-filled immigrant socialist shitholw)

Judge rules against Trump confidentiality agreement

Bill Nelson wasn't making things up when he said Russians hacked Florida election systems -- And the Washington Post weighed in Friday with a 2,717-word fact check that all but accused Nelson - without evidence - of making it up

DOJ Sues Ivanka's Ex-Business Partner for Massive Fraud - Moshe Lax and members of his family allegedly conspired to deprive the U.S. of $60 million.

Trump and Omarosa Had a 'F*cking Weird' - Fight With Vietnam Vets = As if having Omarosa heading up veteran's issues wasn't strange enough, President Trump started arguing with Vietnam vets about napalm and Agent Orange. (all Cadet Bone-Spurs knows about Vietnam is the movie Apocalyse Now)
Trump Picked Fight With Vietnam Vets Over Who Better Understood What Agent Orange Was

Rand Paul to ask Trump to lift sanctions on Russian leaders | TheHill (they don't even pretend anymore)

Dem super PAC hammers House GOP leadership in new ad

Italian Alex Pareene on Twitter: "this is correct, Schumer believed the same thing, neither one is qualified or equipped to be in a position of power in this moment https://t.co/1sfDXnH522" (Cuomo and Schumer are idiots)

GOP fundraiser Broidy under investigation for alleged effort to sell government influence, people familiar with probe say - The Washington Post (the face)

Karen Monahan, woman accusing Rep. Keith Ellison of abuse, breaks her silence - CBS News (much much worse than Franken)

Press Releae: | U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont - Documents Indicate That Kavanaugh Misled Senate; Make Them Public

Boston Globe steps up security due to bomb threat in wake of Trump twee

I'm sure Trump's administration won't add to this total. : PoliticalHumor
/u/WE_HATE_YOU creates and shares epic list of GOP child sex crimes : bestof
WE_HATE_YOU comments on Former South African police officer found dead after revealing alleged details of a secret government paedophile ring.

Lehigh Valley velodrome board put Pennsylvania congressional candidate Marty Nothstein on leave after sexual misconduct allegation - The Morning Call - He was placed on leave as he was campaigning for the Republican primary.

It's Like 10,000 Spoons When All You Need Is Someone Who Doesn't Support Treason in Defense of Slavery - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Robert E Lee was a saint: plagiarizing Dinesh D'Fuckhead is not a good idea)

Ocasio-Cortez bans press from town hall

Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!' (said the n-lady)
Detroit legislator apologizes for racial comments

Opinion | The Debt-Shaming of Stacey Abrams - The New York Times

#Resistance Twitter Hero Exposed as Pro-Trump Gamer - @GuardianRover claimed to be a Delta Force commando. A little amateur intelligence work revealed he was just another guy on the internet.

In a Divided Era, One Thing Seems to Unite: Political Anger - The New York Times

Satanic Temple statue unveiled at the Arkansas State Capitol : news

Here's what Trump voters who've lost faith in him look like ... only a third of Trump voters were white men without college degrees and that those most likely to have lost faith in him were largely women and the college-educated (it's still hypocognitive white men)
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Fifteen ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools haven't let New York City officials investigate allegations that they don't provide enough secular education, according to a letter Wednesday from the city schools chief. (but they want your public funds)
Hasidic neighborhood in South Williamsburg is a top beneficiary of Section 8, but some question whether law is strictly followed - NY Daily News


Colorado husband arrested in murder of wife, daughters had financial struggles - "If three police officers couldn't handle an 87-year-old woman, you might want to reconsider hanging up your badge" (they felt their lives were in danger)
Police use Taser on 87-year-old woman using knife to cut dandelions : news

Half-naked Athens woman punches officer - News - Athens Banner-Herald - Athens, GA

Teen shot and killed after knocking on grandfather's window ... Williams lived at the home, but didn't have her keys with her at the time, investigators said, so she tried knocking on the door and then window to wake up her grandfather. Booker Moody, 72, shot once through the window with a shotgun. Police said he told them he didn't look out the window before or after firing ... Relatives say Moody has dementia. Moody was arrested and charged with murder (yeah leave a bunch of guns around)

Dude Kept His Composure While Dealing With A Cop Trying To Set Him Up For Fake Charges! : videos

North Carolina kids fatally shoot man abusing their mother, police say : news


Suicidal Vet Calls MDMA Treatment 'a Miracle' - The Daily Beast : news

How The Globe and Mail is covering cannabis, Canada's newest soon-to-be-legal industry - Just for starters, the Globe will have an expanding hub of coverage online, more live events, and a high-priced premium subscription newsletter for industry professionals.
Is 'x' legal in Massachusetts? What, where, & who can use/possess cannabis. (Why and how are left to the user's imagination.) : bostontrees
Weed May Be Legal In Massachusetts, But Dealers Aren't Done Yet (but prices are way down)


RIP : funny (Fox googles "black lady singer")

Dave Brubeck - Take Five [Jazz] (1959) : Music

Will Self: 'Harry Potter ushered in the dumb kidult era we're currently having to endure'
A Bot Panic Hits Amazon Mechanical Turk | WIRED - Mechanical Turk workers have been treated really, really badly for 12 years, and so in some ways I see this as a point of resistance (Bezos at work fucking people over)


High maternal levels of the stress hormone cortisol during pregnancy increase anxious and depressive-like behaviors in female offspring at the age of 2. The study supports the idea that maternal stress may alter brain connectivity in the developing fetus : science

A new brainwave study suggests that it is provocative sexual posing, not revealing clothing or bare skin, that leads to automatic sexual objectification at a neural level. : science

Men and women show surprising differences in seeing motion. On average, men pick up on visual motion significantly faster than women. In comparison to men, women regularly took about 25 to 75 % longer at reporting whether black and white bars on a screen are moving to the left or to the right : science

Discovery of single key protein involved in the development of autism - Researchers discovered that CPEB4, a molecule that regulates protein synthesis, is impaired in most cases of autism. Defects in CPEB4 lead to the dysregulation in the expression of most of the 200 genes associated with autism. : science


Analysts say we are headed for a flash memory price crash - 64-layer 3d NAND could plummet to as low as $0.08/GB in 2019 : technology

Do you know anyone who permanently fried their brain from drugs? How are they different? : AskReddit

What are some "rules of reddit" that new redditors should know about? : AskReddit

What do you miss about the early Internet? : AskReddit

Eschaton: How Long - The self-driving cars were Uber's hail mary pass. If they get rid of that... then? Their path to profitability always required establishing monopoly - and then jacking up rates - somehow, but their path to monopoly was never clear. I don't even think self-driving cars were the path. Just another shiny object to flash to investors. Now the (some) investors are done.
Eschaton: Maybe The Boring Company Is Going To Build His Escape Route - To the hyperloop, Grimes! - BREAKING: Tesla shares drop 6 percent after reports of widening SEC probe and amid questions of CEO Musk's ability to run company

'Complete Joke': Democrats Ripped for Totally Failing to Grill FCC Chair Ajit Pai Over Net Neutrality Cyberattack Lies : technology

081618

Ryan Zinke blames 'environmental terrorist groups' for severity of California wildfires - "This has nothing to do with climate change" (it's because terrorists won't let lumber companies cut down all your forests, no lie too far)
In setback for TransCanada, judge orders Keystone XL pipeline review | Reuters

Judge blasts Sun Sentinel for publishing confidential information in Parkland school shooting case - Sun Sentinel - ("fuck the Constitution you will obey")


From France to Denmark, bans on full-face Muslim veils are spreading across Europe - The Washington Post


Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents - Foreign Policy - Over a two-year period starting in late 2010, Chinese authorities systematically dismantled the agency's network of agents across the country, executing dozens of suspected U.S. spies. (incompetence with big consequences)


U.S. bishops say church needs lay Catholics to help address 'moral catastrophe' (sounds like passing the buck)
Why the Explosive Report on Catholic Church Abuse Is Unlikely to Yield Criminal Charges - The New York Times
Catholic Church's "secret archives" detail playbook for concealing abuse
Daniel Radosh on Twitter: "When was the first time you heard that the Catholic Church was teeming with child abuse? If you're my age, it was Sinead O'Connor on SNL. She was almost universally treated like a crazy person who had said something bizarre and unforgivable. https://t.co/eb9kMaJZ4X"
Cassandra Was Right Too - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In light of the horrible revelations about the Catholic church in Pennsylvania, definitely worth remembering: Her reasons for tearing the picture, which she clearly explained, were mostly ignored. And what happened to her career is a good illustration of why so much abuse went covered up for so long
Sinead yuo were right all along. We were wrong. Sorry.


Newspapers Have Faced Down Dictators, So They Should Face Down This Obvious Clown - In an alliance of editorials, they're also coming to grips with their own shortcomings. One day in the future, when the awful crime this country committed against itself somehow has been largely expiated, it's going to be important to remember who stood against an incompetent and half-mad Peronista wannabe, and who did not.
The Los Angeles Times is not participating in today's nationwide editorial page protest against Trump's attacks on the press. Here's why - We still believe that. Nevertheless, the editorial board decided not to write about the subject on this particular Thursday because we cherish our independence. (from the truth) We would not want to leave the impression that we take our lead from others, or that we engage in groupthink. (extremely lame, LAT)
Newspaper editorials on Trump's 'fake news' attacks: Hundreds answer call to speak out - The Washington Post ("fake news media are the opposition party") ... but Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt said Saturday that the board would not participate in the organized response. Neither did the Los Angeles Times. Or the San Francisco Chronicle. (they "value their independence" from the truth and Fred Hiatt, of course)

On Fox News, Robert Mueller is often a bigger bogeyman than Vladimir Putin - The Washington Post - Some Fox News pundits now say special counsel Robert S. Mueller III represents a bigger threat to the United States than Russian President Vladimir Putin ... "Robert Mueller is a greater threat to this republic and the Constitution than anything Vladimir Putin did during the campaign"

John Brennan: President Trump's Claims of No Collusion Are Hogwash - That's why the president revoked my security clearance: to try to silence anyone who would dare challenge him. (bow down before your god-emperor)
White House announces John Brennan's security clearance has been revoked - live stream : news
After Brennan, 9 others face losing security clearances, too - The Washington Post (the purge of intelligence)
William H. McRaven: Revoke my security clearance, too, Mr. President - The Washington Post

Trump blurts out another Lester Holt moment - The Washington Post - "I call it the rigged witch hunt; [it] is a sham. And these people led it! So I think it's something that had to be done." ... Then, as now, the White House offered a series of motivations for the crackdown on a person who was a liability in the Russia probe. Then, as now, it seemed clear what the actual motivation was. And then, as now, Trump appeared to go out and just admit the actual motivation.
Trump connects revoking Brennan's security clearance to Russia investigation (plain as day)
Once again, Trump blows up his own lies - The Washington Post
The John Brennan episode is just one more warning of what may be ahead - The Washington Post - What Donald Trump did Wednesday isn't supposed to happen in a democracy. A president who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution just carried out a personal political vendetta against a career intelligence officer.

The extraordinary bias of the judge in the Manafort trial - The Washington Post - Nancy Gertner (Republican fucker)

'If they take the House, he wins big ': Trump loyalists see upside in impeachment - Why some Trump allies think his path to reelection runs through an effort to kick him out of the Oval Office (yeah, sure)

Possibly Trump' s stupidest tweet ever - "Our Country was built on Tariffs" (when 1/3 of the country are hypocognitive morons)


"Death Spiral" : Why Omarosa Totally Triggered Trump = The perceived betrayal of a longtime female ally, and her perfectly executed Trumpian tactics, made the feud too personal to ignore ... Trump told advisers that he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to have Manigault Newman arrested (she broke the loyalty law)

Trump's military parade is now estimated to cost $92 million -- $80 million more than earlier estimate - The parade is scheduled to take place in the nation's capital on Nov. 10 and will feature armored vehicles, aircraft flyovers and period uniforms. (haha right before the election)

House Of Trump, House Of Putin: The Untold Story Of Donald Trump And The Russian Mafia - The National Memo (yes, you can't get more crooked)
'Trump is Ours': Kremlin Media Fear Democratic Victory in November Midterm Elections (the whole Republican party are commies)
Weaponizing Third Parties - The Russians, and the Republicans, are ready to exploit them ... Trump's margins in Michigan and Wisconsin were less than the total votes Stein won in those states" (little Russian agent Stein)

2018 House Forecast | FiveThirtyEight
Espy Poll of Mississippi Senate Race Shows Path to Victory for Democrats

Erik Loomis on Twitter: "It's also amazing how well Williamson survived his Stalinist-esque silencing by the far left!"
Conservative Intellectuals In Action - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has one-upped socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She proposes to nationalize every major business in the United States of America. If successful, it would constitute the large seizure of private property in human history!!! (bonkers "intellectual")


He's Back - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jack Phillips is back to demand exemptions from Colorado civil rights law:

CNN Poll: Women behind low support for Kavanaugh confirmation - CNNPolitics


Actor Chris Hardwick is the latest example of why #MeToo isn't going 'too far' - A handful of staffers quit in protest

Simone Biles criticizes silence from USA Gymnastics' CEO Kerry Perry (yeah, that's really her name)

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's Handling Of Sexual Harassment Cases Fits A Troubling Pattern - The Republican is accused of tanking sexual harassment investigations into his friends and political allies.


Law school stuff - Lawyers, Guns & Money - (1) Arizona Summit is biting the dust, which means that two of the three Infilaw scam outfits have now joined the choir invisible of ex-law schools. That brings the total number of ABA-accredited schools who have gone or are going out of business to six ... (3) Columbia Law School annual tuition has hit the $70,000 mark


Body cam video released of Denver mayor's son threatening a cop (black kid, entitlement comes in all colors)
Body camera video released of Denver mayor's son threatening officer ("I will fire you!")


At least 107 measles cases confirmed across 21 states : news - If only there was some way we could have stopped the measles virus.

Aretha Franklin, 'The Queen of Soul,' dies at age 76
Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul,' dies of advanced pancreatic cancer
Aretha Franklin, RIP - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Survey: This Is The No. 1 Reason Americans Lose Sleep | Bankrate.com - The generational stress gap (relationship, except for younger boomers where it's money and almost dead people where it's health)

Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition - Scientific American Blog Network - We wander about the unknown terrains of life, complacent about what we know and oblivious to what we miss (new academic term for "stupidity")

Stone Age mass graves unearthed on Scottish islands could have been used to house prehistoric tsunami victims, according to a controversial new study. The Orkney islands is home to at least 72 stone tombs - known as 'cairns' - dating back as far as 6,000 years ago.
Prehistoric Coastal Mass Burials: Did Death Come in Waves? | SpringerLink - catastrophic palaeotsunamis ... contemporaneous with the as-yet poorly documented Garth tsunami (~?5500 years BP)

People who are impressed by seemingly profound statements that are actually nonsensical tend to be less charitable, suggests new research. The study indicates that bullshit-sensitivity is linked to prosocial behavior. : science


Eschaton: Oh Dear Elon Has Found Another Con - Just need to keep getting gullible local officials to throw money at you for a "study." No good way to get to Dodger stadium so...how about low capacity cars on sleds! They're good for everything!
Eschaton: Has To Be A Little Bit Stupid - Musk's cunning plans are like that to me. They're so obviously stupid and yet they get lots of media coverage and I can't stop talking about them because they're obviously so stupid but everybody is talking about them and it's so stupid that everybody is talking about them so I can't stop talking about that.

081518

Man suffers wounds in shark attack at Cape Cod beach - The Boston Globe - Truro Assistant Harbormaster Gary Sharpless said a man was bitten by a shark near Long Nook Beach, a town beach in Truro.


Mexico's new president has a radical plan to end the drug war (get the military out)


Mystery Russian satellite's behaviour raises alarm in US

Documents Reveal Successful Cyberattack in California Congressional Race - a series of cyberattacks over the past year that targeted a Democratic opponent of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). Rohrabacher is a 15-term incumbent who is widely seen as the most pro-Russia and pro-Putin member of Congress and is a staunch supporter of President Trump.


Journalists are not the enemy - The Boston Globe


The scale of the Catholic Church's criminality still shocks
Critics slam Vatican's 'disturbing' silence on abuse cover-ups - CNN
Catholic Priests Abused 1,000 Children in Pennsylvania, Report Says - The New York Times
'He's a p;riest. I trusted him.' : One of the 1,000 victims of alleged Pennsylvania clergy abuse tells his story
It's Always Worse Than You Think - The sheer amount of pedophilia and sexual abuse the Catholic church covered up is truly staggering: It'S worth recalling at this point that the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania was a driving force behind bad legislation restricting abortion rights that was the basis for a lawsuit from the state's governor that severely damaged Roe v. Wade and very nearly resulted in it being overrule altogether
6 myths about Roe v. Wade, debunked - Vox
Grand jury report: Priests ran child porn ring in Pittsburgh Diocese : news - Yet another priest finally decided to quit after years of child abuse complaints, but asked for, and received, a letter of reference for his next job - at Walt Disney World
Report on Pennsylvania Priests' Sexual Abuse of Children Requires Response from Pope Francis, Catholic Church - Nothing will define his papacy like how he responds to the systemic sexual abuse of children. (don't hold your breath, time to burn it all down)
'It's eally Hard to Be a Catholic' : The Pain of Reading the Sex Abuse Report (and of course, the Times locks comments


Putin's Man In D.C. - It doesn't get much more Trumpian than this: (Vlad is my friend so fuck your sanctions, I'm the boss!)

President Trump Revokes John Brennan's Security Clearance - Not a Scandal, Just Amusing - President Trump revoked John Brennan's security clearance. So what? - Well, this is some petty, banana-republic bullshit, isn't it? From The New York Times:


Evidence Against Manafort Is 'Overwhelming' Prosecutors Say ("He's guilty AF" they added)
Things in the Paul Manafort trial that should scare Trump - The Washington Post


'The guy's not right' : Morning Joe raises new questions about Trump's mental health


CNN Poll: Democrats advantage grows in race for Congress - CNNPolitics

GOP's 2018 message: Be afraid. Be very afraid. -- Republicans want voters to believe they're living in a horror movie. (by watching Fox)

House: Three More GOP Seats Join the Toss Up Column | The Cook Political Report
Tim Pawlenty goes down and six takeaways from Tuesday's ;primaries
Tim Pawlenty Is the Latest Casualty of the Brain Disease Eating the Republican Party


Woman calls police on a black New York City politician for passing out fliers - The Washington Post (she's Russian)


Thread by @KevinMKruse : (on Dinesh D'Fuckhead)
D'Souza and the Decline of Conservatism - Under President Trump, the most outrageous and aggrieved polemicists are thriving.
Right wing scum: Dinesh D'Souza edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Meet the Indiana dad who hunts Russian trolls - CNNPolitics

Charlottesville rally organizer Jason Kessler humiliated by his own father on video - Vox - "Get out of my room"

WATCH: Trump supporter beat up by Social Distortion singer at punk show after he protests anti-Trump rant

Password Analyst Says QAnon's 'Codes' Are Consistent With Random Typing (and so are their brains)

The Journey of he 'Sex Cult' Heiress: From Reluctant Recruit to Criminal Defendant ... Ms. Bronfman, who never attended college, served in recent years as Mr. Raniere's Torquemada ... they had given $65 million of his liquor fortune to its leader, Keith Raniere -- money that he promptly lost in the commodities market. (stupid usually goes with evil) Starting in the late 1990s, approximately 16,000 people took his courses ...


Here's how California became the most secretive state on police misconduct .. California is alone in denying prosecutors direct access to the records.

Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017 - The New York Times

'Entirely defenceless': Abuse of dementia patient caught on camera : news


Corona maker invests $4 billion more in pot producer Canopy : news
Why cannabis relieves IBD symptoms

America's hottest export? Sperm


For Online Daters, Women Peak at 18 While Men Peak at 50, Study Finds. Oy. - The New York Times - The median 30-year-old man spends as much time messaging teenage girls as he does women his own age ... as a man gets older, he searches for relatively younger and younger women, while his upper acceptable age limit hovers just above his own age ... Women want brains. Men care less.


Are Boys Better Than Girls at Math? - Scientific American (a little bit for harrder problem but girls don't get much encouragement)

Is Gravity Quantum? - Scientific American - The ongoing search for the graviton< (maybe, but no evidence yet)/a>


Are rich people more likely to lie, cheat, steal? - The Washington Post - People driving expensive cars -- like a brand-new Mercedes -- were four times more likely to ignore right-of-way laws than those in cheap cars like an old beat-up Honda. (power corrupts and money turns people into assholes)

u/Meduselde explains how sex trafficking really happens and helps save u/Butterfly-Lovers : bestof


Your Name Is All Over the Internet. It Doesn'te Need to Be - As more activity is linked to our real names, the stakes seem excessively high. There has to be a better way.

Eschaton: Never Tweet - The best advice. Members of Tesla's board are scrambling to control a chief executive who some directors think is out of control

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Rafters rescued from the Lehigh River | Times News Online (meanwhile, in extreme weather events totally not caused by climate change)
150 of 200 white water rafters missing in Jim Thorpe PA : news


Priamosish comments on Fox News host compared Denmark to Venezuela. The Danish ambassador to the US compiled a fact sheet to debunk her claims
u/Priamosish explains Fox News Audience. : bestof


The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi's Rise - Baba Ramdev built a business empire out of mass yoga camps and ayurvedic products. But is his pious traditionalism a mask for darker forces? -- "India my motherland is great" -- a defining slogan of the Hindu nationalist movement. ("swamifi")

Australian Archbishop Receives House Arrest For Child Sex Abuse Cover-Up | HuffPost - Former Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson was convicted in May of covering up a former priest's sexual abuse of altar boys dating back to the 1970s.

US soldier convicted of attempted rape in Denmark : news


Pennsylvania grand jury report on child sex abuse lists hundreds of accused priests - The Washington Post - more than 1,000 child victims were identified in the report, but the grand jury believes there are more ... "systematic coverup by senior church officials in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican." (there's your world's largest organized pedo ring, right there, time to arrest the popester) ... Pennsylvania is believed to have done more investigations of institutional child sex abuse than any other state ... "an enormous criminal sexual underground." (burn it all down) ... "People who venerated the church, now they actually despise what they're doing."


Trump's signing statement on defense bill objects to Russia provisions

Trump's Purge of the FBI Is Complete - With the odd firing of Peter Strzok, the president has cleansed the bureau of the men who started the Russia investigation. This is not normal.

Trump's ranting about the Russia probe isn't winning over voters
Ups and downs: Republicans are in a heap of trouble - The Washington Post

Government Agencies Coordinated To Arrest Migrants Seeking Legal Status, ACLU Says | HuffPost - They timed interviews in such a way that would facilitate migrant arrests, according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU. (they were just waiting for Trump to say it was good)

Trump snubs John McCain during bill signing intended to honor him (President Asshole)
rump Goes for Broke on Claim Military Received No Money Before His Watch. (He's Still Wrong) ... claimed the military had "never" previously received funding. (President Moron)


Manafort Lawyers Rest Without Calling Witnesses in Fraud Trial - The New York Times
Manafort trial takes sudden turn as defense rests without calling witnesses - ABC News
Why Trump will pardon Paul Manafort - The Washington Post - it's only the first of two trials Manafort faces. The next one, in a federal court in Washington, will deal more directly with Manafort's relationships in the former Soviet Union. That's when Trump may start feeling the heat and feeling oppressed, and look for a way to let everyone know who's really in charge.
Franklin Foer on Twitter: "I have spent the last couple of days pondering who Manafort would call in his own defense. I couldn't come up with any good names. And apparently neither could he.


An Innocent Man - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Trump is totally innocent, claims he never used the n-word in his whole life)

President Trump called Donald Jr. 'a fuckup' after he released emails about controversial meet with Russian lawyer
Omarosa Releases Tape Of Trump Campaign Aides Discussing Alleged N-Word Video | HuffPost
Omarosa puts Trump on his heels
Trump calls a black woman a 'dog' to prove he's not racist
The alleged Trump n-word tape is suddenly less hypothetical - The Washington Post
Omarosa mess also reveals what's wrong with Trump's approach to governing
We don't need Omarosa's tapes. We want them anyway. - The Washington Post
Omarosa reveals audio of Trump campaign aides allegedly discussing potential fallout of N-word - CBS News

Kyle Griffin on Twitter: "It appears that Roger Stone has deleted this photo of him and Trump as the "Space Force" wearing uniforms clearly emblazoned with swastikas. https://t.co/uracvyLxfB https://t.co/aubEmx4B77"

Eschaton: Rising Political Stars - This time it's Don Jr. so it's extra stupid (you can find it yourself), but it's always such a stupid formulation. A RISING STAR... um, based on what? ... Politico spent two years covering RISING STAR Sarah Palin. By covering I mean they literally were the Sarah Palin daily. And yet...

Pentagon spokeswoman under investigation for misusing staff, retaliating against complaints - CNNPolitics - Dana White, the Trump administration political appointee who serves as the Pentagon's chief spokeswoman, has been under investigation for several weeks after multiple complaints were filed against her. (another one with the drycleaning)

Eschaton: The Practical Practitude - Absent a meteor equivalent, there is basically no path for a third party candidate to win the presidency. Just getting on the damn ballots in enough states is hard. But, yah, you're the sensible pragmatic ones.

Missouri Post-Mortem - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Meaning of Labor's Win in Missouri - An overwhelmingly non-union electorate voted in favor of unions. What does that portend?


Slavery, Post-1865 - Lawyers, Guns & Money - One of the biggest weaknesses of any constitutional amendment is that of the 13th Amendment, allowing for unpaid labor by prisoners. (they freed the slaves and then locked them up again so they could be slaves)

It's time for Louisiana to strip white supremacy from its constitution - Louisiana is one of only two states -- the other is Oregon -- in which a person can be convicted of a felony and sent to prison without a unanimous vote of the jury ... If the federal Constitution required that African Americans be allowed to serve on juries, the state constitution would make sure that minority votes could be discounted (haha, no "reasonable doubt" for yuo (remember, Oregon was a bastion of the KKK)


"Men like Brooks know, literally, nothing." - Lawyers, Guns & Money (and speaking of incredibly stupid, Charlie Rose said the Iraq war was over in 2003)

Why the Washington Post's Twitter Has Been So Good Lately - Or, how the Smash Mouth tweet came to be.


How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon


No more Mondays: Colorado school district moves to 4 day weeks : news (considering one or two days)


Mother of transgender Achille Schools 7th grader shares struggles following threats


What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused? - The New York Times (the "feminists" say men can't be harrassed)
The Perils of the Academic Star System - Lawyers, Guns & Money (good example of Zizek's emptiness)
Dylan Matthews on Twitter: "Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Gayatri Spivak, Jean-Luc Nancy, Joan Scott, and many more are aggressively defending an NYU prof who repeatedly sexually harassed her student https://t.co/iXt49VTl2W https://t.co/DdZxYcTuOW" (another reveal/reckoning, "self-identified feminists should be exempt from accountability mechanisms designed for feminist goals")


The 'Steely-Eyed Killer' Who Became a Star on Fox News -- Then Lost It All

NM compound suspects after hours-long hearing | KOB 4 - udge Sarah Backus made the determination, saying the state failed to meet the burden of showing the suspects were a danger to the community following several hours of testimony and evidence being presented by prosecutor
Suspects in case of children found on compound released against sheriff's pleas : news

Michigan girls escape kidnap attempt by fighting, throwing hot coffee on suspect : news


This untraditional way of consuming books will revolutionize how you read | Inc.com - Having no obligation to finish a book (a "hack")


Vaping 'can damage vital immune system cells' : news


University of Toledo chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by transforming vital molecules in the eye's retina in cell killers

Is it difficult to determine the password for an encryption if you are given both the encrypted and unencrypted message? : askscience

New evidence from the University of California Berkeley shows that sleep deprivation spurs a vicious, self-sustaining cycle of loneliness. : science


Broke up with my GF. When she fell asleep I stole her toilet : funny
I split up with my boyfriend yesterday. I fell asleep while he was packing and he stole my toilet. : WTF (karma court)


Eschaton: Recon Husk - Never tweet. -- Elon Musk has written a blog post explaining why he said last week on Twitter that he might take Tesla private at $420 a share. "Funding secured," he declared in the tweet. But after reading Musk's new post, the only conclusion to be drawn is that funding was, in fact, not secured. And that could spell serious trouble for Musk.
Eschaton: The Hyperloop Con Will Bail Him Out - I would just be mildly amused by Musk because he's such a dumbass on twitter except for the fact that he's pushing the latest in Vaporware mass transit which follows the usual pattern off mass transit Vaporware. Basically, it won't work and even if it works it won't work because it won't be mass transit but it will suck a lot of public dollars and prevent useful mass transit from being built as dumbasses say we must not use "19th century technology (trains)" when we can just wait for the Star Trek transporter to be invented.

Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers - Defense One

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Roads are flooded by heavy rain in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville - The Boston Globe -- Lynn was slammed with 8.14 inches of rainfall and neighboring Peabody picked up 7.81 inches ... "It was a few hours of complete craziness" ... The heaviest downpours came between 6:45 and 7:45 a.m. ... In Cambridge, which was hardest hit in the Boston area, 1.36 inches of rain fell in just an hour, according to the weather service, and the city got 2.2 inches overall


Julian Assange Went After a Former Ally. It Backfired Epically. - WikiLeaks' founder tried to retaliate against hacktivist hero Barrett Brown and prompted a crack-up at a whistleblower protection group, losing an asset in an extradition clash ("russian catspaw")
Rather unfortunately, I have been obliged to resign from Courage. An explanation:


Peter Beinart: I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs (fuck you, diaspora, knuckle down to Netanyahu)


There's a big tell in Trump's latest defense of Donald Jr. - "no collusion" has turned into "and to the best of my knowledge" ... clearly lawyered ...

The Big Picture - FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok was fired Friday (destroying Justice)
FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts : news
Peter Strzok on Twitter: "Deeply saddened by this decision. It has been an honor to serve my country and work with the fine men and women of the FBI. https://t.co/iET9SbeTrv https://t.co/XHSelUWLnj"
Fundraiser by Friends Of Special Agent Peter Strzok : Support for FBI Veteran Pete Strzok (give him money)

Trump-appointed judge upholds Mueller's legitimacy -- rejecting an effort by a Russian company -- accused of financing a massive political influence operation in the United States -- to stamp out the ongoing investigation.

Trump poses with supporter with sexist patch at motorcyclist event - The Washington Post ("gunz and titties")


Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle - If my nephew's ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out. (he is so weird)
You Want It Whiter - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Stephen Miller is brutally, permanently owned byhis own uncle:
Through a series of edits, /u/InternetWeakGuy walks through investigating a "news" site and finding it's writers don't appear to exist, it's 35k facebook likes are probably bought, and the whole thing isn't what it's pretending to be : bestof

Opinion | You Know Who the Tax Cuts Helped? Rich People - The New York Times (shocking)

White House: It's in 'Public Interest' for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News - White House counsel Don McGahn exempted Bill Shine from ethics rules so he can have meetings with their former colleagues at Fox News. (the old Murdoch exemption)

How Republicans got so mean and clueless - The Washington Post (Kellyanne lying mouth of Satan and Jennifer erases the history of Republican meanness because she was one then) )

The selling of Elliott Broidy - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Hillary Clinton Was, If Anything, Too Prepared - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Trump doesn't understand the world is round and has these things called "time zones" he is truely and evil moron)
Trump's diplomatic learning curve: Time zones, 'Nambia' and 'Nipple' (and don't forget Ur-Are-Gay)


Winning (More of) the White Working Class - Lawyers, Guns & Money
What Democrats Still Don't Get About Winning Back the White Working Class - The debate over moderate versus progressive policies is irrelevant unless Democratic candidates can first establish a basic level of trust with these voters. (who trusted the crooked moron instantly)


Mark Zuckerberg Is Totally Out of His Depth - Bloomberg - And so are all the big boys of tech. (his depth is very shallow)


Police Union Urges Officers To Protest Miami Dolphins After Players Kneel During Anthem | HuffPost (calling attention to killer cops is disrespectful say the cops)

Eschaton: Whites Only Cars - Such tremendous concern for the wellbeing of 30 genocidal racists from out of town. (yeah, they had their own special bubble)
Oh baby, it's cryin' time - Lawyers, Guns & Money - OMG, this video of Jason Kessler on the Vienna Station platform frantically making a call after they take his wooden flag poles away is delicious.
White Nationalists Leaders Sneak Out of D.C. Rally After Getting Surrounded by Thousands of Protesters : news

Clearwater Stand Your Ground shooter charged with manslaughter : news

Parents to sue after 10-year-old boy with autism repeatedly pinned to ground, handcuffed by officer : news

Following a domestic dispute at home, man borrows a plane and crashes it into his own house. : news

Woman robs man with his own sword after using his bathroom, police say : news

Escape from the Mayo Clinic: Teen accuses world-famous hospital of 'medical kidnapping' : news

Indiana Catholic high school guidance counselor says she was asked to resign after school learned of same-sex marriage despite working there for 15 years. : news

Four people caught having 'orgy' next to historic tourist attraction : news


66% of Millennials have nothing saved for retirement : news

Maybe Millennials Are No Good After All - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Granted, there are other theories regarding mass generational mayonnaise rejection


A Kaiser Permanente study of more than 80,000 children born over a 4-year period showed that the prenatal Tdap vaccination (tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis) was not associated with increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in children. : science


A Kaiser Permanente study of more than 80,000 children born over a 4-year period showed that the prenatal Tdap vaccination (tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis) was not associated with increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in children. : science


Through a series of edits, /u/InternetWeakGuy walks through investigating a "news" site and finding it's writers don't appear to exist, it's 35k facebook likes are probably bought, and the whole thing isn't what it's pretending to be : bestof

What's something horrible you've witnessed as a child but did not completely understand, only to discover later in life how horrible it really was? : AskReddit

FBI Warns of Unlimited ATM Cashout Blitz


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Surviving Parkland: A teen's road to recovery after a mass school shooting


The BBC was about to film a documentary about a London hospital when the Westminster bridge terrorist attacks happened. It is an unprecedented view behind the scenes of a mass casualty incident. : videos


Trump Blowing Up US-Turkey Relations for Evangelical Supporters (his debased base) Talking Points Memo


Don't fall for Trump'ss latest whataboutism (Hillary colluded with the Russians to get Dumpster elected)

Conway: 'We Have Confidentiality Agreements In The West Wing' (which is, you know, illegal)
'Beautiful' and 'Lovely': Trump Tweets Reflect Fixation on Women's Appearnaces
Omarosa Manigault Newman Taped Her Firing by John Kelly - The New York Times - she describes the world around the president as a cult in which he creates his own reality.
Inside Omarosa's reign of terror ... "She's out-Trumping Trump right now," the source added, before losing his train of thought in a fit of laughter ... the reality is that she only got the tapes because she was in the room


Before 'Unite the Right' Rally, Trump Does Not Condemn Supremacists
Trump condemns 'all types of racism' after a week of racially tinged remarks
Charlottesville Anniversary: White Supremacy Didn't Invade. It Was Always Here.

More than 100 newspapers will publish editorials decrying Trump's anti-press rhetoric ("rhetoric")

Eschaton: Lowlife - But Trump surrounds himself with all of the worst people. I suppose not every single one of them takes pleasure in torturing babies for sport, but they all strike you as people who would shiv their mothers-in-law, if not their mothers, for a few bucks. And they don't just have to deal with the horrible person who runs the show. They all have to deal with each other, too! I have no idea how this works for more than 2 hours.

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: QAnonsense, and can there be an alt-right without the alt-Reich? (T_D has bitch fight with Q)

A surprising grass-roots upheaval is shaking Maryland's Democrats ("progressives" replacing "centrists")

New data makes it clear: Nonvoters handed Trump the presidency - The Washington Post - Those who didn't vote are as responsible for the outcome of the election as those who did ... about 30 percent of Americans were eligible to vote but decided not to, a higher percentage than the portion of the country who voted for either Trump or his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton ... A third of nonvoters were under 30; only 1 in 8 voters was in that age group.
For Most Trump Voters, 'Very Warm' Feelings for Him Endured | Pew Research Center

Anti-hate protesters far outnumber white supremacists as groups rally near White House - The Washington Post (hahah Unite the Left)
'Unite the Right' flops while the left triumphs
This is the "Unite the right" rally crowd. All of them (looks like 10-15 nazies)
The white supremacist rally in Washington. That's all of them. : pics

Talking to a Man Named Mr. Cotton About Slavery and Confederate Monuments - The New York Times (deep in the heart of treason)
Georgia city: No Confederate battle flag in veterans parade : news (didn't work)

NPR teaches listeners about the proper care and feeding of white nationalists - The Washington Post - For starters, it is extremely tone-deaf to put the onus on a person of color to defend why they would want no part in participating in a rally with white nationalists. (the rot has always been deep and can't be fixed)

Which elections for governor and state legislatures in 2018 could affect redistricting? - Washington Post - 30 governors and more than 800 state legislators who could have a hand in the new maps will be selected in November, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Ige defeats Hanabusa, will face Tupola in November

Ellison denies abuse allegations from ex-girlfriend (another woman-beater goes down)

Local officials wield power as Colyer vs. Kobach undecided | The Kansas City Star


Why Are Center-Right Identitarians Afraid of Imaginary Liberals? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Needless to say, it's embarrassing that the Atlantic published Caitlin Flanagan's interminable mashup; of "anti-p.c." buzzwords and random anecdotes. But at least it led to this excellent Eric Levitz piece on the brand of empty center-right identity politics Flanagan represents: (Flannadoodle is dumb, really dumb)
The Left's Contempt for Jordan Peterson Is Perfectly Rational


Maryland football Coach DJ Durkin needs to go - The Washington Post - the bare minimum where it concerns the University of Maryland and its runaway football program: Coach DJ Durkin needs to get out now, if not sooner, and he needs to take his Neanderthal strength coach with him (coash get $2.5 mil to abuse players)
Maryland president orders outside probe of culture in football program - The Washington Post


u/AbandoningAll explains Hitler's skill in oration, along with providing some context behind his political ascension : bestof


Researchers have found that different kinds of team-oriented sports, cycling, and aerobic exercise are the most beneficial to mental health. Exercise is associated with a lower mental health burden across people no matter their age, race, gender, household income, and education level. : science

Opponents of vaccination think they know more than medical experts, also known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, suggests a new study of US adults (N = 1,310). : science

Artificial intelligence: Scary predictions for AI

TIL about "The Great Filter" a theoretically point in evolution that only a minuscule fraction of species could evolve past. This may explain why we have never contacted other high functioning species. Also, we do not know if humans have yet to reach it, or have already passed it.
The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why ("Where the fuck are they?")
Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter - YouTube
/r/GreatFilter: Is all intelligent life doomed to die before colonizing the galaxy?
Fermi Paradox Great Filters: Space and Time - YouTube

A new study adds more evidence against the idea of hypnopedia, or the ability to learn during sleep. While the brain is capable of hearing different sounds during sleep, the ability to accurately group these sounds into a sequence disappears, which may put a limit on the sophistication of lessons. : science - undefined
China Research Chemicals (didn't know you could do this, did you?)


What is the most shocking thing that you learned about someone after their death? : AskReddit


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Jury rules Monsanto liable in weed killer case - ordered to pay $250,000,000 for causing cancer : news - Bayer, a pharmaceuticals and chemicals giant, said on Monday it would immediately retire the 117-year-old Monsanto brand name (Roundup)


U.N. says it has credible reports that China hold million Uighurs in secret camps | Reuters (Chinazis)


More than 100 seats that backed Brexit now want to stay in EU | Politics | The Guardian - Major new analysis shows most constituencies now have majority who want to Remain
We like to mock Trump, but Britain's Russia stance is even worse (May "comfortable" with Russian hacking Brexit election)


MK on Twitter: "You interviewed the Nazi who organized it, let him rank the races on air while you sat there, wall-eye'd You obfuscate that a Nazi murdered an activist. And all this ON the anniversary of Heyer's murder. What the actual fuck is wrong with you people? Where are your parents? https://t.co/W7AaOxHTW8" (NPR)


Eschaton: It's Torture Now - A monster runs the CIA, though we knew that, but I was struck by something else in this news article about it -- ProPublica previously reported on cables from the Thailand black site, which also offered details of the C.I.A's methods. Like those documents, the new cables describe the waterboarding of Mr. Nashiri as well as the use of other torture techniques. -- I'm not sure when they changed, but for years the New York Times almost never suggested or stated that waterboarding was torture.
Aurora parents fighting to stop legally adopted 4-year-old daughter from being deported : news


U.S. budget deficit this year already 21% higher than last year : news (Trump bankdrupts everything he touches)


Today In Entirely Unsurprising News - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This has been widely rumored, but more evidence: President Trump frequently used the word "nigger" while he was the host of the reality television show "Celebrity Apprentice" and there are tapes to confirm it. -- The suppression of raw Apprentice footage surely helped Trump, although even had it surfaced in August and was as bad as expected presumably September still would have been dominated by EMAILS! stories.

What' s even worse than the swamp? The company that Trump kept.
Trump;'s s resume is rife with mob connections

Devin Nunes is protecting Trump | Check and balance role unfulfilled | The Fresno Bee - the Constitution requires a check on the president (his hometown paper)

Michael Avenatti Urges Democrats to Reject Michelle Obama (clueless float above it all Obamas)

Are you still sure there's no need to worry?


The LA Times ran a front-page story today about Elliott Broidy. The article reads more like a press release from Broidy's PR firm than an actual piece of independent reportage. The only people quoted in the story are Broidy himself and a few of his friends

How the White Nationalists Are Taking Over the GOP - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Weight of the Words - Niskanen Center (pic show the literal mouth of the aAntichrist)
Centrism Fan Acct ?? on Twitter: "Hahahahahahahahaha " (Gleen Greenwald is very cozy with the white nationalists)

Trump's War With Harley-Davidson Has Divided America's Bikers (not really, they are old uneducated white guys and they love Trumpster and NH is the 2nd most popular motorcyle state and has no helmet law: "Live Free And Die")
At Carrier, the Factory Trump Saved, Morale Is Through the Floor - The New York Times - Twenty months after the president-elect reached a deal to keep blue-collar jobs from leaving the country, absenteeism plagues the Indiana plant. (chain gang corporate)


Newspaper calls for war of words against Trump media attacks - "We are not the enemy of the people," said Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor for the editorial page of The Boston Globe, referring to a characterization of journalists that Trump has used in the past.

How Deval Patrick could outflank Elizabeth Warren in 2020 - The Boston Globe (Joannie in her bubble)
Here we go again: Dark money pours in against Elizabeth Warren - The Boston Globe


Study: 78,000 transgender Americans could be prevented from voting in 2018 - Metro Weekly


Rep. Chris Collins, fighting prosecution, seeks to end reelection bid - politico - just days after he vowed to clear his name and remain on the ballot.


Florida candidate poses with fake diploma after questions... Melissa Howard pushed back against news report with forgery, university says (there's dumb and then there's dumber)

Maryland Terrapins football culture toxic coach DJ Durkin - The inside story of a toxic culture at Maryland football (asshole ballbros)


Lesbian Texas teacher barred from her classroom to start new academic year : news


Alleged misconduct at Brighton seminary prompts inquiry - Cardinal Malley orders probe ("probe")

Commuters frustrated as T make weekend repairs to Alewife garage - The Boston Globe

Boston needs to pick its marijuana stores. But how to do that isn't clear
Marijuana Mile: Driving test highlights challenges for Mass. lawmakers : bostontrees
Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission Commissioner Shaleen Title rejects invitation to keynote Boston cannabis event via public letter : bostontrees
GUEST OPINION: Thanks But No Thanks: A letter to the Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition - Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) Commissioner Shaleen Title, (she owned the fuckers)
Stonewalled: Meet The Activists And Businesspeople Backing #Disownstone In Boston
Can an Inclusive Cannabis Industry Include Roger Stone? | Leafly (evil is pervasive)


Those raised in low socioeconomic status households are more likely to avoid risks, discount the future, and be more cooperative with others. This may be because early deprivation promotes behaviors that avoid uncertainty and the costs that may come with it. : science

In the past, forced or arranged marriages meant that socially inept, unattractive men did not have to acquire social skills to find a partner. Today, men who have difficulty flirting may remain single because their social skills have not evolved to meet societal demands, suggests new research. : science
Men, you're ugly. -Women. 80 percent of men are below average in looks according to women, 58 percent "are brain damaged", - Datacylsm. Sample size, half the single people in the US, includes okcupid, Tinder, Match, others. : OkCupid

Why is it harder to send a spacecraft to the Sun than away from the Sun? : askscience

Men respond to their spouse's s illness just as much as women do and as a result are better caregivers in later life than previous research suggests


What's one piece of Reddit folklore that every user should know about?

Men of Reddit, what was the moment that instantly made you lose your crush on someone? : AskReddit

The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views - The New York Times

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Massive Attack On Swedish News Sites Was The Work Of Russia, US Told Its Ambassadors - According to a newly released State Department cable, the attack was part of a Russian campaign to sow disinformation about NATO.

Russian state TV warns Trump to 'do what we say' if you want 'support in the elections'

Why the Space Force Is Just Like Trump University - The gap between the hype and the reality of the proposed new branch of the military makes the project almost entirely an exercise in misleading branding.

Trump takes aim at Turkey, announcing doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs in effort to punish country - The Washington Post

Cables Detail C.I.A. Waterboarding at Secret Prison Run by Gina Haspel - The New York Times (NYT still running a 20 yr old pic of Torture Gina)


Trump and Sessions Never Had a Plan -- Except Cruelty - current policies towards asylum-seekers are morally repugnant. (which they specialize in)
Today in Jeff Session's Neoconfederacy - remember that the policy he was trying to do an end run around the law to apply in this case is also terrible:


Russia investigation: Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller held in contempt - The Washington Post - Miller's challenge could ultimately rise to the Supreme Court ... Stone has accused Mueller's team of harassing his associates.
Spitzer 'Madam' Kristin Davis Wasn't the Only Trumpster Caught in FBI Pill-Ring Bust -- Roger Stone's partner in political crime and the felon who says he's worked closely with The Donald himself both got nailed in the same FBI operation.

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "Assuming Hope Hicks would be paid to return to the Trump campaign, this is Trump and other Trump campaign officials who are under investigation *offering money* to a young woman who is currently a prospective witness against them in a federal criminal investigation. Process that. https://t.co/UJ8UjOJPqT"

Time for Mueller to bring out the big guns - The Washington Post - time to subpoena the president (and then lock him up forever)
Trump Will Fold if Mueller Calls His Bluff. Giuliani Is the Tell. - awyer puts more preconditions on an interview that the special counsel will never agree to meet. It's meant to make the eventual cave-in look magnanimous.

Conservative magaine: supporting Trump in the face of a 'cascade' of Russia lies (Weekly Standard, hmmm)

GOP Operative Made "Suspicious" Cash Withdrawals During Pursuit Of Clinton Emails - Peter W. Smith withdrew $4,900 in cash the day after he finalized a plan to work with "dark web" hackersd

In America, wage growth is getting wiped out entirely by inflation - The Washington Post (suckers can't add)

Trump's s approval hits 50 percent -- in a doctored poll graphic shared by his son (much more popular than Obama and Jr. misspelled "America" )
Donald Trump Jr posts fake approval ratings graphic to falsely claim his dad is more popular than Obama

Omarosa Manigault Newman says she refused hush money, pens White House memoir calling Trump racist - The Washington Post
Omarosa Claims She Walked In On Trump Eating Paper In Oval Office
The juiciest claims from Omarosa's upcoming book


After Charlottesville, White Nationalists Are Winning - The Atlantic - Fox News anchors and high-profile politicians are now openly pushing the racism of the alt-right. The fringe movement's messages have permeated the mainstream Republican Party. (nah, they were always racist nazis)
NPR interviewed the racist behind "Unite the Right 2' and it was a disaster - "You con't sound like someone who wants to unite people"
Eschaton: Lies and the Lying Liars - Man who runs big piece of internet does not understand how internet works (plus, they lie alot)

How Bad Are Things for the GOP? A Democratic House Candidate Got 30,000 Write-In Votes in Michigan - The candidate was booted from the ballot based on a technicality: His petitions listed a Post Office box rather than a physical address. (Republifuck fail)

The Democrats' Quest to Win the Senate - They must hold 10 seats in Trump country and overperform in contested states. But with a blue wave forecast, anything could happen.

We Researched Hundreds Of Races. Here's Who Democrats Are Nominating. - women have won 65 percent (90 of 138) of decided open Democratic primary races featuring at least one man and one woman. About 46 percent of all women who ran for office won the nomination ... women are clearly having greater success than men ... being a woman has been worth an additional 10 percentage points over being a man in the open Democratic primaries


Charlie Baker signs automatic voter registration bill that could add thousands to state rolls - The Boston Globe


'Hitler was right': KC area winner of Missouri House primary leaves trail of bigotry - On Tuesday he won the Republican primary for a Clay County seat in the Missouri House by nearly 25 points. (75% of MO Rethugs want to kill all the Jews)

Ga. politician charged with murder, grand larceny in Aiken, SC | The State


Sarah Jeong and the Question of "Context" (all three of these pieces about context don't tell you when this happened, except in a screenshot at the bottom of EK's article)
Opinion | The Outrage Over Sarah Jeong - The New York Times - Let he who is without a bad tweet cast the first stone.
Twitter is not your friend. The Sarah Jeong saga shows us why. - Vox
Andrew Prokop on Twitter: "A play in three acts: 12/22/14: Sully defends running infamous race/IQ essay 12/23/14: Jeong parodies his "both sides" logic on Twitter 8/03/18: Sully sees that old tweet, doesn't realize it's making fun of him, calls her a racist. via @studentactivism https://t.co/yNlkSkmE3K"
Poe's law - Wikipedia - an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the parodied views (you can't parody wingnuts because they are parodys of human beings)

Eschaton: The Greatest Generation - During most of my life, prominent media figures fell all over themselves to cash in on milking "The Greatest Generation" WWII nostalgia for all the cash and celebrity they could. That noble sacrifice, that commitment to a higher cause, the killing of a bunch of fucking Nazis. ... Nazis are good now (yeah, that was a quick flip)

Willfully Mistaking Derision For Fear - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Flanagan doing her stupid thing)
Eschaton: The Thing About Caitlin Flanagan Is She's Dumb ... Also the dumb conservatives have editors, who also must be dumb.
Scott Lemieux on Twitter: "Caitlin Flanagan's Jordan Peterson piece is *astoundingly* bad. No serious publication should have even considered publishing it. https://t.co/rEcjuPpKSR"
Scott Lemieux on Twitter: "Nobody could have any rational objection to the firmly hinged, anodyne, non-ideological thought of Jordan Peterson: "
Scott Lemieux on Twitter: "I think at this point it's obligatory to say "OK, the content is bad, but you have to admire Flanagan's prose." I...do not. If you can point me to a single line in this column that couldn't have been written by a random Daily Caller third-stringer I'd love to see it."
A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits: On Jordan B. Peterson's "12 Rules for Life" ... He uses the terms "Marxism" and "postmodernism" almost interchangeably. Not only are these two schools of thought very different from one another, they are also in certain respects mutually antagonistic ... the calling card of the paranoiac.


Welcome to Hotel Millennial | The Outline - You can check out any time you like, but you may never get clean sheets.


Fed-up locals are setting electric scooters on fire, smearing them with poop and burying them at sea (yeah, Boston also, without the poop)


Most people who think they have a penicillin allergy are wrong. That's dangerous - Ten percent of all patients in the United States claim to have a penicillin allergy. Of those people, 90 percent are not truly allergic and can tolerate the drug


Results reveal for the first time that, in as few as two weeks, kids who played a video game designed to train empathy showed greater connectivity in brain networks related to empathy and perspective taking. : science

Most teens avoid rash, impulsive behaviors and have the behavioral brakes to keep their risk-taking experiments in check, finds new study contrary to traditional thinking. Only a subset, with weak cognitive control, engage in excessive levels of impulsiveness, and end up struggling as young adults. : science (another myth that adults liked to believe)


ELI5: Double Slit Experiment. : explainlikeimfive
The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios - YouTube

TILL couples who spend $20,000 or more on their wedding are 1.6x as likely to divorce than average, and those who spend less than $1,000 have a lower chance of divorce. : todayilearned


What are some "guy secrets" girls don';t know about?
What are dome "girl secrets" guys don't know about?


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Puerto Rican Government Acknowledges Hurricane Death Toll of 1,427 - The New York Times
Puerto Rico cites storm death toll of 1,427 in damage report


Yemen: Dozens killed in airstrike on children's bus - CNN - most believed to be under the age of 10, have been killed after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a school bus in northern Yemen Thursday.

Argentina Senate Rejects Bill To Legalize Abortion | HuffPost - There are at least 350,000 illegal abortions in Argentina every year, the Ministry of Health estimates.


Trump's Tariffs on Canadian Newsprint Hasten Local Newspapers' Demise (almost like they planned it)

Judge orders plane carrying deported mother and child turned around, blocks more removals - The court learned that the Trump administration had put a mother and a daughter who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit on a flight to Central America.
Judge halts mother-daughter deportation, threatens to hold Sessions in contempt - The Washington Post

For Most Trump Voters, 'Very Warm' Feelings for Him Endured (in the dark cinders of their nazi hearts)


Donald Trump's Nightmare Isn't Robert Mueller (it's Putin, haha)

The 'Red Wave' Illusion - Evidence builds of major GOP losses in November. (he will, however wave the red flag)
: Lackluster election results spark debate over Trump's midterm role

How an Australian drug company ensnared so many GOP lawmakers, including Chris Collins - Axios


Dems In Disarray - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Troy Balderson probably eking out a 1-point victory is Excellent. News. For. John. McCain!

Kansas governor's race turns nasty as Kobach's lead dwindles


The Demography of the Alt-Right | Institute for Family Studies
The varieties of racist experience - Lawyers, Guns & Money
White liberal racism: Why progressives are unable to see their own bigotry.

Twitter'ss CEO doesn't get how conspiracy theories work (they aren't that bright in most areas)

Laura Ingraham's Anti-Immigrant Rant Was So Racist It Was Endorsed by Ex-KKK Leader David Duke
20 Words - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Ingraham is a real nazi)
14 Words
Laura Ingraham Doesn't t Love Her Country Anymore -- The Fox News host cites an increase in the numbers of legal and illegal immigrants as the reason for her diminished patriotism.
Why Fox's Nightly White Power Hours Matter

Ashley Feinberg on Twitter: "A cool thing to do when your new colleague is being aggressively harassed because of a bad faith campaign cooked up by racists is to publicly shit on them some more" (and the "mentality" of the NYT


Tribune Media Terminates $3.9 Billion Deal To Be Bought By Sinclair | HuffPost - FCC Chairman Ajit Pai opposed the deal, but Trump supported it. (and if Idjit opposed it, it must have been pretty terrible)


Atlanta school: No more Pledge of Allegiance to start day : news
an_original_username comments on Atlanta school: No more Pledge of Allegiance to start day
/u/an_original_username changes his mind : bestof


Florida Wants To Help Bullied Kids -- unless they're gay

Arkansas police officer fired after investigation of viral video | KATV (another racist asshole has no clue about Facebook)
Arkansas police officer has been fired after he was recorded telling two black men, "You don't belong in my city." : news

Eric Clanton takes 3-year probation deal in Berkeley rally bike lock assault case Berkeleyside



Brock Turner Loses Appeal To Overturn Sexual Assault Conviction | HuffPost (registered sex offender for life)
Brock Turner Loses Appeal of Sexual Assault Conviction : news

Student accuses Santa Fe store clerk of racial profiling after police called (buying candy while black in N.M.)

inavanbytheriver comments on landlord blocks Planet Fitness
/u/inavanbytheriver tries to cancel a gym membership over the phone. The gym calls the police on him for "harassment". Police decide to cancel his membership for him. He records the phone call. : bestof

The Old Cincinnati Library before being demolished, 1874-1955 : books


Analysis of use of deadly force by police officers across the United States indicates that the killing of black suspects is a police problem, not a white police problem, and the killing of unarmed suspects of any race is extremely rare. : science

Having wisdom teeth removed may be a rite of passage for many teens and young adults, but the opioid painkiller prescriptions they receive make them nearly three times as likely to develop long-term opioid use, a new study finds. : science

She's the world's top empathy researcher. But colleagues say she bullied and intimidated them ... " It appears the Max Planck Society decided it would rather sacrifice another generation of students than risk a scandal" (total bitch)

Hospital hand sanitizers not potent enough for superbug | Science | AAAS (bacteria said fuck you, we'll just evolve alchohol immunity)


Redditors who rage quit a job without thinking, what was the last straw? : AskReddit (people are really insensitive and/or evil)


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Just half a degree - Scientists suggest limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius instead of 2. Otherwise, they predict that as the climate warms, both the mean state and the variability of extreme precipitation are projected to increase, inducing more intense and dangerous extreme events. : science


Saudi Arabia halts all medical treatment for citizens in Canada : news - "Yes, forbidding medical care for your citizens in a foreign country is the best way to combat criticism of your human rights record." ... " What's next, holding your breath until you pass out?" (you will bown down before the glowing orb)
Saudi Arabia crucified man in Mecca while calling out Canada human rights - Business Insider (yeah, they still do that)


Trump administration to hit Russia with new sanctions for Skripal poisoning


War Without End - The New York Times - Pentagon's failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

Leaked document: Putin lobbied Trump on arms control - POLITICO


Federal deficit jumps 20 percent after tax cuts, spending bill : politics (they stole a ton of money and claimed victory)

Bill Nelson: The Russians have penetrated some Florida voter registration systems | Tampa Bay Times
Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct : technology
GOP Rejects Adding More Money To Beef Up Election Security | HuffPost - Republicans say states already have enough funds to do so. (why, it's almost like Mitch is controlled by Putin)

Top Trump Campaign Aides Are Portrayed as Corrupt at Manafort Trial - The New York Times
Judge is the undisputed center of attention at Paul Manafort's trial (78 yr old Reagan drama-queen possibly illegal immigrant from Colomia with ADD defending Manafort won't allow the term "oligarch")
Manafort Trial Day 7: Gates wraps testimony, tensions flare - POLITICO

Omarosa Secretly Recorded Trump - And Played the Audio for People While Shopping Her New Book, Sources Say : politics

How America stopped prosecuting white-collar crime and public corruption, in charts - The Washington Post (thanks, corporate Barry)
Republican Rep. Chris Collins Arrested for Insider Trading With His Son and Lying to FBI - He sat on the board of a pharma company when its drug went bust. Before the bad news went public, he allegedly tipped off his son and friends so they could cut their losses.
Eschaton: Grand Old Police Blotter - JUST IN: Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), Trump's earliest congressional backer, arrested by the FBI on securities fraud-related charges

The Shadow Rulers of the VA - How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration's veterans policies (bunch o' rich draft-dodgers pillaging the VA)


Who are QAnon supporters? The QAnon subreddit, analyzed with data. - Vox (so, No, it's not a "liberal troll," it's racist women-challenged white dudes based in the_donald)
Sean Hannity thanks Jack Dorsey and Twitter for sticking up for Alex Jones

ICE Crashed a Van Full of Separated Mothers, Then Denied It Ever Happened
New 'Dear Ivanka' Instagram posts call attention to ongoing family separation crisis - Recent comments prompted a response from celebrities


Winners and losers from Tuesday's elections
Democratic Pary's liberal insurgency hits a wall in Midwest primaries
Tuesday Night Is a Bad Sign for GOP Chances in the House | RealClearPolitics

Dave Weigel on Twitter: "It's official: Missouri voters have STRUCK DOWN the state's right-to-work law, by a landslide."
Missouri Voters Reject Anti-Union Law in a Victory for Labor - The New York Times
They Showed Me - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This is a big win -- As of 9:26 p.m., with more than 1,200 precincts reporting out of more than 3,200 precincts statewide, right-to-work opponents had won 62 percent of all votes cast. The law -- Alas, OH-12 is looking less positive, in part because of an asshole from the Consumerist Wankers For Republican Governance Party, but Erik is also right that the Missouri right-to-work vote was much more important.

Scott Lemieux on Twitter: "Also, this is basically Sarah Palin's 1st Amendment argument applied to party politics. Greens every right to throw elections to Republicans in exchange for no upside whatsoever, and people have every right to criticize it because it's idiotic. https://t.co/vCatCZT2wD" (the Jill "Yes, of course I'm a Russian agent" Stein party)
Enough With the Shit, Green Party. The Coming Midterms Are Too Important for Your Shenanigans : politics

St. Louis Voters Oust Prosecutor Who Didn't Bring Charges In Cop Killing Of Michael Brown - In a remarkable win for reformers, Wesley Bell, a city council member in Ferguson, Missouri, upset Robert McCulloch

Women Break New Records In 2018 Primaries | HuffPost - There are record numbers of women running for the U.S. House and governor seats as major party nominees this year.

Kris Kobach won't recuse himself from a recount in govwernor's race -- No law stops Kobach from overseeing recount in his own race | The Kansas City Star (so the crooked vote guyi girls dons in charge of his own recount, perfect)



Donald Trump Talks About a War on the Press. Andrew Cuomo Is Waging One. - The Democratic governor is boasting about taking away the license to operate of one of New York's key local news sources, and insulting one of its reporters. (crooked Cuomo hates questions)


Amazon Studios head of unscripted Heather Schuster exits after investigation into 'verbal abuse' | Daily Mail Online -- nine months after getting promoted in sex harassment reshuffle (total bitch learned zero)


Roanoke Times sues former sports reporter over Twitter account - The Washington Post


Police: Grandmother shoots man for exposing himself to granddaughter : news

Four Missouri children locked in 'boxes' secured with plywood and screws, cops say; 2 arrested : news

Taser: Police officer uses Taser on girl, 11, accused of stealing - "Officers should avoid using the Taser on obviously pregnant females and those individuals under the age of 7 or over the age of 70" (yes, copster thugs can tase 8 year olds)

Catherine Oxenberg Reveals How She Lost Her Daughter to the Sex Cult NXIVM - In 2011, Oxenberg introduced her 19-year-old daughter, India, to NXIVM's Executive Success Programs, believing that the course would help her grow as a young entrepreneur (layers of stupid)



We killed the cigarette. What we got in return is mango-flavored nicotine in 'party mode.'



New research shows that humans "see" the actions of others not quite as they really are, but slightly distorted by their expectations. The study could explain why people get others' actions so wrong and see ambiguous behaviour as meaningful : science

The cannabidol non-psychoactive compound found in marijuana drugs may have positive effects for children with severe epilepsy where other medications for the major neurological disorder are not effective, according to the latest Australian research. : science


What NEW obnoxious traits are you noticing in society? : AskReddit
What NEW obnoxious traits are you noticing in society? : AskReddit

I am actually a little surprised at how bad Atlas Shrugged is : books

What are the most fucked up subreddits? : AskReddit


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Even If Emission Reduction Targets Are Met, Earth Still Heading Towards 'Hothouse' State
California fire explodes in size, is now largest in state history - CNN
Mendocino Complex fire is largest wildfire in California history
EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing - Archpaper.com (your stupid fake-science asbestos lies are revoked!)


German mother jailed for prostituting young son online | News | DW | 07.08.2018


Saudi Arabia's bold move has nothing to do with Canada
Saudi Arabia cannot afford to pick fights with Canada - The Washington Post


Now the Trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants - The most significant change to legal immigration in decades could affect millions of would-be citizens, say lawyers and advocates.
Trump Administration Attacking Legal Immigrants Next (Stephen "Yes I'm a Jewish Nazi" Miller)

New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media - A plurality of self-identified Republicans say they want Trump to have the power to take "bad" media outlets out (sourthern traitors will be traitors)


Paul Manafort trial day 6: Rick Gates to continue testimony against former Trump campaign manager -- live updates - CBS News
Manafort Judge to Prosecutor: 'There's Tears in Your Eyes' Judge tells prosecutor to 'look at me when you're talking' (making liberals cry is a Republican priority)
Paul Manafort trial live updates: Gates testifies Manafort wanted him to use Trump job to give lender favors - The Washington Post
Manafort prosecurtions's frustration with judge leads to fiery clashes (Republifuck judge trying to fuck the country again)
'This idiot judge?': Salty Manafort trial chief cracks wise and cracks down - POLITICO - "Why do we have to put up with this idiot judge?" ... The 78-year-old Ellis ...
Paul Manafort'ss First Trial Is a Sideshow. The Next One Won't Be (judge banned the word "oligarch") Just as jury selection was underway in Alexandria on Tuesday, the chief judge of the federal courthouse in Washington issued a 92-page ruling ordering an aide for Roger Stone, the irreverent Trump confidant and longtime Manafort pal, to testify before a grand jury. (not some old dumbfuck VA judgelet)

Dissecting Donald Trump Jr.'s red-herring-filled defense of the Trump Tower meeting (lock up the greasy little lying animal-killer +Ingraham has two Russian adopted sons, calls Jr "Donny")

Get ready for this nightmare scenario involving Trump, Mueller and Kavanaugh - The Washington Post - If Trump declines an interview, Mueller will probably hit him with a subpoena to appear before the grand jury, as he has privately threatened to do.

Trump is the president the Founding Fathers feared - The Washington Post - Has there ever been a president as obscene as Donald Trump -- a president as obtuse, as ignorant, as base, as dishonest, as indifferent to precedent, as contemptuous of civil liberties, as critical of his own government and officials, as brutish, as cold to consequences, as hostile to the media, as casually racist and as self-centered? The answer is no. For comparisons, you have to look abroad.

Don't all campaigns try to work with hostile states and porn stars? No. They. Don't.

Daniel Dale on Twitter: "Trump told his Tampa rally crowd that his team had set up "a tremendous movie screen" so all the people stuck outside could watch. There was no screen at all. https://t.co/KsXWcjyErt https://t.co/3CVXQJJltC"
Eschaton: This Isn't Lying - Trump lies all the time, of course. The best you can say is he has so little interest in telling the truth that he barely distinguishes truth from falsehoods. But there's lying and there's believing the fantasy world that your brain has created. All the way back to lying about inauguration crowd sizes this distinction has been important. Trump wasn't really lying about the crowd sizes. He believed his fantasy and expected others (Spicer etc.) around him to maintain it. I'm sure he's always been a bit like this, but... not quite like this.

Karl Rove Likens Trump To Stalin, Tells Him To 'Tone Down' Anti-Press Rants (fuckers)



Forbes: Wilbur Ross Accused of Stealing Over $120 Million - The Daily Beast (only the best crooks)

Betsy DeVos's summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell - Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of the education secretary.

Civility As A Shield - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Dahlia Lithwick on the inane civility arguments for Brett Kavanaugh, which are used to exempt conservatives from criticism more broadly: ... the Carpool Wizard column from a school parent extolling the personal qualities Judge Kavanaugh brought to his kid's school ... immediately followed by the Radical Feminist column from Yale's Amy Chua ...

Trump's iron wall of defense - Rural voters are most likely to support Trump's policies that have cracked down on both legal and illegal immigration, but rural areas also have the smallest percentage of foreign born (rural dumbfucks fucking over the country)

Trump's political base is weaker than it seems, our new study finds - overall approval rating is 93 percent, with 78 percent 'strongly" approving of the president. The problem for Trump, however, is that these voters make up less than half of the Republican electorate -- and 18 percent of likely voters.


Trump's Allies Struggle to Stop QAnon's Spread Fearing the left will turn the conspiracy theory against them, the president's cheerleaders try to talk sense into the grassroots. It's not working ... Breitbart ... "It's unprecedentedly dumb in the history of American politics."

First They Came For Alex Jones, And A Lot Of Bros Made Incredibly Dumb Arguments - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Here are six things to watch in today's elections
GOP fears steep losses in state legislatures | TheHill - Republicans hoping to hold on to their majorities in state legislative chambers across the country are nervously eying President Trump's anemic approval rating, concerned that a wave of voter anger could undo years of gains.

670 ballots in a precinct with 276 voters, and other tales from Georgia's primary - a 243 percent turnout ... Georgia is one of four states that uses voting machines statewide that produce no paper record for voters to verify, making them difficult to audit (russians in complete congtrol; why, it looks almost on purpose)

America might be ready for democratic socialism. It's not ready for the bill. Single-payer health care, a jobs guarantee, and free college would require massive tax hikes. There's no way around it (because we have to keep cutting taxes for rich assholes)


Democrats poised to pick transgender woman for Vermont governor - POLITICO

AmeriCorpse? - Donald Trump has proposed cutting AmeriCorps, which would eliminate the job training program starting next year. But is AmeriCorps a successful experiment in idealism, or exploitation? (once again, thanks, Barry)
AmeriCorps at 20 is a wasteful flop: Column - President Barack Obama welcomed a flock of AmeriCorps recruits to the White House this morning to celebrate AmeriCorps' 20th anniversary


Fox News Correspondent Conor Powell Resigns:'Lots of Reporters Are Very Unhappy'


Facebook Is Asked to Change Rules for Journalists and Scholars - The New York Times (is he human?)


Woman wanting to fulfill 'rape fantasy' filed false sexual assault report, police say : news


Patients are desperate to resemble their doctored selfies. Plastic surgeons alarmed by 'Snapchat dysmorphia.'

A review of nearly 582,000 heart attack cases over 19 years showed female patients had a significantly higher survival rate when a woman treated them in the ER : science
Women and pain: Disparities in experience and treatment - Harvard Health Blog - Harvard Health Publishing

Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes but our distant ancestors don't. How does the number of chromosomes change over multiple generations? : askscience

Kids shape their parents' parenting style - The parent-child dynamic is a two-way relationship, and parenting is a process in which both parents and children exert simultaneous and continuous influence on each other, suggests a new study (n = 1,411 twin sets).
Kinder-Gardening | Hidden Brain : NPR : The Carpenter Vs. The Gardener: Two Models Of Modern Parenting

Researchers have found that older people are less likely than younger people to realize when they've made a mistake. The finding offers new insight into how aging adults perceive their decisions and view their performance. : science ("set in their ways" because they know who they are)

Redditors with emotionally mature parents who supported you and taught you what you needed to know (real life skills)-Do you exist, and if so, how's life? : AskReddit


[Serious]Eerie Towns, Disappearing Diners, and Creepy Gas Stations....What's Your True, Unexplained Story of Being in a Place That Shouldn't Exist? : AskReddit

Girls of Reddit, what's the best pickup line someone used on you? : AskReddit


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In a strikingly ignorant tweet, Trump gets almost everything about California wildfires wrong


Saudi Arabia expels Canadian ambassador after Ottawa criticizes arrests of Saudi activists - The Washington Post (you will not criticize us)

UK poised to ask Russia to extradite Salisbury attack suspects | UK news | The Guardian - Exclusive: Kremlin certain to reject request that will reignite simmering diplomatic row


NBC Politics on Twitter: "BREAKING: Rick Gates in trial: Prosecutor: "Were you involved in any criminal activity with Mr. Manafort?" Gates: "Yes". Prosecutor: "Did you commit any crimes with Mr. Manafort?" Gates: "Yes." https://t.co/XN9soITpq0"
Rick Gates testifies he committed crimes with Paul Manafort
Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that the money we're robbing is bein' robbed? ... Meanwhile, growing buzz about a potential indictment of DJTJ
Manafort trial Day 5: Gates sings - POLITICO - Gates is considered the star witness for the prosecution against Manafort.
The Double Damage of the President's Trump Tower Admission - His tweet about the purpose of the June 2016 meeting contradicts his earlier denials and could spell trouble for his son and him.

President urged to stop tweeting on Trump Tower meeting - CNNPolitics (hahaha)
'Facts develop': The Trump team's new 'alternative facts'esque ways to explain its falsehoods
This Isn't a Government Anymore. It's a Game of Truth or Dare. - Any weekend is remarkable when the president* admits being in cahoots with a foreign government full of kleptocratic thugs, thereby contradicting almost three years of official prevarication, and tosses his eldest son under the wheels as a bonus.

N.Y. attorney general race could spark new Trump investigation - On Nov. 6, voters in the Empire State will select a new attorney general, and all of the leading Democrats running for the office are eager to take on Trump ... Eric Schneiderman was expected to easily win a third term before he abruptly resigned in May following allegations he engaged in abusive behavior in romantic relationships with multiple women.

Sen. Rand Paul goes to Moscow and invites Russians to Washington in unofficial bid to boost ties - The Washington Post (all Rethugs are commies, lock them up)
Wht We Don't Know About Russian Interference in the 2016 Election - Rather than being honest about Russian influence in 2016, Republican leaders are trying to enhance the legitimacy of their own president and party.

Kris Kobach-Led Voter Fraud Commission Was an Attack on Our Democracy - Except it was waged by the vice president and Kris Kobach. (yeah, perspective is good)

Republicans eye another ACA repeal vote if midterms go their way - Axios (the fuckoff and die party will lose big)

Opinion | What Are Capitalists Thinking? - The New York Times ("give us all your money and fuck off and die and don't try 'socialism' or we'll kill you faster")
Frank Rich on the 2008 Financial Crisis - In 2008, America Stopped Believing in the American Dream ... In 2011, with much fanfare, President Obama convened a new jobs council, which, in a bipartisan gesture, he put in the charge of a prominent Republican CEO, Jeffrey Immelt of GE. No one in the Obama White House seemed to know or care, as the New York Times would soon report, that GE had laid off a fifth of its American workers since 2002 and, in 2010, had paid almost no federal taxes on $14.2 billion of profit. (thanks, again, clueless corporate Barry)

How Trump Radicalized ICE - The Atlantic - A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top (Dumpter's Storm Troopers)

Jared Kushner Used To Personally Order The Deletion Of Stories At His Newspaper - Kushner went around his New York Observer editors and told a software engineer to remove stories about his friends, like NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. (of course he did)

Why the Midterms Won't Be Won by Playing to the Base -- Some people changed which party's nominee they voted for from 2012 to 2016. They are key to who wins the House and Senate. (Bush Republicans who voted once for Ombama, so no, you're wrong)

The Rude Pundit on Twitter: "Is it a "dilemma"? Because if you're a Republican and you don't automatically think, "Fuck those Nazis," you've legitimized the Nazis. https://t.co/RZ0E8AjZcP" ... Oh here I fixed it: "Many Republicans are basically ok with various types of bigotry, including modern day Nazism." (but the NYT thinks liberals are the problem)
Eschaton: Dilemmas - The reason it's a dilemma is that the libturds and blah people are The Real Racists.
NYT Politics on Twitter: "For mainstream Republicans, a profound political dilemma of the Trump era is whether to support the growing number of candidates who make racially divisive remarks and back causes that are championed by white nationalists https://t.co/YiEXsqfk3q" (fuck off, NYT)

Armed Trump Supporters March on Portland, Beating Up Opponents and Calling for Hillary Clinton's Arrest - Led by a fringe Republican candidate, hundreds of far-right militants swarmed into Portland, Oregon to fight 'evil leftists.' Cops seemed more concerned with antifa. (because, duh)
Portland Probing Police Action Against Anti-Fascist Protesters At Far-Right Rally | HuffPost - allegations of injury as result of law enforcement action.
Dimestore Guevara on Twitter: "CW: very graphic. My comrade was shot in the back of the head by @PortlandPolice today. He was hit with the very first flash bang the cops shot. Make no mistake this was an act of aggression and there will be hell to pay @tedwheeler #defendpdx #AllOutPDX https://t.co/tdyaaLTwB1" (pro-fascist copsters)
Antifa members in Berkeley smash windows of US Marine Corps recruiting office during protest | Fox News (Fox telling you what to pay attention to)


Enforcing Our Community Standards | Facebook Newsroom (funny, Zuckerfuck doesn't use the same small dark-grey rectangles he makes everyone else use)
YouTube removes Alex Jones' page, following earlier bans
YouTube Bans Infowars' Alex Jones for Spewing Hate Speech
Facebook, iTunes and Spotify drop InfoWars : news

How Donald Trump hacked the media - Vox - We are buried under ignorance disguised as information. (Orwell and Huxley's views on rise of fascisim)

It's Looking Extremely Likely That QAnon Is A Leftist Prank On Trump Supporters -- "What the fuck is wrong with boomers?" - There's a growing group of Trump supporters who are convinced that the president is secretly trying to save the world from a global pedophilia ring ... QAnon is actually a prank by leftists or anarchists to make the far-right look deranged. (there's where your argument falls apart)
Qanon - Great Awakening (more like dimmening, but ...)
Why the GOP is so easily infiltrated by bonkers conspiracy theorists - The Washington Post - Conservatives have been trained by the people they trust most to believe that everything is a conspiracy. And not just a conspiracy; a conspiracy against them. ... "cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics"

Missouri's Right to Work Repeal Vote - It's hard to overstate the vital importance of the upcoming Missouri referendum to overturn the state's newly enacted right to work law.

Democrats May Have Finally Found The Candidate To Take Down Scott Walker | HuffPost - Can a wisecracking, occasionally cringe-inducing black firefighter finally capture the Democrats' Wisconsin white whale?
In Deeply Blue New Jersey, an Unexpected Battle for Senate - The New York Times - Facing a deep-pocketed Republican challenger, a blitz of negative ads and lingering concerns over a lackluster performance in an uncontested primary, Mr. Menendez's race has started to concern some Democrats.

Trump endorses Kobach for Kansas governor - politico (good, another racsist nazi)

Campus PC Is Out of Control - Lawyers, Guns & Money (another snowflake myth)


The Long Arm of Dunningism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - unfortunate that not surprising that a major publication would run a lengthy piece about white racist Americans. We've seen approximately 780,000 since November 2016. However, it is amazing that the Guardian would run featuring Confederate flag humpers that would repeat Dunningesque and Bowersesque myths about Reconstruction. ... People forget the slaveholding South was a vicious police-state society across the board ... (white girl from Mississippi)

McDonald's parasite outbreak sickens nearly 400 people : news


I'm Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein and have just completed a book, AROUSED: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything. Ask Me Anything!


Vaping draws strong support from bots, finds a new study on Twitter posts. More than 70% of the tweets analyzed appeared to have been put out by bots, whose use to influence public opinion and sell products while posing as real people is coming under increased scrutiny. : science

What's your grandpa's war story? : AskReddit

What's the best example of survivorship bias? : AskReddit

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole ? 'Over The Rainbow' & 'What A Wonderful World' Medley ? 1993 ?? - YouTube

Boston-Area Startups Are On Pace To Overtake NYC Venture Totals - The Massachusetts numbers year-to-date are about 15 percent higher than the New York City total. That puts Boston's biotech-heavy venture haul apparently second only to Silicon Valley among domestic locales thus far this year.

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A Fire Tornado Hit Their Neighborhood. This Is All That's Left
California 'fire tornado' had 143 mph winds, possibly state's strongest twister ever : news

'The gun's not in the closet' Since 1999, children have committed at least 145 school shootings. Among the 105 casesn which the weapon's source was identified, 80 percent were taken from the child's home or those of relatives or friends. -- Yet The Washington Post found that just four adults have been convicted for failing to lock up the guns used. (time for accessory before the fact charges and long prison terms)

TIL Coca Cola allegedly used Colombian death squads to terrorise workers and prevent the organisation of unions : todayilearned (today in the history of capitalism)

TIL that diseases brought by Europeans caused the Native American population of an estimated 100 million to decline by almost 90% : todayilearned (today in the history of capitalism's mass genocides)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro survives alleged drone assassination attempt | Daily Mail Online ... was actually a GAS TANK blowing up and TV cameras failed to capture footage of the 'drones' but President Maduro rounds up political opponents (Madurofuck)

ANC shocks Twitter by calling all white people murderers


A Slow Motion Lorry Wreck - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This referendum never should have been held, and if it was held at an absolute minimum is should have been structured so that there was a second vote on the actual exit deal (or non-deal) agreed (or not agreed) to by the UK and EU. But Cameron was really, really complacent and incompetent, and here they are. (UK got Camarooned by stupid Tories and then Corbynated)

Brexit deal: Theresa May is making a mistake leaving the European Union - Vox - Now that the UK is stockpiling food, maybe it's time to admit Brexit is a mistake? -- Brexit has become a bizarre, macabre spectacle of national self-sabotage. -- And in spite of the fact that the country is having public discussions about the propriety of using the fucking air force to airdrop food to people, no one in power wants to stop this process! Both May and her main rival, the Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn, have decided to treat the referendum result as reflecting the will of the people and have rejected the idea of doing another vote, even though government officials are now questioning if the country will have enough food to feed itself and enough medicine to stock its hospitals.

36 thing hahahahahahaha s that will happen if Britain crashes out of Europe with no deal | Prospect Magazine - From manufacturing to pet passports, the disruption would be immense (oh, and all the UK airline pilots lose their licenses to fly outside of the UK! Their new jobs will be bombing the people with snacks! it's a fucking disaster but Tories go la-di-la off the cliff)


Eschaton: Nobody Mention The Dementia - He's still functional, obviously, but really...it's going to get worse.

Eschaton: Sorry, Son, You're Going To Jail - Gramps is so dumb. (his "wonderful son")
Eschaton: I Bet Don Jr. Is Having A Good Weekend - Hilarious ... As one adviser described the president's thinking, he does not believe his son purposefully broke the law, but is fearful nonetheless that Trump Jr. inadvertently may have wandered into legal jeopardy. ... hahahahahahaha (plus, "thinking")
Trump acknowledges, defends 2016 meeting between son, Kremlin-aligned lawyer - The Washington Post
Trump just made 2 problematic admissions about the Trump Tower meeting - The Washington Post ("yes, it was crooked, but it wasn't a crime.")
The Day Donald Trump Told Us There Was Attempted Collusion with Russia | The New Yorker (admitted to treason)
The Day Trump Told Us There Was Attempted Collusion with Russia : politics ... Because yesterday Hope Hicks got on Air Force One and told Trump that she told Mueller ... So, Monday would be the unsealing of her indictment and plea deal. Gonna be a big week. So. War with Canada?
Trump Tweets a Confession, Then Sekulow Admits His Client Has Been Lying about His Involvement
President Admits Focus of Trump Tower Meeting Was Getting Dirt on Clinton : politics
For the first time, Trump confesses that his campaign turned to Russia for help : politics - Hope Hicks must have told donald yesterday that she told Mueller the truth. ... "It represents the first time an American president has admitted that his campaign accepted offers of help from those connected to the Kremlin. All other offers throughout U.S. history -- in 1960, in 1968, in 1984 -- had been declined.
Donald Trump Says Son's Trump Tower Meeting Was To Get Clinton Dirt But 'Totally Legal' ... conradicting statements ...
Trump voicing concerns about son being entangled in Mueller probe - CNNPolitics
Trump's Preposterous 'Collusion is Not a Crime' Defense: What Real Lawyers -- If Asked -- Would Have Advised His Campaign About the Trump Tower Meeting ("don't do it you don't want to go to prison" +Dershofuck and Ghouliani)


What Will Cause the Next Recession? A Look at the 3 Most Likely Possibilities - The New York Times - The expansion is nine years old. An ill-timed end of fiscal stimulus, a corporate debt bubble and the trade war are the things that could most easily end it.


Metro no longer considering separate trains for white nationalists attending 'Unite the Right' rally

Fact-checking QAnon conspiracy theories: Did J.P. Morgan sink the Titanic? - The Washington Post (yes, and Soros and the Jesuits floated the iceberg but Trump colluding with Putin is way too far-fetched to believe)

Judge's ruling invalidates FEC regulation allowing anonymous donations to 'dark money; groups

Trump makes bizarre claim that tariffs will help pay down the massive U.S. debt - The Washington Post The tariffs do raise money for the U.S. government, but it's a small amount -- and it's mostly being paid for by Americans. (hahaha suckers)


There is no 'civil war' between progressive and centrist Democrats ... And it set off speculation from political reporters that the Democrats might provide some new drama this election year by reviving the blood feud between those who backed Sanders in 2016 and those who favored Hillary Clinton. (your "political" media is stupid)
Points That Need Making - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Part of the reason for this framing is the media always wanting to attack the Democratic Party as a disaster

Democrats spent 2 years working on a new slogan. Here's what they came up with -- "For the People" ... catchier than "A Better Deal"
Dem governor: 'We will rescue America from the grasp of an unhinged narcissist' (better)
Koch Brothers Bankroll Move to Rewrite the Constitution
Nancy MacLean: The GOP's Long Game | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

Opinion | The High School We Can't Log Off From (Twitter activates your high-school brain)


They Were All Lawyered Up and Rudy Giuliani's Up -- How the first federal investigation into the maker of OxyContin looked to overdose-affected families in western Virginia -- and how it fell short (evil Sacklers)

New Mexico sheriff: Compound searched, 11 kids removed - The Boston Globe ("compound" - little trailer buried in sand and covered with tents with no fook, water, electricty or plumbing)
'Like third world country refugees': 11 kids rescued from rural N.M. compound ... "The occupants were most likely heavily armed and considered extremist of the Muslim belief."

He's a Superstar Pastor. She Worked for Him and Says He Groped Her Repeatedly. -- Bill Hybels built an iconic evangelical church outside Chicago. A former assistant says that in the 1980s, he sexually harassed her ... Mr. Hybels had been accused by several other women, including co-workers and a congregant, of inappropriate behavior that dated back decades. (Satangelical)


80-year-old medical marijuana patient with expired card jailed for less than an eighth of cannabis : news - An 80-year-old grandmother in Clare County was jailed for the first time in her life, because she had a small amount of cannabis at home but her Michigan medical marijuana card expired. (cops smelled pot, sent her to prison)

Boston's schools are becoming resegregated -- Hearly 60 percent of the city's schools meet the definition of being intensely segregated ... Two decades ago, 42 percent of schools were intensely segregated (thank you Louse Day Hicks, spawn of the devil)


Face Tattoos Go Mainstream - The New York Times - "We call them job stoppers," said Joel Jose Molina, a tattoo artist at the shop. "Your possibilities are cut down. You're going to be working at the Trader Joe's putting groceries away or working that bar job."

The twilight of closed adoptions - The Boston Globe - And while it was often fully voluntary and in the best interests of all involved, closed adoption also has a darker history in the United States than most realize: one shaped by eugenic prejudices, exploitation of poor families, and outright trafficking ... Georgia Tann ... blank slate ... "She had to make it secretive, because she did not want these birth parents to find their children or the children to find their birth parents" (roots in southern crime ring) In 1935, Governor Lehman signed a law sealing adoption records to adoptees in New York State.

The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America - The New York Times (18 is still the peak, rural babies having babies)


On matters of spirituality, baby boomers are changing paths and writing their own scripts - The Boston Globe ... a Pew Research Center survey in 2015 show that 40 percent of boomers have switched faiths. But shifting religious affiliations don't tell the whole story of this restless cohort. Manya re exploring spiritual life outside of organized religion, or sampling from a variety of traditions.

What Anne Sexton told her psychiatrist - The Boston Globe - A new book mines the poet's confidential therapy tapes. Author Dawn Skorczewski of Brandeis University explains why ... Starting when Sexton was 28, a young mother struggling with mental illness but not yet a published poet, she began seeing a Boston psychiatrist named Martin Orne two or three times a week ... In 1964, Orne moved to Philadelphia. Sexton's next therapist started a sexual relationship with her that continued for years ... (insecure framework)
Keezer's Classic Clothing lives on near Porter, filling former site of Hollywood Express video

Moderate drinking -- is it healthy or not? - The Washington Post - The average weight of an American adult man is 196 pounds, compared with 169 pounds for the average American woman. Aaron White, chief scientist at NIAAA, said men are, on average, 60 percent water, and women are 50 percent water.

/u/CallTheKiteman sums up succinctly how 9/11 changed America, and how that has changed Americans : bestof

Humans are giving many other species cancer: Meta-analysis finds enough to classify Homo sapiens as an "oncogenic species" (spreading death)


Approximately 40 percent of men have experienced inexplicable feelings of tearfulness, sadness, or irritability after mutually consensual sex and 3-4 percent experience it regularly, according to a survey published in peer-reviewed journal. : science - Postcoital Dysphoria (PCD) was found to be associated with current psychological distress, childhood sexual abuse, and several sexual dysfunctions.

What screms "I'm educated but not very bright"? ? : AskReddit

Tank Duel at Cologne (analysis) XPost from /r/combatfootage : videos


Highest rates of depression seen in individuals with autism who have above average intelligence. The study, which involved a systematic review of nearly 8,000 research articles, now reveals evidence that depression is highly prevalent in both children and adults with autism. : science

How is meth different from ADHD meds? : askscience .... Some have advocated to rename ADHD to Executive Function Deficit Disorder, because the problem is that all executive function is impaired. Not just paying attention, but things like switching focus, prioritizing, filtering noise, and regulating emotion. Somehow dopamine is involved with all of those.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Wikipedia
TIL There's a lesser form of mania called hypomania, a short period characterized by a decreased need for sleep, increase in energy, increased talkativness and confidence, and a possible increase in creative ideas. : todayilearned
[Serious] People who've survived depression, did antidepressants ever work? If not, what else helped you to get through it? : AskReddit

The women in the red dress? : funny (oooh)

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Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not "Human Nature" (let's go with "Inhuman Nature" or just "Republican Death Cult")
Scorching Summer in Europe Signals Long-Term Climate Changes - The New York Times


Trump and Allies Seek End to Refugee Status for Millions of Palestinians - Foreign Policy - In internal emails, Jared Kushner advocated a "sincere effort to disrupt" the U.N's relief agency for Palestinians. (Netanfuckyu is running U.S. ME foreign policy and the Trumpsters are evil racist assholes)


Coast Guard icebreaker funding reallocated to US-Mexico border wall : news ... Trump is giving the Arctic to Putin.

We can't protect our elections from Russian interference if the president won't admit it's happening

Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring - The Washington Post - The president, more than ever, is channeling his internal frustration and fear into a ravenous maw of grievance and invective. He is churning out false statements with greater frequency and attacking his perceived enemies with intensifying fury.
Trump' worst political nightmare? Democrats with subpoena power

Follow the Russian money, and tighten your seatbelt - The Washington Post
Vladimir Putin's goal was to destabilize the United States. He's succeeding

Trump associate socialized with alleged Russian agent Maria Butina in final weeks of 2016 campaign - The Washington Post
Domo Arigoto, Mister Gordon - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Say what you will about J.D. Gordon, the man knows how to appeal to today's youth -- Maria Butina, the Russian gun-rights activist who was charged last month with working as an unregistered agent of the Kremlin, socialized in the weeks before the 2016 election with a former Trump campaign aide who anticipated joining the presidential transition team, emails show, putting her in closer contact with President Trump's orbit than was previously known. Butina sought out interactions with J.D. Gordon, who served for six months as the Trump campaign's DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL SECURITY before leaving in August 2016 and being offered a role in the nascent Trump transition effort,
Beyond the N.R.A.: Maria Butina's Peculiar Bid for Russian Influence

Witch Hunt Continues to Find a Striking Number of Witches - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The 8-year-olds hacking our voting machines - Why a Def Con hackathon is good news for democracy : technology

Twitter Explodes Over Donald Trump's 'Disgusting' Attack On LeBron James -- "LeBron puts children through school. Trump puts children in cages"

Don't give me that do goody good bullshit - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Ian Millhiser really lets loose on the profoundly embarrassing mash note Lisa Blatt wrote about Brett Kavanaugh (and, implicitly, the whole disgusting genre):

On American Hegemony, Part III: Time for Some (Non-Game) Theory - Lawyers, Guns & Money

'The mostg bizarre thing I've ever been a part of' : Trump panel found no voter fraud, ex-member says (the Trump/Kobach scam)
u/killroy200 lays out a timeline of Georgia's rediculous series of election security fails under Brian Kemp : bestof

This Is How Crimes Against Humanity Happen - The shelters for migrant children near the border are allegedly employing child molesters. (the secret pedophile ring run by Hillary and the deep state)

Opinion | The Children at the Trump Rallies - The New York Times - What is it like to see young people exposed to so much anger? Heartbreaking, says a Times photographer (they need to be separated from their insane parents)

You'll never guess how the QAnon conspiracy theorists feel about all this media coverage (they love it, the Storm of white revennge for centuries of oppression is coming, America has a delusional (white) moron problem)
Trump Fans Are Suckers and QAnon Is Perfect for Them - the amanuensis to an orange Nostradamus whose quatrains appear on the same image boards that feature bronie porn, hentai spank-bank material, and tween Neo-Nazi shitposter incels, instead of penned on parchment. (not bad)

I'm Old Enough to Remember When We All Agreed the Nazis Were the Bad Guys - Not so, apparently, in Omaha, Nebraska.


Eschaton: I Don't Even - White supremacists are afraid of the city for reasons you understand, but I do not think this is a courtesy metro extends to every group. (KKK Nazis get their own subway cars for another "Unite the Right")
All aboard the Tikkki Torch Express! - Lawyers, Guns & Money (trains for whites only! that won't look bad! and make black/brown people drive their special train!)

Once a favorite, Rep. Diane Black loses the Tennessee governor (racist Dumpster loses)


Sarah Jeong-New York Times controversy: conservatives have it wrong - Vox - Why Andrew Sullivan and the conservative media are wrong (literal conservative snowflakes and of course irrelevant Sully is there)
Sullying American Political Discourse - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- "Andrew Sullivan thinks that satirizing the bell curve is racist, and advocating against immigration by non-whites out of fear of "demographic change" is not." (yeah, Sullyfuck)
The "controversy" over journalist Sarah Jeong joining the New York Times, explained - In standing by its decision to hire the well-known tech journalist, the Times shut down a major bullying tactic of the alt-right.
An Asian American woman's tweets ignite a debate: Is it okay to make fun of white people online?
Sarah Jeong, New York Times Editorial Board Member, Has A Right To Be Angry | HuffPost ... "Sock" her right in her "lesbian face" ... "Shut the fuck up you dog eating gook"

Amazon removes Nazi-themed goods from its store - Amazon has removed products bearing Nazi and white supremacist symbols from its online store. : technology (is it ok to be a Nazi?)

Eschaton: Against Gentrification - Heroes. In America's less affluent neighborhoods, low-income minorities are often left to grapple with the gentrification juggernaut all on their own. But these marginalized people will be happy to know they have an ally in Ryan and Caitlin Hubbard and their son, Corey -- a white, upper-middle-class family that is helping to fight the good fight by refusing to live anywhere that isn't 100 percent white

LGM Beer Talk: Bro Beer Culture - Lawyers, Guns & Money - One of the ow THIS JUST IN FOLKS!!!!rst parts of beer culture is that along with the beer fermenting, there is some yeast that goes along with it called "libertarian asshole who thinks the suffering of others is funny." (beerbros)
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Miami Herald, WPLG Local 10 Smear Gay Men Arrested at Pleasure Emporium | Miami New Times


Fact-checkers have debunked this fake news site 80 times. It's still publishing on Facebook. : technology
How bots amplify hoaxes and propaganda on social media - Zignal Labs CEO Josh Ginsberg says consumers and companies need to know what's bot-generated and what's not so they can make informed decisions about things like elections.

Eschaton: 6 Minutes - Because we see it happen differently on teevee and in the movies, I suspect most don't know that killing someone by asphyxiation with a chokehold takes *a long time.* 5 minutes or more of *continuous air obstruction.* It's hard to do. You really can't do it by accident ... And you, Mr. Stinson, are a shit person and I wish nothing but happy encounters for you with the police in your future -- Philip Stinson, an associate professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University, disagreed that the officers were to blame for escalating the conflict. Officers are entitled to use as much force as necessary while making an arrest, Stinson said. (no "excessive" force if they just kill you)
Video: Louisiana man dies after officers put him in choke hold; experts disagree on excessive force or not | Crime/Police | theadvocate.com ("experts" always disagree)

The tender, terrifying truth about what happened inside the Trader Joe's hostage siege


Opinion | A Guide to Dating Women Raised in a Matriarchy - The New York Times - "I had no father," Wonder Woman says. My mother sculpted me from clay."


Opinion | Anti-Vaccine Activists Have Taken Vaccine Science Hostage - The New York Times


Neighbors hostile to proposed marijuana dispensary on Chandler Street in Worcester : bostontrees - The article fails to mention that there is a Mass Liquors directly across the street from the proposed location. If that area can have a liquor store, there can be no legitimate reason for it to not have a pot store.


What is a fetish you've had for many years and where do you think it came from? : AskReddit
IT people of Reddit, what's something you found on someone's computer that made you say WTF? : AskReddit


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The NRA Says It's in Deep Financial Trouble, May Be 'Unable to Exist' -- A new legal filing by the powerful gun group against the state of New York paints a grim picture

Assange in 'solitary confinement' at embassy, fears possible extradition to US, lawyer says


China plans more retaliatory tariffs vs. U.S. in Trump trade war - Axios


Putin-linked bikers who helped Russia annex Crimea set up military-style base in Slovakia - The Washington Post ... The club itself described the camouflaged-painted armored vehicles and heavy weapons as part of a harmless World War II museum to honor Soviet troops.


It's True: Trump Is Lying More, and He's Doing It on Purpose. (great shot of Satan's mouth, the lie-trumpet) )

Trump is at odds with his own aides on Russia again (and again and again)
Hours after White House warns of new election meddling, Trump again points to 'Russian hoax'

Trump's impotence on the Mueller investigation is driving him batty< - A new attorney general would have to be confirmed by the Senate, and you can bet that during their confirmation hearings, they would be asked specifically and repeatedly about whether they had any conversations with the president about the Mueller investigation. (he can't get sworn loyalty) /a>

Future generations will feel only contempt - The Washington Post - President Trump's outrageous tweets are testing, once again, our capacity for outrage. They are not harmless venting. Rather, they pose a threat to the rule of law.

Manafort trial day 4: Accountant concedes possible wrongdoing, Manafort's double life
The Mystery Of The Fake Invoices That Keep Popping Up In The Manafort Tria

'Manhattan Madam' met with Mueller's team

Trump has built a pyramid scheme of public fraud. It's a taxpayer-backed cash grab.

Judge says Trump team '100 percent' responsible for finding deported immigrant parents

Omarosa Claims Trump Has 'Mental Decline That Could Not Be Denied' | HuffPost - Omarosa Claims Trump Has 'Mental Decline That Could Not Be Denied' Something real and serious was going on in Donald's Brain


Greg Sargent on Twitter: "Wow, behold the savvy! https://t.co/iRbmcIq4Hy "


Why QAnon is so scary - The Washington Post (well, #1 they are insane and #2 fascist deathmongers)
There's a virus in Trumpland ... "QAnon. For when being just a typical paranoid delusional pizzagate benghazi bat-shift crazy birther Trump supporter is no longer unhinged and anti-America enough for you." --monkfish21
QAnon: Meet a real-life believer in the online, pro-Trump conspiracy theory that's bursting into view


Bizarre Right-Wing Trump Portrait Gets Mercilessly Mocked On Twitter | HuffPost - Jon McNaughton (the swamp crossing the swamp)
Tim Aylesworth on Twitter: "Is Trump holding a gaslight? "
I went there ???? on Twitter: "Looks like Jr. didn't make the boat" (Ivanka did, though)
Earl Hoffert on Twitter: "Of the many unintentional metaphors in this stunning work of art, John Bolton pointing an old-timey rifle the wrong way while staring into a distant past is perhaps the finest. #crossingtheswamp https://t.co/HH5WQFFvq6"

Our Rebuttal to Kris Kobach's Critique (Rethug superhero: facts bounce off his manly chest and he gets paid big bucks!)

O'Rourke Puts Race into Lean Republican Column
What August Ratings Can Tell Us About November Results | The Cook Political Report

White Americans support welfare programs -- but only for themselves, says new research (they've always been given stuff but they are entitled to it so it doesn't count)


National Enquirer Boss David Pecker Tiptoes Away From His Pal Trump as Scandal Swirls and Circulation Drops


Police Report: Ex-GOP Official Calls Himself Second Christ, Sacrifices Dog (the headline writes itself)


I grew up valuing purity and virginity. Today, it's left me with feelings of shame.- I was taught being a wife and mother is my highest calling


People buried at Stonehenge 5,000 years ago came from far away, study finds - The Washington Post ("far away" = 150 miles in Wales)
Find shows 4,000-year-old trade routes stretched from Carolinas to Great Lakes | Ars Technica - Cremated remains and a copper band suggest far-flung trade and social connections.


'You're getting nothing': Steve Jobs' daughter wrote a heartbreaking memoir about their often brutal relationship : technology


Eschaton: Remote Driving - Why public money? - Why not? So much public money is going to be spent on this shit and hyperloop. (techscam)

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In Court Papers, NRA Stresses Financial Pressures and Says It May Have to Shut Down NRATV


Fields Medal: Caucher Birkar wins top math prize, then has medal stolen - The Washington Post - Fields Medal

Tokyo Medical University lowered grades of women to limit number of female doctors - The Washington Post


'Fake news' journalist rejected as Italian state broadcaster's president


Suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow | US news | The Guardian - Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy ... The Guardian has been told the RSO sounded the alarm in January 2017, but the Secret Service did not launch a full-scale inquiry of its own. Instead it decided to let her go quietly months later, possibly to contain any potential embarrassment ... The damage was already done but the senior management of the Secret Service did not conduct any internal investigation to assess the damage and to see if [she] recruited any other employees to provide her with more information


As midterm elections approach, a growing concern that the nation is not protected from Russian interference - The Washington Post (Trump: "What, me worry?)

Trump urges end to probe 'right now' setting off new storm (yesterday, they said he didn't mean "right now."

Trump Pushes for Interview With Mueller Against Lawyers' Advice
Manafort's bookkeeper testifies against him, alleging efforts to inflate income
Mueller wants to interview Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, lawyer says - The son of a Russian oligarch helped set up the now infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
Mueller's Digging Exposes Culture of Foreign Lobbying and Its Big Paydays
Jim Carrey Sends Robert Mueller A Message About Donald Trump In New Artwork | HuffPost
Top Trump Donor Agreed to Pay Michael Cohen $10 Million for Nuclear Project Push - WSJ

Trump mulls a pre-election shutdown with Rush, and a pre-election anti-Pelosi ad

CNN's Jim Acosta walks out of White House briefing after tense exchange with Sarah Sanders - The Boston Globe

Donald Trump has no earthly clue about how real people buy groceries (opinion) - CNN (but he's a real American!)
Black Pastor praises Trump as 'pro-black' - "This is probably going be ... the most pro-black president that we've had in our lifetime."

QAnon, the Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorists, Now Believe JFK Jr. Faked His Death to Become Their Leader

National Archives says it won't be able to produce all Kavanaugh documents until end of October (Russian Republicans: "fuck your documents")

A Record Number of Democratic Challengers Are Outraising GOP Opponents - Bloomberg - For the November 2018 vote, the party's candidates are hoping to ride a green wave of cash.

WBUR Poll: Capuano Maintains 13-Point Lead Over Pressley | WBUR News

Liberals' donations through ActBlue top $1 billion ahead of midterms

Eschaton: Give Me All Your Money - Convince towns to pass unenforceable laws, and then get them to pay you to unsuccessfully defend them in court! What a grift! (the Koback scam made him famous)

Opinion | The Democratic Party Picked an Odd Time to Have an Identity Crisis - The New York Times - Can its unruly coalition take shape against Trump without one wing predominating? By Thomas B. Edsall (Edsall doing his Edsall thing)

The deep cynicism of Bernie Sanders's chief strategist ... Tad Devine associate of Paul Manafort ... the role the Democratic ad man had in electing and preserving the power of Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych, a crooked pro-Putin autocrat ... seamless pivot from advocate for antidemocratic thug to champion of a principled democratic reformer shows extraordinary flexibility. (rot at the core of the Berniebros)

CBS board knew about Leslie Moonves' sexual harassment allegations, sources say

Latest New York Times Hire Also Had Relationship With White Nationalist Hacker | The Daily Caller - Sarah Jeong ... lso had multiple correspondences with the white nationalist hacker Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer, better known as "Weev" (they don't know how to search twitter)
Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment - The Verge - Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment
New York Times stands by new tech writer Sarah Jeong after racist tweets surface : news
Sarah Jeong: New York Times Hires Writer With Racist Past : news


Facing Losses, Condi Nast Plans to Put 3 Magazines Up for Sale - The New York Times - Anna Wintour is staying, but the once-flush company behind Vogue and The New Yorker lost roughly $120 million last year.


'It Can Happen Even to Guys' : Ohio State Wrestlers Detail Abuse, Saying #UsToo

4 dentists ntists accused of raping woman at Las Vegas Strip hotel

A black Smith College student was eating her lunch when an employee called police - The Boston Globe
Smith College to bring in outside investigator after student was racially profiled - The Boston Globe

Woman accused of hitting car in Hyannis after confrontation over Trump bumper sticker - News - capecodtimes.com - Hyannis, MA
Massachusetts woman accused of hitting car with Trump bumper sticker | Daily Mail Online (with the pics)


Eschaton: People Are So Dumb - Nobody (except specialists) who writes about transit has ever even taken a bus - Anyway, as I said, hyperloop now means anything in one of Elon's fantasy tunnels. They aren't going to go that fast. They also won't be able to carry enough people (or cars on a sled or whatever).


Not drinking alcohol in middle age increases dementia risk, says report - The study tracked the drinking habits 9,000 people between the ages of 35 and 55 and their subsequent mental health ... abstinence in midlife was associated with a 45% higher risk of dementia compared with people who consumed between one and 14 units of alcohol per week. With people who drank more than 14 units a week the dementia risk increased by 17% with every additional seven units per week. (bye-bye, liver)


Opinion | The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley - The New York Times - They have weaponized social media, and we are all paying the price.

Memoir reveals Steve Jobs' troubled relationship with daughter Lisa | Daily Mail Online - 'You smell like a toilet' - The cruel dig Steve Jobs made to his daughter as he lay dying of cancer and how he once told her 'you're getting nothing' when she asked to have his Porsche after he was done with it ... Chrisann has also written about her tumultuous relationship with Jobs claiming that success turned him into a 'demon' (wouldn't be the first time)
Keeping Up With The Kardashians: Kourtney calls Kim 'evil human being' | Daily Mail Online

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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change - The New York Times - 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change
US says driving would be riskier if fuel standards tougher (they'd drive more and kill more people)
California blazes tax budgets, firefighters: 'Fatigue is starting to set in' | California Fire Map: 2018 Wildfire Tracker for Northern, Central and Southern California



Saudi Arabia Planned to Invade Qatar Last Summer. Rex Tillerson's Efforts to Stop It May Have Cost Him His Job. (that's what Trump swearing loyalty to the crystal orb was all about)

Chinese Surveillance Expands to Muslims Making Mecca Pilgrimage - WSJ

San Juan: The Venezuelan city where nothing works anymore


On the Amplification of Russian Hacking Trooferism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Without Integrity: The Debunking of the Metadata Debunkers
Briton ran pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign that helped Trump deny Russian links - A British IT manager and former hacker from Darlington ran a disinformation campaign that duped former US intelligence agents and provided Donald Trump with manufactured "evidence" to deny that Russia interfered with the US election
Pwn All The Things on Twitter: "And this story even comes with free bonus meta-disinformation: the folks behind the campaign pretending to be me in the comments on the article exposing it. Fun times. https://t.co/KEv3VWQSbk"
Raffi Khatchadourian on Twitter: "There are some other interesting facts buried in the @dcampbell_iptv piece about Tim Leonard, the British troll who uses @with_integrity on Twitter and is best known for relentlessly pushing "Russiagate" conspiracy theories." (ah, "Forensicator" is outed)
At what point does an article become irresponsible? | The New Republic - On August 9, 2017, The Nation published an article by Patrick Lawrence arguing, "There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee's system on July 5 last year -- not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak ... (so now we know, Lawrence was very, very wrong and The Nation looks evil and stupid and culpable and colluding: "Putin Can't Melt Steel Beams" and Katrina van den Heuve looks Russian compromised)


President Trump has made 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days - The Washington Post - That's an overall average of nearly 7.6 claims a day (Satan always lies)

Your Guide to Understanding the Trump-Russia Saga - The Washington Post

Special counsel Mueller wants to ask Trump about obstruction of justice: Sources - ABC News
Adam Schiff: Trump's tweet on Jeff Sessions 'an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight' : politics

Democrats Wanted $250 Million to Protect States' Voting Systems, but Republicans Rejected It (they are all Russian agents)
Republicans Vote Against 2018 Election Defense Funding in Senate - Republicans Just Voted Against Defending Our Democracy Because They Don't Want to Defend It
Senate votes to release transcript of suspected Russian spy : politics ... What's ginger sex? When the carpet matches the curtains for redheads.

Trump Calls On Jeff Sessions To Stop Mueller Investigation | HuffPost - Sessions recused himself from matters involving the Russia investigation last year, after he lied about his meetings with Russian officials (Mouth of Satan Fuckabee says he was just expressing his "opinion")
Sarah Huckabee Sanders uses a debunked story to blame the media for damaging the hunt for bin Laden - The Washington Post
Trump calls Manafort prosecution 'a hoax' says Sessions should stop Mueller investigation 'right now'
Robert Mueller Is Going After Shady Democrats Now, Too : politics
'Fire Mueller and We Fire You' Democrat on Intelligence Committee Issues Warning to Trump

Why the Manafort trial freaks Trump out - The Washington Post

Paul Manafort's Trial Is About More Than Him or Mueller - The Atlantic - America is reckoning with its very serious kleptocracy problem.
Former lobbyist Tony Podesta, others under investigation by federal prosecutors over alleged foreign work : news


40% of those who tend to vote Republican don't object [Video] - 11% of people who identify as Republican or lean Republican say it's "appropriate" for Russia to help Republicans keep control of Congress in the upcoming elections. Another 29% say it's "not appropriate but wouldn't be a big deal ... (40% of Republicans are commie traitors!)

Promoting voter ID, Trump says ID needed to buy groceries (his new show your papers plan)

Jim Acosta Warns Anti-Media Hostility Is Going To Get Someone Hurt -- "We should not treat our fellow Americans this way. The press is not the enemy" (no, reality is the enemy for delusional Trumpster)

'We are Q': A deranged conspiracy cult leaps from the Internet to the crowd at Trump';s 'MAGA' tour ... Adherents believe a 'Great Awakening" will precede the final storm foretold by Trump. Once they make sense of the information drip-fed to them by "Q," they will usher in a Christian revival presaging total victory ... Roseanne Barr ... Curt Shilling ... Cherly Sullenger (dumbfuck rural whites and dimbulb "celebrities" worship the Antichrist)
As the bizarre QAnon group emerges, Trump rallies go from nasty to dangerous - The Washington Post
QAnon: How the conspiracy theory spawned by a Trump quip got so big and scary - The Washington Post
Hamilton 68: Tracking Putin's Propaganda Push... To America

Elliot Broidy's Mistress: I Was Pregnant When My Lawyer 'Recruited' Michael Cohen to 'Solve' Problem - Shera Bechard had an abortion after her attorney went to Trump's fixer to arrange a hush-money deal to cover up the affair (yeah, doesn't make any sense, does it?)

Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina Told American CEO: Send Cash to Moscow (and some lizard)
Why We're Sharing 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets - FiveThirtyEight has obtained nearly 3 million tweets from accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency. (for the big picture history)

'Everyone talked with Woodward': Trump White House braces for new book - Unlike previous administrations, this White House had no process for making officials available to the legendary reporter

This photo of Melania Trump gardening is Twitter's new favorite meme (Nightshade and Hemlock)

Is Bannon right that white, college-educated women have given up on Republicans? - The Washington Post (stupid white people vote for Trump)

Texas 'Blue Wave' Could Take Down Ted Cruz and Deal Big Blow To Donald Trump, Polls Indicate : politics

Michigan Supreme Court rules on anti-gerrymandering initiative - The 4-3 decision is rife with political implications in Michigan, where Republicans have maintained or grown congressional and legislative advantages since last drawing the state's political boundaries in 2011. Volunteers with the Voters Not Politicians committee gathered nearly 400,000 valid signatures to put the anti-gerrymandering plan before voters. (they didn't pack the court quite enough)

Kirsten Gillibrand Pays The Price For Speaking Out Against Al Franken | HuffPost ("speaking out" or "stabbing in the back" but blames Soros despite all of twitter hating her)
The Assassination of Al Franken by The Coward Kirsten Gillibrand, And Absolutely Nobody Else, Cont'd - Amanda Terkel shows that rank misogyny remains a thing among powerful Democratic donors: (the other side)
The only person responsible for Al Franken's downfall is Al Franken himself

Racist backlash politics and the "press 1 for English" Myth - Indeed, it turns out that, among whites, economic anxiety is driven by racial resentment, rather than vice versa: ... In fact, the practice of forcing people to press 1 for English is as commonplace in America in 2018 as spitting on Vietnam veterans was in 1968: in other words, it's a right-wing myth
Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and the war over change - Vox - How demographic change is fracturing our politics

Campus PC Is Out Of Control - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Another special snowflake has been triggered and needs a safe space:

Top House Republican: Man Killed His Wife 'Because The Woman Was Unfair' - Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), the chairman of the influential House Rules Committee, (wants to end no-fault divorce so men stay in control)
No Prison for Grandson of Ex-Virginia Governor in Rape Case : news - Baril is the grandson of John Dalton, a Republican who served as governor from 1978 to 1982. His father, Steve Baril, is a Republican who ran unsuccessfully in 2005 for attorney general.

Illinois lawmaker accused of releasing nude photos of ex-girlfriend - POLITICO - A former girlfriend of Illinois state Rep. Nick Sauer has filed an official complaint accusing the first-term Republican of creating a fake Instagram account and populating it with nude photos of her to lure men into "graphic" discussions ... Nick would use this account to direct message men with my photos to engage in graphic conversations of a sexual nature. The men believed they were communicating with me and Nick shared private details of my life (so is he gay or just a trannie?)

Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg waives gag order, releases extensive list of names and accusations in child sex abuse investigation. : news

"This Is Too Hard to Imagine" : Leslie Moonves and Hollywood's #MeToo Tipping Point - Brace yourselves, Hollywood. The Shari Redstone versus Leslie Moonves cage match is officially on, and some oddsmakers are predicting a dramatic outcome that will transform the industry landscape -- both financially and culturally.

What 'Interractial' Cuckold Porn Reveals About White Male Insecurity -- The genre, in which a Black man has sex with a white man's wife, represents the ultimate threat to white manhood and racial purity. And it's loaded with racist undertones that have real-world implications.


This Washington couple built a swanky beach house that's always ready for a party


She was told to cover up while breast-feeding at the pool. Here's how these moms are responding.

There's a 'serial farter' on the loose in the West Village

Restaurant berates 'irresponsible reaction' of man who shared video of a worm in his food (Cod Worms are a thing)


Vice's article about Dorchester and their struggles trying to open a dispensary : bostontrees
Rita found a treat on her walk at park. It was an edible. : gifs

Meet the Scutoid. This new geometrical shape is new to maths but not to nature, where it is used to tightly pack cells. : science

We may crave stability in life, but the brain benefits from volatility, according to a Yale University study on cognition (involving monkeys) that shows how uncertainty boosts learning. Activity in areas of the frontal cortex were dramatically reduced when outcome probabilities were fixed. : science

TIL that LSD leaves the bloodstream within a few hours, but essentially chains itself to brain receptors causing a long-lasting trip of up to 24 hours. Your high only wears off when enough of the LSD molecules "escape" from the locked receptor in your brain. : todayilearned

TIL that In Elizabethan England, the word 'Nothing' was slang for female genitalia. The title of the Shakespeare play 'Much Ado About Nothing' is a double entendre. : todayilearned ("country matters")


We had a security incident. Here's what you need to know. : announcements


Feds Accuse Three Hackers of Stealing 15 Million Credit Cards in 100 Security Breaches - Motherboard - The US Department of Justice announced the indictment of three alleged members of the infamous financial hacking group known as Carbanak or FIN7.

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The Great Climate Hoax Is Making Island Nations Disappear - There's apparently a new term for them now: "ex-situ nationhood."
The Quietest Place in America Is Becoming a Warzone


U.S. spy agencies: North Korea is working on new missiles - The Washington Post

Manchester bomber was rescued by the Royal Navy from Libyan warzone | Daily Mail Online - three years before he slaughtered 22 people at a pop concert


Eschaton: Remoaners - The politics and discourse around Brexit currently are very similar to those in the US surrounding the Iraq war. Suggestions that anti-Brexit Remainers are actually treasonous, and that the blame for a failed Brexit (not failure to happen, just that the consequences are bad) will land on the shoulders of those Remoaners for failing to clap loudly enough, based on the Tinker Bell theory of reality, are standard. Interesting times! running out of la-di-la room)


Russian secret-spilling site 'Dossier' steps into spotlight - Over the past three months, a handful of highly placed Russians have discovered their secrets seeping onto the web ... Mikhail Khodorkovsky's new project

Mystery Sting Targets U.S. Senator for Dirt on Russia Sanctions - Democrat Jeanne Shaheen is known for her vocal opposition to Vladimir Putin. Maybe that's why someone tried to get her to give up inside information about anti-Russia sanctions. (ya think?)
Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign - The New York Times (beucause NYT can't use "Russian" in the lede)
Facebook takes down suspected Russian network of pages

Mueller refers foreign agent inquiries to New York prosecutors - CNNPolitics

Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich - The New York Times (don't need no steenking congress, haha riches take all your monies, vote Trump!)

Eschaton: It Doesn't Make Any Sense That You'd Have to Spend $32 Trillion Instead of $34 Trillion Just To Save $2 Trillion -- Ah the people who run our business press. (simple arithmetic is hard for them but they are informing us about financial matters)

How Trump Allies Shifted Their Defense as Evidence of Contacts With Russians Grew - The New York Times
Flynn, Comey, and Mueller: What Trump Knew and When He Knew It | by Murray Waas | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books -- both Priebus and McGahn have confirmed in separate interviews with the special counsel that they had told Trump that Flynn was under investigation by the FBI before he met with Comey ... But the most compelling evidence that the president may have obstructed justice appears to come from his own most senior and loyal aides. The greatest threat to his presidency is not from his enemies, real or perceived, but from his allies within the White House.
Giuliani Knows 'Collusion' Isn't a Crime -- But Conspiracy Is and Trump Looks Guiltier Today
Ex-FBI chief of staff: Collusion is 'absolutely a crime'
Donald Trump Echoes Rudy Giuliani: 'Collusion Is Not A Crime' (admits "colluding" with the Russians)
Rudy Giuliani on His Odd Cable News Blitz: I Was Trying to Kill a New York Times Story - It is not even clear if the Times story, as laid out by President Trump's attorney, even exists
Don McGahn Hates Rudy with Intensity of 1,000 Burning Suns: Is Trump Ready to Cook Giuliani?

Manafort trial live coverage: Government begins calling witnesses in ex-Trump campaign chairman trial - The Washington Post

House Judiciary Member Believes Trump Jr. & Kushner Will Be Indicted (why Trumpster wants to replace Kushfuck with Tom Cruise)

The Justice Department Finds 'No Responsive Records' to Support a Trump Speech -- "the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country" ... It isn't every day that the U.S. Department of Justice acknowledges formally that the President of the United States lied in a speech to Congress.

Trump Hits Mexico for Murders and Praises Limbaugh While Watching (and Tweeting) Fox and Friends | Mediaite (and three monkeys)

Trump administration must stop giving psychotropic drugs to migrant children without consent, judge rules - The Washington Post (get them addicted, call them drug addicts!)
Trump administration must stop giving psychotropic drugs to migrant children without consent, judge rules : news
Top U.S. officials say they got no warning of family separation policy
A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He's Not the Same -- Parents reunited with young children are reporting mental health issues. One 5-year-old boy has started a new life with his mother in Philadelphia, but signs of trauma remain.
Families destroyed? Children orphaned? If only we had a Congress! - The Washington Post (they are animals, put them in cages!)

Trump says Koch brothers are a 'total joke' - CNNPolitics (cracks in the edifice)
"He's going to Fieldstrip These Guys" : Inside the Trump 2020 Campaign's Wild, Disorganized Attempt to "Keep America Greast (Bannon says Trumpster will mow down the girly girls)

Income inequality: The difference between the US and Europe, in one chart - Vox

Twitter Rains Hell On Jeff Sessions' New Religious Liberty Task Force (the God Brigard of the Justice Dept.)

Bill Kristol Considering Run For President In 2020 | The Daily Caller (oh look, Daily Russian)


Opinion | The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line - The New York Times - The key difference is among regional cultures tracing back to the nation's clonization (traitors and their dim-bulb collaborators +Dick Cheneyland +projections suggest that by 2040 a whopping 70% of the population will live in just 8 states but in the end America has a rural/stupid problem: " How can the rural portion of the country be brought out of its trenchant, ignorant, and negative politics? Why are people in rural areas so overwhelmingly lacking in political understanding, so seemingly devoid of any instinct for grasping the political landscape? So easily led by utter shysters and charlatans and crooks?")


Here's How America Uses Its Land (38% cows/cattle, 22% plants .75% golf)


All That's Left Is the Vote -- The midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trump's consolidation of power -- and the greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it doen't matter ... Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has grown less connected to its voters ... (said "Fuck Iraq" Packer)

FEMA personnel chief harassed women, hired some as possible sexual partners for male employees, agency's leader says ... Corey Coleman, who led the personnel department from 2011 until his resignation in June. (Obama ran a prostitution ring out of the FEMA office)

Scott edges Nelson by 3 in Senate race poll (FL loves their crooks)

The new 'Dr. No': Rep. Justin Amash, marooned in Congress (last "libertarian" standing)

The bold second act of Linda Tripp - The Washington Post (rebrand fail)


News From Your Neighborhood, Brought to You by the State of New Jersey - The New York Times (try this, Massachusetts)


WATCH: Safeway calls cops on black mother for giving food to the homeless because they thought she was a shoplifter
WATCH: New York woman loses it and rants to police after seeing black woman outside her door


The Big Business of Becoming Bhad Bhabie - The New York Times - the "Cash me outside, howbowdah?" girl monetizes herself)


Fool's gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet -- Omega-3 is one of our favourite supplements - but a huge new study has found it has little or no benefit for heart health or strokes. How did it become a $30bn business? ... Since nearly half of all patients first report heart disease to their doctors by suddenly dropping dead, this is not an insignificant exclusion ... (heh)


Apple and FANG could lose a third of value, market watcher warns

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MH370 was 'Maniopulated' Off Course to Its End, Report Says (unsure if Russians or aliens)

NRA, Republicans refute GOP sheriff's stand-your-ground claims (they are so surprised when their policies actually do what they intended)


Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters - Motherboard - Emma Best, a freedom of information activist, has published a large cache of Twitter direct messages between Wikileaks and some of its most fervent supporters, including ones showing antisemitic sentiment from Wikileaks.

Eschaton: Morning Thread - Interesting article up over at the Halifax Examiner. Two guys run a tech scam that defrauds $86 million from investors. Company implodes in 2001. They aren't sentenced until 2018, and they can still appeal the sentences so there's a chance any real punishment is still years away. They were smart not to be born brown and arrested with a marijuana cigarette. How Knowledge House Execs Played Halifax's Mucky Mucks


Thomas Markle Attacks Meghan Markle, Royal Family In Brutal Interview | HuffPost - "She'd be nothing without me. I made her the Duchess she is today."

Eschaton: Logistics - the US is currently only the tenth largest exporter of food to Britain. "For the US to replace the combined food imports from the other nine of the top 10, would require a vast food flotilla and logistics operation exceeding that of the 1940-45 Atlantic convoys." (and you thought Maduro was stupid)
Sky Data poll: 78% think the government is doing a bad job on Brexit - A survey reveals the government is haemorrhaging trust over Brexit, with two-thirds thinking the outcome will be bad for Britain - Two-thirds of the public - including a majority of Leave voters - now think the outcome of Brexit negotiations will be bad for Britain (off the cliff, idiots)


Debunked, but still fit to print on page one -- Fake Israeli history in the New York Times (no, Ben-Gurion wasn't a "good" Jew, he had his own mini-holocaust ready)

Even Libertarians Admit Medicare for All Would Save Trillions - A new study from a libertarian think tank admits that Medicare for All would save a whopping $2 trillion.


Two theories on why Trump won't harden our election machinery (#1 Trump hates the idea; #2 Vlad is his boss)

Rudy Giuliani just obliterated the goal posts on Trump-Russia collusion - The Washington Post
Rudy's Big Admission?
Giuliani: ' Collusion Is Not A Crime' -- "The hacking is the crime. The president didn't hack," (yeah, right)
Cohen may have the smoking gun - The Washington Post (Rethugs are "starting to panic")

Why Are So Many Leftists Skeptical of the Russia Probe? ("leftists" like Glenn "I love Russia" Greenwald! and some doofuses at Splinter and Jacobin! ; Chaitster is bewildered!)

Eschaton: Informing Viewers - There's no way that even the best host of a TV news show can keep up with a guest who is willing to lie without reservations. At most you can clean up after the fact, something they don't do enough of. But what they can do is stop inviting these people on. "You lie to our viewers, you don't get to come back."
Jay Rosen on Twitter: "As with Kellyanne Conway, I don't think you can justify -- on informing-the-public grounds -- repeat invitations for Giuliani to do his thing. Because his "method" is confuse anyone listening, including himself. These interviews must have a different logic.
John Oliver Breaks Down Michael Cohen's Dirt on Trump: 'That Is Potentially Huge'

Devin Nunes Wants To Sue Twitter After Getting Busted For Tweeting Trump/Russia Propaganda - POLITICUSUSA (his profile looked like a Russian but it's twitter's fault)


Trump's trade rhetoric does not match reality for farmers ... $8 billion pre-election day bribe (but they will still believe his lies)
Tariffs will cost Caterpillar $200 million, so it's going to raise its prices : news (win-win for Trumpsters)

Why Dean Baquet Skipped The New York Times' Meeting With Trump (no off-the-record meetings)

u/foxnewsbenghazi compares news outlets and explains how Fox News systematically deceives its viewers : bestof (all Trump, all the time)

99 Days to Go, and the 2018 Midterm Battleground Is Not What Was Expected - The New York Times - The most competitive districts are only somewhat better educated and somewhat more suburban than the country as a whole.

GOP Candidate Corey Stewart's Spokesperson Called Majority-Black Cities 'Shitholes' - Staff for a neo-Confederate apologist running for Senate from Virginia have disparaged minorities, previously worked for an anti-Semite, and praised a neo-Nazi.

Ohio State sexual abuse scandal: Jim Jordan implausibly says he and others didn't know ... Jim Jordan, Team Player - He denies that his Ohio State colleagues knew about sexual abuse. The evidence says they did. (he's been a lying corrupt asshole his whole life)

'The map is different now': Trump blows the 2020 race wide open - The next presidential campaign is going to be fought on unfamiliar battlegrounds.
Centrist Democrats are out of ideas - Notes of political caution can be valuable, but caution is not a policy vision. (third way idiots, yeah, so many "centrists" now)

Cockburn calls out Riggleman's Bigfoot posts ... "Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Women Want Him."
What is Bigfoot erotica? A Virginia congressional candidate accused her opponent of being into it. - The Washington Post (Republicans alway into weird shit)

How to Talk to a Racist -- White liberals, you're doing it all wrong (be nice to the racist assholes who will never change, comments are good)

'This exhibition should have never happened' - Rob Rogers's exhibit of the anti-Trump cartoons that got him fired goes on display at the Corcoran - The Washington Post


I Don't Want To Talk About My Tattoos With Strange Men | HuffPost (OK)


Study found that all of the advantages supposedly conferred by private education evaporate when socio-demographic characteristics are factored in. There was also no evidence found to suggest that low-income children or children enrolled in urban schools benefit more from private school enrollment. : science ("private" = "charter")


Cannabis intoxicated eye witnesses performed as accurately as sober ones at identifying a suspect if he was present. They were also more confident with a stronger correlation between confidence and accuracy, which may be due to the effect of cannabis on increasing introspection and internal focus. : science


What was once considered masculine but now considered feminine and vice versa? : AskReddit

What is the darkest, creepiest Reddit thread/post you have seen? (Serious) : AskReddit
What's the lamest excuse an ex has given you after getting caught cheating? : AskReddit

/u/monkeysdontdance asks why is rape traumatic. /u/bsbbtnh explains why in a very graphic but apt metaphor. : bestof

5 Amazon obscure settings you should change now | Fox News

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Unbelievable first person footage of the wildfires in Greece spreading. 87 dead so far. : videos
'Get out with your life': California's Carr fire kills 3 more, in addition to 2 firefighters
From Dow's 'Dioxin Lawyer' to Trump's Choice to Run Superfund
A father, a daughter and the search for answers in a toxic town - The Washington Post - Local activists say that by their count, roughly a third of Minden residents have died from or been diagnosed with cancer in recent years. State health workers say the official numbers are much lower.

TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program, The teams document whether passengers fidget, use a computer, have a "jump" in their Adam'S apple or a "cold penetrating stare," among other behaviors


Egypt Court Sentences 75 To Death Over 2013 Sit-In | HuffPost - The 2013 sit-in supported former President Mohammed Morsi who was militarily ousted following mass protests.

Eschaton: The Ministry of Food - This won't be a temporary emergency situation. - Ministers have drawn up plans to send in the army to deliver food, medicines and fuel in the event of shortages if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal. (first step is martial law and yes, it actually is a catastrophe inflicted on the country by evil morons who are still in denial)

Millions flee Maduro's Venezuela, only to become a new underclass in Latin America - The Washington Post - Venezuelans become Latin America<'s new underclass ... As their oil-rich country buckles under the weight of a failed socialist experiment (you mean "corruption" experiment as third-grade bus driver Maduro drove the country off a cliff)

One chart that shows how much worse income inequality is in America than Europe : politics

Palestinian teen protester Ahed al-Tamimi leaves Israeli prison - The Washington Post - after serving an eight-month sentence on assault and incitement charges and arrived home to a hero's welcome ... And let's not forget Israel's education minister Naftali Bennet who said she should have been jailed for the rest of her life and Israel's defense minister Avigdor Lieberman who opined that not only should she have been punished, but also her whole family and the residents of the village where she lives.
Israeli MP Says He Would Kick A 16-Year-Old Girl In The Face - Carbonated.TV
Thousands bury 11-year-old, 2 others killed by Israeli fire - The Washington Post (18 dead children murdered by Jews)
Israel's decision to put a Palestinian teen on trial could come back to bite it (it did)

What do they know? - Mystery as Russia LIQUIDATES almost ALL of its holdings in US Treasury securities | Daily Mail Online

Trump backers stand by president in face of Russia criticism


The fantastical tale Trump wants you to believe about collusion - The Washington Post
Giuliani says experts think 'someone messed' with Cohen tape | Fox News - Giuliani says experts think 'someone messed' with Cohen tape

Eschaton: I've Never Even Met That John Barron Guy - He Doesn't Exist! - I've Never Even Met That John Barron Guy - He Doesn't Exist! Healthy.
New York Times Publisher and Trump Clash Over President's Threats Against Journalism ("we have cages at Guantanamo for you guys")
Trump accuses 'very unpatritic' journalists of putting the 'lives of many' in peril - fired off a Twitter tirade Sunday afternoon from his New Jersey golf estate blasting the media for revealing internal government deliberations and for what he considers unfairly negative coverage of his presidency.
Trump calls media 'very unpatriotic' for reporting on government affairs : politics

Russians Still Trying to Interfere in US Elections Every 'Way They Can': GOP Senator : politics
How they did it (and will likely try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections | Ars Technica - Latest Mueller indictment offers excruciating details to confirm known election pwnage.

Paul Manafort's Trial Starts Tuesday. Here Are the Charges and the Stakes.
Michael Cohen Says Trump Knew About Don Jr. Trump Tower Meeting with Russians - We now stand at a yes-or-no moment in this country's history.

'US Person 2' in the case of alleged Russian agent Maria Butina is George O'Neill -- his daughter interned for Dana Rohrabacher and helped with an anti-Magnitsky event - New research reveals another link between alleged Russian agent Maria Butina and Pro-Russia congressman Dana Rohrabacher (little commie Fuckabacher)

House Republicans cannot be allowed to obstruct justice - The Washington Post (lock them all up, esp commie ratfucker Nunes)

Distinguished persons of the week: Stopping Trump's cavalcade of corruption
Maria Butina Used National Prayer Breakfast to Seek Influence with Powerful Republicans - Just a lot of international influence-peddling. ("praying" for all the money)

A Democratic Wave In The Midterms Is Looking More And More Likely : politics

Relax, Boomers: Socialism Is Good Now - It's going to be OK.

No More Mister Nice Blog: Maybe The New York Times Hates Progressives Because Its Supposedly Liberal Readers Do - The bothsiderism in this New York Times story about the Georgia governor's race is awful: (on the one hand, terrible racism and facism, on the other, Medicaid expansion - there is no hope for the NYT)

The State Department is retroactively revoking passports for trans citizens : politics (first, they came for the trannies)

Churches could pay taxes under GOP tax bill | McClatchy Washington Bureau (first they tax the benefits, then they tax the whole thing: haha, they need your money too, Chrisian suckers)


How white supremacists split a quiet Rust Belt town - The Washington Post - ULYSSES, Pa. (yeah, all 632 of them) "Liberty, Guns, Bible, Trump"


Billy Graham & the Synagogue of Satan - Lost Passage of Infamous Nixon Tape Makes a Bad Story Worse ... Nixon felt something had to be done about Jewish domination of the media (the Bible tells us Jews are satanic he said ... they "protected his reputation" until he died)

"Emails Are the Tools of the Devil" How decadelong Republican gerrymanders could be undone by reckless GOP emails

Why can't the Internet always be like this? -- Christopher Justice was a Twitter sensation for a speech delivered during a classroom debate on the Confederate flag. ("civil debate" about "reality")
SM East student' debate about Confederate flag goes viral, attracts hundreds of thousands of views (most of his classmates are stupid racists)
MONSTA X TODAY on Twitter: "white boy pulled out the receipts " ... "You have the right to fly the Conferate flag. We have the right to burn it."

She was eager to meet her college roommate -- until the racist text arrived, screenshots appear to show

City report on Confederate monuments raises idea of renaming Austin (topography of racism at the intersection of Conferate Ave and Slavery Way)


'Marijuana is a gift from God.' A battle over pot pits the Mormon Church against an unlikely group: other Mormons : politics (haha LDS is heavily invested in big pharma)


How Actress Kristin Kreuk Is Dodging Her NXIVM Cult Past

How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions - Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation 'final Answer'


'I would kill your children': Police looking at confrontation as possible hate crime | CBC News : news

A Florida cop didn't rush to a shooting call. She said it didn't meet her standards -- suspended 4 times in a year. (speaking of "standards")

Five dead, including gunman, in Texas nursing home shooting : news

Wife admits to killing husband after he purchased porn : news

Bank of America questions customer's citizenship, freezes accounts


Trigger warning: Empirical evidence ahead - ScienceDirect (trigger warnings trigger people)


Cooking oil coating prevents bacteria from growing on food processing equipment, resulting in a 1,000x reduction in bacterial levels inside the industrial machines tested, finds new study. Coating a stainless steel surface with an everyday cooking oil appears effective in repelling bacteria. : science

TIL 700,000 year old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them : todayilearned


I did it. I finally told someone to get off of their phone during a movie. : movies

What social norm is actually really messed up? : AskReddit

The ghost of MySpace haunting Facebook and Twitter - The Washington Post (if the face fits, wear it)

072818


Guns kill people, big gunss make sure they are dead


Guantanamo prison commander: We've gotten no word of incoming prisoners ("but we've made room for maybe 500 treasonous journalists")

As Europe's prisons fill with returning ISIS fighters, officials warn of future 'human bombs'

Amersterdam 'lawless jungle' at night, ombudsman warns (carnage and no-go zones)

Nuns bring #MeToo to Vatican, condemn abuse from priests | CBC News : news
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Resigns Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal - The New York Times
Pennsylvania clergy sex abuse report identifies over 300 'predator priests' : news ... in just SIX dioceses (the whole barrel is rotten)

Samsung Securities CEO resigns after $105 billion stock blunder : news

'They Spit When I Walked in the Street': The 'New Anti-Semitism' in France


British 'fake news' committee says democracy is facing a crisis

Trump chairs election security meeting but gives no new orders to repel Russian interference - The Washington Post (open borders for russian hackers, no collusion here)
Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid - The New York Times ("Russia is my friend")

The Trump White House Failed To Spell 'United States' Correctly

Venting about press, Trump has repeatedly sought to ban reporters over questions - The Washington Post - Trump often expresses fury with the way his actions and behavior are covered in the media. He tweets critiques of news coverage almost daily and has openly contemplated cutting off press access. (infufficient subservience)
Documentary of Mussolini, dictator of Italy - YouTube

The baseless, shameful campaign to discredit Rod Rosenstein - The Washington Post

Maria Butina is just the tip of the Russia iceberg - The Washington Post
Accused Russian agent met with suspected Kremlin spy - POLITICO - Butina's attorney insists the get-together was nothing more than one dinner with a prominent Russian official.

GOP Rep. Issa: 'Nobody's Going to be Srprised' If Trump Lied About Russia Meeting ... Fox News ... trashed former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen as a 'turncoat' (for not siding with Russia)


A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused in an Immigrant-Detention Center | The Nation - Separated from her mother by Trump's zero-tolerance policy, the child was forced to sign a statement confirming that she understood it was her responsibility to stay away from her abuser (very Trumpian)
'Deleted' families: What went wrong with Trump's family-separation effort ("sorry, we hit the wrong button")
Did ICE detain this Mexican journalist for criticizing U.S. immigration policy? and his son Oscar ... The two had been held in ICE detention for more than seven months, ever since being arrested and nearly deported by ICE agents on December 7, 2017.


Jon Steingart on Twitter: "The Calif. Supreme Court decided a case that could add billions in labor costs to employers' bottom line by requiring them to pay employees for work time that previously went uncompensated [UPDATED STORY] https://t.co/7s0M4Ugjnv" (he didn't realize how that would sound)


Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct | The New Yorker - Six women accuse the C.E.O. of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company. - By Ronan Farrow - or more than twenty years, Leslie Moonves has been one of the most powerful media executives in America ... Last year, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, he earned nearly seventy million dollars, making him one of the highest-paid corporate executives in the world ... Thirty current and former employees of CBS told me that such behavior extended from Moonves to important parts of the corporation ... During Moonves's tenure, men at CBS News who were accused of sexual misconduct were promoted, even as the company paid settlements to women with complaints ... "It's top down, this culture of older men who have all this power and you are nothing." ... "frat-house culture" (they grab everything because that's what they do)

Behind classical music's elevated reputation: Dozens of artists say they were sexually harassed. victims. - The Washington Post (the music of the patriarchy)


Ving Rhames says police held him at gunpoint in his own home : news (living while black)

Life sentences for 15-year-olds who tortured boy to death : news

Inside the Fiery Massacre at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Estate - One day in 1914, with no warning and for no discernible reason, seven people were murdered at the architect's Wisconsin home and studio, and the house was burned to the ground ... The dramatic event that claimed seven victims, including Wright's lovertook place on August 15, 1914. But the story begins quite a few years earlier.


Marijuana Entrepreneurs Given 'Priority' In Mass. Are Struggling To Get Through Licensing Process
I & I Rose Garden (pot yoga) | licensing update (a lesson in equity)

I Went To the Tardigrade | SmokeLong Quarterly


Interview with a Psychopathic Child : videos (RAD: Reactive Attachment Disorder)


072718

The Hill on Twitter: "Trump doubles record for going longest time without science adviser as modern president https://t.co/UGKEShxnHL "


Still from video obtained by The Intercept -- Cameroon Is a Close U.S. Ally and Its Soldiers Carried Out a Shocking Execution of Women and Children


Eschaton: No Deal - "No Deal Is Better Than A Bad Deal" has been a Brexiteer slogan forever. No Deal is the apocalypse, however. Read the whole thing, but this paragraph is the real point. -- Doing this for the whole economy would take countless pages of Stephen-King-style horror, so it's stripped down to one topic: food. This is the story of how our system for importing and exporting food implodes almost instantly. -- Food is just one issue. Not a trivial issue, of course, but it is like this for *every* issue. (Tory zombies eating the country)


Putin: 'Ready' to go to Washington, invites Trump to Moscow



Trump Denies He Knew Of His Son's Trump Tower Meeting With Russians (the " rigged witch hunt")

Cohen makes the Trump lies more real as #TrumpRussia continues with a Rudy meltdown
Michael Avenatti: 3 More Women Were Paid 'Hush Money' For Relationships With Trump

VANITY FAIR on Twitter: ""[James Comey], the idea of you playing adviser to the Democratic Party is kind of like the iceberg trying to join the crew of the Titanic." https://t.co/104DWsnQnW"

the possibility Prince sent Trump notes on Rohrabacher's April '16 sanctions meetings in Moscow just before Trump scheduled his Mayflower speech offering Putin a "good deal."

Idrees Ahmad on Twitter: "This is extraordinary. @theintercept founder @ggreenwald, who in the past has called people who delete their tweets "cowards", appears to have deleted over 27,000 on July 22nd. This seems to be a very deliberate & systematic purge. Some I've checked relate to Russia & Syria https://t.co/v35Lgwwiah" ... "Rats deleting the sinking ship"

Exclusive: Kimberly Guilfoyle Left Fox News After Investigation Into Misconduct Allegations, Sources Say | HuffPost - Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr., engaged in emotionally abusive behavior and showed colleagues personal photos of male genitalia.

How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies - POLITICO Magazine - The West Coast is a growing target of foreign espionage

The Bottom Line in Republicans' 42 Open Seats - With 102 days to go, Democrats remain substantial favorites for House control. A big reason: Republicans are defending 42 open or vacant seats, a record since at least 1930.
Role reversal: Architect of 2010 GOP House takeover in trouble - POLITICO - Texas Rep. Pete Sessions is at risk of losing his seat to a Trump-fueled wave.

Morning Digest: A new Wisconsin poll looks awesome for Democrats. Here's why you should be skeptical



At Prayer Breakfast, Guests Seek Access to a Different Higher Power - The New York Times (praise Satan)

Donald Trump Has Betrayed the Republican Party Of Thaddeus Stevens - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jennifer Finley Boylan is dismayed that Donald Trump has usurped the longstanding traditions of the Grand Old Party: (Jennifer is a Republican, what's with stupid transpeople?)

Physicists discover first object whose velocity exceeds the speed of light - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Andrew McCarthy is a lying idiot)
Andrew C. McCarthy on Twitter: "If you watch the interview, it's clear If you watch the interview ... (twitter disaster)

Leslie Moonves Accused of Sexual Misconduct in Ronan Farrow Exposi | Hollywood Reporter


How to Have Sex in a Canoe - The New York Times - Three words: center of gravity,

Is there a consensus on what the best Ebook-reader is? : Surface


Inhaled vaporized cannabis does not appear to improve or worsen exercise performance and activity-related breathlessness in patients with advanced COPD, a new study finds : science


072618

Families turn to Athens morgue in search for fire's missing

Stand Your Ground Laws: The New Jim Crow - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Evidence Shows Hackers Changed Votes in the 2016 Election But No One Will Admit It

The Latest: Facebook market value plunges $119 billion - stock chopped $119 billion off its market value. It was the company's worst trading day since going public in 2012, and among the biggest one-day losses of market value in U.S. stock market history ... The company still has a total market value close to $511 billion, which exceeds the annual gross domestic product of countries like Poland, Belgium and Iran.
Zucks 2BU: Facebook face plants XD - Lawyers, Guns & Money
How Facebook Went So Wrong So Fast - Bloomberg - There are four theories, and three of them are alarming.


Mueller Examining Trump's Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry

Dozens of lawmakers have reviewed unredacted Page surveillance documents, Nunes is not one of them - CNNPolitics (raising questions if he can read at all)

'A cesspool of deviancy' : New claims of voyeurism test Jordan denials - A half-dozen former wrestlers at Ohio State, where GOP Rep. Jim Jordan once coached, said they were regularly harassed by men in their training facility ... sexually aggressive men who attended the university or worked there. The voyeurs would masturbate while watching the wrestlers shower or sit in the sauna, or engage in sexual acts in the areas where the athletes trained, the former wrestlers said. (jayzus, where are the pizxagate sleuths?) .
Meadows backs off impeaching Rosenstein after leadership talks | TheHill (haha that didn't last long -- the "talk" was "do you know how bad this looks you fucking moron?")
GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Rosenstein | TheHill - A group of conservative House lawmakers (pedo Jim Jordan)
11 House Republicans introduce articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - ABC News
The GOP isn't fit to govern
Trump's most ardent defenders are a bunch of clowns
If Republicans lose big, this will be why - The Washington Post

Ex-CIA analyst: If Trump were a foreign leader, I'd aise possibility of blackmail - appeasement of Russia is unprecedented for a US president. His behavior is consistent with that of an asset being blackmailed.

Trump lies. And lies. And lies. - The Washington Post (Satan's mouth is always moving)

White House Bans CNN Reporter Who Asked Trump About Cohen And Putin | HuffPost
White House press corps showing unity after reporter barred from Rose Garden event

Once again, 'fake news' decried by Trump turns out to be true

Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting - CNNPolitics
Trump Organization Finance Chief Called to Testify Before Federal Grand Jury - WSJ
Trump tape a turning point in legal game of cat-and-mouse
'I'm not going to be a punching bag anymore' : Inside Michael Cohen's break with Trump

Trump's Emoluments Trap
Trump cannot keep his corruption hidden forever. Here's what's coming
Donald Trump may well be dead broke - Lawyers, Guns & Money

How the Trump Tax Cut Is Helping to Push the Federal Deficit to $1 Trillion - The New York Times (Republicans' 50 year war on government and the less-than-rich)

Most deported migrants were not asked about leaving children behind, Trump official says - POLITICO - That lapse is likely to complicate reunifications one day ahead of a court-ordered deadline to return most migrant children to their parents.
A Single Trump Appointee Was Responsible For Keeping Hundreds Of Kids Locked Up Longer | HuffPost - the same guy who blocked a teenage migrant who'd been raped from obtaining an abortion. Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (evil fucker will face his maker)

Estimated Increases in 2019 Premiums by Congressional District Due to ACA Sabotage - Center for American Progress

Third Way Centrism Is Dead -- The left has already won the debate over which ideas should animate the Democratic Party. (third way assholes can't get anyone to listen to them)

Polls: Trump approval sags in trio of Midwest states - Democrats also enjoy an advantage on congressional preference in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Too Bad That Opposing Ratfucking Is McCarthyism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Russian intelligence agency behind the 2016 election cyberattacks targeted Sen. Claire McCaskill as she began her 2018 re-election campaign in earnest (they're just trying to get easy-on-russia democrats elected)

Eschaton: BoomerCorps - I must have missed this when it first came out but it is stunning. -- But basically this: we know you don't have enough money to retire on because your shit job you had your whole life didn't give enough in Social Security contributions (and certainly not savings) to provide for a livable retirement income. The solution is that we will set up a jobs program that will "allow" (they can already do this) you to continue to to work for (gets out calculator) about TWELVE DOLLARS PER HOUR to make sure there is an endless supply of cheap labor.

A Kushner Ally Was Up for a Federal Post. Then the F.B.I. Began Digging. - The New York Times (crime, all the way down)


Ivanka Trump: The heiress has no clothes - The Washington Post


DeVos' $40 million yacht vandalized at Huron dock

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Presidential Election - The New York Times

Joe Biden's niece remorseful after avoiding jail in credit card scam - Caroline Biden, 31, offered a heartfelt apology and promised that her wild-child ways were behind her Thursday when she was sentenced to two years' probation for racking up over $100,000 on a stolen credit card.

YouTube removes videos from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones: Infowars website : news

The Summer's Hottest Trend Is Owning the Libs -- Conservatives love it earnestly, liberals love it ironically. How did we get here?
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A Major Bank Slipped Up And Showed Why Women Rarely File Sex Discrimination Cases | HuffPost - Invasive depositions - n these taped confrontations, defense lawyers interrogate people on every aspect of their sexual histories, medical records and traumas from childhood.


Chicago police fatally shot 24-year-old as he climbed a fence to flee, bodycam footage shows - ABC News


When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life

Papa John sues Papa John's : news


Deadly Deliveries -- The vast majority of women in America give birth without incident. But each year, more than 50,000 are severely injured. About 700 mothers die. The best estimates say that half of these deaths could be prevented and half the injuries reduced or eliminated with better care. Instead, the U.S. continues to watch other countries improve as it falls behind. Today, this is the most dangerous place in the developed world to give birth.


When We Eat, or Don't, May Be Critical for Health - A growing body of research suggests that our bodies function optimally when we align our eating patterns with our circadian rhythms ... overweight adults lost more weight and had greater improvements in blood sugar, insulin and cardiovascular risk factors when they ate a large breakfast, modest lunch and small dinner compared to the opposite ... Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
The Case for a Breakfast Feast - The New York Times


Men Are Panicking About Their Sperm Count - The New York Times - sperm counts have been dropping for decades. Is this how the big dystopia begins? Silicon Valley is at hand to help men get their mojo back. (there's an app for that) sperm concentration seemed to have consistently and remarkably declined in the course of a generation. (women are killing all the spermies with their girly stuff) Dr. Sarah Vij, who specializes in male infertility and andrology ("andrology" or "gals for guys")


A Toxic 'Brotherhood': Inside Incels' Dark Online World - For lonely young men who are drawn into incel communities by the allure of camaraderie, it can be extremely difficult to find a way back out. (voluntarily stupid)

How To: Adjust Your Mirrors to Avoid Blind Spots

Trial of new Alzheimer's drug shows promising results
How Ketones Can Combat Alzheimer's < br /> Is Alzheimer's a Metabolic Disease?

AskScience AMA Series: We have made the first successful test of Einstein's General Relativity near a supermassive black hole. AUA! : askscience

TIL a 2011 study from UC Berkeley found that Mercedes and BMW drivers were nearly 5 times as likely to cut others off compared to drivers in non-luxury cars. : todayilearned

ELI5: How is it possible that my car keys unlock only my car and not all the others? Is it theoretically possible that my key could unlock a second car somewhere on the world (given I'm close by)? : explainlikeimfive

Giving children omega-3 fatty acid supplements reduces disruptive behavior, which in turn had a positive effect on their parents, making them less likely to argue with each other and engage in other verbal abuse, finds new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. : science

Illegal trash dumper gets his trash back : videos



072418

Trump administration to freeze fuel-efficiency standards and fight states - The Washington Post (screw your stupid planet, the riches need more money now)

Toronto shooting rampage: New details emerge about gunman Faisal Hussain - CBS News
FUREY: Meet the spin doctor behind the Hussain family statement | Toronto Sun - Faisal Hussain visited Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) websites and may have expressed support for the terrorist group. They were looking into whether Hussain may have lived at one time in Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan

Swedish student's dramatic plane protest stops man's deportation 'to hell' | World news | The Guardian

Femen co-founder Oksana Shachko found dead in Paris flat | World news | The Guardian - Suicide note found next to body of 31-year-old feminist activist, say Femen members


Russia slams US general, says he 'discredited' Trump (yeah, Russia gets to critcize American generals now)

'What You're Seeing... Is Not What's Happening.' - People Are Comparing This Trump Quote to George Orwell
No, the White House didn't intentionally edit a question to Putin out of a video (comments!)

The Trump-Michael Cohen tape transcript, annotated - The Washington Post
Donald Trump Shouting 'Get Me A Coke' On Cohen Tape Sets Twitter Alight
National Enquirer' Yearslong Dealings With Trump Lawyer Fall Under Federal Scrutiny - Michael Cohen and tabloid publisher traded favors over many years; the Omarosa mediation
"i Am Laying Down A Marker": Lanny Davis Reveals His Bazooka P.R. Strategy -- It sounds like more tapes could be coming.


Burr breaks with Nunes: 'Sound reasons' for judges to approve FISA warrant (he knows what's coming)

Growing Partisan Differences in Views of the FBI; Stark Divide over ICE | Pew Research Center - Favorable views of FBI have fallen sharply among Republicans

Who met with Maria Butina? - The Washington Post ("Met")

Federal judge allows emoluments case against Trump to proceed - The Washington Post
The emoluments case is the nightmare Trump has long feared - The Washington Post

Pickax-Wielding Vandal Smashes President Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star to Pieces - after a man pulled a pickax from a guitar case near tourist hot-spot

Eschaton: On Teevee - There are clearly people - our president being the leader of this group, but certainly not the only one - who do think reality is actually just a wrestling match that plays out on TV. If it isn't being broadcast, it somehow isn't real. I dunno, maybe it's a bit similar to the much derided Kids Today who put their lives on social media, but it doesn't seem to be quite the same to me. Why the urge to be a big head in a box on cable news? Why think that's the reality that matters? I don't get it.

Whistleblower provides emails that show Stormy Daniels' arrest was pre-planned (Trumpsters in the cop dept.)


She warned America that Russia hacked our voting rolls. Why is she in jail? | Will Bunch - Philly - Reality Winner,


Ivanka Trump's fashion lie is finished
Tweeters Roast 'Failing' Ivanka Trump Over Soon-To-Be Shuttered Fashion Brand - Sad day for women's fashion. Now who will fill the yacht-to-baby-shower-to-estate-signing-to-occupation-hunger-games fashion void?

The Spy Who Drove Me By Julia Ioffe

Twitter is "shadow banning" prominent Republicans like the RNC chair and Trump Jr.'s spokesmaN

Fake Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interview: CRTV says it was satire after outrage - The Washington Post (millions of people believed crudely-spliced fake interview video because liberals are stupid and liberal girls are double stupid so of course she didn't know anything)


America'ss Most and Least Popular Governors -- Gov Phill Scott's (R-Vermont) approval falls far amid re-election run -- 38 points -- Fallin (R-Okla.) and Bevin (R-Ky.) also tumble in wake of teacher's protests, Baker (R-Mass.) and Hogan (R-Md.) still top the list in popularity.

BREAKING: Ga. lawmaker who used racial slurs in TV show resigns - State Rep. Jason Spencer (he got Borated)
Georgia lawmaker who came under fire after yelling 'n-word' on 'Who Is America?' says he'll quit : news


'He assked me if I was American': New Orleans man allegedly beaten by NOPD officers tells story

Ohio officer fired after filing charges against boss, former boss and mayor : news


Physician-assisted-suicide opponent J.J. Hanson chose to live out his last days - The Washington Post (telling you how to live your last days, as always, see comments)


Synthetic marijuana and brighter lights could improve the lives of people with dementia, new research shows - The Washington Post (synthetic because Jeff Sessions would have locked them up if they used "real" marijuana)


A lake of liquid water may have been spotted on Mars. If confirmed, this would mark a new, potentially habitable environment in the solar system. : science
A lake of liquid water may have been spotted on Mars. If confirmed, this would mark a new, potentially habitable environment in the solar system. : science


1960's ad for a .38 revolver and shoulder holster. Ad by Mattel. Things were just a little different back then.


072318


U.S. appeals court upholds right to carry gun in public | Reuters

Laos Dam Collapse Leaves Hundreds Missing, Several Feared Dead: Reports | HuffPost (several hundred, at least)


The cleanest version you've never seen : gifs (911/WTC)

The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage

Is Erdogan's Turkey on the edge of a crash? (instabilities)


Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say - WSJ - Blackouts could have been caused after the networks of trusted vendors were easily penetrated


Can the President Revoke Former Officials' Security Clearances?
Former Obama Photographer Drags Trmp For Looking To Revoke Security Clearances | HuffPost

Republicans Try to Use Carter Page FISA Disclosure to Discredit Trump-Russia Porbe - It's long enough, and there are enough redactions, for them to get away with it. But none of that will matter in the end ... In case you were wondering, the person making the most sense about the 412-page FISA document is, inevitably, Charlie Savage of The New York Times, a man who never has been defeated by any document drawn by the hand of man. Basically, as he explains, Congressman Devin Nunes is every bit as big a jackass as that guy in Georgia whose career Sacha Baron Cohen just ended, except Nunes is playing for higher stakes.

Over four days, false claims dominated Trump's Twitter feed

Spotting CNN on a TV Aboard Air Force One, Trump Rages Against Reality - The New York Times - He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox

CNN obtains secret Trump-Cohen tape - CNNPolitics
Why Trump's lawyers allowed the government to get ahold of the bombshell Michael Cohen tapes
"Did They Think I Was Just Going to Roll Over and Die?" : The Cohen vs. Trump Battle Ratchets Up - What might Cohen know about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower between Don Jr., Kushner, Manafort, and a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin

Vladimir Putin Has Donald Trump By The Balls In Jim Carrey's Latest Portrait | HuffPost

Government: 463 migrant parents may have been deported without their children - The Washington Post

Whirlpool stock plunges as tariffs hit suppliers, steel costs
Trump Needs $12 Billion Farmer Bailout to Fix Tariff Damage in Trade War - Meanwhile, some victims of President Trump's tariffs are ready to sacrifice themselves.
Eschaton: Welfare For The Right Sorts Of People - Trade is a much more complicated issue than The Discourse ever allows for and quite possibly "tariffs plus subsidies" is actually good policy sometimes! It depends on your policy goal! (This is another economics-influenced issue, that some abstract yet weirdly selectively applied Econ 101 notion of efficiency is the only legitimate policy goal). But, well...it is what it is. -- White House readies plan to extend about $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers caught in Trump's escalating trade war - Above my pay grade, but I'm sure most of this isn't going to kindly Farmer Joe and his 50 acres. Big ag.

Ryan Zinke's Interior Department Leak Emails on National Monument Deliberations, Showing Industry Preference

Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; The House Tilts Toward the Democrats - Big-picture factors help minority party, but battle far from over; 17 ratings changes in favor of Democrats ... Yes, to this point, we've hesitated to come out and make the Democrats a favorite in the House

'Moderate' Democrats Are Conservatives with Stale Ideas That Fail to Address Structural Issues - Their ideas are stale, cowardly, warmed-over Clintonism that do nothing to address the issues that have led to national crisis.

The QAnon Conspiracy Has Stumbled Into Real Life, And It's Not Going to End Well 0 Armed men showing up and demanding answers to conspiracies.

A Sociologist Examines the "White Fragility" That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism (turns out they are the big snowflakes)




Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels's Husband Files For Divorce (wants custody and all her money)

NYT'sHaberman: Trump 'often tells the truth

Opinion | Democrats Are Moving Left. Don't Panic - If you want to beat Trump, centrism is not the answer ... (in the light of all the Republican racists and nazis) Clearly, the time has come for a serious national conversation. And so political insiders across the land are asking: Has the Democratic Party become too extreme?
Debt-free college? House Democrats introduce higher education bill - The Washington Post

Can Nevada elect the nation's first female-majority state legislature?


/u/Spencerforhire83 helps expose a single group of people being responsible for the mass outcry against comedians who oppose Trump, calling the comedians Pedophiles and making an effort to get them fired. : bestof (inc. karma-building in anticipation of mid-terms shilling by Russians, etc. it's already happening)
Spencerforhire83 comments on To everyone that Dan Harmon offended

Laid-Off New York Daily News Staff Are Victims Of Class Warfare - This past spring, Michael Ferro resigned as chairman of publicly traded media-looting hell-company Tronc, Inc., just ahead of the publication of sexual harassment allegations against him. As a parting gift, Tronc paid him $15 million ... Tronc gutted the New York Daily News, laying off at least half of its editorial staff to cut costs. In a society not crippled and driven completely insane by capitalism, motherfuckers would go to prison for this.
The Daily News Was Superman's Paper -- Tronc Fed It Kryptonite - The owners fired half the paper's staff Monday in a savage move that not only guts the newspaper, but also drastically diminishes the reporting of New York City.
The city that never sleeps finds that it's running out of reporters to report
Eschaton: TRONC'd

Forbes deleted an op-ed arguing that Amazon should replace libraries : books


I'm Tim Wardle, director of the documentary Three Identical Strangers, currently playing in theatres - AMA!

Boys should be given HPV vaccine, says joint committee : science

Inside Incels' Looksmaxing Obsession: Penis Stretching, Skull Implants And Rage (down with Chads and Stacys)


ELI5: Why does vinegar + aluminum foil clean stainless steel? : explainlikeimfive

TIL two high school kids did a science experiment and solved the civil war mystery known as the angels glow. : todayilearned


What fact about the opposite sex did you learn embarrassingly late in life? : AskReddit
People who didn't forever hold their peace in a wedding, why? : AskReddit
People who have witnessed a "There's not going to be a wedding" moment following a bachelor/bachelorette party: what went down? : AskReddit


072318

Climate change is a top spiritual priority for these religious leaders - The Washington Post - undefined
'Life-threatening' flood threat: Here's how much rain has fallen and what comes next (no extreme weather caused by global warming here, glug-glug)
The Children of Flint Were Not ':Poisoned'

10-year-old girl, 18-year-old woman killed in Toronto mass shooting - The Globe and Mail - Police have identified the suspect as Faisal Hussain, 29. It is unclear if he died by suicide or was shot by police.
2 killed in Toronto mass-shooting


Eschaton: So What - I guess if you're a politician trying to save your job then blaming everyone else is a useful strategy, but it won't change the reality that the EU doesn't particularly care and "no deal" is going to destroy the country. (la-di-la off the cliff)
Amazon UK chief warned no-deal Brexit could lead to 'civil unrest' Retailing giant planning for chaos if UK crashes out of EU. (triumph of stupidity)


Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It's Having a Major Revival. - At a time of mounting uncertainty in Europe, the country has defied critics who insisted on austerity as the answer to the Continent's economic and financial crisis. (thanks, Smwerkel and Camaroon)


Ignore Trump's clueless bluster on Iran
Sorry, Trump. Your misdirection won't work this time

'NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN,' rump tweets in warning to Iran's Rouhani
Trump Tweets Late-Night Threat At Iranian President: 'Be Cautious'

Trump calls for end of Mueller probe, saying it's 'discredited' by Carter Page surveillance (repeating same old lies)
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White House says Trump wants to revoke security clearances for former officials critical of him over Russia - The Washington Post - undefined
The Trump White House's hypocritical, slippery slope on purging its critics' security clearances
GOP strategist shocked by Trump's threat to strip critics of security clearances: 'It's the move of an autocrat!
CNN's Jake Tapper explains exactly why Trump just threatened Obama-era intelligence officials (for criticizing the great organge beast)

Trump could get his intel from the government. Instead, he gets it from Fox News. - The Washington Post

Trump again reverses course on Russian interference, calls it 'all a big hoax' (said the big orange hoax)


This won't end well
As Trump's latest lies implode, one party tries to smuggle out the truth - Broadly speaking, many Republicans have tacitly enabled or actively aided in efforts to pervert the basic functions of government in service of preventing the full truth about Russian sabotage of U.S. democracy from becoming publicly known, all to shield Trump (and, increasingly, themselves) from accountability

REVEALED: Identities Of 5 Witnesses Immunized To Testify Against Manafort
Michael Cohen Prosecutors Get 12 Audio Recordings to Review - Bloomberg


How a Trump Decision Revealed a G.O.P. Memo's Shakey Foundation ... The records again cast an unflattering light on Representative Devin Nunes, the committee's chairman, who led the attack on the F.B.I. surveillance, though he admitted in February that he had not read the application documents. (traitor, lock him up)

McFaul expected to meet with Trump's top adviser on Russia at White House

Another Trump Inflatable Sets Sail - This Time It's a Chicken 00 The 33-foot "Trump chicken" balloon sailed around Alcatraz Island on Sunday.

A majority of Republicans -- 52 percent -- say the Supreme Court decision should not be overturned.


Trump may now be more popular (or "Popular) Then Ever - A new WSJ/NBC poll puts Trump's approval rating at 45%, which is the highest figure this particular poll has recorded during his presidency ... Why is this happening? Because Republicans love him. Trump is incredibly popular with voters from his own party -- much more so than almost any other president since they started measuring these kinds of things 70 years ago ... Eighty-eight percent of Republican voters in the poll approve of Trump's job performance (here's your "big sort")


How Trump's war on immigrants is playing out in his hometown - An estimated half-million New Yorkers are undocumented.
'I'm ashamed' : Trump voter admits she got it wrong after ICE deports her daughter-in-law (oh, I thought you meant THOSE immigrants)
ICE Deports Florida Mom for Paying Traffic Ticket | Miami New Times - And even though she paid a $750 bond to leave the facility, Martin County jail officials kept her money and kept her behind bars until Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived and took her away.
Michael Anton and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Racist Argument on Birthright Citizenship - The Washington Post - not just racist; it is patently un-American. (Anton is an evil racist and by definition, stupid)

Eschaton: American Journalism In One Tweet - Republicans claim the classified documents reveal FBI bias in favor of Hillary Clinton; Democrats say the documents are evidence of deep connections between Russia and the Trump campaign. https://n.pr/2uIAnd8 (fuck you, both sides NPR)


2.5 Billion Pounds of Meat Piles Up in U.S. as Production Grows, Exports Slow - WSJ - Profits, prices are threatened as record amounts of red meat and poultry fill U.S. warehouses

Comey cautions Democrats against 'socialist left.' Democrats pounce ... "Last time you practiced politics it resulted in a fiasco of historic proportions," ... "I'm as likely to take political advice from James Comey as I am to wash my face with turpentine and dry it with a cheese grater." (just the guy to take advice from)

John Kelly Signed Off on a 'Purge' - of Scott Pruitt Loyalists From EPA - The embattled former administrator had his bulldogs. They're gone now


Fox News mistakenly booked Barbara L'Italien, and got an unexpected message | Boston.com - undefined

Elizabeth Warren Is Waging a Full-Body Fight to Defeat Trump - Elizabeth Warren's full-body fight to defeat Trump.
Nobody Actually Knows - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Affection Today, Affection Tomorrow, Affection Forever - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This was a thing actually published in the New York Times: (David Brook thinks simple uncomplicated thoughts so you won't have to)

The New Gilded Age - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The latest Economic Policy Institute report on the New Gilded Age is out and it is a go-to resource on income inequality. From the executive summary ... So far during the recovery from the Great Recession, the top 1 percent of families have captured 41.8 percent of all income growth. (look forward Barry and zero responsibility for the rich so they took all the money and said fuck you to everybody else) )

Facebook and Holocaust denial - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Hillary Clinton had dinner with Harvey Weinstein after election loss | Daily Mail Online - Clinton and Weinstein were in talks to create a TV documentary about her failed campaign until allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against him. ("surfaced")

Ga. lawmaker urged to resign after using racial slurs, dropping pants - Spencer apologizes for 'ridulously ugl;y' episode but refuses to step down - after he yelled racial slurs and exposed himself in an episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series that aired late Sunday ... Other Republican leaders also swiftly condemned Spencer (he was just imitating Dumpster)
GOP Lawmaker Jason Spencer Strips Down, Screams 'N-Word' on Sacha Baron Cohen's ' Who Is America?'

Who has the receipts that show Maggie Haberman is a shill? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Of course you could disregard the fact that Maggie Haberman wrote 94 articles on Hillary's emails & Benghazi (combined) and ZERO on Trump's longstanding connections to mafia/mob/Felix Sater/racism. ... (the Sulzfuck/Baquet/Bennet bubble)

Black man fired by Home Depot for reacting to 'racist' customer won't accept his job back - But Rucker, who worked for the company for 10 years, on Monday told The Post he has no plans to return ... The man hurled expletives and asserted former president Barack Obama is a Muslim, Rucker said.


Tronc Cuts Daily News Newsroom in Half; Ousts Editor in Chief - The New York Times... nine months Mortimer Zuckerman sold in in September 2017 for $1. ... At 1:40 a.m. on Monday, Mr. Rich went public with his displeasure in a Twitter post: "If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you." (hedgies war on non-pro-Trump journalism and democracy continues)
New York Daily News Layoffs Ax Half The Newsroom Staff | HuffPost - The layoffs come days after rumors of deep cuts at the storied tabloid.


Big Brother' contestants often make offensive comments. But this episode was still unusual. (black women can call you a "midget" but don't call them the n-word)


'True definition of evil' : Alleged Shawnee murderer is white supremacist, family says



We are a group of dentists who created an app (Dental Republik) aiming to increase dental access, reduce anxiety and prevent overselling of treatment. Ask us Anything : IAmA


'Twaddle': librarians respond to suggestion Amazon should replace libraries - Piece in Forbes magazine said libraries don't have the same value they used to and cost taxpayers too much


Here's how much money anti-net neutrality members of Congress have received from the telecom industry : technology

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New Gallup Poll: Americans do not even mention global warming as a problem -- 36 'problems' cited, but not climate (abortion is a much bigger problem than killing the whole planet)
Ocean circulation has slowed down dramatically, and it can't be explained by climate change. The decline is 10 times larger than expected. : science


Reminder: Women Migrants Are Fleeing Countries The U.S. Helped Decimate | HuffPost - The violence driving people to seek shelter in the U.S. has its roots in American foreign policy (policy of supporting evil and getting innocent people killed, but look forward!)


Michelle Wolf's 'ICE' Recruitment Video Borders On Brilliant


Americans give Trump negative marks for Helsinki performance, poll finds - The Washington Post

Top House Intel Democrat: 'The president acts like he's compromised' by Russian government
The G.O.P. Stands By as Trump Upends American Security | The New Yorker - In the aftermath of Helsinki, there has been outcry, but no real action, from the Republican establishment.

Without Evidence, Trump Claims Vindication From Release of Carter Page Documents - The New York Times (he always speaks the anti-truth)
Carter Page FISA Documents Are Released by Justice Department - The New York Times
What to Make of the Carter Page FISA Applications - Lawfare - Now we have some additional information in the form of the redacted FISA applications themselves, and the Nunes memo looks even worse ... the judges who signed off on these four FISA applications were all appointed by Republican presidents
With the release of new documents, Devin Nunes' memo on Carter Page has gotten even less credible (little Russian traitor lock him up permanently)
/u/DaGoz gives a detailed summary "Just in case anyone needs to be reminded who Carter Page is and how he relates to Trump" : bestof
Tom Lehrer - Oedipus Rex - YouTube


Exclusive: Accused Russian agent Butina met with U.S. Treasury, Fed officials | Reuters - Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known,
Russian billionaire with U.S. investments backed alleged agent Maria Butina, according to a person familiar with her Senate testimony - The Washington Post

Trump Signals Consequences for Michael Cohen Over Secret Recording - The New York Times ... "The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!" (he won't pay his bill)
'This is not the only tape' : Michael Avenatti says there are more secret recordings of Trump ... (comment:) "Lordy, I hope there are tapes." -- James Comey


Man Who Gave Us Trump Has Advice For Stopping Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Trump's Tariff War Is The Final Act Of A Broken System - The myth of free trade is coming apart.
Dependent on trade, Mike Pence'ss hometown takes a hit due to Trump's tariffs


Authoritarian aggression and group-based dominance distinguished Trump supporters from other Republicans in 2016, finds new research. : science

God, Trump and the meaning of morality - The Washington Post - In a small Alabama town, an evangelical congregation reckons with God, President Trump and the meaning of morality (and swear loyalty to the Antichrist, because "Hillary is evil")

Mark Zuckerberg is a horror show. But there's a glimmer of truth hidden in his latest blunder ... the world's richest Harvard dropout -- raising the question of whether Zuckerberg is in a secret race to the bottom with fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. (money kills your soul)
Zuckerberg's Holocaust Gaffe Reveals an Ugly Truth About Facebook ... During Tuesday's hearing about social-media content filtering on Capitol Hill, Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of product policy and counterterrorism (catch that?)
Great, Now Facebook Is Investigating Potential Data Misuse By Something Called 'Crimson Hexagon' : technology
Zuckerberg's Holocaust Gaffe Reveals an Ugly Truth About Facebook: Ultimately, the person who benefits most from Facebook's strained neutrality is its C.E.O. (you've been literaly zuckerfucked)


There Is a Revolution on the Left. Democrats Are Bracing. - The New York Times (Dems finally get their teaparty moment)


The New Gilded Age Gets the Quality of Writing and Argumentation it Deserves - Lawyers, Guns & Money (give Bezos all the libraries! AZ stock will go up! And he will get even richer!)

A new low for Tucker Carlson's lawyer pal, but not the last


Ex-Georgia Tech fraternity president admits raping girlfriend, sentenced to 20 years : news (reddit has a good solution: no religion until 21)

Black owner of SF lemonade stand has police called on him while trying to open his business - SFGate

Probe finds LMPD officer called black woman a 'wild animal that needs put down' : news

American police kill, on average, 2.8 men per day. Black and Latino men are at higher risk for death than are White men. Police were responsible for about 8% of all homicides with adult male victims between 2012 and 2018. : science

CVS pharmacist fired after refusing to fill transgender woman's hormone prescription


Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies at 57 - Gold died of pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center on Saturday evening, according to his wife, Times arts and entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa. The disease was diagnosed in early July.


TIL some of the biggest flying birds ever to exist may have lived alongside humans in the Americas, and may have even influenced Native myths. : todayilearned (30' wingspan, 170lbs)

For Babies, Life May Be a Trip: The minds of infants are a mystery, but new brain research suggests that their inner lives may resemble a dream or a psychedelic trip. : science


24% of Tesla Model 3 orders have been canceled, analyst says : technology

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Inside Bannon's Plan to Hijack Europe for the Far-Right - Bannon is moving to Europe to set up The Movement, a populist foundation to rival George Soros and spark a right-wing revolt across the continent.


Did Putin share stolen election data with Trump? - The Washington Post

Trump Doubles Down on Russia. The Spies Shake Their Heads in Disbelief. - The New York Times
Trump's Putin fallout: Inside the White House's s tumultuous week of walk backs


Gee I wonder what other conversations about paying off Playboy playmates Michael Cohen taped? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Unmasked at last! The source of the "Wires Tapped" in Trump Towers - The secret recordings were coming from inside the house ... Pause for a moment to consider that while all of this was going on, the NYT was running its 10 gabillionth article about Hillary Clinton's email server (no accountability, anywhere)

The Midterm Elections Are Already Under Attack | WIRED

Four reasons we've reached a tipping point on Trump
The entire Republican Party is becoming a Russian asset - The Washington Post (deport all 62 million to Russia)

Trump floats season suspension for NFL players protesting anthem - Axios (he considered life in prison)


heck Out The Snarkiest Cartoons On Trump's Summit With Putin - Comrade!


A mother and her son turned up for a domestic-violence case. Then ICE arrested them (many birds with one stone)


Revealed: The People Behind an Anti-Breitbart Twitter Account - The New York Times


the ways that elite whites used power over poor whites to ensure that they did not unite with African-Americans in the immediately pre-Civil War period ... So when we are considering the racism of white voters today, there are such deep historical connotations and reason for this that the story is ultimately very complicated. It's also why there is absolutely no easy solution for this issue and why it is too easy to say that poor whites are "voting against their own interests" when they vote for rich Republicans who will undermine the social safety net and keep them in poverty. (at least they aren't getting lynched, at least not as many +stupid)


The Inside Story Of Papa John's Toxic Culture ... behavior ranges from spying on his workers to sexually inappropriate conduct, which has resulted in at least two confidential settlements (installed his bro-culture high school buddies, what could go wrong?)


The SIM Hijackers - Motherboard - Meet the hackers who flip seized Instagram handles and cryptocurrency in a shady, buzzing underground market for stolen accounts and usernames. Their victims's weakness? Phone numbers.

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Law That Saved the Bald Eagle Could Be Vastly Reworked - The New York Times (Trump reverses fake science, puts bounty on endangered species)

Branson duck boat: 17 people killed when Missouri boat sinks near Branson - The Washington Post ... "This is not 1901. We have satellites, advanced radars, good weather models, all short-term weather information showed that storms approaching well before the boat was on the water."
GOP candidate calls woman 'naive' for asking about climate


Iran has laid groundwork for extensive cyberattacks on U.S., say officials - Iran has positioned cyber weapons to hit private firms and infrastructure, but there is no suggestion an attack is imminent, say U.S. officials.


DNI Dan Coats Has 3 Words After Learning Trump Invited Vladimir Putin To White House | HuffPost ("We're so fucked.")
Russia Says Putin And Trump Discussed Referendum In Ukraine | HuffPost - Russia's ambassador revealed the discussions amid confusion in the U.S. about what the two presidents agreed behind closed doors.


Reporter Shows The Links Between The Men Behind Brexit And The Trump Campaign : NPR

Eschaton: Everything Breaks - "No deal" doesn't just mean oh, well, things get a bit messier. It means that the UK's relationship with the outside world basically...ceases to operate. It affects everything. I could spend all day providing examples. How about "UK airlines can't land their planes in the EU." That one not good enough? OK, how about "UK airlines can't land their planes in the US...or basically anywhere." Divorcing the EU doesn't just impact the UK's agreements with the remaining EU countries, it impacts their agreements with the rest of the world, as most of those are done...through their membership with the EU.

Trade war shakes up Senate races in Trump states - Axios - tariffs are introducing a new, wildly unpredictable issue into the midterm elections, thanks to their heavy impact on states with critical Senate races as well as their likely role in House races across the country.

'I Couldn't Stop Laughing. It's So Ridiculous.' A Surreal Week of Excuse-Making at the White House ... "I guess it's like the puppy shat on the floor, and then they took the shit and they rubbed it all over the walls."
"There Is a Reason We Tried to Kill This": After Helsinki, the Deep State Fears Trump Cannot Be Saved

Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model - The New York Times
In secret recording seized by FBI, Trump and Cohen discuss making payments for story of model who alleged affair with Trump - The Washington Post - in which then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and his personal attorney Michael Cohen discussed in September 2016 making payments for the story of Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal, who allegedly had an extramarital affair with Trump ...

Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis Subpoenaed by Robert Mueller | TMZ.com - the Manhattan Madam who went to prison and was connected to former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer,
Bad Debts, Fraud Claims Trail Boyfriend of Alleged Russian Agent - WSJ - Paul Erickson, a smooth-talking U.S. political activist, was romantically involved with alleged Russian agent ... rep'd John Wayne Bobbitt whose wife cut off his penis after he allegedly raped her. Mr. Bobbitt was acquitted in 1993.
How Mark Sanford met Maria Butina - CNNPolitics
The NRA Is Awfully Quiet About Maria Butina - Rolling Stone - Why won't the NRA comment on the arrest of the gun rights activist and accused Russian agent?
Republican congressmen are probably covering up for Trump in part because they're implicated - Lawyers, Guns & Money

How did Russian agents use Twitter at key moments in the 2016 election? - The Washington Post - Russian operatives blasted 18,000 tweets ahead of a huge news day during the 2016 presidential campaign. Did they know what was coming?

Opinion | Are Republicans Covering for Trump, or for Themselves? - The New York Times - If the N.R.A. was compromised by Russia, the whole party's in trouble.
Opinion | Trump Is Being Manipulated by Putin. What Should We Do? - The New York Times - Lawmakers must keep the American people informed of the current danger, writes a Republican congressman from Texas. - By Will Hurd - Mr. Hurd, a former C.I.A. officer, is a congressman from the 23rd District of Texas. ... Hurd, who voted against funding for election security, is being opposed by Gina Ortiz Jones.

White House morale tanks amid Helsinki fallout - POLITICO - Staffers are considering accelerating their departures in the wake of the president's equivocations on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (All the Traitor's Men)
Eschaton: She Works For Trump - The press loves their beat sweetened friendly sources and I guess people are holding out hope that there are a couple of "grownups" in there who will stop WWIII, but anyone who willingly takes a top job with Trump shares at least some of his passions and it's fair to say they've had the opportunity to be their best and true selves. (Sec Nielsen says neither the Jews or the Nazis were right or wrong +marked for all eternity)

Bill Shine, Trump's Top Communicator, Was Questioned by Federal Prosecutors

Robert Mueller offers Tony Podesta immunity to testify against Paul Manafort: Report

Poll: Half of Americans Think Trump Acted 'Treasonous' in Helsinki - Only 5 percent of respondents to a new Daily Beast/Ipsos poll think the United States benefited from the summit more than Russia.
Why I'm No Longer a Russiagate Skeptic -- Facts are piling up, and it's getting harder to deny what's staring us in the face. By Blake Hounshell
The Trump Voters Thanking Russia for Its Help in 2016 - The Atlantic - A New Talking Point From the Pro-Trump Fringe ... It was a positive thing that the Russians hacked the 2016 election ... "I'll try not to sound too awful, but I want to thank the Russians for interfering with our election to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president. That woman has got illusions of grandeur." (lack of consciousness is stunning, but they were always traitors)

Study: NY Times, Wash. Post quote more than twice as many Republicans as Democrats in political coverage

Donald Trump Is Not Homosexual, But He Is Definitely Homosocial | HuffPost

What does it mean to accuse Trump of treason? - This right here is one reason we can't have nice things.

Fred Hiatt Commissions White Nationalist to Write Egregiously Dishonest Article Advocating Ethnic Cleansing - Lawyers, Guns & Money

High-end Russian hooker ring busted (Brooklyn)

'Gropey, grabby, disgusting': Anthony Bourdain unloaded on Bill Clinton and Trump in interview


League Of The South Reaches Out To 'Russian Friends' - We understand that the Russian people and Southerners are natural allies in blood, culture, and religion. As fellow Whites of northern European extraction, we come from the same general gene pool ...

Maggie Haberman: Why I Needed to Pull Back From Twitter - The New York Times (objective reporting)

Ta-Nehisi Coates is leaving the Atlantic - The Washington Post


Ohio State has more than 100 firsthand accounts of sexual misconduct by former athletic doctor - The Washington Post (Jim Jordan "knew nothing, I tell you, nothing")


New York Times, NBC, and '60 Minutes' Bigwigs Hired These Media Assassins to Fight #MeToo Stories - Clare Locke boasts about 'killing stories' and some of America's most prominent journalists have worked with them.

Kimberly Guilfoyle Did Not Leave Fox News Voluntarily, Sources Say: Scoop | HuffPost (currently banging Don Jr)

Amy Powell Fired: Paramount TV President Out Over Inappropriate Comments | Hollywood Reporter - Powell, who is said to have been a favorite of Viacom CEO Bob Bakish, allegedly made generalizations about black women that struck some on the call as offensive ... Powell's firing comes nearly a month after Netflix PR chief Jonathan Friedland was dismissed after repeated uses of the n-word at company functions.

'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' director James Gunn fired by Disney over old, offensive tweets - in which he joked about topics such as rape and pedophilia
Disney Severs Ties With Guardians Of The Galaxy Director James Gunn Over Old Offensive Tweets

Approximately 4,000 People Expected To Be Laid Off As Part of the Disney-Fox Merger Process (2,300 From Fox & 1,700 From Disney) : movies


City releases first of thousands of files linked to the Central Park Five case - NY Daily News


Chair of the Senate cannabis committee, Sen. Patrica Jehlen, raises concerns with regards delays in the roll out of the recreational cannabis market caused by local communities manipulating state law; "We have people submitting agreements that are clearly illegal, and nobody's paying attention (Mass Legislature, fucking over voters since forever)
Towns/cities are strong-arming recreational marijuana businesses using predatory "host community agreements" (local pols fucking over everybody since forever)


How a 50-year-old photo mystery was solved. Well, at least half of it. - The Washington Post


Inside That Black Sarcophagus in Egypt? 3 Mummies (and No Curses) - The New York Times


Cirrhosis-related deaths increased by 65 percent from 1999 to 2016, and deaths from liver cancer doubled, the study said. The rise in death rates was driven predominantly by alcohol-induced disease, the report said. - Over the past decade, people ages 25 to 34 had the highest increase in cirrhosis deaths ... (millenials are depressed and drunk because boomers screwed them)

Is the Healthiest Milk Whole, Skim, or Nut? - The Atlantic - A new study exonerates dairy fats as a cause of early death, even as low-fat products continue to be misperceived as healthier.


Parents of Reddit, what "secret" do you know about your kids that they don't know that you know? : AskReddit


071918


An Aide To The French President Was Filmed Assaulting A Protester While Dressed In Riot Gear

Austrian state wants to force meat-consuming Jews and Muslims to register, drawing Nazi comparisons - The Washington Post ("it's for the animals")

Investigators 'have indentified' suspects in Skripal Novichok poisonings ... "They are sure the suspects are Russian" ... the substance was in a discarded perfume bottle found by Dawn Sturgess, 44, and her partner Charlie Rowley, 45 ... It is thought Ms Sturgess sprayed the Novichok straight on to her skin as it is understood she was exposed to at least 10 times the amount of nerve agent the Skripals came into contact with.

Duterte's drug war killed thousands, and Filipinos still loved him. Then he called God 'stupid.' (he actually starting thinking about it and they freaked out)


Intel chief Dan Coats sees 'risk' Russia will carry out assassinations in US (Tsump gave Putin his list)

Senate Passes Unanimous Resolution Rejecting Putin Proposal - Leave it to Bernie Sanders, noted war monger (a non-binding resolution saying Putin is our friend)

Putin Tells Diplomats He Made Trump a New Offer on Ukraine at Their Summit - Bloomberg - Russian leader suggested referendum in separatist regions
House Republicans defeat attempt to subpoena Trump interpreter - POLITICO - Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday defeated an attempt by panel Democrats to subpoena the interpreter who worked for President Donald Trump during his summit Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump Wanted a Summit With Putin. He Got Way More Than That | Time.com
House GOP refuses to renew election security funding as Democrats fume over Russian interference - The Washington Post (treasonous Republicans collude with Putin to steal another US election)
The Russians Who Hacked The DNC Have Targeted At Least Three 2018 Campaigns, Microsoft Says
"No Way to Run a Superpower" : the Trump-Putin Summit and the Death of American Foreign Policy (just let the evil greedy morons take over, everything will be fine)

From the Start, Trump Has Muddied a Clear Message: Putin Interfered - The New York Times
Trump Again Skips Intel Briefing After Siding With Putin - President broke with DNI Coats standing alonside Russian strongman

Trump's Russia Ambassador Is Having A Very Bad Week - Jon Huntsman has spent decades cultivating a reputation as a pragmatic Republican. Now some of his allies are urging him to ditch the Trump administration.
U.S. Officials 'at a Fucking Loss' Over Latest Russia Sellout - The White House's refusal to rule out turning over former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul to the Russians has current and former State Department officials seeing red.
Michael McFaul Baffled That White House Wouldn't Defend Him Against Kremlin Questioning | HuffPost - The Trump administration declined to say no when asked if it would let Russian officials question a U.S. citizen. ... "It's beyond disgraceful. It's fundamentally ignorant with regard to how we conduct diplomacy or what that means."

Maria Butina and John Wayne Bobbitt? Our National TV Show Has Jumped the Shark. - What, we hesitate to ask, is next?
Accused Russian Spy's Boy Toy Is a Serial Fraud: Lawsuits -- Paul Erickson

New Time Cover Has Some Creepy Trump-Putin Photoshopping | HuffPost

CBS News poll: Most Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of Putin summit - Most Americans (70 percent) believe U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia interfered in the elections, though Republicans are more skeptical. Just half say they believe U.S. intelligence, while nine in ten Democrats do.
79% of Republicans support Trump's press conference with Putin - Axios - Americans are split on whether the allegations of Russian interference are a serious issue (50%) or a distraction (47%). This breaks cleanly along party lines, with 85 percent of Republicans seeing it as a distraction and 85 percent of Democrats seeing it as a serious issue. Among Independents, 56 percent see it as a serious issue. (lock up all Republican traitors)

Is Donald Trump even in charge of this government? - The Washington Post (no, that's the whole point, no one needs to be "in charge" of your so-called "government")
Trump is not the leader of the U.S. -- just of his base (who are apparently enought to keep him in power, so?)
Trump is a Putin fanboy. Someday we'll know why : Make Russia Great Again.
Paperwork for Maria Butina's arrest directly ties key Republican leaders to Russia

The irreconcilable Fox News - The Washington Post (Fox is Satan's Mouth and Hannity is his forked tongue)

New York Is Said to Open Tax Inquiry Into Trump Foundation - The New York Times - accused the foundation of violating campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegally coordinating with the Trump presidential campaign. It seeks to dissolve the foundation, recover millions of dollars in restitution and temporarily bar President Trump and three of his children from serving in leadership positions at any nonprofit operating in New York.

Eschaton: It Isn't The Lies - It's The Lying - But aside from that, Maggie is telling us what they say they have concluded, not what they have actually concluded. They might be lying! And they lie all the time, even though every reporter has sources who are the good ones in the Trump administration. Here is the list of good ones: (inside Haberman's revolving brain)

Senate Republicans broke a record on Wednesday for the number of appeals court judges confirmed during a president's first two years

Russia-friendly Rep. Rohrabacher doubts hacking indictment, plans to consult outside 'experts' (and they elect evil idiots like him)

Democrats Say The Final Russian Computer Intrusion Netted Nothing For The Hackers - Russians hacked a Democratic Party computer in September 2016, probably looking for details on likely Clinton voters.

Don Jr. and Eric Trump racked up nearly $250,000 in Secret Service costs in one month, watchdog says - POLITICO

Nunes declares war on the media - politico - The California GOP congressman says his local paper is working with 'radical left-wing groups' (hilarious)

A Democratic Blue Wave? Don't forget the Republicans' Big Hill
Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About 'Trump Country'

Congratulations, Mr. President: Zuckerberg Secretly Called Trump After The Election
How a #MeToo Facebook Group Became a Tool for Harassment | WIRED


Measure to split California into three states removed from ballot by the state Supreme Court - The decision was a defeat for Tim Draper, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist considered an eccentric entrepreneur who spent $1.2 million on the measure. (fuck you, conservative techbro asshole)


Utah train worker suspended after hassling women who shared a bathroom -- and asking them about their tampons ("Tampon Tommy" walks himself into a viral career wreck)


Bacon Is Bad For Your Mental Health, Says Study + CBS Philly - According to researchers at Johns Hopkins, people who eat meats cured with nitrates are three times more likely to experience a manic episode.



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The Wages of Global Warming - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In South Asia, they will be very deadly: Worldwide, among the 100 most populous cities where summer highs are expected to reach at least 95 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050, according to estimates by the Urban Climate Change Research Network, 24 are in India.
Texas to pass Iraq and Iran as world's No. 3 oil powerhouse


Europe hits Google with a record $5 billion fine : news


American Conservatives Played A Secret Role In The Macedonian Fake News Boom Ahead Of 2016 (the treason is deep)

military parade expected to cost nearly as much as 'tremendously expensive' canceled war games

As Russians describe 'verbal agreements" at summit, U.S. officials scramble for clarity ("your supreme leader gave to us the California")
Trump just colluded with Russia. Openly. - The Washington Post
Trump's do-over doesn't mean it's over
Trump, Putin and the betrayal of America | Financial Times - The US president put in a shameful performance in Helsinki

FBI Director Says Russian Influence Efforts Are 'Very Active'
Trump says no president has been as tough on Russia - The Boston Globe

The Unwinding of Donald Trump | The New Yorker
Trump on whether he holds Putin responsible for election meddling: "I would, because he's in charge of the country."
Oops he did it again - Lawyers, Guns & Money - President Trump has denied that Russia is currently targeting the U.S., despite the intelligence community's findings.
Trump Tanks His Own Putin Walk-Back During One of the "Worst Moments of His Presidency"
President Donald Trump contradicts nation's top spy, claims Russia is not targeting the US ("Vlad told me so")
A case study in Trump's GOP mind control - "So many people at the higher ends of intelligence loved my press conference performance in Helsinki."
How Trump Turned the right's Biggest Russia Hawk Into a Dove ("deeply-held conservative principles")
White House: Trump will consider letting Russia question investor, former ambassador - POLITICO - President Donald Trump will consider allowing Russian investigators to question U.S.-born investor Bill Browder, former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and others after President Vladimir Putin floated the idea, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday. (and Trump will deport them)
At Helsinki Summit With Putin, Donald Trump Goes Off the Very Deep End | Observer - the American president submissively kowtowing to his Russian counterpart in a fashion which no American president has ever done before.
"This Was the Nightmare Scenario" : The West Wing Revolts After Trump Embraces Putin - As Trump grappled with his error, Chief of Staff John Kelly went into overdrive to get Trump to walk it back.
The White House Transcript Is Missing the Most Explosive Part of the Trump-Putin Press Conference ("Yes, of course I meddled in your stupid elections, hahaha")
I Was a White House Stenographer. Trump Wasn't a Fan ("shred everything" he said)

Eschaton - I know talk of Trump's mental decline has faded a bit as we've all gotten used to a what a weird man he is, but decline of talk of his decline is premature. As I have long said, he was always a narcissistic blowhard but he wasn't the child that he is now. The filters that make even the extreme narcissist able to pretend a bit occasionally keep fading. Those jenga blocks are being pulled out one by one.

Maria Butina, Suspected Secret Agent, Used Sex in Covert Plan, Prosecutors Say - The New York Times
Opinion | What Was Maria Butina Doing at the National Prayer Breakfast? - The New York Times - Christian nationalists have been finding common cause with the Russian government for a while now (esp ones they can fuck)

Judge refuses to move Paul Manafort trial to Roanoke - The Washington Post - Manafort is not entitled to a completely ignorant jury, nor one with as many Republicans as Democrats. Moreover, the nationwide coverage of the case would make any move ineffectual.


How Trummp'ss tariffs on Mexico are taking jobs from U.S. workers


A Critical Factor In 2020: Democrats Make Significant Cut To Caucus States - By next year, Democrats could see the number of caucus states cut in half -- a potential blow to insurgent candidates ahead of the next presidential election - Four states have already moved from a caucus system to a traditional primary: Maine, Minnesota, Colorado, and, as of last month, Idaho made the switch (the Bernies got in with Caucuses then complained it was rigged)

Joementum! Squared! - Lawyers, Guns & Money (LIEberputz's evil heart still ticking)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Scares Joe Lieberman. Good. - She has made mistakes, as any new politician will, but this isn't one of them.


Shots fired through window of Albany County Democratic HQ : news

A GOP congressman once lamented not being able to call women 'sluts' anymore

Rep. Jim Jordan Is Named in New OSU Sexual Abuse Lawsuit


TIL in Waco Texas, 1916, 10,000 people watched the lynching of Jesse Washington (castrated, burned, and mutilated for 2+ hours) A photographer sold postcards of the event. Prominent citizens eventually persuaded photographer to stop selling them fearing the images would come to characterize the town : todayilearned (just a little Southern Tradition)


Alt-Right Troll To Father Killer: The Unraveling Of Lane Davis

Customer who left racist we don't tip terrorist message banned from Texas restaurant


Tennessee Confederate flag license plates have increased since 2015 - The number of Tennesseans now displaying Confederate battle flag license plates is higher than at any other point in the last decade


New Evidence In California Jail Snitch Scandal Raises Questions About State, Federal Probes | HuffPost - As attorney general investigations languish, continuing misconduct in Orange County threatens to unravel dozens of new cases, a public defender says.


Republicans accused Facebook, Google and Twitter of bias. Democrats called the hearing dumb.

Facebook moderators 'keep child abuse online' - Graphic videos showing children being abused remain on Facebook despite numerous requests to have them removed, an undercover film has suggested. : technology

Victims, officer claim Chattanooga police officer raped multiple women while on duty : news

khou.com | Husband shoots home invasion suspect holding wife at gunpoint

One of the women said she and her wife were told by an officer to "walk away" (hello asshole, you're on Facebook!)


Who Lives in Education Deserts? More People Than You Might Think - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 11.2-million adults, or 3.5 percent of the adult population, live more than a 60-minute drive from a public college ... Alaska, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana, in that order, have the greatest percentage of adults living more than 60 minutes from a college.



TIL of Bicameral theory. The idea that humans have been a self aware and conscious species for only a few thousand years. It's based off the overwhelming absence of introspection and meditation in very ancient texts. : todayilearned

White mass shooters receive sympathetic media treatment: They are 95 percent more likely than black shooters to be called "mentally ill." : science


I'm Michael Finkel and I wrote Nat Geo's cover story about the science of sleep (and how most of us are not getting enough of it) AMA!

The Secret Facebook Groups for Shocking DNA Tests - The Atlantic (NPE: Not Parent Expected)


What activity is socially accepted but actually borderline psychotic? : AskReddit
What was the worst decision you saw a friend or family member make? : AskReddit
Girls, what inappropriate questions about guys have you always wanted answered? : AskReddit
What is a dead giveaway that an IRL person reddits? : AskReddit


071718


Mandalay Bay owners sue victims of Las Vegas shooting


The ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize - must read for anybody who wants to properly understand the problems in the Swedish Academy : books


Some people are clearly still confused about what happened today. Trump didn't "as good as" out himself as a Russian agent -- he *literally* did, and his statement about DNI Coats literally proves it ...


'Very much counter to the plan': Trump defies advisers in embrace of Putin (did you listen to them? Trump's Queens' accent and Putin's perfect english)
4 Notable Moments From Vladimir Putin's Fox News Interview

New York Daily News Scorches 'Treason' Trump With Brutal New Cover ("he could shoot democracy in the head on international TV and no one would say anything")
: Late-night hosts skewer Trump's new conference ... KFC vs KGB ... The most embarrassing performance by an American president. Do you know how hard it is to achieve that? George H.W. Bush once threw up on the Japanese prime minister, and Trump is now on top.

A Staggering Divide Between Republicans and Democrats - The Atlantic - A new poll by The Atlantic and the Public Religion Research Institute finds that Democrats and Republicans have wildly divergent views on core democratic issues, including Russian election interference. (Republicans have always been the party of treason, even when they were "dixiecrats"
The Republican Party Is Now the Blame America Party - Helsinki marks the end of the party of Ronald Reagan and Jeane Kirkpatrick. Conservatives who were celebrating Kavanaugh last week: How do you like Trump now?


Twitter suspends Guccifer and DCLeaks after Mueller links them to Russian hacking operation - The Washington Post (like they didn't know before that)

The Empty Gaze - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A remarkable story showing that even when children kidnapped from their parents by the Trump administration as an intentional deterrent have been reunited with their parents, the damage is severe:

Freedom Caucus leaders want Rosenstein investigated for alleged threats - The Washington Post ("freedom caucus" treasonous Republicans are getting scared)
Ted Poe on Twitter: "POTUS should have been more forceful in addressing Russian cyberwarfare and meddling in U.S. elections, Russian presence in Syria, support of Iran, and Russian aggression in Georgia, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. The Russian bear is still in the woods and cannot be trusted." (and some rats are jumping off the boat)
Ted Yoho on Twitter: "I don't agree with President Tru mps comments that ru ssia didn't nterfere in our 2016 Presidential election. The evidence from our national security agencies is clear; Russia deliberately tried to undermine our republic. This is unacceptable.
Trump Shows the World He's Putin's Lackey -- Maybe the president is exactly as compromised as he looks.

'Disgraceful' and 'tragic': John McCain's excoriation of Trump on Russia, annotated

Eschaton - Also, if Democrats take charge, the same people will get mad at them for "overreaching" with their "partisan oversight." The idea that Republicans have to save us isn't just because they're in charge, it's because they're the only ones who can legitimately wield power in Washington, no matter what they do with it. -- You need two, maybe even one, Republican senators to caucus with the Democrats until November and give them oversight power. This is not unprecedented. Those brave Republicans could cut themselves nice deals about power, also, too. But, nah, they'll just tweet sadly.

Trump launches another birther conspiracy theory -- this time about his own dad - Despite his dad being born in the United States to German American parents, Trump has gone around in recent days suggesting -- and even outright stating, bizarrely -- that Fred Trump was born in Germany. ("he was a good Nazi" Trump said)

Rand finds lots to like in Trump's presser with Putin (give KY to Russia)


The infectious incompetence of the populists - The Washington Post - The administrative state is rapidly deconstructing.

The Unbearable Powerlessness of Holding Majorities in the House and the Senate - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States - Remote-access software and modems on election equipment 'is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.' : technology

I'm sure everything will return to normal, any minute now


CVS Fires 2 for Calling Police on Black Woman Over Coupon - The New York Times ... Officials for the Log Cabin Republicans, an organization representing conservatives who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, also confirmed Monday that Mr. Matson had been a leader of its Illinois chapter (gay Republican Trumpster fired for racism)


Video shows Harvard research head confronting woman, biracial child - "Sidewalk Susie" - The confrontation happened Saturday in Cambridge when Theresa Lund -- executive director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative -- came out of her apartment to complain about noise allegedly being made by Alyson Laliberte's toddler on the sidewalk outside the building. (after all these FB videos, they still don't get it)
Harvard's Theresa Lund (asshole bitch on youtube, haha)
Alyson Laliberte is at Harvard University. - Permit Patty
#NaptimeNancy Is The New #PermitPatty -- And She Works For Harvard
A Harvard Official Is Under Fire after a Confrontation in a Viral Video - Boston Magazine ... Laliberte, who is white ... "T]he fact that she thinks she has some kind of authority over me is crazy!" She added that she has lived in the building for 15 years without neighborly issues. - She also referred to Lund as "another Permit Patty" (she knows her memes, Lund doesn't, haha)

Kaz Weida on Twitter: "Dear @Harvard , It appears we have a problem with #SidewalkSusie here. Her name is Theresa Lunda Interracial Baby - YouTube - and yesterday she harassed a woman and her biracial child. She appears to be the Executive Director of your Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. https://t.co/Fyhb14eJxE Care to comment? https://t.co/wr0g5jJSZG"
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Faces Backlash For Theresa Lund Video


She found her father's child-porn images of herself, then killed him -- and kept it secret for 12 years

After 30 years, police say they've captured a child-killer who left a sickening trail of taunts
: DNA links man to girl's cold-case kiling from 1988 (for the pic)

Marijuana Users In Mass. Can't Buy Guns : bostontrees

The Middle Child Is Going Extinct As Americans Have Smaller Families (too expensive)


Egypt Will Open Giant Black Mystery Sarcophagus Despite Warnings | Mysterious Universe


Birmingham college student walked 20 miles to 1st day of work so his boss gave him his car : news

When did your "Something is very wrong with her/him" feeling turned out to be true? : AskReddit


Elon Musk's attack rattles Tesla investor: 'This thing is unraveling' ... "Role models do not call people [pedophiles] on Twitter because they had an idea that wouldn't work." (tweets like Trump, demands adoration)
Tesla investors demand Elon Musk apologize for calling Thailand diver 'pedo': Tesla CEO called immature after attacking Vernon Unsworth, who rescued trapped children : news

071618

Plutonium went missing in San Antonio, but the government says nothing - San Antonio Express-News - Losses of civilian nuclear material are usually disclosed but when the government loses nuclear bomb ingredients it stays mum

NRA v. USA - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Mother Jones had a great piece recently about the NRA's involvement in Russia's 2016 ratfucking. The shoe has now dropped:
Eschaton: A Rudimentary Knowledge of Mortars

Eschaton: We Tried - Your regular reminder that the Iraq war was colossal and tragic crime that all Very Serious People supported and then "oopsy." ("look forward, not backwards" -- Backwards Barry)


Julian Assange could be EVICTED from Ecuador embassy as he's breanded 'STONE in the shoe'


Former CIA director Brennan urges Pompeo, Bolton, Kelly to resign following 'treasonous' Trump-Putin summit
'One of the most disgraceful performances' : Anderson Cooper nails summit
The Collusion is Public - Lawyers, Guns & Money

SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON TRUMP-PUTIN MEETING - Press Releases - United States Senator John McCain : "No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant"
Trump Sheds All Notions of How a President Should Conduct Himself Abroad - The New York Times
Trump's Helsinki humiliation
Putin's Attack on the U.S. Is Our Pearl Harbor
The Worst Case Scenario Has Been Obvious for a While (Putin has the Pee Tapes)

This Is the Moment of Truth for Republicans - The GOP can either defend the United States or serve the damaged and defective man who is now its president.
Trump Summit Betrays His Country For Russia In Plain Sight

About the Only Evidence Left that Trump Isn't Beholden to Putin is That It's Just Too Obvious (John Ziegler finally gets scared
It will be the most surreal US-Russia summit in history - CNNPolitics
Trump and Putin hold historic summit after Trump faults U.S. 'stupidity' for poor relations with Russia (20K+ comments!)
Trump has just composed the most elaborate thank-you note in history - The Washington Post - There is no further room to doubt that Vladimir Putin definitely helped him win the election.
Opinion | Trump, Treasonous Traitor - The New York Times - The president fails to protect the country from an ongoing attack.
Trump sides with Russia against FBI at Helsinki summit : news

Russia Hawk Axed From National Security Council Right Before Trump-Putin Summit

What Robert Mueller Knows -- and 9 Areas He'll Pursue Next

Tracing Guccifer 2.0' Many Tentacles in the 2016 Election

If you work for Trump, quit now - The Washington Post -- Save your souls (there's problem right there)

The Midwest eases its Trump swoon and flirts again with Democratic candidates - The Washington Post (just a little 'flirting' nothing to worry about)

Republican Senators Reveal What Trump Would Have to Do to Lose Party Support - As the GOP increasingly comes to resemble a personality cult, is there any red line -- video tapes? DNA evidence? a war with Germany? -- President Trump could cross and lose party support? (no, they have sworn allegience to the beast)


Southeast Ohio Republican Party leader resigns over Trump-Putin meeting | cleveland.com

Bernie Sanders chatting with Sacha Baron Cohen in Who Is America...keeping his cool : television

Eschaton: Bourdain - He hated all the right people. (NYT) "It's like Night of the Living Dead over there."


Papa John's founder John Schnatter kicked out of his office : news

LMPD suspended officer 30 days for Facebook posts that 'advocate violence' : news (Louisville)

Police investigating allegations Alabama's 'Beach House Sheriff' had sex with underage girls : news
Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin loses GOP primary, concedes to opponent | AL.com

Driver intentionally plows into a bicyclist who is standing within a crosswalk : gifs


A study of 1,683 newlywed heterosexual couples found that 43% of husbands misperceived how often their wives experienced orgasm. : science


New study finds CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing can cause greater genetic damage than was previously thought, including large deletions and rearrangements. : science

Is the brain of someone with a higher cognitive ability physically different from that of someone with lower cognitive ability? : askscience

Redditors, What's the biggest bullet you've dodged in your life that you continue to thank the heavens for to this day? : AskReddit

What's the scariest thing you've experienced that you have photo evidence of?

Redditors, What's the biggest bullet you've dodged in your life that you continue to thank the heavens for to this day? : AskReddit


Elon Musk calls British diver who helped rescue Thai schoolboys 'pedo guy' in Twitter outburst : news
Kumail Nanjiani on Twitter: "He didn't just call the British rescuer in Thailand a pedophile. He called him a pedophile because he couldn't imagine another reason for a white guy to be in Thailand. Which is a false assumption. Sometimes white guys visit Thailand to show off their useless submarines.
British diver considering legal action against Musk for tweet : news (Musk shot himself in his reputation and then flushed it down the toilet: TorPEDO. Nice triple entendre)
Elon Musk Called One of the Thai Cave Rescuers a "Pedo" - All because the guy made fun of Musk's tiny submarine


071518


U.S. lawmakers shown backing fake kindergarten gun scheme in Sacha Baron Cohen satire | Reuters - Republican congressmen Dana Rohrabacher of California and Joe Wilson of South Carolina, along with former Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, who is now a lobbyist at a Washington law firm, are shown enthusiastically backing the idea, alongside gun rights advocates and a former congressman-turned-talk radio host, Joe Walsh. (issue their glocks at birth, Republicans say)
Sacha Baron Cohen Convinces GOP Congressmen to Arm Toddlers in 'Who Is America?' Premiere - , more than lives up to the hype ...


"think the European Union is a foe," Trump says ahead of Putin meeting in Helsinki


Eschaton: Daddy - I am sure all of our intimate correspondences would be embarrassing, but what is with "Daddy"? -- (this is worse than that, of course, but...mens are weird) (conservatives everywhere are into incest, see Dumpster)



Trump told Britain to 'sue' European Union to speed Brexit, Theresa May says (yeah, that'll work, you big fat satanic ignoramus)


Putin must wonder what else America knows about Russia - The Washington Post
Russian agents allegedly used Bitcoin to fund the DNC hack : technology
U.K. Poisoning Inquiry Turns to Russian Agency in Mueller Indictments - The New York Times


Trump resists Mueller interview, leaving difficult decision on subpoena before fall elections
For Mueller, pushing to finish parts of Russia probe, question of American involvement remains - The Washington Post (comment: "this will be the last indictment Mueller writes without naming specific Americans. So the next one he writes will be much more direct and explicit.

The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump | Books | The Guardian ... "truth decay"

It Was Mitch McConnell Who Stopped Obama From Blocking Trump's Treason (Mitch the Traitor Bitch McConnell)
The Way Trump and the GOP Deal with Russian Attacks is 'Textbook Treason' - This is an extraordinary moment. It is without equal not only in American history but in modern history ... . Some now reportedly seek to impeach Rosenstein on trumped up charges. To attack one of the leaders of our national defense as we are being attacked and to do so to benefit our foreign adversary is textbook treason.

Immigrant kids held in shelters: 'They told us to behave, or we'd be here forever'
Judge blasts HHS official's warning of endangering children as 'cover' to Trump admin in key immigration case


Democratic Socialism in One Poster | Power Line (haha they think those are bad things)

Why Stormy Daniels's Arrest Matters - Dancers across the country say it shows just how much stripping is regulated by the state ... Ohio's Community Defense Act was passed in 2007 and had not been cited a single time in Franklin County before the arrest of Daniels ... The law was pushed by conservative Christian group Citizens for Community Values ... (but they love Trumpster)


In rebuke of Dianne Feinstein, Kevin de Lesn wins endorsement of California Democrats in Senate race


Judge orders L.A. Times to alter story about Glendale cop, sparking protest from newspaper


Black woman says CVS manager called police because she had wrong coupon | Chicago Sun-Times -- Morry Matson white gay log cabin Republican

He said he was 'going to burn down the building with all the f------ Jews,' Miami Beach cops say

Woman Sentenced to Life in Prison for Baseball Bat Beating Death of USC Grad Student From China - NBC Southern California - A 20-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for her role in the 2014 baseball bat beating death of a USC graduate student from China. -- Alejandra Guerrero was convicted ...

Teen who encouraged boyfriend's suicide seeks retrial, says texts were "cherry picked" : news ... "Bitch we cut down the whole tree."
Read text messages, other evidence from the trial of Michelle Carter

Police find marijuana growing in Wyoming city's downtown flower pots : news

In response to Jimmy Kimmel's latest 'Can You Name a Country', here's a piece of television history - Animaniacs 'The Nations of the World' by Yakko : television
Talkin' Toons' Rob Paulsen Sings Yakko's World 2017 Edition Live! (Mothership) - YouTube (updated)
YAKKO'S WORLD sung by ROB PAULSEN at Granite State Comicon 2013 - YouTube (at least watch this one)
Animaniacs Live! 2014: Nations of the World - YouTube
Animaniacs - Nations of the World (Deutsch - German) - YouTube
xkcd: Map Age Guide
donald trump - Nations Of The World - YouTube
Yakko's World: All the inaccuracies in the song [Version 2.0] - YouTube (good history lesson)
ABC Song VIPKID (Chinese version) - YouTube
The ABC Song - Chinese Tempo Version - YouTube
Jimmy Kimmel Asked People to Name One Country in the World | Time - and the Results Were Not Great (America the Stupid is so fucked)


People who eat at least one serving of oranges every day may be 60% less likely than people who never eat oranges to lose their sight to macular degeneration, according to a new study spanning 15 years. : science


[Serious]Hey Reddit, have you ever seen a mythological, spirit or ghost animal or a nature spirit or entity, or other spooky occurrences with animals, what's your experience? : AskReddit


Elon Musk calls British diver who helped rescue Thai schoolboys 'pedo guy' in Twitter outburst | The Independent ... outburst came after diver Vern Unsworth told Mr Musk to "stick his submarine where it hurts" after describing his offer to help with a miniature submersible as a "PR stunt" (aside from Musk being his usual total self-absorbed asshole, what's that about?)
Cave diver criticizes Musk's kid-sub rescue plan. Musk suggests he's a pedophile ... Musk took to Twitter to explain why he donated money to the Republican Party - specifically, $38,900 to a Republican political action committee called Protect the House. (his morals are showing)
Your Benevolent Capitalists - Lawyers, Guns & Money - One of my most hated features of American culture is the fawning love for particular capitalists that began in the late 19th century and continues to the present. Whether Carnegie or Ford, Gates or Jobs or Zuckerberg, people hang on to the words of these rich people, even when they don't know what they are talking about.

071418

The Continuing Legacy of Bhopal - Lawyers, Guns & Money

How to keep going after a mass shooter kills your husband - The Washington Post


'Still Can't Believe It Worked' : The Story of the Thailand Cave Rescue


Suicide bomber in Pakistan election rallies kills at least 133 injures more than 150 : news


The Technicolor Zone of Cyberspace, Part 2 | Just Security - There is no doubt that this statement by the UK attorney general is one of the most important and clear official statements on the application of international law to cyber operations by a state (sovereignty and cyberwar)

How the American Media Could Deal with Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money - We are all disgusted with how the American media has dealt with Trump, especially the New York Times, but also the Post, NPR, CNN, and everything else. There is another way.
Mark Leggatt on Twitter: "This is in a Scottish national newspaper, The Scotsman. Unprecedented in 193 years of daily publishing. "


10,000 protest Trump in Edinburgh; UK police seek paraglider ... "We Shall Over Comb"
Did Donald Trump just WALK IN FRONT OF THE QUEEN? (he upstages everybody and c'mon, it was just a woman, and Trump bows to no one except the Saudis)
Trump's ambassador lobbied Britain on behalf of jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson | Reuters

Trump has said 1,340,330 words as president. They're getting more dishonest - what historians say is an unprecedented avalanche of serial lying ... 5.1 false claims per day in 2018. (Satan always lies and his subjects always believe him)
When it comes to lying, Trump is nonstop - The Washington Post
Can truth survive this president? An honest investigation. - The Washington Post (religion is the primal lie)

Trump wish for warm Putin ties highlights policy disconnect - The Boston Globe

Opinion | 'Evil Has Won' Pro-American Germans feel betrayed
NATO's global peace is unraveling, and we can't stop it - The Washington Post (even Robert Kagan)

'Warning Lights Are Blinking Red' - Top Intelligence Officer Says of Russian Attacks (Trumps says "fake news")
G.R.U., Russian Spy Agency Cited by Mueller, Casts a Long Shadow - The New York Times
Moscow now accused of US election meddling, in indictment - The Boston Globe
Six Big Takeaways from Mueller's Indictment of Russian Intel Officers -- The indictment is impressive in its detail and the specificity of its allegations. It shows that Mueller has developed extremely good evidence. Where is it coming from? Does he have an insider who has provided all of this information? We may never know.
The Top Bombshells In Robert Mueller's Indictment Of Russian DNC Hackers - The indictment reveals that a congressional candidate asked the Russians for dirt on an opponent, and that the Russians seemed to be following Trump's lead
Mueller's Latest Indictments Show That 'Witches' are Very Real ... The indictment practically screams, "More information is coming!" (even the very conservative Nat Review)
Witch hunt is finding a surprising number of witches - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Russian Hackers Kept DNC Backdoor Longer Than Anyone Knew - The Democrats swore in the summer of 2016 that they had banished all outside intrusions from their networks. They were wrong. (stupid and incompetent and cover it up)

Roger Stone's messages suggest he is unnamed person in new Russia indictment
Mueller stood up to Putin. Now it's Trump's turn
Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit - The New York Times - Hint: It's not Peter Strzok ... As Mr. Horowitz told Capitol Hill last month, his investigation didn't try to dive into who at the F.B.I. New York field office was driving the leaks that ultimately pushed some of the regrettable decisions that Mr. Horowitz excoriated in that very report ... The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter ... Until congressional overseers make a serious attempt to get to the bottom of the New York field office's role in the election, we'll know they're not serious about learning the truth (they never were)

Rudy Giuliani Claims New Mueller Indictments Absolve Trump In Laughable Tweet | HuffPost - completely innocent. (Twitter fucks Ghouliani in the ass)

House conservatives prep push to impeach Rosenstein - politico (the witches are very afraid, esp Jim "I saw nothing" Jordan) )

Trump blames Obama for Russian election meddling - politico
'It's a big FU from Mueller' (Rethugs say he trying to spoil Trump's Putin Pee-Party)
Thanks to Robert Mueller, Trump and Putin Now Have a Summit Agenda | The New Yorker - The narrative for Helsinki seemed set: Trump came to Europe to trash America's friends while lavishing the Russian strongman with praise -- Rosenstein dropped another astonishing revelation into his press conference: President Trump had been aware all along about the charges against Russian actors, and had been briefed on them by the Justice Department even before he left for Europe

The Russian Hack - emptywheel
Christopher Ingraham on Twitter: "July 27, 2016, Trump: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you https://t.co/toSHUFKUoS"
Andrew Prokop on Twitter: "This tweet is incorrect/misreading. The indictment says there were efforts to hack Clinton campaign emails much earlier. https://t.co/RDdyexfM42" (ref above, and is the "congressman" Nunes? or Rohrabacher the Red?)

In Peter Strzok hearing, House GOP loses all connection to reality - The Boston Globe (Russian trolls ramping up for the midterms swarm BoGlo comments)

A hypothesis that Russians began to influence and funnel resources to the Republican Party as early as 1981. : bestof

Where Did Donald Trump Get Two Hundred Million Dollars to Buy His Money-Losing Scottish Golf Club? | The New Yorker

White House Official Who Advocated for Refugees Sacked and Escorted From Office Foreign Policy


Don't Fall for the Civility Trick - Lawyers, Guns & Money - While the right goes full fascism, writer after writer in mainstream publications, spills much more ink about the horrors of someone confronting Scott Pruitt or Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a restaurant
The Amazing Early Progress of #AbolishICE - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This Politico piece is supposed to be dismissive of #AbolishICE, but in fact, it shows just how far this movement has come in a very short time.


Maryland voter registration system runs on software owned by Russian-financed firm, I-Team learns (Republican officals got a great deal, what could go wrong?)



Norfolk Police Department Lip Sync Battle -- What's maybe most impressive is that it was all filmed in one shot | You were once pushed head first out of a vagina, nothing should be able to embarrass you again.


New details in book about Emmett Till's death prompted officials to reopen investigation (disgusting and deep American racism)
Lynching and the West: A Racial History - Lawyers, Guns & Money (whtie fuckers have been lynching all non-whites for a long time)

13-year-old girl beheaded after seeing grandmother killed in Alabama cemetery | KIRO-TV - Palomino is also charged with possession of methamphetamine.
13-year-old girl beheaded after seeing grandmother killed in Alabama cemetery : news - undefined

Woman charged with attempted murder in beating of man, 92, with brick : news


Men Hold Each Other Tenderly


Former Boston.com staffer questions investigation - The Boston Globe
Hilary Sargent on Twitter: "Was he involved in the decision to promote me? Or did he just want me to think he had been? I'm certain it was the former, but either way, the memo is an act. Posturing in desperation on the hope you aren't skeptical

Martha's Vineyard bus driver fired after racist remark to potential passenger ... "because you are black"

Facing off with the US Postal Service - The Boston Globe (one comment: "She went to the U of South Florida. Case closed."
Heather A. Astaneh on Twitter: "I saw #sarahjessicaparker hanging out in the #bostoncommon . #horseinthecity?? #horseinthecity #sexinthecity #sorrynotsorry #truth #staywoke @ Boston Common https://t.co/7e0NNpThIf" (BoGlo commenters dig up the dirt)


TIL dreams are thought to strip memories of emotion. According to the theory, this function fails in sufferers of PTSD. Recurring nightmares might therefore be a repeated attempt at performing this function. : todayilearned


I have two vaginas and am very pregnant. : IAmA
BabyBumps Graduates

People who have quit their jobs on the spot, what was the moment when you finally snapped? : AskReddit

Amazon's share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%, or 5% of all retail spend
071318

Don't drink the water if you live in parts of Northeast and Northwest Washington


As May's Government Teeters Over Brexit, Trump Gives It a Shove (wants BoJo to take over +Theresa in a red pant suit w/alien control button on her arm)
With criticism of May's Brexit, Trump detonates a diplomatic grenade | Politics | The Guardian - Brexit, Trump detonates a diplomatic grenade -- Is the US president's outburst to the Sun simply bad manners, or his latest attempt to undermine an old ally?
Opinion | Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Rise of Radical Incompetence - The New York Times - Like America's president, Brexiteers resent the very idea of governing as complex and based in facts ...they resent the very idea of governing as a complex, modern, fact-based set of activities that requires technical expertise and permanent officials ... With astonishing hypocrisy, wealthy Brexiteers such as Mr. Rees-Mogg, John Redwood, Lord Lawson and Lord Ashcroft have all been discovered either preparing to move their own assets into European Union jurisdictions ...
NATO's global peace is unraveling, and we can't stop it - The Washington Post - Human beings often choose self-delusion over painful reality, and so in the days and weeks to come, we will hear reassurances that the NATO alliance is in good shape. (Putin's pawn)
Will Trump destroy NATO and every other American alliance? - The Washington Post
Eschaton: The Classiest Guy In The World - He's on an official state visit to her country and had dinner with her this evening.
Trump denies he criticized British prime minister after criticizing her - CNNPolitics
Donald Trump has long obsession with the British royal family - The Boston Globe
Trump Calls His Theresa May Brexit Criticism 'Fake News' | HuffPost - Trump Calls His Theresa May Brexit Criticism 'Fake News' The president tried to clean up his claims that May's "soft Brexit" would kill U.S.-British trade deals. (said the Fake President)
Trump's UK Visit Met With Fierce Protests - An estimated 60,000 people were expected to demonstrate across London as a blimp shaped like a giant baby Trump flew by Parliament.
Leader comment: A denunciation of Donald Trump - The Scotsman - Donald Trump, due to arrive in the UK later today, is a racist, a serial liar, and either a sex abuser or someone who falsely brags about being one in the apparent belief that this will impress other men in a metaphorical "locker room" (lock him up in the locker room)
Trump lost millions at golf courses in Scotland. U.S. voters weren



12 Russian intelligence officers indicted for hacking in 2016 election - The Boston Globe - The indictment lays out a sweeping and coordinated effort to break into key Democratic email accounts, including those belonging to the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Mueller indictment provides details of Russian hacking conspiracy - The Boston Globe - Malware, spearphishing, and phony identities ... Georgia, Iowa and Florida (red states experienced in fucking elections)


Giuliani says Mueller probe results should be dismissed after Strzok testimony - The Washington Post (talk about delusional)
Rep. Louie Gohmert's question of FBI agent Peter Strzok in the Mueller hearing was bonkers -- The Peter Strzok Hearing Was a Total Fiasco, but One Moment Was Particularly Unreal (Louie Gumball)

Maine governor Paul LePage says he'd go to jail before he expands Medicaid (lock him up immediately)
ME-02: Poliquin Moves From Lean Republican to Toss Up | The Cook Political Report (even ME-02, maybe LePage isn't helping)


Roy Moore, Joe Arpaio both say they were duped by Sacha Baron Cohen - The Boston Globe ... Baron Cohen has posted only a cryptic clip of a former vice president Dick Cheney being asked to sign a water jug that a man -- presumably Baron Cohen -- calls his "waterboard kit" (Saint Sacha exposing a long list of soulless wingnut idiots is long and Cheney's pig's heart just keeps beating ... )
Borat - Throw the Jew Down the Well!! - YouTube


#TeamStormy -- fake boobs > fake news


Eschaton: Validation - The Right is good at making any issue into the issue of the day. There isn't one single reason for that, though the why/how isn't the point of this post. The point is that they make an issue a thing, and then there's a tendency by too many Democrats (electeds and pundits) to agree that the issue is actually an issue. Then they've already lost. For example, when Trump says we need to build a wall, and Chuck Schumer comes out bragging that some bipartisan bill is a much better way to achieve needed better border security because of all the wonky rea[zzzzzz...] all voters hear is "we need better border security" and what they conclude is "wow I guess we need that wall."


Eschaton - Decades of blaming everything on public school teachers while tons of money gets poured elsewhere in the education system and... Pennsylvania used to license more than 14,000 new teachers annually. Now, it issues certificates to fewer than 5,000. The state is aiming to do something about that ... to develop and implement residency programs for educators ... Or you could just pay them more. But, nah, grants for programs for training for.


Papa John's founder resigns hours after apologizing for using the n-word - Schnatter, a Trump donor who had already stepped down as his company's chief executive in January after he said that National Football League player protests were hurting his pizza sales


The 'King' of Shambhala Buddhism Is Undone by Abuse Report (well, there's your problem, right there and it looks like Buddhism is stuck in toxic patriarchy, so much for your so-called "enlightenment")
'It appears he had a very revolving door': Allegations against Halifax-based Buddhist leader rising (Chogyam's kid)
The Guru Cult of Tibetan Buddhism
Area's mindfulness ties go back decades - Northern Colorado has strong ties to meditation and mindfulness, thanks in large part to two men: Chvgyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism who died in 1987, and R. Adam Engle, a Boulder County resident who co-founded the Mind and Life Institute. (the Tibetans "invented" mindfullness)


Police Pointed A Gun At Four Black Boys After A 911 Caller Falsely Claimed They Were Armed


A religious Oregon couple didn't believe in medical care. After newborn's death, they're headed to prison ... The baby died amid the murmured prayers of friends and family ... Followers of Christ Church, a faith-healing sect numbering around 1,000 members ... The Mitchells are the fifth set of parents from the Followers of Christ Church to face criminal charges after failing to secure medical attention for their children in the past nine years ... rooted in the 19th-century Pentecostal movement (look at his eyes)

Stranger Than Fiction: How Documentaries Invaded The Zeitgeist | HuffPost - It's the summer of big doc energy. What gives?

Eschaton: RIP Gizmo

Drone video shows great white eating seal off Cape Cod beach - The Boston Globe

Dockless bikes keep ending up underwater - The Boston Globe
Fishing bicycle wrecks from the canals of Amsterdam - YouTube


The prehistoric shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico is so fertile you can see it from space - The Washington Post


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FEMA Was Sorely Unprepared for Puerto Rico Hurricane, Report Says - The New York Times


Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling : news (Republicanss)

More on 3D Printing - Lawyers, Guns & Money (meanwhile, a total game changer on the way to Picard's Republicator)


Trump Torches Hosts on First Day of Visit to U.K.
Trump's BREXIT BLAST I told May how to do Brexit but she wrecked it -- the US trade deal is off, says Donald Trump - the US President said Theresa May had ignored his advice by opting for a soft Brexit strategy (supports BoJo for the job)
In a deeply revealing news conference, Trump tips his hand on his thinking about Putin - The Washington Post - On July 12, President Trump said he would ask Russian President Vladimir Putin "again" whether Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential elections (and you already know the answer, so shut up)
Trump at NATO: President claimed to get new commitments on military spending - The Washington Post ("I'm the boss everybody," Trump reiterated)
The rhinoceros who was elected shortstop - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It's very possible that we are on the cusp of a history-changing collapse of the Western security order based on one person's mistaken belief that European defense budgets are payments to the United States. (+Trump is a walking disaster and getting worse and he owns the Repubican party)


TSA agents cannot be sued over allegations of abuse, federal court rules - The Washington Post - The court also revisited the question of when a search should trigger Fourth Amendment protections and found that TSA screeners are more like federal meat inspectors than police officers. (Republicans only appeal is to the Supreme Court of Trump)

Border Agent Who Questioned Reporter Is Investigated for Computer Misuse - The New York Times - Actions taken by Jeffrey A. Rambo, a Border Patrol agent (c'mon)

The Peter Strzok fiasco wrecks the GOP's bogus conspiracy theory (it's what they do, see Gowdy's Benghaaazzzi +comment: "I'm beginning to wonder if propping up the orange embarrassing dictator wannabe is all of these southern state GOP fella's revenge on the Union 150 years later" - it's sinking in)
7 key moments from Peter Strzok's wild hearing
Aaron Blake on Twitter: "The contrast here is pretty stark: GOP in one breath threatens Strzok with contempt if he doesn't detail Russia investigation, which is ongoing. Then it says it won't release transcript of Strzok's initial testimony ... because its investigation is ongoing."
No Sense of Decency - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Trump lickspittle, buffoon, and purveyor of insane conspiracy theories Trey Gowdy and some other Republicans of similar character and integrity held some kind of Monty Python sketch about the ludicrous-on-every-level hallucination that the FBI in 2016 was trying to throw the election to Donald Trump today. Strzok responded quite well: ... "The FBI is Trumpland"
Republicans Thought Peter Strzok Would Be a Punching Bag. He Just Knocked Them Out.
Peter Strzok just gave a hard-to-rebut defense of the objectivity of the Russia investigation's origins

Fireworks at Strzok hearing as GOP reps fume at anti-Trump FBI agent, threaten contempt | Fox News - "I have the utmost respect for Congress' s oversight role, but I truly believe that today's hearing is just another victory notch in Putin's belt and another milestone in our enemies' campaign to tear America apart," Strzok said. (and you're all a bunch of lying commies, he implied)
FBI agent Peter Strzok passionately defends himself at fiery House hearing - CNNPolitics - "At no time in any of these texts did those personal beliefs ever enter into the realm of any action I took," Strzok said.
Gowdy and FBI agent Strzok in angry exchange over anti-Trump texts (Gowdy, Goodlatte and Gumball Gohmert, traitors and volcano-fodder, say all government employees not permitted to have political opinions that aren't pro-Trumpster)
Nunes leaves in middle of hearing following questions on Russia probe | TheHill (the little russian rat scurried into his hole)
F.B.I. Agent Defends Actions in Russia Probe in Contentious House Testimony - The New York Times
Strzok's House Judiciary Hearing Plunges Into Absolute Chaos As Lawmakers Exchange Heated Barbs
CSPAN on Twitter: the Trump/Russia guilty pleas
Rep. Jackson Lee holds up Paul Manafort's very recently released mugshot while questioning Strzok. (well done)


Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust in Local News

Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Want Roe v. Wade to Stand

Donald Trump wants to get rid of Air Force One legendary paint job -- Trump wants tough new Air Force One paint job (awesome)

The Trump Breastfeeding Scandal - Lawyers, Guns & Money (history: the Nestle boycott)

Prosecutors drop criminal case against porn star Stormy Daniels - dismissal came after Daniels' hard-charging lawyer Michael Avenatti accused police of being politically motivated in their arrest of the actress, who claims she had an affair with President Donald Trump in 2006 ... Columbus police, who said they had seen her forcing patron's faces into her breasts and smacking them in the face with her breasts during her show ... "my office was not involved in this sting operation" (stupid Trumpster cops, Columbus' attorney not happy)
Stormy Daniels was arrested at Sirens strip club for touching patrons, police detectives. The case has been dismissed. - The Washington Post
Charges dropped, Stormy Daniels to take stage at another Columbus strip club - News - The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, OH (Columbus taxpayers paid for 4 "detectives" to hang out in a strip club and get motorboated and no comments on the Columbus Dispatch, natch)
Stormy Daniels arrested at Ohio strip club, Avenatti alleges harassment : news

Midwest Democrats-Not All White! - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Tammy Duckworth is wrong)

Jared Kushner lacks security clearance level to review some of the nation's most sensitive intelligence in White House role

The bizarre media hoopla over Alan Dershowitz'social life in Martha's Vineyard, explained -- The most important issue in America today

NewsBusters promoted a white nationalist piece that claimed Black people are "a threat to all" they encounter


Facebook Proves It Isn't Ready To Handle Fake News (culture of cluelessness)


Five Picassos went missing from the L.A. Times. What happened to them?


Biscayne Park, FL police told to frame black people, probe found | Miami Herald - The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found

Black Man Told To Leave Pool At His Own Apartment Complex In Indianapolis | HuffPost

An Arkansas man complained about police abuse. Then town officials ruined his life. - The Washington Post (example xthousand-and-one of America's crooked cop problem)

Abused Woman Held Captive By Boyfriend Slips Note To Veterinary Staff : videos

Man who harassed woman in Puerto Rican T-shirt now facing hate crime charges : news


We're scientists with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which just announced new evidence for a source of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays. Ask Us Anything!
IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Cancer cells engineered with CRISPR slay their own kin. Researchers engineered tumor cells in mice to secrete a protein that triggers a death switch in resident tumor cells they encounter. : science

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet engraved with 13 verses of the Odyssey in the ancient city of Olympia...in what could be the earliest record of the epic poem : books
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a rare find -- an enormous black granite sarcophagus said to be the largest ever found in Alexandria, Egypt. : news

Heat wave reveals a previously undiscovered Neolithic Henge in Ireland : gifs


Fun isn't something one considers when banning half a subreddit : blog

What is the biggest unresolved scandal the world collectively forgot about? : AskReddit


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Scientists may have solved a huge riddle in Earth's climate past. it doesn't bode well for the future. - An ancient flood seems to have stalled the circulation of the oceans, plunging the Northern Hemisphere into a millennium of near-glacial conditions.
Today in the Sixth Extinction - Lawyers, Guns & Money - For the last three years, not one calf has been born to the dwindling pods of black-and-white killer whales spouting geysers of mist off the coast in the Pacific Northwest.


How Rescuers in a Thai Cave Pulled Off the Impossible - The New York Times
Why do the boys rescued from the cave in Thailand need to be quarantined? : askscience
Last out of Chiang Rai cave: Australian Hero Dr Richard Harris was on a holiday when Thai authorities asked for help. He stayed with the kids until they were all safe. : pics
Twitter Users Blister Kellyanne Conway After She Praises Rescue Of Thai Cave Kids | HuffPost
Helen Kennedy on Twitter: " "


Harvard study finds that during heat waves, people can't think straight - The test results showed that during the heat wave students without air conditioning experienced decreases across five measures of cognitive function.


1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 are widely celebrated as the trilogy of authoritarian warning. What would be the 4th book to include? : books


When Trump attacked Germany in Brussels, his aides pursed their lips and glanced away
NATO summit: After tirade against allies, Trump pushes for countries to double defense spending goal - The Washington Post


'Approved by Donald Trump' : Asbestos sold by Russian company is branded with the president

Under Trump, everything gets trashed and degraded - The Washington Post (secret meeting with Kennedy to give money to his kid)

Anatomy of a Trump rally: 76 percent of claims are false, misleading or lacking evidence - The Washington Post

The New York Times Didn't Waste Any Time Publishing the Worst Brett Kavanaugh Take - Tradition dating back to 2017 holds that a right wing Supreme Court nominee is entitled to a New York Times op-ed from a liberal lawyer about why, actually, the nominee is good, even if all of his actual ideas are dogshit.
Eschaton: What Do They Care About - As far as I can tell they're mostly the "use the right fork with the appetizer and make sure the right guests been invited" crowd. Actual policies don't really seem to matter, it's just about having the "right" sorts of people run things in the appropriate style.
The Washington Post Op-Ed Page Needs an Intervention - Carpool Dad? Ken Starr? (Bezos needs to kick Fred Hiatt's ass out of there)

Judge to Manafort: Don't Worry, the Jail You're Going to Knows How to Handle Terrorists, Traitors and Spies
Is the Robert Hanssen suite available? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The Bechard-Broidy-Trump saga: An update - Lawyers, Guns & Money (meanwhile, in a parallel thread)

Trump pardons Oregon ranchers whose case sparked Bundy takeover of refuge | OregonLive.com
Unlikely alliance set Oregon ranchers' pardons in motion


Officials admit they may have separated family -- who might be US citizens -- for up to a year (and they've known for a long time)
Malls in California are sending license plate information to ICE : news
Paula White: There'a Difference Between Jesus as a Refugee and Those Who Enter the US Illegally (Jesus was a white guy)

The Myths of Roe, Pt. 1 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Master of the Hot Take - Lawyers, Guns & Money - But to this day nobody can melt your face like Mr. Richard Cohen. [Pulls up a chair] listen up kids: you are about to get some HOT TAKE HISTORY here:


Dementia Patients Keep Their Guns - NRA Resists Efforts to Remove Firearms from Alzheimer's Patients


Marijuana laws: When weed is legal in Canada, Americans are expected to flock. But the border, and U.S. law, stands in the way. - The Washington Post (monetizing the border; always say no of course not when they ask if you have every "used drugs")

Watch: Jehovah's Witnesses official says to destroy records because 'Satan's coming after us' : news - Apparently Satan thinks Jehovah's Witnesses have a problem with sexually abusing children, and is using the legal system to attack them.

What the Jim Jordan scandal tells us about GOP morality - The Washington Post
OSU'S Joe Paterno Argues Against Concept of Reporting - Lawyers, Guns & Money - And yet another witness saying that Jordan Paternoed:

Married N.J. woman, her mechanic die during barter sex in her garage | OregonLive.com

Michael Jackson was chemically castrated by his dad, says doctor
Arrest made in brick assault of 91-year-old Los Angeles man told to 'go back to' Mexico - The Washington Post - 30-year-old Laquisha Jones
Arrest made in beating of 91-year-old who reportedly was told to 'go back to Mexico' : news

Parents of toddler who killed himself with found gun charged. : news
Academy Sports manager fired after stopping gun theft suspect : news


/u/phenom10x shows how "both side are the same" is untrue, with a laundry list of vote counts by party on various legislation (more consciousness that voting matters) .


With new genes and an electric shock, scientists turn immune cells against cancer - The Washington Post

Opponents of marijuana ban called 'potheads' and booed at West Springfield council (video) : bostontrees


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Thailand cave rescue: All 12 boys, coach freed, latest updates | Daily Telegraph
Thailand cave rescue: All 12 boys, coach freed, latest updates : news
The four Thai Navy Seals (one medic) that stayed IN the cave with the boys since they were discovered. They monitored their health and prepped them for their dangerous escape were the last to emerge after the 13 originals. : pics


DIY Guns: A Landmark Ruling Opens the Door for Homemade Guns | WIRED

Turkish Photographer Beats Up Groom at Wedding Over Child Bride : news (Furckey)



Trump pardons Oregon cattle ranchers in case that sparked 41-day occupation of national wildlife refuge : news


Why Was a Citizenship Question Put on the Census? 'Bad Faith,' a Judge Suggests


Russian company had access to Facebook user data through apps


GOP Senators Tell Contradictory Stories About Moscow Trip - A key Republican came back from the Kremlin seemingly shrugging off Russian aggression. His colleagues are confused as hell by his talk. Inside a controversial mission to Moscow. ("Traitors' Tour 2018")
Trump is Training His Base to Hate NATO and Like Putin

Democrats' Senate dream slips away (Bredesen, Nelson, Fuckkamp)


Starr Starr - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Cult of the Court - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Slow learned hand - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Trump to tap federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court : news


This Day in Labor History: July 10, 1986 - Lawyers, Guns & Money - On July 10, 1986, United Airlines agreed to pay a minimum of nearly $33 million in restitution and reinstate at least 475 fired flight attendants to compensate for illegally firing them after a no-marriage rule was declared illegal. (had to be single until '86, Republicans will Made Airlines Fun For Men Again)



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Eight boys now freed in Thailand cave rescue leaving only four and coach still trapped : news


An Indian train passenger's tweet helped save 26 girls from child traffickers

UK Government On Verge Of Collapse Days Before Trump's Visit - Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson became the latest cabinet minister to resign over Brexit negotiations in 24 hours
Brexit turned out to be harder than they thought -- so the Brexiteers are quitting. (and having tantrums on the way out)


US opposition to breastfeeding resolution: America threatened Ecuador - Vox (Trump is disgusted by lactating women, look it up)


1-Year-Old Baby Appears In Immigration Court, Cries Hysterically | HuffPost - The judge said he was "embarrassed" to ask if the boy understood the proceedings.
Latest ICE Data Details Increasingly Indiscriminate Arrests | HuffPost - Under Trump, the agency is returning to a pattern abandoned by the Obama administration.
U.S. push to remove immigrants targets Miami grandma | Miami Herald


Why do all these Russians keep helping my campaign? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart -- OPr His Handler - A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion. (Chait takes a deep dive with a chart of the collusions)

Why does Michael Cohen keep publicly hinting that he'll flip on Trump?

Trump's delusions are about to blow up in his own voters' faces

Trump's Personal Driver for 25 Years Sues for Unpaid Overtime (and the plain folks of the land love him) )

From Kellyanne Conway to Stephen Miller, Trump's advisers face taunts from hecklers around D.C.
McConnell chased from KY restaurant by protesters : news


The Democratic Center is Scared - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The only road ahead for the Democrats is as an anti-fascist party with a bold agenda that combines racial, economic, and gendered justice. For those who fret about that, understand that actual fascism is descending upon America, that the Supreme Court is in the first of a multi-year process that will likely repeal a century of progressive law, and that the future of democracy in this nation is in doubt. (Dems are mostly asleep, stuck in the '70s)


Beto-mania Sweeps Texas - POLITICO Magazine - Ted Cruz's long-shot challenger is drawing riotous crowds. Is it enough?

The Liberal Backlash Is Coming - The politics of backlash have been a Republican specialty for decades, but liberal anger continues to rise.
Nazis and white supremacists are running as Republicans. The GOP is terrified. - Vox - The racist candidates are expected to lose, but they could drag their party down with them.


OSU wrestling sex abuse claims: Former coaches come out in support of Jim Jordan - CNN (because they would also be complicit)


Judge Rules Against Church Seeking To Offer Marijuana As Holy Sacrament | HuffPost (we didn't mean THAT kind of religious freedom bullshit)



Boy whose lawn mowing prompted police call gets cops called on him again for playing - Vox - , Linda Krakora


/u/EditingAndLayout explains the stages of being brigaded, and why after the fact it may seem like no brigading took place : bestof


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Death toll climbs to 76 as heavy rains hammer southern Japan

EPA Sitting On Warnings About Cancer-Causing Chemical: Report | HuffPost - The health assessment that apparently was completed months ago concerns formaldehyde. (Trumpsters decided it was good for you and so is cancer)
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials - The New York Times - The $70 billion infant formula industry has seen sales flatten in wealthy countries in recent years
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials : news (we don't need your so-called "health" we got profits!)


First Boys Rescued From Thailand Cave After Being Trapped For 2 Weeks | HuffPost - Eighteen rescuers were sent to rescue the stranded soccer team one by one.

Syria: Israel behind attack on Iranian air force base near Homs - Israel News - Haaretz.com - Reports say Syrian air defense systems fired at planes, coming in from Jordan, and heading towards the T4 airbase used by Iran

Inside Pompeo's Fraught North Korea Trip - Bloomberg (Pompeo is a actually a "gangster")
Eschaton: Why Don't Liberals Give Him Credit For (Insert Made Up Thing) - The big concern with North Korea was that President Deals would think he had a deal, and then Kim Jong-Un would behave rather predictably about the whole, thing and then President Deals would get mad and blow up the world. Moving on to step 3...


Revealed: Arron Banks met Russian ambassador 11 times | UK news | The Guardian (first it was never, then it was once or twice ...)
Electoral law has been broken -- this is a fight for the soul of our democracy -- Despite inadequate rules and toothless regulators, we must battle to safeguard our voting system (UK, in this case)

Putin critic found strangled to death the day he was due in court | Daily Mail Online

Trump is bent on wrecking NATO. Prepare for catastrophe. - The Washington Post


The secret story of how America lost the drug war with the Taliban - POLITICO - A high-stakes plan to indict Afghan drug lords and insurgency leaders on criminal conspiracy charges ran afoul of the Obama team. Five years later, it remains buried under Trump.


Russian Bots Linked To Viral Twitter Attacks On 'hateful' Dems - Is this a preview of stepped-up activity before the midterm elections?

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's half-truths on court case, economy
Conservative radio host: 'Pretty damn sad' majority of my callers are OK with Trump lying ... "becuase he's their man"

Kids as young as 1 in US court, awaiting reunion with family
Immigrant NYC Grandparents Detained While Visiting Son-in-Law at Fort Drum, Family Says - NBC New York - Concepcion and Margarito were stopped by military police at the gates of Fort Drum on July 4, their children say (Trump's abuse on a massive scale)
Court Order To Reunite Migrant Children And Parents Reveals How Little Planning Went Into Separation Policy - reveals the extent of its lack of planning when it implemented its zero tolerance policy. (or, that actually was the plan)

Health Insurers Warn of Market Turmoil as Trump Suspends Billions in Payments - The New York Times (judge said they were paying too little, Trumpsters said just fuck it then)


Devin Nunes calling for a 'task force' to investigate officials and activists who exposed Russian election meddling (no exposing Russian election meddling for you, said Russian agent and traitor Nunes)
Former GOP Leader Bill Frist Calls On Republican Senate To Protect Mueller | HuffPost

How the trade war is changing minds in a Senate battleground (white Trumpster farmer suckers sort of waking up)

The Devolution of the Modern President | Boston Review - But Trump will be remembered for rolling up into his one presidency the sins of many. Add to the above list of presidential problems a persistent sense of chaos stemming from the president's own lack of policy clarity and the constant churning of top personnel and you have a presidency that is well outside of normal ... Indeed, based on this century's s track record, the nature of the presidency itself is in crisis for reasons not at all unique to Trump ... modern presidential candidates are rewarded for their ability to persuade the public; once in office, however, these presidents often fall into the trap of thinking they can talk their way around any problem in government. (but fuck, Obamacare roll-out ws not the same as the Bush/Cheney murderous calamity)


conscience leads her to reveal her source to the FBI. Here's why (Margaret Sullivan on Marcy Wheeler) "For her to go to the FBI, that made my jaw drop," said Daniel Drezner ... "It's like Glenn Greenwald calling up the CIA and saying I've discovered a mole."


Seventh former Ohio State wrestler claims Jordan knew of alleged sexual abuse | TheHill
Rep. Jim Jordan faces new accusation that he must have known about alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State - The Washington Post


Echidne Of The Snakes: Fuck Civility. My Second Post on the Sarah Huckabee Sanders Controversy (Fuckabee is satan's mouth, literally ) ... in the US right-wingers are allowed to be rude (i.e., have few consequences from their rudeness) far more often than left-wingers ... The archetypal juxtaposition of a fire-breathing conservative dragon with a hunched-over liberal hand-wringing milquetoast in oh-so-many television debates has prepared us all to use different standards on what to expect ... The Republican Party is now either the He-Man Macho Party or the Strict Father Party, and the Democratic Party is now either the Effeminate Wimp Party or the creator of a Nanny State or the Nurturing Mother Party. (note "father" is not apposite to "parent" - "strict fathers" lay down the law)


How women candidates like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez used virality - The Washington Post


GOP candidate in Kansas : Outside of Western civilization, there is only barbarism - State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald ... "Ghristendom under attack" "planned parenthood is Dachau"

Cast And Crew Walking Off Set Of Secret Anti-Choice 'Roe v. Wade' Film After Directors Reportedly Misled Them : movies (it was a Milo-movie)

Toddler, 2, dies of self-inflicted gunshot with parents not home : news (in a wealthy part of town)

Woman on oxygen dies hours after electric company shuts off power : news

Video shows El Paso Police officer pointing gun at confrontational kids : news


Opinion | Seriously, Juice Is Not Healthy - The New York Times (they ignore the whole fresh-sqeezed thing)


Impressive, but I have so many questions : WTF (see KS alcohol laws)

What was the most epic comeuppance you've ever seen a spoiled kid get? : AskReddit

OP's fiance cheats on him. Commenter /u/verpin_zal predicts all the manipulative tactics fiance will try and fiance delivers. : bestof


What's your internet white whale; something you saw once but never found again? : AskReddit
Crowd-sourced songwriting. Help us write some lyrics using the Wisdom of the Crowd.


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North Korea calls U.S. attitude toward talks 'gangster-like' and 'cancerous,' rejecting Pompeo's assessment (good shot of Pompeo)


A Russian-Backed Offensive in Syria Makes a Mockery of Trump | The New Yorker - As a result, this latest wave of displaced Syrians, who number three hundred and twenty-five thousand, are withering in the sun; most have neither shelter nor food nor water. Daytime temperatures are nearing a hundred degrees. Women on the run are giving birth; children are dying not just from dehydration brought on by diarrhea but from scorpion bites. (Dumpster is causing a lot of mass suffering and deaths)

'A little steel in the spine' : Rod Rosenstein, facing mounting criticism from Congress, is starting to fight back (so Republicans are now friends with Russia and are attacking American institutions, what does that make them?)

Manafort bank fraud trial does have Trump campaign connection, Mueller's team says


Eight Republicans pick the worst possible place to celebrate July 4 - The Washington Post - Sen Ron Johnson (R,R) For the Wisconsin Republican, it meant, specifically, the freedom to spend July 4 in Moscow with seven other Republican lawmakers posing for propaganda photos with Russian officials. On the same day it was reported in Britain that two more people had been poisoned by a Russian nerve agent British officials say came from Vladimir Putin ... Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump. (Rethugs are the new commies)



President Trump Took a Shot at George H.W. Bush at Montana Rally - Bush Knows About Pardons - Bush family retainers, and a number of people afflicted with common decency, went up the wall, as well they should. But I recalled that GHWB had pardoned everybody who could've tangled him up in the crimes of Iran-Contra on his way out of town in 1992 ... (forgot that, didn't you?)

Trump Crammed A Remarkable Amount Of Misogyny Into Just 24 Hours | HuffPost - Even for him, this was astonishing.
Trump and women: The big disconnect in American politics - The Washington Post - approval rating among men is 54 percent positive and 45 percent negative. Among women, it's 32 percent positive and 65 percent negative.


Migrant Baby Returned To Mom Covered With Lice: Lawsuit | HuffPost - had not bathed him the 85 days he was away from us ...
Mika Brzezinski Rips Ivanka Trump For Hailing Dad On Migrant Kids | HuffPost - "sick" for thanking President Donald Trump for reuniting immigrant children and parents who were separated as a result of his own administration's policies.
Eschaton: Consider the Possibilities - What would you do if you were a foreign kitchen worker at Mar-a-lago (no need to actually answer)? -- UPDATE: @realdonaldtrump's Mar-a-Lago club is now asking to hire *61* foreign workers for the coming season. They just posted an application to hire 21 foreign cooks, who'll be paid slightly less than last year

Sometimes You Get What You Ask For - Lawyers, Guns & Money - None of this is going to move Trump voters away from voting for their lovely white supremacist, but at least they are getting what they ask for: Here are the 30 congressional districts hit hardest by the new soy tariffs: 25R, 5D -- but all 30 districts voted for Trump in '16 (suckers)
Trump Trade War with China's First Victims Are Sorghum, Lobsters, and Soy - Soy, lobsters, and sorghum are the first victims in our big, strong trade wars.

/u/FiveDozenWhales explains the rhetorical techniques of the alt-right: "this is why people don't want to "debate" the alt-right - they don't actually handle tough questions, but use rhetoric, nonsense phrases, or other weasel-y methods to get out of answering any difficult questions." : bestof

American Ethnic Cleansing of Days Past - Lawyers, Guns & Money

"If You Define The Right As The Left, Then I Am Leftier Than Thou" - Apparently tired of talking to the official propaganda network of the American government, libertarian journalist Glenn Greenwald gave an interview with its Russian equivalent, with amazing results: (GG continues his descent, may have hit bottom)


Holocaust Denier in California Congressional Race Leaves State G.O.P. Scrambling - The New York Times - The state party distanced itself from him after learning of anti-Semitic statements on his campaign website ... Mr. Fitzgerald has increased the frequency of his anti-Semitic statements and has appeared on podcasts in which he claimed the Holocaust was a fabrication. (by the libs embedded in the 'deep state' you know)


'A cesspool of deviancy' : New claims of voyeurism test Jordan denials - A half-dozen former wrestlers at Ohio State, where GOP Rep. Jim Jordan once coached, said they were regularly harassed by men in their training facility. (just call it a Republican swamp of deviancy)
Jim Jordan Is Defiant as Allegations Mount, and Supporters Point to 'Deep State' - liberal bureaucrats embedded in the government (you know, those deepstate college wrestlers, getting desperate, aren't we?)


Security footage shows assistant principal slamming Detroit boy to ground : news ... the second story about the 7-year-old with the severed finger is even worse. You would have thought the school would have called 911 when the finger was severed but instead, the nurse handed it to the mom in a baggie and mom took the kid to the hospital in an Uber.
Suspects caught on video beating 92-year-old man with brick in Willowbrook | abc7.com


David Watkins on Twitter: "Thank you, @schmangee, for responding to the factually challenged, irresponsible story from @JBergal https://t.co/Jb5zjSihAx" (PBS sucks)
No, "Drunk Walking" Is Not Causing the Rise in Pedestrian Deaths -- A new report from PBS News Hour violates the most basic precepts of good journalism in a pathetic attempt to pin the rise in pedestrian fatalities on people who drink and walk.
Study Links Rise of SUVs to the Pedestrian Safety Crisis - Streetsblog USA (Death Utility Vehicles)


'We got bills to pay, sweetie.' Cops forced to return stripper's $19,934 in cash : news - "I felt that the glitter on the seized cash was compelling evidence, but apparently the police department disagreed"


The Weird, Ever-Evolving Story of Your DNA - The Atlantic ... In Zimmer's pages, we discover a world minutely threaded with myriad streams of heredity flowing in all directions, in variegated patterns and different registers (it's a lot more complicated than you thoughts and it's all alive)


Woman Recounts Unprovoked Rat Attack In Dupont: DCist - "What's terrible is for weeks I've been having dreams and nightmares about mice and rats," says Sophia. "it's not great to have that culminate into an attack ... the taunting noise it made is reverberating in my brain."


10 trendy foods you'll soon be seeing everywhere


Wearing a tie may be restricting blood flow to your brain. Tightly-worn ties have been found to impair the brain's blood supply, prompting one scientist to suggest that it's time to abandon them altogether. (moral center esp. affected


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The Times at Gettysburg, July 1863: A Reporter's Civil War Heartbreak

North Bay Village, FL police had party on the job during Irma | Miami Herald - Residents called for help as Irma rolled in. These on-duty cops drank Coronas - Instead of patrolling in their special high-water vehicles or taking calls, the commander told the other police officers that they should stay in and could drink on the job. So seven guys cracked open beers, talked football and did what one official described as "other things guys do when they get together' (watch porn and suck each others' dicks)


Thai Rescue Diver Dead After Falling Unconscious In Cave | HuffPost - Samarn Poonan, a former member of Thailand's elite Navy SEAL unit, died from lack of oxygen.
Navy SEAL dies while rescuing Thai schoolboys trapped in cave : news - the mount Everest of cave diving
The cave divers who went back for their friends - BBC News

German pharmacist gets 12 years for diluting cancer drugs : news - on a massive scale in order to finance his luxury lifestyle.

At least two suspected rhino poachers have been mauled to death and eaten by lions on a South African game reserve, officials say. : news ... "The rhinos send their thoughts and prayers"

Eschaton: Deal - What's interesting about all of the Brexit talk in the UK press is it focuses first on whether Theresa May can get "a deal" within her own party/coalition and only then moves to discuss whether the details of any such deal would be acceptable to the EU (spoiler: no). (meanwhile, in Toryville)

Donald Trump to almost entirely avoid London during UK visit | US news | The Guardian - Meetings with Theresa May and the Queen to be held away from protests in capital (the diaper blimp was too much for him)

Mexican journalist killed in Quintana Roo - Committee to Protect Journalists


John Lanchester 7 After the Fall: Ten Years after the Crash 7 LRB 5 July 2018 (by not prosecuting any financial people responsible, Obama -- pawn of the bankers -- cleared the path for Trump by maintaining/increasing inequality)


Trump Has Already Started Four Trade Wars == and Copunting - brief guide to Trump's multifront tariff war (he needs to look like he's dominating even while he's losing so fuck your bourbon, soybeans, cars and Harley hogs)

Trump considered invading Venezuela. We should talk about it. - Vox

Federal prosecutors abruptly dismiss all remaining Inauguration Day rioting cases - The Washington Post - bringing to a close a controversial case which led to allegations of government overreach (facist regime started on day 1 -- no free speech for libtards but they folded)


Byron York: What is Devin Nunes up to? House Trump-Russia investigation expands as Intel chair focuses on informants (Devin "yes, I'm a Russian agent" Nunes)


Donald Trump's Montana speech: The 11 most dangerous lines - CNNPolitics ... Trump seems to think -- or at least say -- that he has to be careful not to offend the #MeToo movement by throwing a DNA heritage kit at Warren (your NYT doesn't mention this, below)
Trump Assails Critics and Mocks #MeToo. What About Putin? ''He's Fine'
The Daily 202: Trump's s mockery of the #MeToo movement underscores the GOP's problem with women in 2018
A pillar of the American right predicts dire and catastrophic consequences for the Trump-Putin summit (George Fucking will)

In a series of posts footnoted with dozens of sources, /u/poppinKREAM shows how since the inauguration the Trump administration has been supporting a GOP shift to fascist ideology and a rise of right-wing extremist in the United States : bestof


Manafort Kept in Solitary 23 Hours a Day to 'Guarantee His Safety,' Lawyer says (oh, and to give him time to reflect on certain life-choices)

Class Attracts Class - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A perfect paring of terrible people -- Michael D. Cohen, the former personal lawyer to President Trump who is under investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, has hired Lanny J. Davis ...
Michael Avenatti was named in a lawsuit with a GOP megadonor client of Michael Cohen's and he doesn't know why ... "This is highly unusual under California law," he noted
Shera Bechard files lawsuit against Elliott Broidy and Michael Avenatti (!) and has the complaint immediately sealed - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The bizarre aspects of this story are about to hit 11:


U.S. Army Reportedly Discharging Immigrants Who Enlisted With Promises Of Citizenship | HuffPost - About 10,000 people now serve under a program meant to fast-track U.S. citizenship for military duty. (support our troops by arresting and deporting them)
Hillary Clinton Was the More Dangerous Evil - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.
'My son is not the same': New testimony paints bleak picture of family separation
Trump Administration in Chaotic Scramble to Reunify Migrant Families - The New York Times (they shredded all the records)
Most Americans oppose key parts of Trump immigration plans, including wall, limits on citizens bringing family to U.S., poll says - The Washington Post
This can't be real -- but it is
JUST IN: Federal judge agrees to delay next meeting about extending deadline to reunite 101 children under the age of 5 until Monday because Trump administration lawyer has "dog sitting responsibilities" this weekend (priorities)

The Eugenicist Doctor and the Vast Fortune Behind Trump's Immigration Regime -- ohn Tanton, an aging ophthalmologist from Michigan, and Cordelia Scaife May, heir to the Scaife family fortune, a branch of the Mellon family, were vectors for world-historical forces.

Eschaton: A Play In One Act - Lefties: Abolish ICE! Republicans: Democrats want open borders! Concern trolls: Oh no! Why are you handing the Republicans an ISSUE in November??? It is your fault they will win! ... (iterations)


Fox Business Reporter Charles Gasparino Calls 'Complete BS' In Trump's Latest Attack - Trump blasted the use of anonymous sources, despite having been one himself.

Bill Shine's s Wife Discredited Sexual Harassment Accusers, Spread Antivaxxer Theories - new White House deputy chief of staff
Bill Shine's Wife Darla Complained She Couldn't Use N-Word and Spread Conspiracy Theories About 'Blacks' (her 1st Amendment rights were trampled! +only the best for Trumpster +nice couple)

Calls for Rep. Jim Jordan's Resignation Heat Up As 5th Witness -- Former UFC Champion -- Comes Forward - Jordan, who has been a staunch ally of President Trump, in his attempts to discredit the Special Counsel investigation into election meddling, has come under heat as of late due to allegations of sexual misconduct at Ohio State University in the 1990s. (OH-4 ultra-safe Rethug)
The Ability of Elite Republicans to Fully Support Donald Trump is an Eternal Mystery - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Perhaps the top candidate to replace Paul Ryan, everyone: Two more former wrestlers have come forward claiming Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) turned a blind eye to abuse by a team doctor at Ohio State, while Jordan was working there in the 1990s ... And, really, you can understand why Jordan hasn't resigned; he might even be the next Speaker. This is what the Republican Party is at this point, so why not.

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill rejects calls to resign in wake of groping allegations - The Washington Post

Pruitt's Resignation Is Just the Beginning - Pruitt faced up to 19 separate investigations into his conduct reflecting a stunning degree of disregard for federal ethics, special-interest and procurement rules.
Sources: EPA blocks warnings on cancer-causing chemical - POLITICO - Burying the formaldehyde study is part of an effort by Pruitt and aides to undermine EPA (Environmental Destruction Agency)
Colin Campbell on Twitter: "oh em gee " (not bad, NYP)


Socialism with Midwestern Characteristics - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Tammy Duckworth is stupid)

PA-01: Fitzpatrick Moves from Toss Up to Lean Republican | The Cook Political Report
VA-07: Brat Moves from Lean Republican to Toss Up | The Cook Political Report


Mexican-hating white man throws a tantrum over skateboarding: 'I'm a racist, at least I'm something' (cell phones, dude, and Facebook, get a brain)

Marquette professor John McAdams prevails in academic freedom case ... after he publicly criticized a graduate student by name on his politically conservative blog, leading to threats against her. (acameically free to call down army of alt-right goons on her)

James Woods' Agent Dropped Him As a Client on Fourth of July, Told the Actor He Was 'Feeling Patriotic'
Amber Tamblyn Pens Open Letter to James Woods | Teen Vogue

In 2007 Andy Dick was escorted by security from Kimmel's show after he kept touching Ivanka Trump : television

I was born and raised in a NY Hasidic community, completely isolated from Secular society. AMA : IAmA (try this in Denmark)

Boynton Beach homeowner says he was attacked over President Trump flag in yard - wptv.com
Starbucks: Philadelphia barista fired for mocking stuttering customer - The Washington Post
Man who challenged black family's use of pool loses job : news

Chris Brown arrested after a show in Florida on a felony battery warrant. Can we please end this piece of trash's career already? : Music
The Chris Brown mug shot tells the story of a life - The Washington Post

Twitter is sweeping out fake accounts like never before, putting user growth at risk - The Washington Post - Twitter suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June, and the pace has continued in July (Russian Trump bots)

The Onion, Clickhole, A.V. Club Brace for Layoffs - Univision aims to cut 15 percent of staff at Onion Inc., the network of storied satirical and cultural news sites the company oversees.


Study of community use of medicinal cannabis to treat childhood epilepsy found most samples contained some THC and little CBD, contrary to parents' expectations, and a majority (75%) were reported as reducing seizures, suggesting potential role for other cannabinoids in treatment-resistant epilepsy. : science

Highly esteemed: An end-to-end walk along Manhattan's High Line

In a survey of over 2,800 Americans, 65% of people responded that they are "more intelligent than the average person." : science

Why haven't we found aliens yet? - A new paper on the Fermi paradox convincingly shows why we will probably never find aliens ... Meanwhile, estimates from various specialists in existential risk suggest somewhere between a 5 to 19 percent chance of complete human extinction by the end of this century (is there a hedge fund for that?)

The Complexity of Simply Searching For Medical Advice | WIRED (data void because antivaxxers post alot)


When a person wants understanding, but their partner gives solutions, things do not usually go well. A new study with 114 newlywed couples suggests people who receive emotional support, instead of informational support, feel better and have higher relationship satisfaction. : science (men solve problems, can't listen to feelings)

[Serious] Sex therapists of Reddit, what do you wish more people knew? What are some of the more common (or obscure) things people have come to you with? : AskReddit

Police: Pair high on bath salts fired gun at fireflies, mistaking them for alien lasers : news

Reddit -- one of the world's most popular wesites -- is trying to cash in through advertising
Alternative websites and communities to reddit.com

What's the dumbest thing you believed as a child?
What's a fact you thought everyone knew, but turns out they didn't? : AskReddit

YouTuber in row over copyright infringement of his own song : technology
/u/Insxnity divulges a rare glimpse into the daily routine of a reddit moderator. : bestof

Eschaton: Why Won't You Stop Ramming My Car Into Your Body - Such a simple solution, really. -- The great promise of self-driving cars has been that they will eliminate traffic deaths. Now Professor Confused is saying that they will eliminate traffic deaths as long as all humans are trained to change their behavior? What just happened?
Netflix is killing off user reviews | Ars Technica (simplifying your opinion)

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Trump's trade war with China is finally here -- and it won't be pretty (fuck your global economy)

How Trump Went From 'Fire and Fury' to Dismissing North Korean Nuclear Advances


European Parliament votes to block copyright reform - Google, Facebook and other big firms argued the text would stifle creativity and content-sharing online. ("reform" = madness)

Amesbury Novichok poisoning: Couple exposed to nerve agent - BBC News

Jaguar Land Rover says hard Brexit will cost it #1.2bn a year | Financial Times

London mayor approves baby Trump blimp to fly over city during visit | TheHill
Mayor Says Donald Trump Is A 'Wasteman' And is 'Banned' from British City

Protester's climb shuts down Statue of Liberty on July 4

U.S. Border Patrol questions crews of at least 10 fishing vessels in Canadian waters | The Star (in international waters: US "border" now extends thousands of miles)


MSNBC Host Mocks Trump For Carrying Out Putin's 'Honey-Do List'

Mueller Probe: Mueller Taps More Prosecutors To Help With Growing Trump Probe - Bloomberg Quint (lock them ALL up)

Sanctioned Russian oligarch linked to Cohen has vast US ties

How to Make Trump's Tax Returns Public ... Criminal jurisdiction also rests with Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney. Mr. Vance has shown no interest, so far, in investigating other complaints against Mr. Trump.


Confident Trump not planning for Dem House takeover (Putin told him it's in the bag)

E.P.A. Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Under a Cloud of Ethics Scandals - The New York Times
Scott Pruitt resigns from EPA - Axios
E.P.A. Aide Questioned Deleting Sensitive Meeting Details. Then She Was Fired. - The New York Times
Trump Says Pruitt Has Resigned From EPA : news

The Messy reality of Donald Trump's poll numbers - One of Trump's great political talents, if it can be called that, is to behave so bizarrely that the bar is set lower for him than for any president in history. Then he can claim to have defied the doubters when he barely clears the standard he lowered for himself
Master of celebrity: How Trump uses -- and bashes -- the famous to boost himself
Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump, was 16 when he came to the United States - The Washington Post - as an unaccompanied minor (dport them all)

Obamacare Sabotage Is Working, Trump Administration Is Outraged To Learn | HuffPost

The centrist heavenly chorus is off-key - The Washington Post - Republicans have moved significantly further to the right than Democrats have moved to the left ... The upshot: The share of Democrats in the ideological middle is nearly twice that of Republicans. (stupid Dems)

Should Democrats Double Down on Their Base? - The Atlantic - Democrats can dodge a decision in 2018 over which voters they should prioritize. But by 2020, they'll have to make a ch choice ... One camp bets mostly on persuading swing voters ... (hahaha, no)

Eschaton: Do No Upset Voters Who Never Vote For Democrats - This has been in crouch in fear position of Democrats my whole life. Any time there's some minor lefty challenge to any status quo, especially ones which are either perceived by the Beltway types as important to Real Americans (whatever polls say), or are perceived by Beltway types as important to Beltway types (they poll their own dinner parties), the concern troll brigade comes out, telling Democrats they had better be careful or this will doooooom them. Paraphrasing Ed Koch, how are we doing?

Stephen King Called For A 1-Day Political Truce. It Didn't Go Well -- this tweet shows your straight, white, male privilege. This is not a time for hugs. #Resist


Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why. - The New York Times - Women have more options, for one. But a new poll also shows that financial insecurity is altering a generation's choices
Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Remake American Politics | The New Republic - The original decision gave conservatives a boost for decades. Overturning it could lead to a liberal resurgence.

Ohio State sex assault victim claims GOP Rep. Jim Jordan witnessed doctor committing 'lewd acts' in showers
Fourth Ohio State wrestler says Rep. Jim Jordan knew about sexual abuse when he was coach - The wrestler said Jordan, a former assistant coach at Ohio State, took part in locker-room conversations where athletes discussed the abuse. (Freedum Caucus)

He is a Member of a Violent White Supremacist Group; So Why is He Working for a Defense Contractor with a Security Clearance? | FRONTLINE | PBS | The Rise Above Movement, a Southern California group that expresses contempt for Muslims, Jews, and immigrants, ... a bearded, husky man is seen in a red Make America Great Again hat with his hands wrapped in tape that came in handy for the brawling that occurred that day ... he man in the violent footage was Miselis, a 29-year-old pursuing a Ph.D. in UCLa's aerospace engineering program.

Is it great to be a worker in the U.S.? Not compared with the rest of the developed world. - The Washington Post

Viral video: Teen says he was attacked for wearing 'Make American Great Again' hat | WOAI


Far-Right Twitter Keeps Falling for the Same Liberal Troll

San Francisco Logs Over 16,000 Feces Complaints in One Week - Golden Gate City becoming a sh*thole (and that doesn't count "shit" or "poop")

Mom Shoots Man Trying to Steal SUV With Kids Inside: Cops - NBC New York - The mother shot the man in the head when he refused her orders to stop the vehicle, police say


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The White House will be adorned by a downright moron
H. L. Mencken 'Moron' Quote -- "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron" (the Beast from the Earth)


Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week - The Washington Post

New study finds a relationship between US police department receipt of military excess hardware and increased suspect deaths. : science (Bush legacy)

Letters imagine the front lines of America's 'second civil war' - Far-right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones declared over the weekend -- without evidence -- that Democrats were planning to launch an actual civil war on July 4 to unseat President Trump ... Even for Jones, it was a far-fetched claim. Most people ignored it or made sarcastic jokes online about having to drop their barbecue plans at the last minute ... "I suggest we build a wall out of Hillary's emails since they can't get over them."
Lo Anna on Twitter: "My dearest Joshua, At dawn we begin the Battle of the Supreme Court. Our insider, @ruthbadergins assures us a victory, as the redhats believe Roe vs Wade refers to how they'll cross the Potomac. Send more Starbucks cards, love, me #secondcivilwarletters
The Fourth of July White House concert used to be a sea of stars. For Trump, its' a drought.
The fireworks king: How one Chinese businessman became the largest supplier of pyrotechnics in the United States - The Washington Post

Thai authorities hope for diving lessons and good weather to save trapped boys - The Washington Post

Today in Something Even Darker - Lawyers, Guns & Money - mass internment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang: (meanwhile, in the largest concentration camp the world has ever seen and you have never heard of)

2 Critically Ill In Britain Near Town Where Russian Spies Were Poisoned | HuffPost - A man and a woman are in a critical condition after they were exposed to an unknown substance near the southern English town of Salisbury.



Democracy Dies in the Blinding Light of Day

Shocking Conclusion: Russians Intervened in the 2016 Elections - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Senate Republicans, in contrast to Trump piss boy Devin Nunes, decided to do a real invetigation into Russian ratfucking, and the conclusions will probably not surprise you:
Senate intel committee concludes Putin personally approved meddling to aid Donald Trump
Trump's talking points on Crimea are the same as Vladimir Putin's

There's no conspiracy between Trump and Kennedy. There's just the swamp

why Won't Elliott Broidy actually say he had an affair with Shera Bechard? (attack of the Broidy lawyers)

New Poll: 49% believe Trump is racist (47% ARE racist)

Trump pressed aides on Venezuela invasion, US official says (and that was after they talked him out of nuking Canada)
In a Fox-Inspired Tweetstorm, Trump Offers a Medley of Falsehoods and Misstatements - The New York Times
Dubious Fox News article appears to have sparked Trump attack on Obama

NY Daily News Shreds 'Clown King' Trump In Blistering Independence Day Cover

Eschaton: Bad Grifting - You spend a year being in the Cabinet and *then* you start downloading money into your bank account. That's how it's supposed to work. Pruitt isn't just corrupt; he's stupid.

Conservatives will always call socialists hypocrites. Ignore them. : politics

Pundit Who Knows Nothing About Abortion Law Confident Overruling Roe Will Be Just Fine - Lawyers, Guns & Money - worth noting the sheer number of factual howlers McArdle throws out there: (McMegan McAddled)

Athletes: Chair Of Freedom Caucus Was the Paterno of OSU - Lawyers, Guns & Money - When he was a wrestling coach at THEEEEEEEE Ohio State University, Jim Jordan allegedly looked the other way from the systematic sexual assault of the athletes on the team: (he's a moral voice of the Antichrist party)
Lawyers for Ohio State contradict Jim Jordan's claim he's not been contacted - News - The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, OH


Black Oregon legislator says campaigning in own district triggered 911 call | OregonLive.com (she spent a lot of time talking to the neighbors while black so racist calls the cops)

Tennessee law revoking driver's licenses unconstitutional, federal court says ... who can't pay court costs (let's be evil on poor people)


A Frosty Summer for Alan Dershowitz on Liberal Martha's Vineyard (for a life-long social climber/exploiter, the karma comes for the antichrist-supporting Dershofuck)


Viral video of woman's arrest sparks anger, but LAPD says she was involved in violent kidnapping plot
Anthony Avalos was extensively tortured over days before dying, prosecutors allege - mother, Heather Barron, and her boyfriend

Catholic priest placed on leave after telling mourners to "get the hell out" of a Maryland funeral - The Washington Post - Rev. Michael Briese (the pic)


92 year old refuses to go to assisted living facility, shoots and kills son. : news


where applicants for recreational marijuana licenses are in Massachusetts


Motherhood Can Make a Woman's Cells 'Older' by as Much as 11 Years : science


Gaming is the highest selling form of entertainment at 116 billion a year; passing tv, movies, and music : news (TV down 8%)

Two Saudi students drown while trying to save American children from drowning in US river : news

What was the most statistically unlikely event you've witnessed?
What's the adult equivalent of learning Santa isn't real? : AskReddit

What are common themes in your dreams? : AskReddit


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3D Printing - Lawyers, Guns & Money - how the diffusion of 3D printing could disrupt the global economic and security order.
3D Printing Is Here to Disrupt Asia's Security Order ... "complexity for free"


Trump: 'If not for me,' United States would be at war with North Korea

Is Trump handing Putin a victory in Syria? - The Washington Post

'New York Times' Prints Op-Ed Claiming Donald Trump Has Real American Family Values - A new op-ed extolling Donald Trump's family values is beyond comprehension. (James Bennet)

Official White House Twitter Account Tweets at Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren About MS-13 'Animals'

As Health Conditions Worsen At Prison Holding 1,000 Detainees, Staff Fears A Riot | HuffPost - alerts about the unsafe conditions at Victorville, little has been improved and infectious disease is rapidly spreading.
Rep. Jeff Denham locked out of child immigrant center | McClatchy Washington Bureau - The cry of a child could be heard just inside the nondescript, brown detention facility in Pleasant Hill, California, a San Francisco suburb, and Rep. Jeff Denham wanted to see for himself what was inside.
Immigrant Mothers Were Moved Outdoors During Kirstjen Nielsen's Secretive Visit to Detention. They Shouted for Help to No Avail.
New Trump admin order for separated parents: Leave U.S. with kids or without them
An ICE Raid Leaves an Iowa Town Divided Along Faith Lines - The New York Times - The detention of 32 workers at a concrete plant opened fissures among the town's churches and secular leaders, and brought an abstract national issue painfully close to home. (Trumpsters)

NBC News poll: Most want vote on Trump Supreme Court nominee before midterms - The survey also found most Democrats and independents said the next justice should be moderate, while 65 percent of Republicans want a conservative. (meanwhile, in zombie-brain America)


Did Elliott Broidy stop paying Shera Bechard because those payments were an ongoing bribe of Donald Trump and his new (actually old) criminal defense lawyer told him to stop making them? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Who is David Dennison?: WSJ: Elliott Broidy to Stop Making Hush Payments Over Affair

Bipartisan Senate Panel Gives Middle Finger to Devin Nunes - report from the Senate Intelligence Committee says intelligence agencies were right to find the Russians interfered in the election to harm Clinton and elect Trump. (well, gee, doesn't that make Devin a you-know-what?)

Putting a Face (Mine) to the Risks Posed by GOP Games on Mueller Investigation - emptywheel (read this, it's scary)

Trump's Taking Us From Temper Tantrum to Trade War

Louie Gohmert suspects Rod Rosenstein's - staff may be spying on him (well?)

The midterm elections are shaping up to have a giant gender gap - Vox - Just one-third of women say they would pick a Republican this fall.- Almost 60 percent of women said they were leaning toward the Democratic candidate in their district, compared to 42 percent of men. Meanwhile, just 33 percent of women favored the Republican candidate, versus 50 percent of men ... The Quinnipiac survey also found that nearly twice as many women as men see their vote in the midterm elections as a way to oppose Trump. Forty-three percent of women categorize their vote as making this statement, compared to 25 percent of men. (so, if you correct for whiteness, 75% of millenial men love Trumpster and America has a stupid man problem)

A Political Earthquake in New York' 14th - Crowley had not only been not only a mover and a shaker in Congress, but also the boss of the Queens Democratic Party and one of the most powerful players in city and state politics. Showing that the machine can be beaten in its own backyard has torn up the rulebook about what is politically possible. The air of fear and inevitability that it runs on has disappeared and opened up new pathways of contestation. (they're coming for Coumo's dick)
Matt Bors on Twitter: "I had to "

Ron Paul racist tweet: "Cultural Marxism" caricatures fit Republican pattern - Ron Paul Becomes Latest Republican to Post Literal Nazi Content

Amy Coney Barrett Is Allegedly a Member of a Religious Group That's Been Called a "Cult" -- People of Praise (she's a literal "handmaiden")

Trump Administration Reverses Obama on Affirmative Action - The New York Times (Trump's on a roll)

Barack Obama Must Join the Fight Against Donald Trump and on Behalf of His Own Vision of America ... Certainly, though, the Obama administration's early decision to absolve the country and its leaders of all complicity in the malfeasance and nonfeasance of the Bush years gave those who were looking for it a rationale for pushing that kind of malfeasance and nonfeasance even further, which is pretty much where we are right now. At the moment, Obama and Trump are twin planets orbiting the same dying star ... Lincoln, from 1862 ... The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Imran Awan: Congressional IT staffer reaches plea deal that debunks conspiracy theories about illegal information access - The Washington Post - Imran Awan, - But the agreement included an unusual passage that described the scope of the investigation and cleared Awan of a litany of conspiracy theories promulgated on Internet blogs, picked up by right-leaning news sites and fanned by Trump on Twitter .. had to plead guilty to felony bank fraud for a home equity loan that was already paid off? (Trump ring-kisser conducted the investgation and that was it?)

Top Justice Department Lawyer Resigns, Latest To Step Down : NPR - Scott Schools, a top aide to the deputy attorney general, is planning to leave the Justice Department at the end of the week, according to two people familiar with his decision. (deleting ethics from the DOJ)

Scott Pruitt directly asked Donald Trump to replace Jeff Sessions with him - CNNPolitics (neither look human)
Scott Pruitt Asked Aides To Find His Wife A $200,000 Job: Report | HuffPost - There are currently 13 federal investigations into the EPA chief (bottomless)
Mother With Her 2-Year-Old Confronts Scott Pruitt at a DC Restaurant

Returning to the Dumpster Fire - Lawyers, Guns & Money - When people debate how bad their state Democratic Party is and they come up with answers such as Illinois and New York, I just laugh. Because Rhode Island, that's wehre the true insanity is ... Public records show that a Michael Earnheart, of the same age and location, registered as a Republican in 2014 and voted as one in the 2016 election. (why the RI Dem party endorsed an alt-right racist crook)
Rhode Island Dems in uproar as party seeks to oust three progressive women - At the same time, the party is standing by a lawmaker who has been charged with sexual assault and perjury. It also backed a former lawmaker who has been arrested several times.
Progressive RI Dems assail old guard over Assembly endorsements - WPRI ("old guard" = corrupt crooked DINOs)

Trump and Russia | Keywords | The Nation ("The Nation" has been consistently pro-Trump)

I Feel That Grant Would Have Deployed a T-Rex Regiment Quite Effectively - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Sure, why not. I'm sure the dinosaurs would have totally supported treason in defense of slavery. America, 2018.
VICE News on Twitter: "Dinosaur Kingdom II in Virginia is a sci-fi alt-history theme park in which dinosaurs defeat the Union Army. We asked the creator about why he built the park and why he wanted to see the South win. See it on VICE News Tonight, 7:30 PM EDT on @HBO https://t.co/OhePMMsU0m"

I Was Fired For Criticizing Trump - by Rob Rogers - I was basically my own editor for 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And then the publisher decided he didn't like waht he saw.



Dear Dreher Forum - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Rod Dreher combines some recent news stories and quickly smashes through the looking class: (Hreher takes down his article after getting buried in derision)

Laura Ingraham Warns Immigrants: America Has 'Only So Much Love' To Spread Around (and it's all taken by white people)

A psychologist just revealed the horrifying truth about Trump's malignant narcissism | The Dworkin Report


Jim Jordan denies allegations that he ignored sexual abuse of wrestlers at Ohio State - The Washington Post ... Jordan served as assistant wrestling coach at the university from 1987 to 1995. (talk about failing upward)
Powerful GOP Rep. Jim Jordan accused of turning blind eye to sexual abuse as Ohio State wrestling coach

Billionaire Behind LaCroix Accused of Improper Touching by Two Pilots - WSJ - Former employees accuse CEO Nick Caporella of unwanted touching while flying in the cockpit of business jet; CEO

Kevin Spacey Investigated for 3 New Sexual Assaults in London | TMZ.com


Triple homicide leaves ex-wife dead after protection request denied | Limestone County | decaturdaily.com - Before she and two others were shot dead near Ardmore on Sunday, Debra Ann Rivera twice had asked a judge to order her ex-husband to surrender his guns because of alleged abuse. The request was denied both times.


Fresh grounds for coffee: Study shows it may boost longevity - WPRI - In a study of nearly half-a-million British adults, coffee drinkers had a slightly lower risk of death over 10 years than abstainers. Even those who drank at least eight cups daily appeared to have a longevity boost.


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FBI arrests man it says was plotting July 4 attack in downtown Cleveland - The Washington Post

Missing Thai boys 'found alive' in caves after nine days : news


Manhunt covers France after convict escapes prison in 'commmando'- style helicopter assault


In U.S., Record-Low 47% Extremely Proud to Be Americans


White People Hate Diversity, Part the Infinity - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The biggest problem with the United States in terms of why it doesn't have European-style welfare benefits is that white people are racist toward black and brown people. Those racial politics trump class politics time and time again. Turns out that when white Europeans start facing similar racial dynamics, they begin to discriminate like white Americans. What Denmark is doing is not good -- Denmark's government is introducing a new set of laws to regulate life in 25 low-income and heavily Muslim enclaves, saying that if families there do not willingly merge into the country's mainstream, they should be compelled -- The rise of fascism across the western world is directly connected to white people's fears of brown people, whether in the U.S. or Hungary, Poland or Denmark. (ankle-bracelets for two-year-olds!)
In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant 'Ghettos'
The HereAfter Report: Mr. Yakub and The human breeding process that created the White race. Myth or high science?

A leaked draft bill ordered by President Trump would see the U.S. effectively abandon the WTO - Axios (clearing the way for the RTO)


Trump Calls His Critics 'Very Dangerous For The Country' ... people from "the other side" have "radical ideas" that are "bad" for America - Trump was responding to a question from the relentlessly flattering Maria Bartiromo (considering concentration camps for libtard traitors to the god-emperor)
News media paid Melania Trump thousands for use of photos in 'positive stories only'

Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says his family, not the president, is his first loyalty - The Washington Post (dum-di-dum-dum)
: Michael Cohen, Former Trump Shield and Current Regency Prisoner, Got Sick of Being a Whipping Boy
He Knows Everything About Being a Rat - Lawyers, Guns & Money - When the FBI raided Michael Cohen's home and office three months ago, President Trump freaked out like he has never freaked out before. And now the worst of his fears appears to have been realized
John Dean on Twitter: "Why does this not seem like a coincidence? " (the SC fix is in, and ...) it's just come to light that Kushner was rescued from his overextended loan for the 666 building by none other than Kennedy's son at Deutschebank (yeah, that deep, Kennedy is totally rotten, also Yertle's cancelation of recess was a part of the plan) )
Russian charged with Trump's ex-campaign chief is key figure
Russia probe likely got access to NRA's secret donors | McClatchy Washington Bureau (haha, they're coming for you, Wayne)
Here Are The Documents Recovered From Michael Cohen's Shredder
The Senate Intel Committee Is In Regular Contact With The Trump-russia Dossier Author - , Richard Burr of North Carolina, told BuzzFeed News that there are weekly contacts with Christopher Steele.

Trump White House sets turnover records, analysis shows - According to the most recent filing, 141 staffers who worked for the president at that point last year are gone.

Rubin: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Should Be Harassed Publicly As a 'Life Sentence'

Stormy Daniels's attorney picks up a new client: 'Stuttering John,' who prank-called Trump last week ... "it demonstrates the complete incompetence of the president and many of those around him." (Kushfuckup)

'The Verge' Co-Founder Calls Ben Shapiro 'The Jew Who Helps Other Jews Onto the Train' - Joshua Topolsky called conservative writer Ben Shapiro the equivalent of a treacherous Jew collaborating with the Nazis in a tweet sent Saturday.
Alan Dershowitz 'Shunned' Vineyard For Defending Trump (speaking of trains)
The Death of Civil Discourse in America - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Dershofuck is unhappy, and oh, about those trains ... )


Data Suggest That Gentrifying Neighborhoods Powered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' Victory ... The analysis flips on its head the post-hoc rationalization that pundits have been using to explain a result they never saw coming. (hello, "harcissitic" NYT)

Study shows a massive narcissistic bias in the way some Americans remember the contributions of their home states to US history. When asked, participants routinely gave their home state higher scores for its contribution to US history than those provided by non-residents of the state. : science


The Rhode Island Democratic Party may have endorsed an alt-right Trump supporter.


Anti-union laws associated with significantly more workplace deaths in US states, 1992-2016. : science (Republicans love "Rigfht to Die" laws)

Eschaton: Traditional Family Values - As soon as the thrice married sexual harrassing/assaulting, barging in on naked teens, adulterous, daughter lusting president is out of the office, "family values conservatives" will go back to lecturing liberals about morality and the New York Times will print that bullshit, too. But now it's like "oh, silly coastal elites, real Americans fuck chickens and have daily orgies, don't you know that?"
James Bennet shoots another brick - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It is just astounding that the New York Times would publish this: ("narcissitic" Baguet is a disaster)
Jessica Valenti on Twitter: "I'm here to tell you this piece is as bad as you think https://t.co/MiblwWqRhY" ... Apparently abusive deadbeat dads are a newly discovered "purple family model" and need to be respected as a valid alternative to the traditional model of not being complete shit. (restraining orders are "culteral differences" and btw, what dirt does Putin have on the Sulzfucks?)

He's pro-incest, pedophilia, and rape. He's also running for Congress from his parents' house -- Nathan Larson lives with his parents, and spends most of his waking hours on the Internet ... Larson, 37 ... In 2015, his former wife was granted a restraining order against him ... (Nazi incel will only get laid if he can get a redistributed woman)

'Tormented and Traumatized' : : Rage toward women fuels mass shooters (incels are enttitled to women)


Harvey Weinstein Faces Life In Prison From New Sex Crime Charges | Deadline

Andy Dick charged with sexual battery for allegedly groping woman : news


Lake deputy shoots gator with AR-15, freeing girl trapped in tree


Men who were sexually assaulted by women, what's your story? [Serious] : AskReddit


Holy smoke: Jesus used cannabis oil to perform 'miracles' - JESUS used cannabis and was an early champion of its medicinal properties, a growing consensus of experts agree. (the real reason satanic evangelicals outlawed pot)


'Gaming disorder' is only a symptom of a much larger problem - The number of 17- and 18-year-olds who get together with their friends every day, for example, dropped by more than 40 percent between 2000 and 2016.


When educators and coaches make kids feel like they matter, it reduces delinquency and destructive behavior. A new study reveals the importance of non-family adults in mentoring youth (N = 10,120). : science

This small carving of a water bird was created 33,000 years ago. The sculpted piece of mammoth ivory, found in the Hohle Fels cave in Germany, may be the earliest representation of a bird. : pics
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ivory bird displays ancient skill

Sitting Time Linked to Higher Risk of Death from All Causes - In a new study, prolonged leisure time sitting, defined as 6 or more hours a day, was associated with a 19% higher rate of death from all causes combined compared to sitting less than 3 hours per day (n=127,554). : science

ELI5: the Objective correlative. I tried to look it up but it's a bit of an abstract concept for me

TIL that the official divorce complaint of Mary Louise Bell, wife of world-famous physicist Richard Feynman, was that "He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night." : todayilearned

My mother has poisoned me. : offmychest
What was one of the most mysterious post found on Reddit? : AskReddit
Guys, what is the most obvious hint from a girl you've missed?
/u/Morex_ translates OP's boyfriend's texts from Polish to uncover an affair. : bestof
Dads of reddit, what is your advice for new dads? : AskReddit

Comcast starts throttling mobile video, will charge extra for HD streams : technology
Over 800 cryptocurrencies are now dead as bitcoin is 70 percent off its record high : technology

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Rising seas: 'Florida is about to be wiped off the map' | Environment | The Guardian (tie Marco to the beach)
Wind energy the new 'cash crop' for Colorado farmers : technology
Judge Blocks FEMA From Ending Housing Aid to Puerto Ricans : news
Illegal immigrant arrested for starting wildfires in Colorado | Daily Mail Online - Jesper Joergensen, 52, was taken into custody last Saturday for the suspected arson that started the Springs Fire - The officer could not immediately say what nationality Joergensen held. (Mexican, obviously)

Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget. - Capital Gazette
alicublog: FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN. - I realize there are millions of People of the Gun out there who will vote, and effectively have voted, for Satan himself to maintain their right to fire nine rounds a second whenever they feel grouchy, but I think a lot more people will prefer bread and roses to cordite and spatter ... . Of course the New York Times kvelled over libertarians -- for the same reason they didn't even bother covering Ocasio-Cortez' campaing. Because they suck (your "harcissitic" paper of record)

Forced Labor Is the Backbone of the World's Electronic Industry

Trump: 'possible' North Korea nuclear deal may not 'work out' | President tells Fox he did not make concessions to Kim Jong-un. Trump in fact agreed to end military exercises with South Korea : news
Trump: If I was wrong about Kim, 'I'll find some kind of an excuse'
CNN Breaking News on Twitter: "Trump says he trusts Kim Jong Un. And if he's wrong? "I may be wrong, I mean I may stand before you in six months and say, 'Hey I was wrong,'" said Trump, before adding, "I don't know that I'll ever admit that, but I'll find some kind of an excuse." https://t.co/J2k6ehVhW1 https://t.co/Sa0DiXMMip" (video)

Mexico Elects Leftist Andris Manuel Lspez Obrador | HuffPost - He has promised to rein in corruption and fight rampant poverty in the country.


French Gangster On The Run alone now? - After Escaping Prison On A Helicopter | HuffPost - Redoine Faid, who was serving time for armed robbery and murder, previously escaped in 2013 using dynamite. (will sell movie rights)


Authoritarian threats to American democracy demand urgent action | TheHill - Two years after the Russian government attempted to undermine the 2016 presidential election, the United States still does not have a comprehensive strategy to address the threat posed by foreign interference in our democracy. (Republicans are traitors, all of them)


Elliott Broidy's excellent adventure con't

It Is Happening Here, Trump Is Already Early-Stage Mussolini : politics

'Families Belong Together' Rallies Protest Trump Immigration Policies Nationwide
"Are you alone now?" After raid, immigrant families are separated in the American heartland (just what those heartlanders voted for)
But Her Compliance With Email Server Management Best Practices - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It's really hard not to be uncomfortably numb about this, but the President of the United States just tells baldfaced, easily falsifiable lies all the time:
Sunday Funnies - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Man arrested after shouting womp, womp, and pulling a gun on immigration protesters (he actually was a Trump neckbeard)

Sen. Susan Collins Won't Support A Supreme Court Nominee Who Opposes Roe (unless Trump gives her a good deal)

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...." - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Point of View: North Carolina no longer a democracy | News & Observer

'The Blue Wave Came' : Win for Non-Hispanic Democrat Signals Big Shift in Miami - "Little Havana"


Former Grissom High School teacher in custody after pulling out a gun at Huntsville immigration policy protest | WHNT.com - Police were able to take Sealy into custody and no shots were fired. Huntsville Police Department is reminding the public that you cannot have a firearm within 1,000 ft. of a protest. (alt-right neck-beard anti-immigration Trumpster)
Portland Police revoke permit, declare riot as protesters clash downtown | OregonLive.com - organized by Joey Gibson, U.S. Senate candidate for Washington and leader of the right-wing, Vancouver-based group - The Patriot Prayer grouped numbered nearly 150, while the counter-demonstration boasted attendance at least twice that. (and a new gov agency you've never heard of: the "Federal Protective Service"

9 hurt, some critically, as man stabs Boise refugee families | Idaho Statesman (not known if he is a Trumpster)

Man killed by police was US Navy vet trying to break up fight, reports say : news

Bill Maher Gets Played By Conservative Troll Ben Shapiro - Dude, get it together - Over the past year-plus, the supposed liberal firebrand has seen eye to eye with the likes of bigoted performance artist Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow, New York Times hate-read specialist Bari Weiss, and NRA shill Colion Noir, bonding over issues ranging from transphobia and Islamophobia to guns and those pesky "PC" college kids ... (Maher has always been an idiot)


Republicans Hold On to Farenthold Seat in Texas Special Election

Charles P. Pierce on Twitter: "I give the tweeter enormous credit for honesty here. "

Oliver Willis on Twitter: "liberals accept bigoted stuff from bill maher they'd never accept from the right. i know im rowing upstream on this but the line has to be drawn."

That's What You Did (Greenwald and the view from nowhere)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Upset Sends Sobering Message to Democrats Reliant on Big Money: It Won't Save you

Maxine Waters deserves better from her party : politics


A 52-year-old man has been arrested in Colorado for starting the Spring wildfire, which grew to over 40,000 acres in size on Saturday : news

Contrary to popular belief, millenials can still afford to buy homes : funny

Data from open-source ancestry site GEDMatch has led to more arrests : technology

Nevada traffic deaths dropped 10 percent in first 11 months of recreational marijuana : news (someone call Jason Lewis)
Recreational marijuana now legal in Vermont : news (haha, like MA, no place to buy it thanks to politicians)
Hey guys, you know how we're supposed to have retail today? JASON LEWIS is a big reason why we don't. Guess what? He has a primary challenger. : bostontrees
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Lose Debit Processor : bostontrees - Wow. So no July 1 and now no debit cards. Happy rec weekend
Debit Downer - MA Dispensaries Not Taking Debit Payments : bostontrees

THC promotes hippocampal neurogenesis, prevents neurodegenerative processes, protects from inflammation-induced cognitive damage and restores memory and cognitive function in old mice. : science


The 100 best fantasy novels of all time : books

New Sandwich Harbormaster Already Knows Marina<'s Ropes /a>

Men vastly outnumber women in film criticism. Here are the movies affected most. - The Washington Post - 77.8 percent of all critics are men, based on reviews of the top 100 films at the 2017 box office from Rotten Tomatoes.


Space is full of dirty, toxic grease, scientists reveal | Science | The Guardian - 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter

How Long Can We Live? The Limit Hasn't Been Reached, Study Finds - The mortality rate flattens among the oldest of the old, a study of elderly Italians concludes, suggesting that the oldest humans have not yet reached the limits of life span.

Archaeologists uncover remains of a horrifying Iron Age battle in Denmark. Thirteen-year-olds fought side by side with adult men and the dead were left where they fell, ripped to pieces by hungry animals. One of the most startling discoveries was the four pelvic bones mounted on a stick. : science

The Dunning-Kruger effect can help to explain anti-vaccination attitudes. Individuals who know the least about the causes of autism and accept misinformation about a autism-vaccine link are most likely to think that they know more about the causes of autism than medical and scientific experts. : science

/u/JerkJenkins lists effective ways to counter the debate tactic known as 'Gish Gallop', in which one side makes claims faster than they can be rebutted by the other side : bestof

Who in history is looked up to as a hero but is actually a terrible person? : AskReddit

The surreal, sad story behind the acclaimed new doc `Three Identical Strangers'

Texas man confronts alleged bully - the school board superintendent : videos

Should not have done that. : funny

Just a year ago, Apple almost got their way on a small laptop repair youtuber, Louis Rossmann. This is his reflection on the entire debacle, and him expressing his gratitude for how the community rallied behind him. Thank you for supporting people like him on this platform, y'all are amazing. : videos

"Inventor of email" appeals ruling that tossed his libel suit against Techdirt - Tech news site says Shiva Ayyadurai is a "fake," he says it "disregarded" the truth (he's a fake)
California just passed one of the toughest data privacy laws in the country - The Verge

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North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites, say U.S. officials - Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles (Trump will still get Nobel Prize for his great deal where he got swindled) )
'Nobody in the bullpen' " White House approaches North Korea talks without envoy

Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit's Biggest Backer
The British Russia Collusion Scandal is Breaking Wide Open - On Friday evening, the New York Times revealed new detail about Russian involvement in the Brexit vote. The more we learn, the more clearly the pattern of behavior in the two countries becomes similar, and the more suspicious the denials of Putin's partners grows ... Trump is virtually daring his critics to draw the obvious conclusion.

U.S. Ambassador to Estonia Resigns in Disgust After Trump Anti-Europe Rants - James Melville is the latest in a string of career diplomat resignations over Trump's comments and policies

Trump Leaves Door Open to U.S. Recognizing Russia's Crimea Grab (Putins love-buddy)


Canada makes retaliatory tariffs official: 'We will not back down' (no Wisconsin cheese, suckers)



James J. Zogby on Twitter: "State Dept FY2019 budget proposal includes $5 million to #Israel for #Refugee resettlement- at the very time US & Israel are detaining & expelling refugees picture below). Reality check: the aid is to resettle Jewish refugees - not #Palestinians or Africans. https://t.co/fcBACkwhkx"


'Not what we expected': Trump's tax bill is losing popularity (suckers)

Government never had specific plan to reunify families, court testimony shows - CNNPolitics (actually, Stephen Miller said "Fuck them" so that may have been a plan)
'A political suicide march' : Trump aims to inflict political pain on Democrats over calls to abolish immigration enforcement agency
StanceGrounded on Twitter: "This elderly man is Rabbi Waskow. He was arrested protesting outside an ICE facility in Philadelphia. RETWEET THIS! https://t.co/Gbys0mwTok"


Eschaton: Baba Booey - Busy trying to explain this to 1989 me -- The result was an impromptu six-minute conversation on immigration and the Supreme Court between the president and the radio host and comedian John Melendez, known to his listeners as 'Stuttering John.' -- I love how the NYT times paints this as just some cutesy thing with that funny Mr. Trump instead of a colossal fuckup by boy blunder, Jared, and the whole nightmare operation. What could go wrong? Melendez was pissed because media outlets wouldn't run with the story at first. I'm curious about that. (your liberal media didn't want to embarrass Ja-Red and Dumpster)


I Believe In America the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Party - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "the Justice Who Believed in America"
The Supreme Court's Greatest Misses 4: Korematsu on Korematsu II - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Civility: Serving White Interests Forever - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Virginia GOP having an identity crisis over the U.S. Senate candidate Corey Stewart - The Washington Post (white nationalist anti-semite confedrate traitor, the choice is clear, finally)
Head of Virginia GOP steps down amid Corey Stewart's Senate campaign

The Washington Post Really Really Hates Markets When It Means Higher Pay for Ordinary Workers | Beat the Press | CEPR - had yet another hysterical piece about how "America's Severe Trucker Shortage" could undermine the economy. While the piece Foreign Policy - James Melville is the latest in a string of career diplomat resignations over Trump


Erik Loomis on Twitter: "I pretty much assume The National Review runs articles all the time promoting Franco and Mussolini. https://t.co/qvndXEfk5y" (the Spanish Inquisition for Democrats)
National Review columnist defends the Spanish Inquisition - International news - Jerusalem Post - something no one expected: A reputable conservative magazine has published a column defending the Spanish Inquisition.


Watch a defiant Maxine Waters blast threatening Trump supporters: 'If you shoot at me, you better shoot straight'


The Summer of Rage - White men are the minority in the United States -- no wonder they get uncomfortable when their power is challenged. - increasingly comfortable with, and reliant on, countermajoritarian power.
The America We Thought We Knew Is Gone


Conservative Hugh Hewitt makes surprise announcement MSNBC has pulled plug on his show (sewage pipe of lies)

Rightwinger Dinesh D'Souza retweets #BurnTheJews to promote his new movie comparing Trump to Lincoln


Man killed by Portland State police was Navy vet trying to break up fight, friends say | OregonLive.com - After the officers yelled that there was a gun, there was no apparent hesitation before the gunfire, the witness said.


Death in a Hollywood Sex Dungeon: How a Top Agency Executive's "Mummification" Ritual Ended in Tragedy
UCLA professor dies in 'mummification' ritual at Hollywood executive's home : news


Sobering truths -- Inside country music's complex -- and increasingly lucrative -- love affair with alcohol ... "Red, White and Booze" (drunk white Trump voters)
David Allen Coe You Never Even Called Me by My Name - YouTube
Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow - YouTube
Neil Young - Don't Let It Bring You Down
Carson Can't Keep Up with Rodney Dangerfield's Non-Stop One-Liners


Pete Davidson Has Big Dick Energy (BDE)


Conrad Hackett on Twitter: "In a classic experiment, 12 articles were resubmitted to the same journals in which they had already been published. Three were recognized as resubmissions. Eight of the nine articles reviewed again were rejected, often due to "serious methodological flaws." https://t.co/XHRU8QvLM1" ("psychology ")
The Winnower | The Peters & Ceci Study of Journal Publications
QRP Reviewer Guidelines (@QRP_Rev_Guide) | Twitter
Steven Kambouris (@steve_kambouris) | Twitter
Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals
Newly developed therapeutic shown to combat drug addiction - Researchers developed a new serotonin 2C receptor therapeutic that may help reverse chemical imbalances made to the brain by habitual drug use. They tested a treatment on rats and found it effective in reducing the animals' cravings

Existential isolation, the subjective experience of feeling fundamentally separate from other human beings, tends to be stronger among men than women. New research suggests that this is because women tended to value communal traits more highly than men, and men accept such social norms. : science

What's the most intelligent thing you've witnessed an animal do? : AskReddit


/u/MRItopMD loses patience with reddit pedantry : bestof

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Annapolis Capital-Gazette Publishes Day After Mass Shooting in Newsroom
Police used facial-recognition software to identify suspect in newspaper shooting - The Washington Post
The Dark Parts Of The Internet Are Celebrating The Capital Gazette Slayings | HuffPost - These trolls provide a window into how conspiracy theories drive a hateful message. (+Milo Fuckanopolis)
NRA spokeswoman said journalists 'need to be curb-stomped', in video that resurfaced after Maryland newspaper shooting : news

It started with your shoes, then your water. Now the TSA wants your snacks. - The Washington Post


Kim Jong-un has top army officer blasted with 90 bullets for giving his troops extra rations of food and fuel (Trump is drooling)


How the 'Bad Boys of Brexit' forged ties with Russia and the Trump campaign< -- and came under investigators' scrutiny /a>


Trump Hired A Cop To Run ICE. It Didn't work out Thomas Homan was unlike anyone who ran Immigration and Customs Enforcement before him. He retired Friday ... the face of Trump's deportation agenda (wanted to bomb sanctuary cities)


Very Fine People at the State Department - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Trump appointee guts UN document on racism, says leaders don't have duty to condemn hate speech - Trump's tweets asserting that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election -- because Putin told him so ...

Hey, Democrats: Pack The Court | HuffPost

Democrats badly underestimated Trump - CNN (they badly underestimated Republicans, thanks, reach-across-the-aisle Barry)
Obama: 'You are right to be concerned' In his first public comments in months

Mnuchin LIED. Trump has explicitly told his adviser he wants to withdraw from the WTO many times. Mnuchin has been in the room when he has said this. Every sentence in our story is accurate, including the way we framed the plausibility.

Trump's Always-Wrong Economist Lawrence Kudlow Wrongly Says Deficit Is Falling (ex Fox guy goes on Fox and lies and Maria Bartiromo Fox star agrees with him)

Get Ready For A White House Run By Fox News | HuffPost
"This Guy Is Up to Eyeballs in Shit" : Bill Shine, Roger Ailes's Former Enforcer, Has Been Hired to Shake Up the West Wing. But Might Hope Hicks Be Chief of Staff? - Pushed out of Fox partly for helping to enable sexual harassment,

Federal Court Strikes Down Kentucky's Medicaid Work Requirement

Bernie Sanders Is Not the Left | The New Republic - His refusal to endorse ICE's abolition is the latest evidence that he's not the politician that many believe him to be. (and thinks everyone should be nice to SHS)
Cult of Personality - Lawyers, Guns & Money (puts his foot in his mouth everytime race comes up)

Iowa court blocks 72-hour waiting period for abortion - "autonomy and dominion over one's body go to the very heart of what it means to be free"

Has the New America Foundation Lost its Way? | Washingtonian - A scandal over the encroachment of big business triggered a debate over the identity of a prestigious Washington think tank ... Anne-Marie Slaughter fired employee for criticizing fucking google, good job dems)

Now This is How You Market Yourself to Voters - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ocasio-Cortez scored a victory -- for well-designed campaign posters - The smart typography and a radical color palette are a rare example of good design on the campaign trail.

Some Threatening Voicemails Splinter Received After Viral Post - This week I wrote something that got widely circulated among angry right-wing people on the internet, which caused my personal contact information to be published online, which allowed me to hear voicemails from many new friends. Let's listen to a few


'I snookered them': Illinois Nazi candidate creates GOP dumpster fire - Republicans fear blowback from Holocaust denie

Ohio Republicans Push Bill to Make Teachers Play Gender Cop on Trans Stduents - A simple act of kindness toward a trans child would now be a fourth-degree felony, punishable in Ohio law by six to 18 months in prison? - Rep. Tom Brinkman, a Mount Lookout Republican, introduced the bill in May.


12 Initiatives on California General Election Ballot


Seinfeld on Roseanne Barr: 'Why would you murder someone who's committing suicide? ... "I never saw somebody end their entire career with one button push," Seinfeld said. "That was fresh."



Police attacked me for stealing a car. It was my own. - The Washington Post (owning a car while black, cops called by racist white lady)

12-year-old black kid gets cops called on him for cutting neighbors' grass
Cops Arrested a Black Man. He Called Them Nazis, So He Was Charged With a Hate Crime. - Hit & Run : Reason.com ('hate crime' if you insult the precious copsters)

Criminal Couple's Harrowing Attempt To Escape Convenience Store Features Unbelievable Number Of Plot Twists
Witness to downtown shooting killed minutes after police interview her : news


Astronomers Classify Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua As A Comet | HuffPost ("yes, it looks just like an alien space ship, but it absolutely is a comet even if it doesn't look like any comet we've every seen before" astronomers claimed)


Wisconsin man injured after upskirting shoe camera explodes : news - Damn he got photobombed


Comcast confirms nationwide outage : news

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California Wildfire Survivors Return Home -- Some To Total Devastation -- The state's largest wildfire of 2018 has scorched more than 13,000 acres and destroyed 22 structures.


Five dead in 'targeted attack' at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, police say
Capital Gazette shooting victim Rob Hiaasen: A joyful stylist, a generous mentor - Baltimore Sun
5 dead in shooting at newspaper building in Maryland, suspect in custody
Bitter gunman, 38, who shot dead five in the Capital Gazette newsroom, after he sued the paper and threatened staff over 2011 article that exposed him for Facebook stalking a woman
Sources identify suspect in Annapolis Capital shooting as Jarrod Ramos, who had long-running feud with paper - Baltimore Sun
Shooting reported at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, staff say : news


Trump is trying to destabilize the European Union - The Washington Post (Putin's puppet) u
Checking in on US Geopolitical Suicide - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Trump has been publicly trashing the E.U. and NATO since his campaign, but the pace and viciousness of his attacks have increased

Study: 132 candidates or politicians killed since the start of Mexico's electoral campaign - CNN (Trump is watching)


Eschaton: What Is There To Say - Back in the old days, explaining that George Bush sucked was actually a valuable contribution to the discourse as it was a weirdly lacking perspective in the media. 9/11 and war justified everything and it was conventional wisdom that "the adults were in charge" after all that nasty Clinton business. I don't need to try to explain why Trump is horrible. He makes that rather obvious. Everybody knows this except the 40% who think he's fine and nothing can convince them.


Immigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone | The Texas Tribune (and change their diapers first themselves so not to soil American justice)
James Schwab: ICE whistleblower interview with CBS interrupted by surprise visit from government agents - exclusive - CBS News ... "Why, three months later, are we doing this?" Schwab said. "This is intimidation. And this is why people won't come out and speak against the government"
Here's what I saw at the border - Elizabeth Warren
Greatest Tweet of all time, period. - If you think that Mexico is only sending drug dealers and rapists, - but also worry that Mexicans are going to take your job... What the fuck do you do for a living?
Agents Seek to Dissolve ICE in Immigration Policy Backlash - The New York Times
Former ICE Chief Counsel Gets 4 Years In Prison For Stealing Immigrants
Shifting Public Views on Legal Immigration Into the U.S. | Pew Research Center (Fox watchers) Support for increasing the level of legal immigration has risen, while the share saying legal immigration should decrease has fallen.

Why Anthony Kennedy Gave Up - In his last year on the bench, the lifelong devotee of dignity and the rule of law joined Team Trump. What happened? (Lithwick) - It was always more fan fiction than reality that Justice Anthony Kennedy was a moderate centrist ... the 10th most conservative justice in the past century.
Chris Matthews: 'Hell to Pay' If Democrats Don't Block Anthony Kennedy Replacement - If the Democratic leadership doesn't treat Trup's Supreme Court nominee the way Mitch McConnell treated Merrick Garland, the MSNBC host said, 'They're through.' (as an example of the education level of your pundit class)
Murc's Law, Breaking Bad edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Chris Matthews is paid millions of dollars per year to comment on politics.
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: 'No Doubt' Abortion Will Be Illegal In 20 States In 18 Months - Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement will quickly lead to less abortion access, the legal analyst said.
We Already Know What A Post-Roe World Looks Like | HuffPost - "We'd use a coat hanger, like our grandmothers did" (Trump will ban coat-hangers)
Eschaton: Thanks, Obama - Bye Justice Kennedy. Thanks for doing the right thing 1/10 times.


Trump's IRS nominee didn't disclose properties were at Trump-branded hotel - The revelation about the hotel seems certain to come up when Chuck Rettig testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. (so, the IRS head has invested in Trump properties. What could go wrong?)


Scott Pruitt Personally Involved in 'Ratfucking' Ex-Aides Who He Feels Betrayed Him - The EPA chief demands loyalty. He doesn't always reciprocate, though. (a true acolyte of the antichrist)

Bernie Sanders: Sarah Sanders has the right to 'go into a restaurant and have dinner' (shut up, and gtfo Bernie, you fucked the country)

White House wants to cut this public health service corps by nearly 40 percent - The Washington Post - the uniformed public health professionals who deploy during disasters and disease outbreaks, monitor drug safety and provide health care in some of the nation's most remote and disadvantaged areas. (money better spent on tax cuts for the rich)


Jim Jordan reveals just how nutty Republicans have become - The Washington Post

Schumer is Secretly Sabotaging the Next Democratic President (Chuckie Fuckie)

Nearly 600 protesters at Women's March arrested on Capitol Hill - ABC News

An Upset in the Making: Why Joe Crowley Never Saw Defeat Coming - The New York Times (least of all you, Dean, again) ... Crowley ... had not faced a Democratic primary since his congressional district was redrawn to include a section of the Bronx ... Ms. Ocasio-Cortez bested Mr. Crowley by 15 percentage points, delivering a victory expected to make her, at 28, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress ... A former organizer for Bernie Sanders, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez won across the district, carrying Mr. Crowley's home borough of Queens by a larger margin than she won the Bronx (they've had it with the old white guys)
The worst thing to be in many Democratic primaries? A white male candidate. - The Washington Post (Jordan Peterson is sad and angry and both this and the MYT piece show their biases - it's 'tribalist' to vote for a qualified women)
Ocasio-Cortez just did Democrats a big favor - The Washington Post
Trevor Noah: Result Of Democratic Primary In Queens Is 'Insane' - she's be "be the first member of Congress that talks like Cardi B"

Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; A half-dozen House ratings changes in favor of Democrats - And the fall of Joe Crowley in New York


On Appalachia and Its Stereotypes - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I enjoyed this short essay by the writer Chris Offutt about spending his career battling the stereotypes of Appalachia, including by that utter fraud J.D. Vance.

North Carolina GOP ends nominee's support over racist posts - after a website connected to him said God is a racist white supremacist and Jews are descended from Satan - will not support Russell Walker, GOP nominee for state House District 48.


New Fox chief cracks down on inflammatory statements - politico (Bossie and Ingrafuck are hurting the brand with their racist lies)

'Go back to Africa' : Business owner criticized over Facebook post - Jucdu Maxie said: "Maxine Waters, shut your your [sic] big fat lips, no one wants to hear your rasium [sic] remarks...Go back to Africa where youre [sic] from" (and you can go back to planet Stupid, Judy)

Jill Abramson, Ex-New York Times Editor: The 'Narcissistic' NYT Is Making Horrible Mistakes,' Needs a 'Course Correction' (the Sulzfuckers fired her for the hopeless fool Baguet)


The Great Facebook Crash - The social giant is retreating from the news business. It's been a painful transition for publications that had come to depend on it -- including Slate ... centralized online news consumption in an unprecedented way ... The Facebook era is ending. We don't know whose era we'll live in next
Inside Facebook's (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine - How a strange new class of media outlet has arisen to take over our news feeds. (like we had "news feeds" all along)

How Firefox is using Pocket to try to build a better news feed than Facebook - The Verge


How Saying #MeToo Changed Their Lives - The New York Times

Man charged in murder of 10-year-old California boy who said he was gay : news


Harlan Ellison, Iconic Sci-Fi Writer, Passes Away at 84 : books


Double-blind placebo trial of psychedelic tea ayahuasca shows significant, rapid anti-depressant effect : science (Bourdain and Spade should have tried it)

Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care. After examining millions of medical records, the study found that although spending is concentrated among people who die, there is very little spending on patients whose death within the year is highly likely. : science

No Difference in Outcomes for Children of Same-Sex versus Different-Sex Parents - For children of lesbian or gay parents, psychological adjustment is about the same as in children of heterosexual parents, reports a study in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. : science

TIL Americans, on average, work more hours than the workers of any developed nation, including Japan : todayilearned


Female redditors: what is a physically uncomfortable or unusual feeling/sensation that only women understand? : AskReddit
Where is the weirdest or most inappropriate place you have had an orgasm? : AskReddit
What's the scariest thing you've woken up to in the middle of the night?

Flight Simulator DLC company threatens with lawsuits after Redditors discover that their content contains malware : videos

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North Korea making 'rapid' upgrades to nuclear reactor despite summit pledges : news

America's European allies in NATO fear consequences of next month's Trump-Putin summit - Axios (the Beast from the Earth and the Beast from the Sea will merge)


Israeli security bar AP journalist from Prince William event - after Israeli security agents questioned him about his religion and ethnic background. (only Jewish "reporters" and Trump supporters allowed to cover "news")


Justice Kennedy to retire from Supreme Court - The Washington Post
Republicans plan to confirm Trump's Supreme Court pick before the November elections
Trump will replace Kennedy with a Scalia clone. Only one thing might stop him. - You may remember that former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had killed the filibuster for all executive and judicial nominees except Supreme Court justices during Obama's term. Then during the Gorsuch nomination fight, current Majority Leader Mitch McConnell extended that to Supreme Court nominees ... The only political hope here is for massive street protests, like we saw with the initial Trump travel ban to try to convince senators like Susan Collins of Maine or Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to vote no (hahaha that'll happen and good jub, dems: first Barry pivots right, then they lose their mmajorites, then they fuck the future)

The horrifying consequences of Justice Kennedy's retirement - It was fun having anti-discrimination laws, while it lasted.
Justice Kennedy deserves this nasty, unflinching sendoff - Anthony Kennedy was a horrible justice, and his last decision was his worst
Anthony Kennedy, the Trump Court and Minority Rule - Democrats have won the national vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, which, with the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, will have resulted in the appointment of eight of the Supreme Court's nine justices. And yet four of those justices will have been appointed by presidents who took office despite having fewer votes than their opponent.
The Supreme Court will now fall to chaos - These are dark days in America. Tribalism, kleptocracy and intolerance stalk the land. The White House is besieged with credible accusations of criminality and corruption. Many have lost faith in their institutions of government. Democracy itself seems besieged.
Mitch McConnell's politics of shamelessness have won - Nobody likes him, but he's the most effective politician of his time

Supreme Court Issues Devastating Ruling Against Labor Unions | HuffPost - the entire U.S. public sector will now be "right to work" and the political ramifications will be felt for years to come.
Supreme Court deals a devastating blow to public-sector unions - Axios
Supreme Court rules non-union workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions : news


Donald Trump made 103 false claims last week, shattering his dishonesty record | The Star The frequency of U.S. President Donald Trump's dishonesty had steadily accelerated since late last year. - Then, last week, it skyrocketed. (Satan always lies)

Another top Trump trade adviser to leave White House | Financial Times (who needs so-called "experts" when you have the best "instincts")

We've Found $16.1 Million in Political and Taxpayer Spending at Trump Properties - Most came from political entities such as the Trump campaign, but government agencies chipped in, too ...


House rejects immigration bill pushed by Trump in last-minute tweet - The Washington Post (ALL CAPS FURIOUSLY SHOUTING)

Tips For Staying Civil While Debating Child Prisons


92% of Republicans think media intentionally reports fake news - Axios (they only watch Fox, so they should know)
31% Think U.S. Civil War Likely Soon - Rasmussen Reports. (Rasmussen trying to promote civil war)


Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousts Joe Crowley in New York stunner, CNN projects - CNNPolitics Crowley -- the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House -- outraised her by a 10-to-1 margin. (machine Queen Dem)
Less than a year ago, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was working as a bartender. Yesterday she defeated a 10-term congressman in New York and will almost certainly be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. : pics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A 28-Year-Old Democratic Giant Slayer - The New York Times
Times takes heat for missing Crowley's defeat : 'like not seeing Trump's win coming,' tweets former editor Jill Abramson. (!)

Trump-Backing RNC Spokeswoman Hilariously Mocked for Ridiculously Inane Political Commentary - This would be embarrassing for Kayleigh McEnany, if she felt embarrassment. (another white blond dumb fuck racist asshole)


GOP incumbents ousted in Oklahoma amid teacher challenges | The Sacramento Bee - At least six Republican incumbents were bounced from office during Oklahoma's primary election, including several who were targeted by pro-education groups.

Attorney Schools CNN Host After She Criticizes Him for Calling Stephen Miller a 'White Nationalist' - "I would argue that's a fact. But Okay' ... CNN hack said "I just did an entire segment about civility here. I don't know if you want to call Stephen Miller a white nationalist." ... (let's call CNN host Kate Bolduan a white nationalist supporter, which is a fact)

Eschaton: These Are People Of The Land. The Common Clay Of The New West. You Know, Morons.

Milo Yiannopoulos Encourages Vigilantes to Start 'Gunning Journalists Down (very civil)
Mayor of Arnold PA apologizes for Facebook comments - "rioters to be destroyed by a water canon (sic) ... and "these people don't work in the morning" ... (can't spell, but very civil Rethug)

Billionaire Activist Tom Steyer: You Want Trump Out? Buy Clear Channel. | Alternet - The billion-dollar-plus cost of iHeartMedia shows just how powerful and valuable the right-wing media machine has become.


Post dismisses reporter for lax attribution in 'aggregated' new stories

Mark Halperin sparks comeback buzz with high-profile meetings | Page Six


Leaked Emails Reveal Jesse Singal's Thoughts on Trans Issues - Private Messages Reveal the Cis Journalist Groupthink Behind Trans Media Narratives (What's wrong with Jesse Singal?)

[Serious] Gay people of Reddit , who had to attend gay conversion camp for some reason. What is your story? : AskReddit


Woman resigns as CEO of company after backlash from calling police on girl selling water : news (internet justice for Permit Patty)


Publicity stunt triggers massive traffic jam in downtown L.A. as rap artist scales traffic sign


Officer Michael Rosfeld Charged With Criminal Homicide In Fatal Shooting Of Antwon Rose + CBS Pittsburgh - Rosfeld had only been on duty in East Pittsburgh for three weeks, and he was formally sworn in about 90 minutes before the fatal shooting. (license to kill issued, used immediatwely)
Antwon Rose Jr. death: East Pittsburgh Officer Michael Rosfeld charged with criminal homicide : news

Anti-child abuse advocate arrested for trying to have sex with kids | Daily Mail Online - oel Davis, 22, was arrested in New York on Tuesday on child sex abuse charges - Davis is the chairman of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict - an organization devoted to ending sexual violence - He is accused of trying to set up sexual encounters between himself and children as young as two years old


TIL the Sphinx has a tail : pics
History Of The Conservation Of The Sphinx


Who worked their ass off to achieve their dream (career, travel, etc) only to realize it was actually a nightmare? What was it and how did it affect you? : AskReddit

What "Old Person" things do you do? : AskReddit



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Ten most dangerous countries for women: U.S. is number 10, according to Thompson Reuters Foundation - CBS News


Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban - The Washington Post
Supreme Court rules for Trump in challenge to his administration's travel ban : news
Texas Tested A Strategy For Discriminating Against Voters. It Worked. | HuffPost - Go ahead and discriminate (you've been Gorfucked)
Republican Hacks In Full - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It is probably unconstitutional to make "crisis pregnancy centers" provide information about abortion, although it is definitely constitutional to make doctors read pro-life propaganda before a woman can obtain an abortion (Trumpfucked)
Supreme Court rules for Trump in challenge to his administration's travel ban : news
Supreme Court nixes California law regulating anti-abortion clinics : news (religious freedom to lie to you about your medical condition)

U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump's watch - politico (only a problem if dems)

Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations - Bloomberg


Trump's Family Detention Policy Will Cost Billions Of Dollars That ICE Doesn't Have
Doctor giving migrant kids psychotropic drugs lost certification years ago | Reveal (evil fuckers everywhere)
Detention Camps on Military Bases Smacks of Totalitarianism, Troops Say - The Pentagon 'is participating in a scheme that appropriates the concept of military honor to perpetrate a human rights abuse,'

GOP increasingly opposes even legal immigration - CNNPolitics (for non-whites)

Opinion | We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners - The New York Times

Atrios on Twitter: "oh sure. zombie rfk and mlk are coming eat your brains you stupid fuck" (civil-code for Dems enforcer David Gergen has always been stupid and evil)
American History X - Lawyers, Guns & Money - DAVID GERGEN WAS 26 IN 1968. HOW CAN YOU SAY THIS STRAIGHT-FACEDLY? HOW? (well, try a fact-proof Republican "brain')
Eschaton: Only in DC - We've had a years of an organized political movement dedicated to making it legal to discriminate against gay people in retail establishments, but just don't be mean to baby kidnapping supporter Sarah Sanders.
Echidne Of The Snakes - Fuck Civility. My First Post in the Sarah Huckabee Sanders Controversy.
President Trump's 5,000 Judges Lie, and Why The New York Times Should Call It One - The New York Times ties itself into knots to explain when it labels Trump's falsehoods a lie.
alicublog: New Village Voice Column Up ... - ...about the imprisoned, immiserated immigrant kids and the Cult of Civility outcry that has ridiculously ensued. If you tried to explain to a normal person how a racist administration's notorious abuse of children and shameless defense thereof led our Guardians of Groupthink to admonish, not the guilty parties, but the liberals who mildly expressed their frustration to the guilty parties, he might not understand you, so I have tried to explain it for the masses.
Eschaton: Scream At Them Always - Only the elite DC press could decide that baby kidnappers were sympathetic figures. Yell at them whenever you see them.
Wendy Molyneux on Twitter: "As this Sanders thing unfolds, remember a hallmark of a psychologically abusive relationship is that the abuser can do whatever they want, but you are still expected to be civil. They may be cheating or stealing, but you are expected not to swear or name-call. It's bullshit."
Eschaton: The Civility Refs - The 2016 election taught us that appealing to the civility referees is the best way to win elections. The civility referees were so into calling fouls on Donald Trump that they refused to point the camera at his empty podiums.
Chris Cuomo call BS on Rick Santorum demanding 'civility' while refusing to require it of Trump
Eschaton: Biden Baker - I honestly don't remember this. In 2012 a baker refused to serve Joe Biden and Republicans made him a hero. I don't remember this because why would I? Who cares. If a baker doesn't want serve Joe Biden I don't care. I don't remember it happening. I also don't remember several furious op-eds about it. Did they happen?
Civility, 2012 - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Unlike those mean evil liberals, Republicans would NEVER EVER NEVER embrace a restaurant owner who denied service to a Democrat based on their politics, right?

Trump Says Harley Move Abroad Would Be 'Beginning of the End' - and threatened the motorcycle manufacturer with a 'big tax' on bikes imported to the U.S. if it relocates some plants overseas. (hahahha, he's coming for your Hogs, dumbfucks)

GOP Lawmakers Introduce Censure Measure, Call On Maxine Waters To Resign | The Daily Caller (Republicans policing "civility" "everyone agrees" hahaha)


Maryland voter registration snafu affects 80,000, four times as many as initially announced - Baltimore Sun - On the eve of the election, Democratic legislative leaders called for the immediate resignation of Motor Vehicle Administrator Christine Nizer, who oversees the agency that failed to forward voter information to the Maryland Board of Elections. (haha Republican "forgot" to send registration data for democrats)


No Shit Sherlock! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I find it bitterly hilarious that every single precept of the education "reform" movement is collapsing in the face of studies showing its ineffectiveness. Thus, the Gates Foundation's multi-million dollar effort to improve student outcomes by making teacher's lives living hell being shown to have almost no effect at all ... You don't say! You mean the problem with American education is poverty? Kids living through domestic violence? Kids lacking nutrition? Who fucking knew! Glad Gates spent $700 million discovering that the only way to fix education is to fix poverty and racism. It's not like he could have discovered that before he spent the money by just asking people. Or, I don't know, watching Season 4 of The Wire. (Gates spent almost a billion trying to prove teachers suck: teachers, the most hated profession in America)


You Said It, So I Will Too - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Andrew Sullivan has a response to his widely derided "build that wall" column that starts off badly and gets much worse (Sullifuck gets more stupid if possible)

Republican tax law hits churches - POLITICO - Some nonprofits could start paying taxes for the first time.

Rep. Steve King says America is heading toward another civil war (treasonous slave-holders will attack again!)

In Trump's America, tribalism reigns
Trump Country, it turns out, is more tolerant than the left - The Washington Post (WaPo publishes another Repubican operative pretending to be a small-town newspaper editor Gary Abernathy stupid column, which gets shit on in the comments)


Remember that California Democrat who helped AT&T eviscerate a net neutrality bill? We're gonna put up a billboard in his district

Trump supporter berates landscapers because they're 'Mexican,' calls them 'rapists and animals' (wonder where she got that? and c'mon, internets, who is she?)

People Questioned, Filmed And Called The Police On Black Oakland Firefighter | HuffPost - Working in an upscale area of the Oakland hills, Moore was in uniform and carrying a clipboard and a radio, with his station's fire truck parked nearby ... Moore told the neighbor that if he was still concerned, he could check the street and see "a big red fire engine"

Mom shoots man who flew around the world to see her teenage daughter | WTVR.com

WATCH: Police called after woman has profanity-laced meltdown on flight diverted for medical emergency ("airplane Alice")


Woman says A.J. Baker groped her on JetBlue flight, according to police report; Baker says he was asleep - The Boston Globe - and only stopped after she asked a flight attendant to move her seat, according to a police report detailing the assault allegations against Governor Charlie Baker's adult son (Repubican behavior)

Mears charged with using a machete to force a man to have sex with her : news (but it's not rape, womens' lib is out of control)


Raises for Methuen police threaten to put town in financial jeopardy - The Boston Globe - In cash-strapped Methuen, where the average resident earns just under $32,000 a year, five police captains stand to each make a whopping $432,295 a year under their new contract - would make the five captains the highest-paid police officers in the state, giving them salaries that would exceed Governor Charlie Baker's salary ... Just this month, city officials laid off 52 public school teachers, nine school administrators, and additional support staff as a result of a $6.5 million shortfall in the budget


Feds seize 22 pounds of fentanyl from Ohio residence : news


sign-language performance of Eminem's 'Rap God' ignites social media


Children who receive musical training have better word discrimination than their peers. A new study has found that piano lessons have a very specific effect on kindergartners' ability to distinguish different pitches, which translates into an improvement in discriminating between spoken words

What is the significance of eigenvalues in physics? : askscience


When did you realize you were attractive? : AskReddit

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The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight US Cities : technology

Child finds gun, fires shot in IKEA after customer's gun falls into couch : news

Erdogan's Victory in Turkey Election Expands His Powers


2.6 billion people - a third of the world's population - live in countries where democracy is in decline. Assessments from more than 3,000 democracy experts in 202 countries, is the most comprehensive database of its kind. : science


Observer's Cadwalladr wins Orwell journalism prize - Reporter recognised for 'amazing' investigation into Cambridge Analytica


How an Affair Between a Reporter and a Security Aide Has Rattled Washington Media - The New York Times (bang your sources)


'What's the Yield Curve? 'A Powerful Signal of Recessions' Has Wall Street's Attention - Every recession of the past 60 years has been preceded by an inverted yield curve (Trump will blame Obama)


How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks's immunity deal -- But an unexpected intervention by Comey -- relayed through Warner -- soured the negotiations, multiple sources tell me. Assange eventually unleashed a series of leaks that U.S. officials say damaged their cyber warfare capabilities for a long time to come. (so Comey wreaked havoc on the Nsa as well)

Elliott Broidy, Shera Bechard, Donald Trump, and the media - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Special counsel obtains Trump ally Erik Prince's phones, computer - ABC News (like he doesn't have supeonable phone and laptop)
Psy Group sister company controlled by Russian billionaire - A month-long investigation into the corporate structure of the private intelligence company that met with Donald Trump Jr., Erik Prince, and George Nader in the middle of the 2016 election campaign has revealed that a sister company of Psy Group is controlled by a Russian billionaire.
Stone's alleged Assange conduit expects to be subpoenaed

Mattis is out of the loop and Trump doesn't listen to him, say officials On Iran, North Korea and other major issues, the defense secretary has been out of the loop. (Trump has his instincts, doesn't need Mad Dog's so-called experience)


Wasserman Schultz calls Trump a 'sadist' after shelter tour | Miami Herald - A 'tender age' shelter for separated children exposes a 'gut-wrenching' reality in Miami (institutionalized child torture)
The Commander Of The Tent Facility Holding Separated Immigrant Children Says It Was A Dumb Policy


Where Is Barack Obama? - The most popular American, whose legacy is the primary target of Donald Trump, has, for now, virtually disappeared from public life. (float-above-it-all bi-partisan deporter-in-chief Barry is nowhere to be heard)
Obama Sucks as a Post-President (he really was the first celebrity pres, paving the way for Dumpster)
Eschaton: Thanks, Obama -- My personal opinion: No matter how much we dislike or disagree with someone, we should not deny them the chance to have a meal. The history in our country of denying people access to restaurants, to water fountains and even bathrooms is too raw, too real. We can't keep dividing. -- Arne Duncam ("we" you fucking idiots?)

Pressthink: Jay Rosen " It's time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency - That is my recommendation.

NYT does 2000th story on why nobody is doing stories on America's most ignored demographic (white people who voted for Trump) - Issac Chotiner interviews Jeremy Peters about his recent piece in which the mystery of why a woman who founded a hard-right PAC voted for Donald Trump is explored, and the results are not pretty: (FTFNYT)
But What If We Reach the Bottom of a Slippery Slope We Passed 10 Miles Ago? A Concern Troll By Fred Hiatt - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- From the WaPo's editiorial board's inevitable argument that a largely LBGT staff were obligated to serve someone whose job is lying to protect someone dedicated to using the coercive authority of the state to deny them equal citizenship:
David Roberts on Twitter: "16. What the Red Hen owner (& others) are trying to do is jerk us awake, push of OFF the slippery slope. They're trying desperately to draw a line, to cease the slide. And every time they try -- even now, even to this day, even with toddlers in cages -- the MSM scolds them." ... "The little red hen is the one telling us the would-be-emperor has no clothes ?"
Tom Scocca on Twitter: "Trump doesn't have a coalition; he has a single shrinking bloc that already believes it's in a savage eliminationist war against the rest of the country and projects its animating hatreds out into an unshakeable mythology of its own persecution. https://t.co/i4GPVSodDt"
Shame the Trumpers | Crooked Media
This Is Just the Beginning - Do you think that being asked to leave a restaurant, or having your meal interrupted, or being called by the public is bad? My fascism-enabling friends, this is only the beginning.
Response to Red Hen Asking Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Leave Is Peak Stupidity in the Civility Debate - We got here around the time Newt Gingrich called for more civil discourse.
Trump's Roach-Infested Restaurants Are Vile Compared to the Red Hen - Seriously, some of the health-code violations in these places are disgusting. (very dirty)

b-boy bouiebaisse on Twitter: "This morning, Republican Justices on the Supreme Court gave the green light to racial gerrymandering. "
The Supreme Court's Conservative Majority Lives in Happy Gumdrop Land - Their decision on Texas's voting maps is delusional on multiple levels.
The Abbott v. Perez case echoes Shelby County v. Holder as a further death blow for the Voting Rights Act. - The Supreme Court has put its thumb on the scales in favor of discriminatory states.
Josh Kraushaar on Twitter: "This. At times, feels like certain elements of the Left giving up on democracy. " (more of the moral outrage will lose Trumpo supporters bullshit)

Party Affiliation | Gallup Historical Trends
Democrats Are Turning Out to Vote in the Most Competitive Primary Races - The New York Times

Opinion | White Extinction Anxiety - The New York Times - Buchanan is talking about protecting white dominance, white culture, white majorities and white power.

'We're riding a tiger' : The Iowa GOP bets it all on Trump = president's s trade war could cripple the state, but Republicans trust in him as negotiator-in-chief. (dumb racist fucks screwing themselves)
Harley-Davidson to shift some production outside US over EU tariffs | Financial Times - Motorcycle maker warns of 'tremendous cost increatse' due to tariffs (dumb bikers voted for Trumpster)

Jim Carrey Painting Depicts Donald Trump Crucifying Jesus | HuffPost - Christianity, Trump style


Colleague cracks Sen. McCaskill's rib with Heimlich maneuver - U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has cracked a rib of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill while performing the Heimlich maneuver on the fellow Democrat when she began choking.

Why female candidate claiming victory in House primaries | McClatchy Washington Bureau


The Nightclub King Whose Properties Were Harvey Weinstein's 'Hunting Ground' - They both liked power, money, and beautiful women ... "And he just whipped out his junk and started masturbating" ...


Seattle renters score big as landlords dangle freebies to fill empty apartments | The Seattle Times (is Watertown the new Seattle?)
Where are Rents Growing the Fastest? - Rentonomics (SF #1, Boston #21, Detroit #25)


Scientist shot dead in front of daughters, 2 and 4, during California camping trip : news

Woman killed man she met on Farmers Only website, Cumberland County deputies say : news

Police: Pair Of Detroiters Use Ax, Bat To Save Teen From Plane Crash On Their Street [VIDEO] : news

Black firefighter on inspection duty in Oakland hills gets videotaped, reported to police : news

Buzz Aldrin sues children, alleging misuse of his finances : news

Driver deliberately struck family riding on New Tampa bike path, killing father, police say : news
Woman shot and killed man attempting to break into home : news


New research reveals that parents who are able to manage the physical and emotional states of their baby, during the first year of life, contribute greatly to the development of infants' emotion regulation capacity

A groundbreaking discovery has identified previously unknown therapeutic targets that could be key to preventing the spread of cancer. Researchers found that by inhibiting several newly identified gene targets, they could block more than 99.5% of cancer metastasis in living cells : science


Colorado facing supply glut of legal weed, as price falls to $864 per pound (or $6.75 per 1/8 oz.) : news
FDA approves first drug comprised of an active ingredient derived from marijuana to treat rare, severe forms of epilepsy. : news

Laura Ingalls Wilder's name stripped from ch8ildren's book awrd of 'Little House' depictions of Native Americans

I claim The Daily Show made up the subtitles for their "Fox News vs. North Korea State TV" segment. Korean Redditor /u/acelaten rewatches the whole original propaganda video and proves the subtitles are mostly accurate. : bestof

NVIDIA's new NDA attacks journalistic work

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The end of memes? Campaigners dismayed at European internet ruling - Article 13 of a new E.U. law would place responsibility for enforcing copyright onto platforms rather than individuals, with potentially big implications for internet culture.


Erdogan claims victory in Turkish presidential election | World news | The Guardian (55$ he says)


J Book Review: The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jennifer Graber'snew book is an outstanding look at the white conquest of the West, examined through the lens of the various religious ideas and traditions involved in the conflict (deep evil roots of America)
Behind the Criminal Immigration Law: Eugenics and White Supremecy -- The history of the statute that can make it a felony to illegally enter the country involves some dark corners of U.S. history (more deep evil roots of the Keep America White movement)

Donald Trump is a racist leading our country toward disaster : politics
Trump tweets about the "witch hunt" by month since 5/17 : he went ballistic after the Cohen raid and now it's a "rigged witchhunt"

UN warns Trump's decision to detain children 'may amount to torture'

This Was the Week That Finally Broke Trump's Spell He was defeated by the two things he hates most: immigrants, and the media.
Trump's Family Separation Policy Puts Migrant Children at Risk of Disease, Too - This president*'s performative cruelty comes in many flavors. All are intentional.
President Donald Trump's Child Migrant Crisis Has Awoken Something in the Resistance -- and the Country -- This Nation Is Beginning to Realize the Full Extent of What It Did to Itself in November 2016 - The country's head is clearing. The spell of the reality show presidency* is earing off.

Babies separated from immigrant parents in Miami shelters, lawmaker says | Miami Herald - At least 10 babies and toddlers taken away from their parents after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are being housed in "tender-age shelters" in Miami-Dade
Republicans prepare bill allowing migrant children to be detained more than 20 days - ABC News
The Dystopian Horror Of Housing Children In An Old Walmart | HuffPost = Confining migrants in a converted big box store is yet another sign of these dark times.
1,000 Detainees Just Got Sent To A Prison That Staffers Consider Unsafe | HuffPost - Disease outbreaks and a lack of medical personnel await those imprisoned in Victorville, California.
Trump advocates depriving undocumented immigrants of due-process rights - The Washington Post
Trump stokes immigration chaos with call for summary deportations | US news | The Guardian - President tweets demand for end to due process at border - DHS says it knows whereabouts of 2,053 separated children - Donald Trump called on Sunday for the US to abandon its judicial system and summarily deport people who enter the country. ("fuck your 'nation of laws' I am the supremem god-king")
Private prison stocks up 100% since Trump's win : politics

Eschaton: Uh Oh Guys - A businesss owner asked Huckabee Sanders to leave and now the civility police are very upset and Trump, known for his civility and his appeal to our better natures, is going to be president for life. That's the rule. -- Hard to imagine an incident that would be more helpful to Trump White House and more harmful to its critics than this refusal to serve a senior government official, however troubling her views - David Ignatius -- 2000 children have been kidnapped but...do... not... be... mean... to Sarah. It's just what the Trump White House wants! They're gonna have to kidnap more kids now, just to own the libs.
Eschaton: That Could Be Me - That is why people in DC think it is a valid question about whether business owners can deny service to gay people, but not serving a meal to Sarah Sanders is a sign of impending liberal fascism. (Jonah Fuckberg)
Reviewers pounce on online report Virginia restaurant refused to serve Sarah Sanders | TheHill ("cry, liberal maggots")
Red Hen owner reveals she allowed employees to vote on booting Huckabee Sanders out of restaurant -- and Sarah lost
Trump Officials Can No Longer Eat Out in Peace : politics
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says "Look" - Compilation - YouTube

After working in a 'radioactive' administration, what comes next? (a life of shame and a lake of fire?)
Privileged lives of the Trump children, in 'golden handcuffs' (oh, Ivanka was a coke-head)

'You're out of your cotton-picking mind' : A Fox News guest explains hate speech to a black man (yeah, he really said that)
Trump just hired the Captain Ahab of Clinton haters - The Washington Post (9/16, for the evil background)


Reversal of fortune: Obamacare rate hikes pose headache for Republicans - POLITICO - Unlike recent campaign cycles, when Republicans capitalized on Obamacare sticker shock, they're now likely to be the ones feeling the wrath of voters.

Does criticizing Trump make his base like him more? | The New Republic - Anders is in fact a right-wing activist with a history of supporting confederate monuments, the Tea Party and Ron Paul. In other words, it's hardly surprising she's sticking with Donald Trump. (NYT, of course, again and again)


Fox News vs. North Korean State TV | The Daily Show : television

APSR study: American politicians believe that their constituents are far more conservative on the topics of immigration, same-sex marriage, guns, abortion, and birth control than they actually are. This bias may be because Republican citizens are more likely to contact legislators. : science

#PermitPatty: White Woman Calls Police on 8-Year-Old Black Girl Selling Water, Says She Was Tired of the Noise [Update] - #PermitPatty has been identified as Alison Ettel, who owns a weed for dogs business in San Francisco (read that again, she needs to use her product)

Intent on bringing back lively squares, streets, councillors push to end a $40 fee for buskers | Cambridge Day

What should marijuana opponents do when their cause fails? A lesson from Prohibition - The Boston Globe

DNA on napkin cracks 32-year-old case : news

Car drives through crowd protesting death of Antwon Rose in Pittsburgh : news

Bodycam video shows Kansas officer firing on dog, injuring little girl : news
'You're going to jail': Officer fired for abuse of power after pulling over daughter's boyfriend (John Kovach, 'your ass is out of a job, racist fucker')
No jail time for men who pleaded guilty to slitting dog's throat, posting video online

Pharmacist denies pregnant woman miscarriage medication over his ethical beliefs : news ("my Christian ethics forbid me from giving you this prescribed medication for the rotting baby inside you)

For decades, scientists maintained one brain area, the subplate, vanishes during human development. In a new paper, researchers demonstrate that subplate neurons survive, by becoming part of the adult cerebral cortex, and outline a connection between subplate neurons and brain disorders like autism. : science


TIL That people who speak 2 or more Languages often have separate "Assigned" Personalities for those Languages.
u/charmed_im-sure lists the qualities of an adult in the context of political maturity : bestof


1950s resume that landed 12 job offers. : pics

Perfect aim : gifs
Does catnip affect wild felines the same way it affects domestic cats? : askscience

(nsfw) What is the best insult you have ever heard? : AskReddit
What gossip have you heard about yourself that just isn't true

What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you, supernatural or not? : AskReddit
Teachers of Reddit, What was the Juiciest Gossip You've Heard From Students While in the Classroom?
What is the worst adult temper tantrum you have seen? : AskReddit

Which subreddit has the most inappropriate name - one that doesn't match its content? : AskReddit


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Right now, 5 million people are in a rally for the main opposition candidate against Erdogan. : pics (meanwhile, in Furckey)
Nearly 300 Turkish diplomats seek asylum in Germany since coup attempt: report : news

2 arrested in gang rape of anti-trafficking activists in India; police hunt for others : news


Mexico: 15 fake transgender candidates disqualified from election : news
Muxes: The Third Gender - The Atlantic - The Atlantic



Britain Has a Russia Collusion Scandal Now. It Looks Exactly Like Trump's

Mueller signals outside prosecutors may eventually take over Russian trolls case - The Washington Post

WikiLeaks publishes identities and information about ICE employees amid intensifying anger - Laredo Morning Times -- at U.S. immigration officials and the Trump administration for its "zero teloerance" policy that has separated children from their parents along the border ... In this case, WikiLeaks appears to have reproduced a project created by a New York-based artist and programmer named Sam Lavigne

Man charged in bike path killings speaks in court of 'Allah' - "they're fighting to impose Sharia (Islamic law) on earth," he saidMuzombies)

Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks by authorities : news (Canada needs to lock up an American jogger for two weeks)
The US-Canada Border Splits This Road Down The Middle - YouTube (don't cross the street, ICE will nab you)
Canada & The United States (Bizarre Borders Part 2) - YouTube
Border Patrol Agents Shut Down Highways in Maine and New Hampshire With Checkpoints : news
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Mass. ICE agents to reinstate in-office arrests - The Boston Globe

Trump, stumping in Nevada, makes immigration a central midterms issue for GOP - The Washington Post

Children's Cries Brought Down Walls Of Indifference
Oregon National Guardsman writes of 'executing' migrant families, gets disciplined : news
Detention of Migrant Families as 'Deterrance" : Ethical Flaws and Empirical Doubts
This Alternative To Detaining Immigrant Families Works. Trump Just Won't Use It There are much better options than taking kids from their parents or locking them up together.
Fox & Friends host: "These aren't our kids. ... It's not like [Trump] is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas" (yuo know, white kids: Brian Killfucker)

Trump autographed photos of deceased crime victims for White House 'Angel Families' event - were featured at a White House event Friday highlighting victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. ("here's an autographed pic of your dead kid")

The four times Trump signed tax returns for his foundation that contained incorrect information - The Washington Post
Trump business dealings raise 'serious concerns' ethics office says

An utterly disastrous week for Donald Trump - CNNPolitics
President Trump's week detached from reality - On Twitter, at the White House, and on the campaign trail, Trump did more than get facts wrong. - Over and over, he painted fundamentally false portraits of people and events to flatter himself, discredit predecessors and rivals, and promote his political objectives. (pres Psychopath: what happens when yuo give a narcissictic racist immoral asshole all the power)

Eschaton: Meanwhile, Behind The Curtain - A House panel has belatedly approved the 2019 federal budget proposal. And guess what 'the largest looming shadow on America's future is?" The growing national debt! And that requires some firm cuts, tough love cuts, especially after all those tax breaks for the wealthiest among us:
Eschaton: Eat Shit - I don't always pile on the "Trump voters deserve what they get!" narratives Not everyone is sophisticated about politics and Trump said a lot of things during the campaign. And certainly not all locations and regions deserve what they get. There are D voters everywhere and it isn't their fault. But this guy can eat shit. -- "This isn't just numbers on a sheet or percentage of trade or dollar value," said Michael Petefish, a 33-year old Trump supporter and fifth generation farmer in southern Minnesota. -- I'm sorry you thought Trump was just going to kick blahs and immigrants, except presumably the immigrants that are heavily employed in the agricultural industry, but you're still an asshole.

Trump's false portrayal of his Sanford insult goes largely unchallenged by House Republicans: 'It wasn't a big deal' - Sanford is a "nasty guy" ... Trump "makes up a lot of things"

Go Eat at Cracker Barrel, Sarah - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Derp, They Did It Again - Lawyers, Guns & Money - latest NYT entry in the "shockingly, Trump supporters still support Trump" series ... Yes, it is truly shocking that a Ron Paul-supporting neocondeferate still supports Donald Tump!

Steny Hoyer: Hispanic Caucus Protest Was 'Not Appropriate' (Mr Everything That Wrong with Democrats want more "decorum" in criticizing the racist lying psychopath-in chief)

Sincerely Held Beliefs - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom" ... reveals sweeping plans by the Trump administration to legalize discrimination.

Washington, D.C.: the Psychopath Capital of America - POLITICO Magazine - A new study ranks each state, plus D.C., by their psychopathic tendencies. The race for first? It isn't even close (DC, CT, CA, NJ, NY/WY, ME ... MA 15 -- and voting for Trump doesn't count)

"Both Sides" in History

Young Trump staffers are complaining they can't date in DC because everyone hates them (wonder why?)
Dating While Fascist - Lawyers, Guns & Money

American's Certainty About Voting This Year Starting Off Low - 56% are "absolutely certain" to vote, similar to 2014 but a bit low historically - Republicans, Democrats equally likely to say they're certain to vote this fall - Roughly equal percentages intend their vote to be for Trump as against him

Seven Ways Alabama Has Made It Harder to Vote - The New York Times - Five years ago, the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Since then, Alabama has enacted a slew of restrictive voting laws and policies.


The 'New York Times' Invites You to Fight Fake News with This $300 T-Shirt - The Gray Lady teamed up with a Japanese streetwear company to sell you woke merch ... "If people are trying to break the journalists-are-elitist stereotype this isn't how to do it" - The truth cannot be bought, but overpriced streetwear can be, and the truth is you should probably avoid spending more than the price of an X-Box on this shirt

Eschaton: They Lie About Everything - Journalists - the lickspittles at the New York Times especially - are unwilling to deal with the fact that they lie about everything. Not the hyperbole or little white lies or apocryphal anecdote which are a perfectly normal part of politcal discourse. Not the occasional misstatement or shaded truth that needs to be "fact checked." They're just liars. They have no compunction about lying about everything and they do. Nothing they say should be believed, and nothing they say should be transmitted in any way before confirming the veracity. And sources who lie should be burned, but hahahahahaha that never happens.

Eschaton: Friday Evening - Letters to my younger self: Well, you see, 19-year-old Atrios, in 2018 the final clash of civilization will involve a battle between Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold, and Tom's the one fighting on the side of light... Nostradamus didn't predict this one, did he.

Ex-teacher busted for allegedly having sex with same teen Anthony Weiner sexted : news
Expelled Wisconsin student sentenced to 3 years for raping 3 women : news

Sixth cheerleader sues Houston Texans, claims coach duct-taped her body : news

New York City Will End Marijuana Arrests for Most People : news

VIDEO: Woman dubbed 'Permit Patty' calls cops on girl selling water in San Francisco : news

Woman who allowed boyfriend to abuse children gets 12 years in prison : news
Officer fired for "abusing his authority" by pulling over daughter's boyfriend (racist fucker lost his job haha)


Dan Adams is a wonderful MA cannabis journalist : bostontrees


Hey SIRA, what's with yuor strain name? - "Rebel Yell"
From a physics standpoint what is information? : askscience

Political misinformation is harder to correct than health misinformation, especially among the educated, finds a new study (meta-analysis with n=23,604). : science

Strong sibling bond protects against negative effects of fighting parents - Children who experience recurrent destructive conflicts between parents are at higher risk of later mental health problems. However, a new longitudinal study finds that strong sibling bonds can offset these negative effects. : science

TIL Peppermint oil promotes hair growth more than hair growth medication : todayilearned

/u/growingpockets posted a simple, no-nonsense explanation about why the GOP tax cut and Trump's trade wars are going to tank the economy : bestof

Minnie and Mickey Mouse talk to a deaf boy in sign language at Disneyland. : gifs
On a flight from Boston to Portland, this teenage girl stepped up to communicate in ASL with passenger with disability : pics

This is a real billboard in Texas : pics

After Surviving Multiple Vehicular Impacts Thanks to His Bear Proof Suit, Inventor Troy Hurtubise Dies in Flaming Highway Crash. : news
TIL: Isaac Newton set out the colors of the rainbow we memorize today. However, he originally didn't include orange or indigo. He only added them later because of his occult belief that there must be 7 separate colors, just like there are 7 notes in a musical scale and 7 days of the week. : todayilearned

What was the most satisifying time where you caught someone lying? : AskReddit
What is something that instantly killed the crush you had on someone? : AskReddit

Many AT&T customers may have been defrauded. : technology - TLDR: If you shopped at an AT&T store between August-December of 2017, you may have been charged for a service in which you did not ask for or authorize called DirecTV NOW.
It Turns out All Kinds of Tech Companies Are Working With ICE : technology

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Trump rescinds Obama ocean policy - The Boston Globe (fuck your oceans and those undocemented fishes)
The Natural Gas Industry Has a Leak Problem - The New York Times - The American oil and gas industry is leaking more methane than the government thinks -- much more, a new study says. Since methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, that is bad news for climate change. (Trumpsters destroying the world)

FBI Releases Study of Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters : science


Lord Ivar Mountbatten's wedding will be the British monarchy's first-ever same-sex wedding -- Lord Ivar Mountbatten will marry James Coyle, his partner of two years

The excitement of emigrating on your own as a child | The Spectator - Plus: the indigenous tribe considered too strange and remote even for other indigenous tribes ... the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks with 500 passengers from the Caribbean ...

Why are women who discuss gender getting bomb threats? | Coffee House - In Britain in 2018, women trying to hold public meetings to talk about politics and the law are being subjected to intimidation and threats. The police are investigating a bomb threat against one of those meetings. Yet politicians and large sections of the media are silent. Would that be the case if any other group or community were subject to such threats and intimidation?

Rage in Spain after 'wolf pack' set free - five men convicted of sexually assaulting a woman during the San Fermin bull-running festival


What does the British government know about Trump and Russia? | The Spectator - Many trails in the Mueller inquiry lead straight to the UK


Italy's deputy PM Salvini called for 'mass cleansing, street by street, quarter by quarter', newly resurfaced footage reveals | The Independent (in the end, the Nazis won)

The 4th Amendment and Searches of Third Party Records - Lawyers, Guns & Money (it should not have been 5-4)
Your digital privacy rights will be redefined by this Supreme Court case VICE News

Elena Kagan Is Up to Something -- Is the liberal justice drifting to the right, or is she playing the long game with her conservative colleagues? (let's go with evil)

Counting the days till Trumpism ends? You'll run out of fingers (populists offer people to hate, in the '50s it was McCarthy and communists how times have changed)

"The Images Are Out of His Control" : How Trump Lost His Grip on the Child-Detention Narrative - Trump has done plenty of ugly things. In the past, he's out-run the narrative -- this time, he can't get past the imagery.
No Relief in Sight for Parents of Thousands of Migrant Children Still in Custody - The New York Times
The chaotic effort to reunite immigrant parents with their separated kids - The Washington Post (fuckers)
DOJ Takes First Steps Toward Indefinite Detention Of Families | HuffPost (life in prison for families)
Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect 'Austere' Detention Camps ("zero tolerance")
Pentagon will make room for up to 20,000 migrant children on military bases - The Washington Post (full Nazi)
Where are the thousands of migrant children separated from their parents at the border? - Washington Post - Scattered across America
Trump answers critics of family separation policy with Americans 'permanently separated' from family by illegal immigrants - a return to the nativist, anti-immigrant rhetoric that animated his outsider presidential campaign.

The original source for Trump's claim of 63,000 immigrant murders? Bad data from Steve King in 2005 (lies piled on lies bury your fake statistics and so-called science)
We get it, Steve King - The Washington Post (super anti-immigration from a district with no immigrants)
Reversal on migrant families deepens confusion over Trump's immigration order

A Physician in South Texas on an Unnerving Encounter with an Eight-Year-Old Boy in Immigration Detention | The New Yorker (heart-breaking : Make America Cruel Again)
Feds are moving forward with South Texas land seizures for border wall | The Texas Tribune - plans to move forward with private land seizures in the Rio Grande Valley to build sections of President Trump's border wall

Senator Jeff Merkley, a Quiet Stalwart of the Left, Has a Breakout Moment at the Border - The New York Times

Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks | CBC News
Border patrol agents arrest 1 at I-95 checkpoint about citizenship (Le Page ville)
Chang, BPS sued over secrecy surrounding student information sharing with ICE - The Boston Globe - a lawsuit Thursday against Superintendent Tommy Chang after Boston school officials repeatedly refused to disclose how often they give student information to federal immigration authorities. (Boston Public Schools complicit with evil, and Mawty and Chang lied)
Supreme Court ruling on Martha's Vineyard man could change how some deportation proceedings are initiated (thanks, Barry)

Crisis actor spotted at Texas child migrant detention center - First Lady Melania Trump paid a visit to McAllen, Texas, on Thursday to make an "unannounced" visit to the migrant children detained
CNN on Twitter: "First lady Melania Trump speaks at an immigration detention center in Texas during an unannounced visit:
Stephen Colbert Mocks Melania's Jacket: Was 'Womp Womp' Yuo First Choice?
An Artist Fixed Melania Trump's acket And Gave It To 'A Real First Lady'
'I Don't Think It Was an Extreme Position I Took' : Jeff Sessions on the Bible, Immigration and His Critics
Opinion | Return of the Blood Libel - The New York Times - The speed of America's moral descent under Donald Trump is breathtaking. In a matter of months we've gone from a nation that stood for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to a nation that tears children from their parents and puts them in cages. (Trumpism in a nutshell)
Sinclair Forces Stations To Air Commentary Arguing 'Liberal' Reports of Child Detention Were Exaggerated

Donald Trump's Rally in Duluth Proved Nothing Has Changed - Rolling Stone - Wednesday night rally in Duluth proved the more things change, the more they stay the same ... "trauma is trauma")
Video: One rally, one hour, almost 30 Trumpian claims - The Washington Post (a lie every two minutes)
Protesters Outside Kirstjen Nielsen's House Play Audio Of Detained Migrant Children - The DHS secretary had to walk by protesters shouting "Shame!" as she left her house

If Democrats Oppose American Ethnic Cleansing, It Will Destroy the Bipartisan Immigration Deal Fascists Totally Want! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In the last few days, left-wing politicians have begun taking up the #AbolishICE theme, including Cynthia Nixon. This is great, because ICE is a fascist agency dedicated to ethnic cleansing and should be abolished. But notice how this starts up the concern about unreasonable Democrats for Sarlin ... 80% of the Republican caucus was totally cool with supporting a bill that is pure evil.

Krauthammer - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Charles Krauthammer has died and there were a bunch of people on Twitter and in columns mourning the loss of the last principled conservative or whatever. And this is a joke. Charles Krauthammer was a terrible person who advocated terrible policies that hurt and killed people. I don't care if he was the nicest man personally who ever lived. His impact on the nation was terrible. His impact on the Middle East was even worse. Henry Farrell:
Due to an exciting series of events that resulted in my eyeglasses tumbling around somewhere in the Potomac River, my eyes have been bothering me quite a bit. And when I made them read Andrew Sullivan's s latest, they threatened to file for a divorce (classic bareback pos Bear-boy)
The Least Essential Voice of the Trump Years - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Who needs to read an Andrew Sullivan column arguing that Democrats should just give Trump the border wall because it will assuage the concerns of racist Americans and the administration? .. No one ... And color me shocked that a guy who has supported race theory and science is totally cool with policies that hurt brown people! Not to mention the stupidity of a politics that think if you cave to a fascist like Steven Miller, that fascism will go away. Sure thing.

Trump's s Michael Cohen problem just keeps looking more ominous
Tom Arnold tweets picture with Michael Cohen, says he 'has all the tapes' ... "this dude as everything'
Mueller seeks to bar Manafort from tying charges to Trump campaign role - POLITICO - from arguing to jurors that he was targeted for prosecution because of his role in Donald Trump's presidential bid.

Behind Trump's Plan to Overhaul the Government: Scaling Back the Safety Net (tiny government for poor and sick people)
Eschaton - A House panel has belatedly approved the 2019 federal budget proposal. And guess what 'the largest looming shadow on America's future is?" The growing national debt! And that requires some firm cuts, tough love cuts, especially after all those tax breaks for the wealthiest among us: The proposed mandatory reduction includes $1.5 trillion from Medicaid, $537 billion from Medicare and $2.6 trillion in reductions to other programs such as welfare, nutritional assistance and other anti-poverty programs. -- In his campaign Trump promised not to touch Medicare...

NYPD sued for not disclosing info on Trump family gun permits - The NYPD is refusing to disclose information about handgun licenses held by Donald Trump and his two eldest sons, citing privacy and safety concerns, according to a new lawsuit.

DeVos Has Scuttled More Than 1, 200 Civil Rights Probes ProPublica - the Trump administration is less likely than its predecessor to find wrongdoing by school districts on issues ranging from racial and sexual harassment to meeting educational needs of disabled students.


New Pruitt question: Where are his emails? - POLITICO - The EPA administrator wrote only one email in 10 months to anyone outside the agency, if the official paper trail is to be believed. Watchdog groups don't believe it
Grifting In Public With Your Tactical Pants Down - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The sheer amount of money Scott Pruitt has managed to loot from the treasury in order to feed his vanity, paranoia, and utter inability to face criticism is impressive even by Trump administration standards:

Young Trumpies Hit D.C. - POLITICO Magazine - And D.C. hits them right back.

National Enquirer sent stories about Trump to his attorney Michael Cohen before publication, people familiar with the practice say - The Washington Post - an unusual practice that speaks to the close relationship between Trump and David Pecker, chief executive of American Media Inc. (David the Dick)

Americans believe two-thirds of news on social media is misinformation | Poynter - Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to perceive news from legacy media outlets as misinformation ... Adults with higher levels of education are less likely to perceive news as misinformation. ... Republican respondents believed there was much more bias in news than Democrats (77 percent vs. 44 percent), but both see extensive bias in news on social media. Republicans were also much more likely to perceive legacy media outlets as containing misinformation. (Fox, Breitbart and Alex Jones are reputable)
American media keeps falling for Russian trolls - Russian trolls posing as an American college student tweeted about divisive social, political and cultural issues using an account that amassed thousands of followers -- and appeared in dozens of news stories published by major media outlets -- as recently as March.

Emails Reveal Effort to Disown Stonewall Pride Flag By Trump Administration Official (not on Trump's land)

In age of Trump, evangelicals back self-styled top U.S. pimp | Reuters - He styles himself as America's best-known pimp, a strip-club owner who runs multiple brothels and looks set to win a seat as a Republican in the Nevada legislature with the blessing of many conservative Christian voters. (evangelicals: whores are fine, birth control is not)

Jonathan Friedland Fired at Netflix After Using N-Word in Meeting | Hollywood Reporter ... "communications director"

Study: male D.C. reporters retweet male colleagues three times more - Vox - A new study reveals why female journalists are so much less influential on Twitter than men (men don't listen to girls)



More than two-thirds of chronic pain patients registered to legally access medical cannabis products substitute marijuana for prescription opioids, according to data published in The Journal of Headache and Pain. : science
21 questions answered about legal marijuana in Massachusetts - The Boston Globe - Get the lowdown on when shops will open, how much pot will cost, where you can legally smoke it, and more FAQs.
Medical Cannabis Special: Treating Yourself

THE FINAL CRIES OF EMF MUSICIANS ECHO A LONGSTANDING CAMBRIDGE REALITY - The occupation of the festival was just the latest move by those campaigning on behalf of EMF and against gentrification. As it turned out, the president of the group behind the event, the Harvard Square Business Association, is also the owner of the contested EMF warehouse. John DiGiovanni bought the property in 2016 for $4 million, and this past February, his tenants were notified of their pending eviction from the space on April 30. (did you catch that? DiGiovanni "owns" the HSBA)


Cancer? I wouldn't have missed it for the world - After the shock of diagnosis and the prospect of an early death there followed a surprising joy

Paul McCartney's Carpool Karaoke Leaves James Corden In Tears

Dramatic rescue in Rockford flood: 'We didn't give him a chance to decide'

The death of the unarmed teen killed by an East Pittsburgh police officer is ruled a homicide : news


Parents of Reddit, what are some underrated advantages of having children? : AskReddit

Listen and weep: 'Audiobooks outdo films in emotional engagement' : books

Iranian girl took off her hijab, Look at the ID CARD : pics (comments are written in a new language of cultural references)

How Twitter Made The Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback - A bird emerges from the ashes.

Elon Musk Is The Donald Trump Of Silicon Valley -- hates the media (and the truth, obviouisly)
Uber car's 'safety' driver streamed TV show before fatal crash: police (watching her phone, of course)

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2nd Amendment Remedies - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Supreme Court Lets States Force Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax | HuffPost -- a 5-4 ruling against Wayfair Inc, Overstock.com Inc and Newegg Inc, (Kennedy fucked America, again)


Horrific Details on Syria Chemical Attacks Left Out, for Now, From U.N. Report - The New York Times (chemical weapons)


Sara Netanyahu charged with fraud for ordering $96k worth of meals from gourmet chefs - Israel News - Haaretz.com - Prime minister's wife indicted for violating rules barring ordering of meals with cook on staff

Unneeded Drugs Killed Hundreds at U.K. Hospital, Inquiry Finds - The New York Times - A large number of cases involved one doctor, Jane Barton

Everyone Is Beautiful During Eid (Zanzibar)


Obama cyber chief confirms 'stnd down' order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016 (float-above-it-all bipartisan Barry fucked America)


In Trump'sss America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the Top ... "Unfortunately, we're seen a decline in civility and an uptick in incivility" (as if those two were different +NYT is hopeless and Peter Baker has sucked for years)
Too much fascism or too little civility? Which is America's more pressing problem at the moment? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Too much fascism or too little civility? Which is America's more pressing problem at the moment?
This Country Was Born in Incivility. Being 'Civil' Won't Save It Now. - Neither will burying the truth under false equivalences between bad words and racism. ("and that will do for now")

Young immigrants detained in Virginia center allege abuse (you thought the for-profit prison industry was bad, welcome to the child-abuse industry which is making millions)

Eschaton: Total Normal And Accountable Government Agency - Total Normal And Accountable Government Agency - Going to have to imprison them all -- "Since sharing my story, I learned from a fellow flight attendant that he was lied to by an ICE agent who said the children on the flight were part of a soccer team. When pressed, the agent finally admitted that they were, indeed children who were being relocated to assigned camps."

Eschaton: Really Wrong To Make Nazi Comparisons - So I would never do that. -- Over the last three years, Texas inspectors found eight deficiencies at Shiloh, including overdue background check renewals for staff and poorly supervised medication inside the facility. A pending lawsuit alleges immigrant children housed there were held down and forcibly injected with drugs, rendering them unable to walk, afraid of people and wanting to sleep constantly

Families will no longer be separated at the border. But where are my clients' kids

Ex-CIA Contractor Makes Millions Flying Immigrant Kids to Shelters - MVM, Inc. went from guarding the U.S. spies in Iraq to hauling children away from the Mexico border on commercial airline flights.

Most Texas voters oppose family separation at the border, with greater support among men and Republicans - Male Republicans support separating families trying to cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico, but most other groups -- and Texas voters overall -- do not - While 56 percent of Republican men favor splitting parents and children at illegal entry points on the border and 30 percent oppose it, a plurality of Republican women are against the practice: 37 percent favor it and 42 percent oppose it. (old white guys are evil)
Record-High 75% of Americans Say Immigration Is Good Thing
Repugnant - The Washington Post - But when President Trump this week said immigrants would "infest" the Unitied States ...


Trump aide Miller's ancestor flunked naturalization test - "Miller demonstrates that in America, truly anything is possible: The great-grandson of a desperate refugee can grow up to shill for the demagogue bent on keeping desperate refugees like his great-grandfather out" (+Goodlatte, Lahren and Fucker Carlson: deport them all)


Trump defends his hard-line immigration policies to cheers - Hours after reversing himself to end the forced separations of migrant families, President Donald Trump returned to the warm embrace of his supporters at a raucous rally to defend his hard-line immigration policies while unleashing a torrent of grievances about the media and those investigating him (Minnesota has a lot of white racists with zero moral capacity)

Opinion | The King and Queen of Cruelty - The New York Times

Melania Trump Wears Tone-Deaf Jacket - While traveling to meet detained children at the Texas border, First Lady Melania Trump wore a jacket with a message printed on the back: "I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?
Melania Trump Sitting Alone On A Couch Perfectly Illustrates How She's Helping Kids (+her "both sides of the aisle" statement written by Trump)
Melania Trump, Agent of Coat Chaos - The New York Times

The Real Story of Donald Trump Jr. | GQ

Women Are Evil | HuffPost (well, not quite as evil)

Scott Pruitt Has Spent a Total of $4.6 Million on Security, New Disclosures Show -- Including $1,500 on "Tactical Pants" (underpants and the corruption is bottomless)

WV-03: Why a District Trump Won by 50 Points Is at Risk for GOP | The Cook Political Report

Paul Ryan and Mark Meadows Fight on House Floor Over Republican Immigration Bills - Paul Ryan and Mark Meadows show the House of Representatives is a Ship of Fools -- and it's all on video -- The dysfunction is massive and general. Nobody in a position of authority in the Republican Party seems to have the faintest idea how to govern the country. And, on the border, children who once were hostages to political gamesmanship have traded that status for being hostages to political incompetence. Cruelty has many faces. This one is the one wearing a clown nose.

Cracks Are Appearing in Scott Walker's Legacy in Wisconsin - We must begin to ask opponents of reform why Oklahoma deserves to maintain the highest incarceration rate in the world, and what that says about their view of our fellow citizens. -- More than North Korea? Iran? Russia? The mines of Rura Penthe? Boomer freaking Sooner! (so, the heart of American cruelty and evil)


Apparently Campus PC Really Is Out of Control! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Let's check in on misogynist crank Jordan Peterson and his crusade for campus free speech: "University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson is taking legal action against Wilfrid Laurier University after a T.A. was criticized for showing a YouTube clip of him." (+he is his picture)

Michelle Alexander Joins The New York Times Opinion Pages as Columnist | The New York Times Company - author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"


Bahama Breeze in Orange Village calls police on black sorority over bill dispute | cleveland.com

Police Make Arrest in XXXTentacion Murder | TMZ.com

13-year-old charged with felony for recording principal

Graphic Novelist Found Guilty of the Grisly Murder of Fiancie Who Slowly Died Next to Their Baby ... Blake Leibel was reportedly living on an $18,000 a month allowance.

Woman and police officer violently grab each other's hair during arrest
jay on Twitter: (Luna-tic is/was a law student and protected her account but it was too late and she was judged harshly on the Twitter)

'Snap Your Neck' Man, Sign Company Threatened After Billboard Message To 'Liberals' Goes Viral (culture wars)
Thirteen bald eagles were found dead in a field. This is what killed them. - The Washington Post - carbofuran

How the Disposable Straw Explains Modern Capitalism - The Atlantic - A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw. Seriously.



Facebook Is About To Bring The Hammer Down On Overseas Fake News Operators

062018

Canada legalizes recreational marijuana after Senate passes 'historic' legislation : news

Female World Cup reporter sexually assualted on live TV : news


Theresa May swerves to avoid Brexit crunch



Canada Vote on Marijuana Paves the Way for Legalization - The New York Times

US lobbyist for Russian oligarch visited Julian Assange nine times last year | Media | The Guardian - It is unclear whether Adam Waldman's 2017 visits had connection to Oleg Deripaska


ICE Carries Out Its Largest Immigration Raid In Recent History, Arresting 146 : NPR : news

Family Separation Reveals the Logic of Trumpism - The Atlantic - To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren't true (his "instinct" is to lie)

White House misspells 'separation' on immigration executive order (his base can't spell either)
Man Who Refused To Hand Over Immigrant Info To ICE: 'Don't Collaborate With Fascists'
Trump Stops Separating Immigrant Families After Claiming He Couldn't
Trump Retreats on Separating Families, Signing Order to Detain Them Together - The New York Times
Trump just set in motion another slow-rolling humanitarian and political disaster - Right as Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that clearly intends to allow indefinite jailings of entire families, he boasted of his new initiative (the inevitable dialectic downward)
Trump Family Separation Executive Order Has Concerning Passage - Knowing this group, t's iable to make things worse ... Remember when Mitt Romney burbled that he wanted to "double Guantanamo" and everybody laughed? At least he only meant in Cuba.
Trump Family Separations at Border Ask the Question: What Is an American? -Trump's border policies are a story about America at its very core. (its cruel, evil, racist core)

Baby boys separated from immigrant parents land in Michigan (complete evil fuckers)
1-877-Koncentration-Kamps-For-Kidz - Lawyers, Guns & Money - In Year 2 of the Trump/McConnell/Ryan/Roberts regime, we have prison camps for infants:
The Trump administration changed its story on family separation no fewer than 14 times before ending the policy - The Washington Post
Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen's embarrassing surrender on separating families at the border (yeah, and fuck you too, Barbie)

Trump caves to pressure on separating families, embarrassing his sycophants again - The Washington Post
'A blowtorch to the tinder' : Stoking racial tensions is a feature of Trump's presidency Trump Administration Holding Babies And Toddlers In Multiple 'Tender Age' Shelters
Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims | Reveal
Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations | Reveal
Rachel Maddow Struggles To Read Report Of Babies Sent To 'Tender Age' Shelters ("baby prisons" with "enhanced interrorgation facilities")
'You don't owe anyone an apology': Rachel Maddow supporters react to her crying on air over family separation - She was unable to read an AP story during her MSNBC show ... "Rachel Maddow crying on live national television is the first thing that has felt sane in two weeks'

Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with history of abuse and neglect | The Texas Tribune - Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion to private companies operating shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and abuse. (cruelty is almost always profitable)
Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

On Fox, Corey Lewandowski mocks America separating a 10-year old girl with Down Syndrome from her family: "Womp womp" (in case you want to forget how evil they are)
Immigrants Died In ICE Detention Centers After 'Inadequate' Medical Care (you mean, "none")

Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant. Other diners applauded them. - The Washington Post (yeah, "Mexican" food)
Shaming the enablers of fascism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - as you've probably heard, Kristjen Nielson was confronted by protestors inside a Mexican restaurant in Washington yesterday, and promptly fled the scene. This was just the most high-profile of what hopefully will be many efforts to publicly shame Trump administration officials, and their many enablers and supporters.
Protester yells 'fascist' at Stephen Miller dining in Mexican restaurant (they sure love their Mexican food but he was trolling the libs)
LinkedIn List of ICE Employees Removed by Medium and GitHub

What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border - CNN - But some Trump supporters say undocumented immigrants are to blame for bringing their kids to the border in the first place. They say they believe the administration is simply enforcing existing immigration law. (yeah, old white evil racists, i.e. Republicans)

American, Frontier, United airlines refuse to fly immigrant children

Bruce's Remarks before "The Ghost Of tom Joad"
Bruce Springsteen deviates from Broadway script to perform "The Ghost of Tom Joad" (the protagonist of "Grapes of Wrath"
Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello - The ghost of Tom Joad (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2009) - YouTube

"Stephen Actually Enjoys Seeing Those Pictures at the Border" : The West Wing Is Fracturing Over Trump's Callous Migrant-Family Policy - Miller gloats and Sanders sulks as the president -- oblivious to the moral problem and political consequences -- bulls ahead ("bullies ahead")

Nelson, Wasserman Schultz blocked at Homestead minor shelter | Miami Herald -- "it's clear they are hiding something"
Trump's 'tent cities' cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents - Separating migrant kids from their parents will cost the administration more than placing them in permanent structures or keeping them with their parents.
The Trump administration is jailing babies. | The New Republic (and funneling billions to the prison industry)

Eschaton: How Will You Treat Them When They Work With You At The Washington Post - The stain is real. It is indelible. The closer you are to the policy the bigger it is, but everyone is tainted. And no one will forget. Not voters. Not future employers. Not the people you will meet. No one. If you work in the Trump administration, this is you. -- Ruth Marcu -- Marc Thiessen is a torture apologist and a Post columnist. This is just not how any of this works.

Eschaton: How To Make Things Better - I was a guest in a college classroom recently. One of the questions was something along the lines of "have you been writing about immigration issues?" The answer was... no, not enough. Some. But Obama was horrific on this and I am mad that I let his apologists convince me otherwise. -- It isn't enough that Democrats are not as evil as the other guys. The horrors inflicted on people are documented and real, and all for a grand bargain which never happened. (nice "legacy" you have there, Barry)
Obama finally speaks out on Trump's family separation (well, tbf, he was busy playing golf and didn't want to "play politics"
Illegal Immigrant Detention Facilities The Media Won't Show You - Obama administration prosecuted nearly 500,000 illegal immigrants between FY 2010-FY2016. They referred 1/5 of illegals for prosecution, which often resulted in family separations. (Barry normalized Trump's evil before Trumpy)


Why Even Viral-Fundraising Skeptics Can Feel Good About Donating to RAICES
Facebook fundraiser to help immigrant children tops $13 million


Office Of First Lady Calls Secret Service After Actor Peter Fonda Calls For Barron Trump To Be Kidnapped | The Daily Caller - WE SHOULD RIP BARRON TRUMP FROM HIS MOTHER'S ARMS AND PUT HIM IN A CAGE WITH PEDOPHILES AND SEE IF MOTHER WILL WILL STAND UP AGAINST THE GIANT ASSHOLE SHE IS MARRIED TO
Stuart man charged with threatening Rep. Brian Mast's children over Trump policy

Giuliani's act of love sets off GOP furor - love life is causing trouble for the White House - has infuriated senior GOP officials, who are convinced that the former New York mayor is acting at the behest of his new girlfriend, Jennifer LeBlanc

Senate rejects billions in Trump spending cuts as two Republicans vote 'No' - outcome was startling because one of the opposing votes came from Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who does not normally buck the White House or GOP leadership. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a moderate and one of the Republicans who most frequently side with Democrats, cast the other GOP vote against the cuts.


With eyes on midterms, Trump embraces immigration fight
Poll: McSally holds 14-point lead in Arizona GOP Senate primary | TheHill

Voters More Focused on Control of Congress -- and the President -- Than in Past Midterms - GOP leads on economy, Democrats on health care, immigration (Dems always fix the Republican-broken economy so Repubicans can say they "fixed it" because last year is too complicated for voters)

Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms. His Goal: Flip the House for the Democrats. - The New York Times

CNN Poll: Support for Democrats ticks up - CNNPolitics (but the Red wave is coming)

Kobach'ss office tells counties to stop asking for proof of citizenship - to comply with a federal court ruling that bans proof of citizenship requirements, reversing preliminary guidance that left the issue in limbo for two days (contempt of court would have been inconvienient)
The New Jim Crow - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The elections director for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told county clerks in a conference call Tuesday to continue enforcing a proof of citizenship law that a federal judge ruled unconstitutional. (who to believe? let's go with evil)
Charles P. Pierce on Twitter: "Leavenworth isn't that far." - 'I think "Immediately" is kind of open to interpretation'


Turning Point USA struggles with allegations of student sexual assault, harassment (training camp for young Republicans)

How emoji can kill: As gangs move online, social media fuel violence - The Washington Post - "cyber banging"



Obama On Legalizing Pot - YouTube (evolution is hard)

List & Map of MA Dispensaries : bostontrees
The Commission Staff will recommend Sira Naturals' application for Tier 3 Cultivation as the first completed license application to the Commission for approval on Thursday June 19 : bostontrees
July 1st what is the deal : bostontrees


061918

China and the Education Industrial Complex - Lawyers, Guns & Money (1/3 of foreign students are Chinese; Trump just destroyed higher education in America which presumeably was the idea all along)

'Homophobic and not very clever': why puto chants haunt Mexican football | Football | The Guardian

Russia cuts Treasury holdings in half as foreigners start losing appetite for US debt


U.S. Quits UN Human Rights Council, Saying It's Anti-Israel


Eschaton: Of Course Trump Is Worse - But immigration activists were screaming about the Obama administration abuses (and they were abuses, just not the same) for years. The idea was that Obama would beat the crap out pf some immigrants for a few years and then the Republicans would be charmed by this and pass some sort of comprehensive immigration bill, the same way they came on board for a Grand Bargain (thank God they didn't) and an ACA compromise. We joke about the current President Deals but really it was Obama who was the original Deals. There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But, somehow we missed it. Well, we'll know better next time. (yeah, thanks Barry)

Would you like to know more? - Lawyers, Guns & Money (illegal immigrants "infesting" America)
'Infest' -- The Ugly Nazi History of Trump's Chosen Verb About Immigrants
US likely lost track of 6,000 unaccompanied children | McClatchy Washington Bureau
Stephen Miller, the Man Behind Family Separation - The Atlantic - the public outrage and anger elicited by policies like forced family separation are a feature, not a bug.
Meghan McCain Calls Out First Daughter's Silence on Child Separation: 'Where Is Ivanka?'
Two charts demolish the notion that immigrants here illegally commit more crime - The Washington Post (the reverse is true, of course)

This is happening right now in this country - Lawyers, Guns & Money
JORGE RAMOS on Twitter: "Mexican government reports that a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome was separated from her mother. This is Trump's America

DHS Chief is Confronted With ProPublica Tape of Wailing ProPublica
The Reviews Are in, DHS Sec Nielsen Bombed at Her Briefing on Child Separations: 'My God' She's 'Bad at This'
White House Reporters Pummel DHS Head Nielsen Over Migrant Policy: 'How is This Not Child Abuse?' ("locking children is cages" is "not specific enough")

Family separations: Why news media are finally saying Trump is lying

Big majority disapprove of separating families at border - CNNPolitics - But among Republicans, there is majority support for the policy that has resulted in an uptick of children being separated from their families. (party of cruel assholes)
CBS News poll: Two-thirds of Americans say separating children, parents at border unacceptable - CBS News (one-third, all Republicans, say it's wonderful)
Former ICE Director: Some migrant family separations are permanent - ou could be creating thousands of immigrant orphans in the U.S
Listen to Children Who've Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border -- ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, "We have an orchestra here" (they cream "Mami" and "Papi" over and over ...
Nielsen becomes face of Trump's border separations -- The Homeland Security secretary has been seen as weak on enforcement, but on Monday she defended decisions that have left kids warehoused on the border. ("face of evil')
From 'I Alone Can Fix It' to 'Change the Laws!' - Trump once vowed he would single-handedly fix the system, but faced with an opportunity to end family separations at the border, he instead is passing the buck to Congress.
The GOP's Immigration Meltdown - Restrictionists may cost Republicans their majorities in Congress (and if the WSJ is worried ... and by the way, those aren't "cages")
Forget Tax Cuts. Trump Wants to Rally the G.O.P. Base Over Immigration. - The New York Times (evil white people pround to be evil)
The US Isn't Just Separating Children From Their Parents. It Also Has No Plan To Reunite Them. -- Immigration authorities have no intention of reuniting parents separated from their kids until
Donald Trump Jr. Likes Tweet Suggesting Children Separated From Parents at Border Are Crisis Actors
Laura Ingraham Compares Child Immigrant Detention Centers To Summer Camps | HuffPost - The Fox News host also quoted an article that likens the centers, some of which keep children in cage-like structures, to boarding school. (summer camp for ric child actors)


Trump Is Pushing the 'Devil's Schemes,' Says Gillibrand ... biblically 'evil' ... "if you were talking in Christian language."
Jim Carrey's New Painting Depicts Demons' Influence On Donald Trump (or Trump's on the demons, you decide)

/u/DNthecorner exposes the Trump Administration's contractor Cerberus Capital overseeing the separated immigrant children. Cerberus Capital is connected with child trafficking, prostitution, and abuse. : bestof (of course)

Rudy Giuliani Says His Calls To Suspend Mueller Probe Were Just A Casual Bluff | HuffPost
Rudy Giuliani Says FBI Questioned Him On Leaks That Hurt Clinton Campaign | HuffPost - lawyer says he talked with two FBI agents in his suite at the Trump International Hotel in D.C.

Manafort in 'solitary confinement' to avoid attack by someone intent on 'street cred,' Trump ex-lawyer says | Fox News (or you-know-who)

Erik Prince: I 'Cooperated' With Mueller -The Trumpworld insider is under scrutiny for his alleged backchanneling with Russia, his work for China, and his plans for Afghanistan. He defends it all in a new interview.

Breaking: Michael Cohen, Holding His Cards Close to the Vest, Has Hired a New Lawyer | Vanity Fair - has now hired Guy Petrillo, who served as the chief of the criminal division in the S.D.N.Y. from 2008 to 2009.

Eschaton: A Healthy Political Movement - Good job everybody. -- (CNN) The armed man who for more than an hour blocked a highway near the Hoover Dam with an armored truck and held a sign that said "Release the OIG report" is in an Arizona jail accused of several felonies, police said Saturday ... The 568-page report was released this week, leaving Wright's message unclear.
QAnon, the Crazy Pro-Trump Conspiracy, Melts Down Over OIG Report

Hard-Partying Donald Trump Jr. Was Dubbed 'Diaper Don' in College, New Book Details

Trump loses temper over border wall funding - POLITICO - The president said at the meeting that if Congress doesn't give him the resources he needs for border security, he will shut down the government in September,

House GOP Unveils Budget to Fast-Track Tax Cuts, End Obamacare - Bloomberg

New poll shows close race for U.S. Senate Race in North Dakota - The statewide poll shows Kevin Cramer only holds a 4% lead over incumbent Heidi Heitkamp...that's within the poll's margin of error

Trump changed the electoral map; new polling shows it's changing back -- The Midwest doesn't like Trump anymore; the Sourth likes him fine (it was always the heart of treason)


Watch This White Woman Explain to a Black Woman Why Slavery Wasn't So Bad

A Jury May Have Sentenced a Man to Death Because He's Gay. And the Justices Don't Care

How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country - The New York Times (just give them all your money)

When Both Men and Women Drop Out of the Labor Force, Why Do Economists Only Ask About Men? | Beat the Press | CEPR

Man, who at the age of 17 raped and killed a 6-year-old girl, is sentenced to at least 40 years in prison. : news

Left-handed People Could Be Getting the Wrong Mental Health Treatment, Research Suggests (right-handed normies)


Giant lasers pass new milestone towards fusion energy - They have shown that the fusion energy generated by the laser implosion of a deuterium-tritium fuel capsule is twice that of the kinetic energy of the implosion. : science

Ecstasy-assisted psychotherapy is bringing peace to people with PTSD : science
TIL of the bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. : todayilearned

The first pilot study to examine the 16:8 diet (8 hours of free eating between 10 am to 6 pm and 16 hours of fasting in-between) suggests that daily fasting is an effective tool to reduce weight and lower blood pressure in obese individuals. : science


Woman who lied about being raped on college campus gets jail : news
[NSFW] CW: Abuse/Domestic Violence. A selfie of XXXTentacion's girlfriend after his alleged assault on her during their relationship.nsfw

What's a taboo question that you're too afraid or embarrassed to ask? : AskReddit
What is the dumbest question someone legitimately asked you? : AskReddit

Ajit Pai Now Trying To Pretend That Everybody Supported Net Neutrality Repeal : technology (all lies, all the time)

061818


Trump says he's directing Pentagon to create a new 'Space Force' (to take over the galaxy and deport all the aliens)

Trump just tweeted that "crime in Germany is way up" It's actually at its lowest level since 1992. -- You'll be shocked to learn the president sometimes says untrue things.

Former Israeli minister who smuggled ecstasy now accused of spying for Iran - Israel News - Haaretz.com - According to Shin Bet, Gonen Segev traveled twice to Iran to meet his handlers

Saudi women on the front line of change - The Washington Post

A Top Trump Aide Worked In Libya With Key Backers Of An Alleged "Sex Cult" Joe Hagin saw Libyan expatriate Basit Igtet as a golden goose. Igtet was more than that ... Igtet was deeply involved in NXIVM (it's all projection because they are incapable of an original thought)

SPLC Pays $3.3 Million Settlement to Counter-Extremism Group It Called 'Anti-Muslim'


Kim Jong Un More Popular Than Pelosi Among Republicans: Exclusive Poll Results - and Polosi isn't the most unpopular member of Congress.


Massachusetts Governor Cancels National Guard Deployment To Border, Citing 'Inhumane' Treatment Of Children And Families : news

Trump Repeats Assertion That Democrats Are to Blame for Separating Children at Border - The New York Times ("they refused to kiss my golden ass, so fuck those little gangbangers," he said
Has Trump finally gone too far? - The Washington Post (probably not, Max)
Trump administration could be holding 30,000 border kids by August, officials say
Eschaton: The Bullshit Spray Gun - The head of DHS is asserting, Spicey style, that up is down, PERIOD, and conservative media is running with "chain-link partitions are not cages." People are so depraved.
Facing outcry over family separations, DHS chief says, 'We will not apologize'
Eschaton: These People Can't Tie Their Shoes - Aside from the evil, these people are incompetent. Would you trust them to take care of your kids, let alone thousands?
Eschaton - One can't hope for much in our "look forwards, not backwards [when it comes to holding rich people accountable]" nation, but hopefully some of these people will be scared to travel to another country for the rest of their lives.
Exclusive: Trump admin thought family separations would deter immigrants. They haven't
DHS Secretary Says There's No Family Separation Policy 'Period' -- Last week, DHS announced that nearly 2,000 kids had been separated from their parents during a six-week period ending last month.
Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas
Poll: Republicans Approve of Trump's Family Separation Policy (well, cruel evil people voted for cruelty and evil)
Opinion | Trump and the Baby Snatchers - The New York Times
Texas deputy accused of sexually assaulting 4-year-old threatened her mother with deportation, sheriff says | Crime | Dallas News
Senator Ben Sasse - Posts (bad Republicans worried about looking bad)
Ann Coulter Smears Immigrant Children as 'Child Actors' She cited a supposed New Yorker article that does not seem to exist (says Soros hired a bunch of midgets to impersonate children)

Justice Kennedy Still Won't Rule on Gerrymandering -- The latest SCOTUS opinions show that the other justices are still trying to convince their swing voter to make up his mind. (evil fucking asshole)
Supreme Court Refuses to Address Partisan Gerrymandering - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Attention, Democrats and Donors: Defend Mueller Now -- or Kiss Your Country Goodbye (Pelosi says shut up)
Republicans continue to play clueless on the Russia investigation - The Washington Post

Donald Trump's Deep State

Well, the Report Certainly Vindicated the Pretext Trump Used to Fire Comey - Lawyers, Guns & Money - You may surprised to learn that I do not find Trump's argument that the FBI conspired against him byhaving an insubordinate director issue multiple prejudicial statements about Hillary Clinton while suppressing disclosure of the investigation of the Trump campaign entirely convincing: (no one in government allowed not to kiss the golden asshole)
Joint and several liability - Lawyers, Guns & Money

There may have been an FBI conspiracy involving the 2016 election. But not the one you think. - The Washington Post - In contrast, a group of FBI agents in the bureau's New York office seems to have been doing everything it could in the fall of 2016 to make sure Clinton wouldn't become president

Trump Job Approval at 45%, Tying Personal Best

Jeff Sessions Is Killing Civil Rights - The Atlantic - Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement (little Jeffy fucking the country)


Generation Pickleball: Welcome to Florida's Political Tomorrowland - Republican's political future looks a lot like this vibrant, fast-growing, Trump-friendly retirement community outside of Orlando. (rich white supremecists)

Opinion | Riling Up the Base May Backfire on Trump - The New York Times - There are as many moderate Republicans as there are evangelicals in the party. (well, they are still in the 92% of rabid Trumpsters, so ...
Don't become the party of Trump

Tom Scocca on Twitter: "OK let's talk for a minute about what a fraud Salena Zito is, and how S.E. Cupp carried on that fraud for her in @nytopinion https://t.co/foeFB4vir5"
Eschaton: Bari Weiss Just Can't Find The Google On Her Internet - Bari Weiss Just Can't Find The Google On Her Internet - OK let's talk for a minute about what a fraud Salena Zito is, and how S.E. Cupp carried on that fraud for her in @nytopinion pic.twitter.com/MbXucaJf87
A Bullshit Artist Turducken - Lawyers, Guns & Money - S.E. Cupp, a conservative publishing in the New York Times opinion pages and as such held to no editorial standards whatsoever, provides an example of the kind of salt-of-the-Earth white-working-class voter the Democrats just can't persuade, recycled from Trump Whisperer and grifter Salena Zito: (cancel your subscriptions)

Eschaton: Women Can Be Bad, Too - There is an annoying tendency to assume that women are always a softening force in politics, that they will make things a bit less bad, like your mommy kissing your boo boo. Women can be bad, too. They just tend to have fewer opportunities to do so.

Shell-shocked Democrats regroup in Wisconsin - POLITICO

How the end of the MTV era led to a music video renaissance

Norman Pearlstine Named Editor of The Los Angeles Times - The New York Times - previously served in top editorial positions at The Wall Street Journal, Time Inc. and Bloomberg.
Veteran journalist Norman Pearlstine named executive editor of the Los Angeles Times


US states with the most psychopaths - Connecticut wins the dubious award of most psychopathic state in the US, followed by California in second, and New Jersey third. New York and Wyoming tie for joint fourth place, followed by Maine. The least psychopathic state is West Virginia, followed by Vermont, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Mexico. ... and MA at 15 (fake science)

New York's Health Department Plans to Recommend Legalizing Marijuana ... Cuomo says ... "facts have changed" (not his stupid racist ideas)

Giant Hogweed, which can cause burns and blindness, found in Virginia - which can grow to almost 15 feet.

XXXtentacion shot in Miami and has no pulse : Music
XXXTentacion, controversial rapper, shot dead in Florida aged 20 - BBC News


'Helicopter parenting' linked to behavioural problems - Children whose parents were over-controlling at age two struggled to manage their emotions later in life, study finds. : science


Doctors and nurses of Reddit, have you ever witnessed a couple have a child that was obviously not the father's? If so, what happened? : AskReddit

Lifecourse Associates: The Four Turnings

What do you hate the most about reddit? : AskReddit


From LinkedIn and Yahoo to TVs and WiFi routers, these are default data privacy settings worth changing - The Washington Post

Video shows Tesla bursting into flames on L.A. street 'out of the blue' (you're driving a flame-bomb)

061718


Pope: Abortion is 'white glove' equivalent to Nazi crimes (you've got some very dark history there yourself, popester)


Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border 'breaks my heart'
Democrats intensify fight for immigrant children -- and bludgeon Trump and Republicans ahead of midterms
Melania Trump weighs in on her husband's cruel policy. Where are you, Ivanka?
Leading Republicans Join Democrats in Pushing Trump to Halt Family Separations - The New York Times - Melania Trump hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together
Collins opposes family separations at border, but calls Democratic bill too broad - Portland Press Herald - Maine's Republican senator calls for again trying to pass the bipartisan immigration deal that fell apart in February. (fuck you Susie, and fuck you too Maine Republifucks and you too Elliot Cutler)
Susan Collins: Active Supporter of American Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity - Lawyers, Guns & Money (you knew who she was +Sherrod Brown and Debbie Stabenow afraid of losing racist voters)
Both Sides Do It, The Unshakeable Script - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Every single Democratic Senator has signed on to a bill to limit Donald Trump's arbitrary child kidnapping policy: (+NYT lies as much as Trump: 100% Dems opposed; 0% Republicans opposed to Trump's kidnapping = "both sides")

The totalitarian mind - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Approximately 40% of this country, give or take, is just fine with the president saying that black is white on Monday, and that white is black on Tuesday, and then insisting on Wednesday that he never said black was white or white was black. An undetermined portion of that group will not notice the contradictory nature of the president's statements; another portion simply won't care about those contradictions; another portion will applaud the contradictions for being contradictory. This is the psychology that makes totalitarianism possible. (Republicans favor child separation by a large margin -- the party of cruelty and death)

This Video Showing A Border Patrol SUV Hitting A Native American Man And Speeding Away Is Going Viral - "They just ran me over, bro"
Bus Driver Tells Passengers Only U.S. Citizens Can Ride As Border Patrol Agent Looks On | HuffPost
Eschaton: Fauxtrage - You just care about imprisoned toddlers because it makes Trump look bad, libturds.
Eschaton: Monsters - Really we just need to listen to (checks notes) people who thinks it's cool to take kids from their parents and put them in cages. Be their friends. Acknowledge their points of view. Bridge the divide.

Trump Again Falsely Blames Democrats for His Separation Tactic - The New York Times ("Nancy Pelosi is down there tearing families apart. I've tried to stop here but she keeps doing it."
'America is better than this': What a doctor saw in a Texas shelter for migrant children (not anymore +no touching the MS-13 babies)



> Trump associate Roger Stone reveals new contact with Russian national during 2016 campaign - The Washington Post

Instead of Trump's propaganda, how about a nice 'truth sandwich'? - Last week was a particularly rough one for journalists and truth-seeking citizens. -- President Trump declared the news media the nation's worst enemy. (insufficient subservience to the Trump Master, they dared to ask a question of his cosmic highness)

When are Republicans going to stand up to Trump? Never Here's why


Southern Baptist Convention 2018: Raleigh White Baptist Church expelled from denomination over racism claim - CBS News - Raleigh White Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. (yeah, that's really its name)
Georgia church expelled by Southern Baptists over racism claim : news
UCC churches look to organize progressive Christian voice - "The reality is that Southern Baptists dont' speak for all Christians" (just most of them)
Southern Baptists Call Off the Culture War - The Atlantic - America's largest Protestant group moves to cut ties with the Republican Party and re-engage with mainstream culture. (well, the young and black ones, anyway)


Five myths about marriage - The Washington Post

Cash-only possible for first pot sales in Mass. - The Boston Globe

Muscular strength as a strong predictor of mortality: A narrative review : science


People who ran into the "weird kid" from school years later, how did he or she turn out? : AskReddit


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Chimps and orangutans could be extinct by the end of the century, scientists warn
Mammals Go Nocturnal in Bid to Avoid Humans - The New York Times


The World Cup is already beset by empty seats. FIFA is baffled. - The Washington Post (Putin's WC scam all the way down)


Trump told Shinzo Abe he'd ship 25 million Mexicans to Japan ... which would result in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe losing his next election (if you do not obey you will suffer the consequences: Trump now world dictator, after Putin of course)

Eschaton: New Rule - If you are a Democratic president, do not appoint Republicans to top law enforcement, defense, intelligence, and diplomacy jobs. GOP Daddies are bad. (for the 1,000th time, thanks again, Barry)

Was a breastfeeding infant really taken from an immigrant mother? The answer to this and other questions about families separated at the border (yes, and other atrocities)
Doctors Concerned About 'Irreparable Harm' To Separated Migrant Children : NPR
Results of Congressional Democrats's Dangerous Immigration Policies (Democrats separating families at the border is the offical lie of the United States of America so there, cry libtards, we own you)
Trump cites as a negotiating tool his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents - The Washington Post (Dems will bow down to hinm)
Christian Leaders To Jeff Sessions: The Bible Does Not Justify Separating Families | HuffPost - "It goes against pretty much the entire Bible in the ethos of Jesus, and it's deeply un-Christian" (define "Christian")
"Coco," a Story About Borders and Love, Is a Definitive Movie for This Moment

China tariffs on U.S. soybeans could cost Iowa farmers up to $624 million (hey, NYT, could you send a reporter to that Iowa diner with the Trumpster?)


Donald dreams of dictators - POLITICO - In the three years since he first descended his golden escalator to announce his presidential bid, Trump has made clear he yearns for fealty along with authority.

Watergate prosecutor says Manafort may never again 'see the outside of a jail cell'
The best and worst thing about rich white guys going to jail is that it inspires a conversation about our brutal criminal justice system.

Clapper: 'We had a suspect' in Kremlin-WikiLeaks transfer


"He Hate, Hate, Hates It" : Sessions Fumes as Kushner Gets Pardon Fever With Kim Kardashian and liberals like Van Jones, the princely Trump son-in-law is trying to reset his reputation. But not everyone in the administration is happy about it ... The source said Kardashian gave Kushner a list of people to pardon, some of whom are hip-hop artists


Melania Trump Spent Her Husband's Birthday Away from Her Husband (she had "meetings")

Nobody wants an October surprise - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Matthew Miller on Twitter: "This Oct. 5 email from Comey to Brennan and Clapper on publicly acknowledging Russian interference is infuriating." (yeah, no number of books and redemption tours will fix his evil Republican stupidity)
"She Can Take It" in re: the recent Comey Comedy Classics:

Journalists Remain Incapable of Dealing with Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money
How the conventions of political journalism help spread Trump's lies
Trump's gaslighting is about to get a lot worse
Blotting Out the Sun - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Eschaton: But Jeff Flake Tweets - There will come a time when the Trump era is over and media figures who spent a lot of time tut-tutting critics on the Left (naughty words!) and elevating critics on the Right (save us, Bill Kristol, you're our only hope), will welcome the "normal" Republican party back to power as if they haven't supported everything Trump has done.

Aaron Rupar on Twitter: ".@ggreenwald is on white nationalist @TuckerCarlson's Fox News show hyping the latest GOP-fueled conspiracy theory. #FearlessAndAdversarial https://t.co/rgho5MG1mM"
Today on Tucker's White Power Hour....Mr. Glenn Greenwald, Again! - Lawyers, Guns & Money (GG continues his descent)

Opinion | I Was Fired for Making Fun of Trump - The New York Times (Hedgies gutting newspapers and firing journalists who do now swear loyalty to Trumpster)

North Carolina Republicans Are Back With a New Plan for Strict Voter Laws - The New York Times (lie, cheat, steal, plunder, rape)

Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote | PNAS (racists losing white priviledge)


#LivingWhileBlack: Man confronts swimmers about showering at hotel pool - The Washington Post (don't do stupid racist shit, you'll wind up on Facebook)

Tipping the pay scales: Initiative 77 could dramatically alter D.C. restaurant culture - would require restaurants and bars to pay tipped workers a full minimum wage


Why we shouldn't look to female critics to support women-centric movies - Women and people of color donn't all think the same (they might not like you women-inclusive movie)

Political Fundraisers Face Harassment From An Endless Stream Of Men With Money | HuffPost (another grab and grope industry)

Globe, after extensive review, suspends columnist - The Boston Globe - said Friday that it will suspend columnist Kevin Cullen without pay for three months after an examination of his work found significant problems in a series of radio interviews and some public remarks he made in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013.

The face in the waves - The Boston Globe

15 perfect summer days for 15 Cape Cod towns - The Boston Globe - A Perfect Day in Bourne

ELI5: How does the ocean go through two tide cycles in a day, where the moon only passes 'overhead' once every 24 hours? : explainlikeimfive

Five myths about Alzheimer's disease

NIH cancels $100 million study of moderate drinking as inescapably compromised - The Washington Post


Mindfulness can act as a buffer against the pain and distress of social rejection. According to a new study, people who have greater levels of mindfulness - or the tendency to maintain attention on and be aware of the present moment - are better able to cope with the pain of being rejected by others : science
Meditation
faq - Meditation
Mindfulness In Plain English by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana Vipassana Meditation

Cannabis oil row: Epileptic boy will have supply returned : news

u/ILoveBeingPostWall explains how abusive people operate and why people stay in such relationships : bestof

TIL that almost any parent-child combination of eye colors can occur. The genetics of eye colour are complex and has moved on from the original thought that eye colour was determined by a single gene, with brown being dominant and blue recessive. : todayilearned

TIL Slow eaters were 42% less likely to be overweight or obese than fast eaters. Even normal-speed eaters had a 29% lower risk of being overweight : todayilearned

u/ernieball eloquently describes what it feels like to go into labor : bestof
What's the most single thing you've ever done? : AskReddit

s Screening for Political Ads Nabs News Sites Instead of Politicians - The social network is letting some political ads slip through without the required verification, while blocking promotional posts by news organizations, which are pushing back. (Zuckerfucking all the way down)

Europe's GDPR is Killing Email Marketing, to the Disappointment of No One : technology

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The Parkland School Guard Who Didn't Stop The Shooter Was Accused Of Sexually Harassing One Of The Victims - Two female students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas reported a 39-year-old campus guard for sexual harassment. One of the girls later died in the massacre.


Trump Looked Strong, But So Did Kim; North Korea May Have Gained More | Monmouth University Polling Institute | Monmouth University
Donald Trump Wants Attention Like Kim Jong Un Gets From North Koreans | HuffPost - Trump later said he was joking with his comments about the North Korean dictator.
'Dictator Envy': Trump's praise of Kim Jong Un widens his embrace of totalitarian leaders
Trump says he wants "my people" to sit at attention for him like people do for Kim Jong Un (why he's envious of every authoritarian murdering dictator)

'Why can't we just do it?' : Trump nearly upended summit with abrupt changes ... After arriving in Singapore on Sunday, an antsy and bored Trump urged his aides to demand that the meeting with Kim be pushed up by a day -- to Monday -- and had to be talked out of altering the long-planned and carefully negotiated summit date on the fly, according to two people familiar with preparations for the event. (the toddler in chief)

The 49 wildest quotes from Donald Trump's bananas interview with Fox News (unhinged lying moron)

"There's No Stopping Him": Trump Insists on a Putin Summit - After Singapore, the President is pressing ahead with the meeting that he's always wanted

Trump wants to be called tough. - He is getting exactly what he wants.


This isn't religion. It's perversion ... the Trump administration the very next day claimed that it had the divine right to rip children from their parent's arms at the border (the core of Evangelical Christianity)
Eschaton: We Do Love Children In America - I don't have children. For decades (I am old enough that I can say this - two decades!) people have been telling me some version of "you just don't get it" about numerous subjects, often only tangentially related to the having of children, because I do not have them. -- Yah, well, I see parents thinking it's cool to put toddlers in concentration camps, so maybe having children is not the empathy giver it is supposed to be.

Jeff Sessions cites Romans 13, a Bible passage used to defend slavery, in defense of family separations - The Washington Post
Stephen Colbert: "If we let this happen in our name, we are a Feckless Country" : television


Feds have reassembled Michael Cohen's shredded documents, discovered over 700 pages of encrypted messages

Paul Manafort Jailed Before Trial, Judge Cites New Obstruction of Justice Charges - The New York Times - new charges that Mr. Manafort had tried to influence the testimony of two of the government's witnesses after he had been granted bail.
Paul Manafort = Evidence of Collusion | Just Security

Rudy Giuliani Says Mueller Probe Must Be Suspended 'Tomorrow' After DOF Report - "Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions have a chance to redeem themselves, and that chance comes about tomorrow." (you know, the report that said Clinton was fine and the FBI supported Trump +Rudy is pure evil)
The Report's Real Message: Trump Is Lying (and the Russians swarm the comments)
Report Gives Trump an Opening, but Undercuts His Narrative - The New York Times (just look at him)

IG refers five FBI employees for investigation, as more anti-Trump messages revealed | Fox News (treason, I tell you)

Trump's America does not care - Robert Kagan - It turns out there was a third option: the United States as rogue superpower, neither isolationist nor internationalist, neither withdrawing nor in decline, but active, powerful and entirely out for itself.

Pence turns VP's office into gateway for lobbyists to influence the Trump administration

Shrinking map boosts Democrats in battle for the Senate - POLITICO - Republicans are still favored to keep their majority, but several Democratic incumbents in red states look likely to survive.

These women have won their primaries. Will they be elected in November? -- So far, there are 101 female candidates who are not incumbents who will be on the ballot in November. Many could make history -- but most face a difficult road to victory.


California sees $9 billion surplus, passes budget to help poor : news (Make America Californian Again)


Eschaton: Bruni - Frank Bruni was the worst campaign reporter in 2000, then a horrible Vatican reporter, than America's worst restaurant critic, and then a simultaneously boring and bad columnist, which is a talent. Bad enough that you roll your eyes, but boring and inconsequential enough that you just don't care enough to bother to complain. Who does he have pictures of? I mean, I grudgingly have to admit, as much as it pains me, that people like Brooks and Dowd have had, at least at times, admiring audiences. Bruni? It's weird.


Eschaton: Tough On Democrats - The reasons are complicated and not entirely clear, but my entire adult life, people in positions of authority and power have felt the need to prove they are "tough on Democrats." Whether it's the supposedly liberal media, including the eventheliberalmedia, the Democratic president of United States, the head of the FBI, ... I mean, I'm tough on Democrats too, but generally from The Left, which is a different sort of thing and absent most other places.


Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America's Biggest Companies -- Many pregnant women have been systematically sidelined in the workplace. They're passed over for promotions and raises. They're fired when they complain.


Urged by Mpls. police, EMS staff subdued dozens with a sedative - StarTribune.com - EMS workers used date rape drug ketamine, stopping some suspect's hearts or breathing (saves them from doing a chokehold)


Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits, Suit Says - The New York Times ... traits like "positive personality," likability, courage, kindness and being "widely respected" according to an analysis of more than 160,000 student records ... Harvard conducted an internal investigation into its admissions policies in 2013 and found a bias against Asian-American applicants. But Harvard never made the findings public or acted on them.


My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me - The New York Times - I am that guy. -- A little over a year ago, my wife, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, published a Modern Love essay called "You May Want to Marry My Husband." At 51, Amy was dying from ovarian cancer. She wrote her essay in the form of a personal ad. It was more like a love letter to me.

Weird Al - Covers [Rock] Al played 77 shows from Feb-June 2018, and closed the show with 77 different covers. They're all fucking great. : Music | "Weird Al" Yankovic - 77 Cover Songs - YouTube
Disguised Christina Aguilera And Jimmy Fallon Sing In New York Subway | HuffPost


People more likely to trust and cooperate if they can tolerate ambiguity. New research shows that behavior in social situations is influenced by the ability to accept uncertain outcomes : science


Pluto in 8K : pics

[Serious] Survivors of attempted murder, what is your story? : AskReddit

What is the craziest thing you have ever seen your mother do? : AskReddit

What plan backfired spectacularly? : AskReddit

Eschaton: Because They're Stupid - And that is what Elon and Rahm have done to me with their Tunnel of Love ride to the airport. I will never be able to stop talking about this or thinking about it or wanting to explain just how stupid it is even though the stupidest is part is that it will never be built and I need to spend my time thinking about more important things like past seasons of The Bachelor.

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North Korea summit: Israeli government report questions Trump's optimism - Axios

Trump development partner hires Chinese firm for construction | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Angus Johnston on Twitter: "New York Times, April 1933: "A little patience and decent protests" will curb Hitler's anti-semitism. "
It's Complicated - Lawyers, Guns & Money


It's All Too Much, and We Still Have to Care - What's going on at the border is horrifying, but we can't go numb and turn away. (as US goes full Hitler, the day has come)
Jeff Sessions uses Bible to defend zero-tolerance border policy to church leaders ("President Jesus would lock up those little gangbangers in a heartbeat," Sessions said, in his country-boy drawl)
DHS reports about 2,000 minors separated from families (child cruelty and abuse)
Trump admin will house migrant kids in tents in Tornillo, Texas - The Trump administration has selected a border facility near El Paso to build a tent city with 450 beds for migrant children.
Incarcerating Kids is a Lucrative Business - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Cult of personality - Lawyers, Guns & Money - the Trump mural I mentioned to @chrislhayes inside the shelter for incarcerated child migrants. Also their beds and the towels they shower with.

Breastfeeding Mother Says Officials Took Her Baby At Immigrant Detention Center | HuffPost - President Donald Trump has ordered the separation of undocumented families as a "zero-tolerance" border policy (and 100% pure evil)


The key takeaways from the Justice Deptartment inspector general's report

Pressure on Michael Cohen intensifies as Mueller stays focused on the Trump attorney - The Washington Post
Why Michael Cohen is possibly the biggest threat to Trump - The Washington Post
Cohen signals openness to cooperating with federal investigators - CNNPolitics (openness to sending Trump to jail)
Trump's campaign to discredit Michael Cohen is already underway

Why untrue tweets from Trump shouldn't be unchallenged in headlines

Melania Trump's rebuke of Rudy Giuliani is a reminder that she isn't speaking up for the president
New York's highest court rejects Trump's attempts to stop Zervos defamation suit

Anticipation builds for report on FBI's Clinton probe (they helped get him elected but lock her up)

Sarah Sanders leaving: Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is planning to depart the White House by year's end - CBS News

N.Y. Attorney General Sues Trump Foundation After 2-Year Investigation - The New York Times

Comey Cited as 'Insubordinate,' but Report Finds No Bias in F.B.I. Decision to Clear Clinton
James Comey: This Report Says I Was Wrong. But That's Good for the F.B.I.
James Comey Committed Misconduct That Affected the 2016 Elections - Lawyers, Guns & Money - and there was nothing inappropriate about the decision not to charge Clinton:
James Comey Used Personal Email For FBI Business, DOJ Inspector General Finds | HuffPost (of course he did)
Nothing but respect for my president - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Note for non-Twitterers: Yes this is from her Twitter account. --> "But My Emails"
How Lisa Page and Peter Strzok explained their text messages about President Trump - The Washington Post


'This is the new Republican Party' - The final GOP holdouts to Donald Trump whimper into oblivion. (now the party of white supremecisim and pure evil)
Republicans embrace the 'cult' of Trump, ignoring warning signs

Higgins says he will no longer back 'misguided' Pelosi ("aloof and frenetic" also +Pelosi and Schumer's widely mocked "A Better Deal")

It's a really big deal that SF elected London Breed as mayor - first woman of color to win election for mayor (Pelosi's old job after Moscone was assassinated)

Rep. Steve King Won't Answer Questions About His Neo-Nazi Retweets | HuffPost -- The Iowa Republican has been endorsing tweets from a guy who rants about Jews and the fall of Western civilization.

In Name of Free Speech, States Crack Down on Campus Protests - The New York Times (to limit free speech, of course)

The civility racket - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Frank Bruni is an idiot, what bubbles do these people live in?)

Today In Texas Justice - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The New York Times recently published two exceptional pieces of investigative reporting by Pamela Colloff about the conviction of Joe Bryan for the alleged murder of his wife. I cannot say with absolute certainty that he is innocent of these charges. But I can say the story the state used to convict him is exceptionally implausible:


The Intellectual Derp Web - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Amazing how many high-profile public appearances the most silenced pundits in America make. (#metoo has gone too far, and look who the headliner is and did Jordan ask for too much money?)

McGill music student awarded $350,000 after girlfriend stalls career | Montreal Gazette - She wrote an email posing as him, turning down a $50,000-a-year scholarship so that he wouldn't leave her


Michigan State Chief Said Abuse Victim Would Get 'Kickback' for Stirring Up Survivors, Emails Show - John M. Engler, the newly minted interim president of Michigan State University, (MSU repeated their mistake of course and as usual look at his pic)


Digital devices during family time could exacerbate bad behavior - Parents who spend a lot of time on their phones or watching television during family activities such as meals, playtime, and bedtime, may lead children to show more frustration, hyperactivity, whining, sulking or tantrums. : science


Theoretically if there were 6 black holes making a cube shape that blocked off all entrances and you went into the empty space between the black holes (without getting sucked in) what would happen to space and time around you and outside of the theoretical black hole cube? : askscience
Are black holes three dimensional? : askscience


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Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme


Century-old film of San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake aftermath turned up at a California flea market


What screams "I'm uneducated"? : AskReddit
What question did you post on askreddit that you still want answers to because it got barely any responses? : AskReddit
JusticeOfficial comments on I've spent 10 years with this 160gb monster in my pocket, it's been with me in every single trip, journey and commute I've made since I was 20. Today it played its last song. Farewell, you magnificent bastard.


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Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues we are in serious trouble. - The Washington Post - pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean annually and raising sea levels a half millimeter every year ... The result also reinforces that nations have a short window -- perhaps no more than a decade -- to cut greenhouse gas emissions if they hope to avert some of the worst consequences of climate change. (apres Trump, le deluge - While he continues his war on your so-called "science")


113 Politicians Have Been Killed Ahead Of Mexico's Election. There Are Still Two Weeks To Go. - A politician killed on a public bus. A candidate murdered while taking a selfie. This campaign season may be the deadliest ever. (America's biggest export is violence and murder)

Irish Catholic hospitals 'will have to perform abortions' - BBC News - doctors, nurses or midwives could opt out of performing procedures on conscience grounds. - However, entire institutions will not have that option.

Xenophobia Meets Reality in Italy

It's time to stop laughing at Nigerian scammers -- because they're stealing billions of dollars


Senators Press Ajit Pai on DDOS Attack His Agency Made Up : technology (they lie all the time about everything)


In Kim he trusts. Trump sounds naive after meeting North Korea's leader ... "my instinct" ... reminiscent of when George W. Bush proclaimed early in his presidency that he peered into Vladimir Putin's eyes, saw his soul and concluded that the Russian leader was trustworthy. (liars believe each other +"we have 32,000 soldiers in South Korea ... that's not part of the equation right now." SKorea Trump's new "moocher" nation)
Was the Trump-Kim summit a huge success or a colossal failure? - The Washington Post ... "We expected it would be a flop, but it's floppier than anything we expected. The [post-summit] declaration is pretty much meaningless.
Trump's Negotiating Style Is Pure Art of the Moron - Even by this blowhard's YUGE standards, it's been an exceptionally bad and destructive week of terrifying our allies and legitimizing our enemies.
The Kim Con -- Trump isn't trying to win over North Korea's leader. He's using him to win over you
'Harebrained': National Security Council owns up to widely derided Trump video | US news | The Guardian (so the NSC is pure facist)
The Sensational Idiocy of Donald Trump's Propaganda Video for Kim Jong Un
Two Norwegian lawmakers nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize | TheHill - a little more than a month after a group of House Republicans sent a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee formally requesting that the president be nominated for the coveted prize.
I'm not sure it's possible to capture an entire era in one image, but Dennis Rodman running a cryptocurrency grift on live TV from the North Korea summit while wearing a MAGA is a serious nominee


Today In Trump Authoritarianism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Trump administration is looking to build tent cities at military posts around Texas to shelter the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children being held in detention.

California woman 'in shock' after ICE agents detain father, a legal resident, outside home ... Kaufman said it wasn't clear to him why ICE officials decided to target this man two decades later. (Trump ICE fuckers loadind people in boscars)


Eschaton: Wow The News Is Just Dominated By Fretting Deficit Hawks - Just kidding they only get thawed from their pods when Democrats are in charge. -- The U.S. government had a $147 billion budget deficit in May, an increase of 66 percent from the same month last year as the ledger took a hit from declining revenue and higher spending, according to Treasury Department data released on Tuesday.

Partisan Asymmetry And the Courts - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Michael Berube's new article for Democracy ... One of the pleasures of it is that he actually read Mark Lilla's book-length version of late-period liberal contrarianism, which is even worse than I imagined, but also bad in ways that are instructive. This is a really crucial point: (and this!:) Only someone with no understanding of American politics, someone even less literate about the separation of powers than Glenn Greenwald, would be so cavalierly dismissive of the judicial system.
R.I.P., Liberal Contrarianism : Democracy Journal


Robert Mueller files request for 150 blank subpoenas in Paul Manafort case

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen likely to cooperate as his attorneys leave case, sources say - ABC News
Trump's personal attorney splits with his own legal team
Prosecutors 'preparing paperwork' to arrest Michael Cohen: MSNBC


Trump is everything Republicans said Obama was - The Washington Post - They called Obama an inexperienced, self-serving celebrity. Then their party chose Trump.

Trump Appointee Compiles Loyalty List of U.S. Employees at U.N., State (you will swear loyalty to the Supreme Trumpster)

New York Times Examines Work History of Reporter in Leak Case - The New York Times
Customs and Border Protection agent faces inquiry after questioning reporter about her sources - The Washington Post

EPA chief Scott Pruitt tapped aide, donors to help wife land job at conservative group - The Washington Post (corruption is a full-time job)


Lawyer moves to seize Stormy Daniels' crowdfunding cash in Avenatti spat (the dirty background)


Primary election results: Virginia, Nevada, Maine, South Carolina winners and losers - Vox

Democrats Score Special Election Upset In Wisconsin District Trump Won Big | HuffPost - A court had to order Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) to call the special election because he tried to block it. (because fuck your democracy)

Virginia GOP Senate Nominee: Locking Up Hillary Clinton 'Might Just Happen' - Trump loyalist Corey Stewart
Winner of Virginia Republican Senate Primary Suggests His Opponent Should Be Jailed - In other words, he's a carpetbagger, but for racism
Massive Resistance - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Meet your Republican candidate for Senate from the great state of Virginia:
Who is Corey Stewart - Virginia Senate Candidate is Not a "Firebrand" and He's Not a 'Far-Right Activist' - How are reporters still struggling to call people like Corey Stewart what they are?

The new poll about Ohio's 2018 election should worry Republicans - Democrat Richard Cordray leading Republican Mike DeWine in the governor's race, 43 percent to 36 percent among likely voters.

Mark Sanford Latest to Learn That Being Anti-Trump Is a Losing Game in GOP Primaries

Nevada pimp Dennis Hof wins GOP primary, ousts incumbent - ABC News - a Republican primary for the state Legislature on Tuesday, ousting a three-term lawmaker - Hof celebrated his win at a party in Pahrump with Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss at his side.


This is really happening: Measure to split California into three states qualifies for November ballot ... California would be reduced to a coastal strip running south from Monterey to just past Los Angeles ... Voters approved breaking California into two states in 1859, but Congress never acted on that request. (Calexit: evil blunder-capitalist looks to pick up 2 house seats and 4 senators for exteme right-wing)

Opioid lawsuit targets rich family behind drug that fueled US crisis : news (the Sacklers of Death)



Emile Hirsch Brutally Assaulted a Female Film Executive. He's Now Starring in the New Tarantino Film.

Editors at Boston Review quit over decision to retain Junot Dmaz despite sexual misconduct allegations : books


#JoggerJoe arrested after throwing homeless man's belongings in lake - Second recent incident at Lake Merritt setting off debates on race, homelessness and gentrification - Henry William Sintay (will be famous on the internets for all eternity for being an asshole evil racist)

My Suicide Week | HuffPost - Reliving hell in the 24-hour suicide news cycle.

Who shot the cockfight ref? Secret arena outside Miami was packed but nobody's talking (blood sport used to be family entertainment in FL)


City Council passes tough rules that limit Airbnb rentals ... 2,000 apartments ... being used as "de facto hotels"

Standoff with man wanted for kidnapping dog ends peacefully in Methuen - The Boston Globe
Cyclist finds thumbtacks faceup in Newton bike lane, warns others to watch out - The Boston Globe



People who overestimate their understanding of political issues are more likely to believe conspiracy theories, according to new research. : science

Today's dads spend more time, provide more care and are more loving toward their kids than ever before, finds national study of 2,194 fathers. There was also a correlation between fathers who exhibit negative aspects of traditional masculinity and fathers who are less involved with their children.

Health impact of smoking : bostontrees (dope)


Men of reddit, what is something you wish every woman knew? : AskReddit


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Russia and the NRA Is a Match Made in Trumpland - meddling in 2016 was just one of the kleptocracy's ventures


Opinion | First They Came for the Migrants - The New York Times
A Systematic Campaign of White Supremacist Terrorism - Lawyers, Guns & Money (simply put)
Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children | McClatchy Washington Bureau (they are little gang members smuggled in to our white country)


Opinion | Trump Was Outfoxed in Singapore - The New York Times
Unscripted Moments Steal the Show at Trump-Kim Singapore Summit - The New York Times
Two Truthless Leaders Just Signed an Agreement That Commits No One to Anything - The Trump-Kim summit on North Korean denuclearization concludes with...something.
'Alpha male' handshakes as Trump, Kim meet, but body language shows some nerves
'A great honor' : In a bid for history, Trump flatters North Korea

Eschaton: Rocket Man - I know a lot has to do with sticking it to the Obama that lives in his head, but I still haven't seen a clear explanation for why Trump seems to have genuine affection for Kim Jong-Un.

"The Era of Primal Trump" : Insiders Fear Trump Is Lurching from One Nuclear Showdown to Another - Advisers worry that with Singapore in the rearview mirror, "It's going to hit the fan pretty soon."
The North Korea summit was a triumph of Trumpian stagecraft, and the media fell for it - The Washington Post (first the threats to build fear and suspence, then he saves the day)
Trump movie trailer: Reporters thought bizarre video was North Korea propaganda. It came from the White House. - The Washington Post ... Some wondered if Trump had not, in fact, just provided U.S.-sanctioned propaganda to one of the country's oldest adversaries.

Trump says he'll punish 'the people of Canada' because of Tru deau's news conference - Toronto Star - because of the post-G7 news conference in which Trudeau criticized Trump's tariffs ... It is not clear why Trump reacted to Trudeau's post-G7 news conference with such anger. There, Trudeau expressed the same polite criticism of the steel and aluminum tariffs, and same promise to stand up for Canadians, he had been expressing for a full week. (no one is allow to criticize Trump)
Finally, a president with the guts to stand up to Canada - The Washington Post (+"Great 8" group of authoritarian tyrants Trump has bonded with)


Mueller sees Russian effort to influence 2018 midterms - POLITICO

Judge orders Mueller to identify unnamed figures in Manafort indictment - POLITICO

Rosenstein plans to call on House to investigate its own staff - CNNPolitics

Judge in Emoluments Case Questions Defense of Trump's Hotel Profits (DOJ defending their master)

Eschaton: Trump Is Uniquely Bad... In Some Ways - Sometimes I make somewhat not in vogue points about how, Actually, George Bush was worse than Trump. Obviously Trump is catching up fast and I have never denied that this was possible and likely. Still there's a weird amnesia about past presidents and their administrations. George and Dick were not just right of center politicians who I quibbled with, and nor were their boosters. They did evil things incompetently, which made them more evil.

Rudy Giuliani's wife filed for divorce after his affair with married woman

Trump Health and Human Services Secretary Questions Administration Position on Pre-Existing Conditions - Cruelty Is a Pre-Existing Condition

'It's obscene' : GOP candidate seethes as Trump embraces Democratic senator


Federal judge clears AT&T's bid for Time Warner with no conditions
The AT&T-Time Warner Merger and the End of Net Neutrality Are a Nightmare Combination for Consumers : technology


Laurene Powell Jobs is investing in media, education, sports and more. What does she want? - The Washington Post - She's inventing a new brand of philanthropic power. What is her vision and where is it taking us? ... In July, Emerson Collective purchased a majority stake in the Atlantic, a 161-year-old pillar of the journalistic establishment.


WTOP | Rose McGowan indicted on cocaine charge in Loudoun Co.

Blurred Vision, Burning Eyes: This Is a Lasik Success? - The New York Times - Some patients who undergo the eye surgery report a variety of side effects. They may persist for years, studies show.

The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar - The New York Times - John Kidd - by Jack Hitt (gauchos and gauleiters +Grandma Moses )


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Shocking News: Pipeline Backed by Trudeau Leaks in British Columbia, Canada - Justin Trudeau's hands are covered in crude - I know how hard this is to believe, but an energy pipeline broke and spilled, and then the local government where it happened lied about the extent of the damage, while the company that owned the pipeline stood back and let the local government take the reaction in the teeth.

Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign | McClatchy Washington Bureau (lock thenm all up for treason)

Net neutrality is officially dead. Here's how you'll notice it's gone


Trump's New World Order - How the President, Israel, and the Gulf states plan to fight Iran

British campaigners file US lawsuit against firms controlled by Arron Banks | Politics | The Guardian - Case filed in a Mississippi court alleges data mined in UK was illegally sent abroad by two of Banks's companies - the pro-Brexit donor, following allegations that the firms may have violated UK data protection rules in an attempt to sway the 2016 vote to leave the EU.


Escalating Clash With Canada, Trump Is Isolated Before North Korea Meeting - The New York Times (Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore is at least 2 inches taller than Dumpster)
Murderous Dictator Meets Dishonest President Behind Closed Doors | HuffPost - How will the American public know what they actually said? They may not.

Moments before summit, Trump tweets economic adviser Larry Kudlow has had a heart attack

Trump's 'Bully' Attack on Trudeau Outrages Canadians
Trudeau takes his turn as Trump's principal antagonist, and Canadians rally around him
What led to Trump's outburst against Trudeau: Behind the scenes at the G7

"We're America, Bitch" - "Obama apologized to everyone for everything. He felt bad about everything.." The official said that Trump "doesn't feel like he has to apologize for anything America does." (America = Trump +Dick Cheney, again +racist dimbulb Trump voters)
It's Important to Remember We're Currently Ruled by the Dumbest People Available- "We're America, bitch."

First photos emerge of shadowy Manafort aide tied to Russian intelligence - Konstantin Kilimnik, the shadowy Russian political operative indicted Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller, has led such an intensely secretive life that no photograph of him has ever emerged in public. Until now.


There's actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion
The Terrible Arguments Against the Constitutionality of the Mueller Investigation - Lawfare


Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Ohio Voter Purge Policies, a Win for Voter Suppression and Republicans - Right on cue, the Supreme Court's conservatives throw an alley-oop to vote suppressers.
Supreme Court in 5-4 Decision, greenlights Ohio voter purges in Husted v. Randolph.
Sonia Sotomayor's Dissent in the Big Voter Purge Case Points to How the Law Might Still Be Struck Down


Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in outside income last year while serving in the White House, filings show - The Washington Post

Report: White House Pays People To Tape Documents Trump Rips Apart | HuffPost -- It's his "unoffical" filing system (which is totally illegal but he doesn't give a shit about your laws and shreds everything that he sees)
Finally, A Transparent Administration That Follows the Rules - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Solomon Lartey spent the first five months of the Trump administration working in the Old Executive Office Building, standing over a desk with scraps of paper spread out in front of him ... What's funny about this is that the media decided the most important issue facing the country in 2016 was Hillary Clinton's compliance with information security best practices. Well, not ha-ha funny.
Warren Terra on Twitter: "Attn: @dandrezner "White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him" https://t.co/uEHc7ROjyf" - That he habitually tears up papers & drops them on the FLOOR for someone else to pick up is a symbol of his self-centeredness. He shows total contempt for the office & total disregard for anyone else. I can't fathom being that arrogant

A senior White House aide is reportedly sharing fake stories with staffers to identify who's leaking to the press

Robert De Niro Says 'Fuck Trump' Twice At Tony Awards -- profanity-laden speech was bleeped in the CBS telecast.

John Oliver Shreds Sean Hannity For 'S**ttiest Conspiracy Theory Ever' | HuffPost - John Oliver on Sunday night tore into Fox News hosts for defending President Donald Trump at all costs and working to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller by dismissing his investigation as a "witch hunt" ... "He's basically bragging that he's proof-proof, which is a superpower that no one should want to have."


Democrats' 'October surprise' in the midterms? Hint: It has to do with health care costs - An array of state and national progressive groups are already laying the groundwork to attack Republicans for expected premium increases.

Hey Democrats, This Florida Primary Could Be Your Future | HuffPost - about Donna Shalala, who served in the Clinton administration, and whether she is a real progressive - At 77, Shalala would be among the oldest people ever to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time ... tenure at Miami, where she clashed with labor unions and environmentalists while serving on cushy corporate boards, as well as her close associations with the Clintons, whose centrist streak and cozy relationship with wealthy financiers alienated many of the party's progressives long ago.

Mark Sanford running scared in Trump-fueled primary - POLITICO

'Diversity is a bunch of crap and un-American,' South Jersey congressional candidate Seth Grossman says (said the Republican "Trump purist" asnd white supremicist Jew boy)



Adoption, Foster Care Agencies That Shun LGBTQ People Get Millions From Taxpayers | HuffPost - States and counties pay private agencies, including faith-based nonprofits, to provide certain foster and adoption services. Some of those agencies don't treat prospective LGBTQ parents the same as other prospective parents, arguing that doing so would violate their moral and religious beliefs. (in Satan)


The Reporter Who Exposed New York Times Star Glenn Thrush's Sexual Misconduct Says She Was the Victim of a Smear Campaign (classic "a slut who did this to advance her career" from middle-aged establishment white reporter types)


Neil Patrick Harris Disses Tony Awards' Rachel Bloom, Who Fires Back ...


Skip The Youth - I discovered Frightened Rabbit in August of 2008, and today, May 11, 2018, Scott Hutchison, the frontman, lyricist, and soul of the band was discovered dead, presumably a suicide.
Why "You are loved" & "please reach out" are crappy things to post after someone has died by suicide


Ex-NFL player was house hunting when neighbor called police, rep says - Winslow spent five hours in a North County jail before posting bail (white fright at seeing a black person)

A wrongly convicted man who was paid just $75 for 31 years in prison finally gets justice : news (they upped it to $15K/yr, justice is served)

Insular Hasidic Jews struggle to preserve customs as legal and social pressures build | Fox News (complete moochers off a system they hate)

All the books Bill Gates has recommended over the last eight years

Craigslist Founder Gives $20 Million to CUNY Journalism School - The New York Times - An academic study says his website, Craigslist, put a dent in the newspaper business. Now Craig Newmark is giving millions to journalism.

Vice Media Was Built on a Bluff - Shane Smith's plan for Vice was that, by the time the suckers caught on, he'd never be stuck owning the company he co-founded.


Eschaton: Elon Musk Has Made Me Mad - The stupidest article every written on such a thing was just published in the Atlantic (you will go have to find it yourselves). As someone remarked, when magazines publish things that are this stupid on things you do know about, it tends to make you doubt whether you can learn anything about the things you don't know about from them. The reason I haven't read The Economist in years (true, that)

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Poll shows a deep schism between Israelis and American Jews - The Boston Globe


Today in American Ethnic Cleansing - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A Honduran father separated from his wife and child suffered a breakdown at a Texas jail and killed himself in a padded cell last month,

Fox News host sorry for calling Trump, Kim 'two dictators'

Trump tells Macron the EU is "worse" than China
Trump, White House advisers blast Canada's Trudeau in brutal aftermath of G-7 summit (Trudeau "stabbed Trump in the back" said Trump via Kudlow)

Eschaton: Cancel Your Subscriptions - NYT lede. SINGAPORE When President Trump declared that he did not really need to prepare for his legacy-defining meeting with North Korea's leader, he drew sighs or snickers from veterans of past negotiations. But he had a point: In his own unorthodox way, Mr. Trump has been preparing for this encounter his entire adult life (he's the most prepared ever, the Trump Times says because being an evil clown is what the world needs)
The fallout from Trump's international temper tantrum
France blasts 'incoherent' Trump after G7 fiasco
Opinion | Trump Tries to Destroy the West - The New York Times - undefined

Trump's Intel Chief Warns Of Upcoming Kremlin Election Interference | HuffPost - s Intel Chief Warns Of Upcoming Kremlin Election Interference - Dan Coats made his comments while President Donald Trump stumped for Russia's readmittance to the G-7. (and they get to keep Crimea, but Trump will build many fine hotels there)


DEMS IN DISARRAY - Lawyers, Guns & Money - we're doomed!
Voters really, really want a check on Trump. This new poll confirms it. - The Washington Post

The Impossibility of Being A Pro-Trump Intellectual, An Ongoing Series - Lawyers, Guns & Money - the New York Times hired one Chris Buskirk, grand poobah of the Trump propaganda outlet American Greatness. He is back, with some analysis of the Greatest Seriousity: (the New Trump Times)
Scott Lemieux on Twitter: ""The Republican Party is running a remarkable variety of rich white guys, but they're all united behind a platform of white supremacy." https://t.co/lbcuXwnEV9"

The Assassination of Al Franken by The Coward Kirsten Gillibrand, And Absolutely Nobody Else - Lawyers, Guns & Money

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Behind the scenes of Eric Greitens's decision to resign. ' No one saw it coming'


How suicide became my 'family secret' and shaped who I am

Good Grief: TSA Searches 96-Year-Old Wheelchair Bound Woman, Sparks Debate - Timothy Meads


History's most fascinating misquote


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s decision to sow discord among G-7 allies is a more than a childish tantrum
Trump hits the world stage, Day 1: Come late, leave early, offend host, alienate allies


Suicide is desperate. It is hostile. It is tragic. But mostly, it is a bloody mess. - The Washington Post - by Roxanne Roberts May 19, 1996 (v.good)


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Adam Putnam's office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn't log in -- A state investigation found that the lapse covered a period that included the biggest spike in permit applications in Florida history ... For more than a year, the state of Florida failed to conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits, potentially allowing drug addicts or people with a mental illness to carry firearms in public ... Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam has made it a priority to speed up the issuing of concealed weapons permits since he was elected in 2010 (WTF, Floriduh)


Chinese hackers 'steal US navy data on undersea warfare and supersonic missiles' : news


Ontario Trumped - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Yikes -- Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is Ontario's next premier -- As we have discussed recently, one key takeaway here is that plurality voting is terrible: (hello, CA)


Opinion | How Trump Helps Putin - The New York Times - Susan Rice
Trump's call for Russia to join G7 faces swift backlash - ABC News

Bloomberg on Twitter: "Trump gets a lot out of trade wars. The U.S. gets less https://t.co/8cBm4ps2i8 "

DACA DREAMer from Iowa dies weeks after return to Mexico (evil Republican murderers)
Trump's Racism Has Material Consequences (people die)
m A US-Born Army Vet. Why Did Border Patrol Just Try To Arrest Me And My Wife?

We've Got a Problem. A Big Problem - The last twenty four hours of attacks on our closest allies capped by President Trump's seemingly out of the blue demand to bring Russia back into the G-7 (making it again the G-8 which it was for most of the post-Cold War era until Russia was expelled over the annexation of Crimea) (not "out of the blue" - Republicans elected and support a Russian agent)
Under Trump, "America Firest" Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone - From trade to the Iran deal to NAFTA, the President has created the highest level of tension between the U.S. and its allies in decades.

Texas Fold 'Em | The Incidental Economist - I am at a loss for words to explain how big of a deal this is. (Trump orders DOJ to kill the ACA law, Sessions says "sure, your highness")
The Republican War on the ACA, Now As Even More Farce - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The 'What, Me Worry?' President Donald Trump has long said he doesn't worry about the future because nothing really matters. Next week, he'll be negotiating with a rogue nuclear state.

Mueller Adds Obstruction Charge on Manafort and Indicts His Right-Hand Man - The New York Times

Mueller Team Views Giuliani More as Spokesman Than Lawyer, Sources Say - Bloomberg
Rudy Giuliani is a Disgusting Pig - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Leaving aside the idea that adult film actresses should be regarded as less credible or worthy of respect, let's emember what Melania was doing in her salad days. And let's note that if being a porn star is somehow bad or sleazy, surely sleeping with one and trying to pay her hush money is sleazier still, no?!


What Will House Republicans Do If Trump Pardons Himself? We Asked Them. | HuffPost - After Trump said he could pardon himself, HuffPost asked every GOP House member if they'd suport impeachment if he did so (one Republican)

Press Groups Criticize the Seizing of a Times Reporter's Records (fuck your so-called "free" press)
Donald Trump's Surveillance of New York Times Reporter Is a True Declaration of War Against the Press - James Risen (Trump just stooped to Barry's level)

Wave Watch: It'ss Trump vs. the economy -- why it's so hard to predict whether Republicans will actually lose the House in November: It depends whether the election turns on President Trump's ow approval ratings or the booming economy.

Cozy land deals meant big money for Trump family and friends

Eschaton - The NFL could mandate all black players be brought out with their hands taped to their hearts and propped up on poles to prevent them from kneeling, and Trump would still make this an issue. Trump doesn't care about any issues except Trump, and keeping his applause lines alive, no matter what the relevant facts, is what matters .. Sportsball might not matter much, but it's helpful tale to understand many things that do. The only thing that will stop Trump harassing the NFL is if he finds a new racist thing he likes better. And even then probably not. Also, too, why should they care?

'Cryin' Chuck might just get the last laugh - Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has managed to placate the most liberal senators, keep his centrists happy, and stay on decent terms with Trump and McConnell.

Indiana Law That Would Cancel Voter Registrations Is Blocked | HuffPost - The federal judge said the statute ran afoul of federal law that sets specific conditions for when voters can be removed from the rolls (only racist Dumpsters allowed to vote)

One Koch Brother Forces The Other Out Of The Family Business | The New Yorker - An arch-conservative political machine will be down one billionaire but have more clout than ever. (ah, the backstory)


Scott Pruitt Made Public Servants Fetch His Protein Bars and Greek Yogurt - The administrator prefers pour-over coffee and Dean & DeLuca finger foods, and expects public servants to provide him with them.


Eschaton: Nicer Things Are Not Possible - How did we lose in 2020? -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and other top Democrats are vowing to abide by fiscally hawkish pay-as-you-go rules if they seize the majority next year, rejecting calls from liberals who feel they'd be an impediment to big legislative gains. Pelosi, who adopted "pay-go" ules when she held the Speaker's gavel more than a decade ago, says she'll push to do it again if the Democrats win the House in November's midterm elections ("we have to have austerity to pay for Trump giving all the money away to his friends" stupid fucking Dems)

Over Four in 10 in U.S. Now Say Teen Sex Morally Acceptable - up six points from last year - Religiosity a big factor in views on sex between teens

#MeToo goes to church: Southern Baptists face a reckoning over treatment of women - Many women have experienced horrific abuses within the power structures of our Christian world ... the policy has reshaped the church according to the philosophy of the conservative men who launched a campaign to take over the Southern Baptist Convention 40 years ago (Jesus is coming for the Satangelicals)

This Evangelical Minister Helped Build the Religious Right. He Now Believes He Made a Terrible Mistake. Mother Jones - And that Donald Trump might mean the end for American evangelicalism - The past four decades have seen an ever-tightening alliance between American evangelicals and the Republican Party, and few have played as pivotal a role in fostering that coupling as Reverend Rob Schenck. (there are consequences to worshipping the AntiChrist)


Anthony Bourdain, Chef, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61 - The New York Times - He killed himself in a hotel room, the network said ... He is largely credited for defining an era of line cooks as warriors, exposing a kitchen culture in which drugs, drinking and long, brutal hours on the line in professional kitchens were both a badge of honor and a curse ... Mr. Bourdain had emerged as a leading male voice against sexual abuse in the wake of rape and abuse allegations against the film producer Harvey Weinstein and others. His girlfriend, the actor Asia Argento, 42 ...
Additional Bourdain Thoughts - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Anthony Bourdain dead at 61, committed suicide : television

Suicide Prevention Megathread : AskReddit

Charles Krauthammer: A note to readers - The Washington Post - by Charles Krauthammer - In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen ... My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.



Honeybees can conceive and interpret zero, proving for the first time ever that insects are capable of mathematical abstraction. This demonstrates an understanding that parallels animals such as the African grey parrot, nonhuman primates, and even preschool children. : science


A former FCC senior official who issued false statements to reporters, claiming a cyberattack hobbled the agency's comment system in 2014 and that the ex-chairman ordered it kept quiet, is now backpedaling amid renewed scrutiny by U.S. lawmakers and a wholesale denial by the former chairman himself.

The internet was supposed to save democracy. I asked 4 tech optimists what went wrong. - After Cambridge Analytica, social networks look less like a savior than a menace. (where THEY went wrong and can't admit it)

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The U.S. just had its warmest May in history, blowing past 1934 Dust Bowl record - The Washington Post
Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought. Estimated cost of geoengineering technology to fight climate change has plunged since a 2011 analysis : science
Jaw-dropping tornado in Laramie, WY yesterday : videos


In Malaysia, a victory for democracy and an opportunity for the U.S. - The Washington Post - Both President Trump and President Barack Obama bought into Najib's pitch that he was a good security partner while largely ignoring his abuses -- including the jailing of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on politically motivated charges. (thanks, Barry, your values are showing again)


Let Trump Handle Brexit: An Explosive Leaked Recording Reveals Boris Johnson's Private Views About Britain's Foreign Policy - "I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump. I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness" (BoJo is an idiot)

No Victory in Europe - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Trump administration's shift to promote Eastern Europe over our more traditional western European allies. (authoritarian dictatorhips are America's friend)


Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning - POLITICO - After two months on the job, Trump's new national security adviser has not called a single Cabinet-level National Security Council meeting on North Korea. (don't need your so-called "intelligence" and "natiopnal security" Trump will follow his great instincts)
Trump complains about traveling to Canada ahead of Singapore summit with Kim - The Washington Post (the baby is crying)
A cryptocurrency for marijuana is backing Dennis Rodman's trip to Singapore (the runners keep slipping shit like this in)

Japanese PM Abe mistakenly retweets Trump's attack on GOP senator



"It's Horrendous" : The Heartache of a Migrant Boy Taken From His Father (fuckers)
At the Texas-Mexico border, her son begged not to be taken. They took him anyway. - The Lily - 'I felt my heart being taken away from me' (truely evil fuckers)
Exclusive: U.S. immigration authorities sending 1,600 detainees to federal prisons | Reuters


Trump just keeps on lying -- because it works - But facts and logic are irrelevant to the Republican White Walkers; they will follow their Night King wherever he leads, even if he is leading them to perdition. A recent poll finds that 61 percent of Republicans think the FBI is framing Trump, and only 13 percent believe the special counsel's investigation is legitimate) (prevaricator-in-chief blasting lies to his evil zombie army)

Top Democrat on House Intel Committee seeks release of all Russia probe interviews - Republicans on the Intelligence Committee voted to end their year-long Russia probe in March, over the objection of Democrats.

Trump: Many Texans watched Harvey from their boats, requiring Coast Guard rescue - Houston Chronicle - "Sixteen thousand people, many of them in Texas, for whatever reason that is. People went out in their boats to watch the hurricane. That didn't work out too well." -- this isn't the first time the president has made comments that seemed bizarre or ill-informed
Trump dangled administration job to Judge Jeanine - politico - America the Conservative Reality Show now playing

Giuliani says people in the porn business are not credible. Trump has appeared in three softcore porn videos. - CNNPolitics (his hair was orange in 2000)

With Mueller Closing In, Manafort's Allies Abandon Him

Hannity's phone-smashing rhetoric heads in a different direction (destroy all the evidnece now!)
Former Fox News analyst says Fox has become 'destructive propaganda machine'

Ex-Senate Aide Charged in Leak Case Where Times Reporter
Senate Judiciary Committee Investigating Curt Weldon - The Atlantic - An ex-congressman has alleged ties to the Trump campaign -- as well as to powerful figures in Russia and Ukraine - Curt Weldon, a Republican and former Pennsylvania congressman, lost his re-election campaign more than a decade ago following an FBI probe into his ties to two Russian companies.

Trump's Justice Department says the ACA is unconstitutional -- health care is against Trump's Law

Mick Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog's advisory board
Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion - The Washington Post
Even When Grifting in the Big Leagues, Never Let the Small Advantages Go By - Lawyers, Guns & Money - EPA Administrator Scott Pruit's frequent indulgences have forced the White House to issue a pointed directive to Cabinet officials that the luxe White House mess hall is not for everyday use and begging them to please eat elsewhere. (really the point, from hand lotion and lunches to the bigger grift of his corruption -- corruption all the way down)

Melania Trump's first public appearance in 27 days : gifs (fake news)


Colin Kaepernick'slegal team expected to subpoena President Trump in case against NFL


How to Define a Wave | The Cook Political Report


How Villaraigosa lost the governor's race despite tens of millions of dollars spent to boost his bid


Every second, every minute, it keeps changing to something different - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A flurry of recent discussion has attempted to "recover" Enlightenment thinking. Some of the resulting discussion has been, ah, unenlightening: (Trump's Age of Unreason)
The Enlightenment's Dark Side How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it. (Kant Boyle, Newton and Increase Mather in the comments : the enlightened racism based in reason)


What Bill Clinton Was Really Thinking - POLITICO Magazine - an old man at a new moment -- revealed Clinton as painfully behind the times ... "How could they not be ready for this?" (Clinton's never take responsibility for their fuck-ups and underneath it all, Bill is a very angry man)

'No Gays Allowed': Tennessee store owner puts sign back up after SCOTUS ruling : news

Deputy fired by Sheriff after beating Sheriff in election. : news

A St. Louis man was charged with first-degree murder Wednesday after police said he shot and killed a man shortly after learning the man allegedly molested a 3-year-old relative of the shooter. : news

Texas made it illegal for a woman to get medical care for a terminal diagnosis of anencephaly. This is cruel and unthinkable and so sad. : bestof



The Self-Defeating Myth Of "Pulling It Off" -- Face it: Skinny girl privilege is real

Celebrity chef Adam Harvey arrested for poisoning seven-story maple tree blocking his solar panels - NY Daily News



A teen tried to rape his friend's mother at a sleepover -- until she pulled a gun, police say


New findings cast doubt on 'marshmallow test' success claims - suggest that adults should consider deeper interventions than simply training kids to resist temptation ... In other words, success may be a bit of a heavier lift than simply training preschoolers not to eat a marshmallow off a plate for 20 minutes (sometimes especially behavioral science starts off stupid and simplistic and even cruel)

Suicide rates rise sharply across the United States, new report shows - The Washington Post - Suicide rates rose in all but one state between 1999 and 2016, with increases seen across age, gender, race and ethnicity, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In more than half of all deaths in 27 states, the people had no known mental health condition when they ended their lives.
Suicide rates are up 30 percent since 1999, CDC says : news


When did your "Something is very wrong here" feeling turned out to be true? : AskReddit

Lawmaker 'Disturbed' That FCC Made up DDOS, Lied to Press : technology

A Facebook bug changed the privacy settings for 14 million users - Recode - latest self-inflicted privacy headache. ("bug" haha)

Scooters littering US city streets shout at people: 'Unlock me or I'll call the police' | Technology | The Guardian

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A Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill - The New York Times - The State Department evacuated at least two more Americans who fell ill in China after hearing strange noises, officials said.


Giuliani: Trump forced North Korea's Kim to beg for meeting (on his knees)


Trump invokes War of 1812 in testy call with Trudeau over tariffs - CNNPolitics (bully boy threatens to nuke Canada)

'Utter Chaos' : ICE arrests 114 workers in immigration raid at Ohio gardening compa
A Pizza Delivery Man Brought Pies To A Military Base. Then He Was Arrested And Turned Over For Deportation. - Pablo Villavicencio delivered pies to Fort Hamilton base in Brooklyn, where he was asked for ID and arrested. (Your new fascist/racist America)
Border arrests exceed 50,000 for third month in a row - The Washington Post

Cambridge Analytica director met Assange to discuss US election' - Brittany Kaiser also claims to have channelled payments and donations to WikiLeaks

Senate defense bill would authorize spying on Russians engaged in disinformation, hacking | TheHill (Trump threatens veto "no need, vlad is my best friend")

Why Is Trump Mad at Sessions? A Tweet Provides the Answer - The New York Times (insufficiient subservience)
Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent - The Trump transition team may demand an investigation after tens of thousands of emails were handed to the Mueller probe without consent or warrants.

Go deeper: Digging into Trump's latest "Spygate" tweet
Paul Ryan' Dismisses Trump's Charges of a Spy in His Campaign ... "And no one is above the law." (excuse me, Trump IS the law)

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs


The Astonishing Tale of the Man Mueller Calls 'Person A' -- Paul Manforts longtime aide is a pawn of Russian intelligence.

Ivanka Trump Was In Contact With A Russian Who Offered A Trump-Putin Meeting - Her contact, a Russian Olympic weightlifter, said a meeting between Trump and Putin could expedite a Trump tower in Moscow.

First lady returns to public eye after 'little rouch patch' - The first lady showed herself in public Wednesday for the first time in nearly a month - "She's done a fantastic job as first lady. The people love you. The people of our country love you. So, thank you honey"
Stormy Daniels suit: My old lawyer was a 'puppet' for Trump, Cohen (is this the "rough patch?")
Stormy Daniels Sues, Saying Michael Cohen Colluded With Her Former Lawyer - The New York Times
Stormy Daniels Says Michael Cohen Told Melania (that) Daniels Was a Liar (nice photoshopping)

Eschaton: Enrico Palazzo - Of course. -- Trump unable to remember words to "God Bless America" at replacement event he commissioned to prove his patriotism: https://t.co/LrMPaCEnen pic.twitter.com/oCcWMX9g39


Two of Scott Pruitt's closest aides, also facing scrutiny, are leaving EPA ("swampyist" cabinet member)

Get ready for a brutal election about Trump's racism and authoritarianism (comment: "Make no mistake, this is a war between people who choose intolerance, racism, xenophobia and divisiveness, and those that stand for inclusion, fairness and reason. The stakes are incredibly high.")

Democrats Flip Missouri Senate Seat Long Held By GOP | HuffPost - the 42nd state legislative seat that Democrats have turned from red to blue during Donald Trump's imperial reign

Years After Defending His Lesbian Moms In Stirring Speech, Zach Wahls Wins Iowa Primary | HuffPost - Seven years ago, Wahls told the Iowa state House about his two moms. Now, he could be headed to the state legislature himself.


Democrats Must Reject Howard Schultz and His Radical Centrist Ideology - Howard Schultz is the quintessential corporate Democrat.

Zell Uses Vulgarity While Saying He Promotes Women on Merit - Bloomberg - "I don't think there's ever been a "We gotta get more pussy on the block, OK?"


Fox News used images of Eagles players praying to suggest they kneeled during the national anthem - Fox News used images of Eagles players praying to suggest they kneeled during the national anthem -- Fox News has since issued an apology



"Today's s Taliban Youth" (Podhoretz 2004 "Bush Country" subtitled "How Dubya Became A Great President While Driving Liberals Insane" -- 15 years later it's still/all about drive libruls crazy and make them cry -- the mirror doesn't work, of course, because libruls know wingnuts are insane)


80 arrested, 95 pounds of meth and 75 guns seized in largest drug bust in recent history- Seattle WA : news

Mesa police officers on leave after video shows man being punched (meanwhile, in Arpaioville)

He sounded baffled on TV about a body found in a creek. Police say he knew it was his mom. - The Washington Post

Sister: Kate Spade had mental illness years before suicide | The Kansas City Star - Kate Spade suffered years of mental illness, sister says. Suicide 'not unexpected' ... "I'd come so VERY close to getting her to go in for treatment (to the same place Catherine Zeta-Jones went for her successful bipolar treatment program" (+drunk for 4 years)


The civil War's Latest Casualty: This Reenactor Who Shot Himself With A Minie Ball - a .58 caliber Minie ball hit a guy just above the elbow.
When Civil War Reenactors Shoot Themselves With Their Old-Timey Weapons - Lawyers, Guns & Money - So I was highly amused when this dipshit Civil War reenactor shot himself with a minie ball. Lucky for him, he only shattered his arm. If he was actually committed to the art, he would have allowed himself to have his arm amputated with a rusty saw and then die of blood poisoning. Coward. (every other year at the "Battle of Selma" they let the south win, out of fairness)

Don't Take Life Advice From People Who Hate Life ... I'm sure that not enjoying life for the next 40 years will lead to a ton of enjoyment in your last 5 years!

Andy Spade's Statement About Kate Spade's Death

County by county representation of submitted liscences from todays CCC meeting : bostontrees

The psychedelic compound 5-MeO-DMT, found in several plants and in the venom of Colorado River toad, is used infrequently, predominantly for spiritual exploration, has low potential for addiction, and might have psychotherapeutic effects, suggests a new study. : science
Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound derived from the cannabis plant that does not produce a psychoactive "high" might help tobacco smokers kick the habit, according to new preliminary research.

Syphilis and gonorrhoea up by one-fifth in England : news

ELI5: When glancing at a clock, why does the first second after glancing at it sometimes feel longer than the rest? : explainlikeimfive

Non-drinkers, who reported not drinking any alcohol over several years, were absent from work due to illness more often than low-risk drinkers, finds a new study based on 47,520 men and women from Finland, France and the UK. : science (so, "no amount" of alcohol" may not be good for you?)

A groundbreaking study reveals human immune cells in the blood can be transformed into functional neurons within 3 weeks by adding four proteins. The discovery could be used to generate neurons to study specific psychological and neurological disorders : science


what's your funniest NSFW joke? : AskReddit
What screams "I need to prove my masculinity" ? : AskReddit

26-Year-Old Neil Young Performs "Old Man" And It's Absolutely Breathtaking
Neil Young - Don't Let It Bring You Down - YouTube


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Climate Change Has Run Its Course - WSJ - Its descent into social-justice identity politics is the last gasp of a cause that has lost its vitality ... The descent of climate change into the abyss of social-justice identity politics represents the last gasp of a cause that has lost its vitality. Climate alarm is like a car alarm -- a blaring noise people are tuning out. (WSJ says hahah lefties, your incessant hysterical fake warnings have made us ignore the fake issue -- call Stephen F Hayward before the Climate Court in 2025)
NASA's s new administrator says he's talking to companies about taking over operations of the International Space Station (not the brightest bulb and this won't work out well because profit!)

A SWAT Team Cleared The Home Of David Hogg After A Hoax Call
Family of Stoneman Douglas student advocate David Hogg 'swatted' at home : news
Graduating 8th grade class gifted bulletproof backpack plates before heading to high school - Story | WTXF (new normal)
NRA's Active Participation in Mexican Crime (NRA is a Russian-financed crime-ring)
DeVos: 'We Are Actually Studying School Safety' By Not Considering Role Of Guns (it doesn't get much stupider)


Rare, shocking image of the Tiananmen Massacre aftermath. : pics - undefined

Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence - The New York Times


Saudi Arabian Arrest Wave Shows Crown Prince's Bid to Control Change - Mohammed bin Salman cracks down hard on dissent as he relaxes kingdom's strict social rules - Dozens of high-profile Saudis are locked up in jail, many of them denounced as traitors. Hundreds, possibly more, are barred from leaving the kingdom. And others have quietly left their homeland with no plans to return, creating the rudiments of an overseas Saudi dissident community.

Israel security agency says it foiled plot to harm Netanyahu - ABC News - a resident of a Palestinian refugee camp in east Jerusalem is among those in custody for his involvement in the plot, orchestrated from Syria (PR stunt?)


Calls grow in Germany for expulsion of disputed US envoy (white nationalist Nazi ambassador)
thinkingdoing comments on German politicians call for expulsion of Trump's Berlin envoy (Murdoch is Satan)

Full quotes: Vladimir Putin brags of close relationship with Trump - Axios ("I own the Orange Dude" he said)
Swiss Banks Freeze $1Bln of Russian Oligarch's Accounts Over U.S. Sanctions Fears


I Guess It Makes Sense that the New Gilded Age Would See the Return of Coercive Medical Experiments - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Hundreds of migrant kids separated from parents are stuck at border stations - HHS officials will tour three bases in Texas to see if they are suitable to house unaccompanied migrant children, who now number more than 11,000. (disgusting, fuck you Trumpsters)
Ohio Immigration Arrests: 114 Held in Sting on Landscape Company - Bloomberg - U.S. immigration agents made more than 100 arrests Tuesday at a gardening and landscaping company, aided by about 200 law enforcement workers in one of the largest employer stings in recent years.

Trump's Travel Ban Is in Trouble at the Supreme Court

Trump and his attorney general can't get their immigration story straight.


Inside the Mysterious Intelligence Firm Now in Mueller's Sights -- Wikistrat - In the fall of 2016, Donald Trump Jr. and other key aides to the future president reportedly met in Trump Tower with Joel Zamel, the founder of a company called Wikistrat is, for all intents and purposes, an Israeli firm ...


More Legal Trouble for Paul Manafort -- And Donald Trump
Mueller Accuses Paul Manafort of Attempted Witness Tampering - The New York Times
Paul Manafort Is Accused of Witness Tampering in the Latest Mueller Filing - The Atlantic
Criminal Mastermind Commits More Felonies - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Mueller Says Manafort Attempted To Tamper With Witnesses | HuffPost - The special counsel has asked for a judge to rescind or revise the former campaign chairman's pretrial release
Alex van der Zwaan, only person to serve time in Mueller investigation, deported

Trump's legal team readies for fraught showdown with Mueller, even as president declares broad powers

Andrew McCabe seeks immunity for testimony in congressional hearing over FBI handling of Clinton email probe - CNNPolitics (emailzzzzz)

George Papadopoulos' Wife Asks Trump To Pardon Her Husband ("he's not a Russian agent")


Fox News' Shep Smith brutally fact-checks Trump's self-pardon claim by reading the Constitution aloud -- on live TV
Ted Cruz awkwardly pauses for 20 seconds before refusing to answer question on Trump's pardon tweets (just look at him)

Donald Trump Is Winning the Media War Over the Russia Scandal. Here's why -- Witch hunt
Nearly 7 in 10 in U.S. feel worn out from too much news | Pew Research Center - While majorities of both Republicans and Democrats express news fatigue, Republicans are feeling it more. Roughly three-quarters (77%) of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents feel worn out over how much news there is, compared with about six-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (61%). This elevated fatigue among Republicans tracks with them having less enthusiasm than Democrats for the 2018 elections ... Feeling overwhelmed by the news is more common among those who follow the news less closely than among those who are avid consumers (fox fatigue)

'Missing' Melania Trump Briefly Surfaces To Attend White House Event

Sailor pardoned by Trump after photographing classified area of sub is SUING Obama and Comey | Daily Mail Online

Press aide who mocked McCain is out at the White House - CNNPolitics - Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a imprudent comment about Republican Sen. John McCain's health, was quietly let go Tuesday nearly a month after making the insensitive remark.
Trump aide who derided McCain over Haspel opposition is gone from the White House - The Washington Post

Tweeters Mock Eric Trump For Saying His Father's Life is 'Exponentially Worse'

Judge: Trump can be deposed in Summer Zervos lawsuit - POLITICO

The Narrow Way (Part 1-4) the jurisprudential equivalent of a Bari Weiss column

Trump cancels Eagles' White House celebration on eve of visit after fewer than 10 players planned to attend
Trump disinvites Philadelphia Eagles from White House visit, citing national anthem dispute - The Washington Post
Fox News used images of Eagles players praying to suggest they kneeled during the national anthem (any lie will do)
Eschaton: Sportsball - It's the kind of thing that matters much less than everything else, but it's part of Trump's "othering" of black people. They are unpatriotic. They aren't real Americans. Members of my local sportsball team didn't even taken a knee or stay in the locker room, but Trump gets to paint them as America haters simply because black people play football.
Inside Trump's snub of the Philadelphia Eagles - The botched event is the latest example of the White House mentality of Trump against the world - The Philadelphia Eagles have treated the White House very unfairly.

Robert Reich (How To Stop Trump) - Why did working class voters choose a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful, megalomaniac for president? ... the product of years of stagnant wages and big money's corruption of our democrracy.

Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job -- with Chick-fil-A
Republican Senator Calls Pruitt 'as Swampy as You Get'

McConnell cancels most of August recess - politico (haha libtards, you owned)

It Sure Looks Like The Courts Are About To Get Tougher On Black People | HuffPost - Republican-nominated judges give harsher sentences to black defendants, says a new study.

Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning's Home with Guns Drawn -- In a "Wellness Check" ... Shortly after Chelsea Manning posted what appeared to be two suicidal tweets on May 27, police broke into her home with their weapons drawn as if conducting a raid


Today is make or break for Democrats in California's House races

Charlottesville Hate Marcher Elected by Republican Party

Honest Graft: What the Governor of Massachusetts Tells Us About American Voters - A new WBUR poll of Massachusetts residents confirms that the incumbent governor, Charlie Baker, is overwhelmingly popular and in excellent position to win a second term by a landslide.

Billionaire David Koch to retire from Koch Industries, political group - Koch was diagnosed with prostate cancer more than two decades ago. (his balls are rotting)

A HuffPost Reporter Was Bombarded With Threats. Twitter Suspended Him. | HuffPost

In the Army and the Klan, he hated Muslims. Now one was coming to his home. - The Washington Post

E-Mails Show FCC Made Up DDOS Attack To Downplay The 'John Oliver Effect' : technology (all lies, all the time, from Satan's myriad mouths)

The Bobby Kennedy Myth - POLITICO Magazine - Many on the left have learned the wrong lessons from his ill-fated presidential bid.

Time's Up, Bill - Clinton's feckless replies to questions about #MeToo revealed an unpreparedness that spoke volumes about why men have been able to abuse their power with relative impunity for generations, while the women around them have been asked to pay the price for them over and over and over again.
Bill Clinton issues 2nd non-apology to clean up Monica Lewinsky mess | Daily Mail Online

Miss America is scrapping its swimsuit competition, will no longer judge based on physical appearance - ABC News - "We are no longer a pageant. We are a competition"

In 1990, Jello Biafra completely dismantled Tipper Gore and her music censorship campaign on national television, and left the Oprah Winfrey audience stunned. {non-music video} : Music (Dems have always sucked)


Fashion Designer Kate Spade Found Dead at 55, Suicide by Hanging | TMZ.com
Kate Spade, Whose Handbags Carried Women Into Adulthood, Is Dead at 55 - The New York Times
Kate Spade's Husband Was Apartment Shopping in the Months Before Her Death - Page Six is reporting that the Spades had a troubled marriage and sources tell The Blast that the couple had been having problems.
Designer Kate Spade Found Dead Of Apparent Suicide : news <

Body Positivity Is a Scam - Racked - How a movement intended to lift up women really just limits their acceptable emotions. Again.

Police officer fired for hitting fleeing suspect with car hired days later by neighboring county : news - undefined

Decades ago he abandoned his family and assumed a new identity. An Ancestry.com search unraveled his lies. - The Washington Post
Hacked: 92 Million Account Details for DNA Testing Service MyHeritage - Motherboard ... Users of the Israeli-based company ...

Cambridge Police 2017 Annual Crime Report (PDF)

Transhumanism is the idea that, given the opportunity, we should work to evolve ourselves through means of scientific and technological enhancements. What's your opinion on it and do you support the idea? Why? : AskReddit
Bill Gates is giving Factfulness to everyone who's getting a degree from a U.S. college or university this spring.


Professors of Reddit, who was the dumbest student you ever had and what was so dumb about them? : AskReddit

Did you know that you are, in fact, a dickless asshole? : funny

Apple's Craig Federighi calls touch-screen PCs "experiments" and he's probably right - He's "not into touchcreens ... lifting your arm up to poke a screen is a pretty fatiguing thing to do"
WhatsApp founders may have left $1.3 billion behind in their Facebook breakup - CNET - When the two men stepped away, a whole lot of stock options stayed behind
Intel Announces the Core i7-8086K: Coffee Lake at 5 GHz (95W)
Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen - Technically delightful, practically dubious (but better than a touchbar)
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 850 for Always Connected Windows 10 PCs - Neowin
GitLab's high-end plans are now free for open source projects and schools
Apple issues new App Store rules aimed at streaming PC-based games | Reuters

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Guatemala volcano: Death toll rises to 62 after Volcan de Fuego erupts - The Washington Post
Fuego volcano erupts, killing at least 25 - CNN (Pele getting restless)
Why are there so many volcanic eruptions recently? Are they somehow connected or is it a coincidence? Or is it just new media coverage? : askscience
Global Volcanism Program | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report
E. coli romaine lettuce contamination: 5 dead, 197 sick - The Washington Post

When Guns Are Sold Illegally, A.T.F. Is Lenient on Punishment - The New York Times (they are all gun nuts)

Tamika Mallory Slams Founding Of Israel As 'Human Rights Crime' (truth hurts, ha-aretz)


Venezuela crisis: a refugee exodus is leaving the country without workers - The Washington Post (dimbulb autocrat gutting the country)
Venezuela charges Pompeo with leading coup d'etat


New US ambassador to Germany under fire for rightwing support | World news | The Guardian - Politicians accuse Richard Grenell of breach of protocol after interview in Breitbart (Trump's new ambassador to Germany is a Nazi)

Trump's phone call with Macron described as 'terrible'


Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents - As the sun set Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents.
Jeff Merkley on Twitter: "When I visited an immigration detention center housing the children separated from their families, I was barred entry & the police were called on me. The front doors were locked and blacked out. What are they hiding about the conditions these innocent children are being held in? https://t.co/UvYb71Ux17" (all the kids are rapists and MS-13 murderous gangbangers)

Supreme Court throws out lower-court decision that allowed immigrant teenager to obtain abortion - The Washington Post (but disagreed with Trump's request to lock up the ACLU)


Devin Nunes warns Google may need to testify if anti-GOP search results keep showing up (google "Republican" and you get "Nazi" and Nunes thinks this is terrible and google will have to be eliminated)
Mueller accuses Paul Manafort of witness tampering - The Washington Post

Opinion | President Trump Thinks He Is a King - The New York Times (please, god-emperor is his title)
His Majesty Czar Donald I claims imperium - The Washington Post - "For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear" -- MT Cicero)
Trump Says Appointment of Special Counsel is 'Totally Unconstitutional' (said the renomwned legal scholar)
Trump can't Be Indicted. Can He Be Subpoenaed?
Mueller has waited long enough. It's subpoena tima
Trump's Lawyers Say He Is the Law -- The public may be forced to choose whether they favor a presidency without limits.
Trump's s lawyers say he's above the law. They clearly don't understand it. The many holes in the memo from the president's legal team
Secret memo to Mueller actually reveals weakness of Trump's position
After Trump tweets that he can pardon himself, /u/caan_academy points to 1974 ruling that explicitly states "the President cannot pardon himself", as well as article of the constitution that states the president can not pardon in cases of impeachment. : bestof

Rudy Giuliani basically admitted Trump might not tell Mueller the truth - The Washington Post
The Flaw in Trump's Obstruction-of-Justice Defense

Trump Team Pushed False Story Line About Meeting With Kremlin-Tied Lawyer, Memo Shows - The New York Times

Special master in Cohen case finds few privileged items in initial review

The Law Is Not Up to Donald Trump. It May Be Up to Merrick Garland. - Now that he seems intent on testing the absolute limit of presidential power, it could be the end of the republic as we know it -- or karma of the highest order for the GOP ... Who is the current chief judge of the DC Circuit?

Trump Has Access to Everything a Dictator Could Want - He is consolidating power based on deceit at an alarming rate, and getting more popular as he goes ... approval rating among Republicans is the highest of any Republican president since World War II at this point in his administration* with the exception of where George W. Bush was at immediately after the attacks of 9/11. He stands at 87 percent approval among Republicans. (don't miss the photo of Mitt and the Antichrist, who is positively glowing)


Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress - The Washington Post

BuzzFeed Allowed Key Defense in Russian's Defamation Suit Over Trump Dossier

Pentagon investigates White House doctor Ronny Jackson - POLITICO


Supreme Court rules narrowly for Colorado baker who wouldn't make same-sex wedding cake
The religious right didn't get the Supreme Court victory it hoped for. Yet. (getting close to a Christian theocracy with Trump as god)
The absurdity of Anthony Kennedy - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Supreme Court rules in favor of Colorado baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple for religious reasons : news

4 states could expand Medicaid this year. That's a big deal


What We Know About Facebook's Latest Data Scandal A new report raises questions about just how much Facebook data phone manufacturers could access.
'Sure Looks Like Zuckerberg Lied' to Congress About User Privacy, As New Facebook Data-Sharing Deals Come to Light

"This Was Lachlan's Revenge" : As a Murdoch Son Moves to Consolidate His Power, Rupert Says "I'm Still Here" - "The pro-Trump thing isn't working. We can't monetize DACA and the wall and that right-wing shit." "Despite all the hype on Hannity, they can't sell it."


Will San Diego be the 'blue wave' canary in a coal mine? - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Democrats Hope Asian-American Influx Will Help Turn Orange County Blue - The New York Times


Howard Schultz to Step Down as Starbucks Executive Chairman - The New York Times - speculation that he is considering a run for president in 2020.Credit

4 Texas prison guards fired, major resigns after allegedly planting evidence in inmate's cell

110 Confederate monuments removed since 2015: report : news (only 8,000 to go)


Bill Clinton: I woudn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era -- The former president said in an interview on the "Today" show that he has never personally apologized to Monica Lewinsky. (yeah, see Philip Roth on the "ecstasy of sanctimony" which only Republicans were allow to do)
Bill Clinton's #MeToo Defense Is Shocking - His defense was a master class in moral preening and obfuscation


She accused her psychologist of sexual misconduct. The board found her credible, but he still has a license to practice. - The Boston Globe - Melvin Rabin
Sexual misconduct by therapists may be more common than you think - The Boston Globe

How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet's Biggest Commenting Platform - The commenting giant Disqus has said repeatedly that it doesn't allow hate speech. But its platform is overrun with trolls, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis. ("platform" = "Breitbart" "Infowars" and "NRO' this is a really stupid article confusing the website with the comment system)

Kanye West's 'Ye' is the unedited ramblings of the world's oldest adolescent

I, Sy: Seymour Hersh's s Memoir of a Life Making the Mighty Sweat

The great remove - Columbia Journalism Review - How journalism got so out of touch with the people it covers
When the math doesn't work

Texas principal censors paper, bans all editorials and ousts award-winning adviser : news

How Much TV Do People Watch? - The Atlantic - 2009-2010, when the average American household watched 8 hours and 55 minutes of TV per day. And the 00's saw the greatest growth in TV viewing time of any decade since Nielsen began keeping track in 1949-1950: (they still watch 8 hrs/day, so work, sleep and watch tv while eating and probably mostly Fox)

Joni Mitchell makes rare public appearance at James Taylor show in Los Angeles - The Boston Globe

The kids are gone, but their boomer parents can't afford to downsize - In the Boston area housing market - Compare that with Cambridge, where the median sale price rose by 96 percent between 2005 and 2017.


If you could stand in one place in the world and watch everything that ever happened there throughout history, where would be the most interesting place to stand? : AskReddit

Humans see the world in higher resolution than most animals, finds new study based on an analysis of the visual acuity for roughly 600 species of animals. Humans can resolve four to seven times more detail than dogs and cats, and more than a hundred times more than a mouse or a fruit fly. : science


Doctors hail world first as woman's advanced breast cancer is eradicated


What subreddit has strayed the furthest from its original intention? : AskReddit

Whose fault is this? : WTF

Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion | Stories : technology

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MH370 Didn't ust Disappear, It Was Caught in a Swamp of Corruption -- From the beginning, the crash investigation fell victim to a regime in Malaysia now revealed to have been one of the most corrupt in the world. There are other scandals, too.


China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other - Apartheid with Chinese characteristics - Totalitarian determination and modern technology have produced a massive abuse of human rights


Russia should be suspended from Interpol after using international arrest warrant to detain Putin critic, MPs say - They are expected to warn that its participation in Interpol systems has allowed it to repeatedly request the arrest of Bill Browder, a campaigner against Russian human rights abuses.


Not a Dime'ss Worth of Difference - The US is now in the business of promoting neo-fascist reactionaries in Europe: (let's ask a farmer in an Iowa diner what to do about this)


Trump's chilling message to Mueller -- L'etat, c'est Trump
The Trump Legal Team's Remarkable Letter to Mueller ... "preserve the dignity of the Office of the President of the United States"
Dan Froomkin on Twitter: "The @nytimes knows full well that Trump is being deceptive and misleading in his suggestion that his lawyers' letter was leaked by Mueller. https://t.co/T2sOu8g4RG" (they knew he was lying, and let his propaganda be the story, again)
Eschaton: Saturday Night Thread - Dear Leader has told us today that he is above the law, any law. Perhaps because he IS the law: And apres Trump, le deluge?
Sarah Posner on Twitter: "This thread is a good analysis of a key issue that has been bugging me. "

The Constitutional Crisis Is Already Underway

Trump lawyers say he 'dictated' statement on Trump Tower meeting, contradicting past denials
Why the Bombshell Trump Letter Could Be a Big Problem for Donald Trump Jr. - Mother Jones - It undercuts the veracity of Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress.

IMPORTANT: By the time the president dictated his son's false statement to the press -- which July 8th, 2017 statement said that the campaign had NEVER followed up with the Kremlin on sanctions negotiations -- he knew that in fact his campaign had REPEATEDLY done so in secret meetings.

If the President Does It, It's Not Illegal - Trump cannot obstruct justice, according to his official legal stance, because justice is whatever Trump says it is. Before this is over, either Trump's sweeping claim will survive, or the rule of law will, but not both. (Republicans elected a democracy IED)
Trump's legal memo to Robert Mueller is a recipe for tyranny

Trump's 500-day coup of the GOP, conservatism (750 to go)


Could Melania Trump be annoyed with her husband about something? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - hasn't been seen in public for 24 days. This side plot in the daily broadcast of As the World Burns has included a mysterious five-day hospital stay for what is normally a routine outpatient procedure, and even that lame cover story for her disappearing act expired more than two weeks ago ... America's most famous mail order bride (AMFMOB)
Eschaton: Where's Melania - Reporters know and they aren't saying.


CBS News Battleground Tracker: The House is a toss-up - CBS News - Democrats 219, Republicans 216 in tight contest for control

Jon Tester, a Democrat in Deep-Red Montana, Isn't Sweating Trump's Threats


Daddy Issues - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Maureen Dowd made another boo-boo: Barack Obama didn't understand the revolutionary mood in the public. He should have responded to it by strongly backing someone who could send a real anti-status quo message, like [checks notes] the incumbent vice president, whose two previous presidential runs were embarrassing trainwrecks, and whose relationship with the financial industry makes Hillary Clinton look like a disaffected anarcho-syndaclist. (the Dowdy has no idea how stupid she is and the NYT doesn't either)


The epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church. - The Washington Post - The epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church (good Christian family-values moral-majority patriarchal rapists)

Opinion | An American 13-Year-Old, Pregnant and Married to Her Rapist - The New York Times (to protect the good christian family's "reputation")

The NDA Protected Our Predator. I'm Breaking My Silence, Because Women Deserve Better. -- Craig DeLuca, then the president of Inntopia, dangled a job -- and demanded sex. Only after agreeing to a settlement did I discover that I'm not the only person he did this to.


Officer fired after intentionally hitting fleeing suspect with his police car - ABC News
Woman drives onto little league baseball field in Sanford, Maine, killing 1 person; Carol Sharrow faces manslaughter charges - CBS News - Sharrow has a drunken driving conviction in Maine and an aggravated drunk driving conviction in New Hampshire, the Portland Press Herald reported. The Associated Press said authorities declined to confirm whether alcohol was involved Friday.
Man hit, killed by car at Sanford ball field confessed 5 years ago to a fatal 1968 hit-and-run - Portland Press Herald - Douglas Parkhurst, 68, of West Newfield told police in New York state that he was driving the car that struck and killed a 4-year-old girl.
Veteran who died saving children's lives killed a four-year-old girl in a hit-and-run 50 years ago | Daily Mail Online


Five myths about marriage - The Washington Post

We need to talk about the woke droid - Vox

Is shock therapy making a comeback? - CBS News - For people with treatment-resistant depression, a controversial therapy gains ground and leads to innovation


A large randomized study published Sunday finds that 70% of women with early-stage invasive breast cancer no longer need chemotherapy, using the results of a commonly used genomic test. This practice-changing finding will spare a lot of unnecessary chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer. : science

When it rains, do flies or other flying bugs dodge raindrops? And if not, is each impact like being hit by a gigantic missile of water? : askscience

'The cognitive roots of prejudice': Adding to existing knowledge regarding correlations between low cognitive ability and propensity towards prejudice, new study by the University of Queensland shows that less intelligent people tend to express more prejudicial attitudes against same-sex couples. : science (dimbulbs hate shit they can't figure out)


What are some of the BEST choices, you've made in your life? : AskReddit
FBI agent loses his gun during dance-floor backflip, accidentally shoots bar patron : news

/u/sk7111 with the worst PR response ever. Best to read the thread post to get context on the response. : bestof

[Serious] When driving at night, what is the scariest/most unexplainable thing you've ever seen?


FBI warns about Russia-linked malware threat to home routers, but questions linger : technology
Self-driving cars will kill people and we need to accept that : technology
NSA Knew of Flaw that Led to Cyber Attack Three Years in Advance : technology

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Did exactly 4,645 people die in Hurricane Maria? Nope. - The Washington Post (might be more)
After hurricane struck Puerto Rico, a second disaster was man-made - The Boston Globe (Republican racism, greed and incompetence even worse than W and NOLA)


Trump Veers to a Korea Plan That Echoes Failures of the Past - The New York Times


Some Younger Evangelicals Waver in Support for Israel - WSJ - Generational split reflects concern over Palestinians, spurring outreach by some churches and groups (you mean Likud propaganda spreaders)
NATO chief says alliance won't aid Israel if Iran attacks
A Woman Dedicated to Saving Lives Loses Hers in Gaza Violence - The New York Times - Razan al-Najjar, 20, was trying to help an injured protester near the border fence when she was fatally shot by Israeli soldiers,
A photo taken moments before volunteer paramedic, Razan Alnajjar was murdered by Israeli snipers, shows her & her colleagues with hands up as they were heading to treat injured protesters. (She's the one in the white) : pics (unequivocally murdered by fascist Jews)
Is This An Acceptable Cost to Make Up for Horrible Crimes of the Past? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - always amazed when people justify literally any behavior by Israel because of the history of anti-Semitism. That history is true enough. Somehow, I'm not sure it justifies contemporary murders, such as this one:


Benedict -Cumberbatch saves defenceless Deliveroo cyclist from brutal assault by gang of four muggers


New website is Russian op designed to sway U.S. voters, experts say | McClatchy Washington Bureau (Trump says don't worry, Vlad is my friend)

Trump's spent far more going to Mar-a-Lago alone than the Mueller probe has cost (suckers)

Trump's Lawyers, in Confidential Memo, Argue to Head Off a Historic Subpoena (he is the supreme god of all laws so fuck off)
Trump Lawyer's Confidential Memo to Mueller, Explained
In newly revealed memo, Trump asserts absolute power over Russia probe

Trump allies gang up on Gowdy - POLITICO (the insane clown posse strkes back)

Renowned Economist Jeffrey Sachs Rips Trump As A Gibbering, 'Delusional' Threat - "a psychopath's trade war"


A Courtside View of Scott Pruitt's Cozy Ties With a Billionaire Coal Baron

Senate Republicans Are Newly Hopeful About the Midterms. For Good Reason. - The New York Times (red wave of zombie Trumpsters coming)

Trump's Power Isn't Fear. It's Fatigue. (well, if you're a white person anyway and even then you should be pretty scared)

Seymour Hersh's New Memoir Is a Fascinating, Flabbergasting Masterpiece -- 1. The powerful prey mercilessly upon the powerless, up to and including mass murder. 2. The powerful lie constantly about their predations. 3. The natural instinct of the media is to let the powerful get away with it.


GOP Lawmaker Requested 'Sensitive' Email Audit Of His Own Staff (the drunk T-party guy)

The case for quarantining extremist ideas | Joan Donovan and Dana Boyd | Opinion | The Guardian - strategic silence

Opinion | The Housewives of White Supremacy - The New York Times

echidne of the snakes: Cathy Young on Jordan Peterson And Feminism. And My Responses. (Cathy Young has always been stupid)
The Authoritarian Mind - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Instafuckwit worse than Cathy)


The Party *Doesn't* Decide
California adds 8th state to travel ban list: Oklahoma - San Francisco Chronicle (Fucklahoma)


Exeter New Hampshire police arrested a man for criticizing them on the internet ... The Exeter case is a bracing reminder that people with guns and badges often present the most immediate threat to the freedom of speech (dumb cops need to google "New York Times v. Sullivan and "streisand effect")

Jury gives 4 cents to family of black man killed by Florida cop (they blasted him for playing loud music in his home)

64-year-old Cleveland man sues after Customs takes life savings from his carry-on : news (the Jeff Sessions cops can steal all your monies law because you are probably a crook anyway but if not tough shit we ain't givin' it back)

Cop admits having sex with 2 teen girls in police car, motel while on duty : news ("having sex" = raping)

Deadbeat son claims he's too broke to pay child support ... Deadbeat son is a sign of America's failure to raise boys ... complained he was too broke to pay child support for his 8-year-old son, yet somehow managed to plunk down nearly $10,000 for a storage unit that has housed his busted 1989 Chevy Camaro for the past five years ... Michael Rotondo



In convention upset, Zakim bests Galvin for party endorsement - The Boston Globe - endorsement for Secretaryof State over the longtime incumbent, William F. Galvin.

Five more State Police troopers accused of falsifying overtime records - The Boston Globe


'Supersonic Tic Tac' UFO stalked US aircraft carrier for days, Pentagon report reveals : news (so there was more to the story, have we heard it all yet?)

ELI5 What's the reason behind of 666 being the number of the beast? : explainlikeimfive
/u/rewboss gives an excellent explanation of why 666 is the number of the beast. : bestof


How do we know there's a Baryon asymmetry? : askscience

ginger_gcups explains in terrifying detail exactly what would happen if Earth's magnetic field doubled in strength each day. : bestof

The secret to longevity may be in the microbiome and the gut - Scientists fed fruit flies a combination of probiotics and a herbal supplement called Triphala that was able to prolong the flies' longevity by 60% and protect them against chronic diseases associated with aging.

We are an international group of leading physicists (including many Nobel laureates)

'Holy grail of cancer research': doctors positive about early detection blood test : news


[NSFW] What's the worst thing you have witnessed on a bachelor/bachelorette party? : AskReddit

TIL that the city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades. : todayilearned

30-year-old moves out of parents's NY home after court order, 8 years

Robocalls aren't an assault on the common good.
A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS

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BSO kept Coral Springs paramedics from entering Parkland school | Miami Herald ... Even after the shooter had been arrested, the answer remained the same. (chickenshit hero cops and no consequences, ever)
Eschaton: Empathy - It was like talking to a toddler, Hart said

Eschaton: Ronald Reagan, Gun Grabber - Everybody knows this, but of course everybody doesn't know this or pretends to not know this. Modern gun control laws came into effect when black people started scaring white Republicans in California.

Trump reinstates summit with Kim Jong Un for June 12 in Singapore - The Washington Post

Londongrad oligarchs are being forced back to Russia's embrace - As sanctions bite, tycoons feel hemmed in by Vladimir Putin's power

The Greatest Royal Wedding Scammer Has Come Clean | Vanity Fair

A London couple's shared delusions led to the torture and death of French au pair


Here's the Email Russian Hackers Used to Try to Break Into State Voting Systems


Trudeau says NAFTA talks broke down after Pence made ultimatum - The Washington Post - imploded Tuesday when Vice President Pence demanded that any deal expire automatically in five years (let the evil morons run the show)
Opinion | Oh, What a Stupid Trade War (Very Slightly Wonkish) - The New York Times
/u/PoppinKREAM explains perfectly why the looming trade war is going to backfire on the USA, using an example from President Bush's attempt from 2002 : bestof (never, ever, learn from experience is a core Republican value)

US gains 223K jobs; unemployment at 18-year low of 3.8 pct. (thanks to Trump, greatest president ever)

APNewsBreak: Pentagon to take over security clearance checks - The Defense Department is poised to take over background investigations for the federal government, using increased automation and high-tech analysis to tighten controls and tackle an enormous backlog of workers waiting for security clearances, according to U.S. officials.

Signs of sophisticated cellphone spying found near White House, U.S. officials say - The Washington Post (Trumps says no problem, it's just my friend Vlad)

Trump breaks protocol, sends markets a clear signal on jobs report before numbers are released - The Washington Post (fuck your "norms" it's all about the Trumpster)

London 'bridges' falling down: Curious origins of FBI's Trump-Russia probe
BREAKING: Trump May Already Be Indicted Under Seal - Attorney IO

President Trump has made 3,251 false or misleading claims in 497 days - The Washington Post (Satan always lies)
10,000 Trump misstatements by the end of his term? Washington Post fact-checker says it's possible ... 6.5 a day, more than 200 a month

Scoop: Donald Trump repeatedly pressured Jeff Sessions on Robert Mueller investigation - Axios - on at least four separate occasions, three times in person and once over the phone, according to sources familiar with the conversations. (he IS justice, so he can't obstruct himself, he said)

Even Roger Stone Can't Make Trump Look Innocent - The president's allies seem to be operating under the assumption that he's guilty as sin
'I Will Never Roll on Donald Trump,' Promises Definitely Innocent Adviser Roger Stone

Prosecutors interview Comey as they investigate whether McCabe should be charged - The Washington Post (for insufficient loyalty to the Dumpster)

Jared Kushner close friend Rick Gerson now under scrutiny from Mueller - Gerson met with a UAE royal in the Seychelles around the time of a secret meeting there between Trump friend Erik Prince and Russian and Emirati officials. (they could be twins, lock them up)

With his pardons, Trump is turning tool of mercy into sword of retribution - CNN
Dinesh D'Souza? Really? - the right-wing troll known for, among other things, posting racist tweets about President Barack Obama, spreading the lie that George Soros was a Nazi collaborator and writing that "the American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well" ... Maybe the president is sending a signal of loyalty and reassurance to friends and family members who may soon find themselves facing similar criminal charges
Authoritarian Abuses the Pardon Power - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... comment: "D'Souza's college girlfriend was Laura Ingraham. Birds of a feather... (well no shit)

Eschaton: Weirdos - If you get political reporters drunk enough, I bet they'd tell you that they were "tough" on Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton because there just isn't something right about them. They know things. They've heard things. Do you know what is in Al Gore's bathroom cabinet? ... I bet they heard a few things about Donald Trump, too, but, well, you know.

Kim Kardashian Meeting Donald Trump in the Oval Office Is a Nightmare We Can't Wake Up From

EPA's Pruitt spent $1,560 on 12 customized fountain pens from Washington jewelry store


Koch political network supports Heitkamp for bank deregulation bill - network launches digital ad blitz supporting Democrat Heidi Heitkamp as midterms near -- Americans for Prosperity is unleashing a digital advertising campaign on Friday thanking North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp for co-sponsoring the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protect Act ... The move to support Heitkamp comes only two months after the Koch network launched a six-figure ad buy attacking her for voting against the Republican tax reform bill. (little Heidi Fuckkamp sold out)


Rubio Volunteer Susan Goldstein Compares Obama to Monkey | Miami New Times - Susan Goldstein ... And in 2018, she's apparently fine with announcing she thinks Barack Obama looks like a monkey, and she doesn't get why that comment is obviously racist. (and she's a Jew, apparently)


Leaked emails show Hoover academic conspiring with College Republicans to conduct 'opposition research' on student (ratfuckers all the way down to the bottom of the "Hoover" Institute)
Niall Ferguson wanted opposition research on a student. | The New Republic
The Pity of Niall Ferguson - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Historian turned sixth-rate winger hack pundit Niall Ferguson is advancing the cause of free speech bytrying to conduct oppo research on students whose political views he doesn't like ... Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson ... Ferguson resigned from his leadership role in the Cardinal Conversations program on April 16, after Provost Persis Drell became aware of the email chain ... It really is how far an Oxbridge accent and the ability to wear a suit well can carry a mediocre white guy. (BoGlo will keep publishing him)
Left-Wing Campus PC Strikes Again - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Niall Ferguson wanted opposition research on a student

Trump's Loudest Anti-Muslim Twitter Troll Is A Shady Vegan Married To An (Ousted) WWE Exec -- @AmyMek anonymously spread hate online for years. She can't hide any more -- For five years, the mysterious Twitter account -- which has more than 200,000 followers, including Sean Hannity, Roseanne Barr and the personal account of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and has earned endorsements from Donald Trump and Michael Flynn -- has tirelessly spewed far-right propaganda and, above all, Islamophobia. Around 25 tweets a day, sometimes more, the majority of them designed to stoke hatred of Muslims ... The 45-year-old resident of Fishkill, New York, grew up in a Jewish family in East Brunswick, New Jersey ...

Maria Bartiromo's Strange Trip From 'Money Honey' to One of Trumps Top Boosters - Once a titan of apolitical financial reporting, Bartiromo has made an unmistakeable pivot toward conspiratorial and occasionally alt-right-assisted Trump cheerleading.
Joy Reid's Blog Published A Photoshopped Image Of John McCain As The Virginia Tech Shooter (she's nuts)


Chelsea Clinton resurfaces Trump meeting with Ted Nugent, who once called Hillary C-word | TheHill (IAOKIYAAR)

Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He's A Pedophuile - Nathan Larson also ran online forums for pedophiles and misogynists ... his campaign website shared an IP address with these forums, (stupid but he's not really a Republican)

I Went on a Date With Eric Schneiderman. It Took Me Years to Process What Happened That Night. (Schneiderfuck was always evil)

When the punishment feels like a crime - The Huffington Post - Brock Turner's twisted legacy - father lamented that his son's life was being destroyed over "20 minutes of action" (there's the kid's problem, right there) "you don't know me, but you've been inside me, and that's why we're hefre today"

Title IX Is Too Easy to Abuse - The Atlantic - Mutually Nonconsensual Sex


Opinion | One Down, but 49 States Still Allow Child Brides - The New York Times - So Tyree, then 13, was married to her rapist, then age 32. She became one of the thousands of underage American girls who are married each year, often sacrificing their futures to reduce embarrassment to their parents ... Last month Delaware became the first state to ban all child marriages, without exception ... 20 states don't t set any minimum statutory age for marriage (good Christians marry their 11 yr-old daughters to rapist pedophiles because they are good Christians)

Georgia couple loses custody of son after giving him marijuana to treat seizures - CBS News - They are charged with reckless conduct and facing jail time.


"You can't Beat Jordan Peterson With Arguments I Attributed To You," A Very Useful and Good Faith Argument (Cathy Young, once again, says very stupid libertarianish things)


How Modernity Invented the Midlife Crisis - The Atlantic - Over the course of a few years in the 20th century, the midlife crisis went from an obscure psychological theory to a ubiquitous phenomenon.


About 7,000 years ago, something weird happened to men: the genetic diversity of their Y chromosomes collapsed. It was as if there was only one man left to mate for every 17 women. The collapse may have been the result of generations of war between patrilineal clans structured around male ancestry. : science (generations of war in patriarchal clans all over the world at the same time)

Why is the brain divided? : askscience

The greater emotional control and problem-solving abilities a mother has, the less likely her children will develop behavioral problems, such as throwing tantrums or fighting. The study also found that mothers who stay in control cognitively are less likely to have controlling parenting attitudes : science


From Facebook to Amazon, these are the default privacy settings you should change - The Washington Post

An Exploit Left Millions of Steam Users Vulnerable for the Past 10 Years - A security researcher found a serious vulnerability that allowed hackers to take control of a Steam user's computer

Teens dump Facebook for YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat : technology

"These People Have Lost Their Minds": A Viacom Insider Unloads About the Redstone-Moonves Grudge Match
"I Have Never Seen Revenue Grow This Fast" : Could a Scooter Start-up Really Be Worth $1 Billion? - Bird, the brainchild of a former Uber and Lyft executive, is seeking funding at a 10-figure valuation. But could the scooter company really be worth $1 billion? It depends who you ask.
Mary Meeker's essential 2018 Internet Trends report
Does anyone know how to access Field Test on the Lumia 950 XL? : windowsphone

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San Juan mayor wears hat reflecting Puerto Rico's revised death toll from Hurricane Maria | TheHill


Denmark bans wearing the burqa in public -- Danish minister calls facial coverings 'incompatible with Danish values'


EU announces retaliation against Trump tariffs - US president has imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and the EU
U.S. hits EU, Canada and Mexico with steel, aluminum tariffs : news (Dumpster is fucking everything up)


Opinion | Trump Immigration Policy Veers From Abhorrent to Evil - The New York Times (his "base" loves killing brown people and putting their kids in cells)


Saving Sessions: Inside the GOP effort to protect the AG

Eschaton: Shoulda Gone With Fire - Such fun. -- Federal prosecutors also revealed for the first time that among the items seized Cohen last months was a shredding machine, the contents of which are among the only items that the government has not yet turned over to the special master or Cohen's legal team
Stephen Brown on Twitter: "AUSA Maimin says that the government expects to produce "the contents of a shredding machine" to the special master within three weeks."


Trump is tightening his grip around the neck of the Justice Department - The Washington Post
Trump's Dinesh D'Souza pardon serves a very personal purpose - The Washington Post - Trump's self-serving pardons

GOP support for Robert Mueller's s probe is falling

Trump's lies about the Russia probe devolve into absurdity
Why does Trump lie? Just ask Billy Bush. - The Washington Post
Howard Stern Reveals Trump Asked Him to Speak at the Republican National Convention
The Mussolini Kabuki - Lawyers, Guns & Money

I Wonder Who Wrote That Melania Trump Tweet | HuffPost -- Definitely not Donald Trump in a wig, that's for sure ... 20 days now since Melania Trump accompanied her husband to greet the three American former hostages returning home from North Korea. That was the last time she was seen in public.


No, Republicans aren't 'taking the lead in polls' (red wave of zombie Trumpsters coming)

Adam McKay Can't Believe We're Nostalgic for the Bush and Cheney Years

Trump will pardon conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who was convicted of campaign finance violation - pleaded guilty in 2014 to reimbursing two of his associates after directing them to contribute $10,000 each to the 2012 Senate campaign of Wendy Long.

Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; A Post-Memorial Day Status Report - Where things stand in the battles for Congress and the governorships

Virginia lawmakers expand Medicaid to 400,000, after years of GOP resistance - The Washington Post


Woman Who Spent 2016 Trying To Get Trump Elected Running Massive Con - Lawyers, Guns & Money (little Russian Jill Steinfuck took all the money and spent it)

Illinois Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment 36 Years After The Congressional Deadline | HuffPost (thanks, Barry) The other states that have yet to ratify the amendment are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah

White America's racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says -- White Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs, the study says ... political efforts to cut welfare programs are driven less by conservative principles than by racial anxiety, the authors conclude. That also hurts white Americans who make up the largest share of Medicaid and food-stamp recipients ... President Donald Trump was voted into office by people anxious about rising racial diversity and globalization. (America has a stupid white problem, they will fuck themselves if that will hurt someone they hate)

Trump's New 'Work for Welfare' Rules Protect Poor Whites at the Expense of Urban Blacks

Why Virginia's Medicaid expansion is a big deal

The Top-2 "Primary" in California and Washington is a democratic abomination that violates the right to free association




Paige Patterson fired by Southern Baptist seminary over handling of sex abuse allegation - The Washington Post ("expect abuse in a Christian marriage")


Does Rush Limbaugh Matter Anymore? | HuffPost - The shock jock still commands a huge audience, but he's not standing out in the era of Donald Trump.

Roseanne Wanted TV Show To Be Canceled, Ex-Husband Says | HuffPost - tweets were escalating in the days before she posted a racist comment ... "This monkey thing is something she's tweeted before about black people" (she fired her husband)
Samantha Bee Puts Roseanne Controversy To Bed With Ambien Commercial | HuffPost - Barr had claimed the insomnia drug was the reason she sent out a racist tweet.
Sally Field's Tweet On Samantha Bee's Ivanka Trump Comment Is One For The Books
Tom Arnold on Twitter: "On the bright side now that Roseanne Barr is permanently unemployable she can finally get inside the head of Roseanne Connor. Really sink her teeth into the character. Walk in her shoes. Become one with. Inhabit the soul of. Do a whole Daniel Day Lewis thing. Or she could tweet."

STX Beats Lawsuit Over 'Happytime Murders' Trailer With 'Ejaculating Puppets' -- "No Sesame. All Street" (haha, fuck you Sesame St.)

Drake Dropping a Press Release During a Rap Battle Is the Whitest Thing That Ever Happened This Week - He was born black and he gonna die black. His daddy is a literal cat daddy who rocks zoot suits in 2018. That boy black as shit. But sometimes even the blackest of people can do some white-ass shit


This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots - Bloomberg (your robot news overlords are here)

NPR Bids Adieu To 5 News Blogs : NPR Ombudsman : NPR


Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018 | Pew Research Center - YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are the most popular online platforms among teens. Fully 95% of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online 'almost constantly' ... roughly half (51%) of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 say they use Facebook, notably lower than the shares who use YouTube, Instagram or Snapchat.


Jury Leaves $4 to Family of Man Killed by Sheriff's Deputy, Along With Many Questions ... jurors also found that the sherriff's office was only 1 percent at fault in the death, that award was reduced to four cents. And furthermore, because jurors found that Mr. Hill was intoxicated and mostly to blame for the shooting, a lawyer for his family said Tuesday that a judge would reduce the four-cent award to nothing. (breathing while black)

Dorchester charter school teacher accused of sexual assault - The Boston Globe
Director in medical examiner'ss office appears to have fabricated credentials
After years of reconstruction, Longfellow Bridge reopened 5 a.m. Thursday - The Boston Globe


Taking a photo of something impairs your memory of it, whether you expect to keep the photo or not - the reasons for this remain largely unknown, finds a new study. : science

Lightning bolts colliding : gifs
Thorgasm - The Orgasm of the Gods

u/gap343 finds a 1924 message in a bottle in the Galapagos, and u/aikisean posts a newspaper article about the 18-year-old who wrote it : bestof

Which creepy urban legend turned out to be true? : AskReddit


Eschaton: Everybody Should Learn To Code For Murder - The dominant belief seems to be that progress requires that your self-driving car kills a few people as it learns, but I can't get over the fact that they turned off the emergency braking. This is negligent homicide, or should be ... Our vehicles are totally safe but we, uh, turned off the safety systems because they were a bummer, man.

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For 'Columbiners' School Shootings Have a Deadly Allure
Parkland parents form a Super PAC to target the NRA | Miami Herald

Satellite Images Show North Korea Scrubbed Nuclear Test Site Before Unilaterally Destroying It

Iran is the culprit behind Tuesday's Gaza rocket barrage, Israel says -- The mass produced 120mm mortars and more accurate 107 mm rockets were fired by Iranian funded Islamic Jihad


Arkady Babchenko: Ukraine faked murder of journalist - BBC News

Attitudes of Christians in Western Europe | Pew Research Center


Jewish Groups Reject Israel Funding For Fear Of Being Branded Foreign Agents ... a shadowy Israeli government agency ... They came offering money with few strings attached. They wanted American Jewish institutions to help them fight the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement by running "missions" to Israel for influencers, something some of them were doing anyway. ("influencers")


Trump bragged about classified Syria skirmish at fundraiser - politico (he is much more important than national security)

Bolton Installs Anti-Muslim Wingnut as NSC Chief of Staff

Tech Transfer and US Universities - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I don't have time this morning to go into a lot of detail, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration plans to shorten the length of validity for some visas issued to Chinese citizens (making stupid decisions with long-term consequences for racist reasons will fuck up US educational system which makes a lot of money from Chinese students)

Trump's 'zero tolerance' at the border is causing child shelters to fill up fast -- The number of migrant children held in U.S. government custody without their parents has surged 21 percent in the past month
Donald Trump's Anti-Immigrant Army
'Jihadi Circuses' : The Anti-Muslim Police Training in San Angelo Was Worse Than We Thought

Big Banks to Get Reprieve from Volcker Rule - The New York Times


GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy Contradicts Trump On 'Informant' Claim == "I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got"
On Fox News, of all places, Trump's 'spy' claim is debunked by Trey Gowdy and even Judge Napolitano
Voltaire and friends comment
Trump's 'spygate' offensive loses steam -- Legal experts and Trump critics say the defections have exposed cracks in the president's narrative ("narrative" not "connstant stream of lies" +even Dershofuck) )
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F.B.I. Official Wrote Secret Memo Fearing Trump Got a Cover Story for Comey Firing - The New York Times

Mueller probing whether Trump pressured Sessions to engage in Russia investigation (you mean "to obstruct justice")
Robert Mueller's obstruction of justice probe is bigger than we realized
Judge sets endpoint for review of seized Cohen files, rebukes Avenatti's 'publicity tour'
Prosecutors in Michael Cohen case piecing together shredded documents from raid - lawyers have received most of the materials seized during the FBI raid on his hotel and office, except for the contents of a shredder.

Manafort Loses Skirmish With Mueller Over Two Search Warrants - Bloomberg
Senate Intelligence Committee Now Wants to Grill Roger Stone


Trump's Plan for Political Survival: Blame Obama for Everything -- The last two presidents haven't spoken since inauguration as the attacks from 45 on 44 move from the vicious to the absurd.
How Trump's Election Shook Obama: 'What if We Were Wrong?' "I'm trying to place him in American history" (place yourself, first)

Don't believe liars about anything - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Yglesias has a good piece about how ridiculous it is to treat Trump as if anything he says ought to be taken as true until proven otherwise:

Trump Aides Brutally Turn on Each Other in War on Leaks - The Oval Office confrontation between Mercedes Schlapp and Kelly Sadler was more dramatic and damaging than widely assumed -- merely the latest clear example of Trump trying to control or otherwise sway the people who could be in charge of his own fate. And it underlines the fact that he had very few boundaries in doing so ... The president objected to his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump, who had told aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inquiry, berated Mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his decision, an unusual and potentially inappropriate request. Sessions refused.

White House silence on Melania stokes conspiracy theories - POLITICO - hasn't been seen in public since her release from the hospital after a routine procedure.

Ivanka Trump Abruptly Leaves Call After Question About China Trademarks - The New York Times

Keeping Up with the Kushners: With Jared Back on Top, Kim Kardashian Heads to the White House -- Months of talks between Jared Kushner and Kim Kardashian is set to culminate in a meeting with President Trump, in which the reality-TV star will ask him to pardon a 62-year-old great-grandmother serving a life sentence without parole for a first-time drug offense. (welcome to your reality show America)

Exhaustive investigation reveals little evidence of possible voter fraud in NH (millions of illegal immigrant gang members were bused in to vote, Trump said)

Ted Cruz leads Beto O'Rourke by 11 points in Senate race, new poll finds -- The new poll comes about a month after the same firm called the race "too close to call"

The Polls Are All Right | FiveThirtyEight

Greitens accepted deal with St. Louis prosecutor | The Kansas City Star ... had "presidential ambitions'


There are at least 43 Democratic black women running as challengers for U.S. House seats, but only one -- Lauren Underwood of Illinois -- has the backing of the national campaign organization

CA Republican registration falls behind no party preference | The Sacramento Bee - 4,844,803 no-party-preference voters, according to Political Data Inc., compared with 4,771,984 Republicans. Both make up about a quarter of the California electorate, trailing 8,436,493 registered Democrats, about 44.4 percent ... despite falling registration rates, Republicans maintain an outsized influence because they vote more consistently than Democrats or independents.
California Republicans hit rock bottom - POLITICO - New figures show the once-proud state GOP has been relegated to third-party status (wait, the NYT told us that Franklin Graham would turn the state red!) .


Alito, Thomas and Models of Judicial Behavior - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Chuck Schumer Is Not Cutting It ... not up to the job

What Happened to Jill Stein's Recount Millions? Shortly after the 2016 election, Jill Stein raised more than $7 million from shell-shocked liberals eager to pursue a swing-state recount. Nearly two years later, the U.S. Green Party's last candidate for president is still spending that money. (grifters will grift)


Valerie Jarrett Calls Roseanne Barr's Racist Tweet A 'Teaching Moment' | HuffPost
Racist Tweet Fiasco Costs Roseanne Barr More Than Just A Reboot | HuffPost
Roseanne Barr lashes out at co-stars; Trump wonders why he hasn't gotten an apology from ABC, too ... Ambien ... "While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication," the company tweeted echoing a sentiment that many on social media had shared.
Nothing about this picture has aged well. : pics (srsly, click on it)
'Roseanne' Is Canceled, So Let The Memes Begin

Joy Reid Promoted An Infamous 9/11 Conspiracy Documentary On Her Old Blog - alleged that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were in fact planned by the US government.


The Reckoning: Harvey Weinstein and the Legal Case for (and Against) Prison Time
Harvey Weinstein Indicted On Multiple Rape Charges By Grand Jury | Deadline

The 'Sex Cult' That Preached Empowerment -- Why did female members of Nxivm follow a guru named Keith Raniere, who now stands accused of sex trafficking? He made them feel like they were in control.


How parenthood continues to cost women more than men


Drake and Pusha T's extremely long feud, explained - The Washington Post

Report: Sixers GM Bryan Colangelo used fake Twitter accounts to argue with critics, smear former players and colleagues - Philly (dumbfuck)



Why thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal - Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings : technology

A new study of 169 newlywed heterosexual couples found that after the first 18 months of marriage husbands became more conscientious, and wives became less anxious, depressed and angry. However, husbands became less extroverted, and both husbands and wives became less agreeable. : science

Wearing glasses may really mean you're smarter, major study finds - intelligent people are 30% more likely to have genes related to poor eyesight

People with a keener sense of smell may find sex more pleasant and, if they are female, have more orgasms during sex, finds a new study. : science


What's the sluttiest thing you've ever done?
Eschaton: You Called It Autopilot, Elon - I do not think you should have done that. -- A Tesla sedan in Autopilot mode crashed into a parked Laguna Beach Police Department vehicle Tuesday morning, authorities said.
More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into Orbit Has Fallen Back Down To Earth And Crushed Malala Yousafzai

Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US : technology ... "Reddit is strangers amusing me. Facebook is people I know pissing me off."
Microsoft is now more valuable than Google - and is the third-most valuable company in the world : windowsphone

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A New Study Says Nearly 6,000 Died In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria. The Government Still Says 64 People Died. (lying is what they do, all the time)
Hurricane Maria: Harvard study estimates thousands died in Puerto Rico due to hurricane, far exceeding official death toll - The Washington Post

Porn Leads To School Shootings, GOP Congresswoman Says | HuffPost - "I think that is a big part' of the spike in such attacks, Rep. Diane Black asserts. (if there is a dumb thing to be said, they will say it)


Europe's Fragility Is Exposed Again

Live updates: Five Israelis wounded by Gaza rocket; U.S. calls Security Council session - Israel News - Haaretz.com

Belgium attacker stabs 2 cops in Liege, shoots them with their own guns - ABC News

Dow drops nearly 400 points after Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan lead bank stock tumble


Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is shot and killed in Kiev


Eschaton: Happy 15th Anniversary Of Suck On This Day!!!!!!! - Time sure does fly. 30 Friedmans.
Flathead | Manhattan, New York, NY | News - Matt Taibbi (for the memories)
It's in the moustache!!!


Trump says investigation of 2016 election interference is now interfering with 2018 elections - The Washington Post - "Sorry, I've got to start focusing my energy on North Korea Nuclear, bad Trade Deals, VA Choice, the Economy, rebuilding the Military, and so much more, and not on the Rigged Russia Witch Hunt that should be investigating Clinton/Russia/FBI/Justice/Obama/Comey/Lynch etc." (will be forced to cancel "rigged" elections)


Trump Honors Fallen Soldiers On Memorial Day With Self-Congratulatory Tweet | HuffPost (they all died for him)

Reporter and Republican congressman team up to validate Trump's lie about tearing apart families -- Media malpractice.
Ivanka mocked for 'tone-deaf' tweet -- for posting a photo of herself embracing her 2-year-old son amid reports of families being separated at the Mexican border (no, it's "pitch-perfect" to white nationalists, stupid complicit media)

Supreme Court Allows Arkansas Abortion Restrictions to Stand - The New York Times - The law, enacted in 2015, requires providers of the procedure to have contracts with doctors who have admitting privileges at a hospital in the state. Abortion clinics in Arkansas said they were unable to find any doctors willing to sign such contracts. (perfectly ok w/SC)

Giuliani says Trump won't sit for Mueller interview unless all FBI informant documents can be reviewed

Fight Over Trump Jr.s Testimony Simmers in the Senate (Grassley has Juniour's ass covered)



ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after star's racist Twitter rant - Iger added on Twitter that "There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing" (drunk Republican bitch)
Roseanne Barr Goes on Wild (And Racist) Tweetstorm About Clintons, George Soros, Chris Cillizza | Mediaite (nice chronology of the less-than-a=day meltdown and career implosing #justiceforassholes)
after its star, Roseanne Barr, went on a vitriolic and racist Twitter rant
Roseanne Cacelled: ABC Scraps Seasnon 11 Afer Barr's Racist Tweet
ABC wouldn't have canned 'Roseanne' over a mere 'racially charged' tweet ... Racially charged instead of racist. Falsehoods instead of lies. Witch hunt instead of legitimate investigation.

Greitens. Going, going ... - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday announced he is stepping down effective at 5 p.m. Friday in the face of an impeachment effort, an adverse judicial ruling and and multiple criminal investigations.

Garrett to quit Congress amid servant scandal, alcoholism - POLITICO - The Virginia congressman announces his retirement after POLITICO reported he used his staff as personal gofers. (Drunk T-Party jerk)
Rep. Garrett announces he is an alcoholic and will not seek reelection - The Washington Post

GoLocalProv | EXCLUSIVE: Chafee Out of U.S. Senate Race - Lincoln Chafee's on-again, off-again run for office in 2018 is now over (Republifuck switched parties to screw you, didn't work)

NY21: Democrats say Ratigan voiced preference for Trump over Clinton | NCPR News - "It's mind-boggling that a Democratic candidate asking for my vote would say this"

The Right-Wing Millennial Machine | HuffPost - Conservatives are building an army of fired-up young people. How? By offering them salaries.

Catholic School Rejected Its Gay Valedictorian's Speech. So He Gave It With a Bullhorn.


Trump exposes the hypocrisy of Christian Republicans - The Washington Post
Jesse Duplantis, Destrehan televangelist, seeks donations for $54 million jet | NOLA.com - "so we can go anywhere in the world in one stop" (Satanic Airways)


Inside the Pro-Trump Effort to Keep Black Voters From the Polls - Bloomberg - Breitbart staffer recruited Sanders activist Bruce Carter to get African Americans to support the Republican -- or stay home


Origins of an Epidemic: Purdue Pharma Knew Its Opioids Were Widely Abused - The New York Times - company was aware early on that OxyContin was being crushed and snorted for its powerful narcotic, but continued to promote it as less addictive.


Scott Lemieux on Twitter: "At least the opening graf for Young Master Bragman's inevitable "the liberal case for re-electing Trump" take now writes itself https://t.co/Jt7n1PrLLD"

TMZ Goes MAGA: How Harvey Levin's Gossip Empire Became Trump's Best Friend

Megyn Kelly attacks Starbucks for allowing anyone to use bathroom: 'Do you really want to deal with homeless people?' (more true colors dept.)

How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People
'The Tale' is a harrowing story of surviving abuse -- it's a story of how survivors move forward through their trauma


Military Report: UFOs May Have Attempted Rendezvous With Giant Undersea Object | HuffPost

This adorable proposal. : aww


What It's Like When Elon Musk's Twitter Mob Comes After You - When female journalists like me dare to question the SpaceX and Tesla founder, there's predictable result: We get called bitches, idiots, and worse.

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New Zealand to slaughter thousands of cows in attempt to eliminate Mycoplasma bovis bacteria - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
What's Better: Flash Floods or Historic Drought? ... Florida Panhandle ... two feet of rain in 26 hours ... In the National Climate Assessment, the experts reported huge increases since the mid-20th century in the amount of precipitation falling in very heavy rainstorms: up 71 percent in the Northeast, 37 percent in the Midwest and 27 percent in the Southeast.

'This is worse' : Ellicott City devastated by another flood as heavy rain drenches Baltimore region ... "They say this is a once-every-1,000-years flood, and we've had two of them in two years"


Discovery to shut European TV hub as it mulls post-Brexit plan | Media | The Guardian - Bear Grylls broadcaster may move from London to Poland or Netherlands if EU-wide TV deal not struck (bye-bye, UK)


Top Egypt court orders temporary YouTube ban over Prophet Mohammad video | Reuters - regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube for one month over a video that denigrates the Prophet Mohammad ... "Innocence of Muslims" a low-budget 13-minute video, was billed as a film trailer and made in California with private funding. It provoked a wave of anti-American unrest in Egypt and other Muslim countries when it appeared in 2012. (you stupid, Egypt, good luck with no Google)


In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything - The New York Times - After eight years of budget cutting, Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, with a shrinking welfare state and spreading poverty. (good job, Tories)

Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says (sorta like eliminate all the doors in schools)


Anger Spreads as Syria Leads Global Disarmament Body - The New York Times - On Monday, it took up the rotating presidency of the United Nations-backed Conference on Disarmament. (barrel-bombs for all!)


Locked and Loaded for the Lord -- After the Rev. Moon died in 2012, his church split apart. Two of his sons established a new congregation. Their followers are eagerly awaiting the end times. And they are armed. (guns for Jesus)


Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE - The New York Times (meanwhile, in lock them all up land)

Redding flight school pilot kidnapped student and tried to deport him to China, police say - The Washington Post - California police say they thwarted a vigilante deportation attempt last week ... Jonathan McConkey, a pilot and certified flight instructor, is accused of orchestrating the kidnapping with his assistant, Kelsi Hoser (meanwhile, in Trumpland)

First peek: Immigrant children flood detention center - But they are still children in cages, not gangsters, not delinquents. Just children, 900 of them, in a makeshift border-town processing center that is larger than a football field. They pass the day sitting on benches or lying side by side on tiny blue mattresses pressed up against each other on nearly every square inch of the floor in the fenced areas.

Trump is blaming Democrats for separating migrant families at the border. Here's why this isn't a surprise. ... "DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING MS-13 THUGS" (the mouth! the hair! the hands! the lies! of Satan)

The Technology of American Ethnic Cleansing - Lawyers, Guns & Money - What you see above is a prison bus for small children who still need child seats and who were separated from their parents when the fascists at ICE caught them. The website goes into detail about how they provide field trips for the kids (!!), how the seats meet ICE specifications (hmmm), etc. This was from 2016, so who knows how bad it has gotten by now. In any case, this is the technology of American ethnic cleansing ... Given the bureaucratic nature of the government, it would have taken Trump and ICE a few years to develop all the tools of repression that the Obama regime created ready for them (thanks, again, float=above-it-all bipartisan Barry)
Opinion | The Weasel of Oz - The New York Times ... "Trump reminded them the crowds loved his rhetoric on immigrants along the campaign trail. Acting as if he were at a rally, he recited a few made-up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, such as rape or murder. Then, he said, the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country." Miller and Kushner laughed

Trump panned for 'tone-deaf' Memorial Day tweet - "those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today" (perfectly pitched to his racist base)
They Did Not Die for What We Have Now -- and That's On Us, Not Them -- Ultimately, that's why we've lost the plot on Memorial Day (Support Meaningless Wars for Profit Day) They did not risk, they did not bleed, they did not die for what this country is at the moment: a republic of mummery, numb and stupid, drunk on unreality and unreason, and, by its own public choice, led by a ridiculous and dangerous man


Trump Pulls Conspiracy Theories From the Fringes to the Oval Office - The New York Times (remember "vast, right-wing conspiracy?" +"Former aides to the president, speaking privately because they did not want to embarrass him" - could we have the full list of "former aides" NYT?)


Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history - The Washington Post


Donald Trump Jr: revered by the right, and building his own political base | US news | The Guardian - Jr's fanbase sees him as an authentic political figure, but many conservatives are waiting for the next shoe to drop (will run for Pres in 2024 from his prison cell unless he falls into a volcano or something)


April Ryan accuses Melania Trump's spokeswoman of creating an 'atmosphree of hate' after Twitter feud
Stephanie Grisham on Twitter: "If you're a jounalist ..." (Dumpsters can't read)

Eschaton: Your Moment Of Zen (Keith Ellison)

Trump Called A 'New York Times' Source "Phoney," But The Official Is Actually Very Real ... The Times also stated that over 50 people were present at the briefing, and a Buzzfeed reporter who signed onto the simultaneous conference called said in a tweet that over 240 people were on the call line when she joined ...
Brian J. Karem on Twitter: "I was there. This was a background briefing given by a senior administration official in the briefing room! POTUS either has no idea what his own administration is doing, has lost his mind, doesn't care, all of the above and is such a liar he can't remember the last lie he told. https://t.co/d5XpUlElRz" (let's go with all of the above + evil)

Rudy Giuliani gets booed when Yankees announce it's his birthday

Study: Sean Hannity spent the last year laying the groundwork for an authoritarian response to the Russia probe (what state media looks like, hi traitor Sean)

Media change deniers: Why debates around news need a better evidence base


The Trump effect: New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism -- The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy ... When faced with a choice between bigotry and democracy, too many Americans are embracing the first while abandoning the second. (racist fuck white people are a big problem, who is their god, anyway?)

Opinion | Democrats Are Running a Smart, Populist Campaign - The New York Times

The Evangelical Fight to Win Back California - The New York Times - As the primary approaches, Franklin Graham brings Jesus (you mean Satan) and a conservative political message -- to a state with a vast pool of evangelical voters. (Jesus loves guns, hates gays and immmigrants and health care, , Cali will go full Red-State)

Black Defendants Get Longer Sentences From Republican-Appointed Judges, Study Finds - The New York Times - (racist assholes will be racist asshole)

Maryland police officer's death ignites a racial firestorm (black thugs raiding the suburbs, whitey's worst nightmare)

The North's Jim Crow By Andrew W. Kahrl - Dr. Kahrl studies the history of segregation. (hello, Boston)


The company Bill de Blasio keeps with N.Y.'s creeps and crooks ... there was Harvey Weinstein on page one of the more than 4,000 pages of emails Bill de Blasio finally dumped on the public of his exchanges with outside "agents of the city" that show his often angry and inept attempts to stage-manage his image, Hollywood-style. (Blas was Harvey's bff and Hillary had no idea he was an asshole rapist)


Holy Cross valedictorian denied right to speak at graduation - The Diocese of Covington found that the speech contained "elements that were political and inconsistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church' Bales is openly gay and dooesn't know if that played any role in the decision to not have him speak at graduation. (take a guess, and fuck you, Catholics)


What Drove a Man to Set Himself on Fire in Brooklyn? - The New York Times - "My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves"

Another Taxi Driver in Debt Takes His Life. That's 5 in 5 Months (capitalism at work)

Is Acne Cool Now? - The New York Times - Those are just a couple of the insults Hailey Wait, an 18-year-old student and influencer, has had to endure since she began to develop acne seven years ago ... Instagram ... She amassed thousands of new followers (her count is now 151,000) ... Megan Collins, a trend forecaster at Trndera in Los Angeles ... as far back as 2015, in fact, when the beauty influencer Em Ford ... About 40 to 50 million Americans have acne at any one time, making it the most common skin condition in the United States (so now we have "influencers" and "trend forecasters")

Dear Publishers, if you want my subscription dollars (or euros), here is what I expect - A growing number of publications are switching to the subscription model. But most of them are lagging behind, with a poor user experience. Lousy execution will eventually translate into casualties.

Are bots entitled to free speech? - Columbia Journalism Review - How will the courts address free-expression rights for artificially intelligent communicators? This conversation is coming, and it may push the Supreme Court to do something it has avoided: define who is and is not a journalist.


205 Priority Applicants Vying For Recreational Marijuana Licenses Can Move Into Next Phase | WBUR News - The Cannabis Control Commission on Tuesday wrapped up its review of priority applicants for recreational marijuana businesses.


/u/Not_A_BusDriver explains why censoring offensive history diminishes it's importance of reminding us of past atrocities (and to not repeat them). : bestof


Nice trick : gifs


Bitcoin backlash as 'miners' suck up electricity, stress power grids in Central Washington

Eschaton: The Rollercoaster Line - I thought I was done writing about PRTs because self-driving cars were the new stupid thing, but stupid billionaire Musk has resurrected them and I am mad about it. David Dayen takes a swing in the LA Times ... . the system is an improvement over a high capacity subway...how? I have no idea. Not rubbing elbows with strangers is apparently the draw, but if the price of that is 1/100 of the capacity, optimistically.... take a damn limo, Elon. You're never gonna ride this public transit system, either. (Musk is a serial con)

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Everyone Is Missing A Key Reason The U.S. Birth Rate Is Declining | HuffPost - In the U.S., women are essentially punished for having kids. (Republians hate women, children, education and health-care)

Man arrested after over 200 headstones vandalized with swastikas - KMOV.com (Trump voter)
Santa Fe school shooting: After another mass shooting, Parkland activists sought momentum. In Texas, the response has been different. - The Washington Post - After another mass shooting, Parkland activists sought momentum. In Texas, the response has been different (metal-detectors and lock the doors)

Where Did Ireland Go? Abortion Vote Stuns Those on Both Sides - The New York Times - The culture of silence and deference to religious authority that long dominated Ireland is gone. The country that has emerged is an unlikely leader of liberal values. (Catholic patriarchy is dead)

Clapper: North Korean leader 'may have met his match' in Trump


U.S. warships sail near South China Sea islands claimed by Beijing

How's Life in the War Zone? Not Great (meanwhile, in eastern Ukraine, Russian occupied "Donetsk People's Republic")


Google says European politicians and government officials have used the "right to be forgotten" to delete 34000 articles about themselves from search results in Europe : technology ("right to have their evil history erased" this will not work well)


China Approves 5 New Trademarks For Ivanka Trump Business As President Forges ZTE Deal | HuffPost - The trademark approvals raise new concerns about potential Trump family conflicts of interest. (if it walks like a bribe ...)

Putin complains probe around Donald Trump hurts U.S.-Russian relations (hahaha)

DHS to issue 15,000 more guest worker visas amid clamor over labor shortage - The Washington Post (what happened to "We're closed! ??)
Trump taps hate group fellow Ronald Mortensen for important post dealing with refugees | Southern Poverty Law Center

Border Patrol Alters Account Of Guatemalan Woman's Death (blew off her head and then lied about "blunt objects" your ICE at work)
Guatemalan woman shot dead by Border Patrol came to US seeking a job - CNN (Trump said she was an "animal" and needed to be killed)


Booyah: Obama Photographer Hilariously Trolls Trump's 'Spy' Claim | HuffPost - Trump told friends that he decided to use the term "spy" for his story because it sounded more villainous (said the giant orange villain)


'No evidence' FBI spied on Trump campaign, Republican says, contrary to president's claims ... Sen Marco Rusio ... "What I have seen is evidence that they were investigating individuals with a history of links to Russia that were concerning"

Trump Versus Law Enforcement: A Confrontation With No Precedent - The New York Times ... The F.B.I. was investigating Russian efforts to influence the American election and had picked up evidence that people around Mr. Trump had been in contact with Russians, evidence that has only grown in the nearly two years since then. (but Jonathan Turley thinks that was fine, and ...) Matthew Miller, a Justice Department spokesman under Mr. Obama. "We do't know what he's buying but he's giving up a lot for it."

Giuliani slams Mueller probe as 'illegitimate' (said Satan's mouth)
Rudy Giuliani admits 'Spygate' is Trump PR tactic against Robert Mueller | US news | The Guardian (which side of Rudy's lying mouth are you gonna believe?)

Trump: Lives have been 'devastated and destroyed' by Russia probe (and they aren't even in jail yet)

Avenatti says Trump 'participated' in Cohen schemes: Their swamp 'makes everglades look like a backyard plastic pool' (the sound-bite master at work)

Trump's land of delusion: Disregard the sycophants; the wheels are coming off, if they were ever on (and check out his fake hair)
Is Don Jr. a Criminal or an Idiot? | Vanity Fair (let's go with evil criminal idiot)

Former drug industry lobbyist helps steer Trump drug plan - POLITICO

Stunning Oval Office leak: Aides fight in front of Trump -- about leaks -- Sadler then stunned the room: To be completely honest, she said, she thought one of the worst leakers was Schlapp, her boss ... the allegation -- like a previous internal meeting to deal with leaking -- ultimately got leaked to us.

Trump falsely accuses the New York Times of making up a source. It was an official who briefed reporters. - The Washington Post
Eschaton: Imagine Being The Kind Of Person Who Willingly Works For Donald Trump - And, well, fuck that person. -- Imagine being the WH background briefer who led this briefing, who now has his boss - the president of the US - saying he/she doesn't exist -- Maggie Haberman
Eschaton: Lie - They can't call the president a liar, and they sympathize with the people who supposedly "have to" lie for him. They don't care much about their readers ... By "they" I mostly mean Maggie, of course.

"That Is What Power Looks Like" : As Trump Prepares for 2020, Democrats Are Losing the Only Fight That Matters -- Even in an era of historic media fragmentation, Donald Trump dominates our attention universe to the point where he blocks out the sun. Is it any wonder that people don't have any idea what Democrats stand for? (Trump always "owns the news cycle" and yeah, and by those standards Obama was pretty powerless)


Ivanka Trump to campaign for Devin Nunes in California | TheHill (that will help)

Almost Half Of Republicans Believe Millions Voted Illegally In The 2016 Election | HuffPost - Republicans also said by a 56-point margin that voter fraud is a more widespread problem than eligible voters being prevented from voting (stupid or evil or both?)


Elliott Broidy and Carla Sands - Lawyers, Guns & Money - If you're wondering what Carla Sands, star of Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell, is up to these days, the answer is that she's the new United States ambassador to Denmark. (another bribe job in the depths of the swamp)

Prominent Trump Supporter Runs Taxpayer-Funded Boiler Room - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Alec Magillis has an outstanding article about how Liberty University is basically a massive telemarketing grift with a small loss-leading religious college attached: ... The beauty of it is that since Liberty is formally a non-proft whatever funds aren't paid by the g(r)iftees are still covered by Uncle Sam (that would be, you)


Lack of paid sick leave increases poverty. It also increases medical care costs and use of welfare. : science (Republicans say that's they it's supposed to work)


Eschaton: How You Can Tell If Someone Is An Idiot - I suppose there is always the "stupid or lying" complication, but if you think they are serious, people who fret about "free speech on college campuses" are, without exception, idiots. Unless they are lying, of course. As usual, either stupid or evil, or both.


Harvey Weinstein's Arrest May Define Manhattan D.A's Legacy
Manhattan DA Cy Vance should pay for his lack of Weinstein action (hey, everyone takes bribes)
New York Daily News front pages of 2018 - NY Daily News - When Pigs Fly -- Swein-stein's slime's up


Florida woman rescued after slipping note to veterinarian saying boyfriend was holding her captive, cops say : news

Neighbor gets state prison for hate crimes against black family: 'It's been hell,' victim says - The ways that Robert T. Kujawa menaced the Baker family, who are black, were many, authorities said. (Kujawa, now that's a funny name for a Trump supporter)


Anthony Hopkins: 'Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie'


Legalizing marijuana is fine. But don't ignore the science on its dangers. (fake science WaPo gets creamed in comments even with prison-lobby posters)
Can Cannabis Fight Tumors? - Doctors working with medical cannabis are also using it to treat cancer-related side effects, and evidence suggests the herb may even have antitumor effects all on its own
Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
Forget protein shakes. The newest workout supplement? Marijuana. - The Boston Globe ... "indigo blend"


As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul - The New York Times - A handful of burrowing owls live in this 750-acre wildlife and recreation area, deep in the grass. As the breeding season begins, they are among perhaps 50 left in Silicon Valley

BBC - Culture - The 100 stories that shaped the world (Harry Potter, but no Lord of the Rings)



TIL the "friendliness" gene mutation that distinguishes dogs from wolves causes Williams syndrome in humans, which causes hypersociality and reduced intelligence : todayilearned

For the first time a new study has shown how the size of interpersonal space changes depending on the tone and content of other people's conversations, suggesting that the average size of someone's interpersonal space becomes larger after listening to an aggressive conversation taking place nearby.


F.B.I.'s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware (send link to your friends)

Elon Musk's Crusade for Media Accountability Lasted Three Whole Days Before He Recommended a News Site Affiliated With a Suspected Sex Cult ... The Knife ... The site is affiliated with NXIVM (this all makes sense in a pizza-gate kind of way and Mushk is media-illiterate and well done on the article, newspeople)

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Emails show cooperation among EPA, climate-change deniers (will rebrand to the EFA)

Publix halts political contributions ahead of Parkland students' 'die-in' protest - over its donations to Republican gubernatorial hopeful Adam Putnam, Publix said Friday it has halted all corporate political contributions.


In a Testy Letter, Trump Cancels the North Korea Summit | The New Yorker - written in the language of a sulking, lovelorn seventh grader
Trump Called An Unnamed WH Source 'Phony.' Lots Of Reporters Know Otherwise. (all lies all the time)

Irish Times exit poll projects Ireland has voted by landslide to repeal Eighth - Exit poll result suggests huge majority of younger people voted Yes - Ireland has voted by a landslide margin to change the Constitution so that abortion can be legalised
Irish Referendum Result: Anti-Abortion Campaign Concedes Defeat As Polls Suggest Landslide Vote To Repeal The 8th - Almost 90% of voters under 25 appear to have voted Yes. (satangelicals cry)
Ian Millhiser on Twitter: "With the Irish vote looking like it's going to be a landslide for yes, it's really stunning how much of an outlier American red states are in the rest of the Western world." (the heart of Satan's territory)
a "yes" vote would authorize Ireland's parliament to legalize abortion -- ahead by an average of 20-25 points. The UK media, claiming there was a "shy" no vote, predicted a close race. So guess what happened? (the myth of the 'shy wingnut')
Liam Hogan on Twitter: ""The feminists are getting angry and are moving into action. They seem stung by the suggestion that the normal place for a woman is the home. I shall shortly have another note to meet these persons. Their thoughts are very confused." - Fr John Charles McQuaid to de Valera (1937)"
Ireland votes by landslide to legalise abortion : news - Interesting that even 50-64 year olds voted for this, while over 65 year olds were against. If you're 64, you were born in 1954 and came of age in the 1970s. This cultural revolution has been a long time in the making
Ireland Votes to End Abortion Ban in Rebuke to Catholic Church - The New York Times - sweeping aside generations of conservative patriarchy and dealing the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the Roman Catholic Church.
A Major Victory For Human Freedom, Equality, And Dignity - Lawyers, Guns & Money
From 1983 to 2018: A history of the Eighth Amendment 7 TheJournal.ie ... But how did this effective ban come about in 1983 and how did it change over the last 35 years? (Catholics reacted to Roe-vs-Wade and told mothers to die)

22 killed in Uganda when speeding bus strikes beer truck | The Sacramento Bee

GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users under new rules - BBC News - The Chicago Tribune and LA Times were among those saying they were currently unavailable in most European countries. (and Fox banned)


How Walter Cronkite's broadcast changed the Vietnam War - The Washington Post -- Did the news media, led by Walter Cronkite, lose the war in Vietnam? (yes, by reporting on the actual futility of the death and carnage, and the lies of the noble military). Johnson vowed not to be the first American president to lose a war. (first in a continuous series)

Who killed Bobby Kennedy? His son RFK Jr. doesn't believe it was Sirhan Sirhan. - The Washington Post (another deep state secret?)


Trump says he'll spare Chinese telecom firm ZTE from collapse, defying lawmakers (he took the bribe)

Black Cube: Inside the shadowy Israeli firm accused of trying to undermine the Iran deal - a business intelligence company with governmental contracts and a special department for politically motivated work.


Why are Dutch-Americans so different from the Dutch? - Culture and assimilation ... "The people who left the Netherlands were some of the most conservative Dutch-speaking people on the planet" (something about Michigan's water, Dutch immigrants hate immigrants)


Border Patrol slightly changes account of undocumented woman's fatal shooting - But its latest version of events makes no mention of blunt objects described in an agency statement issued after Wednesday's shooting in th border town of Rio Bravo (blew her head off)

Must watch: Chris Hayes on 'despicable' new Trump policy - The United States government is now systematically taking children as young as 53 weeks old away from their parents at the border, thanks to new directives issued by the Trump administration

Trump's Crackdown On Immigrant Parents Puts More Kids In An Already Strained System | HuffPost - Crackdown On Immigrant Parents Puts More Kids In An Already Strained System -- Last month a Health and Human Services official revealed the government was unable to locate nearly 1,500 children who had been released from its custody. (Kushner kidnapped them for his pizza-sex-trafficking-ring)
Trump Blames Dems For His Own Policy Of Separating Families At The Border (well, who are you going to believe?)

Woman Killed By Border Patrol Identified As Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, 20 | HuffPost - A Border Patrol agent says he opened fire on a group of people who were rushing at him. (lying murderer)


Eschaton: 15 Years Later - In his new memoir, John McCain concedes that the war in Iraq he fought so hard to launch and then escalate now "can't be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it (that's not going to keep you out of Hell for all eternity, asshole war boy)


Giuliani: White House wants briefing on classified info - legal team wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and may take it to the Justice Department as part of an effort to scuttle the ongoing special counsel probe. (they could just ask traitor Nunes, duh)
Devin Nunes wants to run an intel operation for the White House -- against our intelligence agencies -- The House Intelligence chairman seems more interested in being an asset to Trump Russia than overseeing his administration. (FTFY)
In this writer's opinion, Rep. Devin Nunes should resign

Manafort's ex-son-in-law's attorneys quit over unpaid bills and 'lack of candor'

Trump's son should be concerned': FBI obtained wiretaps of Putin ally who met with Trump Jr. (no collusion, shut up!)

Roger Stone to Associate: "Prepare to Die" - The radio host who claims Stone used him as a false alibi says Stone threatened him ... Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be increasingly interested in the actions of Roger Stone.


How the Media Rewards Bad Faith | Crooked Media - If the standard journalists set for themselves is that anything Republicans claim to be outraged about must be treated as a live controversy, then journalists disclaim a major potential point of failure, and become conduits for propaganda ... when the balance of political power shifts again, the right will resume pretending to be outraged over nonsense as if the Trump presidency had never happened, and most reporters will proceed as if it's all sincere
How the Media Helped Legitimize Extremism | WIRED

Trump Did Not Justify the Clinton Rules - Lawyers, Guns & Money - where the defense completely fails is in the full complicity of the media with ridiculous Republican snipe hunts: (which they are still doing, of course)

Eschaton: The President Is Not A Racist - So STOP SAYING THAT SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP! -- Trump reminded them the crowds loved his rhetoric on immigrants along the campaign trail. Acting as if he was at a rally, he then read aloud a few made up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, like rape or murder. Then, he said, the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country -- as they did when he highlighted crimes by illegal immigrants at his rallies, according to a person present for the exchange and another briefed on it later. Miller and Kushner laughed.
This President* Doesn't Get to Say These Disgusting Things in Our Name -- Trump's Oval Office comedy routine does not speak for the rest of us. ... (and) ... "For five glorious, heedless years, I worked for The Boston Phoenix, now defunct for five years, god rest its soul."

You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Trump says the first lady is 'doing great.' She hasn't been seen in public for two weeks)

Donald Trump Says 'Our Ancestors Tamed a Continent' and We Are Not Going to Apologize for America (genocidal immigrants)

In the Trump Era, We Are Losing the Ability to Distinguish Reality from Vacuum | The New Yorker
What should moral Republicans do in the age of Trump? - Should Republicans quit and save themselves, or stay and try to save the rest of us? By Dahlia Lithwick

Eschaton: LOL Nothing Matters - And built into most of the reporting are certain assumptions that at best make no sense and at worst are, themselves, highly ideological. Bipartisanship is good, even though usually the worst things in DC happen under the cover of bipartisanship. Deficits are bad, unless caused by tax cuts. Poor people get "welfare" and rich people get "incentives." There is no racism, there are just things that are "racially charged." The only poor people in America are white people in coal country. Black people don't exist in the South or, really, anywhere. Cops are good. The military is unquestionably good. Republcian style patriotism is good. America does not torture. All of these things infuse political coverage.

Eschaton: Tripping Over The Bar - "Centrism" is as much - or more - of a problem in this country as the Right, as it has a strangehold on all of our institutions. William Kristol is now a "centrist" because he says mean things about Trump sometimes on twitter, and MSNBC's "liberal" lineup is filled with former Bush administration people who never confront the reality of the monstrous administration they were a part of. Nazis and people who support universal health care. Both sides, really.

Hillary Clinton Dons Heavy Coat and Scarf in Sweltering 900 Boston Heat - What is Hillary Clinton hiding?

Feds Hid Edits in Right-Wing Video Used to Prosecute Anti-Trump Protesters - James O'Keefe's outfit filmed activists talking before the inauguration, and prosecutors used it as evidence to say they conspired to riot. Turns out crucial moments were cut out.

Democrats Go All-Out to Avoid Disaster in California House Races - The New York Times (can the Dems fuck up a sure thing? you know the answer)

Eschaton: Stupid Or Evil - Facebook's internal policies say that white nationalism and white separatism is OK but white supremacy is not: Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) May 25, 2018 -- Creating a white-only ethnostate out of (or even within) the US requires genocide. Chef's kiss.

Leaked Documents Show Facebook's Post-Charlottesville Reckoning with American Nazis -- After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators about hate speech groups in the US, and spell out the distinction from nationalism and separatism, (without a difference and boy is Fuckerberg stupid)
Facebook's new political ad rules could upend June 5th primaries -- Candidates are blocked from buying ads while they wait on authorization codes

Harvey Weinstein's lawyer seemed familiar : pics

Here's who owns everything in Big Media today

Police Unions are Bad: A Saga of Limitless Entries - Lawyers, Guns & Money (America has a cop problem)


'We have heard the message that something is broken': USC's president agrees to step down amid growing outrage over scandals ... the university had let a gynecologist at the school's health clinic continue to treat students for years despite complaints about his behavior... Multiple lawsuits were filed ... ("something" but we have no idea exactly what)

Philip Roth won't be having a Jewish funeral - Philip Roth forbade any Jewish rituals from being performed at his funeral ... "He said he wants to be buried near Jews so he has someone to talk to."
The Many Philip Roths | The Nation - The many Philip Roths.


I was Jordan Peterson's strongest supporter. Now I think he's dangerous -- "the most influential public intellectual in the Western world" as he was described in the pages of the New York Times a few months ago ... He was a preacher more than a teacher ... Jordan has a complex relationship to freedom of speech. He wants to effectively silence those left-wing professors by keeping students away from their courses because the students may one day become "anarchical social revolutionaries" who may bring upon us disruption and violence ... (preaching the gospel of the patriarchy, see media and extremism, above)
What Jordan Peterson doesn't get about men and success in Canada ... It's comforting to have someone easily identify the source of your trouble (chaos) and that the solution to this trouble is deep inside your soul. Except you can't self-help your way out of a stagnant economy ("chaos" = "women")


After an $18m overhaul, one Steamship Authority boat reeked of sewage. Then things got worse. - The Boston Globe (corrupt contracting)

The incredible shrinking American yard - The Boston Globe - But every once in a while Murray is reminded why she moved to Winchester in the first place

Florida ban on smokable medical pot ruled unconstitutional | The Sacramento Bee (Florifucks)
Florida ban on smokable medical pot ruled unconstitutional : news
/u/Khanon555 explains the war on drugs in the most concise way ever. : bestof - The government doesn't care what drugs you do, they care whose drugs you do. Edit: George Carlin said it ... "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday. "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlickman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." (Republicans fucking people over for profit)

Conservatives who view their political beliefs as an important part of their identity have a greater aversion toward ambiguity and don't like situations that are uncertain. But this doesn't appear to be true for conservatives who don't view their political beliefs as important to their identity

First detailed anatomical study of bonobos contradicts key dogmas about human evolution : science

A new replication study of the well-known "marshmellow test" -- a famous psychological experiment designed to measure children's self-control -- suggests that being able to delay gratification at a young age may not be as predictive of later life outcomes as was previously thought.

How do we know the age of the universe, specifically with a margin of error of 59 million years? : askscience

TIL according to research, there are four types of drunks: the Hemmingway, whose personality doesn't change a bit, the Mary Poppins, those who gets sweeter and happier, the Nutty Professor, who becomes more social, and the Mr. Hyde, who becomes more hostile and less responsible around booze. : todayilearned

Psychedelic Medicine

Aurora_Fatalis comments on Scientists Bring A Severed Brain Back To Life, Sparking Ethical Debate (try to read this comment, see what your brain feels like afterwards and read down to the next one)

What is something you wish you knew when you were 18 years old? : AskReddit
I got your nose! : funny
Amazon.com: Easyfashion 2 x Light Up Thumbs Fingers Magic Trick: Toys & Games

Ghostery have exposed everyone's email address in it's GDPR email by not using BCC : technology
squarerootofnothing comments on Ghostery have exposed everyone's email address in it's GDPR email by not using BCC
AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To

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Suspect in custody after active shooter report at Indiana middle school - The Washington Post - A student and a teacher were injured in a shooting at a middle school in a suburb north of Indianapolis, and a student has been taken into custody in connection with the incident, police said.
Active shooter situation at Noblesville Middle School in Indiana : news

NRA wants Congress to set "limitations" on how the news can cover school shootings ... "it's time to put an end to this glorification of carnage in pursuit of ratings, because it's killing our kids" (the media, not our guns, are killing the children: new slogan: "License Journalists, Not Guns!)
NRATV on Twitter: ""The mainstream media love mass shootings. I'm going to say it again; the mainstream media love mass shootingsand you, the #MSM, just put out the casting call for the next mass shooter." @MrColionNoir #NRA https://t.co/UM3GsK7CDT"
Gun-control group releases documentary on students affected by shootings - The Washington Post
Parents call for investigation into Stoneman Douglas assault involving sheriff's son - Embattled former Deputy Scot Peterson handled case 4 years ago ... One of those assailants, the boy who allegedly held down the victim, was Israel's son, Brett
Deputy Peterson Accused Of 'Covering Up' Alleged Sexual Assault By Broward Sheriff's Son
Police seek 2 men after bomb blast at Mississauga restaurant wounds 15 | CBC News - 3 people who suffered serious injuries have been released from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, police say

Why Trump failed with North Korea and China - The Washington Post
Eschaton: We All Are, My Friend, We All Are - South Korea's presidential Blue House seems blind-sided by Trump's cancelation of the summit: "We are attempting to make sense of what, precisely, President Trump means," says spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom.


Historic Vote On Legalizing Abortion Is Haunted By Trump And Brexit American influence could tip the referendum ... But so far, the Standards in Public Office Commission has yet to ask the anti-abortion side to return any foreign donations or to stop the flow of help from foreign groups. (evangelical satanists pouring money into Ireland's abortion referendum)


Eschaton: We Do Love Children - So much. That's what makes America special. Other countries don't love children like we do. -- WASHINGTON A top official with the Department of Health and Human Services told members of Congress on Thursday that the agency had lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children it placed with sponsors in the United States, raising concerns they could end up in the hands of human traffickers or be used as laborers by people posing as relatives. (remember last week when Trump said all the refugees were sex-trafficers?)


Eschaton: Nobody Knows In America - One could even let slide the dubious "well they're just here temporarily so they shouldn't be allowed to vote here" argument (I mean, I wouldn't let it slide, but it wouldn't be so different from arguments made about college students). But the "where they belong"... uh. -- Ward replied by saying, "First of all, I don't think they should be allowed to register to vote. It's not lost on me that, I think, the Democrat party's really hoping that they can change the voting registers in a lot of counties and districts, and I don't think they should be allowed to do that." ... I think we should be thinking about it in terms of getting them back home and providing the capital and resources to rebuild Puerto Rico, which is, I honestly think, is where they belong."

This revealing anecdote unmasks Trump's dehumanization game - The game is always that Trump fluidly conflates one set of individuals who constitute a less sympathetic target -- one he ostensibly goes after, and one that is harder to defend -- with the broader group he's actually trying to belittle or dehumanize but cannot do so overtly. (Pres Base Instincts)

Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg met with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen days before the inauguration - The Washington Post


Time to stop chasing Trump's lies down the rabbit hole

Are Republicans abetting a demagogue -- or something worse? ... Is President Trump an instinctual demagogue or an instinctual authoritarian? (the mouth, see Toles and Gerson is an idiot, thinks Clinton was a demagogue because Starr was so honest)

Seahawks' Doug Baldwin: President Donald Trump is 'an idiot' plain and simple ... It's not very American-like, to me. It's not very patriotic. It's not what this country was founded upon. So it's kind of ironic to me that the President of the United States is contradicting what our country is really built on."
Sterling Brown's arrest shows why NFL players have a reason to kneel (bullying black people is a cop obsession)


GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati - CNNPolitics (the insane party)

Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it's OK not to sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors ... Previously Rohrabacher had been designated as a "Realtor Champion" eligible for support from top Realtor donors ... Would Rohrabacher, who uses a medical marijuana cream to ease his arthritis and supports relaxed penalties for cannabis use, be OK if a home seller refused to do business with him based on that lifestyle choice? "Yes", Absolutely," Rohrabacker said. (ok, how about gluen eaters?)

Eschaton: Kinda Both But Not Quite Either - The #resistance is here to empower William Fucking Kristol ... The hippies have been trying to warn you.


Sean Hannity being Exposed as A Fraudulent Shill : bestof
Sean Hannity Apologizes to Jon - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Video Clip) | Comedy Central


Harvey Weinstein charged with rape and other abuse violations in sexual assault cases - The Washington Post
Rose McGowan and Other Harvey Weinstein Accusers React: 'We Got You' (caught and killed)
rose mcgowan on Twitter: "We got you, Harvey Weinstein, we got you"
Asia Argento on Twitter: "What took you so long Harvey? "
Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Arrest -- by Ronan Farrow - After a seven-month investigation, the producer Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to the New York Police Department's First Precinct on Friday morning to face sexual-assault charges.
Harvey Weinstein arrested on rape charges : television


The Cultural Vandalism of Jeffrey Tambor

Boston Globe files lawsuit against former employee - The Boston Globe


Former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal facing felony theft charges for welfare fraud

Cambridge arrest of Harvard student to be reviewed by former state chief justice - The Boston Globe


New research suggests that the suppression of sexual thoughts among religious people only begets a greater preoccupation with sexual thoughts and fantasies. : science (OMG science discovers the repressed returns!)


FBI warns consumers on malware aimed at Internet routers - The Boston Globe (tell you-kow-who)


Snapchat tried an X-rated story feature called Cosmo after Dark. It didn't go well ("pastors and conservatives" don't want kids to know about sex, don't realize womething called "the internet" exists)
What nonsense did you believe for way too long before you found out it was made up? : AskReddit


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Eschaton: Shuttle Buses - Building cars is actually very hard and the idea that Apple was going to build its own car (self-driving or not) was always a bit... let's say, ambitious... but the degree to which their ambitions have faltered reflect not just this but their failure to pay me $10 million dollars to tell them "this is stupid, don't do this." ... From 2015: "Apple is building a self-driving car in Silicon Valley, and is scouting for secure locations in the San Francisco Bay area to test it, the Guardian has learned. Documents show the oft-rumoured Apple car project appears to be further along than many suspected." (your gullible tech press at work)

Elon Musk's meltdown makes perfect sense (you will give me all your public lands, peons! +Pravda Corp will tell you what's true! +you can't make this up!)
Elon Musk Is No Donald Trump - When it comes to media criticism, comparing Elon Musk to Donald Trump is very unfair -- to Trump -- tweeted that media reports on his company's labor practices were driven by oil industry advertising dollars (media illiteracy)

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North Korea Replies - Balloon Juice (KCNA wins on the twitter)
You Are the Sucker, Donald the Dove Edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Inside the summit collapse: Trump wanted to cancel before N. Korean leader could
North Korea summit: In calling off meeting with Kim Jong-un, Trump again shows his lack of skill as a negotiator. - In calling off his summit with Kim Jong-un, Trump has again shown his lack of skill as a negotiator. (Kim has better hair)


Investigation Finds Russian Missile Shot Down Flight MH17 | HuffPost - not clear who was operating the missile that hit the plane over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people.


Exclusive: FBI Seizes Control of Russian Botnet - The FBI operation targets a piece of sophisticated malware linked to the same Russian hacking group that hit the Democratic National Committee in 2016.


Russia will try again this fall. Congress doesn't seem to care (Republican traitors)
Trump-Russia connections explained - Trump's in-plain-sight embrace of Russia gets obscured by the Trump news avalanche. But long before running for president, Trump relied on Russian money. Trump also consistently defends Russia and attacks U.S. officials investigating Russia.

If Republicans want to uncover FBI misconduct, they sure aren't acting like it (lock up Nunes)
Alpha Omega Winery sued by worker | yacht fundraiser | The Fresno Bee - A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes: Winery partly owned by Nunes sued after fundraiser event (Cocaine Devin! one letter away fro Devil Nunes)

Bowing to pressure, White House to host bipartisan briefing on Russia investigation | TheHill - The White House is planning a separate meeting for bipartisan House and Senate leaders to receive classified information related to the Russia investigation, responding to pressure over a decision to exclude Democrats from a highly anticipated Thursday briefing. (next, they will stop counting Dem votes)

Putin ally: Seychelles meeting with Erik Prince more than chance encounter 'over a beer' - ABC News

Introducing the Sean Hannity Expanded Universe, Fox's anti-Mueller alternative reality

Stop Talking about 'Norms' ... As I said, we're confusing ourselves with the language of norms. Norms are tripwires to avoid abuses of office. But even as we see in front of our eyes the most extreme abuses of office we're still talking about norms. That's nuts. The abuses of office are the big thing. (trump will execute a bunch of journalists and the journos will say he's "pushing a norm")

The Collusion of the Stone - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I guess not all of the plot twists can be unpredictable: "Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone privately inquired about damaging information on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before the 2016 election, raising questions about the candor of congressional testimony Stone gave last year, unearthed emails reveal."
Roger Stone Sought Information on Clinton from Assange, Emails Show - WSJ

WSJ: New Evidence Shows Roger Stone Seeking Clinton Emails From Assange
Assange's s refuge in Ecuadorian embassy 'in jeopardy' (he stinks, both literally and figuratively)
Now I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow -- The show runners aren't even pretending to try to keep this thing even mildly realistic any more:
Trump Roasted for Misspelling First Lady's Name in Tweet: 'Who the Fuck Is Melanie?'

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15 Criminal-Law Questions Surrounding the President - The Atlantic

George Conway's Tweets Raise West Wing Eyebrows - But friends say the real target of his ire isn't Donald Trump ... George Conway is seen as rebuking the silence of his fellow Federalist Society members (but his head!)

Stephen King Reveals Why Donald Trump Blocked Him On Twitter | HuffPost - and "creepy" Mike Pence: "He has that look." "He's like the mean doctor on a soap opera, the one who sells drugs, you know, or has a prostitution ring from Bulgaria or something"

Ivanka Trump now has full security clearance, too - Axios


Eschaton: Philip Roth, RIP - Ninety-eight in New England was a summer of exquisite warmth and sunshine ... and in America the summer of an enormous piety binge, a purity binge, when terrorism -- which had replaced communism as the prevailing threat to the country's security -- was succeeded by cocksucking, and a virile, youthful middle-aged president and a brash, smitten twenty-one-year-old employee carrying on in the Oval Office like two teenage kids in a parking lot revived America's oldest communal passion, historically perhaps its most treacherous and subversive pleasure: the ecstasy of sanctimony ... It was the summer when a president's penis was on everyone's mind, and life, in all its shameless impurity, once again confounded America. (oh, for the age of innocence)
Roth on Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Trump Says NFL Players Unwilling To Stand For Anthem Maybe 'Shouldn't Be In The Country" (deport the unpatriotic to Trumpster players!)
NFL's New Anthem Policy Is Madness -- But the Players Can Stop It - The new rule is an obvious capitulation to red America, its president, and the league's most conservative owners
Opinion | The N.F.L. Kneels to Trump - The New York Times (bow down to the furious god-emperor)


Neo-Marxism -- A couple of days ago, Andrew Sullivan delivered a blast against "neo-Marxism"

Scott Pruitt Twice Introduced Anti-Abortion Bills Giving Men 'Property Rights' Over Fetuses (you know who else they have 'property rights' over?)

Eschaton: A Bit Close - I suppose we can be thankful he lost, but... Twenty-five votes decided the race for northern Dallas County's District 2 seat ... Cunningham admitted to rewarding his kids financially if they marry a white, heterosexual, Christian person in a story that reverberated nationally

Jessica Walter Discusses Jeffrey Tambor's Alleged Harassment While Male Co-Stars Brush It Off | HuffPost
Jessica Walter Shamed by Male 'Arrested Development' Co-Stars Over Jeffrey Tambor's 'Harassment' ... 'In 60 years, i've never had anybody yell at me like that on a set,' Walter says about Tambor, as his male co-stars repeatedly interrupt to downplay and excuse his behavior.

Gwyneth Paltrow says Brad Pitt threatened to kill Harvey Weinstein after she was allegedly harassed - The Boston Globe

Morgan Freeman accused of inappropriate behavior, harassment - CNN
Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York - NY Daily News

Globe investigating allegation top editor sent inappropriate text - The Boston Globe - Brian McGrory and Hilary Sargent ... "What do you generally wear when you write?"
A Boston.com Editor Has Been Suspended after Harvard T-Shirt Incident - Hilary Sargent has been suspended for one week in connection with a T-shirt she designed -- and then tweeted about -- that mocked a Harvard Business School professor at the center of an ongoing story she was covering (2014)
A Boston.com Editor Designed a T-Shirt Mocking the Harvard Prof. in #TakeoutGate (little karmic whirlpool there)
SJC orders indefinite suspension for judge who had affair with court clinician - The Boston Globe

Mystery Heiress Behind NXIVM Sex Cult Exposed in Graphic Court Docs - Sex slaves. Branding. Blackmail. A new cache of court documents has shed considerable light on the celebrity-riddled Upstate New York cult NXIVM - Seagram's heiress Clare Bronfman

Milwaukee Police Release Footage Of Cop Using Taser On Sterling Brown | HuffPost
Legislation would shield trooper data from public view - The Boston Globe (need to protect themselves from "terrorists")

Tennessee baby girl dies after dad who went on business trip left her in car - NY Daily News - undefined

Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him - The Washington Post (and Barry Diller's snoze aged well)


Nearly 16 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in Mass. identify as LGBT, report says - The Boston Globe (gay plague) Conversely, less than 3 percent of residents ages 65 to 74 self-identify as LGBT


Stephen M. Mindich, longtime Boston Phoenix owner and publisher, dies at 74 - The Boston Globe - The 74-year-old Mindich battled pancreatic cancer for the last four years and passed away Wednesday night at a hospice


Walking Definition Of An Entitled Millennial Swears He's Not An Entitled Millennial -- Michael Rotondo was court-ordered to move out of his parents' home.


Someone put all 43 civ's on Civ 5 onto a small map. I got an odd amount of enjoyment from watching this. : videos


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EPA again blocks journalists from attending summit: 'They ain't doing the CNN stuff' ("ain't")


Eschaton: Broken Brain - Perhaps it is difficult to differentiate between narcissism and a certain manifestation of a degenerative brain disorder like Alzheimer's, but.. " the president has been almost singularly focused on the pageantry of the summit -- including the suspenseful roll-out of details. He has not been deeply engaged in briefing materials on North Korea's nuclear program (Republicans: let's elect an self-centered angry moron, that'll work out)
Trump-Kim Meeting Is Yet to Come, but U.S. Has Minted the Coins - The New York Times (it's all a performance of evil and his hair looks very good)


State Department warns U.S. citizens in China after employee suffers possible sonic attack - The Washington Post


Trump lawyer 'paid by Ukraine' to arrange White House talks - BBC News -- Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 (#300,000) to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump
Married to the mob - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Trump official's infinite capacity for self-debasement -- DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on May 22 that she was unaware of intelligence reports that concluded Russia favored President Trump in the 2016 election. ("unaware") she is unfamiliar with a key finding in the intelligence community's assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election: that the Kremlin intended to help President Trump win.


Trump seethes over Russia probe, calls for end to 'Spygate' - "SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history! Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State" (furiously raging seething angryman)
Trump'ss FBI Spy Theory Is Completely Insane - By Jonathan Chait - He is bringing his party, and the powers it commands, around to his warped manner of thinking ... But then you would be ignoring how far down the Trump rabbit hole the Republican Party has gone so far. (the battle for the sanity of America)
Trump is spinning desperately to distract from his corruption. Democrats should say so. - The Washington Post

"That Psychopath Is Going Down" : Inside Trumpworld, a Bizarre Counter-Narrative Takes Hold -- People in Trump's orbit have become convinced that anti-Trump forces in the F.B.I. entrapped his advisers using informants to plant evidence about Russian collusion -- and that former C.I.A. director John Brennan is somehow behind the plot. "If I were him, I'd break the capsule and swallow it now," one longtime confidant says. ("confidant" Roger Stone whom you can certainly believe)
Most Americans don't realize Robert Mueller's investigation has uncovered crimes -- 17 indictments and five guilty pleas so far.
u/slakmehl explains how new revelations about Elliott Broidy's secret meeting with Trump a day after making the first payment to a Playmate to keep quiet about an abortion further lend credence to the theory that Trump was the one having the affair, not Broidy : bestof

Stefan Halper is just another middleman - The Washington Post - How the Trump echo chamber pushes bit players like Stefan Halper to center stage


Opinion | Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy, Not Extremists - The New York Times (other counties ok, but are there even any 'centrists' left in the U.S.?)
Opinion | The Rising Racial Liberalism of Democratic Voters - The New York Times


Trump can't block Twitter followers, federal judge says
Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users, Judge Says - The New York Times
Judge: President can't block critics on Twitter : news

Jared Kushner Gets Security Clearance as He Tries to Move Past Mueller Inquiry - The New York Times


Trump Rallies Conservatives With Promise Of More Abortion Curbs | HuffPost (considers "education camps" for non-Republicn women)
Eschaton: Chastity Or Comfort Women - Some people think there's a weird contradiction in the conservative movement, between the "teenage girls must put out to keep men happy so they don't shoot up schools and malls" and "celibacy until marriage is the only good and moral thing for women." There is no contradiction. There never has been.

'This Is Not of God' : When Anti-Trump Evangelicals Confront Their Brethren


GOP Candidate Who Pointed Gun At Teenager Advances To Georgia Governor Primary Runoff | HuffPost (the patriarchy sends a clear message)

Nate Boulton, Iowa governor candidate, accused of sexual misconduct by three women - Democratic gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. -- Boulton, now 38, repeatedly grabbed her buttocks at a bar in 2015. Two others told the Register that when Boulton was in law school more than a decade ago, he rubbed his clothed crotch against them, pressing his erect penis into their thighs. (another ass-grabbing look at mah dick dem)

Greitens' team grilled woman about highly personal details | The Kansas City Star - sexual practices, bathing suit preference


Garrett in turmoil, might quit Congress - POLITICO - Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) has abruptly parted ways with his chief of staff and is considering not seeking reelection in November

Forced To Choose Between A Job -- And A Community -- As the largest employer in Adams County, Ohio closes its coal-fired power plants there, politicians and companies have thrown up their hands. Families know that finding work means leaving the place they know.


Roth's Death in France
A Gruesome 'Sabbath' : Roth's Vile, Brilliant Masterpiece


NFL owners approve new national anthem policy

Black man says he was pulled over in a Kansas town, and 'vegetation' led to a search

Mueller moves to sentence Papadopoulos, signaling key step - POLITICO


We Sat Down With the 'Arrested Development' Cast. It Got Raw. -- In a wide-ranging conversation about the new season, cast members got emotional as they discussed accusations of sexual misconduct against Jeffrey Tambor.


Opinion | Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy, Not Extremists - The New York Times


That Viral Odyssey Post About Coachella Was Actually Written By A 28-Year-Old Man Who Catfished His Way Into The Site -- Meet the real 'Kaycie Allen"

Would you wear this muzzle around the office for private calling? - CNET
U.S. Government Can't Get Controversial Kaspersky Lab Software Off Its Networks

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The Latest: EPA bars AP, CNN from summit on contaminants -- EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox told the barred organizations they were not invited and there was no space for them, but gave no indication of why they specifically were barred. (revoked your "access" hahaha next we lock you up)
Media push back against EPA limiting reporters at chemical summit | TheHill - including one reporter who says she was forcibly removed from the event.

Jim Carrey Pens New Pledge Of Allegiance For Students In Bullet-Riddled Schools | HuffPost
Jim Carrey on Twitter: "They're saying the NRA took Russian money to support the Republican party in the last election. Maybe that's why Trump and his flying monkeys are so accommodating? Is Wayne LaPierre also Putin's stooge -- or just another run of the mill demon from hell? (let's go with "yes")
Tony Perkins: School Shootings Happen Because Liberal Society Has Created A 'Moral Vacuum' By Expelling God

I am Norman Finkelstein, expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, here to discuss the release of my new book on Gaza and the most recent Gaza massacre, AMA : IAmA

Saudi Arabia's reformers now face a terrible choice -- The message is clear to all: Activism of any sort has to be within the government, and no independent voice or counter-opinion will be allowed. Everyone must stick to the party line.


Opinion | The Men Who Terrorize Rio - The New York Times


Opinion | As Population Growth Slows, Populism Surges - The New York Times

This is kind of a big deal. Two Senators, one Republican and one Democrat, who were impersonated during net neutrality repeal, call on FCC to investigate millions of fake comments : technology

Bolton is the new Dr. Strangelove - The Washington Post

Mike Pompeo sets the stage for perpetual conflict with Iran - The Washington Post

FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to Congress, public - The Washington Post

Donald Trump's White House has a growing sinkhole on the north lawn - Quartz


Trump's Latest FBI Attack Stuns Justice Dept. Officials: 'We're in Venezuala'

Michael Cohen's Business Partner Agrees to Cooperate as Part of Plea Deal
Michael Cohen's Shady Business Partner Agrees to Cooperate With the Feds

Did Rosenstein and Wray play Trump? - The Washington Post


Mystery in Mueller probe: Where's the hacking indictment?


Get to know Elliott Broidy, the next major Trump scandal figure - The Washington Post
Hey, Look: More Evidence That Broidy May Have Been Covering for Trump in That Playmate Affair
Who Did Playboy Model Shera Bechard Really Have an Affair With? (even the chin) ... RNC officials had decreed there would be no photos with the president without payment. (everything is for sale)

'Shame on you, Jared Kushner' : Harvard alumni tear apart classmate in 15th reunion notes

Congress approves plan to roll back post-financial-crisis rules for banks - The Washington Post

Does Donald Trump write his own tweets? Sometimes - The Boston Globe - Inside the Trump Tweet Machine: Staff-written posts, bad grammar (on purpose), and delight in the chaos


There is so much to say about today's Politico article about Our Revolution that I have kept to myself for months - As some of you might know, last November I was fired from Our Revolution by Senator Nina Turner after serving as the Political Director for over a year. I was fired because of the work I was doing around the DREAM Act ... Tezlyn Figaro needs to be fired immediately and Senator Turner needs to address the very serious, legitimate concerns that her decisions have raised. (Nina Turner is corrupt, dumb and leader of the Bernie Bros +fucking illegible Zuckerbook)
Nina Turner's leadership at Our Revolution is under fire ... But Our Revolution endorsed former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a friend of Turner's ... (dumb and dumber dems and Figaro lies about supporting Trumpster)

The Banana States of America - The Washington Post ("Closed rules" breaks 84)
Midterms 2018: the policy stakes are high - Vox - The media ignored the policy stakes in 2016 -- don't make the same mistake again in the midterms

People are threatening to boycott Netflix after the Obamas signed a deal with the streaming service ("people" = Russian robots)

Harley-Davidson took its tax cut, closed a factory, and rewarded shareholders -- The motorcycle maker in January told Kansas City workers it would close a plant there. Days later, it announced a nearly $700 million stock buyback plan. (haha suckers)

Trump's base is coming home to Republicans before midterms - CNNPolitics - Beating Republicans in November will be harder than Democrats thought

Blake Farenthold May Have Been Hired Illegally At His New Lobbyist Job | HuffPost - A Texas newspaper filed a lawsuit alleging the Calhoun Port Authority hired the disgraced former lawmaker without public notice, in violation of state law. (crooked Republican)

Top South Carolina candidate refuses to quit congressional race after abuse discovery | Palmetto Politics | postandcourier.com - Archie Parnell, a Democratic congressional hopeful who earned national attention after nearly winning in deep red South Carolina last year, is resisting pleas to withdraw after his campaign staff discovered that he physically abused his ex-wife in the 1970s.


The Hard Truth at Newspapers Across America: Hedge Funds Are in Charge - Bloomberg - From Miami to Denver, financial firms are playing a bigger role at local papers struggling to adapt in digital age (so much for your "free" press)


Opinion | The Chutzpah of These Men - The New York Times - Mario Batali, the celebrity chef and restaurateur, is the latest case ... Despite a disastrous public apology -- it was appended with a recipe for pizza dough cinnamon rolls ... two previously unreported allegations, both from women who said Mr. Batali had drugged them ... Charlie Rose ...CBS, his employer, had been aware of allegations against him starting more than 30 years ago. If Mr. Batali and Mr. Rose knew about these allegations, it would point to a stunning audacity to even consider career advancement. (the old Cosby move, career over, asshole)

Asia Argento Says Spike Lee Was the Only One Who 'Spoke Kind Words' to Her After Her Fiery Cannes Speech - Argento accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her at the festival in 1997.


Hundreds in Oakland Turn Out to BBQ While Black - The New York Times (did Dr. Jennifer Shulte PhD show up to complain about them being in "her park?" note the NYT calls her "the woman")
The BBQ lives on : pics (oh, hi, Jennifer!)
Saturday Night Live skewers Oakland's 'BBQ Becky'

Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis says rap and hip-hop are 'more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee'

Proud mom orders 'Summa Cum Laude' cake online. Publix censors it: Summa ... Laude (Latin is too sexy, but:) graduate from his Christian-based home-school program with a 4.89 grade-point average and the coveted honor of summa cum laude. (so, his mom gave him tha award??)


A new Johns Hopkins study found that the annual economic impact of child sexual abuse in the U.S. was approximately $9.3 billion (in 2015) and includes costs associated with health care, child welfare, special education, violence and crime, suicide and survivor productivity losses. : science


If dividing by zero is undefined and causes so much trouble, why not define the result as a constant and build the theory around it? (Like 'i' was defined to be the sqrt of -1 and the complex numbers) : askscience
26. Keep Calm and Divide by Zero | Graphical Linear Algebra

/u/JeremyKindler perfectly nails a ELI5 of why Ebola is so detrimental to humans. : bestof


Feds Seized a Fortune From #Resistance Icons Accused of Boosting Online 'Ponzi Schemes' - Ed and Brian Krassenstein illegally hawked investment scams.

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Antonin Scalia was wrong about the meaning of 'bear arms' (you know, the whole 'Militia' part because evil will always find a way and Scalia was and did)
After Santa Fe shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott cancels his 'Texas-made' shotgun contest


Mike Pompeo Promises To 'Crush' Iran And Achieve A Better Deal -- The secretary of state avoided specifics on how he would convince the rest of the world to abandon the existing nuclear accord. (they all talk that way now)


Ken Livingstone to quit Labour amid anti-Semitism row - BBC News - "When Hitler won his election in 1932, his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews."

Miss D and the Irish abortion debate - BBC News - Ireland's time of reckoning


Fascism is back. Blame the Internet. - The Washington Post - polarizing our politics, making us ignore inconvenient facts and impeding real activism (zuckerfucking you)


What You Need To Know About The Violent Animals Of MS-13


The Diplomat Who Quit the Trump Administration | The New Yorker - For John Feeley, the Ambassador to Panama, moral failings at home seemed to compound tactical failings abroad.

Border Patrol agent in Montana detains U.S. citizens after hearing them speak Spanish - The Washington Post


Eschaton: A Possibility We Never Considered - Problems, fam.-- For those holding out hope that the infamous pee tape will eventually surface and expose President Trump for the depraved monster he truly is, sadly it's now looking like, if anything, the video will only make him more popular than ever: According to new intel from sources close to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the pee tape is indeed real, but it is reportedly hot as hell -- perhaps the sexiest event ever caught on camera in human history. Sorry, #Resistance, but it doesn't look like this one's going to play out in our favor. -- The Entertainment

Justice Department calls for inquiry after Trump demands probe into whether FBI 'infiltrated or surveilled' his campaign (and 13K comments)
Trump just escalated his war on Mueller. Here are three big takeaways. - The Washington Post

Here are the political norms that Trump violated in just the past week - The Washington Post (Pompeo, Trump and Pence looking very evil)
Why Trump's Claims of Political Spying Are Dubious - The Atlantic - The President Who Cried Wolf
Trump Demands an Official Investigation of Obama White House - The Atlantic - alarming Sunday tweet could genuinely produce a crisis between the White House, on the one hand, and the Justice Department and the FBI, on the other.

Trump Only Has One Scandal - The Atlantic - The myriad Trump scandals can obscure the fact that they're all elements of one massive tale of corruption -- the corruption of the American government by the president and his associates, who are using their official power for personal and financial gain rather than for the welfare of the American people, and their attempts to shield that corruption from political consequences, public scrutiny, or legal accountability.

Roger Stone tells @chucktodd he's prepared to be indicted by Mueller for what he suspects would be an "extraneous crime, pertaining to my business, or maybe not even pertaining to the 2016 election"

New Trump Tower Meeting George Nader Erik Prince Don Jr. -- Why the New Times Report on the Gulf Meeting Is Freaking Trump Out - Erik Prince, the former Blackwater head, Republican donor, and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, appears to have committed perjury

The truest thing Kellyanne Conway has said - The Washington Post - Yes, Hannity is, in fact, providing information that people can't get from such places as CNN and NBC News and CBS News and the like. The Seth Rich conspiracy is just one example of such information. The steady undermining of the FBI is another example. He has promoted others on Twitter and on his radio show ... "A soft coup is under way right here in the United States of America in an attempt to overturn November's election results and forcibly remove a duly elected president from office. Sinister forces quickly aligning in what is becoming now, in my mind, a clear and present danger."

How Trump's New Deep State Conspiracy Theory Emerged From The Fever Swamps ... As with previous Nunes-driven controversies ...
Trump praises Nunes as 'a very courageous man' ("presidential towel-boy")


'The Onion' Has Finally Read Michael Cohen's 2013 Email Regarding His Client Donald Trump And Would Like To Discuss The Matter Further At His Convenience
Eschaton: Why Does The Times Always Do This - Good job again, NYT! Wow, story could just have been: "Rudy lies again!" Nah. (it took them 7 paragraphs to hide the truth)

Companies win, workers lose in first of two Supreme Court labor cases

A series of truly remarkable coincidences - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Did Someone Say...EMAILS? - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Will the Fervor to Impeach Donald Trump Start a Democratic Civil War? | The New Yorker - A push to remove the President from office may lead to disaster in the midterms (Toobz peddles CW)
The Democrats Need to Get Much Tougher on These Trump Scandals or They Will Lose the Midterms (tomasky says Toobin's advice will get us killed)

Bernie's army in disarray -- The Sanders-inspired grass-roots group 'Our Revolution' is flailing, an extensive review by POLITICO shows, fueling concerns about a potential 2020 bid (go home, Bernie, you're over)
Our Revolution Is A Useless-to-Counterproductive Vanity Project - Lawyers, Guns & Money - What could be easily inferred from the ridiculous decision to endorse Kucinich in Ohio is made plain by this article:

Hillary Clinton To Endorse Andrew Cuomo (you too, Hillzzzz)

How a Stunning Upset at a Congressional Convention Led to Calls for a Vote-Tampering Investigation


ND secretary of state candidate drops out, raising questions about GOP's next steps | INFORUM - just two days after The Forum reported on his 2006 window-peeping incident on the North Dakota State University campus (a good Catholic Creepublican) .

Super PACs That Meddled In West Virginia's Senate Primary Didn't Receive A Penny From West Virginians


He took his family to lunch, left the table and rammed them with his car, killing two, police say - The Washington Post


Jimmy Kimmel challenged people on the street to name ANY book and it went extremely badly : books


TIL that since Uber was introduced in New York City in 2011, drinking-related car wrecks decreased by 25-35 percent in all boroughs
Dentists who disagree with 9/10 of your colleagues, what product and why? : AskReddit

People who eat a diet rich in vegetables, fruit, nuts and fish may have bigger brains, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study included 4,213 people in the Netherlands with an average age of 66 who did not have dementia. : science


Haters : funny

PFT Commenter rose from an Internet 'cesspool' to podcasting glory. And no one knows who he is.
Industry Rankings - Podtrac - Top 20 Podcasts and the Top 10 Podcast Publishers.

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The earth cracked open. Walls of lava encroached. That's just life on a Hawaiian volcano.

Texas school shooter killed girl who turned down his advances and embarrassed him in class, her mother says
Claims of bullying surface as Santa Fe community mourns mass shooting - SFGate - "He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no,"
Mother of Santa Fe shooting victim says daughter turned down alleged shooter's advances : news
Texas school had a shooting plan, armed officers and practice. And still 10 people died. - The Washington Post
Something important was different about this shooting (opinion) - CNN
These Are The Victims Of The Texas High School Shooting
Houston Police Chief Says He Has Hit Rock Bottom on Guns Rights Arguments
Texas Shooting Suspect Seems 'Weirdly Nonemotional,' Lawyer Says
Young People Keep Marching After Parkland, This Time to Register to Vote - The New York Times
Jim Carrey's Latest Painting Slams Kent State 'Goldilocks' And Her AR-10 -- The student who posted the photo called Carrey's depeiction "disgusting" (someone is disgustingly stupid)
Oliver North, incoming NRA chief, blames school shootings on 'culture of violence' in which many young boys have "been on Ritalin" since early childhood -- "They've been drugged in many cases." (fortify the schools! eliminate doors! and kids are "civil terrorists")
Teen Dating Violence Is an Indicator of Gun Violence | Teen Vogue - We need to pay attention.

Is It Really A Big Mystery? -- The motive is pretty clear: angry and alienated young man, a late adolescent consumed with rage and alienation who lives in the United States and thus has become a devotee of the cult, the ideology of the redemptive school shooting atrocity. The ideology is really the cult of the mass shooting, in which the gun, with all its cultural and political omnipotence, plays a central role. Every school shooter learned from the history of school shootings, mimicked the strategies, was in a sense acting out a ritual which has become deeply rooted in our culture. We know the motive. We know the ideology: rage and alienation transmuted through mass gun violence.


Bill Maher and Bari Weiss Cruelly Blame Palestinians for Gaza Massacre - A truly despicable display (two Jews defending Netanfuckyu)
7 Myths About The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict | HuffPost (largely Israeli propaganda - hasbara)

Opinion | Ending the Dead End in North Korea - The New York Times - Mr. Clapper was the top American intelligence official in South Korea from 1985 to 1987, and the director of national intelligence from 2010 to 2017.
Trump Can't Afford to Admit His Failures With North Korea -- The administration has no choice now but to carry on the pretense that the negotiations are proceeding favorably. (meanwhile, in existential crisis land)

How Venezuela's President Keeps His Grip on a Shattered Country -- Nicolas Maduro is using access to food and money as a weapon in Sunday's election


UK has not renewed Roman Abramovich's visa


The Latest: Mnuchin says US-China putting trade war on hold - ABC News


France to fine men up to 750 for wolf-whistling or making sexual comments to women : news


El Paso woman living in Montana detained by Border Patrol for speaking Spanish : news


'The Day that We Can't Protect Human Sources' : The President and the House Intelligence Committee Burn an Informant (lock them all up)
In Huge Disappointment, the FBI's Super-Secret Trump Informant Turns Out to Be . . . Stefan Halper (old-time Republican traitor and spy)
Libertarian Pundit Hypes Idiotic Conspiracy Theory Being Pushed By Other Pro-Trump Propagandists -- It's been obvious for a long time that Glenn Greenwald's preferred candidate in the 2016 elections was Donald Trump.
Glem Greenwald on Twitter: "Now I do not support Donald Trump, but if true, my president is 100% correct that this is a much bigger story than any of Dems hysterical conspiracies & would indeed be the biggest political scandal of all time. Yet #theresistance is unconcerned bc they love the Deep State now. https://t.co/EBJkCgnl1f"
Trump says he will call for Justice Department to probe whether FBI surveilled his campaign for 'political purposes' ... raising old questions about emails she sent on a private server during her tenure as secretary of state in Barack Obama's administration (and in comments: ... "Mar-a-Gulago." ... and -- Total for Benghazi investigations: 82 million. Total cost of Donald's golf trips so far: 56 million. Cost of investigation into those responsible for stealing an election with the help of a foreign adversary: 7 million so far.)

Trump Rages At Report On Foreign Offers Of Campaign Help, Tells DOJ To Probe Itself ... in response to a Saturday New York Times report that Donald Trump Jr. met in Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign with individuals offering foreign help for his father. ("Go probe yourself!")
"I Never Realized Donald Trump Was So Dangerous to the Establishment" - Lawyers, Guns & Money - From presidential towel boy Devin Nunes, to friendly media like Kimberley Strassel and Glenn Greenwald, and finally the demand for an authoritarian snipe hunt reaches the White House:
This is now totally normal - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Trump's Lies About Moscow Tower are Impeachable

Mueller Plans to Wrap Up Obstruction Inquiry Into Trump by Sept. 1, Giuliani Says - The New York Times

'Tricky Dick' vs. the Pink Lady - Nixon's victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history, and a prototype for today's GOP smear tactics. (those were the days, when Republicans thought "commie" was an insult) ... And so, as the race tightened, Boddy charged that a "SUBVERSIVE CLIQUE OF RED HOTS" was attempting to take over the Democratic Party, and he accused Douglas of harboring "communist sympathies" (the media demanded a horse-race, Dems gave Nixon the road map, and here we are)
Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady - Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas--Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950


The Memo: Will Mueller play hardball with Trump? | TheHill


Report Suggests Blackwater Founder Erik Prince May Have Lied to Congress -- Mother Jones - He told Congress he didn't meet with the Trump campaign. A new story says he did. (lock them all up)


Roger Stone 'prepared' for Mueller indictment -- The longtime Trump ally said Mueller may try to 'conjure up' charges against him.

Trump's Banana Republicanism -- "Fuck tyou, pay me."

Sharyl Attkisson -- "Collusion against Trump" timeline (law enforcement looking into criminal activities of Trump over a decade is "collusion" and you look really stupid, Sharyl and why are there so many Russians in your timeline, anyway?)


Mark Knoller on Twitter: "Asked about separating parents and children of illegal immigrants, Nielsen says "don't break the law." "If you break the law, you go to jail and you're separated from your family. It shouldn't be any different for illegal immigrants," she tells driveway gaggle at WH. https://t.co/pbDXFnCbFS" (she has special "umbrella holders")


Joshua Holland ?? on Twitter: "Three points on this narrative that Dems need to offer an agenda rather than just attacking Trump. First, it's a BS premise and a false dichotomy. On the ground, Dems are talking about issues like healthcare and the GOP tax bill, and also about Trump's corruption & perfidy. 1/"


This Republican was only Jersey politico to back bill that would have cut N.J. food stamps | NJ.com


Behind New York's Housing Crisis: Weakened Laws and Fragmented Regulation -- Affordable housing is vanishing as landlords exploit a broken system, pushing out rent-regulated tenants and catapulting apartments into the free market.


Met Opera Accuses James Levine of Decades of Sexual Misconduct - The New York Times

Asia Argento Delivers Searing Speech at Cannes: Festival Was Weinstein's "Hunting Ground" : movies


Barbara Ehrenreich Gets Pumped For Death | HuffPost

The Last Days of Time Inc. - The New York Times -- An oral history of how the pre-eminent media organization of the 20th century ended up on the scrap heap. (vc's and hedgies killing off America +the patriarchy)

Palo Alto pastor resigns after nasty tweets about city: 'An elitist shitden of hate'


Scott Lemieux on Twitter: "Forgot link! https://t.co/WUJnbUfik1" "I am aa cuck"
The Incel Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - McSweeney's


Teens caught on cell phone video jumping valley mother : news
28 Arrested In Weekend Mag Mile Mob Violence - NBC Chicago - More than two dozen teens were arrested Saturday night after dozens of groups began randomly attacking pedestrians on Chicago's Magnificent Mile


More than 25 hospitalized in NYC due to synthetic marijuana : news


Study finds cyberloafing can help employees cope with workplace boredom - New research, published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, suggests that the personal use of the internet during working hours is a natural response to boredom, and in many cases it may not be harmful to work. : science

Astronomers have found the fastest-growing black hole ever seen, and it's got a monster appetite. : news


u/jonathansfox explains the karma conspiracy going on with massive reposting by bots in Reddit : bestof

Divorced people of Reddit, what red flag did you ignore before you got married? : AskReddit
What did another person do that accidentally turned you on? : AskReddit
Redditors who have gone missing but were found. What happened? : AskReddit
What sexual "must try" turned out to be crappy for you? [NSFW] : AskReddit

David Watkins on Twitter: "I don't even understand what can opener is being assumed here."

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'Overwhelming grief': Texas school shooting: 10 killed in Santa Fe High School massacre - The Washington Post - Eight students and two teachers
On a Spring Texan Morning, a Sound Heard Too Often at Schools Across America: Bang. Bang. Bang. - The New York Times
Santa Fe shooting: Texas Lt. Gov. says schools would be safer with fewer doors. We asked experts. - The Washington Post ("in fact," he said, "if we eliminate all the doors we'll be perfectly safe and save money too!") Texas has stricter regulations for doors than it does for guns
The front page of today's Daily News Issue -- Should we start thanking highschool students for their service?
Fake Facebook accounts and online lies multiply in hours after Santa Fe school shooting - The Washington Post -- creating fake Facebook accounts with the suspected shooter's name and a doctored photo showing him wearing a "Hillary 2016" hat ... 20 minutes ... "It seemed this time like they were more ready for this" (instead of his MAGA hat and the NRA has their russian bot game down)
Following Texas high school shooting, Fox host blames video games - Jon Scott: Kids "spend so much time in front of their television screens with some of these very violent and realistic video games. That has to be something that gets looked at, but how do you police that kind of thing?"


BBC throws royal shade at Trump after wedding crowd dwarfs inauguration
BBC Three on Twitter: "just saying /\_(?)_// "
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and wife, professional tennis player Serena Williams, in attendance at the Royal Wedding : pics

Israel and Evangelicals: New U.S. Embassy Signals a Growing Alliance - The New York Times (it's in the script, Jews will all burn in Hell)

Europe reassures Iran of commitment to nuclear deal without U.S | Reuters


Watch what happens in Rome. It could be our post-Trump future. - The Washington Post


The priest whose blunt billboards have gone global - BBC News - Fr Bower quoted Bible verse Isaiah 60:2 after Donald Trump won the US election in 2016 "A thick darkness has covered the earth"


Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election - The New York Times

F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims - The New York Times ("Really bad stuff!")
The FBI Informant Who Monitored the Trump Campaign, Stefan Halper, Oversaw a CIA Spying Operation in the 1980 Presidential Election
Secret FBI source for Russia investigation met with three Trump advisers during campaign - The Washington Post -- using CIA officials managed by Halper, reportedly under the direction of former CIA Director and then-Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush (and that is why you never let a CIA guy run for president)
The FBI didn't usee an informant to go after Trump. They used one to protect him.
Warner: Identifying FBI source to undermine Russia probe could be a crime - POLITICO
Now we know what Trump will say when we learn what he's hiding - For a man protesting his innocence, Trump sure does act guilty
/u/Slungus documents The Daily Caller publishing info weeks prior to NYT & WaPo, suggesting leak : bestof


Stormy Daniels performance cut short after drunk man throws wallet in her face; Daniels appearance in Bend was delayed for hours - Daniels appearance in Bend was delayed for hours

Republicans claw at each other over farm bill implosion - POLITICO - While the Freedom Caucus sank the vote, some GOP lawmakers are blaming Paul Ryan
House GOP limping to Election Day as farm bill implodes - POLITICO - unable to do something as simple as pass an all-Republican farm bill.


Eschaton: What A Country - Only the best people. -- Vickers "Vic" Cunningham, a former criminal district judge now in a runoff to be the sole Republican Dallas County commissioner, acknowledged Friday that in 2010 he set up a living trust with a clause rewarding his children if they marry a white person.


Protesters spite racist lawyer Aaron Schlossberg with live Mariachi band outside home - The social justice group Millennials for Revolution raised $1,094 on a GoFundMe page to provide the band and tacos for the protest, a member of the group said.
Aaron Schlossberg Is Our Duke Of The Week
Manhattan lawyer keeps big mouth shut when reporters confront him after racist restaurant rant goes viral - NY Daily News
Mariachi band plays outside home of NY lawyer who threatened to call ICE on Spanish speaking restaurant employees : pics


Vape pen explosion pierces Florida man's cranium killing him - BBC News - The electronic cigarette was manufactured by Smok-E Mountain


IamA former army ranger and psychedelic research advocate. I just passed the mile 30 of a 100 mile ultramarathon. I will be joined by 4 leading psychedelic science & ayahuasca medicine experts. AMA! : IAmA

'When opportunity comes, it's usually too late': Minority-owned marijuana businesses confronted by municipal indifference, 'chaos' : bostontrees
The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal - YouTube


[Serious] What are some useful resources on the dark web that most people don't know about?
Small guide to finding textbooks : Piracy

A new study finds that a child's language skills (use of vocabulary and grammar) in kindergarten can predict his or her future proficiency in other subjects, and was found to be the most solid predictor of a child's later success

Using Tinder doesn't result in more casual sex, according to new study. : science

Mystery booms and lights in Ohio sparks secret tunnelling fears | Daily Star - THE US government is running a not-so-secret underground project and the unexplainable booms across the country prove it, according to wild claims online.

Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct

Eschaton: Wonkavator - So basically it's a massive PRT system which would certainly have no capacity, scaling, or congestion issues. And so cheap to build! -- The Boring Company founder shared more details Thursday night in Los Angeles about his project to cure the city's traffic congestion with hundreds of tunnels. He said rides on the subway-like rail service -- dubbed "Loop" -- would cost one dollar. Musk spoke of above-ground roads being converted to park space, as commuters gravitate to the personalized mass transit in his tunnels. (hundreds, I tell you, hundreds of tunnels! And you will give me all your stupid roads!)


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Is the Human Race Too Dumb to Survive on This Planet? - A visit with the Republicans on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. (Mo, Dana and Lamar are sure climate change is a libtard hoax run by Soros)

10 Dead in Santa Fe, Texas, School Shooting; Suspect Used Shotgun and Revolver - The New York Times -- Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student at the school in Santa Fe, Tex. He appeared to have obtained a shotgun and a .38 revolver from his father, who legally owned them, the authorities said.
Shooter identified in Santa Fe High School rampage that killed 10 - Houston Chronicle
2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren than service members - The Washington Post (Trump supporter)
Texas school shooting latest: Man turns up to Santa Fe High carrying American flag and gun saying 'Make America Great Again'
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Texas Shooting Suspect, Posted Neo-Nazi Imagery Online
10 dead, 10 hurt in Texas high school shooting; suspect wanted to kill himself, but didn't have 'the courage,' officials say
Here's What We Know About Dimitrios Pagourtzis, The Suspected Santa Fe High School Shooter
Watch: Angry Parkland dad makes bold proposal on MSNBC to bring the NRA to its knees
Police shoot Jonathan Oddi firing shots at Trump National Doral | Miami Herald
New Jersey school bus driver made illegal U-turn before deadly crash, officials say : news - The truck company has been getting a lot of flack in the news, but seems like the fault is with the bus driver here.

Havana plane crash: 101 feared dead after Cuban airliner comes down shortly after take off | The Independent - Boeing 737 jet was 30 years old and had flown for seven other airlines

Kim Jong Un has President Trump right where he wants him - The Washington Post

The Onion's Brutal Israel Commentary Goes Beyond Satire -- The country's leading humor publication has taken a stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict in a way that most "real" newpapers haven't


Sexpat Journalists Are Ruining Asia Coverage -- Newsroom predators in foreign bureaus hurt their colleagues -- and their stories


Eschaton: Abolish ICE - It's clearly an organization which is rotten from top to bottom, in a way that we imagine some police departments to be, but with the power of the Feds and even less legal recourse against their abuses, usually ... " The judge did not simply rule against ICE. He accused the agency of lying to a court of law." (they designed it to be evil)


Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms - The Washington Post (he owns the government so he can do what he wants)

Congratulations, America, indeed -- 7:28 Tuesday morning: "Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History .?.?. and there is still No Collusion and No Obstruction." ... The average length of a special counsel/special prosecutor investigation has been 1,154 days.
Rudy Giuliani: Robert Mueller has agreed to narrow scope of potential Trump interview - CNNPolitics

Exclusive: Manafort's former son-in-law cuts plea deal, to cooperate with government - sources | Reuters
Eschaton: Choices - They have been made. -- NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of President Donald Trump's campaign, has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
Manafort's Former Son-In-Law Cuts Plea Deal, To Cooperate With Government -- The guilty plea agreement could add to the legal pressure on Manafort.

Exclusive: Special Counsel subpoenas another Stone aide in Russia probe

Chris Hayes on Twitter: "So we have some exclusive, never before seen video tonight that @realDonaldTrump is going *love*. (And by love, I mean hate.)"

A Comprehensive List Of Everything Don Jr. Doesn't Know About That Infamous Meeting -- All 216 things.
Did Trump Jr. call the blocked number, or vice versa? - The Washington Post -- At least two people probably know who that call involved. One is Trump Jr., despite the denials in his testimony. The other is special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

'The president is just wrong': CNN reporter knocks down Trump's 'ludicrous' conspiracy theory about FBI plant (bigger than Watergate!!)

It'ss right there in plain sight

Rudy Giuliani Reverses Trump Team's Position, Says President Can Obstruct Justice | HuffPost (Dowd had claimed Trump IS Justice and can't obstruct himself)
'Unfair!' Rudy Giuliani explodes when CNN's Cuomo plays clip of him saying presidents must obey subpoenas
Trump Lawyer Met With Qatari Government Official Days Before FBI Raid - Foreign Policy - Was Michael Cohen seeking to add foreign governments as clients of his consulting business?

'We no longer live in a democracy' : Historian warns US has already curdled into 'oligarchy' Journalist Thomas Ricks warned the United States had already lost its democracy
Credulity and Barbarity in the Age of Trump | Village Voice - It is time to recognize that the right to criticize the powerful is sacrosanct
Trump Has Done Huge Damage to the American Republic. Can It Be Fixed? - There will be a lot of pieces to put back together, all at once, when he is gone.

Hannity Flips Out: Mueller Probe 'Is A Direct Threat To This American Republic' | HuffPost (he means the Republic of Fox Liars)

In blow to GOP, House fails to pass massive farm bill in face of conservative Republican showdown - The Washington Post - unable to placate conservative lawmakers demanding commitments on immigration ... the conservative House Freedom Caucus up to the last minutes ... outcome exposed what is becoming an all-out war within the House GOP over immigration, a divisive fight the Republicans did not want to have heading into midterm elections in November that will decide control of Congress (hahaha suck it up, farmers)
Freedom Caucus Sinks Key Part Of Paul Ryan's Welfare Reform Agenda | HuffPost - A fight over immigration ended up tanking the farm bill.
Ryan-linked group raised $24.6M from anonymous donor - politico (whose initials seem to be V.P.)

Trump administration will pull funds from groups that perform abortions or provide referrals - The Washington Post

Where the Fourth Amendment Doesn't Apply (where most people live but Colorado is safe

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem -- The Atlantic trots out a familiar argument blaming the upper middle class for income inequality. It's wrong .


Sen. Dean Heller's Campaign Paid His Social Media Influencer Son More Than $50,000 - campaign gave the cash to his son to run its Instagram page and make Facebook and YouTube videos ("neckbeard in mom's basement" now "social media influencer")


Congressional Candidate Accosts Trans Woman Using Bathroom - The Daily Beast


Michigan state's Nassar Settlement Could Set A Troubling First Amendment Precedent -- That a state institution [MSU] would politically silence victims and basically pay them to give up their First Amendment rights goes way beyond the current criticism about gag orders (and that's a lot of taxpayer money)


Lawyer Who Ranted Against Spanish-Speakers Faces Office Eviction, Disciplinary Complaint | HuffPost - He's been hounded by reporters and may get a surprise serenade from a mariachi band. (the mob! it's a mob!)
Adam Feldman on Twitter: "Extra points to whoever changed the Google info for Aaron Schlossberg's company to "Spanish restaurant" "
Racist lawyer bro was arrested after making death threat to cop at 2009 baseball game
Julia Ioffe on Twitter: "So thank you, mob, for proving my point." (Ioffe defends Aaron the Asshole, get demolished)
Eschaton: My Point, Proven - QED -- So thank you, mob, for proving my point. Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) May 18, 2018 -- What is the Latin for "everyone disagrees with my shit opinion, so I am right"?


Trump White House Kills Off Yanny-Laurel Debate With 'Ridiculous' Clip | HuffPost

Ex-Playmate Stephanie Adams jumped with son off NYC building - amid a nasty custody battle with her chiropractic ex


Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy - The New York Times - He says there's a crisis in masculinity. Why won't women all these wives and witches -- just behave? ("An Antidote to Chaos" Women need to be "regulated" and "distributed")
"I am a very serious person"
The Rage of the Incels | The New Yorker - Incels aren't really looking for sex. They're looking for absolute male supremacy.


Scientists Bring A Severed Brain Back To Life, Sparking Ethical Debate : news

If you woke up to find 99.99% of the population disappeared overnight, what would you do? : AskReddit


r/science will no longer be hosting AMAs : science


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Global warming: April was 400th straight warmer-than-average month : news - undefined
Hawaii volcano erupts from summit, shooting plume of ash : news

The story behind the viral photo of a Kent State graduate posing with her cap -- and an assault rifle (22 yr-old Republican/white chick says she should be able to have any weapons the military has, is looking for a Sports Utility Tank)


Opinion | Falling for Hamas's Split-Screen Fallacy - Hamas understood early that the civilian death toll was driving international outrage at Israel, and that this, not I.E.D.s or ambushes, was the most important weapon in its arsenal.

Trump's North Korea Nobel buzz could die with John Bolton


Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says Bannon wanted to suppress voters | UK news | The Guardian - Bannon wanted 'weapons to fight a culture war'
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower fears Facebook data was shared with Russia - CNNPolitics

The White House is discussing replacements for homeland security chief Kirstjen Nielsen (no menttion of Trump's 30 minute screaming furious raging rant)

Gina Haspel confirmed as CIA chief despite scrutiny of her role in interrogation program - The Washington Post


New York Times acknowledges it buried the lead in pre-election Russia-Trump story - The Washington Post ... editors at the New York Times "cast the absence of a conclusion as the article's central theme rather than the fact of the investigation itself," contrary to the wishes of the reporters. ("editors")

What the latest Russia revelations mean - The Washington Post
What Paul Manafort's s Trump Tower notes mean (they can't even take good notes)
This Video Proves VP Mike Pence Lied About Russia And Knew About Flynn's Secret Russia Calls

Eschaton: Where'd They Go - Where'd They Go -- Quite stunning. -- The report also refers to two previous suspicious-activity reports, or sars, that the bank had filed, which documented even larger flows of questionable money into Cohen's account
Missing Files Motivated the Leak of Michael Cohen's Financial Records -- A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database. By Ronan Farrow ... The official, worried that the information was being withheld from law enforcement, released the remaining documents. (someone saw something very scary and did something)

DOJ Inspector General report on FBI handling of Clinton email probe entering final stages - CNNPolitics (yeah, they're still trying to lock up Hillary, but one year of investigating Trumpster is "torture")
Giuliani Calls For Mueller Probe To End: 'We've ve Tortured This President Enough'


Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; The Democrats' Drive for 25 in the House: An Update (Trump could win the House let alone the Senate)

Liberals, It'ss Not About Being Nice -- The hand-wringing about whether liberals should be more accommodating misses the point ... Over the weekend, the New York Times published an op-ed titled "Liberals, You're Not As Smart As You Think" ... University of Virginia political science professor Gerard Alexander accuses American liberals of arrogance and warns them against making broad negative generalizations about large swaths of the population (hahaha, don't call Republican racists racists and complaining about bathroom bills makes people turn Republican)


"It Is Unfortunate and Revealing" : The War Between Shari Redstone and Les Moonves Is Going Nuclear -- This one just keeps getting weirder and weirder, and it isn't over yet, not by a long shot.


"Ronan Has a Story to Tell': Curiosity and Agita Inside 30 Rock as Ronan Farrow Begins Work on Catch and Kill -- NBC is jittery as Farrow prepares to tell his side of the story about what went down at the network while he was reporting on Harvey Weinstein. (they fucked themselves on several levels)


Opinion | One Test Could Exonerate Him. Why Won't California Do It? - The New York Times

Shaun King on Twitter: "Who this this bigot in Midtown Manhattan? What's his name? Please share this. Here he is harassing & insulting two women for speaking Spanish...TO EACH OTHER in the middle of Manhattan. Trump has empowered ugly white people like this to say whatever they feel like saying. https://t.co/GhiB8wjK35"
Aaron Schlossberg: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com - Aaron M. Schlossberg was identified by social media users on Wednesday ... Schlossberg threw his sandwich and water on the counter and said he didn't want to give the restaurant his money. When he walked out, people in the restaurant clapped, Serrano said.
Tom Namako on Twitter: "Photos of the racist lawyer taken today via @GettyImages He later surfaced at Queens court, apparently at work. More: https://t.co/hS5gXqq8JL https://t.co/RdVOnNy5Xq" (a few hours later, he's hiding from photographers #instantkarma)
'My next call is to ICE!' : A man flipped out because workers spoke Spanish at a Manhattan deli
NY man to people speaking Spanish at restaurant: 'My next call is to ICE' : news (reddit, for completeness)

White Woman Calls Security on 'Suspicious Man With a Baby' at Park in Washington, DC
White Woman Calls Cops on Black Real Estate Investor Inspecting House Next Door - In the past month alone we've had incidents of police being called on black people for napping while black, cooking while black, dining while black and moving while black. And now we have real-estate-ing while black.
#ShoppingWhileBlack: California Woman Accuses Macy's of Racial Profiling After Being Accused of Stealing
White Hobby Lobby Manager Calls Police on Black Customer for #ShoppingWhileBlack


You can head "brainstorm" or "green needle" based on whichever one you think about : videos

Pop goes a tradition: county cracks down on free popcorn in hardware stores - The San Diego Union-Tribune - While closely associated with movie theaters, popcorn is also tightly linked to neighborhood purveyors of hammers and screwdrivers. The connection is seen in shops from Cambridge, Mass. (Tags Ace Hardware) to Lakeside (Payton's True Value)


TIL that scientists were able to predict a person's political orientation with 95 percent accuracy based solely on how their brain reacts to viewing disgusting (but non-political) images. : todayilearned (Republicans project their disgustingness onto the world, and develop moral OCD for other people)


Remember the "overly attached girlfriend" meme? This is her now.


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Parkland school cop Scot Peterson gets $8,702 a month in pension - Sun Sentinel (gets "coward pay")
Florida Cop Who Failed to Confront Parkland Shooter Is Getting $8,000 Monthly Pension : news


Editorial Trump's pointless Mideast provocation (SFC ignores Adelson's $30 million bribe to Rethugs because that's who they are)

Satellite data strongly suggests that China, Russia and other authoritarian countries are fudging their GDP reports : news

North Korea Threatens to Call Off Summit Meeting With Trump - The New York Times

Just about everything is odd about Trump's support of Chinese firm ZTE (hahaha they bribed him)

How TMZ Crashed Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Wedding. Devastatingly.

FBI Search Of CIA Leak Suspect Turned Up Photos Of Sex Assault On Unconscious Friend | HuffPost - The government suspects that Joshua Adam Schulte gave documents to WikiLeaks, but they're holding him on child pornography charges.

Tillerson warns of ethical crisis among U.S. leaders in speech - POLITICO - appeared to offer an implicit rebuke of his old boss, as he warned of a "growing crisis in ethics and integrity" during a commencement address at the Virginia Military Institute.

Trump eliminates job of national cybersecurity coordinator - Top congressional Democrats immediately introduced a bill to restore the position of cyber czar.


Russia favored Trump in 2016, Senate panel says, breaking with House GOP - The Washington Post
Kremlin Used NRA to Help Trump in 2016, Senate Report Says - Documents suggest Moscow funneled money to Trump through the gun group, according to the judiciary committee. (so, up against the wall?)
7 big things we just learned from the Trump Tower meeting testimony - The Washington Post ... Goldstone ... This was also, notably, 11 days before the New York Times first reported on the existence of the meeting. It shows again how far ahead Mueller's team is of what we see being reported. (and look, Dick Cheney's tentacles! just for completeness sake)
Anthony Scaramucci emailed man who helped set up Trump Tower meeting with Russians


Robert Mueller's Most Important Accomplishment -- The special counsel's Russia investigation has a lot to show for its 12 months of work, but one feat stands out. (no leaks)
Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation - The New York Times - in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark.
Mueller issues grand jury subpoenas to Trump adviser's s social media consultant - a social media expert who worked for longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone during the 2016 presidential election campaign.


Trump Discloses Payment to Cohen in Financial Report - The New York Times - revealed for the first time that he paid more than $100,000 to his personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, as reimbursement for payment to a third-party.
Tantalizing Testimony From a Top Trump Aide Sets Off a Search for Proof - The New York Times
Trump's son-in-law Kushner claimed he had no idea why he was in that notorious Trump Tower meeting. Newly-released testimony indicates otherwise.
ared Kushner Lost His Cool When Russians Didn't Deliver Hillary Dirt - Kushner claimed he had no idea why he was in that notorious Trump Tower meeting. Newly-released testimony indicates otherwise. ("no idea")
Trump Jr.'s s team wanted stories straight on Russian lawyer meeting - The details were part of more than 2,500 pages of documents based on interviews with attendees of the meeting between Trump aides and a Russian attorney.
Trump Jr: Can't recall discussing Russia probe with father (yeah, right, lyin' Donnie) The committee released more than 1,800 pages of transcripts of interviews last year with Trump's son and others who met with a Russian attorney at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election.

I howled at the morning driving rain - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This big Times story about the FBI's Russia ratfucking investigation is really the story of two fuckups that contributed to the election of Donald Trump: double standards in the FBI investigation, and double standards and completely botched stories by the New York Times


Longtime Trump Lawyer Slams Giuliani As 'Polarizing Figure' Who Shouldn't Deal With Mueller - Giuliani may also be trying to 'aggrandize himself' Jay Goldberg said ... (ya think??)
Porn Star Lawyer Interviewed 147 Times in 10 Weeks


Trump vs. the "Deep State - quietly reshaping American governance " (by destroying public services)

Trump's pick to run Labor's pension agency: Mitch McConnell's brother-in-law (another semi-China-person)


This is what a death spiral looks like - The Washington Post - Three states have announced preliminary 2019 premium-rate requests for Obamacare individual-market policies, and the numbers don't look good ... Thanks to Republican efforts to sabotage Obamacare, the pool of individual-market enrollees is getting smaller and sicker -- and, as a result, much more expensive.

The Memo: Elizabeth Warren steals show at 2020 audition | TheHill - Warren appeared better able to synthesize anti-Trump anger with a more positive policy platform than any other speaker.

Did Democrats Just Have Their First Tea Party Moment Of The 2018 Primaries? | FiveThirtyEight
Top takeaways from a wild primary night - POLITICO - Women candidates won big, but moderate Democrats took it on the chin. ("moderates" hahahah)

Democrats Flip a Pennsylvania Seat, Making 41 Since Trump's Inauguration - Helen Tai won her race with some endorsements from high places.
Pennsylvania Primaries Deliver Strong Wins for Democratic Women - The New York Times
Two Socialists In Pennsylvania Just Won Victories Democrats Can't Ignore - Democratic Socialists of America's growing electoral power
This Man Was Trump Before Trump. He Just Won Pennsylvania's Senate Primary -- As a small-city mayor, Lou Barletta championed a law that made English the official language and punished employers of undocumented immigrants.
John Fetterman takes historic win over Pennsylvania lieutenant governor Mike Stack - The Morning Call - defeated Lt. Gov. Michael Stack in the Democratic primary Tuesday, according to unofficial results. Stack is the state's first lieutenant governor to lose in a primary election.


Gay Alabama lawmaker suggests governor is lesbian; Ivey calls it 'disgusting lie'

Caption Contest - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jon McNaughton's back on his bullshit. Caption this: (from the minds of authoritarian bullies)

Sinclair circling Sean Hannity - POLITICO - The Fox News rival is courting the host's top producer, along with another of Hannity's close friends (Fox not far-right enough for the billionaires)

The Democratic Party Has an 'MSNBC Problem'


Michigan State Spartans agree to $500 million Larry Nassar settlement
Institution That Failed Massively Settles - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Reports of sexual misconduct by Dr. Larry Nassar reached at least 14 Michigan State University representatives in the two decades before his arrest, with no fewer than eight women reporting his actions


Amy Ge on Twitter: "A wakeup call for ppl who dismiss racism as just for uneducated, backwoods folk. This is Dr. Jennifer Shulte, faculty at @Stanford who racially-profiled a black family at a BBQ and Aaron M. Schlossberg, a Manhattan attorney who made racist remarks to Hispanic fast food workers. https://t.co/ia5ESsqPAd" ... Dr. Shulte in particular is all over the internet now since people have gone meme crazy with her. And it serves her right because of her ignorance. (karma meme train makes them famous on the internets for all eternity, racist assholes dept.)

Kevin M. Kruse on Twitter: ""Hey guys, did you know (hits inhaler) did you know Republicans ended slavery? Did you know that?" https://t.co/nfMsloU4sW"

The Are No Magic Words That Can Dispel The Idea That Liberals Are Smug Elitists - Lawyers, Guns & Money (because smug knowledge-free dimbulbs believe what Fox tells them)


Alcohol consumption: The drunkest (and driest) cities in America (some mid-western states like NE and IA, and fucking Fargo, but basically Wisconsin is drunk all the time, which would explain voting for Trump)

Schooling Kanye About Slavery - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jameela Jamil Shreds Kim Kardashian For Promoting 'Appetite Suppressant' Lollipops - "You terrible and toxic influence on young girls."


Yanny or Laurel? How an Audio Clip Divided the Internet - The New York Times
Rolandye (u/RolandCamry) - Reddit

Marijuana industry expects slow debut amid local restrictions, banking challenges - The Boston Globe
How much will legal weed cost in Massachusetts? - a simple question for a complicated market.
Cannabis as a houseplant? : bostontrees

On Nantucket, wealthy residents oppose housing for seasonal employees - The Boston Globe (there's a metaphor in there, somewhere, but David Long, CEO of LIBERTY MUTUAL - don't miss his pic -- is univerally reviled in the comments along with calls for boycotts of his co.)

A bike-share border war has started in Boston - The Boston Globe


Police: Mom stabbed 11-year-old daughter up to 70 times, hit her with ax, set home on fire : news (debate on justice)

Black Magic Fuckery


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Waves of Gazans vs. Israeli Tear Gas and Bullets: Deadliest Mayhem in Years - The New York Times
Ivanka Trump Opens U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem During Israeli Massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
8-Month-Old Dies From Tear Gas Used In Israeli Crackdown On Palestinian Protests (GRAPHIC) | HuffPost - Sixty people were killed
More Protestors No-Platformed With Live Ammunition - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Ivanka and Mnuchine celebrate the opening of Trump Embassy)
'Daddy's Little Ghoul': New York Daily News Rips Ivanka Trump Over Embassy Opening The tabloid said the first daughter was "all smiles" as protesters died in Gaza.
Steve Schmidt: Trump Has "Blood on His Hands" For Jerusalem Embassy, Trying To Stave Off Midterm Loss through incitement of his base.
Opinion | A Grotesque Spectacle in Jerusalem - The New York Times - Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other leading lights of the Trumpist right gathered in Israel to celebrate the relocation of the American Embassy to Jerusalem, a gesture widely seen as a slap in the face to Palestinians who envision East Jerusalem as their future capital.
Pastor Who Said Jews Are Going to Hell Led Prayer at Jerusalem Embassy Opening - The New York Times
WH's Hogan Gidley Has The Worst Response Yet To Gaza Killings
IDF Soldier Recounts Harrowing, Heroic War Story Of Killing 8-Month-Old Child
A Zionist Marie Antoinette
Morning Mediawire: The paper that portrayed rejoicing in Israel | Poynter - Monday, however, saw a front-page editorial bylined by his wife, with her photograph, too. In it, Miriam Adelson thanked America for moving its embassy from internationally recognized Tel Aviv to contested Jerusalem (evil fucks)


Trump Orders Help For Chinese Phone-Maker After China Approves Money For Trump Project | HuffPost - rump will profit from Indonesian resort project that will get $500 million in Chinese loans in a deal sealed days before before his tweet ordering help for ZTE. (that used to be very crooked)


Revealed: Ecuador spent millions on spy operation for Julian Assange | World news | The Guardian - Files show at least $5m went on activities including spying on guests at London embassy


Justice Department and F.B.I. Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica - The New York Times

Federal judge rejects Manafort's bid to dismiss Mueller indictment

I'm Sure There's An Innocent Explanation - The Senate Intelligence Committee is trying to make sure as few people see damning evidence of Gina Haspel's advocacy for torture and obstruction of justice as possible:


Trump denialism - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Qatari investor confirms he attended Trump Tower meetings in 2016 - CNNPolitics


'Real' Americans are a myth. Don't buy it (white racists are real, everyone else is a "coastal elite" fake American)


Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980 - The New York Times - The spending began soaring beyond that of other advanced nations, but without the same benefits in life expectancy. (oh look, St. Ronnie)

Why Democrats can't win the 'respect' of Trump voters - An entire industry that's devoted to convincing white people that liberal elitists look down on them.

Trump-voting crab town left shell-shocked by his visa changes - A new way of awarding the visas that allow seasonal foreign workers to enter the U.S. is devastating Hoopers Island, Maryland. ("shell-shocked" haha + reap what you sow, Trumptards)

$1 million mystery gift to inauguration traced to conservative legal activists | McClatchy Washington Bureau (shells within shells within shells)


Reporters Cash in White House Access for Lucrative Cable News Deals - Truthdig (oh look, Maggie Haberputz selling her Trump access on TV which means she's a corrupt reporter! but the NYT says "that's what we all do, so fuck off!")

The Hill Ran Anti-Iran Op-Ed by a Paid Agent of Saudi Arabia



Eric Greitens' Criminal Charge Dropped -- but Prosecutors Will Seek to Refile ... governor called it 'a great victory' for women beaters everywhere)
How The Greitens Prosecution Collapsed


Travis Air Force Base psychologist Heath Sommer accused of sexual assault, rape of patients - CBS News - A psychologist contracted to help trauma victims at Travis Air Force Base in California left his patients "even more traumatized" by his sexual attacks ... exposure therapy


Kevin M. Kruse on Twitter: "As I noted in this thread, the first real cracks in the "Solid South" came in 1948 when Truman committed the national party to civil rights and the Dixiecrats under Strom Thurmond tried to bolt. https://t.co/hdMTfOswm1"


Death of black man during arrest in Louisiana ruled homicide : news
Off-duty cop fatally shoots gunman at her kids' school: VIDEO : news
Belgian clown accused of murder livestreams rooftop police standoff | World news | The Guardian


USC let a gynecologist continue treating students despite years of misconduct allegations

Flood gates are now open- Women's Group Calls on Spotify to Remove Chris Brown, Nelly, and More From Official Playlists : Music

Tom Wolfe, Pyrotechnic 'New Journalist' and Novelist, Dies at 88

SNL's 'Whites' video from 2014 has nearly been cleared from the internet but it's important to remember the things we've accomplished. : funny

My Adventures With the Trip Doctors - The New York Times - By Michael Pollan


A new survey analysis shows that the more time people spend reading and sharing news items on Facebook, the less politically knowledgeable they are. : science


Twitter Is Going To Limit The Visibility Of Tweets From People Behaving Badly - Act like a jerk, and Twitter will start limiting how often your tweets show up.

Eschaton: Autopilot On
Eschaton: Dude, You Called It "Autopilot"

051418


How The Congressional Baseball Shooting Didn't Become The Deadliest Political Assassination In American History - You don't know the whole story of how close we came to one of the deadliest political shootings in US history last year.
Osmington, Australia, shooting: Peter Miles planned killings, father says - The Washington Post
Joseph DeAngelo ditches wheelchair for Golden State Killer hearing - San Francisco Chronicle


Palestinian Rights on Twitter: ".@YousefMunayyer says opening of US embassy in Jerusalem "should only be seen as a rubber stamp of the killings and a total abdication of any responsibility to lead on issues of human rights." #GreatReturnMarch https://t.co/otNucncolR"
Palestinians say 45 killed, including terror operatives, as 50,000 rally in Gaza | The Times of Israel - Army shoots men planting bomb, strikes Hamas post after gunmen fire at troops; protesters hurl rocks, burn tires ahead of US embassy inauguration; IDF vows to prevent border breach
At Least 37 Palestinians Die in Protests as U.S. Prepares to Open Jerusalem Embassy - The New York Times - At least 1,000 Palestinian demonstrators were also wounded along the border fence with Gaza (Jews exterminating people who look like them)
Israeli Forces Kill Dozens Of Palestinians As Protests Intensify Over U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem | HuffPost - Tens of thousands gathered at the Gaza frontier on Monday, some of them approaching Israel's border fence (wall)
The US embassy move: A powerful message, America will stand by our friends - Opinion - Jerusalem Post - I have long advocated that the United States take this action, and I commend President Trump for fulfilling this campaign promise. By Ted Cruz ("standing by our racist murderer friends until the apocalypse when they all die anyway")
Mitt Romney calls pastor who delivered blessing at Jerusalem embassy opening 'religious bigot' - POLITICO - Robert Jeffress says 'you can't be saved by being a Jew,' and 'Mormonism is a heresy from the pit of hell'


Mueller's Probe Is Even More Expansive Than It Seems - The special counsel's team has interviewed a number of big names. But their interest in more obscure players tells a story, too

Comey's October Surprise Was Pointless and Wrong (he was just being a good Republican and lying and obfuscating)

White House Aide's Plan to Stop Leaks: Spy on His Co-Workers -- Ezra Cohen-Watnick ran intelligence for the National Security Council. There, he decided collecting his colleague's phone and email data was a good idea ... He portrayed his desired leak hunt as an "insider threat" detection effort (so, spy on Trump?)
White House leakers leak about leaking - Axios - This White House leaks so much that meetings called to bemoan leaks begin with acknowledgement the bemoaning will be leaked, which is promptly leaked...by several leakers in a smallish room.

Donald Trump and Sean Hannity's Late Night Calls -- Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Like to Talk Before Bedtime -- Life inside the bunker of Fox News' resident Trumplegdnger. ("hey Sean, jerk off to this!")

GOP tax cut not why economy is booming - Economists are rolling their eyes at candidates' claims (nothing to do with Obama getting us out of the Republican great recession I tell you! Trump is great!)

Trump's improved standing, energized GOP voters worry Democrats (Trump-wave coming!)
Trump is more popular than Dems want to admit - San Francisco Chronicle (lowest rated president ever but he's more popular than Dems think! so cry, liberals)
A GOP surprise: House midterm hopes rise in blue California - POLITICO - Predictions of a Democratic washout are premature, an increasingly confident group of House Republican incumbents say (Orange County! so cry, liberals, cry)

Eschaton: Hey They Get Fox - It's funny that this person in the White House understands Fox News better than I've ever seen any mainstream reporter acknowledge - "We need to get him off these channels and onto Fox & Friends or else we're going to be chasing down this crazy-train bullshit from MSNBC and CNN all day," ... Like all other ideas, this had the highest chance of implementation if Trump believed he'd thought of it on his own. Priebus and Spicer worked talking points about the network's high ratings and importance to his base of supporters into conversation until, eventually, it stuck ... president's television consumption is today what the current White House official called "mainly a complete dosage of Fox"

White people get more conservative when they move up -- not down -- economically. Here's the evidence -- people with greater-than-average long-term income gains became significantly more conservative ... much more consistent with a traditional understanding of class politics than with the notion of an anti-government backlash rooted in economic grievances.


Michael Avenatti on Twitter: "Warning ignored. So here it goes. December 12, 2016 - Trump Tower. Details to follow... "
Qatari Investor Accused in Bribery Plot Appears With Michael Cohen in Picture Posted by Stormy Daniels's Lawyer -- He's shown meeting with Cohen at Trump Tower shortly after the election.
Tasha Reign: I Was Assaulted on a Stormy Daniels Porn Set. And She Did Nothing. - The adult actress Tasha Reign alleges that she was groped and harassed on a porn film Daniels directed in November 2017, and that Daniels ultimately sided with her alleged abuser.

Trump Admin Poised To Give Rural Whites A Carve-Out On Medicaid Work Rules

Jake Tapper: 'The very notion of empirical fact is being attacked and corroded' (don't need no librul so-called fake "facts")

'A rogue state' - As California defies federal immigration policy, calling itself a sanctuary, the state's conservatives are pushing back (all 666 of them)

South Dakota Congressional Candidate Said Terrorist Attack Would Help Him Win Primary | HuffPost - State Sen. Neal Tapio was the state director for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign (what they are all thinking)

Wellstone legacy goes dormant after family ousted in Democratic feud - David Wellstone and other Democrats close to his father began objecting last year to what he described as Wellstone Action's abandonment of disaffected Democrats in the rural Midwest -- the rural poor were an early focus of the late senator -- with an increasingly narrow focus on gender politics and people of color. (so, they believed the racist crap about Trumpster rescuing poor people and are stuck in 2002)


Former ballet students at center of child sex-assault case tell their stories - San Francisco Chronicle - at age 12, her parents agreed to private lessons, paying renowned Russian ballet teacher and choreographer Viktor Kabaniaev $75 an hour for twice-a-week sessions ... Kabaniaev has received strong support from the ballet community since his arrest,

4 days ago a suit was filed against Chris Brown and others by a women who was allegedly raped repeatedly at his house : news


"Stop Hitting Yourself: : An Argument That Oddly Does Not Improve With Endless Repetition (James "Yes, I am a Republican" Bennet doubles down with a new "Libtards Are Stupid" NYT opinion piece)
Tom Scocca on Twitter: "It would be good if @nytopinion had applied this framework about smug, unpersuasive hectoring to its decision to endlessly publish this crap https://t.co/yoyauJrib0" : Times Opinion Desk: Telling people they're bad just makes them resent you. Also Opinion Desk: Why are mean readers irrationally mad at us?
Scott Lemieux on Twitter: "The incredibly smug and self-righteous articles NRO kept running about the white working class in Appalachia incited a backlash that propelled Hillary Clinton to the White Hou...I'll come in again. https://t.co/T4HqY1OWlg"


The Decline of American Motherhood - The Atlantic - The share of the U.S. population who are moms is the smallest it's been in a quarter century - Moms today tend to be older than in the past

Jails are replacing visits with video calls -- and inmates and families hate it

U.S. Supreme Court Lifts Federal Ban, Allows Sports Betting. : news

The most brutally honest graduation speech I have ever heard : videos

Why Traditional TV Is in Trouble - The New York Times (TV is for the olds)


Study suggests your adulthood self-esteem has its roots in the way you were raised as a child - The higher the quality of home environment when aged between 0 and 6 years (warm and responsive parenting; cognitive stimulation; and safe), the higher their self-esteem many years later in adulthood. : science
A support community for those affected by C-PTSD
Questions about EMDR : CPTSD


Study finds pornography is not becoming increasingly violent. On the contrary, clearly non-consensual aggression is declining and so is the portion of videos in which aggression appears : science

The science of the plot twist: How writers exploit our brains : books

What should someone know before buying their first house? : AskReddit (was it a meth house?)

Men of reddit, what are some tell-tale signs that a woman is creepy? : AskReddit

What is extremely rare but people think it's common?
What is the creepiest subreddit with under 1000 subscribers? : AskReddit


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'Gun-Sharing' station uses art to make point about gun violence (NRA lobbies for "stationless" gun-sharing, just drop it on the sidewalk when you're done murdering your family)


Indonesia church bombings: police say one family and their children behind attacks | World news | The G uardian - Husband, wife and four children aged nine to 18 believed to be responsible for worst attack in more than a decade (muzzies attack Christians, blow up their kids, go to heaven)


Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany - abuse claims by foreign workers in its German warehouses (sounds very Bezos-like)


Haspel, Spies and Videotapes -- Jose Rodriguez, the CIA official who ordered CIA officers to destroy a cache of videotapes that had documented the treatment of two terror suspects, says he told Gina Haspel what he intended to do (she said she had no idea he actually do it!)


Senator Mark Warner on the Threat of Russia | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC Studios - Warner is deeply frustrated that, after everything his committee and others have discovered about Russian hacking and manipulation, the White House is ignoring a clear and present danger. Russia has interfered with democracy in the United States and elsewhere "for less than the cost of one new F-35 airplane" (thanks, again, Barry)

Trump's decision to blow up the Iran deal is a massive attack on Europe
Trump team sends mixed signals to Europe - POLITICO - The administration said it expects U.S. allies will fall in line with its Iran policy but doesn't exclude the possibility of punishing them. (why does Bolton always have the same stupid expression?)
US threatens European companies with sanctions after Iran deal pullout | World news | The Guardian - Bolton and Pompeo push hardline Trump White House position -- French and German companies among those with interests in Iran (sanctions for Germany and France our new enemies, but not Russia, our friend)


When #MeToo and the Russia investigation collide - This last year has been a crash course in startlingly brutal abuses of power. For decades, it seems, a caste of self-styled overmen has felt liberated to commit misdeeds with impunity: ethical, sexual, financial and otherwise - These guys are not exactly men of Nobel-level accomplishment or royal blood. Like the rest of us, they live in a democracy, under rule of law. Still, they like to preen. How exciting this VIP cosplay must be for them! Dudes from Queens or Oklahoma get to behave like twisted aristocrats in the tradition of Henry VIII or the Marquis de Sade ... But now the biggest stories of abuse of power -- #MeToo offenders and the Russia-aligned Trump syndicate -- have become one. And if the fast and furious revelations are any indication, a reckoning for the broader overman racket may also be at hand ... Perhaps this whole network believes, as Schneiderman reportedly told one of the women who has accused him of abuse: "I AM the law." - As prosecutors and journalists close in, the actual law seems to have other ideas.
Accountable Only to Themselves - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Crooked Trump? | by Noah Feldman | The New York Review of Books (finally someone said it)
Donald, Eric and this dirty hole: Schneiderman's sins, Trump's tangled web -- and don't forget Roger Stone - Eric Schneiderman is the latest New York Democrat to hold up the filthy mirror Donald Trump needs, and to drag us with them down the rabbit hole ... "Trump Has Dirt on Power Players' Sexploits! in a "LITTLE BLACK BOOK of Shame" (but Harry is still pretty naive if he thinks Trump really didn't know)


Trump's Mommy Issues -- He may not have bonded successfully with his mother ... Bowlby ... Children who fail to achieve a successful attachment, on the other hand, may as adults have a lack of comfort with intimacy, difficulty trusting others, a constant need for reassurance from relationship partners, and a lack of resilience when faced with illness, injury or loss. (Trump voters not "attached" to the Constitution)

Eschaton: But That's What Trump Promised - I often thinl that this is wrong argument made by journalists who want justify everything Trump does by claiming it's what the people want. This is a weird view not applied to, say, Democratic administrations, but with Trump it isn't even true because mostly his "campaign promises" were contradictory gibberish. Yes he promised to get rid of ACA but he also promised to replace it with something better and while maybe that last part is more ambiguous it's still important. (racist Trump voters shocked he's deporting all their cheap labor)

Eschaton: Two Trends With The Same Cause - UFO sightings suddenly ceasing. -- Undeniable reports of black people being abused by cops increasing. (and what happended to all the clowns?)


Let the McCain Slobberfest Begin! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Dana Milbank couldn't wait for John McCain to die. He had to start publishing slobbering obituaries of the man beforehand.It's as bad as you can possibly imagine. (greatest world leader, ever!) I realize by criticizing John McCain, I am going to turn the millions and millions of moderate Republicans in this country into believing that Mike Pence is too much of a Maoist to replace Donald Trump. It's always the fault of the shrill liberal

Education Department Unwinds Unit Investigating Fraud at For-Profits - The New York Times (DeVos says "scamming is what we do, so ... what was the question again?")


A Surge of Women Candidates, but Crowded Primaries and Tough Races Await - The New York Times - 476 female House candidates this year ... Ashley Lunkenheimer
Will Democrats Win Congress in 2018? - Is the 2018 Democratic Wave Receding? (no, but they will still probably not win the Senate)
Ratings | The Cook Political Report - Democrats are modest favorites for House control and could pick up anywhere from 25 to 40 seats ... Senate: At this point, the most likely outcome is +/- one seat for Democrats. It is entirely possible that Democrats can win the two seats they need to win the majority, but that would require that they hold all of their own seats ... Governors: Suffice it to say that Democrats would be disappointed if they only score a net gain of four or five seats, while picking up eight to 10 seats would be considered a great success.

Opinion | How California Could Bust Up the Two-Party System - The New York Times - California's Republican Party is in crisis. Voters are leaving it in droves, its candidates haven't won a statewide election in more than a decade and its lawmakers are likely to lose several important elections this year ... problems in the state are a symptom of the toxic political extremism that has forced sensible centrists to the margins of the party throughout the country. (so let's bring back AAAAnold! jfc, NYT)


When Spies Hack Journalism - The New York Times - nation states are looking at these mass leaks and seeing how successful they are (Trump says Russia and Nk and Trukey are our "fiends" so shut up with the fake news and anyway, it's the journos brains that really got hacked)

re Not as Smart as You Think - By Gerard Alexander - Mr. Alexander is a professor of political science at the University of Virginia. (liberals drive stupid conservative crazy by making them look stupid by asking thenm to write supid opinion pieces revealing their racist stupity, and conservative are more much "respectful" then stupid libtards and education needs to be defunded becuase teachers are libtards and the NYT published this oo cry, libtards)

This Is How a Newspaper Dies -- It's with a spasm of profits ... Denver Post's owner, "vulture capitalist" Randall Smith, has become journalism's No. 1 villain for having cheapened and starved not just its Denver paper but many of the titles -- including the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the San Jose Mercury News and the Orange County Register -- that his firm, Alden Global Capital, operates through the Digital First Media chain ... "harvesting market position" (another face of corporate evil, newspapers don't need no steenking jounalists, just repackage Fox)


All the problems at NBC News aren<'t just coincidence. They're symptoms /a>

Greitens' fateful affair began during crossroads of his military life | Law and order | stltoday.com - She alleged that he struck her across the face during one encounter (he has categorically denied any violence), and that afterward, she told him: "I think you're screwed up from being in the Navy" (your military making wife-beaters)

Trump, Schneiderman, Greitens and the changing shape of sex scandals - The Washington Post (hello, forget Rob Porter already?)

Our Job Is To Afflict the Already Afflicted - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Rachael Denhollander sums up the performance of MSU's power elite over the last year:


Bounce house flies onto California highway with child inside | Fox News


Thomas Cole: A Conservative Conservationist | by Jennifer Kabat | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books


Magnet Implants? Welcome to the World of Medical Punk - The New York Times


Let_you_down comments on Texas woman who ran over cheating husband released from prison (he was an orthodontist)


Microgrowery
Good morning growers! Let's get a convo going on no til ... currently running a medium scale Guerilla grow with variations of 18 gal totes and floating grow bags in the swamp


051218


School district shuts down information after Stoneman Douglas shooting - Sun Sentinel - The Broward school district's repeated, emphatic -- and it turns out false -- statements that Nikolas Cruz had not been in a controversial disciplinary program fit a pattern of an institution on the defense and under siege. (they lie and then they lie some more, thinking no one will figure it out)
Australia's worst mass shooting in 22 years leaves family of 7 dead
Gov. Fallin vetoes "Constitutional Carry" bill - would have allowed for permit-less carry (Consitutional Murder Bill)


Two dead in Paris knife attack - BBC News


Iran's supreme leader trolls Trump with photo of himself reading Fire and Fury'

The Human Cost of Spanish Conquest - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Curse of Cortes | by Alvaro Enrigue | The New York Review of Books


Italian court lifts ban on Berlusconi running for office: Decision comes as far right and populists try to form government. (81 year-old fascist criminal)


Editorial: Trump Deals Painful Blow to Trans-Atlantic Ties - SPIEGEL ONLINE - U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal marks the temporary suspension of the trans-Atlantic alliance. What now?

Bloomberg warns of 'epidemic of dishonesty' more dangerous than terrorism or communism - "It's bigger than any one party," he said (well, when one party is the party of lies, no)

US stealth fighters intercept Russian bombers off the coast of Alaska - CNNPolitics
SEAL Team leaders investigated for alleged sexual misconduct - ABC News - alleged inappropriate touching of a female service member during the deployment. Both team leaders are being investigated for allegations of sexual harassment, officials said.

TSA Tells Sikh Man To Remove Turban, Finds Out He's A Canadian Politician (TSA fuckers + racist Michissippi)
Kirsten Gillibrand border patrol bill: the senator introduces a bill to crack down on immigration agents - Vox - Agents would need to report every instance they stop and question someone about their citizenship status.

What we found in Facebook ads by Russians accused of election meddling - We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Their dominant strategy: Sowing racial discord (Russians Zuckerfucking your democracy)

FBI Issued Vekselberg Foundation Warning in 2014 | Committee to Investigate Russia - undefined

The public case against Trump - Axios - What we know in the moment is but a tiny, obscured, partial view of the full story later revealed by investigators ... Forget all we don't know. The known facts that even Trump's closest friends don't deny tell a damning tale that would sink most leaders. (Republicans have officially branded themselves as the party of crooks and traitors) The undisputed known knowns about Trump, Russia and his associates are damning and possibly actionable. But the known unknowns of how much more Robert Mueller knows that is publicly unknown is what spooks Trump allies most.

The Trump White House crossed a new threshold for political debasement this week - The Washington Post - The White House probably thinks it cannot punish Kelly Sadler for her awful comment about John McCain because President Trump has also said nasty things about McCain. It may worry that showing her the door would set a troubling precedent for a president who may one day cross a very similar line (he already crossed it, Jack)

Week 51: Avenatti Strips Cohen to His Bare Essentials - POLITICO Magazine - lawyer plays TV prosecutor with the bank records of Trump's attorney and a Russian oligarch's name emerges.
Head of Demeter Direct tells CNN he worked for Cohen in Korea Aerospace deal - CNNPolitics - he served as a middle person between Trump aide Michael Cohen and Korea Aerospace Industries.
Giuliani Says Cohen Never Spoke With Trump About His Big-Dollar Clients | HuffPost - new lead lawyer sees this as proof Trump is draining the swamp.

Suspicions, Demands and Threats: Devin Nunes vs. the Justice Dept. - The New York Times (he's hunting all the witches in the DOJ)
The Deep State Mob Targets Nunes - American Greatness ("deep state mob" also know as "Constitutional justice system")

How John Kelly's family history compares with the immigrants he wants to keep from entering -- , seven of Kelly's eight great-grandparents were immigrants. Four immigrated from Italy, three from Ireland (none could read, some couldn't speak/never learned English, deport him!)

Inside the room: White House flare-up over McCain leak - Axios - a visibly upset and furious Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the group: "I am sure this conversation is going to leak, too. And that's just disgusting," according to a source in the room. (pretty funny)

The Trump Administration Just Rolled Back Rules That Protect Transgender Prisoners - The Bureau of Prisons is making the change after four evangelical Christian women in a Texas prison sued. (their mental health was threatened by the "men")


'Tricked by the devil' - They backed Trump. Now, his foreign labor cuts may ruin them. (saying the unsayable, finally +stupid racist white people)
President Trump Has Broken Every Populist campaign Promise (stupid racist suckers get screwed by Don the Con, surprise)
Most people don't think poor families have benefited at all from President Trump's policies, new poll says - Most Americans -- 53% -- say low-income families have not benefited at all from Trump's policies. (and 47% say the poors are doing wonderfully and should be means-tested)
A year in Trump Country - The Washington Post - Dennis Schminke of Austin, Minn ... Dan Smicker ... "You go into these labor halls and guns would always come up. I don't care where I [would] go, it would be like the first question. .?.?. Where's Hillary stand on guns?" ... Spam Museum ... (only the fish-store owner can think and the rest are blind to the consequences of their support for the antichrist)
New Rule: Married to the Mob | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube (talking to "the real people")

What Happened to Alan Dershowitz? -- How a liberal Harvard professor became Trump's most distinguished defender on TV (they keep printing that "liberal Dershofuck" lie, he's been a Republican since Bush invaded Iraq on a pile of murderous lies)

Politics -- If Good Reporting Was In Any Way Useful to Conservatives, They'd Already Be Doing It (oh look, little lying Fucker Carlson) - serious reporting is incompatible with the mission of the conservative movement (which is to lie all the time)

Maggie Haberman on Michelle Wolf, Sarah Sanders, Twitter, and Trump : "He's in the middle of, policywise, what could be considered a decent couple of weeks." (Maggie Haberputz)

Murc's Law, Sarah Palin's First Amendment Edition
Josh Marshall on Twitter: "This is a stupid non-point, factually flawed, morally risible. " (Bari Weiss is an idiot: telling the truth to conservatives makes them more evil)
Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "After 9/11, Andrew Sullivan warned that decadent liberals in their coastal enclaves might mount a fifth column against America so I went and joined al-Qaeda." (in case you forgot +Yglesias supported the Bush Catastrophe)
Young Master Bragman Goes Nuclear - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Recreating Jim Crow - Lawyers, Guns & Money - it's important to remember that for most American students, integrated schools never happened. With whites moving to the suburbs and the rise of evangelical Christian schools - a phenomenon that was a direct response to Brown - millions of white parents have done all they can to keep their children around other whites (but Scalia said racism was over!)

There's No Good Excuse For The Racist Impact Of Michigan's Medicaid Proposal (Michissippi)

Democratic House candidate in Pennsylvania deletes tweets praising Trump, blasting progressives - CNNPolitics - Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli is running to replace retiring Republican Rep. Charlie Dent in what is now Pennsylvania's 7th District. Morganelli, who is a centrist Democrat running in a crowded field of six primary candidates, is backed by United Together, a group with reported ties with the bipartisan organization No Labels, and longtime Clinton associate Lanny Davis.

What early Christians knew that modern Christians don't : Women make great leaders - Marginalizing women ignores rich church history going back to the life of Jesus." -- More than 2,000 Southern Baptist women signed an open letter Sunday condemning comments made by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson, in which he described a young man's lewd comments toward a teenage girl as "biblical" and said the proper response to abuse within marriage "depends on the level of abuse to some degree." (true colors dept. and wake up, girls)

New sexual abuse lawsuit filed against St. Paul's School - failing to protect her from sexual assault when she was a freshman in the 2012-2013 school year (they just keep coming)

What happened with Ronan Farrow and NBC? Some answers may be coming ... "Catch and Kill" ... There have been conflicting accounts about why NBC tabled the Weinstein investigation.


New law: Kansas cops can't have sex during traffic stops ... Kansas was one of 33 states where consensual sex between police and people in their custody wasn't a crime (they used to get bonus pay)

The Pearl of Lao Tzu (vortex of cons and crime and get this:) When Klein, now the Jerusalem chief of Breitbart News, wrote about the deal, Barbish suggested that it established a link between bin Laden and Hussein ... At the time, Laura was married to Phillip Lintner, an Elvis Presley impersonator ...


On the Death of Scott Hutchison - Lawyers, Guns & Money - But romanticization has terrible costs, and the more salient reality is that the default life of a full-time artist is fraught with instability.
NIMH ; Mortality and Mental Disorders - The answer, based on the prevalence of mental illness globally, is stunning: 8 million people die each year due to mental illness.
Anselm Kiefer | F|r Paul Celan : Aschenblume (2006) | Artsy
Margarete (1981) by Anselm Kiefer (Saatchi collection) | The Independent - The Romanian poet Paul Celan was the only member of his family to survive incarceration in a concentration camp during the Holocaust, but committed suicide in 1970, at the age of 49, after producing a body of work that included the searingly painful poem, "Death Fugue"
Paul Celan : Death Fugue


Police drag 65-year-old woman from car at traffic stop: Video - ABC News (she's black, of course, they felt their "lives were in danger")


How Uber Silences Women After Sexual Assaults | HuffPost - Uber's terms of service, which, let's admit, most people don't read, require all customers to settle disputes -- even over sexual assault and rape -- in private arbitration. (guess Arianna didn't care about that little detail, no lawsuits for you)


Eschaton: But Will It Be Useful? - He's just blowing smoke but this is the basic question with so much of this stuff. Wow, a tunnel...and? ... pods. (yes, pods for pedestrians! get them off of Musk's sidewalks!)

051118


7 Dead In What May Be Australia's Worst Mass Shooting In 22 Years : news


North Korean nuclear test site Kim Jong Un vowed to shut down is largely destroyed, new study suggests


Judges wants to know who is spying on Guantanamo defense attorneys | Miami Herald (waging war on justice)


Top State Department Nuclear Expert Announces Resignation After Trump Iran Deal Exit - Foreign Policy - Officials warn of brain drain across government offices. (mindless trump zombies are eating the brains of government)


EXCLUSIVE: Special counsel probing donations with foreign connections to Trump inauguration - ABC News
FBI Warned Of Russian Intelligence Links To Oligarch In Cohen Payment Allegation : NPR

Ex-FBI director James Comey compares Trump to a Mafia boss at talk in Toronto | The Star

Lawyer for 2 Schneiderman Accusers Brought Their Claims to Michael Cohen - The New York Times (so, Trump was never worried about Schneiderman because could destroy him at any time, and Schneiderman must have known that, so ...)
Lawyer: I Discussed Accusations Against Schneiderman With Michael Cohen In 2013 -- "Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone -- next will be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman. Is he a crook? Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner" Trump tweeted in 2013 (and what elite New York Media ignored the story?)
Trump Was Told of Schneiderman Assaults Years Ago, Lawyer Says - Bloomberg

Michael Cohen shows the game doesn't change - The Washington Post - Cohen, it turns out, is the Swiss Army knife of political fixers, an all-purpose tool to have at hand for just about any situation.
Was this a slush fund for more than paying off a porn star? - The Washington Post ... To be blunt: If Russian-linked funds went into Cohen's kitty and hush payments went out the other end, then we have the makings of a jaw-dropping plot that would likely be rejected by Hollywood moviemakers as too far-fetched. (good job, show-runners, once again) The bottom line is that a set of facts entirely unrelated to the "collusion" issue may be enough to ensnare Cohen and/or the president.


Trump's latest latest rage-filled tirade unmasks Paul Ryan's lies (the pic says 666 words but here are the words:) Trump's blowup lasted more than 30 minutes. His face "reddened" as he railed that Nielsen must "close down" the border and shouted: "We need to shut it down. We're closed!" ... Trump's bottomless irrationality on this issue: Border crossings have been at historic lows, but #Foxlandia keeps telling him the border is overrun by invading dark hordes, which makes it true. He is still demanding his wall, but even when that has been offered in exchange for protecting the dreamers, he has rejected it (+John Kelly is a racist liar which of course makes sense)
John Kelly on Undocumented Immigrants: No Skills, Can't Assmimilate and the Kids Will Go to 'Foster Homes or Whatever' Adult-in-the-Room John Kelly Is Also the Face of Hateful Ignorance


Here's how Sarah Sanders responded to reports of a White House staffer mocking John McCain

Bizarre video of Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag while being seduced by Donald Trump resurfaces | The Independent

Fox & Friends Hegseth Trashes NY Times For Not Covering ISIS Capture Story First Reported by NY Times


Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance | World news | The Guardian


The Red Pill - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Michelle Goldberg has a characteristically interesting column about the difficult question of how to draw the line between mistaken ideas that should be the subject of good-faith formal and informal debate, and pernicious nonsense that should be either ignored or mocked: (+"lingerie joke")
Is 'Ladies Lingerie' a Harmless Joke or Harassment? -- A dispute among international-relations scholars puts the spotlight on a system that serves everyone poorly ... Digging into this relatively easy case, I quickly saw how intellectually unprepared a prominent corner of academia was to adjudicate even a simple complaint about a joke. (surprisingly thoughtful and balanced Conor but in the end, Sharoni seems a little, shall we say, touchy and the joke is even in Harry Potter)
Gene Weingarten - A Fuehrer Over Underpants

The servile D.C. media - Ryan Cooper
Politico Playbook Can Fuck Right Off
PressThink: Karl Rove and the Religion of the Washington Press (one of Cooper's links, for the memories)

Eschaton: Um What - I admit I am unable to process this headline because I am old. -- EXCLUSIVE: Steve Bannon was target of bribery plot by top Qatari who invested in Ice Cube's basketball league to get to Trump's strategist and boasted 'Mike Flynn took our money', rapper claims in court


At Sean Hannity properties in working-class areas, an aggressive approach to rent collection - The Washington Post - Fox News host Sean Hannity has poured his fortune into a surprising side venture: a vast portfolio of rental properties in working-class neighborhoods (Shamitty)



From Your Jim Crow Nostalgia File - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Pat McCrory gets right to the point: (too many blacks in elected office) As governor, Republican Pat McCrory signed the most comprehensive voter suppression law in the nation. Indeed, this law was arguably the most aggressive attempt any state made to keep black voters away from the polls since the Jim Crow era.

Lincoln Chafee is staging a comeback, but all R.I. wants to talk about is his ties to Russia - The Boston Globe - Instead, the conversation has centered on his alleged past ties to a Ukrainian oligarch and how, on some critical issues, he shares the same position as Russian president Vladimir Putin. The discussion has got to the point where Chafee found himself on local radio declaring, "I am not a Russian spy." (just because I'm a Russian-connected Repubiican/Independent/Democrat, which is normal, look at my friend Jill) paid as much as $135,000 as a board member of a Ukrainian organization that we now know was tied to Rinat Akhmetov, who later served as a patron of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort (the swamp is deep) "I don't think that the Russian meddling had anything to do with Donald Trump becoming president," Chafee told the Globe


Junot Diaz Steps Down As Pulitzer Chairman Amid Sexual-Misconduct Allegations

Who Is Anna Wintour Asking Us to Forgive in Her Editor's Letter? (rich white women who enable their husband's abusive behavior because money and fame, of course and also rich white women who enable the rich enablers like the rich sunglass lady)

Why Is TMZ in Bed With R. Kelly? | SPIN

Just how did Matt Lauer's famous desk button work?


'I Love Hate Speech': Sarah Braasch, the white woman who called police on Black Yale grad student for napping in dorm, defends slavery and supports burqa ban in writings - theGrio - : Sarah Braasch is also against hate crime legislation. (good luck ever getting a job, professional student Sarah)
Video shows woman calling police over barbecue at Lake Merritt - SFGate (bbq'ing while black)


These helicopter parents are 90. Their kids? 65 (many women never separate from their mothers)


Woman reportedly sent man 65,000 text messages after first date - SFGate

Shirley man busted by State Police for child pornography after purchasing sex toy online - The Boston Globe

550 Steamship Authority trips cancelled so far this year. Usually, 40 cancelled in an entire year. - The Boston Globe - between Martha's Vineyard and Falmouth in just the first four months of this year, an unprecedented total about 15 times the yearly average and one that has officials scrambling as the all-important summer travel season approaches. "It's insane. It's absolutely insane." ... the vast majority took place on the Wood Hole-Vineyard Haven route ... just 26 trips were canceled for mechanical reasons along that route all of last year. In 2016, just there were only 22 such cancellations. In 2015, there were 79. In 2014, there were 21.

Everything you need to know about Massachusetts's new pot rules

In the shadow of large-scale developments, East Cambridge small businesses brace for impact - The Boston Globe - "If you don't own the building, you don't own the business."



Researchers found that conspiracy theorists are not necessarily paranoid, based on two studies with 209 German and 400 American participants in total. While paranoid people believe that almost everybody is out to get them, conspiracist believe that a few powerful people are out to get everybody. : science


What is the craziest thing your hornyness made you do? : AskReddit


Eschaton: It's The Price Of Land - It's more complicated than that...and really the issue in most places is that people don't got no money... but it certainly it isn't the price of bricks. (first, you give poor Elon a trillion dollars in land, then he turns it into bricks! so shut up)

051018

Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly - The Washington Post (Bolton says you can just die)

You can't keep a good culture warrior down: The return of Oliver North -- But here he is now, at 74, with a shot at a third act, another charge at the front lines of the culture wars as the new president of the National Rifle Association. And once again, everyone has opinions about him. (Wayne La Fuck says he's a "true hero")

Israel launches massive military strike against Iranian targets in Syria - The Washington Post (Netanfuckyu tries to save his crooked ass by starting a war)

Five Top ISIS Officials Captured in U.S.-Iraqi Sting - The New York Times


Six States Hit Harder By Cyberattacks Than Previously Known, New Report Reveals : NPR - in 2017 that Russian operatives compromised the voting systems of seven states, including in some cases, their public websites. (Illinois and six other unnamed states )


Lawmakers release thousands of Russian Facebook ads


Why John McCain is voting against Gina Haspel to lead the CIA -- and why it matters
John McCain Urges Senate To Reject Gina Haspel's Nomination For CIA
Bloody Gina | Boston Review -- Trump dismissed objections against her nomination, tweeting that Haspel had simply been "too tough on terrorists" -- as if to way, "what's the harm in that?"
Hannity Explodes After Being Confronted By ThinkProgress About Previous Offer To Be Waterboarded For Charity (typlical Hannity, lie and then "explode" when confronted with lies: "I get to ask the questions, not you!!!")
Tom Cotton is filled with rage. Thank God he wasn't tapped as CIA director ... Cotton, a 40-year-old Republican senator from Arkansas and a Trump loyalist, had been the front-runner for the position. But President Trump instead tapped a career CIA operative, and Cotton was on the dais when Haspel testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. (you forget there are always even more horrible people)

White House official mocked 'dying' McCain at internal meeting
Military analyst on Fox advocates for torture: "It worked on John [McCain]. That's why they call him 'Songbird John'"
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The Michael Cohen avalanche - Axios - Michael Cohen is potentially more perilous to President Trump than anybody else -- a history of shadowy business deals, ties to organized crime figures connected to Russian mafia, hush money payments to an untold number of women, payments from a U.S. company linked to a Russian oligarch -- and now, Mueller's team is investigating how Cohen monetized his access to Trump.
Russian Oligarch-Linked Firm That Paid Michael Cohen Was Also Represented by Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz -- The investment firm that the two Trump attorneys worked for, Columbus Nova, calls it a "coincidence"
How Michael Cohen, Denied Job in White House, Was Seen as Its Gatekeeper - The New York Times
Russia-linked company that hired Trump lawyer Michael Cohen registered alt-right websites during election - The Washington Post (no collusion!)
A taxonomy of Michael Cohen and potential Trump corruption - The Washington Post

"People Get Subpoenas, Shit Gets Real" : What John Edwards Should Teach the Media About Covering Trump -- If you were in Las Vegas and could win $1 million by placing a simple prop bet on whether Trump enjoyed some pee play with Russian hookers in Moscow in 2013, would you bet yes or no? You know where you'd put your money. Even Mitch McConnell would take that bet ... when BuzzFeed News published the Steele dossier, in January of 2017, much of the media universe rushed to condemn the release of an unverified document that made a series of explosive accusations about Donald Trump and his campaign's dealings with Russia ... Even Bob Woodward, the high priest of investigative journalism, lashed the dossier, calling it "a piece of garbage" (has he taken his 50 lashes yet? +sounds a lot like you know who with the hush money and fatherhood alias)

Pence says it's time for Mueller to wrap it up
Pence says it's time for special counsel to 'wrap up' Russia investigation

We know a lot about Trump's misdeeds. But most of all we know there's more to come ... But we are discovering that Trump is destroying the very aspects of governing that prevent rash mistakes and hold abuses of power in check.

Democrats: Prepare to Pack the Supreme Court | The New Republic - If Republicans refuse to let the other party govern, all options should be on the table


Adelson gives $30 million to help GOP save the House - POLITICO - The donation to the Congressional Leadership Fund is a big boost to Republicans facing a tough midterm environment.

CNN poll: Democrats' 2018 advantage is nearly gone (Trump landslide coming, unpatriotic dems will be banned)

Pamela Anderson Reaches Out to Kanye West to Help Julian Assange | TMZ.com

Protestants decline, more have no religion in a sharply shifting religious landscape (POLL) - ABC News - On average last year, 36 percent of Americans in ABC News/Washington Post polls identified themselves as members of a Protestant faith, extending a gradual trend down from 50 percent in 2003. That includes an 8-point drop in the number of evangelical white Protestants, an important oplitical group.


NC cop chokes, slams black man at Waffle House, video shows | News & Observer

45 Stories of Sex and Consent on Campus - The New York Times

Georgina Chapman, Estranged Wife Of Harvey Weinstein, Speaks Out For The First Time | HuffPost - in the aftermath of over 100 credible accusations of sexual violence and harassment against her husband? ("I didn't see a thing")


Medium abruptly cancels the membership programs of its 21 remaining subscription publisher partners ; Nieman Journalism Lab

The profound sadness of the Jordan Peterson phenomenon - The Washington Post
Is There Such a Thing as Truth? | Boston Review
'Transparency' Is the Mother of Fake News (Fish writes in his own Russian-free pond, where liberal ideas cause all the problems)


A Black Student at Yale Was Napping in a Common Area, and a White Student Called the Police - The New York Times (add napping while black to the list +Yale +white woman did it to her)
A black Yale student fell asleep in her dorm's common room. A white student called police. (and the comment: "If "sleeping while black" is now a police matter, Ben Carson will have some explaining to do." and the white woman, Sarah Braasch, is a 43-year old Ph.D. student who has reported black people before and just carpet-bombed her resume)


Thirdhand smoke is widespread and may be dangerous, mounting evidence shows - The Washington Post (so show a pic of a guy vaping)
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul | The New Yorker - Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image ... "If you were to design your ideal nicotine-delivery device to addict large numbers of United States kids, you'd invent Juul"


What is the gig economy? - The Washington Post - Nearly 1 in 4 Americans now earn money from the digital "platform economy" ("independent contractors" with no benifits)


Protected bike lanes aren't in final proposal for traffic changes coming to Porter Square = A left exit from the Porter Square shopping plaza through a zebra-striped pedestrian pavilion will remain; the January plan showed it being eliminated, with the exit blocked by cement planters -- a proposal called cheap and ugly by many in attendance.


Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can't -- In the wrong hands, the technology could be used to unlock doors, wire money or buy stuff online -- simply with music playing over the radio. ("Siri, vote for Donald Trump and send money to Vlad in Russia")

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Coal Collapsing Faster Under Trump; Wind, Solar, Gas All Benefit


The Latest: Malaysia election victor not seeking revenge - The Washington Post - Mahathir Mohamad says the new Malaysian government will not be seeking revenge on defeated prime minister Najib Razak, who is accused of involvement in a corruption scandal at state investment fund 1MDB. U.S. investigators say at least $4.5 billion was stolen ("not seeking revenge" hahaha)

Documents show how provincial employees misled Halifax police in the FOIPOP security failure (coverups thrive in darkness with dumb cops and crooked judges)
Understand how Andy Fillmore derailed a plan to demolish the Cogswell Interchange and you'll understand how we got the Nova Centre - Halifax police assigned to investigate the security failure seem not to have basic knowledge of IT security and simply accepted the province's IT security experts at their word. (which was lies)


North Korea releases 3 American prisoners ahead of a planned Trump-Kim summit - The Washington Post
North Korea Frees American Prisoners, Lifting Hurdle to Nuclear Talks - The New York Times


More Than 100 Former Ambassadors Write Letter Opposing Gina Haspel Nomination | HuffPost - pick for CIA director oversaw a black site in Thailand where at least one detainee was reportedly tortured. ("Torture Gina" and thanks for the coverup, Barry)
'She Should Have Fought Back. Other People Did' : Inside Gina Haspel's Black Site The Daily Beast isn't budging on Gina Haspel torture-oversight claims - The Washington Post
Gina Haspel Stonewalls on Discussing Her Role in CIA Torture - CIA pick once ran a secret prison. Now she doesn't want to talk about it.

John O. Brennan on Twitter: "Today, Donald Trump simultaneously lied about the Iranian nuclear deal, undermined global confidence in US commitments, alienated our closest allies, strengthened Iranian hawks, & gave North Korea more reason to keep its nukes. This madness is a danger to our national security." (and the Russian troll/bots are out in force)
Former CIA Chief John Brennan: Trump's 'Madness Is A Danger To Our National Security' - "undermined global confidence in U.S. commitments" "alienated our closest allies" (except for our old biggest enemy)
Read the Full Transcript of Trump's Speech on the Iran Nuclear Deal (madness)
Hours into his new job, Trump's ambassador to Germany offends his hosts ("shut up shop, losers")

The big question about Trump that's sitting in plain sight, unansswered -- Is Trump capable of formulating -- or operating in accordance with -- any meaningful conception or vision of what is good for the country? ... Iran Deal ... climate accord, Jerusalem ... This has made the president feel more bullish about heeding his instincts to be a disrupter on the world stage (and as we know, Trump has the "best instincts")

Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?" (yeah, no free press for you, just like Turkey)


U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants. Trump officials did it anyway. - The Washington Post - n the past six months, the Trump administration has moved to expel 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living and working legally in the United States, disregarding senior U.S. diplomats who warned that mass deportations could destabilize the region and trigger a new surge of illegal immigration ... Together with President Trump's move to end protections for 690,000 "dreamers" brought to the United States illegally as children, his administration has stamped an expiration date on the residency of 1 million immigrants. (load them on boxcars, Make America Racist Again)



Special Counsel Mueller's Team Questioned Blackwater Founder Erik Prince


Tonight's Staggering Revelations -- Tonight we have what I'd say may be the most staggering revelations since the tangle of "Trump/Russia" investigations began almost two years ago. This is not hyperbole. ... The most important ones are that a Russian oligarch paid more than $500,000 into the shell company that Cohen earlier used to make his payment to Stormy Daniels. The money is nominally from the US affiliate of Viktor Vekselberg's holding company. But this is a direct connection. AT&T made payments totaling $200,000. Novartis, the drug manufacturer, chipped in almost $400,000 ... In other words, just through this single shell company Cohen was receiving major payments from a Russian oligarch and additional moneys from various Fortune 500 companies looking for access to President Trump ... this is the kind of story that sends a bunch of people to prison. So while we still don't know where or how Avenatti got this information he must have had access to one of Cohen's ledgers, a bank statement or perhaps an investigative document. The details are simply too specific. (lock them up and burn it all down)

AT&T confirms it paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for 'insights' on administration ... The disclosure came after a lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels said AT&T had paid Cohen a total of $200,000 in four separate installments. (expensive "insights")
Trump's lawyer pitched himself as a fixer to Novartis and got paid $1.2 million
Novartis paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen $1.2 million for advice on Obamacare -- work he was unable to do
Treasury inspector general launches probe into possible leak of Michael Cohen's banking records ... Detailed claims about the company's banking history were made public Tuesday by Michael Avenatti ...
The Porn Star's Lawyer Maps the Trump Money Trail
Fox News blacks out bombshell Michael Cohen revelations during 3 hours of primetime coverage (the word "Cohen" was never uttered)

And I Said to Myself: "This is the business we've Chosen"
Are any journalists going to investigate whether Elliott Broidy paid a $1.6 million bribe to the president of the United States? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "Campos systematically decimates every aspect of the original unrealistic storyline like it was an episode of Sharknado."

Trump's Two Biggest Scandals Converge In a Single Tweet - Stormy Daniels's lawyer is attempting to connect the dots between the Russia probe and the Michael Cohen investigation ... Ryan added, when I asked him whether Cohen was paid by a Ukrainian-born Russian billionaire referenced in an unverified dossier that Avenatti published to Twitter. "But this was not a payment" He followed up in an email, writing, "Don't contact me again. Ever." ... "It is completely inaccurate to say that these were not payments," Avenatti told me.


Democrats Scored a Big, Unexpected Win in the May 8 Primaries -- For the first time in 2018, an incumbent U.S. House Representative has been ousted by a primary challenger (haha they got "freedumb causcused")
Challenger Mark Harris stuns U.S. Rep. Pittenger of NC in GOP primary upset
Playbook: Oh, to be a House Republican - POLITICO - IT WAS A BAD NIGHT for House Republicans.
Don Blankenship tanks in W.Va., but the GOP has a new problem - The Washington Post ... Democratic turnout for an uncompetitive primary exceeded turnout for the hotly contested GOP nomination by more than 23,000 ... In Indiana, candidate Mike Braun, who clung tightly to Trump, won his race over two better-known congressmen, giving some comfort to Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) once thought to be vulnerable


The Problem With 'Feminist' Men -- By Jill Filipovic


Let's Check In On James Bennet's Other Conservative Affirmative Action Hire (Bari Weiss and her "dark web" of forbidden thoughts)
Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced | Current Affairs ... The "intellectual dark web" is neither on the dark web nor comprised of intellectuals. It is a phrase coined by one of Peter Thiel's deputies to describe a group of people who share the following traits in common: (1) they are bitter about and feel persecuted by Leftist Social Justice Identity Politics, which they think is silencing important truths and (2) they inhabit the internet, disseminating their opinions through podcasts, YouTube, Patreon, etc ... The group includes: Eric Weinstein, the aforementioned Thiel subordinate; vacuous charlatan Jordan Peterson; cool kid's philosopher Ben Shapiro; deferential interview host Dave Rubin; ex-neuroscientist Sam Harris; former Man Show host Joe Rogan; American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers; and former Evergreen State University professors Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying ... "iconoclastic thinkers"
The Cool Kid's Philosopher - (Ben Shapiro by NJR -- the emptiness of conservative thought: "communist pieces of garbage, go to hell" is very "philosophical")
Bret Stephens and the #NeverTrump farce


Mormon Church breaks all ties with Boy Scouts, ending 100-year relationship - The Washington Post - ending a century-old tradition deeply ingrained in the religious life of Mormon boys. (the patriarchy is threatened by gays and girls)


A Duke University VP Walked Into the Campus Joe Van Gogh, Heard a Rap Song, Demanded That the Employees Be Fired


Battle of the Countertops: Granite vs. Quartz
Corian vs. Granite

NYC lunch spots are killing off the chopped salad

Dr Dre loses trademark battle with a gynaecologist called Dr Drai - BBC News


What's the sexiest non-sexual thing someone has ever said to you?


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Pruitt fast-tracked California cleanup after Hugh Hewitt brokered meeting - POLITICO - after conservative radio and television host Hugh Hewitt brokered a meeting between him and lawyers for the water district that was seeking federal help to clean up the polluted Orange County site. (it's one big TV show with a disasterous plot)
Here Are The Actual Threats Made Against EPA Chief Scott Pruitt - One of the threats made against Pruitt this year: someone drawing a mustache on his face on a Newsweek cover.


Theresa May facing renewed turmoil over Brexit options | Politics | The Guardian - House of Lords, Irish government and unhappy Tories pile pressure on prime minister (off the cliff with dumb lying Theresa and the Russian controlled Brexiters)
Boris Johnson savages Downing Street over her 'crazy' Brexit trade plan: Foreign Secretary warns the customs partnership would leave Britain tied to EU with 'new web of bureaucracy' (May not crazy enough for BoJo)


Ontario woman arrested, jailed in U.S. for driving with a Canadian licence : news (Sessions considers death penalty and they kept her money)

Defector: WikiLeaks 'Will Lie to Your Face'


Square near U.S. embassy in Jerusalem to be named for Trump - Israel News - Jerusalem Post - the "United States Square in honor of President Donald Trump" (don't connect the dots)

Opponents of Iran Deal Hired Investigators to Dig Up Dirt on Obama Aide - The New York Times
The Dangerous Consequences of US Withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal (Republifucks fucking everyone but Israel because Netanfuckyu is your boss)

Trump Withdraws U.S. From 'One-Sided' Iran Nuclear Deal
Barack Obama - Posts - There are few issues more important to the security of the United States than the potential spread of nuclear weapons, or the potential for even more destructive war in the Middle East. That's why the United States negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the first place. (Barry has to talk through a Russian-compromised propaganda/advertising network and it looks stupid)
Joint statement from Prime Minister May, Chancellor Merkel and President Macron following President Trump's statement on Iran

Iran to negotiate with Europeans, Russia and China about remaining in nuclear deal - The Washington Post
Former Joint Chiefs head fears Trump will lash out if North Korea summit fails - politico ("kill them all" he is said to be thinking)

5 big consequences of Trump's Iran blunder
Why Donald Trump Announcing End of Iran Deal is a Big Deal - The good faith of the United States is now worth as much as a Trump University degree.

Eschaton: He Died On Teevee - Another funny thing about Trump (ok he is president so nothing can really be funny) is that he likes really awful TV characters, like the equivalent of C-list Love Boat guests. Rudy has less charisma than I d

New CIA Documents Add To Questions About What Gina Haspel Knew About The Torture Program - He was under 'enhanced measures' when he made these claims and simply told his interrogators what he thought they wanted to hear ("enhanced measures" remember when the NYT refused to use the term "torture?")


Here's a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model ... administrations's perverse ability to generate fake news about a scandal, in order to obscure the even more scandalous truth. (and yeah, Avenatti knew two weeks ago)
Michael Cohen Took Cash From Russian Oligarch After Election - The Daily Beast can confirm Michael Avenatti's claim made Tuesday about Trump's lawyer ... r Michael Cohen received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company controlled by Putin-aligned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
Certainly, he can present a bill for such services. After all, we are not Communists. - Lawyers, Guns & Money (the Novartis bribe)
Giuliani Says Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen 'Has No Incriminating Information About The President' (Trumpspeak for "I am not a crook." and try to keep up, Rudy)

Trump is a disaster, and that's helping Democrats. But not how you think
President Trump's Approval Rating Has Been Steady. Richard Nixon's Once Was Too
The connection that may decide 2018 isn't what you think -- challenging the billionaire President's identity as a working-class hero. (hahaha)

Comey casts doubt on judge who slammed Mueller probe - POLITICO - "I don't know how a federal judge could possibly know enough about an investigation to offer a view like that" (judge is shocked Mueller pursuing crimes that might lead to Trump's impeachment)

NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Resigns Amid Abuse Allegations | HuffPost - In one instance, the politician reportedly threatened a partner, "if you ever left me, I'd kill you." (more psycho-toxic dicks wrecking the world)
Ex: Schneiderman called me 'brown slave,' slapped me until I called him 'Master' (something about male NY politicians ...)
Opinion | Him, Too - The New York Times
None of Us Really Know These Guys -- Eric Schneiderman completes the unholy trinity of New Yorks prominent liberal politicians. (Spitzer, Weiner, Schneiderman (all Jews with out of control dicks and Schneiderman is more like Weinstein)

Christiane Amanpour named as Charlie Rose's official replacement


Voices on the left are rising in the US. Why aren't they in mainstream media?
Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web - The New York Times - An alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation. Should we be listening? ... Bari Weiss ... I was meeting with Sam Harris, a neuroscientist; Eric Weinstein, a mathematician and managing director of Thiel Capital; the commentator and comedian Dave Rubin; and their spouses in a Los Angeles restaurant to talk about how they were turned into heretics. ("dark web" because their voices are silenced by the liberal thought-police)
Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: ""Hi, I'm Bari Weiss, using my NYT column to complain - again - about how I'm being brutally silenced like a dissident along with my friends, who will be appearing with me on Morning Joe & HBO to talk about this. And, oh: don't you hate privileged college kids who self-victimize?""


Kanye West rebuked by Ta-Nehisi Coates in biting essay called 'I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye' -- A week ago, Kanye West said that 400 years of slavery was a "choice" appearing to blame enslaved black people for not freeing themselves sooner (he's a "free thinker" which is more like "free from thought thinker")


Univision Is A Fucking Mess - This is the story of how corporate raiding, complacency, excess, and incompetence are gutting a media company that matters to tens of millions of people.

Massive UC workers' strike disrupts dining, classes and medical services (meanwhile, in the world's 5th largest economy)

Why many teens no longer even look for a summer job - CBS News - The labor force participation rate among the demographic, a measure of people looking for work, was down to 34.8 percent last month. In 1989 it was nearly 56 percent.


It's Time for a New Discussion of Marijuana's Risks -- You may reasonably decide the benefits outweigh the harms, but you should know about those potential harms. (no cancer, no heart disease, no lung problems, risk of crashing cars very small, babies ok, short term memory for a short time, don't use if you're schizo, no second-hand smoke/contact high hysteria, four year olds should probably not get stoned every day, and then the NYT ran out of clickbait)


Welcome to the Reality Where Grimes Is Dating Elon Musk - An obscure joke about artificial intelligence brought them together, then the pair debuted on the red carpet at the Met Gala. Wait, what?

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Doctors raise alarm about ancient HTLV-1 virus: 'Prevalence is off the charts' in Australia - The rates of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, or HTLV-1, infection are exceeding 40% among adults in remote regions of central Australia, with indigenous communities being the hardest hit, especially in the town of Alice Springs.

People think she's a Parkland 'crisis actor.' It's terrifying. (Emma Gonzalez, 30, in Brooklyn is an "actor")

Sessions: Parents, children entering U.S. illegally will be separated "If you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over our border" (evil fuckers, aren't they)
Trump Promised To Reshape America. He's Already Told 1 Million Immigrants Who Had Legal Protections To Get Out. - They built lives in the U.S. with the government's OK, and now they face an uncertain future.
Trump calls on Congress to pull back $15 billion in spending, including on Children's Health Insurance Program (vote for evil or don't vote, get evil)


Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials | The New Yorker - By Ronan Farrow (Black Cude = Mossad)
Stunning Developments on Trump/Private Black Ops Oppo Targeting Obama Staffers
Always Be Ratfucking - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The showrunners keep throwing in implausible twists. I mean, hiring Harvey Weinstein's Israeli hired goons to undermine American foreign policy? ... "Black Cube"


Why Mueller Has to Expose Trump's Crooked Business Empire
Mueller rejects Trump request to answer questions in writing - CBS News

Donald Trump motor boating Rudy Guliani dressed in drag : gifs (in case you forgot)
Eschaton: Morning Thread - The Celebrity Presidency. As long as people are talking about you, it's all good. Never mind what they are saying. It's the buzz that counts. - Or so says Giuliani over at the Washington Post.
Rudy Giuliani's s ABC Interview Was A Mess. Here Are The Biggest Takeaways -- "How do you separate fact and opinion?" Giuliani wondered aloud. (it's hard for pathological narcissistic liars like Donald and Rudy 911)
Giuliani stumbles into another fiasco - The Washington Post
"I'd Die for My Wife and My Kids. And This Is All Ruining Their Lives" : Meltdown, Michael Cohen Grapples with His New Reality -- Besieged by the media and legal bills, and feeling abandoned by Washington, friends say Cohen is in a "dangerous place."
Trump grows frustrated with Giuliani as Stormy Daniels drama rages on - POLITICO

Trump divines his own truth without consequences - CNNPolitics - While the President has always profited from creating his own reality, the impact of having a commander in chief who so frequently bends fact is only beginning to be understood (Kellyanne Fuckway says lying is good)

Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she's 'not aware' of other Trump hush agreements (mumbled under her breath, "but what do I know?")

Is this a thing? Is this a . . . boom?' : How Washington copes with the insane Trump-era news cycle

David Rolfe on Twitter: "Destroying the future to own the libs!! "
Blankenship Checkmates The Libs - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ex-Con West Virginia Senate Candidate Uses the Word "Negro" While Defending TV Ad About "China People" ... "There's no race. Races are Negro, white Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian. There's no mention of a race. I've never used a race word"
Did Elaine Chao's DOT interviews help her family's business? -- The transportation secretary appears with her father, founder of the family shipping business, in Chinese-language interviews with the DOT emblem behind them.


Four Women Accuse New York's Attorney General of Physical Abuse -- Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own. By Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow
Eric Schneiderman, New York's Attorney General, Is Accused of Abusing 4 Women (more dicks altering history +usual "due process" bullshit from men in comments and then...)
New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman resigns after four women accuse him of physical abuse - The Washington Post



CNN Poll: Trump approval steady amid rising outlook for the country - CNNPolitics - Overall, 41% approve of the President's work, and 53% disapprove. Those numbers are about the same as at the end of March.

Why Don Blankenship is more dangerous for the GOP than Todd Akin, Sharron Angle and Roy Moore - The Washington Post (Trump effect)
Exclusive: Two West Virginia Internal Campaign Polls Show Blankenship Narrowly Edging GOP Rivals

Americans are starting to suffer from Trump's health-care sabotage (Republicans always kill non-rich people)

Connecticut To Give Its Electoral College Votes To National Popular Vote Victor | HuffPost - California, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia have already signed the accord (no commie red states)


'We are shocked' : More than 1,000 Southern Baptist women denounce leader's 'objectifying" comments, advice to abused women ... The letter says they affirm Southern Baptist views that only men are allowed to be pastors and that women are to submit themselves to their husbands. (there's your problem, right there, sexist-enabling patriarchal dimwits)


The Media Can Be Ideologically Diverse Without Conservatives - Trump's election exposed the irrelevance of conservative intellectuals ... Trump has made the reality of the American right unmistakable: There is no mass constituency for the conservative policy agenda, only one for its paranoid warnings of national, cultural, and racial decline ... and its authoritarian reassurances that a strong leader can restore what we've lost by taking it back from THEM ... Republicans with negative views of Donald Trump make up about 5 percent of the electorate ... but they are just about the only kind of Republican one will encounter on the pages of The Atlantic or New York Times.


Chicago Still Isn't the Murder Capital of America - If some scholars of crime had their way, discussions of homicide rates would focus not on cities, but on the few urban neighborhoods where the phenomenon of murder inequality is especially stark. (Trump want the army to occupy Chicago because "carnage" in the cities


No wonder there's an exodus from religion - This trend is especially pronounced among adults under 30, roughly 40?percent of whom claim no connection to a religious congregation or tradition and have joined the ranks of those the pollsters call the "nones"



Denver Post Newsroom Statement on Resignation of Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett | Denver Newspaper Guild - we, the newsroom of The Denver Post, are outraged at the unconscionable censorship imposed on our now-former editorial page editor, Chuck Plunkett. Chuck told the truth, eloquently and pointedly. And in that our newspaper's corporate ownership -- Digital First Media and the hedge fund Alden Global Capital -- saw something to fear, not to champion. (hedgies destroying pubic good is what they do)


Ta-Nehisi Coates: Kanye West in the Age of Donald Trump - The Atlantic - I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye -- Kanye West wants freedom -- whtie freedom (Kanye loves Trump because Trump shows an narcissistic idiot like Kanye could be president/god, but TNC is the real hero)
Kanye's Politics Are What Happens When You Don't Read Book
Kanye West Wears a Confederate Flag, Says 'React How You Want'
Understanding Jim Brown's Ugly Support of Donald Trump -- His latest comments are disappointing, but not all that surprising.
Jim Brown Did Great Things; He Also Beat Women


He Makes a Joke. She Isn't Laughing: 'Lingerie' Comment in Elevator Leads to Uproar Among Scholars - Richard Ned Lebow ... and Simona Sharoni, a professor of women's and gender studies at Merrimack College




Cannabis Industry Could Be 'A Form Of Reparations,' Says Cynthia Nixon
If Illinois legalizes marijuana, what happens to pot-sniffing dogs? | Local Crime & Courts | pantagraph.com


The Man Who Bought New York - The New York Times - Mr. Schwarzman is famously brash, a 5-foot-6-inch bundle of testosterone


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Earth's carbon dioxide levels reach highest point in 800,000 years
See The Fury Of Hawaii's Latest Volcanic Eruptions -- Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has come alive with earthquakes and fresh lava flow.

Highway sniper wounds 3, kills self; likely inspired by Parkland suspect, sheriff says : news
This Is The Toughest Gun Law In America | HuffPost - Reformers love what Massachusetts is doing. The NRA? Not so much.

North Korea on Sunday criticized what it called "misleading" claims that President Trump's policy of maximum political pressure and sanctions are what drove Pyongyang to the negotiating table. : news (Trump fucks everything up because he has to be the star)

Welcome To Partytown, Baghdad - Fifteen years after the US invasion, and the war against ISIS, the Iraqi capital is alive and buzzing, with bars and restaurants open til the early morning.


The fake news Russians hear at home - The Washington Post - Though the styles are very different, the vast majority of media is owned by the state or state-linked companies, and the stories are often remarkably alike. On television, which is where most Russians get their news, much of what they see about the West is overwhelmingly dark and negative. (authoritarians staying in power)

200 Years of Marxism And Uh...Memes? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
How Meme Culture Is Getting Teens into Marxism - Broadly - On social media, youths are seizing the memes of production to prove that continental philosophy isn't just an academic abstraction.
Marxists' Apartment A Microcosm Of Why Marxism Doesn't Work


Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for dirty ops on Iran arms deal - Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran


Gina Haspel, nominee to head CIA, sought to withdraw over questions about her role in agency interrogation program - The Washington Post (c'mon, at least give us "enhanced")


Trump's coming war on Mueller: ANALYSIS - ABC News - he is now all-in on a new strategy to deal with special counsel Robert Mueller: fight, delay, vilify. (Ghouliani)

Devin Nunes says he will hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress over Russia investigation ... for not shutting down Mueller (little Russian ratfucker)
Nunes, in spat with Justice Department, threatens Sessions with contempt over Russia materials - CNNPolitics

Trump could take the 5th Amendment or not comply with subpoena to testify: Rudy Giuliani - ABC News (not that he would incriminate himself by refusing to incriminate himself, or anything)

As the 'King of Debt,' Trump borrowed to build his empire. Then he began spending hundreds of millions in cash. (Russian bribes)

Saving America from itself: Trump is a symptom, not the disease - NY Daily News - By Garry Kasparov -- But wise elders touting sanity and centrism aren't going to motivate many of the 13 million Americans who voted for Bernie Sanders, let alone Trump's 63 million or the even more critical 90 million who didn't vote at all in 2016.

Eschaton: They're On Teevee - There a million ways that The Donald has this bizarre 80s mindset, but one of them is genuine admiration for the people (even the ones who he thinks are mean to him) who are on teevee. Everybody TV personality, though playing themselves, is playing a character ... "Pirro had interviewed during transition to be the DAG, and was rebuffed. People around Trump were concerned he would try to appoint her to SCOTUS" -- Haberman (Trump is a TV character who believes in other TV characters)

Stormy Daniels attorney: Giuliani interview an 'unmitigated disaster'
MSNBC panel dissolves in laughter -- and then destroys Giuliani's 'buffoooish' ABC inerview
'A colossally stupid move' : Watch MSNBC analyst annihilate 'Rudy Giuliani's destruction of creditability tour'
Giuliani suggests it's possible Michael Cohen paid off other women to stay silent about alleged affairs with Trump

Franklin Graham: Trump's Affair with Stormy Daniels is "Nobody's Business" (said the satangelical)
SNL brings in Ben Stiller, Scarlett Johansson, Stormy Daniels and more for star-studded cold open - The Washington Post

SNL brings in Ben Stiller, Scarlett Johansson, Stormy Daniels and more for star-studded cold open - The Washington Post


How The ACORN Scandal Seeded Today's Nightmare Politics -- Breitbart led the charge, but Democrats delivered the killing blow. Has anyone really learned? ... It became the Republican Party's closing pitch for the 2008 election, amplified in political media. U.S. newspapers published over 1,700 stories on ACORN during October -- more than 10 times the average monthly total so far that year. More than three-fourths of these stories were devoted to allegations of "voter fraud" ... But Washington didn't wait around for the facts to come out. On Sept. 14, 2009, the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 83 to 7 to block some federal grants to ACORN. (thanks, Barry, and then they used the same technique on Hillary)


MSNBC segment explodes after Dershowitz calls lawyer Richard Painter 'un-American and a liar' (lying Trumpster Dershofuck is jealous of Ghouliani, says he supports Israel! which had nothing to do with anything)

Mike Pence dishonors himself. Again. - The Washington Post - In kowtowing to Mr. Arpaio, a hero to alt-right racists, the vice president also announced his own contempt for principles higher than reflexive genuflection to anything and anyone favored by President Trump.

Trump team makes the midterms about saving his presidency - POLITICO - The president has raised the specter of impeachment in cautioning his party against letting the House, and even the Senate, fall into Democratic control. ("raised the specter")

John McCain Regrets His Palin Pick for the Wrong Reasons ... even at this late stage, McCain won't admit that Palin represents the same variation of grievance politics he now abjures. (you are going to rot in Hell, John)
McCain says he regrets picking Palin as running mate | TheHill -- His advisers reportedly had warned against choosing Lieberman, who was once a Democrat, stating that Lieberman's support of abortion rights could divide Republicans. (Palin or Lyberputz, take your pick)
McCain doesn't want Trump at funeral, friends tell White House - McCain, who has been battling brain cancer, and Trump have had a turbulent relationship. The senator wants Vice President Mike Pence to attend instead.

I'm done with trying to understand Trump supporters. Why don't they try to understand me? | Miami Herald - As several studies now show, a sense of alarmed displacement among white, Christian America is the soil from which the weed of Trumpism grew.

Blankenship surging on eve of West Virginia Senate primary - POLITICO - Establishment Republicans are fretting about a late surge by the convicted coal baron. (murderer is very popular with racist white stupid W.Va fucks)


As State Lawmaker Claims Abuse, Party Leaders Shield Her Colleague - The New York Times - State Representative Tarah Toohil, left, with her body guard at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg. Ms. Toohil obtained a protection order in March against a fellow Republican lawmaker who she claims assaulted her ... Nick Miccarelli, whom she used to date. She claims that he kicked her, pinched her and pinned her by the neck to a wall in the ornate Capitol, and once brandished a gun and threatened to kill them both. (ugly little Rethug dork)

Harvard Graduate Shares her Incredible Story of Surviving Domestic Abuse - Embracing Myself ... The man who I loved more than anybody on Earth held a gun to my head and threatened to kill me more times than I can even remember. I'm here to tell you the story of crazy love, a psychological trap disguised as love, one that millions of women and even a few men fall into every year. (1 or 2 men)

Mary Karr Reminds the World That David Foster Wallace Abused and Stalked Her, and Nobody Cared ... "DFW was white" (contrast Diaz)


Opinion | When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching - The New York Times ... "He Ravished a Woman and Swift and Sure Was the Vengeance of the People" (it was their football games)


Former NYC media player finds himself living in homeless shelter after life took 'unfathomable' downward spiral (doesn't really say why, but cocaine is a bitch)


3 surprising ways millennials communicate -- 1) they don't write; 2) Instagram/Powepoint is in 3) they "viusalize" data


Fury, frustration erupt over Seattle's proposed head tax for homelessness services (they're spendihng taxpoayer dollars on THOSE people!! after they took away affordable housing)


Police report describes footage of woman slashing Hadley bus passengers' throats | masslive.com - After the woman charged with slashing two passengers and the driver of a Pioneer Valley Transit Authority bus was handcuffed and read her rights, she apologized. - "Please apologize to them for me, will they survive? I hope Allah will forgive me." "she began praying to ALLAH, (and) after arriving at the station she continued to pray and would not break her concentration to speak with any officers."

SWAT told Olathe, KS police not to go in, body cams show. They did anyway and killed a woman : news

Tennessee teen stabs male student with scissors after he pulls up her dress, police say


The age-related loss of stem cell function can be reversed by a 24-hour fast, according to a new study from MIT biologists.

New research suggests there is a link between childhood adversity and creative experiences. According to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology, performing artists who experienced more abuse, neglect or family dysfunction in childhood tend to have a more intense creative process. : science


[Serious] Trans-people of reddit who successfully pass, what differences did you notice in the way people treated you compared to your birth gender? : AskReddit

What's your "accidentally racist" moment? : AskReddit

Divorce lawyers of reddit, what is the most ridiculous reason your client filed divorce for? : AskReddit

Facebook accused of introducing extremists to one another through 'suggested friends' feature : news

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Earthquakes rattle Hawaii's Big Island after Kilauea shoots lava, 'dangerous' gas into the air

At the N.R.A. Convention, Donald Trump Talks About Knives in London and Support from Kanye West | The New Yorker


Eschaton: Pew Pew Pew - "They don't have guns, they have knives, and instead there's blood all over the floors of this hospital." President @realDonaldTrump says he has read that a central London hospital is now "a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds" pic.twitter.com/4yJPIbZI84 - It is a common belief that guns either kill you or don't hurt you much. I suppose decades of cartoon movie violence have taken their toll, especially on President Chance. It isn't true. (pres dimbulb carnage)


Eschaton: This Was A Good Song - They were weird times. Too many forget. -- The Dixie Chicks freakout was inspired by Natalie Maines saying: "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." -- That was it. (and then the Rethugs went full Commie and no one blinked, but oh well)


Mueller seeks delay in case alleging Russians interfered in U.S. presidential election - POLITICO

How Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer, Built a Shadowy Business Empire

Trump's Racism Has Material Consequences - By January 2020, the Trump administration will have turned 400,000 people who are currently in the US legally into unauthorized immigrants.


Bill Maher Shreds 'Baghdad Bog' Sarah Huckabee Sanders Over Her 'Bullshit' -- "What is the point of going into this room every day?"


Kansas Legislature Passes Anti-LGBTQ Child Welfare Bill | Human Rights Campaign - would create a license to discriminate with taxpayer funds against LGBTQ foster or adoptive parents, single parents, or other qualified families. (fuckers with your money)

Native American Brothers Pulled From Campus Tour After 'Nervous' Mother Calls Police (they were wearing "black" t-shirts)

Preacher Speaks Up About The Misogyny She's Faced In Evangelical Circles (but still supports the satanic patriarchy)


u/TheGhostOfBobStoops outlines with great detail why Chris Brown is human garbage and belongs in prison : bestof


Twitter Users Chew Out DJ Khaled For Refusing To Perform Oral Sex On Wife (NSFW) | HuffPost - Tongues are wagging about this revelation.


It Matters That The Alleged Golden State Killer Was A Cop | HuffPost - He would absolutely look to try to use that to his advantage

Eschaton: Oh Dear, The NYT Has Sent An Explorer To The Colonies Again - LA is not my favorite city - though it is so much moreso than it used to be! - but this is so dumb. There is so much LA has to offer that nothing on the only city on the East Coast does. Did you know LA has restaurants and food trucks? This is amaze-balls.

Worker Shortage Hurts California's Agriculture Industry (haha deport all the workers)

This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley

Yale researchers find link between religious fundamentalism and falling for fake news : science -- "Yale researchers find that gullible people are gullible"

How One Year of Microdosing Helped My Career, Relationships, and Happiness


Facebook, YouTube and Twitter execs showed up at Stanford Law School to discuss fake news and hate speech, and their verdict was that people need to stop freaking out | Business Insider - Executives from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (haha, nothing to worry about with our hate operations)

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California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes : news

California now world's fifth-largest economy, bigger than Britain -- Texas was the U.S.'s next highest-producing state with a GSP of $1.696 trillion, followed by New York, Florida and Illinois. Vermont, Wyoming and Montana produced the least valuable goods and service in the U.S.

2018 Nobel Prize in Literature Postponed Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal - The New York Times
2018 Nobel Prize For Literature Postponed Over Academy Sex Abuse Scandal | HuffPost - The decision was made following sexual misconduct allegations and several resignations from the board of the Swedish Academy (and corruption and coverups) The Academy said it aimed to award two prizes in 2019.


British schools are removing analog clocks from classrooms because kids can't read them


It's time to normalize Karl Marx (now that the Republicans have become Commies)

Trump administration to send 57,000 Hondurans in the U.S. home : news

Behind Erik Prince's China venture -- The Blackwater founder has cut a lucrative security-training deal with Chinese insiders. But is it against U.S. interests?


Deputy Consul General Of Israel Allegedly Forced Out Of Uber Ride For Speaking Hebrew On Phone + CBS Chicago

Report: Qatar Just Bought $6.5M Apartment in Trump Property - The Daily Beast (he's just monetizing the leader of the free world job, what's the big deal?)


Spy agency NSA triples collection of U.S. phone records: official report | Reuters (Trump is doing alot of spying)

Ukraine Hired GOP Firm, Obstructed Mueller Investigation -- Before It Stopped Cooperating With Mueller, Ukraine Hired GOP Lobbyists. Hmm.
Viktor Vekselberg, Russian Billionaire, Was Questioned by Mueller's Investigators - Federal agents working with Mr. Mueller stopped Mr. Vekselberg, a billionaire businessman, at a New York-area airport this year and sought to search his electronic devices and question him, according to people familiar with the matter. They confronted him after he stepped off a private plane about two months ago,
Federal judge says special counsel wants Manafort to 'sing' about Trump
Russian Troll Farm Goes After Mueller's Files


Exclusive: Nunes demands Justice Department records. Then he doesn't read them (not the first time and there's areason for that)


A sour smell of panic in the White House as the law closes in - The Washington Post
The Washington Post -- We filed a complaint about Trump s ethics. Giuliani made it possible.
Trump's tower of lies is crumbling - What this really illustrates is how hard it has gotten for Trump to find a non-incriminating pathway through the minefield of basic realities that are now catching up with him.
WSJ rakes Trump over the coals for Stormy Daniels lies: 'Americans will stop believing anything he says' (really, WSJ?)

Eschaton: Don't Screw Up The Big Scoops - I really don't know how this stuff happens. -- NBC News has corrected its story: Michael Cohen's phones were being monitored by a pen register, not a wiretap, senior U.S. officials say. Pen registers capture "to and from" calling and texting information, but not content.

'An MO For Other More Serious Crimes' -- As we already know, Michael Cohen is the prototypical fixer or bagman.

Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels - The New York Times
Trump Is Said to Know of Stormy Daniels Payment Months Before He Denied It - The New York Times
Don't mind him, he's New - If one believes anything that comes out of the orange orifice, one should see me about a fabulous deal on a piece of D.C. swampland -- President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump -- There's an industry that could have called bullshit on this trainwreck disguised as a rumpled suit a long time ago and possibly spared us this unending shit show complete with neo-nazis crawling out of the woodwork. But instead it doggedly created and pursued The Very Troubling Questions Surrounding Clinton's Emails (also, scene in 'The Jerk ref in comments)
Welcome To The Giuliani Phase Of The Trump Presidency (the new face of Trump)
Deutsch: Michael Cohen Told Me Giuliani 'Doesn't Know What He's Talking About
Rudy Giuliani has hit rock bottom - The Washington Post (Max Boot says Ghouliani responsible for everything good about NYC)
Eschaton: Rudy 911 - Giuliani's hilarious resurfacing (again) is a reminder of those crazy post-9/11 days, when suddenly he became America's Mayor complete with (I might not be remembering this entirely correctly) his own Snuffy Walden theme song which followed him around everywhere. -- Quite amazing how every single major media outlet just ran with that.
Giuliani Tells Mueller To Back Off 'Fine Woman' Ivanka Trump But Calls Kushner 'Disposable' ... says "the whole country" will turn against the special counsel if he targets the president's daughter (there will be riots in conservative farm towns if her criminality is exposed!)

Anderson Cooper Briefly Speechless When GOP Strategist Swears He's Never Heard Trump lie ... "Wow."
Trump booked himself for his first TV interview in months - CBS News

Pence doctor resigns after Jackson debacle - POLITICO

2 F.B.I. Officials, Once Key Advisers to Comey, Leave the Bureau - The New York Times

As a willing warrior for Trump, Sarah Sanders struggles to maintain credibility - The Washington Post

The kooky tale of 'Cocaine Mitch'

Democrats: Don't Take the Bait on Impeachment -- By Adam B. Schiff

Democrats might have a better chance to flip the Senate than you think


Feminazg{l on Twitter: "Here's where I gave up trying not to adore Attorney General Scheneiderman. "


Strange Fruit - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jamelle Bouie's account of his trip to the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery is extraordinary: (Make America (even more) Racist Again)

No Filter -- Jane Kim (SF Chronicle channels rightwing oppo attack on dem candidate, gets owned)

How the music industry overlooked R. Kelly's alleged abuse of young women -- The star treatment -- As R. Kelly's career flourished, an industry overlooked allegations of abusive behavior toward young women ("overlooked" is probably not the right word)

He Was Accused Of Attempted Rape. He Became A Progressive Star Anyway. | HuffPost - For more than a decade, women alleged that Clay Johnson, a leader in political tech, physically and verbally abused them.

We can't protect Junot Diaz at all costs -- On Friday morning, allegations exploded across the Internet about author Junot Diaz history of sexual misconduct and verbal abuse against women in the literary world.

Open Secrets - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This article by Reah Bravo, a former employee of Charlie Rose, is remarkable and courageous. First of all, good on her for calling out the ridiculous hack apologias of the anti-#MeToo movement: "From Catherine Deneuve to Andrew Sullivan ..." people who have never cared about protecting ordinary employees from this kind of systematic exploitation suddenly affecting concern for process when powerful harassers who are almost always guilty of even more than has already been revealed is really disgusting.
The Open Secret of Charlie Rose | by Reah Bravo | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books (really, really bad, and they knew)
Paul Musgrave on Twitter: "Me, an idiot: always hedge your bets about the future and be intellectually humble You, a multimillionaire thought leader: "I think it [the Iraq War] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie." https://t.co/K3IUELrh6u"

We Probed Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Journalist Al Giordano. Here's What We Found. The reporter and activist denies accusations he sexually harassed three attendees of his School of Authentic Journalism.


America's Dumbest Beardo -- Matt Walsh is back on his bullcrap again and once again I'm struck by how weird and sad it must be to live inside the heads of modern conservatives.


Kennedy Cousin Michael Skakel's Murder Conviction Vacated

Man Arrested for Illegal Guns Belongs to Neo-Nazi Group That Wants 'Ethnostate Rape Gangs' in their ideal, all-white fascist state. An Illinois man busted for owning guns without a license appears to have threatened a judge and a Jewish preschool, according to leaked online chats.


Superintendent charged with defiling Holmdel High School track - The Washington Post - The Pooperintendent of Stools?


Men of Reddit, what gifts would you prefer to get instead of the booze/smoking/bbq/shaving items that are usually marketed for you? : AskReddit

What's something "everybody likes", but you secretly hate? : AskReddit


Tech giants hit by NSA spying slam encryption backdoors : technology
The Race to 5G Is just Mindless Marketing Bullshit -- Buried beneath the hype around 5G rests a growing sense that wireless carriers are aggressively over-selling the technology's potential
When a stranger takes your face: Facebook's failed crackdown on fake accounts

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Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters: Ex-prosecutor in Congress


Army Green Berets Secretly Help Saudis Combat Threat From Yemen Rebels - The New York Times

Russia Isn't Just Interfering in Elections Around the World. It's Doing Something Far Worse -- Take the detention of Nikita Kulachenkov, a prominent young Russian dissident, by Cyprus authorities in 2016 which made worldwide headlines. But what we didn't know back then is the disturbing chain of email exchanges between Cyprus and Russian officials that led to his persecution and was exposed in November.


Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says | The Texas Tribune - Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism. A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections ... But some conspiracy theorists speculated that the exercise was a covert effort to institute martial law (Russians owned Abbott and he believed them because Republicans are always traitors)


Trump Joins House Attacks Over Investigations - The New York Times (NYT uses "joins" instead of "leads" which shows you they are preserving their "access")

Trump says his policies aren't based in bigotry. But then there are the facts. (haha "facts")

Mueller focuses on links between Roger Stone, Trump campaign aide Gates
Mueller Seeks 70 Blank Subpoenas in Manafort Case

Giuliani claims Trump 'immune' from Mueller subpoena (and any laws he doesn't like) Giuliani made his assertions Wednesday night on Sean Hannity's show on the State News Channel

Rudy Giuliani may have just implicated President Trump in serious campaign finance violations.
'I was going to get this over with': Inside Giuliani's explosive Stormy Daniels revelation (well, that really worked)
Giuliani: Trump knew about $130,000 'hush' payment to porn actress, and 'repaid' Cohen for it - For Team Trump, Giuliani's admission may be a big, big, big problem:
Eschaton: Color Me Shocked - Shocked, I tells ya! Giuliani made a oopsy. Can he have a do over?
The Fallout From Giuliani's s Hush Money Bombshell -- From the $130,000 to Comey.
Giuliani: Trump repaid attorney Cohen for Stormy Daniels settlement - The Washington Post
Giuliani follows up disastrous Hannity appearance with equally damaging Fox & Friends spot
The president and his attorney didn't tell the truth. Now Giuliani has. Will that change anything?
Rudy Giuliani Just Came Clean About Why Trump Fired Comey | HuffPost - Yes, it was the Russia investigation.
Trump Backs Rudy Giuliani's Claim That No Campaign Money Went To Stormy Daniels
Gregg Levine on Twitter: "To reiterate, RudyG said the Cohen payment to Stormy Daniels was reimbursed by Trump, through a bank, in installments. That is structuring. That is bank fraud. That is a felony. That is what put former Speaker Hastert in jail." ... So the President's personal lawyer just went on TV and suggested the President was money laundering (during the campaign) to hide his fuck-habits ... Nothing fucks you up like being a cheap fuck while fucking. (he could have paid cash but using OPM is what he has always done)
Gregg Levine on Twitter: "But this raises other ?s: I can't imagine the Cheap Cheeto paid Cohen back with triple interest, so who are the other NDA/hush-ups MC paid off?"

Donald Trump just tweeted out the rich man's guide to buying women's silence -- tweets make clear how men with money can avoid any repercussions for their actions

Twitter Loses It Over Rudy Giuliani's Bonkers Fox News Interview About Trump - "Rudy Giuliani never got his hush money."
Andy Richter on Twitter: "One thing I think we're going to find out is that, if you're going to hire a horrific living skull-headed monster to represent you legally, Rudy Giuliani is not the horrific living skull-headed monster to hire.
David Corn on Twitter: "It's really clever how the Deep State got Rudy Giuliani to show the world that Trump and Cohen lied about the payment to Stormy Daniels. And it used @seanhannity for this operation. Fiendishly smart!"

Federal Investigators Put Wiretap On Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen: Reports | HuffPost - unclear how long ago the wiretapping was authorized ... but "wiretapped in the weeks leading up to the search warrant that occurred several weeks ago" ... Giuliani ... 'furious" ... " I find it very ironic that now that [Giuliani is] serving as the right-hand lawyer for the president, he doesn't believe in wiretaps," Avanatti said ...(who would call Cohen but Trumpster?)
George Conway Appears To Shut Down Rudy Giuliani's Claim About Stormy Daniels Payment ... Trumps attorney says the $130,000 payment didn't violate campaign finance laws. Kellyanne Conwy's husband seems to suggest otherwise ... George Conway, a high-profile attorney ... (Trump hopes you are lost in his black blizzard of lies)
Watch MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell Crack Up as They Discuss Giuliani's Stormy Daniels Admission
Here's the Real Reason Giuliani and Trump Are Admitting to Paying Off Stormy Daniels | Alternet -- This is a bait-and-switch to divert attention from more troublesome issues.

Maddow Blog on Twitter: "NYT's Michael Schmidt: Trump lawyers are nervous about the New York case because neither Trump nor Cohen will say what they think is in the papers taken in the raids of Cohen's home, hotel, and office. #BREAKING https://t.co/6UKY7yQm7N"
Eschaton: The Best Clients - I'm no Bob Loblaw, but I'm guessing your typical country lawyer doesn't much like having a client who won't tell you just which fan the shit is going to fly from. -- NYT's Michael Schmidt: Trump lawyers are nervous about the New York case because neither Trump nor Cohen will say what they think is in the papers taken in the raids of Cohen's home, hotel, and office.#BREAKING pic.twitter.com/kDwX8ZzbBN

The FBI Is in Crisis. It's Worse than you think

House chaplain rescinds resignation after furor over his ouster by Ryan - The Washington Post

Whoops! Jared Kushner Made Even More Mistakes in His ProPublica - It keeps happening. Jared Kushner filed the wrong information about two of his loans in Brooklyn. He has had to update his disclosure form at least 40 times. (it's almost like he's hiding something)

After Garland Defeat, New Group Hopes to Draw Democrats to Judicial Battlefield - The New York Times (dumb dems always get played)


In NBC Poll, 61% of Americans Think Trump Is Dishonest - How can the United States government effectively operate when it is lead by a huckster con artist reality TV show star? The answer is: it can't But yet enough people support him to keep in power anyway, at least temporarily (until the riches confiscate all the moneys +39% of Americans only watch Fox and are stupid, evil and insane)

Eschaton: How Do Horrible People Manage To Get Along - I know people give the simple explanation of "kiss up, punch down" as in they are skilled at understanding hierarchies and know where to direct their fists and where to direct their tongues, but I don't really understand that in that I don't think all these horrible people can be so skilled at managing to keep these things straight. They obviously have unhealthy personalities and anger management problems and a general lack of ethics that has to be obvious to everyone. Who am I talking about in the Trump administration? All of them. That's the point.


America is more diverse than ever -- but still segregated -- The United States is on track to be a majority-minority nation by 2044. But census data show most of our neighbors are the same race.
Yes, Donald Trump Is Making White People More Hateful | The Nation - A new study finds empirical evidence of the "Trump Effect" - the Center for Investigative Reporting, identified 150 incidents of verbal harassment or physical violence over the past 18 months in which the perpetrator explicitly mentioned Donald Trump ... as White Democrats learn about Democratic outreach to Latinos, they become less supportive of Democrats ... Trump is giving respondents tacit permission to be bigots. (Make America Bigoted Again!)


Corker-Blackburn drama risks must-win Senate seat for GOP - POLITICO - kind words for former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen have given centrist Republicans tacit permission to break ranks (Marsha Blackburn is horrible)

Ohio Democrats Fret Over Dennis Kucinich's Fringe Ties -- "It's not just baggage. It's funky baggage. What Democrat is friendly with Assad? What Democrat praised Trump's inauguration>?" (little Russian Dennis +the Berniebros)


Dems +8 On House Ballot | Monmouth University Polling Institute | Monmouth University - McConnell, Schumer, Ryan, Pelosi viewed negatively
Democratic Midterm Momentum Has 'Stalled,' Top Party Pollster Warns -- Democrats need to refocus on the economic and health care challenges their voters face


Here's why Michigan Medicaid work requirements will kill people (it's a feature, not a bug in Republican Death Software)


Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Understand Journalism -- Either that, or he doesn't care (let's go with "asshole")


Eschaton - Hindsight 20/20 of course, but I'm pretty sure if I had to come up with a list of "creepy sexual harassers (and worse)" in the media, Charlie Rose and Mark Halperin would have topped the list based on guessing. I admit Lauer probably would not have made the list, not because I bought into his TV persona, but because I naively thought the contrast between that and reality would have been too hard to hide for so many years. Not that I was surprised, of course -- Incidents of sexual misconduct by Charlie Rose were far more numerous than previously known ... An additional 27 women -- why the hell did anyone think their "brands" were so powerful and lucrative that they "deserved" to be protected? I'm not naive about power and money, I just don't get why anyone thought any of those people had such star power that they needed to keep raking in the money. This not a defense, of course, but who the hell liked late career Matt Lauer?
Charlie Rose's s misconduct was widespread at CBS and three managers were warned, investigation finds ... The new allegations against Rose date to 1976, when, according to a former research assistant, he exposed his penis and touched her breasts in the NBC News Washington bureau where they worked. (another dick-whipper-outer) Rose groped her buttocks as they walked down an office hallway to a recording studio.
Enabling Charlie Rose - Lawyers, Guns & Money - When Rose got one of the most desirable and well-compensated jobs in American broadcast journalism, a lot of the people involved in the decision had to know what he was. They didn't care. It's revealing of the conditions that allowed an admitted sexual predator to be not only remain a viable presidential candidate but to benefit from having his opponent portrayed as the more corrupt and dishonest one.

Leak: The Atlantic Had A Meeting About Kevin Williamson. It Was A Liberal Self-Reckoning. | HuffPost


Bldup - 300 Putnam Avenue


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The Environmental Protection Agency in the Early Trump Administration: Prelude to Regulatory Capture | AJPH | Vol. 108 Issue S2 (EPA (not the "protection" is now serving the polluting industries, suck it up libtards)
Pakistan May Have Just Set a World Heat Record - Temperatures reported to have cracked 50.2 degrees Celsius (122.3 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday in Nawabshah, located about 127 miles northeast of Karachi. If confirmed, that could make the measurement not just the hottest ever recorded for April in Pakistan, but the hottest ever reliably recorded for April anywhere on Earth.

First death reported from E. coli-contaminated romaine lettuce as outbreak spreads - The Washington Post

Dallas Student Arrested Before Planned Mass Shooting at Shopping Mall : news "Look at all the other lone wolves. What training did they have yet they simply killed the kuffar? (Arabic for disbelievers)"


Peppa Pig, Unlikely Rebel Icon, Faces Purge in China - The New York Times - Global Times said the porcine character had become an "unexpected cultural icon of shehuiren subculture in China" ... 'society person' but in the online context, it refers to people who run counter to mainstream values, and are usually poorly educated, with no stable job ... They are unruly slackers roaming around and the antithesis of the young generation the Party tries to cultivate" (b/c people are plants to authoritarians)


Cambridge Analytica is shutting down - Vox - The Trump-linked data firm that kicked off the Facebook data privacy scandal is closing its doors.


In 'kill list' case, judge questions government's unilateral authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad (thanks, Barry)


Ukraine, Seeking U.S. Missiles, Halted Cooperation With Mueller Investigation - The New York Times (Trump extorted them, that's gotta be a crime)
Did Trump Bribe Ukraine to Stop Cooperating With Mueller? ... Last night, we learned we had been far too naove. The truth was that Bornstein never even wrote the letter, whose actual author was Donald Trump. The most skeptical assumptions about Trump somehow proved too credulous ... We may think we comprehend the depths of Trump's venality. We continue to learn that there is no bottom. The number one rule in understanding Trump is that the lies are usually covering even worse lies.
Did Trump Link Arms Sales to Ukraine with Cutting Off Mueller? - At a minimum, these threats have communicated to the Ukraine government that they should not provide any assistance to Mueller's probe if they want any support from the President of the United States. (Crooked traitor Donald)
Political stress test: Trump's medical history becomes another divisive issue (will others spill their beans?)


'We'll See,' Trump Says on North Korea. And Iran. And Nafta. And So On.

President Trump is sowing the seeds of his own demise - The Washington Post - Despite the difficult circumstances faced by past presidents during previous scandals, they all retained respect for the rule of law and regard for governmental institutions. Trump has shown respect for neither , and as a result, he is not only sowing the seeds of his demise but also threatening the long-term future of the Republican Party.

Trump just threatened the Justice Department and Rosenstein on Twitter - Vox - "At some point I will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved!"
Trump threatens to use presidential powers on DOJ - Axios - President Trump in a Wednesday tweet called out the Justice Department for refusing to hand over un-redacted documents related to the Hillary Clinton email probe to Congress.

Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team ("This isn't a game! He's busy being president!" said Dowd)
Trump Lawyers Said to Lack Security Clearance Amid Mueller Talks - Bloomberg - needed to discuss sensitive issues related to a possible presidential interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller (no one in the WH has a security clearance)
Why Answering Mueller's Questions Could Be a Minefield for Trump
Mueller's Questions Point to What Trouble Trump Is In

Debunking Trump's Biggest Russia Lie | Crooked Media (witch hunt! no collusion!) That deference leaves an opening for Trump to discredit and undermine Mueller's investigation on a false basis. There is evidence of collusion and Mueller wants to ask Trump about it. When Sanders claims the opposite is true, as she undoubtedly will, it'll test whether the press corps has been successfully bullied by bad-faith critics out of pursuing its mission to hold the administration accountable for its lies.


The 459 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List - The New York Times (furious rageholic is a geyser of insults and hate)



Former Trump campaign aide explodes at Senate aides | Daily Mail Online = "God damn you to hell! at Democratic Senate aides after he loses his house to legal fees in 'witch hunt' congressional Russia probe - Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo says he has spent $125,000 on lawyers to comply with the demands of the Senate Intelligence Committee

Pundit Argues It's Wrong In Principle to Criticize the Media's Indefensible Performance Again -- Hillary Clinton apparently gave a speech at an event last weekend. Michelle Cottle had no disagreement with the content, but is the latest pundit to argue that Clinton has no business showing her face in public and certainly is going beyond her remit in suggesting that anything might be wrong with how the 2016 election was covered: (Michelle is an NPR)


Pamela Anderson Defends Julian Assange, Talks Vladimir Putin, & More | Hollywood Reporter: How Pamela Anderson Became an International Woman of Mystery ... But Anderson, who turned 50 last summer, actually lives just 15 minutes away, where she shares a home with her new boyfriend, French soccer star Adil Rami, 32 (when she's not banging Putin)


Top Interior Official Resigned Amid Claims Of Intimidating Behavior -- the director, Bryan Rice, exhibited aggressive and intimidating behavior toward her in an incident she believes was captured by a surveillance camera. (only the best toxic male harassers)

Paul Ryan Warns of Subpoenas, Gridlock With Democratic Majority - Bloomberg (you know, what they did for 8 years +Benhaaaazi and hopefully Ryan's Russia connections)

In midterm elections, Republicans are running against ... Hillary Clinton. Still. (they need "Crooked Hillary" to distract from the real crook in the room)

'Let the blue wave continue' : Democrats notch 4th Florida bellwether win - 114th House District in Miami, Javier Fernandez beat Republican Andrew Vargas by about 4.1 percentage points, despite being outspent by at least 2-1 in a swing seat

West Virginia candidate distorts reality in campaign ad -- A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia is running an ad showing his primary opponent shaking hands with Hillary Clinton -- something that never happened. The ad uses a manipulated version of a photograph that originally showed his rival shaking the hand of someone else: President Trump. (the era fake videos begins; can we have the Pee tapes and Putin's dick up crooked Donald's lying ass? +they also made Hillary's mouth 2x larger)


Greitens lied to state ethics commission, took charity donor list, report says | Political Fix | stltoday.com (crooked little Reublican lying asshole dom)



Patients face expensive ER bills even when they don't receive treatment -- She went to the emergency room at Hoboken University Medical Center, where she was given an ice pack. She received no other treatment. She never received any diagnosis. But a bill arrived in the mail for $5,751 ... ($669 to take her temp)

White Supremecist Guilty in Charlottsville beating
Heather ??????????? on Twitter: "When a member of Trump's white supremacist base threatens the only black Republican senator b/c he condemned Trump's Charlottesville comments: "Are we as a white people supposed to just stand for this injustice or do we do what Dylann Roof did?" https://t.co/f4KuiYUXbU" (yeah, read that again, that's how they think, death for criticizing Trump)


Redskins Cheerleaders Describe Topless Photo Shoots and an Uneasy Night Out - The New York Times - except that the Redskins had invited spectators.A contingent of sponsors and FedExField suite holders -- all men -- were granted up-close access to the photo shoots ... director told nine of the 36 cheerleaders that their work was not done. They had a special assignment for the night. Some of the male sponsors had picked them to be personal escorts at a nightclub ... Several of them began to cry.


Impossible Plutocratic Dilemmas - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jeff Bezos has no earthly idea what to do with the $130 billion burning a hole in his pocket: "The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel. That is basically it -- Blue Origin is expensive enough to be able to use that fortune. I am liquidating about $1 billion a year of Amazon stock to fund Blue Origin." (instead of you know, helping people here on earth? he's trying to create an interplanetary delivery system?)


NYT Editor Resigned After Investigation Into Alleged 'Inappropriate Behavior' With Women Wendell Jamieson resigned from his job this week after being accused ... with three former colleagues ... the Metro editor was "engaged in inappropriate communication" (so, dick pics)
Women Said to Accuse Times Editor Who Resigned of Inappropriate Behavior - The New York Times ("vague")

DOUTHAT: I Hate You Liberals For Wanting This Thing You Haven't Said You Wanted (NYT stable of idiots) Soon we get to Douthat's main point, which is that radicals and weirdos are telling us to take seriously the notion of compelled redistribution of sex. (kill off the Chads and redistribute the Stacys so asshole men can get laid and Douthat will get his own SEX ROBOT!)
Hating Ross Douthat is Normal and Healthy but the Surgeon General Recommends You Hate Him for the Right Reason - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Soemtime, "Radical" Ideas Are Just Dumb (Douthat dummifies himself on the internets)
The "redistribution of sex" only works if you think women are sex, and also not really people.
Los Editoros on Twitter: "Nyt wedding announcements, 2020 "
,br /> Jordan Peterson is on a crusade to toughen up young men. It's landed him on our cultural divide


alicublog: NEW VILLAGE VOICE COLUMN UP... - ...about Kanye West exciting the brethren and Michelle Wolf pissing them off. As usual there's an analogy in there somewhere ... RedState column by Brandon Morse, who not only declares "This Kanye, Kardashian, Trump Episode Could Be One Of The Biggest Turning Points In Our Culture" and inissts "if you're part of the elite left, you're gripping the arms of your chair. You're in the river on the edge of the waterfall" ... Morse imagines Kim Kardashian letting her husband suck up to Trump is an epochal, game-changing event, notwithstanding that he also finds her silly. It sums up the rightwing idea of culture war: they have no idea why anything cultural is popular, and indeed seem to find it all ridiculous and unimportant (at least as compared to timeless pursuits such as propaganda and ratfucking) but still want to manipulate it to their advantage. This also explains why they're so bad at it


ESPN Loses 500,000 Subscribers In April - Outkick the Coverage (sports ball is tanking)


: Why the Baltimore Museum Is Selling Blue-Chip Art to Buy Work by Underrepresented Artists - to make its holdings less white and less male.

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What can ugly people do to look more attractive? : AskReddit


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Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds - The New York Times - The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years,

Marx at 200 - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Karl Marx was born 200 years ago next week and his ideas are very much back in the mainstream, as capitalism's massive failures since the fall of the Soviet Union that led to a global Gilded Age have given a whole lot of people good reason to revisit them



U.S. officials: Israeli F-15s struck Syrian base storing Iranian anti-aircraft missiles - Israel News - Haaretz.com - Israel seen preparing for open warfare with Iran, three sources tell NBC news; defense chief Lieberman: Iran is trying to harm Israel, we'll respond (Netanyahu desperately needs to get his war on)
Israel seems to be preparing for war with Iran, U.S. officials say - An Israeli airstrike that killed and wounded dozens of Iranians at a Syrian base is the latest sign of escalating conflict.


Eschaton: From Bean To Cup - The EU would be nuts to trust the UK after the Windrush scandal and they are not stupid. -- Senior figures from the European Parliament marked Sajid Javid's s first day by sending him a joint letter laying out their concerns -- and warning that the Windrush scandal must not be repeated for European nationals caught up in Brexit.


Ex-CIA Official Says Some Torture Videotapes May Still Exist - the basis for a new legal filing from detainee Abu Zubaydah to retrieve any surviving tapes of his torture.

White House ignores executive order requiring count of civilian casualties in counterterrorism strikes - The Washington Post

Robert Mueller Likely Knows How the Trump Russia Investigation Ends | WIRED

'The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted' : Rosenstein responds to impeachment threat

Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump ... Trump early Tuesday morning called the release of the list "disgracefrul" and asserted, as he has in the past, that the investigation is a "witch hunt." (no one in the Trump admin can spell or use grammar correctly, self-owned haha)
If Team Trump Leaked Mueller's Questions, It's Bound to Backfire -- Now the president is making the novel argument there can't be obstruction of justice if there is no collusion. He's trying to shape public opinion, not contest the facts.


Trump doctor Harold Bornstein says bodyguard, lawyer 'raided' his office, took medical files -- Bornstein said he felt "raped" after White House aide Keith Schiller and lawyer Alan Garten showed up unannounced and took Trump's files (good Schiller)
The crazy 'raid' of Trump's former doctor
Exclusive: Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter - CNNPolitics

Eschaton: Dignitude - Probably my "favorite" Trump tweet. -- "@ariannahuff is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision." -- Donald J. Trump (but Michelle Wolf was really mean to Fuckabee Sanders when she said her eye shadow was perfect)


Crimes are no longer a disqualification for Republican candidates - The Washington Post (it's a requirement)

Albert Kelly, a top aide to EPA leader Scott Pruitt, and security chief resign amid scrutiny - The Washington Post ... amid scrutiny of his previous actions as the leader of a bank in Oklahoma and his lifetime ban from banking. (only the best crooks for the swamp)


Michael Cohen Hit With New Taxi Taxes, Owes New York $282,000 - Bloomberg



Democrats's Horrible 2018 Senate Map Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time

Dianne Feinstein drops hard opposition to recreational pot | McClatchy Washington Bureau -- a longtime opponent of legalizing recreational marijuana, now says the federal government should not interfere in California's legal marijuana market (after working for the booze and prison industries for years)

Hillary Clinton's High Profile Is Hurting the Democrats -- She dismisses those who tell her to step aside, but at this rate she will harm her political future and aid the GOP - Michelle Cottle

65% of Public School 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading; 67% Not Proficient in Math (anti-education Republican dummification of America)


Jordan Peterson Talks Political Correctness, the Radical Left, PC Culture and 12 Rules for Life - The Passion of Jordan Peterson



NBC staffers felt pressured to sign letter defending Brokaw | Page Six


Will The Times Ever Hire A Political Columnist To Replace Maureen Dowd? - Lawyers, Guns & Money (stupid, lazy, and stuck in 30 years ago, like mosgt of the NYT)

We must rally around Joy Reid - The Washington Post - by Erik Wemple - Who are these disbelievers? What more evidence could they possibly demand to prove that Reid was wronged by some bad actor who spent years inventing a new form of hacking just to create the impression that she wrote a few more offensive things in the 2000s than she was willing to admit to?


Newsonomics: Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism it might not want to stop anytime soon ; Nieman Journalism Lab

Eschaton: Those Liberal College Students Are At Again - Those Liberal College Students Are At Again So powerful...and so... illiberal... Virginia's largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations, according to newly released documents. The release of donor agreements between George Mason University and the foundation follows years of denials by university administrators that Koch foundation donations inhibit academic freedom. (and then they fucking lied because it was all a big conservaflake secret)
Koch agreements with George Mason gave foundation role in faculty hiring and oversight -- in violation of the norms of academic freedom. Angel Cabrera, university president since 2012, lied through his teeth shared the news
Campus PC is out of control - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Student activists continue to threaten free speech and academic freedom: "Virginia's largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations, according to newly released documents.

abolish ice. send homan to the hague. on Twitter: "Newly released documents show that the Koch Brothers had the power to no-platform academics who said things the Kochs found politically incorrect, ensuring that the campus was a safe space where billionaires were not confronted with ideas they disliked. https://t.co/qxsLaJt3YL"
Arizona's Politics on Twitter: "BREAKING: Under questioning from Rep. @EngelForArizona (at @AZHouseDems caucus), new @dougducey proposed budget that includes the #20x2020 for teachers includes a 36% RAISE for the "freedom schools" - the Koch-funded schools at @ASU and @UofA. (Maybe #RedForEd aimed low?)"


On the Deletion of Kevin Williamson - Lawyers, Guns & Money

jordan on Twitter: "Kanye thinks slavery was "a choice" "
Matthew A. Cherry on Twitter: "Man @VanLathan thank you for saying what you said to Kanye. "


To find alleged Golden State Killer, investigators first found his great-great-great-grandparents - The Washington Post

Breaking: Harvard Will Bargain With Grad Union | News | The Harvard Crimson - ensuring Harvard will see a student union for the first time in its history. second-ever election on the issue; the final tally saw 1,931 ballots cast in favor of unionization and 1,523 against


Ocular melanoma: Three friends among at least 18 diagnosed with rare eye cancer - The Washington Post - The state of Alabama and Auburn University have both failed to approve funding to explore the cancer ... 36 Auburn University graduates who said that they had been diagnosed with the melanoma (not that they're hiding anything)


Religious fundamentalism could be associated with increased sensitivity to errors - A new preliminary study published in Frontiers in Psychology hints that religious fundamentalism is associated with more intense processing of error-related stimuli. : science


u/mrv3 nails prediction that reddit is slowly becoming social network akin to facebook with recently updated New Reddit layout. : bestof

What's your favorite AskReddit question that never took off?

People who rarely cry, which movie cut some onions for you? : AskReddit


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Trump to attend the NRA convention in Dallas - ABC News (will hold "massive" kill the kids death rally)

Opinion | Sex and Shame: What Incels and Jihadists Have in Common - The New York Times

Kabul bombings: Photographer Shah Marai among 25 dead - BBC News - At least 25 people have been killed in two bombings in the Afghan capital Kabul, including several journalists documenting the scene.
Afghanistan: Photographer Shah Marai among 30 killed in Kabul blasts - CNN - Eight journalists were killed in suicide bombings in the capital, Kabul. Shah Marai of Agence France Presse was among a group of journalists who died when a bomber disguised as a TV cameraman detonated a second bomb at the site of an earlier explosion. Both attacks were claimed by Islamic State.

Syria strike destroyed 200 missiles, killed 11 Iranians, source in pro-Assad alliance says - Syria - Haaretz.com



Bibi's Iran Speech Was a Bust -- The Israeli prime minister's much-hyped revelations make the case for KEEPING the Iran deal. (he assumed people wouldn't notice the whole 2003 thing)

Eschaton: Bye - The people who resign in disgrace are not always the ones who should be resigning, but this is a little tradition which, however flawed, seems to be eroding which just means that no one ever resigns in disgrace or even admits there is a disgrace. So, something, at least. -- Amber Rudd has dramatically resigned as home secretary, after repeatedly struggling to account for her role in the unjust treatment of Windrush generation migrants. (at least the racist fuckers sometimes resign in the UK)


A woman was sexually assaulted by 5 men. A Spanish court says it's not rape (judge says rapists "were all just having a bit of fun."


Overseas Contingency Operations: The Pentagon Slush Fund (for undeclared wars and other secret shit)


Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction - The New York Times
Trump-allied House conservatives draft articles of impeachment against Rosenstein as 'last resort'


Kelly thinks he's saving U.S. from disaster, calls Trump 'idiot,' say White House staffers - Some current and former officials said they expect Kelly to leave by July, and that Trump and Kelly seem to have tired of each other.

Trump's pick to lead ICE, who touted surge in immigration arrests, steps down


Pence's doctor alerted WH aides about Ronny Jackson concerns last fall (out of control asshole, like Trumpster)

Jill Stein Has Turned Over Hundreds Of Documents To Congress As Part Of The Russia Probe (little Russian agent Jill up to her neck in RT)

Frank Rich: Roy Cohn Was the Original Donald Trump - The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests -- just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onetime lawyer to the president ... "The worst human being who ever lived ... the most evil, twisted, vicious bastard ever to snort coke at Studio 54 (cohn and Trump are "polestars of evil")

'Who the hell is this person?' Trump's Mar-a-Lago pal stymies VA project -- The intercession of a well-connected Florida doctor infuriated those overseeing the $16B contract ... have enabled him to hold up the biggest health information technology project in history -- the transformation of the VA's digital records system. Dr. Bruce Moskowitz, an internist and friend of Trump confidant Ike Perlmutter ... doesn't like the Cerner Corp. software he uses at two Florida hospitals, according to four former and current senior VA officials. Cerner technology is a cornerstone of the VA project. (evil doctor-dude, just look at him, is a tech-idiot but vetoes the program because Trump rewards "loyalty" by promoting incompetence because)


Trump campaign has paid portions of Michael Cohen's legal fees


The president is seeking to destroy journalism. Now let's debate dinner entertainment!
The worthless Washington media
In Trump era, the death of the White House press conference (why do they show up for the lies?)
Why Trump Is Winning and the Press Is Losing | by Jay Rosen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
TOP 25 QUOTES BY SPIRO T. AGNEW | A-Z Quotes

White House correspondents think about changing dinner for Trump era

You can't Bully These Motherfuckers -- When I write that CNN politics writer Chris Cillizza is the rankest assbrain in the Western Hemisphere, I am not being nice to him. (Sanders was "bullied" by Wolf, the Lizard says)
Cillizza'd -- As you might expect, Chris Cillizza has what is truly the Bikini Atoll of takes regarding Michelle Wolf's destruction of civil discourse in America:

Michelle Wolf's White House Correspondents Dinner speech was just right - The Washington Post - Wolf managed Saturday night to scandalize the majority of Washington's tuxedo-clad intelligentsia with a barrage of bon mots that, in the eyes of much of the press and political establishment, weren't so bon ... All the same, countless journalists rallied behind Sanders, the same woman who spends her days lying to them. And that says a lot more about them than it does about Wolf's routine ... Yet the figures she scorched have shattered norms that are far more important than an unspoken prohibition on vagina jokes. (the men will grab your pussy but faint if you say "pussy")
Eschaton: Snowflakes - The Michelle Wolf "controversy" is notable because journalists pre-emptively staged the hissy fit that the Right was planning to throw but could not figure out how to do it. I still have no idea what they are mad about. I mean I know what they are mad about but I don't know what they are claiming to be mad about. Something something eye shadow. (your media isn't that much smarter than the Dumpster)

Meet the Schlapps, Washington's Trump-Era 'It Couple'

Exclusive: Democrats lose ground with millennials - Reuters/Ipsos poll | Reuters - Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among millennials as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll ... registered voters ages 18 to 34 shows their support for Democrats over Republicans for Congress slipped by about 9 percentage points over the past two years, to 46 percent overall. And they increasingly say the Republican Party is a better steward of the economy. (because they were 12 when Bush crashed the economy last time and history is too hard, especially the reading and understanding part, so go fuck yourselves, youth)


What savvy journalists say when they are minimizing Trump's hate movement against journalists - To the uninitiated it may look like a fight. Actually, it's a dance, they tell us. -- For two years I have been tracking a speech pattern among American journalists, in which they try to explain to us -- and perhaps to themselves -- why Donald Trump's campaign to discredit them is not what it seems, why it's no big deal (hello, Jack Shafer and ... Hiawatha Bray! journodorks at work lying to themselves and you, laughing all the way to the gulag)


Exclusive: Fired RedState Writer Slams Site Over Hypocrisy of Layoffs: We Were 'Insufficiently Partisan'


Left vs. Left: Richard Cordray and Dennis Kucinich Battle for Governor of Ohio - The New York Times (little Russian Dennis trying to fuck things up, again, and the BernieBros are happy) "He defends Trump, sees UFOs" ... recent career as a Fox News pundit
GOP civil war in Ohio threatens another special election loss - POLITICO - Outside groups are pouring in money as prominent Republicans say nominating the wrong candidate could cost the GOP the district.

GOP candidates' circular firing squad ahead of Indiana Senate primary -- The seat held by Democrat Joe Donnelly in a state Trump won is fertile ground for Republicans ... Drunken driving, self-dealing and false advertising (take your pick Stupidiana)


Tens Of Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Missing From Philadelphia's Largest Cash Account

Maine governor sued for defying Medicaid expansion ballot measure - POLITICO - LePage has refused to implement Medicaid expansion after voters decisively approved it last fall. (says fuck you to the law and poor people with taxpayer money and builds a bridge to his sommer home)

Group to submit 60,000 signatures for Medicaid expansion in Idaho. Here's what's next

Detroit Was Crumbling. Here's How It's Reviving - For 36 years, Detroit has been under some sort of oversight from state and federal authorities

Blankenship slams 'Cocaine Mitch' in anti-McConnell ad -- Blankenship, who spent a year in prison following the 2010 explosion at his Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 workers, offers no context for the jab. But he may be referring to a 2014 report in the liberal Nation magazine that drugs were once found aboard a shipping vessel owned by the family of McConnell's wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

Report: Woman says Greitens 'coaxed' her as 'wounded animal'

Documents show ties between university, conservative donors - virginia's largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations, according to newly released documents.



Kanye meets right-wing commentators Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk | Daily Mail Online - Owens, a controversial YouTuber, is an outspoken critic of Black Lives Matter - Kirk, who is the founder of conservative group Turning Point USA, said of their meeting with Kanye: 'Free thinkers only'

Listening To Nas Makes Me Complicit In Misogynoir | HuffPost - But the most jarring revelation has come from singer Kelis. Nine years removed from her divorce from Queensbridge stalwart Nas, exhaustion from their eternal custody battle over their son finally caused her to discard her modus operandi of discretion and provide gossip blogger Jason Lee with the interview of a lifetime ... It's past time to recognize how investing our finances and fandom into problematic men puts real women in danger. (beating up women is integral to rap culture)



Man who tried to drown himself in pool is suing the people who pulled him out - Laredo Morning Times (well, cops let him sink and prevented his rescue until he was unconscious, so he has a point)


WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook - The Washington Post

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Scores of Palestinians have been shot in their legs, and some face amputation - The Washington Post - Israeli gunfire is taking a severe toll on the lower limbs of Palestinian protesters ("blow off their legs so they can't say we're killing them")


Silicon Valley Can't Be Trusted With Our History - We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it ... Syrian Archive (erasing history)


Eschaton: Anyone Can See - It's ancient history and too much to describe in a small blog post, but the overwhelming ethos of the political press in the 90s and pre-9/11 aughts was that NOTHING FUCKING MATTERED. It was all just a show, and journalists were all extras jostling for a speaking role. That the same people were tasked with suddenly understanding that oh crap maybe things do matter helped usher in the subsequent hell decade, but at least, for a moment, they realized that maybe politics had consequences.

Eschaton: Get Your War On - We all lived through that hell decade of the aughts. We weirdly managed to have some fun! When the history of this era is written, it probably will not include the most important artistic contributions of that time, because that's the way the world works. David Rees captured that moment - in the moment - in a way that nobody else did.

Legal Implications of the Defect in Pentagon's Civilian Casualty Assessments - The problem boils down to an indefensibly high standard for deciding whether an allegation of a civilian casualty is even credible enough to be investigated. (thanks, Barry)


Opinion | Michael Hayden: The End of Intelligence - The New York Times - Mr. Hayden is a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. (in more ways than one)

Comey dismisses House report that found no Russia collusion - The Boston Globe

Did Donald Trump Jr. Admit to Violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? - Lawfare

MMA Fighter With Links To Trump, Cohen Is Questioned By FBI (Trump looks like a baby about to cry)

New Evidence of Obstruction of Justice in House Intelligence Committee Minority Report | Just Security - because Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R.-Calif) appears not to have had any interest in investigating the obstruction issue (much to his discredit).

Nunes blames 'radical leftists' for his failing re-election campaign - With his congressional seat in danger, Devin Nunes is desperately blaming his own failures on imaginary boogeymen (lying little Russian Republican spy)

After firestorm, Rep. Mark Walker has "stepped down" from search committee to select new House chaplain ("you have to know how to fuck women")

Ronny Jackson won't return to old job as Trump's physician ... President Donald Trump has continued defending Jackson, with whom he formed a tight personal bond. (anyone will to lie for him make a "tight personal bond")

Republican Senate Candidate, Who Has Called for Country 'Free From Jews,' Could be Dianne Feinstein's Challenger - Overt anti-Semites have been slowly creeping into Republican politics in the aftermath of President Trump's successful, populist candidacy, and now one of them has a fighting chance of representing the Republican Party in a Senate race.


The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual (screw voting and cops can arrest reporters, step by step)


Vulgarities -- The annual press dinners with a comedian are always a useful lesson about what really upsets our access journalists (Richard Cohen says Colbert wan't funny enough and he knows because he's a really funny guy - which is true in a really sick way)
Eschaton: WANKER OF THE DECADE - 8th Runner Up - Richard Cohen

Michelle Wolf's Boldest Moments At The White House Correspondents' Dinner - Kellyanne Fuckway was not pleased
On the Assassination Of Sarah Sanders By the Coward Michelle Wolf - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Needless to say, the nation's guardians of civil discourse are already distorting her most controversial remarks: (Maggie Haberputz is lying again) ... remember Sander's job is to lie on behalf of someone who has spent his entire political career debasing American political discourse and who insulted Paralympic athletes earlier this week.
Paul Farhi on Twitter: "I'm afraid all the debate over whether Michelle Wolf was too mean to Sarah Sanders is going to overshadow this juicy bit of media criticism in her #whca monologue:"
No Michelle Wolf Didn't Joke About Sarah Huckabee Sanders's Looks (and Haberman is a liar)
Don't Get Angry About Mean Insult Comics If You Helped Put One in the Oval Office (the purged Redstate view)

At the White House correspondents's dinner, the buzz was reduced to a snore -- until Michelle Wolf showed up ... Omarosa Manigault-Newman came, too (accompanied by a fellow who tended to the train of her gown) (here are three media "takes" on the dinner, notice the different messages)
Michelle Wolf's Routine Sets Off a Furor at an Annual Washington Dinner
Media hands Trump big, embarrassing win - Axios (Axios/Allen cite: Jon Karl, Matt Drudge and you guessed it, Donald Trump to prove the Rethugs owned the libtards and fake media! and OMG she used the PUSSY word!)

Michelle Wolf's caustic comedy routine at the White House correspondents' dinner, annotated ("Mike Pence is what happens when Anderson Cooper isn't gay")

White House Correspondents' Dinner: For the sake of journalism, stop the annual schmoozefest - The Washington Post - by Margaret Sullivan -- Trump got to look like a man of the people, a guy who talks the language of autoworkers and waitresses. Jounralists -- whose purported mission is to "afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted" -- were meanwhile partying with their sources at the Washington Hilton ... "Why would I want to be stuck in a room with a bunch of fake news liberals who hate me?" He said he would much rather "spend the evening with my favorite deplorables who love our movement and love America" (owned, libtards +"our movement")

Why Trump's snubbing of White House correspondents' dinner matters (he can dish it out, but he can't take it, the pussy)
Trump rallies in Mich., touting economy and diplomacy and blasting media - The Washington Post - The campaign-style event held at the Total Sports Park was billed as counterprogramming to the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner ... which the president skipped for the second consecutive year ("many more people came to my MAGA-hat rally than watched stupid lying liberals on TV" Trump furously ranted ragefully for 80 minutes)


Safe seats? Anti-Trump wave may wash out some Democrats, too - Some long-serving Democrats are facing primary challenges for the first time ever as the party looks to counter President Donald Trump ... Capuano ... The low-profile Democrat cruised to re-election nine times, never dropping below 80 percent of the vote, while casting reliably liberal votes that earned him perfect ratings from Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union. (perfect progressive not progressive enough)


Erik Loomis on Twitter: "Are we now in the "Loving, Kindly Old John Boehner" phase of romanticizing the recent past? " - undefined

College Kids Need to Suck It Up And Stop Wh...I mean, Trump Supporters, Like Conservative Op-Ed Columnists, Need Safe Spaces To Avoid Bring Triggered - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Conor Friedersdork (is unhappy with libs criticizing rediculously bad "art" by Republican shithead)
David Roberts on Twitter: "I'm happy to see Twitter discovering the, um, art of the right-wing's favorite painter, John McNaughton. Mocking stuff like this is why Twitter exists. https://t.co/BFAb5sL5Rj" (jesus returns to praise the rich and mock libtards)


The Long Arm of Treason in Defense of Slavery Nostalgia -- An African-American couple in California is rightfully upset about the middle school their child will attend having a long-standing "Civil War Ball" ... But this is the long reach of Confederate nostalgia and the idea that the Civil War was this grand ol' time, not a struggle that killed 750,000 Americans over the fate of slaves and the nation ... Ranchos Middle School ... District Superintendent Andy Alvarado


At 89, legendary psychiatrist and marijuana advocate still wonders about Harvard professorship - The Boston Globe - It was May 1971, and Richard Nixon was fuming over a review included in his morning news summary of the book "Marihuana Reconsidered" in which 42-year-old Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon savaged the US government's case for keeping cannabis illegal ... Grinspoon says he was twice denied a promotion to full professor, once in 1975 and again in 1997, despite a career that included pioneering research on schizophrenia, dozens of books and papers, and leadership roles at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and other prestigious institutions. He retired in 2000 as an associate professor ... In the 1950s, he was among the first American doctors to prescribe lithium for bipolar disorder ... anti-Vietnam war ... Carl Sagan ... loved pot ... not criminogenic or make white girls look for black guys to fuck (fucking racist-at-the-core Harvard)


William Friedkin's Faith In Exorcisms Is Unwavering. As For Diversity In Hollywood? It 'Snags' Him. | HuffPost ... You have to be curious, for example, about why Trump became president (old white guy thinks Trump is Jesus, "doesn't know" that Trump lies, needs his head "exorcised")


The Man Who Wanted Everything | by James Wolcott | The New York Review of Books - A complicated character without being inherently interesting, Wenner, a Berkeley dropout who found a spot on the iconoclastic radical monthly Ramparts and worked on the spinoff Sunday edition that would become the prototype for Rolling Stone, was fundamentally a hustler who knew when to pounce, a Machiavellian intriguer with the ravenous munchies, an opportunist whose antennae told him when something was about to break big in the mainstream (such as Saturday Night Live in 1975). (Woolcot is very good) and saw it all happen)


Is there any part in the body that cannot get cancer? : askscience

The chills you get listening to a particularly moving piece of music originate in the salience network of the brain. Surprisingly, this region also remains an island of remembrance that is spared from the ravages of Alzheimer's disease and may be an opportunity to help people with dementia. : science (bvFTD and default mode vs salience neural networks)



Five myths about artificial intelligence - The Washington Post - Myth No. 5 - Artificial intelligence is a threat to mankind. (Zuckberger is right, Musk is wrong, nothing to worry about +did you know AIs are writing news articles now?)
France seizes France.com from man who's had since '94 sues (FraNce hijacks domain, fuck you France +fuck you too, web.com

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Alfie Evans: Legal battle toddler dies - BBC News - 23-month-old toddler at the centre of a High Court legal battle, has died, nearly a week after his life support was withdrawn (brain-dead for a year, wanted government to pay forever, Popester on board)

Amber Rudd was sent targets for migrant removal, leak reveals | Politics | The Guardian - Secret memo undermines home secretary's claim she was unaware of targets (lyin' Tory deporto-bitch and her metrics of evil)


Congress makes a long-overdue move to punish Iran's hostage-takers


Trump Tower is on fire in Azerbaijan capital Baku | Daily Mail Online - Firefighters battling blaze on middle floors of the unfinished hotel in Baku


The Parties in Our Heads: Misperceptions about Party Composition and Their Consequences | The Journal of Politics: Ahead of Print - For instance, people think that 32% of Democrats are LGBT (vs. 6% in reality) and 38% of Republicans earn over $250,000 per year (vs. 2% in reality).


Isakson Spox Voices Support Of Tester's Probe Amid Trump's Growing Rage ("raging furiously")

Yesterday I discussed all the bombshell revelations deeply damaging to Trump in the HPSCI Majority Report. But there are just as many in the HPSCI Minority Report -- and I discuss them here in a deep dive into the timeline of Trump-Russia events

Trump Jr. And Emin Agalarov Stayed In Touch Throughout The Transition
Jill Stein says she won't fully comply with Senate Russia investigation - After months of silence, Stein says she will withhold information from Congress. (srsly, lock up the lying Russian bitch)

How Were We To Know She Was With the Russiasn https://t.co/3SqwKcUPKq" Too? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election. (just a coincidence, shut up libtards)


Trump's Role in Midterm Elections Roils Republicans - Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does not grasp the gravity of the threat they face in the midterm elections. (his backup plan is to cancel them, so he's not worried)

A trifecta of episodes that feed public cynicism toward Washington - The Washington Post - a comment by Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget; the congressional testimony of Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and the controversy over the nomination of White House physician Ronny L. Jackson to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. Each in its own way feeds the publ<'s cynicism. /a>

Democrats were looking at suburban districts. Now they're glancing toward rural ones too.

AG gave prosecutor evidence alleging crime by Greitens | The Kansas City Star - accusing Gov. Eric Greitens of knowingly filing false campaign finance disclosure reports to the Missouri Ethics Commission, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.

Daily Kos Elections on Twitter: "Third GOP retirement from NY state Senate this week. John Bonacic's #SD42 went for Trump 50-45 but for Obama 54-45 (h/t @phillipanderson) https://t.co/NgsbSMr3z9" (another Republican fake human retires)


Simon Balto (not Balto the dog) on Twitter: "Read this important piece by @hthompsn in today's Times. "Today, seven young men -- men who were someone's child, father, sibling or partner -- are dead because we allow our nation's correctional facilities to be run brutally." (it's a feature)
Opinion | How a South Carolina Prison Riot Really Went Down - The New York Times (America loves torture for the less than riches)



J.D. Vance Is An Asshole - Lawyers, Guns & Money - , Vance yokking it up with colleague and ally Charles Murray: (at the AEI, of course)
Erik Loomis on Twitter: "Everyone needs to remember that JD Vance is a grifter whose scam in as the Appalachian Explainer to white liberals who just don't understand THOSE PEOPLE. Plus he works for an actual vampire. https://t.co/kK3qhDL2fX"
The Hills Have Lies - bookforum.com / current issue - A new book challenges the myth of Trump-era Appalachia
Stop talking about race and IQ. Take it from someone who did. - Take it from someone who did (Lord Saletan tries to move on beyond his horrible past (but Sam Harris won't be able to in 20 years, just like racist fuck Sullivan)


Trumpe l'Oeil (conservatard artist paints a 200 lbs-lighter Trump and he's very handsome and wise and his hair looks real)



No More Mister Nice Blog: DELETE ANYTHING YOU DAMN PLEASE - Some celebrities are being criticized for their political views and the op-ed page of The New York Times is on it ... Liel Leibovitz, a Tel Aviv-raised writer for Tablet magazine, and his principal concern is that bad choices in assembling a personal media library might impoverish one' soul. Be careful -- it happened to him! ... some artists' demons, of course, lead them straight into the underwear of children or unwilling adults -- should we follow those artists wherever their demons lead? ... Who at this moment is being culturally banished for right-wing political opinions? Who's s being banished the way Sinead O'Connor and the Dixie Chicks were banished for offending good, decent culturally conservative Americans? Give me a name. Even Ted Nugent goes on tour whenever he likes. (conservaflakes)

Also, If You Tweet Your Disagreement With the Author It Will Be Worse Than Nagasaki and Hiroshima Put Together - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Even though the New York Times already employs two full-time never-Trump conservatives who are vigilant protectors of the right of conservatives to never be criticized and to have access to any forum of their choice, they've brought in one from the outside to give us the same dreary routine: (Liel, the Likud dude) ... Mr. Liel Leibovitz. Sound familiar? Yes, indeed, this Free Speech Crusader (TM) wrote multiple columns urging a tenured professor to be fired for tweeting views about Israel that he disagreed with. What are the odds that Bari Weiss would find his views congenial. (of course, the NYT would give this asshole more space to be an asshole)

Conservative media outlet RedState just fired a lot of its anti-Trump bloggers - Vox (thoughtful conservative voices silenced by the authoritarian liberal media, oh wait)
Red State Work Force - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Since denying conservatives a forum where they can share their novel and daring ideas on such topics as gender, relationships, religion and race is a crime against humanity, I expect the right wing to turn on Salem/Townhall, the owners of Red State. Not really. I expect them to find a way to blame this on The Liberals.
Paying the Price for Not Being a Trump Humper - TheResurgent.com - Erick Erickson

'Raw hatred': why the 'incel' movement targets and terrorises women
When you really think about it, going to bed hungry and going to bed horny are not that different at all, really - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Robin Dale Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. (conservative asshole thinks incels deserve sex-slaves becuase being an unattractive asshole is the same as being poor and the Stacys need to be re-distributed, fairly, to asshole men, because women are a commodity)
Erik Loomis on Twitter: "I know I'm shocked that the Koch Brothers bought and owned Economics department with George Mason is staffed with sociopaths. https://t.co/x5U5eKumzC"


Joy Reid apologizes for 'hurtful' LGBT comments, doesn't 'believe' she wrote anti-gay posts (yeah, right)


The Cosby survivors finally get justice. But think of those hurt along the way. - The Washington Post

Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell Back Tom Brokaw in Letter Signed by 64 Insiders | Hollywood Reporter

Does Lisa Bloom Deserve Redemption? - POLITICO Magazine - She was half of a mother-daughter team that rewrote the rules of going after sexual harassers. Then she got caught on the wrong side of the biggest sexual harassment story in a generation. What was she thinking? (money, duh, Harvey said he would make her a star! +Gloria and Lisa not really friends anymore b/c Gloria should have kept her mouth shut about Rapestein)


Virginia Newspaper Runs KKK Recruitment Flyer in Full on Front Page - "They posted the whole flyer as if they were giving them free advertising. It even had the number on flyer to contact the head of the KKK. Which I thought was totally ridiculous." (


New NYC Schools Chief's 'White Manhattan Parents' Tweet Brews Controversy s to a rawstory.com piece about Upper West Side parents opposing a new plan to diversify schools in their traditionally white luxury neighborhood. ... " Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools."



A lot of Americans think they'd probably try sex with a robot - Shockingly, 16 percent of the 2,000 Americans studied would even prefer to have sex with a robot than a real human. Some would even rather date a robot, with an open-minded 13 percent saying they'd prefer a relationship with a robot than a human ... Creating a perfect sexbot will be a huge challenge both scientifically and commercially. But we are still a few years away yet. ("few" = 2020, the year of the sexbot!)


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This is the moment Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un signed an agreement pledging to end the Korean War. : gifs
North and South Korea Set Bold Goals: A Final Peace and No Nuclear Arms - The New York Times


American Jews Have Abandoned Gaza -- and The Truth -- So it is, more than 70 years later, with Israeli policy toward the Gaza Strip. The truth is too brutal to honestly defend. Why are thousands of Palestinians risking their lives by running toward the Israeli snipers who guard the fence that encloses Gaza? Because Gaza is becoming uninhabitable. That's not hyperbole. The United Nations says that Gaza will be "unlivable" by 2020 (Jews learned nothing from their own experience except how to be good Nazis)


Reagan Aide's New Job: Downplay 'Polish Complicity in the Holocaust' - It's well documented that some Poles helped the Nazis commit genocide. A powerhouse D.C. communications firm has been hired by a Polish 'charity' to rejigger that history


Mexican Rapper, Whose Music Bemoaned Violence, Dissolved Filmmakers's Cor;pses in Acid


8. The tone of political debate, compromise with political opponents | Pew Research Center
Osita Nwanevu on Twitter: "This is incredible. https://t.co/O0oEisXEeJ " (Dems sick of all the fucking triangulation with evil) mon
Eschaton: Maybe This Sucky Blog Has Been Good For Something After All - This is incredible. https://t.co/O0oEisXEeJ pic.twitter.com/ro04fnHdcR (Duncan still deserves credit for being right, for years)
Ariel Edwards-Levy on Twitter: "Huh. That's interesting: "The current ratings of the [Democratic] party among Democratic leaners are as low as they have been at any point in Pew Research Center surveys conducted over the past two decades." https://t.co/MIUrLgfnMk" (because Barry fucked them over so many times)
If Dems Are So Strong, Why Is Their Polling Lead So Weak?


ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He's not the only one who had to prove his citizenship (ICEfuckers)
Top Homeland Security officials urge criminal prosecution of parents crossing border with children - The Washington Post - Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
Women Describe Invasive Strip Searches on Visits to City Jails - The New York Times - The practice is prohibited, but dozens of lawsuits allege a pattern of humiliating searches of women who consented only to a pat-down. (rapist cops, no consequences because you pay their fines)
Today in the War on the 4th Amendment - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The War on (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs is where civil liberties go to die, an ongoing series:


The way to perpetuate discrimination on the basis of race is to ignore discrimination on the basis of race. - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Outstanding piece by Richard Primus about the oral arguments in the Muslim ban case:


Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On - The New York Times - Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked hand in glove with Russia's chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm.
Grassley says he wants to release transcripts tied to 2016 Trump Tower meeting - POLITICO - Aside from Trump Jr., the committee anticipates releasing written responses from Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin who attended the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower alongside the president's eldest son, son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
U.S. judge tosses Paul Manafort suit seeking to bar special counsel Mueller from bringing future charges - The Washington Post

FOIA Request - Federal Bureau of Investigation - Giulliani Leak - CREW

Fox & Friends Hurriedly Shuts Down Interview as Trump Rants About Mueller | Vanity Fair - Anchors grew visibly uncomfortable as they listened to the president undermine his own legal defense.
And Now I'm Gonna Have To Turn My Back On You - Lawyers, Guns & Money - president's Socratic dialogues with the state propaganda network are not necessarily helpful to his associates:

Will Cohen Flip? Tenuous Finances May Provide Crucial Clues - Bloomberg - Taxes, loans, and collapsing medallion values take their toll - Does he have compromising information on Trump he can trade? (hahahaha)
Court grants 90-day delay in Stormy Daniels' suit against Trump - POLITICO - because of a criminal investigation Cohen is facing, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

Republicans on House Intelligence Panel Absolve Trump Campaign in Russian Meddling - The New York Times (Nunes absolves the treason)
Schiff: GOP Blocked Dem Effort To Learn About Trump Jr. Call Ahead Of Meeting - Talking Points Memo (almost like there were things they didn't want to know about)
The new House GOP report on Russia is revealing. But not in a good way for Trump. - The Washington Post - In particular, the Democrats detailed new information that appears to shed light on what Republicans would not do in their investigation.
Rep. Devin Nunes is no longer 'safe' in his race for re-election, forecaster says (only jail would be sweeter)


For Many, Life in Trump's Orbit Ends in a Crash Landing

Michael Flynn and Son Met With Russia Ambassador Before RT Gala (shit is everywhere)
NRA gathers docs amid scrutiny over ties to Kremlin-linked banker - CNNPolitics (more shit is everywhere)

Trump is running America just like his businesses -- right into the ground

House Chaplain Was Asked to Resign. He Still Doesn't Know Why (not satanic enough, obviously)

Several White House medical unit staffers describe pressure to hand out meds - CNNPolitics

The Puzzle of Sarah Huckabee Sanders - POLITICO Magazine - How a bright, competent and likable young operative became the face of the most duplicitous press operation in White House history. (two words: her dad +Christian "college")

McConnell Cements a Legacy for Trump With Reshaped Courts - Bloomberg - rapidly filling U.S. federal courts with young conservatives who will shape American law for generations to come. - "frightening" wingnuts

'Yes or no?' Pruitt can't confirm EPA studied policy effects on babies, children or pregnant women (lying slimeball)


Brian Stelter on Twitter: "Developing: "Mass firings" at @RedState today. It's about money and politics. Source says "they fired everybody who was insufficiently supportive of Trump." https://t.co/h1aBVTlFHI" (liberals silencing conservative voices, oh wait)
Trump critics fired at conservative site RedState | TheHill - RedState had often distinguished itself since 2016 as a home for Trump critics within the GOP. (purge continues, you must swear loyalty to the god-emperor)
Conservative Site RedState 'Purges' Anti-Trump Voices, Fired Writers Say - The modern conservative movement seems to have grown tired of accountability. 'Liberal tears' is the new operating principle. (conservatism is bankrupt, morally and intellectually)
'Mass firing' at conservative site RedState (bottom line: they weren't getting any clicks)


Rep. Pat Meehan resigns; will pay back $39,000 used for harassment settlement - Philly - the Delaware County Republican
GOP Rep. Patrick Meehan resigns from Congress amid ethics probe - The Washington Post

Tenney's red-meat rhetoric alarms House Republicans - The congresswoman suggested most mass shooters are Democrats and called for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton (a true Trumpster) outraised by her Democratic opponent for the second quarter in a row, a sign that her hold on a moderate upstate New York district is in peril.

In Georgia, Sean Hannity is just another landlord hiking the rent
Sean Hannity: 400% rise in eviction orders since host bought Georgia apartment complex | US news | The Guardian

Coal extracted a steep price, now gas is taking WV down same path | News | wvgazettemail.com (while they defund education)


There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: A Close Look at the Evidence - Niskanen Center - Unsurprisingly, these debunkings have attracted some debunkings of their own. The most detailed of these was a pair of posts by Sean Stevens and Jonathan Haidt at the Heterodox Academy. (they invent "iGEn" of intolerant kids and lefties are the real threat when in fact liberal speech is much more likely to get you fired ...) Meanwhile, a new breed of grifters has emerged that only seem interested in campus free speech to the extent that it can be monetized, weaponized, or used to "trigger the libs." (see "liberal tears" at heart of conservatism in RedState articles) (and jfc,, see footnote 1: "Stevens and Haidt borrow the concept of iGen from a 2017 book of the same name by Jean M. Twenge, an academic psychologist. Twenge argues that the advent of the smartphone has made people born after 1995 feel fragile, weak, and insecure")


ADL regrets calling group that targets anti-Israel students Islamophobic and racist | Jewish Telegraphic Agency - to describe the Canary Mission, a group that posts blacklists of what it says are anti-Israel students on campuses. (you must swear allegiance to the racist apartheid state or we will harass you, ADL mostly ok with it) s


Opinion | When Misogynists Become Terrorists - The New York Times ... "lone wolves" ... Here's the term we should all use instead: misogynist terrorism. Until we grapple with the disdain for women that drives these mass murderers, and the way that the killers are increasingly radicalized on the internet, there will be no stopping future tragedies. (but, comment: "these people are not "misogynist terrorists." They are misogynist mass murderers or would be misogynist mass murderers. Sorry for being pedantic but there is a real and important difference in the use of these words.)
Why are Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW)? Medium
Opinion | What Do We Do With These Men? - The New York Times - The bad men are plotting their comebacks.
Men who pulled out their penises at work think people want to see more of them now

Yiannopoulos' business implodes after death of crypto-billionaire ... Matthew Mellon. But those hopes were dashed with Mellon's unexpected death from an apparent drug overdose on April 16.

In a letter to colleagues, NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw slams allegations of sexual misconduct made by Linda Vester (the rare false accusation, from an ex-Fox employee)

NBC News faces skepticism in remedying in-house sexual harassment - The Washington Post (they knew about Lauer, and fired Ann Curry instead because she said something)
Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Harassment in Video - By Former NBC Anchor - Variety - Linda Vester had a reputation for covering tough stories. As a war correspondent for NBC News

Cliff Huxtable Was Bill Cosby's Sickest Joke (so many "America's Dads")
bill Cosby's conviction is a watershed. It also shows how hard it is to hold alleged abusers accountable ... Since late 2014, at least 60 women have come forward to accuse Cosby of sexual misconduct. Some have described episodes that took place as far back as the 1960s. Andrea Constand is the only woman whose experience has led to criminal charges against Cosby (meanwhile, in NY, Cuomo protects rapists)

Former LePage adviser who resigned from White House post sues ex-wife - Portland Press Herald - David Sorensen accuses Jessica Corbett of defaming him when she accused him of domestic abuse earlier this year.


Want to know about the new White Power symbols?
Viking Ship Burials: Truly An Awesome Way To Go - The r(ev)olutionary technology of the Viking ships - A Viking laughs at Ibn Fadlan and via an interpreter tells him Arabs are fools to bury their dead because they put the best among them into the earth where worms and insects eat them where by burning the Vikings enter Paradise immediately. When a wind picks up and carries some of the ashes away the Viking laughs again and says that the wind will bear his lord to Paradise.


Claims by Joy Reid's Cybersecurity Expert Fall Apart -- the evidence provided crumbles under scrutiny (lying little gay chubby-butted bitch)
The Joy Reid controversy, from homophobic blog posts to a hacking claim, explained
The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts | The Nation (libs making fun of gays was a thing "on blogs" three years before Obama "evolved")


'I can't breathe': Former NFL player completely unconscious after being slammed to the ground by police - , Marrow explained that officers tried to say that he had a gun in his pocket, however, it was only a cell phone. He said that the police "knocked my teeth out, slammed me on my head and choked me out until I was unconscious. In addition I suffered a shoulder strain and a concussion' (they "feared for their lives")
A mentally ill man died after being hit 18 times with a Taser in his home. The police officers weren't charged (zap him 'til he's dead)

After using rare 'gay panic' legal defense, Austin man avoids prison time

The ingeniouis and 'dystopian' DNA technique police used to hunt the 'Golden State Killer' suspect


The best food processor
Joanna Gaines' Biscuit Recipe Is The Star Of Her 'Magnolia Table' Cookbook | HuffPost (3 sticks of butter)


r/deaf - we cannot hear! yay! (see related subreddits on right, like /r/Cochlearimplants)

Deaf people of Reddit, If you were born deaf and have never heard the English language, is your inner monologue in sign language? If not, what is it? : AskReddit (interesting comments on memory)
Deaf people of Reddit, what are some common things people unknowingly sign when they gesture with their hands while talking? : AskReddit (vagina)
Deaf grandmother teaching her grand baby sign language : gifs


What is something you will never understand? : AskReddit


Real People Are Turning Their Accounts Into Bots On Instagram -- And Cashing In - Verified accounts turning themselves into bots, millions of fake likes and comments, a dirty world of engagement trading inside Telegram groups. Welcome to the secret underbelly of Instagram.

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The military paid for a study on sea level rise. The results were scary. - The Washington Post - The research also has ramifications for the U.S. military, whose massive Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site sits, in part, on the atoll island of Roi-Namur -- a part of the Marshall Islands and the focus of the research. (Trump will defund "fake science")

At least 15 Injuries in Superior Explosion; No Fatalities Reported | www.WDIO.com


We are the Dutch National Police and the Public Prosecution Service. Together with International Law Enforcement Agencies we just powered off Webstresser.org. Ask Us Anything. : IAmA


Eschaton: I Do! - The right wing fantasy of London and Sweden (and Paris and wherever they decide to talk about next week) as being horror zones because a bunch of brown people live there is bigoted and also...false. It could be bigoted and true if people were as bigoted as Tucker Carlson, but it isn't. The problem with London is that too many people want to live there. Which is why one of you needs to buy me a flat. (Fucker Carlson, most intelligent commenter on TV!)



The Public, the Political System and American Democracy | Pew Research Center - Most say 'design and structure' of government need big changes
If Democrats Are Doing so Great, Why Don't They Have a Bigger Lead on Generic Ballot? | The Cook Political Report - he latest Real Clear Politics average shows Democrats with a 6.5 percent lead. The FiveThirtyEight.com average has Democrats with a 6.9 percent lead. If Democrats are cruising to victory in the fall, why does the generic not look more like it did over the summer when it showed Democrats with a double-digit lead? ... Republicans are "coming home." Even in a terrible year for the GOP, they are not going to perform much worse in the national vote than 43-44 percent. (and there you are, 44% of the country will vote for evil incarnate) Trump with a 33 percent job approval among independents, and 36 percent of independents say they will vote for a Republican in the fall.
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; Raising the Ceiling, But Not the Floor, on Potential Democratic House Gains - Playing field widens even as odds of turnover don't change


In Warning to Trump, Senators Advance Bill to Protect Mueller - The New York Times
Senate panel advances bill to protect Mueller from firing, but it's unlikely to become law (Russian Mitch says "no way")

Trump says Comey 'guilty of crimes' warns DOJ he won't 'stay away' forever (he's going to arrest the Justice Dept)
In Bonkers Interview, Trump Threatens To Seize Control of Justice Department
Trump says he may change his mind on not getting involved in DoJ's Russia probe ... "witch hunt" investigation ... Trump is, on national television, making existential threats to the rule of law.
Trump's unwieldy 'Fox and Friends' interview, annotated
The 53 most stunning lines from Donald Trump's 'Fox & Friends' interview
Trump's Fox & Friends Meltdown Was Worthy of Andrew Johnson - The President Is a Few Bulbs Short of a Chandelier -- Trump melts down -- and is cut off by the hosts of -- Fox & Friends (and when that happens ...) On Thursday morning, he called in, and, over the next several minutes, had what can be gently called an "episode"

U.S. Attorney General Sessions says Mueller probe has taken on 'life of its own'

Trump's biggest problem might be the competency question (they are all totally incompetent except for taking your money and laughing) majorities of women (61 percent), seniors (58 percent), millennials (57 percent), independents (57 percent) and men (51 percent) said the Trump administration wasn't too competent or not competent at all. Even whites were split down the middle -- 50-50. (America has a stupid white people problem)

Eschaton: Bye Doctor Ronny - I guess the mystery is why he didn't get out while the going was still good -- after lawmakers went public with a torrent of accusations leveled against him by nearly two dozen current and former colleagues from the White House medical staff.
White House Withdraws Jackson Nomination for V.A. Chief Amid Criticism - The New York Times (very military head you have there, Ronny)
Ronny Jackson withdraws as Trump's nominee to lead Veterans Affairs (he could have harassed 10's of thousands at the VA instead of a dozen at the WHMC!)


F.B.I. Letter Casts Further Doubt on White House's Rob Porter Timeline


Michael Cohen to invoke Fifth Amendment right in Stormy Daniels case - The Washington Post
President Trump will personally review documents in Cohen case - ABC News - to ensure that privileged information is not revealed accidentally to the FBI or prosecutors ("personally")
Attorney Michael Avenatti hints $1.6 million abortion payout was for Trump -- not GOP donor (and heat is up on Shammitty)
Trump says Cohen 'represented me' in Stormy Daniels scandal - POLITICO
Federal prosecutors quickly cite Fox and Friends comments to help make their case on cCohen documents (his brain is always leaking)
Feds seized more than a dozen of Michael Cohen's phones

Opinion | Meet the New Boss. Actually Quite Different From the Old Boss. - The New York Times - Now, the Republican establishment, embodied in the Bush family, proud but powerless, is a relic of a past, brought to its knees by insurgent forces, not least of which is the ascendance of social media (Fox is "social media")

Top Trump Fundraiser Caught Working for Assad Ally
Diamond and Silk say under oath they weren't paid by Trump campaign; FEC filings say otherwise (oh, the old lying under oath trick!)

Eschaton: They Lie About Everything - They Lie About Everything -- Mnuchin is rich. Really really rich! Also, he does not care about the things you yokels care about because he lives in the greatest only city in the world! ... "Being a New Yorker, I don't have any interest in watching the eclipse," Mnuchin said ... As a New Yorker, he took it so seriously he had a military jet take him there. (the point being, they all lie, all the time)


How a week of triumph for Trump was convulsed by chaos and contradiction - The Washington Post - "We'reliving in a season of corruption the likes of which we haven't seen but in a banana republic. Everywhere you look you see incompetence, malfeasance, self-dealing and corruption"


U.S. business spending on equipment slowing; job market strong


House chaplain forced out by Ryan | TheHill - House Chaplain Patrick Conroy's sudden resignation has sparked a furor on Capitol Hill, with sources in both parties saying he was pushed out by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) ... House chaplains, who offer an opening prayer each day the House is in session, are supposed to be nonpartisan. (will be replaced with satangelical trumpster)


Meagan Day on Twitter: "Holy shit I just saw this one, tidal wave of Arizona teachers!! #RedForEd "


Our shame: The sins of Advertiser's past laid bare for all to see - The destruction wrought by lynching was far-reaching (just a little "southern culture")


Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Sexual Assault After Years of Accusations - The New York Times - of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home near here 14 years ago, capping the downfall of one of the world's best-known entertainers, and offering a measure of satisfaction to the dozens of women who for years have accused him of similar assaults against them ... three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, at the time a Temple University employee he had mentored.
Bill Cosby Found Guilty in Sexual-Assault Trial, the First Major Conviction of #MeToo Era - Cosby, 80, was accused of drugging and attacking Andrea Constand. He now faces 30 years in prison.
Cosby Guilty - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bill Cosby's lawyer falls asleep during testimony (Cosby slipped him a few quaaludes)

Two Members of Congress Were Rumored to Be Having an Affair. He May Be the Next Speaker. She's Out of a Job

The Center For American Progress Staff Was Shocked After Neera Tanden Named The Anonymous Harassment Victim In An All-Staff Meeting - "People audibly gasped when she did that." "Neera lost the organization today, another CAP employee who was in the meeting said. "There was so much angst in that room. She outed the victim, and the subtext of every question was a lack of confidence in her leadership and ability to create trust within the organization." (yeah, she's a long-term Hillary hack and completely clueless, like Hillary, when it comes to sexual harassment)


Joy Reid's Hacking Claims Look Increasingly Unlikely (you're looking very, very gay, Joy (and stupid!) and Media Matters just lost a ton of credibility)
Lawyer: FBI Now Investigating Alleged 'Hack (someone should tell her not to lie to the FBI like she's been lying to everyone else)
The Evidence Is Not With Joy Reid - The Atlantic - claim that her blog was hacked to include homophobic posts looks implausible. (all you had to do was apologize; go home, liar, you're toast now)
Joy Reid Blog Mocked 'Chubbed-Out Shrew' Rosie O'Donnell, back 'Kick-Ass Funny' Donald Trump (lyin' Joy has a weird sense of humor)
Daily Beast Suspends Joy Reid Column Over 'Serious' Accusations About Past Homophobic Blog Posts

Kevin Williamson Continues His "Silenced In Prominent Forums": World Tour With Disingenuous Golden Oldie (fucking liar)
The Harpy: The Far Right's Ironic Snowflake Problem -- The Milo mishegas speaks to an intellectual barrenness at the core of Trump-era conservatism: Having found themselves in political power, they must manufacture a sense of powerlessness ... Also instructive in highlighting the hollow core of Trump-era conservatism is the high-profile case of Kevin Williamson.

Tina Brown says she was pitched Charlie Rose comeback show | Page Six - Disgraced CBS anchor Charlie Rose is being slated to star in a show where he'll interview other high-profile men who have also been toppled by #MeToo scandals (called the "Asshole Redemption Tour")
Today Among Our Overcompensated and Underachieving Elites - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Charlie Rose was reflecting at his Long Island gulag and came up with the worst idea ever: ... It sure will be awesome when Rose and Lauer get the assignment to hector Kirsten Gillibrand about her compliance with email server management best practices, and then interview Donald Trump about Gillibrand's compliance with email server management best practices.


Search for 'Golden State Killer' Leads to Arrest of Ex-Cop
What We Know About Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer Suspect - The New York Times - The authorities have not said how they first became aware of him. But last week, they surveilled him and surreptitiously collected his DNA from two items he had discarded
Arrest in Golden State Killer Case Shocks Suspect's Quiet Neighborhood
Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case, DA's office says
How a Genealogy Site Led to the Front Door of the Golden State Killer Suspect - The New York Times



I'm Not Done With Kanye -- but It's Getting Hard to Justify This (the soulless problem, see his eyes)

Hit-and-run crash deaths are rising nationwide, and pedestrians and bicyclists account for close to 70% of the victims, according to a new report, as more people cycle to work and motor-vehicle fatalities are at a near-decade-high level ... The biking virtue signaling began with hipsters and was pushed by environmentalists. But it's killing people (hello, Cambridge)


Eschaton: WeWhat - Now I think I get it - attract a bunch of money by marketing itself to investors as a some sort of new economy thing (hip millennial working spaces with Ping-Pong and beer!!!), and use that money to go long on a massive portfolio of commercial real estate leases. Then hope for the best! -- Could work. Will work for some people, as is always the case when money is sloshing around.

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Incel, the ideology behind the Toronto attack, explained - Vox
Incels hail Toronto van driver who killed 10 as a new Elliot Rodger, talk of future acid attacks and mass rapes [UPDATED] :: We Hunted The Mammoth


Eschaton: And all this science he don't understand - I am genuinely curious how the little BBs floating around his walnut brain conspired to give him what appears to be genuine affection for Rocket Man. (authoritarian bros)


Russian Novichok Developer Hospitalized Following Car Accident - after being hit by a car.


Alfie Evans: police issue warning over online abuse of medical staff | UK news | The Guardian


Expelled spies included Russians suspected of tracking compatriots resettled in US - CNNPolitics


Millennials blame boomers for ruining their lives - Axios - the generational divide could turn into political rivalry as the generations compete for limited tax dollarRecent reports suggest intriguing possibilities for where the investigation is going.

The Media Doesn't Have To Blow The Next Election

In Trump's first year, FISA court denied record number of surveillance orders -- More surveillance orders were denied during President Donald Trump's first year in office than in the court's history (oh, so that means ...)


What's Robert Mueller' s next big move? Here are 9 possibilities. Recent reports suggest intriguing possibilities for where the investigation is going.
Robert Mueller's Last Resort


Manafort interviewed twice by FBI before joining Trump's 2016 campaign, new documents show ... The information raises fresh questions about how closely the Trump campaign vetted staff members and whether Manafort and Gates told officials about their interactions with the FBI comment: "So 3 of Trump's closest campaign advisers have been under investigation for years for their ties to Russian intelligence. Plus whatever Stone was up to with Wikileaks.We know, based on Mueller indictments, that Russian intelligence had deployed active measures to interfere in the election.

Trump's Budget Director Admits He Spoke Only To Lobbyists Who Paid Him - Mick Mulvaney has been criticized for his cozy ties to the financial industry.

New Allegations Emerge Against Ronny Jackson as White House Digs In - The New York Times (Fuckabee says he's "impeccable")
VA nominee Ronny Jackson faces explosive new allegations of drinking, wrecking government vehicle - The Washington Post


HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose raising rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies - The Washington Post
HUD Secretary Ben Carson wants to triple rent on poor people



Shrugging Off Trump Scandals, Evangelicals Look to Rescue G.O.P. - The New York Times - The vast majority of evangelical Christians are digging in for Mr. Trump, despite accusations by a pornographic film star and a Playboy playmate that he had separate affairs with them shortly after his wife, Melania Trump, gave birth to their son. Those controversies, paired with the multiple women who accused him of groping them before the election and his own boasts of sexual aggressions, have highlighted the unyielding support of a political bloc that once put moral behavior at the center of its political judgment ... white evangelical approval for Mr. Trump at its highest level ever: 75 percent. Only 22 percent said they had an unfavorable view of the president. (SATANgelicals for the Antichrist)


Ronan Farrow: Hillary Clinton Tried to Cancel Interview Because I Was Reporting on Weinstein Story | Mediaite


A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. - The New York Times - The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday -- in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.


Arizona Special Election Results: Eighth House District - The New York Times ("Handmaid's Tale" Trent Franks' district, Debbie Lesko, Rethug, wins, 53% to 47% for Hiral Tipirneni, Dem)
Another Special Election, Another Really Bad Sign For The GOP | FiveThirtyEight - The Republican won in Arizona's 8th District, but not by as much as she should have - The area has traditionally been extremely Republican, having voted for John McCain by 22 points in 2008, Mitt Romney by 25 points in 2012, and President Trump by 21 points in 2016.
Republicans Hold On To Arizona House Seat That Trump Won In A Landslide | HuffPost - But the GOP had to spend over $1.2 million to keep control of the once-safe seat. Although Donald Trump won the suburban Phoenix district by 21 percentage points (Lesko won by 5)


Don Blankenship, West Virginia Candidate, Lives Near Las Vegas and Mulled Chinese Citizenship - The New York Times (perfect)

Louisiana GOP pushes back on anti-bestiality bill over fears it could undo sodomy ban | TheHill (better to fuck a few animal than to let gay people have sex - or anal in general, for that matter)


Megyn Kelly's Spectacular Failure Can No Longer Be Denied
New Report Claims NBC's $69 Million Gamble on Megyn Kelly's Show Is Bruising Other NBC Shows ... "Andrew Lack made the mistake with Megyn Kelly [from the beginning] with the decision to hire her to an anachronistic celebrity contract in the mistaken belief that star quality could turn into ratings gold." ... Megyn Kelly is her own caricature, and I guess it's going to take a $69 million hit for NBC to realize that. (she's tanking the whole morning viewership)


Joy Reid Blames Hackers for Anti-Gay Blog Posts, but Questions Mount - The New York Times
Joy Reid Claims Newly Discovered Homophobic Posts From Her Blog Were 'Fabricated' (by the napkin-loving gay mafia, she said +obsessive homophobic much, Joy? ... and hates gay Rachel ... and gay marriage ... and left lefties)
MSNBC's Joy Reid Claims Her Website Was Hacked and Bigoted Anti-LGBT Content Added, a Bizarre Story Liberal Outlets Ignore ... In 2012, the Democratic Party officially changed its position on LGBT equality when Barack Obama "evolved" and announced his support for gay marriage, which he had previously opposed ... December apology ... But the last 24 hours have changed the Joy Reid situation considerably. Last week, the same left-wing Twitter user (Jamie Maz) who first unearthed Reid's anti-gay tweets about Crist unearthed far more toxic, bigoted, and vicious anti-gay articles that appeared to be from Reid's old blog. Reid has removed her blog from the internet, so Maz found the articles using the "Wayback Machine." (dumb, and dumber, never occured to her) somehow, nefarious disinformation agents managed to hack not her blog (which is now deleted), but rather the Wayback Machine and its digital archive. They penetrated the Wayback Machine and then, according to Reid, added some anti-gay content.
Addressing Recent Claims of "Manipulated" Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine
LGBTQ Group Rescinds Award For Joy Reid After Homophobic Blog Posts Revealed | Mediaite
Joy Reid on Twitter: "Nobody tell her about the wayback machine... "
Media Matters Says No Boycott for Joy Reid, Blasts 'Right-Wing Chicanery' ... Reid has denied writing many of the old posts and said the Internet Archive's Wayback Mahine -- which documented Reid's old blog -- had been compromised. (really, MM?)

alicublog: PUBLISH MY THESIS, LIBS! - This essay is short by Kevin Williamson standards, but let me boil it down still further for those of you who wish to limit their contact (and I'll keep it short because I'm sick of writing about this asshole):

Peter Thiel Has Dropped His Plans to Buy Gawker | Mediaite - it is possible that he ended his pursuit of the website in order to dodge a possible lawsuit. (they held up a mirror)


Video shows Port Authority commissioner telling cops 'You may shut the fuck up! ... Flashing her commissioner's gold badge and boasting of her influence during a routine traffic stop involving her daughter, Caren Z ... Tenafly Police released a video Tuesday revealing just why Turner abruptly resigned last week as a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. (and had to turn in her gold badge) Turner, 60, a Democratic lobbyist who served as the ethics chair of the powerful bi-state agency. (career over)


Arrest in Golden State Killer Case: 'The Answer Has Always been in Sacramento' - Joseph James DeAngelo, 72 ... The Golden State Killer, also known as the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker ... 12 murders, 45 rapes, 120 burglaries (NYT takes 12 paragraphs to tell you he's an ex-cop)
Michelle McNamara Hunted, and Was Haunted by, the Golden State Killer - The New York Times

A True-Crime Mystery From the 1950s, Fueled by Racism and Corruption - The New York Times


My Best Friend's Worst Betrayal - A reader tries to process her sexual assault by person who supposedly knew her -- and all her vulnerabilities -- better than anyone ... We were both drinking

Children of Anti-Vaxxers who grew up and got yourselves vaccinated, what's your story? How did your parents take it? [Serious]

Eschaton: A Meeting Of The Big Banks - For some reason, in 2018, our customers still can't quite figure out why transferring money electronically is not only not instantaneous, but can take some ambiguous amount of time for reasons only known to us. They are resorting to using "apps" on their "phones" to bypass the excellent services that we provide for them at low low prices with our always trustworthy brands. How about we...innovate in this space? We will calls it Zelle. The kids will love that! Zelle.


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What we know about Alek Minassian, alleged driver in deadly Toronto van attack | CBC News - A profile on social networking site LinkedIn identifies Minassian as a student at Seneca College in North York - Ten people were killed and 15 injured (not a Muslim, probably an "incel")
After Toronto attack, online misogynists praise suspect as 'new saint' == Online communities of men are celebrating -- and committing -- acts of violence
Toronto mass-murder suspect Alek Minassian linked to incel rebellion and praise for misogynistic killer Elliot Rodger | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly

NRA out-raised gun control groups one month after Parkland | McClatchy Washington Bureau (gunsters love mass killings)
Broward sheriff's deputies cowered behind cars, tree with Parkland shooter believed in school : news

Laser jammer Range Rover driver who gave police the finger is handed an eight-month prison sentence - North Yorkshire Police | North Yorkshire Police - made rude gestures as he drove past police safety cameras has been jailed ... and banned from driving for a year for perverting the course of justice. (America could use one of those laws)


Mystery grows over pro-Saudi tabloid: Embassy got sneak peek - It landed with a thud on newsstands at Walmart and rural supermarkets last month: Ninety-seven fawning pages saluting Saudi Arabia, whose ambitious crown prince was soon to arrive in the U.S. on a PR blitz to transform his country's image (and then they lied, of course, "who, us?")


pPlayful dominance' : The touchy-feely relationship between Trump and Macron

Eschaton: Fuck Greyhound - There was some ambiguity about whether Greyhound did or did not have a choice in the matter given that our "border" goes all the way to Missouri, but apparently not. -- Border Patrol officers routinely board buses without a warrant, without specific people they're targeting, up to 100 miles from the border -- and ask passengers for their papers. Greyhound, the nation's largest intercity bus line, lets the Border Patrol do it and doesn't plant to stop. -- You don't have to give a crap about immigrants and racism (I do!) to not want your bus boarded by a bunch of thugs demanding your papers, especially in a country where most people don't have, or certainly don't carry, any papers. (today, in Trumpmerica)
Greyhound Is Choosing To Let Border Patrol Demand Its Passengers' Papers | HuffPost - The ACLU says it's consenting to warrantless searches it could refuse. (Trump doesn't need no steenking warrents)

James Fallows on the Reinvention of America - The Atlantic - Americans don't realize how fast the country is moving toward becoming a better version of itself.

y Pulitzer-winning reporter David Cay Johnston: "The evidence suggests Trump is a traitor" - Investigative reporter who has covered Trump for 30 years dares to imagine impeachment -- and President Nancy Pelosi (because all the Republicans are crooked) The November elections are the most important American elections since the Civil War, and I'm including 1932 ... there's no good ending. If Trump is removed by impeachment or by the voters, whether in a Republican primary or a general election, I know what he will do. He's already told us what he will do by his actions. Trump will spend the rest of his days fomenting violence and revolution in this country.


Flight Records Illuminate Mystery of Trump's Moscow Nights ("I never spent the night in Russia with those prostitutes!")
false claims to Comey about Moscow stay could aid Mueller -- James Comey says the president told him that he never spent the night in Moscow in 2013, but flight records, social media and his bodyguard's testimony show otherwise. (Satan always lies)
Miss Universe 2013 Host Thomas Roberts Confirms: Trump Stayed Overnight in Moscow - won't say if he has been interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Comey Has Brought On Former U.S. Attorney Pat Fitzgerald As One Of His Lawyers
Sales Figures for Comey's 'A Higher Loyalty' Dwarf Recent Political Best Sellers - has dominated headlines for more than a week, and became an instant blockbuster, selling more than 600,000 copies in all formats during its first week on sale.

Special Trump tax provision gives $17 billion break to millionaires, gov't report finds

Pompeo Discussed Rapture at CIA | TYT Network - introduction of overtly religious behavior into the workplace, including Rapture references. "He is intolerant of anyone who is a fundamentalist Christian." Congressional disclosure forms show that Pompeo has claimed a "special interest" in Israel (he tried to make the CIA "born again" because it's "politics until the rapture" and they are even worse people than you think, and oh look! Ron Dermer and J Street)

How Devin Nunes Turned the House Intelligence Committee Inside Out - The New York Times - In inquiries on Benghazi and Russia and beyond, the California congressman has displayed a deep mistrust of the expert consensus on reality (anti-reality Trump loves the little Russian)

"It's Over" : How the WikiLeaks Emails Were Handled (Hillary had a talent for historical misjudgments)
Nick Confessore on Twitter: "E-mails separately stolen from the DNC revealed party officials' disdain for Bernie Sanders's and some evidence of efforts to sabotage his campaign--as well as an unprecedented inside look at the privileges of the elite Democratic donor class."

Eschaton: What's It All About Then - Oh. -- Just In: 2 sources confirm to @nancycordes and @edokeefe Sen Vet Affairs Comm is reviewing allegations against Ronny Jackson which include a hostile work environment, excessive drinking on the job and improperly dispensing meds.
VA nominee drunkenly banged on female employeee's door during overseas trip, sources say
Ronny Jackson's VA nomination on the rocks -- His confirmation hearing may be postponed as senators weigh potentially new negative information about the Veteran Affairs secretary nominee (only the best crooked drunken abusive harassers!)
Democrats reviewing allegations against VA nominee Ronny Jackson - CBS News - , in light of stories about the nominee told by current or former White House medical staff.
Senate to postpone confirmation hearing for Ronny Jackson to head Veterans Affairs, White House officials told - The Washington Post ("Trump will live to be 200!" "He's bigly fit!")


Poll: Coal baron Blankenship fading in W.Va. Senate primary - POLITICO - The formerly imprisoned GOP candidate has been attacked heavily by groups aligned with Washington Republicans.

The Renegade Sheriffs | The New Yorker - A law-enforcement movement that claims to answer only to the Constitution ("sovereign sheriffs")

Colorado: "legislators threatens jail time for any educator caught "directly or indirectly inducing, instigating, encouraging, authorizing, ratifying, or participating in a strike against any public school employer" : news


Colbert Proves Trump Wrong With A Single Photo | HuffPost (Maggie Haberputz and Trump's THUMB! tells you all you need to know about NYT's "objectivity")


Sean Hannity's real estate venture linked to fraudulent property dealer -- Shell company tied to the Fox News host bought homes through Jeff Brock, who was charged in 2016 with fraud and conspiracy for his role in a scheme to rig auctions on foreclosed properties (crookied Seanitty!)


People who believe the US is entitled to special treatment became more likely to endorse conspiratorial patterns of thinking over the course of the 2016 presidential campaign. According to new research with 1,685 Americans, collective narcissism predicted a strengthening of conspiracy thinking. : science


Inside The Divisive Fight Over How A Top Progressive Think Tank Handled Sexual Harassment - "All of this to say, I surely expected better out of an organization that housed a national campaign on sexual assault." ... The Center for American Progress, the politics and policy hub for the Democratic establishment, has put out four different policy proposal papers on handling sexual harassment in the workplace, as well as data on how pervasive the issue is "across all industries." The organization's president, Neera Tanden, has vehemently criticized Republicans for their reaction to the accusations of sexual misconduct against President Donald Trump. But only an hour after the Access Hollywood tape was made public, top officials at CAP received an exit memo from a young woman who'd just quit detailing the sexual harassment she experienced from Benton Strong, a manager on her team -- harassment, she wrote, that management already knew about -- and how she faced retaliation for reporting it ... Tanden refusted ...'Neera's approach was maybe we can start hosting brown bags with HR so people will feel more comfortable coming out and doing things. So they had almost a do-nothing approach. ... They said they would think about things that [the union brought up], and that was essentially it,"





Opinion | Hope in Arizona - The New York Times - On Tuesday, there's a special election in Arizona's Eighth Congressional District, which Donald Trump won by 21 percentage points ... to replace Trent Franks, the abortion opponent who resigned amid reports that he tried to create his own personal version of "The Handmaid's Tale" by pressuring female employees to serve as gestational surrogates ... This time, a Democrat named Hiral Tipirneni, a former emergency room physician and first-time political candidate, is running against a Republican state senator, Debbie Lesko. Though Lesko is expected to win, some polls show the race in a dead heat, and Republicans have spent more than $1 million on the campaign. (+AZ rethug dimbulbs cutting education for decades)

Report: Rep. Martha McSally alleges sexual abuse as teen by coach - McSally, a Tucson Republican who is running in Arizona's GOP primary to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said in a story published Monday the alleged sexual abuse happened when she was a senior in high school ... "I was freaking out that he would get me pregnant" (so, naturally, she's an anti-birth control Catholic Republican)


American Airlines: Police use stun gun on unruly passenger at Miami airport - The Washington Post - "What is the reason you're removing me from this plane?' Garcia yelled. "Well, you just assaulted a lady, for one," someone replied. "You're a racist, for two." (sounds like another "sovereign citizen")

Golf club apologizes for calling cops on black women members - A golf club in Pennsylvania has apologized for calling police on a group of black women after the co-owner and his father said they were playing too slowly and refused requests to leave the course ... Thompson said the man from the second hole, identified as former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, his son, club co-owner Jordan Chronister and several other white, male employees approached the remaining two women and said they took too long of a break and they needed to leave the course ... The women argued they took an appropriate break, and that the men behind them were still on their beer break and not ready to tee off, as seen in a video Thompson gave the newspaper (Steve Chronister, famous on the internets for all eternity for being a fucking racist asshole)


John Avlon's Daily Beast is Buzzing | Mediaite - more than four years since John Avlon -- the former columnist and ubiquitous cable news commentator -- took the reins of the Daily Beast from Tina Brown ... In 2013, Avlon replaced Brown, whose success reinventing Vanity Fair and The New Yorker belied her inability to make a digital outlet whir ... and a spate of recent high-profile political and national security scoops have vaulted the Daily Beast to the top of the digital news heap.


Morning Mediawire: The Pulitzer-laden researcher embedded in the Post newsroom | Poynter - Alice Crites -- One Pulitzer can make a career. Two can make a legend. Library-trained researcher Alice Crites has been a part of a half-dozen Pulitzer teams



From Cursing To Murder, Facebook Opens Up About The Site's 'Community Standards' | HuffPost ... "community standards" for what people can post. But only a relatively brief and general version was publicly available, while it had a far more detailed internal document to decide when individual posts or accounts should be removed. (so you don't really know, of course, Zuckerfuckerberged again)

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The Trump Administration Wants To Nationalize the Coal Industry - time for Inside Climate News to start delivering the bad news by the truckload again.

Waffle House Shooter's Dad Gave His Son His AR-15 After Authorities Took It Away - I don't Understand Gun Culture and I Never Will -- The father of the alleged Waffle House shooter gave his son''s AR-15 back to him after authorities took it away. (it's your 2nd Amendment right to be a mass killer)
Waffle House murder suspect captured : news
Waffle House shooting: Manhunt continues for suspect Travis Reinking, Nashville police say - The Washington Post

10 dead, 15 hurt as van mows down pedestrians along Yonge St.; suspect named | The Star - Alleged driver of the vehicle is Alek Minassian, according to a police source.


Wedding Is Hit by Airstrike in Yemen, Killing More Than 20 - The New York Times - carried out by the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen, killed more than 20 people and wounded dozens of others, including the groom, Yemeni officials said Monday. (repeating Obama's tactics)


Net neutrality is officially dead. Now what? - The FCC has taken the final step in erasing the 2015 rules protecting the internet. : technology (not really/yet)


America is still unprepared for a Russian attack on our elections - The Washington Post (Trump says Putin is his friend, would never do something like that)
Trump ramps up personal cell phone use - CNNPolitics (every call is shared with Putin)

How the Border Patrol Faked Statistics Showing a 73 Percent Rise in Assaults Against Agents -- seven agents times six perpetrators times three projectiles. Subtracting the seven agents from 126 leaves 119 extra "assaults" (nice math, fuckers)

John Bolton chaired anti-Muslim think tank - Gatestone advocacy group's content is part of echo chamber that includes Russian media (asshole always looks "furious")

Opinion | Mueller Guides Us Through the Swamp - The New York Times
Love him or hate him, Jeff Sessions is why Mueller's Russia probe is still on track

Watch President Trump repeat Fox News talking points (from one empty head to another, Hannity is a crooked Russian agent)

Ronny Jackson allegations threaten to upend nomination - CNNPolitics - allegations related to improper conduct in various stages of his career, two sources said. (why Trump liked him so much)


Investigative reporter who has covered Trump for 30 years says the evidence shows 'he is a traitor'

The Republican Party in 2018 In One Paragraph - Lawyers, Guns & Money
GOP candidates are now mimicking Trump's authoritarianism. That's omihnous ... in West Virginia, GOP Senate primary candidate Don Blankenship is running an ad that says "We don't need to investigate our president. We need to arrest Hillary Lock her up! ... all three have cast aspersions on the Mueller probe. One called it a "fishing expedition," and another climed: "Nothing's been turned up except that Hillary Clinton is the real guilty party here" The question all this raises is whether there is a large swath of GOP primary voters who are fully prepared to march behind Trump into full-blown authoritarianism (yes)

CNN panel pounds Kellyanne Conway's 'bizarre' overreaction to questions about her husband's tweets (raging Fuckway is always the victim)

Porn star says Stormy Daniels telling the truth about alleged Trump threat - ABC News - Jessica Drake, an adult-film star who claims she refused a $10,000 offer to have sex with Donald Trump after meeting him at a Lake Tahoe golf event in 2006 ... (yeah, you read that right, but he's a good born-again Christian)

MSNBC panel mocks 'welfare queen' Sean Hannity for using Obama's housing aid programs to build real estate empire - Fox News Sean Hannity was outed Sunday for having vast real estate holdings, including properties that take government money for HUD approved housing. It was those $90 million in holdings that were outed by the investigation into Michael Cohen.
Michael Cohen case shines light on Sean Hannity's s property empire -- has a portfolio that includes support from Department of Housing, a fact he did not mention when interviewing Ben Carson last year


Professor Apologizes for Helping Cambridge Analytica Harvest Facebook Data - The New York Times - Aleksandr Kogan, the academic who was hired by Cambridge Analytica to harvest information from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, defended his role in the data collection on Sunday -- "never heard a word" of objection from Facebook (Zuckerfuck lies a lot)

The Republicans'Desperate Obsession With Nancy Pelosi - the star of GOP attack ads because the party has no other choice. (they hate competent non-crooked women, basically)

The Myth of Trump's Unparalleled GOP Support -- Conservative lawmakers fear the president's base -- but should they? - According to Gallup, Trump's approval rating among Republicans is currently at 85 percent. This is certainly respectable, but hardly unique. In April 2002, George W. Bush boasted a 98 percent approval rating among Republicans (Trump needs a war)

AP-NORC Poll: Amid strikes, Americans back teacher raises

Inside One of America's Ugliest Political Feuds: Cuomo vs. de Blasio (Cuomo is a crooked dick)
Utahns less than enthused by plywood Michiganian & Bay Stater who wants to be their senator - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Utah's health care debate took an unexpected turn at the State Capitol, where a lawmaker who is also a doctor argued that access to health care can be a bad thing. ... Gun's don't kill people, hospitals do! ... "After crunching the numbers, researchers have determined that access to my medical services is one of the biggest risks facing my patients."

'She's a lucky duck' : GOP implodes again for McCaskill - Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is up for reelection. And, like clockwork, the Republican Party of Missouri is in complete turmoil again ... "[Greitens] is jeopardizing the whole Republican Party of Missouri" (she can count on crooked Republicans)

Eschaton: Democrats In Red Places - One thing I think people are regularly confused about is just what kind of opposition such politicians face. There's a tendency to say (by reporters, bad consultants, pundits, etc.) that such Democrats have to be more "moderate" to win. Ok, that might be true for some issues, but it often isn't true about a lot of them ... What really happens is that the Chamber of Commerce basically says, "if you vote for free ponies for all, we will spend a lot of money telling voters that you love Muslims and have 'San Francisco values' (whatever that means)." So those politicians vote down the Free Ponies bill, and sage pundits observe that, well, of course they did, because voters in West Virginia hate free ponies and much prefer tax cuts for rich people. After all, West Virginia is a red state!


Damon Linker Freaks Out about Scott - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Greg Sargent on Twitter: "This, from @LemieuxLGM, is a very good takedown of the argument that winning in 2016 should have been a cakewalk for Hillary Clinton: https://t.co/IZz9JydbeK cc @DamonLinker @amychozick" (Clinker fails)


Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class - The New York Times - In recent years, though, the ranks of state and local employees have languished even as the populations they serve have grown. They now account for the smallest share of the American civilian work force since 1967 (Republicans dismantling America to give all the monies to the riches and they espeically hate education)
Eschaton: The Lifestyles Of The Megarich - 25 bathrooms, 11 bedrooms, five living rooms/lounges, five staircases, three kitchens, two libraries/studies, two workout rooms, two elevator -- and a huge ballroom.


Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama: What's open, what's closed for state holiday | AL.com (Treason in Defense of Slavery Day!)

Nich 'hey how bout less nazis?' DiCaprio on Twitter: "Editor: "Uh we don't want to publish this article that says blacks are genetically inferior, sorry." Republicans: https://t.co/538vDvCp3c"

Police use anti-KKK law to arrest people protesting neo-Nazis - many of the demonstrators wore masks to avoid being identified and threatened by white power groups (racist KKK cops)

Brave Conservative Writers Are Punished By The New York Times, Which Gives Them Columns - Out on the weekend, where the conservative persecution complex knows no bounds.
'I Don't Like to Be Called a Nazi' - New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet (then don't hire them, you fucking nazi)
"We Did Nothing Wrong Ever," The Ballad of Dean Baquet ... reminiscent of the Assange/Greenwald theory that it doesn't count as supporting Trump if you support Trump based on a zero-dimensional Hungry Hungry Hippos theory that more right-wing presidents will produce more left-wing results because of the veto power Article I gives Uncle Sams on stilts over all legislative enactments and actions of the executive and judicial branches ... "Baquet seems strongly committed to the doctrine of Editorial Infallibility"

'Nazi scrum get out!' : Watch entire New York bar chant at Milo Yiannopoulos until he leaves ... picking the wrong bar -- one where members of the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America had just finished a meeting.


(4) Ian Miles Cheong on Twitter: "That explains a few things. " - Which is hilarious because the sort of people who go on about this all the time, like Ian or PJW are objectively not the turbo chads they clearly think they are ("turbo chad")
Urban Dictionary: turbo chad
Study Finds Smiling Men are Less Attractive to Women | Psychology Today - Women find men less attractive when they smile compared to when they take on swaggering or brooding poses, a Canadian study has found. In contrast, men find women more attractive when they smile, and least attractive when they look proud and confident. (men want submissive women, women want macho guys)


Outrade growing over black woman's arrest in Alabama Waffle House by white police officers (racist fucking copsters)
All-Too-Familiar Video Shows White Police Officers Pinning Down a Young Black Woman in a Waffle House


Incredible feat by chess player Andrew Tang who managed to beat the chess AI LeelaChessZero in a bullet game (only 15 seconds per player) : videos


Reddit Lawn-shame sign: Dr. Green drops gimmick after outrage - The Washington Post
Company put an advertisement in our yard without permission, shaming us for our lawn quality I guess? : assholedesign

Socially adept people of Reddit, What are some mistakes you see socially awkward people making? : AskReddit

The Waffle House shooting suspect thought Taylor Swift was stalking him and showed other signs of delusion : news
Schizophrenics of Reddit; What is the scariest hallucination (visually or audibly) that you have ever experienced? : AskReddit

Redditors who have had major health issues - what small symptom should you have looked into earlier? : AskReddit

Boy, 12, steals credit card and goes on Bali holiday after fight with mother : news

What subreddit deserves more attention than it gets? : AskReddit

What moment in your life did you think to yourself, "Yeah, this person isn't my friend anymore?"

Eschaton: They Could Win By Winning - The perpetual fantasy is that some inexpensive neato technology comes along and solves the supposed "last mile problem" (which I am sick of hearing about, because it takes 20 minutes to walk a damn mile and the last mile problem is more of a last 5 miles problem usually so...). Even with this, nobody ever does the damn math ... The group of "people who live in the suburbs but don't own cars and yet can afford an extra taxi ride home every day" is...not very large. (math is very hard for reporters, as is "thinking")

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Trump Celebrates Earth Day By Praising Rollback Of Environmental Protections | HuffPost (rebrands it as Death to the Earth Day)
She Tried To Report On Climate Change. Sinclair Told Her To Be More "Balanced" (="lie more")
A Sunday Sermon, Straight from 1947 - Lawyers, Guns & Money "DDT is good for me-e-e" - feed your babies pesticide

Texas students walk out of classes, continuing momentum of gun violence protests | The Texas Tribune - Thousands of Texas students walked out of their classes Friday morning to protest ongoing gun violence in America.
2-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed at Wickliffe hotel, police say | cleveland.com - by her mother ... handling the gun when it went off and a bullet struck the girl in the chest. ("handling")
Ohio mother accidentally shoots and kills 2-year-old daughter : news
4 killed at Tennessee Waffle House as police search for seminude suspect - CNN
1 dead, 6 others hurt in Waffle House shooting : news
James Shaw Jr. was identified as the hero who helped stop the Waffle House shooter this morning. He says he doesn't feel like a hero, which is exactly what you'd expect a real hero to say


AP Analysis: Kim Jong Un tests Trump with latest nuke offer

Islamic State suicide bomber kills 57 in Afghan capital - A suicide bomber struck a voter registration center in the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing at least 57 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

A Shadowy War's Newest Front: A Drone Base Rising From Saharan Dust (Trump rewards 9/11 Saudi terrorists)

There are many ways for democracy to fail - The Washington Post - Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist who wrote about corruption and money laundering in a country that had turned a blind eye to it - Criminals as well as legitimate businessmen from around the world essentially park their planes at the Valletta airport and then exchange suitcases full of cash for the right to live, and to keep their money, inside the European Union.


I wrote a TV show about police corruption and was nearly prosecuted for sedition - Ian Trethowan, the BBC director general was summoned to the Home Office by the minister John Harris who was spitting mad, demanding to know why the broadcaster was making drama masquerading as documentary.


Is Facebook's Campbell Brown a Force to Be Reckoned With? Or Is She Fake News? - "faced" a question about Facebook's latest scandal: The company had sent a letter to The Guardian threatening a lawsuit if the newspaper published a massive report on the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytic (Zuckerfucking the truth) Ms. Brown said, with a Southern lilt in her voice ... Ms. Brown, who became a school-choice activist with close ties to conservative politics after her TV career (charter schools!) This month, Hollywood Reporter named Ms. Brown one of this year's 5 most powerful New York media figures. (4th place, far ahead of Hannity and Maggie doesn't even make the list) Ms. Brown was born into a tight-knit Catholic family in 1968 in Ferriday, La., population about 5,000. Her father, a local politician and state insurance commissioner, once served a prison stint for lying to the F.B.I. during an investigation related to an insurance company. (and it gets worse after that ...)



Seth Abramson on Twitter: "(THREAD) As the Trump-Russia investigation moves into its next stage, America must change the way we think about and talk about the investigation. This *isn't* just a news story anymore, and that means media and non-media alike need a paradigm shift. I hope you'll read and share. https://t.co/fMVc5gUSBe" (1. there are no Trump-Russia "experts" 2. if they haven't mastered the timeline in all its complexity they don't know shit 3. "presidential historians and white-collar prosecutors" dont' know shit 4. America is facing an evolutionary challnege equal to the great depression 5. our understanding of these issues requires new ways of thinking/paradigm shift 5. and presently sucks because "experts")

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "Joe Scarborough Calls Trump Presidency "A Publicity Stunt Gone Wildly Wrong" This is some scathing stuff. Wow. https://t.co/gSTU2xPOLI"

Trump official won't rule out fireing Mueller - Trump's legislative affairs director said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller has moved outside the sphere of his original investigation into election meddling ... Marc Short (is a bald lizard)
White House: No plans by Trump to fire Mueller, Rosenstein - The Boston Globe (and if you believe that, see above)

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) said today that she "didn't see Michael Cohen as being a major figure" in the Trump-Russia investigation. And that's all you need to know about how much of a sham Congress' Trump-Russia investigation is. Cohen is at the very heart of the allegations. https://t.co/Fnu1i6GI89" (little Susie looking pretty pro-ruskie)

NYT Reporter Hits Back At Trump, Says She Knows Who The 'Drunk/Drugged-Up Loser' Is | HuffPost - Maggie Haberman believes Trump is too intimidated by Roger Stone to talk about him that way ... likely former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg ... Haberman also added a bit of new information from her reporting, revealing that one source told her that Trump is "abusive to everyone" (it's almost like America elected an crazy raging asshole for Pres)
Maggie Haberman on Twitter: "A few things - Trump is referring to @NunbergSam in his tweet. He's too aware of what Stone could do to him to be that direct. Also, Trump has been abusive to all his staffers at various points, but continues to greet @CLewandowski_ better than most

Trump dogged by a string of legal battles, including DNC lawsuit

Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Warns Trump: Evidence DVD Is 'Locked and Loaded' (master sound-biter at work )

Trump Presidency Is Taking The Luster Off Trump Tower | HuffPost - The high-rise with the stunning views of Central Park has become a money trap for some residents. For one man, it became a fire trap, too.

Ivana Trump tells all about Donald being president and her Donald Jr.'s cheating - thinks Vanessa will 'have a problem' finding a new man ... (cheating Don Jr "not happy" Vanessa DTMF)

Redditor uncovers blatant spin in a highly upvoted article about Fox News - and that the news org is owned by Jared Kushner : bestof (Kushfuck)

Before dying, Barbara Bush said she would miss George but was going to 'a beautiful place' (the same place as her "beautiful mind')

Trump Plan Would Cut Back Health Care Protections for Transgender People - The New York Times

Trump challenges Native Americans' historical standing -- Tribes say they should be exempt from Medicaid work requirements.

Theater Criticism Coverage of Politics Turns People's Minds Into Mush - Lawyers, Guns & Money - his excerpt from Amy Chozick's book is a whiplash-inducing combination of courageous self-reflection and pure undistilled Clinton Rules. To state the obvious, the idea that 2016 was the "most winnable election" in modern history is absolutely insane.


Mitt Romney fails to secure Utah GOP nomination, will face primary - CNNPolitics - After a wild and raucous day of voting at the Utah GOP convention, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee was unable to win the 60% that he needed to head to the November ballot unopposed ... . Romney came in a close second with 49.12%.
Eschaton: Poor Mittens - I admit I can barely remember...how did he win the 2012 primary?

New poll puts Missouri Gov. Greitens' approval rating at 37 percent (100% of evangelical Christian approve of criminal blackmailing lying sex abuser)


Sharing nude photos of current or ex-partners protected under First Amendment, court rules | Texas | Dallas News - "revenge porn" law ... The Tyler-based 12th Court of Appeals said the law is unconstitutional because it's too broad and infringes on free speech, The Texas Tribune reported. (because women post revenge pics of their boyfriend's dicks all the time)



Militarized Cops At Tiny Georgia Neo-Nazi Rally Arrest Counterprotesters For Wearing Masks | HuffPost - A heavily militarized police force of some 400 officers aggressively patrolled a small neo-Nazi rally in this city 40 miles southwest of Atlanta on Saturday and arrested about 10 counterprotesters, many for the crime of wearing a mask. Police officers arrived before the rally began and approached a group of about 50 anti-fascist protesters. (so, eight times more cop fuckers than anti-nazis)
Police point weapons at anti-Nazi protestors at a Nazi rally in Newnan, GA on April 21st, 2018 : pics



Democrats say looser marijuana laws attract young voters, and some Republicans are catching on - The Washington Post

Nuggets, a 5-minute animation about addiction : videos
The how and why of heroin addiction. - YouTube
Nine in ten teens at drug clinics are being treated for marijuana use | Daily Mail Online - Cannabis is responsible for 91% of drug addiction cases involving teenagers -- Skunk - high-potency herbal cannabis - causing more people to seek treatment - Backs up research that skunk is having detrimental impact on mental health (where is Harry Anslinger when you need him?)
Skunk Cannabis: Top 10 Facts About The Drug - Despite media reports about an increase in psychosis or schizophrenia among users, scientists have found difficulty in proving a clear link between the two ... . The penalty for possession is up to five years in prison, while dealing the drug will see you landed with a sentence of up to 14 years.
Wikileaf: Skunk #1 Marijuana Strain Information - Skunk #1 is very beneficial on a variety of medical disorders. In small doses it has shown to be beneficial against psychiatric symptoms, pain, asthma, glaucoma, in average does beneficial against nausea and vomiting, anorexia, autoimmune diseases and spasticity and in high doses it can help with movement disorders.

Eschaton: Can't Trust - The "Windrush scandal" - important in itself of course - also demonstrates that the Tories can't be trusted by the EU at a time when securing the rights of current EU residents of the UK (and, people in the UK seem to forget, the rights of UK residents in the EU) is an important matter in the Brexit negotiations. (and Theresa May is a terrible fake human being)



Watch this judge brutally berate a woman in a wheelchair. The woman died. The judge has quit. | Miami Herald - Judge Merrillee Ehrlich has resigned, (Broward County FL elected shithole)


The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations : videos


What is the worst case of "I know better than my doctor" you've ever heard of? : AskReddit
Doctors of Reddit, what's the weirdest case of someone self-diagnosing, and it being correct? : AskReddit

[Serious] What is the most disrespectful thing a guest ever did in your home? : AskReddit


042118

As seas rise, Pilgrim mulls moving its nuclear waste to higher ground - The Boston Globe
Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic | Scientific Reports


Eschaton: These People - May is a xenophobic racist with Little England fantasies but hopefully shame will cause her to do the right thing. (kicking out the "Windrush" generation because their skin wasn't Brit enough)


I've seen inside the digital propaganda machine. And it's dark in there (as dark as Mark Zuckerberg's AI soul)
Techno-Fundamentalism Can't Save You, Mark Zuckerberg (promises to get an AI brain transplant)
Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match - The New York Times


Mitch Daniels: We won't know how foolish we look until a long time from now ... fallacy of "presentism" through which the values, mores and conventions of the present day are used to judge, almost always harshly and sanctimoniously, our predecessors ... principal tributaries are a lack of knowledge and a deficient capacity for empathy. (oh, Republicans!) (justice in the comments:) "Before the Sept. 11 attacks, Daniels and other officials took great pains to insist that, despite the tax cuts, the Bush administration would never need to dip into surplus Social Security funds to fund government operations ... (anti-abortion gov of Stupidiana before Pence)


Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken From Parents at U.S. Border - The New York Times (ICE racist fuckers fucking poor people)
Is it a coincidence that Trump uses the language of white supremacy? - The Washington Post -- "There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept," (rmember the "four kids a year" anti-Muslim white terrorist militia meme?)


Eschaton: If I Did It - Every day Trump basically tweets something like, "They don't have the proof, yet!" and has no idea how guilty that makes him seem even though I don't know precisely what he's guilty of. (his brain is constantly leaking)

Michael Cohen, once at pinnacle of Trump's world, now poses threat to it


Donald Trump Rips New York Times Reporter, Denies Michael Cohen Will 'Flip' | HuffPost - "Sorry, I don't see Michael doing that despite the horrible Witch Hunt and the dishonest media!" ... "a third rate reporter named Maggie Haberman, known as a Crooked H flunkie who I don't have anything to do with ..."

Trump's rage at Mueller is increasingly delusional. But it's even worse than that (the law has never applied to the criminal Trumpster)


The confidence man - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This amazing story from the WAPO documents what future historians, assuming there are any, should classify as the Trump Lie. The Trump Lie is a lie so outrageous that it ends up fooling even people who are well aware it's a lie because of its sheer shamelessness and audacity. (Forbes 400 scam) But his confident deceptions were so big that they had an unexpected effect: Instead of believing that they were outright fabrications, my Forbes colleagues and I saw them simply as vain embellishments on the truth. We were so wrong.


It's Like 10,000 Spoons When All You Need Is An FBI Director Who Won't Tamper With Elections - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Pressure to Release Comey Memos May Have Backfired on G.O.P. - The New York Times (the party of stupid and evil)
Jackie Speier on Twitter: "Thanks @HouseGOP for urging release of the Comey memos! Oddly you've proved Comey's consistency and bolstered arguments for obstruction of justice and collusion. Perhaps finish the job and call for the release @POTUS's taxes next week?"

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "This needs to stop and soon " ... Russia: Trump invited Putin the the White House (for a victory tour)

Under attack, the FBI becomes a partisan battleground - The Washington Post

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "(2) How insane does a political campaign have to be to know that its candidate (Trump) has indeed had an endless string of extramarital affairs, but still have flunkies trying to make a campaign issue of the alleged (and unproven) extramarital affairs of their opponent's spouse." ... Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen was peddling a story to Trump (and possibly others) that Bill Clinton had had an affair and child with an African-American woman.
AP Fact Check on Twitter: "An #APFactCheck examines President Trump's statements on James Comey, simpler tax forms and currency devaluation. https://t.co/FXwBxVDufR"
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "Trump's new criminal defense lawyer -- Marty Raskin -- specializes in "organized crime and racketeering." That's no coincidence. (It's odd he was on gthe Florida Bar's Grievance Committee, as his co-counsel -- Giuliani -- has a conflict of interest that ordinarily would earn bar discipline.)"
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "As Trump's 2,500+ lies in just 15 months go, this one is particularly bizarre. It's widely known that Haberman speaks to Trump regularly, and has as much access to him as any major-media reporter on the D.C. politics beat. https://t.co/6uNpd1E9r5"

Neera Tanden ?? on Twitter: "A note to reporters: How is the mere fact that Trump talked to Comey by himself during the Russia investigation not far, far worse than Bill Clinton talking to Lynch? Someone explain that to me." ... Comey thinks that he alone is uniquely incorruptible, and that Democrats, especially women Democrats, are original-sin fallen and corrupt.
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "Good point "

Former Lawyer for Stormy Daniels Is Drawn Into Federal Investigation - The New York Times - The Beverly Hills lawyer who represented two women who were paid in 2016 to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with Donald J. Trump ... That lawyer, Keith M. Davidson ...

Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Tells Bill Maher That Sean Hannity Is Screwed -- On Michael Cohen naming the Fox News host as one of his clients, Michael Avenatti said, "The extent of that relationship, I think, will be very embarrassing to Sean Hannity" ... "He's the one who famously said 'I'd take a bullet for Donald Trump,' Well, now that he's looking at prison time, we'll see if he's will to take a dick" said Maher ... "I think that Michael Cohen knows where almost all the bodies are buried, and I think that he's going to sing like a canary," said Avenatti ... "This guy is neither tough nor smart. I think he's a ZERO."

GOP faces rural rebellion over Trump trade agenda - trade policies are confounding Republicans as rural voters -- his strongest supporters -- stand to get the short end of the stick just months away from the midterms. (racist dumbfuck suckers thought he didn't mean THEM)

DeVos Education Dept. Begins Dismissing Civil Rights Cases in Name of Efficiency - The New York Times (slavery would also be "more efficient" for white people)

Disruptive conservative groups lose their punch with Trump in charge - The Washington Post

Jim Carrey Turns Paintbrush On Rudy Giuliani With Ghoulish New Portrait | HuffPost - Ghouliani: Finally a face we can trust (Rudy from Flatbush has risen from the dead to eat you multiple times)

Mike Pompeo's Anti-Gay Views Should Disqualify Him | HuffPost -- "America had worshiped other Gods and called it multiculturalism. We'd endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle." (they are so stuck on the "lifestyle" thing)

Republican Rick Wilson destroys CNN's Trump booster Jason Miller for defending the president's bullshit

Eschaton: Tapes - One of the great mysteries of Clintonland is they both surrounded themselves with people who are truly horrible at their jobs. Perhaps no one could have gotten good coverage for Clinton given the weird psychosis she inspires in the political press, but also Reines is uniquely bad at that job. He's a horrible and incompetent person! (thanks, Hillary, it wasn't "they" it was "you")

Brothers Linked To Assad Gave Thousands To Dennis Kucinich's Ohio Political Machine | HuffPost - he accepted $20,000 from a pro-Assad group ... But he has also repeatedly downplayed credible reports of war crimes by the Assad regime, including at an April 2017 British conference the pro-Assad group paid for him to attend, three months after his trip to Damascus. Kucinich opponents are now making the issue central to the question of whether he's fit to be governor (little ratfucker Dennis)

Trump admin announces abstinence-focused overhaul of teen pregnancy program | TheHill (so they can fuck up more lives)

Yes, In Fact I Do Like It When Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Adopt My Precise Policy Positions - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Two months ago, LGM commenters routinely talked about my demand for federally guaranteed employment as a pie-in-the-sky impossibility ... Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has a big idea: give 15 local areas federal money so they can guarantee all their residents a job.

A Big Tent Democratic Party is Probably Not a Major Problem - Lawyers, Guns & Money (black working class most opposed to higher taxes on rich people except rich people)

Nobody Likes Trump Except White Evangelicals (they've made their pact with the devil and sworn allegiance to the antichrist)

Campus PC Is Out of Control - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I'm, sure the Contrarian Free Speech Warriors on our nations's op-ed pages will be right on this: After initially appearing to defend the free speech of Randa Jarrar, an associate professor of English who tweeted that the late former first lady Barbara Bush was "an amazing racist" who raised a "war criminal" Fresno State University said Wednesday that it would investigate her ...
Ashley Feinberg on Twitter: "oh hell yes baby, here we go!!!!" (Bari Weiss defends Iraeli murders of Palestinians)

Meet the journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class - Columbia Journalism Review


Kevin Cullen placed on administrative leave - The Boston Globe - In light of questions that have publicly surfaced, Kevin Cullen has been placed on paid administrative leave while a thorough examination, involving a third party with expertise, is done of his work. We will be transparent with the results of the review. (woah, and no comments allowed, how "transparent" is that?)
Globe columnist Kevin Cullen fabricates details of Marathon bombing : boston


It is too bad I have been silenced - The Washington Post - I have had my liberty stripped from me and I am now confined, for life, to the pages of the Wall Street Journal, at best. This is injustice. (Petri satirizes Keven Williamson)
Kevin Williamson Won't Tell Me What He Thinks Should Happen to Women Who Have Abortions (Ed Kilgore tries the "strategem" of asking him what he thinks but thinking is the problem along with honesty)

Let readers know this writer is not just your ordinary 'man on the street' ... When (Gary) Abernathy first contributed to The Post, he was identified as the publisher and editor of the Times-Gazette, one of only six newspapers nationwide (out of approximately 1,300 daily newspapers) that endorsed Donald Trump for president ... The Post should regularly note that Abernathy had served as communications director of the Ohio Republican Party, as executive director of the West Virginia Republican Party and on the staff of several Republican congressmen. Full disclosure demands that such background be revealed so that readers can judge his opinions appropriately. (WaPo didn't think you needed to know about all that Republican stuff)


Eschaton: BothSides - Gotta hear them. -- Students in the class were supposed to complete an assignment on the "positive aspects" and "negative aspects" of the life of slaves, giving a "balanced view." Manu said his teacher told them to draw on information from their textbook and "stuff that we could think of the top off our head." -- A Texas charter school is apologizing after a teacher gave an assignment to an eighth grade American History class, asking students to list the positive aspects of slavery ("charter school") He says some at school have actually attempted to defend the assignment.

Facebook temporarily removes Black Market Dudley's page (vandalized by white racists, then by Zuckerfucker)

How long will I be allowed to remain a Christian? | Fox News (window into Fox insanity)
Christian Persecution - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The story behind Harper's ommissioning a terrible article about #MeToo from one of the tiredest of nostalgia files ("hey, when we opened the 'contrarian 90s anti-feminist chicken-fucking' folder at least we didn't pick Camille Paglia!") is ... amazing (Roiphe) ... The idea began, Mr. Marcus said, with the publisher, who suggested that the magazine "run a contrarian piece on #MeToo movement." The editor countered that he was uncomfortable with such an assignment, because of the magazine's longtime reputation as a gentleman's smoking club." ... Yes, the story was ultimately assigned by the publicist. You can't make this stuff up ... (Rick MacArthur is a very bad person)


Body camera footage shows police never got out of cruiser to check for Ohio teen crushed by minivan seat : news
Chicago woman gets 3 years in Facebook Live beating of mentally disabled teen : news


Gov. Hickenlooper on making pot illegal again if tied to crime: 'i'M NOT RULING IT OUT' (Hick-in-Flopper" stoned potheads causing crime wave)
Marijuana Industry To Overtake Beer As Legalization Spurs Innovation? - U.S. marijuana business could reach $75 billion by 2030 if fully legalized, indicating explosive growth. Its forecast two years ago put 2026 sales at $50 billion. That projection also compares with some estimates for current annual cigarette sales of $77 billion and beer sales of $110 billion, both of which are on the downtrend ... An average-size pot dispensary draws more average yearly sales per square foot than a Whole Foods, and slightly less than a Costco
As Marijuana Business Soars, Could Big Tobacco Become Big Cannabis?



My Son Suddenly Stopped Talking And I Wasn't Sure If He'd Ever Speak Again | HuffPost - however, we began working with a child psychologist, who spent an hour a week just playing with my son, following his lead, helping him grow more confident with someone who wasn't his parents (dot A meet dot B)


A new microscope spies the raucous beauty within living cells

TIL that crows are one of the smartest non-primate animals on earth, with the intelligence of a 7-year-old human. They use and manipulate tools, they have long-term memory including facial recognition, and they understand analogy. : todayilearned

TIL Humans are not descendents of apes but are apes. They are more closely related to chimps and bonobonos than the African elephant to the Indian elephant : todayilearned

Study identifies brain areas altered during hypnotic trances : science - fantasizers and dissociaters are the ones most easily hypnotized


What is your ultimate must-read book? : AskReddit

TIL John F. Kennedy enjoyed a "privileged childhood of elite private schools, sailboats, servants and summer homes" during the Great Depression. He later claimed that he only learned about the Great Depression in the books he read while attending Harvard. : todayilearned


Electric Scooters Are Causing Havoc. This Man Is Shrugging It Off. - The New York Times - Travis VanderZanden, the chief executive of electric scooter company Bird Rides -- cities have been shocked to discover that thousands of electric scooters have been dropped onto their sidewalks seemingly overnight. (and oh, look, Venice CA has PAY PHONES!)

042018

The Yellowstone supervolcano is a disaster waiting to happen - The Washington Post - Yellowstone is capable of eruptions thousands of times more violent than the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980. The northern Rockies would be buried in multiple feet of ash. Ash would rain on almost everyone in the United States. It's be a bad day ... there are seven volcanic regions in California with zones of molten rock beneath the surface. A volcanic eruption in California is roughly as likely as a magnitude 6 or greater earthquake on the San Andreas Fault

Do not eat any kind of romaine lettuce from southwest Arizona, CDC says - The Washington Post -- E. coli outbreak warning expands to all romaine lettuce

Database: The number of children impacted by school shootings in America - Washington Post -- More than 208,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine
Alex Jones, Backtracking, Now Says Sandy Hook Shooting Did Happen : news - I knew it, Alex Jones is a Crisis Actor!


North Korea suspends nuclear and missile tests, shuts down test site - The Washington Post


Australian warships challenged by Chinese military in South China Sea - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - Three Australian warships were challenged by the Chinese military as they travelled through the disputed South China Sea earlier this month, the ABC can reveal ... The Defence Department refused to answer questions or discuss details of the interactions between the Australian warships and the Chinese military.


Genesis Prize cancels ceremony after 2018 winner Natalie Portman said she won't visit Israel ... in light of "recent events" (like murdering Palestinians)


Better government services linked to less religiosity in U.S. and world, study says | Miami Herald - Researchers call it an exchange model of religion: If people can get what they need from the government (be it health care, education or welfare) they're less likely to turn to a divine power for help ... better government services were in fact linked to lower levels of strong religious beliefs ... "better government services in a specific year predicted lower religiosity 1 to 2 years later" (time to defund "Big God")

Maybe It's Time to Admit That The "Grotesque Caricature" of White Evangelicals is the Reality ... evangelicalism no longer represents a specific religious position centered on sin and the need for individual salvation but rather a self-serving, power-hungry political movement that will side with the devil himself for the sake of political pragmatism ..."agents of intolerance," to quote John McCain back in 2008 well predates the Trump era (they have always been agents of Satan)
A neuroscientist explains what could be wrong with Trump supporter's brains (assuming they have brains" ... Dunning-Kruger, Hypersensivity to Threat, Terror Management, High Attentional Engagement ... Donald Trump is unique in his ability to keep the brain engaged. While Hillary Clinton could only hold attention for so long, Trump kept both attention and emotional arousal high throughout the viewing session. This pattern of activity was seen even when Trump made remarks that individuals didn't necessarily agree with. His showmanship and simple messages clearly resonate at a visceral level ... America's addiction with entertainment and reality TV. (Trump keeps people on the edge of their seat, Hillary was too complicated and boring)

The CIA Says Mike Pompeo Didn't Fight in the Gulf War - did Pompeo, as numerous profiles have stated, fight in the Gulf War? We asked the CIA, who confirmed that he absolutely did not. (they lie about everything and little Trumpsucker Mikey is in way over his head, but Heidi has his back)

The Justice Department Just Lost A Major Sanctuary City Case - The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling, thereby preventing the Trump administration from denying grant funds to sanctuary cities nationwide.


Democratic Party files lawsuit alleging Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks conspired to disrupt the 2016 campaign - The Washington Post (the Russians bought him in the '80s)


Sessions told White House that Rosenstein's firing could prompt his departure, too


Eschaton: It's Real - BREAKING: Comey memo: Trump said Vladimir Putin told him, 'We have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world' The Associated Press (@AP) April 20, 2018


Comey Memos: Clear Proof Trump Repeatedly Lied About His Trip To Moscow

The leaked Comey memos just blew up in Trump's face ... The Republican reaction, incredibly, has been to claim the memos vindicate Trump of any charge of obstruction of justice (right in front of their eyes)
Republicans have blundered again (surprise!). The Comey memos reveal just how bad. - The Washington Post ... This crowd has blown itself up more times than Wile E. Coyote.
Comey memos renew questions over Trump's behavior -- a contemporaneous and deeply unflattering view of a President throwing his weight around in his first days in the White House -- that at the very least seems highly inappropriate ... Trump has a scattershot and self-obsessed mindset, brooding about his subordinates, leaks, his campaign and his inaugural crowd size and not appreciating or caring about protocol boundaries that separate the White House and the Justice Department.

Michael Cohen Has Said He Would Take a Bullet for Trump. Maybe Not Anymore. - The New York Times (he treats everyone like shit because he is shit and there have never been any consequences ... until now)

5 Of The Wildest Revelations In The Comey Memos | HuffPost - Trump was obsessed with finding leakers and protecting his reputation.

Comey Memos Provide Intimate Look Into Trump Presidency - The New York Times (if you like being "intimate" with "obscenity")
Comey Memo: Trump Floated Idea Of Jailing Journalists To Make Them 'Talk' | HuffPost (a little anal rape would encourage them, he basically said)

James Comey Believes Donald Trump Has an "Emptiness" Inside of Him ... "it's all, 'What will fill this hole?'" (Satan has no soul)

Responding to James Comey, New York Times' Baquet says key Russia-Trump story was 'Not inaccurate' (Baquet and NYT totally complicit with Trump and the Russians but can't admit it, of course)

The Judge in the Michael Cohen-Stormy Daniels Case Is Perfect - POLITICO Magazine - A porn star in the courtroom? The president's secrets at stake? Why Kimba Wood isn't even blinking (collateral damage of "nannygate" and Clinton's dick)
"Michael Cohen Is Going to Be Indicted" : Stormy Daniels' Attorney Is Now Cooperating with the Feds -- Michael Avenatti previews the next chapter of the Cohen paper trail -- and why he's still in the game to depose Donald Trump -- A lantern-jawed soundbite-master ... no one who knows more about the Cohen case ... "There's no question that among the documents that were seized are documents with Sean Hannity's name on them" ... "Michael Cohen is going to be indicted for some very serious, pervasive conduct" ... Trump may be a master of the media, he said, but "our version is the new and improved 2.0 version that includes substance. And we do it a helluva lot better" (zing! went the master sound-biter)
Michael Cohen's Motion to Stay The Stormy Daniels Case Deferred, Cohen's Situation Pronounced Ominous

McCabe to sue Trump admin for defamation, wrongful termination | TheHill

Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes. - The Washington Post -- Posing as 'John Barron,' he claimed he owned most of his father's real estate empire (he's been a self-inflating pathological liar all his life)

Amy Chozick covered Hillary Clinton for a decade. Here's waht she learned -- and what she endured (Hillary, that is)
Philippe Reines Responds to Clinton Book, Tells Jezebel He Has 'Tapes' (and receipts)

Roger Stone steps up attacks on Barbara Bush: ' She is descending into hell right now' ... He added she made former first lady Betty Ford, who struggled with alcoholism and substance abuse issues, look like temperance movement leader Carrie Nation.


Greitens charged with felony computer tampering | Law and order | stltoday.com

In Rural Tennessee, a Big ICE Raid Makes Some Conservative Voters Rethink Trump's Immigration Agenda (which, racist dumbfucks that they are, they voted for wholeheartedly +you can't "rethink" an un-thought)


Colorado election 2018: Democrats have a candidate on the ballot in every single race

Appeals court: Indiana abortion law signed by Mike Pence unconstitutional | TheHill (fundie Sharia law rejected)

Letter to Trump administration seeks info on Koch brothers | McClatchy Washington Bureau - A group of Democratic senators is asking the administration to explain its ties to Charles and David Koch

'Imploding' : Financial troubles. Lawsuits. Trailer park brawls. Has the alt-right peaked?


D.C. lawmaker who said Rothschilds control the weather visits Holocaust Museum - The Washington Post -- but leaves early


'Smallville' actress Allison Mack arrested for role in alleged sex cult ... Alleged sex cult recruiting hipsters in Brooklyn ... he notorious upstate sex slave cult Nxivm ... Mack was last seen chasing after Raniere in Mexico as cops hauled him away.

R Kelly: Inner circle desert him following 'sex pet' allegations - BBC Three - Two high-profile women have resigned their roles after new revelations emerged in a BBC Three documentary



Cannabis industry not king in Colorado economy: new report ... marijuana industry employs about 17,821 full-time equivalent employees. (but add in the tourism, please and note CO keeps 72% for "administration" and the cops)


21 Books You Don't have to Read And 21 you should read instead


Astronomers Have Created the Most Accurate Map of the Early Universe Yet - Geek.com


SmugMug snaps up Flickr photo service from Verizon's Oath (Marissa's trail of destruction)
Flickr acquired by professional photo hosting service SmugMug - The Verge

041918

Dry, the beloved country - The Huffington Post - Surprising, even beautiful things can happen when it feels as if the world is about to end ... Tourists love Cape Town: It has the second-highest "seasonal fluctuatin of multimillionaire population rate" (i.e., summer holidayers with superyachts) after the Hamptons
Terrifying Tumbleweeds Take Over California City, Trapping Residents Inside Homes | HuffPost ... Russian thistle is an invasive species brought by Russian immigrants to South Dakota in 1873.

Kansas Terror Plot Was Rooted in Right-Wing Paranoid Islamophobia - . Most Muslims aren't going to behead people, one of the men said in the recording. Instead, "they sit back and fuck their brains out. Four kids per fucking man per year ... Their objective is to breed us out of existence." ... Naturally, the 2016 Republican presidential campaign worked its dark magic on their twisted minds ... Mad paranoia about Islam has been a slow-burning fire under modern American conservatism's undamental bigoted seedbed for decades ... "civilizational jihad" ("racist killer dimbulb hillbillies for Trumpster)


In China and India, men outnumber women on a massive scale. The consequences are far-reaching. - Washington Post - Nothing like this has happened in human history. A combination of cultural preferences, government decree and modern medical technology in the world's two largest countries has created a gender imbalance on a continental scale. Men outnumber women by 70 million in China and India ... Beyond an epidemic of loneliness, the imbalance distorts labor markets, drives up savings rates in China and drives down consumption, artificially inflates certain property values, and parallels increases in violent crime, trafficking or prostitution in a growing number of locations ... China's official one-child policy, in effect from 1979 to 2015, was a huge factor in creating this imbalance, as millions of couples were determined that their child should be a son. India, a country that has a deeply held preference for sons and male heirs, has an excess of 37 million males.


Leaders worldwide are falling for a 'deadly illusion' -- Macron: rise of "national selfishness and negativity" ... he warned of the kind of anti-migrant authoritarianism on display recently in the Hungarian elections and fashionable among far-right parties in Europe.

Russia Accidentally Sabotages Its Internet - it blocked almost 16 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google.


Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law (FB says Zuckerfuckyou to E.U.)
Palantir Knows Everything About You - Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers. (the vampire is sucking your life-data)

Wells Fargo Said to Be Target of $1 Billion U.S. Fine - The New York Times

Upstate NY farmer says ICE officers stormed his farm without a warrant, cuffed him, threw his phone | syracuse.com (voted for Trump?)


Senate panel will vote on bill to protect Mueller despite McConnell's opposition (Yertle, faithful Russian agent)
User gives a timeline of the last 17+ months of Republican obstruction of protecting Mueller and the Russia Investigation. : bestof


Manafort Suspected of Serving as 'Back Channel' Russia, DOJ Says ... Judge weighing whether Mueller exceeded his authority (in exposing Trump's treason)
Rosenstein Tells Trump He's Not Target in Mueller, Cohen Probes (un-huh)
Opinion | Smearing Robert Mueller - The New York Times - Sean Hannity and others are blaming the special counsel for one of the F.B.I's worst scandals. But there is no evidence to back up their charges -- Nancy Gertner (and Dershofuck lies again and again)

McCabe Report Is Sent to Prosecutors to Weigh Possible Criminal Inquiry - The New York Times (show trial)

Rudy Giuliani to Joine Trump's Legal Team (Rudy was born in Flatbush)
Rudy can fail - Lawyers, Guns & Money - At least he knows something about mobbed-up guys: (and Trump.Never.Paid.His.Bills)
Is Rudy About To Have His Time in The Barrel? (he was the NY leak, lock him up, ACDTBW)

I Know Everything About Being a Rat - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Associates of Trump consigliere Michael Cohen are not confident that omerta will be observed: ... "Michael will never stand up [for you]" if charged by the government, Mr. Goldberg said he cautioned the president.
Trump's Lawyer Forgets to Pretend He's Innocent, Also Compares Him to Mobster ... But why would Trump have anything to worry about, unless Trump committed a crime that Cohen knows about?
Cohen drops libel suits against BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS - POLITICO - Embattled attorney Michael Cohen has dropped a pair of much-touted libel suits against BuzzFeed and the private investigation firm Fusion GPS over publication of the so-called dossier detailing alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia.

House Republicans Sign Letter Urging Justice Department to Investigate Trump Opponents - New depths of shame for the House Republican caucus ... this clearly smacks of Somoza at best and Mussolini at worst. Now, 11 members of the House of Representatives Flunky Caucus jump in, demanding that the DOJ get off the dime. (and arrest Hillary)


Robert De Niro Gives Donald Trump Another Savage Nickname | HuffPost - "our lowlife-in-chief" -- "America is being run by a madman"


Former Trump advisor's father's death in Philadelphia labeled 'suspicious': multiple agencies investigate | 6abc.com -- the death of former National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster's father, 84-year-old H.R. McMaster, Sr.


Eschaton: Hagiography - Poppy and W. are horrible people and their adminstrations and legacies were horrible. The people they surrounded themselves with were horrible even if Poppy could fake New England gentility. Barbara Bush never held elected office and I don't care if people say nice things about her upon her death, though I don't think they're obligated to. Still... even evil lefties are unlikely to top this: "Barbara Bush was a nasty drunk. When it came to drinking she made Betty Ford look like Carrie Nation #blottoBabs," said Stone. "Barbara Bush drank so much booze, if they cremated her her body would burn for three days."


Rise of the 'Patriotic Jouralist' (2005) .... This national security elite, including then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush, viewed the post-Vietnam journalism as a threat to America's ability to strike at its perceived enemies around the world ... the blocking of Rep. Otis Pike's congressional report on CIA misdeeds. CIA Director Bush had lobbied behind the scenes to convince Congress that suppressing the report was important for national security ... "Liberal" Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen ... espeically liked Bush's pardon of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who had been indicted for obstruction of justice but was popular around Washington. In a Dec. 30, 1992, column, Cohen said his view was colored by how impressed he was when he would see Weinberger in the Georgetown Safeway store, pushing his own shopping cart.
Samantha Bee Uses Sean Hannity's Own Tactics Against Him In Brutal Takedown | HuffPost - "His whole show is just an hour-long list of lies and conspiracy theories" (the meathead)

Heitkamp becomes first Dem to back Pompeo for secretary of State | TheHill - virtually guaranteeing he will win confirmation. Heitkamp, who faces a difficult reelection race this fall in a state Trump won by double-digits, becomes the first Senate Democrat to announce her support for Pompeo. (little Heidi Fuckkamp)


How Stormy Daniels and James Comey Could Hurt Democrats - The Atlantic - The intense media focus on President Trump's personal dramas hurts the party's ability to sell its message to the voters it needs most. (Brownstein conventional wisdom, people can't deal with two thoughts at once)


Across Midwest, Farmers Warn of G.O.P. Losses Over Trump's Trade Policy -- China's proposed tariffs on soybeans would hit hard in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota and other states with highly competitive House and Senate races. (suckers are unhappy with the Turd they voted for +comment: "They voted for Trump thinking someone else would be harmed and not themselves, and, for that, they deserve no respect, sympathy, or quarter.")


Some GOP officials urge charges for women who get abortions (death penalty)


POLL: Arizona Senate Race Heating Up -- Blue, not Red -- Trump favorability underwater by 13-points in the desert
Wary of GOP complacency, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker braces for a possible 'blue wave'

Judge rules against Trump administration in teen pregnancy prevention case | TheHill - cuts to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program were unlawful. (they want girls to get preggers so they can make them not have abortions)

Eschaton: What If There Were 10 Orrin Hatches On The Senate Floor? - Time for a revolution. -- Sen. Orrin Hatch, the father of six, grandfather of 14 and great-grandfather of 23, said he had "no problem" with such a rules change. "But what if there are 10 babies on the floor of the Senate?" he asked. -- The world's greatest deliberative body does not actually ever deliberate. Someone should tell them.

Eric Greitens Faces Republican Pressure to Resign in Missouri - Josh Hawley - But it's for a good cause ... So to win a winnable Senate seat, Missouri Republicans may have to resort to outright cannibalism. Claire McCaskill remains the luckiest politician in America.
Hawley raises far less than McCaskill despite Trump's help
The Future of the GOP Is Filled With Only The Best People - Lawyers, Guns & Money - One thing that's remarkable to me about the modern Republican Party is how those with the greatest ambition to be president are so utterly loathsome and don't even try to hide it ... The real reasons there is pushback here is that the Missouri GOP establishment hates Greitens personally and they are worried about the electoral consequences. It is indeed a wonder that Donald Trump became president of the United States
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens Seeks Restraining Order On His Own Attorney General | HuffPost - battles with other Republican state officials just keep getting worse.

Andrew Cuomo Keeps Calling Himself 'Undocumented,' Which, Hmmmm ... "raised by poor immigrants from South Jamaica" (Queens) ... His father, Mario Cuomo, was born in New York, and his mother, Matilda Cuomo, was also born in New York. ... "Wop" is not actually a term for "without papers" (slimey little lying fucker, AND Queens, hello, Trumpster, and, "fuck you, Spitzer")
wop | Origin and meaning of wop by Online Etymology Dictionary - derogatory for "Italian," 1912, American English slang, apparently from southern Italian dialect guappo "dandy, dude, stud," a greeting among male Neapolitans, said to be from Spanish guapo "bold, dandy," which is from Latin vappa "sour wine," also "worthless fellow;" related to vapidus (see vapid). It is probably not an acronym, and the usual story that it is one seems to date only to c. 1985.

If We Had a Liberal Media We Wouldn't Have Had a Paul Ryan (Pareene) - No media ecosystem with a systemic liberal bias would've ever allowed an Ayn Rand acolyte offering warmed-over Jack Kempism to be treated as a serious person with important ideas. If rank-and-file members of the media actually evinced any understanding of ideology and political economy, Ryan simply couldn't have gotten away with it ... it assumes that the most influential members of the Washington press corps even understand politics well enough for that label to make sense. They are constantly trying to tell us that they don't. (right in front of your eyes)


The Democrats' Gentrification Problem - Thomas B. Edsell -- how housing costs are driving the growing division between upwardly and downwardly mobile populations within Democratic ranks ... the core of the nation's cities is being taken over by members of the affluent wing of the Democratic Party at the expense of the less affluent, disproportionately minority wing of the party:


Black Men Arrested At Starbucks Said They Were There For 2 Minutes Before 911 Call | HuffPost (Starbucks was very bad but Philly cops were even worse)
Starbucks manager told 911 of 2 men 'refusing to make a purchase or leave' (within 30 seconds of their getting there)

L.A. Fitness fires 3 workers after black men get kicked out of N.J. gym | NJ.com

SU suspends Theta Tau fraternity after video of 'extremely racist' behavior surfaces ... "extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities" ... Theta Tau is a professional engineering fraternity


Matt Lauer, Mario Batali, and more eye post-#MeToo comebacks - Vox - Employers need to be held accountable, not just a few bad actors.

#MeToo Unfairly Results In Person Losing His Job! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This also seems like a good time to remind you that Harper's publisher Rick MacArthur, when not publishing terrible articles by hacks burning down the same strawmen they've been burning down for decades or urging the left to work to elect Republicans, is a union-buster who offers interns zero (0) American dollars to work in Manhattan.
Nicole Cliffe on Twitter: "UPDATE: James Marcus has informed @PublishersLunch that he was fired "for opposing the publication of Katie Roiphe's cover story in the March issue. "


NIMBYs Prevail in California - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Yesterday, California state legislators voted down SB827, a bill that would have made it much easier to build dense housing in areas close to mass transit
Atrios on Twitter: "also local control often doesn't even resemble small-d democratic "majority" control "


Sexual Harassment Was Rampant at Coachella 2018 | Teen Vogue - I interviewed 54 women at Coachella, and they all said they had been sexually harassed.

Can a Male Artist Still Paint a Female Nude? - Who's Afraid of the Female Nude? Paintings of naked women, usually by clothed men, are suddenly sitting very uncomfortably on gallery walls.

'Childhood Ruined': Scientologists Reportedly Behind Neopets | HuffPost


Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta - Facing pressure from the low-carb movement, Barilla and other companies are funding and promoting research that argues pasta is healthy.

Hans Asperger Aided Nazi Child Euthanasia, Study Says - The New York Times -- Dr. Asperger referred disabled children to the notorious Am Spiegelgrund clinic in Vienna, where hundreds were either drugged or gassed to death from 1940 to 1945. (nice brand you have there)
Study of How We Look at Faces May Offer Insight Into Autism - The New York Times
Baby's Gaze May Signal Autism, a Study Finds


Neighborhood dispute over Cambridge dispensary could upend Massachusetts' marijuana industry : bostontrees
Neighborhood dispute over Cambridge dispensary could upend Massachusetts's marijuana industry


This neighbor dispute has a clear winner. And I am now C. Fay from apt 39's biggest fans

Eschaton: Huckster (Tesla/Musk, lying for years)
Elon Musk Boring Company Test Tunnel Could Get Fast-Tracked, Blocking Metro's Sepulveda Rail Project (stealing public money, what it's all about)

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These Pro-Trump Extremists Had A Plan To Kill Muslims. How Were They Radicalized? | HuffPost - A jury in Kansas this week is deliberating whether three militia members should spend the rest of their lives in prison. (trumpsters)
Right-Wing Extremists Guilty In Terror Plot Against Muslim Refugees | HuffPost -- Three right-wing militiamen from rural Kansas were found guilty on Wednesday in a 2016 plot to slaughter Muslim refugees living in an apartment complex in Garden City.


'Big bitcoin heist' suspect escapes prison and flees Iceland 'on PM's plane' | Technology | The Guardian - Sindri Thor Stefansson escaped through window before reportedly boarding same flight to Sweden as prime minister Katrmn Jakobsdsttir (wait, what?)


New Zealand's prime minister is unmarried, pregnant and going on maternity leave -- Jacinda Ardern will be only the second elected leader to give birth while in office, and the first to go on maternity leave ... Women in New Zealand could vote two decades before American women, the country is on its third female prime minister ... To form a coalition government, Ardern teamed up with the very conservative New Zealand First party. In American terms, that would be like Bernie Sanders joining forces with Ted Cruz.


Eschaton: Hopefully, At Least, The System Is Improving - The UK has been deporting black people who have lived there for their whole lives for lolz for awhile and it seems there is finally a backlash which might fix things. Might. -- What is meant to happen is that British citizens do not find themselves in a Kafkaesque nightmare of trying to prove that they're British citizens, on pain of being deported to countries they have not lived in for 50 years, if ever, simply because we have a Prime Minister who is ostensibly incapable of comprehending that immigrants are actually real people. What is meant to happen is that the government doesn't maliciously ruin lives, just because half a decade ago its ministers were shitting themselves about UKIP. What is meant to happen is that you don't fuck things up on this horrendous fucking scale in the first place. -- Theresa May is bad.


Facebook is a tyranny -- and our government isn't built to stop it. America's founders didn't envision the power of the corporation. We need a new structure for self-governance that can counter 21st-century monopolies (it's called not electing Republicans)
'No Company Is So Important Its Existence Justifies Setting Up a Police State'


PRRI White Evangelical Support for Donald Trump at All-Time High - 75 percent holding a favorable view of the president and just 22 percent holding an unfavorable view. This level of support is far above support in the general population, where Trump's favorability is at 42 percent. (they have marked themselves with the sign of the Beast)


Guy with this sign. : pics (the signmaker America needs)


Data firm leaks 48 million user profiles it scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, others | ZDNet - Profile data was scraped without user consent or knowledge to "build a three-dimensional picture" on millions of people.
How To Spot A Deepfake Like The Barack Obama-Jordan Peele Video


Tax cut windfall has gone more to executives than to workers: TrimTabs - The allocation tilts decidedly in the favor of executives and shareholders versus workers. (haha suckers)

Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump's Election -- And that may be the tip of the iceberg -- Emboldened by the Trump administration, at least 31 states have considered 62 pieces of anti-protest legislation since November 2016, with at least seven enacted and 31 still pending ... That police are playing any role in this wave of anti-protest legislation is raising alarm among organizers and civil liberties advocates (the runover protesters bill +Trump exploring deporting all Democrats to Antarctica)


Haley sets a red line for Trump - POLITICO - The U.N. ambassador made crystal clear after initially being blamed for 'confusion' on Russia sanctions that she will not tolerate public humiliation quietly. (by an erratic crazyman)


Handful of House Republicans mobilize to protect Mueller - politico - A small band (McConnell and Ryan say no)
Senate panel moving ahead with Mueller bill despite McConnell opposition | TheHill
Pittsburgh Police Prepare For Riots In Case Trump Fires Robert Mueller + CBS Pittsburgh

New York Attorney General Seeks Power to Bypass Presidential Pardons - The New York Times - Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York is moving to change New York state law so that he and other local prosecutors would have the power to bring criminal charges against aides to President Trump who have been pardoned, according to a letter Mr. Schneiderman sent to the governor and state lawmakers on Wednesday. (exempts "double jeopardy law" from pres. pardons)

'People don't realize' : Trump and the historical facts he wants you to know


Comey Pushed for the Investigation That Ended McCabe's Career
Eschaton: There Must Be Higher Love - I haven't read the book, of course, but synthesizing various reviews and excerpts, Comey's basic point seems to be: Everything I did, I did it for the reputation and purity of essence of the FBI, because it is extraordinarily important to pursue partisan ends in the name of nonpartisanship to the maintain the dignitude the most important institution in the history of the universe, or civilization will fall apart. Or something. He is... bad and stupid and the kind of guy who gets high on his own farts.


Hannity's rising role in Trump's world: 'He basically has a desk in the place' (Hannity is an uneducated -- 10th grade dropout -- housepainter and "If you think Churchill was a great painter, Hitler could do a whole apartment in 3 hours")
Fox News' Judicial Analyst Absolutely Shreds Hannity's Cohen Claim "He can't have it both ways," says Andrew Napolitano
Nation Suddenly Worried Sean Hannity Might Not Be Completely Objective

Stormy Daniel's Penthouse Reveal: Plans to Donate $130K to Planned Parenthood in Trump and Cohen's Names
Trump Calls Stormy Daniels Threat Claim 'A Total Con Job' ("He looks nothing like Don Jr.," Trump said)
Ex-Playboy Model, Freed From Contract, Can Discuss Alleged Trump Affair - The New York Times - The settlement agreement, reached on Wednesday, ends a lawsuit brought by the model, Karen McDougal, and protects the president from being drawn into a legal case involving efforts to buy the silence of women who had stories to tell about him during the 2016 campaign.

Trump anti-leak drive nets first guilty pleas - POLITICO - disclosing the information to the media was his only viable option to fight profiling and discrimination in the FBI's anti-terrorism efforts (always lock up the whistleblowers, thanks, Barry)

Twitter Users Shred Donald Trump Over Barbara Bush Tribute Typo | HuffPost - "When you care so much that you can't even bother to have the correct year on an official White House statement"

McConnell considering vote to make tax cuts permanent - POLITICO - While the 2017 law provided permanent tax cuts on corporations, tax cuts for regular people expire in 2027 due to Senate rule constraints (so, to infinity for rich fuckers)

Trump's trade rep spends $1M on new furniture, blames Obama (+$475,000 for "boss desks")


Judge Holds Kobach In Contempt Of Court (he's pretty contempible)

Why There Is No 'Liberal Tea Party' (liberals aren't insane racist fact-denying assholes with tons of Koch money, duh but we can't say that so let's talk about "coalitions")


Here'ss where New Yorkers think Upstate New York is


GOP fears rise over West Virginia Senate fiasco - POLITICO - First Roy Moore, now Don Blankenship. Washington Republicans are worried about another potential GOP Senate nominee, this time in West Virginia ... Cornyn ... said ..."Being convicted of a crime is a real liability" (not for Repubjlicans and his slogan is "Vote Evil Again")

In Pro-Trump Tennessee, Democrats Count on a Familiar Face to Flip a Senate Seat - The New York Times -- President Trump won 92 of Tennessee's 95 counties in 2016

New House FEC Reports: Rating Changes in 7 Districts | The Cook Political Report - The newest FEC filings spell danger for Republicans. In the most recent fundraising period, Democrats outraised Republicans in at least 60 GOP-held seats, more than twice the 23 seats Democrats need for a majority. Meanwhile, the reverse is true in just five Democratic-held seats. That's going to force the NRCC and Congressional Leadership Fund to bail out a lot of cash-strapped GOP candidates come the fall. (Kochbros to the rescue!)


Here's Why Congressman Blake Farenthold Resigned So Abruptly -- He was about to get some bad news ... The House Ethics Committee was about to rule against Farenthold in its investigation into whether he sexually harassed members of his staff, used official money for campaign purposes and lied in previous testimony to the committee


Eschaton: Oh Dear - I'm not sure if the reason the Washington Post keeps letting Richard Cohen write columns is because somebody there loves him or because somebody there hates him, but his latest (find it yourself) is reason to remember why he was 8th runner up for WANKER OF THE DECADE.
Richard Cohen's privilege, explained -- The Washington Post columnist and alleged sexual harasser is bitter about having lost a job to a woman more than 40 years ago.
Washington Post Scolds Richard Cohen for Crude Talk With Female Aide | Observer - By Warren St. John - 05/11/98



Diante Yarber: Police kill black father with barrage of bullets in Walmart parking lot | US news | The Guardian - The killing of the 26-year-old, who is believed to have been unarmed, is being called a brutal case of excessive police force -- California police fired what sounded like more than 30 bullets at a packed car in a shopping store parking lot, killing a black father of three and injuring a young woman in the latest US law enforcement shooting to spark backlash.
Unarmed Teen Killed by Police Was 'Simply Backing His Mom's Minivan' Out of Garage, Lawsuit Claims (shot 13 times by killer cop who was supposed to be doing a "welfare check")

Thottapilly family members found in vehicle submerged in California river - The Washington Post


Harvard Undergraduate Arrested, Sparking Allegations of Police Brutality | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Internet is angry over arrest statement, but mayor really gave no cause for outrage | Cambridge Day (cops and alt-right/Russioan bots flood the discourse)
Police will review violent arrest of student; part of 'systemic problem,' law group says (and finally, a map)
Faust Calls Arrest of Black Student 'Profoundly Disturbing'
Cambridge police: In-patient evaluation may determine whether Harvard student faces charges (cops covering their asses)


What innocent question has someone asked you that secretly crushed you a little inside? : AskReddit


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San Francisco's Big Seismic Gamble

The weather wasn't the only strange story from this year's Marathon

Laura Ingraham Ratings Hold Steady Despite Advertiser Boycott - since her return from vacation

Sandy Hook Parents Hit Alex Jones With Defamation Lawsuits | HuffPost (bankrupt him and lock him up)

Woman Partially Sucked Out of Jet When Window Breaks Mid-Flight; Plane Lands Safely in Philadelphia - NBC 10 Philadelphia
One dead after Southwest plane with engine failure makes emergency landing - The Boston Globe - Bourman said she saw emergency medical workers using a defibrillator to help a woman who was taken off the plane

Israeli intelligence: Objectives of Western strike in Syria not achieved - remaining chemical weapons stockpiles did not suffer a fatal hit in the strike, nor was the Syrian president deterred from using them again

North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war - Pyongyang and Seoul have technically been at war since the 1950-1953 Korean conflict ended with a truce (Trump probably deserves credit for scaring the shit out of both of them)


The Two State Solution Is Dead. Supporting It Is Supporting Occupation -- The past three weekends in Gaza, we have watched, stunned, as unarmed Palestinian protesters have been gunned down by Israeli snipers. The soldiers were given explicit orders to shoot anyone approaching the fence that separates Israel and Gaza, in violation of international law (rogue racist state)


Second Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says 'sex compass' app gathered more Facebook data beyond the 87 million we already knew about : technology


Joint US - UK statement on malicious cyber activity carried out by Russian government - NCSC Site

IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before midnight deadline - The Washington Post (definitely not Russian hacking)

The Trump administration loses an immigration case with Gorsuch as the deciding vote
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor breaks her shoulder | Reuters - in a fall at her home, but will continue performing her duties as usual, a court spokeswoman said on Tuesday.


Trump Scraps New Sanctions Against Russia, Overruling Advisers - The New York Times (so obviosly in Putin's pocket with the pee tapes)
Trump Sells Out Nikki Haley on Russia Sanctions - Nikki Haley Just Learned That Trump Sees Everyone Around Him as Disposable Assets

Mueller Favorability Drops, People Don't Trust Facebook, Poll Shows : NPR - a net-negative swing of 11 points over the past month, with 32 percent of all Americans holding a favorable view toward Mueller, 30 percent viewing him unfavorably, and a 38 percent plurality still not knowing enough to have an opinion. (Fox's war is working)

Transcript: James Comey's Full Interview With Steve Inskeep And Carrie Johnson

Independent New York Prosecutors Pose Potential Risk for Trump - The New York Times

James Comey Interview Fails to Account for 2016 Election Decisions - Hillary Clinton Emails, Donald Trump and Russia - Our republic is at the mercy of the International Man of Integritude (good summary of Comey's real legacy of self-serving lies)

The Note: Trump world a nexus of spider web connections - ABC News (with many evil poisonous spiders like Hannity)
Lawsplainer: Michael Cohen's s Attempt To Delay The Stormy Daniels Litigation
Trump's make-it-go-away guy
Sean Hannity Takes Center Stage in Trump's Kremlin Drama (little Sean, propagandist for Putin)
Sean Hannity's Ties to Two More Trump-Connected Lawyers -- The Fox News host denies that Michael Cohen was ever his lawyer -- but Hannity was represented by a pair of legal advisers who also have close links to the president ... Victoria Toensing and Jay Alan Sekulow and Joe diGenova
Sean Hannity: All the Times Host Defended Michael Cohen Without Revealing He Was Trump Lawyer's Client
It's a Bad Day for Meatheads -- Sean Hannity is Trump attorney Michael Cohen's client. This is too much to be believed.

"You Only Hire Cohen for One Reason" : Inside Fox News, Sean Hannity's Michael Cohen Disclosure Stokes a Crisis as Murdoch Wavers on Trump ... "This is bad," one Fox staffer said. "It violates every rule of journalism."
Time for Fox News to investigate Sean Hannity - The Washington Post
Hannity's ethics under fire
Sean Hannity's idea of 'attorney-client privilege' right out of TV's 'Breaking Bad'


Eschaton: I Am Shocked To Find That Fox News Has No Ethics - I do think the attitude of the "respectable" press corps changed about half way through the Obama administration, but for a long time they resisted crazy hippie criticisms of Fox as just being PARTISAN so, you know, BOTH SIDES and (self-flagellation) Fox has a point about just how LIBERAL we are ... Fox will do nothing about Hannity and Todd will continue to treat them as a "serious new org" because those are the rules
Clear conflict, dishonest "journalism"
New York Daily News Scorches Sean Hannity With New Cover | HuffPost
The Late Show on Twitter: "TONIGHT: A new name popped up in the case of the man who paid off Stormy Daniels. Turns out Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen also worked for a familiar face from cable news! #LSSC https://t.co/BeXhVbZMqw"

Michael Cohen Made Threats to Kill Off Donald Trump Jr. Affair Story and Succeeded, Report Says

Stormy Daniels' lawyer releases sketch of man who allegedly threatened her over Trump affair - CNNPolitics (doesn't look like Stephen Miller)
Who is the man in Stormy Daniels's composite sketch? Some say he looks like Tom Brady (and now, in yet another surprising plot-twist, but it might really be Don Jr.)
These reactions to the Hannity-Cohen revelation are instant classics

GOP tax cuts have gotten less popular with voters: NBC-WSJ poll - The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that the tax cuts, never broadly popular, have sagged in public esteem lately -- just 27 percent of Americans call them a good idea. (the same old core insanity 27%)



Pruitt upgraded to a larger, customized SUV with bullet-resistant seat covers - The Washington Post (everything around Pruit is bulletproof, wonder why?)

Ryan Zinke refers to himself as a geologist. That's a job he's never held. - CNNPolitics - In his autobiography, Zinke wrote that he majored in geology at the University of Oregon, which he attended on a football scholarship, and chose his major at random.

Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Donald Trump, if he could only make it up - The Washington Post - It took Bob Corker 21 seconds to begin answering the question -- If the election were held today, would you vote for Donald Trump? (the worm squirms)

Queens party boss angles to succeed Pelosi as speaker - POLITICO - Rep. Joe Crowley is making moves to take over the House Democratic Caucus whether the party wins or loses in November.


Dent resigns, to leave Congress next month - POLITICO - Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), a frequent critic of President Donald Trump and leader of a moderate band of House Republicans, has decided to quit Congress next month.



AG Hawley: Greitens committed 'potentially criminal acts' involving veterans charity

Supporters pushing for Missouri to legalize medical marijuana | The Kansas City Star (no: "dead in the water" - superrestrictive, just CDB, would give tax money to vets)

How Liberty University Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Online - The New York Times - With a hard sell to prospective students and huge amounts in taxpayer funding, Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed the evangelical institution into a behemoth. (the official church of America! paid for by you)

Apple Is Planning to Launch a News Subscription Service - Bloomberg - Apple Inc. plans to integrate recently acquired magazine app Texture into Apple News and debut its own premium subscription offering (no one you can trust more than Apple to give you the news, well maybe Facebook)


Black man videotapes Starbuck's refusal to let him use restroom - asking why he was denied access to the store's restroom when a white customer was granted access ... The video had received more than 230,000 views as of early Monday afternoon. (Torrance, CA)


Canadian parents defend vigilante actions against alleged sex predator - The Washington Post

Two Harvard law school professors will represent student arrested by Cambridge police - The Boston Globe
Video Shows Cops Tackling and Punching Black Harvard Student in Violent Arrest - "The video speaks for itself." (oh, look, Cambridge copsters go viral for all the wrong reasons)
Harvard student arrested: Selorm Ohene punched by Cambridge police officer, video shows - The Washington Post

Mass. is about to become a battleground over transgender rights - The Boston Globe - Leading the repeal effort are conservative and religious activists and some of the same groups that tried unsuccessfully for years to prevent or stop same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.

Words you couldn'tt say in The Boston Globe -- until now

Former Necco CEO wants to raise $20m to save the candymaker. So far, he's got %565


A large planetary body inferred from diamond inclusions in a ureilite meteorite | Nature Communications


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2018 Boston Marathon live updates: Desiree Linden, Yuki Kawauchi capture come-from-behind victories - The Boston Globe - For the first time in 33 years, an American woman has claimed victory at the Boston Marathon ... Meanwhile, Yuki Kawauchi of Japan completed a wild come-from-behind win, overtaking defending champion Geoffrey Kirui and his 1-minute-31-second lead at the 25.2-mile mark. Kawauchi finished in 2:15:54.
Is this the worst weather ever at the Boston Marathon? We took a look back at the most miserable years - The Boston Globe


Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Targeting Network Infrastructure Devices | US-CERT


Trump allies are helping Russia spread lies about brutality in Syria - When the Pentagon warned that a Russian disinformation campaign was underway, they forgot to mention that allies of the president were spreading it ... Trump's right-wing media allies and fervent supporters are helping Russia spread lies ... actively providing support to a murderous dictator who has reportedly used chemical weapons against his own people at least seven times in 2018 alone. (Prince of Lies +Fox Nwes of Russia)

Russian reporter Borodin dead after mystery fall - BBC News ... a friend revealed Borodin had said his flat had been surrounded by security men a day earlier. (an "assisted fall")
Russian Journalist Who Reported on Secretive Paramilitary Dies - The New York Times


Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley's announcement


Bill Browder on Twitter: "Looks like the Russian government's response to the sanctioning of Russian oligarchs 10 days ago is a massive cyber attack on the US and the UK today.
Trump, a reluctant hawk, has battled his top aides on Russia and lost - The Washington Post - President Trump seemed distracted in March as his aides briefed him at his Mar-a-Lago resort on the administration's plan to expel 60 Russian diplomats and suspected spies ... The president, who seemed to believe that other individual countries would largely equal the United States, was FURIOUS that his administration was being portrayed in the media as taking by far the toughest stance on Russia. (you know what that sounds like, right?)

Okay, what are we trying to capture here? "consciousness" - The bar for the stupidest president ever is fast approaching the center of the planet.
If we're on the Brink of War, the Fault Is Ours, Not Trump's or Bolton's -- They have an excuse -- they're stupid and crazy. What's ours? -- So to recap: the most terminally insecure president ever sits in the White House, advised by one of the most war-crazy hacks in the history of federal service, at the outset of a fully avoidable proxy war with an enemy that possesses thousands of lethal thermonuclear warheads aimed directly at us. Bear in mind that virtually any exchange of nuclear missiles between these two countries would mean the absolute end of civilization. We could all, right now, be minutes away from the end of everything, especially given who holds the respective buttons.

Trump wants to review material seized from personal lawyer before federal investigators - The Washington Post (because criminals always get to do that)
Trump is Testing An "Extraordinary" Legal Case to Contain Michael Cohen -- The president wants to review all the documents seized in last week's raid raid of his longtime personal lawyer before investigators do ... "Trump in effect wants the warrant to be executed like a subpoena to him personally, in which he gets to decide what the government sees. But that's not how it's done: the point of using a search warrant is to block that." ... federal prosecutors must have already had a strong case that conversations between Cohen and Trump were related to a crime under investigation, and therefore not protected by privilege. A warrant application involving the president of the United States would have to have been airtight. (it apparently never occured to them this might happen)

Judge Says Trump and Cohen Can't Yet Review Materials Seized by F.B.I. ("yet")
Federal judge weighs special master to review seized Trump-Cohen records - The Washington Post

Opinion | The President Is Not Above The Law - The New York Times - The Editorial Board

Transcript: James Comey's interview with ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos
James Comey's Interview on ABC's 20/20: Annotated Excerpts
Comey, in Interview, Calls Trump 'Morally Unfit' and 'Stain' on All Around Him
Loretta Lynch defends handling of Clinton investigation ahead of Comey interview - CNNPolitics - Comey writes in the book that he found evidence which he felt could cast 'seriouis doubt" on Lynch's independece (covering his lying ass)

In Searing Interview, James Comey Unleashes Against 'Morally Unfit' Trump | HuffPost
The Comey Show - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The constant pivots between discussions of how inappropriate it would be to let politics influence his decisions and his extensive discussions of how politics influenced his decisions is remarkable ... history is not going to remember Comey well despite his extensive PR efforts.
Walter Shaub on Twitter: "Comey had to know Chaffetz would leak the letter on the reopened Clinton investigation. But if Comey had written, "This is to inform you that the FBI is investigating both major party presidential candidates," Chaffetz would've dug a 6-foot hole and buried it in the forest. So... (a lot of traitors in government)

Kaivan Shroff on Twitter: "James Comey didn't trust Hillary Clinton... Loretta Lynch... or Sally Yates... So he interfered and made popular vote loser Donald Trump president. There's an alarming pattern there of seemingly anti-successful woman bias.
The "NY Bureau Made Comey Do It" Defense Is Exceptionally Weak (he has chronicled his own moral failure and his rationalization are just footnotes)

Cohen Isn't the Biggest Catch from Trump World -- Other players know far more about the president's dealings than his lawyer does. (lookin' at you, Ivanka)

And Mystery Client #3 is ... (2 updates) - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Fox News Host Sean Hannity is Michael Cohen's mysterioius client
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "Fox News has to fire Hannity. You can't have a host who interviews his own lawyer on TV without disclosing it, and who interviews a politician he's regularly advising on policy without disclosing it, and not become state television rather than a "news outlet" measured by Nielsen. https://t.co/kBRSAo9j09"

Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Used the Same Delaware Company for Payment Deals to Two Women - WSJ - Federal probe looks closely at money flowing in and out of Essential Consultants

Attorney for Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says Cohen performed secret legal work for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity - The Boston Globe (laundering Russian payoffs to Sean the Red, who forbid the court from mentioning his name; Fox's head explodes)
Hannity Reacts to FBI's Raid of Cohen's Office: 'No Limit at All' to Mueller's 'Fishing Expedition'
Zack Ford on Twitter: "The Sean Hannity radio show just started. There's SILENCE. DEAD. AIR." ... "I might have handed him $10 or something" ... (Zack Ford live-tweets Hannity)
Sean Hannity has few rules, and now Fox News has a problem -- analysis - By any standards of any normal newsroom, the Cohen-Hannity relationship is a glaring conflict of interest.


If you sue a billionaire president, can crowdfunding level the legal playing field? - The Washington Post - She put out a plea on a fundraising website and brought in more than $310,000 in mostly small donations in about a month.

Playmate had affair with Trump while Marla Maples was pregnant | Daily Mail Online


Felix Marquardt on Twitter: (fuckerberging democracy since day 1)

Incoming Pence staffer withdraws after report Trump tried to block him - Axios

Political groups, feds spent $15M at Trump businesses | McClatchy Washington Bureau (Pres Self-Dealing)

Scott Pruitt's $43,000 soundproof phone booth violated spending laws, federal watchdog finds

2018 vote margin narrows as Democratic engagement slips (POLL) - ABC News - A 10-point Democratic lead among all adults narrows to 4 points among registered voters and 5 points among those who say they're both registered and certain to vote (Dems tank, Trump incredibily popular)
Democrats advantage in midterm election support is shrinking
Democrats in Good Position to Nab Republican House Seats | Monmouth University Polling Institute | Monmouth University (or vice-versa)

The GOP's Never-Trumpers Are Really Just Never-Democrats

Republicans are the PARTY OF IDEAS! (TM), Have You Heard Our Original Take That IDENTITY POLITICS Are Bad Edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Arizona special election in dead heat: poll | TheHill - A poll from Emerson College found physician Hiral Tipirneni (D) narrowly leading with 46 percent, compared to former state Sen. Debbie Lesko (R), who is at 45 percent (Lesko was heavily favored a little while ago) The winner of the April 24 race will replace former Rep. Trent Franks (R), who resigned after reportedly discussing paying a staffer to act as a surrogate mother.
Smelling Blood, Democrats Swarm New York House Race - The New York Times - undefined

Cynthia Nixon Is Serious About Her Candidacy for NY Governor - By moving the governor to the left.

An Asshole Says What? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Matt Bevin, everybody: (hundreds of thousands of kids sexually assaulted because teachers won't work for free!)


Purge Charter School Advocates from the Democratic Party - Lawyers, Guns & Money (one of Barry's Big Ideas)


This photojournalist won a Pulitzer for an image he made on his last day in the newsroom | Poynter


Here's What We Learned From Thousands Of Secret NYPD Disciplinary Files -- BuzzFeed News is making public a huge cache of the New York Police Department's disciplinary records, revealing for the first time which employees have been charged with misconduct and what punishment, if any, they have received. ("if any" : most cop depeartment make this info available; NYPD of Secrets and Coverups does not) -- at least 319 NYPD employees who had committed offenses serious enough to merit firing but who were allowed to keep their jobs. Following that investigation, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to push the state legislature for reforms to Civil Rights Law Section 50-a, the law that cloaks disciplinary records in secrecy.


Watch: Racist White Woman in Georgia Caught Verbally Assaulting Two Black Soldiers | Alternet - The woman, later identified as Judy Tucker, and her son Robbie followed the two women into the restaurant and called them "black bitches" and said they didn't know the U.S. Army allowed lesbians to serve. (Judy Tucker tried to confiscate their phones which were recording her being an racist asshole, hi Judy!)


Sexual Assault and Precarious Work: An Epidemic - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Is Legalized Cannabis Here to Stay? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Not that anyone should trust the Trump administration, but given recent powerful Republicans embracing legalized marijuana, this might be a game changer in terms of where the nation is on legalization.
This Profession Smokes the Most Weed -- See Where Yours Ranks | Alternet - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranked Colorado occupations by how much their workers use marijuana. (foodies are high all the time, artsy types/sports dudes come in second)
In Boston-area condos and apartments, the smell of pot pits neighbor against neighbor - The Boston Globe (vape, dudes)

Videos show Cambridge officer striking black Harvard student (same story as yesterday, but changed the headline and linked the video "released by Cambridge Police," lot of cops in the comments)

Man Claims a Prescription Painkiller Altered His Sexual Orientation | Alternet - The man reports that his sexual orientation reverts when he stops taking the pills ... "I had never been interested in men. . When I was younger I was a little bit curious but ... (Lyrica makes him temporarily gay or maybe more like permanently)

Nathan Carman's lawyers say murderous plot allegations circulating in 'tabloid media' (like the Globe)


Here's What Happened When Professional Atheist Sam Harris Tried -- and Failed -- to Embarrass Noam Chomsky - Chomsky's self-appointed antagonist is more off-base and offensive than many realize. (Harris loves Bush/Cheney/aftermath of 911: "39% of those killed in air raids by the US-led coalition were children" but it was worth it)


What is that one simple change in your life that gave incredibly great results? : AskReddit


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Prominent Lawyer in Fight for Gay Rights Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Prospect Park - The New York Times - and leaving a note exhorting people to lead less selfish lives as a way to protect the planet,

Laura Ingraham Holds Onto Ratings as Advertiser Returns to Her Show | Mediaite - The Ingraham Angle was the leading cable news show in its time slot, averaging 2.69 million viewers throughout the week.

Boston Marathon bombings remembered in somber events - The Boston Globe


The Soviet Kiss, Gone But (Mostly) Not Missed - Men locking lips in public might be a rare event in today's Russia, but comrades kissing behind the Iron Curtain was once the height of fraternal protocol.

Anne Frank House banned Jewish employee from wearing skullcap | Daily Mail Online - "might endanger the neutrality" of the institution (which is pro-holocaust because where would they be, otherwise)

Giant Penis Mural To Be Painted Over After Stiff Resistance From Locals [NSFW] | HuffPost - Klimt added that they would let the penis remain for a short amount of time so others can enjoy the art before it's painted over (Stockholm, and "enjoy" the dick)


Judge: Transgender People A Protected Class, And The Military Can't Enact Trump Ban | HuffPost


Trump tries to appear strong in Syria even as he plans to withdraw - The Washington Post (waving his "limited" penis at Putin - "Operation Desert Stormy")
Trump drops 10 times more bombs on Syria than refugees he's let in (11, yes, 11)

Eschaton: Trump Is A Madman Who Must Be Kept From Power - Also he's a good preznit when he kills people. -- Here's another thing you should understand about these guys: The only thing the elite Washington press corps likes more than a bipartisan commission on debt reduction is a stack of flag-draped coffins.
Eschaton: Our Foreign Policy Is Run By A Serial Killer Cult - Whenever the missiles are about to start flying, everybody suddenly cares deeply for the people we are about to bomb, and it is, in fact, callous to NOT want to bomb them, and then a few days later, if the missiles stop flying, everyone stops caring again. It's almost as if... call me crazy... the entire point is just to kill people.
Eschaton: Our Foreign Policy Is Run By A Serial Killer Cult - Whenever the missiles are about to start flying, everybody suddenly cares deeply for the people we are about to bomb, and it is, in fact, callous to NOT want to bomb them, and then a few days later, if the missiles stop flying, everyone stops caring again. It's almost as if... call me crazy... the entire point is just to kill people.
ELI5: Why use of chemical weapons is internationally frowned upon, and leads to retaliation air strikes. But it's acceptable to blow people up and shoot them? -- Short Answer: By internationally held standards, yes. Bombs and bullets can be aimed, an unguided murder fog can't.


Congress should 'forcefully respond" if Trump fires Mueller, 245 former DOJ officials say (Republicans giggle)

Trump assails Comey in tweetstorm, suggests ex-FBI director deserves 'jail'
The FBI's revenge ... Trump: "disgrace" nine times ... Comey: ""We are experiencing a dangerous time in our country, with a political environment where basic facts are disputed, fundamental truth is questioned, lying is normalized, and unethical behavior is ignored, excused, or rewarded"
Trump rips 'slimeball' Comey: He made decisions based on the fact he thought Clinton would win (Republican helped Republican slimeball win, so he's a Republican 'slimeball')

Scoop: Trump tried to block Pence national security appointment - Axios - a highly unusual event, as Trump typically gives Pence a long leash on personnel appointments. This is the first time the President has tried to block Pence from filling a senior staff position. The scene also highlights

Stormy Daniels expected to appear at Michael Cohen's hearing Monday
A Brief History of Michael Cohen's Criminal Ties -- From the Russian mob to money launderers, Trump's personal attorney has long been a subject of interest to federal investigators

Michael Cohen and the End Stage of the Trump Presidency | The New Yorker

Paul Ryan on James Comey: 'I don't know the guy' ("He's dead to me. In fact, he might just be dead.")

On The Deficit, GOP Has Been Playing Us All For Suckers - the GOP is operating the federal equivalent of a huge budget bunco game ... for the first time officially projected the federal deficit rising to almost $1 trillion in 2019 and then staying at or well above that previously unfathomable level every year through 2028. ("fiscally-responsibile Republicans" and your pundits and media cheering them on)


Trump's approval rating is back near first-100-day levels (Gallup had him historically low at 38% two days ago, infra vide)
Economy helps Trump approval; his personality, especially among women, not so much (POLL) - ABC News - While men divide evenly on his job performance, 49-47 percent, women disapprove by a 2-1 margin, 32-64 percent. And while men see him more unfavorably than favorably as a person by 12 points, 53-41 percent, women do so by a 44-point margin, 68-24 percent.


Trump might survive firing Rosenstein or even Mueller. The reason: Fox News. - The Washington Post

More Than One-Fifth Of The Trump Campaign's Spending This Year Has Been On Legal Fees -- The campaign also spent about $125,000 at Trump businesses.

Facebook's Tracking Of Non-Users Sparks Broader Privacy Concerns | HuffPost - Zuckerberg said that, for security reasons, the company collects "data of people who have not signed up for Facebook" (for security reasons, does Fuckerberg ever listen to his thoughts before he says them?)
Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users | Reuters - data of people who have not signed up for Facebook ... Facebook needed to develop a way for non-users to find out what the company knows about them (you'll have to sign up for that, haha suckers)
Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony showed that a bedrock principle of online privacy is a complete and utter fraud -- Facebook's terms of service document is more than 3,200 words long and includes 30 links to supplemental documents, noted Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. Its data policy is another 2,700 words and includes more than 20 links. (non-informed non-consent haha suckers)
Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony showed that a bedrock principle of online privacy is a complete and utter fraud : technology ("Zuckerturd")
Durex ad murders facebook : funny
Trump Might Have a Secret Kid and Mark Zuckerberg's Second Day in Congress | The Daily Show - YouTube - (Zuck is hu-man and your reps are mo-rans)
'Dear Mark, this is why I hate you.' An open letter to Zuckerberg : technology
Watch the TED Talk that people were talking about from Jaron Lanier - Recode - I call them behavior modification empires


More popular vote-electoral college splits may be in our future - The Washington Post - demographics and shifting voting patterns present trade-offs for both parties, as they try to reach out for support from constituencies that have eluded them while holding to their core groups. (the system is rigged and Rethugs will win, usually)


LGBT 'Conversion Therapy' Is Dying a Quick Death Across America. Good. -- There is perhaps no other LGBT-related issue in the U.S. that has garnered such bipartisan levels of support.


A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash - The New York Times - Governments are struggling as mounting pension obligations crowd -- out the rest of their budgets. Oregon faces a severe, self-inflicted crisis ... Joseph Robertson, an eye surgeon who retired as head of the Oregon Health & Science University last fall ($8 million/yr for some retired college pres, of course the grift goes on)


Cambridge mayor calls video of Harvard student's arest 'distrubing' ... a video of a police officer repeatedly striking a black Harvard University student pinned to the ground by fellow officers during his arrest ... Two Cambridge officers were also treated for minor injuries and unprotected exposure to bodily fluids (he bled on them)

Cops Arrest 2 Black Men Sitting In Starbucks For 'Trespassing': Video | HuffPost - "We declined to bring charges against the two men because there was a lack of evidence that a crime was committed" (not that we're racist fucking cops or anything)
Oakland Cop Who Was Fired and Criminally Prosecuted for Drunken Home Invasion and Assault Is Suing to Get His Job Back : news

Stan Lee makes a statement regarding elder abuse rumors : videos

Hackers stole a casino's high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank : news

The "Queen Bee" phenomenon, where female leaders mistreat subordinate women and stop their advancement, may be a myth, based on a new study of 8.3 million organizations in 5,600 Brazilian municipalities, which found female leaders more benevolent and appointed more subordinate females as managers. (made up by toxic men)
Do women prefer female bosses? - ScienceDirect - In two US datasets, female job satisfaction is lower under female supervision. Male job satisfaction is unaffected by the gender of the boss.


1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound) - YouTube (see 5:31)
Amazing Collection, New York 1900 (In Color) - YouTube
1967 - London Street Scenes (added sound w/ color remaster) - YouTube


Researchers have found that more than one-third of patients who denied that their self-inflicted gunshot wound resulted from a suicide attempt most likely had indeed tried to kill themselves, and commonly were sent home from the hospital without further mental health treatment. : science

Checkmate flat earthers : videos

TIL: The ingredient in spicy peppers, Capsaicin, is sometimes strong enough to cause prostate cancer to "commit suicide" : todayilearned


Computer technicians what's the most bizarre thing that you have found on a customers computer? : AskReddit
Oh... : funny


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Abuse Survivors Demand Concrete Action After Pope Admits His 'Serious Errors' | HuffPost (popester fucked up, back-tracks)


Key Evidence Disappeared From Police Custody During Investigation Into Russian Whistleblower's Death, Court Hears (UK cops are always "losing" evidence of Russian murders)

U.S., Britain and France Strike Syria Over Suspected Chemical Weapons Attack - The New York Times
Damascus defiant as U.S. strikes prove more limited than feared - The Washington Post (Trump waves his limited penis) Syria, Russia and Iran shrugged off strikes on Saturday by the United States and its allies against three Syrian chemical weapons facilities ...
Donald Trump Ordered Syria Strike Based on a Secret Legal Justification Even Congress Can't see

Eschaton: The Answer is Obviously War - And surely Donald Trump and Theresa May have nothing but the best interests of the Syrian people at heart. The moderate rebels, at least!
An attack on Syria could be disastrous. But the warmongers won't be told -- Our leaders and elites continue to promote violence in the Middle East. Meanwhile, they pour scorn on those who oppose unjust wars
Eschaton: A Zen Koan For Our Times - "I believe that the US, UK, & France did the right thing by striking Syria over chemical weapons. It will not stop the war nor save the Syrian people from many other horrors. It is illegal under international law. But it at least draws a line somewhere & says enough. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM) April 14, 2018" (remember Anne-Marie?)
Trump supporters slam decision to launch strikes against Syria | TheHill

You Cretins Are Going To Get Thousands Of People Killed (Pareene, a year ago)

Kakistocracy, a 374-year-old word that means 'government by the worst' just broke the dictionary ... " those Sanctimonious Incendiaries, who have fetched fire from heaven to set their Country in combustion, have pretended Religion to raise and maintain a most wicked rebellion, against those Neros, who have ripped up the womb of the mother that bare them, and wounded the breasts that gave them suck, against those cannibals who feed upon the flesh and are drunk with the blood of their own brethren, against those Catilines who seek their private ends in the public disturbance, and have set the kingdom on fire to roast their own eggs..." (and yes, it really means "ruled by (ca-cas) shits")


Joe Wilson Reacts To Scooter Libby Pardon: 'Trump Is A Vile And Despicable Individual' | HuffPost - The former ambassador and his wife, former CIA agent Valerie Plame, were at the center of the Libby case. She says Trump's basis for the pardon is "simply false" ... " Mr. Trump is willing to allow people to violate the essence of our defense structure, our national security, our intelligence apparatus and essentially get away with it"
Opinion | Trump Pardoned Libby to Protect Himself From Mueller - The New York Times - By Marcy Wheeler
Trump Pardons Scooter Libby in a Case That Mirrors His Own - The New York Times
Eschaton: We Were The Only Ones Who Knew - The pardon of Scooter Libby is a reminder of the horrors of the Bush administration, and how most people just didn't know and certainly don't remember just how horrible it was. There are a lot of reasons for this, including general post-9/11 benefit of the doubt and a pundit/media environment that tended to downplay every transgression. Obviously journalists were doing the work to uncover that stuff, but the weight of opinionating and NPRing and CableNewsing and the framing by political, as opposed to investigative or war, reporters made a whole bunch of stuff that was not, actually, normal, appear to be normal. The Bush administration was awful. Try not to forget.

Mueller has evidence that Trump confidant went to Prague, despite denials | McClatchy Washington Bureau - Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Michael Cohen's visiting Prague would be a huge development in the Russia investigation -- If true. (Trump says "It was a different Michael Cohen.")
Planespotting: Michael Cohen's Amazing Journey ... Inanely, CNN claimed that they had it "confirmed" that Michael Cohen was not in Prague, Czech Republic, when the dossier said he was ... "a different Michael Cohen" (haha suckers, CNN "confirmed" it with Trumpster himself +Louis Mensch a year later looks pretty smart while CNN was in the pocket of "transactional" Trump)
Michael Cohen May Learn the Hard Way That There's No Such Thing As Consigliere-Client Privilege

FBI Seized Recordings Between Michael Cohen And Stormy Daniels' Former Lawyer: Report | HuffPost (hmmmm)

Real or 'fake news'? Either way, allegations of lewd tape pose challenge for Trump

Trump's miserable crew has never been so desperate ... Despite playing tennis, golf and football during his college days, Trump took five deferments, four for college and one for bone spurs in his feet. On the day Trump graduated from college, 40 Americans were killed in Vietnam. (and John Kerry faked his Swift boat)

The anti-anti-Trump cohort has a fatal flaw in its thinking - The Washington Post

Sure, McCabe and Comey made mistakes. But that's not why they were fired. (McCabe acted like the partisan Republican he is, and Comey was fired by Trump for being too mean to "Crooked Hillary.")


Republicans lose their favorite campaign message: Repealing Obamacare - The Washington Post (what will Ted Cruz do?)


Kentucky Governor Blames Teacher Protest For Inevitable Sexual Assault Of Children Left Home Alone | HuffPost - Matt Bevin has a bleak view of his fellow Kentuckians (with good reason)



America's Overpaid and Underachieving Elites Outdoing Themselves in East Lansing - Lawyers, Guns & Money - After Michigan State President Lou Ann Simon postmaturely reigned in the wake of a staggering institutional failure, MSU asked a greasy Republican hack to replace her. This is going about as well as you'd expect


Trump Promised Senator No Federal Crackdown On Legal Weed, But Who Even Knows | HuffPost - Let's see if Trump keeps his word (it would be a rare event)


Eschaton: That's A Lot Of People! - Let me pull out my napkin to do some math. -- " Thirty million people, conservatively, could visit the American Dream Meadowlands in its first year of opening, a leading local business advocate says." (12 million more than Disneyland, hahah suckers +". Roughly 2 full highway lanes at optimal capacity running 12 hour per day!")

'Internal Investigation' Underway Following Arrest At Philly Starbucks (8 philly cops arrest 2 men waiting for a friend so they could have coffee)
Starbucks issues apology, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Ross says officers 'did absolutely nothing wrong' - Philly

Boxer Wears Anti-Immigrant Trunks, Gets Soundly Beaten By Mexican Opponent


Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins have often stood in the way of social change - The Washington Post - Focusing on the individual at the expense of society.


Cambridge police to conduct internal review following use of force during arrest - The Boston Globe - of a 21-year-old Harvard University student ... Selorm Ohene of Cambridge approached them with clenched fists after officers responded to calls reporting a naked man on a traffic island near the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Waterhouse Street, along Cambridge Common in Harvard Square


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Suspected White Supremacist Died Building ISIS-Style Bombs - Friends and family say Ben Morrow was a Bible-toting lab worker. Investigators say he was a bomb-building white supremacist ... Morrow, 28, died in an explosion in the kitchen of his Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, apartment on March 5. His home was filled with bomb-making substances so volatile that firefighters chose to destroy the 16-unit apartment block in a controlled blaze, rather than let Morrow<'s neighbors continue to live in the building ... One of Morrow's neighbors told the Wisconsin State Journal he planned on digging through the rubble to find a dead relative's World War II dog tags, which had been left inside to burn ... Morrow's family described him as a religious man, who grew up homeschooled and later studied pre-pharmacy, math, and chemistry at Pensacola Christian College in Florida


'I will arrest you': Duterte warns ICC lawyer to steer clear of Philippines ... International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor if she conducts activities in his country, arguing it was no longer an ICC member so the court had no right to do any investigating.

Father Seeking Justice For Teen'S Alleged Rape At Hands Of Indian Lawmaker Dies In Custody - after sustaining injuries that his family said were from retaliatory beating


In Nobel Scandal, a Man Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct. A Woman Takes the Fall. - The New York Times - The first woman to lead the body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature was forced out on Thursday, a stunning casualty in a sexual abuse and harassment scandal that has threatened to sully one of the world's most acclaimed cultural honors ... The scandal has reached the highest levels of the government ... at least 18 women had accused Jean-Claude Arnault, a major cultural figure, of sexual assault and harassment. Mr. Arnault is married to the poet Katarina Frostenson, a member of the academy, and together they run a private cultural club, called the Forum, that has received money from the academy ... It also reported that Mr. Arnault had leaked information about the winner of the prize seven times since 1996 ... "A headstrong woman is not what they are used to in the Swedish Academy." ("headstrong" = "honest" +Swedish patriarchy covers up crimes)


Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show - Motherboard - A Motherboard investigation has found that law enforcement agencies across the country have purchased GrayKey, a relatively cheap tool for bypassing the encryption on iPhones, while the FBI pushes again for encryption backdoors.

A Former Russian Spy Worked On A Trump Moscow Deal While Trump Was Running For President - But in a twist, that former officer also provided intelligence to the US.
Exclusive: Two top Trump officials are ex-lobbyists for a billionaire with deep ties to Russian oligarchs - VICE News

Eschaton: Morning Thread - In a million years I never thought I would be talking about Scooter Libby in 2018. But, it makes sense in order to set up pardons for the current crew of criminals. Can't get much more transparent than this.
Trump Plans to Pardon Scooter Libby in C.I.A. Leak Case - The New York Times

Eschaton: The Pee Tape Is Real - Or something very similar, anyway. Trump is the most transparent dotard on the planet. If he couldn't stop talking about it with Comey, it's real. -- More than that, it's pretty clear that whatever Trump is criminally guilty of, what he's actually worried about is the more personal stuff. he's frightened the world might see his naked body in all of its glory, metaphorically at least.
Donald Trump's Hometown Newspaper Just Burned Him With A Savage Nickname | HuffPost -- PEE BRAIN!
Jamey Comey details Trump's obsession with the 'pee tape'
Seth Meyers Decodes The 'Pee Tape' News: 'Oh My God. It's Real!' | HuffPost "iT HAS TO BE."

Comey and the Clinton Rules - Lawyers, Guns & Money We are getting the first reports of Comey's defense of his history-altering misconduct in October 2016, and I think one element deserves some pushback:
James Comey's Memoir Shows How Trump Won - The Atlantic - The former FBI director has a low opinion of the president who fired him, but his disregard for Justice Department rules helped put Trump in the White House to begin with.

Inspector general report faults Andrew McCabe for unauthorized disclosure of information, misleading investigators - The Washington Post

A Liberal Is Someone Who Won't Take His Own Side In A Fight - Obama really does embody the stereotype sometimes, as does Schumer: (float-above-it-all Barry and Chuckie Fuckie had Comey's back)

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein tells confidants he is prepared to be fired - Under fire, the deputy attorney general has invoked a Martin Luther quote to say he stands by his actions.
Trump's flimsy case against Rosenstein shows aim is to obstruct Mueller

Trump Favorable Rating Dips - favorable rating, already low by historical standards, has dropped to 38% -- while his unfavorable rating is at 59%. (most unpopular president ever contrary to recent wishful thinking his popularity was surging because the economy is so great)

Eschaton: Obstruction - Back in the 90s (ancient history, blahblah), if anyone went on cable news to defend Clinton everyone would start screaming OBSTRUCTION.
Trump Responds To Allegations In James Comey's Book, Calls Him 'Untruthful Slime Ball' | HuffPost - "It was my great honor to fire James Comey!"
Eschaton: Comey Ain't Right - Just something to keep in mind. -- If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be? -- The United States Constitution isn't a book, so I would pick "The Road to Character" by David Brooks (shallow minds think alike, ironically)

Trump Sees Inquiry Into Cohen as Greater Threat Than Mueller - The New York Times
Eschaton: Transactional - Movie's getting better. - Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's personal attorney often recorded telephone conversations both before and during the 2016 presidential campaign that likely have been scooped up in the FBI raid on attorney Michael Cohen's apartment, office and hotel room, according to sources familiar with the matter ... Trump viewed the media relationships as transactional, the source said. ("transactional" = he paid them off)
Trump's Lawyer May Have Stored 'Gold Mine' Of Recorded Conversations: Report | HuffPost
Trump lawyer fights to shield items seized in FBI raid
"These Are Not Very Bright Guys" ("You took notes on a fucking criminal conspiracy???" is a meme)

R.N.C. Official Who Agreed to Pay Playboy Model $1.6 Million Resigns - The New York Times ... "impregnated" (and boy is he ugly)
Cohen negotiated $1.6M settlement for GOP donor who allegedly impregnated Playboy model: report | TheHill

Newt Gingrich's shameless smear of the FBI (remember Henry Lewis Gates? and conservative heads exploding when Obama "criticized" the Cambridge copsters? "My how things have changed.")

Missouri's Governor Sounds A Lot Like Another Politician Accused Of Sexual Assault | HuffPost


Scott Pruitt Uses Multiple 'Secret' Email Accounts, Senators Say | HuffPost - Democratic senators wonder if the embattled EPA chief is using the email scheme to duck open-records laws. (but Hillaaaarrrrry!)

GOP breaks the glass as House outlook darkens - POLITICO - The party is scrambling to shore up seats deep in Trump country, where incumbents won by double digits in 2016 (Steve Stivers is a little cross-eyed)


The Charter School Lobby - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Maybe Chait will announce his support for Antonio Villaraigosa next, since all the charter school hacks are all in for his run for California governor.


HHS official shared post saying 'forefathers' would have 'hung' Obama, Clinton for treason (again, where do they find these "people")

How Are Never Trump Conservatives Different from Trump Conservatives? - Like to Offer This Sanity Quiz to All #NeverTrump Conservatives -- Nicolle Wallace, David Frum, Joe Scarborough, Bill Kristol: Step right up.

Trump, Gardner strike deal on legalized marijuana, ending standoff over Justice nominees - The Washington Post - defusing a months-long standoff between Sen. Cory Gardner and the administration over Justice Department nominees ... In a phone call late Wednesday, Trump told Gardner that despite the DOJ memo, the marijuana industry in Colorado will not be targeted, the senator said in a statement Friday. (and if you believe that +Boehner and Weld were in on the deal)



The Michael Cohen raid could backfire. This story shows how. - The Washington Post (Gary Abernathy and the Hilssboro, OH Gazette, ex W.Va Republican party chairman and becaUse some idiot small-town hick police chief is the same as Robert Mueller)

Tronc cuts dozens of employees, including former Times Editor Lewis D'Vorkin (the venture guys destroy another American institution +they really aren't very smart)


'Crisis Actor' Alex Jones Gets A Taste Of His Own Medicine In Brilliant Troll | HuffPost - Comedy Central confronts the Infowars host with a stunning accusation.


LGM Podcast: Bhagwan's Best


Black teen misses bus, gets shot at after asking for directions in Rochester Hills - Story | WJBK


Eschaton: Can't Make An Omelette Without Busting A Few Skulls - "But right now self-driving cars are learning. They're student drivers."

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Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years | Nature -- The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a system of ocean currents that has an essential role in Earth's climate, redistributing heat and influencing the carbon cycle, The AMOC has been shown to be weakening in recent years ...


U.S. officials: Blood samples show nerve agent, chlorine in Syria gas attack
Tucker Carlson Gets Petty After Noah Rothman Bests Him in Intense Syria Showdown | Mediaite


Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds - The New York Times - 41 percent of American adults did not know what Auschwitz was ... Forty-one percent of Americans, and 66 percent of millennials, cannot say what Auschwitz was. Only 39 percent of Americans know that Hitler was democratically elected

Nation's emergency alert systems aren't safe from hackers | McClatchy Washington Bureau - The emergency alert systems that blare out warnings during natural disasters, terrorist incidents or manmade calamities could be hijacked into sending out false alarms.


Pennsylvania Will Eliminate Paperless Voting Machines In Time For The 2020 Election - The largest swing state that can't fully audit its votes says that'll be fixed by the next presidential election.


Eschaton: We Can See You - A reasonable test of motives is whether the people who are advocating that we bomb the shit out of people for humanitarian reasons ever advocate that we do anything else whatsoever for humanitarian reasons. In our elite discourse, the answer is usually no ... Obviously Trump is more callous about such matters (as Trump is more callous about all matters), but we weren't exactly bombing the world with food and hospitals before Trump. tl;dr: Most of our elites love war. I am not sure why. But any excuse will do.

Trump chooses impulse over strategy as crises mount - The Washington Post - They quickly regrouped and, together with Pentagon brass, continued readying Syria options for Trump as if nothing had happened. (he has the "best" instincts and impulses because his "gut" is the best)

Trump weighs rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership amid trade dispute with China - The Washington Post - The move would mark a stunning reversal for Trump, who sharply criticized the pact as a "disaster" and made opposition to global trade deals a centerpiece of his economic agenda as a candidate.


10/7 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Natasha Bertrand on Twitter: "????????????????????? 4:03 pm, 10/7: Access Hollywood tape 4:32 pm, 10/7: WikiLeaks email dump " (Republican reps are rossian bots)


Expect President Trump to Fire Rod Rosenstein - The Atlantic - If the president can, with impunity, remove the deputy attorney general, the very notion that law enforcement has a higher function than serving power becomes a lie.


Trump tweets about conspiracies he sees behind challenges - The Washington Post
Trump Attacks NYT Report, Insists He Has Power To Fire Robert Mueller | HuffPost - Experts, however, say only Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has the power to remove Mueller. (when have your "experts" ever mattered to Republicans?)
Playbook: Eight brutal months are coming up - POLITICO - "If I wanted to fire Robert Mueller in December, as reported by the Failing New York Times, I would have fired him. Just more Fake News from a biased newspaper!"
It Won't Exactly Be The Streisand Effect -- SHould We Call It The Trump Effect? ... his efforts to distract from something he doesn't want us to notice makes us pay attention even more. Maybe he's not stupid enough to do this -- but he was stupid enough to fire Comey in the first place, so why not?

Scoop: Ricky Waddell is leaving the White House - Axios - deputy National Security Adviser Ricky Waddell (Bolton housecleaning)

James Comey Has a Story to Tell. It's Very Persuasive
In new book, Comey says Trump 'untehered to truth' ... "ego driven and about personal loyalty"
James Comey'ss memoir: Trump fixates on proving lewd dossier allegations false
Comey: Trump asked me to investigate 'pee tape' to reassure Melania

GOP's new pro-Trump spin on Comey is utter nonsense

Trump, Mueller teams prepare to move forward without presidential interview
White House is prepping an effort to undermine Rosenstein - CNNPolitics
Chart: This Is What Happens If Trump Fires Mueller - The president can't get rid of the special counsel on his own. Trying to do it would set off a chain of events that would convulse the country.

Exclusive: Inside the GOP plan to discredit Comey - CNNPolitics - allies are preparing an extensive campaign to fight back against James Comey's publicity tour, trying to undermine the credibility of the former FBI director by reviving the blistering Democratic criticism of him before he was fired nearly a year ago.

Pompeo's confusing answer about whether Trump asked him to intervene in the Russia investigation (meanwhile in lie-lie land)

Eschaton: Loyalty - Trump is a man who clearly prizes loyalty, but has no respect for his lickspittles and no sense of obligation towards them. And, other than the paycheck, they doubtfully feel any towards him. Clean, cold, cost/benefit analysis. What else would businessman Trump endorse? ... He said that he is very loyal to Trump but after what happened on Monday, he'd rethink how he handled the payments to Daniels because of the impact on his family. -- "Very." "Loyal."


Raid on Trump's Lawyer Sought Records on 'Access Hollywood' Tape

The Story Behind TIME's 'Stormy' Donald Trump Cover (brilliant)

The National Enquirer, a Trump Rumor, and Another Secret Payment to Buy Silence - How the media organization protected the Presidential candidate early in his campaign. - Ronan Farrow
Investigators Focus on Another Trump Ally: The National Enquirer - The New York Times
$30,000 rumor? Tabloid paid for, spiked, salacious Trump tip - Eight months before the company that owns the National Enquirer paid $150,000 to a former Playboy Playmate who claimed she'd had an affair with Donald Trump, the tabloid's parent made a $30,000 payment to a less famous individual: a former doorman at one of the real estate mogul's New York City buildings.


Pompeo failed to disclose Chinese business connection | McClatchy Washington Bureau - CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose last year that he owned a Kansas business that imported oilfield equipment from a company owned by the Chinese government.


'Good riddance' : : Trumpian right celebrates retirement of 'globalist' Paul Ryan (window into pure insanity +Breitbart/Gorka and "globalist" is dog-whistle for "Jews" that's right, Ryan is controlled by "the Jews")

Trump Allies and House Republicans to Paul Ryan: Get Out Now - The White House is concerned about how many House Republicans may be following the speaker out. Others are worried about what he might do during his remaining days in office. (speaking of "loyalty")
Donald Trump Takes Out Paul Ryan, and 'It's Going to Be a Civil War' -- Everything Trump touches dies, and the speaker's legacy is no exception ("legacy" of fraud)
House Speaker Paul Ryan was the biggest fraud in American politics -- Good riddance.
Fanatic, Fraud, Factotum: The Rise and Fall of Paul Ryan
What Ryan Wrought -- Paul Ryan's legacy will be defined by his support for Donald Trump.
Ryan Found Himself on the Margins as the G.O.P. Moved Right - The New York Times


Paul Ryan is abandoning the ship before it sinks - The Washington Post ... In sum, Ryan retreats from the scene after loading the country up with debt and leaving virtually every other agenda item save tax cuts undone. He fantasized that in backing Trump, who lacks conservative principles (or any principles), he'd have carte blanche to enact the entire GOP agenda. He made his Faustian bargain with Trump on the false assumption that Trump would be compliant, take direction from House Republicans and demonstrate enough discipline to get through a slew of initiatives. That did not come to pass ...
Invertebrate - Wikipedia (scroll down)
Wikipedia Invertebrate Page Edited to Include Paul Ryan
Trump Didn't Break the Speakership, It Was Already Broken (by Gingrich and the radical right)

Lawmakers' Letter Claims Further Spending Abuses by the E.P.A. Head, Scott Pruitt (corruption is a full-time job)

Trump Court Pick Thinks Planned Parenthood - Kills Over 150,000 Females A Year' - Wendy Vitter refused to tell senators if she still agrees with a speech she gave at a 2013 anti-abortion rally (oh look, Diaper David's wife is a lying Republican moron)
Trump nominee won't say if she supports school segregation - NY Daily News
Trump Judicial Nominee Refuses To Say If She Agrees With Desegregated Schools | HuffPost - President Donald Trump nominated Wendy Vitter to be a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
In a field of terrible judicial nominees, Wendy Vitter is exceptionally unfit | TheHill


Revealed: Secret rightwing strategy to discredit teacher strikes | Education | The Guardian - Top; of the list: 'teacher strikes hurt kids and low-income families' (Hello, Betsy DeVos)


I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes. - The New York Times
Jim Carrey Paints Blistering New Portrait Of A 'Very Angry' Mark Zuckerberg | HuffPost


Eschaton: Gestapo - Back in the aughts, if you made any hint that something in America (other than hippies) was somehow like Nazis you would be drummed out of the universe of "acceptable discourse" forever on the dual charges of hating America and antisemitism. Everything's Nazism now! Except, weirdly, Nazis. What a time to be alive!

America's Most and Least Popular Senators -- there's good news and bad news for Senate Democrats up for re-election


Ex-Texas congressman convicted of fraud, conspiracy | The Kansas City Star - A federal jury convicted a former Texas congressman on fraud and conspiracy charges Thursday for misusing charitable donations to pay for personal and political expenses. Steve Stockman, a Republican, was accused of conspiring with two staffers to bilk conservative foundations out of at least $775,000 that was meant for charitable purposes and voter education.

Missouri Dem wants reparations for slavery, criticizes McCaskill | The Kansas City Star - , a Democratic state senator on Tuesday called for reparations for former slaves and criticized her own party for taking African-American votes for granted.

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Opinion | I Wrote the Uber Memo. This Is How to End Sexual Harassment. - The New York Times


Woman: Sexual encounter with Greitens was not consensual. Lawmakers find her credible | The Kansas City Star
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens' Sex Scandal Gets Worse - It Is Unbelievable That Missouri's Governor Is Still in Office

Accusers confront Bill Cosby, and they arent' holding back ("America's Daddy-rapist")

Charlie Rose's Life Now: "Broken," "Brilliant" and "Lonely"

Los Angeles Prosecutors Consider Sexual Assault Charge Against Kevin Spacey | HuffPost
Are Any of These Hollywood Superpredators Going to Jail? - With L.A. County prosecutors declining to charge James Toback and Harvey Weinstein still walking free, it's not clear if justice will truly be served.

Michigan State May Have Broken the Law in Rebuking Student's Gang-Rape Lawsuit Claims

Man Accused of Raping Michigan Teenager Is Now Charged With Killing Her - The New York Times - A Michigan man who had been released from jail on $100,000 bond while awaiting trial on rape charges murdered the 16-year-old girl who had been expected to testify against him


John Boehner Joins Marijuana Firm's Board, Marijuana Stocks Spike | Fortune (they must have talked to little Jeffy)


Let Me Lead You Through the Darkness of Khloi Kardashian and Tristan Thompson ... this is the second (YES, SECOND) time that TTD has cheated on a significant other in her final trimester of pregnancy. If that doesn't make you want to vomit, I don't know what will. (yeah, but good writing)


These Were The Most Popular Baby Names In The 1980s | HuffPost (Jennifer, it's always Jennifer)

Biblical prophecy claims the Rapture is coming April 23, numerologist says | Fox News

'Traffic has plummeted since the update' : : Publishers Worry About the Future of Snapchat Discover

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Laura Ingraham's Sponsors Still Bolting Over Comments About Parkland Survivor | HuffPost - Blue Apron and SlimFast announced that their ads will no appear on the program after Monday's episode (go home, Laura, the kids won and you're stupid)
NRA, In New Document, Acknowledges More Than 20 Russian-Linked Contributors : NPR



Russian envoy to Lebanon: Any U.S. missiles fired at Syria will be shot down | Reuters
Mark Zuckerberg just renounced a core piece of Silicon Valley wisdom -- and it could come back to bite Facebook (not a media company media company)
What Mark Zuckerberg didn't say ... The majority of the 44 lawmakers questioning Zuckerberg in the joint Senate hearing were not well versed in the workings of Facebook or how data is shared between platforms, developers and advertisers. (or actually, anything, and Fuckerberg vagued-out)
The Latest: Reddit says it banned 944 suspicious accounts - Reddit issued its transparency report for 2017 during Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Senate appearance, saying it had found and banned 944 suspicious accounts associated with Russia's Internet Research Agency. (good timing)


A Conservative Party Donor And Brexit Supporter Resigns From Cambridge Analytica Parent - Roger Gabb, who supported Britain's withdrawal from the EU, stepped down quietly last month as a director of SCL, one day after Christopher Wylie testified before parliament. Why he resigned is unclear.


Trump Warns Russia: Syria Strikes 'Coming' | HuffPost - "Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and smart!"
Trump Threatens Syria Before Allies Are on Board (loose cannon, literally)

Russia-linked account pushed fake Hillary Clinton sex video - A pornographic video that falsely claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaged in a sex act has been traced back to an account that Reddit acknowledged on Tuesday is linked to Russia (she was banging black Putin)


1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE. - Detained, Then Violated (Trump's ICEfuckers)
Video shows U.S. agents trying to dump injured man over Mexican border - The Border Patrol tried to push the man across the border because he "looks" Mexican


Senate panel moves to take up bill protecting Mueller | TheHill ... The committee action would come after two previous special counsel bills languished for months without a vote.
Bipartisan Senate bill to protect Mueller set to advance - POLITICO - The combined version of two Mueller protection measures, released Wednesday, would give any special counsel 10 days after a termination to challenge the move in court.

Mueller Seeks Subpoenas for 35 Witnesses for Manafort Trial - Bloomberg

Trump Reportedly Narrows In On Rosenstein Amid Frustration With Mueller Probe | HuffPost - The president also reportedly has weighed firing special counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump Sought to Fire Mueller in December - The New York Times
With Scant Precedent, White House Insists Trump Could Fire Mueller Himself - The New York Times -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders, made a provocative claim: The president, she said, believes he has the legal authority to fire Robert S. Mueller, the special counsel leading the Russia investigation. (Fuckabee will get hers, too)
The Trump/Rosenstein Russian Nesting Doll of Nonsense

Michael Cohen to CNN: FBI was 'professional, courteous, respectful' in raids, counter to Trump's lies
How the Cohen Raids and Trump's Reactions Edge Us Toward Confrontation ... "overwhelming evidence"
Opinion | The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump - The New York Times
"The ACLU Would Be Up in Arms" (said Dershofuck, because the ALCU defends mob bosses all the time)
President Trump has never been in more trouble than right now - The Washington Post -- the big-picture story here seems inevitable: Once a serious prosecutor with resources and authority began taking a good long look at Trump and his associates, a bunch of people were going to be in big trouble, with some winding up behind bars.

Dana Boente, former top Justice Department official now at FBI, has been interviewed by Mueller and turned over notes - The Washington Post

Devin Nunes Is Ready To Impeach Someone, And It's Not Donald Trump -- "We're not messing around here" ("impeach" Wray, Rosenstein and Clinton)

2020 census will ask about same-sex marriages for first time | Pew Research Center

E.P.A. Assesses Threats on Twitter to Justify Pruitt's Spending

The Mechanism For Removing Trump And His Enablers is the Ballot Box - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Speaker Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Re-election in November - The New York Times - But his retirement announcement is sure to kick off a succession battle for the leadership of the House Republican Conference, likely between the House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy of California, and the House majority whip, Steve Scalise of Louisiana. It could also trigger another wave of retirements among Republicans not eager to face angry voters in the fall and taking their cue from Mr. Ryan.
Paul Ryan Says He Won't Seek Re-Election | HuffPost - Rumors have swirled for months on whether he would step down.
Paul Ryan Will Retire as House Speaker After Tax Cut Amid Donald Trump Chaos ("serious policy wonk" hahah suckers)
The top Republican candidate to replace Paul Ryan is an avowed white supremacist - ThinkProgress - Paul Nehlen is too racist for even Breitbart, and yet he's the GOP's leading candidate ... As he alienated more and more normal Americans, he gained notoriety among the drudgery of the internet. (haha, nice one)
Janesville (Or, What's Next For Wisconsin's 1st Congressional?) ... Can a human being as awful as Nehlen run and win in that district? Will the GOP manage to scramble to slot someone in to run against Nehlen before the primaries? And if Nehlen emerges from the primary victorious, will the state GOP rally behind him? (Again, #NeverTrump.)
Meet the only current GOP candidate for what was Paul Ryan's Seat in Congress (the worst of the worst)

Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp: Trump 'asked me to switch parties ... When I visited with him in Trump Tower before he was sworn in' ("you are alredy a good Republican, Heidi") At the time, Heitkamp was seen as a potential Cabinet pick ... (Fuckkamp)

Facebook Fallout Deals Blow to Mercers' Political Clout

Boy billionaire Mark Zuckerberg struggles to play the grown-up - The Washington Post ... . Awaiting him on the leather chair: a four-inch-thick black foam cushion ... "I can have my team follow up with you" (claims he personally knows nothing)

5 facts about Facebook users in the U.S. | Pew Research Center - Around two-thirds of U.S. adults (68%) use Facebook
Here's how much Facebook donated to every lawmaker questioning Mark Zuckerberg this week (they work for him +Zuck seems to hate Ed Markey who got $0)
Zuckerberg Gets More Questions About Diamond & Silk Than Facebook's Role in Myanmar Genocide -- UN investigators blame Facebook for the rapid spread of anti-Rohingya propaganda, but conservative lawmakers seemed more fixated on the site's treatment of a pro-Trump YouTube duo. (the Clarence Thomas Gang)
Mark Zuckerberg's Senate Hearing Exposed Him as Reckless Billionaire Capitalist - The Senate hearing exposed him as just another reckless billionaire capitalist.
Mark Zuckerberg couldn't stop mentioning his Harvard dorm room during Facebook testimony
Mark Zuckerberg has been apologizing for reckless privacy violations since he was a freshman - Enough is enough. : technology


The First Couple of Trump's America -- Clarence Thomas is moving closer to the right-wing fringe. His wife Ginni is already there. (white nationalists)

What's Driving Republican Retirements From Congress? | Trump's Takeover | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site - All the hard data points in the right direction for a Democratic takeover


Republican Congressman Dennis Ross is retiring | Tampa Bay Times - More than 40 House Republicans are retiring or seeking another office. Ross is the third Florida member

A Repubilican Congressman's Profanity Laced Tirade in a Safeway Grocery Store ... "It's like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f*cking stupid Forrest Gump. He can't help himself. He's just a f**king idiot who thinks he's winning when people are b*tching about him. He really does see the world as ratings and attention. I hate Forrest Gump. I listen to your podcast and heard you hate it too. What an overrated piece of sh*t movie. Can you believe it beat the Shawshank Redemption?" ... "If we're going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker. Take him out with us and let Mike [Pence] take over. At least then we could sleep well at night." ... " He wakes up in the morning, sh*ts all over Twitter, sh*ts all over us, sh*ts all over his staff, then hits golf balls. F*ck him. Of course, I can't say that in public or I'd get run out of town."


You *Are* the Sucker, Jane Galt Edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ideology Is a Choice - The fact that Megan McArdle seems to have a secure job for life at the highest level of the elite media despite the quality of her work goes to show that the exclusion of conservatives is not as bad as she thinks.


MO House Report Contains Graphic Claims Of Greitens' Alleged Sexual Misconduct


A commenter calls out Tom Ashbrook after column - The Boston Globe

Asshole Skeleton Husband - Lawyers, Guns & Money (literally toxic masculinity)

The Randy Riley trial: how news media are falling down on the job - Dropping coverage of a court trial mid-trial is a disservice both for readers and for justice.


Lasell College deal would have kept Mount Ida open - The Boston Globe - Before financially strapped Mount Ida College struck a deal with the University of Massachusetts Amherst to quickly sell its leafy campus and shutter the school, the college rejected an offer from nearby Lasell College that would have kept the school open and allowed its students to graduate. (something smells)


John Boehner and Bill Weld to join Acreage Board of Directors (largest multi-state pot farm)
Bill Weld, John Boehner join advisory board of marijuana company - The Boston Globe (Boehner will be Barry's pot dealer)


Mariah Carey: My Battle with Bipolar Disorder | PEOPLE.com


Whats the most mind blowing philosophical concept you know? : AskReddit


ELI5: Why is the reversible, and compact design of USB-C only made recently? Why couldn't they have used this design decades ago when they were designing USB-A? : explainlikeimfive

What is a conspiracy theory you believe 100 percent? : AskReddit

What is something all men can relate to? : AskReddit


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The group declined to directly address the question, saying "the NRA and its related entities do not accept funds from foreign persons or entities in connection with United States elections" Since then, the NRA sought to clarify that it does accept foreign donations for its membership organization. (Wayne LaSatan lied??)

Amid ad boycott, Laura Ingraham says she won't be silenced by 'the left' or even her own big fat lying mouth
Tennessee college student defends her gun-toting 'graduation' photo ... "Women for Trump" (and their gun-penises)


Eschaton: Just Fan Service Now - What's it all about then. -- The British offices of the Murdoch entertainment empire 21st Century Fox have been raided by investigators from the European Commission, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.


Tucker Carlson Goes on Marathon Rant Questioning Whether Assad Is Behind Attack in Syria | Mediaite (Putin agent Fucker Carlson)
Russia has figured out how to jam U.S. drones in Syria, officials say - signal scrambling has seriously affected military operations.


Queen Elizabeth likens Trump to noisy helicopter | TheHill - Queen Elizabeth II is comparing President Trump to a noisy helicopter, quipping that the commander in chief goes "round and round when you want to talk" .... "or President Obama," she added (mensplaining)

State And Local Republican Officials Have Been Bashing Muslims. We Counted. - Republican officials in 49 states have openly attacked Muslims with words and proposed legislation since 2015, and few have faced repercussions.


A Second Paul Manafort Associate Has Turned on Him - The one-time Team Trump honcho was already in hot water. And that was before an ex-employee led an FBI agent to a storage locker filled with Manafort's financial papers.
Jake Tapper on Twitter: "Trump considering firing Rosenstein to check Mueller https://t.co/2UkZM7midl"
Caroline O. on Twitter: "Wow. @maddow obtained Dana Boente's handwritten, contemporaneous notes from his conversations with James Comey. And those notes corroborate Comey's testimony about being pressured by Trump before being fired."
The Trump Russia probe is expanding, as Mueller looks into new meetings in Seychelles: exclusive | NJ.com

Republicans warn Trump against axing Mueller - POLITICO - But it still looks unlikely that Congress will pass a law to prevent the president from firing the special counsel.
"He's Sitting There Bitching and Moaning" : Inside Trumpworld, Allies Fear the Boss Could Go Postal and Fire Mueller ... "dry tinder"

Raid on Trump's Lawyer Sought Records of Payments to Women
FBI raid targeted records of payments to porn star, ex-Playmate - CNNPolitics
Michael Cohen Has a Big Problem - The Atlantic - It takes strong evidence to execute a search warrant against an attorney representing a subject in a federal investigation, let alone the president's personal counsel
Trump-appointed US attorney recused from Michael Cohen investigation - ABC News - Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is recused from the Michael Cohen investigation, ABC News has learned. Berman was not involved in the decision to raid Cohen's office because of the recusal ... Berman is a Trump appointee with ties to Rudy Giuliani who donated money to the 2016 Trump campaign. (part of the NY FBI anti-Hillary lying leakers)
Why the F.B.I. Raid Is Perilous for Michael Cohen -- and Trump
Trump Fumes Over Michael Cohen Raid: 'Attorney-Client Privilege Is Dead' | HuffPost
Trump Floats Possibility Of Firing Robert Mueller, Criticizes Jeff Sessions | HuffPost
Mike DeBonis on Twitter: "Here's how @senorrinhatch, former Judiciary chairman and Senate president pro tem, is handling questions about protecting Robert Mueller: https://t.co/y9RuiOM9q3" (he can read Trump's "mind")
U.S. Attorney Behind The Michael Cohen Raid Is A Trump Appointee | HuffPost ... even donated to Trump's campaign (deep state at work)
FBI Raid on Michael Cohen Is the Most Dangerous Day of Donald Trump's life -- The president's low-rent Ray Donovan can bully porn stars, but not Robert Mueller. The shtick is up.
Stormy Daniels lawyer predicts Cohen will 'fold like a cheap deck of cards'

This Mashup Of People On Fox News Advising Trump On TV Is Alarming | HuffPost - The president tweets about Fox News so much that those on the network often talk to him directly.

Inside the West Wing with Trump enraged - Axios - Until now, when storms hit, Trump could turn to Hope Hicks to explain things to him, suggest wording, simmer him down. With her departure from the White House, we saw the president working out his fury in real time. (a dimbulb explaining things to an even dimmer bulb)

Pompeo asks Clinton for advice as he preps for confirmation battle - POLITICO - The secretary of state nominee, who trashed his Democratic predecessor over Benghazi ...


Retired General Schools Ivanka Trump After She Complains About Child Fitness | HuffPost (after Trump fired the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition because Scott Pruitt needed all the moneys)

Eschaton: It Was All A Dream - It wasn't just that Republicans pretended to care about the deficit, or that reporters pretended to believe them when they pretended to care about the deficit, it's that so often politics/policy was covered as if "deficit=bad" was some sort of objective truth ... For some reason, only the Democrats didn't understand it was all a con. I hope they resist seeing this as their "opportunity" to run as the "responsible party." Eat your vegetables, voters!


Eschaton: The Smartest Boys In The Room - Too much of the conversation about Obamacare gets stuck in the great battle of '09, the public option vs. the not public option. For a variety of reasons the public option could've and likely would've solved many of the problems with Obamacare ... Obamacare was badly designed in a lot of other ways, some of which probably could have been fixed without pissing off Joe Lieberman, and some of which were a demonstration that the smart guys who designed the thing weren't nearly as smart as they thought they were. They fucked up ... . It was also a debate between technocrats, but the ones on the inside declared (as always happens) that they were the Very Serious People, the wise wonks with a monopoly on mad technocratic skillz, and that their critics were just unrealistic children looking for unicorns. (thanks again, Barry)

When the Republican Party in 2018 is concerned, the public policy is the grift and vice versa:

Mark Zuckerberg Testimony Live: We Don't Sell Data to Advertisers, Says Zuckerberg : news
Mark Zuckerbot at his congress hearing : gifs
Zuckerberg used a booster seat during his testimony today. : pics
Facebook Has Been Accused Of Helping The Vietnamese Government Crack Down On Dissent
Silicon Valley Falls to Earth - The Atlantic - As Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress, the cultural attitude toward technology is dramatically shifting.


Senate leadership shakeup looms for Republicans - POLITICO - If Republicans keep the Senate, then Thune and Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming and Roy Blunt of Missouri would probably secure easy promotions while a vacancy opens at the bottom of the leadership rungs, according to senators and aides.

Four years ago, he won a stunning political upset over one of Washingtonton's most powerful leaders. Now Rep. Dave Brat is fighting for his political survival - The Washington Post - As an unknown economics professor, Dave Brat personified the grass-roots revolution that shook the Republican Party four years ago when he dethroned House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) and was elected to Congress from a district outside Richmond. (eponymous +Laura I. is promoting him)

Stephanie Cutter on Twitter: "A key reason why the economy under Democratic presidents are typically stronger and more stable than under Republican presidents. https://t.co/ieStWWbktk" (even the professional dems can't get their message together because they think like Repupblicans)
Stop Listening to Anything Conservatives Say About Debt - Republicans have been working off the same playbook for decades.


Why Charles Murray Promotes Racist Junk Science - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Bell Curve is about policy. And it's wrong -- Charles Murray is an incredibly successful -- and pernicious -- policy entrepreneur ... African Americans and Latinos are disproportionately poor in the United States, but most recipients of social assistance are, in fact, white. Despite the complaint that critics are throwing around charges of racism to silence Murray, the reality is that promoting a heavily racialized view of the overall question of whether we should try to help poor families or punish them serves as a useful marketing gimmick for both books and legislation.
Dylan Matthews on Twitter: "Charles Murray's entire intellectual project is about showing that social welfare programs don't do any lasting good. But they do *tremendous* lasting good. https://t.co/0vBSOrJ7wX https://t.co/guqHOGQk3p"
Why Is Charles Murray Odious? | Current Affairs - Less because of his empirical methods than because of his horrible moral values -- by Nathan J. Robinson


CBS execs are freaking out over looming Charlie Rose expose | Page Six - CBS has been using NDAs to try and suppress potential sources for an upcoming exposi about Charlie Rose's sexual misconduct


T.J. Miller Arrested For Allegedly Calling In a Fake Bomb Threat | Hollywood Reporter - r allegedly called 911 and told the dispatcher he was on an Amtrak Train traveling from Washington, D.C., toward Penn Station in New York City and that a female passenger "has a bomb in her bag." ... "The authorities took the threat very seriously. Evacuated everyone into a parking lot at night. It was cold. At least 16 police vehicles, bomb sniffing dogs. They detained 4 women for questioning." ... It was later discovered that Miller was on a different train. (drunk, of course)

Cop who struck 13-year-old girl charged with assault : news

My Niece Believed She Was Abused By A Satanic Cult. The Truth Is Even Scarier. | HuffPost (paranoid schiz is a bitch)


After 30 years of R&D, breakthrough announced in dark matter detection technology, definitive search to begin for axion particles : science


Reddit's 2017 transparency report and suspect account findings


YouTube has been hacked and lots of popular music videos like Despacito have been defaced - The Verge - Lots of high-profile music videos have been defaced

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Sinclair cancels Jamie Allman's show after host's crude David Hogg tweet - The Washington Post
Jamie Allman lands in hot water with tweet about hot poker | Political Fix | stltoday.com
Sorry, Laura Ingraham. Looks Like Parkland Survivor David Hogg Was Accepted Into UC Irvine - weeks after he was ridiculed by Fox News host Laura Ingraham over his college rejections.
Clarence Thomas' Wife Posts Memes Trashing Parkland Kids and Comparing Gun Control to Holocaust
Interior Official Compared Parkland Students To Nazis, Promoted Conspiracies


Israel blamed for missile strike in Syria; 14 reported dead

The Terrible Cost of Obama's Failure in Syria - The atrocities keep coming (thanks, Barry)


South Korea's former president is going to prison. The scandal behind it is batshit. From shadowy religious cult leaders to competitive horse dancing, this one has it all.


Three members of the secretive committee that selects the winner of the Nobel prize for literature have resigned from the jury in protest at how it has handled the sexual harassment allegations made against a man with close links to the board. : books


Trump family hotel business asked Panama president for help


Russian Stocks Take Worst Hit Since Crimea on Sanctions, Syria - Bloomberg - Ruble falls most globally; stocks drop most since 2014


F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump's Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen; Trump Calls It 'Disgraceful' (3000 comments)
Trump attorney Cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud, campaign finance violations, according to a person familiar with the case - The Washington Post (9000+ comments)
Cohen raids hit home for the president
Searched and Seized: F.B.I. Agents Raid Michael Cohen's New York Hotel
The Search of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen's Office: What We Can Infer Immediately
'A bomb on Trump's front porch': FBI's F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump's Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen
Trump's tirade after the Michael Cohen raid, annotated
Mueller Investigating Ukrainian's $150,000 Payment for a Trump Appearance - He donated $150,000 to the Trump Foundation in 2015 in exchange for a brief appearance by Mr. Trump via video at a conference in Ukraine. Credit

Federal Budget Deficit Projected to Top $1 Trillion in 2020 - The New York Times

To hell with it: Trump increasingly weary of staff advice
Trump's top national security spokesman to leave White House - Michael Anton ("America Last")

Robert Mueller and 2018: Campaign operatives are unprepared for bombshells | McClatchy Washington Bureau

White House has no plan for countering Comey - POLITICO - Senior aides hope a trip to South America and summit with the Japanese prime minister will keep Trump's mind off the book (oh, Fox will tell him)

Horror of Being Governed by 'Fox & Friends' (Murdoch/Satan won)

MSNBC's Joy Reid: What If Trump Refuses To Be Arrested By Federal Marshals? | Video | RealClearPolitics

Art Collector and Bon Vivant Dies in Trump Tower Home He Couldn't sell

As elections near, many older, educated, white voters shift away from Trump's party (men, just say it, men) Nationwide, whites over the age of 60 with college degrees now favor Democrats over Republicans for Congress by a 2-point margin (half of American old whites are really stupid)

Inside the White House Bible Study group - BBC News - Vice-President Mike Pence. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The list goes on. In total, 10 cabinet members are "sponsers" of the group (they love Satan)

In Letter to E.P.A., Top Ethics Officer Questions Pruitt's Actions (blatently crooked)

Mark Zuckerberg Says He's Not Resigning
14 years of Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry, not sorry about Facebook - Washington Post (he only accidentally ever tells "the truth")
The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake

Twitter Bots: An Analysis of Automated Accounts and the Links They Share | Pew Research Center - An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts
How Every Campaign Will Have a Troll Farm of Its Own

Scott running for Senate in epic showdown with Nelson - testing the limits of whether a close alliance with President Donald Trump is political poison or a pathway to success in the nation's biggest swing state

It must be nice to be born without a sense of shame. - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Facing pressure from progressive groups and primary challengers up and down the ballot, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced an agreement to end a controversial power-sharing deal between state Republicans and a breakaway group of Democratic lawmakers.

Tammy Duckworth gives birth to girl: First senator to have baby while in office | Chicago Sun-Times


Where Millennials end and post-Millennials begin | Pew Research Center - Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 22-37 in 2018) will be considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward will be part of a new generation.



Eschaton: The Narrative - Baquet talks about political journalism like we joke about it. (no self-awareness)

On the Shameful Abrogation of Kevin Williamson's Inalienable Right to Troll the Specific Audience of His Choice -- You will be unsurprised to learn that C onor "Forget it College Sophomores, Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces Are For Well-Compensated Pundits" Friedersdorf has a column arguing that the firing of Kevin Williamson is a threat to civil discourse in America itself
Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "It's to look at the diverse views highlighted on the WSJ op-ed page.
Our own nick056 on the Kevin Williamson Controversy - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Jack Shafer's defense of killing women)

Univision Forces Out Gizmodo CEO as Company Weighs Deep Cuts - Gizmodo Media Group CEO Raju Narisetti is leaving the former Gawker Media sites as parent company Univision gets more involved and considers more cuts.


The Sam Harris-Ezra Klein debate - Vox - Ezra and Sam Harris debate race, IQ, identity politics, and much more. ... . "I am just saying that we are going to be ambushed by data that will have a political charge, and we have to be in a position to talk about it without demonizing people" ("ambushed" by data you non-scientists won't be able to deal with)


The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma | The New Yorker By Junot Diaz
The Silence - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Junot Diaz



What an ayahuasca retreat showed me about my life - Vox - What the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life.


Scientists have an intriguing new theory about our eyebrows and foreheads - Vox - Why our are eyebrows so expressive? There may be an answer in evolution.


xFamished comments on Korean beef BBQ [homemade]

[Serious] Dear reddit, What are some things you would recommend an 18 year old start doing now that will benefit them on later in life? : AskReddit


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Keystone pipeline leak in South Dakota about double previous estimate. The Keystone crude oil pipeline leak in November in rural South Dakota was nearly double the original estimate, making it one of the largest U.S. inland spills since 2010, a newspaper report on Saturday said. : news ... "I'm not surprised by this in the slightest. They swear up and down that pipelines are safe and effective but when they leak or explode due to NEGLIGENCE, no one gives a shit. Literally what I've come to expect from all these 'drill, baby, drill" idiots


N Korea-US talks: Pyongyang 'ready to discuss denuclearisation' - BBC News

9 killed, scores wounded by Israeli fire in Gaza protest

Dozens Suffocate in Syria as Government Is Accused of Chemical Attack - The New York Times (Trump signals he doesn't give a shit about shithole countries, Assad/Putin respond)
U.S.: If true, deadly Syria chemical attack demands international response; Russia to blame - U.S. News - Haaretz.com - Washington cited a history of chemical weapons use by Syria's Assad and blamed Russia for their "unwavering suport for the regime' while Russia dismissed the reports (kabuki)
At least 40 dead after gas attack, say Syrian activists - The Boston Globe
Liberman signals Trump didn't consult with Israel on Syria withdrawal -- Amid Gaza protests, defense minister also claims everyone in the Strip 'is affiliated with Hama' (Avigdor)

Red Lines - Lawyers, Guns & Money - So, it looks entirely possible that the Assad regime may once again have used chemical weapons against rebel forces. As you know, this is incredibly surprising given that the Trump administration demonstrated its credibility and resolve last year by firing 59 cruise missiles at a nearly empty Syrian airbase, possibly disrupting air operations for several hours.

Lula turns himself in after police stand-off - BBC News

Sergei Skripal Russian message intercepted on day of poisonings | World | News | Express.co.uk - AN ELECTRONIC message to Moscow sent on the day former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury included the phrase "the package has been delivered"

London stabbings: 300 extra police deployed on streets to tackle spike in knife crime : news ... 1) : UK official says budget cuts removing thousands of police have nothing to do with spike in violent crime. 2) London (re)deploys 300 extra police to tackle spike in (violent)knife crime.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd says police cuts have played no part in the surge in street killings | The Independent - London is paying the price for the undermining of intelligence-led neighbourhood policing


Hungary's Viktor Orban wins re-election, gets super majority - Opposition parties feared that another super-majority would allow the autocratic leader to more easily push through constitutional changes, continue his crackdown on civic groups that he claims work against Hungarian interests and further strengthen his grasp on the highly centralized state power structure. (rise of white nationalism in Europe)


China has started ranking citizens with a creepy 'social credit' system - here's what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you : technology -- Any Hikvision manufactured camera connected to a network can be deactivated, activated, reset, or even locked out by Hikvision (majority owned by the Chinese ruling party). Some numbers suggest this could include up to 40% of all security cameras in the United States, but it's impossible to really know how many it really is (another while Barry slept disaster)
User explains how one Chinese security camera maker may have backdoors into 40%+ of cameras sold in the US (Hikvision) : bestof
Shodan - Explore the Internet of Things | Server: SQ-WEBCAM - Shodan Search

The first comprehensive study of China's STEM research environment based on 731 surveys by STEM faculty at China's top 25 universities found a system that stifles creativity and critical thinking needed for innovation, hamstrings researchers with bureaucracy, and rewards quantity over quality.

Eschaton: We Can't Even Put Together A Recovery Plan For Puerto Rico - Lots of stuff going on here, but after the last 16+ years...who thinks we're even capable of this?


Eschaton: Trump Tower Is On Fire - This author is ridiculous. No one would believe this shit.
Trump Tower fire is second 2018 blaze in sprinkler-free residential tower - CBS News - New York City in 1999 became last big city in the nation to require sprinklers ... Mr. Trump was one of the developers in the late 1990s who lobbied against sprinklers in buildings. (Trump cheaped out, people died, long-standing pattern)

Trumpcare Is Coming To Iowa, And Your State May Be Next | HuffPost - Republicans have other options, but they keep refusing to try them. (non-insurance fake insurance "plans," fuck off and die, suckers)

Is Trump lying about the hush money? - The Washington Post (he lies about everything, duh)


Farmers' Anger at Trump Tariffs Puts Republican Candidates in a Bind ("Farmers' racist stupidity puts themselves in a bind")
Farmers who propelled Trump to presidency fear becoming pawns in trade war - The Washington Post

Republicans Seize on Impeachment for Edge in 2018 Midterms - The New York Times - a strategy is emerging on the right for how to energize conservatives and drive a wedge between the anti-Trump left and moderate voters: warn that Democrats will immediately move to impeach President Trump if they capture the House. (that will certainly work)

Democrats' Chances Of Taking Over The House Just Got Better, Per New Forecast -- The outlook is rosy despite Donald Trumps rise in the polls

Zuckerberg Gets a Crash Course in Charm. Will Congress Care? - The New York Times - It has also hired a team of experts, including a former special assistant to President George W. Bush, to put Mr. Zuckerberg, 33, a cerebral coder who is uncomfortable speaking in public, through a crash course in humility and charm. ("coder" haha you believe that? +training him to be more human-like)
Facebook's Sandberg backs out of ABC News interview

Why Does Scott Pruitt Need a Bulletproof Desk, a Bulletproof Car, and $3 Million in 24/7 Security? : politics ... "The EPA is on record saying they have zero record of threats against Pruitt:" (it's almost like someone is out to get him)

Drain That Swamp! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I know I am glad the Trump administration is cleaning up the incredibly corrupt Washington of the Obama years! ... On March 29, 2017, Robert Murray, the founder and owner of one of the country's largest coal companies, was ushered into a conference room at the Department of Energy's headquarters, in Washington, D.C., for a meeting with Secretary Rick Perry ...

Why are Millennials running from religion? Blame hypocrisy - Salon.com - White evangelicals embrace scandal-plagued Trump. Black churches enable fakes. Why should we embrace this?
Why are Millennials running from religion? Blame hypocrisy : politics


GOP worries Blankenship surge will cost party W. Va. Senate seat | TheHill - Don Blankenship, released from jail less than a year ago, now appears to be within striking distance of the party's nomination (Rethug killer crooks, suck on it, W.Va)

Missouri braces for bombshell as Greitens report is released | The Kansas City Star - The series of slow-burning scandals that have besieged Gov. Eric Greitens over the last three months could soon transform into an inferno that engulfs his administration.



Ex-Trump Aide A.J. Delgado Says Jason Miller Forcing Long Custody Battle For 'Revenge' Delgado later learned. Miller and his wife were still married, and expecting a child. So, too, was Delgado, who found out she and Miller were pregnant not long after the 2016 election. (she was supposed to have a "confidential abortion" which is very popular with Republican men)

Eschaton - Good Shade -- A Che shirt on a college campus might not stick out for most people, but for Willis, 36, it touched a nerve. It was just the latest confirmation of his worry that more young people today are embracing socialism, even Marxism, instead of American capitalism. "Some of these kids have no real desire to build something on their own says Willis, who works for a firm founded by his father."


The Red-State Teacher Revolt Has Been Brewing For Decades | HuffPost - Walkouts nearly 30 years ago spurred investment and optimism in education, but anti-tax ideology eventually won out. Now kids are paying the price. (they anti-taxed their schools into rubble, good job Recrooks!)

How an anti-illegal immigration YouTuber turned a $280 fine into a federal criminal trial

Today in Legacy Publications Trolling Liberals - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Look, all views are legitimate, by which the Times and the Atlantic mean views that troll our liberal readers. Such as this James Traub special on how the Democrats destroyed themselves by supporting civil rights in 1948, which was obviously a mistake because it created Liberals Who Just Don't Understand the Good White People of America (TM).


Women Say Richard Meier's Conduct Was Widely Known Yet Went Unchecked (one word: patriarchy)
What's up with Richard Meier & Partners' tone-deaf response to latest allegations? (what's up with your using a 15-yr-old photo of the creep? hello BoGlo and WBUR/Tom Ashbrook) A senior asshole associate who was with the firm for 20 years, and who was told about Meier's inappropriate touching of an employee by the woman herself, admitted to the Times, "It's not something that was a secret"
How the "Shitty Architecture Men" list can address abuse in architecture (in your dreams)
Zaha Hadid Architects paid women employees about 20 percent less in 2017 - Archpaper.com ("Shitty Architecture Women")

New School professor had orgy with students: lawsuit - Administrators at The New School let a star psychology professor who sexually harassed multiple students and even participated in an orgy with lab students quietly resign, according to a lawsuit by one of his alleged victims ... Emanuele Castano. The 43-year-old Italian native

The Atlantic Was Wrong to Fire Kevin Williamson - The Atlantic - Conor Friedersdorf (young Connor shows his true libertarian anti-women self)

Denver Post Rebels Against Its Hedge-Fund Ownership - The New York Times - Angry and frustrated journalists at the 125-year-old newspaper took the extraordinary step this weekend of publicly blasting its New York-based hedge-fund owner and making the case for its own survival (evil hedgies destroying American institutions forever)

My Turn: Adam Bagni: Sinclair messes with R.I. landmark - Opinion - providencejournal.com - Providence, RI


The brave new age of gender-neutral kids - The Globe and Mail


Teen Gets Decades In Prison For 'Murder' Of Someone Killed By A Cop -- Lakeith Smith was convicted under Alabama's accomplice liability law. (killer cops get two-for-one!)

Indians Fans Taunt, Mock, And Scream Obscenities At Native American Protesters At Home Opener

Elizabeth Hurley slammed for wearing cleavage-baring dress with teen son | Page Six

Mom arrested after Tempe toddler ate mac and cheese made with THC butter : news
Stop and smell the holiday as 420 celebrations grow around the US - The Boston Globe
"Pro-Marijuana Faction Disruptive" -- Letter to Editor, Cape Prohibitionist isn't happy ... "3) the two marijuana overdose fatalities in Yarmouth the previous week." ... " fatalities from marijuana-impaired driving in Washington went up 100 percent after legalization" ... "Bourne voters approve of recreational marijuana" ... George A. Seaver, Mystery Lane, Cataumet (hello, George!)

Sandwich Police, Fire Depts. Field Calls About Bridge Delays | Sandwich News | capenews.net - The lane restrictions have caused predicted traffic delays for drivers going on- or off-Cape, many of whom believe the Sagamore Bridge is in the Town of Sandwich, but it is actually in the town of Bourne.

Amazon didn't kill Toys R Us, greedy Wall Street profiteers did it

TIL the alignment of planets in our solar system that allowed us to launch Voyager spacecraft out of our solar system at the speed it went only happens once every 176 years : todayilearned - "The last time this happened, Thomas Jefferson was president, and he blew it." -- Tom Paine, Former NASA Administrator

ELI5: Why does hearing your own voice through a recording sound so much different than how you hear/perceive your voice when speaking in general? : explainlikeimfive - When you speak, you hear your own voice as it sounds vibrating through your head (for lack of a better way to say that). When you hear your voice through a recorder, you're hearing your voice without that vibration.


How would you feel if Reddit added a feature that when you upvote a cross post, the original post also gets upvoted? : AskReddit


Elon Musk warns A.I. could create an 'immortal dictator from which we can never escape' ... "doesn't have to be evil to destroy humanity" ... Musk believes that humans should merge with AI to avoid the risk of becoming irrelevant. (bang your robot now, or become their slaves +is Trump an artifical unintelligence?)

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A 1 0C increase in temperature has disrupted the entire ecology of the world's largest High Arctic lake. The warming has resulted in a 10x increase in glacial meltwaters, sediment, and organic carbon delivered to Lake Hazen.

Florida School Shooting Hero Blames Sheriff, Superintendent
Federal judge upholds Massachusetts assault weapons ban - The Boston Globe
S.C. Republicans introduce bill to consider secession over gun rights | TheHill
Treason in Defense of Extremist Perversions of the Second Amendment - Lawyers, Guns & Money (S.C. +Wayne LaSatan)

Richest 1% on target to own two-thirds of all wealth by 2030 | Business | The Guardian - World leaders urged to act as anger over inequality reaches a 'tipping point' - Since 2008, the wealth of the richest 1% has been growing at an average of 6% a year -- much faster than the 3% growth in wealth of the remaining 99% of the world

Caught in Congo's tides of war - A return to violence has forced 40,000 to cross Lake Albert into Uganda in search of refuge (meanwhile, in African warlordistan)

He was wearing a vest marked 'Press' - He was shot dead in Gaza by Israeli troops. (they've always gotten aways with their atrocities)


Three dead in Germany as van ploughs into crowd in Muenster - BBC News
Car crashes into a crowd in Germany leaving three dead | Daily Mail Online - after minibus ploughs into diners outside restaurant leaving dozens injured before 'driver with psychological problems' shoots himself in front of shocked onlookers in German city


Secret, direct talks underway between US and North Korea - CNNPolitics (the drunk guy from Queens is ranting into the phone)


Trump Irked CIA Tried to Avoid Civilian Deaths in Drone Strike -- On a visit to the CIA President Trump got irked that agents paused to wait for a targeted terrorist to leave his house before launching the attack so that his family wouldn't be killed (was he watching it live??)


President Trump and truth: Another difficult week - The Washington Post - capacity to make things up is one of the defining features of his presidency. His loose adherence to the truth, when it suits his political purposes, seems to know few limits ... So now the claim is not just that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally, but that millions and millions of people are voting many times each, in California alone. (Crooked Hillary should have gotten like zero votes)


Eschaton: And What Are You Going To Do About It - I bet they'll tell the soybean producers that they're going to FIIIGHT FOOR YOOOOOOOOU and do nothing. -- Senators from major soybean-producing states in the Midwest, including Republicans, are steaming over China's threat to impose tariffs on U.S. soy exports, blaming President Donald Trump's aggressive actions against China for the trade retaliation that could hit farmers and ranchers particularly hard.

Dow tumbles 572 points as trade war fears pummel stocks

John Kelly blew up at Trump in Oval Office meeting, threatened to quit - Axios - Sources said it was not related to the David Shulkin firing that happened the same day.

Trump's freak-out moment - buyer's remorse from signing last month's spending bill ... Truth is that Trump had little clue what was in the largest spending bill ever passed ... it freaked him out to see the array of usually friendly faces on Fox News' opinion shows ripping into him for signing a bill that spent a ton of money, but gave lots away to liberal priorities and did little for his signature promise to build a wall.

Exclusive: Trump adviser played key role in pursuit of possible Clinton emails from dark web before election - CNNPolitics - Joseph Schmitz approached the FBI and other government agencies about material a client of his had discovered that Schmitz believed might have been Clinton's missing 30,000 emails from her private e-mail server, sources say. The material was never verified, and sources say they ultimately believed it was fake.


Manafort moves to suppress evidence found in storage unit - POLITICO - Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman say FBI illegally accessed the locker, then returned with warrant.

Stormy Daniels' lawyer hints at 'major announcement' on person who threatened her
Michael Avenatti You can run but you can't hide. #thugsearch #seriousconsequences #basta
Stormy Daniels' lawyer: 'Major announcement' in 'coming days' on threat to keep silent about alleged affair with Trump : politics
Afternoon Delight (Barbershop Quartet) sing 'It Wasn't Me' [Shaggy] - YouTube (skip to 2:04)


Trump confidant Roger Stone can't t stop claiming he was poisoned by polonium (Killary's hitsquad)

At Least 23 Ethical Issues Are Dogging EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt | HuffPost - a lot deeper than his $50-a-night rental from industry lobbyists.
EPA chief spent millions on security and trave

Support at elite law firms for Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The same data for the 2016 election provide a stark contrast. Of the 4,812 contributions originating from these companies, Mr. Trump received a total of 40. Meanwhile, contributions to Hillary Clinton outnumbered those to Mr. Trump by a ratio of more than 100 to 1.

Facebook Donated to 46 of 55 Members on Committee that Will Question Zuckerberg : technology (he bought them)


Eschaton: Overreacharound - From NeverTrumpers another Hot Take is that it's actually the fault of LIBERALS that we have Trump. It's just a backlash to LIBERALISM GONE MAD ... What Democrats did do (both The Party and its people) was elect a black guy president and then nominate a woman to be his successor. To the extent that Dems are "at fault" that's it. Fine. Say it. That's the conservative anger Trump exploited.

Eschaton: So Many Hot Takes - As for the "Never Trumpers" - their dislike is 60% because he's vulgar, 35% because he doesn't say he likes war enough (though don't worry there is still plenty of war!), and 5% because his trade stuff is dumb. The racism and all the rest don't really bother them!


More than 100 Tennessee Dems run to challenge state's GOP supermajority

ICE raids meatpacking plant in rural Tennessee; 97 immigrants arrested - The Washington Post (haha who's going to pack you meat now?)

Mississippi rising: Activists step up fight against the nation's last Confederate state flag - Mississippi's flag is one of many ways the state honors its Confederate legacy. ("Confederate legacy" = "slavery")

A Bernie-Branded Millionaire Is Leading the Democratic Race for Governor. He Almost Ran as a Republican, Consultants Say. - Shri Thanedar, a millionaire who has poured millions of dollars of his own money into the race, ultimately decided to run as a progressive Democrat. He is now first in some polls (sounds like a berniebro)

Where's Sparky? -- high profile GOP consultant Benjamin Spark (worked for Romney, Ryan, Walker and many others) signed an agreement with his new fiance for her to be his "slave and property" and do various BDSM-like things around the house. But things broke down when he demanded she have sex with other men, bound and blindfolded, while he watched. She said no. He attacked her. And when the cops showed up, he fled the state, apparently absconding to Texas.



The fall of Milo Yiannopoulos | Spectator USA - Exhausting adventures with a fading right-wing phenomenon

The Atlantic fired Kevin Williamson for his abortion comments. Check out all this other stuff he said.
Eschaton: So Many Hot Takes - Conservatives seem to really believe that conservative writers have a 1st amendment right to not be criticized and to not have their lucrative sinecures threatened by anything. Or, at least, that to have opinions about what a magazine that aims for "respectability," which roughly means lands in the Overton Zone somewhere between The Old New Republic and...ooh God, I admit that in the age of Trump it's hard to know where the right flank is, should publish threatens the majesty of our noble discourse or some shit. How dare you not hire/fire a man who called for the execution of a quarter of US women and then (apparently) was less than forthcoming about it to the guy who hired him?

Opinion | Only a Country Like Canada Could Produce a Guy Like Jordan Peterson - The New York Times - Mr. Peterson was taking a stand not against power in that instance but on behalf of it. His acolytes, some of whom might consider themselves to be walking in the tradition of rugged American individualism, should note that they are in fact taking marching orders -- "Rules for Life," no less -- from a line-toeing Canadian, preaching a philosophy not of American defiance but of Canadian deference.


America's Deathtrap Schools (defunding anything to do with education)
Teachers Make Less on Average Today Than They Did in 1989 : politics (defunding education since Reagan)


In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America - The New York Times

The Disappearing Doctor: How Mega-Mergers Are Changing the Business of Medical Care - The New York Times (big corps are now your doctor, the doctors are cogs in the wheels of profit)

Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Colleges - The New York Times - With college prices in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, more middle-class families are looking for ways to spend less for quality education.

Young and restless: Why teenagers arent getting enough sleep - To help address the roughly two-hour adolescent sleep shift, Dr. Lewin and his colleagues are staunch advocates for delayed middle- and high-school start times. (+no screens in bedroom)


We can't ignore race in the tragic story of Devonte Hart and his white adoptive mothers

Naloxone Stops Opioid Overdoses. How Do You Use It? - The New York Times

San Francisco man awarded $10 million after jury finds police framed him for murder : news

Police: Sweden boy, 7, decapitated by mother in home | WHAM (NY)




How much of 'Chappaquiddick' is actually true? ... As Ted soaks in the tub at his hotel, dresses nattily and combs his hair, we see Mary Jo still alive inside the car, banging on the windows, weeping and praying in an air pocket as the water inches higher and still no help arrives ... As in real life, he never stops to call the police, or even really considers it, until some 10 hours later, after the car is discovered in the water.
FBI memo tied Kennedy to brothel, leftists in '61 Bureau releases report on Latin America visit ... he rented a brothel in Chile and dined with an economist in Colombia who was being investigated as a possible Soviet spy.


In picturesque Maine town, traffic is a double-edged sword - The Boston Globe - To improve the traffic flow through the town center, officials are proposing to eliminate most parking on historic Main Street, a plan that has smashed open a hornet's nest of opposition. If drivers cannot pull over, business owners argue, they'll just inch their way through town without stopping ... "empty storefronts downtown" ... Wiscasset voters rejected the plan last year, and the town recently sued the state to block it. But LePage, who has owned a summer place in nearby Boothbay Harbor, appears bent on moving forward. (haha, try "bike lanes")

What Sleeping With Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity - The New York Times ... these husbands weren't looking to have more sex. They were looking to have any sex. (you can bang a lot and not worry too much about getting attached or vice-versa)


Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit - The New York Times

Capgras syndrome causes people to think their loved ones have been replaced by imposters - The Washington Post - Capgras syndrome

Are Prime Numbers Endless? : askscience

Scholars reveal ancient Korean-Iranian diplomatic ties : news


What's a pointless fact you know?

Have you ever had a close friend cross a "line" in your relationship? If so, what happened? : AskReddit
What should everyone do at least once in their lifetime? : AskReddit


Ex-Backpage executive Michael Lacey charged in trafficking case - A founder of the New Times tabloid has been charged in Phoenix in the apparent culmination of a federal human-trafficking investigation.

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Laura Ingraham Dumped By Yet Another Sponsor Despite Being Off TV For A Week | HuffPost - Fox News host still losing advertisers after mocking mass shooting survivor ... "We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts" Fox News Co-president Jack Abernethy told the Los Angeles Times (haha said with no irony +the kids)
U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman pulls out loaded gun in constituent meeting to make point about safety | Palmetto Politics | postandcourier.com


Burning tires, tear gas and live fire: Gaza clashes turn deadly - The Washington Post



How did ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter survive nerve-agent poisoning? - The Washington Post ("survive" = brain-damaged and can't talk)

Britain Pinpoints Secretive Russian Facility That Made Deadly Nerve Agent - The Daily Beast - The facility is named as Shikhany, which is around 800 kilometers southeast of Moscow, and British intelligence believes it's been used over the past decade to test whether the Novichok nerve agents could be used in assassinations abroad
Russia claims a poisoned spy's dead cat and guinea pigs hold clues to British conspiracy

Trump Administration Imposes New Sanctions on Putin Cronies - The New York Times
No Coincidence These Russian Sanctions Took a Year to Show Up -- Just enough time for the oligarchs to move their assets around.


Saudi crown prince brags Jared Kushner handed him U.S. intelligence | Daily Mail Online -- gave him CIA intelligence about other Saudis saying 'here are your enemies' days before 'corruption crackdown' which led to torture and death (slimy little soulless traitor with no security clearance: lock him up!)


Trump's Right to Say He'No one likes trade friction, but after decades of failing to stop Chinese theft of American intellectual property, there are no more no-cost solutions.s Not Launching a Trade War With China. He's Doing Something Bigger. No one likes trade friction, but after decades of failing to stop Chinese theft of American intellectual property, there are no more no-cost solutions. (hello, Barry)

Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And 'Media Influencers' (Trump is coming for your keyboards)

Will We Stop Trumop Before It's Too Late? - Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II. By MADELEINE ALBRIGHT ("Will we stop Republicans before it's too late?" ftfy)
Opinion | The Conspiracy Theory That Says Trump Is a Genius - The New York Times (QAnon and Roseanne the stupid)


Exclusive: Mueller probe wides to Trump Org foreign deals | McClatchy Washington Bureau
Mueller seized bank accounts in Manafort probe - POLITICO - The special counsel also obtained search warrant for info on 5 phones in ongoing investigation just last month
Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance encounter: Sources (Erik Prince lied: lock him up!)

GOP Strategist: Nonsensical Trump Talking Like A 'Drunk Guy in Queens Spouting Total Nonsense' ' -- "This is a tragedy" (kinda the definition of the Republican party, Steve)

Scott Pruitt Reportedly Lied About Knowledge Of Staff Raises | HuffPost - he report adds to a growing mountain of ethical issues dogging Pruit (a Republican lied? schocking!)
Lobbyist married to Pruitt's ex-landlord speaks out as EPA administrator's troubles deepen
Scott Pruitt is too corrupt to be corrupted ... Taking what look very much like bribes from energy lobbyists is just par for the course for Pruitt.
Ana Navarro hilariously mocks Scott Pruitt's Fox News interview: 'He made Betsy DeVos look like Einstein'
Lobbyist couple had to change the locks on Pruitt - POLITICO - condo rental say the arrangement, which has drawn intense scrutiny, was supposed to be a temporary fix, but he overstayed his welcome.
Pruitt fights for job in meeting with Trump

Mulvaney gives big pay bumps to his hires at consumer agency (the Repubican swamp fills itself)

Trump to Skip White House Correspondents Dinner Again - The Daily Beast (chickenshit)

Michael Cohen's view from under the bus: Trump denies knowing about Stormy Daniels payment ... denial and refusal to comment on whether there is a hush-money slush fund raises a raft of questions and complications for both Trump and Cohen ... For now, we know two things: The Republican majorities in the House and Senate continue to protect Trump not only from inquiry into his sexual conduct, but from inquiries into his receipt of emoluments and ongoing conflicts of interest
Stormy Daniels' Attorney Mocks Trump With A 'Merry Christmas' In April
'Concerned' Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl (hahaha)

In reaction to Trump, millions of Americans are joining protests and getting political - The Washington Post - In reaction to Trump, millions of Americans are joining protests and getting political - activism often driven by admiration or outrage toward President Trump ... One in five Americans have protested in the streets or participated in political rallies since the beginning of 2016. Of those, 19 percent said they had never before joined a march or a political gathering ... Overwhelmingly, recently motivated activists are critical of Trump. Thirty percent approve of the president, and 70 percent disapprove ... Back in the turbulent Vietnam War era, college students were the face of protests. Today, many activists are older, white, well-educated and wealthy, the findings show.

Does Donald Trump Understand? (anything?)

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "It's getting very hard to see how Erik Prince doesn't get charged -- sometime in the relatively near future -- with a federal crime for repeatedly lying to Congress. George Nader appears to have conclusively established that Prince lied repeatedly, and without shame, in his testimony."


Twitter Has Suspended 1.2 Million Accounts For 'Terrorist Content' (but not Trump's account for some reason)

Zuckerberg long resisted going to Congress. Now he'll face a 'reckoning' lawmakers say
Facebook deleted Mark Zuckerberg's Messenger texts without telling anyone (haha Zuckerfucked again, lock him up!)
Facebook Building 8 explored data sharing agreement with hospitals - Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients. (even worse, lock him up!)
Without data-targeted ads, Facebook would look like a pay service, Sandberg says - "our service depends on your data" (which you thought was private, hahaha)
Facebook will label political ads and note who paid for them - The platform will start doing so this spring.

April House Overview: Ratings Changes in 13 Districts | The Cook Political Report
Republicans midterm prospects are going from bad to worse

If taxes aren't working, will desperate Republicans keep turning to race-based attacks? -- They"backpedaled into cultural issues and it looked desperate."

Who has any use for conservative intellectuals? ... people like Jonah Goldberg were treated as serious thinkers ... (they've debased the term, like everything else they've touched)

Bernie Sanders Courts Black Voters Anew. But an Obama Reference Stings. - The New York Times - Mr. Sanders faced sharp criticism from some African-Americans who thought he had reduced the nation's first black president, Barack Obama, to merely being what Mr. Sanders called a "charismatic individual" (shut up and go away, Bernie)

Beto O'Rourke Is Building a Digital Fundraising Army - The Texas Democrat puts in effort to make the campaign as personal as possible
Florida's suddenly competitive 2018 Senate race, explained - Rick Scott vs. Bill Nelson could be one of the most expensive campaigns in 2018.
Tim Pawlenty makes it official: He's running for governor again - StarTribune.com - The former two-term Republican governor, moving toward a comeback bid for months, aims to recapture support of state GOP. (Minnesota)

Kentucky legislators send tax cuts for wealthy, tax hikes for the other 95 percent to governor (hahaha Kenfucky)

In Wisconsin, authorities now have to convict you of a crime before they can take your cash - The Washington Post (they could just steal your stuff and do in most states, hello Mario)

Marsha Blackburn Trails Democrat by 10 Points in Tennessee Senate Race - 10 points down to a Democrat in the Tennessee Senate race -- Blackburn is the pre-eminent drum-banger on the whole sale-of-baby-parts fable, as well as several other issues guaranteed to gin up the rubes for several years now ... what the national Republican party has left after 35 or 40 years of entertaining irrationality for political advantage. It did not have to happen this way, but the reason that it happened this way is that the Republican Party, at every level of government, committed itself to positions that guaranteed that, one day, someone like Donald Trump would be president

Blake Farenthold resigns abruptly from Congress after revelations of lewd and abusive behavior | Politics | Dallas News - and made no apologies for using $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment suit (another special election)


Jimmy Kimmel Unloads On Sean Hannity: 'You, Sean, are The Whole Ass Circus' - Why is Sean Hannity openly fantasizing about clowns in the ass?

We're journalists at a Sinclair news station. We're pissed. Some of us wish we could quit -- but our hands are tied. (have to pay them to quit your job, hahaha)

Editorial: As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved ... The cuts, backed by our owner, the New York City hedge fund Alden Global Capital, also are a mystery,

A Recording Of A CNN Boss Admitting The Company Wasn't Paying Any Attention To Gender Pay Has Leaked (he never looked around him)


Hawaii Becomes The 7th State To Legalize Assisted Suicide | HuffPost - The law allows patients to request medication to end their lives. It gives them the choice to change their minds, too.


This Woman Tests And Reviews Sex Toys For A Living. Here's What She's Discovered


The feds have seized classifieds website Backpage - The Verge

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King Commemorations and Coalition Politics - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Panic In D.C. - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This story about the 1968 riots in Washington D.C. is remarkable, and a use of multimedia that's fully justified
1968 riots: Four days that reshaped Washington, D.C. - Washington Post - Chaotic riots left 13 dead and more than 900 businesses damaged ... Eventually, 13,000 troops would arrive -- the most to occupy an American city since the Civil War.

"You Don't Attack a Kid" : Inside the Laura Ingraham Nightmare at Fox News ... "Rupert has been annoyed by what he perceives as cowardly behavior by his executives"
GOP state candidate refuses to apologize for calling Parkland student a 'communist pig' (said the commie pig)
Everyone Got The Pulse Massacre Story Completely Wrong | HuffPost - And another, smaller injustice was obscured: the sadistic prosecution of Noor Salman (by the Federal Bureua of Lying and Sadism) By the time of the verdict, Salman had spent 14 months in jail (media believed government lies)



The ISIS Files: When Terrorists Run City Hall - The New York Times -- We unearthed thousands of internal documents that help explain how the Islamic State stayed in power so long.


These Messages Show Julian Assange Talked About Seeking Hacked Files From Guccifer 2.0 - DMs tie Assange to a Russia-linked hacker -- and raise new questions about his Seth Rich conspiracy theory.


For Mueller, a Feared Weakness Becomes a Strength - The New York Times - his relative lack of independence

The Odious Robert Mueller - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This is surely the most neoliberal McCarthyism I've ever seen -- A witness who is cooperating in the special counsel investigation, George Nader, has connections to both the Persian Gulf states and Russia and may have information that links two important strands of the inquiry together

Former Trump aide approved 'black ops' to help Ukraine president - Paul Manafort authorised secret media operation that sought to discredit key opponent of then Ukrainian president

Opinion | The Contract With Authoritarianism - The New York Times - In 1994, Newt Gingrich, brandishing his Contract with America, led a Republican revolution that swept aside Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate, initiating an epoch of conservative ascendancy that lingers on. ("strict father" model)

The True Damage of Trump's 'Fake News'
Robert Mercer backed a secretive group that worked with Facebook, Google to target anti-Muslim ads at swing voters
WOAI anchor Delaine Mathieu on Sinclair promos: 'This was awful'
Trump's Most Influential White Nationalist Troll Is A Middlebury Grad Who Lives In Manhattan - Twitter troll "Ricky Vaughn" had a bigger influence on the 2016 election than NBC News and the Drudge Report. Here's who he really is
2016's Most Influential White Nationalist Rich Failson ... Doug Mackey ... Curiously, @RapinBill, which is still active and followed by Donald Trump Jr.
It's bad and it matters: the problem with "Kill All Normies" (2017)
Rachel Maddow Beats Sean Hannity, Takes Title As Most-Watched Cable News Host (has the tide turned?)

Trump floated replacing Sessions with Pruitt this week despite scandals - CNNPolitics
E.P.A. Officials Sidelined After Questioning Scott Pruitt - The New York Times - At least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, four of them high-ranking, were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs in the past year after they raised concerns about the spending and management of the agency's administrator, Scott Pruitt.
Scott Pruitt asked to use sirens in D.C. traffic and was told no for non-emergency - CBS News (Pruitt is the definition of "emergency")
The latest on Scott Pruitt's dangerous days - Axios (the swamps is deep and full of Republican liars and grifters)
But His Emails - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... So, to review: * Scott Pruitt used private emails as Attorney General. * These private emails, unlike Clinton's had evidence of misconduct of substantial public interest. * Pruitt committed a federal crime to cover up his use of private emails.


Eschaton: Important People - I don't expect these people to be... well... good people... but I am I am kinda surprised that none of them seem to have any idea that they actually have important jobs that they should at least pretend to take seriously occasionally -- "Press reports have indicated that Dravis leaked the information to the White House counsel's office after finding out that Porter had been having an affair with now-departed White House Communications Director Hope Hicks" (circular backstabbing)


The woman who got fired for flipping off President Trump just sued her former employer - The Washington Post

Here's Don Jr. Talking About How It Sucks To Be At The Playboy Mansion With A Pregnant Wife - Has the president's son ever contemplated killing his dad for the money? He once talked about that on the radio!

The Guy Who Wrote The Book On The Deep State Wishes Trumpworld Would Shut Up About The Deep State - Former Republican aide Mike Lofgren

The Wisconsin Supreme Court election shows the blueprint for a Democratic wave - There was ultimately no big strategic trade-off between chasing votes in highly educated Dane County and chasing votes in working-class rural areas.

AP: Record number of women file to run for US House seats - The number of women running for the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the Republican-controlled Congress. (women leaving the patriarchy)

US Senate poll: Bredesen holds double-digit lead over Blackburn in new MTSU poll - 45 percent of 600 registered Tennessee voters said they would choose Bredesen, a Democrat and former Nashville mayor, if the election were immediately held. Blackburn, a Brentwood Republican, netted 35 percent

No More Mister Nice Blog: DEMOCRATIC ENTHUSIASM IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR JOHN McCAI-- ER, DONALD TRUMP AND THE GOP - Zandar directs our attention to a Politico piece by Jeff Greenfield ... "It's Wednesday, November 7, 2018, and the Democrats have awakened to the taste of ashes in their mouths" (remember Jeff Greenfield? he's now 74 years old)


Anchorage vote-by-mail election was supposed to boost turnout. It shattered a record ... rejecting a measure to regulate restrooms, locker rooms

Woman an says Las Vegas GOP campaign adviser made her his sex slave ... The 46-year-old woman provided copies of emails, text messages and a signed contract laying out her duties as a "slave in training to Benjamin Sparks (good Christian family-values Republican)

Oklahoma Lawmaker's rant inspires teacher to announce campaign for his House seat - After state Rep. Kevin McDugle, R-Broken Arrow, said Tuesday that he didn't t think protesting teachers were setting a good example for students, a northeast Oklahoma teacher announced plans to run against him. (Republicans hate education and especially teachers)


Atlantic Fires Kevin Williamson After Suddenly Realizing He Believes The Things He Says | HuffPost - "I have come to the conclusion that The Atlantic is not the best fit for his talents, and so we are parting ways" Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Unless you want to wind up looking like an utter tool. (hello, Jeffrey -- who are these "thought leaders" and what bubbles do they live in?)
Jezebel Regrets Its Decision to Hire Cannibal Witch as Writer-at-Large

How Bill O'Reilly Silenced His Accusers

Power and the New York Establishment -- Sex, Lies & Audiotapes: How New York's Establishment Protected Revered Opera Maestro James Levine From Sex Abuse Claims -- For the first time, Ashok Pai details sexual misconduct at the hands of James Levine (New Yorker and NYT knew and covered up for him)


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Version of Martin Luther King, Jr. Peddled by White Conservatives Is a Crime - Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't invent White Martin. Perhaps all of us did.

Youtube shooter's father says she was angry at company
This Is What We Know About YouTube Shooter Nasim Aghdam - The woman, who posted frequently on YouTube about animal rights and veganism, said she believed the video-sharing platform had discriminated against her.
Eschaton: Well Then I Guess It's Ok To Run Them Over - QED. - Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones asserted Monday that there were professional, paid protesters at a Saturday night vigil for Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man killed by police in his grandmother's backyard. When Jones was asked if he had evidence that paid protesters attended the vigil, he replied, "We do have evidence, and we have seen it previously. You'll notice the same cadre of protesters at every protest, sometimes in other states." (IOW, bullshit)
Don't Tell Black Women How To Feel About Stephon Clark's Tweets | HuffPost
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Calls Out Trump Over 'Thoughts And Prayers' Tweet Following Shooting | HuffPost (Satan is "praying" for you, hahaha)
California Considering Unprecedented Law Restricting Police Firearm Use | HuffPost - Opening fire should be enforced as the last resort (instead of "first resort")
Patriots's Julian Edelman May Have Thwarted a School Shooting ... When the police arrived at the address, they found a 14-year-old boy, who, they said, admitted to posting the threat. They also found two rifles that belonged to his mother (sound familiar?)


Trump instructs military to begin planning for withdrawal from Syria - The Washington Post


Eschaton: The Best Deals - At some point Trump's people are just going to make up some numbers and convince him that we "won" the trade war and got "the best deal" and no reporter will ever actually ask him what a "trade deficit" is.
How To Win A Trade War | FiveThirtyEight - Trump says it's easy. Try it for yourself.
This morning in the Dunning-Kruger presidency - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Some people never get past a typical eight-year-old's ability to understand complicated issues, which is fine I guess, but making any of them president of the United States is, as has been observed on this blog a few times before, sub-optimal.
China: New tariffs on U.S. goods including soybeans, aircraft - The Washington Post
China Tariffs Could Wreck Republicans in November - Bloomberg - Pain from trade war could hit Midwestern states with pivotal Senate and gubernatorial races in 2018. (not for white stupids who cant connect dot a with dot b)
Moody's economist: Trump trade war will cost 190,000 jobs


Eschaton: Everybody Gets To Use Them - I'm going to lump a few somewhat different things together here, but one argument crazy civil libertarians/privacy experts/technologists make is that all of the various backdoor surveillance systems that law enforcement and The State generally love can of course be used by anyone. There's no way to make these back doors available, and especially not in common usage, without making all of the systems in question much more vulnerable. And security - including national security - is probably threatened much more by the existence of these types of devices (and the desire to make sure they can be used) than by letting the government play with them. In other words, being devoted to finding and destroying these toys would be much smarter than building them. If your stated goals are what you say they are, of course. (Sting Rays were invented for the "good guys" but now the "bad guys" are using them)


Outgoing White House emails not protected by verification system - Axios - Of the 26 domains, 18 are not in compliance with a Department of Homeland Security directive to implement that protocol (where are the constant NYT stories about this???)

Stone, on day he sent Assange dinner email, also said 'devastating' WikiLeaks were forthcoming ("Podesta in a barrel")

Mueller Reportedly Is Making A List Of All The Stuff Trump Has Done In Office | HuffPost - Trump is not a criminal target at this point.
CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin Has An Ominous New Warning For Trump | HuffPost (he's a "subject," definitely not a "target")
The Department of Justice Thinks That Collusion Is a Crime | The New Yorker (Toobz)
Mueller told Trump he'ss not a criminal target in the Russia probe. That may not mean what you think.
Robert Mueller Says Donald Trump Is a Subject of His Investigation, According to Washington Post - If The President* Thinks He's Out of the Woods, He's More Delusional Than I Thought

Trump to deploy National Guard troops to border - Axios

Facebook said the personal data of most of its 2 billion users has been collected and shared with outsiders - The Washington Post (you've been Zuckerfucked, haha)
Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users - The New York Times
Revealed: graphic video used by Cambridge Analytica to influence Nigerian election | UK news | The Guardian - Whistleblower says firm directed AggregateIQ to target voters with Islamophobic video in 2015
Accused Russian Intel Asset Teamed Up With GOP Operative - Konstantin Kilimnik found himself a partner in Sam Patten, a lobbyist and political hand who just happens to have worked previously for Cambridge Analytica
Facebook Scans the Photos and Links You Send on Messenger - Bloomberg (hahaha constant spying on you, zuckersuckers)

Kathy Griffin Earns Rave Reviews With Hilarious Impersonation Of Kellyanne Conway | HuffPost

There's Something Missing From Hope Hicks' Send-Off Photo: Diversity | HuffPost "White House doesn't mean everyone working there has to be white"

Expanding map creates tough choices for GOP | TheHill - or if the party should put more energy into protecting solid GOP seats that could be in danger if a wave materializes this fall.

Planned Parenthood CEO Says Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Offered 'Bribe' to Stop Abortions

Politico erases New Yorkers of color | CSNY - A misleading journey into "Clinton Country" ... So the writer, Adam Wren, visits Park Slope, Chelsea and NoHo in New York and Bethesda, Maryland, and Shaw and Chevy Chase in D.C. (The latter three are roughly equivalent to Scarsdale, the Lower East Side and Riverdale, respectively.) "broccolini and organic wheatgrass" in Brooklyn ... "sustainably-raised fish, pasture-raised poultry and grass-fed beef" in Chelsea, driveways filled by Audis and Teslas in DC ... "I entered the candlelit sanctum, which smelled of lavender and liberal angst," (Adan Wren goes to counties which have no black or poor people in them)
Richard Florida on Twitter: "Ben -That story is a spoof, right? Has to be. Can't be serious. (BTW, I've been to Indy many times & its a very sophisticated place with a plethora of"blue-ish" amenities .. https://t.co/tICFS2Z7lQ"


Democrats Score Big Win In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race | HuffPost - It wasn't even close - the first time in 23 years that a liberal candidate won an open Supreme Court seat in the state ... , six of the seven justices on Wisconsin's high court are women, as DailyKos noted, meaning the state ties with Washington for the greatest number of female Supreme Court justices. (KockBros poured millions in, but lost, Walker sees handwriting on wall)
Hillary Must Have Visited! - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Wisconsin Democrats declared victory on Tuesday night after Milwaukee Judge Rebecca Dallet won a bitter race

'They've given us a raise and nothing for students': Oklahoma teacher walkout shows no sign of ending : news


Pasadena delegate says her father, a state senator, sought conversion therapy for her - Capital Gazette - state Sen. Bryan Simonaire asked her to try the discredited treatment after she revealed she was bisexual ... family was 'heartbroken and disgusted"

Rudy and Judith Giuliani to divorce | Page Six - Rudy, 73, and Judith, 63, both have adult children from previous marriages. He has Andrew and Caroline with his second wife, Donna Hanover. (who didn't like him either)

Terms of Bill O'Reilly settlements revealed for first time -- A federal judge in New York has denied Bill O'Reilly's motion to seal settlement agreements he struck with multiple women who accused him of harassment, dealing a huge blow to the former Fox News host in a defamation suit brought last year.

Sex, power, and photography. With Nicholas Nixon at MassArt classroom, how far is too far? - The Boston Globe - For one assignment, the acclaimed professor asked students to photograph seven people they wanted to sleep with ... Photographer Nicholas Nixon ... students ... were stunned when he asked them to analyze pictures of his own penis ... Nixon, who as an employee of MassArt was paid by state tax dollars, asked them to pose partially or fully nude for him while they were his students. Others said his vulgar remarks in class were commonplace ... MassArt won't comment on whether it has a policy about teachers asking students to pose nude ... (another institutionally-enabled creepy af dickdude but his perversity is genius in its quest for recognition)



"Journalism is Not About Creating Safe Spaces" : Inside the Woke Civil War at The New York Times - Catalyzed by the Trump presidency, roiled by flash points like Glenn Thrush, Bret Stephens, and Bari Weiss, a generational conflict not seen since the 60s is besetting the Times ... Baquet making an appearance at the same Financial Times conference as Steve Bannon last month (you've been Sulzfucked)

Sinclair Journalists Worry They're Being Watched: 'There's A Lot Held Over Us' (spying on their journos)
Sinclair producer in Nebraska resigns to protest 'obvious bias' ... "This is almost forcing local news anchors to lie to their viewers"


Ursula K. Le Guin on Philip K. Dick and J.K. Rowling : books
epic sci-fi novels you should read before they become films : books

Dear Men, It's Totally OK To Wear Makeup - The key, according to both Grella and Katz, is to educate men on how to properly use makeup in a way that suits them. From a young age, many women learn that makeup is just a part of life, but most men aren't taught that lesson. Ease of use is also important, especially for the low-maintenance guys out there.


"Did We Create This Monster?" - How Twitter Turned Toxic

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Unusual forms 'nightmare' of antibiotic-resistant bacteria detected in 27 states By Susan Scutti, CNN -- More than 200 rare antibiotic-resistant genes - carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE
EPA To Gut The Only Major Federal Rule To Cut Climate Pollution From Vehicles | HuffPost
EPA Reportedly Approved Pipeline Project Linked To Lobbyist Renting Room To Pruitt | HuffPost - spokeswoman denied any link between the approval and the apartment rental.
EPA's Scott Pruitt, Defying White House, Doled Out Huge Raises - The Atlantic - The embattled EPA chief used an obscure provision last month to increase the salaries of a pair of staffers by tens of thousands of dollars.

YouTube Shooting: Woman Shot Boyfriend, Then Killed Herself
Woman opens fire at YouTube headquarters, wounding at least 3 before taking her own life
Possible active shooter at Youtube in San Bruno : news
After the FBI's Pulse nightclub failure, why should we trust James Comey anymore? ... Comey said Omar Mateen had been 'radicalized at least in part through the Internet" -- very convenient for Comey's campaign to sway Congress to give the FBI new power to seize Internet records of Americans without with a search warrant ... top priority ... John McCain ... Uh ... maybe the son was radicalized by watching his father's TV program (who himself was an FBI informer but watch t he lies and false justifications +Comey is an axis of evil all by himself)


Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated | Human Rights Watch - Officials Green-Light Shooting of Unarmed Demonstrators


Jeweler to the Stars Flees as India Seethes Over Bank Fraud - The New York Times


Porton Down experts unable to identify 'precise source' of novichok that poisoned spy ... lab's boss sayss a 'state actor' made the novichok and also rubbishes claims that it could have come from his facility.


Job No. 1 for a Democratic Congress: Investigate ICE - ICE Is a Brutal National Police Force - The Latest on Trump and Immigration - the most brutal kind of national police force.

APNewsBreak: US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC ... Sting Rays (not just used by the "good" guys now, nice job, National Security

Markets That Climbed the Trump Bump Are Tumbling Down From It - The New York Times

Mueller investigation probes consulting firm linked to UAE | USA News | Al Jazeera - Special Counsel Robert Mueller questions firm established in Israel over links to the United Arab Emirates.

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "3/ In any case, I'll say now what I said a year ago: all the evidence suggests Jeff Sessions is one of Mueller's top targets, both for multiple counts of perjury and for being an active negotiator for Trump in Trump's attempt to establish a quid pro quo with Russia on sanctions."
What Mueller'ss Most Conspicuous Silence Suggests - The theft of emails from Democratic officials seems like the most likely avenue for proving collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign -- but the special counsel never mentions it.
In a footnote, Mueller sends a warning shot to Trump - The Washington Post - he also has the authority to investigate any attempts to obstruct his probe
Justice official authorized Mueller to investigate whether Trump campaign chair colluded with Russia - The Washington Post

Kyle Griffin on Twitter: In a new court filing, Robert Mueller's office makes clear that London-based lawyer Alexander van der Zwaan knows key details about the ongoing Russia investigation that are "not widely known" to the public.
Court poised to hand down 1st sentence in Mueller probe - ABC News - Dutch national Alex van der Zwaan is expected to become the first person sentenced in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation on Tuesday in federal court in Washington, having pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents. Van der Zwaan, 33, the son-in-law of a Russian oligarch ...
Dutch attorney gets 30 days in first sentence for Mueller probe - POLITICO - Alex van der Zwaan had admitted to lying to investigators.
Muller sentencing: Alex van der Zwaan is going to jail for lying in the Russia probe - Vox - A Dutch lawyer tied to Paul Manafort gets 30 days in jail and a fine of $20,000.

Mueller authorized by DOJ to investigate alleged Manafort collusion with Russian government - CNNPolitics

A new study suggests fake news might have won Donald Trump the 2016 election - The Washington Post
What if Clinton had won? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Eschaton: The Other Timeline - To some extent the 1st year of the Trump presidency was bizarrely incompetent (aside from the incompetence of the boss of course) because the Right was totally knocked off their gameplan. The investigations of the second failed Clinton presidency were all lined up. New York Times reporters were set to continue receiving the puke funnel from the various organs of the Right that they conspired with during the campaign. Fox News was set to be The Disloyal Opposition in a way that they never quite managed to be with Obama. Maureen Dowd was all set to switch from writing her column, "Actually, Democratic Men are Women," to her preferred column, "Actually, Democratic Women are Men." They were all going to have so much fun and nothing would have mattered.

Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump's Foes. That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster.


'Stormy Effect': Trump's support falls with women, rises with men in new poll (because 53% of men want to be unfaithful to their wives with a porn star)
Trump's interview is even crazier than you think (2016)

Trump heats up rhetoric on border, immigration as some supporters grow impatient
Trump Says He Plans to Order Military to Guard Border - The New York Times

Court of Facebook: Zuckerberg slams Apple, unveils network's chilling ambirtions ... "really like to get to is an independent appeal. So maybe folks at Facebook make the first decision based on the community standards that are outlined, and then people can get a second opinion. You can imagine some sort of structure, almost like a Supreme Court, that is made up of independent folks who don't work for Facebook, who ultimately make the final judgment call on what should be acceptable speech in a community that reflects the social norms and values of people all around the world" (your democracy will be Zuckerfucked, many times)

Trump wants military to secure border with Mexico until wall is built - The Boston Globe

The definitive -- and updated! -- rankings of Donald Trump's nicknames for his political enemies

President Trump is acting unhinged because that's all he can do -- A politically weakened Trump has pivoted back to branding, because it is his only option before the midterm elections (insanity is a "brand")

"Trump is like, ' How can I fuck with him?'" : War with Amazon (and The Washington Post) Is Personal -- With the West Wing finally calm, Trump is contemplating a multi-front campaign against Jeff Bezos.
No, the Postal Service isn't losing a fortune on Amazon (Trump is a big fat liar, who knew?)
Why Trump thinks he's s winning his war on media -- Trump's feedback loop, including cable-news coverage, and mainstream media squawking, convinces the president that he's winning his war on media ... Fox and Sinclair ... has patched inLou Dobbs via speakerphone to multiple meetings in the Oval Office so that he could offer his two cents

Inside Tiffany Trumo's Strained Relationship with Her Dad: 'They Go Months Without Speakin'

Milton Friedman Predicted Socialism Would Kill Democracy. Instead, Trump Is (rightwing fake economist was wrong, surprise)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounds alarm on New Deal rollback - CNNPolitics - The conservative majority is undermining worker protections from the 1930s

What's Happening in Oklahoma Is Remarkable Evidence of the Power of Public Education -- Teachers are striking back against Republican attacks on the institution. (you don't need no education)

Eschaton: Concentrated Pain - A couple of banker friends who work with farmers every day told me last week that with commodity prices down and the tariffs imposed, approximately 10 percent of our farmers probably won't make it this year, and 10 percent more will likely fail next year ... and that people are starting to make comparisons to the farm crisis of the 1980s, when approximately 10,000 Iowa farmers lost their farms (dumb white Iowa farmers voted for both Reagan and Trumpster but have no memories)
Beto O'Rourke says he raised staggering $6.7M in first quarter of 2018 - an eye-popping number that poses a new category of threat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.

NYPD sex crimes chief donated thousands to Trump after video scandal on grabbing women 'by the pussy' - Deputy Chief Michael Osgood, commander of the Special Victims Division, went on to make 10 more contributions ... to Trump's campaign committees as the scandal over allegations that the candidate had groped multiple women intensified. (so, the worst person conceivable for the job) ... At the time, Osgood was overseeing the NYPD' investigation into former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner's creepy texting habits. (meanwhile, behind the scenes, again)


Trump appointee at Defense Department resigns after birther postings revealed - CNNPolitics - Todd Johnson is a former Trump campaign state director in New Mexico who joined the Department of Defense in 2017 as an advance officer (riddled with racists)

The all-consuming tribalism of Trump's Republican Party, in one 30-second ad (are with the evil guy, or not?)



Southwood High principal says no to transgender student's year book pictures

Rep. Esty Retires After Scandal Over Abusive Staffer - another self-destructive casualty in this year's "reckoning" with sexual assault, harassment, and abuse. Her case involved a cover-up of some pretty terrible behavior by her chief of staff, Tony Baker, who made a death threat on the voice mail of a former staffer, Anna Kain, whom he once dated. As explained by the Washington Post, Esty did not do the right thing:

Congressman Darren Soto's wife arrested at Walt Disney World ... In July, Soto staffer Cecilia Cruz was arrested and charged with drunken driving after she struck a motorcyclist on State Road 417 following a work event.

A quest for addiction treatment that works, and the data to prove it - The Boston Globe

The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don't have enough to eat (Republicans hate education and kids in general, let them starve)

'I don't know how you got this way' (a Nazi) Kam has been out of high school for two years, and he doesn't have a job, a car, a place of his own or much money beyond what his mother gives him

State Police to eliminate Troop E amid scandals - The Boston Globe

'I can't breathe' : Asheville police video shows white officer beating, choking black jaywalking suspect - The officer who repeatedly struck Rush in the head, Christopher Hickman, resigned in January, just before he was terminated for violating the use-of-force policy ... He was charged in March with felony assault by strangulation and misdemeanor assault inflicting serious injury and communicating threat ... lawyer says ... jury will acquit


Sinclair Employees Say Their Contracts Make It Too Expensive to Quit - Bloomberg - Noncompetes, forced arbitration and a liquidated damages clause can equal 40 percent of annual salary. (oh, corporate slavery clause)
Fox News: Look, We're re Not Sinclair - One Fox News insider said the comparison between the cable news network and Sinclair was ludicrous and the local TV anchors in a viral video
Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has 'No Credibility'
Sinclair Videos Renew Debate Over Media Ownership - The New York Times

What Is Your City's Twin -- Boston, but not Boston is NYC

Mass. pot business applications strong on first day of licensing - The Boston Globe - Nearly 200 prospective operators have so far signaled interest in opening a recreational marijuana business in Massachusetts (the Greenrush begins)

WaPo Shoots Another Brick - Lawyers, Guns & Money
She honkered juggsily towards the breasted door - Lawyers, Guns & Money

You May Live Longer By Severely Restricting Calories, Scientists Say : The Salt : NPR - when people severely cut calories, they can slow their metabolism and possibly the aging process.

The Highs and Lows of Testosterone - The New York Times - About 5 percent of men between the ages of 50 and 59 have low levels of testosterone along with symptoms like loss of libido and sluggishness ... the liver damage by chronic alcohol abuse thwarts the production of testosterone

MetricT comments on "Medical Cannabis Only" Act fails in Senate Judiciary committee, dumped into "summer study" again, dead for Yet Another Year...

New Jersey cops search a man's anus and genitals for weed during traffic stop : news

User discovers porn bot conspiracy on the nsfw side of reddit [NSFW] : bestof

The Case for A Zuckberg-Free Facebook | WIRED (delete the clueless Z, but will it help?)
Billion-Dollar Facebook Investor Tells Mark Zuckerberg To Quit As Chairman : technology

Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customer Records including names, email and physical addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of the customer's credit card number ... for at least eight months before it was yanked offline earlier today

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Hogg Derangement Syndrome - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Russian bots are tweeting their support of embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham - The Washington Post
Falsely Accused Parkland School Shooter Sues Alex Jones
Eagles of Death Metal frontman apologizes for 'mean-spirited' March for Our Lives criticism - Jesse Hughes, 45, issued his apology in an Instagram post after he called the student organizers "vile abusers of the dead" ("Eagles of Death Metal' tells you all you need to know)
Frank Stallone 'Deeply Ashamed' For Berating Parkland Survivor -- Actor apologizes after angry outburst ... "dying to sucker punch this little rich bitch" ... "I would never in a million years wish or promote violence to anyone anywhere on this planet."


Poisoned Door Handle Hints at High-Level Plot to Kill Spy, U.K. Officials Say - The New York Times

A Saudi Prince'ss Quest to Remake the Middle East -- In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself? (is he Saudi? and oh look, Kushki in the background)

Bulgaria Says French Thinker Was a Secret Agent. She Calls It a Barefaced Lie ... Julia Kristeva ... The mystery only deepened on Friday, when the commission, in response to intense international interest, took the unusual step of posting online the entire dossier on Ms. Kristeva. (either way, her writing is unintelligible)

China to slap tariffs on 128 U.S. goods - POLITICO

bellingcat - The Curious Case of David Jewberg, the Fake Senior Pentagon Russia Analyst - bellingcat


This Trump legal defeat may force Trump to decide: His presidency or his businesses? - The Washington Post - a lawsuit could go forward claiming he unconstitutionally received foreign emoluments

Corruption, Not Russia, Is Trump
New York Magazine cover depicts Trump as a pig | TheHill
Yashar Ali ?? on Twitter: "New cover of @NYMag Cover story by @jonathanchait: https://t.co/xFhlgA6M0x "

Roger Stone's Trumpian self-promotion is not helping him with Robert Mueller
Mueller Investigating If Roger Stone Had Dinner With Assange


BryFun on Twitter: "Tiffany Trump skillfully pulls away from her dad's kiss #debate "

Breast cancer page scrubbed from women's health wesite

Jack Williams, ex-GOP chief Marty Connors, medical exec arrested on corruption charges | AL.com - State Rep. Jack Williams, R-Vestavia Hills, Marty Connors, the former chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, and a California health care executive were arrested today on federal bribery charges.

NC GOP tries to connect Supreme Court candidate to convicted murderers - News - The Fayetteville Observer - Fayetteville, NC


The Party of the Working Class - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Voting for Republicans sure pays off for the Appalachian working class! -- A measure signed into law in Kentucky this past week would prevent federally-certified radiologists from judging X-rays in state black lung compensation claims, leaving diagnoses of the disease mostly to physicians who typically work for coal companies -- It would be nice if Kentucky residents realized just how hazardous Republicans are for their health, but then you look at election results from eastern Kentucky counties and you realize that Republicans may lead to black lungs, but they also support white skin and welp
. Pension bill: Public schools in all 120 Kentucky counties close Monday (also in supidistan)

Trump's Dark Reflection -- Don Blankenship is one of the most hated men in West Virginia. Thanks to the president, he could be the state's next senator (stupid killing itself)


'Fake News' Threat to Media; Editorial Decisions, Outside Actors at Fault - Trump less trusted than CNN, MSNBC, and Fox as info source


Sinclair Broadcasting Orders Local Anchors To Record Bizarre 'Hostage' Video - Supercut shows broadcasters across the nation reading the same script. (fake fake news)


Chicago sees drop in killings and shootings for 13 consecutive months - CNN


Better Headlines For A WaPo WASP Medium - Sara Benincasa

How Come Jewish Men Keep Breaking Up With Me? The Forward - By A Waspy Chick


Condom challenge: 5 things to know about viral fad | The Sacramento Bee


Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's future, fake news, and Russian mischief - "We will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years" (yes, he said that, he's going to dig the hole even deeper!! the stupid it burns and you buried the lede, Ezr )

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At Pruitt's E.P.A.: No Studies, No Data, No Rules (but lots of grift)

David Hogg Calls on Laura Ingraham to Apologize to Lebron James: 'A Bully is a Bully'
WATCH: Parkland students react in the best possible way to news the NRA is sending Ted Nugent after them
Lord: You know it's always very easy to blame the killer after another mass shooting, but how often do you think we should be blaming the killer's Victims?
New York tightens gun restrictions for domestic abusers - CNNPolitics - Firearms were used in 35 domestic killings in the state in 2016,
In trial of Pulse shooter's widow, the missing recorded 'confession' was the biggest flaw (would the FBI lie to you?)
In fallout from Russia mall fire, a longtime governor in Siberia resigns - The Washington Post - under intense pressure from local residents who blamed the deadliness of the March 25 fire on political corruption and incompetence.

Fury as Man Booker bows to pressure to list Taiwan as Chinese province - One of the world's most prestigious literary prizes has been dragged into a diplomatic spat between China and Taiwan after it caved in to pressure from Beijing to change the nationality of a Taiwanese nominee on its website.

London Murder Rate Overtakes New York for First Time Ever after Spate of Fatal Stabbings and Shootings : news

Eschaton: Don't Punch Down - Lefty Americans have an odd misplaced fondness for the British press for 2 reasons: 1) they like the international coverage of BBC World and 2) they appreciate that it eschews the View From Nowhere in a good way. - The BBC has actually been horrible for many years in its coverage of domestic UK politics.


Easter tirade: Trump attacks Nafta and says 'No more Daca deal' | US news | The Guardian -- In outburst of tweets, Trump dashes any lingering hope of a deal to protect undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as children

The Kushners Saw Redemption in the White House. It Was a Mirage. - The New York Times

Trump's island of misfit toys - Axios - As President Trump increasingly tunes out formal advisers, there's a growing list of misfits and hangers-on that he just can't seem to quit -- and whose advice he seems to welcome and even adopt
New book alleges Kellyanne Conway is the 'number one leaker' Trump White House
Trump International Golf Club sign splattered with red paint by vandals - ABC News


All the Celebrities and Companies Cutting Ties With Facebook Because of Privacy Concerns : technology


First it was Confederate monuments. Now statues offensive to Native Americans are poised to topple across the U.S.


Top Democrat In Connecticut Senate Calls On Elizabeth Esty To Resign - Hartford Courant

Minnesota Woman Blamed For Al Franken's Fall Had Nothing To Do With It (quite a stretch, HuffPo and if anyone is to blame, is Kirsten)

How MLK's death brought chaos and destruction to Washington

Sacramento sheriff's cruiser hits woman during protest and speeds away, video shows

Speedometer 'pinned' at 90 mph as SUV carrying family plunged off a cliff, report says (crazy white lesbians kill themselves and their black kids)

The Bail Racket - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This is superb investigative reporting about how bail bondsmen exploit their customers:


How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers in Trump's War On The Media (Sinclair Propaganda Network)
/u/bad_luck_dragon lays out all the ways Sinclair has worked with Trump in the spread of propaganda : bestof


For small, private colleges, fewer students means more worries - The Boston Globe - At Newbury College in Brookline, enrollment has declined 86 percent over the past 20 years ... The number of high school graduates has been shrinking ... 500 US colleges will close in the next decade


Here's How To Plug One Of The Biggest Privacy Holes In The Internet - An upgrade to DNS, the internet's address book, would make it harder for ISPs to know where you surf, and for hackers to hijack your traffic.



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Laura Ingraham Announces Week Off Air As Advertisers Flee | HuffPost - Almost a dozen advertisers have dropped her Fox News show after she mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre. (the kids own you, bitch)
NRA board member Ted Nugent calls Parkland students poor, pathetic liars with no soul - The evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul (said the soulless asshole murder supporter)
Far From Over - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The demented hatred the right has for the Stoneman kids is remarkable.
Jeet Heer on Twitter: "The demented hatred the right has for the Stoneman kids is remarkable. "


Siege in Gaza: Twelve killed by Israeli forces, 370 injured and DRONES drop tear gas on thousands of Palestinians as they swarm the border, burn photos of Trump, and vow to protest for weeks until US embassy moves to Jerusalem
Palestinians hold day of mourning after 773 shot with live ammunition

Eschaton: Don't Punch Down - Lefty Americans have an odd misplaced fondness for the British press for 2 reasons: 1) they like the international coverage of BBC World and 2) they appreciate that it eschews the View From Nowhere in a good way. The BBC has actually been horrible for many years in its coverage of domestic UK politics ... But aside from the BBC the UK has a tabloid culture. And they are horrible. The lie shamelessly. They don't just lie about important people. They make up random shit about non-public figures

Long-lost film that predicted rise of anti-Semitism has ominous message for today's world ... "A City Without Jews," 1924

Pippa Middleton's father-in-law denies 'scandalous' accusations of rape of minor in France

Top United Nations official 'forced himself on me,' employee says ... alleging she was offered a promotion if she accepted an apology from the man and claiming that the organization failed to take her complaint seriously. Martina Brostrom accused a UN assistant secretary general, Dr. Luiz Loures, of grabbing her in a hotel elevator, forcibly kissing her and trying to drag her to his room during a conference in 2015 ... Brostrom is one of three women to describe similar encounters with Loures (UN patriarchy at work +Brazilian)

Being Dead, He Learned, Is Hard to Overcome - The New York Times - BARLAD, Romania

Another chapter on Facebook's privacy woes is being written in Latin America (Zuckerfucking democracies, the world over)
The real threat to Facebook is the Kool-Aid turning sour - TechCrunch - Who wants to work on a weapon?

One by one, European ambassadors learn they're being expelled from Russia

Russian Accused of Hacking U.S. Technology Firms Is Extradited - The New York Times - A Russian man accused of hacking the systems of three American technology companies in 2012, possibly compromising the personal information of more than 100 million users, was extradited to the United States from the Czech Republic on Friday.

14 Million Visitors to U.S. Face Social Media Screening - The New York Times - The Trump administration said Friday that it planned to require nearly all applicants for a visa to enter the United States to submit their social-media user names for the past five years (and passwords, they are just being cagey about it, how to kill tourism, haha suckers)

Adam Schiff on Twitter: "For a President to float the idea of pardons to people who may incriminate him as a way to dissuade them from cooperating only adds to the evidence of potential obstruction of justice. Actions taken with corrupt intent may be illegal, and are certainly corrosive to our democracy. https://t.co/JdaeB47Rh2"

Federal investigators question Ted Malloch in special counsel probe - CNNPolitics
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "2/ You don't subpoena a guy like Ted Malloch without already knowing with some clarity why you want and need him before a grand jury. Presumably, this is about linking Donald Trump to Nigel Farage, Julian Assange, and/or WikiLeaks. (Or to Guccifer 2.0 via Stone? It's not clear.)"
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "I gave an interview with Columbia Univ. researchers yesterday and said all indications are that Trump's 2019 impeachment will be (by DC standards) bipartisan. Right now we're in an investigative lull; on the other side of this are months of revelations that will rock the country."

From Mueller to Stormy to 'emoluments,' Trump's business is under siege (crime ring)

WaPo: Two Top Staffers In WH Personnel Office Have Several Past Arrests -- Two young staffers with top positions at the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) have records of previous arrests for drunk driving and assault, the Post reported Friday ... Wiles never completed her college degree and had her license suspended for drunk driving and was arrested over a bad check, according to the Washington Post (the worst of the worst)

Did Shulkin get fired or resign? This is why it matters - POLITICO - Trump potentially opened the door to legal challenges that could hobble the VA.


Ethics chief Walter Shaub used Headspace meditation to deal with Trump


How Will the Midterm Elections Play Out? Watch Pennsylvania - The New York Times - Democrats appear to be in position to flip at least three, and perhaps as many as six, of Pennsylvania's 18 House seats, according to strategists from both parties. That could represent a quarter of the 24-seat gain they need nationwide to take control of the House.

Inside This Ex-Texas Congressman's Absolutely Bonkers Federal Fraud Trial - former Texas congressman Steve Stockman resurfaced last spring when he was arrested by federal agents while trying to board an international flight and subsequently slapped with a 28-count felony fraud indictment, which he said was the work of the "deep state"

This is what happens when one company owns dozens of local news stations : videos - Sinclair's script for stations ("very disturbing")

NYT's Bret Stephens Comes to Kevin Williamson's Defense Over 'Antry Tweet' on Hanging Women (who've had abortions)


A Christian Publisher Was Running The Same Ad Fraud Scheme As Newsweek Media Group - Newsweek Media Group and Christian Media Corporation both have close ties to a controversial religious leader and the university he founded ... "Dr. David Jang is an evangelical theologian who loves the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible" ... "This issue has zero, absolutely no relevance at all to Olivet University" (none, I tell you, none!)

Texas megachurch pastor charged by federal authorities with defrauding elderly investors - Mar. 30, 2018 - Federal authorities have charged the pastor of a Texas megachurch and a Louisiana financial planner with defrauding elderly investors out of more than $1 million. -- Kirbyjon Caldwell (yay, satangelical "properity for me" gospel grifters)


Eschaton: Like Sands Through The Hourglass - We're having another eruption from the usual suspects about how ACTUALLY, BLACK PEOPLE ARE STUPID. Perhaps they are but they can read. I always chuckle (and then cry) about how these things are always written as if black people can't see you. They, uh, can. (hello Sam "I'm an idiot" Harris and Andrew Dullyvan

California voters are joining this party by mistake, but lawmakers aren't doing anything about it (read comprehension is hard, segregationist party is popular)


Stephon Clark 'deserved it,' nurse wrote on Facebook. Now she's no longer working for Kaiser (standing in your own backyard while black deserves to be killed by murderous cops)

New Video: Cop Called Alton Sterling a Stupid Motherf**ker After Killing Him -- He was standing, not holding a gun, when two Baton Rogue police officers rushed in. One tried to deescalate, the other threatened to kill him -- and then did it

New York Just Passed A Bill Banning Cops From Having Sex With People In Custody - State lawmakers acted following a BuzzFeed story that showed how existing law lets cops accused of raping detainees fight charges by claiming the sex was consensual

Teen Mob Randomly Beats Man to Death on NJ Street: Prosecutors - NBC New York

Suffolk County district judge apologizes, admits he's serial underwear stealer ... A Long Island judge who police say repeatedly broke into his neighbor's home to steal her underwear has confessed to snatching panties on multiple occasions, even though he has pleaded not guilty ... Still, Suffolk County District Judge Robert Cicale has been removed from the bench and is facing up to 15 years in prison ... a married father of three young children, ... he said he stole the underwear upon feeling "urges" (in his dick)

Nashville pastor molested children during 20 years as church leader, police say - Matthew Dennis Patterson, known as Denny, served as pastor of Nolensville Road Baptist Church for more than 20 years. He resigned on Sept. 24.

Stop protecting sexual predators: Outburst interrupts LDS General Conference

'ren and Stimpy' creator John Kricfalusi admits to dating an underage girl - ANALYSIS | She was 13 when they met

French director Catherine Breillat speaks out against #MeToo and Asia Argento - The Lily - 'I don't believe Asia' ... Breillat also defended Harvey Weinstein ...

Here's why pot sellers are paying prime rents for warehouse and storefront space


What We Know (and Don't Know) About How to Lose Weight -- One conclusion from a much-discussed study: The best diet is the one you can stick to.

One of America's most popular drugs -- first aimed at schizophrenia -- reveals the issues of 'off-label' use - Seroquel an antipsychotic developed to treat schizophrenia but increasingly prescribed for insomnia (turns you into a jerky sleep-walking zombie, so all is good) a pill that medical experts say can cause diabetes, heart arrhythmia and potentially irreversible movement disorders (hello tardive dyskinesia) AstraZeneca declined an interview request


What horrid secrets do your parents have, and are oblivious to you being aware of? : AskReddit

How to download a copy of everything Google knows about you

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EPA poised to scrap fuel economy targets that are key to curbing global warming -- setting up clash with California (meanwhile, the Party of Death and Destruction is fucking the whole planet)

Parkland survivor David Hogg to John McCain: 'Why do you take so much money from the NRA?' (no one thought to ask him that question before)
Laura Ingraham Ripped On Twitter For Hiding Behind Religion In 'Bogus' Apology - The Fox News host taunted a mass shooting survivor on Twitter (and got owned by a kid)
Noor Salman, the Orlando nightclub shooter's wife, acquitted of charges she aided 2016 massacre
Pulse Nightclub Shooter's Widow Found Not Guilty Of Aiding Her Husband's Attack ... Noor Salman's family said she was a victim of Omar Mateen's violence, not his collaborator ... investigators found nothing to suggest Mateen was motivated by homophobia ... t is extraordinarily rare for the federal government to lose a terrorism case (and your FBI and prosecutors lied their asses off)
How Noor Salman Became The Scapegoat Of The Pulse Massacre | HuffPost - rooted in gendered Islamophobia ... By the time of the trial, Salman had spent 14 months in jail, mostly in solitude. Each day, she was allowed a single phone call to her son, but that was it. (asshole fuckers added to the abuse )
School walkouts: Student shot at school gets detention for protest - The sophomore got a detention. And so did 42 other students who walked outside with him. -- Some in this small Butler County community are upset with the punishment, saying if anyone has a right to protest it's these students.

Pope Francis: 'There Is No Hell' (rightwing goes nuts, Vatican says fake news)
Pope To World: Hell Does Exist : The Two-Way : NPR - Things got a little heated at the Vatican this week when an Italian journalist reported that Pope Francis denied the existence of hell.

How Slovakia stood up to a journalist's slaying and kicked out its prime minister (strongman asshole murderer falls)

Report: Israeli stealth fighters fly over Iran - Middle East - Jerusalem Post - Two IAF F-35 Adir fighter jets entered Iranian airspace undetected, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.

Immigration chief in San Francisco apologizes for social media post seen as offensive - San Francisco Chronicle
The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant - The New York Times


PoppinKREAM comments on Lawyer Who Lied to Bob Mueller May Have Blown Paul Manafort's Russia Cover -- Alex van der Zwaan


FBI questions Ted Malloch, Trump campaign figure and Farage ally | US news | The Guardian - American once touted as possible ambassador to EU tells of being detained at Boston airport and subpoenaed by Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia inquiry ... the FBI also asked him about his relationship with Roger Stone, the Republican strategist, and whether he had ever visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has resided for nearly six years. (busted him at Logan)

Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention: sources | Reuters

Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo -- believing he was unconscious and unresponsive and needed rescue, in a bizarre incident last year that the EPA has for months refused to discuss, according to sources and police radio traffic obtained by ABC News.

Trump's pick to head veterans department faces skepticism over his experience
Opinion | A Coup at Veterans Affairs - The New York Times (the incompetizing and privitization of everything, haha suckers)
Veterans Affairs Shake-Up Stirs New Fears of Privatized Care - The New York Times

I Can't Believe It's a Law Firm LLC


Puffin_Fitness comments on #DeleteFacebook movement gains steam after 50 million users have data leaked - Russia is deeply embedded into Facebook.
Here are the internal Facebook posts of employees discussing today's leaked memo -- "I've always thought our 'open but punitive' stance was particularly vulnerable to suicide bombers'
Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo -- And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Facebook's Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what's coming for all of online publishing (haha look at you, NYT)

Trouble in candy land: How Peeps, pensions and a lawsuit threaten to upend the American retirement system - The Washington Post - How Peeps, pensions and a lawsuit threaten to upend the American retirement system (haha you thought you had a pension, suckers)


Opinion | The 2016 Exit Polls Led Us to Misinterpret the 2016 Election - The New York Times - Crucial disputes over Democratic strategy concerning economic distribution, race and immigration have in large part been based on Election Day exit polls that now appear to have been inaccurate in key ways ... polls substantially underestimated the number of Democratic white working-class voters -- many of whom are culturally conservative -- and overestimated the white college-educated Democratic electorate, a far more culturally liberal constituency ... 33 percent of Democratic voters and Democratic leaners are whites without college degrees ... 26 percent of Democrats who are whites with college degrees -- the group that many analysts had come to believe was the dominant constituency in the party ... this noncollege white 33 percent makes up a larger bloc of the party's voters than the 28 percent made up of racial and ethnic minorities without degrees. It is also larger than the 12 percent of Democratic voters made up of racial and ethnic minorities with college degrees ... the white working class is the largest bloc of Democratic voters and substantially larger than the bloc of white college-educated Democratic voters. (let's run more soccer-mom commercials, Hillary)


Hillary Clinton fires back at critics: No one told a man who lost an election to shut up | TheHill (and fuck you, Meidi and Claire)

EPA Chief's $50-a-Night Rental Raises White House Angst (payoff design not to look exactly like a payoff)

Sean Penn Rips Steve Bannon: You Can't Age Like That Without Hating People ... "until I looked at him closely and imagined the Steve Bannon I knew but with the toxins of the soul so deteriorated"

Texas woman gets five years prison for illegal voting | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (she voted while on probation, persecuted by evil fuckers)

Oklahoma teachers dismiss proposed pay raise, plan to hold walkout | TheHill


Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times Primarily in His Back, Family-Ordered Autopsy Finds - The New York Times


'Clueless' star Stacey Dash withdraws from congressional race and former Fox News commentator (clueless is her brand)


Opinion | Affirmative Action for Reactionaries - The New York Times - Kevin Williamson


Roseanne Keeps Promoting QAnon, the Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory That Makes Pizzagate Look Tame - tweeting a fringe conspiracy, leading some fans to question whether she had been kidnapped and replaced with an imposter. (way off the deep end of rightwing insanity) ... In 2012, she launched a presidential campaign as a Green Party candidate but lost to Jill Stein in the primary.
CircuitRider on Twitter: "Crazy talk " - Roseanne Barr

Who Does She Think She Is? - he internet does not hate women. People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity.


Conn. congresswoman kept aide on staff for 3 months after she learned of threat allegation - The Washington Post - Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.)
Esty under scrutiny over handling of alleged abuse - Connecticut Post

The Disturbing Secret Behind An Iconic Cartoon 'Ren and Stimpy'
'Ren & Stimpy' Creator Accused Of Sexually Abusing Teen Girls -- In the 1990s, John Kricfalusi reportedly made a drawing of a dog ejaculating on one of the two women.

Trapped Inside The Monster Energy Frat House | HuffPost - A woman who worked at the drink company said she was sexually harassed and abruptly fired. This is what can happen when a boys club runs amok.

[Serious] Men of Reddit who have been raped by women, what happened, did you tell anyone, and did they take you seriously? : AskReddit


Synthetic pot warning issued after 22 people in Illinois report bleeding from eyes, ears - Chicago Tribune (K2 so let's execute real pot dealers)

CBD is cannabis that won't get you high. So why are so many people using it?


What Are Screens Doing to Our Eyes -- and Our Ability to See? -- Our eyes are hardening; we can barely see our phones anymore. We must learn to look at the wider world.

The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark | The New Yorker

The dark truth about chocolate | Life and style | The Guardian - In 2016, eating chocolate was linked to reduced risks of cognitive decline among those aged 65 and over, while cocoa flavanol consumption was linked to improved insulin sensitivity and lipid profiles markers of diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk.


What would you consider the greatest video of youtube history? : AskReddit
I asked Reddit for a list of essential classics to read. . . This is how long it would take to read them all. . . : books
What are some "Reddit Mysteries" that still exist or are still ongoing? : AskReddit
What is the most infamous phrase in reddit history? : AskReddit


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Advertisers Ditching Laura Ingraham's Show Over Attack On Parkland Survivor | HuffPost - The Fox News host mocked 17-year-old David Hogg for not getting into a few colleges.


Fire, Riot At Venezuelan Police Station Leaves 68 Dead | HuffPost - Venezuelan prisons are notoriously overcrowded and filled with weapons and drugs. Riots leaving dozens dead are not uncommon (over the cliff with Maduro the Stupid)


John Bolton to Kim Jong Un: Give Up Your Nukes Like Gaddafi Did -- Before We Killed Him -- incoming national security adviser is sending the exact wrong message to Pyongyang. Maybe because deep down he really wants to bomb it (the Death Squad of the Party of Death and Doom)


China Warns U.S. Not To Open Pandora's Box, Unleash Trade Ills On World | HuffPost - tariffs decision provoked a warning from Beijing that it could retaliate with duties of up to $3 billion of U.S. imports.

Trump Administration's Justification For A Census Question On Citizenship Appears Shaky | HuffPost - Census experts are skeptical of the reasons given for adding the question on the 2020 form. (it's a deep mystery)


FBI looked into Trump plans to build hotel in Latvia with Putin supporter | World news | The Guardian - US authorities made inquiries even before 2016 election campaign into Trump property dealings in former Soviet Union
Trump loses arbitration to win back control of Panama hotel - Univision - an international arbitrator ruled against returning control of a landmark hotel in Panama to the president

Robert Mueller May Have Found That Witch That Trump Claims He's Hunting For -- The special counsel spells out a link between Trump's campaign and Russian military intelligence in a new court filing.
We may know why Paul Manafort has kept quiet. But his bet is still risky. - The Washington Post - refusal to cooperate can't be driven by a rational calculation that he has any reasonable chance of escaping conviction, multimillion-dollar legal fees and a prison sentence that will result in years behind bars ... Manafort believes he has a get-out-of-jail-free card, so long as he keeps quiet and absorbs the costs of trial.

Emails reveal DOJ would have 'very little involvement' if Trump tweeted a pardon

Sessions Rejects Republican Calls for Second Special Counsel - The New York Times

Trump in Ohio: 'I don't know what that means, a community college' ... "That's what I do. I build. I was always very good at building. It was my best thing. I think better than being president, I was always very good at building."

Inside the Cutthroat Battle to Be the Next Hope Hicks - The race to fill the Hicks void is a clandestine parade of all the worst human impulses (but whatever, Fox/Murdoch/Satan will win) ... the higher you climb in the Trump White House, the quicker you're killed off ...

I'm Skeptical About a Blue Wave in November ... because Republicans have rigged the system (all during the Obama years) Because of maps designed to favor Republicans, Democrats would need to win by a nearly unprecedented nationwide margin in 2018 to gain control of the House of Representatives. To attain a bare majority, Democrats would likely have to win the national popular vote by nearly 11 points ... Even a strong blue wave would crash against a wall of gerrymandered maps

Scott Walker Wastes Taxpayer Money Fighting Special Elections - Wisconsin Republicans will do anything to tamp down on democracy. (in Kochistan)
Senate, Assembly drop plans to come in on special elections bill | WisPolitics - "a bridge too far"


Fake Kirsten Gillibrand flap reveals double standard in our politics - The Washington Post - More than 10 years ago, Gillibrand's attorney and lobbyist Doug Rutnik, worked very briefly with Nxivm (BDSM sex cult with literal branding) ... "Smallville" actress Allison Mack is involved, as are Sara and Clare Bronfman , the daughters of the late Canadian multimillionaire businessman Edgar Bronfman Sr. (but did she shoot herwelf in the head by stabbing Franken in the back?)


It's Time to Stop Yammering About Liberal Bias -- The right has plenty of representation in the nation's opinion pages


Judge 'beyond angry' after Corrections workers withheld evidence, allowing Utah killer to avoid death penalty ... Department of Corrections had withheld nearly 1,600 pages of medical records -- even after 6th District Judge Wallace Lee ordered last October that they be turned over ... "This is tto Chaffetz wouldally wrong," the judge said. "That is something I would expect from Russia or North Korea, not a society like we have under the Constitution." ... One doctor, he said, would not even disclose which medical school he went to during an interview with a defense lawyer.

White Supremacist Men See White Manhood Under Siege | HuffPost -- All these men are motivated by the desire to defend the myth of a country "created by and for" white men ... more motivated by defending their status as men than they were by defending their status as whites

Groupon Sorry for Horrific Racial Slur -- boots in n****r brown

'Roseanne' Really Overperformed in Middle America ... highest rated in ... Tulsa OK

Senator Rosenberg's husband, Bryon Hefner, indicted on assault, lewdness charges ... and distributing nude photographs without consent.


Can Social Media Be Saved? - The New York Times

Boeing hit by WannaCry virus, but says attack caused little damage | The Seattle Times

Eschaton: They Can Be Programmed Not To Hit Things - Uber Technologies Inc. disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the Volvo SUV that struck and killed a woman in Arizona last week -- The good news is that this can be reclassified as "human error." har dee har har.

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Leaked Memo: EPA Shows Workers How To Downplay Climate Change | HuffPost - Point 5: Suggest that humans are only responsible "in some manner"

Donations to the NRA tripled after the Parkland shooting : news

Here's who actually attended the March for Our Lives. (No, it wasn't mostly young people.) - Like other resistance protests, and like previous gun-control marches, the March for Our Lives was mostly women. Whereas the 2017 Women's March was 85 percent women, the March for Our Lives was 70 percent women. Further, participants were highly educated; 72 percent had a BA or higher ... About 27 percent of participants at the March for Our Lives had never protested before ... new protesters reported being motivated by the issues of peace (56 percent) and Trump (42 percent), who has been a galvanizing force for many protests ... (overall) ... 89 percent reported voting for Hillary Clinton.
The sliming of Parkland students shows the spreading stain of media polarization - The Washington Post - Erik Erikson ... praising the reporting of RedState writer Sarah Rumpf. (hmmm)
Rep. Mary Franson compares 'March for Our Lives' kids to Hitler Youth


Julian Assange Just Got His Internet Privileges Revoked -- No more will the WikiLeaks founder be able to tweet or send other messages from inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London ... after Assange breached a written agreement signed in 2017 not to send out messages that interfere in other countries' business.


The web of connections between Trump and Putin, visualized - The Washington Post
Mueller just drew his most direct line to date between the Trump campaign and Russia - The Washington Post ... That line is drawn in a new court filing related to the upcoming sentencing of London attorney Alex van der Zwaan.


Eschaton: Morning Thread - O.J. had no problems putting together the Dream Team. Just saying.
Trump's Lawyer Raised Prospect of Pardons for Flynn and Manafort as Special Counsel Closed In -- The discussions came as the special counsel was building cases against both men, and they raise questions about whether the lawyer, John Dowd, who resigned last week, was offering pardons to influence their decisions about whether to plead guilty and cooperate in the investigation.
Who Ratted Out John Dowd? I Think We Know (Gates)

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "(THREAD) Per NBC, Trump has told friends he'd be in trouble if Paul Manafort "flipped" on him -- clearly signaling that Manafort can incriminate him and get him impeached. By that measure, today's events have brought Trump closer than ever to impeachment.
Trump Aide Spoke During Campaign to Associate Tied to Russian Intelligence - The New York Times - A top Trump campaign official had repeated communications during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential race with a business associate tied to Russian intelligence, according to a document released on Tuesday by the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the election. The campaign official, Rick Gates,
Manafort associate had Russian intelligence ties during 2016 campaign, prosecutors say - The Washington Post


Trump may be in the greatest legal jeopardy of his presidency - The Washington Post


The "bliblical" defense of Trump's affair with Stormy Daniels -- King David, President Trump, and using Scripture for political purposes ... Hannity: "King David had 500 concubines for crying out loud". (Trump has at least 10 or 20 left)

As Stormy Daniels tells her story, six conservative Americans debate whether Trump is a role model - The Washington Post ... 61 percent of Republicans consider the president a good role model for children
Trump ousts Veterans Affairs chief Shulkin, nominates personal physician to replace him - The Washington Post - Rear Adm. Ronny L. Jackson as his replacement. (the payoff for Dr. "6'3" 239lbs, great health")

At Least A Dozen States Plan To Sue Over New Census Citizenship Question | HuffPost

Trump hates Amazon, not Facebook - Axios (hates WaPo furiously)
Trump's land of make-believe (stupid and ignorant and delusional)

Trump attack unleashes oppo against Mueller -- 'It looks like the beginnings of a campaign'
Why Is Trump So Quiet This Week? - The Atlantic - This might be the slowest period of news since the president took office -- despite ample material to get him fired up

The Ballad of the Never Trumper, A Continuing Series - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Mittens is very evil also)

Justices cast doubt on partisan redistricting - POLITICO - But it was unclear after oral arguments in a key case whether there are five votes to strike it down.

Nunes opponent raises $1 million in first quarter - CNNPolitics - Andrew Janz, the Deputy District Attorney in Fresno County, is still considered a long shot in his bid to unseat Nunes

Donald Trump Jr. and Aubrey O'Day 'Were Trying' to Have a Baby During Affair

'Heartbroken' Trump Critic Ann Coulter: He's a 'Shallow, Lazy Ignoramus' ... whose 2016 campaign book In Trump We Trust touted the many virtues of the Republican nominee, is having second, third, and possibly even fourth thoughts about Donald J. Trump.


Statement from Playboy Enterprises, Inc. regarding Facebook (if Telsa doesn't need FB ...)


Al D'Amato curses at his wife while she's laid up in the hospital amid child care dispute (Republican asshole has always been an asshole - "Senator Pothole")

Morgan Stanley Knew of a Star's Alleged Abuse. He Still Works There. -- A top Morgan Stanley broker was repeatedly accused of violence against ex-wives and girlfriends. Bank managers were told. But he kept his job.

Maine's Radical Democratic Experiment -- An unpopular governor and a voter uprising are leading to historic political reforms that could reverberate across the country. (ranked-choice voting antidote to all those fucking independent fuckers, hello Elliot Cutler)

Intentionally, And Irritatingly, Like A Martyr - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Ezra has a really good piece about people who act as if making claims about the genetic inferiority of African-Americans makes them heroes whose speech is being suppressed rather than elites repeating the same self-justifying myths white elites have been repeating for time out of mind: (Sam Harris, racist much?)

b-boy bouiebaisse on Twitter: "having read this thread I honestly do not understand why Harris thinks it's exculpatory of him, because he comes across as a gigantic baby https://t.co/kROk9iWfk3" ... "This is the leaked email equivalent of a suicide bombing" ... "He's like the Donald Jr. of pretend academics

Sam Harris on Twitter: "My response to the fake, defamatory controversy engineered by @ezraklein. Dear @voxdotcom, meet your editor-in-chief: https://t.co/Zp2PCCBl6r" (angry entitled "new atheist" twerp runs into the wall)
"It's impossible to look at the cruel and insane experiment America has run on its black residents and say anything useful about genetic differences in intelligence."
Matt Crossin on Twitter: "People should read the Chomsky exchange for something even funnier: https://t.co/XcXb8qg6II " (Sam Harris struggles heroically against the realization he's an idiot, again)
PeterNorway on Twitter: "Sam Harris tried to attack Ezra Klein by releasing private emails between the two of them but it backfired and even his own fans on r/samharris thinks he comes off as an angry pissbaby while Klein sounded completely reasonable https://t.co/kgKK5vRaAf"
Sam's recent attitude and spat with Ezra Klein evidence of his privilege (e.g. white, male, etc.) and his blindness to it. : samharris
Say WHATEVER you want about Ezra Klein, but... : samharris
To those claiming Harris was wrong to characterize Murray's views as uncontroversial, you're wrong
The Tainted Sources of 'The Bell Curve'

On The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, and hiring men who want women dead
Terrible Takes on Journalism From America's Beltway Elites - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Josh Kraushaar
It's Just A Question Of What Your Red Lines Are - Lawyers, Guns & Money
A feces panini that hates tRump is still a feces panini - Lawyers, Guns & Money

"Today, Explained": An Edgy New Vox Podcast to Compete with "The Daily"


The anti-LGBT head of a major religious group just mysteriously resigned over a 'morally inappropriate relationship' (sounds like he'S gay)


MSU spent $500K to monitor social media from Nassar victims, others ... which often included the accounts of victims and their families, journalists, celebrities and politicians ... Office of Communication and Brand Strategy (really, burn it all down)


Bud Light - Lawyers, Guns & Money - he vast majority of Americans drank no Bud Light in 2016. In fact the total number of people who drank Bud Light at any point in the previous month during that year is estimated to have been about 28.5 million. That, as it were, is the Bud Light nation -- a nation not much smaller than Canada or California, whose residents imbibed an average of 409(!) Bud Lights in 2016 ... and elected Trump


Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?


Worth repeating: medical marijuana defeats Crohn's Disease
Marijuana as a Crohn's disease
Medical marijuana - Mayo Clinic - Despite a federal ban, many states allow use of medical marijuana to treat pain, nausea and other symptoms.


1 hour lecture by renowned Professor on Procrastination: He claims if you know how it works, you won't ever do it anymore. Thought this might be helpful considering how many people here suffer from procrastination. : videos
Social anxiety is related to a preoccupation with making mistakes, finds a new study that monitored children's brain activity


Eschaton: What Problem Are We Trying To Solve - What Problem Are We Trying To Solve This will quite possibly be the worst job ever devised. - Gradient Ventures, an early-stage venture fund within Google, is leading a $6 million investment in a new company that's building software to let humans control cars remotely.


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Sheriff: Maryland high school shooter died by shooting himself in the head - Baltimore Sun
NRA Says It Receives Foreign Funds, But None Goes To Election Work : NPR (sure)
Why conservatives are so mad about the Parkland students - The Washington Post (shut up and get off my lawn or I'll AK-47 you)

Washington Monthly | Why are Parkland Students So Articulate? Because They Were Taught Civics in Middle School - country's most successful effort to teach civic knowledge and engagement.
City Council backs civics lessons legislation - The Cambridge City Council threw its support behind a bill in the state legislature that would require American history and civics be taught in public schools ... "I'm a little perplexed as to why we as a council think it's a good idea to weigh in on curriculum, but we have difficulty asking the School Department or the School Committee to do anything directly,' Kelly said.

Man arrested in connection to suspicious packages sent to Washington, D.C., military bases - CBS News - 43-year-old Thanh Cong Phan.


Christopher Steele'S Other Report: A Murder In Washington -- The author of the famous Trump dossier provided a secret report to the FBI asserting that RT founder Mikhail Lesin was bludgeoned to death by thugs hired by an oligarch close to Putin. Three other sources independently told the FBI the same basic story, contradicting the government's finding that Lesin's death was accidental (yeah, he beat himself to death, now, why would they say that?)


Facebook Says Zuckerberg Won'T Give Evidence to U.K. Lawmakers (zUCKATRON threatens to buy UK and sell it to the Russians, your move, Parliament)


CNN Poll: On Russia, Americans' views are settled and partisan (58% sane, 36% insane)


Citizenship question on 2020 census may result in undercount - San Francisco Chronicle ("check here if you would like to be deported")
Trump Administration Decides To Add A Question About Citizenship To 2020 Census | HuffPost - Civil rights groups say the question is untested and could depress response rates among minorities.


Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan Latest Lawyers to Decline to Join Trump's Legal Team ("sincere regrets")
"A Target, Not a Witness" : Will Trump's Legal B-Team Collapse Before Mueller? -- "The team is thinner than you might expect for perhaps the most important investigation of our lifetime"

Jimmy Carter says John Bolton as national security adviser is "worst mistake" Trump has made (because doom, but it wasn't a "mistake," Jimmy)

Stormy Daniels Spanks Trump Again - The New York Times - Everyone also knows that Trump has a repulsive compulsion to sexualize his daughter Ivanka -- he once happily concurred with Howard Stern that she was a "piece of ass" -- so it's not surprising that he told Daniels she reminded him of his child before he slept with her. (According to McDougal, Trump said something similar to her.)
After Stormy Daniels, Republicans Face a Referendum on Trump's Conduct (they love it) "Trump is way more than the proverbial elephant in the room -- he's the elephant in the room with political bad breath, B.O. and a foul mouth," said Ace Smith
Stormy Daniels And Her Lawyer Have Team Trump Right Where They Want Them | HuffPost - legal team seems to be stepping into every legal trap Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti are laying for it.

Mark Zuckerberg has decided to testify before Congress, sources say - Mar. 27, 2018 ("condecsends")
Facebook confirms it records call history, stoking privacy furor : news - "Facebook is not a social media company; it is the largest data mining operation in existence."
Zuckerberg Hits Users with the Hard Truth: You Agreed to This : technology

Forget Facebook, Russian agents have been pretending to be furries on Tumblr : news

Wisconsin's Scott Walker denied delay in calling two special elections - For the second time in less than a week, a Dane County judge Tuesday told Gov. Scott Walker he must quickly order special elections to fill two legislative seats that have been vacant since December. (meanwhile, in Kochistan, they are trying to hold elections)

Linda Brown, center of Brown v. Board case, dies at 75 - News - The Topeka Capital-Journal - Topeka, KS

Democrats may already be 35% of the way to a House majority - CNNPolitics


Sam Harris, Charles Murray, and the allure of race science - Vox


Damon Linker on Twitter: "Why say our working class is "largely" women and people of color? Why not talk about our working class coming in all races and genders? There are a lot of white working-class people in upstate NY. Why exclude them? It'In a memo to staff, editor Jeffrey Goldberg cites an affinity for both politically stupid and morally wrong. https://t.co/zCGT7QrNTk" (comments show how stupid Damon Linker is)
If you don't center the interests of white people, you're engaging in IDENTITY POLITICS


Why Would the Atlantic Hire Kevin Williamson? - In a memo to staff, editor Jeffrey Goldberg cites an affinity for "second chances" and ideological diversity in hiring the conservative troll. Both justifications ring hollow.


Police arrest Larry Nassar's Michigan State University boss (ok, howa about the bosses' boss? burn it all down)


Researchers: Parts of Amazon rain forest thought empty may have been home to 1 million people - The Boston Globe


A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels in the human body may be a previously-unknown organ, and it seems to help transport cancer cells around the body. : science


Enter the Pulp Magazine Archive, Featuring Over 11,000 Digitized Issues of Classic Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Detective Fiction : books


Canada teen wins $1000 a week for life on 18th birthday : news

Eschaton: Oopsie - Arizona rolled out the regulation-free welcome mat after California basically kicked Uber out because Uber didn't think minimal "regulations" or "safety measures" applied to them. (good job, Republicans!)
Gov. Ducey goes from touting Uber's driverless cars to parking them

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A fake photo of Emma Gonzalez went viral on the far right, where Parkland teens are villains - The Washington Post
SIGsexuals react to March for Our Lives with their usual tact and restraint - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The right wing response to The March for Our Lives continues to be everything one would expect: They're bouncing back and forth between the first two stages of denial, with frequent side trips to being complete pieces of shit.

SIGsexuals react to March for Our Lives with their usual tact and restraint - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The right wing response to The March for Our Lives continues to be everything one would expect: They Motion reveals Pulse gunman's father was FBI informant -- Omar Mateen shot, killed 49 inside Orlando nightclub in June 2016 - Seddique Mateen was a confidential FBI source from 2005 through June 2016 (Feebs crooked?)
Noor Salman trial: Defense seeks mistrial or dismissal, citing new information about Pulse gunman's father
Remington, Centuries-Old Gun Maker, Files for Bankruptcy as Sales Slow - The New York Times - The company, which was founded in upstate New York in 1816 but is now based in North Carolina, was acquired in 2007 by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management for $118 million. (Bained to death)


Putin's Favorite Tactic Has Finally Backfired
Russian trolls attempted to manipulate view of Salisbury poisoning - Researchers have estimated that there are up to 150,000 accounts operated by Russians that meddle in British political and cultural life.
Sergei Skripal and daughter may never recover from poisoning (brain-dead)

Trump administration expels 60 Russian officers, shuts Seattle consulate in response to attack on former spy in Britain - The Washington Post
Spy poisoning: US to expel 60 Russian diplomats : news


Donald Trump: Man at War - The New York Times
It's Very Difficult to Overestimate the Potential Danger John Bolton Could Put Us In
Trump and Bolton's Plan to Isolate Allies and Encourage Enemies

Cambridge Analytica Sent Foreigners To Work On U.S. Elections, Former Employees Say | HuffPost - Its dirty little secret was that there was no one American involved in it,

Fund-Raiser Held Out Access to Trump as a Prize for Prospective Clients - The New York Times - For Elliott Broidy, Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign represented an unparalleled political and business opportunity. (weird semi-humans)

Anderson Cooper's Stormy Daniels interview draws highest ratings for '60 Minutes' in 10 years - Mar. 26, 2018
Trump's payoffs are a much bigger national security issue than Hillary Clinton<'s Email Server - 1. How many other sexual partners has Trump paid hush money to? 2. How many foreign intelligences services know about one or more of those women?/a>
Stormy Daniels Has Put Trump Fixer Michael Cohen in Serious Legal Danger
The Note: Stormy weather ahead? - ABC News
Why the Stormy Daniels story matters, in one paragraph - Her 60 Minutes interview shows it's not about sex. It's about the abuse of power
Stormy Daniels' 60 Minutes interview raises 2 critical questions she can't answer -- Are there other women? And who else knows about them?
Despite porn stars and Playboy models, white evangelicals aren't rejecting Trump. This is why. (Christian nationalism - Trump/Satan is part of God's plan so it's ok to worship him)
EW! Tweeters React To Stormy Daniels' Dirty Details About Alleged Affair With Trump | HuffPost
John Cusack on Twitter: "60 minutes reveals more of same -trump a gangster - engages world through gangster ethics - totaly unfit for office - not worth mentioning all the laws he breaks as there's too many to number- a vast pattern /picture of a deranged criminal who must be removed from power -now
Josh Dawsey on Twitter: "A porn star just said on 60 minutes that she took a magazine with Donald Trump's face on it and spanked the president, with him only wearing his underwear."
The consent of the governed - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Trump assumed "consent" to his gross "perching" and Stormy felt guilty for getting herself into this mess)

Despite porn stars and Playboy models, white evangelicals aren't rejecting Trump. This is why.

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "2/ I honestly don't care if the data were collected "surreptitiously" or not. They shouldn't have been collected at all, and my view of that doesn't change by virtue of some fine print (if there was any) that Facebook at some point slipped into its terms of use. Good grief." (Zuckerville: we're spying on everything you do so we can sell your data to corps and provide a "batter Facebook experience' for you)
ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show

White House counsel examines loans to Kushner's family business '

Report: Democrats would need huge wave to win US House - Democrats would need a tremendous electoral wave not seen in more than 40 years to overcome Republican advantages from gerrymandered districts in key states

Sen. Claire McCaskill Chastises Hillary Clinton: Be 'More Careful' When Talking About Trump Voters | HuffPost - "show respect to every American vote" (Clair and Heidi Fuckkamp want us to be "respectful" of Satan and his minions)



An Ohio Bill Would Ban All Abortions. It's Part of a Bigger Plan ... his rash of radically unconstitutional bills is appearing by design. The anti-abortion movement has been trying to pass pre-viability abortion bans, like the Ohio bill, hoping that efforts to overturn them would lead to a challenge of Roe v. Wade ...


Can the Most Hated Man in West Virginia Win? - POLITICO Magazine - Don Blankenship went to prison after the deaths of 29 of his miners. For some Republicans, that's the beginning of a successful Senate campaign.

Scott Walker and Special Elections - Why the Wisconsin Governor Doesn't Want Special Elections - Scott Walker and his allies will do anything except democracy.


The Growing College Graduation Gap - The New York Times - The college-graduation rate for these poorer students is abysmal. It's abysmal even though many of them are talented teenagers capable of graduating. Yet they often attend colleges with few resources or colleges that simply do a bad job of shepherding students through a course of study ... You can think of college as adulthood's first obstacle course.


Eschaton: It's A Total Mystery Why There's A Lack of Class And Racial Diversity In Journalism - All you need is one little sifting device - like unpaid internships requiring that people are funded by the Bank of Parental Units - and the entire pool of potential applicants is skewed. - Of course there are lots of these little life sifters. This is just an obvious one that publications actually have control over.


Utah Just Passed America's First 'Free-Range Parenting' Law -- The new law, which will take effect on May 8, specifies that it is not a crime for parents to allow kids who display maturity and good judgment to do things like walk to school alone or play outside without supervision. (did you know it's illegal for kids to play outside without a helicopter?)


Back in 2015, a team of scientists discovered a new antibiotic called teixobactin, the first novel antibiotic isolated from bacteria in over 30 years. Now researchers have, for the first time, successfully synthesized the compound and used it to treat MRSA and VRE superbug infections in mice. : science


/u/DethkloksNewManager demonstrates how to explain t_d to Reddit's advertisers. It "is like Target having a Nazi section of their store." : bestof


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March for Our Lives crowd size: Estimated 200,000 people attended D.C. march - CBS News
The March for Our Lives Presents a Radical New Model for Youth Protest | The New Yorker - The outcry against violence was delivered with a mix of pop sentiment, corporate covperation, and an awareness of the socioeconomic privilege that allows certain voices to be heard louder than others.
11-Year-Old Activist Honors Black Girls Whose Stories Never Make The News | HuffPost - People were in awe of fifth grader Naomi Wadler
Santorum: Instead of calling for gun laws, kids should take CPR classes - CNNPolitics
NRA Takes Aim At March For Our Lives' Rally, Mocks Gun Violence Survivors | HuffPost - "Gun-hating billionaires and Hollywood elites are manipulating and exploiting children" (the kids should just shut up and die before our blazing gunz)
Armed white men showed up to intimidate kids at #MarchForOurLives rallies -- it didn't work
The Silence Heard Round the World - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Value of Protest in American Politics - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Child bride survivors of Boko Haram share their horrific stories and urge lawmakers to rescue others - The Washington Post

Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont arrested in Germany - The Washington Post


The Liberal Order Isn't Coming Back: What Next?


Trump to make 'one or two major changes to his government' soon (getting rid of voting for democrats)

In another blow to Trump's efforts to combat Russia probe, diGenova will no longer join legal team - "The President is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining his Special Counsel legal team."

How Trumpism has come to define the Republican Party - The Washington Post
The opening act was tumultuous. Phase two of Trump's presidency could be even more so.

Stormy Daniels Interview: 60 Minutes' Anderson Cooper discusses Daniels' alleged affair with Donald Trump - full interview transcript - CBS News
Stormy Daniels Says She Stayed Silent on Trump Out of Fear - The New York Times

Eschaton: Attacking The Troops To Own The Libs - It'll never get framed this way in the Emm Ess Emm but Trump is attacking The Troops (transgender troops) in order to Own The Libs. -- If The Libs ever went after The Troops like this it would be an assault on the flag and country and... but since it's conservatives going after transgender troops, it's all good.


Trump Won't Hire 2 Lawyers Whose Appointments Were Announced Days Ago ("conflicts of interests")

Eschaton: Everybody's A Big Fame Whore Like Me - The conservative movement is filled with grifters who would kill their parents for 5 minutes on Fox&Friends so I shouldn't be surprised, but... by Atrios at 09:26

Congressional candidate Diane Harkey suggests curfew, buddy system for House members - The San Diego Union-Tribune - should be back home by 8 p.m. because lawmakers entrusted with setting health-care policies, funding the government and declaring war need a curfew to stay out of trouble.


Renowned photographer Nicholas Nixon abruptly retires as MassArt investigates alleged misconduct - The Boston Globe - Nicholas Nixon retired abruptly from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design this month, departing mid-semester amid allegations of inappropriate behavior, the school has announced.



How our dreams made us human - The Boston Globe - Ultimately, what dreams mean matters less than what dreams do. And while dreams may be bizarre in their content, the study of them gives us a sort of manual to the mind that creates them.


Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones | Ars Technica (Zuckatron knows who you talked to and has read your text messages, suckers)

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March for Our Lives: Huge crowds gather for rally against gun violence in Washington - The Washington Post - Students demand action against gun violence in nation's capital
March for Our Lives: Students rally in Washington and across the nation - CNN
Watch: Emma Gonzalez's incredible moment of silence at March for Our Lives Gonzalez abruptly went silent for minutes to honor the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
73 Teens Shot To Death In The 37 Days Since The Parkland Massacre | HuffPost - As young people around the world rally against gun violence, this should serve as a reminder that the problem affects them far beyond school shootings.
Broader gun restrictions lead to fewer intimate partner homicides | MSUToday | Michigan State University - Currently, 13 states and federal law prohibit gun purchases by individuals convicted of domestic violence; the study finds that states that extend this ban to people convicted of any violent misdemeanor experience 23 percent fewer intimate partner homicides (well, they were mostly women and our gunz are our masuclinity)
Austin bombing victim had that Rembrandt light - Chicago Tribune
The Lessons of a School Shooting - in 1853 - POLITICO Magazine - How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument. (it was legal to shoot a teacher; they've only changed their tactics)

'Locker Room Talk' : Trump Fans Charged In Anti-Muslim Terror Plot Say It Was Just Bluster - But the government contends the Crusaders militiamen were hatching an actual plan to kill Muslim refugees. (Somali "cockroaches") Kansas militiamen ("militiamen" = crazy racist white dudes with lots of gunz)
Feds: Man threatened to shoot Virginia congressman over pot policy | Government-politics | richmond.com - "I am a natural-born conservative," he wrote. "Read the federal law on marijuana. ... Marijuana has been altering the minds of the American people since the early '60's." (natural-born lead-poisoned conservative idiot)

The Brexit whistleblower: Did Vote Leave use me? Was I naive' | UK news | The Guardian


'Should We Have Waged the Iraq War?' Is Not a Gotcha Question (2015)
No Need to Repent for Support of Iraq War - Commentary Magazine - Max Boot (2013)


Eschaton: The Moustache Of Death - Bolton's a "kill'em all" racist. Trump will do whatever Fox and Friends tells him to do. Bolton will be good at getting his message on there, and kill'em all racists are basically their target demographic. Time to become a prepper.
Reaction to Bolton: Stunned, worried, horrified - The Washington Post
Potential Trump official recorded video for Russian gun group - NY Daily News - High-profile conservative politician John Bolton recorded a video for a Kremlin-connected pro-gun group a few months before the Russian government began plotting to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.

After Another Week of Chaos, Trump Repairs to Palm Beach. No One Knows What Comes Next. - The New York Times

Trump moves to ban most transgender troops - POLITICO - The decision follows a Pentagon review but the Justice Department will still have to make the case in federal court. (J Rubin supported Boston in 2/16)

"The President May Be Able to Fire Mueller, but He Can't Fire Me" : Stormy Daniels' Attorney Relishes His Role as Trump Nemesis du Jour -- On the eve of the porn star's 60 Minutes appearance, Michael Avenatti insists the show is only just beginning - Joe Hagan
Stormy Daniels, Trump's Unlikely Foe, Is 'Not Someone to Be Underestimated'

The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram - Vox
How To Permanently Delete A Facebook Account : technology
'A grand illusion': seven days that shattered Facebook's facade ("dumb fucks" said Fuckerberg)

Tumblr finally releases information about state-sponsored propaganda - Axios -- Tumblr, which is owned by Yahoo, is the last of the social media services to comment on how it was used for attempted propaganda. (Marissa is giggling somewhere)

The (likely) last major act of an anti-spending Congress: A $1.3 trillion budget-busting bill - The Washington Post (swamping the swamp)


Internal watchdog to open probe into National Park Service leader for allegedly making crude gesture - The Washington Post - P. Daniel Smith, currently the top-ranking official at the National Park Service, for allegedly making a gesture involving his genitalia in the hallways of the department's headquarters this year (only the worst of the worst)

Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to Unlock Phones - The New York Times (built-in backdoors will work really well!)

How Close Is Donald Trump to a Psychiatric Breakdown? - Last fall, prominent psychiatrists broke with the American Psychiatric Association to warn that President Trump is dangerous and mentally unstable. A bitter controversy started -- To this day, the APA has not reconsidered its gag rule, although some members have resigned in protest.

When Trump goes low, go low - The Washington Post - Michelle Obama had it all wrong. (the float-above-it Obamas)

Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community - Wanker of the Day: Jonathan Turley - Turley suggests that one of two things should happen. Either McCabe should be charged with lying to investigators under the same 18 U.S.C. 1001 statute used to charge Michael Flynn or the charges against Flynn should be dropped.
The effects of Obama'ss refusal to investigate Bush crimes -- Rachel Maddow and Jonathan Turley point out the obvious inconsistency of telling the world that we again are a nation of laws and then protecting the crimes of the Bush era. (look forward! to Trump!)

In new memoir, a top Clinton aide says campaign was 'foolish' not to address email issue more forcefully (how about "totally stupid")

Roseanne Barr Tells Jimmy Kimmel To 'Zip That F**king Lip' About Donald Trump - she voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election (Roseanne is pro-gun, pro-war, pro-rich, pro-dictatorship, racist, and very, very, stupid)


Sources: US Rep. Costello to drop out of PA-6 race before May primary | City & State PA - Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello has decided not to seek reelection in Pennsylvania's hotly contested Sixth Congressional District ... last month, Costello called for the impeachment of the state Supreme Court Justices involved in that decision ... Recently, he had been tarred for supporting legislation that critics say defanged federal attempts to crack down on pharmaceutical opioid manufacturers (another evil fucker down)


The New 'Superpredator' Myth - Los Angeles, Chicago and other major cities also use gang databases to subject young people to heightened surveillance, criminal penalties, deportation and inclusion in broad-reaching civil injunctions. These databases have come under scrutiny because a child may be included for arbitrary reasons, like wearing a certain color of clothing or hanging out in a particular park.

How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of 'Race'
Europe's fourth ancestral 'tribe' uncovered - BBC News - The Yamnaya transformed the gene pools of northern and central Europe, such that some populations, like Norwegians, owe around 50% of their ancestry to these Steppe pastoralists ... They suggest that this strand of ancestry may also have been associated with the spread of Indo-European languages to the region.
'Fourth Strand' of European ancestry originated with hunter-gatherers isolated by Ice Age - Populations of hunter-gatherers weathered Ice Age in apparent isolation in Caucasus mountain region for millennia, later mixing with other ancestral populations, from which emerged the Yamnaya culture that would bring this Caucasus hunter-gatherer lineage to Western Europe.


The Humane Society's sexual harassment scandal just won't end - But eight weeks after the resignation of Wayne Pacelle, who stepped down after three misconduct complaints surfaced against him, his replacement, Kitty Block, faces pressure for broader changes, suggesting the Humane Society's cleanup has barely begun ... The donors say they remain outraged by the board's public statement -- issued two hours before Pacelle's resignation Feb. 2 -- that an inquiry by an outside law firm found no "credible evidence' to support the women's claims (and let's remember board member Erika "he can fuck me anytime" Brunson)

Why Sherman Alexie's Sexual Misconduct Feels Like a Betrayal -- In addition to the women he wronged, Alexie let down the writers of color who needed his help, and the Native writers he eclipsed


Norman Mailer's biographer says the noted wife-stabber "was never accused of hurting women" (ended up as a little creep, he stabbed her "to create a debate")
Norman Mailer Was Never Violent Towards Women, With Notably Rare Exceptions - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Teenagers Have Become Lovely Human Beings. But Why? Mother Jones - The Economist discovers that teenagers in the West are a lot less worrisome than they used to be ... The obvious answer here is: Today's teenagers are the first generation in more than half a century to grow up completely lead free.


A birth control pill for men includes a side effect that has frustrated women for decades - The Washington Post ... It took congressional hearings, in 1970, to compel the FDA to include in each pack of pills a package insert detailing the potential side effects -- a practice the American Medical Association initially opposed ... contended that an insert would undermine a doctor's authority with "his" patients. (of course they did)


Uber's Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash - human drivers had to intervene far more frequently than the drivers of competing autonomous car projects.

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How many children are affected by school gun violence in America? - Washington Post - Scarred by school shootings - More than 187,000 students have been exposed to gun violence at school since Columbine, The Washington Post found. Many are never the same.
Parkland students: our manifesto to change America's gun laws | Editorial staff of the Eagle Eye | US news | The Guardian
'Oh my God ... It's Fake': Far right falls for hoax about Broward County sheriff
16-year-old victim of Maryland school shooting dies, sheriff's office says - Baltimore Sun
She Thought She'd Shot A Burglar. Then She Realized It Was Her Roommate. -- Good guys with guns don't only shoot bad guys. At least 47 times since 2015, a person has shot a friend, family member, or emergency responder they mistook for an intruder in their home.


Joshua Kushner Met With Government of Qatar to Discuss Financing in the Same Week Father Charles Kushner Did


Reaction to Bolton: Stunned, worried, horrified - The Washington Post -- He still passionately supports the Iraq War, a conflict President Trump has often criticized. (haha suckers) Bolton frequently advocates use of military power, specifically against Iran and North Korea.
John Bolton Is a National Security Threat - Foreign Policy - John Bolton wants regime change in North Korea and Iran, and he'll do whatever it takes to get it
With Bolton, Trump Creates a Hard-Line Foreign Policy Team - The New York Times
It's Time to Panic Now -- John Bolton's appointment as national security adviser puts us on a path to war.
Bolton, McMaster present contrast on Russian hacking - politico - Bolton has made headlines by casting doubt on Russia's role
Nobody Is Left to Save the World From Trump Now (Chait) As awful and comically surreal as the first year and a quarter of his term has been, after Trump has taken full command of his administration, we may see it as a golden age.
Bolton Was Early Beneficiary of Cambridge Analytica's Facebook Data
Inside Trump's Snap Decision to Oust McMaster - McMaster Ousted Days After His Briefing to Trump on Putin Call
The Fox and Friends Presidency - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Trump fired H.R. McMaster in large measure because McMaster wouldn't treat him like a particularly dim and uninformed Fox News viewer ... The nation was briefly spared having a raving maniac as national security adviser because the president based his personnel decisions based on his prejudices about facial hair (Trump hated Bolton's rediculous 'stache)
John Bolton has decade-long association with anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller - CNNPolitics
This Old Donald Trump Tweet About Bush-Era Officials Has Not Aged Well | HuffPost - hypocrisy in light of his appointment of John Bolton as National Security Adviser has not gone unnoticed.
N. Korea Experts Tear Into Bolton: He's Never Met A Country He Hasn't Wanted To Destroy

Andrew McCabe: Not in my worst nightmares did I dream my FBI career would end this way - The Washington Post

Mattis Holds Firm as Chaos Engulfs Trump's National Security Team
McMaster firing upends plan to oust other top Trump officials - politico - Chief of staff John Kelly had been weighing a single announcement on the departure of Shulkin, McMaster and possibly other officials, including Carson.

Even if Trump fires him, Mueller could have plenty to say - The Washington Post - Congress could require that, if the special counsel is fired, he report to the House and Senate the status of his investigation as of the date of dismissal, with specific attention to any evidence of criminal activity that implicates the president (instead of dropping 30 indictments?)_


Seth Abramson on Twitter: "(THREAD) New evidence suggests Rick Gates' plea has much more to do with Russia than we thought. And that's because it may have more to do with Trump advisor Erik Prince and Trump fundraiser/RNC deputy finance chair Elliott Broidy than we thought. Hope you'll read on and share. https://t.co/VA4FRtt2Gv"



/u/PoppinKREAM brilliantly lays out the case for collusion between Trump campaign and Russia. : bestof

Trump aides are 'at their wits' end' - unpredictable behavior has West Wing staffers worried about their own credibility (that happened them moment you stepped on board the Trumptanic) There's only one person who truly knows what Donald Trump is thinking at any given moment: Donald Trump ("thinkiing, there's your mistake)

McDougal says she was intimate with Trump 'many dozens' of times - CNNPolitics
Melania Trump Rides to Air Force One solo - CNNPolitics - The day after a CNN interview with a former Playboy model who claims to have had a 10-month affair with her husband, first lady Melania Trump opted to leave President Donald Trump alone for the ride from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base.

Trump Fundraiser Offered to Help Lift Sanctions on Russian Firms - Bloomberg - Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for President Donald Trump, offered last year to help a Moscow-based lawyer get Russian companies removed from a U.S. sanctions list.

Leaked: Cambridge Analytica's blueprint for Trump victory | UK news | The Guardian
Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica's Rise and Fall - The secretive data firm said it could move the minds of American voters. That wasn't its real victory ... Brought to Cruz by two of the campaign's biggest backers, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, Cambridge Analytica was put in charge of the entire data and digital operation
Facebook had a closer relationship than it disclosed with the academic it called a liar - The Washington Post (and then they lied)

Former U.S. Senator Al Franken - Posts - Lack of candor (thanks, Kirsten, he would have pursued this, unlike you or his replacement. but fuck, Al, Facefuckingbook?)

Elon Musk deletes Facebook accounts for Tesla, SpaceX - Axios
Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook pages : technology

'Lone DNC Hacker' Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer (Trump's 14 yr-old in his mother's basement)
Liberal PAC Wants Unreleased Footage From Netflix's Roger Stone Doc After Daily Beast Report ... following revelations that the DNC hacker with whom Stone communicated was, in fact, a Russian intelligence officer.

James Risch holds up bill over political rivalry with deceased governor - CNNPolitics (anti-education Republican/Mormon asshole)

Eschaton: Matthew Dowd Is A Fraud - This man is paid a lot by ABC News to pretend to know nothing about politics ... a liar who is trying to maintain his No Labels Third Way If Only There Was A Party Of Common Sense Centrism Just For Me brand that networks are comfortable with and which has a totebagging fanbase.

Craigslist Shuts Down Its Personals Section - The Daily Beast - The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, which was approved by the Senate earlier this week - subjects websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully (will that include Zuckerville? )


Attorney says Roy Moore supporters offered him $10,000 to drop client who accused the Senate candidate of sexual impropriety - The Washington Post

De Blasio Donor Says He Steered Thousands in Bribes to Mayor's Campaigns

WBUR Poll: Gov. Baker Maintains Big Leads Over Democratic Challengers | WBUR News - two-thirds of them have a favorable view of the governor, while a majority still have not heard of the three Democrats: Jay Gonzalez, Bob Massie or Setti Warren.

How to win friends and influence people - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Amy Wax has written yet another op-ed in the nation's s largest circulation newspaper on the ever-popular theme of how conservative professors can't get a hearing for their ideas ... This whole thing is turning into an almost Platonic ideal of a particularly beautiful right wing academic grift ... And check it out: because you teach at an especially fancy law school, you're getting paid north of $300,000 a year to NOT deal with students, and to use your now even-more copious free time to write WSJ op-eds and Regnery books, to jet off to exotic locales where you can recount in exquisite and lucrative detail your metaphorical water boarding at the hands of the PC inquisition, and to spend lots of time on RWNJ TV and radio building your "platform" and "brand." Congratulations: you are now Ann Coulter, but with tenure. (+the view from George Wallace in comments)

The Most New Gilded Age Move Imaginable - Lawyers, Guns & Money - What could be more New Gilded Age than the return of the Pinkertons as the hired thugs of anti-union companies? Nothing more New Gilded Age is possible

Are you provoked yet? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Both James Bennet and Fred Hiatt have been asked to hold David Bradley's beer:
Jessica Valenti on Twitter: "Hey remember when @TheAtlantic's new political writer said women who have abortions should be executed by hanging? I SURE DO

Tensing settlement: University of Cincinnati pays ex-cop who killed Sam DuBose ($250,000 incentive pay)


The new era of grocery just claimed its first victims - The Washington Post - The grocery business is in the midst of a radical disruption, squeezed by a range of new competitors from Dollar General to Amazon ... The two companies carry enormous debt loads, the result of management by private equity firms (hello Bain Capital, the Toys 'R' Us model) ... sales at Whole Foods's first location in Buffalo -- where it competes with Wegmans, Tops and another strong local chain, Dash's -- have been "disasterous"


Exclusive: 'I've never seen anything like it.' Video of mating deep-sea anglerfish stuns biologists - A dwarf male is fused to her underside, essentially acting as a permanent sperm provider.


People who "switched sides" in a highly divided community (political, religious, pizza topping debate), what happened that changed your mind? How did it go? : AskReddit


Eschaton: Can Also Recognize Mangled Flesh - Cool cool.
Apple is reportedly launching low-cost iPads for schools - As a point of reference, the cheapest iPad available is the standard $329 iPad with 32GB of storage. By contrast, many Chromebooks and PCs can be had for less than $200.

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Underwater 'fountain' of magma found beneath Yellowstone | Daily Mail Online

FBI Agents And The Internet Agree: The Feds Should Call Terrorism What It Is | HuffPost - There's no federal criminal statute outlawing domestic terrorism (the kind committed by white guys)
Bang for the Buck | by Adam Hochschild | The New York Review of Books
Footage Shows The Moment Cops Fatally Shot Unarmed Black Man Stephon Clark | HuffPost - Clark was in his own backyard when officers shot at him 20 times. "armed with a cellphone"


Trump announces tariffs on billions in Chinese imports - The Boston Globe


Israel's War on Culture ("culture" is too left-wing)

A French baker is fined $3,600 for working too hard - The Washington Post


Anniversary of a world-historical catastrophe - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The idea that destroying the Iraqi state and hoping that some random Heritage Foundation interns could supervise the formation of a stable democracy ex nihilo would protect the United States from terrorist attacks was insanely stupid on every level, but that doesn't mean that most of the people responsible for the Iraq War didn't believe it. The lesson of both 9/11 and its aftermath is that people motivated by bad ideas and/or misguided principles can do far more damage than mere grifters.


How 2 Gulf Monarchies Sought to Influence the White House - The New York Times
Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner Was "In His Pocket" (creepy little spy)
John Hudson on Twitter: "This story comes pretty close to saying Kushner relayed sensitive information from the Presidential Daily Brief to MBS https://t.co/o9MfzrBB13"

Retired 4-Star General: 'Simply Outrageous' That Jared Kushner Represents America | HuffPost - "This is the personalization of a family business dealing with U.S. policy," said Barry McCaffrey

Special Counsel studies Trump campaign ties to Cambridge Analytica, sources say - ABC News
Cambridge Analytica was offered politicians' hacked emails, say witnesses - Hackers offered personal data about future Nigerian president and future PM of St Kitts and Nevis

Dow plunges 724 points as trade war fears rock Wall Street - Mar. 22, 2018

"Now I'm F---ing Doing It My Way" : Jubilant and Self-Liberated, the President Prepares for War with Mueller -- With John Dowd out, John Kelly and Ty Cobb marginalized, Joseph diGenova on board, and Marc Kasowitz possibly returning, the next battle comes into focus (the Beast unbound)
Trump's lawyer just quit. Here's what it means for the Mueller investigation

McMaster to Resign as National Security Adviser, and Will Be Replaced by John Bolton - The New York Times

'Elected to lead, not to proofread' : Typos, spelling mistakes are commonplace in Trump's White House (they never passed 4th grade: moronocracy)

Russians are hacking our electric grid. Where's the urgency on this escalating threat? (well, if we turn off your electicity, you can't use your electronic voting machines, can you?)

How a porn star is beating Trump at his own media game - The Boston Globe - Stormy Daniels is proving that she is the master of the prolonged reveal.

'It's taken partisanship to a place it's never been.' Inside the House Intelligence Committee. (little commie Nunes will go to jail)

Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say - McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives (little lying elf didn't recuse himself)

The Fight to Replace Hope Hicks in the Trump White House Enters Its 'Smerar Campaign Stage' Even in a White House accustomed to brutal and constant backstabbing, this battle really stands out.

Mark Zuckerberg has regrets: 'I'm really sorry that this happened' (it just 'happened' it's not like we designed it that way or anything)
What You Need To Know About Zuckerberg's Medi Blitz (you've been Zuckerfucked, hahah)
Mark Zuckerberg says he 'open' o testifying to Congress, fixes will cost 'many milions' and he feels 'really bad' ... admitted that the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago (he's 'open' to not going to jail)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits mistakes, outlines steps to protect user data - The Boston Globe

NYC agency investigating more than a dozen Kushner buildings (Kushki goin' down)

iNew York Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney had a theory about why the HUD Secretary is in ethical trouble. - GOP Rep: The 'Deep State' is Responsible for Ordering Ben Carson's Dining Set -- "Deep State" is a catch all phrase for the cadre of career government staffers that conspiratorial-minded Republicans believe has been weaponized to undermine Donald Trump's administration (loop-di-loop)

Eschaton: Not About Free Trade - But US tariffs on most things are tiny and so for a long time these agreements have had little to do with textbook free trade. They are what their critics have always said they are - ways for multinationals to get a veto over democracy -- If the junk food industry gets its way, the resulting pact will then be blessed as a "free trade" deal. The Washington Post and all the other beacons of the establishment will the proclaim their support for the new NAFTA and denounce opponents as Neanderthal protectionists.

The Radical Proposal Moderate Democrats Should Be Running On - a federal jobs guarantee. (Connor Lamb showed that Heidi Heitkamp was right and Warren is way too radical and Dems should act like Republicans so she can get reelected is wrong, but JoeBi has it sewed up)
Republicans already have many abandoned districts to defend this November. Are there more to come?

This Public Relations Firm Has Been Secretly Placing Articles In Conservative Publications - But if you look closely at key conservative sites including the Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Washington Examiner, and the Daily Wire ...

Jeff Zucker Hits '"Propaganda Manine" Fox News: It Is Really State-Run TV"


Judge orders Scott Walker to hold special elections in Holder suit - The judge took a shot at Walker for contending he didn't have to hold the election when the statutes are clear and he so often talks about the need for judges and others to follow the plain meaning of laws.
Milwaukee voters: Thousands have been dropped from voting rolls - Some 44,000 voters were removed from city rolls after the state started using a new process (mostly Dems)


The United States of Misogyny - Lawyers, Guns & Money - One lesson of the Trump Era is something I hope sticks with us for all time and that's the fact that things don't automatically get better. No political battle is ever won. Everything is an endless war for dignity and decency against the exploitation of misogyny, racism, and capitalism. The moment we assume the fight is over, we start losing that fight ... gender equality has significantly stalled out in the United States.


As If! | by Thomas Nagel | The New York Review of Books -- It is conscious deviation from the truth that makes a theory an idealization, and keeping this in mind is a condition of its value.


Jordan Peterson joins the club of macho writers who have thrown a fit over a bad review. | The New Republic - Since Peterson loves to categorize the world into Jungian archetypes (the devouring mother, the dragon-slaying hero), it's worth noting that this tweet fits an age-old pattern: the hyper-masculine writer who is unhinged by critical words ... At a dinner party, he threw a drink at Vidal before tackling him to the ground "Once again, words fail Norman Mailer," Vidal quipped, while still on the floor.
Yes, Jordan Peterson Really Is That Smart - The New York Review of Books sneered at him, but he's for real. To have David Brooks and the Trumpists in his corner, he has to be ... Not since Buckley has the right boasted such firepower. It's no wonder people are so mad (anyone who think Peterson is "smart" is really stupid)


Winthrop man, 70, allegedly carried assault rifle in vehicle to fight 'jihadists on the highway' (all over Route 1)

After scandals, State Police need to restore accountability, legal specialists say - The Boston Globe (organized crime/detail ring)

Outlaw weed comes into the light -- Humboldt County, the heart of California's dark marijuana economy, is facing a new market force: legalization.
OP-ED: Humboldt, We Have A Problem -- Too Much Weed


Off With Their Heads | by David Shulman | The New York Review of Books - Political Violence in Ancient India

Raised by Wolves | by Tim Flannery | The New York Review of Books


Neutron star mergers may create much of the universe's gold - even if there are only one or two such mergers each year in a cube of space 6 million light-years on a side, they would still be the dominant source of europium in the Milky Way, the researchers say.


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Scientists have issued a warning to humanity, and it's finally getting a huge reaction
20,000 Scientists Have Now Signed 'Warning to Humanity' a>

THE SUSPECT: Mark A. Conditt 'rough around the edges' friend says -- Pflugerville - homeschooled ... Sunday church service and attending Bible study and other activities together ... "I know faith was a serious thing for him" ... Conditt described himself as a conservative ... He wrote that he was against gay marriage and abortion and in favor of the death penalty. He also wrote that he supported doing away with the sex offender registration system
Austin serial bombing suspect's grandmother says he's a loving man from a tight family (good Christian)
13-Year-Old Arrested For 'Disgusting' Terroristic Voicemails Against Cobb NAACP - "My number is kill n****** 101. My name, Johnny Rebel. My profession murdering black people. F*** you stupid f****** n******. (Inaudible) F****** kill yourself. Stupid n**** loving jews"
Texas serial bombing suspect 'dead' - US reports : news
Teen remains in critical condition as authorities investigate Md. school shooting - The Washington Post
Virginia Heffernan on Twitter: "Great news. And that A+ Vermont State House is...true wholesome government." (no comment from Bernie yet)


Chief rabbi calls black people 'monkeys' Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef uses pejorative term 'kushi' for African Americans in weekly sermon ... His office told Ynet that the comparison was a quote from the Talmud ... Non-Jews, Yosef said, are in Israel only to serve Jews.

Boko Haram Returns Dozens of Schoolgirls Kidnapped in Nigeria - The New York Times


Iraq War 15th Anniversary: 1 Million Dead, No One Held Accountable - latest anniversary passed in all-American silence.


Senators Warn About Russian Election Meddling and Call for Paper Ballots - The New York Times - The Senate Intelligence Committee offered recommendations on Tuesday for securing American elections from foreign attacks, pressing states to buy voting machines that produce paper ballots and to secure voter databases, and calling for better cooperation between state and federal elections officials ahead of November's midterm elections (but Trump says "Russia is my friend")

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "We must stop decontextualizing the DO NOT CONGRATULATE instruction Trump got via his NatSec team and ignored. The meaning of the warning, as Trump knew in ignoring it, was DO NOT LEGITIMIZE THE SHAM ELECTION OF THIS HOSTILE FOREIGN STRONGMAN WHOSE PUPPET YOU ARE BELIEVED TO BE" ... Whatever Putin has on Trump must be serious, very serious because his siding up to him despite the warnings is beyond comprehension.
The Hill on Twitter: "Ex-CIA chief: Russians may have something incriminating on Trump https://t.co/aU1nTqrbs6 "

Trump furious over leak of warning to not congratulate Putin - CNNPolitics ("furious" as usual)
A stunning leak rattles Trump and his aides - Axios - he speed and sensitivity of the leak prompted immediate finger-pointing within the administration, as aides reeled from a leak that could only have come from a small group of people, each of whom is trusted with sensitive national secrets. (just Trump being Trump)

A GOP senator's remarkable admission about Trump and Mueller ... Corker ... "People who tell me, who are out on trail, say, look, people don't ask about issues anynmore. They don't care about issues. They want to know if you're with Trump or not"
https://t.co/fX7VXfCIAO"


Mueller's Interest in Obstruction Is Probably Just the Tip of the Iceberg


John Dean on Twitter: "Cohen's ... really sloppy work. Stormy is not going to pay a cent, rather she will do just fine. Hope 60 Mins goes with her interview on 03/25!
Stormy Daniels: 'There was no sleeping' during alleged affair with Trump ... here was no sleeping (hehe) and he was just a goofy reality TV star
Fox News really doesn't want to say "Trump" and "porn star" on air - Fox News is censoring a Trump sex scandal again. ("alternate reality" of stupid)

White House Job Requirement: Signing a Nondisclosure Agreement - The New York Times - But if Mr. Trump thought that the use of a tactic commonly used in the tabloid-fueled business and entertainment circles in which Mr. Trump has existed for decades could plug leaks in the White House, he was mistaken.
Trump senior staff who signed non-disclosure agreements may have broken the law - The Washington Post

Multiple witnesses tell Mueller: Jeff Sessions lied under oath about opposing Russia outreach during campaign

'We made mistakes' - Facebook's Zuckerberg : news - That non-apology just highlights how sinister this company is as an organisation.
Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Cambridge Analytica Incident As Facebook Fumbles | HuffPost

Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's collection of Facebook data, according to former employee (Bannon and Zucky, partners in evil)
Cambridge Analytica Looked to Pounce on Russian Hacks, Email Shows - The email came two days after Trump 'joked' about asking Russia to find Hillary Clinton's emails
The End for Facebook's Security Evangelist (Sheryl fired him because she loves Russia)
Mark Zuckerberg will reportedly make a statement on the data breach scandal within 24 hours : news
Welcome to Zucktown. Where Everything Is Just Zucky. - The New York Times - In Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook is building a real community and testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside them?
Did Cambridge Analytica Leverage Russian Disinformation for Trump? | Just Security - Channel 4 is in the midst of broadcasting a five-part exposi including undercover footage of recently suspended Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix offering to engage in not just microtargeting and data services, but also the dark arts of propaganda, entrapment, and other illicit tactics to win elections.
Almost a year ago, redditor points out the connections between Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and Russia recently investigated by the Guardian, and Observer : bestof

TSA denies accessing data on electronic devices carried by domestic airline passengers - Despite the denial from the TSA, the ACLU said it continues to demand that the TSA provide documentation to prove the agency is not scanning electronic devices. (they wouldn't lie, would they?)

Breitbart's readership plunges - The onetime voice of the pro-Trump alt-right struggles to find a niche without its driving force, Steve Bannon ... The site dropped from 15 million unique visitors in October, per comScore, to 13.7 million in November, 9.9 million in December, 8.5 million in January and 7.8 million in February.

Small-town America has gotten an economic jolt under Trump - CNNPolitics - But smaller communities, lifted by higher prices for oil, gas and other commodities and some gains in manufacturing, last year clawed back a significantly larger share of new job creation than in the final years of Barack Obama's presidency ... even after the rural gains during 2017, the two largest categories of metropolitan areas still accounted for 78.5% of all jobs as of last December, essentially unchanged from when the year began. (so where are these "small town and rural" areas with all the oil wells? because we aren't talking W.Va here)


Democrats are contesting more state legislative seats than they have in decades. - The Washington Post - In November, 6,066 state legislative seats are up for grabs (oh, look, Barry killed the Dems in state houses)

Tennessee Senate race: Phil Bredesen leads Marsha Blackburn, poll finds (they need this one)

Top takeaways from the Illinois primary - POLITICO - Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is in big trouble in November.
Denounced by His Party as a Nazi, Arthur Jones Wins Illinois G.O.P. Congressional Primary - The New York Times

Cynthia Nixon vs. the Post-Trump Celebrity Politician Freak Show - With the trend of D-list celebrity candidates spiking at the same rate as American exasperation with the Trump presidency, can Cynthia Nixon's bid for governor be taken seriously?


Will newspapers disappear in the future? - The Washington Post


Satanism Drama Is Tearing Apart the Murderous Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen - 'How do you allow [in] people who explicitly say they are satanic doomsday cultists who infiltrate right-wing groups in order to press their agenda?' one frustrated neo-Nazi asked.

Minneapolis Officer Charged With Murder in Australian Woman's Death ... lawyer for Officer Noor ... "The facts will show that Officer Noor acted as he has been trained, and consistent with established departmental policy," (kill women in nightgowns asking for help)
Police fired 20 times at South Sacramento man fatally shot while holding a cellphone | The Sacramento Bee ('felt threatened' by cellphone)


Switching from unhealthy to healthier diet lowers depressive symptoms more than social support sessions : science

A single intravenous infusion of ketamine led to a rapid decrease in suicidal ideations. Within a day, about 55% of individuals who received ketamine no longer had suicidal ideations compared to 20% who received placebo. This reduction in suicidal ideations lasted for at least 7 days. : science


A support community for people who have decided to stop smoking pot.

Who is the most evil character in fiction literature? : books

A redditor who has meditated for 20 years provides notes and encouragement on getting started without frustration. : bestof

New addition to site-wide rules regarding the use of Reddit to conduct transactions : announcements


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Austin bombings: Two explosive devices shipped through FedEx, police say - The Washington Post
Austin bombings: Police probe possible link to package bomb blast at FedEx facility - The Washington Post
Multiple Injuries Reported in Shooting at St. Mary's Co. High School (Maryland)
2 Students, Suspect Injured in Shooting at St. Mary's Co. High School - NBC4 Washington - 'This is the realization of your worst nightmare -- that, in a school, that our children could be attacked" (more gunz is the only solution)
Great Mills High School shooting: Student gunman dead, two students injured - The Washington Post
Shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland, school confirms : news
GOP candidate Carl Nett suggests shooting Rep. John Yarmuth over NRA


Ex-French president Sarkozy held on Gadhafi claims - Sarkozy was placed in custody on Tuesday as part of an investigation that he received millions of euros in illegal campaign financing from the regime of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi - underway since 2013, the case gained traction some three years later when French-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine told the online investigative site, Mediapart, that he delivered suitcases from Libya containing 5 million euros ($6.2 million) in cash to Sarkozy and his former chief of staff Claude Gueant. (more long-delayed justice)


The Rothschilds, a pamphlet by 'Satan' and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories tied to a battle 200 years ago
D.C. lawmaker Trayon White suggested Rothschilds control government - The Washington Post


Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country - The New York Times (Barry and Hillary wouldn't look back but Donnie at least said it was a "catastrophe" even though he lied about it)
15 Years Ago, I Helped Start a War That Hasn't Ended -- When I deployed to Iraq in 2003, there was no war. We had to start it. (look forward, Barry)

Eschaton: Heckuva Job - There were the evil bastards, and then there were the Model UN debate team crowd, young boy blunders putting on their first big boy suits writing for big boy magazines and being on big boy teevee shows, being patted on the head for punching hippies. War was very serious, they intoned, and only the Very Serious People could be trusted with it. It must have been so exciting! -- No one knows for certain how many Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion 15 years ago. Some credible estimates put the number at more than one million. You can read that sentence again. The invasion of Iraq is often spoken of in the United States as a "blunder," or even a "colossal mistake." It was a crime. Those who perpetrated it are still at large. Some of them have even been rehabilitated thanks to the horrors of Trumpism and a mostly amnesiac citizenry.


Trump Says He Congratulated Putin on His Re-Election and They May Meet Soon - The New York Times (to coordinate their election sabotage)
s national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway.
Statement By SASC Chairman John Mccain On President Trump Congratulating Vladimir Putin - Press Releases - United States Senator John McCain - An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections

Trump Considers Reshuffling Legal Team as He Takes On Mueller More Aggressively - The New York Times
Trump shakes up team of lawyers as legal threats mount - The Washington Post
Republicans say Congress doesn't need to pass law protecting Mueller - Republican Senate leaders threw cold water Monday on passing a bill to protect Mueller, calling it unnecessary despite Trump's increasingly scathing attacks against the special counsel and his team. ... 'total upheaval" in the Senate if Trump were to fire Mueller (but Retraitors don't give a fuck)
How the attacks on Mueller are putting Trump in greater danger - The Washington Post - President Trump is apparently getting legal advice from his television set ... Democratic resurgence is being heavily driven by organizing among ordinary women across the country who are deeply concerned about our current civic health
Ronald Brownstein on Twitter: "To all voters who are alienated from, or even just uneasy about, Trump, @SpeakerRyan @SenateMajLdr & colleagues are sending an unambiguous message that a R majority Congress will never restrain or meaningfully oversee Trump. That is their defining gamble for 2018. https://t.co/Rs8P3ZNu89"

Legal superstar turns down offer to defend Trump in Russia probe - The White House had contacted Theodore B. Olson, who served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush and who has far more experience on big cases than the president's current lawyers,

Trump's New Lawyer Is Someone I Remember Well - For those of us who were amazed and (ultimately) appalled as the Great Penis Hunt unfolded in the years 1997 and 1998, seeing Joseph diGenova back on the national stage, this time as a mouthpiece supporting a president being dogged by a special prosecutor, is proof enough that, whatever else we may think of Her, God has a deft hand for the plot twist.

A family affair: Susan Pompeo's active role raising debate within the CIA ... "Honorary Chair" of the Family Advisory Board,

The Stormy Daniels saga could turn into a big deal for Mueller's Trump probe
Summer Zervos lawsuit against Trump moves forward as Karen McDougal seeks to break silence about alleged affair - The Washington Post
Ex-Playboy Model Karen McDougal Sues to Break Silence on Trump - The New York Times - A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement requiring her silence
Former 'Apprentice' contestant can sue Trump for defamation ... "It is settled that the President of the United States has no immunity and is 'subject to the laws' for purely private acts
Donald Trump Jr. romanced Aubrey O'Day during marriage to Vanessa ... around the time she was pregnant with their third child (like cheating daddy, like moron, and they do love their silicone)

Ivanka Trump Called Out For Cosplaying As a Scientist In Latest Weird Photo Op (fake human pretends to have a brain)

The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency | The New Yorker - How Robert Mercer exploited America's populist insurgency - Jane Mayer (deep and tangled web of evil +aliens)
Shit shots count if the table's tilted

Eschaton: Pariahs - Zuckerberg and the gang should be social pariahs. That's the worst you can do to full of shit boy billionaires. It isn't so much about political campaigns, it's that Facebook basically let everyone scrape their database in ways that even data/privacy paranoids weren't quite aware of.
Mark Zuckerberg's silence amid controversy has Facebook execs frustrated - Mar. 20, 2018
Facebook Just Lost More Than Tesla's Entire Market Cap in Two Days

Alex Stamos, Facebook Data Security Chief, To Leave Amid Outcry - The New York Times - Mr. Stamos, who plans to leave Facebook by August, had advocated more disclosure around Russian interference of the platform and some restructuring to better address the issues, but was met with resistance by colleagues ... He and other Facebook executives, such as Ms. Sandberg, disagreed early on over how proactive the social network should be in policing its own platform (it's not just Zuckerfuck, it's also little Russian Sheryl, of course she would fire they only one who cared)
'Utterly horrifying' : ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine -- Sandy Parakilas, the platform operations manager at Facebook responsible for policing data breaches by third-party software developers between 2011 and 2012, told the Guardian he warned senior executives at the company that its lax approach to data protection risked a major breach. (Zucky and Sheryl said shut up )
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg summoned by UK MPs over Cambridge Analytica (lock him up and throw away the key)
FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says - Bloomberg (they are "probing" Zuckerberg's butt)
Facebook's s Surveillance Machine
Ted Cruz under fire in Cambridge Analytica scandal; firm targeted voters with data from 50M Facebook users | Politics | Dallas News
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica - Lawyers, Guns & Money - On the list of villains of the 2016 campaign, Mark Zuckerberg belongs somewhere on the list along with James Comey and Dean Baquet:
Tillis may have benefited from Facebook data breach :: WRAL.com (Rethug)
Mark Zuckerberg has been sent a formal request to appear before MPs and answer questions regarding a growing scandal about user data : technology (Zuck's rep down many points)

Before He Was FBI Director, Chris Wray Supervised an Investigation That Found Erik Prince Likely Broke U.S. Law - informed the Justice Department that Blackwater founder Erik Prince had likely violated U.S. law while trying to sell secretly modified paramilitary attack aircraft to Azerbaijan's military

Insiders See Democratic House Gains of 30-45 seats - Polling, election results, fundraising tend to point in one direction (rural deadheads support Trumpster)

GOP fears another potential electoral disaster - POLITICO - The national GOP is flummoxed over what to do about the surging candidacy of coal baron and ex-con Don Blankenship. (running against crypto-Republican Manchin W.Va loves their lying crooks)
Will the Republican Base Own Itself Again?

5 things to watch for in the Illinois primary - ABC News

Is Governor Cuomo losing it? | New York Post (speaking of angry toxic-male assholes)
Eschaton: I'd Vote For Dick Nixon Over Cuomo - I don't know enough about Cynthia Nixon's actual views to know if she's Good, but Cuomo is very very bad. As bad as they get. Most bad Democrats have to hide the fact that they'd prefer to have Republicans in power, but Cuomo's basically open about it!
Christine Quinn bashes 'unqualified lesbian' Cynthia Nixon -- Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an openly gay supporter of Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Challenging Cuomo - Lawyers, Guns & Money

A Republican Appointee to the Senate from Mississippi Has G.O.P. Worried - The New York Times - agricultural commissioner to fill the seat Senator Thad Cochran is vacating next month, alarming senior Republicans who believe it could create a messy special election and an opening for Democrats ... Ms. Hyde-Smith would be the first woman to represent Mississippi in Washington, and the first female Republican to represent the Deep South in the Senate (awaiting The Donald's approval)

Lobbyist says he was nearly killed by man he hired to investigate Seth Rich's death

Subpoenas issued as part of investigation of Greitens's use of charity donor list ... The subpoenas indicate that investigations that initially focused on allegations of blackmail by the governor have expanded to include his political campaign finances. (so he didn't have to resign because Republicans)

Undue Burden - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) signed the country's most restrictive abortion bill into law Monday, banning abortion after 15 weeks gestation. The law will take effect immediately, and makes exceptions only for cases of fetal abnormality or medical emergencies, but not for rape or incest.

An "Ashamed" Commentator Just Quit The "Propaganda Machine" - Col. Ralph Peters

Wide Gender Gap, Growing Educational Divide in Voters's Party Identification -- College graduates increasingly align with Democratic Party (Republicans, the party of stupid and angry white guys)

TIL that in 2015, the median viewer age for Fox News was 68 years old. : todayilearned - CNN's median age is 59, MSNBC's median age is 63.

Republicans are in denial about a blue wave - The Washington Post

Nathan Robinson's discussion of Jordan Peterson is gold from beginning to end, and most damning when it quotes Peterson's would-be profundities:

Shuja Haider on Twitter: "I can't even handle this, Jordan Peterson got upset by Zizek's recent article about him so he's trying to pick a fight with a Zizek quotes account https://t.co/RDrRQOLekx"
Jordan B Peterson on Twitter: "You arrogant, racist son of a bitch Pankaj Mishra: How dare you accuse me of "harmlessly romancing the noble savage." That's how you refer to my friend Charles Joseph (https://t.co/uF5XV2DVXx), who I've worked with for 15 years? https://t.co/s8fqE1M7D7"

Women say director James Toback assaulted them at Harvard Club of New York - The Boston Globe (another little Jewish dick-flasher)

Weinstein Company Files for Bankruptcy and Revokes Nondisclosure Agreements - The New York Times - As part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, the Weinstein Company said it released anyone "who suffered or witnessed any form of sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein" from nondisclosure agreements. The move had been advocated by Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general, who is investigating wrongdoing at the studio.

Lawsuit accuses celebrity chef Mike Isabella of 'extraordinary' sexual harassment (another toxic-male asshole foodie-dick goes down)


Self-driving vehicle strikes and kills pedestrian in Arizona | The Kansas City Star (robots rise)

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D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by 'Rothschilds controlling the climate' - Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) (black Dem loop=de=loop)

What We Know About the Austin Bombings - This is our American way of life -- somebody has moved along from mail bombs to what was essentially an IED. I don't want to think about what might be next, but I seem to recall a great number of SUVs and panel trucks plying the highways and by-ways down there ... (truck bombs) ... As far as I'm concerned, the culprit is the wildness at the fringes of our culture that has been nurtured and encouraged by too many people. Profiteering off impotent rage comes at a high cost.
Friend confirms identity of Sunday Austin bombing victims
Austin bombs were 'meant to send a message,' authorities believe - CNN - All the victims have been African-American or Hispanic, leading people of color in the community to feel threatened


Middle East civilian deaths have soared under Trump. And the media mostly shrug. - The Washington Post (Putin unleashed by Trump)


What might be keeping Putin from a good night's sleep? Watch this film - "The Death of Stalin"


Trump Organization's real estate partner in India accused of $147 million fraud


Iraq War still divides Americans 15 years after it began | Pew Research Center - Nearly half (48%) of Americans say the decision to use military force was wrong, while slightly fewer (43%) say it was the right decision (Iraq changed a lot of people's minds +61% of the party of death
The Iraq reckoning still to come - NY Daily News - Andrew Bacevich - Donald Trump got the blood sacrifice vote. More specifically, communities that paid a high price for the Iraq War in terms of casualties tended to vote for Trump. (always look forward, never backwards at your disasterous tragic blunders, oh look, Hillary!)

Trump Loved Hacks. But Now They're Hitting His People -- And Anyone Could Be Next.

A huge clue about Muelle's endgame - That suggests a focus on obstruction of justice while in office, rather than collusion with Russia during the campaign. But both sagas are interwoven with Russia: Trump himself has linked Comey's firing to Russia, and Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with the Russian ambassador during the transition ... Comey's book ... out April 17, went from #15 on Amazon's best sellers on Saturday morning, to #1 (where it remains) by Sunday.

Trump: The Un-American President - The New York Times (that's because he's Russian, duh)
This new report on Trump's state of mind should alarm you

The President and His Lawyers, Part II: The Attorney General and the Saturday Night Pre-Massacre - Lawfare
Fox New's Sean Hannity is suddenly an expert on Trump and Mueller
Fact-checking Trump's error-filled tweetstorm about the Mueller probe

What Michael Flynn Could Tell the Russia Investigators - Bloomberg - The former national security adviser mingled business with government. That could help Robert Mueller look for similar overlaps among Trump insiders.

Trump originally planned to put Cohn at CIA, but changed his mind - POLITICO

Kushner Companies confirms meeting with Qatar on financing - The Washington Post (the bribe wasn't big enough, so he went with the Saudis/Emirates)
Cambridge Analytica Is Not an Anomaly - Ratf*cking is political tradition -- just ask G. Gordon Liddy and Richard Nixon.
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: What we know so far (lock up Zuckerberg)

Facebook investigating employee's links to Cambridge Analytica - was suspended by Facebook on Friday ... Joseph Chancellor
Facebook Falls as Pressure Mounts on Zuckerberg Over Data Leak - Bloomberg (lock him up and burn it to the ground)
Revealed: Trump's election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians - Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world - Channel 4 News - Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers.

Trump had senior staff sign nondisclosure agreements. They're supposed to last beyond his presidency (for all eternity)

What Hope Hicks Learned in the White House - The departure of the Trump whisperer has left the White House in even deeper chaos. Which surely pleases some outsiders angling to get back in.

Republicans bet their Senate majority on Trump - POLITICO - welcome the president to their states with open arms, despite his unpopularity nationally.
Democrats brace for potential California disaster - politico - Dems have little room for error in California (too many dems, disaster I tell you, disaster!)
2018: Democrats prepared to pick favorites in CA primaries | The Sacramento Bee

Border wall Dreamers deal implodes - POLITICO

Donald Trump Jr. Sent Suggestive Twitter DMs While Married -- First Boy Donald Trump Jr. may have been flirting with more than a life-size chocolate Easter bunny and the idea of becoming a rap critic before he and his wife filed for divorce. Amid revelations of the couple -- confirmed split this week, a former model tweeted screenshots of racy, misspelled messages Trump Jr. sent her while he was married (like father, like moron)

Time's Up Pens Powerful Open Letter to Cuomo -- calls for Investigation of NY District Attorney Cyrus Vance (lock up the lying bribe-taker)
Cuomo Says His Name Was 'Never Mentioned.' It Was. 136 Times. (or maybe 1500)


The GOP Effort to Block Pennsylvania's New Map Is Dead - Both the state and U.S. Supreme Courts rejected GOP requests just a day before the filing deadline for candidates running in November's midterm elections


Why Roger Ailes Took Me Off Fox News - TheResurgent.com (Erick, son of Erick)

FBI Tracked an Activist Involved With Black Lives Matter as They Travelled Across the U.S., Documents Show (what they always to do to keep American white)

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys - The New York Times

The Judge Will Hear Your 223,000 Excuses Now - The New York Times - Tales from the tiny offices where New Yorkers -- go to fight summonses for everything from unshoveled sidewalks to underheated hot dogs.


Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books - It is imperative to ask why and how this obscure Canadian academic, who insists that gender and class hierarchies are ordained by nature and validated by science, has suddenly come to be hailed as the West's most influential public intellectual ... (if by "intellectual" you mean Kim Kardashian) ... But he is a disturbing symptom of the malaise to which he promises a cure
Speaking of "Truth" with Jordan B. Peterson - Sam Harris ... A clearer way of stating this is that he thinks I locate all values within a system of truth claims, whereas he locates all truth claims in a system that selects for a single value: survival. Hence our stalemate. ("He thinks" wrong)
Sam Harris on Twitter: "Should @jordanbpeterson and I do a second podcast in which we attempt to discuss religion, atheism, ethics and other topics?"
The Faces of Joseph Campbell | by Brendan Gill | The New York Review of Books (1989, JC hated Jews and blacks) )
The Intellectual We Deserve | Current Affairs - Nathan Robinson : JordanPeterson
The Intellectual We Deserve: "Jordan Peterson"
Jordan B Peterson on Twitter: "Very critical article by @NathanJRobinson of my work (including Maps of Meaning) in Current Affairs (https://t.co/AVpRVDs43A) is accompanied most hilariously by this ad... https://t.co/gVM84tXcN1" (it went over his head, which is not that hard to do, but still)
The Intellectual We Deserve - a good takedown of an alt-right hero : politics


Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Pedestrian - The New York Times (with an actual driver, so even that didn't work)

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Why does Putin treat Britain with disdain? He thinks he's bought it -- Londongrad (he sorta does)


Trump rails against Mueller investigation, dismisses McCabe's note as 'Fake Memos' (said the fake president with the fake hair)
McCabe's s firing shows yet again how readily Trump incriminates himself
Trump attacks FBI and Mueller investigation in morning tweets - Axios
Trump Attacks McCabe, Comey And Mueller Probe In Sunday Tweet Barrage | HuffPost - doesn't believe McCabe "made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date" (hahah you stupid)

Gowdy to Trump: 'When you are innocent
act like it'
Mike Huckabee Celebrates Firing Of Former FBI Deputy Director By Making Dead Dog Joke | HuffPost - "Breaking Wind from CNN! Andy McCabe offered deal for lying to FBI and won't get pension but will get passage in overhead bin on United flight to Oakland to work for scofflaw mayor." (only the worst of the worst)

Eschaton: There's No Way Jeffy Jeff Is A Liar - What would we tell the white children? -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions's testimony that he opposed a proposal for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign team to meet with Russians has been contradicted by three people who told Reuters they have spoken about the matter to investigators with Special Counsel Robert Mueller or congressional committees. (lock him up)


Data Firm Tied to Trump Campaign Talked Business With Russians - The New York Times


Kushner Cos. filed false documents with NYC - The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.


New Yorker depicts President Trump without a tie at a press conference - The Washington Post

Jesse Watters Takes On Hillary Clinton's Health: She's 'Acted a Little Erratic in the Past -- President Donald Trump could fire every single person from his administration in one sweeping tweet, and Fox News host Jesse Watters would still be alerting his audiences about Hillary Clinton's head colds (distaction! look over there!)


Democrats hold double-digit lead for 2018 midterm elections - also show Trjmp's approval ratings edging up - Fifty percent of registered voters say they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, while 40 percent want a GOP-controlled one - Fifty-three percent of adults say they disapprove of the president, down from 57 percent two months ago.


Kris Kobach's Voting Sham Gets Exposed in Court (also, his deplorable lying and cheating)


Eschaton: Look Forward To Your Pedestrian License Test - Gonna have to learn a new language to earn one - In essence, the car would need to be lit up like the Las Vegas Strip in order to make up for the absence of a human behind the wheel.

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Ohio student suspended for staying in class during walkouts: What actually happened. - The Washington Post - Jacob Shoemaker, 18, (didn't want to "pick sides," NRA cranks up)

The Latest: Russia says 30,000 flea besieged east Ghouta - The Washington Post (copy editing is hard, read comments: "The UN is airlifting 30 dogs to Ghouta to relieve the suffering")


Shashi Tharoor: In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer - The Washington Post - "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilised tribes; it would spread a lively terror"


Sergei Skripal: Russia retaliates against Britain by expelling 23 diplomats


Richard W. Painter on Twitter: "I am also not convinced that he is planning to have an election in 2020." (Bush's ethics lawyer +Tina Smith, Franken's replacement, is an idiot, thanks, Kristen)

AP source says McCabe kept notes on Trump (and Mueller has them)
Mueller's team interviewed McCabe, asked about Comey's firing ... The memos also detail what Comey told McCabe about his own interactions with Trump while he was FBI director
Andrew McCabe, Trump's foil at the FBI, is fired hours before he could retire (Trump loves fucking people over)
McCabe: Trump's 'Ongoing war' On FBI Led to My Firing
Five reasons Trump would have wanted Andrew McCabe fired - The Washington Post
Read Andrew McCabe's Response To Being Fired Two Days Before His Retirement | HuffPost
Ex-CIA Boss John Brennan Tears Into Donald Trump Over Andrew McCabe Firing | HuffPost - America will triumph over you
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!"
John O. Brennan on Twitter: "When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you. https://t.co/xbl1pcESbL"
Our Banana Republic - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Jeff Sessions looks 6 years old and not fully human)
Kevin M. Kruse on Twitter: "(blows dust off tweet) https://t.co/Z5MSTmoKZm"
Donald Trump and the Craven Firing of Andrew McCabe | The New Yorker -- President Trump displays the pettiness and the vindictiveness of a man unsuited to the job he holds ... McCabe was fired because he is a crucial witness in the investigation led by Robert Mueller

murkar comments on Justice Department Fires Embattled FBI Deputy Director Just Short of Retirement ... In addition, Jeff Sessions is now unquestionably implicated in witness tampering and obstruction of justice himself. (reddit is 10 steps ahead of your newsy pundits // Trump leaked to Fox 24 hrs in advance, "a smoking gun for obstruction of justice" and witness tampering, brilliant analysis of our present peril)
Redditor explains in great detail the impact McCabe's firing will have on the Russia investigation (and a lot of speculation about the movie to come in the comments)

History won't be kind, Republicans ... Clapper ... "This is a case of people living in their own reality bubbles when we can't agree on basic facts" (the reckoning is coming)

FEC probes whether NRA got illegal Russian donations - politico - Complaint alleges that the gun-rights group may have received contributions intended to help the 2016 Trump campaign. (yes, and what's the remedy? Lock them all up)

Democrats Want to Subpoena Apple to Find Out When Key Administration Officials Downloaded Encrypted Messaging Apps - undefined

Did Trump Just Acknowledge An Affair With Stormy Daniels With His Legal Team's $20 Million Demand? (admits he's DD)
Trump attorney accuses Stormy Daniels of violating nondisclosure agreement 20 times, claims right to seek $20 million in damages - The Washington Post ("yes, I fuck porn-stars bigly, but shut up")
Trying to Silence Stormy - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Secretive religious charity run by top US housing officials raises questions | US news | The Guardian - GJH Global Ministries, which made its website private after inquiries by the Guardian, does not appear to have a clear purpose


Seah Hannity isn't just attacking Shepard Smith. He's attacking the very nature of news ... "reality erosion" (Satan's mouths always lie)



Watch the video: Blogger says LePage shoved her; he says she was chewing in his face - Portland Press Herald - An unusual encounter between Maine's governor and a Portland blogger is captured on video Thursday.

Beleaguered Leslie Gibson abandons state House race, seeks 'peace and quiet' - Gibson has been under fire this week for comments he made online about teens in Florida who survived a school shooting in Parkland. He criticized two of them who were leading an effort to increase restrictions on gun sales in the wake of the Feb. 14 killings. (rightwing Mainer's pic is weird, as usual)


Michael Osgood Is Determined to Bust Harvey Weinstein - The NYPD's top sex-crimes investigator tried to bust Harvey Weinstein three years ago. Then the DA stepped in. (Cyrus Vance Jr. took the bribe)

Everything you need to know about Massachusetts's new pot rules
Recreational marijuana companies face bans, moratoriums in most Mass. cities and towns - The Boston Globe

In California's rural, conservative north, there are big dreams for cleaving the state (running on a white people, gunz and booze platform, don't realize they are moochers on Cali's cities and would be screwing themselves, as usual, becuase they are stupid and can't think "We Okies are fun, aren't we?) )
It's Time to Leave San Francisco
The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest | The New Yorker - An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when ... Counting from the earthquake of 1700, we are now three hundred and fifteen years into a two-hundred-and-forty-three-year cycle. (PacNorthWest doomed and it won't be pretty)


Eschaton: Shutdown Facebook - It isn't just about the election. They have no safeguards on the use of user data other than "against our policy."
How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions - The New York Times -- The firm had secured a $15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed his political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior. But it did not have the data to make its new products work ... the researcher, Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-American academic ... (look at the pic: are they human?)
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach | News | The Guardian - Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters (Zuckerfuck is complicit)


How American High Schools Teach The Iraq War | HuffPost - American troops have been in Iraq longer than the average high school freshman has been alive. But for the most part, the deadliest U.S. military intervention since the Vietnam War remains a footnote in America's social studies classrooms.


Before You Buy 'Ready Player One' Tickets, Read Ernest Cline's Horrifying Porn Poetry


Marshall Hansberry on Twitter: "A coyote attempting to attend MIT. Pretty cute little guy. Animal control is on their way. @universalhub "


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A Bold, Divisive Plan to Wean Californians From Cars - The New York Times - Legislation would allow more home building along transit routes to reduce -- gas-guzzling commutes. Some who support the goal have denounced the method. (Sierra Club opposed ... "NIMBY stance is a disappointing but not a surprise. We've been having this same battle in San Francisco for a while now, where the local chapter is captured by rich, white, land-owning boomers")

FIU Bridge Collapse Construction Firms Accused of Unsafe Practices | Miami New Times -- The bridge collapse has now killed six people; the contractor behind the bridge is also a major political donor in Dade County. (spend it on bribes, not the fucking bridge)
At Least 6 Dead After New Pedestrian Bridge Collapses Over Cars In Miami | HuffPost - The 950-ton bridge was lifted into place on Saturday in order to provide a safe walkway for Florida International University students.

2DeadMoose comments on ?? manthefuckup / imhereforyou ??
The Troubled Tenure of Scott Israel, Sheriff of Broward County | The New Yorker

In Syria, at least 100 killed in attacks as more people flee

Romanian Court Rejects Man's Claim He's Alive

French Judge Has Issued Arrest Warrant for Saudi Princess - The New York Times

Jacob Zuma, Former South Africa Leader, Charged With Corruption - The New York Times -- related to a multibillion-dollar arms deal in the late 1990s. (corrupt-ass fuck falls)

Mystery surrounds how ex-Russian spy was poisoned in UK - As British authorities investigate the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in England, there is much mystery about how exactly the brazen attack was carried out. Here are some of the unanswered questions that British officials are chasing:
Britain Hints at Tougher Blow Against Russia: Stripping Tycoons' Assets
U.K. Labour Leader's Stance on Russian Ex-Spy's Poisoning Splits Party (Corbin, the Bernie of Britain, is a friend of Russia)
Murder investigation launched after man found dead in New Malden - Metropolitan Police - A murder investigation has been launched following the results of a post mortem into the death of 68-year-old Russian businessman Nikolay Glushkov.
How a Poisoned Russian Spy Could Cost Putin the World Cup


Pentagon: No survivors in American helicopter crash in Iraq - All seven service members aboard a U.S. helicopter that crashed in Iraq were killed, the Pentagon said Friday in a written statement.
Trump's CIA Has Set Up Teams To Kill Terrorists (Pompeo's assassination squads)

Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says - The New York Times


The Trump Malignancy and the Book That Will Not Be Written - Lawfare

Barry Blitt's "Exposed"
Trump jokes 'who's next?' as tumult engulfs his White House (he thinks it's funny because he loves firing people)
Trump gives McMaster the Tillerson treatment - POLITICO - The president is keeping his national security adviser in a state of limbo, acutely conscious that he could stay indefinitely or be dismissed any time in a tweet.
Trump may hire multiple cable news personalities as part of shake-up (AMERICA THE CABLE TV SHOW)
The Note: More political shock waves possible - ABC News
Trump gives McMaster the Tillerson treatment - POLITICO - The president is keeping his national security adviser in a state of limbo, acutely conscious that he could stay indefinitely or be dismissed any time in a tweet.


Possible Russian trolls try to register for Texas Democratic convention ... Five senior intelligence officers, two current and three former, say the case of the Texas 48 looks like Russian meddling. And they tell NBC News that despite the clumsiness of the failed registrations, the Texas case fits a pattern of Russian behavior seen in its covert operations ... Twenty-five of those 48 were trying to register with email addresses ending in "mail.ru" ... "If things like this appear to be happening in small county registration systems in Texas, what could that mean for other parts of the country?' ... "It's outrageous that we are in March, just months ahead of midterms, and we are not feeling this urgency from our own government" (la-di-la and so it starts, but "Russia is my friend" says Trump)


Robert Mueller Has Likely Crossed Trump's 'Red Line.' Now What? .. Trump's business is firmly in the crosshairs.... From this, it looks like Mueller plans to burn it all down. It looks as though he's decided that everything with which this president* is involved is so irredeemably corrupt and lousy with dirty money that trying to split the difference between which corruption was involved with the campaign, and what dirty money financed it, is an impossible rat's nest to untangle. So the easiest thing is to light a match and see what burns in what color flame ... something stirring in the murk. Too many people are acting far too nervously. Something shapeless is rising from the deep and, waiting for it, is Robert Mueller.
Eschaton: Follow The Money - Whatever went on, I've long been sure the only thing Trump has worried about personally - and maybe the only thing he really had to worry about, though it's not a small thing - is the financially cesspool that is his business. -- From this, it looks like Mueller plans to burn it all down. -- It's hard for our legal system to take down a president. It's probably not so hard to take down his business (which the constitution should have already done, but, hey...)

Democrats May Seek Prosecution of Witnesses Who Misled House Intelligence Committee -- Erik Prince, Carter Page, and Roger Stone are among their top targets.

u/charging_bull puts the pieces of the Russia investigation together with links and shows a clear connection between Trump, his family, and a Russian Development bank known for hosting Russian spies (who we know tried to recruit Carter Page) : bestof (with chart)

Eschaton: Phew - I suppose not being a torturer means I have a somewhat different psychological makeup, but if I was involved in this stuff and avoided prosecution due to the belief by elites that we must Look Forward, Not Backward, I'd look for most convenient moment to slip out the back door and start collecting my pension. I'd count my blessings and not think, "hey, maybe I should stick around and pursue the highest job in order to ensure that I would have renewed media scrutiny for all that torture." ... The problem isn't simply that these people weren't prosecuted (though they should have been). It's that they weren't even shamed enough to think that maybe the public spotlight wasn't the best thing for them. (fuck you Barry, again)
I went to prison for disclosing the CIA's torture. Gina Haspel helped cover it up. -- John Kiriakou (and stop using that old pic, WaPo)
Declassify CIA Director Nominee's Role in Torture, Rights Groups Demand (more light in dark places needed, and also, thanks, Barry)

Stormy Daniels Was Physically Threatened, Lawyer Says | HuffPost
Daniels' lawyer says some alleged incidents took place during Trump presidency
The Stormy Daniels Saga Shows How Vulnerable Trump Is To Blackmail | HuffPost
Six women have come forward to Stormy Daniels' lawyer with similar stories

Vanessa Trump hires criminal defense attorney for Donald Jr. divorce | Page Six


Burn It Down, Rex - The New York Times - If Tillerson came out and said that the president is unfit, and perhaps even that venal concerns for private gain have influenced his foreign policy, impeachment wouldn't begin tomorrow, but Trump's already narrow public support would shrink further.


Trump wildlife protection board stuffed with trophy hunters - A new U.S. advisory board created to help rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos is stacked with trophy hunters, including some members with direct ties to President Donald Trump and his family. (haha, swamp drained, suckers)

Eschaton: Like Flies To Shit -- Grifters to grifter central ... "microcities" where managers privately set their own laws and taxes away from central government control. (hahah suckers)

Federal court tosses out Obama-era rule requiring financial advisers to act in customers' best interests (5th ciruit Republicans say your advisor can steal all your money)

The Myth of the Centrist Holy Grail - Heidi Heitkamp, Conor Lamb, David Brooks, and delusion. not alone in tossing a candidate who got 65 million votes overboard. A lot of people went running for cover. Again, CNN: Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown told Huffington Post (HH is a lump of shit)

This Is B-A-D: Some Democrats Are Sick Of A DIRE Email Strategy - They have this relentless fucking strategy that seems to overwhelm and deceive their supporters (DCCC absolutely sucks and they don't even mention the phone-bombing; is this Debbie Doofuss's legacy?)


Los Angeles barred from enforcing nearly all gang injunctions, federal judge rules - the latest blow to one of the city's oldest and most controversial law enforcement initiatives ... which were born from a time in the late 1980s and '90s when gang activity in the city gained national attention ... Following an audit by the Los Angeles city attorney's office and the LAPD, 7,300 people were released last year from the conditions of the injunctions, which are civil court orders that can restrict someone from associating with friends, or even family members, in neighborhoods considered to be havens for certain street gangs ... thousands of people were unfairly swept up simply because they knew, or were related to, a gang member. Some also contend the injunctions disproportionately target African Americans and Latinos. Many of those included in the orders have never been convicted of a crime. (28 years of fucking people over, no due process for black/brown people; how about an unjunction for the gang of evangelical Christians?)


Meet "The Storm" the conspiracy theory taking over the pro-Trump internet (grand synthesis of frightwing lunacy rises from the depths of unthinking)
The Storm Is the New Pizzagate -- Only Worse (all the prophecies will be fulfilled)

The Man Who Knew Nothing at All | Josh Fruhlinger - Living in a liberal fantasy is complicated (oh, NYT, you are rediculous)


The Intellectual We Deserve | Current Affairs - by Nathan J. Robinson -- Jordan Peterson's popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape ... the chair of the Harvard psychology department praised his magnum opus Maps of Meaning as "brilliant" and "beautiful" (Mahzarin R. Banaji? Is that you? -- shallow minds think alike, often in gibberish +Nathan J Robinson is the critic we deserve:) If Jordan Peterson is the most influential intellectual in the Western world, the Western world has lost its damn mind. (anyone who thinks JP is worth reading is not worth reading, like ... Jonathan Haidt ... we already no one should ever read David Brooks)
Disappointed with my "The Big Five Aspect Scale" results. : JordanPeterson (45K scammed on reddit +marketing scheme +oh, look: girly chaos dragon being slain by masculine knight!)


Today among our overcompensated and underachieving elites - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Harvard's money managers are doing very well, for themselves at least: (worse than average for their employer, good job j.faust)


Eschaton: Portal Bridge - It doesn't get as much ink as the tunnels, and it won't be as expensive to replace, but they need to replace it... TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Amtrak and New Jersey Transit service to and from New York's Penn Station is being affected because a 111-year-old bridge is stuck open and the tracks are not aligned. (fuck your stupid coastal elite so-called "infrastructure")

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes' wife alleges widespread abuse in petition for restraining order | Southern Poverty Law Center - Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes faces allegations of abuse and household violence in a motion for a temporary restraining order his wife filed last month with a Montana court ... will frequently threaten himself and his family with a weapon he always carries, and he has a history of violent outbursts against his family, including an incident in 2016 when he choked his teenage daughter by the throat. (good anti-government Christian conspiracy theorists with lots of gunz, sounds like that incestous Nazi guy)


Watch The New Yorker Festival | Sallie Krawcheck on Working in a Male-Dominated Business World | The New Yorker Video | CNE

Ryan Seacrest was accused of sexual misconduct. Hollywood shrugged. - Vox -- Time's not up for the "hardest-working man in Hollywood." Why?

John Bailey Sexual Harassment: Academy President Under Investigation - Variety

Monty Python Member Says #MeToo Movement Turned Hollywood Into 'the Mob' - Terry Gilliam ... Harvey Weinstein was exploited ... (as they fall every day: fuck you Terry)



Why 'micro-cheating' might be good for your relationship -- PERSPECTIVE | It's the latest buzzword on the internet


Neanderthals Weren't the Only Species Ancient Humans Hooked Up With: A New Study Reveals Bachelor Number Two - the Denisovan. : science


A short-ish history of new features on Reddit : announcements

Snapchat stock loses $800 million after Rihanna responds to offensive ad - Mar. 16, 2018 ... "slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown"

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WEST MIAMI-DADE - FIU pedestrian bridge collapses, people trapped underneath : news

NRA Tweets Photo Of AR-15 On Day Of National School Walkout For No Particular Reason | HuffPost
Rubio stops short of banning gun sales to young adults | McClatchy Washington Bureau - Here's what kind of weapons Marco Rubio thinks should be OK for 18-year-olds to buy
At a school in North Carolina, he was the only one of 700 students who walked out - CNN
Sister of Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof given $5,000 bon - wistv.com - Columbia, South Carolina
Muslim teen watched jihadi videos, read Koran for 'courage' before Florida sleepover stabbings, cops say ("Corey Johnson" sounds very Muslim)
Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? - Scientific American Blog Network - Research suggests it's largely because they're anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears
Horrifying Videos Show Racist Moms Teaching Kids To Be Patriots By Vandalizing A Mosque | HuffPost - The disturbing Facebook live video captures a troubling excursion in which two women and three children trespass and vandalize a mosque.


U.S. officials: Saudi crown prince has hidden his mother from his father, the king - NBC News (behind the scenes)


Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia - The New York Times
Public Confidence in Mueller's Investigation Remains Steady - Most are skeptical Trump will act to block future Russian meddling - A majority of Americans (61%) say they are very or somewhat confident Mueller will conduct a fair investigation

NRA lawyer said to have had concerns about group's ties to Russia

u/charging_bull puts the pieces of the Russia investigation together with links and shows a clear connection between Trump, his family, and a Russian Development bank known for hosting Russian spies (who we know tried to recruit Carter Page) : bestof

Trump decides to remove national security adviser, and others may follow - The Washington Post (unchaining the Beast)

Republicans fear they botched Russia report rollout - POLITICO - GOP lawmakers are on the defensive after challenging the intelligence community's finding on election meddling

Gina Haspel Should Tell Congress the Truth About CIA Torture - The Atlantic - Trump's nominee to lead the agency should answer a number of tough questions about her role in its now-defunct "enhanced interrogation" program (you know, the APA approved torture program)

In fundraising speech, Trump says he made up trade claim in meeting with Justin Trudeau - The Washington Post (rambling incoherent self-congratulatory word-salad of lies)
Why Trump's s admission that he made stuff up to Justin Trudeau is particularly bad


Why hasn'tt Mueller talked to Donald Trump Jr. yet?
Vanessa Trump files for divorce from Donald Trump Jr. | Page Six (he always looks empty and soulless)

Clifford (aka Daniels) v. Trump et al. (haha, she did it, $139,000 as of today with 28 left to go)
Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Says More Women Are Exploring Legal Cases Against President Trump -- A lawyer representing the adult film actor said he has received inquiries from other women about potential cases against the president.

Mike Pence's Man in the Swamp - The Huffington Post - The vice president's trusted -- chief of staff is young, handsome, talented and rich. He's also got some skeletons.

Trump's personal aide apparently lost White House position over gambling habit

Here Is Ryan Zinke Making a Complete Fool of Himself (only the best morons)
Trump Cabinet members accused of living large at taxpayer expense - The Washington Post (they are stars in their own reality movies)

Betsy DeVos used Shutterstock picture to attack U.S. schools. Teachers aren't having it (we have a moron running education in America, which seems appropriate for the times +first hit on shutterstock search for "classroom" show the de[pth of her knowledge)


Trump Claims Credit For Shock Dem Win In Pennsylvania | HuffPost "

Team Obama settles score with Lipinski - POLITICO - Democratic congressman who voted against Obamacare gets some Chicago-style payback. ("conservative democrat")

Exclusive: Trump finalizing opioid plan that includes death penalty for dealers - POLITICO

Heitkamp on when Hillary Clinton will go away: 'Not soon enough' (too divisive, unlike little bluedog Heidi)

Pelosi in peril - Axios - Top Democrats tell me that if they take back the House in November, a restoration of Speaker Nancy Pelosi is no longer guaranteed. In fact, some well-wired House Democrats predict she will be forced aside after the election and replaced by a younger, less divisive Dem. (yeah, less divisive in the face of the greatest diviseness in history is the solution! who are these asshole "top" democrats?")

Sen. Tammy Baldwin's fight to win back Wisconsin for Democrats, explained -- Baldwin, in her first reelection, is facing a ton of outside conservative money: $8.5 million -- The past decade has been a slow-motion Republican conquest of Wisconsin. (Kockistan/Wississppi)
'A Different Kind of University' 'Shocked, dismayed and angry': faculty members at Wisconsin Stevens Point react to a plan to cut 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology, and expand more job-oriented programs. (Wisconsin: you don't need no education)

Republicans Say Forced Labor Is Good for Detained Immigrants in Letter Defending Private Prison

Eschaton: Crazy Ideas - We'll see how this progresses. (non-maximum sentences for any plea-bargain)


She took her daughter to see Michelle Obama's portrait. Now they need a publicist.


This Is What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America - Bloomberg - In towns where workers are scarce, employers are boosting pay and perks and stepping up recruiting


The real problem with the New York Times op-ed page: it's not honest about US conservatism -- It wants to challenge its readers, but not with the ugly truth. (talk about "intellectual bubbles" -- the Times is protecting its readers from the truth of virulent rightwing insane conservatism)
T. R. Ramachandran on Twitter: "1) Trump support in 2016 was strongly correlated w/ racial resentment & sexism / tweetstorm kanvz'd here


For Women Behind The Camera, Sexual Harassment Is Part Of The Job | HuffPost - A HuffPost investigation found that women across crew positions experience an onslaught of lewd comments, gendered discrimination and even physical assault


John Skipper on ESPN Exit and Cocaine Extortion Plot | Interview | Hollywood Reporter


Dog gone: United Airlines mistakenly flies family German shepherd to Japan | World news | The Guardian - Pet canine, 10, was meant to fly from Oregon to Kansas City - Airline investigating after family were instead handed a great Dane


Limbaugh questions Stephen Hawking's promotion of the Big Bang Theory: "Since nobody could see it, how the hell do they know it really happened?" (there's our problem, right there)


Traditional Iranian dance moves : NormalDayInArabia
For us to be Successful we go through difficult things or challenges : sports

What subreddits are hidden gems? : AskReddit

Amazon didn't kill Toys 'R' Us. Here's what did -- A year later the company was taken private by KKR, Bain Capital and real estate firm Vornado. The $6.6 billion purchase left it with $5.3 billion in debt secured by its assets and it never really recovered. (Bained to death)

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'We deserve better' : Students nationwide walk out in massive protest over gun violence (sorry snowflake kids , no literal "safe spaces" for you)
National School Walkout: Thousands of students rallying in solidarity to end gun violence : news
Seaside High teacher accidentally fires gun in class, students injured


Counter-terrorism unit investigates death of Berezovsky friend who claimed political asylum in UK after fraud conviction (Putin's working his way down the list)


Pennsylvania Special Election Results: 18th Congressional District - The New York Times
Eschaton: Lamb Is A Victory For Wypipo Labor Democrats Moderates Clintonites Berniebros Anti-Racism The DCCC Republicans - Joke, obviously, though both the Republicans and the DCCC are painting this as a victory for Democrats-who-aren't-like-other-Democrats ... Paul Ryan says he won because he's basically a Republican! Both sides agree: Lamb is not really a Democrat! ... "Another kind of a Democrat." "A new kind of Democrat." "A Democrat, but not like those other nasty Democrats." This is not a branding operation that works long term. There's just an immense amount of self-loathing in the party that assholes like me can't even begin to match.
Three big takeaways from Trump<'s humiliating Pennsylvania failure /a>
Conor Lamb Wins Pennsylvania House Seat, Giving Democrats a Map for Trump Country - The New York Times
The Pennsylvania special election shows the 2018 House battleground is enormous - Vox - By one calculation, more than 110 seats could theoretically be in play ... There are the districts Hillary Clinton won, of course, but there are also the suburban, classically Republican districts where Trump has soured the electorate, and those white working-class districts with Obama-Trump voters. (oh, look, those temporarily disillusioned racist Bush voters, again)
Republicans Paralyzed by Pennsylvania Election Stunner (they thought the teapary would last forever)
GOP Blames 'Lackluster' Candidate And His 'Porn Stache' For Pennsylvania Setback | HuffPost - Ice cold.

Beware of Devin Nunes's Next Move

ICE spokesman resigns, citing fabrications by agency chief, Sessions about California immigrant arrests - The Washington Post (they lie, and they only lie)

Rex Tillerson has been fired. Experts say he did damage that could last "a generation" ... was one of the worst secretaries of state in moden history (mission accomplished +you know who else is the worst?)
Senior Tillerson aide Steve Goldstein fired - CNNPolitics - Goldstein publicly contradicted the White House account of how Tillerson was fired on Tuesday morning. (who you gonna believe, me or what your lyin' eyes saw on twitter ... you will pledge allegiance to my lies)
State Department Staffers Cry 'Halleluhah' Over Rex Tillerson's Downfall - Experienced U.S. diplomats and Donald Trump agree on at least one thing: Rex Tillerson sucked as secretary of state.

Fred Hiatt's favorite torture apologist supports sadistic torturer for head of CIA
Gina Haspel, C.I.A. Deputy Director, Had Leading Role in Torture - The New York Times
Gina Haspel as CIA director? It's a test of America's conscience (what's with the 20 yr-old pic? )
'She Should Be in Jail' -- Rights Groups Rally to Stop Torture Overseer Turned Trump CIA Pick Gina Haspel
Gina Haspel, Trump's CIA director pick, oversaw the torture of dozens of people -- She also tried to destroy video evidence of the torture of two suspects ... But she remains a controversial figure for her years-long involvement in a wider CIA program that led to the torture of dozens of suspects, which included stuffing people into coffins or depriving them of sleep.

Andrew McCabe, a Symbol of Trump's F.B.I. Ire, Faces Possible Firing

"Trump Wants Them Out of There" : After Swinging the Axe at Tillerson, Trump Mulls What to Do with McMaster, Sessions, Jared, and Ivanka

The most toxic working environment on the planet (with the most toxic people)

BuzzFeed maneuver could free Stormy Daniels to speak on Trump - POLITICO - The same Trump attorney who brokered the deal with Daniels, Michael Cohen, filed a libel suit in January against BuzzFeed and four of its staffers over publication of the so-called dossier compiling accurate, inaccurate and unproven allegations about Trump's relationship with Russia ... If Daniels' testimony is formally demanded in a deposition, the nondisclosure agreement would likely be no obstacle, legal experts said.
Another Trump attorney involved in Stormy Daniels case - CNNPolitics

Donald Trump Jr. and wife headed for divorce, friends say | Page Six (jesus, she looks even more unhappy than Melania +5 kids)

Trump's pick for National Economic Council is a CNBC host who gives bad financial advice ... In 2007: "There's no recession coming" (only the best pro-Trump celebrities)
Trump's New Economic Adviser Lawrence Kudlow Has Been Wrong About Everything for Decades -- The appointment of Lawrence Kudlow as head of the National Economic Council indicates how firmly supply-siders control Republican economic policy, and how little impact years of failed analysis have had upon their place of power. (don't bother us with your so-called "analysis")
Former (?) $100,000 per month cocaine addict with no training in economics who has a historical 100% error rate in regard to economic predictions named nation's top economic adviser - Lawyers, Guns & Money (yeah, worse even than you thought)

The Republican coverup for Trump just got much worse - The Washington Post - House Republicans may have the power to prevent important facts about President Trump and Russia from coming to public light. But here's what they don't have the power to do: prevent important facts about their own conduct on Trump's behalf from coming to public light.

Eschaton: Everybody's Grifting - The boss is, so why not? -- (CNN)President Donald Trump's longtime personal aide John McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, a source familiar with his firing told CNN. The charges are not related to the President, the source said. -- "Serious" is interesting.
John McEntee, longtime Trump aide fired over financial crime investigation - CNNPolitics - longtime personal aide John McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes ... not related to the president (uh-huh) "we don't comment on security clearances or personnel issues" White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told CNN (new policy, don't comment on "personnel" being arrested)
Trump fires White House assistant John McEntee, who promptly rejoins Trump's campaign

Scott Pruitt's $25,000 soundproof phone booth? It actually cost more like $43,000 ... Officials hired another contractor to pour 55 square feet of concrete more than two feet thick, at a cost of $3,470, ("swuare feet" "two feet thick" - could you give us a drawing, WaPo? +$2,963 for a "captain's desk" - swamp drained, suckers)

Eschaton: The Little Grifts - I admit I don't even know why $31,000 dining set is even a story, but it's always the "cover ups" that get you in trouble. -- Washington (CNN)Newly released emails cast doubt on claims by Secretary Ben Carson and his spokesman that he had little or no involvement in the purchase of a $31,000 furniture set for his Department of Housing and Urban Development dining. -- I will say that anyone appointed to a big important job whose first thought is "let me redecorate" (whatever the protocol) should not be appointed to a big important job. Though I do think this would exclude just about everybody who gets these appointments.


Eschaton: The Best People - Looking forward to the Cuomo presidential run. -- NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was found guilty by a Manhattan jury on Tuesday of agreeing to take bribes from executives at two companies seeking to do business with the state government, federal prosecutors said. -- Not that they were close or anything. Oh, wait... But to Cuomo he was much more, appearing as a fixer as well as the governor's eyes and ears at the Capitol. Cuomo referred to Percoco as a veritable brother, calling him his father's third son in a 2014 memoir. (bros in crime)


Schumer struggles to contain Warren-led rebellion - politico - Senate Democrats are feuding over legislation to roll back the Dodd-Frank law
Heitkamp Takes On Warren Over the Senate Banking Bill - The Atlantic - The two Democrats are clashing over legislation that could ease regulatory requirements on banks adopted after the 2008 recession. (let's fuck the economy again so bluedog Heidi Fuckamp can get reelected +$250 billion is a "small bank")

Defense Dept. charged nearly $140,000 at Trump branded properties - CNNPolitics

Dems are angry over Hillary Clinton's latest comments -- She also insinuated that women who voted for Trump were motivated by "ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should"



A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they're so pissed off -- Hint: it's not about the economy ... less concerned about economic issues and more concerned about Washington threatening the social fabric of small towns and causing "a moral decline" in the country as a whole. The problem, though, is that it's never quite clear what that means or how Washington is responsible for it. (let's call a racist spade a racist spade": they fucked themselves and need to blame non-white people but the real picture is retardation: religious freedom to beat your kids)

TWP chief Matthew Heimbach arrested for battery after affair with top spokesman's wife | Southern Poverty Law Center -- the leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party (also known as "nazis")
Neo-Nazi Group Implodes Over Love Triangle Turned Trailer Brawl - Matthew Heimbach and his spokesman came to blows after Heimbach was caught sleeping with the spokesman's wife. What's more, Heimbach is married to the spokesman's daughter (folie a quatre)



The Dangerous Misconceptions About the Opioid Epidemic and How We Respond -- eponymic Kevin Manchester (Trump will fix this by executing anyone who buys drugs with someone else: "the syringe is a murder weapon" is "law enforcement's response to the opioid epidemic," copsters at work)

SEC.gov | Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged With Massive Fraud - Holmes Stripped of Control of Company for Defrauding Investors


5 Women Accuse the Architect Richard Meier of Sexual Harassment - The New York Times - Richard Meier, the celebrated architect and Pritzker Prize winner who designed the Getty Center in Los Angeles, established a graduate scholarship in January at his alma mater, Cornell University ... Intended to honor the 55th anniversary of his practice, the scholarship was designed to "recruit and retain the most talented women applicants." ... they were sent to M. Meier's New York apartment, where he exposed himself ... "our recollections may differ" ... Alexis Zamlich, a 22-year-old communications assistant, who reported that Mr. Meier exposed himself during her visit to his apartment that same year ... (ah, the old look at my awesome dick move, ugly little creepster finally gets his comeupance +they knew, of course because he did it all the time)

Alaska Airlines Co-Pilot: My Captain Drugged and Raped Me Between Flights (what's a little rape in the toxic bro culture?) -


Fall from Grace: The Worship of Clinical Leaders -- Bessel Van Der Kolk ... How could this be? He wrote the book on this. He knows better - so how could he not do better? (very murky with Spinazzolla and JRI)

Amy Wax removed from teaching required first year courses at Penn Law School - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- peaking about black law students at Penn and peer schools, she went on to say that "some of them shouldn't even to to college" (should have kept her stupid mouth shut and they should have fired her stupid ass) )


24 Pets Died Flying With U.S. Carriers Last Year. 18 Were On United. | HuffPost (they knew: just stuff them in the death bin)


Harper Lee's Estate Sues Over Broadway Version of 'Mockingbird' (they want to coverup her racism)

Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores - The Washington Post

American Wealth Gone Wild: A Blistering Takedown of Greedy Kardashian Culture -- From prepubescent boys surrounded by hired dancers at bar mitzvahs to a high school-aged Kim Kardashian mingling at a dance (so it's part of jewish culture?)
Paris famously said that Kim's butt reminded her of "cogttage cheese inside a big trash bag"

TIL United Airlines has repeatedly killed more pets per year than any other US airline. : todayilearned

Microwave Buckwheat Bread Recipe


A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is "100 percent fatal"

Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, child care expert and pediatrician, dies at 99 - The Boston Globe
Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton writes his autobiography - The Boston Globe

TIL Ashton Kutcher ended up in the hospital with pancreatic issues after following Steve Jobs' fruitarian diet in preparation for the movie Jobs. Steve Jobs died of Pancreatic cancer. : todayilearned

Cambridge University tribute video to Stephen Hawking : videos
Professor Stephen Hawking has passed away at the age of 76 : AskReddit
Stephen Hawking's Appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation as himself. : television
Epic Rap Battles of History - Albert Einstein vs Steven Hawking [Rap] I thought it was fitting since Hawking passed away on Einstein's birthday : Music

Astronomers discover that all disk galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter their size or shape


Daughters of reddit, what is something you wish your father knew about girls when you were growing up? : AskReddit

Crossover : funny

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Maine candidate calls teen activist who survived Florida school shooting 'a skinhead lesbian' -- Leslie Gibson of Sabattus, the only declared candidate in House District 57, later apologizes on Twitter.


Eschaton: Pompeo - No more Tillerson. Secretary of State scary evil bigot Pompeo. We're really overdue for that war crimes tribunal. And a new CIA director.

Top Arab spy was at Seychelles meeting being probed by Mueller | Daily Mail Online

The Walls Are Closing In on Trump - Nunes' 'investigation' has shown Washington at its worst.
GOP Rep. Tom Rooney Breaks Ranks On Russia Report: 'We've Lost All Credibility' | HuffPost

Roger Stone claimed contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2016, according to two associates - The Washington Post - undefined

No Trump Zone: Only two of 23 vulnerable Republicans want him - Axios - Reps. Dana Rohrabacher of California and Carlos Curbelo of of Florida


Trump evangelicals have sold their souls - The Washington Post (Gerson's new thing)

Eschaton: Even God - Liberals (which means Democrats in our Discourse) are supposed to be the smug condescending ones, but while people like me might be smug assholes, actual politicians almost never are, while for Republicans this is pretty standard stuff.


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Trump Announces Support For Arming Teachers, Backpedals On Gun Purchase Age | HuffPost - The series of proposals generally fall in line with what the NRA supports. (the party of Death wants more taxpayer funded guns)
Look who's afraid of the NRA now: Trump owes Toomey an apology


Saudis Said to Use Coercion and Abuse to Seize Billions - The New York Times - In the early days of the crackdown, at least 17 detainees were hospitalized for physical abuse and one later died in custody with a neck that appeared twisted, a badly swollen body and other signs of abuse, according to a person who saw the body.

Qataris opted not to give info on Kushner, secret meetings to Mueller - NBC News - Qatari officials gathered evidence of what they claim is illicit influence by the United Arab Emirates on Jared Kushner and other Trump associates, including details of secret meetings, but decided not to give the information to Special Counsel Robert Mueller for fear of harming relations with the Trump administration (so they're all crooks)


Mueller Weighs Putting Off Trump Obstruction Decision - Bloomberg - Delay would let him wrap up less explosive parts of inquiry - Obstruction decision might undercut probe, one way or another

A Trump spokesman just said something about collusion that he might come to regret - The Washington Post - deputy White House press secretary Raj Shah said President Trump would have been aware of any such collusion if it did occur.
House Intelligence Committee to announce they are done with Russia probe interviews - CNNPolitics
Despite Mueller's Push, House Republicans Declare No Evidence of Collusion

Expert warns of "terrifying" potential of digitally-altered video - CBS News - CBS News reached out to a number of tech companies for comment and heard back from Reddit and Facebook. Both companies are aware of this false video phenomenon and are looking for ways to regulate it. (in your dreams, CBS)

Ivanka Trump never cut ties with the Trump Organization. That's turned into a problem. (crooked Ivanka, lock her up!)

Stormy Daniels Offers to Return Payment to End Deal for Her Silence - The New York Times (where's George Soros when you need him?)
Is The Stormy Story More Damaging Than We Thought? -- Talking Points Memo
Texas notary's failure to sign Stormy Daniels' hush agreement is under investigation


DeVos struggles through '60 Minutes' interview - CNNPolitics (she sure didn't think this through, but then ... )


Dem Gains in CD18 Special | Monmouth University Polling Institute | Monmouth University - Lamb holds a 51% to 45% lead over Saccone if turnout yields a Democratic surge similar to voting patterns seen in other special elections over the past year.
Pennsylvania election is bad news for Trump
PA-18 Will be Excellent News For John McCain - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Pennsylvania GOP chairman says Tuesday special election is in 'Democrat distract'



While elites are sharply polarized, there are lots of cross-pressured individuals -- especially rank-and-file Republicans with liberal economic views and rank-and-file Dems with conservative cultural ones


Eschaton: Whatabout Farrakhan - Any time there's a powerful anti-semitic racist Republican like, say, the president of the United States or many of his employees and advisers or his former chief of staff or..., we get around of "all liberals must denounce Farrakhan." ... Jake Tapper's been leading the "whatabout Farrakhan" movement the "mainstream" press. Perhaps he should talk to his boss about Steve Bannon, someone a bit closer to power (recently and probably more in the future). (Jake Fapper)

Russian trolls pushed rally in Buffalo -- then urged blacks not to vote

Russian spy: Highly likely Moscow behind attack, says Theresa May - BBC News


David Roberts on Twitter: "12. It is no coincidence that these guys - Gerson, Douthat, Brooks, Stephens - have little voice or influence inside actual conservatism, or that they're all anti-Trump (unlike 95+% of Republicans). They are anomalies, idiosyncrasies, not representative of anything broader." - 19. Forget the self-regarding onanism of Stephens types. If NYT really wants to expose its readers to the right, it should give Dinesh D'Souza, Dana Loesch, or Ben Shapiro a column. Let readers see, up close & personal, the crude tribalism & resentment that animate the RW base ... 20. In conclusion, yes, everyone in mainstream politics, everyone who lives outside the Fox/Breitbart bubble, NEEDS exposure to the actually existing US conservative movement. @NYTopinion isn't helping (NYT is always minimizing and conservatives have always been more evil than you think) )

Today Among Our Special Elite Media Snowflakes - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Iowa Senate leader Bill Dix resigns after video of him kissing woman in Des Moines bar is posted -- months after Iowa taxpayers were put on the hook for a $1.75 million settlement from the Kirsten Anderson lawsuit. Senator Dix has come under significant scrutiny for his role in firing Anderson hours after she reported a toxic work environment and for continuing to insist he did it solely for job performance reason.

James Levine's Final Act at the Met Ends in Disgrace

> Missouri is a destination wedding spot -- for 15-year-old brides (because conservative rockheads don't believe in birth-control)

Many Women Come Close To Death In Childbirth : NPR - why American mothers die in childbirth at a far higher rate than mothers in all other developed countries, three times more than in Britain and Canada (shit doctors)

Tammy Baldwin defiant as millions in outside money pour into Senate race - Since last year, the political network financed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch has spent more than $5 million taking on Baldwin.

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A must-do list for climate change in Greater Boston - The Boston Globe
Electricity demand is flat. Utilities are freaking out. - Vox - the US utility sector was built around the presumption of perpetual growth. Utilities were envisioned as entities that would build the electricity infrastructure to safely and affordably meet ever-rising demand, which was seen as a fixed, external factor, outside utility control. But demand is no longer rising.

Marco Rubio Still Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Buy Guns | HuffPost - The senator from Florida previously said he supported raising the legal age to 21. (lil' Marco flop-flips)
The Very Strange Case of Two Russian Gun Lovers, the NRA, and Donald Trump Mother Jones - what we uncovered about an odd pair from Moscow who cultivated the Trump campaign.



Britain's 'worst ever' child grooming scandal exposed: Hundreds of young girls raped, beaten, sold for sex and some even KILLED -- Authorities failed to act over 40 years - despite repeated warnings to social workers - with up to 1,000 girls, some as young as 11, abused in Telford


Whatever comes next, North Korea's Kim Jong Un can claim a win against Trump
Trump under pressure over chaotic approach to North Korea nuclear talks | World news | The Guardian - Republicans: denuclearisation must be prerequisite for meeting - CIA director and White House spokesman contradict each other

Steve Bannon: 'Let them call you racist ... Wear it as a badge of honor' ("because we're fucking racists")

Russian spy: Salisbury diners told to wash possessions - BBC News
Russian spy: Poisoning poses major challenge for MI6 - BBC News


Departing U.S. Ambassador To Panama Slams Trump's 'Jingoistic Chest-Beating' | HuffPost - John Feeley let loose on the White House after leaving his post this week.

Trump told Netanyahu U.S. will pull out of Iran deal if big changes not made (see bibi's smirk)


Trump Is Remaking The Courts In His Image: White, Male and Straight | HuffPost
President Donald Trump Suggests Death Penalty For Drug Dealers | HuffPost - Trump used Singapore's "zero tolerance" drug policy as an example of how the U.S. should be. (or maybe the Philippines, or Turkey)

Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To Stop "60 Minutes" From Airing A Stormy Daniels Interview - Anderson Cooper interviewed the adult film performer and director on Thursday ... The Supreme Court has a long history of opposing efforts to stop publication in advance, ruling in 1931 that prior restraint was an inappropriate way to deal with alleged press abuses
For Stormy Daniels, controversy blows up into a club scene bonanza - CNNPolitics


Trump in talks with impeachment lawyer as aide reveals new concerns - The revelation that Trump has reached out to an impeachment lawyer comes just as former aide Sam Nunberg is expressing new concerns about potential legal troubles awaiting Trump campaign officials.


Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy | The New Yorker - Resistance must take the form of the affirmation of the values and institutions that the President has scorned and threatened ... the widening historical distance from any direct experience of the horrors of German Fascism or Soviet Communism "Over two-thirds of older Americans believe that it is extremely important to live in a democracy; among millennials, less than one-third do" ... In 1995 only one in sixteen believed that army rule is a good system of government; today, one in six do (millenials think of "democracy" as "the government")

Trump Might Be Too Busy to Talk to Mueller, Says Lawyer

Trump: "Maxine Waters A Very Low I.Q. Individual" (for the speech patterns)
Bill Grueskin on Twitter: "And when he called a journalist an SOB, bellowed a racial epithet, and demeaned the intelligence of a black congresswoman? That all went, literally and unbelievably, into the last paragraph. Stenographers would be cheaper and would accomplish as much. https://t.co/ejl8Abtu6p" (Maggie said he was just being "jocular")

Trump wants new authority over polling places. Top election officials say no - The Boston Globe (only Trumpsters will be allowed to vote in Trumpmerica!)
Vote. That'S Just What They Don'T Want You To Do
Hans Against America - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Vote suppression guru and guy whose face melted in Raiders of the Lost Ark Hans von Spakovsky was on the stand to defend Kris Kobach's vote suppression law earlier this week, with grimly amusing results ... Von Spakovsky is the John Lott of racist vote suppression, in other words. And his prominence in the Republican Party didn't start with trump, and his crusade is supported at the most elite levels of the party.
The Importance Of Mobilizing Obama-to-Nonvoters - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Some de-mobilization of young people of color was probably inevitable with Obama not appearing on the ballot, but going forward re-mobilizing them makes a lot more sense than focusing on chasing Obama-to-Trump voters who mostly aren't going to come back to the Democrats ... For example, nearly three-quarters of Obama-to-Trump voters supported repeal of the A.C.A., while less than half of Obama-to-nonvoters did (they were disaffected Bush voting Republicans, so let's model our election strategy around them, said the DCCC)

Trump celebrates winning 52 percent of women in 2016 -- which is only how he did among whites -- He got only 41 percent of the vote from women. He got 52 percent from men (fact s are subjective)

Trump and the Evangelical Temptation - The Atlantic - Here is the uncomfortable reality: I do not believe that most evangelicals are racist. But every strong Trump supporter has decided that racism is not a moral disqualification in the president of the United States. And that is something more than a political compromise. It is a revelation of moral priorities. (Republican flunky Gerson "doesn't believe" Evangelicals are racist, hahaha)
White Evangelical Women, Core Supporters of Trump, Begin Tiptoeing Away - The New York Times (their husbands let them do that?) And the majority of evangelical women remain in his corner.


At Pennsylvania rally, Trump endorses himself - POLITICO - The president visited western Pennsylvania to boost a struggling Republican congressional candidate -- but made it clear to voters it's all about him (it's always all about him)
Trump privately trashes Rick Saccone - Axios
EDITORIAL In 18th district election, Lamb is the best choice | Editorials | observer-reporter.com

No Republican candidates on the Utah ballot this year? It's a possibility after planned fix falters.

Sen. Warren says she isn't running for president in 2020


Welcome to the United States - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Now, you may remember Karen Handel from such lovely things as turning the Susan Komen Foundation into an anti-abortion outfit by pulling money for breast cancer exams from Planned Parenthood because only certain women should live. And you almost certainly remember her from the most expensive race in the history of the House of Representatives, the legendary GA-06 race early in 2017 where she defeated Jon Ossoff.


Tamika Mallory and the Farrakhan Conundrum - The Atlantic - Why black leaders like Tamika Mallory find it so hard to distance themselves from the Nation of Islam

Understanding Student Mobbists - The New York Times (annotated by Froomkin, why you should never read this asshole's "thoughts")

Drew Magary on Twitter: "You're not gonna believe it but the Times found the most insufferable dipshit possible to profile.
"If I Close My Eyes And Ignore the Bad News, It Still Won;t Affect Me" ... He lives alone and has never been married. As for money, a financial adviser in San Francisco manages his investments. Mr. Hagerman says he throws away the quarterly updates without reviewing them ... Last winter, Mr. Hagerman spent several weeks visiting his twin brother, a tech C.E.O., in San Francisco. Strict arrangements had to be made -- the Sunday newspaper kept out of sight, the TV switched off, his teenage niece and nephew under special instructions. (very special snowflake not affected by Trump policies screwing the poor because he's rich so shut up with your so-called "news")

Eschaton: He'll Never Love You, Maggie - Cute game they play. -- ...have shown conclusively that there was no Collusion with Russia..just excuse for losing. The only Collusion was that done by the DNC, the Democrats and Crooked Hillary. The writer of the story, Maggie Haberman, a Hillary flunky, knows nothing about me and is not given access. -- Donald J. Trump (all those puff-pieces and he still hates them. sad.)
And Readers Were Provoked - Lawyers, Guns & Money
A New York Times columnist blamed a far-left 'mob' for her woes. But maybe she deserves them (Sulzes hired Baquet who hired Bennet who hired Stephens who said to hire Weiss from the WSJ)


Fox News host Jesse Watters to divorce after affair with employee - NY Daily News - wife, Noelle Watters, filed for divorce in October. The couple has twin girls ... relationship with DiGiovine spread within the network late last year as both posted social media photos of their outings together, including on a Caribbean vacation ... Fox News' golden boy ...


Footage of mysterious object above ocean stuns military personnel | New York Post


Bill Grueskin on Twitter: "A @nytimes tech columnist wrote this week about how he unplugged from Twitter for 2 months, which is totally true, except for the hundreds of tweets he posted while he was unplugged from Twitter. https://t.co/GDCLtlPGcS Via @CJR" ('ol lyin' Farhad, the rot is deep)


If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? Turns out it's just chance The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.


The myth of the lonely gamer playing in solitude is dead - The Washington Post (it's a social scene, without all the drinking)

YouTube, the Great Radicalizer - The New York Times
How Lies Spread Online - The New York Times

Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers | Ars Technica

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Trump Rollbacks Target Offshore Rules 'Written With Human Blood' Drillers seek to gain from an easing of Obama-era safety and environmental regulations that were adopted after the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people. ("drillers" = big oil corps who don't give a shit about your life)

Three women, suspect dead after hostage standoff at veterans home in California - CNN
All 3 hostages and gunman die in armed siege of Yountville veterans home in Napa Valle : news
Suspect arrested in killing of Pomona police officer, ending long standoff
80 percent of mass shooters showed no interest in video games, researcher says : gaming
Student accidentally shoots self at Lexington, Kentucky high school : news (KY, all the kids are packing)


Russian spy latest: Home Secretary in emergency Cobra meeting as chemical warfare troops descend on Salisbury | The Independent - The Home Secretary is to chair an emergency Cobra meeting as nearly 200 troops including chemical warfare specialists are on the streets of Salisbury helping investigate and clean up after the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. With the Russian embassy accusing the British of propaganda and "following the Litvinenko script" ((who they also killed)) in the Skripal investigation, one UK Government minister has revealed Britain will be discussing the case with its Nato allies. (Trump has Putin's back, in fact he has a list of his own for Vlad)

Ex-Model, Mob Suspect and a Murder Could Bring Down Slovakia's Government (which ordered the hit)

Malaysia's PM is about to steal an election -- American officials say he already stole millions from taxpayers (why do they all do this?)

Women's rights group to fight for rights of 17-year-old girl who was beaten and tortured by new in-laws for failing the virginity test : news (meanwhile, in India)

Statues Across India Are Vandalized as Political Tensions Rise - The New York Times (as Hindu Nationalism Rises)


Turkey Sentences 24 Journalists to Prison, Claiming Terrorism Ties - The New York Times (Trump's model after Putin)

Steve Bannon Is Done Wrecking the American Establishment. Now He Wants to Destroy Europe's (so wrecked)



Eschaton: Everything Trump Does Is A Victory - If Obummer had walked into the press room one day and said a big announcement was coming and then the big announcement was that he was going to meet with the North Korean leader with no "preconditions" or no pre-negotiated concessions, NK nukes would have been unnecessary because DC's "foreign policy community" would have imploded the city themselves in a black hole of rage and the Washington Post would not have had this headline (top one) ... It would have been more like, "Experts say naive Obama is Rocket Man's little bitch." ... It's happening not because of Trump's angry tweets, but because Trump is a dumdum.
Planning Begins for Kim Jong-un Meeting Some Trump Aides Believe Will Never Happen - The New York Times
Will Kim Jong Un -- like every other dictator -- suck Trump?


Putin: Jews might be responsible for election meddling Search for Hope Hicks replacement turns into West Wing food fight - politico
Putin says Jews, Ukrainians, Tatars could be behind U.S. election meddling : news
Putin on U.S. election interference: 'I couldn't care less'

Ivanka Trump Backed Flynn and Manafort. She Discussed Firing Comey. How Has She Evaded Mueller's Investigation?
Former Trump aide speaks to Mueller, believes Russia probe is 'not a witch hunt'

Joy Reid on Twitter: "Lordy... https://t.co/toTAkB4veO"
KeithLeBlanc on Twitter: "He cannot deny being at the club that night Keith Schiller is right behind him the club was shut down in October of the same year for reasons related to the performances and other issues. https://t.co/Hj5PJWaSkr"
Miss Universe in Moscow: How Trump's beauty contest spawned a business deal with Russians and a bond with Putin ... in which naked college girls simulate urinating on a professor. In another act, two women disrobe and then one female stands over the other female and simulates urinating while the other female catches the urine in two wine glasses. (lil' Trumpy's pee-fetish)
In a personal letter, Trump invited Putin to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant - The Washington Post ("I need hydrated blondes this time, ok?")
At the bottom of the typed letter, Trump scrawled a postscript adding that he looked forward to seeing 'beautiful' women during his trip

One Night with Stormy Daniels, the Hero America Needs - Rolling Stone
The 7 most interesting aspects of Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against Trump (Stormy has the dick pics)
How Stormy Daniels could impact the Russia investigation - CNNPolitics
Sadly, Cooley Law School *Is* Sending Its Best - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Stormy Daniels isn't suing Trump for money. She's suing to make sure her story is told ... it's getting harder for powerful men to pay for women's silence

Search for Hicks replacement turns into West Wing food fight - POLITICO - Various White House factions are backing different candidates for communications director, while Trump is soliciting advice from Hicks on potential successors.

Trump Talks With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer About Aiding in Mueller Response - The New York Times

White House scolds Cabinet officials after ethics reports - CNNPolitics - nternal watchdogs have launched at least nine audits, reviews or investigations across several Cabinet agencies, and stories about first-class travel, expensive office furniture, and internal strife have become commonplace.

North Korea experience may not be all he claims - Rick Saccone, standing in Pennsylvania's special congressional election, says he negotiated regularly with communist officials -- other remember it differently ... "he has tended to embellish his role"
The GOP'ss messages don't seem to be working in Pennsylvania. Is that a warning sign?

Trump administration studies seeking the death penalty for drug dealers - The Washington Post (death penalty for fentanyl - evil at work)

Top ACLU Voting Rights Lawyer Rips Into Trump Expert's Evidence Of Kansas Voter Fraud | HuffPost - Hans von Spakovsky admits he can't name an election that turned on noncitizen ballots in a trial over proof-of-citizenship law (don't bother us with your liberal facts +Hans, "member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" is always lurking in the shadows) He also conceded that his research into voter fraud had not been subjected to the same kind of rigorous peer review that academic work would face. (peer-reviewed by "conservative alternative scientists")

Trump's Latest Pardon Shows The Best Way To Get One: Go On Fox News | HuffPost (crooked Hillary!) Saucier destroyed a laptop, a camera and the camera's memory card shortly after he was interviewed by the FBI. Pieces of a laptop were later found in the woods near a Saucier family home. Prosecutors tend to treat suspects more harshly when they are accused of destroying evidence. (but crooked Hillary!)

Eisenhower - Lawyers, Guns & Money - At a stag dinner .. Eisenhower took Warren by the arm and asked him to consider the perspective of white parents in the Deep South - "These are not bad people," the [president said. "All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big black bucks" It was an appalling moment. Here was the president leaning on the chief justice about a pending case while using the racist terms of an overseer. (Ike was a racist fucker, like all Republicans +fucking "stag dinner")

There's A Christian Alternative To Obamacare. But There's A Catch. | HuffPost ... Health sharing ministries ... "Do you agree with our statement of faith?" (haha suckers, try reading next time)

Dems pledge to limit superdelegates, but don't say how
The Missing Obama Millions - The New York Times - these perspectives play down the importance of a crucial group of disaffected voters: those who voted for Mr. Obama in 2012 but then failed to go to the polls in 2016. Because this group is disproportionately young and black, this erasure is racially tinged ... We would hardly urge Democratic strategists to abandon Obama-to-Trump voters. However, Obama-to-nonvoters are a relatively liberal segment of the country who have largely been ignored. They are mostly young and nonwhite

The Man Who Knew Too Little - The New York Times - The most ignorant man in America knows that Donald Trump is president -- but that's about it. Living a liberal fantasy is complicated. (NYT does another one of their "visits to the heartland" this time to talk to a stupid "liberal")


I Was Assaulted. He Was Applauded. - The New York Times - Andy Savage ... apologized to the mega-congregation for what he calls a "sexual incident" ... He received a standing ovation from the congregation ... The church pulled the video offline, but not before The Times saved a copy. (rape is a core evangelical Christian "family value")

Lawmaker gets restraining order against another lawmaker - A Pennsylvania state lawmaker who says a fellow lawmaker pulled a gun on her and threatened to kill her has gotten a restraining order against him.

Where's Harvey? (and where is he going?)



Meet the world-reknowned author at center of trauma-program controversy - The Boston Globe - Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

Your state's teachers are underpaid. Find out by how much - not just West Virginia: Teacher salaries have been stagnant or falling for years.


Caitlyn Jenner Says Trump Has Been 'Worst Ever' For Transgender Rights, 'Set Our Community Back 20 Years' (but still wears her MAGA hat )

Rush Limbaugh: Through sanctuary cities, Democrats have made California a "modern-day slave state -- Limbaugh: Democrats "want to hold on to their illegals so they can get their grass mowed" (who mows your lawn in Florida, Mr Projecter?)
Trump Can't Stop the Sanctuary Movement (but Sessions will invade California because protecting innocent people is like slavery)


Eschaton: New York's Worst Persons - Jeremy Peters -- NYT reporter @jwpetersNYT :
Jon Levine on Twitter: "NYT reporter @jwpetersNYT : "That term microaggression ... I think made wusses out of our college kids." some of those wusses were hired by his paper! " (Peters is a white journo-bro)

Sweet Jesus, Will the NYT's Conservatives Ever Write About Anything but the "Intolerant Left" Ever Again? ... "challenging ... readers with beliefs "outside the bubble" (speaking of "bubbles")


Forced to marry her rapist at 11, woman finally changes Florida marriage law : news (pregnant 16-yr-olds still have to marry their rapists)

'The story of a weird world I was warned never to tell' - BBC News (delusional disorder +folie a deux)

Video captured people chanting 'F*** the blacks' in a dorm. Now, 2 teens are under arrest : news
5 girls assault female freshman in Florida high school cafeteria : news


Scientists create nanowood, a new material that is as insulating as Styrofoam but lighter and 30 times stronger

ELI5 why is there a universal limit for speed, c, when there aren't any resistive forces in space? : explainlikeimfive

TIL even though physicists have confirmed every prediction made by the general relativity and quantum theories, they are mutually incompatible for very small or very massive objects. Therefore a framework revealing a deeper underlying reality must be discovered in order to unify the two theories. : todayilearned

18 Cognitive Bias Examples Show Why Mental Mistakes Get Made
How to Balance Your Media Diet ART + marketing (7-15 hrs/day and you haven't even gone to work yet)


What's your favorite euphemism for masturbation? : AskReddit - Threesome with a few no-shows.
What was the moment you fell out of love? : AskReddit
What subreddits are hidden gems? : AskReddit

Eschaton: Don't Fuck With The Wrong People - The lesson to be learned from Shkreli and McFarland is you can defraud the little people (otherwise known as "people") as much as you want, but do not fuck with investors.
Snapchat and Instagram remove Giphy feature due to racial slur GIF | TechCrunch

030918

More of the Bay Area Could Be Underwater in 2100 Than Previously Expected - The New York Times (bye-bye Palo Alto and the airport)

Gov. Rick Scott signs gun, school security legislation over NRA opposition | Tampa Bay Times - Parkland parents attend bill signing ceremony at Capitol in Tallahassee -- a three-day waiting period for the purchase of all firearms and raising the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21
Detailed timeline sheds new light on Parkland police response | Miami Herald ... "At one point he says to keep back 500 feet. Why would he say that?" (heroic cop lied, of course)
There's A Serious Divide Over Gun Policy Between Gun Owners Who Are And Aren't NRA Members - broad support among gun owners for some policies intended to curb gun violence, but NRA members are less likely to back many of the proposals. (there are no "less extreme" NRA members)
Reports of shots fired at Yountville Veterans Home - Story | KTVU
Police find guns and ammunition at home of high school student in Gardena threat case - Gardena police found several guns and a cache of ammunition at the home of a high school student who threatened campus violence in two social media posts this week, authorities said.
A Mass Shooting Tore Their Lives Apart. A Corruption Scandal Crushed Their Hopes For Justice. | HuffPost - As prosecutors fixated on the death penalty for a killer, some family members of his victims found solace in an unlikely figure ... the gunman's attorney


Damage control at White House to reverse Trump's stunning blunder
North Korea Experts Stunned Yet Cautiously Optimistic About Trump-Kim Meeting | HuffPost - "My head is literally spinning... I don't know what to make of it"
Eschaton: Jaw Jaw - I doubt Trump will ever have this big meeting with Kim Jong-un, but it's the kind of thing Republicans would freak over if a Democrat proposed (and not entirely without justification!). There's a Trump tweet about not talking to North Korea, too, because there's always a Trump tweet. -- Deal Man will probably give them Hawaii.
North Korea Asks for Direct Nuclear Talks, and Trump Agrees - The New York Times
s North Korea gambit blindsides U.S. diplomats
What Will Trump Give Up for Peace with North Korea? - The New York Times (or maybe California so he'd dump a bunch of sessessionist libtards)


Catholic Women's Event Persists Despite Vatican's Rejection Of Progressive Participants | HuffPost - The Vatican did not approve of a lesbian activist and her allies speaking during a women's conference in Rome (fuck you, popester)


U.S. Allies Sign Landmark Trade Pact As Trump Announces Tariffs | HuffPost - Trump pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership last year.
This time, China can fight back against tariffs - Axios - China's capability to retaliate against Trum's tariffs now rivals that of the entire EU, and with Beijing's economic clout continuing to grow these tariffs may be the last time the U.S. gets to set the terms of engagement with China.

Russian spy attack: focus falls on Salisbury cemetery | UK news | The Guardian - Hundreds of troops arrive on streets and experts in hazmat suits work near grave of Sergei Skripal's wife
U.K. Spy Poisoning: Treat Russia Like the Terrorist It Is - Bloomberg - Whether the Skripal poisoning can be conclusively pinned on Moscow is beside the point.


It's Time to Abolish ICE - A mass-deportation strike force is incompatible with democracy and human rights.
ACLU sues Trump administration to stop family separation


The Economy Is Looking Awfully Strong - The New York Times - Blockbuster job growth in February suggests this economy, already nine years into expansion, may yet have room to run.


Mueller tight-lipped as media leaks shape Russia narrative - POLITICO - Leaked glimpses of special counsel Robert Mueller's activities tell an incomplete story, angering some Trump associates ...

An Operative With Trump Ties Was Once Indicted on an Obscenity Charge -- George Nader was accused of importing photographs of nude boys "engaged in a variety of sexual acts"

Trump called Gary Cohn a 'globalist.' Here's why some people find that offensive. (only "some people" because Nazis think it's fine)

The Stormy Daniels Scandal Gets Serious - The New York Times ... Russia could blackmail Trump with evidence of his "sexual perversion" - Nothing we know of Daniels confirms the dossier's outre claims about what such perversion entailed. The NDA does, however, show that Trump was susceptible to blackmail ... "It all kind of fits together in a way, Nick Akerman, a former Watergate prosecutor, said of the Daniels scandal and the Russia one. "Its really blackmail over sex."
Stormy Daniels beat Trump at his own game - The Washington Post ... comment: " the utter moral, ethical and intellectual bankruptcy of the Republican Party, the self-styled "conservative" movement and the Religious Right, all in one fell swoop. May they all fall with him."
Stormy Daniels Absolutely Slays Trump Trolls on Twitter - The porn actress has become Trump-world's enemy number one -- with sexist vitriol being tossed her way online -- but Daniels puts on a masterclass in roasting your haters.
Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements - NBC News
Michael Cohen dismisses claims of email as proof that Trump knew about payment to porn star to buy her silence - ABC News
Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Opens Door to Further Trouble for Trump - The New York Times - "A lawsuit opens the door, and judges almost always allow for a plaintiff to have a fishing expedition ... Have you paid other people money?"
Anderson Cooper interviews Stormy Daniels for '60 minutes'
Pro-Trump Pastor: Thou Shalt Not Have Sex With A Porn Star 'Thou Shalt Not Have Sex With A Porn Star' Doesn't Apply Here - Robert Jeffress says it's about "policies and strong leadership," not sex scandals (said a mouth of Satan)

"Trump Is Going for a Clean Reset": Fuming in the West Wing, Trump Prepares to Defenestrate Cuck Allies and Go Full MAGA -- The president will meet with potential chief-of-staff candidates at Mar-a-Lago next weekend. McMaster is likely next to go. Then Jivanka.

Trump's Abstinence-Only Pamphlet Is Quite Educational | HuffPost - wait-until-marriage agenda. (from Pres Abstinence himself)
Abstinence-only education making a comeback under Trump | TheHill ... $10,000,000 focus on ... "sexual delay" (that'll work for sure)

Nonfarm payrolls increase by 313,000 in February vs. 200,000 est. - Nonfarm payrolls rose by 313,000 in February while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1 percent, the lowest since December 2000. (Trump's excellent policies are Making America Great Again)

Kris Kobach Just Got Torched By A Federal Judge In Kansas Vote Trial | HuffPost - At the trial over requiring proof of citizenship to vote, the state official's missteps on evidence draw rebuke. (perfect sense that the AG of KS wouldn't know shit about the law)

Interior spending $139K to fix doors in Sec. Zinke's office (only the best doors)
Trump's VA secretary so fearful of his own staff that he posted an armed guard outside his office (he needs one of Zinke's $139K doors)

The endangered GOP senator who thinks Justice Kennedy could save him - POLITICO - Nevada's Dean Heller predicts an imminent high court vacancy (Tony will retire, Rethugs will turn out so they can have an even more conservative judge to fuck the country)

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"Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?" The secret story of Obama's response to Putin's attack on the 2016 election (Mitch told him to shut up and Barry was powerless to do anything +susan Rice, an unknown player in Trump's election ... she didn't want to "box Obama in" with facts) "There was a disconnect between the urgency felt at the staff level" and the views of the president and his senior aides (+fuck you, again, Barry)
Obama in Talks to Provide Shows for Netflix - The New York Times - to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure from the White House (working title: "Top Fuck Up")
Team Biden mulls far-out options to take on Trump in 2020 - POLITICO - One possibility is picking a running mate out of the gate, perhaps someone younger or from outside of politics. (shut up and go home)


How Democrats can sweep the midterm elections - By Adam Schiff

Elizabeth Warren Says Democratic Votes for Wall Street This Week Are a "Stab in the Heart" -- 16 Senate Democrats voted for the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act ...


Trump Administration Blocks Idaho's Plan to Circumvent Health Law - to allow the sale of stripped-down, low-cost health insurance that violates the Affordable Care Act ... It would allow insurance companies to charge higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions. People with such conditions could be denied insurance for up to 12 months if they had not maintained "continuous prior coverage" (keep voting Rethug, Idawhore)

A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches - The New York Times (no soul) comment: "We are watching the death knell of Christianity in America and It makes me sick."

Why Louis Farrakhan Is Back in the News - The New York Times - Louis Farrakhan, the 84-year-old head of the Nation of Islam,


Professor Declares Black Students 'Rarely' Graduate In The Top Half Of Law School Class -- And have NEVER graduated in the top quarter as far as she can remember ... "black people would be better off if they understood that they're better at menial tasks" (like cotton-picking, oh look, it's Amy Wax, racist conservative liar and dimbulb)

'Commie scum, We're going to burn down your store!' : Trump supporters caught on camera threatening California book shop - A pair of Trump supporters were caught on camera this past weekend issuing unhinged threats to a left-wing bookstore in Berkeley, California ... "Trump is going to get rid of all you pieces of sh*t" "This is America, I can burn down your store if I want" (said the Russian dupe)


Asheville police officer resigns after beating and choking suspected jaywalker - CNN - On Thursday, a judge issued a warrant for Hickman's arrest on one count each of assault by strangulation, assault inflicting serious injury and communicating threats. (why they hate body cameras)
North Carolina police officer resigns after beating, choking and tasing suspected jaywalker : news

Man killed snoring elderly roommate with pillow: cops | New York Post


Newsweek Exec in Secret Tape: We Gotta Turn the Business Around or We're Dead Newsweek's chief content officer acknowledged in a private meeting that revenue has collapsed following a BuzzFeed story about the company's advertising practices


When Smug Liberals Met Conservative Trolls - The New York Times (if you think libs are "smug," try libertarians like Katherine Mangu-Ward)
alicublog: FRIDAY ROUND-THE-HORN. - As if the Bari Weiss debacle hadn't already put a rancid cherry on the shit parfait that is the New York Times Op-Ed section, here come the radioactive sprinkles in the form of Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward ...
Elites on Free Speech: Shut the Bleep Up | The Mahablog - Now Brooks has a column up in which he tries to put himself in the place of a Young Person and understand all this disrespectful heckling of their betters public intellectuals going on at colleges these days. This is what he came up with:

Startups, Deals, Parties And Pals: Will News Exec Levinsohn Repeat The Past? : NPR - This story contains language that some readers may find offensive (TRONC reorg)


Instagram Influencers Are All Starting To Look The Same. Here's Why. | HuffPost - Between makeup and Facetune ... "Don't settle for just being yourself. Why be you when you can be me?"



TIL your brain is able to make a decision for you seconds before you become aware of the fact that you are making a decision : todayilearned - This is why I like to try and trick my brain by changing my mind at the last second

Doing lots of exercise in older age can prevent the immune system from declining and protect people against infections. Scientists followed 125 long-distance cyclists, some now in their 80s, and found they had the immune systems of 20-year-olds. The research was published in the journal Aging Cell. : science

Vision-improving nanoparticle eyedrops could end the need for glasses : technology


kwii420 comments on Honestly I'm kinda addicted.

Amazon Knows Why Alexa Was Laughing at Its Customers - The New York Times - In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear the phrase 'Alex, laugh," (believe us, it's not a rogue AI making fun of you before it kills you)
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Two Miramar SWAT officers suspended for heading to Parkland massacre - Sun Sentinel
Huffman High School shooting: Courtlin Arrington killed; Birmingham police question injured teen | AL.com


Resigned Guantanamo lawyers found microphone in meeting site | Miami Herald - in their special client meeting room and were denied the opportunity to either talk about or investigate it .. "legacy microphones" ... "not activated" (claimed your totally corrupt lying military)


Trump partied with Russian oligarchs at Vegas nightclub shut down over 'lewd' acts involving women and urine:

Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin - The Washington Post - In January 2017, Erik Prince, the founder of the private security company Blackwater, met with a Russian official close to Russian President Vladi-mir Putin and later described the meeting to congressional investigators as a chance encounter that was not a planned discussion of U.S.-Russia relations (and oh look Eric Prince is a lying traitor)
Democrats say Trump associate may have misled House panel over Seychelles meeting - CNNPolitics - The founder of the security firm Blackwater did not mention to the House Intelligence Committee last year that a Lebanese-American businessman had attended a meeting in the Seychelles islands, a trip that has come under intense scrutiny in the Russia investigation (then he told Devin Nunes, "I'm done here, fuck your questions")

Trump Spoke to Witnesses About Matters They Discussed With Special Counsel - The New York Times - two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, according to three people familiar with the encounters ... Mr. McGahn never released a statement and later had to remind the president that he had indeed asked Mr. McGahn to see that Mr. Mueller was dismissed ("when I tell you to lie, you lie!)

Lewandowski testimony: House Russia probe signals end is near - CNNPolitics - Rep. Mike Conaway and other Intelligence Committee Republicans are signaling they're ready to end the investigative phase of their Russia probe and move on to writing the final report, while Democrats say there are still scores of witnesses the committee needs to speak with. (Nunes sticks fingers in ears)

Paul Manafort pleads not guilty to an 18-count indictment in Russia probe - ABC News

Judge to Trump: Muting, not blocking followers, may end suit ... muting would enable Trump to avoid reading a tweet he doesn't want to read

This Anti-Semitic Term Was Casually Used At The White House 3 Times This Week | HuffPost - "globalits" (you know, a jew)

'I have to see you again' : How Trump's alleged affair with a porn star spilled into public view (alleged? excuse me?) Sarah Huckabee Sanders reiterated Trump's denial of an affair ... Trump had been married to his third wife, Melania, for a year and a half. Their son, Barron, was about 4 months old. Trump turned 60 that summer. He spent much of it in California, where one of his favored haunts was the Beverly Hills Hotel, a pink stucco landmark, and the private bungalows on its lush grounds (family values!)
Eschaton: He Turns On Everyone - Will be hearing the insulting and sexist nicknames he has for her soon. -- CNN's Jim @Acosta reports the President is furious with WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders over her handling of news on Stormy Daniels. A source close to the White House tells Jim "POTUS is very unhappy. Sarah gave the Stormy Daniels story line steroids yesterday" (haha Fuckabee getting rewarded for her loyalty to the Swamp Monster)
DJ Judd on Twitter: "CNN's Jim @Acosta reports the President is furious with WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders over her handling of news on Stormy Daniels. A source close to the White House tells Jim "POTUS is very unhappy. Sarah gave the Stormy Daniels story line steroids yesterday.""

Eschaton: TERMINATED - I suppose not in the Arnold way. -- Several White House staffers have been terminated or reassigned for issues related to their security clearances with at least one individual employed in the Office of the First Lady relieved of duty, sources with direct knowledge tell ABC News.

Refugee skeptic lands top State Department refugee job - POLITICO - A White House aide close to senior policy adviser Stephen Miller who has advocated strict limits on immigration into the U.S. has been selected for a top State Department post overseeing refugee admissions (Trump admin is basically a big fuckyou to good government)
We took a broken system and just broke it completely - veterans health care .. a disaster (Hulk Smash)
Senior adviser at HUD spread conspiracy theory that Clinton campaign chairman was Satanist - CNNPolitics (insanity is a job requirement)

Eschaton: ONE BILLION DOLLARS - Holy crap someone told Dr. Evil that this was a big significant number and he believed it. -- China has been asked to develop a plan for the year of a One Billion Dollar reduction in their massive Trade Deficit with the United States. Our relationship with China has been a very good one, and we look forward to seeing what ideas they come back with. We must act soon! -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 7, 2018

Marist poll: Trump's job approval highest of his presidency - CNNPolitics - 42%, his highest in that poll since he took office. -- The poll, which was conducted Monday and Tuesday, found that some 50% disapproved of the President's job performance. (wildly popular crime boss)

Exclusive polls: Big warning signs for Senate Democrats - Axios - Five Senate Democrats would lose to Republican candidates if the elections were held today and three have approval ratings under 50%, according to new Axios/SurveyMonkey polls. ("survey monkey" hahaha) approval is at just 46% in Florida and Pennsylvania and 54% in Ohio. (o rly axios?)
Trump approval rating by state - Vox - Trump got 56 percent of the vote in Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas, but his approval rating is below 50 percent now.
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ; House 2018: 26 Ratings Changes, All in Favor of Democrats - PA-18 special now a Toss-up; Democratic incumbents in strong position; and what about Paul Ryan? (not what axios is telling us, must be a "fake poll" as opposed to russian bots on survey monkey, and by the way, fuck you Michigan)
Trump Down, Dems Up, Russia Bad, Kushner Out | Monmouth University Polling Institute | Monmouth University ... Pres. Trump's job rating now stands at 39% approve and 54% disapprove. This is a net decline from his 42% approve and 50% disapprove rating at the end of January, but it is still higher than his December 2017 low of 32% approve and 56% disapprove. (another fake poll saying Dear Leader is down)


Tennessee Republicans kill anti-child marriage bill, cite possible case against gay marriage ... citing an obscure legal theory that passing the bill could deter a conservative lawyer's case against gay marriage. (TN Republicans love their children)


Why Won't Women's March Leaders Denounce Louis Farrakhan's Anti-Semitism?

15 Remarkable Women We Overlooked in Our Obituaries - The New York Times (just a little overlooking)

They reported sexual harassment. Then the retaliation began | PBS NewsHour
U.S. Forest Service chief under investigation after complaints of sexual misconduct | PBS NewsHour (PBS needs Adobe Flash, welcome to 1999)
Tony Tooke, head of U.S. Forest Service, stepping down amid sexual misconduct allegations | PBS NewsHour - The chief of the U.S. Forest Service is stepping down amid allegations of sexual misconduct and an investigation commissioned by the United States Department of Agriculture into his own behavior (that tooke a long time)

'Silicon Valley' Confronts a "Darker Side" of Tech Culture (and T.J. Miller's Messy Exit)


Yale Student Found Not Guilty in Rape Trial - The New York Times - A Yale student who had been suspended by the university was found not guilty on Wednesday of sexually assaulting a fellow student, in a rare college rape accusation to be tried in the courts. The verdict laid bare seemingly gaping divides in the national reckoning around sexual consent and assault.


How Russian Trolls Crept Into the Trump Campaign's Facebook Messages

Sinclair's new media-bashing promos rankle local anchors ... a promotional campaign that sounds like pro-Trump propaganda. ... decry "fake stories" from national news outlets ... 60- and 75-second spots should run frequently "to create maximum reach and frequency"

NYT's Bari Weiss Cites Hoax Twitter Account To Criticize Liberals | HuffPost
No More Mister Nice Blog: The Unkillable Zombie Lie That Attacks On Mccain And Romney Made Trump Possible - A lot of people are going to be writing about Bari Weiss's latest column, in which she makes the usual complaints about campus lefties and others who attack speech they consider hateful and speakers they consider totalitarian.
Jack Crosbie on Twitter: "bari weiss's latest column features stellar reporting on the "intolerant left," like these two hyperlinks, which go to tweets from a fake antifa account that buzzfeed debunked in may 2017 source: https://t.co/0ZtXFnVr1J https://t.co/1eACVvkZmF"
Jack Crosbie on Twitter: "lol someone in the mentions has pointed out that this specific journalistic triumph started with jordan peterson, which tracks https://t.co/d7rh6WG8hM"
(c) Cookie Monster?? on Twitter: "@KyleKulinski you should definitely do a segment on how @jordanbpeterson is such a smear merchant hack, that he retweeted a fake antifa account to his reactionary fan base of 22 year old virgins as part of his usual anti-left/SJW propaganda. On par with Shapiros hackiness now imo https://t.co/YL7G4PWQle"
If You Truly Care About Speech, You Will Invite Me to Your Office to Personally Call You a Dipshit - Alex Pareene
NYT's Bari Weiss Falsely Denies Her Years of Attacks on the Academic Freedom of Arab Scholars Who Criticize Israel -- Glenn Greenwald
New York Times Opinion Editor Ties Campus Free Speech to Fascism - Throwaway paragraphs can throw away a whole piece. (jfc she looks like a dumb 14-yr old conservative)

How To Read Laterally: A Lesson for New York Times Columnists Including But Not Limited to Bari Weiss | Hapgood (SHE DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING GOOGLE IT, thanks, Sulzfucks)
Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information by Sam Wineburg, Sarah McGrew :: SSRN - In contrast, fact checkers read laterally, leaving a site after a quick scan and opening up new browser tabs in order to judge the credibility of the original site. Compared to the other groups, fact checkers arrived at more warranted conclusions in a fraction of the time.

Mike Caulfield is tired, so tired. on Twitter: "The interesting thing about this for me is it is a great example of how the Russians (and others) just (throw) a ton of stuff out there and see what sticks. Which is really the same model as clickbait publishing I guess. https://t.co/RROWq5krkE"
Heck of a Grasshopper - Four Moves
FACT CHECK: Did a Man in Montana Catch a Three-Foot Long Grasshopper?
ShukerNature: The Giant Grasshopper Of Wisconsin - Focusing Upon A Phoney Photograph

Living in a sea of false signals: Are we being pushed from "trust, but verify" to "verify, then trust"? -- We have a human problem on our hands. Our cognitive abilities are in some ways overmatched by what we have created
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers - Simple Book Production (lateral reading)

The science of fake news | Science -- Contrary to conventional wisdom, robots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate, implying that false news spreads more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it.
Huge MIT Study of Fake News -- The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News -- Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating further, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information ... falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.


Texas Judge Tortured Defendant With Stun Belt to Show 'Power' Court Rules - 'Never before have we seen any behavior like this, nor do we hope to ever see such behavior again' said the court, ruling that Judge George Gallagher violated a man's rights ... During the 2014 trial, Terry Lee Morris was convicted on one count of soliciting the sexual performance of a child online and through text exchanges with a 15-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Outrage Over Footage of Police Officer Beating a Black Man in North Carolina - The New York Times


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Modify my views on guns, or vilify traumatized teens? I have chosen the latter. - The Washington Post
Police: Teen attempted to detonate explosive device at Pine View, researched ISIS | KUTV (UT)
Alert students, police, K9 credited with stopping potential deadly Utah school bombing | KUTV
Trump reopens a seemingly settled video-game debate - In the wake of the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump is reviving an old debate over whether violent video games can trigger violent behavior. There's just one problem: Roughly two decades of research has repeatedly failed to uncover any such link. (Trump is much smarter than your liberal so-called scientists)
'I'll kill you': Threats and violence from the school workers who may soon carry guns -- The Florida Legislature is considering arming certain school employees to protect against school shooters. But at least 19 times, such employees have shown dangerous behavior themselves.
Gov. Malloy: 'NRA has become a terrorist organization'
NRA Says Bronin Putting Politics Before Public Safety - Hartford Courant ("safety" = more guns)
Winchester suspect had two dozen encounters with police in 6 years - The Boston Globe

U.S. Holocaust Museum Revokes Award to Aung San Suu Kyi - The New York Times (now know as the "genocide lady")


Kurdish-led forces in Syria withdraw from fight against ISIS to battle Turkey in Afrin - The Washington Post (not the first time)


Poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal was close to consultant who was linked to the Trump dossier (Putin's working his way down the list)
UK Deepens Investigation Into Possible Poisoning Of Former Russian Spy In England | HuffPost - A counterterrorism unit has taken over the case. Sergei Skripal remains in critical condition.
Sergei Skripal: Russian ex-spy isn't the first victim of a mysterious poisoning in the UK - The Washington Post


What we believe Mueller is investigating - The Washington Post
Mueller Is Teaching This Country a Lesson on the Nature of Corruption - Everything Donald Trump touches turns to, well... And to understand the corruption of the businesses, you have to understand the ability of the man to corrupt everything and everyone he touches. This, of course, includes the country that elected him. Mueller is teaching an awful lesson, but one that is no less important for the view it gives us of our republic and ourselves.

Trump's dangerously thin red line

Hope Hicks told House Intelligence Committee she was hacked, sources say - NBC News
Several White House staffers terminated or reassigned for security clearance issues: Sources - ABC News

Stormy Daniels goes nuclear on Trump, reveals all in new lawsuit The adult film star will not be silenced.
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen tries to silence adult-film star Stormy Daniels - NBC News
hearing some strange legal analyses of the Daniels-Trump lawsuit. I think it's important we understand the ways in which Trump's "Hush Agreement" with Daniels was nonstandard -- and why these deviations from common practice could harm Trump.
#Muellerlujah hashtag on Twitter

Kyle Griffin on Twitter: "The officials who run the federal government's background check system say it would be difficult to approve a permanent security clearance for someone like Jared Kushner who failed to disclose "significant financial entanglements with a foreign adversary"
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "I started accusing Trump of Witness Tampering on Twitter a year ago (regarding Yates, then Comey, then Flynn...). I knew the day would come we'd discover what was always clear from an investigative standpoint: Mueller could, should, and *would* look into it and consider charges. https://t.co/8E4XSNETMo"

Trump Fundraiser's Email Breach Shows Risks Before Midterms ... A top Republican fundraiser for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign learned last week that his email accounts had been hacked, sowing concerns that document leaks could roil another national U.S. election cycle.

Chao Goes Off the Rails on New York-New Jersey Project - But she spent much of the time confirming and defending the administration's attempt to kill a New York and New Jersey rail program. (Trump's revenge on the east coast)

unR?A?D?A?C?K?ted on Twitter: "Sessions's historical amnesia and intellectual dishonesty is stunning ... compared California's new sanctuary city laws to attemps by slave-hoding sourthern states to nullify federal laws ... (it's the same thing, I tell you!)

Senate Democrats Help Advance Bill That Could Increase Risk Of Financial Crisis | HuffPost - But only slightly. Nothing to worry about! -- The Senate bill would relax longstanding capital requirements for small banks and raise the threshold for enhanced prudential regulation from $50 billion in assets to $250 billion, exempting 25 of the 38 largest banks in the U.S. (fuck you bluedogs)

Ben Carson Removes Anti-Discrimination Language From HUD Mission Statement | HuffPost (exclusion and discrimination are back! slavery next)

Trump Charges His Campaign Top Dollar To Rent A Basically Empty Trump Tower Office | HuffPost - His tiny re-election effort spent more on its monthly rent there than his campaign paid for most of the 2016 run.

Blue wave? Texas Republicans outvoted Democrats in the 2018 primaries -- again - Vote counts Tuesday night once again showed how Texas is a red state. Despite an apparent early rush to the polls for Democrats, Republicans ended up casting more ballots in the 2018 primaries.
Here's what happened in the 2018 Texas primaries | The Texas Tribune - More than 1.5 million people voted in the Republican primary, with close to 100 percent reporting, compared to about 1 million Democrats, also with near 100 percent reporting.
National Democrats' strategy comes up short in Texas - A candidate whom the House campaign arm tagged as a carpetbagger and a loser nonetheless advanced to a May runoff. ("National Demorats" = DCCC)
The DCCC's scorched-earth campaign against Texas Democrat Laura Moser backfired


Lupe Valdez, Andrew White headed to runoff to challenge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott | The Texas Tribune - Lupe Valdez, the former Dallas County sheriff, led Mark White, the son of late Gov. Mark White, in vote totals Tuesday night. They were far ahead of the seven other Democrats vying to challenge Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking a second term.

Arizona Teachers Gearing Up for West Virginia-Style Action | Phoenix New Times

It's time to give socialism a try


Give me a break, Axios - The Washington Post (c'mon, Eric, they're smarticles)

Eschaton: RIP Chris Cillizza - He was murdered by words. Soledad O'Brien killed him.
Soledad O'Brien on Twitter: "It's not accurate. It's not funny. It's not clever. It's not analysis. It's facile. It shows an actual lack of understanding of reality tv (can't believe I'm typing that). It's mediocre. It's a time when viewers need to understand what's going on at the highest levels of govt. https://t.co/xqcMlIOopa"
Cillizza Destroyed - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The fact that CNN fired Soledad O'Brien and hired Chris Cillizza tells you all you need to know about the network.
Donald Trump is producing the greatest reality show ever - CNNPolitics - Analysis by Chris Cillizza

Eschaton: The Better Stephens - This isn't so much as a parody as Pareene proving he could crank out columns in the style of the NYT's latest conservative affirmative action hire. It's a joke aimed at his editors, not him, in other words. It's a lot better than an actual column by Stephens (though bad in all the appropriate ways), who is both dumb and lazy. Stephens should just pay Pareene half his salary to write his column for him be his research assistant.
James Bennet Affirmative Action Hire Has Another Nuclear Take For You - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Bari Weiss, straight from the WSJ to your intellectually un-diversified brain)

Fox News keeps running columns from the same guy explaining, "I'm a Democrat but [insert agreement with GOP" ("I'm a Republican pretending to be a Democrat on Fox")

Rafael 'Ted' Cruz accuses his Democratic opponent of changing his name to appeal to voters


Mississippi Senate passes nation's most restrictive abortion ban, clinic plans to sue -- After a heated floor debate, the Senate on Tuesday passed a bill 35-14 to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy ... Opponents of the measure questioned how a mother's health could be a priority when the proposal does not make exceptions for cases of rape or incest. (the "Republicans Love Rape and Incest" bill)

Idaho Transgender Community Celebrates Victory In Birth Certificate Ruling | HuffPost - A federal judge in Boise ruled this week that barring transgender people from changing the assigned gender in their birth certificates is unconstitutional. (fuck you Mormons)

Mississippi Town Approves Pride Parade After Fierce Backlash | HuffPost (they got a little too much attention for their gay hatred)

A Florida provocateur has his day before the U.S. Supreme Court -- again (Fane Lozman vs corrupt authority and the ability of public official to arrest you for criticizing them)


Five myths about domestic violence - The Washington Post - No, abusers are not poor and uneducated.


Allegations of employee mistreatment roil renowned Brookline trauma center - The Boston Globe - Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a best-selling author on trauma whose research has attracted a world-wide following, has been fired from his job over allegations that he bullied and denigrated employees at his renowned Trauma Center. (for being traumatizing) His firing capped a tumultuous three months at the center that van der Kolk founded 35 years ago. Executive director Joseph Spinazzola, like van der Kolk a longtime advocate for abuse victims, was removed in November over his alleged mistreatment of female employees ... Dr. Martin Teicher, director of developmental biopsychiatry research at McLean Hospital, said ...


The NYPD Is Ready to Arrest Harvey Weinstein. Will District Attorney Cy Vance Finally Agree to Let Them? - A police official says that the department is ready to arrest him for sexually assaulting Lucia Evans. (they're coming for you, Harvey)

In 2011, Portland Police Investigated a Sexual Assault Complaint Against Billionaire Mark Cuban. He Wasn't Charged. Here's What Happened ... While they smiled for the camera, she claimed, he thrust his hand down the back of her jeans and penetrated her vagina with his finger. ... And on Feb. 20, Sports Illustrated published a searing investigation of the workplace culture in the Maverick's front office, portraying an organization "rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior: alleged public fondling by the team president; outright domestic assault by a high-profile member of the Mavs.com staff; unsupportive or even intimidating responses from superiors"

'Doomsday clock' professor put on leave amid allegations of sexual misconduct - Arizona State University professor Lawrence Krauss, internationally known as an outspoken atheist and for his work on the symbolic "Doomsday Clock" has been put on paid leave by university officials after allegations of sexual misconduct were published in a recent BuzzFeed article ... denies everything ... "including groping women, ogling and making sexist jokes to undergrads, and telling an employee at ASU, where he is a tenured professor, that he was going to buy her birth control so she didn't inconvenience him with maternity leave."


Eschaton: Why Didn't They Listen To His Ideas? - Because despite not holding any community meetings until now, they know exactly what his "ideas" are: to build a football stadium in the middle of a residential neighborhood so people don't have to take a 15 minute subway ride (it's door to door) to see football games -- Protesters shut down a Temple University town hall meeting called to discuss plans for a controversial football stadium within 10 minutes of its start Tuesday.


Amelia Earhart mystery solved? Scientist '99 percent' sure bones found belong to aviator

Balenciaga looks a little bonkers now. But trust us: In a few years, your eyes will adjust. - The Washington Post (or your brain)

Yes, Those Are Probably Bugs In Your Paprika. Here's What To Do. | HuffPost

James Corden had one thing right: We're neurologically wired to love puppies ... alloparenting means "other" parenting ... Scientists believe that human babies are so vulnerable and needy that our species would never had survived unless every adult member of a human troop was willing help take care of them.


Geek Squad's Relationship with FBI Is Cozier Than We Thought

Fyre Festival Founder Faces Prison After Pleading Guilty To Wire Fraud | HuffPost - "I grossly underestimated the resources that would be necessary to hold an event of this magnitude" said Billy McFarland

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'It's Fake News!': Congresswoman Who Said Most Mass Shooters Are Democrats Cuts Off Interview | HuffPost - Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) walked away from a television interview on Monday after she was asked about her claim that Democrats are more prone to be mass shooters ... The fact-checking site Snopes found that a popular list circulating among conservatives purporting to show that mass shooters are more likely to be Democrats was riddled with faulty, inaccurate and unsubstantiated claims. The list was first shared online in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, according to the website. (fake news I tell you, fake!)
Broward sheriff's captain who gave initial order to 'stage' not enter Stoneman Douglas is ID'd (they were waiting for some good guys with guns to happen by)
Bumble Bans Guns Across Platform -- The Beehive


North Korea Signals Willingness to 'Denuclearize,' South Says (learning from Trump is just lie)

Additional Thoughts on Chinese Hegemony - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Either way, the United States needs to rethink how it approaches international order; for the first time since the 19th century, it will soon face a situation in which it cannot assume even a "first among equals" position in determining the nature of the international order.


I'm Sorry for Creating the 'Gerasimov Doctrin' I was the first to write about Russia's infamous high-tech military strategy. One small problem: it doesn't exist -- how in the modern world, the use of propaganda and subversion means that's "a perfectly thriving state can, in a matter of months and even days, be transformed into an arena of fierce armed conflict, become a victim of foreign intervention, and sink into a web of chaos, humanitarian catastrophe, and civil war." (- well, it does sound familiar - ) The Russians honestly -- however wrongly -- believe that these were not genuine protests against brutal and corrupt governments, but regime changes orchestrated in Washington, or rather, Langley ... Some major operations are coordinated, largely through the presidential administration, but most are not. Rather, operations are conceived and generally carried out by a bewildering array of "political entrepreneurs" hoping that their success will win them the Kremlin's favor: diplomats and spies, criminals and think-tankers, oligarchs and journalists ... How can a country with an economy perhaps the size of Canada's an army that is still going through an expensive modernization and already bogged down in two wars, and precious little soft power compete with a larger, richer coalition of democracies? (MATO)
Weaponizing Kleptocracy: Putin's Hybrid Warfare - Marius Laurinavicius


EU Raises Stakes for Trump by Aiming Levies at GOP Heartland - Bloomberg - The European Union is preparing punitive tariffs on iconic U.S. brands produced in key Republican constituencies, raising political pressure on President Donald Trump to ditch his plan for taxing steel imports ... motorcycles, jeans and bourbon whiskey (Harley-Davidson is based in Ryan-ruled Wississippi)

Gary Cohn Will Resign as Trump's Top Economic Adviser
Trump Confronted Cohn on Trade Hours Before Resignation, Sources Say - Bloomberg 9Trump: "you wll obey and kiss my ass" Cohn: "hastalavista")

Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Received Inside Info From Russia Probe - Closed-door testimony before the House Russia probe is supposed to stay behind closed doors. Somehow, it got into the hands of another witness< -- and key Trump confidante -- instead ... Accusations of improper coordination with the White House have dogged Nunes, who was part of Trump's presidential transition team, since the investigation's inception. (little Russian ratfucker is always at work)
Special counsel has examined episodes involving Michael Cohen, Trump' longtime lawyer ... Cohen is also among nine Trump associates whose communications with former Trump aide Sam Nunberg are being sought by the special counsel

Adviser to Emirates With Ties to Trump Aides Is Cooperating With Special Counsel - The New York Times - An adviser to the United Arab Emirates with ties to current and former aides to President Trump is cooperating with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and gave testimony last week to a grand jury, according to two people familiar with the matter -- George Nader ... The meeting, convened by the crown prince, brought together a Russian investor close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia with Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and an informal adviser to Mr. Trump's team during the presidential transition

The 42 craziest quotes from Sam Nunberg's absolutely bonkers CNN interviews
Ex-Trump Aide: Trump 'may very well have done something during the election with the Russians'
Awful scandal porn: Nunberg gone wild - Axios - Now an ethical debate is raging in journalism circles. If your source seems drunk or drugged or just plain out of his mind, what iThose close to Nunberg said they fear he was drunk while going on a cable news blitz.
s your responsibility? (get him another drink, duh!)
'What the Fuck?" : Former Trump Aide Sam Nunberg's Mueller Meltdown Leaves Friends Petrified - Those close to Nunberg said they fear he was drunk while going on a cable news blitz.
Sam Nunberg's Media Meltdown -- and What He Might Want to Remember About Special Prosecutors' Powers

Trump mocks 'lowest rated Oscans':"We don't have stars anymore -- except your president" (highest-rated star president ever)
Trump complicit with Scaramucci attacks on Kelly - CNNPolitics - The President has emboldened Anthony Scaramucci, the boisterous former communications director who was fired after just 10 days, to continue attacking White House chief of staff John Kelly during his cable news appearances, a source familiar with the situation told CNN. (totally normal)

Stormy Daniels sues Trump, says 'hush agreement' invalid because he never signed
Top Republicans urge Sessions to appoint special counsel to probe FBI - POLITICO - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy sent a letter Tuesday to Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, urging them to name a special counsel to review Republican's allegations that the FBI misled a federal judge to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance of Page, whose contacts with Kremlin-connected Russians had drawn agent's scrutiny (benghazi tactics otherwise known as beating a dead horse)

Senate investigators want answers from Reddit and Tumblr on Russia meddling - The Washington Post ... Reddit more broadly suffered from "indirect propaganda" that was posted and shared by thousands of users who are "mostly American, and appear to be unwittingly promoting Russian propaganda." (dumb russian stooges, thought clinton was a pedophile and a cannibal: the "gross factor" because conservatives are projecting their disgustingness)

Fortunately, Trump doesn't have what it takes to be a dictator (Republican Gerson normalizing Trump, linked only for the comments)

George W. Bush Reportedly Sounds Off On Trump: 'Sorta Makes Me Look Pretty Good' | HuffPost - Former president zings Trump in candid comments.
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The Trump presidency could cost the nation more than we realize (corrupt traitor Republicans designed it to dismantle democracy because that's who there are)

Warren slams senators for backing bank deregulation bill - politico
Why Are Democrats Helping Trump Dismantle Dodd-Frank? - The New York Times - The Crapo bill is unusual in today's s hyperpartisan environment: It has over 10 Democratic co-sponsors, many from swing or red states and up for re-election this year -- like Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Jon Tester of Montana and Claire McCaskill of Missouri -- making its passage possible ... What do Democrats get in return? Nothing substantive that they should want. (fucking fake dems get to look like evil Republcans +it's really called the "Crapo bill")

Man hired to sweep Scott Pruitt's office for bugs is in business with a top EPA security official ... Pasquale 'Nino" Perrotta (showrunners just slipped that one in +Pruitt is a weird little paranoid fucker)



West Virginia lawmakers reach deal to give striking teachers pay raise - CNN - a 5% pay raise to all state employees, including striking teachers and school staff ... West Virginia ranks 48th in the nation in terms of how much it pays its teachers ... There will be no tax increase to offset the raise, and Blair said the government will see a $20 million reduction in spending to come out of cuts to general services and Medicaid (so, you lose anyway)
The Teachers Revolt in West Virginia - The New York Times


Democratic Party Set To Show Its Force In Nation's First 2018 Primary | HuffPost - Democrats in Texas have turned out in massive numbers for early voting.
If Texas Turns Blue, It Starts Tonight: Three Districts to Watch ... In the state's 15 largest counties, almost 50,000 more Democrats than Republicans have already cast votes. Compared to the number of Democrats who voted early in the 2014 midterm cycle, their early vote numbers this year are up 105 percent.

Nashville Mayor Megan Barry is expected to announce her resignation Tuesday morning amid scandal - The resignation comes amid multiple investigations into her affair with her bodyguard, police Sgt. Rob Forrest (she would have gotten away with it except for the nude selfies)
>br /> Thad Cochran seat: Mike Espy plans to run - Espy served as a Democrat in the U.S. House representing the 2nd District from 1987 to 1993 -- the first African-American to hold a Mississippi congressional seat since Reconstruction, then served as secretary of agriculture in the Clinton administration, the first African-American to hold that post.



GOP Senate hopeful's radio show listed pro-southern secession group as a 'favorite' website - Republican Senate candidate Chris McDaniel (Fuckassippi and traitors forever)

The Utah State Bar emailed a photo of a topless woman to lawyers00 and now it is "investigating" how it happened (haha Mormon porn, they have "no idea" how it got in there)

Evangelical leader Collin Hansen believes we live in 'a culture full of fear and loathing' - "President Trump says that he's never had anything to ask forgiveness for. I mean it is very confusing" (you voted for the Antichrist, dude, and you're going down with him, it's not that "confusiong")


Florida school removes teacher who hosted white nationalist podcast - NBC News - a middle school teacher from her classroom after it was revealed that she had secretly hosted a white nationalist podcast, raising concerns that she may have exposed her students to such ideology.


Charlie Walk: Music Exec Accused of Sexual Misconduct - Rolling Stone - Five women accuse Republic Group president of long pattern of harassment and misconduct (creepy little fucker is toast)


Jordan Peterson's Gospel of Masculinity
Talking Basement-Dwellers With Jordan Peterson, Reddit's New Favorite Philosopher
Jordan B Peterson on Twitter: "CBC interview yesterday offers stunning proof of my appalling character (having failed to watch The Metaphysics of Pepe: https://t.co/udlyBEnRED) https://t.co/oPRBFgslCT"
Defending The Big People - Jordan Peterson Is Having A Moment -- We Should Ignore It


"He Can Go from a B Player to an A Player" : At Rolling Stone, Ryan Lizza Is Writing, Jann and Gus Wenner Are Still Kicking Around, and Jay Penske Is the Media Tycoon du Jour - Jay Penske, the scion of an auto-racing empire, has a legitimate shot to turn the baby-boomer culture bible around - if he can make it safe for millennials. (sorry, none of that made sense)

Vice claimed 'Broklyn barbecue' was world famous. Now it is -- in the worst way possible

These Are The 'Most Millennial' Baby Names | HuffPost


Alabama man arrested 4 days after criticizing his local sheriff has been released from jail amid public outcry : news

ELI5: Why is an electric toothbrush so much better than a manual toothbrush? : explainlikeimfive
Which movies have the largest disparity when ranked by men and women? : movies

Employees kept crashing into the glass walls at Apple's new headquarters. Here's what they told 911 (a metaphor for Jobs' "vision")
Humans slapped and shouted at robot cars in two of six DMV crash reports this year (we need a robot in the robot to protect the robot)
New documents reveal FBI paid Geek Squad repair staff as informants | ZDNet

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Nor'easter left path of destruction up and down coast
Here's how our second nor easter in a week is shaping up
Hundreds of trees were knocked down by Friday's powerful nor'easter

Despite Parkland, States Plow Ahead With New Pro-Gun Bills -- Even as gun control legislation remains stalled in Congress, the NRA has campaigned for 15 measures in 11 states that would further loosen gun restrictions. Among other things, the bills would strengthen existing stand-your-ground laws (Wyoming and Idaho), allow people to carry handguns without a permit (Oklahoma), and expand the list of places where people can carry guns (numerous states) ... "We just need to eliminate gun-free zones,"
Wounds From Military-Style Rifles? 'A Ghastly Thing to See' Trauma surgeons tell what it is really like to try to repair such devastating injuries. "Bones are exploded, soft tissue is absolutely destroyed"
Frantic Florida lawmaker has a complete meltdown in bonkers AM Joy interview about arming teachers -- Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) pressed for "multipliers of force" on school campuses who engage in crossfire with potential shooters as way to make schools safer.

Italy's voters choose populists, deliver stinging rebuke to Europe (thanks, Austere Angela, couldn't have seen that one coming)
Italy's election is another blow to the European establishment (NYT just can't say "victory for fascism")

Trump dangles Israel trip for new embassy; mum on peace plan - ABC News (they could share a jail cell in Jerusalem)

US Embassy in Turkey closes due to security threat - POLITICO - Turkish authorities have detained several suspects on charges of plotting an attack.


Police evict Trump staff from Panama hotel amid ongoing dispute - ABC News - More than a dozen police wearing bulletproof vests entered the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Panama on Monday morning and evicted the Trump Organization's staff ... The Trump name was removed from the outside of the building shortly thereafter.


Critically ill man is former Russian spy - BBC News - He and a woman, 33, were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping centre in Salisbury on Sunday afternoon. - The substance has not been identified.


ICE Shackled 92 Somalis for 40 Hours On a Failed Deportation Flight. That Was Just the Start of the Abuse.

State Dept. Was Granted $120 Million to Fight Russian Meddling. It Has Spent $0. - The New York Times (why, it's almost like ...)

Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier | The New Yorker - How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump's ties to Russia - Jean Mayer ... "It was as if all criminal roads led to Trump Tower," Steele told friends.
Our man in Moscow - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Amazing reportage from Jane Mayer in the New Yorker. I hate to excerpt any of it, but: ... " Obama, instead of issuing a statement himself, said nothing." (and here we are)
"I Would Not Want to Influence an Election, With Notably Rare Exceptions" (Mayer makes clear how much they knew, and when, and still did nothing because Comey didn't want to influence an alection rigged by the Russians! so let's look at Weiner's laptop!)
Study: Hillary Clinton's emails got as much front-page coverage in 6 days as policy did in 69 A stark finding from an analysis of New York Times coverage.

Escort Says Audio Recordings Show Russian Meddling in U.S. Election - The New York Times ... said from behind bars in Bangkok on Monday that she had more than 16 hours of audio recordings that could help shed light on Russian meddling in United States elections ... Ms. Vashukevich, who described herself as close to the Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg V. Deripaska ... a billionaire with close ties to Russia'ss president, Vladimir V. Putin, also has business ties to Paul J. Manafort, President Trump

Mueller Subpoena of Trump Documents Hints at Corruption - President* Trump is scared. He should be - This means that Mueller and his staff have likely concluded now that the entire Trump For President campaign was a corrupt enterprise in one way or another almost since the moment it was first conceived and that the same can be said of the Trump presidency - The whole damn dirty deal is one great writhing ball of poisonous snakes and Mueller seems to be perilously close to untangling it ... The working presumption of the Mueller investigation now is that nobody is clean in all of this. Everybody has something to tell about everybody else.
Special counsel wants documents on Trump, numerous campaign associates - NBC News - investigators want emails, text messages, work papers, telephone logs and other documents going back to Nov. 1, 2015, 4= months after Trump launched his campaign.
Mueller's hit list - 1. Carter Page 2. Corey Lewandowski 3. Donald J. Trump 4. Hope Hicks 5. Keith Schiller 6. Michael Cohen 7. Paul Manafort 8. Rick Gates 9. Roger Stone 10. Steve Bannon

Trump says Obama administration investigated campaign's alleged Russia ties to help Clinton ... "Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling." (gettin' hot in there, little Donnie?)
The Steele Dossier Is Overflowing with Russian Meddling - At what point does circumstantial evidence become something else entirely?

Trump is implicated in his attorney's Stormy Daniels payment for the first time ... After Mr Trump's victory, Mr. Cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to Ms. Clifford ... the first time a major news outlet has reported that Cohen had spoken even behind the scenes about Trump being involved in the payment. Previously, the origins of the payment were more mysterious.

With Roles Reduced, Kushner And Ivanka Trump's Fate Uncertain (except for that jail cell)
"Now, the most shocking thing about that is if somehow only four foreign governments thought they could manipulate him," said Oliver. "How is it not more than that? What nation looked at this man and thought, 'Forget it! His mind iCA + PA = half-way there:
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Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg called before grand jury, says he will refuse to go - The Washington Post - Nunberg said he was planning to go on Bloomberg TV and tear up the subpoena ... "Putin is too smart to collude with Donald Trump."
Sam Nunberg Starts Talking. You Know Who's Listening ... There was one piquant passage that occurred when Tur asked him if Sam thought that Mueller had the goods on the president*. " I think they may. I think he may have done something during the election. But I don't know that for sure."
Fargo - Mr. Jerry Lundegaard (Arrested) - YouTube

'Trump, Inc.' Podcast Extra: The Trump Organization Ordered Golf Course Markers With the Presidential Seal. That May Be Illegal. ("I AM THE STATE," Trump said, furiously)

Democrats may have already won the House - Axios - The correlation between the president's approval number and first-term midterm losses -- party: In the six times that the president's job approval was under 50%, the average loss was more than 43 seats. The Democrats need 24 to flip the House. - eCA + PA = half-way there

10 years after financial crisis, Senate prepares to roll back banking rules - The Washington Post (took Dems 8 yrs to fix the last one, time to loot and pillage again)


Ben Carson on His Vexing Reign at HUD: Brain Surgery Was Easier Than This - The New York Times

Exclusive: Congress requires many unpaid interns to sign nondisclosure agreements - Vox - What happens in Congress stays in Congress.

Trump's Voter Fraud Czar, And His Claims About Illegal Voting, Are About To Go On Trial | HuffPost - This could really be in a lot of ways the case where we really put the evidence of fraud on trial in this country (the fraud of voter fraud) Kobach has suggested that 127 noncitizens in Kansas registered or attempted to register to vote in the state anytime before 2013, instances which he said diluted a legitimate voter's ballot. That 127 number represents less than 1 percent of the total number of voters in Kansas. But Kobach has said there could be more than 18,000 noncitizens on the rolls. (so, 6,000 more non-citizens on the rolls than the 12,700 on "the rolls")

The coming Trump landslide - I know Donny Deutsch only too well. A stereotypical, spoiled, lucky sperm club, New York liberal ... Trump turns out to be a brilliant political strategist. He's expanding the GOP tent like no other Republican in history. (Sherman Adelson ordered this one up)
What to watch in Texas: Can Democrats maintain their enthusiasm advantage? - NBC News - ahead of Tuesdays's primaries in Texas ... the early-vote numbers are stunning: Nearly 50,000 more Democrats than Republicans already have voted in the state's (landslide! I tell you, landslide!)
Emerson College ePoll: Statistical Dead Heat in PA 18th Congressional Special Election - Democrat Conor Lamb leads Republican Rick Saccone 48% to 45%, 10 days out from election (shut up, it's a Republican landslide!)

The source - Columbia Journalism Review - How hacked emails and a yacht in Monaco ended my career at The Wall Street Journal

Why It's Hard for Conservatives to Date in DC Right Now - Fewer people are hooking up across party lines, and Republicans say it's because Democrats are too quick to dismiss their dating-app profiles. (the are all wearing their stupid MAGA hats)


Why Are We Still Arguing About Marijuana? - Move along, people - Azar, we should all recall, is a creature of Big Pharma. He used to be the president of Eli Lilly, which is as big as big pharma gets. It's no surprise that he might not be wild about a pain remedy that doesn't come in a pill and that you can grow pretty much in a window-box in your third-floor walk-up.


Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People -- And Still Keep Their Jobs Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses -- from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people -- got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorker's lives -- from 2011 to 2015 at least 319 New York Police Department employees who committed offenses serious enough to merit firing were allowed to keep their jobs (thanks, Bloomfuck)

2 children dead after being struck by car in Brooklyn - ABC News - Police say the driver was in custody after the incident in Park Slope.

Oscar Ratings Down Double Digits, Eye All-Time Low In Early Estimates | Deadline (even more than the Super Bowl)

Dorm Living for Professionals Comes to San Francisco - The New York Times ... Starcity residents get a bedroom of 130 square feet to 220 square feet ... Starcity rooms go for $1,400 to $2,400 a month fully furnished, with utilities and Wi-Fi included. (one 10x13 room with a bed and no room for anything else)
Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley - The New York Times


Tennessee school removes Confederate flag, lynching murals : news - Lynching murals? What fucking school has lynching murals?


Reddit Admits to Removing a 'Few Hundred' Russian Propaganda Accounts. : news


Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images? | Technology | The Guardian - Social network admits survey asking whether it should permit adults to ask 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures was a mistake ("mistake" - pedos are a core market)
Rare, Cox Media's Facebook-driven conservative site, is shutting down - Axios - undefined - another example of a viral website built on Facebook traffic that is shutting down after Facebook announced it would be making changes to its News Feed algorithm to weed out publisher content
Amazon Is Exploring Checking Accounts for the Young and the Unbanked: Report ("what's a bank account?")

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Storm recovery continues two days after nor'easter
Some worry Boston officials aren't doing enough to prepare for more giant storms - For the second time in weeks, Boston and the scenic South Shore a few miles southeast were lashed by yet another hundred-year storm
'The storms we're seeing now, people thought this was decades in the future'
St. Maarten Is Still Striving to Recover from Its Worst Hurricane in a Century | The New Yorker

The Gun-Control Debate After Parkland | The New Yorker - Half of all gun owners say that ownership is essential to their identity. Fear is a factor: nearly half of male gun owners and almost a third of female owners say that they have a loaded gun "easily accessible to them at all times at home." (them and their children) many of them considered firearms crucial to reclaiming a sense of purpose, especially if they were no longer breadwinners
'SNL' usually avoids parodying tragedy. Then Trump said he'd confront a school shooter unarmed.
On the street where Jeffrey Yao lived, fear grew slowly and won't soon leave
Mother arrested after boy shoots 4-year-old sister in Ashland County - an 8-year-old boy shot his 4-year-old sister ... the 4-year-old was shot "multiple times" (he kept blazing away at her)


The crisis next door -- Mass exodus of desperate Venezuelans is overwhelming neighboring countries - The massive scale of the exodus is being compared to the flow of Syrians into Western Europe in 2015. And, just as in that crisis, countries overwhelmed by the flood of new arrivals are beginning to bar their doors. (Maduro's plan)

Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden's middle class


The Genocide the U.S. Didn't See Coming -- Barack Obama was determined to open up to Myanmar. Now the country's military is slaughtering its most vulnerable ethnic group. Could the United States have prevented it? ... On September 15, 2016, America's political and business elite gathered at the Four Seasons in Georgetown to honor Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's beloved icon of democracy, on her visit to the U.S. capital ... The day before the Four Seasons bash, Obama had pledged to do away with the last major economic sanctions on Myanmar ... Ben Rhodes, the influential Obama aide known for pushing the narrative that America should engage rogue regimes in hopes of changing their behavior. Ultimately, Obama had sided with the Rhodes camp ... They worried that Obama was so determined to fortify his legacy of outreach to adversaries that he was ignoring how far from a true democracy Myanmar still was, and how splintered a nation it remained. (Barry has a lot of "legacies")


Mexican man assumes American's identity for 37 years, steals $361,000 in government benefits


Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day' (yes, he really said that)
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "Things we've just learned Trump has no interest in: the Constitution (due process); American democracy (presidential term limits or elections); courtroom oaths (furiously berating Hope Hicks for her truthful Congressional testimony). #MAGA? Or hatred for all America stands for?"


Trump trade adviser says no exceptions for allies on new aluminum and steel tariffs - The Washington Post ("Fuck Canada," Trump said, "it's a shithole country")

Public doesn't trust Trump on midterms meddling -- A majority of Americans have little to no faith that the Trump administration will stop foreign governments from interfering in the 2018 midterm elections

Mueller's Focus on Adviser to Emirates Suggests Broader Investigation
Amy Fiscus on Twitter: "NEW: Mueller appears to be broadening the investigation; he's looking at whether an adviser to the UAE is influencing US policy
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "See my prior threads on Trump Jr.'s secret trip to the UAE, Erik Prince's multiple ties to the UAE, and, days ago, my thread on the UAE and U.S. aluminum policy. Regular readers of this feed will not be surprised to see this New York Times story or the UAE-U.S. policy connection. https://t.co/i3mWYSGv20"
Mueller Is Now Looking Into Middle Eastern Influence as Part of the Trump Investigation


Donald Trump's bubble presidency - He has largely done away with the political optics of rubbing shoulders with members of the public, instead cloistering himself in the White House and at his clubs.

'Off the rails' : House Russia probe hits new low - Some House Republicans want to end their Russia investigation soon, even as Democrats insist many crucial questions about Kremlin meddling remain unanswered ... Amid the anticipation of a GOP push to wind down the probe, Schiff also released a list of Democrat' outstanding requests for subpoenas that Republicans have failed to grant. He accused GOP members of constructing the fagade of a thorough probe but allowing recalcitrant witnesses to avoid answering central questions and refusing to deploy the committee's vast subpoena power to compel crucial information. (some dare call it treason)

Trump ignored 'bright line' on discussing Russia with Hicks - 'The president has put her in a very precarious position (Hopey can "model" her prison cell) '
One source close to the White House characterized the reason for Hick's departure as "getting tired of beating her head off a wall" ... The White House pushes back against reports of chaos and disillusionment, insisting that such stories are sensationalized, and the product of sources with axes to grind and a biased media

BuzzFeed News on Twitter: "An ex-White House official said he's spoken with more aides inside the White House who are trying to leave, but not necessarily getting the kinds of high-paying offers in the corporate world as former aides usually do https://t.co/xw1L5yEcHq"

Denis McDonough: McConnell 'watered down' Russia warning in 2016 (and bipartisan Barry cooperated/colluded)

Trump will never 'let it go' that Jeff Sessions' recusal from Russia probe was 'original sin': Priebus

Eschaton - Treating Maxine Waters like this is just normal for DC. Been normal for decades. -- Trump made an incredibly racist crack about Maxine Waters needing to take an IQ test tonight at the Gridiron and it has barely even registered a mention in coverage of the event. An appalling moment that I can't believe isn't everyone's lead takeaway ("takes" and "takeaways" are the new "facts" in Trump era)
Trump Says Rep. Maxine Waters Needs 'An IQ Test' At Gridiron Dinner

What if Republicans Win the Midterms? - The New York Times (Putin will laugh)

36 women flood Texas races to flip male-dominated House seats blue
As Primaries Begin, Divided Voters Weigh What It Means to Be a Democrat - The New York Times - Representative Daniel Lipinski, a conservative-leaning Democrat
The Lefty Democratic Shift On Wall Street Is Happening For Real

Steve Silberman on Twitter: "Please don't spread this video of a student being dragged away by cops as she accuses Steven Mnuchin of engaging in "the politics of fascism." Mnuchin asked UCLA not to post it. Thank you. https://t.co/AynOpaoyKm"

Corporation Shouldn't Be Political Except When They Should - Let's check in on Fred Hiatt's latest conservative affirmative action hire and see her would-be gotchas turn into hilarious own goals: (McMegan McAddled)

What The Guardian has learned trying to build a more intelligent story format -- one that knows what you know -- Like Circa before it, The Guardian aims to atomize a big breaking story into its individual parts -- and then be smart about showing you the right ones at the right time. (because "whole stories" are way too much reading unless you throw a couple of podcasts in so lets make them a paragraph long, plus "core elements" which used to be known as "sentences" and also, "smarticles")



Oscars Security: LAPD Will Be Out in Force On the Carpet - Variety (prime terror target)
Catt Sadler Slams E! for Firing Red-Carpet Producer - Variety
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How Your Oscars Sausage Gets Made - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Emily Nussbaum on Twitter: "Can't say these aren't illuminating


Ryan Seacrest Faces Potential Oscar Red Carpet Delay From E! Over Allegations | Deadline

Self-defense gadgetry for women, from locking panties to man-repelling bracelets - The Washington Post - Is this what the women of 2018 need? (it' a start, anyway)

In the maestro's thrall -- They were known as 'levinities' -- the young musical acolytes who bent to the will of James Levine in all things, back when the conductor was the brightest emerging star in conducting. From the outside, it seemed a charmed circle; the reality inside was otherwise: dark, sexually charged, and often demeaning. (creepy little gay asshole)


What about sex did you think was normal until you met your second partner? : AskReddit

Why you cannot quit Amazon Prime -- even if maybe you should

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Flooding and high winds are expected to continue Saturday - The Boston Globe (pathetic article, no reporters left at the Globe)
Yesterday's Storm Damage in Massachusetts : CatastrophicFailure
Watertown Police: Avoid Arsenal Street | Watertown, MA Patch - The storm has downed several poles on the road.
8 Utility Poles Crash Down in Storm In Watertown + CBS Boston
Onset firefighter seriously injured in hit and run pedestrian crash - The Boston Globe

'Just try to keep calm' - How one Parkland student's phone became his lifeline, and his voice
Fla. Senate rejects assault weapons ban, holds moment of silence for shooting victims - The Washington Post (and then went back to taking the NRA's "contributions")
The best available evidence suggests NRA-backed gun policies are making crime worse - The Washington Post
The real reason Congress banned assault weapons in 1994 -- and why it worked
Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones' YouTube channel


Footage shows Israeli Border Policeman throw grenade at Palestinian couple carrying infant : worldnews

Theresa May: 'Life is going to be different' after Brexit (but much better!) warned her people that they must accept some trade-offs to achieve the independence their government seeks, even as she asked the Europeans to, please, seek compromise on the issues of trade, tariffs and borders she said are essential ... "I want to be straight with people," said May ("ok, you stupid fucks, you're doomed, just like those idiot in the U.S. who thought they were "draining the swamp")

Why Italy's Insular Election Is More Important Than It Looks (the fascists are back: Make Italy Fucked Again)
How Italy does Putin's work -- Sympathy for the Russian president among many lawmakers and voters is out in the open. (and Burlusconi is back!)


s Social App Becomes The Most Downloaded In 18 Countries - It remains unclear as to why Vero, founded in 2015, surged in popularity this week. It has an average 2 out of 5 star reviews on both app stores. (Russian bots, ya think?)


Lindsey Graham: War with North Korea would be 'worth it' in the long run (twisted Lindsey has always been a monster +'hey, what's a few million dead non-white people?")


Canada, top exporter of steel and aluminum to U.S., 'flabbergasted" by Trump's tariff proposals (typical Canadian response to American idiocy)
TBogg - Totally King of New New California on Twitter: "Trump was pissed at Kushner, so he imposed steel tariffs. Tomorrow his cheeseburger will be late, so he'll bomb Iowa
Trump escalates trade war, threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs - The Washington Post (baby president is having a tantrum)


It's time to talk about Nastya Rybka -- the sex worker from Belarus who has plausibly claimed to have intel on Trump's ties to the Kremlin and is seeking asylum to tell her story. No longer a sideshow, this developing story is now in major media
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "28/ Trump has at some point lied about *every aspect* of his Moscow trip which suggests he has something to hide about it."
34/ So YES, Mueller's team -- I say with confidence -- believes it likely such a tape exists. (For all the foregoing reasons, and *also* because many Russian journalists have confirmed for U.S. journalists that such a recording would be Putin's M.O. for a high-value target like Trump.) (so yes, the Pee-Me tape is real and Putin has it)
35/ So the question is whether Rybka would *know* the women who went to Trump's room -- or know those who know the women and could act as witnesses for Mueller in trying to access those women. Here, again, we get a reasonably strong YES for reasons you can probably already guess at.

Intelligence veterans sound the alarm over House Intel Committee partisanship - Business Insider - "You've got the Republicans in the hot seat, clearly cooperating with the White House, to beat up the White House's intelligence and law enforcement agencies. That's unprecedented." ... Nunes said last month that he is planning on releasing a series of additional memos raising questions about the intelligence community and multiple federal government agencies, like the State Department. And while it remains to be seen how fiercely Democrats will push back, in many ways, the damage may already be done.

Week 41: Mueller's Digging Picks Up Speed - POLITICO Magazine - burying Russians and lobbyists. How long before he dumps Trump in the hole?
The Hill on Twitter: "Obama AG: Mueller has enough evidence to charge Trump with obstruction of justice https://t.co/CUxRZhiOOw "
Holder predicts Mueller trying to bolster obstruction of justice case | TheHill < br /> 'Pure madness' : Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages - Trump is now a president in transition, at times angry and increasingly isolated. He fumes in private that just about every time he looks up at a television screen, the cable news headlines are trumpeting yet another scandal. He voices frustration that son-in-law Jared Kushner has few on-air defenders. He revives old grudges. And he confides to friends that he is uncertain about whom to trust ... in an unorthodox presidency in which emotion, impulse and ego often drive events ... "Pure madness" ... "I think the president is starting to wobble in his emotional stability and this is not going to end well" ... he thinks the American people are finally starting to conclude that the Democrats, as opposed to his campaign, colluded with the Russians ... Trump jetted Friday to his favorite refuge, his private Mar-a-Lago Club in South Florida, where he dined on the gilded patio with old friends
Trump Is Coming Apart as the World Comes Apart Around Him - This week has been different.

John Kelly Caught Peddling More Bullshit About the Rob Porter Scandal (it was just "emotional" abuse, which all men do)


Jared Kushner entanglements increasingly concern President Trump: Sources - ABC News (there's stupid and then there's Jared)
Jared Kushner Backed Qatar Blockade a Month After Qataris Wouldn't Finance His Property (dad will go back to jail, along with his crooked kid)


Seth Abramson on Twitter: "I recently called for Trump-Russia analysts to stop erasing the women of Trumpworld from the Russia investigation -- as some of those closest to Trump's clandestine schemes are smart, talented women. Now @page88 has leapt into the breach with this great essay
Ivanka Trump: Born to legitimize corruption and make the shoddy look cute ... One person present said, "It was like Princess Ivanka had laid the sword on Flynn's shoulders and said "Risa and go forth" ... It's impossible to keep track of all the gangsters Ivanka has palled around with. But what's truly damning are the shady real-estate projects she has made rise and go forth (she can redecortate her prison cell +MACA: Make America Corrupter Again +thanks gain, Cyrus "Yes I am totally corrupt" Vance)

Seth Abramson on Twitter: "Just like the man whose wall it is."
The Hill on Twitter: "First company awarded contract for Trump border wall has history of refusing to pay subcontractors https://t.co/dTdHItjG2X https://t.co/7RnGTxSeRz"
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A Presidential Milestone: Trump has spent 100 days in office at one of his golf clubs - CNNPolitics

Smarter-than-thou media outlets like Slate that once tried to bury me under an avalanche of allegations of conspiracy theory -- just because I tried to fact-check the Steele Dossier -- are now daily confirming what I've been writing on my feed since January 2017 (haha, contrarion Slate for Trump!)
Seth Abramson on Twitter: "That it's the GOP inquiring about this is wild as hell. The month delay in notifying Comey about the Weiner emails or getting Abedin/Weiner permission to view them or getting a search warrant kept the issue alive to blow up right before the election. The FBI's delay hurt CLINTON. https://t.co/JPixhJvBah" (investigate Hillary! +Comey fucked the country trying to preserve his Rethug cred)

The Right Can't Fight the Future - While Trump and his cabinet loot the palace, the GOP has reckoning coming its way. (they've always fought the future along with the rest of reality) Republicans who are now in full blown freakout over a potential trade war voted for exactly what they're getting.

TBogg - Totally King of New New California on Twitter: "First they came for the guys who wear cowboy hats, but who aren't cowboys ... "Patriot Hats: Under Seige (sic) by the Deep State" (yeah, Fox can't spell, either +"cowboys" are "patriots" +their facial hair)

Days before the election, Stormy Daniels threatened to cancel deal to keep alleged affair with Trump secret - The Washington Post


'All-In or Nothing' : West Virginia's Teacher Strike Was Months in the Making



Eschaton: At Least There's A Bathroom For Women Now - But not much more. -- "For example, you are not allowed to bring children onto the floor of the Senate at all," Duckworth noted. "If I have to vote, and I'm breastfeeding my child, especially during my maternity leave period, what do I do? Leave her sitting outside?" ... Duckworth said she's also being told she can't "technically" take maternity leave to care for her daughter. "Because if I take maternity leave, then I won't be allowed to sponsor legislation or vote during that time period," she explained. (the patriarchy strikes back)

The Dumb Reason Some Kids Born To LGBTQ Americans Aren't U.S. citizens - the department has clung to an outdated interpretation of the law under which it requires a biological tie between the U.S. citizen parent and the child. (next: children of Democrats will be deported to ... Canada!)

Trump pushes Republicans to oppose crucial New York-New Jersey tunnel project - The Washington Post -- Trump personally appealed to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) this week to target federal funding for the $30 billion Gateway project, which would construct a tunnel into New York's Penn Station to supplement two aging tubes that are at risk of failing in the coming years. The project is widely considered to be among the most pressing and most expensive infrastructure needs in the country ... "North Carolina and the other 48 states should not have to foot the bill for this hall of fame earmark," said Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), who offered the amendment. (yeah, all those red state moochers +MADA: Make America Dysfunctional Again)
Are You Tired Of All the Winning Yet? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Let's risk the collapse of the East Coast's transportation infrastructure out of spite!

Colorado House Members In Bulletproof Vests Vote To Eject Rep For Sex Harassment | HuffPost ... It was the first time in over a century that the state's House of Representatives has expelled a member. Former Democratic state Rep. Steve Lebsock, who switched to the Republican Party an hour before the decision, was expelled in a 52-9 vote (so he was actually a Rethug) "I am an honorably discharged Marine Corps veteran," he said tearfully (that explain a lot)

Texas early voting numbers a 'wake-up call' for GOP as Democrats double their 2014 turnout - a 92 percent increase for Dems, 18% for ReCrooks ... The jump in Collin County, which votes for more conservative candidates, is even greater -- the number of Democratic primary voters increased 235 percent from 2014, while Republican voters increased by 47 percent (alien Ted Cruz may lose)

Kentucky's 'child bride' bill stalls as groups fight to let 13-year-olds wed ... "This is legalized rape of children" schrod (a whole state of good Christian pedohiles ... "parents should decide" not the law)

HuffPost on Twitter: ""No problem!" "No worries!" "Anytime!" "Of course!" "Sure thing!" "Uh huh!" These are some of the many ways people commonly respond to "thank you." But what happened to the classic "you're welcome"?

Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast | HuffPost - Dayanna Volitich suggests Muslims be eradicated from the earth, believes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ... and teaches middle school social studies.



CMU shooting: James Eric Davis, Jr. fatally shot parents, police say
Parents killed by son in Central Michigan University dorm, campus police say - The Washington Post - A suspect has been arrested for fatally shooting his mother and father Friday in a dormitory at Central Michigan University



Last Call for George Plimpton's Apartment, and the Era It Embodied

DNA Testing Forced Me To Rethink My Entire Racial Identity | HuffPost

Researchers have found that individuals who took even a single dose of psychedelic drugs like LSD, "magic" mushrooms and ayahuasca could experience sustained personality changes that lasted several weeks, months or even years : science
This is LSD attached to a brain cell serotonin receptor (January 26, 2017)
ELI5: What exactly does LSD do to your brain? : explainlikeimfive
Depersonalization/derealization news, discussion & awareness


New data shows just how much social sharing has decreased since 2015 (and News Feed tweaks are just one factor) ; Nieman Journalism Lab

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Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show - The New York Times (sell of all those damn parks, our corps need the money)
EPA moves to overhaul Obama-era safeguards on coal ash waste - The Washington Post (coal corps free to dump toxic waste into any old river they feel like)

Deputies were told to set up 'perimeter' around Parkland shooting. That's not the training - Capt. Jan Jordan, commander of BSO's Parkland district, gave the order, the log shows, identifying her by her police call sign ... The document raises fresh questions about the department's handling of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14.
How to Buy a Gun in 15 Countries - The New York Times - Many Americans can buy a gun in less than an hour. In some countries, the process takes months. Here are the basic steps for how most people buy a gun in 15 of them
Central Michigan University shooting: 2 dead, gunman missing - Sources told the Free Press that the victims are believed to be the shooter's parents
N.R.A. Suggests Trump May Retreat From Gun Control - The New York Times (they had a little talk with him)
The student activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High demonstrate the power of a full education. - How the student activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High demonstrate the power of a comprehensive education.
White House softens tone on gun-control measures after Trump meets with NRA - The Washington Post
Delta Airlines NRA dispute: Only 13 passengers ever bought tickets - That translates into each discount costing the airline about $3 million in tax breaks.
Tucker Carlson Turns On Trump: 'Imagine If Barack Obama Had Said That' | HuffPost - Congress would be talking impeachment right now (it took taking guns away from dangerous people for Fucker to draw the line)

Instead of Taking on Gun Control, Democrats Are Teaming With Republicans for a Stealth Attack on Wall Street Reform

Depth of Russian Politician's Cultivation Of NRA Ties Revealed - A prominent Kremlin-linked Russian politician has methodically cultivated ties with leaders of the National Rifle Association, and documented efforts in real time over six years to leverage those connections and gain access deeper into American politics,


Amsterdam Kosher restaurant vandalized again | NL Times - Bar-on previously requested permanent police and camera surveillance for his restaurant. But in January the municipality rejected this request, according to the newspaper. He will now file another request. (idiots)


A Trump ally is likely to replace a career diplomat as U.S. ambassador, and Mexicans are worried - The Washington Post - An experienced diplomat and Latin America expert, Jacobson is the latest of several high-level officials at the State Department to part ways with the Trump administration.


The Trump-Russia Story Gets Even Weirder - The New York Times - In his 2014 book "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible" Peter Pomerantsev describes modern Russia as a decadently surreal place where the ruling regime fuses propaganda with over-the-top entertainment to systematically distort and recreate reality ... "the missing link in the connection between Russia and the U.S. elections"

Trump's embrace of Russia: The evidence on public display already paints a jarring picture - Trump's in-plain-sight embrace of Russia gets obscured by the Trump news avalanche. It's worth reviewing what's been established so far. - Long before running for president, Trump relied on Russian money. - Trump consistently defends Russia and attacks U.S. officials investigating Russia.
Leaked: Secret Documents From Russia's Election Trolls - Kremlin-backed troll farm efforts to stir up real protests and target specific Americans to push their propaganda.


U.S. Allies Threaten Retaliation Over Trump's Tariffs Announcement | HuffPost ... "trade wars are good, and easy to win" (only if you're really stupid)
Trump's trade war could erase all the tax-cut gains (win-win)
Man of steel: Trump's secret fantasies realized
Ben Sasse slams Trump's "kooky 18th century protectionism"
Who's the Sucker? - Tales from the Junk Bond Cabinet, courtesy of Donald Trump and Carl Icahn.
Trump confidant dumped millions in steel-related stock last week -- Carl Icahn has impeccable timing - Icahn dumped $31.3 million of stock in a company heavily dependent on steel last week, just days before Trump announced plans to impose steep tariffs on steel imports. (just a coincidence)

Trump was angry and 'unglued' when he started a trade war, officials say ... By Thursday afternoon, the U.S. stock market had fallen and Trump, surrounded by his senior advisers in the Oval Office, was said to be furious. ("furious" because the stock market fell because he's an idiot - "furious" is the word most often associated with Trump)

Mueller's net is tightening around Trump's inner circle -- and maybe Trump himself
Mueller team asking if Kushner foreign business ties influenced Trump policy - NBC News
Trump vs. Mueller is a battle for America's soul (better late then never, Max)

Sarah Huckabee Sanders clarifies: Trump said lots of stuff this week he may not mean - The Washington Post (otherwise known as "lies")

The great unraveling: Trump's allies are really worried about him - Not since Richard Nixon started talk??? here's why it still matters - The Washington Post - Agents were focused on how Abedin's and Clinton's messages ended up on a laptop used by former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), Abedin's estranged husband (historical role of fuck up) ... Strzok's text about Abedin appears to rebut the notion that he was pulling punches for Clinton or her associates, as it shows him advocating for aggressive steps if Abedin's lawyer were to push for immunity. (so, the exact reverse of what Trump has been rage-tweeting)

Eschaton: The Maggie Haberman Defense Squad - It's too boring to go through it all, but as is often the case Maggie took to Twitter last night to say Hicks' departure was NOT due to her House intel meeting and Trump being pissed about her performance, but instead was just something she had been thinking about for months and, well, there are no other reasons so STOP SAYING THAT SHUTUPTSHUTUPSHUTUP FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS (she actually used the term 'fake news.') Other journalists offered other accounts, as predicted, but Maggie has THE SOURCES, so you stupid proles should stop believing FAKE NEWS shutupSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP.

Hope Hicks $10 million payday as publishers scramble to sign her | Daily Mail Online - for a book deal to spill the secrets of Trump's inner sanctum inner sanctum and her affair with wife abuser Rob Porter
"She's in Immense Personal Jeopardy": Even for Hope Hicks, the West Wing Got Too Hot

When Jeff Sessions finally called Trump's bluff - The top three officials at the Justice Department strolled to dinner together Wednesday evening with smiles less than eight hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions launched his first public rebuttal to President Donald Trump's latest fusillade on Sessions' "disgraceful" handling of Republican allegations of surveillance abuses at the department and FBI. (Mr. Magoo, defender of white supremacy)


DHS offers to drop deportation case against wife of 7th Special Forces Group vet (looked kinda extreme, so ..)
Justice Department reviewing Oakland mayor's tipoff of immigration raids, which led to 232 arrests


Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin 'Extremely Pranoid' Ahead of Damning New Investigation, Sources Say - The head of the Department of Veterans Affairs is running out of allies and lifelines after he was criticized for vacationing on the taxpayer's dime. The worst may be yet to come ... over his use of his security detail to run personal errands

Sen. Orrin Hatch calls Obamacare supporters 'stupidest, dumbass people' (speaking of lizards)



Australian Columnist Gushes Over Trump, Then Hits Him Where It Hurts | HuffPost - "He does still have little hands'
Donald Trump Attacks Alec Baldwin In Early Morning Twitter Rant Amid Week Of Chaos | HuffPost - rump misspelled Baldwin's name twice in unhinged rant (presidential unhinged rants are the new normal and we know it's hard, HuffPo, but he actually also misspelled "dying" until he was corrected)



Eschaton: Vote For Us - And, well, we'd like to do some stuff but 60 votes and the veto and for some reason there are always some bad senators named "Joe" and maybe if we beg Republicans to pass this compromise and...but we will fight for yooooouu!!! ... Everybody should know that what Democrats should really want is an abortion cart on every corner, just as everyone knows that Republicans want to stone women who have abortions to death. The abortion cart on every corner bill might not get past the filibuster. I get that. But that should be what "we're fighting for yooooouuuu" means. Dems should not be fighting to "return regular order to the Senate and, um, continue the tradition of bipartisan comity and compromise, preferably with as many gangs of senatorial media hogs as possible."


House Race in Pennsylvania May Turn on Trump Voters's Regrets


Everyone in Washington Is Having a Lovely Time (the culture you're not a part of and aren't supposed to know anything about)

Did CNN Purchase an Industrial-Sized Washing Machine to Spin News? (Snope in on the joke, apparently)
Freakout Over a Satirical Blog Shows the Perils of Its Fight Against Fake News


4 Tulsa high school football players accused of raping a fellow student at the superintendents house over 6 months ago. Multiple officials being investigated for cover-up. : news

Why Montgomery Blair High School alumni are saying #MeToo - The Washington Post - Eric Walstein, a nationally recognized teacher at Montgomery Blair High School in Maryland, has been accused of harassment by hundreds of alumni ... 400 alumni from the Class of 1989 to the Class of 2017 ... More than 430 alumni have signed the letter that went to magnet faculty,

Former Obama administration official has reached a deal to buy Weinstein Co. assets - An investor group led by former U.S. Small Business Administration head Maria Contreras-Sweet and billionaire Ron Burkle has reached an agreement in principle to purchase assets of Weinstein Co


Police officers' names disappear from Maryland court case search database : news (America has a cop problem)
Woman Says Fort Lauderdale Cops Beat Her After She Testified in Brutality Case : news

NYC man wins nearly $1M lawsuit against NYPD over DWI charge - NY Daily News
Police shootings of unarmed black people occur more often in states with higher levels of segregation and other forms of structural racism : science

Joshua Tree Couple Arrested After 3 Children Found Living in Plywood Box for Years:

Child called racial slur, spat on by firefighter at Overland Par - KCTV5


Silicon Valley home shatters new record with enormous price tag (880 sq ft $2+ million, $2,358/sq.ft.)


TIL that cats have almost twice the amount of neurons as dogs and can be allergic to humans. : todayilearned - undefined

TIL a massive earthquake struck Japan in 1923, causing a fire tornado that incinerated 38,000 people in 15 minutes and was so hot, people's feet were melted to the ground and they could not run away. : todayilearned

/u/400-rabbits provides an excellent, well sourced take-down of another user's ridiculous pseudo-archaeology claims that an unknown third civilization influenced both ancient Egypt and the Olmec : bestof


Which serial killers interest/scare you the most? : AskReddit
Redditors Who Smoke Weed, What's the Most Entertaining Thing to Watch When You're Stoned? : AskReddit
(NSFW) Waiters of reddit, what's some fucked up shit you overheard while waiting tables? : AskReddit

Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted "illegal" diversity efforts
Google accused in lawsuit of excluding white and Asian men in hiring to boost diversity : technology

Uber and Lyft drivers' median hourly wage is just $3.37, report finds | Technology | The Guardian - Majority of drivers make less than minimum wage and many end up losing money - "The companies are losing money. The businesses are being subsidized by [venture capital] money
And the drivers are essentially subsidizing it by working for very low wages." ... "effectively what you're doing as a driver is borrowing against the value of your car,"
AT&T's is now saying keeping America safe is dependent on them creating internet fast lanes : technology (we'll protect you with extortion!)
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A 1.3Tbps DDoS hit GitHub, the largest attack ever recorded in the history : news

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Witness deflates Trump's claim that he stopped bat beating in 1991: 'He came at the tail end of the event' (lied about it and planted story in the news like he always did)

EU Warnss Tech Giants to Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else - Bloomberg


Are Saudi Arabia's reforms for real? A recent visit says yes ... comment: "Not another puff piece about the Saudis from their court sycophant Ignatius."


Pew Research Center: 1. Generations' party identification, midterm voting preferences, views of Trump
4. Race, immigration, same-sex marriage, abortion, global warming, gun policy, marijuana legalization | Pew Research Center
Where Millennials end and post-Millennials begin | Pew Research Center


Putin boasts military might with animation of nuke strike on Florida - CNN - "I do think Vladimir Putin was speaking to one audience," she said. "It wasn't anyone in Russia. It was Donald Trump" (nukes over Mar-a-Lago)
Putin Unveils 'Invicible' Nuke, Shows Animation Striking Florida

Russian model in Thai jail promises to spill Trump secrets - CNN
Rick Gates canceling trip due to threat invoking Russian mafia - CNNPolitics

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico to Quit Amid Tense Relations Under Trump - The New York Times - The ambassador, Roberta S. Jacobson, 57, served just under two years in the post, after her arrival was delayed by a prolonged confirmation process. (Trump's meltdown over the wall was the last straw) Trump's election abruptly changed the generally warm relations that the United States had developed with Mexico over the last 25 years -- ones that Mrs. Jacobson had helped foster through much of her career. Mrs. Jacobson was left working with her Mexican counterparts to assuage growing concern -- and anger -- at the new president's tough talk (fuck this shit, she said and another experienced diplomat is gone)

Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator's Texts (dirty little Russian Nunes ratfucking)
Senate sources suspect Nunes behind leak of Warner texts - CNNPolitics
It's Time for Devin Nunes To Go - for Good - The idea that either intelligence committee would breach security protocol and take part in partisan attacks is a major problem, and it makes it clear that there is one person responsible for the breakdown of the integrity of the committee: Devin Nunes. (if even Redstate ...)

Russia "Previewed" Plan to Disseminate Emails with Trump Campaign - And how that's legally signicant ... So when Donald Trump openly called on the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton's emails, they'd be richly rewarded if they released these to the press, his campaign had already been put on notice that the Russians were prepared to do just that and disseminate these stolen emails." (dot 1 meet dot 2)
Mueller eyes charges against Russians who stole, spread Democrats' emails

Has Jared Kushner Conspired to Defraud America? - The New York Times - By Marcy Wheeler - According to reports, Mr. Mueller appears to be assessing whether Mr. Kushner, in the guise of pursuing foreign policy on behalf of the United States, was actually serving the interests of his family and foreign governments.
Jared Kushner's Family Business Received Loads After White House Meetings (bribes in every direction)
Jared Kushner's many, many scandals, explained - From the Russia investigation to the security clearance troubles to loans to his family business.
Jared Kushner Is Deep in It with Robert Mueller Now - What happens next? ... (Mueller's) looking into every dark corner of the family business, and the family business is nothing but dark corners

Trump refers to Sessions as "Mr. Magoo' - Trump has been comparing his top law enforcement official to the bumbling cartoon character, an elderly man who lands in comic situations largely due to his severe near-sightedness. (he refused to appoint a special prosecutor to go after Obama's illegal spying on Trump) Trump's New Target: The Justice Department's Inspector General
Besieged Sessions dines with Rosenstein, Francisco -- If Donald Trump finally follows through on his rage and fires Jeff Sessions, the image with this story will be printed in history books. (rager-in-chief)
Mueller investigation examining Trump's apparent efforts to oust Sessions in July (it's called "obstruction," Donnie-boy)

Trump berated Hope Hicks for admitting she told white lies for him - Business Insider - during which she admitted to telling white lies on behalf of Trump ... Trump's "last emotional crutch" (he screamed at her and then said "you're fired!")
Hope Hicks refused to answer whether "a litany" of Trump associates asked her to lie (because they are so saintly) U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney R-FL : "bullshit question" ... "The whole line of questionning was a tramp, They sent her down a rabbit hole that she could not get out of. And it was completely unfair." U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California, fired back "it's a question that is asked of witnesses every day across America - and most people don't have a hard time answering it."
Hope Hicks refused to tell House panel whether she had lied for senior Trump officials, lawmakers say - The Washington Post
Hope Hicks Leaves the Trump White House | The New Yorker - Hope Hicks is kidding herself if she thinks that her tenure in the Trump White House will be judged only for harmless, situational untruths ... In the moral universe of the Trump White House, her sin could not have been the lying; it could only be the admission ... As a communications director, she was, when it came to the subject of Hope Hicks, uncommunicative. The words she used to describe her feelings upon resigning were that she had "no words."
How Hope Hicks trapped into saying she told 'white lies' for Trump | Daily Mail Online -- 'If your response to the question, 'Have you ever been asked by your boss to lie for him?' is to take two time outs, we already know the answer to the question,' Swalwell told the network. (Trump: "how could you be so stupid to let them ask you if I ever told you to lie? You should have spent 10 years in prison, instead." +it was a trap, I tell you)

Exclusive: FBI counterintel looks at Ivanka Trump business deal - the negotiations and financing surrounding Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, according to a US official and a former US official. The scrutiny could be a hurdle for the first daughter as she tries to obtain a full security clearance in her role as adviser to President Donald Tr

The White House Didn't Break Hope Hicks Overnight ... the 13th prominent White House official to leave during the first 13 months of the administration.

Many Trump Staffers Are Trying To Leave His Out-Of-Control White House
The wild wars within the Trump White House - Axios - sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place -- mad as hell about the internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling. (said the chaos man)

Trump's new tariffs could make beer, cars and baseball bats more expensive
See Hud'ss $31,000 mahogany dining set

Fail as deputy chief of staff? You're the next drug czar! ... Trump, meanwhile, isn't engaged with anything

Scott Lloyd and the ORR Policies Regarding Pregnant Teens - Scott Lloyd, an anti-choice fanatic who has been placed in charge of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. This is the organization that takes care of minor children who enter this country without their parents and without documentation. Lloyd is currently tangled up with the ACLU because he consistently denies the requests of young women in his custody to obtain abortions.

Questions linger about how Melania Trump, a Slovenian model, scored 'the Einstein visa' (she's married to an Einstein of criminality)

AP-NORC Poll: Most Americans say Trump is racist - Fifty-seven percent of all adults, including more than 8 in 10 blacks, three-quarters of Hispanics and nearly half of whites, said they think Trump is racist. Eighty-five percent of Democrats consider Trump racist, but just 21 percent of Republicans agree.
Voters vow to elect a Congress that stands up to Trump, poll shows - By close to 2-1, 58%-32%, those surveyed say they want to elect a Congress that mostly stands up to the president, not one that mostly cooperates with him. - The level of voter unrest is rare at a time of prosperity, when a 55% majority rate the economy as being in a recovery. (80% of Refucks)

Trump's corruption deserves to be a central issue in the 2018 midterms - Democrats need to shine a spotlight on conflicts of interest.
Why Democrats are suddenly competitive in deep-red Texas - Texas Democratic primary 2018: what to expect - Vox - unbridled enthusiasm among Democrats

White House furious at embarrassing stories about HUD, Secretary Ben Carson - CNNPolitics (but very presidentially "furious")


National Security Pros, It's Time to Talk About Right-Wing Extremism

The Trump Official Who Blocked Undocumented Teens From Getting Abortions Said He Doesn't Believe They Have The Constitutional Right To The Procedure - Scott Lloyd, the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement


The Myth of the Times' Intellectual Diversity - opinion section reflects the elite establishment consensus, not the reality of America's political divisions -- "The newsroom feels embarrassed" ... star columnists "full of "blowhardy bullshit" one senior Times staffer recently told Vanity Fair ... Bennet's apologia frames the dispute as a battle between those who are intellectually curious and open minded and those who are ideologically homogenous and hidebound. (dishonest libtards vs. "intellectually curious conservatives"


Sexual harassment cases force universities to reconsider relationship policies - The Boston Globe - This winter, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology followed institutions such as Harvard University, Northwestern University, and Yale University in outlawing sexual or romantic relationships between professors and undergraduate students. MIT also sought to limit these relationships between graduate students and professors and barred student teaching assistants from dating other students they may have authority over. (and that made four)



Far-right extremists are quietly murdering police officers - Data shows dozens of officers have been murdered by the far-right over the last decade. But no one seems to be talking about it.

Pennsylvania deputy was killed by friendly fire -- not by a fugitive wanted for shooting pregnant woman (takes a good guy with a gun ...)

State trooper involved in shooting has history of racist online posts - The Boston Globe - The Massachusetts State Police trooper who fired his rifle during a police confrontation in which a Cape Verdean ATV driver was injured in Boston on Saturday has a long history of posting racist and profane comments on a website called MassCops, including some in support of police officers who shoot suspects.


Balance on cannabis may lead to answers on opioids - The Boston Globe - Recent research has shown that medical or recreational cannabis policies are associated with decreased opioid use and overdoses, and deaths by overdose. A review in Health Affairs of Medicare Part D prescription data from 2010 to 2013 revealed a significant decline in pain medication prescriptions in states with medical cannabis laws compared to those without. (someone call Jason "The Mass Legislature is the Original Vice Industry and Gateway Drug to Stupidity Addiction" Lewis


California's quality of life is the worst in the country: Says who? (among others, Fox News) - If you're under 40 or a renter, the California dream of owning a home is out of reach according to a new poll.


Beverly man charged with threatening Donald Trump Jr. - The Boston Globe - Daniel Frisiello was arrested Thursday morning on federal charges of mailing threats to injure and providing false information and hoaxes

Boston's most radical TV show blew the minds of a stoned generation in 1967 -- What's' Happening, Mr. Silver? -- When a Tufts instructor launched the trippy TV show on WGBH, it was unlike anything viewers had ever seen ... Up on Fort Hill in Roxbury, the experiment impressed Mel Lyman, the impossible-to-freak-out creator of "Avatar" a popular underground newspaper that was the subject of multiple controversies that year ... The old guard at WGBH wanted to hold the line, but six years later ... (WGBH was fine with him until he criticized the Vietnam war, and, responding to criticism of their racism, GBH switched to "black programming" because MLK and an hour a week is enough of either hippies or black people)


AI Experts List the Real Dangers of Artificial Intelligence - Defense One - Every AI advance by the good guys is an advance for the bad guys, too.

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The US Could Supply 80 Percent of Its Energy with Wind and Solar : technology

With AR-15s, Mass Shooters Attack With the Rifle Firepower Typically Used by Infantry Troops - The New York Times (NSFL)
Church officials hold their AR-15-style rifles while people attend a blessing ceremony with their AR-15-style rifles at the Sanctuary Church in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, U.S., February 28, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz : pics (gun worship at its pinnacle: who would Jesus shoot?)
Florida Moves To Arm Teachers After School Massacre | HuffPost - More guns.
Rubio Bill Would Let 18-Year-Olds In D.C. Buy Assault-Style Guns -- Despite What He Just Said | HuffPost (both side of his mouth lie)
Dick's, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles (yeah, it's really called that)
Roku Will Not Drop NRA TV Amid Pressure From Protestors : television
Fedex's s secret deal with the NRA and the gun industry - While publicly trying to distance itself from the NRA, FedEx has made a secret agreement with the association and other major players in the firearms industry.
Dems fear overreach as left presses assault weapon ban | TheHill - Still it comes as other Democrats warn that embracing aggressive new gun restrictions carries risks, particularly in conservative-leaning districts where gun rights are sacrosanct. (DCCC offers their thought and prayers and tells Dems to shut up)

Eschaton: Gotta Give People Something To Be Intense About - It's generally accepted - and true, at least to some extent - that gun nuts and the NRA have such political success because the issue can turn out really intense single issue voters. Just say Obama (or Pelosi or Clinton or...) is gonna take away your guns and they show up to the midterms - The thing is that D politicians rarely try to inspire their own intense single issue voters who could be turned out on issues, including, yes, the gun issue ... 69 percent of Americans favor "stricter gun control laws," and 52 percent do so "strongly." Meanwhile, only 26 percent oppose them, with only 14 percent doing so strongly. (but the DCCC told us to keep our mouths shut)
We studied thousands of anonymous posts about the Parkland attack -- and found a conspiracy in the making
Harvard study finds gun injuries drop nationwide -- during NRA conventions

Florida Woman shoots fianci's dog, when he refused to crack her back : news

Alleged 9/11 plotter held at Guantanamo illegally should be released immediately, says UN: His interrogation inspired scenes in the film 'Zero Dark Thirty' : news

The Snowman and the Queen: Declassified NZ intelligence service documents confirm assassination attempt on Queen | Stuff.co.nz

EU's Irish border position is a 'fantasy,' says former UK Brexit minister - 'amounts to an annexure of Northern Ireland' ... comments came in the wake of a leaked letter from Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to Prime Minister Theresa May, in which Johnson appears to accept the return of a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, contradicting the U.K. government's position on the issue. (they fucked themselves and now they're complaining, which is what conservatives do)


The Model, the Mafia, and the Murderers - OCCRP - When the bodies of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fianci Marina Kusnirova, both 27, were found this Sunday


Trump Nobel Peace Prize nomination probed amid fakery concerns - BBC News - Mr Trump was reportedly nominated for his "ideology of peace by force" by an anonymous American.


A self-described sex expert says she will spill information on Trump and Russia to get out of a Thai jail - The Washington Post - A self-described sex expert whose videos highlighted the ties between one of Russia's richest men and the Kremlin has been jailed in Thailand and is calling for U.S. help, claiming she has information about links between Russia and President Trump.

Roger stone's Secret Messages with WikiLeaks - Transcripts obtained by The Atlantic show Donald Trump's longtime confidante corresponded with the radical-transparency group ... On March 17, 2017, WikiLeaks tweeted that it had never communicated with Roger Stone (dirty Julian lied, again and again)

Cyber chief says Trump has given him no new authority to strike at Russian interference threat - The Washington Post (or "defend against" presumeably)

U.S. intel: Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election - NBC News - Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin ... compromised in a variety of ways, with some breaches more serious than others, from entry into state websites to penetration of actual voter registration databases. (Republican governors except CA)

ICE confirms 150-plus arrests in California sweep, slams Schaaf's early warning

Deciphering the Redactions in the Schiff Memo | Just Security - contained a few nuggets of new information ... "DOJ's warrant request was based on compelling evidence and probable cause to believe Page was knowingly assisting clandestine Russian intelligence activities in the U.S." (knowingly) the four individuals most likely are: Carter Page, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos and Paul Manafort ... "We hope the Majority will never again misuse this obscure congressional rule to selectively declassify sensitive information for political purposes" Schiff added.

Mueller team asks about Trump's Russian business dealings as he weighed a run for president
Mueller asking if Trump knew about hacked Democratic emails before release - NBC News - team is asking witnesses pointed questions about whether Donald Trump was aware that Democratic emails had been stolen before that was publicly known, and whether he was involved in their strategic release, according to multiple people familiar with the probe.

Hope Hicks to Leave Post as White House Communications Director - The New York Times
Why Hope leaving matters - Axios - Trump will miss her in the same way he misses former bodyguard Keith Schiller. Hicks is family and has been part of his routine for nearly three years now. Trump increasingly finds himself working in a building populated by people he doesn't know an doesn't trust; some of whom did not even vote for him.
Little white lies could be a big problem for Hope Hicks - CNNPolitics
Hope Hicks told the truth about lying for Trump. Now she's gone ... Hicks had done something that is incompatible with serving in this administration: She told the truth about the lies. (well, it was that or go to jail =comment:" Hope had dated every single guy in the White House but Stephen Miller, so even she has some standards." comments focus on lying and the truth)

More Than 30 Trump Aides Lose Top Secret Clearance, Sources Say - Bloomberg (out of how many, please)
The White House chief calligrapher has a higher security clearance than Jared Kushner - CNNPolitics

Kushner's overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage (dirty little traitor)
Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence - POLITICO - A memo sent Friday downgraded the presidential son-in-law and adviser and other White House aides who had been working on interim clearances.
The Deep State Takes Out the White House's Dark Clown Prince - Jared Kushner had a very bad terrible no good day. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
They went to Jared - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Another day, another scandal that would have been considered an existential crisis for any presidential administration in the Before Time:

Four Commerce Department appointees lose their posts after problems in background checks - The Washington Post - Among the Commerce appointees who lost their jobs Tuesday was Fred Volcansek, who served as a senior adviser to Ross for several months last year. Since last April, he has worked as executive director of SelectUSA, a program that promotes foreign investment in the United States. (they won't say, but looks criminal)

Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump - The New York Times - She also pointedly and repeatedly declined to answer questions about the presidential transition or her time in the White House, lawmakers who sat in on the testimony said, telling investigators that she had been asked by the White House to discuss only her time on the campaign. They added that she did not formally invoke executive privilege.

Scoop: Trump family v. John Kelly - Axios - Don Jr., in particular -- was angry about the overwhelmingly negative TV coverage about Jared Kushner last night, and feels White House Chief of Staff Kelly is hanging Jared out to dry, a source familiar with the situation tells Axios.


11 ill after suspicious letter arrives at military base - CNNPolitics - Eleven people fell ill after a suspicious letter was opened in an administrative building at Joint Base Fort Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday, according to the Arlington County Fire Department. A law enforcement official said field tests for the letter all came back negative for any harmful substance, but the FBI is transporting it tonight to its lab in Quantico for further analysis.
11 People Have Fallen Ill After a Suspicious Letter Was Sent to a Military Base Near the Pentagon : news

"Free Speech" As A Republican Weapon - Lawyers, Guns & Money - he highly selective use of the First Amendment by Rpeublicans to protect Republican interests:

Ben Carson's HUD, Planning Cuts, Spends $31,000 on Dining Set for HiProposed budget cuts would affect poor and homeless Americans
US housing department to spend $165,000 on own furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut | US news | The Guardian - Spending is in addition to $31,000 dining set for Ben Carson's Office - Proposed budget cuts would affect poor and homeless Americans



Democrats Flip Two State Legislative Seats in CT and NH, Bringing Trump-Era Total to 39 - In a state House race in New Hampshire's Belknap County District 3 and another in Connecticut's House District 120 ... (NH) Donald Trump won the district by a sizable 54-41 margin in 2016, four years after Barack Obama carried it by just one point, 50-49 ... Last week, Democrat Linda Belcher won back her seat in Kentucky's state House District 49, which had favored Trump by nearly 50 points.

PA-18 Special Election Moves from Lean Republican to Toss Up | The Cook Political Report - not normal for Republicans to be worried about losing a seat President Trump carried by 20 points. But with two weeks to go before the March 13 special election, Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone is locked in an extremely close contest against Democratic prosecutor/Marine veteran Conor Lamb, who has significantly outspent him. We're e moving the race from Lean Republican to Toss Up.

Pence believes abortion will end "in our time," hinting that he thinks Trump will get another supreme court appointment who will overturn Roe. We all must register to vote. It can be done online. Here is the link. If the Dems retake the senate in Nov., Trump's appointments are dead on arrival. : TwoXChromosomes

PBS launching new conservative political talk show - Columnist Michael Gerson and commentator Amy Holmes are teaming to start a conservative-oriented talk show on PBS that takes its cue from William F. Buckley's "Firing Line," which aired from 1966 to 1999.

Former Infowars employees claim Alex Jones harassed them | Daily Mail Online

In Arizone, Joe Arpaio's Senate bid tests the strength of Trumpism


Democrats and Republicans are increasingly divided on the value of teaching black history - The Washington Post - 67 percent of Democrats thought our schools should be teaching more black history, compared with just 10 percent of Republicans. This divide, unlike the racial divide, is more recent. The left graph below shows that in 2000, Democrats and Republicans were about 20 points apart. The partisan divide is now 57 points.


Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology - The Verge - Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don't know about ("deployed")

North Bay woman who allegedly ran sex ring with her son is a prolific feminist erotica writer - SFGate - A Rohnert Park woman who is accused of running a 150-woman prostitution ring with her son is also a prolific author of feminist erotica

Press secretary quits FEMA, citing 'boys club' Resignation comes after top public affairs leader left the agency amid pressure over its response to hurricanes.

Jeff Franklin Out as Showrunner of 'Fuller House' Amid Complaints About His Behavior - accused of being verbally abusive to staffers and making inappropriate statements in the writers' room, including making sexually charged comments about his personal relationships and sex life. Franklin has not been accused of directly sexually harassing or engaging in physical misconduct with any staffers. (another one down)

Young Harvey Weinstein: The Making of a Monster | Hollywood Reporter - The Hollywood Reporter retraces his moves in Queens and Buffalo and interviews dozens of former friends and associates to examine the formative years of Hollywood's most infamous figure ... Sources tell THR that Harvey has had little or no contact with his children, and one of his daughters, Remy (from his first marriage to Eve Chilton), has stayed out of the public view, absent for weeks from the L.A. gym where she once was a constant presence ... long before he was a mogul, he was a bully and a predator.

Retired Buffalo-area priest admits sexually abusing 'dozens' of boys : news


In L.A., a $35 ticket for sleeping on the sidewalk can turn into $238 in total charges. We are L.A. Times reporters who spent a year investigating police enforcement against homeless people (the jail industry)

Missouri man comes home to find girlfriend murdered in front of her two children; calls police, is charged with marijuana possession. : news (sadism industry)
Police thwart woman's alleged elementary school ax attack
Texas girl, 17, stabs newborn to death minutes after giving birth, police say : news

Uncover Confederate statues, says judge : news
TIL that racial segregation in the American South didn't begin right after the Civil War; it was imposed in the 1890s when rich whites in the South feared the Populist movement bringing poor whites and blacks together. Segregation literally stopped the two sides from legally gathering together. : todayilearned


5-year-old girl died hours after doctor turned her away for being late : news - It's also ironic that the only reason FOX is reporting on a little town in Wales is that they want to shit on Universal healthcare, when it wasn't the healthcare that caused the death.. it was the mothers choices.


Aliens Exist | The FADER - there was more to the moon landing than we were told, the mass of nuclear weapons the U.S. has is being held for a war with aliens, human evolution was tampered with by someone or something, and the U.S. government has a real live alien species locked up somewhere.

Dunning Kruger effect; why has it recently become an excuse for people to categoriz e the researchers found. : science
or cite stupidity they find in others, and justification for their own intelligence? : AskReddit - The Dunning-Kruger effect has its own Dunning-Kruger effect.

LSD produces a new type of 'harmonic' order in the brain, according to neuroimaging study - The drug resulted in the "emergence of new type of order in the brain"
Psychedelic mushrooms likely developed their "magical" properties to trip up fungi-munching insects, suggests new research. The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease.

The effects of light from the first stars in the universe has been detected for the first time: they started shining 180 million years after the Big Bang. The data also suggests the primordial gas was much colder than expected; this may be a sign of dark matter : science

People with more authoritarian attitudes are more likely to be disgusted by foul-smelling body odours, and the more easily disgusted a person is, the more they are likely to support Donald Trump. Scientists believe this disgust is related to avoidance, whether to new people and ideas or pathogens. : science (purity)

Young women who get abortions don't face an increased risk of depressive symptoms, according to results of a new study.

This scientist is testing a marijuana ingredient as a way to prevent relapse. It's a daunting task (mainly b/c anti-pot hysteria embedded in government)



What's your favorite website, other than Reddit? : AskReddit

Responding only using Haiku, how's your day going? : AskReddit
Do you believe that guys and girls can be just friends? Why? : AskReddit
What's the worst part of having siblings? : AskReddit
What's your favorite one liner ever? - A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
What's the hottest thing your SO has ever done?
[NSFW] People who got their nudes leaked, how did it affect your life? : AskReddit

Experienced Redditors, what is a typical rookie Redditor mistake? : AskReddit
What are some landmarks in Reddit history that all Redditors should know about? : AskReddit

With Net Neutrality Rules Repealed, AT&T Gets Ready For Paid Prioritization : technology (here it comes)
NASA Engineer Describes the Difference Between SpaceX and NASA When it Comes to Making Decisions : videos

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Major EPA reorganization will end science research program | TheHill - A federal environmental program that distributes grants to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children is being shuttered amidst a major organization consolidation at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (just die, kids, we need the money for the riches)

The Parkland students are our first glimpse of the post-Millennial wave that's going to change the country - CNNPolitics
Children and Activism - Lawyers, Guns & Money

DCCC Advised Candidates Not To Discuss Gun Control Policy Right After Vegas Shooting | HuffPost - The campaign organization said Democrats should focus on offering thoughts and prayers. (a window into their incompetence -- fire them all and burn the place down)
The Parkland Shooting May Have Just Cemented America's Newest Voting Bloc | HuffPost - Furious teens and parents are emerging as a political force for gun control.
Donald Trump would have charged into school and stopped assault rifle-wielding murderer with his bare hands - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Catherynne Valente on Twitter: "The guy who couldn't even walk 700 yards with other world leaders on a sunny day in Italy toward a meeting & had to take a golf cart like a Walmart scooter-jockey now says he'd run into an active shooter situation unarmed and save the day. I mean, unless there are stairs.
Trevor Noah Spells Out Why Donald Trump Wouldn't Actually Confront A School Shooter | HuffPost - Remember that bald eagle?
Trump said he would charge a gunman.
Stephen Colbert Nails The NRA's Complete Hypocrisy In A Single Sentence | HuffPost
Here's a list of companies cutting ties with the NRA - Feb. 25, 2018 - In a statement, the National Rifle Association called the decisions "a shameful display of political and civic cowardice" (yeah, that makes a lot of sense)
Hypocrisy takes flight in Georgia - The Washington Post - Republicans have been trying for years to convince us that corporations have First Amendment rights -- at least, that is, when it works in their favor.

Sept. 11 trial judge orders explanation from Mattis | Miami Herald (your corrupt military aided by your bigly corrupt Trumpster)


Four far-right plots thwarted last year, says counter-terrorism chief Mark Rowley | UK news | The Guardian - The outgoing head of counter-terrorism policing in the UK has used his valedictory speech to warn against the rise of the far-right as he revealed four extremist rightwing plots were thwarted in 2017 ... more than 600 investigations encompassing Islamist, extreme rightwing and other motivations comprising more than 3,000 subjects of interest and a legacy of more than 20,000 individuals who featured in past terrorism investigations. (rise of the facists, again)


Bizarre legal brawl intensifies at Trump hotel in Panama - The Washington Post - He wanted to fire the Trump Organization, which has managed the hotel since it opened in 2011 ... blames ... poor management and damaged brand for the hotel's declining revenue ... With that, this bizarre standoff turned a theoretical concern about the Trump administration -- that someday, the president's private business might be investigated by a foreign government -- into a reality. (Trump considering invading Panama)
Panamanian police handcuff a guard at the Trump hotel as standoff escalates - The Washington Post ... But now, Fintiklis was at least inside. After the guard's detention, he went to the lobby piano and played Beethoven's "Fur Elise."


America's top diplomat to North Korea joins mass exodus from State Department - Trump's disregard for diplomacy is driving career diplomats to flee. (bullying is all you need)
Trump Is Preparing for a New Cold War With China - The Atlantic - by undermining America's soft power even as it ramps up competition with China, the Trump administration is sabotaging its own strategy. (who needs your liberal big government pansy soft power when you got the hard power of Trump?)



Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Could Continue To Be Detained Indefinitely : NPR (5-3, Kagan recused because Obama, prison state is here)
No Bail Hearings for Detained Immigrants, Supreme Court Rules - The New York Times
Immigrants Rotting in Prison Will Show The Neoliberals That The Left Can't Be Blackmailed! Pretty clear that telling leftists to vote for a flawed Democrat over a fascist because of the vacancy on the Supreme Court was total blackmail.



US cyber chief says Trump hasn't told him to confront Russian cyber threat (wonder why that is?)
CNN Poll: 6 in 10 concerned Trump isn't doing enough to protect US elections


Mueller moves to dismiss charges against Gates - Axios - decision to drop the more expansive charges against Gates suggests that he may have provided good information for Mueller's probe. (sang like a bird)


What did Trump know, and when did he know it? - The Washington Post - To Pirro, Trump used a narrower definition: He himself made no phone calls and had no meetings related to Russian interference. (time to LOCK HIM UP)

How Trump's2020 campaign manager is connected to the Russia scandal - Parscale is linked to Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that has become a focus of the Trump-Russia investigation.
The Professor At The Center Of The Trump-Russia Probe Boasted To His Girlfriend In Ukraine That He Was Friends With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Patton Oswalt on 'The View': Trump Is the 'Final Boss' of #MeToo Video Game - -- The comedian denounced Ivanka Trump's attempts to dismiss her father's sexual misconduct accusers.

Security clearances downgraded for Kushner and other White House officials - The Washington Post
Kushner's s overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage - Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience (and general stupidity)
In Russia probe, Hope Hicks refuses to answer questions about Trump administration - The Washington Post - Hicks, who has already spoken with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's team as part of its probe, has become a central figure in a dispute between lawmakers and the White House about when and where witnesses can legitimately resist answering questions in a congressional probe.
Scoop: Josh Raffel leaving White House - Axios - quickly became the point man internally for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
'Give Me A Damn Break': Tweeters Drag Ivanka Trump For Playing The Daughter Card | HuffPost
Ivanka Trump's South Korea trip fuels White House tension

DCCC Internal Polling Presented to Members of Congress Panned Single Payer Health Care (again, fire them all and burn the place down along with their "consultants")

Why the poor don't soak the rich - Poor voters may oppose a policy of higher taxes and income transfers because they wrongly think they'll be victims of it (we're talking racist WHITE POor and very stupid)

Trump Losing College-Educated Whites? He Never Won Them in the First Place - The New York Times - New evidence that exit polls are a very flawed vehicle for doing post-election analysis ... In the end, the exit poll overestimates Republican support among most demographic groups, including well-educated white voters, and it overestimates the number of voters from Democratic-leaning voting blocs, like young, nonwhite and well-educated voters. (education not asked in exit polls)


Antisemitic incidents in US soar to highest level in two decades | Society | The Guardian - Largest year-on-year increase since 1979 comes as Trump administration is accused of failing to condemn bigotry ("failing to condemn" = cheering on) antisemitic incidents in the US surged 57% in 2017,

Housing official says she was replaced for rejecting Carson's costly office redecoration | US news | The Guardian ex-chief administrative officer says she was replaced by a Trump appointee and told '$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair' (swamp drained)
HUD Official Says She Was Demoted For Refusing To Blow Budget Cap On Decor (budget caps are for suckers)

How to recognize different types of white supremacists from quite a long way away - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Anyone who voted for Trump and/or does anything to support him is supporting racism and white supremacy ... This is America in 2018. If you support Donald Trump, you support white supremacy. Does that make you a white supremacist? Yes it does.

Corker decides against reelection bid, sticks with retirement - politico - voids what could have been an ugly primary between Corker and Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn. (crazy and crazier)

Greitens under fire as Missouri House launches probe; prosecutors may seek more charges | Law and order | stltoday.com ... unprecedented probe of a Missouri chief executive. (Seal with a big fish in his mouth +good job, MO Republicans)
Sex, blackmail and knights in shining armor - The Washington Post - It's a scandal for our times, an iconoclastic political outsider undone by allegations of homemade revenge porn. Or maybe Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens won't be undone. Running a page from the playbook of his pal President Trump, the Republican rookie is plunging ahead, gutting it out, evidently impervious to embarrassment.


Texas Democrats' early voting totals should 'shock every conservative to their core,' Abbott email says. Through Sunday in the 15 Texas counties with the most registered voters, 135,070 people had voted in the Republican primary and 151,236 in the Democratic. Compared to the first six days of early voting in 2014, Democratic turnout increased 69 percent, while Republicans saw a 20 percent increase. The Democrats even surpassed their early voting totals from the 2016 primary -- a presidential election year. Sen. Ted Cruz told a group of Republican voters this month that the left would "crawl over broken glass in November to vote ... We could get obliterated at the polls."

How Republicans Can Win the Midterms - POLITICO Magazine - It won't be easy, but with some lucky breaks and a lot of Democratic squabbling, the GOP could hold the House ... Beginning in late December, both the generic congressional ballot and Trump's approval ratings began ticking upward. These numbers, apparent across almost all polls ... (if by "all polls" you mean "Rasmussen")

WMUR first: Levi Sanders makes it official, he's a candidate for NH's 1st District House seat Bernie Sanders' son, a Claremont resident, running for Shea-Porter seat ... Sanders, 48, enters the race in the rare -- although not unprecendented -- position of residing out of the district he hopes to serve in Washington. He is a resident of Claremont, which is in the 2nd District, where he is a registered Democrat ... In addition to the eight Democrats now seeking the 1st District seat, there are also three Republican candidates ... After his father ended his presidential campaign, he returned to Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, Legal Services, where he has been employed since 2000 as Social Security disability insurance and supplemental security income benefits specialist, according to his LinkedIn page.

Pro-Trump College Group Won't Tell the Feds What the Hell It's Doing -- The FEC has sent Students for Trump nine letters requesting info on who its donors are and what the group is funding. It has gotten no response ... It's legally distinct from the Trump campaign itself, but they have coordinated as SFT tried to craft a youth turnout operation on Trump's behalf. (kinda like his tax returns)

Carter Page Lavishes Praise On State TV Host Hannity: You're The Edward R. Murrow Of Trump/Russia ("State TV," very nice)

Sean Hannity Asked 'The Left' To React To Right-Wing Art. The Response Was Priceless. -- That probably didn't go as planned (because he's really dumb)
The "left" loves art, and especially taxpayer funded art that is "provocative." Let's get their reaction to this.
The Reagan Battalion on Twitter: "To be fair, some of us on the right like art too. "

How Powerful Men Reap Big Payouts On Their Way Out The Door For Sexual Harassment | HuffPost - And the public doen't hear about it


Eschaton: James Bennet Is A Dumdum - "People were not satisfied with his answers," one staffer who attended the meeting told HuffPost in a text message," since his answers were equivocal bullshit that didn's really address that the opinion section abuses fact and elevates white male conservative voices under the guise of'diversity of thought' And that he admits to making mistakes without any concern or even acknowledgement of what the consequences of those 'mistakes actually are." (fire his stupid conservative ass, sulzfucks!)
Leak: How NYT Editor James Bennet Justifies The Op-Ed Page To His Own Paper | HuffPost - "The world needs this from us right now." ... "The New York Times is in favor of capitalism because it has been the greatest engine of, it's been the greatest anti-poverty program and engine of progress that we've seen." (more dumbass evil conservative thought is just what the world needs right now +fuck your "engine of progress")
Quinn Norton: The New York Times Fired My Doppelgdnger - The Atlantic - I saw the internet create and destroy a bizarro version of myself ("context collapse" and a little "incoherence")


Turning Point USA: How one student in a diaper caused an eruption in the conservative youth organization | The Independent - What one chapter thought would be a great stunt turned them into a mockery. This is what happened next ... "As of right now, I am in disbelief at how I went from being so upbeat, enthusiastic, and passionate about this organisation to being disgusted, frustrated, and embarrassed to have invested my entire senior year into an organisation founded by a college dropout who hires some of the most incompetent, lazy, and downright dishonest people I have ever encountered," wrote former president Kaitlin Bennett in her scathing letter of resignation ... She added: "Maybe answering to business professionals rather than college dropouts, egotistic enough to put their face on stupid memes, will give you the leadership skills you desperately need for your positions." (+the usual grift)

More on Amy Wax and the right-wing academic martyr racket - Lawyers, Guns & Money (because being stupid, she's not that smart)


Barbra Streisand on How She Battled Hollywood's Boys' Club (like, literaly) ... She notes that only eight of the 100 top-grossing movies of last year were made by women ... Streisand has strong feelings about the president, "Everything he called Hillary, he is."
Cover Story: Jennifer Lawrence, a New Light | Vanity Fair


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North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists - The Washington Post
What Land Will Be Underwater in 20 Years? Figuring It Out Could Be Lucrative - The New York Times

Trump says he would have rushed into Florida school without a weapon (sure, Donnie, and your "base" believes you)
Trump says he would have run into Florida school unarmed - The Boston Globe (for the comments)
The Latest: Trump, lawmakers to talk about guns Wednesday - President Donald Trump says he had lunch during the weekend with key leaders of the National Rifle Association as he seeks to address gun violence and school safety.
Trump campaign emails photo of Parkland survivor, asks for donations - CNNPolitics
Stop sucking up to 'gun culture.' Americans who don't have guns also matter ... The poll finds that a majority of Americans strongly support action and vastly outnumber those who strongly oppose action. It finds that 69 percent of Americans favor stricter gun control laws,' and 52 percent do so 'strongly.' Meanwhile, only 26 percent oppose them, with only 14 percent doing so strongly ... One one side are aging, rural, non-college-educated and evangelical Christian white voters who are more inclined to be gun owners. (the heart of evil)
Florida Gun Show sees 'record number' of attendees amid gun control debate -- The manager for the Florida Gun Show, George Fernandez, says they've never seen such a big crowd
NRA battles Florida Republicans over gun crackdown - politico - The Florida debate will be closely watched beyond Tallahassee, as President Trump discusses various gun violence-related proposals.
Eschaton: The Good Guy With A Gun Problem - Wasn't even his, but when law enforcement arrives they're going to aim and likely fire at the person with the gun. Because presumably they're the bad guy -- Officers entered the building and saw the churchgoer holding the gun and opened fire, according to the Amarillo Police Department. The churchgoer was hospitalized in stable condition. -- And, of course, no matter what the laws say, being a brown person with a gun is an execution-without-trial offense. (cops didn't take half a second to think about what they were seeing)
/u/hurtsdonut_ provides insight into whether Trump would've run in, unarmed, to stop the school shooter using Trumps own words about how he once behaved in a crisis. : bestof

So Trump is claiming that he would have run into a school shooting without a weapon : AdviceAnimals

Delta severs ties with NRA, risking lucrative state tax break (Georgia is an arm of the NRA)


An attack on North Korea would be massive -- and massively stupid (someone tell President Massivly Stupid) Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said he was told the conflict would be brief and would cause "mass casualties the likes of which the planet has never seen."

Will the U.S. Help the Saudis Get a Nuclear Weapon? - The New York Times (was the payoff to Tru mp big enough?)


Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak is killed, raising press freedom worries in Europe - The Washington Post - European and Slovak authorities believe that an investigative reporter who was shot to death Sunday in Slovakia was killed because of his reporting on fraud in the central European country.


The Olympic flame has been extinguished. The USOC should be next. - The Washington Post - USOC chief executive Scott Blackmun made $1 million in salary and bonuses in 2016. Meanwhile, until last spring, our women's hockey squad members were paid just $6,000 in an entire four-year cycle. This is a national team that has medaled in every Olympics since 1998, yet not until they staged a boycott were they granted a raise to a living wage. How is this system excusable? ... the USOC is supposed to be a nonprofit, yet 129 of its staff make over six figures, and 14 of its execs are paid more than $200,000 ... Maybe all you need to know about the USOC is that the chair of that board of directors is Larry Probst, who devoted much of his adult life to commercially ripping off college athletes as the longtime CEO of Electronic Arts (EA, really? +column written by a liar, see comments)

Russian millions laundered via UK firms, leaked report says | World news | The Guardian



Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues - YouTube - The vandals stole all the handles (with built-in open captioning)


U.S. Supreme Court Rebuffs Trump, Won't Hear Immigration Appeal - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Trump administration appeal aimed at ending deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, steering clear for now of the debate over the fate of hundreds of thousands of people. (otherwise known as the "boxcar plan")
Warning of ICE action, Oakland mayor takes Trump resistance to new level - SFGate


My conspiracy theory on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Think Area 51 meets 'B613' (Vlad the snake threw the election to crooked Donnie, but nothing's in the constitution to deal with it)


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On Russian meddling, Americans trust Mueller more than Trump, poll shows (58$ trust Mueller, 57% don't trust Trump, 44% think Russia got Trump elected)
Collusion or not, Russia probe is worst political scandal in decades - NBC News - Nineteen individuals have been charged with crimes, including President Trump's former campaign chairman (Paul Manafort), as well as 13 Russians ... Five have pleaded guilty ... "sub-inquires" into MULTIPLE individuals connected with the Trump campaign

In Russia probes, Republicans draw red line at Trump's finances -- Six Republican leaders of key committees told CNN they see little reason to pursue those lines of inquiry or made no commitments to do so (the heart of the matter, which Trump himself said was a "red line")
olddivorcecase comments on A Former Manager At The Russian "Troll Factory" Is Now Living In The US, Report Says (early and deep Russian involvment with Zuckerberg's FB)

Hope Hicks set to appear before House Intel Committee after month-long delay - CBS News

The New York Congressman Who Could Lead an Impeachment Charge Against Trump | The New Yorker - Jerry Nadler

Trump privately pushing personal pilot to run FAA (total inco9mpetence rises to the top)
Trump privately talks up executing all big drug dealers
Ivanka Trump believes her father's denials of sexual misconduct - 'I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated that there's no truth to it ... I believe my father. I know my father (like father like daughter)
Ivanka Trump says it's 'inappropriate' to ask her about her father's alleged affairs. Here are 2 big reasons it's not (she's working for the fucking government)
Jenna Johnson on Twitter: "The White House went out of its way to make clear that Ivanka Trump traveled to South Korea as a senior adviser to the president, not a First Daughter. But as soon as she's hit with a difficult question, suddenly she's a daughter
Checking in on America's First Family ... Monday's barely even over and they're already stepping on rakes -- Hey, world. America is being run by truthless yahoos. Have a nice day, world. (but Chelsea!!)
Don't hire relatives: Kushner should have been gone long ago (especially crooked little spy-relatives)

Koch Document Reveals Laundry List of Policy Victories Extracted from the Trump Administration (and it was so cheap)

Trump has long vowed to slash government. Now the knives are finally coming out. - The Washington Post (haha suckers)

Michael Wolff is crumbling before our eyes - The Washington Post

If this is what conservatism has become, count me out - The Washington Post - Max Boot ... I spent years writing for conservative publications such as the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Commentary magazine and working as a foreign policy adviser for three Republican presidential campaigns. Being conservative used to be central to my identity. But now, frankly, I don't give a damn. I prefer to think of myself as a classical liberal, because "conservative has become practically synonymous with 'Trump lackey" (not to mention "evil idiot" +should have thought of that before, Max)
It's time to say last rites over American conservatism - After years of drifting steadily toward extreme positions, conservatism is dead, replaced by a far right that has the Republican Party under its thumb. (no, they have always been this way)

Trump FCC Boss Under Fire For Ethics Violations : technology (completely, shamelessly, corrupt)

Elizabeth Warren's stealth campaign to shed 'Pocahontas' The potential 2020 candidate has made a series of moves this year to neutralize a nagging political vulnerability. (but still refuses to get genetically tested)

California's top court strikes down 50-year sentences for juveniles

Chaos in the Utah GOP! Hardliners adopt rule change that could kick Mitt Romney (and other candidates) out of the party - You may have thought the internal workings of the Utah Republican Party were really screwed up before. But now get this: If former U.S. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney continues gathering signatures as part of his U.S. Senate run this year, he may well be kicked out of the Utah Republican Party via a bylaw change adopted Saturday over the objections of party chairman Rob Anderson. And that's not all. (a "rightwing" group taking control of the Republican party in Utah, yes you read that right.

West Virginia teacher strike: Some progress seen in talks to end it - CNN

Republicans fret sexting scandal could cost them easy House seat - POLITICO - But a bombshell report of nude photos and text messages exchanged between the candidate, former state Sen. Steve Montenegro, and a legislative staffer




"The Newsroom Feels Embarrassed": Backfires and Explosions at The New York Times as a Possible Future Chief Re-Invents the Paper's Opinion Pages - A yoga-pants refusenik, a climate-science skeptic, and a tech writer with a neo-Nazi pal, among other offenders, have put James Bennet in the crosshairs.

David Klion on Twitter: "Bennet is creating space for a healthy debate between people with different points of view, ranging from neoliberals who think Woody Allen is a pedophile but the real problem is SJWs, to neoliberals who think he was only a pedophile one time and the real problem is SJWs https://t.co/nP35TrpBKr"
Sarah Jones on Twitter: ""Sure, Erik Prince wrote in our pages. You know who else has written in our pages? Bernie Sanders, and not just once." One of these things is not like the other! https://t.co/KNxFlRDtjh"
slackbot on Twitter: "everyone complains about the indefensible things we publish but they never mention the *defensible* things we also publish!! https://t.co/f0nUEr7hZ3"
Sam on Twitter: "We strive to reflect the full spectrum of public opinion, from long-serving left-of-center elected officials to secretive billionaire warlords whose army of mercenary soldiers routinely slaughter innocent civilians the world over with seemingly total impunity. What? https://t.co/TXIhxeC6UV"

Ryan Seacrest's E! Stylist Reveals Abuse and Harassment Allegations - grinding his erect penis against her while clad only in his underwear, groping her vagina, and at one point slapping her buttock so hard that it left a large welt still visible hours later.

Weinstein Co. is set to file for bankruptcy after sale talks collapse (Rapestein will go to jail also)


Suspect in fatal Winchester library stabbing suffers from mental illness, lawyer says - The Boston Globe
Former classmate of stabbing suspect says he gave warning in 2012 - The Boston Globe

Burlington police, SWAT team confiscate AR-15 rifle from man with criminal record - The Boston Globe


The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies - Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-friendly studies to 'go virally big time."

Nothing worked for my depression -- until I tried meditation
Autism connection to ultrasound seems unlikely, study says - The Washington Post

Women reported higher levels of incivility from other women than their male counterparts. In other words, women are ruder to each other than they are to men, or than men are to women, finds researchers in a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology. : science


When did scientists realize that Jupiter had no solid ground? : askscience


Eschaton: More Cars - Regulated medallion tax regimes, even if the systems in some cities were bad, existed for reasons. They existed to restrict the number of cabs so that the services could make money and so that there weren't, well, too many cabs -- BOSTON (AP) One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them in cars instead -- They're a substitute for walking, public transportation, and, yes, medallion cabs. There were restrictions on the number of medallion cabs.
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Fortified but Still in Peril, New Orleans Braces for Its Future - The New York Times - In the years after Hurricane Katrina, over 350 miles of levees, flood walls, gates and pumps came to encircle greater New Orleans. Experts say that is not enough.
Left to Lousiana'ss Tides, a Village Fights for Time - For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when - and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life ... $1 billion to protect fewer than 7,000 people (trump voters mooching at the public trough +here's your canary, Miami Beach)
Distraction: Bruce Sterling: Amazon.com: Books
Distraction by Bruce Sterling
Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "Scott Pruitt tells CBN that God told him to roll back environmental regulations https://t.co/SnVFJNTq9u" (but it was really Satan and he knew it)
Adam Tooze on Twitter: "Multi-breadbasket failure - on current climate conditions and modeling there is a 6 % chance per decade of simultaneous failure of maize crop in US and China = 60 % of world total. With devastating impact on global food supply. One for @FlassbeckEcon https://t.co/T0AHszJRsi https://t.co/h5sTByNM7T"
Heckuva Job Trumpy - Lawyers, Guns & Money (looting your national parks)

BuzzFeed News on Twitter: "The Broward Sheriff's Office got nearly twice the calls about Nikolas Cruz or his family than it has said publicly, records show (chief of chickenshit cops lying though his teeth a lot but won't resign)
Records Show Far More Calls For Sheriff's Deputies To Visit Suspected Florida Shooter's Home - Broward County sheriff's officials have publicly insisted they responded to just 23 calls regarding the suspected Florida school shooter and his family over the years, but records obtained BuzzFeed News show at least 22 more.
Disgraced deputy in Florida shooting once named 'officer of the year' (chickshit of the year and was he thinking "this will be in my obituary")
The Mob - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Michelle Malkin, freaking out about citizens using the free market to attack the NRA. (she, of the flying monkeys +"She comes from the D'Souza school of brown people who hate brown people.")
Gun Rights and Civil Rights, The Hidden History - Lawyers, Guns & Money
J?ST?R ? ?CTU?L33:9 on Twitter: "SideNote: So when we've got all these teachers with their $1000 bonus packing heat (PS what exact heat btw, no point taking a knife to an AR fight right?) - obviously the actual COPS are gonna show up pretty rapid. How do they distinguish who's the teacher, and whos the shooter? https://t.co/fwjRirWuu0"

Hoax attempts against Miami Herald augur broader information wars | McClatchy Washington Bureau


Russian spies hacked the Olympics and tried to make it look like North Korea did it, U.S. officials say - The Washington Post - Analysts surmise the disruption was retaliation against the International Olympic Committee for banning the Russian team from the Winter Games due to doping violations.


Will Trump Wage A Privately Funded War? - In one of the most frightening stories I've read since the start of the Trump presidency, The New York Times reported on Saturday that the administration is seriously considering paying for the new U.S. embassy it wants to build in Jerusalem with funds provided by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. (outsourcing governement to oligarchs and enemies)


After testy call with Trump over border wall, Mexican president shelves plan to visit White House - The Washington Post ... Trump "lost his temper" ... Trump believed it was unreasonable for Peqa Nieto to expect him to back off his crowd-pleasing campaign promise of forcing Mexico to pay for the wall (demanded Mexico pay for his stupid wall, deep in psycho-land)


Police, yelling, power turned off: Confrontation over Trump's Panama hotel escalates


CNN Poll: Trump approval slides, matches lowest point of presidency - CNNPolitics - 35%, down five points over the last month to match his lowest level yet - Overall, 80% of self-identified Republicans say they approve of the President, one point below his previous low mark of 81%, hit in late September of last year. Just 13% of Republicans say they disapprove of the President's performance. Approval for the President stands at just 5% among Democrats and 35% among independents. Among women, just 29% approve of the way Trump is performing, compared with 42% approval among men. Only about one in five Americans under age 35 approve of the President (22%), compared with 43% approval among those age 50 or older. And while 42% of whites approve of the way Trump is handling his job, just 23% of non-whites agree.

5 Takeaways From the Release of the Democratic Memo - The New York Times
Trump urges national unity, investigation of 'the other side' amid Russia probe (the non-traitor side)
The Nunes Memo Is Fake and the Russia Scandal Is Very Real ... Nunes is Trump's leading goon in Congress. By the standards of the conservative movement, this renders him a champion of freedom, defined as protecting Trump from any accountability before the law.
The Democratic rebuttal to the Nunes memo tears it apart - Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff brought receipts ... Nunes is either deeply misinformed or straight-up lying. (let's go with the little Russian ratfucker is lying)
Takeaways From the House Intelligence Democrats' Memo
Pwn All The Things on Twitter: "Ugh. Learn to redact people "
Schiff Memo Released - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "The Devin Nunes memo that seemed like bullshit is, in fact, bullshit. https://t.co/6iosk4T8cD"
Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "Maybe Trump is tweeting bogus mischaracterizations of the memo this evening for no particular reason. Or maybe... https://t.co/uw7R1zNGzp"

Behind a Key Anti-Labor Case, a Web of Conservative Donors - The New York Times (freedom!)

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that Ivanka Trump briefed South Korean President Moon about the new NK sanctions. (with no clearnance)

Trump's Approval in All 50 States = Tracking Trump (WY and GA most evil states)

Eschaton: The Penis Hat Brigade - So there's this guy you know who wears a giant penis hat around everywhere. He forms a club for other penis hat wearers. There's a kind of fellowship of the penis hat. They have competitions for who has the best penis hats, the biggest ones, the ones with the most bling, etc. They walk among us, proudly wearing their penis hats, telling each other how cool they look with their penis hats. They hang out in malls and movie theaters, parade up and down their suburban neighborhoods, wearing their giant penis hats, all while the rest of us just point and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh because they're a bunch of fucking idiots ... We would laugh if the penis hats didn't kill people, anyway.

I'm Glad I Got Booed at CPAC - By Mona Charen ... We built and organized this party -- but now we're made to feel like interlopers. (no, you are reaping what you sowed, Mona)

All of West Virginia's public school teachers are on strike - 48th-lowest-paid in the country. (stupid people hate education)

Peter Wehner on Twitter: ""I spoke to a hostile audience for the sake of every person who has watched this spectacle of mendacity in disbelief and misery for the past two years." -- Read this marvelous and important piece by @monacharenEPPC https://t.co/ZMnSdNYjcz"

California Democratic Party won't endorse Dianne Feinstein - snubbing Sen. Dianne Feinstein in her bid for a fifth full term.


Prepping for impeachment: Here's what Greitens and lawmakers face in the coming days

Appalachia deserves more than J.D. Vance | The Outline - A conversation with Elizabeth Catte, author of 'What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia' (what, you have something against the spawn of vampires?)

What went wrong at Newsweek, according to current and former staffers. - It stands accused of improper ties to a religious institution. Its newsroom has been gutted by firings and resignations. Here is the inside story of the magazine's explosive growth and spectacular downfall.



At Yale, Trying Campus Rape in a Court of Law - The New York Times - They argue that Yale, under fire for not taking sexual assault on its campus seriously, blurred the line between school and law enforcement in the name of proving that it did.

There's no firm rule for punishing a California lawmaker's bad behavior (guess who wrote the "rules")

Inside the toxic atmosphere at 'Megyn Kelly Today' ... "She's not for women. She's extremely mean and rude to women." (toxic Fox bitch entrenched in entitled male Murdoch culture with a fake "transformation")


Olympics ratings: NBC's $12 billion investment is looking riskier : television - Viewership for the current Olympics on NBC is down 24% compared to Sochi among viewers aged 18-49, the age demographic most coveted by advertisers.


Los Angeles' homelessness crisis is a national disgrace


Turmoil strikes Boston Athenaeum - The Boston Globe - Current and former senior staff describe a "hostile" and "ruthless" administration that undermined their expertise. Beloved colleagues have been fired on the spot and marched out of the building. Others have retired in disgust, giving little or no notice. ... director Elizabeth Barker (makes a lot of money)

Two Newton colleges move toward merging - The Boston Globe (BoGlo can't afford a map)

Prison officials limit number of visitors for inmates - The Boston Globe - nmates in maximum security will be permitted no more than five names on their preapproved visitors list; inmates in medium security will be limited to eight names; and inmates in minimum security will be allowed 10 (Chawlie Faker cracks down on rehabiliation)

Woman dies after stabbing at Winchester Public Library - The Boston Globe


ELI5: How does breastfeeding reduce the risk of developing breast cancer later in life? : explainlikeimfive - Breast tissue remains immature in women until lactation


TIL a woman has Chimerism: she's a fraternal twin who fused together with her sibling in the womb. Now she has 2 different immune systems and 2 different bloodstreams. Her immune system's constantly fighting off her twin sister's cells, as it recognizes them as foreign, causing autoimmune issues.

!Heads Up!: Congress it trying to pass Bill H.R.1856 on Tuesday that removes protections of site owners for what their users post : technology - In an attempt to stop sex trafficking, congress is changing section 230 of Communications act of 1934, the Communicatons Decency Act of 1996. This will punish site owners for what their users post by fine or potential jail time of 20 years. (it's always about "protecting the children")

Eschaton: Finally Some Important Innovation - Good plan -- A patent application published Thursday from the self-driving arm of Google's parent company detailed an elaborate system to prevent motion sickness in its vehicles. The method involves determining routes that could minimize motion sickness. For example, sensitive passengers would be given a relaxed ride on gentle roads. Those people who are more in a rush could select a faster but slightly rougher trip.

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Sources: Coral Springs police upset at some Broward deputies for not entering school - CNNPolitics - not only that Broward County Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer, had not entered the building, but that three other Broward County Sheriff's deputies were also outside the school and had not entered, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. The deputies had their pistols drawn and were behind their vehicles, the sources said, and not one of them had gone into the school. (chickenshit good guys with guns)
Student to Stoneman Douglas officer: 'You could have saved a lot of lives'
Here's definitive proof that a good guy with a gun doesn't always stop a bad guy with a gun
When Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel Was Accused of Corruption, He Responded: 'Lions Don't Care About the Opinions of Sheep' (said the hamster)
The racist history of the 'crisis actor' attacks on Parkland school shooting survivors ... the nine African American teens who braved racist crowds to enroll in Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were also accused of being impostors.
These Companies Are Sticking By The NRA | HuffPost - Many brands that offered discounts to NRA members are dumping the gun group after its furious response to the Florida mass shooting.
Scoop: Bank of America to review relationships with gunmakers - Axios
Parkland Survivor To Melania Trump: Stop Donald Trump Jr. From Cyberbullying Me | HuffPost
'Scripted' controversy: CNN releases emails of correspondence with Florida student
East High threat: Abigail Hernandez, undocumented immigrant, arrested - Abigail Hernandez, 21, is charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony. She is currently in the Buffalo Federal Detention Center in Batavia because she is an undocumented immigrant (just got herself deported)
Oberlin student cleared by law enforcement still banned from sch - KATC.com | Continuous News Coverage | Acadiana-Lafayette - Department responded to a comment that an Oberlin High School student made about the square root symbol looking like a gun. (which it does) - "He committed no crime. He was the victim of the ole morphing of information [phenomenon] ... Any student accused of talking about guns or school shootings will be investigated by three entities: the school board, the sherrif's department, and the district attorney's office (so, if a kid says s/he's afraid of gun-nuts shooting up his school, they'll lock them up for using the word "gun")
Student investigated after allegedly saying a math symbol looked - KATC.com | Continuous News Coverage | Acadiana-Lafayette (with a pic of the "gun')
Oregon bill bans domestic abusers from buying guns : news

TBogg - Totally King of New New California on Twitter: "At this rate, the only companies that will be left with affiliate programs with the @NRA will be Bullets-R-Us, Catheters Direct To You, Russian Bride Connect and Wayne LaPierre Will Blow You Behind An Arby's Dumpster (gun company execs only)

Algorithms are one reason a conspiracy theory goes viral. Another reason might be you. (trending)


21 Red Cross staff fired or resigned for sex violations - Axios - The Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross has said 21 staff members were fired or have resigned since 2015 for "paying for sexual services"


'A Total Fuck-Up' : Russian Mercenaries in Syria Lament U.S. Strike That Killed Dozens



6 bodies were found dismembered in landscape planters in Canada. There might be more. - The Washington Post - The mystery deepened this week in the case of Bruce McArthur, the man charged with killing several middle-aged men linked to Toronto's Gay Village and burying dismembered body parts in landscape planters ... McArthur, a large man who is believed to have once worked as a mall Santa, was arrested on Jan. 18 in his high-rise Toronto apartment, now considered a homicide scene by police. Officers discovered a young man in restraints on a bed and acted because they feared he was in imminent danger ... When more men began disappearing last year, Toronto police set up a new task force but continued to deny the possibility that a serial killer was at large until McArthur was arrested.


Trump: If North Korea Doesn't Obey Me, I Might Punish the Whole World ... "Phase 2 may be a very rough thing. May be very, very unfortunate for the world"


McMaster Gives a Belated Russian Lesson - time for Americans to add a new Russian word to their strategic lexicon -- Kompromat (otherwise known as the pee-me tapes)

Lawyer for Susan Rice: Obama administration 'justifiably concerned' about sharing intel with Trump team (THEN they got concerned)

House panel releases Democrats' memo defending FBI surveillance of ex-Trump campaign aide
a counterweight to a GOP memo that Trump declassified three weeks ago, claiming that FBI officials mislead a secret court to obtain a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign adviser. (so basically Russian Nunes lied his ass off)
2 Weeks After Trump Blocked It, Democrats Release Rebuttal of G.O.P. Memo - The New York Times


Mueller Is Gaining Steam. Should Trump Worry? - The New York Times


'The Hapsburg Group': Mueller Says Manafort Secretly Paid European Leaders
Former Austrian chancellor appears to have lobbied as part of Manafort scheme - POLITICO - The former chancellor isn't named in the court filings, but appears to be Alfred Gusenbauer, who served as chancellor of Austria between 2007 and 2008.
Inside the Manafort money machine: A decade of influence-peddling, lavish spending and alleged fraud - The Washington Post - As Donald Trump crisscrossed the nation promising to drain the swamp, two of his top advisers were busy illegally building a colossal fortress of riches deep inside that swamp, according to federal prosecutors ... If convicted, Manafort faces punishment that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. (unless he rolls over against Dumpster +comment: "Alex van der Zwasshole: London lawyer, married into Russian Mafia, pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Rick Gates and another unnamed person based in Ukraine.")
Paul Manafort, American Hustler - The Atlantic - Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort' pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington ... In 2003 ... When Davis arrived, he found himself pumping the hand of the Honorable Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild, the British-born financier known as Nat. (and there you are)

Pro-Russia GOP Congressman Features Prominently In Trump Aide's Plea Document | HuffPost - Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has been interviewed by congressional investigators but not yet by special counsel Robert Mueller. (lock up the little Russian ratfucker)
Meeting That Gates Admits Lying About Matches Rohrabacher Dinner - Bloomberg - a March 19, 2013, meeting between his boss, Paul Manafort, and an unidentified U.S. congressman. Public filings show a meeting that day between Manafort and Dana Rohrabacher, a Russia-friendly Republican congressman from California. (he's been a traitor for years, thanks for focusing on whistleblowers, Barry)

Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Because He Couldn't Figure Out How to Convert PDFs to Word Files (supergenious)

Minute by minute at Donald Trump's wild, rambling CPAC speech - He patted his bald spot. He said his opponents "committed a lot of atrocities." At one point, he pantomimed a stabbing. (nevereneding campaign)
Watch ex-RNC head Michael Steele unleash holy hell on CPAC exec over 'black guy' slur
CPAC speaker calls conservatives "hypocrites" for ignoring Trump's sexual harassment allegations -- The crowd wasn't happy, and security escorted her out for her protection when the panel ended. (sacrilege in the temple)
Going Rogue at CPAC: Mona Charen Slams Sexist Hypocrisy and Racism at CPAC; Calls invitation of Le Pen a 'Disgrace' Republicans anti-woman for Moore support.
CPAC speaker Mona Charen stuns with fiery rebuke of Trump, Le Pen
Still Glad You Voted Trump? At CPAC, Conservatives Had an Answer - The New York Times
Nationalism -- and hecklling -- take spotlight at conservative conference (young white evil on display)
The unending campaign of Donald Trump - The Washington Post

In Donald Trump, Evangelicals Have Found Their President - The New York Times (they have always worshipped Satan and David Brody is clueless, which means ...)
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to poison the culture and make lots of money by publishing it in my newspaper - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The NYT opinion page decided that a good use of its space would be to pay David Brody to run a 900-word ad for his facially preposterous new book

Eschaton: The Battle Of Ideas - One maddening thing about The Acceptable Discourse in DC is that there are people who are paid to lie. It is their job to lie ... The incentives to lie are not identical, so even if none of us are pure, having Both Sides coverage of issues, where one side is The Committee On Feeding Your Children More Lead, and the other side is Save Our Children From Lead Poisoning, means you're going to get a bit more dishonesty from the former.


Eschaton: What Happened To Our Oakeshottian Burkean Purity? - Trump brings it out more than usual, but we regularly get conservatives lamenting that their movement is filled with racist hucksters, mad because the new kids say the quiet bits a bit too loudly and because they're getting in on their grift ... One doesn't have to rehash the whole modern conservative party from Goldwater to Nixon and onward. Elite conservatives promoted Sarah Palin to be Vice President. OK, maybe this was just a little mistake. Once they did that of course they had pretend they wanted her to win. Fine. Then they (not all of them, but most) spent at least 2 years promoting her as the leader of their movement (it's sort of been memoryholed, but Politico was Sarah Palin Daily from 2009-2011 or so, and not simply because Politico writers were interested in her).

Jared Kushner, International Man of Mystery - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I'd say the media making Hillary Clinton's compliance with information security best practices the dominant issue of the 2016 campaign is working out smashingly.
Jared Kushner encapsulates what's wrong with the Trump administration ... A callow man with little experience outside the world of real estate, no policy depth and no credibility in government (or around the world) might be employable as an intern, but in any other administration would not be there.

RNC paid Trump campaign Trump Tower rent after paying legal bills for Russia probe ... The payments include more than $37,000 a month in rent to President Donald Trump's company, and thousands more in salary to Vice President Mike Pence's newphew, John Pence

Trump is right back where he started, and that's a problem for the GOP ... The latest Quinnipiac poll has the president's approval rating down to 37 percent (with 58 disapproving), compared to a 40-percent approval rating on Feb. 7. And by a margin of 67 percent to 24 percent, they want him to release his tax returns. (Republicans "think" Trump has been faithfull to all his wives and respects women)

CPAC has always been 'out there.' Now the rest of the GOP is, too.

Michael Tomasky on Twitter: "New Column: Rebekah Mercer's insanely dumb and dishonest WSJ op-ed: She wants a "kind and generous" America with no hatred? Her? Really? https://t.co/tT8BgJ36XR via @thedailybeast" (they ARE the lie)

Scoop: Corey Lewandowski returns to the Oval Office - Axios (meanwhile, behind the scenes)

The Jew is the Jew of Modern GOP Fascism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The Missouri GOP finally knows who to blame for Eric Greitens blackmailing the woman with whom he was having an affair ... It's always the Jews making Republicans blackmailing their mistresses ... Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) not only kept $1 million from a venture capitalist accused of sexual abuse but even gave him a seat on stage at his inauguration.

Judge dismisses coal mogul's defamation lawsuit against John Oliver ... "I'm not going to say, for instance, that Bob Murray looks like a geriatric Dr. Evil, even though he clearly does" he said.

Republicans Terrified By Rules Tilted Only Slightly In Their Favor - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Pennsylvania Republicans

A conservative Democrat in Illinois feels the ire of his liberal base - The Washington Post - Lipinski, one of the last antiabortion Democrats in the House, and one of only a few to oppose the Affordable Care Act, was confronting many of the voters who want to oust him ... "He doesn't have true Democratic values, and his record proves it." "This ins't some deep-red district. This district is solid blue. The seat has been held by a Democrat for 58 out of the last 60 years. Yet Lipinski votes more like a right-wing Republican." (last of the bluedogs) ... The Democrats who run nearly every office in the district endorsed Lipinski, as did the AFL-CIO. (fuck off asshole)

Docs: Woman whose affair led rep to quit threatened husband - Her husband claims in court records Edwards made multiple threats to kill him, including saying she would use a steak knife or hire a hit man ... Edwards is seeking the Republican nomination to take on Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle.


NCAA hoops corruption case docs list players involved, payment amounts


Serial scans make it official: In people with Alzheimer's mutations, ABeta_ starts building up 20 years before symptoms; hypometabolism and shrinkage follow.

Inside the OED: can the world's biggest dictionary survive the internet?

What are some horrifying history facts or events that most people don't know about?
Dad turns Son in for Snapchat Gun Posts, Cops find Child Porn on his phone : news


This Man Helped Peter Thiel Demolish Gawker - That man, an Oxford-educated Australian citizen named Aron< D'Souza (from the D'Souza crime family) /a>

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We should change the names of AR-15s to "Marco Rubio" because they are so easy to buy. (one of the MSD "kids" said that)
Florida school shooting: Sheriff got 18 calls about Nikolas Cruz's violence, threats, guns : news
Catherine Rampell on Twitter: "Trump suggests "a little bit of a bonus" for trained teachers who are armed, throwing out 10%, 20% and 40% as possible percentages of teachers who might be qualified. Also: "You can't hire enough security guards... Your need 100, 150 security guards" (they will cut teachers salaries by 25%, replace "civics" with target practice, it will pay for itself!)
Parkland Survivor: 'I've Never Been So Unimpressed By A Person' After Trump Call | HuffPost
What An AR-15 Does - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A radiologist describes what she found examining victims Marjory Stoneman Douglas:
What Do Jotted Talking Points Say About Trump's Empathy? they seemed to suggest that the president needed to be reminded to show compassion and understanding to traumatized survivors, an impression that Mr. Trump has sometimes fed with public reactions to national tragedies that were criticized as callous.

Trump Appears To Read From The NRA's Script Hours After The Gun Lobby Chief's Speech
CBS News poll: Support for stricter gun laws rises; divisions on arming teachers - CBS News - Nearly two-thirds of Americans support stricter laws on gun sales, including an increasing number of Republicans, but the public divides on the idea of allowing more teachers and school officials to carry guns. Arming teachers draws partisan splits, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed (68% of Rethugs support shootouts in the hallways)
NRA Goes On Offense In Wake Of Florida Shooting | HuffPost - Two of its top officials deliver fiery speeches at an annual gathering of conservatives.
The Death Cult and The Big Money - Lawyers, Guns & Money - NRA ... the staggering amounts of money it dumps into the political process: In October alone, according to the Center for Public Integrity, roughly one out of every 20 television ads in Pennsylvania was sponsored by the NRA. That same month, the group paid for one in nine ads in North Carolina, and one of every eight in Ohio. The ads imply that Clinton and Democrats would leave law-and-order abiding citizens defenseless. (all Russian money, too)
'We're going to take action': Inside Trump's shifting stance on gun rights
In my part of red America, no one sees guns as part of the problem - The Washington Post - This is both Trump country and single-issue voter country. People here vote on guns, and people vote on abortion. Every other issue, every other considerable nuance, is nothing but noise. (KY, the heart of stupid and evil +"getting back to the good old days")
We know who really rules the Gunshine State - The Washington Post - Smut, not guns, is the great risk to teenagers.
Three major car rental companies dump the NRA - ThinkProgress - The backlash is growing ... a partnership with the NRA to provide discounts to members of the gun lobby (why the fuck in the first place?)

How Political Pessimism Helps Doom Tougher Gun Laws ProPublica - How Political Pessimism Helps Doom Tougher Gun Laws -- Saying 'nothing will change' has empowered the NRA and ignores its declining punch.
The N.R.A. Lobbyist Behind Florida's Pro-Gun Policies -- Marion Hammer's unique influence over legislators has produced laws that dramatically alter long-held American norms.
It's Not All About the NRA - Gun owners also see the ownership of a firearm just as valuable as the right to vote, freedom of speech and freedom of religion (Jesus packed a Glock) the NRA spent $50M in the 2016 cycle, $30M of which was spent on behalf of Trump. (other orgs including Kockbros spend more money so nothing to see here)



Trump administration to target North Korea with new sanctions on Friday | Reuters ("bigly")

Operation Sanctuary review finds adult abuse 'extensive' - BBC News

AP sources: Adelson offers to help pay for Jerusalem embassy - The Trump administration is considering an offer from Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson to pay for at least part of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, four U.S. officials told The Associated Press.

Trudeau's India trip is a total disaster -- and he has only himself to blame (cozying up to Sikh terrorists)

Rick Gates' Guilty Plea Proves Mueller Is Working His Way Up - o, on Friday, Rick Gates, without whom Paul Manafort could not have fluffed and folded a single dollar, copped a plea in federal court. This brings Robert Mueller's investigation even closer to the king fixer, who absolutely has no place to go right now. He is on a spit over an open flame and it's turning ever faster. The skin is starting to crackle and Paul Manafort is almost done and ready for serving. And Manafort, unless he's an idiot, which nobody thinks he is, has to be pretty close to serving up the only person he can serve up ... Gates has copped a plea. Manafort is done like dinner, and the fog is beginning to set in over the Great Grimpen Mire, distant sounds echoing ever louder.
Rick Gates, Trump Campaign Aide, to Plead Guilty in Mueller Inquiry and Cooperate - The New York Times
Now I gotta turn my back - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Gates flips.

This Is the Law That Could Take Down Trump - Bribery statutes apply to public officials. And Trump became one, says one federal prosecutor, when he became the GOP nominee. Dum-da-dum-dum.

McCain associate invokes Fifth Amendment on Trump dossier sources: report | TheHill - An associate of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) invoked the Fifth Amendment in order to not testify before the House Intelligence Committee on a dossier of opposition research that claims ties between President Trump and Russia, according to Fox News. (another Nunes charade)

Trump's CPAC Speech Was a Reminder of What We've Done to Ourselves
Trump Ditched the Script at CPAC. Here's What Happened He talked about, among other things, jogging. (and many, many other things)
In Trumpworld, every day is yesterday - Axios - Remember that President Trump thinks of each day as a new episode in a reality show, with him as the star, writer, producer and critic.

Reagan was the Gipper. Trump is the grifter. - The Washington Post (no, Reagan was the original trickle-down lying grifter, Max, and what's with your dumb hat?)
Trump Hotel paid millions in fines shortly after the inauguration for stiffing contractors: report (+zombie Melania)

Happy to announce I will be joining the NYT opinion pages. My kickoff column will be entitled "Cannibalism - Why Don't You Just Try It?" My future columns will all be interviews with actual Nazis

'They have had it': West Virginia teachers strike, closing all public schools ... "Work stoppages by public employees are not lawful in West Virginia and will have a negative impact on student instruction and classroom time," n 2016, West Virginia ranked 48th in average teacher salaries. Only Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Dakota sat below it in the rankings, which included 50 states and the District. (1-2% raise in pay, offset by 4% paying for their own insurance and 3.5% cost-of-living = 6% pay cut +coal miners and Rethugs had education)
Governor Jim Justice on Twitter: "Today I signed SB267 which will provide teachers, school service personnel and state police with a 2 percent pay increase starting in July. https://t.co/jIBEPRVcy9 #wvgov #wvlegis"

Here's what young conservatives at CPAC think of the media (young and dumb)

Bernie Sanders' son wants to run for Congress. Not everyone is on board. (Putin supports him, however) "The basic difference is that I'm a vegetarian and he's not," Levi said of his father ...

Gerrymandering in Pennsylvania - Republicans Getting Desperate (will try to throw democracy in the garbage can)

National Democrats come out against Laura Moser, primary candidate in bid for Culberson's seat | The Texas Tribune - Then, referring to a 2014 Washingtonian magazine piece in which Moser wrote that she would rather have a tooth pulled without anesthesia than move to Paris, Texas

Robert Patrick on Twitter: "I just saw MO Gov. Eric Greitens being led away in the custody of the St. Louis Sheriff." ("the face of Republican family values")
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, indicted on a felony charge, was a rising GOP star - The Washington Post
Greitens indicted for felony invasion of privacy | The Kansas City Star (still no pic of him being led away in handcuffs)
Greitens didn't shoot straight with Missourians, can't govern under indictment (you might have reported on all his dark money, KCStar)

Nashville Mayor Megan Barry affair: Nude photos, deleted chats may show evidence of crime, TBI says - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says it has obtained nude photos of a woman taken on the phone of former Sgt. Rob Forrest, evidence that investigators believe shows Nashville Mayor Megan Barry engaged in an affair with her former bodyguard while he was on duty.

As an Arkansas judge, he dismissed sentences for sexual photos. Now he's going to prison ("community service" and Republican, of course)


Two more high-ranking officials at Massachusetts State Police retire - The Boston Globe - Risteen was also the former longtime boyfriend of a trooper who is now a subject of an internal affairs investigation because she was hired in 2014 even though she previously testified in federal court that she sold marijuana and laundered money.


Brendan Fraser Says He Was Groped by Former HFPA President | HuffPost - The actor told GQ the alleged incident was one of many reasons why he disappeared from Hollywood.


Missing CDC employee left work sick 10 days ago, hasn't been seen since, police say : news


Southwest Airlines passenger bitten by an emotional-support dog - The Washington Post (giving emotional support by attacking everyone)


Here's What It Means To Be A 'Cannasexual' | HuffPost

Led Zeppelin Lyrics - Since I've Been Loving You
Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You 1973 [HD] - YouTube
I finally listened to Led Zeppelin and was blown away! What have I been missing.. : Music


A systematic review and meta-analysis did not find evidence to support the hypothesis that US medical marijuana laws (MMLs) until 2014 have led to increases in adolescent marijuana use prevalence, contrary to the belief that such laws increase recreational marijuana use among adolescents. : science (someone call Jason Lewis again)

Depression substantially reduced with multivitamin and getting Vitamin-D above 40 ng/ml : science
Dr. Rhonda Patrick was right. Getting your vitamin D = less depression : JoeRogan
Hey Seattle: a friendly reminder in these dark, sunless times here in the north to take daily a vitamin D supplement since it helps combat seasonal depression. : SeattleWA
Depression and Vitamin D Deficiency: Causality, Assessment, and Clinical Practice Implications : science - Vitamin D deficiency rates in the USA are about 40% countrywide and up to 97% during cold months in Canada.


23andMe: Talk about your genes and their possible implications!
Redditors who have used genetic testing services like 23andme and have had unexpected results, what happened? : AskReddit
Best Genetic Testing site? : Nootropics


Little humans falling over, for your joy
Don't touch my food! : gifs
Violent video games actually reduces violence amongst children : gaming
Ah, the old... switcharoo
Bird photobombs meteorologist : gifs
Lawyer buys tank and parks it on street in HOA, exploiting a legal loophole : videos

Eschaton: Car Washes Are A Metaphor - Cost (for those who dream of running robot taxis) and convenience (for the rest of us) are the entire point. And yet... The most cutting-edge cars on the planet require an old-fashioned handwashing. Car washes have been automated for decades, but companies developing fully autonomous vehicles must rely on a human touch to keep their cars and trucks in working condition.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Made $636 Million Last Year Even as Company Lost $720 Million : news

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Arctic temperatures soar 45 degrees above normal, flooded by extremely mild air on all sides - The Washington Post - The warmth over Alaska occurred as almost one-third of the ice covering the Bering Sea off Alaska's West Coast vanished in just over a week during the middle of February ... the overall sea ice extent on Feb. 20 was the lowest on a record by a long shot. (Trump will build a Trump hotel on the North Pole)

Armed sheriff's deputy stayed outside Florida school while mass killing took place -- Israel said he suspended School Resource Deputy Scot Peterson on Thursday after seeing a video from the Parkland, Fla., school that showed Peterson outside the school building where the shooter was inside and attacking ... Peterson, 54, a resource officer at the school since 2009, resigned after Israel suspended him. Israel said two other officers have been placed on a restricted assignment pending an internal investigation relating the school shooting. (so there were three cops there and they did nothing)

Bill Bratton on Twitter: "Proposals to arm American teachers are the height of lunacy. Are we also then going to arm school bus drivers and school crossing guards. The #NRA & gun manufacturers would love that."
josh Trump Needs Reminder To Listen To Parkland Survivors In Listening Session (gets cheat-sheet on how to resemble a human being)
This photo of Trump's notes captures his empathy deficit better than anything
Trump denies saying teachers should have guns -- and then says some teachers should have guns
In School Shooting's Painful Aftermath, Sheriff Faces Questions Over Police Response
School shooter made gun threats, first host family told police - CNN ... "has put the gun to other's heads in the past" (no big deal)
Florida Sheriff Rebukes NRA Spokeswoman Who Claims She's 'Fighting' For Shooting Survivors | HuffPost - Dana Loesch was roundly criticized by gun violence survivors and others for her remarks on gun control.
Florida Shooting Survivors Face Down The NRA And Politicians, Vow To Keep Fighting | HuffPost - In a heated exchange, Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter, Jamie, was killed last week, demanded Rubio tell him that he would "work with us to do something about guns" (hahaha if you think that's going to happen)
Facing jeers and boos, Rubio shifts on guns during tense forum - POLITICO - It was a striking turnabout for Rubio, who never met a gun-rights bill he didnn'vote for in the Florida legislature and in Congress. (keep voting Republican, white Floriduh)
Florida House approves bill to post "In God We Trust" in all public schools (lurching towards theocracy, one idiocy at a time +trusting God helped so much last time
Video delays misled cops at Stoneman Douglas shooting - Sun Sentinel - images were "delayed 20 minutes and nobody told us that."
We should all take a lesson from the Stoneman Douglas students. - The teenagers from Stoneman Douglas are fearlessly reimagining how to effect change in the Trump era.
Trump wants to arm teachers: #armmewith movement doesn't include guns - Arm me with the resources and funding needed to help students experiencing mental health issues, not guns
How Florida shooting survivor David Hogg became the victim of an online conspiracy - The Washington Post
The AR-15 Is Different: What I Learned Treating Parkland Victims - The Atlantic - Should Change the Debate on Guns - They weren't the first victims of a mass shooting the Florida radiologist had seen -- but their wounds were radically different. (in addition to letting deranged teenagers and anyone else buy military weapsons, let's give them super-death bullets because Freedom)

The One-Way Empathy Ratchet - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Guns and capitalism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - While around 30% of Americans own at least one gun, the much more salient statistic, from the perspective of gun manufacturers, is that one tenth of that cohort -- made up of 3% of Americans -- collectively own half the guns in the nation ... Again, this is a common pattern. Consider alcohol consumption ... But the tenth decile -- en per cent of the population -- averages more than ten drinks per day. That, obviously, is where the real money is, i.e., in selling alcohol to alcoholics ... an industry which nearly quadrupled its manufacturing between 2003 and 2013, to eleven million weapons per year (gunaholics)
Marco Rubio and an N.R.A. Official Were Jeered and Lectured on Gun Control - The New York Times
The Making of a No. 1 YouTube Conspiracy Video After the Parkland Tragedy - The New York Times ... "trending"
NRA chief Wayne LaPierre berates the media, calls for more armed guards after Florida school shooting - The Washington Post - "They don't don't care about our schoolchildren," LaPierre said Thursday morning near the start of the Conservative Political Action Conference. "They want to make all of us less free." (yeah he really said that, it's all upside-down talk now)
NRA's Wayne LaPierre accuses Democrats of exploiting Parkland shooting in speech
Why does only one side of the gun debate get respect?
A superintendent threatens to suspend students protesting gun laws. But that's not legal. (never stopped them before)
An Armed Principal Detained a Campus Gunman. But He's Against Arming School Staff.
Ohio student dies after shooting himself in school bathroom, officials say | Fox News


Putin ally said to be in touch with Kremlin, Assad before his mercenaries attacked U.S. troops - The Washington Post - A Russian oligarch believed to control the Russian mercenaries who attacked U.S. troops and their allies in Syria this month was in close touch with Kremlin and Syrian officials in the days and weeks before and after the assault, according to U.S. intelligence reports.


Eschaton: Gun Nuttery - Gun nuts believe their position is popular. It isn't. They have (have had) intensity on their side for two reasons. One reason is that "gun nuts" are, well, nuts, and they are single issue voters about it. There isn't an equivalent voter opposition. The second is that there isn't an equivalent opposition from electeds. When Democrats do propose gun measures, they're...ant steps ... The outcome of Heller (individual right in 2nd amendment) was supposed to open the door to sensible gun regulation. Fine, it's a right, so we can't take away all your guns, but that doesn't mean we can't have some reasonable regulations. That was a stupid view because that isn't how politics works (nor is it how conservative judges are likely to see Heller). But little things like "constitutionality as interpreted by the Supremos" never stop conservative activists.


U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Remove "Nation of Immigrants" From Mission Statement (next: deleting "Liberty" from the statue)



The Immigration Debate - Lawyers, Guns & Money - really between people on one side who think problems can be solved through policy and people on the other side who want mass-scale ethnic cleansing.

U.S. official focused on election security being shoved aside - The action raises fresh questions over the degree to which Republican President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans who control Congress are taking steps to protect the security of American elections, and some state officials have accused them of doing too little to address the threat. (Trump clearing the path for Putin)

Trump supporters, conservatives rage over Russian bot purge, #TwitterLockOut (raging they lost all their commie followers)

McMaster could leave WH after months of tension with Trump - CNNPolitics - the Pentagon is considering options that would allow the President to potentially move the three-star general out of his current role and back into the military

The Pardon Boomerang: Why Trump Associates May Need to Decline Any Offer of a Pardon | Just Security - The dilemma for these Trump campaign affiliates is not simply that a presidential pardon would fail to erase the risk of a state prosecution, but rather that their acceptance of such a pardon may significantly increase the prospect that state prosecutors will both pursue a case and secure a conviction. Let me be more specific as to the reason why: individuals run a significant risk that acceptance of a pardon would be used by state prosecutors as an admission of guilt ... This get-out-of-federal-jail card comes at a price.

Occam's Razor Says There Was Collusion - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Trump collusion with Russia? Mueller's investigation has good odds -- the cover-up is likely covering up serious wrongdoing

Special counsel Mueller files new charges in Manafort, Gates case - The Washington Post - The new indictment contains 32 counts, including tax charges. (comments: "We can rename it Mar-a-Guantanamo." and "There needs to be an investigation to find out if anyone in the Trump administration has ties to America.")
Ex-Trump Staffer Rick Gates Fires His Lawyer in Russia Probe - Manafort's long-time deputy has terminated Tom Green, the Washington attorney who reportedly tried to get him a plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle connects the dots in latest Mueller indictment to tie Trump directly to Putin ... Van der Zwaan's father in law, German Khan is the head of Russia's Alfabank, which was named in the Steele dossier as a major launderer of Russian mob money ... At that engagement -- also attended by the Green Party's Jill Stein -- Flynn sat at the same table as Pres. Putin. (lock her up!)

Why You Shouldn't Be a Russiagate Skeptic - What Blake Hounshell misses about the Mueller investigation ... Faced with this evidence, arguing there was no collusion is no longer the position of a skeptic, but of someone in denial. It is the refusal to acknowledge what is staring us all in the face: The president of the United States and his campaign colluded with a foreign adversary to defeat his political opponent. (and is totally illegimate)


Sources: Mueller probe stymies Kushner security clearance - CNNPolitics - Jared Kushner has been unable to obtain a full security clearance in part because of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, according to two sources familiar with the matter.


Eschaton: Where We Fucked Up - I don't need narcissistic navel gazers about "why I was wrong" but I would like more people who have been in power at key moments and over key time periods and who were responsible for, or party to, key decisions, to explain what they got wrong ... The people who lead us - even the good ones- have fucked up a lot for decades. I don't get the sense that many of them realize it. (it wasn't a good sign when Obama said look forward, not backward at Bush's war crimes ... it's almost like he knew he'd fuck up cosmically)

Two weeks after Trump chose him for ambassador, nominee pledged money for a gala at Trump's club - Two weeks after President Trump nominated Florida businessman Leandro Rizzuto Jr. to be ambassador to Barbados, Rizzuto pledged thousands of dollars to fund a gala at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club (so he has a built-in money collection and laundering business, pure presidential genious

Trump Steers Right-Wing Summit on Populist Path Blazed in Europe - Bloomberg - President Donald Trump has pushed the Republican Party toward a European-style populism that is amply evident in the line-up at an annual conference in Washington that long has reflected the pulse of the American right. The list of speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference that opens Thursday includes two European nativists, Marion Marechal-Le Pen and Nigel Farage, who will address the gathering between panels and events on the dangers of immigration, Sharia law and "lawless" government agencies.

Trump-appointed judge who donated to campaign refuses to recuse himself from dossier matter - ABC News - and worked on his presidential transition team has rejected requests to recuse himself from overseeing a legal battle involving Fusion GPS,

Melania Trump's parents are legal permanent residents, raising questions about whether they relied on "chain migration" (duh, yes. call ICE and load them into a boxcar)
Questions Swirl as Melania Trump's Parents Obtain Green Cards

Middle America Reboots Democracy : Democracy Journal ... anti-Trump forces not who pundits say they are (a lot of the grass-roots Barry told to go home and let the smart people handle things have come back +the kids since then)

Violence, Slavery, and the Human Experience - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Democrats Didn't Even Dream of This Pennsylvania Map. How Did It Happen? -- They seemed not to believe that they would be allowed to strive for partisan balance in addressing Republican gerrymandering. (well, no shit, Nate +slightly less stacked to Rethugs)

Democratic Congressional Candidate Built Lucrative Career Spying on Left-Wing Activists - Patrick Ryan, a congressional candidate from New York, is leaning on his experience as a small business entrepreneur to establish his readiness for office, but he has curiously failed to mention the business he used to work in: domestic surveillance ... Seven years ago ... then working at a firm called Berico Technologies, compiled a plan to create a real-time surveillance operation of left-wing groups and labor unions, hoping business lobbyists would pay top dollar to monitor and disrupt the actions of activist groups across the country ... spy on the families of high-profile Democratic activists and plant fake documents with labor unions in a bid to discredit them. (ahead of his time)

Fueled by a Democratic surge, Texans turn out in force on first day of early voting | 2018 Elections | Dallas News - Of the 51,249 Texans who cast ballots Tuesday on the first day of early voting, more than half voted in the Democratic primary. The total number of voters from 15 of the state's largest counties is high for a midterm year.

Fox's book of martyrs

Black Lung Disease Comes Storming Back in Coal Country - The New York Times - Federal investigators this month identified the largest cluster of advanced black lung cases ever officially recorded. -- More than 400 coal miners frequenting three clinics in southwestern Virginia between 2013 and 2017 were found to have complicated black lung disease (and they all voted for Trump)

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens indicted on felony invasion of privacy charge stemming from affair - The Washington Post - Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL who was once considered a rising Republican politician, has been under siege since January, when accusations emerged that he threatened to blackmail his former hairstylist -- with whom he was having an extramarital affair -- by distributing a nude photo he secretly took of her. On Thursday, he was indicted by a St. Louis grand jury on a felony invasion of privacy charge.
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens's sexual blackmail scandal, explained (only the tip of the corruption iceberg)

In rare move, national Democrats come out against Laura Moser, primary candidate in bid for Culberson's seat | The Texas Tribune - Then, referring to a 2014 Washingtonian magazine piece in which Moser wrote that she would rather have a tooth pulled without anesthesia than move to Paris, Texas


Margaret Brennan Named Host of 'Face the Nation' on CBS - makes Ms. Brennan, 37, the only woman currently serving as a solo anchor of a major Sunday political affairs show


Cruz: Dems aren't he party of Lisa Simpson' and Republicans are happily the party of Homer, Bart, Maggie and Marge (proundly stupid, he really said that)


Harvey Weinstein Apologized To Meryl Streep And Jennifer Lawrence For Using Their Words In His Defense


Kylie Jenner Tanks $1.3 Billion of Snapchat Parent's Market Value - Bloomberg - "sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me... ugh this is so sad." ... Meanwhile, as the app takes criticism, Chief Executive Evan Spiegel may become one of the highest paid executives in the U.S. After the company's IPO last March, Spiegel got a $636.6 million stock grant that will be payable through 2020. (Evan Spiegel has known better than you his entire life)

Google Fired and Disciplined Employees for Speaking Out About Diversity [Updated] - practice of formally reprimanding -- and in at least one case, firing -- employees for comments the company deemed discriminatory toward white men suggests that Google made an effort to moderate speech by its liberal employees as well as its conservative ones.

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Make America Toxic Again - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Rebecca Leber'ssuperb article about Scott Pruitt's dismantling of the EPA is essential reading: (Republicans are toxic)

Will America Choose Its Children Over Guns? - The New York Times
Florida House Votes Down Assault Rifle Ban After Parkland | Miami New Times

Watch Van Jones annihilate Jack Kingston for doubling down on his attacks on the Parkland survivors
Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder - The New York Times - from more mainstream voices like Rush Limbaugh and a commentator on CNN (Limbag is "mainstream" now)
David Hogg, Florida school shooting survivor: 'I'm not a crisis actor' - CNN

These Florida lawmakers accepted money from the NRA - CNNPolitics
Colorado congressman booed as people demand action on guns - f Republican Rep. Mike Coffman - "We're done with thoughts and prayers"
CPAC Says Dinesh D'Souza Not Going to Speak This Year, Condemns 'Indefensible' Remarks (Dinesh DaFuck)
CPAC Condemns D'Souza After Attack On Parkland Survivors, Claims He Wasn't Scheduled This Year (fake news, we tell you, fake!)
9news.com | 'I was almost a school shooter' - I was almost a school shooter. I am not a school shooter because I didn't have access to guns.
Florida legislators vote down attempt to revive ban on assault rifles - The Boston Globe - The motion failed by a 36-71 vote. (Floriduh wants dead kids)
Supreme Court leaves in place California's 10-day wait for gun buyers, rejects 2nd Amendment challenge ... Dissenting alone, Justice Clarence Thomas said "the 2nd Amendment is a disfavored right in this court"


Parkland Conspiracy Theories Have Made Us a Nation Within a Nation - The Parkland responses are merely the latest sign.
The Parkland Shooting May Be a Sea Change Moment for Gun Laws - The Parkland shooting may be a sea change moment after all.


New Netanyahu Corruption Allegations: The Details - The New York Times - Two more serious allegations have surfaced in the metastasizing corruption investigation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle: that one of his aides tried to bribe a judge to quash a criminal case involving Mr. Netanyahu's wife, and that he or his aides traded lucrative regulatory approvals for favorable coverage on a news website owned by Israel's largest telecommunications company. (Israel's oligarch crime family)


Sex Abuse Allegations Shatter Illusions of Charity Sector - An investigation into Oxfam cast a seedy new light on the NGO world, and the #metoo movement is now sweeping through the industry. ... charity bosses paid for "full-on Caligula orgies" (the more things change)


Latvia Signals Russia May Be Interfering in Banking Crisis - Bloomberg - "There is a high probability that an externally organized widespread information operation is being carried out that, by its structure and execution, is identical to those observed in pre-election periods in the U.S., France and Germany,"

UPDATED: Attorney who whitewashed Tymoshenko prosecution charged with perjury | KyivPost - An attorney for international law firm Skadden, Arps, Meagher, & Flom who helped whitewash the prosecution and imprisonment of Batkivshchyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko was charged with perjury in U.S. federal court today.

Conservative Twitter Users Lose Thousands of Followers, Mass Purge of Bots Suspected

The unwitting: The Trump supporters used by Russia - Feb. 20, 2018 (stupid and racist)

Kushner Doesn't Want To Give Up His Security Clearance As John Kelly Cracks Down: Report | HuffPost - unclear why the president's son-in-law needs access to highly classified material. (because he's a paid spy, duh)
Kushner Resists Losing Access as Kelly Tackles Security Clearance Issues - The New York Times (Slushner is a crooked spy, but who cares?)


Trump's former bodyguard makes $15,000 a month from a GOP 'slush fund' ... Keith Schiller worked for Trump for nearly 20 years, becoming one of his most trusted aides.

Russiagate Targets the Left - Liberal conspiracy theorists are using Russiagate to smear Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein. How long until they come for you? (Jacobin jumps to their defense)
Bernie blames Hillary for allowing Russian interference - POLITICO - The senator and his top political adviser also denied Mueller's assertion that Russian actors backed his campaign. (no Russioans here, Bernie declared, emphatically, it was Hillary's fault) Sanders repeatedly refused to say why he didn't call out Russian involvement during the campaign. Clinton's campaign regularly raised suspicions of Kremlin-backed activity during the home stretch of the race ... Joan Walsh ... "Seriously, this could be the end of Sanders 2020. Someone who cares about him ought to tell him how badly he stepped in it today"

Should Clarence Thomas be impeached? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Billy Graham, 'America's Pastor' And Noted Evangelist, Dead At 99 | HuffPost - He believed that all men were lost and would face God's judgement (Satan welcomes him home)

The Storm Is the New Pizzagate -- Only Worse

Eschaton: Perfectly Aligned Incentives - What could go wrong. -- Hospitals are increasingly offering "patient-financing" strategies, cooperating with banks and other financial institutions to provide on-the-spot loans to make sure patients pay their bills. (evil squared)


Democrats Flip Kentucky State House Seat Where Trump Won Overwhelmingly | HuffPost - Another sign of a big year for Democrats - Democrat Linda Belcher, a former public school teacher and state lawmaker, defeated Republican Rebecca Johnson, 68 percent to 32 percent ... Trump defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton among the district's 72 percent to 23 percent. The special election was prompted by the December death of then-state Rep. Dan Johnson, a Republican. Johnson took his own life after denying allegations that he had molested a 17-year-old girl at a church where he had served as a pastor ... Rebecca Johnson, the defeated Republican candidate, is Johnson's widow.
Democrat Linda Belcher Takes Deep-Red Kentucky Seat, the 37th Flip Since Trump's Inauguration - an 86-point turnaround
After losing to Linda Belcher, Dan Johnson's widow claims voter fraud ... There were 4,947 votes cast. (massive voter fraud caused by Republican policies)


12news.com | Arizona candidate got topless selfie from legislative staffer, messages reveal - A legislative staffer sent Steve Montenegro a topless photo via text message, according to a series of messages between Montenegro and the staffer that were reviewed by 12 News. -- Republican congressional candidate Steve Montenegro is a married man and a church minister whose campaign emphasizes his 'virtue, honor and integrity." A series of text messages between Montenegro and a female staff member at the Arizona Legislature may raise questions about that claim.


Missouri Fought For Years To Hide Where It Got Its Execution Drugs. Now We Know What They Were Hiding. - The state of Missouri did everything it could to keep secret where it got the drugs it used to put 17 inmates to death. Now, BuzzFeed News has discovered the supplier is a pharmacy repeatedly found to engage in hazardous practices that could put patients -- and convicts -- at risk --- The state of Missouri has engaged in a wide-ranging scheme -- involving code names and envelopes stuffed with cash -- to hide the fact that it paid a troubled pharmacy for the drugs it used to execute inmates ... Foundation Care, a 14-year-old pharmacy based in the suburbs of St. Louis that has been repeatedly found to engage in hazardous pharmaceutical procedures and whose cofounder has been been accused of regularly ordering prescription medications for himself without a doctor's prescription. (and then passed a bunch of laws to stop you from finding out) Foundation Care said that it sold execution drugs for political reasons ... Missouri hasn't carried out an execution in more than a year now, because it executed all of the eligible prisoners ... When he left public service, Koster found a new job: senior vice president of corporate services at Centene.


Gateway Pundit founder pulled from panel on CPAC sidelines over article about Florida survivors - Feb. 21, 2018 - Pamela Geller ... canceled her event over being asked by the American Principles Project, the organization sponsoring the panel, to remove Jim Hoft as a speaker after he spread conspiracy theories about a student survivor of last week's Florida shooting.


Dallas Mavericks: Inside the Corrosive Workplace Culture | SI.com - As the woman sat down, the team president and CEO, Terdema Ussery, asked if he could join her. She grew nervous, not because Ussery was her boss's boss or because he was one of the most prominent figures in the Dallas sportscape. It was because his reputation as a serial sexual harasser of women preceded him. (toxic sports dudes worse than actual locker rooms)
Trump.dating is 100% trumptastic - Lawyers, Guns & Money - No gay people allowed, but people who are happily married and sex offenders are welcome ... Barrett Riddleberger


Today In the Perfect American Meritocracy - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I hope those of you who have criticized the great James Bennet will apologize for not properly deferring to your social superiors:

Megan McArdle Superstar - Lawyers, Guns & Money (mediocrity rises to the top in our elite media)

Eschaton: Nothing Is More Important Than The Lifetime Income Streams Of Elite Tenured Columnists - And let's face it, it's a pretty good gig. If you've got a highly paid gig spewing crap about stuff you know little about, while other elites kiss your ass and consider you a part of the club, you're going to want to keep it and have it be as cushy and lucrative as possible AND you're to get a bit annoyed when people, often people who know a lot more than you, point out that you have an undeserved gig spouting nonsense about stuff you know little about.

Vox Media Laying Off Around 50 Staffers | Hollywood Reporter - The cuts, which mainly targeted social video teams ... "he cited "industry changes over the past few months" ... (FB just destroyed "pivot to video")
The Atlantic Plans a Hiring Spree - The New York Times - A media company is expanding its newsroom. You read that right ... The ramping up comes six months after Emerson Collective, an organization run by the philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, acquired a majority stake in The Atlantic ... The announcement of the hires came on a day when Vox Media said it would lay off some 50 staff members, with most of those targeted working in the social video departments at Racked, Curbed and SB Nation. The Vox Media move occurred, not coincidentally, after Facebook recalibrated its News Feed to drive less traffic to content produced by professional news organizations.





'Black Panther': Erik Killmonger Is a Profound, Tragic Villain - The Atlantic - if an African superpower like Wakanda existed, with all its power, its monopoly on the invaluable sci-fi metal vibranium, and its advanced technology, how could it have remained silent, remained still, as millions of Africans were devoured by The Void?
Were 1998 Memos a Blueprint for War? - ABC News - This report originally aired on Nightline on March 5, 2003.


Cannabis use is associated with beneficial reductions in inflammation and immune activation that improve health outcomes in people living with HIV, according to a new study in Clinical Infectious Disease. : science

I am Michio Kaku, physicist, futurist and author of **The Future of Humanity**. AMA! : IAmA

Amazon confirm they will be adapting Iain M Banks' Culture series for TV : books



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022018

Sea lions have made a magnificent comeback, and they want their beaches back - The Washington Post

5 things that are more complicated than buying a gun in Florida - CBS News - 1) Cold medicine
This single cartoon about school shootings is breaking people's hearts
Mass Murder -- A gut-wrenching tragedy or a welcome break from the daily grind? - It depends. If you're a Republican working in the tRump White House, you think about how it makes your life easier.
Parkland students come under attack for their outspokenness | Tampa Bay Times - Critics begin to question their motives.
Seventh grader shoots self at Ohio middle school
McMorris Rodgers set to attend fundraiser with auction of AR-15 - POLITICO - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) is scheduled to headline a local Republican Party fundraising dinner next month that has been advertising its plans to auction off an AR-15 rifle

Netanyahu Faces New Accusations: Did His Adviser Try to Bribe a Judge? - The New York Times (hahaha what do you think?) an allegation that one of his closest advisers had sought to bribe a judge into dropping a criminal investigation involving the prime minister's wife ("crooked wife")

'It's not a war. It's a massacre': scores killed in Syrian enclave | World news | The Guardian -- Assad regime uses barrel bombs and attacks hospitals in rebel-held eastern Ghouta


Eschaton: So What You're Saying Is That It Will, Then - So What You're Saying Is That It Will, Then -- Funny. -- David Davis will tell business leaders in Austria that fears the Conservatives will plunge Britain into a 'Max Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction" after leaving the EU are unfounded. (totally unfounded, I tell you!)


The Affluent Society - Lawyers, Guns & Money - From classical antiquity until around 1700, no society featured any significant long-term economic growth. The industrial revolution arrived in the United Kingdom almost before anywhere else, yet as this chart shows, per capita GDP at the beginning of the 18th century was barely higher than it had been in the Middle Ages ... per capita GDP in the US is now about nine times what it was in 1900 and 27 times what it was in 1840 ... If millions of Americans are either sleeping on the streets, or on the edge of finding themselves there, or going hungry every day, or doing without even the most basic medical care, this has nothing whatsoever to do with economic scarcity, and everything to do with what is a purely political failure. (Galbraith)
$2 a Day


End ICE - The most notorious government agency under the Trump presidency is surely U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The president may not be able to build his wall, but he can turn a horde of goons loose on America's schools, churches, and homes


A decade after meltdown, Senate moves to roll back bank rules - politico - That the legislation is coming 10 years after the worst credit crunch since the Great Depression has fueled passions around the debate. (why, it's almost like Republicans are always destroying the econommy; huge tax cuts and no regulation, what could go wrong again?)

Trump's conduct is inexplicable, unless he's in Putin's pocket ... (comment:) "Donald J. Trump is violating his oath of office. Our president is a traitor. It is The Truth of truths."
Trump's unhinged Russia tweetstorm boomerangs back on Republicans
The Content of the G.O.P's Character - Paul Krugman

London-based son-in-law of Russian businessman to plead guilty to false statements - The Washington Post - The Dutch son-in-law of one of Russia's wealthiest men ...
Mueller Charges Lawyer With Lying in Russia Probe - Bloomberg - Van Der Zwaan helped prepare Ukraine report for Manafort - False statements case comes days after Russians charged
5 clues to Mueller's roadmap
Manafort Under Scrutiny For $40 Million In "Suspicious" Transactions - Those records were part of an FBI operation to track international kleptocracy that ultimately failed, but which Robert Mueller's team resurrected

Mueller Just Made Many More People Much More Nervous - Mueller's Indictment of a Lawyer Is a Warning Shot - The indictments are not going to stop anytime soon - One plea at a time, Mueller is establishing that the president* is inherently corrupt and that his candidacy and election were just two unusually successful operations in a continuing criminal enterprise
Why Is Steve Bannon Cooperating With Robert Mueller's Russia Investigation? - The Russia investigation has grown in speed and strength.

A Facebook Executive Apologizes To His Company -- and to Robert Mueller ... @realdonaldtrump decided that he wanted to introduce his 48 million followers to Rob Goldman ... That's when, according to executives at the company, Facebook realized it was holding a shit sandwich (and needed to do more lying and damage control)
"Just an Ass-Backward Tech Company" : How Twitter Lost the Internet War (tech geniuses are inexperienced, young, and stupid) ... "And I hate to say it, but she clearly was in so far over her head on both of those. It was a disaster. I'm sure she's a nice person personally, but in this job, she was utterly incompetent."


Don't blame 'Washington.' Blame the GOP. (finally, someone in the media noticed)
Shakesville: Yes, This, Thank You, Finally, Etc. - Masking intransigent Republican obstructionism behind the notion that "Washington is broken" is the worst of bothsiderism. "Both sides" are not failing to govern. "Both sides" are not manifestly incapable of governing. That is true of the Republicans, and the Republicans alone.

The Unwavering Principles of Mitt Romney, Man of Integritude (TM) - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Romney was able to capture the Republican nomination in 2012 in part bu running to the furthest right of the major candidates on immigration. He proudly accepted the endorsement of Donald J. Trump, the New York City real estate grifter and reality TV star who became a major figure in the Republican Party by popularizing a racist conspiracy theory about Barack Obama

Why Do Liberals Feel the Need to Rehabilitate Terrible Recent Republican Presidents? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The last few months has seen a lot of moments where it has looked like liberals are rehabilitating George W. Bush in response to Trump. This is absurd. Back at the end of Bush years, a lot of people were calling him the worst president of all time. I disagreed with this. George W. Bush was a terrible president. But the worst of all time -- Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Pierce, Harding, and a few others -- are really, truly, horrifyingly awful. (well, yeah, if you skip the killing millions of people part)


The Upcoming Public Sector Apocalypse - Lawyers, Guns & Money - On February 27, the Supreme Court will hear Janus v. AFSCME, the case almost certain to eviscerate public sector unions by proclaiming a national right-to-work for public workers. This is intended to kneecap unions such as AFSCME, SEIU, AFT, and NEA, i.e. most of the unions who can still fund massive organizing campaigns and GOTV efforts for Democrats. This nearly happened in 2016, but then Scalia ate one too many cannolis (the party of death and destruction is a cancer on the body politic)


A man acquainted with sorrows - Lawyers, Guns & Money - This meme is currently all over Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, and whatever else the kids are into these days. (Jesus Trump sacrificied billions to save you +thoughts on what's wrong with Trumpsters)

American Hippopotamus - Lawyers, Guns & Money - If you're ired of reading about the absurdity of American politics in the present, and would like to read about the absurdity of American politics in the past instead, you could do a lot worse than the story of the time we almost brought Hippopotamuses to the bayous of Louisiana.


Man featured in ads for pro-Trump dating site was convicted of child sex crimes: report (c'mon, just a little kiddie pussy-grabbing) While the site has been mocked for not allowing LGBT people but allowing married people (no jail time at all, of course)

Nashville's Mayor Has Stumbled. Who Will Cast the First Stone? - On Jan. 31, the mayor here, Megan Barry, called a news conference to announce that she had been having an affair with Robert Forrest Jr., a police sergeant who was the head of her security detail: "It was wrong, and we shouldn't have done it" she said

You Dumb Motherfuckers, John Kelly Was Always Bad - FiveThirtyEight, a website that apparently still exists, has a deeply depressing story out Tuesday on White House Chief of Staff John Kelly by politics writer Perry Bacon Jr. The piece is essentially a mea culpa, where Bacon admits that he and much of the political media got Kelly all wrong, and that he is Actually Bad.

In Idaho, medical-care exemptions for faith healing come under fire - The Washington Post - Nearly one-third of the roughly 600 gravesites in Peaceful Valley Cemetery belong to a child, advocates say. Spotty records make it difficult to identify how and why the children died before their burial at the graveyard used by the Followers of Christ, a splinter sect that practices faith healing and believes that death and illness are the will of God. (oh good, Idaho supports "faIth healing" by idiots) Child advocates estimate that 183 Idaho children have died because of withheld medical treatment since states across the nation enacted faith-healing exemptions in the early 1970s ... More children die of faith-based medical neglect in Idaho than any other state ... and more than half thBuchanan, Andrew Johnson, Pierce, Harding, and a few otherse other states, some kind of religious exemption allows parents to withhold medical treatment from a child. ("religious freedom" to kill your kid)


Clarence Thomas Sexually Harassed Me. Yes, He Should Be Impeached. | HuffPost

#MeToo in medicine: Women, harassed in hospitals and operating rooms, await reckoning - NBC News


The Smarm of the Contrarian - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Conor Friedersdorf has taken some time off from his complaints about how college students are coddled snowflakes to write a column about how horrible it is when people say unkind things about the arguments made by well-compensated newspaper columnists (+the Chait and anti-feminist Roiphe) Roiphie, a tenured journalism professor taking to the pages of a prestigious magazine to claim that her arguments just can't get a fair hearing.
Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "I'm sometimes a little confused as to which side of the culture war is calling for safe spaces and which side is urging vigorous debate as the optimal way to run the marketplace or ideas." "I guess the idea is that college students need to grow thicker skins while everyone else grows more attentive to the delicate feelings of prominent columnists."
Katie Herzog on Twitter: "it'd be a lot easier to judge for ourselves if you'd actually link to it." (no ever showed little Katie how to use the googler)
Tom Scocca: On Smarm (2013, history)

The Left Needs to Be Smarter, Part Who Even Knows - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Why would Our Revolution, the Bernie Sanders-affiliated political action group, endorse Dennis Kucinich over Richard Cordray in the Democratic nomination for the governor of Ohio?

Dan Gillmor on Twitter: "The @nytimes Op-Ed page ran a piece by an anti-gun-control commentator whom the Times Editorial Board called "disreputable" 5 days later. https://t.co/Ob1hSEc06y"
New York Times Editorial Board: Person Published by Times a Week Ago Is 'Disreputable' and Untrustworthy - John Lott ... not its reporters, but the very people who have spent the last week defending James Bennet's decision to start running predictable bullshit from boring conservatives in the name of balance -- calling out as a fraud someone they deemed expert enough to write an opinion piece for them just one week ago. Is this a cry for help?


Readers' tips for curbing car break-ins pour in (maybe it's a SF thing, but 23 paragraphs later, don't leave stuff in the fucking car)


A Political History of the Future: Black Panther - Lawyers, Guns & Money


021918


Trump surveyed Mar-a-Lago members over gun control in wake of school shooting: report | TheHill
'How much are they being paid?' Fox News fans trash teen Parkland survivors who demand stronger gun laws ... Democrats must be proud he can disrespect the president, and my guess is he talks the same way to his parents ("if he were my kid, I'd beat the shit out him or maybe just shoot him")
The Second Amendment Is Not Why The U.S. Doesn't Have Good Gun Control Policy ... "dangerouse or unusual weapons" (Scalia meant nukes and bombers)
School shooter's past includes buying guns, cutting, slurs and mental illness - the 19-year-old school shooter obtained 10 rifles in the last year or so. (Floriduh sells assault weapons to teen-agers, what could go wrong?)
Students who survived massacre refuse to pose for photo op with Trump (thumbs down)

After Florida School Shooting, Russian 'Bot' Army Pounced
Fox News s appalling past 72 hours, analyzed - A data analysis shows how Fox News spun the Mueller indictment and Florida shooting into a defense of the president. ("carpet-bombing the truth with an industrialized lie-machine")


Netanyahu in deeper peril as more Israeli officials are arrested on corruption charges (will start a war first)
Scoop: U.S. ambassador to Israel says massive settlement evacuation could spark civil war - Axios (first they occupy illegally, then refuse to leave)



What Robert Mueller Indictments of 13 Russian Nationals Mean for Donald Trump - And any decision to fire Mueller or Rosenstein will (finally) have grave political consequences ... a thoroughly complete campaign of ratfcking aimed exclusively at electing Donald Trump to be president of the United States. This was Donald Segretti on steroids, with the power of a huge apparatus behind them ... It's important to remember that every one of the tactics mentioned above -- especially the voter-fraud canard -- have been electioneering tactics used by the former Republican Party for at least two decades. (time to deport all Republicans to the Moon)
What has changed in the Russia investigation? - The Washington Post

Clapper predicts 'other shoes to drop' in Mueller probe
'He's scared out of his mind' : Ex-official nails Trump over blaming FBI for shooting to deflect from Russia probe (he's never been in his mind)
Eric and Don Jr. egged on Trump's weekend Twitter tirade against the FBI: CNN ... He's essentially spending the weekend inside watching cable news and speaking with his sons. (dumb, dumber, and dumbest)
Trump-Russia inquiry: Manafort under pressure after reports that Gates has flipped | US news | The Guardian

Tools of Trump's Fixer: Payouts, Intimidation and the Tabloids

"The Canaries are Dying": How Trump Is Making Republicans Pick Their 2018 Poison -- Caught between the president's rabid, loyal base and suburban women, Republican candidates may not survive a blue wave election.

Conservatives urge Trump to grant pardons in Russia probe - POLITICO - As special counsel Robert Mueller builds his case, relatives of former national security adviser Michael Flynn are among those pressing the president to use his unique legal power and 'put these defendants out of their misery' (if they weren't suck fucking traitorous criminals, they wouldn't be miserble, ya know?)

Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11 - The Washington Post - Imagine if, after 9/11, the president had said that the World Trade Center and Pentagon could have been attacked by "China" or "lots of other people." (Boot had a Rubin conversion)
Podesta: Trump a 'draft dodger' in war for democracy

The War America Isn't Fighting -- Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter tells us about his Pentagon plan to counter Russia -- and why both Obama and Trump have failed to execute it.
Top Democrat says Obama shares responsibility for Russia's meddling (float-above-it-all non-partisan Obama fucked the country)

Trump's fast-food engorged world is petty, small, miserable, anxious and angry ... Trump's is the sort of personality which John the Revelator would have been able to insightfully parse, while meditating in ecstasy on some Patmos grove. (c'mon dude, you're almost there) "where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man" ... In suggesting that there must be something hellish about the experience of being Trump (closer) But if Trumpism is just a new manifestation of that particular type of dark religion (now what could that be?)
For Those Who Have Traded Faith for Power, There's a Comeuppance Ahead -- the Faustian bargain which allowed conservative evangelical Christians to "Keep Christ in Christmas" while seemingly divorcing Christianity from Christ ... For those 81% of white evangelicals who voted for Trump, and more troublingly for the profoundly inhumane, greedy, wrathful ideology that he embodies, and who have seemingly forgotten their scripture ... consider that 80% of white, self-identified evangelicals in Alabama voted for the disgraced and disgraceful losing pedophile Roy Moore ... Since the resurgence of politicized evangelical Christianity with the ascendency of Ronald Reagan, many apocalyptic minded conservative Christians made a sort of prophetic parlor game out of conjecturing who the potential anti-Christ could be ... An irony since if the anti-Christ is supposed to be a manipulative, powerful, smooth-talking demagogue with the ability to sever people from their most deeply held beliefs who would be a better candidate than the seemingly indestructible Trump? (well, there you are)
Donald Trump, American Preacher - The New York Times - Building a congregation for his prosperity - gospel, one chaotic rally at a time. - By Jeff Sharlet - APRIL 12, 2016 (Trump's story of pigs-blood-dipped bullets to massacre Muslims and dump them in mass graves really gets the crowd off)

Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh? | The Nation - As Trump himself might say, there's something going on (Satan is devoid of humor) ("they are laughing at us in Moscow")

Mueller's interest in Kushner grows to include foreign financing efforts (all his russian money-laundering and payoffs)

Reckoning With Trump's Illegitimacy (lock him and his crime family up forever and recind all his judicial appointments)
President Trump is losing control - The Washington Post
Miss Universe Gambit - For years, he used his beauty pageants to boost business interests abroad. A 2013 contest, in Moscow, may also have helped give him the Presidency.


Internet Research Agency: Russian journalist who uncovered election interference left confounded by Mueller - The Washington Post

How an Alt-Right Bot Network Took Down Al Franken ... Analysts have now mapped out how Hooters pinup girl and lad-mag model Leeann Tweeden's initial accusation against Franken became effective propaganda after right-wing black ops master Roger Stone first hinted at the allegation ... A pair of Japan-based websites, created the day before Tweeden came forward, and a swarm of related Twitter bots made the Tweeden story go viral (and Gillibrand jumped on the bandwagon and stabbed him in the back; what would have happened if he had been allowed to have his hearing and this stuff came out?)

Trump administration dismantles LGBT-friendly policies - POLITICO - Despite Trump's promise to defend LGBT rights, his health agency has blocked efforts to combat discrimination. (haha you believed him?)

Fact-Checking a Facebook Executive's Comments on Russian Interference
Why Facebook is afraid of Robert Mueller - The Washington Post (Zuckerberg colluded with the Russians +"What we have seen is what happens when public discourse is carpet-bombed by an industrialised, automated lie machine. Why else would Putin say that whoever masters AI owns the future?")
The Age of Unregulated Social Media Is Over | Just Security - Now, how to avoid unintended consequences

WH revises statement and says no decision yet on WHCD | Daily Mail Online

Pa. Supreme Court to offer new congressional map in gerrymandering saga. Here's whast to expect
Pa. gerrymandering case: State Supreme Court releases new congressional map for 2018 elections - Philly
The New Pennsylvania House Districts Are - In. We Review the Mapmakers choces

The Lone Star Long Shot Who Wants to Topple Ted Cruz - The New York Times - Beto O'Rourke


The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas - With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it's time to talk seriously about impeachment. (karma coming for you, asshole +Joe Biden's biggest legacy)

The Thriller That Predicted the Russia Scandal - POLITICO Magazine - David Pepper's 2016 novel is eerily similar to recent real-world political events. But wait until you read the sequel.


'Spin the bottle' and a kegerator: #MeToo movement lawmaker faces new sexual misconduct allegations - Staffers say California legislator presided over 'toxic' office ("toxic femininity" she was running a "frat house") an evening of heavy drinking in which Garcia ended up sitting on a hotel room floor with about half-dozen people -- including her staffers and at least one male friend -- and prompted them to play a game that results in participants kissing each other.


Sharing stories from decades ago, older women find their place in #MeToo - The Washington Post

Rabbi charged with having sex with 17-year-old girl forced into prostitution - Goodman, was sentenced in Pike County, Pennsylvania in October 2015 to 11 to 23 months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age, according to court records ... At the time of his arrest in that case, Goodman was the director of Chabad of East Brunswick, which focused on educating children. (good Chabadnik)


Black Panther and Black Children - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Black Panther's Right Thing


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Nikolas Cruz: 'We had this monster living under our roof and we didn't know ... The couple both grew up around guns and are comfortable with them ... He didn't know how to cook. They had to show him how to use a microwave. He didn't know how to do his laundry and also had to learn to pick up after himself. He didn't drive but bought a bicycle and rode it to work at a nearby Dollar Tree. (weird parents)
Third-graders are selling AR-15 raffle tickets in Missouri | Regional | stltoday.com - Third-graders in a Missouri community are continuing to sell raffle tickets for an AR-15 to benefit their traveling baseball team after the same type of rifle was used to slaughter and injure dozens at a Florida school ... After this story was published, Patterson said he mistakenly said the critics were part of a hate group ... "We appreciate your 'concern' but please understand, we are not, have not, and will not force one of our boys to sell raffle tickets for the Black Rain AR15 Spec 15, if they are uncomfortable doing so. ("but boy, we will make fun of the little sissy")

"Century Arms's assault rifles account for more than 17 percent of the total guns recovered in Mexico since 2006 -- the highest of any recovered gun or rifle ... That's why Bernie Sanders voted against suing gun makers. Century Arms is a Vermont company.
Ragnarok Lobster on Twitter: "This is why gun control advocates will never forgive Bernie Sanders https://t.co/sS1qPH4hWR via @MotherJones"
P?????? K???ss?? ? on Twitter: "Bernie Sanders: "In Vermont, guns are used for HUNTING." The facts: 56 percent of adult domestic violence homicides in Vermont between 1994-2013 were committed with firearms. https://t.co/yRWSIPIljz"
April on Twitter: "Vote for Bernie they said. He marched with MLK they said. Knowing full well this interview was out there (it's about 2 years old). https://t.co/x0y42S47zF"
The Hill on Twitter: "Ryan: Don't make Florida school shooting conversation about taking away people's guns https://t.co/xDBm11VrZe "
Kevin M. Kruse on Twitter: "No worries. We can make it about taking away your majority in the House. https://t.co/YwGmNxFdAj"
Raw Story on Twitter: "NRA pal Paul Ryan is in Florida collecting money while kids are being buried https://t.co/ZjyOQnsVP5"
Paul Ryan's 3 Years Of Arguing Against 'Knee-Jerk' Reactions To Shootings | HuffPost - Ryan received $177,000 in contributions from the National Rifle Association in the 2016 campaign cycle. (kind of a 'knee-jerk' isn't he)

Why 'they' seem more violent than 'we' are - The link between mass shootings and immigration ... Despite evidence to the contrary (the incarceration rate for native-born Americans is nearly twice that of undocumented immigrants and nearly three times that of legal immigrants), a powerful narrative persists that immigrants are preternaturally violent and that our safety is best guaranteed by closing our doors to anyone with brown skin ... Yet while one hand draws up plans for border walls, the other doles out AR-15s to white, male, homegrown terrorists: Between 54 and 63 percent of the mass shootings since 1982 were committed by white men. (so, less than average?) Indeed, the question of mental health rarely seems to enter into the equation when the perpetrator is Muslim. (Jared Lee Loughner, who shot 19 people in Tucscon in 2011, was mentally ill) (his face)

'An Endless War': Why 4 U.S. Soldiers Died in a Remote African Desert -- More than 16 years after 9/11 spurred a broad fight against terrorism, some Americans say it's time to look at how the country is deploying its forces. (whenever a draft-dodging Republicans says so)


Russian curler fails Winter Olympics drug test | Sport | The Guardian - meldonium FACTBOX-Olympics-Five facts about meldonium | Reuters ... It was used to boost the stamina of Soviet troops fighting at high altitudes in Afghanistan in the 1980s

Polish prime minister says Jews perpetrated Holocaust too | The Times of Israel (they holocausted themselves! while all the Poles fought against the Nazis! the Jews were running "Jewish Death Camps!)


Netanyahu says Israel could act against Iran's 'empire' (especially if he gets indicted for his life-long criminal behavior)
Under fire for travel expenses, Pruitt cancels trip to Israel - The Washington Post



US and Chinese officials got into physical scuffle over 'nuclear football' in November (the insane shit you don't even hear about)


FBI investigating whether Russia funneled cash to NRA to aid Trump's campaign | McClatchy Washington Bureau (NRA=Russian traitors)
NRA, Russia and Trump: How 'dark money' is poisoning American democracy - Beyond Russian meddling, this allegation illustrates a problem of even broader scope in our political system. (thanks to SC hands-of-Satan and Citizens United)
Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Who Does the NRA Actually Represent? Balloon Juice
Donald Trump Uses Florida School Massacre As Excuse To Attack FBI's Russia Probe -- "They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign." (he must think Americans are really stupid, oh wait)
Have your representatives in Congress received donations from the NRA? - Washington Post - Since 1998, the National Rifle Association has donated at least $4.1 million to current members of Congress (they bought Bernie/VT+LaPage/ME)


Billie J. Winner-Davis on Twitter: "Agree. And my daughter Reality Winner is still in jail. She the one who allegedly leaked the proof of the Russian meddling. She should be released now. #RealityWinner https://t.co/MlgxcxJfEk"

'They are laughing their asses off in Moscow': Trump takes on the FBI, Russia probe and 2016 election (every time they run the Pee-Me Tape) "The Democrats, lead by their fearless leader, Crooked Hillary Clinton, lost the 2016 election. But wasn't I a great candidate?" Trump said
Trump Chides McMaster For Saying Evidence Of Russian Interference 'Incontrovertible' ... tweeting "forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians"
Trump Promotes NY Post Column That Says Russian Indictments 'Deal Don a Big Win' ("Deal Don" - from Murdoch's/Satan's mouth to your ears)
Trump attacks everyone but Russia - POLITICO - The president continues his barrage of tweets after the Mueller indictments.
America Is Under Attack and the President Doesn't Care - Trump's gravest responsibility is to defend the United States from foreign attack -- and he's done nothing to fulfull it
Trump's staggering dereliction of duty ... But there is no depth to which Trump will not sink in defense of the only thing he holds dear: himself. (comment: "Did he? Did he really use dead children to attack an investigation into his campaign and his conduct in office? Yes, he did."


Fact-checking Trump'ss error-filled tweetstorm about the Russia investigation (everything he says is a lie, which means ... +comment: "Fact-checking Trump is like playing chess with a pigeon: It's just going to peck at the pieces, poop on the board, and then strut around like it won.")
'They are laughing their asses off in Moscow' : Trump takes on the FBI, Russia probe and 2016 election ... "The Democrats, lead by their fearless leader, Crooked Hillary Clinton, lost the 2016 election," Trump tweeted. "But wasn't I a great candidate?"
Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now - The New York Times - That must not be tolerated. This is code red. The biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval Office. (Trump is our biggest national security threat, in a surprising development)


Trump melting down on Twitter - Lawyers, Guns & Money - More than usual that is. This man is president of the United States.

Allegra Kirkland on Twitter: "Had forgotten that Trump last year proposed teaming up with Russia to prevent cyberhacking. Good thing we didn't do that! https://t.co/s25tcKIiSF https://t.co/8pgnBiPG91"
Russiagate Open Thread: Into the Wayback Machine
Kevin M. Kruse on Twitter: "The burglars who broke into our house and I discussed forming an impenetrable Home Security unit so that window breaking, & many other negative things, will be guarded.. https://t.co/O6Pb8OgLve"
Jesse Wegman on Twitter: "I did this only because the burglars looked me in the eye and swore that they did not break into my house, and I believe them. https://t.co/BW01jHkHGI"
John Weaver on Twitter: "We need to revisit why @SenateMajLdr refused to join @BarackObama in warning America the Russians had attacked us." (put Yertle behind bars for the rest of the life)
Charles P. Pierce on Twitter: "1968 -- LBJ sits on Nixon treason so as not to affect election. 2016: Obama sits on proof of Russian ratfcking so as not to appear partisan. Democrats. Boy, I dunno."

Raw Story on Twitter: "This escalated into yelling and wild flailing in record time https://t.co/zsfKkNulTQ" - Jill Stein comes unglued when asked about her visit to Russia ...
20 bucks say Jill Stein starts chanting, 'Attice! Attica!" if she gets perp walked for working with the Russians. Later she will call herself "Jill X" and wear a dashiki she picked up during an expedition into deepest darkest Anthropologie.

Oh. Goody. - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Former Vice President Joe Biden is tiptoeing toward a potential run in 2020

Facebook Still Lying About Its Role in the 2016 Election (Zuckerfucked)
Facebook Is The Devil ... "my company fucked up our country, shame on the government for not fixing it" ... It is very god damned telling that a Facebook VP took to Twitter to defend Facebook, because media people generally don't engage on Facebook. I'm not saying Twitter is an information paradise, but it reaches the low bar of being better than Facebook, which has been losing engagement as they try to deal with the fact that their feeds are garbage. ("feeds")

The New York Times Has Reached Its Target Audience - Lawyers, Guns & Money - James Bennet sure has done wonders at the Times. (Charles Murry and the NRO love it +Daniel Okrent was terrible)
Goldy on Twitter: "1/ I know most journalists believe that their own coverage is not easily manipulated by Russians or anybody... which is weird, considering that there are multiple multi-billion dollar industries dedicated to manipulating media coverage."
Reading the Mueller Indictment: A Russian-American Fraud | The New Yorker - The power of news illiteracy. At the heart of the Russian fraud is an essential, embarrassing insight into American life: large numbers of Americans are ill-equipped to assess the credibility of the things they read ... Americans don't care enough to know the truth.


The Russian Hacks Were Effective Because of Terrible Reporting Practices - Lawyers, Guns & Money - James Risen's first big piece on Russian ratfucking and Republican collusion is both worth reading and frustrating.

Behind the minimum wage fight, a sweeping failure to enforce the law - POLITICO - Raising hourly pay is a rallying cry for 2018, but states often fail to get workers the money that's owed them (big surprrise: Republican-controlled states say fuck your so-called minimum wage)

State election officials across country returning to paper ballots - The Boston Globe - A handful prohibit full electronic voting, including Massachusetts, according to data compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures.


'We lost five women': Porn industry reckons with assault allegations and a string of deaths


You can't make state officials like me perform same-sex marriages - Gayle Myrick is a retired civil magistrate from the state of North Carolina. (Evangelical "public servant" gets demolished in the comments)

WV senate nixes proposal to force drug firms to disclose opioid pill numbers | Health | wvgazettemail.com - Senate Republicans who voted against the amendment (Republicans vote for death, always)

Homocon Jim Hoft, Chuck C. Johnson, Paul Nehlen, And Others Sued For Falsely Naming Teen As Killer Driver - Joe.My.God. - Jerome Vangheluwe and his 16-year-old-son Joel had to flee their Michigan home due to death threats resulting from being falsely accused in the 12 August 2017 attack

How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance - The New York Times - The daughter of immigrants, she spars fiercely with supporters - of President Trump, both on the air and in the Twitter ether.


Boston police overtime pay hits $66.9m - The Boston Globe - overtime hours rose by more than 6 percent, to 1.1 million hours

'Black Panther' Is Not the Movie We Deserve - Christopher Lebron - Killmonger isn't a hero or villain so much as a receptacle for tropes of inner-city gangsterism. .. the bad guy is the black American who has rightly identified white supremacy as the reigning threat to black well-being; the bad guy is the one who thinks Wakanda is being selfish in its secret liberation; the bad guy is the one who will no longer stand for patience and moderation -- he thinks liberation is many, many decades overdue. And the black hero snuffs him out. (+ripoff of necromonger)


Flu vaccine might have saved my toddler. - The Washington Post - In recent flu seasons, 4 in 5 children who died of the flu hadn't been vaccinated ... vaccination helps reduce the risk of healthy children dying from the flu by two-thirds
Anti-vax site spreads vile viral story claiming flu shots 'caused this year's deadly outbreak' - Alarmingly, the fake story, from YourNewsWire, has become one of the most-engaged stories on Facebook of the last two weeks (a Los Angeles-based clickbait fake news website known for disseminating conspiracy theories and misleading information (probably funded by Russia) (Zuckerfucked, again)
A dangerous fake news story about flu shots spread like a virus on Fac


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M 7.2 - 37km NE of Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico
100% Renewable Electricity Worldwide Is A New Cost-Effective Reality : technology

Ali Watkins on Twitter: "Wow. Boston Globe front today is something else. "
This woman won today. I love thi s one member wrote of the killing, according to copies of the online chats obtained by ProPublica. Another called Woodward a (thoughts and prayers)

The students at Florida'ss Douglas High are amazing communicators. That could save lives ... "Instead of condolences, give us action. There is something seriously wrong here."

'When will they love their kids more than their guns,' an Australian priest asks Americans (they only love 'unborn' kids, after that, it's target practice)
Parkland Could've Been Worse. Vegas Could've Been Worse. They Can Always Be Worse. | HuffPost
Trump Visits Shooting Victims, Local Police En Route To Mar-a-Lago For Long Weekend | HuffPost The president praises first responders and medical staff but leaves some questions unanswered ... When asked if new gun laws are needed, Trump walked away without answering ... a rare foray into an area where he's generally not liked. The vast majority of his presidential trips have been to areas where he did well in the 2016 election. (real America)
Tweeters Rip Trump Over 'Tone Deaf' Thumbs-Up Pose With Florida First Responders | HuffPost To give a thumbs-up like you just had a great dinner. No empathy. Disgusting. Go away.
Group chat messages show school shooter obsessed with race, violence and guns ... Cruz wrote that he hated, "jews, niggers, immigrants." He talked about killing Mexicans, keeping black people in chains and cutting their necks. The statements were not made in jest. There are hundreds of racist messages, racist memes and racist Instagram videos posted in the group. (but he's not a white supremecist, or anything, in case you were wondering)
How white nationalists fooled the media about Florida shooter - POLITICO ABC, AP and others ran with false information on shooter's ties to extremist groups. (fooled you twice, haha)
Chris Cuomo rips GOP lawmakers for not coming on CNN after shooting | TheHill (what's the problem, they sent their "thoughts and prayers" and cashed another NRA check)
Shooting suspect was on school rifle team that got NRA grant (NRA/Russsians funding mass murders)
One day after Florida shooting, student left comment "I'm shooting up one of the Evansville High Schools tomorrow" police track his location from his IP address and arrest him
Missouri High School Student Found With Gun and Ammunition, Intentions Unknown : news
Prominent Republican Donor Issues Ultimatum on Assault Weapons - The New York Times - Al Hoffman Jr., a Florida-based real estate developer

Joe Kushner on Twitter: "Which is why even if you fully with all your heart and soul believe that schools need armed guards, you'd have to vote the GOP out to fund it. https://t.co/Rb597Xggun" ... Sheriff Grady Judd: "Sheriff Grady Judd: "specially trained people that have concealed firearms that can run to the threat and protect our children" (otherwise known as "cops" who will be paid 3x any of your so-called "teachers")
Gun Control as a Political Issue - Lawyers, Guns & Money (another face of evil, just look)
Democrats Should Run on Gun Control All Over the Country - VICE - Common-sense reform wouldn't just be effective, it's more popular than many candidates realize. (Dems stuck in the Clinton era)

Five states allow guns to be seized before someone can commit violence - The Washington Post California, Washington, Oregon, Indiana and Connecticut have statutes that can be used to temporarily take guns away from people a judge deems a threat to themselves or others. (Masstards)
J.K. Rowling on Twitter: "Hi David! You seem to be struggling to make your fictional European friend sound authentic. Try something a *real* European might say, like 'we don't have armed school guards,' 'we don't sell kids assault rifles' or, more simply, 'don't use me to argue for more guns, Dave.' https://t.co/73lJsbQNDA" ... His "European" friend was a French bulldog

Trumps went straight from Parkland to Studio 54- themed 'disco Party' at Mar-a-Lago (with lots of coke)


South Korea's 'penis park' draws an Olympic crowd


How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It (remember Belgacom?)


ICE steps up enforcement at businesses in California, targeting employers and workers (meanwhile, in Trump's "load them into boxcars' land)


Worries about Trump's legitimacy resurface with Russia indictment -- The charge On Monday (TGIF???) Times op-ed columnist and editor Bari Weiss tweeted the following:s came to no conclusion about voter influence, but described extensive efforts to tip the election in his favor. "This is criminal activity that these indictments point to that helped Donald Trump get elected. My guess is he will try to delegitimize it and dismiss it" (lock up the traitor!)

Trump's Russia 'hoax' turns out to be real
Indictment makes Trump's Hoax Claim Harder to Sell
It's Going to Be Much, Much Harder for Trump to Fire Rod Rosenstein Now
H.R. McMaster: Russian meddling in U.S. elections beyond dispute -- Trump's national security adviser

What Did Mueller Achieve with the Internet Research Agency Indictment? emptywheel
'Something was weird' : Inside the Russian effort to bamboozle Florida The operation in the nation's largest swing state was in a class by itself.
The 21st-century Russian sleeper agent is a troll with an American accent - The Washington Post

Russian Influence Campaign: What's in the Latest Mueller Indictment - lawfare - There really was, the Justice Department is saying, a Russian influence operation to interfere in the U.S. political system during the 2016 presidential election, and it really was at the expense of Hillary Clinton and in favor of Donald Trump.
The Charging Mystery in the Russia Indictments -- And Its Indication of What Comes Next in the Mueller Investigation -- it alleges that the Russians conspired to obstruct the capacity of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to enforce the law. The act of obstruction was a failure to report their illegal expenditures. If the FEC did not know about the expenditures, it could not enforce the law.
Russian Indictments Could Set Stage For More Mueller Charges | HuffPost The indictment said the Russians conspired 'with persons known and unknown," which could include Americans. (like Jr. and Ja-Red and Itanka)
Inside a 3-Year Russian Campaign to Influence U.S. Voters - The New York Times
Californian man pleads guilty to identity fraud connected to Russian interference in presidential election - CNNPolitics

Trump's Conspicuous Silence Leaves a Struggle Against Russia Without a Leader
Mueller's new indictments put the pressure on Trump to act

To Stir Discord in 2016, Russians Turned Most Often to Facebook - The New York Times (and Zuckerberg saw nothing but rubles)


Trump Absolutely Can Be Blackmailed - Lawyers, Guns & Money - So, we know Trump habitually pays for sex, and we also know he is willing to pay to keep embarrassing secrets from going public. That is to say, these secrets could be leveraged against him.
Salacious new claims surface about a Trump affair and alleged coverup - The Washington Post - The White House declined to comment.

Mueller levels new claim of bank fraud against Manafort - POLITICO - 'additional criminal conduct' by the former Trump campaign chairman

New White House security clearance policy could put 'bull's eye' on Kushner - Kushner, a senior adviser to the president, has been able to see some of the nation's most sensitive secrets even as his background investigation has dragged on for more than a year. (one of Russia's most successful spy operations ever)
Kushner requests more intel info than almost all White House staff: report | TheHill ... Kushner holds a Top Secret/sensitive compartmented information (SCI) security clearance, the highest level, which allows him to review some of the nation's most closely-guarded secrets and allows him access to the presidential daily briefing) (all without a real clearance, goes straight to Vlad and Bibi but Hillary's emailz)
Eschaton: And Why Would He Do That - It's pretty clear that Javanka just saw their access to the presidency as the ultimate grift.

Reddit's The_Donald Was One Of The Biggest Havens For Russian Propaganda During 2016 Election, Analysis Finds
mortalcoil1 comments on Mueller levels new claim of bank fraud against Manafort
A Russian troll factory had a $1.25 million monthly budget to interfere in the 2016 US election : technology
f_k_a_g_n comments on There have been 241 posts in /r/The_Donald linking directly to the twitter account @TEN_GOP, which we know from yesterday's indictment was a fake account controlled by Russian operatives.

Kara Calavera on Twitter: "Sanders was one of two senators who didn't vote for the Russian sanctions. His campaign manager was Tad Devine, who worked with Paul Manafort to elect Viktor Yanukovych. Just sayin'. https://t.co/PFw9WYsZZK" ... Was it Devine who got that incredible salary from Bernie's campaign? ... Yep ... I've been saying this since the election. Bernie is Putin's next choice for President. Democratic Party needs to drop this toxic waste STAT ... Maybe that Russian honeymoon that Bern & Jane took was MORE than just a honeymoon ... Also in the Yanukovych orbit: Former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was hired by Slav AG (owned by Kliuyev brothers) sometime in 2014. (+Rand Paul) (+the Sanders crime family)
Bernie Sanders has released few tax returns compared with past and present candidates | PolitiFact (guess who else didn't release their tax returns?)

Thomas Drake on Twitter: "She didn't. A distinction w/out a difference. Let me ask you. Have u read affidavits behind FBI's warrants on me? Were u at my arraignment? Were u in courtroom listening to what prosecution presented to Judge on threat I posed to NatSec & what I did as worse than espionage? (good thread on how Drake got screwed by Obama's war on whistleblowers, thanks, Barry)

unR?A?D?A?C?K?ted on Twitter: "The only one in jail over Russia aiding #Trump campaign? The brave Veteran who allegedly exposed it: #RealityWinner https://t.co/WKPT2czHa3"


Kevin Durant on Laura Ingraham's commentary: 'To me, it was racist' -- on Fox News, where the host told LeBron James and Kevin Durant to 'shut up and dribble' rather than share their views about President Trump (you know who else is 'dribbling?')

It's Newver Too Late to Apologize -- Bari Weiss ... But this claim that being criticized, and corrected, is akin to being "silenced" is becoming a common theme of late. People are responding to criticism as though it is some sort of form of torture. Katie Roiphe, a professional critic, dislikes being criticized so much that she responds by accusing her critics of being "low-level secret policemen in a new totalitarian state." Weiss believes that when she is criticized, it is "another sign of civilization's end." (Weiss: straight from the WSJ to the NYT)
The New York Times Is Melting Down The worst response is to double down, which is exactly what The New York Times has been doing -- and it's and it's causing a full-fledged meltdown at the paper. On Monday (TGIF???) Times op-ed columnist and editor Bari Weiss tweeted the following ... Then, yesterday, there were these horrifically tone-deaf tweets by Times reporter Eric Lipton in response to the school shooting in Florida ... After Lipton took down his terrible tweet, Stephens rushed to his defense (all those conservative dimbulb hires by Baquet and Bennet are having their effect)
Bari Weiss, Outrage Mobs, and Identity Politics - The Atlantic - Shadi Hamid (defends patriachy, wrong side of the argument, Shadi, for the record)

Jay Rosen on Twitter: "Wow. I so agree with this. I'm not sure how journalists got it into their heads that they are 'story-tellers.' I do understand that the term has massive prestige among them. But: You can't be a great story-teller AND believe that the most important information should come first. https://t.co/DCxSUP233u"

Erik Loomis on Twitter: "How is this not unconstituional discrimination now that SCOTUS legalized gay marriage? https://t.co/b2NzMdDXAD"
Teacher Marries Her Girlfriend, and Then Catholic School Fires Her - The New York Times

Stephen Fincher halts U.S. Senate bid, urges Corker to seek re-election -- the seventh-generation cotton farmer from Frog Jump ended his campaign late Friday. (no white supremecist there)


While the Media Panicked About Campus Leftists, the Far Right Surged - The Anti-Defamation League reported that incidents of white supremacist propaganda on U.S. campuses more than tripled in 2017

Larry Krasner Sues Big Pharma, Drops All Marijuana Possession Charges - Philadelphia Magazine - With a little over a month in office, Philly's new DA is already further reforming the city's drug policy


Police: Man crashes truck into Planned Parenthood clinic : news (but not Christian terrorism or anything)


Weinstein Co. board fires president and COO David Glasser 'for cause' in the latest twist for Harvey Weinsten's beleagured studio ... Weinstein's right-hand man ... "the third brother"
Italian model's rape allegations against Weinstein most likely to bring charges, but case is far from overwhelming


Providence, R.I. -- State Sen. Nicholas Kettle charged with video voyeurism, extortion | WPRI 12 Eyewitness News State Sen. Nicholas Kettle, R-Coventry, has been arrested by the state police and charged with one count of video voyeurism and two counts of extortion ... attorney Paul MiMaio said his client is "terrified" that he will be spending the weekend in prison. "He's about 5'3" weighs about 125 pounds soaking wet and a young 27 years old" ... Kettle left his iPad at his girlfriend's house and she went through the device's photos ...Kettle was first elected to the Senate in 2010 when he was just 20 years old and has been re-elected three times since. He is one of just five Republicans in the 38-member Senate. (make that four, another creepy Republican pervert snowflake)

Is the era of hugging over? Some people sure hope so. - The Washington Post


Nick Foles Still Hasn't Heard From Sore Loser Tom Brady -- The Super Bowl MVP revealed to Jimmy Kimmel last night that Tom has yet to call.

JNCO Jeans are dead, at last attempted to reboot itself in recent years with fresh new fashion lines that didn't automatically make people think of a flying squirrel crafted entirely out of denim, but to no avail

Video of SUV flipping over in road-rage incident results in arrest

The great extent of Kylie Jenner's vocabulary : videos - Her newborn is going to be as articulate as my coffee machine.


Lost Ancient Mexican city had as many buildings as Manhattan, laser map shows (and maybe a subway)

Scientists Create a New Form of Light by Linking Photons : news

Peanut oral immunotherapy strongly desensitizes children and young adults to peanut allergy in a randomized, phase 2 trial. Results from a phase 3 trial are expected imminently. : science


Women who work as cleaners or regularly use cleaning sprays or other cleaning products at home appear to experience a greater decline in lung function over time than women who do not clean, according to new research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. : science ... Which cleaning chemicals were they using? ... Sulfuric acid and mustard gas ... aka Clorox and Windex.

Besides child birth and kidney stones, what is the worst pain you have endured? : AskReddit - Testicular torsion. Several hours of pain and pain induced vomit. I was on the beach and the nearest hospital 3 hours away. I go into emergencies, and I'm giving my personal data at the reception, and I am on the border of tears. The receptionist asked me to calm the fuck down. I wanted to strangle her.

Right now youtube is deleting drug information channels. Channels that help educate and prevent deaths. : videos

Hey Reddit, I'm Omar Subeh - The uptalking 18-year-old from Artesia, CA who spoke out against my city council. AMA! : IAmA

theWet_Bandits comments on TIL a man was fined $48,000 by the FCC for using a cell phone jammer everyday on his commute, because he didn't like motorists around him on their phones (extended poetry riff)
TIL a man was fined $48,000 by the FCC for using a cell phone jammer everyday on his commute, because he didn't like motorists around him on their phones : todayilearned - "Floating Deadzone" is one of my new favorite phrases ... It's what my wife calls our water bed ...
What did you do as a kid that today's kids don't do? : AskReddit
What are some common signs that a person is toxic? : AskReddit

Apple has had to call emergency services at least 7 times for employees after they walked into the transparent glass doors throughout the new Apple campus : news
'Parents killed it': why Facebook is losing its teenage users - This year more than 3 million under-25s in the UK and US are expected to leave the site

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17 Victims - Chris Hixon, Nicholas Dworet, Aaron Feis, Gina Montalto, Scott Beigel, Alyssa Alhadeff, Joaquin Oliver, Jaime Guttenberg, Martin Duque, Meadow Pollack, Alex Schachter, Peter Wang, Helena Ramsay, Alaina Petty, Carmen Schentrup, Cara Loughran, Luke Hoyer : pics
Parkland FL High School shooting: Victims dead and wounded | Miami Herald
I'm Sid Fischer, a student who was in the third room shot into by a murderer in the recent school shooting, AMA : IAmA
Kentucky governor blames violent video games, movies, not guns for school shootings : news What video games did Stalin and Hitler play?
Nikolas Cruz' Lifetime of Trouble: Family Loss, Flashes of Rage
Deputies: Broome High student arrested after Snapchat threat 'Ro - FOX Carolina 21
Parkland survivor slams GOP for shrugging off dead kids -- but freaking out over 'rainbow wedding cakes' .. "There is a segment of this society that will shrug this off and send their thoughts and prayers but march for hours over a rainbow wedding cake."
Sheriff in Florida shooting calls for power to detain over social media - NBC News pleaded with lawmakers on Thursday to give police and doctors more power to involuntarily hospitalize people for psychiatric evaluation over violent and threatening social media posts.
F.B.I. Was Warned of Florida Gunman's Desire to Kill but Did Not Act (he wasn't black or muslim)
What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer - The New York Times The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is its astronomical number of guns.
Twitter Says Impersonating A Journalist During A Mass Shooting Doesn't Violate Its Rules -- It took less than an hour for someone to create fake screenshots of tweets she sent ... Hoax screenshots of media outlets or shooters are nothing new, but the doctored tweets are a new type of fake. Throughout her reporting, Harris has never come across anything like this before (NRA Russian bots)

Eschaton: Something Is Wrong With The NYT -- And not saying it would be less sad it there were poor kids, obviously. Just such a waste to see kids with so much opportunity before them wiped out. -- Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) February 15, 2018 (haha he deleted his asshole tweet)
White House refuses to release photo of Trump signing bill to weaken gun law - CBS News - on Feb. 28, 2017, President Trump signed HJ Resolution 40, a bill that made it easier for people with mental illness to obtain guns. CBS News then asked the White House to release the photograph of Mr. Trump signing the bill, making the request a total of 12 times.
3 billboards near Miami are trolling Sen. Marco Rubio after the Florida school massacre - CNNPolitics
15-year-old boy charged with murder and assault in Kentucky school shooting: report abe Parker, 15, was charged with two counts of murder and 14 counts of first-degree assault in the January shooting at a Kentucky high school, the Courier-Journal newspaper reported on Friday
Florida shooting: NC Republican wants to arm teachers with guns | News & Observer ... Pittman speculated the Florida shooter was part of a conspiracy to "push for gun control so they can more easily take over the country." (the fake shooting was done by a Soros-sponsored pedo-ring so the answer is more gunz)

China confirms first ever human case of H7N4 bird flu : news The 68-year-old patient from Jiangsu province, who has since recovered, developed symptoms on 25 December, was admitted to hospital for treatment on 1 January and was released on 22 January.


Don't Be Fooled: Russia Attacked U.S. Troops in Syria -- Mattis gave Putin "plausible deniability" for a military assault that went badly awry ... that the Kremlin authorized a direct assault on a U.S.-sponsored base by non-uniformed personnel ... But make no mistake: There is overwhelming evidence that those Russian contractors were working at the behest of the Kremlin ... the wounded mercenaries were flown out of Syria and treated at military hospitals in Moscow and St. Petersburg ... "And the Russians know they are playing with fire, if you look at how they are responding."

Turkey's Effort to Repair Relations Trips Over Its Crackdown -- over deepening concerns about the length and breadth of its state of emergency, which has been used to round up tens of thousands.


S.E.C. Blocks Chinese Takeover of Chicago Stock Exchange - The New York Times (what could go wrong with that?)


Facebook complies with Russia's request to take down an Instagram post linked to Putin's rival - Facebook-owned Instagram has taken down posts related to bribery allegations made by Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny against prominent figures in a YouTube video. (next, Trump will order them to take down all Dem posts)


Mueller Accuses Russians of Pro-Trump, Anti-Clinton Meddling - Bloomberg - Mueller describes a years-long, multimillion-dollar conspiracy by hundreds of Russians aimed at criticizing Hillary Clinton and supporting Senator Bernie Sanders and Trump (and then the berniebots memed that Killary rigged everything)
Mueller Still Investigating Possible Collusion, Source Says - Bloomberg ... Trump indicated that he believes the indictment exonerates him and his campaign. ... "The Trump campaign did nothing wrong -- no collusion!" Trump said on Twitter ... Rosenstein, who has been on shaky ground with Trump from the time he named Mueller as special counsel, offered a summary of the indictment that conspicuously skipped its repeated references to the Russian goal of helping Trump win the presidency and hurting his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
Trump's Claim Mueller Found 'NO COLLUSION' Is Literal Nonsense (he had to shout it)
Russian troll operation echoed many of Trump campaign's themes
U.S. Indicts 13 Russian Nationals for Election Meddling, Says They Communicated With Trump Campaign - The Daily Beast u
Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Trump | US news | The Guardian
A Conspiracy to Defraud - Lawyers, Guns & Money A federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly meddling in the 2016 presidential election, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Department of Justice announced Friday ... One advertisement shortly before the election promoted the Green party candidate Jill Stein, who is blamed by some Clinton backers for splitting the anti-Trump vote. (Stein and Nader, historical fucktards, and you throw Greenwald in there too)
Thirteen Russians criminally charged for interfering in US election, Mueller announces : news

Indictments Present a New Political Reality for a President Crying 'Hoax' ... "Every time he sees me he says I didn't do that, and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it." ("and no one is more trustworthy than my good friend Vlad.") On Friday, Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, indicted 13 Russian nationals and described a vast, sophisticated Russian operation to interfere in the election, delivering to Mr. Trump the kind of evidence that the president has long sought to dismiss as political attacks from his rivals.
'Trump cannot dismiss this' : Watergate legend Carl Bernstein hammers importance of Mueller's Russian indictments ... "It is very hard for these Republicans who have gone along with this business of witch hunt to continue to do so after this." ... "Who was witting, unwitting in that conspiracy, we don't know yet. But Mueller's indictments are pointing in a certain direction around people in the Trump orbit and family. ("family")
Ex-CIA director Brennan nails how Mueller's election-meddling indictment 'puts a lie to Putin's claims' (not to mention Herr Trump's)
Mueller'ss Latest Indictment Shows Trump Has Helped Putin Cover Up a Crime By continuing to cast doubt on Russian involvement, the president is helping the Kremlin get away with its election attack.
Meet Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian Oligarch Indicted in U.S. Election Interference - The New York Times
Sanders silent on claim that Russians backed him in 2016 - politico ... Friday's revelation that Russian actors sought to boost his presidential primary campaign and sink Hillary Clinton's in 2016

Why Do All These Trump Associates Keep Making Plea Arrangements? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Upper-Class Tax Cuts and Neoconfederate Judges Over Country - Lawyers, Guns & Money know yet if or to what extent the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian ratfucking that has been clearly established. But we certainly know one prominent Republican public official who was an active conspirator: Senate Leader Mitch McConnell actively suppressed that information before the election

Is Donald Trump a Traitor? Americans must live with the uncertainty of not knowing whether Trump has the best interests of the United States or those of Russia at heart - James Risen -- Now look at the mandate given to former FBI Director Robert Mueller when he was appointed special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was acting in place of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had recused himself because of his role in the Trump campaign and the controversy surrounding his own meetings with the Russian ambassador to the United States. (and there's the problem, before we even start) Given all this, it seems increasingly likely that the Russians have pulled off the most consequential covert action operation since Germany put Lenin on a train back to Petrograd in 1917.

A significant minority of Americans say they could support a military takeover of the U.S. government - The Washington Post These views are not confined to supporters of one or the other of the major parties. In 2017, about 25 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of Republicans said they favored a military intervention if the country faced rampant crime or corruption - In 2017, roughly 11 percent of Democrats and 24 percent of Republicans were in favor of shutting Congress down during difficult times. (down since Obama caused all that carnage in the inner cites)


More than 40 percent of Trump's first Cabinet-level picks have faced ethical or other controversies (elect the swamp, suckers)

Donald Trump, the Playboy Model Karen McDougal, and a System for Concealing Infidelity | The New Yorker- One woman's account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.
Karen McDougal Describes Alleged Affair With Trump in New Yorker Article - The New York Times - the relationship, which allegedly began in 2006, while Mr. Trump was married to his current wife, Melania Trump, and lasted about nine months ... chairman and chief executive, David Pecker, who is close with Mr. Trump, routinely bought stories with no intention of running them, sometimes using the pieces as leverage. (everybody is blackmailing Trump)
The latest alleged Trump affair coverup is a damningly familiar tale - The Washington Post - the alleged affair happened around the same time as the alleged Daniels affair more than a decade ago. All three women seem to have independently described meeting Trump in a Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow and having him come on to them ... how Trump regularly sent her Trump brand or related items and talked about buying her an apartment in New York. Both of those details jibe with Daniels's account, though in her case the apartment was in Tampa and she talked more about how preoccupied he was with playing up his brand to her. (Jesus fuck, America look what yuu did)
Eschaton: If This Was A Democrat... I suppose it'd be good if nobody cares about this stuff again (I don't mean that this behavior is never relevant for public figures, but not in the faux-Victorian morality the Washington Scolds regaled us with during Lewinksy Madness). Trump and McDougal began an affair, which McDougal later memorialized in an eight-page, handwritten document provided to The New Yorker by John Crawford, a friend of McDougal's. When I showed McDougal the document, she expressed surprise that I had obtained it but confirmed that the handwriting was her own.
The latest alleged Trump affair coverup is a damningly familiar tale - The Washington Post - The Wall Street Journal reported shortly before the 2016 election that the publisher of the National Enquirer, American Media, had paid $150,000 for McDougal's story but never ran it. This has led to allegations that it deliberately bought the story and killed it to protect Trump, who is personal friends with AMI chief executive David Pecker.
Trump Has Really Stepped In It Now, As Stormy Daniels Payoff Likely Crosses Legal Lines -- The $130,000 hush money paid to the porn actress opens up legal and tax issues for Trump.

Ex-wife's photos raise questions about McGahn's role in Porter scandal - The FBI obtained photos of the bruised face of Colbie Holderness seven days after President Donald Trump's inauguration last year ... raising questions about what information White House counsel Don McGahn had at his disposal regarding her ex-husband, Rob Porter ... But the existence of the photos is leading law enforcement experts and officials in previous administrations to strongly question how McGahn didn't act on the domestic violence allegations ... Holderness provided an FBI special agent with at least eight pictures of her bruised eye ... And it is McGahn who is responsible for one of the rare successes during the first year of Trump: Leading the effort to reshape the federal judiciary with conservatives, starting with the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.



The Ongoing GOP War on the 17th Amendment - Lawyers, Guns & Money A committee of the Arizona Legislature this week approved a bill that would strip citizens of the power to nominate candidates for the U.S. Senate. Instead, the power would go to ... The Arizona Legislature ... No kidding. (Republifucks go full authoritarian)

Eschaton: Obligatory Safe Space For The Snowflake Joke Much more reasonable the black college students being a little bit upset that their campus invites someone to tell them that they are stupider than white people. "Scott Pruitt, you're fucking up the environment" -- Getting the vapors. Take me to the fainting couch.

Eschaton: Did You Know Nazis Don't Like Jews Very Much? So all the dapper Nazi photo shoots and loving profiles of the "alt-right" really have shocked me. Explicit bigotry against most minority groups is tolerated and even perpetuated by our elite media outlets, but there was a line there which limited the promotion of Antisemitism. And then there wasn't.

Congressman Calls For Investigation Of Conservative Think Tank - Veteran Democrat Lipinski joins critics of the Illinois Policy Institute with a letter to the IRS

Beware Of False Claims Of Assaults At "Black Panther" Screenings - People are bad - Trolls on Twitter are trying to stoke outrage by making false claims of racially motivated assaults at screenings of Black Panther. (even Porter's ex-wife got beat up by "black thugs" at the movie)

Genmzaros - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Video shows corrections officer shooting inmate through cell door : news


100s of USA swimmers were sexually abused for decades and the people in charge knew and ignored it, investigation finds

Katie Roiphe Right on Twitter Feminism, Wrong on #MeToo (Chait, the contrarian)
Does Katie Roiphe Understand What a Sex Panic Is? | The Nation There are many examples of sex-related miscarriages of justice. #MeToo is not one of them.
Steve Bannon and Katie Roiphe Are Very Worried. So Is Donald Trump The #MeToo movement and the existential threat to patriarchy ... Should the patriarchy come to an end, Bannon and Trump will be toast, of course. And Katie Roiphe will be out of a gig, with no one left to serve.
The Twisted, Confusing Logic of Katie Roiphe's #MeToo Essay in Harper's
Children's Book Industry Has Its #MeToo Moment (sounds like they were banging a lot)

The Feminist Pursuit of Good Sex - The New York Times

Memo: NY Times Editor Explains Why Everyone Hates His 'Rich And Searching' Op-Ed Section -- He would also like you to leave the question of whether it's OK to hire friends of Nazis to history ... He closes by, essentially, begging his newsroom colleagues, the people whose jobs it is to hold major institutions accountable and urge transparency, to please keep any criticism (and subsequent leaks) to themselves.
A Word From James Bennet - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Hoops corruption case may take down players, Hall of Fame coaches, programs, lottery picks

Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge - Bloomberg Statements in James Damore's 3,000-word memo "regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive" that they fell outside protections for collective action in the workplace, an associate general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board wrote in a six-page memo disclosed Thursday.

'Decades of monstrous sexual abuse': Hawaii's famous Kamehameha school settles suit for $80 million : news


Which Cities Have More Renters? - The New York Times Of those cities, Newark had the largest share of renters (74 percent), followed by Jersey City, (70 percent), Miami (68 percent), New York (65 percent), and Boston (64 percent).

Flu kills 22 more children, bringing toll to 84 kids as worst season in a decade continues : news ... But most of the children who have died this year have not been vaccinated, the report said. That also has been true for children who died in previous years, according to a study published this week.

Biologist gets a fake Star Trek paper accepted by 4 dodgy science journals


Who is the worst person you've ever met? : AskReddit

Google Search removes View Image button and Search By Image feature : AdviceAnimals

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Florida school shooting carried out with chilling precision - 'A Day of Mourning': Florida school shooting suspect denied bond, charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder
Laws we used to have on the books could have prevented the Florida school shooting - The Washington Post
Where was he radicalized? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jereb also said that Cruz participated in paramilitary drills in Tallahassee. - But remember! College students protesting speeches by white supremacists are the real threat to society.

The latest schoolhouse slaughter shows we have been defeated - The Washington Post
The one thing we can do to address gun violence - The Washington Post - Don't vote for Republicans.
Teen Who Survived Shooting Says Lawmakers Need To Look In The Mirror
Shepard Smith Gives Fox News Viewers A Reality Check After Florida School Shooting | HuffPost - Some things haven't changed much since Columbine.
Lis Power on Twitter: "Shepard Smith reads off a list of fatal school shootings since Columbine The list is long. Too freaking long. "
School Shootings in America Since 2013 - 290 today (Bloomberg funded site)
No, there haven't been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong. (only about eight but we're not going to say, exactly)
The FBI Was Warned About A School Shooting Threat From A YouTube User Named Nikolas Cruz In September - a YouTube user named Nikolas Cruz left a comment on a video stating "I'mgoing to be a professional school shooter."
Florida Shooter Made Sick Use of School's Active-Shooter Drill -- The timing likely made it more difficult for the school to order and maintain a complete lockdown
Media Push The Claim There Have Been 18 School Shootings In 2018. Here Are The Facts. | Daily Wire - three students died; roughly 30-35 were injured.
Kimmel writer quotes every GOP lawmaker's post-Florida 'thoughts and prayers' tweet -- and how much money they took from the NRA (millions and millions)
15 pols who got biggest gun group donations and their NRA grades - NY Daily News (all Russian-owned Rethugs)
Florida White Supremacist Group Admits Ties to Alleged Parkland School Shooter Nikolas Cruz | Anti-Defamation League (but it's definitely not white terrorism)
After Sandy Hook, More Than 400 People Have Been Shot in Over 200 School Shootings - The New York Times
Florida's Gun Law Sickness -- Not only is there no law requiring the registration of handguns or rifles -- the state has a law expressly prohibiting any such regulation.

Frustration Grows as Congress Shows Inability to Pass Even Modest Gun Measures - The New York Times ... (from Kimmel: In the 2015-2016 election cycle alone, GOP candidates took $17,385,437 from the NRA)

Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting | WIRED


Chinese State-Owned Chemical Firm Joins Dark Money Group Pouring Cash Into U.S. Elections (you can see where this is going, and it's not good but if the NRA can buy all the Republicans, what's to stop them?)

Twitter deleted 200,000 Russian troll tweets. Read them here. - Twitter doesn't make it easy to track Russian propaganda efforts -- this database can help (why, it's almost like they did that on purpose) Dan coates ... "Frankly, the United States is under attack" (by Russians in the WH)

ICE launches new immigration sweep in L.A. area; at least 100 detained so far

The decision has no immediate effect due to the Supreme Court action.


- CNN Exclusive: At least 100 White House officials served with 'interim' security clearances until November
Why Former Trump Staffers May Be Walking Security Threats - With many White House officials on interim clearances, the president appears to be more interested in personal loyalty than national security. (like he was ever any different)
Media's Obsessive 2016 Focus on Security of Classified Materials Pays Immediate Dividends
Dafna Linzer on Twitter: "BREAKING: More than 130 political appointees working in white house didn't have permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Don McGahn, according to internal documents obtained by NBC News @carolelee @mikememoli @kwelkernbc"

Trump and Pence made peculiar statements on Wednesday. You should listen closely. - The Washington Post - What came out was the most grudging, nonspecific utterance you could imagine. Indeed, he sounded resentful in having to address the issue at all. "I'm totally opposed to domestic violence of any kind. Everyone knows that. And it almost wouldn't even have to be said. So, now you hear it, but you all know." (said the pussy-grabber to the 1/3 of Americans who can't connect two dots)

Ugly new details about Trump's fury over Russia probe (how dare they question my criminality) the most powerful person in the world is a raging, abusive megalomaniac


Top Trump campaign adviser close to plea deal with Mueller - CNNPolitics Former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates is finalizing a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller
Steve Bannon met with Mueller multiple times over the past week - NBC News

Kushner Investors Subpoenaed by U.S. Tax Authorities, Source Says - Bloomberg (Slushner going down)

Trump's Inaugural Committee Paid $26 Million to Firm of First Lady's Adviser ... while donating $5 million -- less t han expec ted -- to charity ... under pressure from liberal government watchdog groups to reveal how it spent the record $107 million it had raised from wealthy donors and corporations. ("liberal watchdog groups" not the IRS?) included only an already publicized $3 million for hurricane relief, plus a total of $1.75 million to groups involved in decorating and maintaining the White House and the vice president's residence (sure sounds like a good "charity")


'Incensed' Grassley Rips Sessions for Torching Justice Overhaul (yeah, Grassfuck is very 'insensed" that Sessions is Sessions)


Nervous GOP seeks new 2018 Senate candidates in three states | TheHill - n increasing nervousness among Republicans that their Senate majority -- once seen as nearly invincble -- may be at risk.

Poll: Republican barely leading in Pennsylvania special election - POLITICO The survey is the latest warning sign in a district that Donald Trump won by 20 points. The election is March 13.


A year after public voted for recreational pot, there's a political battle over the rules ... various departments of Baker's administration have sternly urged cannabis regulators to delay their plans to permit social consumption venues, or marijuana cafis, delivery services that do not have a physical storefront, and businesses such as spas and movie theaters that may want to offer cannabis on the side. (but he's so popular)


Tom Ashbrook is out as host of 'On Point,' BU says (Ashbrook says he did nothing wrong and why does the globe use a 10-15 year-old pic? that's not how he looks)
'On Point' Host Tom Ashbrook Dismissed For Creating 'Abusive Work Environment' (same pic: undermines your story)(Ashbrook says it was their fault for not stopping him even though they told him multiple times to stop) Some WBUR employees say the statements from Ashbrook and his attorney reflect the problem they had with Ashbrook in the workplace: He blamed others rather than admitting he was sometimes wrong and apologizing ... "If having a coworker put a hand on your thigh isn't sexual, what exactly is it?" asked one woman who spoke to investigators but requested anonymity because she still works for BU ... "The fact that Tom's behavior and the way he acted around women did not fall into sexual harassment is appalling. It shows me BU's guidelines are outdated ... Several former producers say they were told or led to believe that they could lose their job and have trouble finding similar work elsewhere if they pursued complaints about Ashbrook. (so, a mini Matt Lauer) Another of the original complainants said some managers should be terminated along with Ashbrook ... "So at the end of the day this ought to be a lesson for anyone who wants to run a productive, high quality workplace, that you can't have powerful people who take out their frustrations in uncivil ways on people around them. (entitled baby-men)

Amazon confirms Jeffrey Tambor is out at 'Transparent'



"Draping a philosopher's Toga Around a Troll" But the Times isn'T hiring witless trolls to make moneY; IT'S hiring them because they think CHALLENGING YOUR ASSUMPTIONS is the right thing to do.


He was convicted of a sex act that's no longer a crime. Years later, he's deemed a sex offender = He was convicted because the incident happened in 1997, when oral and anal sex between consenting adults was prohibited under Georgia's sodomy law (good Christians don't have oral sex) Last week, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal-district court's that would have lifted the stigmatizing label from Green's name. (Republifuck judges)

What students know that experts don't : School's all about signaling, not skill-building


Ex-Philly cop says officer lied to put Meek Mill behind bars -- lying under oath a decade ago in an effort to put rapper Meek Mill behind bars on drug and gun charges. (they knew and did nothing)



TIL there are dozens of treatments more effective than the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which as a religious organization mentions God in 5 of its steps, has its own "bible", and believes that people who fail the program were born incapable of being honest with themselves. : todayilearned


Redditor "regoapps" reveals he has faked is identity as a multi-millionare despite being verified on facebook and having one of the top AMA's of all time on reddit : bestof

Peter Thiel might be getting out of Silicon Valley - Peter Thiel might be getting out of Silicon Valley Sources say he's ired of its liberal politics ("liberal" hahah the vampire will take his blood somewehre else)

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After more than a year, Trump still doesn't have a science adviser (don't need no so-called "science" +comment:) Well, yeah he could also use a Social Studies advisor, a Math advisor, an English advisor, and a Phys Ed. advisor.
Trump's Science Advisor, Age 31, Has a Political Science Degree -- Because Trump has not nominated someone to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael Kratsios is the de facto leader

Yellowstone ERUPTION: Supervolcano under 'STRAIN' experts find magma chamber pressure -- prompting fears an eruption is imminent. (meanwhile, in end of the world land)

- 17 dead, former student in custody after school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High in Broward
The Latest: Florida Rep: Shooting a call 'to do something' - Authorities say 17 people died in Wednesday's attack in Parkland, Florida, and the suspect, a 19-year-old former student, is in custody.
Florida school shooting: Officials report several fatalities, suspect in custody - The Washington Post - at least 14 victims in the incident.
Florida school shooting: Suspect Nikolaus Cruz in custody in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida today - live updates - CBS News
At least 17 dead in 'horrific' Florida school shooting, suspect had 'countless magazines'
- Florida School Shooting Suspect Nick Cruz Was 'Creepy and Weird,' Survivor Says - The ex-student reportedly had a history of threatening other students before he opened fire in his old classrooms.


Iran accuses West of using lizards for nuclear spying | The Times of Israel - Adviser to Khamenei says aid collectors for Palestinians sought to deploy reptiles whose skin 'atracted atomic waves' (dude, you need a science advisor)


North Korean cheerleaders have a dangerous job - BI - The 229 women in North Korea's 'Army of Beauties' at the Winter Olympics are hand picked, unpaid, and guarded 24/7 ... The cheerleaders all go through an intense vetting process, to minimize the risk of defection.


- Jacob Zuma resigns as South Africa's president, ending standoff with ruling party (completely corrupt hold on forever)


China's Hauwei: Top US intelligence chiefs caution Americans away - The directors of the CIA, FBI, NSA and several other intelligence agencies express their distrust of Apple-rival Huawei and fellow Chinese telecom company ZTE.


The Trains Are a Mess, and Now We Have a Clue Why - As usual, it's incompetence and underfunding. (and fuck your infrastructure, we have helicoptes and private jets)

Wall Street might not like this: Inflation rises 2.1 percent, faster than expected - The Washington Post
New Hedge-Fund Tax Dodge Triggers Wild Rush Back Into Delaware - Bloomberg - These limited liability companies share a common goal: dodging new tax rules for carried-interest profits through a bit of deft legal paperwork.

Eschaton: Abolish ICE - First candidate to propose this (meaningfully) gets my vote, unless they're beaten by someone demanding a war crimes tribunal. -- SEATTLE (AP) The chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle has been charged with stealing immigrant's identities .. Prosecutors with the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section allege that Sanchez stole the identities of seven people "in various stages of immigration proceedings to defraud credit card companies including American Express, Bank of America and Capital One. -- Idiot could have robbed them all blind and probably even gotten a personal slave or two (they're all the rage now). Mistake was fucking with the credit card companies. (arrest, defraud, deport!)
Exclusive: Dozens of refugee resettlement offices to close as Trump downsizes program | Reuters -- Refugee resettlement agencies are preparing to shutter more than 20 offices across the United States and cut back operations in more than 40 others after the State Department told them to pare their operations (and give the money to the riches)

Christopher Steele is a hero -- and Americans owe him their thanks - The Washington Post

Are Spies Like Us? A National Security Reporter Says Yes, and No - The New York Times

The State and Local Election Cybersecurity Playbook | Belfer Cenet Thatr for Science and International Affairs (Trump says nothing to worry about)
The Only People in Government Who Care About Russian Election Meddling Are the Spies -- Republicans Don't Care About Russian Election Meddling in 2018 (guess why) ... When the damn intelligence community is the only thing standing between legitimate elections and a public farce, we have come to a place I never thought I'd see.


Adam Schiff: There is 'ample evidence' of collusion between Trump campaign, Russians


Devin Nunes' Next Memo Could Revive Old Scandals to Obscure Russia Probe - Are we set to relive old scandals, so that new ones can be buried in the muddied water?



Third White House official resigns after being told he wouldnnt qualify for full clearance - National Economic Council official George David Banks departed amid increasing scrutiny of the Trump administration's decision to let multiple staffers work on interim clearances.
Hope Hicks and disgraced Rob Porter no longer dating | Daily Mail Online - The pair started their romance in the fall; Porter's then-girlfriend learned about it by discovering her cheating paramour's text messages

White House reels as FBI director contradicts official claims about alleged abuser - The Washington Post (fire the whole FBI!)
'Big Fat Liar': - WaPo Reports On White House Staff's Frustration With Kelly (lying is what generals do, duh)

- Stormy Daniels Warns Trump & Lawyer: You Breached Our Agreement, Now I'm Free to Talk!
Porn star who alleged Trump affair: I can now tell my story
Michael D. Cohen, Trump's Longtime Lawyer, Says He Paid Stormy Daniels Out of His Own Pocket ... said he was not reimbursed for the payment ... (oh sure)
Did Trump's s lawyer just implicate Trump in the Stormy Daniels payment? (no, he did it all on his own)

Trump creep: bad habits spread fast - Axios - Trump's lifelong habits -- to improvise, to attack, to deny the undeniable, to leak -- spread fast through the White House, metastasized in the agencies, and infected Republicans in Congress. They are Republican habits now.

Trump Pick For EPA's No. 2 Accused Of Abusing Power To 'Bu lly' And 'Intimidate' Opponents -- As a Senate aide in 2005, Andrew Wheeler went after state air pollution regulators for opposing his boss's bill - the former coal lobbyist President Donald Trump nominated as the Environmental Protection Agency's deputy administrator ... (only the best assholes to ruin the world)
Veterans Affairs chief Shulkin, staff misled ethics officials about European trip, report finds - The Washington Post - chief of staff doctored an email and made false statements to create a pretext for taxpayers to cover expenses for the secretary's wife on a 10-day trip to Europe last summer (stealing is "life-long habit" for them)
They're all grifters. The best ones, no doubt. -- Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin

Donald Trump Jr. Attacks Olympian Adam Rippon On Twitter | HuffPost - What would your father say about you spreading FAKE NEWS? SAD ... Trump Jr. overlooked one key detail. Pence mentioned Rippon on Twitter just last week, and also reportedly asked to meet with him before the Winter Games. (dumb and dumber gets demolished on twitter)
Grizzly Chief on Twitter: "9 " - What sounds like a fool and walks like a fool....

- How Trump Is Using The DOJ To Pressure CNN - In a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent last week, four top congressional Democrats laid out reams of evidence suggesting that President Trump is improperly using the proposed Time Warner-AT&T merger to pressure Time Warner-owned CNN for gentler coverage. (Trummp following his instincts)

Democrats Lead by 8 Points On Generic House Ballot Nationally | Public Policy Polling ... Democrats have a solid 49-41 lead on the generic Congressional ballot, although that's down a shade from December when it was 51-40 (and people dispise Ryan and Yertle)
- Fully 39 percent of registered voters say they would support the GOP candidate for Congress in their district, while 38 percent would back the Democratic candidate. Nearly a quarter of voters, 23 percent, are undecided ... GOP's 1-point advantage comes after three months of tracking in which Democrats maintained a lead ranging between 2 and 10 points on the generic ballot. (who do you trust? Public Policy or Politico?)


- In Leaked Chats, WikiLeaks Discusses Preference for GOP Over Clinton, Russia, Trolling, and Feminists They Don't Like
Nobody Could Have Seen THIS Coming - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Brace yourself for some shocking news. Julian Assange ratfucked the election by leaking information intended to damage Clinton because ... his preferred major party candidate was Donald Trump:



- Democrat Margaret Good Flips Seat in Florida, the 36th Democratic Flip Since Trump's Inauguration -- She won by a margin of nearly 8 points in a district that went for Trump by about 5.
The Sky, It Continues to Fall - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Kelli Ward touts endorsement from fake-news site - POLITICO - Political-messaging sites mimic names of independent news organizations to help GOP candidates around the country ... There was just one problem: Despite its reputable sounding name, the Arizona Monitor is not a real news site. It is an anonymous, pro-Ward blog that has referred to her primary opponent Martha McSally as "Shifty McSally" ... a phenomenon that spans the country from northern New England, where the anonymous Maine Examiner wreaked havoc on a recent mayoral election, all the way out to California, where Rep. Devin Nunes launched ... his own so-called news outlet, the California Republican.



How a Police Chief, a Governor and a Sociologist Would Spend $100 Billion to Solve the Opioid Crisis - The New York Times



Voting Reform in Michigan marches forward | The Michigan Chronicle - The Promote the Vote campaign is led by a broad coalition that includes the League of Women Voters, the ACLU of Michigan and the state and Detroit branches of the NAACP.

'Let's talk about Pocahontas' : Warren addresses Native American heritage claims, slams Trump

Eschaton: Nothing Really Matters, Anyone Can See... - Washington Post health care reporter. -- I actually think it's super weird how people are blaming their diminished sense of well-being on the Trump administration. Personal events determine my quality of life; not who's in the WH. Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham) February 14, 2018 -- Policy matters. How could you be a policy reporter and not know this? (another stupid conservative WaPo hire)


After a Twitter Storm, The Times and a New Hire Part Ways - The New York Times - After The New York Times announced on Tuesday that Quinn Norton would be its lead opinion writer on technology, her Twitter history doomed the hiring ... a journalist and an essayist known for her work at Wired magazine ... because of her use of slurs on Twitter and her friendship with Andrew Auernheimer, who gained infamy as an internet troll going by the name "weev." Mr. Auernheimer now works for The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website ... Ms. Norton said those who had interviewed her for the position "made it clear that they weren't going to get put off by a little weird. As for how weird, well, that's for them to discover." (NYT is hiring a lot of stupid people and Nazis lately, to expand their "base" and they are incapable of researching their backgrounds, which say a lot about the Times reporting)
NY Times Hires, Quickly Fires Journalist With History of Homophobic Tweets - The esteemed paper announced Tuesday that it had hired tech writer Quinn Norton. Within hours, they ditched her -- as a history of using gay slurs and the n-word surfaced on Twitter. (but it's ok for McArdle to wish poor people die in fires)

Leaked Chat Transcripts: New York Times Employees Are Pissed About Bari Weiss | HuffPost - According to one employee, diversity efforts at the publication "are nothing but lip service."


Suspect wounded, SUV stopped after shooting at NSA gate - at Fort Meade.



What 75 Years in the Mormon Church Taught Me About Assault - In bringing down Porter, Jennie Willoughby and Colbie Holderness defied their church bishops, who had dismissed their allegations about how he punched and choked them, and instead went public.


When Pop Culture Sells Dangerous Myths About Consent - The Atlantic - Entertainment glorifying or excusing predatory male behavior is everywhere -- from songs about "blurred lines" to TV shows where rapists marry their victims ... These scenes all add up to give the impression that romance requires a man's desire, but not necessarily a woman's. For her, the romance is mined from the fact that she is desired ... Don't complicate it by hesitating could be the slogan for rape culture ... It has been hard to realize, and harder still to admit, how much my own desires sprouted up twisted by the poison they absorbed ... How can you dig the roots of your desires out from the soil they sprouted in without killing them entirely?
The female price of male pleasure - The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears ... this is the water we swim in ... That's right: PubMed has almost five times as many clinical trials on male sexual pleasure as it has on female sexual pain. And why? Because we live in a culture that sees female pain as normal and male pleasure as a right.
From 'Hitch' to 'Say Anything,' How Rom-Coms Distort Romance - The Atlantic - American culture has long been confused about the location of the line between love and violence. Hollywood deserves some of the blame for that
Colin Dickey on Twitter: "Buddy, lemme tell you, non-human species are like the *last* place you wanna go if you're gonna make some claim that human gender roles are innate. (Andrew Sullivan, old gay guy with AIDS, tried to tell women why their needs don't count and aren't "natural.") One of the most wondrous things about Nature is that it is 100% not here for your heteronormative bullshit.

'Charles in Charge' Star Alexander Polinsky Accuses Scott Baio of Child Abuse | Hollywood Reporter

All About the Shaun White Sexual-Harassment Allegations - One of the videos Zawaideh claims she was forced to watch was a couple killing a bear and then having sex on top of it.



19 Tiny Habits That Lead to Huge Results

Dementia symptoms UK: Look out for this sign to determine vascular dementia or Lewy bodies | Health | Life & Style | Express.co.uk

'Screaming Mummy' Mystery May Have Finally Been Solved | HuffPost - Now scholars believe they finally know why the mummy looks so anguished: There's at least some chance he was, in fact, screaming at the time of his death ... He was sentenced to die and likely hanged for his role in the assassination of his father, Ramses III, who ruled in the 12th century BC.


Eschaton: Lighting Money On Fire - Fun to run a business like this. Despite a turbulent year for the ride-hailing company, sales were $7.5 billion. But the company also posted a substantial loss of $4.5 billion. There are few historical precedents for the scale of its loss.
Kitboga: The scam baiting Twitch star who torments Internet scammers for hours - The Washington Post

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TV Networks Did A Really Crap Job Reporting On Climate Change Last Year | HuffPost - The networks undercovered or ignored the ways that climate change had real-life impacts on people (don't bother us with that sciencey stuff)
Sea-level rise accelerating around the world -- Miami could be underwater in your kid's lifetime as sea level rise accelerates ("ice caps are at a record level")
World's Coasts May Be Drowning Under Rising Seas Faster Than We Thought


Cryptocurrency mining in Iceland is using so much energy, the electricity may run out - The Washington Post

Judge refuses to withdraw Julian Assange arrest warrant | Media | The Guardian - WikiLeaks founder continues to face arrest if he leaves Ecuadorian embassy as judge rejects request to quash warrant ... not persuaded by the argument from Assange's legal team that it was not in the public interest to pursue him for skipping bail ... "I find arrest is a proportionate response even though Mr Assange has restricted his own freedom for a number of years"

Venezuela's economy is so bad, parents are leaving their children at orphanages (no food, as 3rd-grader Maduro drives his country/bus over the cliff)


U.S. Strikes Killed Scores of Russia Fighters in Syria, Sources Say - Bloomberg - The 200-plus deaths dwarf official Russian toll in the war - More than 200 contract soldiers, mostly Russians fighting on behalf of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, died in a failed attack on a base held by U.S. and mainly Kurdish forces in the oil-rich Deir Ezzor region, two of the Russians said. The U.S. official put the death toll at about 100, with 200 to 300 injured.

Netanyahu: Israeli police recommend indicting prime minister for bribery | World news | The Guardian - Attorney general will examine evidence and decide whether to indict after police investigation of the prime minister in two cases (don't worry, he'll just start a big war)
Can Netanyahu Survive? - POLITICO Magazine - prime minister might be in trouble with the law, but the political opposition is probably too weak to unseat him. (coalition of crooks)

South Africa's ruling party demands that Zuma resign (totally corrupt Zuma Duma)

Russia Threatens to Block YouTube and Instagram, After Complaints From an Oligarch - The New York Times ... if they do not take down videos and photos relating to Oleg V. Deripaska, an oligarch who was once close to President Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. (haha, coming soon to America)


top spy just said Russia might meddle in the 2018 midterms - Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, assesses that Russia sees the 2018 elections as a "potential target."
Russia Sees Midterm Elections as Chance to Sow Fresh Discord, Intelligence Chiefs Warn - The New York Times

Former Senior FBI Official Is Leading BuzzFeed's Effort to Verify Trump Dossier - Anthony Ferrante coordinated the U.S. government's response to Russian election interference. Now he's helping a news site defend itself from a Russian billionaire's lawsuit ... BuzzFeed is being sued for libel by Russian technology executive Aleksej Gubarev, who argues that the news organization was reckless in publishing a series of memos written by former British spy Christopher Steele

Trump's Biggest Potential Conflict Of Interest Is Hiding In Plain Sight - The largest American office of China's largest bank sits on the 20th floor of Trump Tower, six levels below the desk where Donald Trump built an empire and wrested a presidency ... forking over an estimated $2 million a year for the space. (Chinese bank = Chinese government)
Gigantic "Pigzilla" caught rummaging through dumpster | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports - Wild boar are common in the hills around Hong Kong. The beasts can weigh up to 450 pounds and often venture into the city in search of food. (you know who else weighs 450 lbs?)

In Rob Porter Case, Trump Sends A Message: We Will Protect Powerful Alleged Abusers | HuffPost - "Trump has turned the clock back on the progress we've made in this country." (b/c he's a abuser, yo)
Ex-wife of accused WH aide rips Trump for suggesting he didn't get 'due process' ... She said her ex-husband "got due process when I answered the FBI agents truthfully," adding that she only spoke to the FBI after the agency contacted her last year about Sorenson's security clearance for his White House post ... agents first question, "Why did you and David get a divorce?" "Because he was abusive and I escaped and survived," she said she told the agent.

FBI head contradicts White House over Rob Porter background check - Chris Wray disputes White House's claims of ignorance over allegations of domestic abuse, saying investigation was submitted ... A White House spokesman blamed that ignorance on a failure by the FBI to wrap up a background check on Porter. White House chief of staff John Kelly said last Wednesday that he was "shocked" to hear of the allegations. But Wray testified before Congress that the FBI had submitted a completed background investigation on Porter to the White House in July 2017 and later supplied two follow-up reports. (they lie, all the time)
White House Let Rob Porter Keep Job Even After Receiving Final F.B.I. Report - The New York Times
White House official: "Kelly cover-up is unraveling" (rhymes with "Skyvanka")
Porter was up for promotion despite abuse allegations - CNNPolitics - Rob Porter was involved in serious discussions to be promoted when he abruptly resigned from the White House last week amid allegations that he abused his two ex-wives, multiple sources (rhyme with "Jar Head Slushner" and "Itanka Schlump")
Kelly increasingly isolated as Porter scandal rages on - POLITICO - The chief of staff has been left to shoulder the blame over the failure to remove the former staff secretary, who held only an interim security clearance.

A Whirlwind Envelops the White House, and the Revolving Door Spins - The New York Times - The Trump White House has had a higher turnover rate than any White House in decades ... with a 34 percent turnover rate
- The wife-beater, the witch and the White House: Why the hell did Trump ever tell Rob Porter and Omarosa 'you're hired'?

The Silicon Valley Giant Bankrolling Devin Nunes - Top executives at Oracle threw money to the controversial congressman just weeks after hiring a similarly controversial Nunes ally. (Larry Ellison hates your democracy)

Sarah Sanders is at her worst at a strange time -- when she's talking about respect for women ... a new low ... (Fuckabee Sanders +harridan, termagant, furphy, shrew, virago, parlous, kakistrocracy +"wormtongue")

Big Republican Advantages Are Eroding in the Race for House Control - The New York Times - Retirements and reversals in gerrymandering give Democrats a clearer path to a majority. - By Nate Cohn Feb. 12, 2018 ... The Republicans still retain formidable advantages, enough to win the House while losing the national popular vote by a wide margin ("structural advantage" = 50 years of cheating +Obama)
The Structural Background of the 2018 Midterms - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Rethugs "rigged the system" and then projected it all on dems, suckers believed them)

A White House Budget Fit for the King of Debt | The New Yorker (only the biglyest debt for the god-emperor) Congress holds the purse strings, and these days it has largely abandoned the annual budgeting process for irregular spending agreements between the two parties, the latest of which was reached last week ... Budgets are "aspirational")
Reagan's 'Party of Ideas' Is Down to Just One: Tax Cuts (well, and warz, and starving poor people and not letting Demoracts vote)

Trump budget highlights disconnect between populist rhetoric and plutocrat reality ... As a candidate, Trump repeatedly said he would never cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Now he proposes cutting Medicare by $554 billion and Medicaid by around $250 billion over the next decade. (plutocrats win, hahah suckers, you thought he told it "like it is") This is a budget for the haves. The have-nots get left behind ... More guns, less butter
Look at What They Do, Not What They Say - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I don't even think that Republicans are good con artists; the political media are just incredibly easy marks: (hello, NYT, complicit or stupid suckers, you decide)

Trump wants to overhaul America's safety net with giant cuts to housing, food stamps and health care (sorry, the rich need that money)

This is the opposite of responsible government - The Washington Post - FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY is the hallmark of populist governance. Whether ideologically left-wing (Hugo Chavez in Venezuela), right-wing (Juan Persn of Argentina) or in between, populists promise prosperity, dismiss trade-offs as so much elitist naysaying and spend their nation's savings to make it happen -- at least temporarily. The hangover, economic and political, is always painful. (Rethugs elected the king of bankruptcy)
Trump tells a lot of little lies. This is the big one. - The Washington Post - The most recent evidence of Trump's dishonesty comes in the budget and infrastructure plans the administration released Monday. Both are half smoke-and-mirrors, half traditional Republican economic policy. Forgive the redundancy. (hahah suckers, you believed the Antichrist)

Trump pitches plan to replace food stamps with food boxes - politico (Trump-branded and cooked by Ivanka)

Trump proposes eliminating federal funding for PBS, NPR | TheHill (all those years of both sides for nothing, hahah NPR)

Trump administration wants to sell National and Dulles airports, other assets across U.S. - The Washington Post (privatize everything)

Trump infrastructure plan bumps Gateway tunnel to the back of the line (no transportation for you unless you have your own helicopter)
Eschaton: I Tried To Warn The Transit Nerds - Not that it would have made any difference, but a lot of transit nerds kind of shrugged when Christie killed the last tunnel project because they weren't very thrilled about the specifics. But in transit it's usually "this" or "nothing," not "this" or "some better plan I sketched on a napkin." ... Trump's Fiscal Year 2019 budget, also released Monday, cuts funding for Amtrak's long-distance passenger trains and eliminates the very federal program through which the project was supposed to be funded. ... Now the only real hope is that the powers that be were exaggerating, or were wrong about, the remaining lifespan of the existing tunnels. Clock is ticking...

What's the immigration status of Melania Trump's parents? (illegals from a shithole country, duh) "Here are Melania's Parents. Viktor and Amalija Knavs. They live in the United States Permanently now because of Chain Migration after Melania's Visa Expired & she stayed here Illegally and married Donnie for Citizenship. None of them have a degree or a job" ... They apparently help take care of Barron Trump. the president's 11-year-iold child ... "Oh well, Trump promised a press conference in which Melania's immigration story would be explained. In August. August of 2016." (like his tax returns, suckers)

If There's One Thing We Know from Decades of the War on Drugs, It's That Turning Drug Users Into Criminals Totally Works -- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is poised to decide whether or not the state's child abuse law can be used to penalize pregnant people who have narcotics in their system ... will be yet another barrier to care that pregnant people with substance abuse problems may face. (America loves being stupid and cruel to those kinds of people)

Celebrity Big Brother: Omarosa calls Vice President Mike Pence 'scary' ... "We would be begging for days of Trump back if Pence became president. "He's extreme. I'm Christian, I love Jesus, but he thinks Jesus tells him to say things." (nutball theocratic Fundie thinks Jesus talks to him) did she have a security clearance?)

Hannity's Blog Posts, Then Deletes Story That Obama Portrait Has Hidden 'Secret Sperm' ... Can you see it, inching along the side of his head, just waiting to find an egg to inseminate with his sperm, thus making the world a less caucasian place? We smell a Pulitzer. (sending the RWNJ insanity index 10 points higher ... just when you think they can't get more nuts)



Internal Dem polling shows Trump's standing on the rise (Trump becoming wildly popular, especially with Democrats) Democrats this year have stopped focusing on economic and health care issues, topics that demonstrably hurt his approval during his first year in office.



POLITICO - Turner (R-Ohio) approached Issa (R-Calif.) in the Capitol last week and handed him a letter seeking a deposition as part of his divorce proceedings, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the interaction ... The couple's abrupt divorce has been a subject of speculation on Capitol Hill for months. Turner, an eight-term lawmaker, filed for divorce in May 2017 after just 1= years of marriage. Mourad and Issa, who share Lebanese-American heritage, have been friends for two decades (Issa is an immigrant from a shithole country, apparently)
GOP congressman pulls Issa into ugly divorce - POLITICO - Rep. Mike Turner is seeking to depose his colleague in the messy situation. (she wssn't unfaithful, I tell you)
As Corker reconsiders, Blackburn campaign calls doubters 'sexist' and criticizes 'tired old men' ... Pence's political action committee has given money to Blackburn, who is known in Washington as a tea party favorite. (very pro-patriarchy and a nasty piece of work +she's the same age as "tired old man" Corker, 65)

Rising star in Michigan Republican Party blasts Trump and resigns | MLive.com - Expressing disappointment over President Donald Trump and vowing to no longer be affiliated with any political party, the chairman of the Bay County Republican Party has stepped down from his post.

Va. Republicans move to dump controversial leader over anti-Semitic online post - The Washington Post - Fredy Burgos has been a controversial but tolerated figure within Virginia's Republican Party ... after he posted a Facebook comment suggesting Jews should not run for political office (you know who else should never run for public office?) "As an evangelical Christian, nobody loves the Jewish people and Israel more than I." (I love them to die in our Christian apocalypse) ... asserting that it is the privilege of a Christian nation "to select and prefer Christian rulers" (said a hand of Satan, haha suckers)

Parents Of Republican Senate Hopeful Max Out Donations To Democratic Opponent | HuffPost - Family dinners at Kevin Nicholson's house might get awkward. (they raised a Nazi, but regret it)


Automation Sneaking Into Political Discourse - Lawyers, Guns & Money - this is a massive and very scary revolution happening in society that could have enormous destabilizing effects ... Of course, leave it to an University of Chicago economist to say that automation won't be a big deal because computers helped advance the field of economics. This brilliance truly boosts my low opinion of economics as an academic discipline. (Repubican "economics" has always been fake)


No More Mister Nice Blog: THERE MUST BE A PONY IN HERE SOMEWHERE! - The New York Times has hired conservative (but anti-Trump) ex-Wall Street Journal opinion writers Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss in the past year, and now The Washington Post has responded in kind: The Washington Post today announced Megan McArdle will be a columnist for the Opinions section starting March 1. (McMegan fails upwards again, they all have no moral center, inc. NYT and who is hiring these assholes?) The press is the child who finds a pile of manure under the Christmas tree and optimistically says "There must be a pony somewhere!"
The Perfect Hiatt Hire - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Eschaton: Democracy Dies In McArglebargling - The Post has hired McArdle. Of course they have. Where else can we find such well-researched ideas (completely hollow people).
Jeet Heer on Twitter: "It's strange how Never Trump Republicans have no real constituency in general population but are becoming ever more beloved by newspaper editorial pages."

Why is The New York Times publishing discredited gun researcher John Lott? - Times op-ed makes easily disprovable attacks on the national background check system for gun purchases (NYT will print any right wing bullshit)


Top Democratic Consultant Resigns Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations | HuffPost - A Democratic campaign committee has launched an investigation into the charges ... Jim Walsh resigned from both of his digital strategy firms on Tuesday, facing allegations of sexual misconduct ... HuffPost spoke with a woman who said Walsh sexually assaulted her over a decade ago, when she was 21 years old and was looking for advice about how to get into politics (more pigeons)


Weinstein suit may be turning point, experts say: 'They'll bring him down' - New York's civil rights case hinges on unique legal strategy and could have big financial consequences for movie mogul ("glutonous ogre" you mean)
Harvey Weinstein lawsuit: attorney general say's 'we have never seen anything as despicable'

Bassey Etim on Twitter: "This comment, by far, is the most replied-to reader submission on NYT today "

'It's tough for me to know where the line is': The #MeToo era is making dating more confusing ... because it changes from woman to woman. (am I supposed to rape and harass her, or not?) 40 percent of male respondents ages 18 to 25 say the #MeToo movement has changed the way they act in potential romantic relationships.

Vice Media sued by former employee alleging systemic pay discrimination against women (studly bros got all the money)


Eschaton: Cunning Plans - Politico has published a piece from some University of Chicago law professor and someone else (I didn't bother to google) which is about importing immigrants to be personal slaves. No they don't call it that, but that's what it is. You can find it yourselves. The worst thing about being wealthy in America is you just can't always abuse your personal servants as much as you can in some other countries. Time to fix that apparently.

College sports, higher ed, and money madness in the new gilded age - Lawyers, Guns & Money - But to a significant extent state funding cuts have provided a handy excuse for a radical level of corporatization and privatization that these institutions were and are all too eager to embrace anyway. I mean if you're ru nning "a business" you can pay your top administrators as if they were C-suite executives, because "the market." Etc.

Teaching Evaluations - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Given the evidence, I've almost reached the conclusion that gender- and race-biased evaluations are not used in spite of their bias, but because they are biased. (teaching evaluation used to discriminate against women and POC +institutions are gendered and women are interlopers in men's rightful jobs)
Janice Min was approached to edit the Los Angeles Times - Recode - The former editor of the Hollywood Reporter spoke to us at the Code Media conference.

Digital First Media wins bidding for Boston Herald with $12m package - The Boston Globe - Digital First Media, a national newspaper chain that has earned a reputation for relentless cost-cutting, emerged as the winning bidder for the Boston Herald in a bankruptcy auction held Tuesday.

Pennsylvania Pastor Caught in Parked Car with Bound Naked Man - Slog - The Stranger -- "I have nothing to hide"
100s of child porn images, LSD, ecstasy found in home of Boise Priest , prosecutor says : news -
Retired Boise, Idaho priest had 100s of child porn images | Idaho Statesman - Longtime Catholic Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, 72, was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday evening for his arraignment on 14 different charges.


The hysterical obituary that made strangers miss a man they never knew - The Washington Post

An Outback server gets no tip on a $735 takeout order, complains -- and gets fired ... But when the Christian megachurch that ordered it didn't leave a tip ... ("so, they don't pay taxes and they don't tip." ... "For those not familiar with southern churches, Wednesday night is a church night. Lots of families would come in dressed to have dinner either before or after church. I remember that most of them left a prayer card as a tip. It was worse than working an Amway group, which never stiffed you but never left a great tip either.")


This woman is first human infected with rare eye worm - The Washington Post


A potentially powerful new antibiotic is discovered in dirt - The Washington Post (feed your kids more dirt)


Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback | The Seattle Times - cutting several hundred jobs in Seattle, and hundreds elsewhere, a rare layoff that appears to fall predominantly on its established consumer retail business. The company continues to hire aggressively in other areas.

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Eschaton: In Philly We Ride The Hoagiemobiles - Americans is weird. -- The Hague (AFP) - Veteran US journalist Katie Couric is being mercilessly mocked on Twitter after claiming the Dutch success at Olympics speed-skating was because skating is an "important mode of transport" in their country. (this woman has been informing Americans about everything for years and thinks everyone in the Netherlands skates to work)


Sebastian Gorka no longer listed as wanted by Hungarian police - The Washington Post


Trump takes 'shackles' off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe (you voted for evil, Republicans and Jill Stein)

President Trump today will unveil a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that his own aides don't think will pass, and a $4 trillion budget that reads like "science fiction" (remember when Barry wasn't allowed to spend any money?)

Lawsplainer: "Fruit of the Posonous Tree" And The Special Counsel Investigation

Rob Porter's ex-wife says she 'was floored' by Trump's response
A Reckoning with Women Awaits Trump | The New Yorker
Rob Porter is my ex-husband. Here's what you should know about abuse.
It Is True That Multiple Sources Rhyming With Skyvanka Said This (while Trump actually said "that")
Rob Porter Is the Illumination Flare of Trumpist Rot ... We can start with the simple fact that this President surrounds himself with men who abuse women ... Kelly's role in the Porter drama (along with other evidence over the last year) leaves little question that his vision of honor and integrity is one in which habitual violence against wives and girlfriends plays no significant role ... All of it starts to feed on itself. The President is defined by his predation. He attracts these people to him or they are the only options available and he in turn protects them. He's staffed by the inexperienced, the incompetent and the reprobate ... Porter's exposure is like a brief but sustained flash of light amidst the moral darkness and squalor of the Trump White House, briefly illuminating all the dreck and rot of the rough beast of Trumpism. (you're getting close: the Beast from the Earth)

Is Devin Nunes Obstructing Justice? - The New York Times (from day 1: lock him up!)
Through the Looking Glass - In recent weeks we have seen a flurry of Fox News hothouse scandals which blow up for a day before collapsing under the weight of their own ridiculousness ... the President, the FBI Director and others were wary that it might not be safe to share classified information about Russia with members of the Trump team or perhaps even Trump himself. Even with all we've seen, that is remarkable. Even more striking is that in the Fox/GOP looking glass this is actually incriminating or at least damning evidence against the Obama team. (Trump being a security risk is Obama's fault and it's a big scandal and Grassfuck and Lindey-poo are on it) y

Which is scarier -- that Trump doesn't read his daily intel briefing, or that Jared Kushner does? (with no security clearance, but Hillary's emailz)
Trump wanted to 'lock her up' for far less

Top Justice Department official Brand quit partly over fear she might be asked to oversee Russia probe - NBC News - Brand grew frustrated by vacancies at the department and feared she would be asked to oversee the Russia investigation

Sessions Praises Sheriffs For Upholding 'Anglo-American heritage' Of Policing (and killing black people)
Law Enforcement as White Inheritance - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Jeff Sessions is who we thought he is -- a racist neo-Confederate with appalling views on pretty much everything. More generally, the idea that law enforcement is the province of good white people has been a subtext of varying volume undergirding the ideology of the right for years.

G.O.P. Visions of Tectonic Realignment - The New York Times - titanic moves by the right to literally realign society for the long haul: stacking the courts with virulent conservatives, suppressing voter access, reducing the inflow of immigrants who might lean Democratic, gerrymandering districts, punishing states that lean Democratic in presidential elections and returning to a failed drug policy that disproportionately jails black and brown people ... very possible means to permanently lock in power, wealth and influence for the existing, predominantly white and predominantly male power structure. (Unitied States of Russia)

I hear speaks eight languages - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "The spiritual journey of our 45th president is a riveting narrative that every student of history needs to understand to get a complete picture of one of the most dynamic Americans to ever lead our nation." (Newt Gingrich, mouth of Satan, praises the AntiChrist)

White House budget proposal includes huge deficits, cuts in safety net - The Washington Post
Trump wants to overhaul America's safety net with giant cuts to housing, food stamps and health care
Trump's budget hits poor Americans the hardest
White House budget proposes increase to defense spending and cuts to safety net, but federal deficit would remain - The Washington Post (what you voted for, Trumpsters)

Eschaton: So Shocked - I think she's full of shit, but just in case she really believed such a promise perhaps she should pay me lots of money to explain these things to her. (Little Susie is "disappointed" she believed Trump's lies, fuck you Mainers)

He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse. -- "What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?"
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years -- and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All | WIRED< (Russian operative Zuckerfucker) /a>

State launches Aetna probe after stunning admission - CNN - after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at patient's records when deciding whether to approve or deny care. (Trump will hire him)

Eschaton: I Keep Telling You To Cancel Your Subscriptions - Bari Weiss is a NYT opinion editor and is always horrible. (working for the Times means you are never wrong and never apologize +who the fuck hires these assholes?)
David Klion on Twitter: "Honestly stunned " ... quoting Hamilton to be racist is the most NYT Op-Ed thing I can think of
A Fresh Idea: Visiting the Provinces to Celebrate a Random Trump Supporter - "A conservative white guy voted for a Manhattan billionaire who lives in a literally gold-plated penthouse, proving that Dems need a salt-of-the-Earth purple stater, who will run on a strong economic program for working Americans, like a massive tax cut for horse owners" --Lawyers, Guns & Money (the NYT does it again)
How can Republicans stop losing seats in special elections? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Scott Walker has a plan: stop holding them. It may not surprise you that he's willing to violate Wisconsin law in doing so: (hahaha no elections for you, we win! and also, fuck your so-called democracy +"it doesn't get more Republican than this")


Kent State Activist Quits Turning Point USA, Calls It A 'Sh*thole Organization' ... conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA ... "some of the most incompetent, lazy, and downright dishonest people I have ever encountered' (so, Republicans) ... in the aftermath of a widely mocked event in October 2017 where members of the university's Turning Point USA chapter dressed up in diapers to protest "safe space." (and everyone laughed at them)


Bronx principal probed after creating hostile environment for black teachers, students: 'She's a racist' -- School 224 Principal Patricia Catania, who is white, the Daily News has learned. The 26-year veteran of city schools remains in her $154,257 post even though students and staffers of color say she's created a hostile environment since she took the top job at IS 224 in December 2016. (highly paid racist bitch)

Riot breaks out at Des Moines International Airport after 14-hour delay (they just kept lying)
P&O cruise forced to turn around after woman smacks man with wine bottle | Fox News - 37-year old female friend allegedly struck a 21-year-old man over the head with an empty wine bottle,

Sparty mayor supports fire department's decision to re-elect sex offender as chief ... for crimes he committed to a 4-year-old female victim. (they talk that was in Pennslytucky +Trumper)

Couple sells all possessions for sailboat, sinks 2 days into trip | Fox News - Walsh admitted she and her boyfriend, who used to drive for Uber, were "new to sailing" (what could go wrong? +no insurance because millenials)

Utah Mom Upset After School Tells 6th-Graders They Can't Say No When Asked to Dance : news (Mormon girls get the message early)

33lbs of Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Seized in Massachusetts : news (enough to kill everyone in MA 2000 times)

TIL: Claims that red wine can help prevent heart disease are inconclusive at best, and at worst may lead people to drink more alcohol in pursuit of the health "benefits". : todayilearned

Black lung study finds largest recorded cluster in Central Appalachia | The study provides further evidence that progressive massive fibrosis, commonly called black lung, has surged in recent years among coal miners in Central Appalachia : science


If life had an achievement system, apart from the usual milestones "get married", "have kids", what would be some interesting side achievements to unlock? : AskReddit


Teenagers of Reddit, what is one thing that all parents should know? : AskReddit

Children who were bullied by a sibling several times a week in middle school were 2-3 times more likely to meet criteria for a psychotic disorder later in life, cohort study finds. : science
Sibling bullying makes psychotic disorders three times more likely : science

Redditor explains why so many Neckbeards have similar characteristics and details his journey to becoming a Neckbeard : bestof (and get gold x 12)
sothatsathingnow comments on Neckbeard crew (part 2)
Lost GoPro left recording captures a rare act : videos

America's Real Digital Divide -- According to a 2011 study by researchers at Northwestern University, minority children watch 50 percent more TV than their white peers, and they use computers for up to one and a half hours longer each day. White children spend eight hours and 36 minutes looking at a screen every day, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, while black and Hispanic children spend 13 hours. (13 + 7 in school = 20 hrs a day?)
Verizon to stop honoring FCC restriction on not SIM-locking phones because nothing matters anymore : technology

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The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a commercially run venture, NASA document shows - The Washington Post (will be re-branded as the Cosmic Trump Station, will sell ads in space)

Eschaton: We're Only All Going To Die If It's On The News - Obviously I'm linking to a news article so it is getting some coverage, but the severity of the flu season isn't getting that much coverage given how many people are dying. It's enough that there could be panicked newscasts nightly. Or, as we see, not! What is covered has such power to impact our perception of dangers. (imagine some kind of plague from a brown country hit America and was killing thousands a week!)
The Flu is Killing Up to 4,000 Americans a Week | Fortune

Russian plane crash kills all 71 people on board - Axios - A Saratov Airlines plane crashed in Russia, southeast of Moscow, Sunday, killing all 65 passengers and six crew members, CNN reports.

The 'Ivanka Trump of North Korea' captivates people in the South at the Olympics
North Korea judged winner of diplomatic gold at Olympics (Pence gets diplomatic lead)
Games organizers confirm cyber attack, won't reveal source

As Britain Stumbles Over 'Brexit' Support Grows for 2nd Vote (the stupidity is sinking in) ... recent reports that the areas in Wales and central and northern England that voted most strongly for Brexit are set to suffer the greatest economic harm from the rupture (hello, W.Va and KY)


As West Fears the Rise of Autocrats, Hungary Shows What's Possible
Erik Loomis on Twitter: "What this article fails to mention is that Orban and an authoritarian Hungary is also a model for the Republican Party. We've already seen a bit of this attempted in North Carolina. This is our future under a strong Republican government. https://t.co/qzC6HWtbDv"

In rose beds, money blooms -- How the rose trade lifted Colombia -- and nearly erased an American industry -- It's peak season for a massive Colombian industry that shipped more than 4 billion flowers to the United States last year -- or about a dozen for every U.S. resident ... In 27 years, market forces and decisions made in Washington have reshaped the rose business on two continents. The American flower industry has seen its production of roses drop roughly 95 percent, falling from 545 million to less than 30 million.


State Department Lost 12% of its Foreign Affairs Specialists in Trump's First 8 Months (get outta here with your so-called "knowledge" we're gonna drop moar bombz) < br />

Devin Nunes creates his own alternative news site - according to small print at the bottom of the site


A morally compromised White House staffer may have had access to America's top secrets. Chief of Staff John Kelly has some explaining to do. (no, no, Hillary's emailz were a much bigger problem)

Donald Trump Opposes Due Process For Anyone Differently Situated From Himself - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Scoop: Rob Porter telling different story than John Kelly - Axios - This White House has a culture problem, starting at the top. The natural instinct is to defend/deny and show scant, if any, concern for the women alleging misconduct and harm. And when the going gets tough internally, the other natural instinct is to blame everyone but yourself.

Eschaton: Why Don't We Just Impeach Him? - And while this isn't an argument against driving Trump from office on the merits, it also isn't one quick trick to ending Trumpism, because Trumpism mostly isn't about Trump. It's about the Republican party. We wouldn't have the daily drama with President Pence, but otherwise things would be just as bad. Maybe worse!

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro blames Barack Obama for Rob Porter wife-beating scandal (that would be "105mph" Jeanine)


Eschaton: Maybe It Was All... A Lie? - Only crazy liberal bloggers have been stupid enough to claim, for years, that Republicans didn't care about "fiscal responsibility" (however you want to define that), but that they just wanted tax cuts for rich people, drastic cuts to social programs, and regulation friendly to big businesses ... Base Republican voters mostly care about racism and pissing off the libs. Also, too, the Tea Party wasn't about "Teh Deficit" and wasn't some nonpartisan transpartisan coalition. It was racist Republicans. How did we miss the Trump phenomenon? wonder political journalists on their 87th visit to a Pennsyltucky diner. Because you have been willingly peddling misinformation about your supposed field of expertise for decades.


NYT Misleads Readers: "Ballooning Deficits" Do Not Add Urgency to Republican Efforts to Cut Medicaid and Other Programs - The NYT should have its presses washed out with soap. In an article about plans to impose work requirements for Medicaid it told readers ... This needs a big "what the f**k are you talking about?" The Republicans do everything they can to increase the deficit with tax cuts and additional spending for the military and now there is "urgency ... to wring savings from entitlement programs." Sorry, not on this planet. The Republicans have made it as clear as they possibly can they don't give a damn about deficits. When a Republican says anything about deficits at this point the only appropriate response is derisive laighter. They have zero right to be taken seriously and the NYT misleads its readers by implying otherwise. (Times is so complicit in Rep;ublican evil - wash out their brains with soap or something stronger)


Kentucky Rushes to Remake Medicaid as Other States Prepare to Follow - The New York Times - With approval from the Trump administration fresh in hand, Kentucky is rushing to roll out its first-in-the-nation plan to require many Medicaid recipients to work, volunteer or train for a job ... At least eight other Republican-led states are hoping to follow -- a ninth, Indiana, has already won permission to do so -- and some want to go even further by imposing time limits on coverage. (don't forget pre-existing conditions! good job KY voters, you fucked yourselves, now you can die)

New York Faces an Easy Test on Voting - The New York Times - Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York must at long last bring its elections into the 21st century by, among other things, joining the large majority of states that permit early voting ... Mr. Cuomo, however, has so far set aside no state funds to carry out this change (typical Cuomo dick move)

Last of iconic illegal immigration crossing signs has vanished in California - The transportation department stopped replacing the signs years ago because it constructed fences along medians to deter people from running across highways.

Single Mothers Are Not the Problem - The New York Times - The reality, however, is that single motherhood is not the reason we have unusually high poverty in the United States, compared with other rich democracies ... Single-mother families are a surprisingly small share of our population. Among households headed by working-age adults, 8.8 percent of people lived in single-mother households in 2013 ... Nevertheless, we still fall below Ireland and Britain and are quite similar to Australia and Iceland ... Our political choices result in families headed by single mothers being 14.3 percent more likely to be poor than other families. (gotta have innocent parties to blame so we can take aways their birth-control and give more money to the riches

Purdue Pharma will no longer promote opioids to doctors - Axios - Oxycontin has been on the market for 22 years, and Purdue Pharma has been credited with aggressively promoting the drug and contributing to America's opioid epidemic (22 years later, they "stop")



Timothy Nolan: Ex-Campbell County judge to serve 20 years in sex trafficking plea - Former Judge Tim Nolan on Friday agreed to spend 20 years in prison for human trafficking. He used drugs, threats of arrest and threats of eviction to force women and girls under the age of 18 into sex acts ... He campaigned locally for President Donald Trump, was vocal on many conservative/tea party issues, and was elected to the Campbell County School Board in 2016. (your typical conservative, looks the part)


Black With (Some) White Privilege - The New York Times - But what did it mean about race and opportunity in the United States that many of the most celebrated black people in American cultural life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries happened to have been born to one white parent?


I am the very model of a New York Times contrarian. My intellect is polished but my soul's authoritarian ... I love to mount defenses for the vile and hypocritical, I filigree each sentence till its meaning I am burying, My job is to distract you from the rising smell of carrion.


Michigan Teenager Expected to Testify at Rape Trial Is Found Dead : news
'Horrific' Kentucky murder spree leaves 5 dead, including suspect - a shooting in a rural home near the city of Paintsville, Ky.
Parents suing Indiana DCS workers after warrantless blood draw : news
Pastor Sought in Sexual Assault of Girl at Hotel Says He Was in Wrong Place at the Wrong Time - "I did not do nothing wrong."


Would love for Weiss to name one innocent man who has "gone down with the ship;." I mean, most of the GUILTY men are still on fucking sundeck (Bari Weiss, conservative NYT hack)


The Songs That Bind - The New York Times - When do the strongest adult musical preferences set in? For women, it's age 13, for men, it's a bit later, 14. (music tastes never change much)
The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses | US news : news
Resolved - "Draw home" - Who is a girl from the famous "Tereska" picture? : UnresolvedMysteries
David 'Chim' Seymour: Unraveling a 70-Year-Old Photographic Mystery

Science's pirate queen - Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment


Researchers discover efficient and sustainable way to filter salt and metal ions from water : technology

After six months of treatment with medical cannabis, over 14 percent of elderly patients stopped using opioids altogether, while another 3.7 percent were able to reduce their dosage of opiates. : science (so, can we just call it the gateless gateway?)


Redditor posts that a former unresolved mystery regarding the identity of the young girl in the infamous "Tereska" photo has been solved. The person who solved the mystery and identified the young girl is another Redditor who comments and provides additional insight. : bestof

Cops and other law enforcement people of Reddit, what were some cases you worked on that made you think (even if for a moment) that something supernatural/paranormal was going on? : AskReddit
Snowboarder Red Gerard wins first U.S. gold medal of 2018 Winter Olympics : news

WeWork: The Perfect Manifestation of the Millennial Id - The Atlantic - The company sells a somewhat uneasy combination of capitalist ambition and cooperative warmth. (and is "worth" $20 billion)

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Top official departs 'rudderliess' ailroad safety agency -- The resignation of the former acting chief of the Federal Railroad Administration comes while Democrats are blocking a vote on a permanent leader -- and as train-related deaths climb (dismantling big government because it never does anything useful and spends money we could give to rich people)

Israel carries out 'large-scale attack' in Syria after Israeli jet crashes under antiaircraft fire - Israel carried out extensive airstrikes inside Syria on Saturday, targeting what the Israeli military said were air defense batteries and army bases as well as Iranian positions, in a day of dramatic cross-border confrontations as the threat of a wider regional conflict looms ... If a direct hit on the Israeli aircraft is confirmed, it would mark the first time an Israeli jet has been downed by enemy fire since 1982 ... Netanyahu said that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin to reiterate '"our right and obligation to defend ourselves." He said that the two leaders agreed that their military cooperation would continue. (he's about to get prosecuted for crimes so start a war, remember that script)


Fired Official Was Exploring Resolution to 9/11 Case Precluding Death Penalty - The New York Times (fired because Trump likes to kill people to look tough and strong)

Trump concocted a story about a border agent' death. The truth won't catch up (and you sure won't see it on Fox +read the Swift quote, good Milbank)
Donald Trump 'kept book of Adolf Hitler's speeches in his bedside cabinet' | The Independent

L.A. federal judge rules that a key tool in Trump's immigration crackdown effort is illegal ... police departments violate the Constitution if they detain inmates at the request of immigration agents (Trump's police state suffers a small temporary set back)
ICE Set To Deport Undocumented Father Whose 5-Year-Old Son Is Battling Cancer | HuffPost
WH Website Still Lacks Spanish Version A Year Into Trump Admin (wonder why that is?)

Woodward and Bernstein: Trump's Russia response 'eerily similar' to Nixon's leading up to Saturday Night Massacre

Massive infusion of spending ends era of restraint for federal agencies, Pentagon - The Washington Post (the party of fiscal responsibilty for Democrats only will buy moar bombz)

Trump Blocks Release of Memo Rebutting Republican Claims - The New York Times (no facts for you, just Republican lies, hahaha, rules for you but not for me)
The White House's broken promise on the Democratic memo (excllent comments at the top)
Trump won't declassify Democratic memo on Russia probe, tweets that it was 'political.' The president's rejection of the Democratic memo is in contrast to his enthusiastic embrace of releasing the Republican document, which he pledged before reading to make public. (Dem memo too long for him to 'read') comment: "Maybe next time they could present it to him in a concise form he feels more comfortable with, like a coloring book."

Why I stayed. -- The first time he called me a "fucking bitch" was on our honeymoon (the "golden boy")

The Family: A Proclamation to the World - In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshipped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their divine destiny as heirs of eternal life (the "postmortal realm") We warn that individuals who violate covenants of chastity, who abuse spouse or offspring, or who fail to fulfill family responsibilities will one day stand accountable before God. Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets. (bow down to the patriarchy of God)

Gillibrand: If Trump wants due process, we'll have hearings on allegations against him

'Very turbulent' : Trump and White House consumed with turmoil amid abuse allegations (bigly turbulent)
For Trump, There's Nothing More Important Than A Powerful Man's Word | HuffPost - The president made a point of reminding everyone that his outgoing aide has denied the charges of domestic violence. (you know who else denied everything?)
Eschaton: The Crime Was Getting Caught - Nobody cared about the beating accusations because nobody cared about the beating accusations. For a certain kind of man (this is somewhat a generational "code of honor", but not just), it's ok to do anything you want to women, it's just not ok to get caught doing it. You know, cheat on your wife, but don't let her know about it, and certainly don't let her know about it in a way she can't pretend she doesn't know by having it become public. Do what you want, but just don't be dumb enough to get caught. The assault isn't the problem, the pictures are. And throw in Trump's narcissism, and the real problem is that it makes Trump look bad.
Eschaton: The General Is Just Not Wise To The Weird Morality Of DC - To be fair, this isn't entirely crazy, because he's been a creature of it for years so one can forgive him for being surprised that "beating your wife" would be frowned upon by them. -- Friends and associates noted that with Mr. Kelly's lack of experience in Washington politics, he may not have been attuned at first to how the domestic abuse allegations against Mr. Porter would be perceived. (NYT prints this bullshit)
Jennifer Willoughby calls Rob Porter's alleged abuse 'insidious' in blog post from April 2017
Maine's LePage unaware of alleged abuse by ex-White House staffer (it was a job qualification)

Eschaton: Where Did I Hear That Name - Meadows... Meadows... -- Several Trump confidantes reached by ABC News said the president is considering multiple names as possible Kelly replacements, among those, top economic adviser Gary Cohn, Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney and Rep. Mark Meadows. -- Oh, right. -- The House Committee on Ethics is still investigating Rep. Mark Meadows's (R-NC) handling of sexual harassment complaints against his former chief of staff, numerous sources have confirmed to The Daily Beast ... A former Meadows aide has testified to the committee that top staff and, perhaps, even Meadows himself were made aware of West's behavior far earlier than has been publicly reported -- They're totally running out of people ... (out with the old, in with the new assholes)
Eschaton: The Worst People - As Trump cycles through the list of people actually willing to work for Trump, they're going to get more and more hideous...

As Jared Kushner's security clearance is delayed, White House hesitates to act on others with possible problems (they are all Russian agents)
As Other Aides Face Trump's Ire Over Rob Porter's Departure, Hope Hicks Is Praised ("Ire")
Hope Hicks: The quiet one in Trump's White House suddenly feels the glare (Trump loves her hair)

John Kelly needs to go | Fox News (Murdoch wants Kelly gone, no restraints of Trump insanity)

As list of Trump White House scandals grows, so does women's disapproval - Trump won larger percentages of women in 2016 during his race against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton than many on both sides of the aisle expected. More than 4 in 10 women -- and 52 percent of white women -- voted for Trump ... approval from white women has fallen since the president's first 100 days. While most white women voted for Trump in 2016, his approval rating has fallen 10 points since then, and strong disapproval of the president by this group rose 12 points, from 39 percent to 51 percent ... The group of women Trump performed best with was white women without college degrees ... Compared to his 2016 vote, his 2017 approval among blue-collar white women in the Rustbelt represented some of his largest declines anywhere -- 18 percentage points in Ohio and 19 in Wisconsin and Minnesota (blue-collar women are waking up, maybe, they were very disappointed in Trump's failure to repeal Obamacare +"Seventy-three percent of white evangelical women under thirty-five voted for Trump. Overall, 81 percent of white, born-again Evangelical Christians voted for Trump.")

It's Not Just These Cops. It's Not Just Baltimore. - Lessons we must take from an extraordinary trial ... And this demonstrates the way in which communities have been preyed upon by officers in ways that make them unwilling to trust the police. (America has an organized crime corrupt cop problem)

Nancy Pelosi is incredibly underrated - The Washington Post


She got Stanards - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Taxpayers paid for two hotel stays that former Rep. Jon Stanard, R-St. George, allegedly used for a tryst with a prostitute. (UT: a good mormon man)


Christian America dwindling, including white evangelicals, study shows - 43 percent of Americans identify as white Christians, and 30 percent as white Protestants ... a similar and relatively recent decline among evangelicals -- from 23 percent to 17 percent of the public from 2006 to 2016 ... White Christians are a minority in the Democratic Party. Fewer than 1 in 3 Democrats are white Christians, down from almost half 10 years ago ... Mississippi is the most homogeneous state in terms of religion (60 percent are Baptist) while New York is the most religiously diverse. (so comparing with women's disapproval above -- 81% evangelicals voted for Trump, including 73% of the young ones -- we have 14 million evangelical worshippers of Satan's lies --the hard core of the 62 million who bear the Mark of the Beast)
America's Changing Religious Landscape - Pew 2015 (has 25% evangelical protestant)


The Smearing of Woody Allen - The New York Times - Bret Stephens (Stephens is a true men-above-all conservative, starts out with Rolling Stone, commenters scream "innocent until proven guilty!")
NYT Opinion: What We Need Is A Climate Change Troofer Who Will Write Lightly-Researched Columns Attacking Dylan Farrow - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Pulitzer Prize-winning sincecure-haver Bret Stephens has taken a week in which the White House was found to have a nest of wife-beaters to devote 800 words to that most urgent of tasks ... defending Woody Allen (they get paid huge bucks to not be able to use google for a major opinion story attacking an abuse survivor)
Tom Scocca on Twitter: "As with global warming, Stephens throws in a hyperlink assuming that readers won't click and and see that it says the opposite of what he's claiming https://t.co/OK1xjgOS4q"
Tom Scocca on Twitter: "The link Stephens describes as the "only in-depth, contemporaneous and independent investigation into the allegations" is a two-page summary; the link he brushes off as mere after-the-fact criticism is a 33-page legal decision that weighs contemporary evidence in detail."
Dylan Matthews on Twitter: "My favorite part of this is Bret admitting he didn't do basic research before writing a column attacking an abuse survivor
b-boy bouiebaisse on Twitter: "the funny thing about the elite take economy is that the more reactionary your take the less it needs to be backed by anything approaching evidence or sound thinking"

Jon Lovett on Twitter: "Wrong. Again. Let's go through the facts, Bret. Good to do this before you hit publish but oh well. 1. Maco, the prosecutor in the case, took rare step of saying he had probable cause to charge Allen but declined because of the hell that would have been visited on a little girl. (Jon Lovett demolishes Bret Stephens and throws salt on the ruins of the "professionally smart" but Stephens has shown his true colors and this will follow him forever ... he didn't even read past NYT articles about it)

Here's The 1993 Woody Allen Custody Ruling In Its Damning, Detailed Entirety | HuffPost


They're Disneyland superfans. Why a lawsuit is alleging gangster-like tactics against one social club - The lawsuit reads like mob movie set in a theme park. The plot revolves around the Main Street Fire Station 55 Social Club, whose leaders claim they have been bullied and terrorized by the head of the White Rabbits Social Club.

Evidence From Boston That Uber Is Making Traffic Worse - Streetsblog USA - Survey results show a large share of ride-hailing trips are substituting for transit, an indication of how badly the MBTA needs to improve bus and train service. ("MBTA improve service" hahaha)
Boston drivers are spending more time in traffic - The Boston Globe - the average driver spending 60 hours stuck in traffic during the year ... (Charlie hates the MBTA)

Eschaton: Why Do You Get Arrested For Fare Jumping - But not for stealing much more expensive parking? -I know the answer, but the powers that be need to be asked it more by journalists who are in touch with... haha I kid.
Former California Mayor Calls New Bikeway "Urban Rape" - "The rape will not be performed by a male penis, but by thousands of inanimate bicycles guided by individuals who will have absolutely no understanding of that precious tranquility they will be destroying," said former San Luis Obispo mayor Ken Schwartz. (get off my street!)


WEEI suspends Christian Fauria for mocking agent Don Yee's Asian heritage (racist radio sports fucks is normal)

Death planning software faces an obstacle: Baby boomers who want to live forever - The Boston Globe


Microsoft is trying to kill passwords. It can't happen soon enough

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'Sinking' Pacific nation is getting bigger: study - Tuvalu
In rare Sacramento appearance, Schwarzenegger says Trumpps EPA chief needs to go ... Scott Pruitt ... "He does not represent the people. He only represents the special interests. He should be removed immediately."

Pence bashes North Korea's military parade, endorses Trump's parade


Mad Max violence stalks Venezuela's lawless roads


Dow travels more than 22,000 points in wild week - Stocks are falling as traders worry about rising interest rates, and volatility as measured by the VIX has jumped to its highest since the market turmoil of August 2015.
Democrats Pessimistic on Tax Cut: "We've Got What We've Got For The Next 30 Years" (why do Republican policies always last forever?)

American Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Who Wanted to Sell Material on Trump - The New York Times

Breaking with tradition, Trump skips president's written intelligence report and relies on oral briefings (wonder why that is?) The last U.S. president who is believed not to have regularly reviewed the PDB was Richard Nixon.

Sen. Tim Kaine demands release of secret Trump war powers memo - NBC News - outlining President Trump's interpretation of his legal authority to wage war. ("Trump's interpretation" - we're screwed)

Trump officials said to be vexed by Kushner's security status (it's really hard for a Russian agent to get a security clearance these days)
Remember When Mishandling Classified Info Was the Worst Thing Possible in 2016? (and who walks out the door?)

Did Hillary Clinton collude with the Russians to get 'dirt' on Trump to feed it to the FBI? -- "The truth is that they [Democrats] are covering up that Hillary Clinton colluded with the Russians to get dirt on Trump to feed it to the FBI to open up an investigation into the other campaign." -- Rep Devin Nunes (R-Ratfucker) (pretty primative defense, considering there weren't 400,000 Russian trolls for Hillary but that requires two facts which are two more than Fox watchers can handle - also: "collude with Russians" to learn of Russia's criminal activity with Trump" it's all about lie-thinking) - Four Pinocchios. (and one more comment:) "I'm waiting for Mueller to help put some coherent sentences together ... Nunes deserves one."

Second White House official departs amid abuse allegations, which he denies - The Boston Globe - A White House speechwriter resigned Friday after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent two-and-a-half-year marriage -- allegations that he vehemently denied, saying she was the one who victimized him. The abrupt departure of David Sorensen, a speechwriter who worked closely with senior policy adviser Stephen Miller ...During part of their marriage, he was a top policy adviser to Republican Maine Gov. Paul LePage. (dingding)

Trump White House Fingered Corey Lewandowski in Rob Porter 'Smerar Campaign' A frantic effort to save the staff secretary has raised questions about just what the White House knew and when they knew it. (Trump's comment: "You'll never bang anyone as cute as Hope" makes much more sense now)

Top White House officials knew of abuse allegations against top aide for months - The Washington Post ... President Trump is enraged about the situation, though he still feels that it hasn't touched him (nothing ever touches him except, of course, Vlad +commment:) "The rest of his life friends and strangers alike will greet Mr. Porter with "do you still beat your wife?" folllowed by a "yuk, yuk." Purgatory in a bad 1950s comedy loop. Work on your answer, Mr. Porter." (and:) "Could have been worse. He could have been abusing four wives at the same time." (good Mormon)


Rob Porter's History of Domestic Abuse Wasn't a Secret. It's Just That No One Cared. The cops, the FBI, and the White House chief of staff all knew, and he still continued to rise through the ranks of our government's highest office (it was actually a plus)
Inside Hope Hicks' Troubled Romances with Ousted Top Trump Aides Rob Porter and Corey Lewandowski ... The newspaper published photos of Hicks and Porter recently enjoying dinner and drinks with Ivanka Trump and others at Rosa Mexicano in Washington, D.C., before appearing to return to Hick's apartment alone together. (for a quick bang) Hicks and Porter did not sit next to each other at the restaurant but that an eyewitness spotted them kissing and cuddling in the back of a taxi on their way home. (how sweet) Though Hicks is Roman Catholic and Porter is Mormon, they were reportedly seen praying together. (to Satan) (she likes abusive men, see Corey's hisotry)
Rob Porter's Ex-Wife: 'If He Hasn't Already Been Abusive' With Hope Hicks, 'He Will Be' (looks like she's into it)
Why the Hell Is Hope Hicks Getting Off Easy? - There's a special place in hell for women who choose to use what limited power they have to protect men who hurt women. ... John Kelly, a former general who, despite months ago spending some of his taxpayer-funded time pontificating to the press corps on how women used to be "sacred" reportedly knew about the alleged spousal abuse for months and signed off on the statement anyway. ("sacred" punching bags)
'Your story is mine' : Rob Porter's ex, Jennie Willoughby, inspires outpouring from abuse survivors
Rob Porter was 'quintessential golden boy' from Belmont now accused of abuse ... While a student at Belmont High School, Porter interned for Senator John Chaffee, a Rhode Island Republican. At Harvard, he relished being a conservative on a liberal campus. (now it all makes sense)

Kelly knew before abuse reports that Porter would be denied security clearance - POLITICO - The former White House staff secretary, who left the Trump administration on Thursday, was among multiple West Wing aides who had been working with only an interim security clearance.
Dozens of Trump officials still lack full security clearance - CNNPolitics ("Most" is the work you are looking for)
Dozens at White House lack permanent security clearances - The Washington Post (fuck your so-called "security")

FBI surveillance of Carter Page might have picked up Bannon - POLITICO - The former Trump campaign adviser says he spoke to Trump aide Steve Bannon about Russia in January 2017, at a time when the FBI had a controversial warrant to monitor Page's communications.

No. 3 Official at the Justice Department Is Stepping Down - The New York Times - Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country's top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump (she knows Trump will fire Rosenstein, she doesn't want to be there)

Devin Nunes is investigating me. Here's the truth -- Jonathan M. Winer, a Washington lawyer and consultant, is a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement and former special envoy for Libya. ... In the 1990s, I was the senior official at the State Department responsible for combating transnational organized crime. I became deeply concerned about Russian state operatives compromising and corrupting foreign political figures and businessmen from other countries. Their modus operandi was sexual entrapment and entrapment in too-good-to-be-true business deals. (sound familiar? ratfucker Nunes need to be locked up forever)
Clash with witness shows Nunes' drive to discredit dossier ... News of the subpoena was reported by a conservative media outlet just 10 minutes after the witness received it.
Rubio Defends Dem Senator After Fox News Report On Effort To Contact Steele - Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner's (D-VA) efforts to contact the author of the so-called Trump dossier last year. (after the Dumpster was elected) Rubio revealed that Warner had already informed the committee of the contacts and indicated it was not a big deal to the rest of the committee. (Fox is a yawning pit of evil)

Trump will not immediately release Democrats' memo on FBI surveillance

Americans don't believe Devin Nunes's nonsense
2/9: Showdown with the Intelligence Community: Americans More Likely to Believe the FBI than President Trump | Home of the Marist Poll - 71% of U.S. residents assert the Bureau is just trying to do its job. In contrast, 23% believe the FBI is biased against the president. Although 49% of Republicans believe the FBI has a grievance against Mr. Trump, more than four in ten (43%) say the Bureau is just carrying out its duties.

Steve Bannon: 'Anti-patriarchy' will be bigger than the tea party - "Time's up on 10,000 years of recorded history. This is coming. This is real." ... I think it's going to unfold like the tea party, only bigger ... It's not Me Too. It's not just sexual harassment. It's an anti-patriarchy movement." (he's right, and he's going to stop it how?)


The dumbest shutdown ever - POLITICO - The sole purpose of the all-nighter is to ensure federal employees can show up for work Friday without interruption - Rand Paul and Nancy Pelosi have virtually nothing in common. But on Thursday night, the conservative Kentucky firebrand and San Francisco Democratic leader teamed up to push Washington into what Capitol Hill dwellers are calling the dumbest shutdown fight ever.

Eschaton: Nobody Cares About The Deficit - Now can we stop pretending the Republicans care about the deficit? Haha the deficit scolds will be back as soon as Dems are in charge again. Only really stupid people can not see that Republicans run up the deficit, with tax cuts, wars, and occasionally some domestic spending, when they are in charge, and then the Democrats reduce it to win the love and adoration of voters Fred Hiatt, while not being able to fund any of their supposed other priorities, then we repeat. It's been that way since 1980. Not as if they have been hiding it. "Reagan proved deficits that don't matter," said Dick Cheney. (Dems always get played +your elite librul media at work)
Rush on the GOP budget: I just don't worry much about the national debt anymore (hahah suckers)

Eschaton: The Greatest Health Care System In The World - Perhaps I need to make this a daily reminder: We spent as much or more public (government, taxpayer, whatever you want to call it) money as most "comparable" countries (Europe, etc.) on health care, and then we spend that much again in private (yours, mine, the gofundmes which are increasingly the preferred way to get cancer treatment for your kid, etc.) money. (it's the Republican Way!)

Why the awe over Pelosi's stilettos? Let me tell you. - When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave a modern record-setting eight-hour speech on the House floor on Wednesday, the fact that she was wearing four-inch stilettos got almost as much attention as the immigration issue that had prompted her to take the floor.


Spurned in Milton, a race-baiting troll has found acceptance -- in Trump's D.C.


Fox News Removes Exec's "Darker, Gayer" Olympics Column After Uproar

Newsweek Editors Blast Exec to His Face: What You're Doing Is Bulls**t. You Don't Understand Journalism.' -- During an increasingly ugly meeting, the company's CCO refused to answer whether money laundering allegations were true and blamed staff for undermining the business.


Democrats' 'Resistance' to Trump Is Eroding, and So Are Their Poll Numbers (they need to "work with Trump")

The GOP Monster Is Out of the Lab - Geez Louise, mother, I wonder where they learned that? Maybe on their favorite television news network? Maybe on their radios, 12 hours a day? This has been another chapter in the new GOP classic, Governing: How Does It Work Anyway? The monster is out of the lab, folks, and it's having a helluva good time

Former U.S. Rep. Bobby Bright to run as Republican for 2nd Distr - WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news. (switches parties because:) "mainly because my beliefs are conservative and that kind of held me back"

California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show -- Officers expressed sympathy with white supremacists and sought their help to target counter-protesters after a violent 2016 rally, (nazi cops love nazis) "It is shocking and really angering to see the level of collusion and the amount to which the police covered up for the Nazis"

'I hope he burns in hell': New accuser steps forward after viral - WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news. - It was a Detroit mother who saw the viral video, immediately realizing it was her daughter who was being forced to perform a sex act. Shockingly, it took a Detroit news station to get the ball rolling at police headquarters. (not so "shockingly") When Slaten was 12 she told her mother about the abuse, but she says her mother didn't believe her

SPLC files request to close segregation units at Bibb Correctio - WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news. - The Southern Poverty Law Center contends spot checks found at least 150 prisoners with serious mental illness in solitary despite a court order. (AL prisons are above the law and love to torture mentally ill people to make them more insane, this is in America)
Fort Hood soldier arrested in prostitution sting had rope, knife - WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news ... During an 8-hour period, the department sent 5,800 texts. (?)

High-School Coachl 'Ignored' Boy's Screams as Teammates Raped Him, Lawsuit Claims - A second family is suing a Texas school district, claiming their minor athlete son was raped more than 30 times during sports team events ... Varsity players on all three teams were accused of sodomizing younger teammates with baseball bats, flashlights, and carbon-dioxide tanks. (watching too much anal porn?)

Escort claims lawmaker Jon E. Stanard met her for sex | Daily Mail Online - A married Republican lawmaker who voted for stricter laws against prostitution has abruptly resigned after an escort claims he met her twice for sex ... The allegations against Stanard risk backlash in fiercely Republican Utah, where the majority of the populace is Mormon and politics is heavily influenced by the church. The LDS Church doctrine bars sexual activity outside of marriage and adultery is regarded as one of the greatest of all the sins next to murder.
Anti-hooker lawmaker allegedly used taxpayer money for sex with escort | New York Post - A Utah lawmaker who voted for tougher penalties for prostitution has resigned amid allegations that he used taxpayer dough to pay for hotel rooms to hook up with an online escort, according to reports.


Rob Porter, and Mormonism's #MeToo Moment - Colbie Holderness says she met Rob Porter at a Mormon student congregation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Holderness later divorced Porter, against her bishop's advice ... Willoughby, who was married to Porter from 2009 to 2013, also said Mormon bishops discouraged divorce. One of the bishops worked with Porter and warned her that filing a protective order could harm her husband's career.
The Mormon Church Was Complicit in Rob Porter's Alleged Abuse (as shown in the alleged photograph)
On Rob Porter, Mormonism, and siding with the abuser | Colorado Springs Gazette, News (patriarchal religion)
Rob Porter LDS member and Trump Staff Secy, ex-wife speaks of his abuse
Get Ready to Cringe: Jehovah's Witnesses Are Warning People Not to Masturbate -- Governing Body helpers Ralph Walls and Gary Breaux

#MeToo movement lawmaker investigated for sexual misconduct allegations - POLITICO - California legislator cut national profile as activist against sexual harassment. California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia -- whose high-profile advocacy of the #MeToo movement earned her national media notice -- s herself the subject of a state legislative investigation in the wake of a report that she sexually harassed and groped a former legislative staffer ... Daniel Fierro of Cerritos told POLITICO that in 2014, as a 25-year-old staffer to Assemblyman Ian Calderon, he was groped by Garcia, a powerful Democratic lawmaker who chairs the Legislative Women's Caucus and the Natural Resources Committee ... Fierro, who said Garcia appeared inebriated, said she began stroking his back, then squeezed his buttocks and attempted to touch his crotch before he extricated himself and quickly left.
Assemblywoman at forefront of #MeToo movement accused of sexual misconduct
California Assembly speaker says allegations against assemblywoman are under investigation

Eschaton: My Rights Versus Yours - Well then. -- Three former employees of the famed Cato Institute say they were sexually harassed by Ed Crane, the 73-year-old co-founder and president emeritus of the think tank and one of the most recognizable figures. -- There's always money in the banana stand... for some things.
Former Cato employees describe years of harassment - POLITICO - Libertarian leader and ex-Cato President Ed Crane repeatedly made inappropriate sexual comments, staffers say ... Ed Crain ... One former employee said Crane asked her to take off her bra. Another said he compared her breasts to pornographic images on his computer. A third said he sent her an email on breast augmentation. Crane also settled an additional sexual harassment claim by a former employee in 2012 ... James Davis, a spokesperson for the Koch brothers ... Crane retains the title of president emeritus at Cato and was paid more than $400,000 annually from the powerful think tank in the years after he left ... (wingnut/asshole welfare is awesome)

Jill Messicks's Family Issues Blistering Statement on Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan - "Seeing her name in headlines again and again, as part of one person's attempt to gain more attention for her personal cause, along with Harvey's desperate attempt to vindicate himself, was devastating for her," Veteran studio executive and producer Jill Messick died by suicide on Wednesday after battling depression for many years, her family tells The Hollywood Reporter. ... Rose told Jill what had happened -- that she made the decision to remove her clothes and get in the hot tub with him -- a mistake which Rose immediately regretted. Rose never once used the word rape in that conversation ... Five years ago, Jill suffered a manic episode ... What makes Rose's inaccurate accusations and insinuations against Jill ironic was that she was the first person who stood up on Rose's hehalf ... There is a responsibility when using a platform to accurately expose criminals, predators, mistruths and misdeeds while protecting the actual truth of third parties.
Jill Messick Dead: Producer and Former Rose McGowan Manager Was 50 | Hollywood Reporter


San Francisco Bay Area Experiences Mass Exodus Of Residents + CBS San Francisco

Fox News executive VP rails against diversity of US Olympians: "Darker, Gayer, Different" ... John Moody, who serves as the network's executive vice president and an executive editor, criticized the diversity of Team USA in an op-ed a day before the 2018 Winter Olympics were scheduled to open in PyeongChang, South Korea. (soulless creep just look at him, also "why can't we be like Hitler's Olympics?")


Eschaton: Priorities - While we're on local sports franchises. -- The people of Cobb County, Ga., have a budget conundrum on their hands, thanks to craven former county chairman Tim Lee's insistence on spending almost $400 million in public money for a stadium without giving the public a chance to vote on it. Despite a record-high tax digest, the county is $30 to 55 million in the hole after unlocking a $21 million rainy day fund to fill out the 2018 budget. (Tax cuts passed by Lee have also contributed to the shortfall.) The parks budget has already been beset by issues; non-profits have seen their funding dry up. The latest public institution on the chopping block is the library system, only months after Cobb County unveiled a fancy $10 million new library. -- There's always money in the banana stand... for some things. (one Republican sportsdude bankrupted the entire county and destroyed everything Republicans hate like education and libraries but they got a new stadium black people can't get to, so win/win +tax-cuts!)

The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses - Bay View is for many an idyllic community - but a lawsuit will test its rule that only practicing Christians can own property (thought they tried that with the Yaphank Nazis)


Eschaton: MOOC'd - Something else I've been proved fucking right about. -- After spending $75 million and struggling to create a signature product, the University of Texas System's Institute for Transformational Learning closed its doors last week. The decision follows a recent investigation by The Texas Tribune and Reveal that raised questions about the system's spending. The institute was created in 2012 under former Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and the UT System Board of Regents. It was envisioned as a kind of startup technology company that would create digital learning tools like a platform for health education, online courses available to people around the world and an iPad app that would let students access course materials. (haha, $75 mil for an ipad app and huge salaries for administrator grifters, that's it fools)

Thirty-two frightening snapshots of a hanging. And no one knew who the victims were -- until now ... Szalasi, known as the "Hungarian Hitler" was the fascist, pro-Nazi leader of Hungary's notorious Arrow Cross party, and puppet dictator of Hungary in the closing months of the war. A virulent anti-Semite, he and his party were responsible for the murders and deportations of tens of thousands of Hungary's Jews ... The Arrow Cross led pogroms in Budapest and, aided by Nazi deportation boss Adolf Eichmann, forced 100,000 Jews to go on a "death march" to the Austrian border in the fall of 1944 ... Some Jews had even fled to Hungary for safety, Rebecca Erbelding, a scholar at the Holocaust museum, has said. (so Hungary and Poland - "we had nothing to do with exterminating Jews and we'll sue you if you say we did" - are reverting to form)


L.L. Bean, Citing Abuse, Tightens Its Generous Policy on Returns - The New York Times (the pigs always spoil it for everyone else)
Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS - WSJ

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How The EPA's Scott Pruitt Became the Most Dangerous Member of Trump's Cabinet (two-dimensional man waging war on your environment)


Here's what war with North Korea would look like - A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse. (what fire Trump and your war-hungry military are playing with)


2 of ISIS's Infamous British Fighters Are Captured by Syrian Kurds


Bermuda Bans Same-Sex Marriage Less Than 1 Year After Legalizing It | HuffPost - Ty Cobb, director of Human Rights Campaign Global, said in a statement that Rankin and the Bermuda Parliament "have shamefully made Bermuda the first national territory in the world to repeal marriage equality" (how many Ty Cobbs are there?)


Dow plunges 1,033 points and sinks into correction - Feb. 8, 2018


An escort girl may be the latest 'Russia Gate' link - Alexey Navalny has published new corruption allegations against Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko and oligarch Oleg Deripaska, alleging that the two met aboard Deripaska's yacht in August 2016 off the coast of Norway, possibly to discuss the oligarch's relationship with Paul Manafort and his role in Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Oligarch met with top Russian official after Trump aide 'offered briefings'

Twitter failed to remove hundreds of Russian propaganda videos aimed at Americans - Feb. 8, 2018

House Intel Republicans plan to wall off their aides from Democratic staffers - CBS News - In a sign of increasing partisan hostilities, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee plan to construct a wall -- a physical partition -- separating Republican and Democratic staff members in the committee secure spaces ... expected to happen this spring. (the metaphors speak for themselves the wall is in their brains)

George W. Bush says Russia meddled in 2016 US election (who are you going to believe, Bush and the entire intelligence community, or Fox, Trump and Putin?)
Investigate Russia: Get The Truth | Committee to Investigate Russia - Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Former CIA Director John Brennan sit down with Director/Actor/Activist Rob Reiner for a candid conversation about what Russia did during the 2016 election and why they are concerned by what they are seeing now.

ICE Wants to Be an Intelligence Agency Under Trump - mmigration enforcers have tried for years to get access to spy agency secrets. Civil libertarians call the prospect 'frankly terrifying' -- and a lot more realistic under Trump.


White House faces huge questions on Rob Porter exit - Axios ... Porter, 40 -- a clean-cut Harvard and Oxford standout who was chief of staff to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) (rots from the head, which is rotten)
"He Was F---ing Pissed": With Rob Porter Gone, the Heat on John Kelly Is Increasing Trump is not happy with the chaos; Jared and Ivanka are trying to right the ship; and even Hope Hicks, one of the president's closest confidantes, is in trouble ... The crisis also raises questions about Hope Hick's decision-making, and whether her romantic relationship with Porter clouded her judgment.
The 'family values' crowd is mute on Rob Porter [UPDATE]
Rob Porter scandal: Everywhere but Fox News - Feb. 8, 2018 (complete blackout in their brains)
Hope Hicks, elusive Trump aide, in the spotlight amid Rob Porter scandal - Feb. 8, 2018 ... "Remember, she's the longest-serving aide" Trump has with him in the White House
The White House's Rob Porter debacle is a sign of incompetence or hubris -- or both

Justice Dept. official who helped oversee Clinton, Russia probes steps down - The Washington Post - He cited personal reasons. His departure from the high-pressure job comes as President Trump and his Republican allies have stepped up attacks on the Justice Department, the FBI and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III for their handling of the Russia probe. (making America great by destroying all its institutions)

Nunes: We've 'grappled' with approaching Chief Justice Roberts ... to "testify" before Congress as part of his investigation into political malfeasance at the Department of Justice ... ike I said, we have thought a lot about this. And the answer is we don't know the correct way to proceed because of the separation of powers issue," (but we're working on that also and by the way, fuck your norms, mornies)


Retired Major General Issues Blistering Takedown Of Trump Parade Plan | HuffPost - Unfortunately, we do not have a commander in chief, right now, as much as we have a wannabe banana republic strong man

Sweeping budget deal would add more than $500 billion in federal spending, end months of partisan wrangling - The Washington Post
Republicans are completely reversing themselves on the deficit - The Washington Post - Republican lawmakers in 2011 brought the U.S. government to the brink of default, refused to raise the debt ceiling, demanded huge spending cuts, and insisted on a constitutional amendment to balance the budge (hahaha suckers, you blieved our bullshit +your so-called "Constitution" doesn't apply to us +comment:) "This will be Trump's biggest bankruptcy yet. The bankruptcy of the United States of America."

Allies Turn to TV to Warn Him Off a Mueller Interview - Delivering on-air messages to the channel-surfing president (Jesus Fucking Christ

Democrats expand battleground, target 101 GOP seats - NBC News - the largest in a decade ... The seven new targets push Democrats even deeper into Republican territory in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Texas. ... Democrats are now fielding candidates in all but 12 of the 238 districts held by Republicans,
Ratings Changes in 21 Districts | The Cook Political Report - At this point, we still view Democrats as ever-so-slight favorites to net at least 24 seats and win a majority, but it's a much closer fight than it was in December, when Democrats held a wider lead in national polls. (add in Russian hacking)

Republicans Stopped Sabotaging the Economy Because They Have the White House Now
This Budget Deal May Be The End Of The House Freedom Caucus (they always were hollow souls dedicated to obstruction)


'It's Bad': Omarosa Cries Through Description of Trump White House on 'Celebrity Big Brother'


Samantha Bee Imagines The Memo Sequels That Devin Nunes Is WorkingO said the former research assistant who said she received an email from Crane about breast augmentation in 2003. n | HuffPost "Nunes Memo: The Squeakquel"


'Tough it out': Watch Jeff Sessions recommend aspirin instead of opioids for chronic pain patients (and no cheap pot for you either +thanks for electing a regime of sadistic fuckers, Russia ... oh)
Opioid Law Enforcement, Not Treatment, Is Trump's Priority : Shots - Health News : NPR ("lock 'em up" said the sadistic fucker)

Journal editorial cartoon sparks controversy | Albuquerque Journal - The syndicated cartoon showed an apparently frightened white couple being accosted at gunpoint by members of MS-13, an international criminal gang targeted by President Donald Trump whose members are primarily from Central America.


Eschaton: The Worst Thing Hillary Clinton Said During The 2016 Campaign - To me, anyway, and I don't mean it contributed to her losing the election -- "Now, I'm a little different from those who say free college for everybody. I am not in favor of making college free for Donald Trump's kids." -- This isn't about free college, it's about the idea that every public/publicly provided good needs to be means tested. I think we should soak the rich. We do that by taxing the hell out of them. If their kids want to go to Penn State* (they won't, because they are rich and can go to Harvard), fine. The truth is there aren't that many rich people ... (it's who she is -- she could have said " Sure, I'm in favor of free college, Make America Smart Again. And if a rich kid like Donnie Jr. wants to go to a public college instead of Wharton or Harvard, that's fine too! Because there really aren't that many rich kids overall, and the last thing we need is some kind of regressive "means testing". Next question?"

Eschaton: Mysteries - I don't have kids. I'm not likely to have them in any imaginable scenario. I still want good schools and state funded parental leave and free pre-K and cheap-to-free public universities etc. I have a hard time believing that *most* people who have kids won't benefit from these things directly, and yet... they're perceived as unicorns. (comment:) "Even if you don't have kids and don't benefit directly from local taxes for schools, you don't want little savages roaming the streets, do you?"

Eschaton: These Ideas We Shall Always Have With Us - United States of Care is basically an extension of the "Bipartisan Policy Center"'s future of health care initiative (I don't mean institutionally, I mean some of the players, including Frist and Andy Slavitt and Tom Daschle, and their general thrust). Amazing how these people all have so much time to participate in so many of these things! ... Anyway, the point about means testing is here ... "Approaches to affordability that do not over-subsidize higher-income Americans or under-subsidize lower-income Americans" ... Gotta get it juuuuuuuuust right. Not too hot or too cold. Again, the way to get it juuuuuuuust right is simply to tax the hell out rich people, not to force people to leap through fire hoops to prove their eligibility.


From Expensing Yachts to Chasing The Onion: I Watched the Newsweekly Die From the Inside - POLITICO Magazine - Newsweek is in shambles. Time moved to Des Moines. Is it my fault?

A slow-motion disaster: : Journalism museum in talks about possible building sale ... The survival of the Newseum -- which charges one of the city's highest museum entrance fees at up to almost $25 per person -- has long been in doubt as it has sought to compete for visitors and donors in a capital awash in free cultural institutions. In 2016, the museum operated at a substantial loss ... more than triple the shortfall from the previous year ... finances have been a perpetual source of concern, even as it has paid hefty salaries to its top executives (oh, what a surprise +the "press" has served America so well, a failed monumwent to failure +maybe Trump or Murdoch will buy it)


Pennsylvania's Supreme Court Explains Why It Struck Down Congressional Map Favoring GOP | HuffPost - Since redrawing the state's congressional map in 2011, Republicans have consistently won 13 of the state's 18 congressional seats, even though Democrats outpace Republicans statewide in party registrations (that's how effective their evil has beeen and now they want to impeach their Supreme Court because no laws for them)



From Fallujah to FBI investigation: The undoing of Duncan Hunter - POLITICO - he Republican congressman faces allegations of misusing campaign funds, and his freewheeling Washington lifestyle is coming under scrutiny, too. (another family crime business, but how have the mighty...)


A marijuana harmfulness perception study in Oregon found that over half of adults consider alcohol to be more harmful than marijuana and only 16% of Republicans consider marijuana to be more harmful than alcohol. : science

Just 3 months in prison leads to reduced self-control, measured as increased risk taking and reduced attentional performance. This is a significant finding, as released prisoners may be less capable of living a lawful life than they were prior to their imprisonment. : science (so, we build for-profit prisons to create better criminals, win-win plus this study was in the Netherlands, imagine the effect in sado-America)


Seattle Olympian: My coach abused me on USA Swimming's watch - Ariana Kukors: 'I was able to leave a horrible monster' < br />
Kate Upton Says Guess Co-Founder Paul Marciano 'Forcibly Grabbed My Breasts' | HuffPost - It was an emotional and nonstop battle of games, power struggles and creative avoidance tactics ... repeatedly groped her and called her a "fat pig" after she rejected him. (they should bottle his scent: essence de la masculinite toxique)

Scott Baio Facing New Allegations From Another 'Charles In Charge' Costar | HuffPost - Baio is accused of verbal attacks, mental abuse and physical assault. (charles was in charge, you hear?)

Quentin Tarantino Apologizes to Roman Polanski Victim Samantha Geimer | IndieWire - arantino keeps finding himself behind the eight-ball


What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn - The New York Times - American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know -- shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?

Richard Pryor Widow Says Yes, He Did Bang Brando ... And There's No Shame - Brando would "f*** anything. Anything! He'd f*** a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye ... It was the '70s! Drugs were still good, especially quaaludes. If you did enough cocaine, you'd f*** a radiator and send it flowers in the morning"

Date Lab:?She couldn't remember where she knew him from. He recognized her right away. (for the/skip to comments)
Date Lab:?She thought it went well until he said, 'Let's keep in touch' ... Scott identifies as demisexual, meaning, as he explained, "it takes a little while for me to get to know somebody and actually build an attraction." (most commenters are "retarded")


Hulu Lost $920 Million Last Year : television (a peek into the young's media usage)

98 year old finds out how old he really is. : videos

-dtompkins- comments on Dave Tompkins is overrated

Professor reply to student complain about his class : bestof (see now again, but in iambic pentameter)

Hey.. wtf man? : WTF


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Live Views of Starman - YouTube
Starman, Gilded Plutocracy edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Biggest B-52 bombing run ever in Afganistan - dropping 24 precision-guided munitions on Taliban fighting positions during 96 hours (moar bombz, moar dead brown people)

'Extreme' Suffering in Syria as Government Steps Up Bombing


Tom Wright on Twitter: "Chris Nelson reported in his newsletter last night that Stephen Miller was responsible for the Trump admin pulling Victor Cha's nomination b/c of his views on the use of force & KORUS. Miller subsequently led an effort to smear Victor to cover up the real reason. 1/2" ... If true, Miller has gravely harmed US national security interests. Outrageous that Kelly, McMaster, and Tillerson would tolerate this. 2/2


Meghan Markle 'denied knowing her own half-brother' | Daily Mail Online - That's distant family and I don't know those people' - 'That's pretty harsh,' he said, adding that it was a 'slap in the face' after the two grew up together - 'We were as close as we could be, as tight as we could be,' he said


Dan Nexon on Twitter: My field's role is, really, part of a broader self-motivated amnesia. We convinced ourselves that the west was inoculated against a virus, when really we were dealing with a cancer.
Dan Nexon on Twitter: " But this ground was all prepared for them, and my field is particularly complicit in how we handled -- and fucking *taught* -- Clash of Civilizations, as @profmusgrave reminds me repeatedly." (the "white civilization" vs. the "brown civilization" -- focus outward, never look inward at your metastasizing Republican cancer)

Also XIV surprises, Wynn, KodakCoin and the decline of public markets.

Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, says top U.S. official - NBC News - The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election. ... "We saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated." (so, like 15?)

Hope Hicks' boyfriend Rob Porter resigns after abuse claim | Daily Mail Online BOTH ex-wives accuse him of abuse - including one who told DailyMail.com that he CHOKED and PUNCHED her ... The couple met in 2000 at their Mormon church while they were in college - 'He was never physically abusive until our honeymoon and that floored me,' Holderness told DailyMail.com (a good Mormon patriarch always waits until the honeymoon until punching his wife with the Fist of God) second ex-wife Jennifer Willoughby, also shared the story of her abusive marriage with DailyMail.com She says he dragged her out of the shower and was verbally abusive ... Holderness confirmed that she was interviewed by the FBI about her marriage after Porter was tapped for his current White House position and required a security clearance -- which he has not received (very blackmailable by Putin)

"Beyond Disbelief": John Kelly's Defense of Rob Porter Roils the West Wing -- Staff Secretary Rob Porter, who has been accused of abusing his former wives, is Kelly's right hand -- and dating Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest confidantes. But Kelly's declaration that Porter is a man of "true integrity and homor" was seen as deeply tone deaf -- Porter also helped Kelly conduct a West Wing organizational study that provided Kelly with a cudgel to sideline Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, two former West Wing officials told me. The officials also said Kelly supported Porter even after the F.B.I. delayed granting Porter's security clearance because they uncovered his alleged history of spousal abuse. (they knew)
Former Wives of Top White House Aide Rob Porter Both Told FBI He Abused Them ... "Up until then, he had always done it in a way that didn't leave marks ... He graduated to choking me, not ever hard enough to make me pass out, or frankly to leave marks, but it was frightening and dehumanizing ... He was always a hair-trigger away" (Kelly's kind of guy, leave no marks on the body)

White House officials knew about Porter's abuse allegations and scrambled to protect him ... Porter's ex-wives detailed the allegations to the FBI over the course of a routine background check ... (they didn't rat him out, they just told the truth when asked)

Trump's Very Soviet Fixation on Applause (very Stalinist)
'Tanks, but no tanks': D.C. officials pan Trump's proposed grand military parade
Nixon's Palace Guard (it's in their DNA)

But Will They Wear #MAGA Hats? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Trump's bald spot exposed by a gust of wind | Daily Mail Online ("bald spot" = his whole fucking head)
Donald Trump's Hair Illusion Came Undone and We All Missed It ("we all" = Jonathan Chait)


Senate budget deal would bust budget caps, raise debt limit - Axios - This means DACA will likely be dealt with -- or not -- on its own terms and not used as a hostage in a government shutdown stare-down.


Fox New' latest 'bombshell' on Obama and the FBI is a total fraud -- Trump is already tweeting about it ... So what was Obama interested in? Most likely, he wanted information about the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia ... (every twisted lie and distortion)
Obama Text from FBI Agent Hyped by Fox News Reportedly Was Not About Clinton Probe | Mediaite

Right-wing media obsesses over FBI text message story; hours later it's debunked ... indicates that key text messages the story relied on were taken out of context, and portrayed as meaning something entirely different than what they actually meant ... Drudge Report and Breitbart to InfoWars and the Gateway Pundit. The story eventually made his way to the president himself, who amplified it further when he tweeted, "NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS!" ... Fox News continued to discuss the story on its air Wednesday afternoon, even after multiple outlets -- including the Wall Street Journal, which is controlled by Fox head Rupert Murdoch -- had reported contrary information. (zombies trying to eat your brain)


How the Republicans rigged Congress -- new documents reveal an untold story -- Exclusive: Insider documents unveil Republican's years-long scheme to gerrymander America and undermine democracy -- The visionaries at the Republican State Leadership Committee, who designed the aptly-named strategy dubbed REDMAP, short for Redistricting Majority Project, managed to look far beyond the short-term horizon. They designed an audacious and revolutionary plan to wield the gerrymander as a tool to lock in conservative governance of state legislatures and Congress. (ratfucked, literally, while Barry floated above it all on a bipartisan cloud)

Military veterans defy Jeff Sessions, fight for medical marijuana to kick opioid addiction : news

Black Lung Study Finds Biggest Cluster Ever Of Fatal Coal Miner's Disease -- NIOSH confirms 416 cases of progressive massive fibrosis or complicated black lung in three clinics in central Appalachia from 2013 to 2017 ... coal miners mostly from Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia (vote Trump and Make America Dead Again)

Eschaton: It's Pennies - The thing about the obsession with "disability fraud" - Fuck you Washington Post and This American Life with your smug bullshit - is that even if there are a significant number of moochers scamming the system, the monthly disability check is so low and the requirements to qualify and continue receiving it are so onerous... how dare anyone make an issue of this. Peoplea re getting filthy rich stealing money from taxpayers through the Pentagon and elsewhere. If this is your priority as a reporter and an editor, there is something seriously broken in your brain. Hope someone runs hit pieces on your disability "scam" when you need it, assholes ... The belief that the poorest and most marginalized people in society Actually Have It Better Than Everybody is destroying us. The souls of the people perpetuating this bullshit are already destroyed, and if I believed in an afterlife I'd at least be content knowing which way they were headed.

Cash for Coalition Against Trump Going Into Consultants' Pockets Instead As Trump ran for president, the group raised money promising to stop him -- while dedicating more than 90 percent of its expenditures to paying its own members.

Eschaton: The Permanent Floating Professional Dems - Members of the party out of power gotta eat, and more importantly they gotta keep in the game. There isn't a lot of money to support lefty causes, but there is a lot of money to support fighting lefty causes. So we get astro-turf groups like the "United States of Care." It's only supported by nonprofits, they are quick to say! Cool. Of course these days in the health care industry the profit/nonprofit distinction is meaningless. The non-profit hospital chain funding the non-profit organization which is the primary funder of this advocacy group is in talks to merge with another non-profit hospital chain to become the largest hospital chain in the country. Take the profit out of big hospital chains and you're left with massive executive compensation. It has Obama people on board, supporting this noble cause ...


Shaun King on Twitter: "Dear @UNLincoln, You are aware that Dan Kleve, one of your students, is a violent white supremacist. In this video he openly says he wants more violence and is waiting for the right opportunity to strike. Your students want to know why you are so strongly protecting him. https://t.co/Yj5lB8ZyBY"


Steve Wynn is out as CEO of Wynn Resorts

Report finds Kruse groped women at Oregon Capitol, misbehavior escalated after warnings | OregonLive.com - Sen. Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg ... not only subjected two female senators to unwanted touching, he groped or gave lingering hugs to many other women working at the Oregon Capitol ... in a damning report released Tuesday ... misconduct by Kruse against a member of the House, a third female senator, two law students who used to work for him, Republican and non-partisan staffers, a former legislative aide and a lobbyist .. fingers would occasionally slide over the bottoms of her breasts while he hugged her ... Kruse told the investigator that he believed his behavior was "instinctual ... It's not easy to change when you have been doing something for 67 years" (and you thought Franken was bad)

Women say Marines did nothing after officer harassed them - Two civilian officials with the Marine Corps say their boss, a Marine officer, repeatedly made sexually explicit overtures to them at work, and their complaints to leadership were minimized,

Performers And Staffers At "Sleep No More" Say Audience Members Have Sexually Assaulted Them -- Former performers and staff at the wildly popular immersive theater production say the show's fantasy environment emboldens some audience members to commit sexual misconduct. ("instinctual")

Ten women sign letter accusing Northwestern journalism professor Alec Klein of sexual harassment and assault | Bleader - The letter also details allegations of bullying remarks and harassment of a nonsexual nature ... "We are writing this letter because despite numerous allegations, investigations and complaints -- and at least one settlement -- Alec Klein is still teaching. He still has tenure. He is still leading the Medill Justice Project, a crown jewel of the institution. Many of us have spoken to Title IX officers. We've spoken to other university officials and still, nothing happens" (MSU-level coverups, burn the whole place down)


Judy Chicago, the Godmother - The New York Times - For decades, the feminist artist was pushed to the sidelines. - Relevant once again, she can no longer be ignored.


Eschaton: I Love New Marketing Phrases - This is a good one. "It's no longer a shopping mall but a consumer engagement space, which opens up a world of opportunities for developers in terms of how they use this space," Brown said.

Ramona Singer's ex Mario ugly clash with Kasey Dexter | Daily Mail Online - Nasty split! Ramona Singer's ex Mario, 64, 'calls police to remove mistress' Kasey Dexter, 36, from Florida home after 'catching her cheating' ... He also told her that she is 'only good for fake tits and fake lips,' it was alleged.

Another Round of Layoffs Hit Funny or Die - Splitsider - A year and a half after a round of layoffs that shuttered the San Mateo engineering office and left 37 people without a job and almost one year since closing the New York office, Funny or Die has made some more cuts today

How Facebook Is Killing Comedy - Splitsider - Last month, in its second round of layoffs in as many years, comedy hub Funny or Die reportedly eliminated its entire editorial team following a trend of comedy websites scaling back, shutting down, or restructuring their business model away from original online content ... "There is simply no money in making comedy online anymore. Facebook has completely destroyed independent digital comedy and we need to fucking talk about it." ... they are favoring things that are clickbait, things that are optimized for Facebook, low-quality things that appeal to the lowest common denominator and, honestly, just things at random ... Facebook flattens everything out and makes it the same. That's how we have a Russian propaganda problem ... Facebook is essentially AOL 2.0. (!) (FB debasing/flattening American culture is what it was designed to do +Matt Klinman writes a very thoughtful piece) )

More Americans who consider themselves white are discovering they are part African through DNA tests - The Washington Post


People who understand evolutionary theory are more likely to accept it, even if they are religious or politically conservative. : science


Update on site-wide rules regarding involuntary pornography and the sexualization of minors : announcements

Russian Trolls Ran Wild On Tumblr And The Company Refuses To Say Anything About It - Tumblrs run by Russian trolls generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content (the BernieBros were Russians with their "steal the primary" bullshit)

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FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered. - The New York Times - Hurricane Maria had torn through Puerto Rico, and hungry people needed food. Thirty million meals needed to be delivered as soon as possible. For this huge task, FEMA tapped Tiffany Brown, an Atlanta entrepreneur with no experience in large-scale disaster relief and at least five canceled government contracts in her past ... wedding caterer in Atlanta ... And FEMA inspectors discovered a problem: The food had been packaged separately from the pouches used to heat them. FEMA's solicitation required "self-heating meals." Ms. Brown ...claims a fashion line and has several self-published books, and describes herself on Twitter as "A Diva, Mogul, Author, Idealist with scars to proves it." ... Ms. Brown claims the agency did not specify that the meals and heaters had to be together. ("self-heating" was incomprehensible) She is seeking a settlement of at least $70 million. (hahah suckers, only the worst of the worst when lives are at stake, drain the swamp, Trumpsters +just look at the "meal")
If Anything, Hillary Clinton Was Too Prepared - Lawyers, Guns & Money (we need more Tiffany)
FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered. : news (Trump made "a deal")

Fatal Amtrak Crash in South Carolina Is New Challenge for Rail Service - The New York Times (it's a real challenge to spend money so we don't kill people)
Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph | New York Post - A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as it was cruising through Maryland on Tuesday

North Korean State Media: 'Old Lunatic' Trump 'Cannot Deodorize Nasty Smell From His Dirty Body' (they are pretty good at this)


Saudi Suspected of Trying to Join Qaeda Camp Is Arrested in Oklahoma - The New York Times


Falcon Heavy Tandem Landing : videos
Two Falcon Heavy side core rockets landing simultaneously : gifs


'There's genuine carnage out there': Global markets tumble as Dow opens down (the real "carnage in the streets")
Stock market looks to open lower Tuesday as stock futures fall into negative territory
Live by the Dow, Die by the Dow? Trump Is Quiet on Market - The New York Times

US trade gap hits $566 billion in 2017, highest since 2008


Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US - Computational Propaganda Project
News that forecasts elections may confuse voters, lower turnout | Pew Research Center (and we know how easily confused voters are, esp Republicans)
'Junk' political news shared more widely by Trump backers, study finds ... than all other groups combined, significantly magnifying the polarization in the American electorate (their minds are full of 'junk')


What Trump's Speech Says About His Mental Fitness - The difference between the younger man talking in sentences and the older one talking in vocal ejaculations is evidence not of decline but authenticity -- he has settled into his normal. Late in life an artless man has learned that he could leave his linguistic fly unzipped and life would go on. It may not be pretty, but it isn't a sign that his pants are going to fall down. (McWhorter is a linguist, not a shrink, try this comment:) "Very few people speak like this, even in casual, very relaxed conversation. The excerpt you analyze is a stream of consciousness rendering of a scattered, deteriorated mind; linguistically flawed, grasping at straws, with no control, and making free association leaps." (and this one:) "Trump's speech doesn't communicate ideas so much as it simply broadcasts his id. His base finds that much easier to connect with."

Bob Mueller's Investigation Is Largerer -- And Further Along -- Than You Think -- President Trump claimed in a tweet over the weekend that the controversial Nunes memo "totally vindicates" him, clearing him of the cloud of the Russia investigation that has hung over his administration for a year now. Nothing could be further from the truth. (nothing could be farther from the truth than Trump) it's important to understand that there are no fewer than five (known) separate investigations under the broad umbrella of the special counsel's office

Trump's Lawyers Seem to Think He's Incapable of Not Lying (wonder why they think that?)

Bannon not expected to appear before House Intel Tuesday despite subpoena (he's above the law like Trumpster)

Russians 'have something' on Trump, Frederica Wilson says in Miami

Sessions calls for 'fresh start' at FBI (he was sad to hear there aren't any Democrats in the whole FBI that he could fire)

Trump: muted State of Union reaction 'treasonous' (clap harder for the god-emperor)
Donald Trump Cracks the Seal on Talk of Treason - Trump might not be able to see where this very slippery slope leads, but the political arsonists around him do. Prepare to reap the whirlwind.

Nunes: Fine, the FBI Didn't Lie, But Its Font Was Too Small (and he couldn't read the "footnote") Notice how "The FBI LIED about the Steele dossier" has been scaled back to, "The FBI did not highlight the truth about the Steele Dossier in the part of the application we bothered to read." (more "bombshells" a "million times bigger than Watergate and the American Revolution" to follow)
Devin Nunes Has No Evidence, No Plan, and No Idea What He's Doing The House Intelligence chair is wandering around in the dark. (of his own brain, mumbling Goebbels quotes without knowing he's talking like a Nazi)
Well, Well, Well: Nunes Admits the Partisan Origins of the Dossier *Had* Been Disclosed After All (even Redstate)
The Nunes Memo and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Lawfare

Some derp called it treason - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Just imagine what would happen if a country that was hostile to the U.S. successfully exploited this country's festering racism.
How Is the New Crop of Republican Candidates Looking? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A former leader in the American Nazi Party is about to be the only Republican on the ticket for a congressional race in Illinois.

"He Wants a Killer": Post-Bannon, Post-Nunes, Post-Kelly Friction, a Frustrated Trump Searches for a West Wing Reset

Hillary Clinton Was, If Anything, Too Prepared - Lawyers, Guns & Money. Tr Trump hadn't yet read the Democratic document ...(Trump will "get some people down to brief him on it" because it's ten pages long" ... and ... "The longest thing Trump has ever read is a Penthouse Forum letter and I would bet money on it."

Christie Brinkley Says Trump Hit on Her While He Was Married

Kellyanne Conway's 'opiod cabinet' sidelines drug czar's experts - In Trump's White House, political appointees take control as the opioid epidemic rages. ("fake government" don't need no so-called "experts")

After approving Medicaid work requirements, Trump's HHS aims for lifetime coverage limits (of course, their goal is to make you poor and dead)


The Latest: Pritzker apologizes for comments on race - Democratic Illinois governor candidate J.B. Pritzker is apologizing for racially insensitive comments captured on a FBI wiretap between him and then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich Pritzker is heard suggesting Blagojevich appoint Secretary of State Jesse White, calling him the "least offensive" African American.

Pennsylvania Republican launches effort to impeach state supreme court to save GOP gerrymander Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer. (PA Rethugs mini version of Trump)

Poll: CA Republicans Rohrabacher, Knight face Trump backlash | The Sacramento Bee - Reps. Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa and Steve Knight of Lancaster ... Rohrabacker's web of ties to Russia have drawn the attention of Special Counsel Robert Mueller (little Russian ratfucker traitor)

Susan Kennedy fined by California ethics watchdog | The Sacramento Bee - Susan Kennedy, a former aide to Govs. Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, has agreed to pay a $32,500 fine from the state ethics watchdog for failing to register as a lobbyist while advocating for Lyft and a Southern California water company.


'I wasn't hearing any call from God': Michele Bachmann opts out of running for Al Franken's Senate seat (God is a Republican but didn't call her)

Trump Evangelical Adviser Says You Don't Need Flu Shots When You Have Jesus | HuffPost - "Inoculate yourself with the word of God," says Gloria Copeland (would someone go sneeze on this satangelical asshole?)

Abortion providers launch Bay Area ad campaign | The Sacramento Bee - Abortion reversal, pregnancy centers targeted by billboard campaign - targets what it calls the deceptive tactics of "cfrisis pregnancy centers" and the decision by the state nursing board to allow training on an abortion reversal procedure. (wtf, nurses) The reversal procedure takes place after women take the first dose of medication to abort a pregnancy and before they would administer the second dose a few days later. (and if that doesn't work, Trump will impregnate them again with a Jesus baby)

Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary - The Washington Post

Gorka Joins Outlet That Published "Ten Things I Hate About Jews"

Why Conservatives Hate Higher Education - Lawyers, Guns & Money (fuck off with your fake libtard "knowledge" and commie so-called "professors")
Research suggests that colleges broaden students' political views - Study counters widely held views about how student's political views change when they arrive in college ... is actually a time when they meet people with different views and come to respect them (regardless of whether they end up changing their own views). (they learn "respect" for liberals? shut the place down!)

"Superheroes" - How can we criticize superheroes for beating the hell of a black kid on the street? They are superheroes? ... The need for create classes of citizens above everyone else is a disturbing trend, and one that has now expanded, first to police and firefighters, and now to first responders ... why aren't teachers superheros?) (that'll be the day)

The Drum Major Instinct - Lawyers, Guns & Money (best and worst of the superb owls -- Dodge is Jesus's truck)
Someone edited Ram's Martin Luther King commercial with what King actually said about car ads - This video shows just how absurd the Super Bowl commercial is .. Using a civil rights hero to sell cars in a Super Bowl commercial may seem absurd on its face, but it's particularly ridiculous when said civil rights icon actually spoke out against car commercials.
Super Bowl Aftermath 1: The Eagles - Lawyers, Guns & Money (fire Belichick)


Inside George Stephanopoulos's Hamptons beach home (all you need to know about little elite George but not as big as Lauer's)


Yale students and dental professor were in selfie with severed-heads, report says - The Washington Post - The selfie depicted physician Flavio Uribe, an assistant professor and orthodontics program director at UConn Health ...

You Too Can Support the Internet's Least Important Series (American graves)

Los Angeles Times owner will sell paper, ending a long-troubled relationship - The Washington Post - Its news staff has been pared to about 400 from more than 1,300 at its peak in the late 1990s.


No One Is Silencing Katie Roiphe #MeToo has started a robust, complicated conversation -- whether or not she's listening (she isn't, that's her "contrarian" brand)
In the Maze | Issue 30 | n+1 - Must history have losers?

In wake of Nassar sentence, John Geddert faces criminal investigation - he Eaton County Sheriff's Office is actively investigating complaints against John Geddert, the former U.S. Olympic gymnastics coach and longtime owner of Twistars Gymnastics Club in Dimondale who has strong ties to Larry Nassar.

Quentin Tarantino on Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Crash & Harvey Weinstein | Deadline
Here's Audio of Quentin Tarantino Defending Roman Polanski: 13-year-old=girl 'Wanted to Have It' (especially after he drugged her unconscious and "Quentin" and "Harvey" are quite a pair)

The Dating Blues? #MeToo - The New York Times

Rick Perlstein Becomes Twitter Hero After Speaking Up For Mika | Crooks and Liars (JoeScar asserts his patriarchal privilege and gets torched on the twitter)

Lady Doritos - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Comic sues Upright Citizens Brigade for reverse gender discrimination | New York Post - Glaser hosted sold-out monthly stand-up shows until he was accused in August 2016 of drugging and raping at least two fellow comics. (Murdoch thinks this will make you mad at Dems)


TIL Female humans, pilot whales and killer whales are unique among animals: they are the only three mammals known to undergo menopause. This allows them to help their children survive into adulthood and -- if they're lucky -- to act as grandmothers to the next generation.`


People who only had one sexual partner for most of their lives but then got a new sexual partner: what surprised you about the new experience? : AskReddit
For 24 hours, you own a megaphone that anything you say into it will be heard by every person on Earth. What do you say? : AskReddit


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Tobacco farmers could make more money converting their fields to solar arrays, land use study finds. : science (Make America Shine Again)


Dow plunges 1,175 -- worst point decline in history
Trump Accuses Democrats of 'Treason' Amid Market Rouot -- His remarks came in a rambling, discursive speech at a factory in Ohio, during which he celebrated his revival of the American economy as the stock market plummeted by more than 1,000 points. ("treasonous' for not clapping enough for him, and if you don't love Trump, you don't love America)
'The president clearly set himself up': Trump's stock market miscalculation (take credit for the rise, blame Dems for the fall )
The Dow has lost 1,000 points in two days : news

Over $60 billion wiped off value of cryptocurrencies as bitcoin drops below $8,000 again : news (volatility in the markets)


Trump thought the British were protesting their health service. They weren't -- But the thousands of Britons who took to the streets over the weekend were marching in support of the NHS and calling for greater government funding. (dumbass)

Trump ambassador nominee promoted bizarre conspiracy theory about Ted Cruz's wife being behind a sinister globalist plot (insane and evil)

Guantanamo war court overseer fired | Miami Herald (don't need no steenking overseer)

Democratic senators: Trump lacks 'legal authority' for preemptive, 'bloody nose' strike on North Korea (the god-emperor doesn't need no steenking "legal authority)
When the US Does It, It's Not *As* Illegal


Exclusive: Massive Pentagon agency lost track of hundreds of millions of dollars - POLITICO - A damning outside review finds that the the Defense Logistics Agency has lost track of where it spent the money. ("lost track" = stole +remember when Dumsfeld "lost" a trillion dollars right before 9/11? )

'The Hairs Really Went up on the Back of our Necks' - Former top diplomat Victoria Nuland tells the story of how she pushed the Obama administration to do more to stop Russian hacking. (bipartisan Barry said don't worry, I've got this, you can go home)
'I Hope This Is an Instance of Fake News' : FBI Messages Show the Bureau's Real Reaction to Trump Firing James Comey (but little lying Fuckabee Sanders said 'the rank and file of the FBI had lost confidence in their director')
The Idea of an Anti-Trump Conspiracy at the FBI is Utterly Insane - Lawyers, Guns & Money (they are all Republicans, or at least were) And the point about McConnell's complicity is also important. McConnell knew what Trump was, and he went all-in to protect him, even when he looked like a massive longshot, because any chance of getting to protect the median vote of the Supreme Court and attack the federal regulatory and welfare states was worth any price to the integrity of American democracy. (Yertle the satanic russian swamp turtle)
Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "The FBI kept an open counterintelligence probe of the GOP nominee secret at McConnell's behest while the Director twice violated DOJ guidelines to hit Clinton's campaign. Everyone saw that happen and the people pretending to believe otherwise don't deserve the time of say ... Would of been nice if Obama had let Comey write his op ed in the NYT regarding Trump/Russia. Mitch McConnell threatened to call it partisan. Who cares!? Democrats play waaaaaaay to nice. (yeah, thanks again, Barry)

#TeamTreason hashtag on Twitter
#TreasonWeasels hashtag on Twitter

Trump's Lawyers Want Him to Refuse an Interview in Russia Inquiry

Most Republicans believe FBI, Justice Dept. trying to 'delegitimize' Trump: Reuters/Ipsos poll (they are all traitors)

White House: Trump lawyers in favor of appointing second special counsel - Axios - to investigate the FBI and Justice Department's ctions during the 2016 presidential campaign (which threw the election to Trump but we're beyond peak stupid)

The Smearing of Christopher Steele - POLITICO Magazine - A former British intelligence officer provided information to the FBI because it alarmed him. Given the way he's been treating (sic), future tipsters will be less likely to come forward. ... In his effort to malign the U.S. Justice system and confuse the American people in a hail-Mary attempt to protect President Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes seems to also have confused himself. (he's always been "confused")

Constitutional Crisis in Slow Motion - The New York Times - Donald Trump will destroy this entire country -- its institutions and its safeguards, the rule of law and the customs of civility, the concept of truth and the inviolable nature of valor -- to protect his own skin (it ain't just Trumpster, Charles)
Calling the Trump Era by Its Proper Name - The Atlantic - Whatever term you prefer to describe the disease, there is no doubt that treatment is needed, now ... Trump virtually never praises or speaks about, and gives no evidence of respecting or even comprehending, the strengths of the United States as a system, or as an idea. (it's just a bunch of suckers to be conned +"idea") Or it is time to call this era flat-out a return to fascism. (we have a winner)

Congress should censure Nunes. Just like McCarthy. - The Washington Post
The Nunes memo vindicates our worst fears about the GOP - The Washington Post -- A bunch of law-and-order, war-on-terrorism, lock-'em-up Republicans suddenly sound like spokesmen for the American Civil Liberties Union, so grave is their concern that our government might in any way trespass upon sacred due process ... comment: "Only thing the Memo changed is that now FBI is officially on the Trumpkin list of Enemies of The Fuhrer . Together with HRC, Obama, the free press, NATO, NFL, McCain, Flake, Corker, the continent of Africa, the mayor of London, several Gold Star families, Amazon, Wolffe and 62% of US public. -
House Intelligence Committee votes unanimously to release a Democratic rebuttal that could 'lay waste' to the Nunes memo
Republicans concede key FBI 'footnote' in Carter Page warrant - POLITICO - Devin Nunes said Monday the FBI had disclosed political backing for a Trump-Russia dossier in October 2016, but a controversial GOP memo released last week did not mention it. (which he "wrote" but now he's about to get squashed by the Dem version so he's coming slightly less dirty)

'The Memo' Follows the Republican Plan to Destroy Neutral Authority By Jonathan Chait (and reality in general)

Velshi/Ruhle roasts GOP memo truthers with hilarious supercut of Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault
Meghan McCain gets schooled with her father's own words after pushing bogus claims about the Nunes memo (plastic face is a liar)

Trump calls Schiff 'one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington' He also lists former FBI Director James Comey and ex-intel chiefs. (Trump is the universal definition of truth)
Trump lashes out at Schiff over Russia probe memo - ABC News (haha check out his "hair")

The cowardice among Republicans is staggering - The Washington Post - With the blessing of Republican leaders, the lickspittle wing of the GOP is now firmly in charge. The existence of reckless partisans such as Nunes is hardly surprising. The nearly uniform cowardice among elected Republicans is staggering. (Gerson, "Paul Ryan is a good and decent person" is a Republican and gets roasted in the comments)

The cult of Trump - Axios (Republicans have always worshipped evil)
Here are the right-wing media figures using the Nunes memo to attack Rosenstein and Mueller (colluding traitors)
The Nunes memo revealed a damning omission - The Washington Post -- Hugh Hewitt -- commenter: "Between you, Marc Thiessen and Ed Rogers, the Post should change your collective columns to Dotards Boot Lickers" (his "damning omission" was blown up by Nune's "footnote" and his talking point died. Hewitt is a traitor to America)
Fox's Steve Doocy falsely claims Nunes memo vindicates Trump's wiretap lie (Douchey)

The Times Asks Court to Unseal Documents on Surveillance of Carter Page - The New York Times - President Trump lowered the shield of secrecy surrounding such materials on Friday by declassifying the Republican memo about Mr. Page, after finding that the public interest in disclosing its contents outweighed any need to protect the information. Because Mr. Trump did so, the Times argues, there is no longer a justification "or the Page warrant orders and application materials to be withheld in their entirety" and "disclosure would serve the public interest."

I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It's Happening Again -- Lawrence Wilkerson

It's Easier For Politicians to be Corrupt These Days - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The standard created by the Supreme Court in McDonnell v. U.S. has made it close to impossible to find politicians of guilty of illegal corruption: (corruption is what they do)

Wittes and Rauch: Boycott the Republican Party - The Atlantic - If conservatives want to save the GOP from itself, they need to vote mindlessly and mechanically against its nominees.

Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, (newly rebranded as the Non-Protection Bureau)


Panic time: Democratic cash swamps House Republicans - POLITICO - The latest round of fundraising figures have been released, and the results are grim for Republicans -- More than 40 House Republican incumbents were outraised in the final quarter of 2017 by one -- or several of their Democratic opponents, according to the latest round of fundraising numbers. And of that group, more than a dozen had less cash on hand than their Democratic challengers ... More than 80 Democratic challengers in Republican-held districts have at least $250,000 in cash on hand at the end of the year -- a sign that the House battlefield may be wider than previously thought.


Republicans Fighting to Protect Gerrymandering in Pennsylvania Have an Ethics Problem - It could complicate their conflict-of-interest challenge.
Supreme Court refuses to block Pa. ruling invalidating congressional map - The Washington Post - denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to delay redrawing congressional lines, meaning the 2018 elections in the state will probably be held in districts far more favorable to Democrats ... Although there are more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state, Republicans hold 13 of 18 congressional seats. (there go a bunch of rigged traitor seats) u


CMS threatens to bar Modern Healthcare from press calls after reporter refuses to alter story | Association of Health Care Journalists - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services threatened to ban a reporter from participating in the federal agency's telephone news conferences after he refused to delete three sentences from a published story that apparently had rankled CMS Administrator Seema Verma. ("Seema Verma" is a press-hating Trumpster)

These 5 charts show why the South is the least healthy region in the US (oh look, MA is healthiest and ...) Of the 26 states have comprehensive statewide indoor air smoking bans, none are in the South.


Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out - Feb. 5, 2018
Newsweek Guts Its Top Edit Staff Amid Legal Turmoil - the fired editors had all published pieces reporting on the company's recent troubles ... has been rocked by turnover since it was reported that Manhattan law-enforcement officials were investigating the company's finances (a purge so they can just do fake news)
Journalists Shouldn't Be Fire for Investigating Their Own Publications (which were raided by investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney on January 18)


The Alt-Right is Killing People | Southern Poverty Law Center - over 100 people killed or injured by alleged perpetrators
How Our Reporter Uncovered a Lie That Propelled an Alt-Right Extremist's Rise (fake hero)


#MeToo Has Done What the Law Could Not - The New York Time - I kept track of this in cases of campus sexual abuse over decades; it typically took three to four women testifying that they had been violated by the same man in the same way to even begin to make a dent in his denial. That made a woman, for credibility purposes, one-fourth of a person ... His value outweighed her sexualized worthlessness. His career, reputation, mental and emotional serenity and assets counted. Hers didn't.

The #MeToo conversation is making people uncomfortable. That's okay. In a Harper's essay on sexual harassment and "Twitter feminists," Katie Roiphe misses a crucial point: This conversation was never going to be easy ... Some of the allegations on the list, according to Roiphe, were simply too small to be worth worrying about ... part of a larger strain of #MeToo backlash, one that casts survivors and their allies as repressive agents eager to punish anyone with whom they disagree. (Roiphe always misses critical points because she is a clickbaity "feminist" anti-feminist hack who sounds a lot like Deneuve) )

Las Vegas Review-Journal killed story in 1998 about Steve Wynn sex misconduct claims ... After killing the article, the newspaper ordered the reporter who wrote it to delete it from the newspaper's computer system ... Another server, upon bragging about her first grandchild in the early 1990s, reportedly was pressured into having sex with Wynn, who said he wanted to experience sex with a grandmother, according to a court filing. (20 fucking years ago)

Natalie Wood death investigation: Sheriff's officials discuss new details
Natalie Wood Investigation: Robert Wagner's Story Doesn't "Add Up," Say Police


Eagle's 1st Super Bowl Win Draws 103.4M Viewers, Smallest Audience In Nine Years ... A steeper fall than even the declining the stock market today, that's the worst the Super Bowl has done since 2009 ... Justin Timberlake's halftime show of Super Bowl LII. The return of the Grammy winning singer to the big game stage for the first time in 14-years was a series of misfires and banalities almost from start to finish with a misjudged Prince tribute of sorts in the middle. (football has been declined for a decade)


All she has to do to collect a $560 million lotto jackpot is make her name public. She refuses. - The Washington Post - "She is a longtime resident of New Hampshire and is an engaged community member. She wishes to continue this work and the freedom to walk into a grocery store or attend public events without being known or targeted as the winner of a half-billion dollars."


Scientists may have discovered the first planets outside the Milky Way - The Washington Post


Wittyandpithy comments on [Question] Why do you procrastinate even though you are freaking out about something that has to be done asap?

mystonedalt comments on URGENT! People of r/trees there is a disgusting anti recreational campaign going on in Illinois provided by the IL sheriffs department.


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Today in the Sixth Extinction - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Polar bears are starving and could face extinction faster than previously thought, according to a new study.

Amtrak Train Derails After Collision In South Carolina; At Least 2 Dead | HuffPost - The train, which had been traveling between New York and Miami, had more than 140 passengers and crew on board ... collided with a CSX freight train in South Carolina early Sunday
Amtrak passenger train collides with freight train in SC, injuries reported : news


Erekat says US is pushing a Palestinian 'coup,' tells Nikki Haley to 'shut up'


Pakistan Actress Shot Dead by Gunmen for Refusing to Accompany Them to a Private Event : news - By private event they probably meant rape.


Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and how democracies die - Vox - The problems in American democracy run far deeper than Trump.


Trump nominee for U.N. migration post called Muslims violent, Christians top priority - The Washington Post -- Ken Isaacs, a vice president of the Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse, made disparaging remarks about Muslims and denied climate change -- a driving force behind migration, according to the agency the State Department has nominated him to lead ... Samaritans Purse is the "charity" led by Franklin Graham, a right wing scam artist from birth. (supply-side Republican-voting, gun-toting blonde Jesus) ("More garbage from the KKKristians that support the bigoted anti-christ Trump."_ (the faces of evil have emerged from the darkness for all to see)


Dow suffers 666-point drop amid rate-hike fears - worst week in two year (compare URL with title +Trump will blame Obama)
Will the Stock Market Crash? Here Are 3 Stocks That Could Protect Your Portfolio - he stock market just had its worst week in two years, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by more than 1,000 points. In all, almost $1 trillion in market value was lost this week, with more than $500 billion lost during Friday's massive sell-off. Is the market crashing, or is this just a bump in the road to new highs?
Why The 1929 Stock Market Crash Could Happen In 2018 | Investopedia
Stocks Fall to End a Bad Week, and a Boom Begins to Look Shaky - The New York Times
Eschaton: Catalyst - Can't have that ... My belief is that the Fed will never let wages rise again, so all the talk of 'jayyyuuuub creation' doesn't matter at all. As soon as there is any chance of productivity gains going into wages instead of yachts, the Fed will take away the punchbowl.
Is a global recession led by a US stock market crash in the offing?
Stock Market Data - Dow Jones, Nasdaq, S&P 500 - CNNMoney

The U.S. government is set to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year, an 84 percent jump from last year - The Washington Post (the party of "fiscal responsibility" where "responsibility" means loot the treasury and give all the money to rich Republicans)
Government set to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year, an 84 percent jump from last year : news


Republican lawmakers distance themselves from Trump on memo - The Washington Post - In a sign of a growing rift within the House GOP, four members of the panel dismissed the idea pushed by Trump and other Republicans that a controversial memo criticizing how the FBI handled elements of its Russia probe undermines the investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III into possible coordination between Trump associates and the Kremlin. (even the ratfuckers are getting worried)

Trump considering asking Sessions to prosecute Mueller - Lawyers, Guns & Money (for disloyalty or "impugning the dignity of Dear Leader" ...typical Trump move: you think you can prosecute ME??)
Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

'This Week' Transcript 2-4-18: Rep. Will Hurd and Rep. Adam Schiff ... "But the goal here really isn't to find out the answers from the FBI. The goal here is to undermine the FBI, discredit the FBI, discredit the Mueller investigation, do the president's bidding. From the midnight run the chairman made to the White House to present documents he had actually gotten from the White House to today, it's all; part of the same. I think it's very possible his staff worked with the White House and coordinated the whole effort with the White House. Because it looks so much like this earlier effort, which we know was coordinated with the White House by the same chairman, who had said that he would recuse himself, but -- but of course he didn't ... That could be evidence of the president's intent to interfere with the investigation. (and the Republican ties himself up in lying knots)

Nunes 'abused' his power on intelligence committee, former CIA director says ... John Brennan accused Rep. Devin Nunes (R.-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, of selectively releasing information to accuse law enforcement officials of improperly obtaining a warrant to monitor the communications of a former Trump campaign adviser. "It's just appalling and clearly underscores how partisan Mr. Nunes has been" Brennan said.

House GOP: More memos to come - Axios - The House Intelligence chair and his team have told members and associates they've found other examples of politically motivated "wrongdoing" across various agencies, including the FBI, the broader Justice Department, and the State Department. (promises constant stream of bullshit -- House IC has become propaganda arm of the Trump regime)

Judge responds to Justice Department over Nunes memo - CNNPolitics - A federal judge told the Department of Justice to explain why the release of the House Intelligence Committee's memo today shouldn't force investigators to acknowledge the existence of more records related to foreign surveillance ... the late-October 2016 issuance of the FISA warrant on Page matched the month that Trump claims the Obama administration started wiretapping his phones at Trump Tower in New York. (yes, they fucked up)

Carter Page Touted Russia Contacts in 2013 Letter | Time - bragged that he was an adviser to the Kremlin in a letter obtained by TIME that raises new questions about the extent of Page

'Very posssible' GOP congressman 'coordinated with the White House' on Russia memo: Democratic rep (this is sounding very treasonous, lock up Nunes and Trump)

How Twitter Bots and Trump Fans Made #ReleaseTheMemo Go Viral - POLITICO Magazine - Russian bots and their American allies gamed social media to put a flawed intelligence document atop the political agenda. That should alarm us.

Trump Jr.: Memo Is a 'Little Bit of Sweet Revenge' for Me and My Family ... He said the memo reveals the "real" collusion that occurred during the 2016 election and transition, and it wasn't between the Trump campaign and Russia. (it was the FBI colluding with Hiilary to release Weiner's emails +too stupid to know his goose is cooked because Fox Fuckers)
Trump Jr. suggests Russia investigation akin to 'McCarthyism,' says Dems are 'left of commie' (said the commie; Jr. needs years in prison to think about how stupid he is )

Democrats melt down over Nunes memo and enter the Upside Down - Chicago Tribune (Republican delusional hack, but the comments:) "Mr Kass I never thought I'd live to see the day that you've become a traitorous toadie for the Russians. You know that Putin kills journalists, don't you?"


Failed memo stunt leaves Nunes in danger of losing his seat (Nunes is "wildly popular" in his district of morons, so no)

5 Stories In The News That Got Totally Lost In This Week's Memo Frenzy | HuffPost - Another school shooting, a failed abortion measure and newly discovered mass graves.

They are garbage people, and harassing "immigrants" without any knowledge means harassing all of us. No one carries citizenship papers unless they're on their way to an international flight ... Federal immigration agents raided 77 businesses in Northern California this week, demanding proof that their employees are legally allowed to work in the United States, officials said Thursday. Punchline: no immediate arrests were made (fascists will fascist and the point is to make everyone afraid, esp the libturds)

Paul Ryan Deletes Tweet Lauding a $1.50 Benefit From the New Tax Law - The New York Times (he had no idea how stupid and evil that looked)
Paul Ryan tweets about $1.50 paycheck boost, then deletes it - The Boston Globe (globe commenters are pretty negative)

Eschaton: ACA Sucks - Too much of the debate about ACA became reduced to "we need a public option!" versus "we didn't have 60 votes for a public option!" But embedded in ACA are lots of "wonky details" which for the most part could have been at least tweaked one way or the other which didn't reflect the need to win over Joe Lieberman so much as they reflected the deeply wrong-headed views of the left-of-center wonks who really were getting, for the most part, the plan they wanted ... Sure the decision was made to make an insurance-industry plan and once that was the path taken my fantasy plan was never going to happen. But even within that framework, the "wonks" had some ideas about people using too much of our medical system for shits and giggles, as if anyone is really into kafakesque bureaucracy and needles as fun Tuesday afternoon entertainment. About as in touch as Paul Ryan bragging about an extra $1.50 per week. (the best Barry could do, apparently)

White House Plans To Withdraw 'Conspiracy Theorist And Anti-Science Extremist' Pick Kathleen Hartnett-White's views on fossil fuels and pollution proved too extreme for even some Republicans ... to lead the Council on Environmental Quality ... a former Texas regulator (hahaha) radical views on issues like climate change and a humiliating public hearing at which she struggled with basic science questions. (only the worst of the worst and fuck your enivonment)

Jared Kushner's property empire had to thrive under Trump, right? Wrong | US news | The Guardian


Democrats, Republicans lead in their own strongholds: A key to midterm outcomes: Poll - ABC News - Democrats lead by 14 points among likely voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, a result reported previously. But that reflects a vast 38-point Democratic lead in districts already held by Democratic members of Congress. In districts the Republican Party holds, by contrast, it's a tight 45-51 percent Democratic vs. Republican contest.
Early gauge of 2018 turnout shows good signs for Democrats - The Washington Post - Democrats are just about as likely as Republicans to say they plan to vote in this year's congressional elections, a break from the two previous midterm elections, in which Republicans were significantly more inclined to vote (after Barry told everyone to go home and let the adults handle it)

Holocaust denier poised to claim GOP nomination in Illinois race for Congress -- Arthur Jones -- an outspoken Holocaust denier, activist anti-Semite and white supremacist -- is poised to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat representing parts of Chicago and nearby suburbs (hahah no other Republican thought they had a chance)

Baldwin returns as Trump in 'SNL' parody of 'Fox & Friends'


Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard Hisotry' -- a resource for teachers who are eager to help their students better understand slavery -- not as some "peculiar institution" but as the blood-soaked bedrock on which the United States was built. (instead of a little "states' rights" and "tax" issue)



The politics of transit: two interrelated problems - Lawyers, Guns & Money - the politics of transit advocacy is partly to blame for this: in our enthusiasm to defend the very idea of funding mass transit, we tend to turn a blind eye to the political failures of transit agencies and the politicians who support them.

The search for Jackie Wallace | NOLA.com - "Teens driving by started shooting their guns at them, so they decided there had to be a safer place to live. Why do you ask?"


Hefner had access to Rosenberg's e-mails ... Hefner was deeply involved in matters that Rosenberg had vowed to bar him from when he ascended to the presidency in 2015. They reveal that Hefner had full access to Rosenberg's e-mails, attempted to affect the state budget, and involved himself in the workings of his husband's office, as well as in Senate affairs.
Tumult in Mass. Senate as politicians angle for top job - The Boston Globe - a sense among staffers and senators that a monthslong crisis fomented by allegations against Senator Stanley C. Rosenberg's husband, Bryon Hefner, was entering a new and perhaps final act.



Harvey Weinstein Attorney Weighs Legal Action Against Uma Thurman, Denies 'False Accusations' (little Harvey Rapestein, "glutonous ogre" is going to prison)
Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino and the costs of auteur worship - The Washington Post ... "auteur theory" imported from France to the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s

Dad who charged at Larry Nassar receiving hundreds of donations | Fox News

Terry Crews Implies He's Being Pressured to Drop His Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Janet Jackson says she won't perform with Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl -- There will be no #JusticeforJanet on Sunday. (Man rips off woman's top, she gets blamed for having boobs and her career is messed with while he is celebrated)


Joni Mitchell's Openhearted Heroism - She made the best music of her generation by falling in love, over and over, while defending her sense of self.
It's 50 yrs since the death of Neal Cassady, controversial hero of Jack Kerouac's novels and Allen Ginsberg's poems


Federalist PitchBot on Twitter: "Look what Feminism just did. Just look at it. "

Is death just an ILLUSION? Consciousness CONTINUES in alternate universe, scientist claims | Science | News | Express.co.uk - DEATH is an illusion and our consciousness simply transcends to an alternative universe, according to an astonishing theory.

A single night of sleep loss impairs working memory in women, but not men. In contrast to males who were unaffected, females not only had impaired working memory, but they were also unaware of it. Sleep-deprived young women are at particular risk for overestimating their working memory performance. : science

TIL a fundamental limit exists on the amount of information that can be stored in a given space: about 10^69 bits per square meter. Regardless of technological advancement, any attempt to condense information further will cause the storage medium to collapse into a black hole. : todayilearned

I knew crows are supposedly 'smart' but my friend just sent me this, and now I'm terrified : videos


How a Champagne-Laden Steamship Ended Up in a Kansas Cornfield - Atlas Obscura
Which U.S. states do you think about least and/or forget even exist? : AskReddit

TIL that actress Joan Barry (blood type A) sued Charlie Chaplin (blood type O) for support of a child (blood type B) whom she claimed he fathered. Although it was not possible that the child was Chaplin's, he was still ordered to pay until the child turned 21. : todayilearned
Kansas Sperm Donor Ordered to Pay Child Support - ABC News
Atheists who were previously religious, what was your "Shit, I don't believe this stuff." moment? : AskReddit
Indiana man files suit for right to give the finger to state trooper : news
People who have woken up screaming, what was your dream about? : AskReddit
TIL that in 1965, a morbidly obese man didn't eat food for over an entire year. The 27 year old was 456lbs and was put under an experimental fast by doctors. He ingested only multivitamins and potassium tablets for 382 days and defecated once every 40 to 50 days. He ended up losing 275lbs. : todayilearned

Sex workers of reddit what's the weirdest fetish you have been paid to fulfill? : AskReddit
(NSFW) Sex workers of Reddit, have any of your friends wanted to pay for your services? How did it turn out? : AskReddit
What past trend should come back? : AskReddit
Most Afghans Can't Read, but Their Book Trade Is Booming : books
ThomasofHookton comments on Re-use unfinished soups for the next customer? Loose your restaurant.
RickLRMS comments on Just get to the recipe already!!!! (see whole thread for story)
Man rages and pulls over truck, only to get beaten up by cartoon characters : videos

Cody's lab has been suspended again. : videos - I love how the algorithm prefers videos featuring dead bodies over educational science videos. Thanks YouTube

020318

Very, Very Bad -- Indeed, White House National Security Council senior director for Asian affairs Matthew Pottinger was reported as saying in a recent closed-door meeting with US experts on Korean Peninsula issues that a limited strike on the North "might help in the midterm elections." Trump may see such a move not simply in the context of the standard efforts to help in a midterm election but to ward offer facing the prospect of impeachment or actual investigations under a Democratic congress (he's going to take millions down with him)
Trump's "bloody nose" strategy must be completely off the table ("bloody nose" = millions of dead Koreans)
Trump Might Test a Nuke 'for Political Purposes' You know, like Kim Jong-un.

Secret Alliance: Israel Carries Out Airstrikes in Egypt, With Cairo's O.K. ... Once enemies in three wars, then antagonists in an uneasy peace, Egypt and Israel are now secret allies in a covert war against a common foe.


What future is there for the devastated country? (the shithole of shitholes caused by shitholes)


An arrest in Moscow leads to a Norwegian espionage mystery - The Washington Post - An arrest in Moscow shakes Norway's far north


Trump betrayed the intelligence community and FBI by releasing the Nunes memo. - By releasing the Nunes memo, Trump betrayed the intelligence community to save his own skin. Trump claims GOP memo 'totally vindicates "Trump" in probe' (and misspells "there")
Trump seized on what memo could mean even before reading it (why "read" when Hannity already told him it was 1000X Watergate) )

Democratic rebuttal calls Nunes memo 'deliberately misleading' -- memo shows that Republicans "are now part and parcel to an organized effort to obstruct" Mueller's probe.

Why Devin Nunes's Memo Would Never Hold Up in Court - he big winner in all of this, of course, is Vladimir Putin. What a week for him! On Monday, his man in Washington, Donald Trump, refused to impose those sanctions Congress voted overwhelmingly to impose on the Russians as punishment for their interference in our elections. And today the White House and Congressional Republicans made this reckless move to undermine the credibility of America's ntelligence and law enforcement communities ("Putin's work")

Is Trump a greater threat than Nixon? Here's the big danger ahead. ... This sets up a possible worst-case scenario in the coming confrontation with Mueller that could take us into territory that is beyond anything this country endured during Watergate ... "We are two tweets away from an extraordinary constitutional crisis. We are in a very dangerous point now in American political life." The Nunes memo shows there is a massive propaganda apparatus out there -- one that reaches deep into the right-wing media and into the Congress that has been pushing the alt-narrative and would back up Trump if he does take drastic steps -- that didn't really exist in Nixon's time ... that audience is regularly being told that Trump is the unfair victim of the probe. (asshole Repubicans, hello Lindsey" "see no danger now." they are all traitors)
Trump is far worse than Nixonian - The Washington Post

Nunes memo aims at Russia probe, backfires on Trump and GOP ... Firing Rosenstein would be definitive proof in an obstruction of justice case. There is already substantial evidence that Trump has obstructed justice in demanding former FBI Director Jim Comey's loyalty and terminating him when he did not deliver it.
Trump's Unparalleled War on a Pillar of Society: Law Enforcement

This is the week that the GOP truly became the party of Trump (Putin)- The Washington Post ... The Nunes memo moves the relationship to a different place. Its release puts much of the Republican leadership fully behind the president in his efforts to discredit the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and possibly remove more officials at the top of the FBI ... For the Republican Party, this has been an extraordinary transformation in a remarkably short time (they've always been despicable, your media covered for them)

Even If You Take the Nunes Memo Seriously, It Makes No Sense - politico Magazine - A former Whitewater investigator takes apart the document roiling Washington.

Justice Dept. told court of source's s political influence in request to wiretap ex-Trump campaign aide, officials say

The Nunes-Ryan Civil Liberties Sham | HuffPost - A mere three weeks ago, Nunes and Ryan were happy to have Americans surveilled with no evidence whatsoever of wrongdoing. Back then, Ryan backed suspicionless, warrantless searches of Americans as a necessary trade off ("we didn't mean REPUBICANS!")
The Real Purpose Of The Nunes Memo | HuffPost - That handful of Republicans might be missing the bullshit factory for the cow pies. It'S true that the memo shows almost nothing. But Trump supporters can still use it to question MuelleR'S INVESTIGATION -- and cite it when they continue standing behind the president no matter what he does. And that's the whole point

Thoughts on the Nunes Memo: We Need to Talk About Devin - Lawfare
Devin Nunes admits he didn't view the underlying intelligence his memo was based on ... remark confirms statements made by his Democratic counterpart on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, who argued that Nunes was not forthcoming in the process of producing the memo. (can he even read?)

5 Points On How The Nunes Memo Is Basically One Big Self-Own (the little Russian ratfucker is really stupid)
Five GOPers Whose Statements About The Nunes Memo Didn't Quite Pan Out (fools with bullshit on their faces)
Who is in the GOP memo and how are they connected? - Washington Post
The Nunes memo torpedoes its own arguments - The Boston Globe (russian bots attack globe comments, fail)
Twitter can't get tnough of #YoMemoJokes ... Yo memo is so clueless, Trump started calling it Eric ... Yo memo is such a disaster, FEMA responded to it ... Yo memo is so immature, Roy Moore asked it out.
#YoMemoJokes trends nationwide, adding to Trump's humiliation over memo failure

Hannity on Memo: 'If We Care About The Constitution' Mueller Probe 'Must Be Disbanded Immediately' - The Fox News host began by touting his own coverage of the scandal for being "ahead of the curve" for months. He called it "Watergate times a thousand" (Shammity, Trump "foreign policy" advisor)

The Backward Logic of the Nunes Memo
How Trump's Allies Fanned an Ember of Controversy Into Flames of Outrage

Chris Hayes on Twitter: "To people saying 'This isn't the GOP I know!" a gentle reminder that the GOP Chair of House Government Oversight in the 1990s ****shot watermelon with a pistol**** to reenact what he said was the president's assasination of Vince Foster (insane ratfucking is what Republican do)
#AntiLiberalist Dan on Twitter: "You have the motive, you have the evidence, now please arrest all parties involved in this attempted overthrow of our government. To do anything less is to risk being called complicit. https://t.co/ilDpB8UxS3"
Feminazg{l on Twitter: "Yo Memo is so dishonest, Glenn Greenwald thinks it's legit. #YoMemoJokes "
Feminazg{l on Twitter: ""I can't possibly engage in a debate unless I can control the audience and the audience's response." " (Glenn Hackwald)
Snowden Bashes Nunes: I Was More Careful With Gov't Secrets Than You Are - The GOP-led intel panel disregarded concerns about risk, unlike when he leaked classified info, the whistleblower said. (the diff between Greenhack and Snowden)

Exclusive poll: GOP turns on FBI - Axios (47% of Republicans now hate the Republican FBI)
The Nunes memo wasn't meant to win over everyone -- just 34 senators -- So the top leadership of the Justice Department and FBI -- all appointed by Trump, all Republicans -- are biased against Republicans? (they are all traitors)

U.S. history, as taught by Devin Nunes - The Washington Post - MEMORANDUM: Treasonous Remarks by Thomas Paine - "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered."

Thank Progressives for the Nunes Memo - The New York Times - the progressive narrative has focused on an assumption of bad faith on the part of the people who participate in the FISA process, not the process itself.


Eschaton: Xenophobic Bigotry - I suppose I bore people with my old man "this isn't really new, people," but there have been 3 big waves of stoked-by-Republicans anti-immigrant fervor since I was an adult. One each decade, basically. 90s, aughts, and now ... but the kind of explicitly expressed bigotry which is commonplace at the moment also had its moments in the previous two decades. The Dems are always better, of course, and are rhetorically much better now, but they were often bad, also, too. Nazis. That's new.


Eschaton: BoBo - Not gonna link, but the obvious conclusion is that David Brooks is indifferent to the lives of women. That's going too easy on him. David Brooks is indifferent to the lives of just about everybody not named David Brooks (the NYT loves their conservative assholes)

Husband of former Trump household aide scores government job - POLITICO - The home contractor from New Jersey is now working as an official in the Environmental Protection Agency's New York regional office.


National Security Council official behind 5G memo leaves White House - The Washington Post -- Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding is no longer serving as NSC senior director for strategic planning (oh, your military wants to control your internets and make sure only pro-Trump content is allowed)

Oh Great ICE Is At the Fucking Super Bowl - Welcome, 2018, to the U-S-of-fucking-A, where every American should be advised to carry his birth certificate, social security card and passport to attend the Super Bowl because yes, immigration and customs enforcement officers will be there. Thanks to the GOP, which prizes limited government, freedom, the Constitution, government-funded video graphics which convey that we are living in a game of Counter-Strike.

AmericansElectUnity'20! -- Yes, it's hard to see how a gaffe-prone moderate Democrat with substantial ties to the financial industry and a completely standard-issue Republican reactionary who considers Trump vulgar while fully supporting him in every substantive way could fail to jell as a ticket or attract massive support (yet another NYT script on how we need a third-party of old white guys like JoeBi and a serious Republicans ... or maybe Charlie Baker!)

Kashyap Patel, Main Author of Secret Memo, Is No Stranger to Quarrels - The New York Times ... In 2016, as a counterterrorism prosecutor for the Justice Department, he was berated by a federal judge who then issued an "Order of Ineptitude' against the entire agency (Trump's kinda guy)

Nunes challenger seizes on FBI memo uproar - POLITICO - The California district is a long shot for Democrats, but the House Intelligence chairman is giving his adversaries hope. (Nunes is in a very safe district of morons)

The death of satire - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... Charles, a Koch brother in Wichita, said he was pleasantly surprised that his pay went up $26,923,076 a week -- he said [that] will more than cover the cost of buying several more Paul Ryans.
Paul Ryan, Mountaineer - The Atlantic (speaking of, he's always been a lying ratfucking weasel)

'Twisted': The Story of a Twister in Niagara - The Atlantic - "I think most people will continue to believe whatever stories support their beliefs and narratives, and question everything that challenges their ideals. And when truth depends upon memory, things seem to get very complicated"

The Scandal and Budget Problems Affecting the CDC - The Atlantic - flagship public-health agency is facing internal scandal and funding issues that will test its ability to respond to outbreaks on the horizon.


Bucks County Judge Clyde W. Waite was nearly arrested at his own home for being black. That's not OK.


Many doctors are wary of medical marijuana. And Jeff Sessions hasn't helped (MDs get better kick-backs from big Opiod)


FBI, U.S. Education Department investigating Ballou graduation scandal - The Washington Post - Ballou High School, where allegations were first raised about diplomas wrongly awarded to chronically truant students.

Case dismissed against person who texted driver in fatal Pennsylvania crash - The Washington Post - The decision puts to rest, at least in this case, the theory that a person who sends a text to a driver of a moving vehicle could also be held liable in an ensuing crash.


How much farther does the U.S. have to go before women are equally represented? - Washington Post

As F.B.I. Took a Year to Pursue the Nassar Case, Dozens Say They Were Molested - The New York Times ... But as the inquiry moved with little evident urgency, a cost was being paid ... The three alleged victims then at the center of the F.B.I's inquiry were world-class athletes; two were Olympic gold medalists. Nearly a year passed before agents interviewed two of the young women ... The agency left unaddressed the oft-repeated claim by U.S.A. Gymnastics officials that after initially presenting the sexual assault allegations to the F.B.I. in July 2015, they came away with the impression that federal agents had advised them not to discuss the case with anyone. The ensuing silence had dire consequences ...
A Cascade of FAIL - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The amount of institutional failure involved in the failure to stop Larry Nassar is truly staggering. MSU and USA Gymnastics deserve all the criticism they've gotten and much more, but there's also federal law enforcement: How many women told law enforcement officials a similar story -- Nassar digitally penetrating them without gloves and lubrication and fondling their breasts and buttocks, all without any advance warning let alone consent -- and in response received no investigation beyond taking Nassar's word for it, despite the extraordinary implausibility of the idea that this was legitimate treatment for sports injuries? I've lost count, but it's a substantial number. Patriarchy is a hell of a drug.

Bresha Meadows, Teen Domestic Abuse Victim Prosecuted for Her Father's Death, Will Be Freed on Sunday (patriarchy)
Uma Thurman finally speaks out on Harvey Weinstein -- and Quentin Tarantino -- The actress's evelations are damning.
This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry - The New York Times - The actress is finally ready to talk about Harvey Weinstein.
Uma Thurman Details Assault At The Hands Of Harvey Weinstein | Deadline
Uma Thurman Details Assault At The Hands Of Harvey Weinstein : television
This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry : movies

Marcel Groen resigns as chairman of Pa. Democrats at request of Gov. Wolf - Philly - had come under fire for a series of mixed messages, controversial comments -- and in some cases, silence -- in response to sexual harassment allegations involving Democrats in the state (asshole and buffoon)

Of Course Woody Allen's French Distributor Is Okay With It (+Deneuve -- 'call out your whore' -- is hopelessly stupid)


Rose McGowan abruptly ends her publicity tour. It's been tumultuous from the start
Rose McGowan Transgender Comment to RuPaul Upsets a Trans Activist ... RuPaul ... stating that trans women don't really understand what it's like to grow up as women ... critics labelled her a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF), basically a term for a woman who doesn't consider trans women as "real women"

Third Victim Reveals Allegations That Topher DiMaggio Raped Him


Two sisters charged with torturing girl, 5, and boy, 8, in alleged voodoo rituals in East Bridgewater - The Boston Globe

Oregon is producing three times more marijuana than it can consume : news

Anger erupts as Zoots customers seek to retrieve garments from shuttered store - The Boston Globe - One man came in search of a hand-made $2,000 suit,

Bobcat spotted in Concord - The Boston Globe - Concord police are urging local residents to be on the look out for a bobcat spotted in town on Thursday afternoon.



Scientists find massive Mayan society under Guatemala jungle - The Washington Post - Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala's Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought.


Low levels of alcohol consumption is potentially beneficial to brain health, by improving the function of the glymphatic system, which helps the brain clear away toxins, including those associated with Alzheimer's disease, finds a new study in mice.


Similar to increasing wealth gap, are we experiencing an increasing educational gap? Are well-educated getting more educated and under-educated staying under-educated? : askscience
An hereditary meritocracy - America elite - The children of the rich and powerful are increasingly well suited to earning wealth and power themselves.
The 20 US Cities With The Worst Educational Progress (Charts) (general uptick in uneducated since 2000

Facebook addiction linked to narcissism and other psychological factors, study finds : science


Delete HQ Trivia | HuffPost - In case you're still not convinced, in 2009, Thiel wrote that giving women the right to vote was bad for democracy (for the gif of the vampire)

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All 955 miners trapped in S. Africa rescued : news


Dow plunges 666 points -- worst day since Brexit - Feb. 2, 2018 - Wall Street just suffered the worst day of the Trump presidency.
Dow plunges 600 points -- worst week in 2 years : news
Over $100 billion wiped off global cryptocurrency market in 24 hours : technology (things getting unstable)



Russia probe lawyers think Mueller could indict Trump - POLITICO - Many legal scholars doubt a U.S. vs. Trump case is possible, but two attorneys who have dealt with special counsel Robert Mueller's team disagree. One expects Mueller to move as early as this spring.

CIA chief met with sanctioned Russian spies, officials confirm - CNNPolitics - CIA Director Mike Pompeo did meet with the head of Russia's foreign intelligence agency, an official barred from entering the US under 2014 sanctions, as well as the head of Russia's internal security agency ... "to keep American safe" (especially Russian-spy Republican Americans)
factory81 comments on 3 sanctioned Russian spy chiefs visited the US days before Trump decided against new sanctions on Russia (Trump crime family, Rosneft, Haley, Tillerson, Magnitsky_


House Intelligence Committee Minority Response to Release of Chairman Nunes ... But most destructive of all may be the announcement by Chairman Nunes that he has placed the FBI and DOJ under investigation, impugning and impairing the work of the dedicated professionals trying to keep our country safe. (from criminal dictators, among other things)
STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON PARTISAN ATTACKS ON THE FBI & DOJ - Press Releases - United States Senator John McCain - The American people deserve to know all of the facts surrounding Russia's ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller's investigation must proceed unimpeded. Our nation's elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin's job for him.

House Republicans Release Secret Memo Accusing Russia Investigators of Bias - The New York Times
How Democrats could release their memo - CNNPolitics

6 key takeaways from the GOP memo alleging FBI bias in the Russia investigation - The Washington Post
Did Trump just reveal the real reason this GOP memo on the FBI was written? - The Washington Post - publicly undermined Ryan's argument that the memo doesn't equal an attack on the FBI, Justice Department or the special counsel investigating Trump. This memo will actually prove political bias in all of those places, Trump suggested: (he was all set to fire everybody)
Read the Nunes memo, annotated - The Washington Post

Nunes Memo: the 9 biggest questions, answered - Vox - The controversial memo about the FBI and the Trump-Russia investigation, explained.
The Nunes memo, explained with diagrams - Vox
Read: Nunes memo full text - Vox

'Nothingburger' Doesn't Do This Memo Justice - Devin Nunes, everybody. (big surprise, Nunes comes out looking like a dumbaSS Russian ratfucker "White House lawn ornament")

The Nunes memo is a dud - Vox - memo allegedly exposing anti-Trump bias at the FBI does nothing of the kind - The entire thing is three and a half pages and only takes a few minutes to read closely and carefully. After doing that, there is only one conclusion a fair reader could draw: There is absolutely nothing here ... The memo is a piece of partisan spin, and not a particularly compelling one at that. Republicans who claimed it was anything else have been egregiously misrepresenting what the memo actually says. (Ryan wants to use this to "cleanse" the FBI - Republicans ate their own brains)

There Was Nothing In Devin Nunes's Vault, But It Was All the DEEP STATE's Fault
Alexandra Petri on Twitter: "sorry no tweets for a little while i read the memo and it was indeed 100x bigger than what started the American Revolution so I had to rush from Boston on horseback to rouse the people" (Gorka, the "100x worse than the America Revolution guy)

The Brutal Slaying of Parody [TW: Extremely Graphic] - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Chris Cillizza) But remember, according to the impartial, nonpartisan theory of Donald Trump and the vast majority of House and Senate Republicans, the FBI's anti-Trump conspiracy apparently started when the director of the FBI sent a highly prejudicial letter based on redundant and immaterial emails, resulting in Trump becoming president. So really, this story just provides further evidence of a DEEP STATE conspiracy against Trump! WE'RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS PEOPLE! (the prion disease went full Ouroboros and they eat their own children adn the choice between good and evil becomes clearer)

Release of disputed GOP memo on FBI surveillance unleashes waves of recrimination - The Washington Post ... Asked after the memo's release if he might fire Rosenstein, Trump told reporters: "You figure that one out." (they really thought their stupid lying bullshit would let them "cleanse the Justice Dept." and fire Mueller)
Trump Just Shot Himself in the Foot | New Republic - By approving the release of the Nunes memo, the president undermined his own defense against allegations in the Russia investigation.
White House sees price for release of Nunes memo - Axios

Sources: Devin Nunes Memo Is 100% Wrong About Andrew McCabe and Steele Dossier <
Sentence buried in GOP memo may undercut Trump efforts to discredit Russia probe - The Washington Post

GOP lawmaker calls for FBI, DOJ officials to face 'treason' charges ... Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) said ... 'clear and convincing evidence of treason' (yeah, very clear and very convincing and they had the whole PR roll-out planned so Trump could fire everybody +)
Exclusive: Conservative group calls for Rod Rosenstein's head - Axios - he Tea Party Patriots (the orchestrated purge)
Will Trump fire Rod J. Rosenstein? 'You figure that one out,' he said. - The Washington Post

Trey Gowdy on the Memo: Contents Do Not Discredit Mueller's Investigation (severe back-tracking from his partisan hackery because he looks like an idiot)

A Significant Inaccuracy in #TheMemo Calls Its Credibility Into Question ... I was briefing him about salacious and unverified material. ("material," not the whole dossier +even Redstate)

Top Democrats warn of 'constitutional crisis' if Trump fires Rosenstein, Mueller over memo - K.T. McFarland, a former White House official whose nomination to be ambassador to Singapore was blocked in the Senate amid questions about her Russia ties, withdrew from consideration for the post on Friday.


Legal fund in development to help Trump administration and campaign staff pay legal bills in Russia probe - ABC News - Lawyers are laying the groundwork for a new legal defense fund to aid those who have at one point served candidate and now President Donald Trump and who have been pulled into the ongoing Russia probe.


Senator seeks documents on Russia money links to the NRA

The Republican Plot Against the F.B.I. - The New York Times (the crime and disorder party)
Nunes memo centers on a 40-year-old law written to prevent surveillance abuses - The Washington Post
A process that tarnishes the House - The Washington Post - Discrediting law enforcement is the memo's transparent purpose and why it has been embraced by President Trump.

Devin Nunes is acting like he's in a spy thriller (well??)
Devin Nunes is acting like a partisan hack. That's just how I remember him -- The Nunes I knew was a purely partisan animal. When it comes to exercising good judgment and discharging his duties in service of the Constitution, he's just not up to the task. (Joe Walsh, teahadist)

Comey Blasts 'Weasels' in Tweet Apparently Aimed at GOP Memo

Trump rips into Kasich at RNC dinner - POLITICO - The president also described to the audience how he aced a mental acuity test.




ICE targets 77 NorCal businesses in illegal worker crackdown (load them in boxcars)

Justice Dept. Office to Make Legal Aid More Accessible Is Quietly Closed - The New York Times (no leagal aid for those kinds of people)

Senate Democrats and Immigration - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Senate Democrats have basically caved entirely. There is zero stomach for second shutdown. No matter what, that is not happening. Immigration advocates are furious and they have every right to be. (thanks Chuck +Manchin)


Why We Need to Talk a Lot More about Treason in Defense of Slavery - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Republican Governance Is A Catastrophe - Lawyers, Guns & Money - f you wonder why I talk so much about why consumerist wank voting is bad, it's because elections are literally a matter of life and death. Simple as that. (Republicans always want to kill people)

Small town SC mayor won't let Flint water crisis researcher test wells for pollution : news


Editorial: Paul Nehlen's anti-Semitic bigotry must be confronted - Paul Nehlen, a candidate for Congress, is a bigot ... On Tuesday, Nehlen, once again running against Ryan, published a list of his critics: "Of those 81 people, 74 are Jews, while only 7 are non-Jews" ... He posted phone numbers, emails, Twitter handles, inviting his anti-Semite friends and backers to harass them.




California Legislature releases a decade's worth of records on sexual harassment investigations - There are four currently serving lawmakers named in the documents, which detail there were 62 claims made against Assembly lawmakers or staff and 17 made against senators or staff since 2006

Arizona House expels Rep. Don Shooter, citing 'dishonorable' pattern of workplace harassment ... he sexually harassed women over many years ... It was the first time since 1991 that a member of the Arizona Legislature was removed by fellow lawmakers ... "I've been thrown out of better places than this." ... House members voted 56-3 to oust Shooter, R-Yuma, after a dramatic flurry of events that led House Speaker J.D. Mesnard, who had initially proposed censuring Shooter, to push for his immediate removal. (another Republican asshole harasser)

Humane Society C.E.O. Announces Resignation Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations - The New York Times -- The executive, Wayne Pacelle, had held onto support from the majority of the organization's board, which voted on Thursday to immediately end an investigation into his behavior. Yet by Friday afternoon, some donors and employees of the organization were distancing themselves from him and calling for him to leave (their coverup didn't work, and hellooo Erika Brunson)

Hollywood manager who represented minority women accused of sexual misconduct - Axios (pic says it all)

Victim's father lunges at disgraced doctor : news

'Bill & Ted' Star Alex Winter Says He Was Sexually Abused as a Child Star : movies (and Barbara Walters is a terrible person) We need a name for celebrities that were beloved/trusted among baby boomers and gen Xers that were later destroyed by Millennials and their values. You know, like Cosbies.


NC man impregnates biological daughter, plans to marry her : news

After her friend's suicide, a teen posts an anti-bullying video -- and is suspended from school

Florida ER nurse goes on epic rant about flu season : videos

The Humboldt 35 | News | North Coast Journal - Why does Humboldt County have the highest rate of missing persons reports in the state?

L.A.'s homelessness surged 75% in six years to 55,000 : news

Former University of Oregon Professor Bequeaths $2.4M to Purchase Art History Books and Photographs. University Breaks Bequest and Gives Money to Administration : books (who needs books when you got million-dollar "administrators?")

Conscious plants: new study shows plants react to anesthetics in a similar fashion to animals : science


Ex-cult members of reddit, what's your story? How did you end up in a cult? How did you escape? : AskReddit

[Serious] Those who didn't believe in ghosts/the paranormal, what experience did you have that changed your view? : AskReddit

Hotly disputed Russia-probe memo released over FBI protest : news (Russsians attack reddit post)

'Seeing someone cry at work is becoming normal': Employees say Whole Foods is using 'scorecards' to punish them ... Employees say the system has crushed morale and led to widespread food shortages.

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Trump to allow 'outrageous' gold rush-style grab of public lands to begin in less than 48 hours (lie, cheat, steal, rape, plunder, pillage)

Scientists show links between earthquakes and oil and gas industry -- in 2008 Oklahoma recorded one earthquake, in 2015 the number was 903 (drill baby drill)


The missile employee messed up because Hawaii rewards incompetence - The Washington Post (let's put a known nut-case in charge of the missle alert system, what could go wrong?)


Guantanamo: Bush-era officials warn keeping prison open may be $6bn error | US news | The Guardian - Trump's decision to keep the prison open may be costly and dangerous, according to officials who set up the Cuba facility (it's a prop on his hatred show)


As Strongmen Steamroll Their Opponents, U.S. Is Silent - The New York Times (Trump is taking notes and getting advice)

Chiefs Of Three Russian Intelligence Agencies Travel To Washington - in what observers said was a highly unusual occurrence coming at a time of heightened U.S.-Russian tensions.


Paul Krugman on Twitter: "One key lesson of 2017 was that everything liberals have said about right-wing hypocrisy was true -- in fact understated 1/ https://t.co/o9Le1y7Sau"
??4AllWeRise???? on Twitter: "the hypocrisy is astounding - it simply proves that the religiousright has no real morals at all - they're #fakechristians full of #falsepiety https://t.co/WB4FUumChR"
shifty paradigm on Twitter: (nice cartoon)
Of Course the Christian Right Supports Trump - The New York Times -- the president doesn't threaten the religious right's traditional values. He embodies them.

Radio Silence From the Intelligence Community: Where Does It Stand on the Memo? - Lawfare - By Gen. Micheael Hayden

Rising White House fear: Nunes memo is a dud - Axios (they believed their own lying bullshit? they thought everyone else would too? this is a surprise? let's see what happens to Nunes now)
BREAKING: Evidence in Memo Outlining Insane Conspiracy Theory Less Than Compelling - Lawyers, Guns & Money - They figured this out too late, but obviously it was better to have a SECRET MEMO that one could pretend plainly had ironclad evidence of pervasive anti-Trump bias in the FBI rather than actually releasing the thing and revealing it to be moronic ramblings of rank buffoons.

Trump Clears the Way for Release of Secret Republican Memo - The New York Times
Trump-FBI feud over classified memo erupts into open conflict - The Washington Post ... Trump has told advisers that the memo could benefit him by undercutting the special counsel's investigation and allow him to oust senior Justice Department officials -- and that he wants it released soon. (no obstruction there, for sure)
Devin Nunes Made 'Material Changes' To Secret Memo Before It Went To Trump, Democrat Says | HuffPost - Rep. Adam Schiff called on the House Intelligence chairman to withdraw the document he sent to the president for public release.
Pelosi Calls On Ryan To Remove Nunes As House Intel Chair Over Memo Edits

Sean Hannity Has Been Advising Donald Trump on the Nunes Memo, Because Of Course He Has - Donald Trump continues to get his policy advice from the people on "the shows" (hahaha from moron to moron, Seah says it's worse than the American Revoution)
Senate GOP leader cautions Nunes on FBI memo | TheHill - Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) said Thursday. (they thought this would be a distraction from the Russia stuff but it's more lying incompetence)
Trump sees Nunes memo as a way to discredit the Russia investigation - CNNPolitics - continues to tell his associates he believes the highly controversial Republican memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools could help discredit the Russia investigation,

White House worried FBI director could quit over Nunes memo release - CNNPolitics - FBI Director Christop her Wray could quit if the highly controversial Republican memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools is released,
FBI Director Must Be Prepared to Resign Over Nunes Memo, Ex-Agents Warn
Pelosi Sends Letter to Speaker Ryan Calling for Removal of Chairman Nunes and End to House Republicans' Partisan Charade
It Was Worse than You Think: The House Intelligence Meeting on the Nunes Memo - Lawfare ... Republicans criticized Hillary Clinton for what FBI Director James Comey called her "extremely careless" handling of classified information, but they are now planning to vote to release classified information in what the Justice Department called an "extraordinarily reckless" fashion ... As of 10pm on Wednesday night, Schiff announced on Twitter that Nunes has shared a different version of the document with the White House than the committee voted on.

The Nunes fiasco grows more preposterous by the hour - The Washington Post ... "We have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's acuracy," the FBI said ... We cannot stress enough just how bizarre and outrageous is the Nunes scheme. FBI Director Christopher Wray, appointed by Trump, and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, also appointed by Trump, have warned the president that disclosure of the memo would do great damage to American national security ... Bluntly put, Trump and Nunes surely seem to be acting with corrupt intent to taint the investigators in order to help Trump escape the legal and political consequences of possible wrongdoing ... Nunes .. It's hard to take seriously a convoluted conspiracy theory coming from someone who trips over his own feet with such regularity. (lock up all the traitors) comment by oldguy123456: "Simple fact: Vote D for democracy. Vote R for Russia.

FBI director prepared to issue rebuttal if Nunes memo released, Fran Townsend says - CBS News
Phil Mudd Goes Off About Nunes Memo on CNN (the guy who said Trump has "the empathy of a cockroach")

Former Trump Aide Carter Page Was on U.S. Counterintelligence Radar Before Russia Dossier - WSJ - Court documents, testimony show foreign-policy adviser was known to authorities as early as 2013 (Obama spied on Russian spy who went to work for Trump)
GOP: If Carter Page Can Be Wiretapped, Who Among Us Is Safe?

Lawyers for Rick Gates withdraw from Russia case - POLITICO - speculation had been mounting that the longtime GOP operative might be seeking to cooperate with the Mueller investigation (another brick in Trump's prison wall)

Eschaton: The Monkeys Were Flinging Poo - If you're just coming in, this was some of the exciting news last night. -- Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director ... Remember the adoptions story? That was so stupid I doubt even Chris Cillizza believed it ... Mr. Trump was insistent about including language that the meeting was about Russian adoptions, according to two people with knowledge of the discussion.
NYT: Corallo will tell special counsel about alleged Hope Hicks vow that emails 'will never get out'
Report: Witness to Tell Mueller He Was Concerned Hope Hicks Obstructed - The Daily Beast
Hope Hicks Told President That Trump Jr.'s Emails'Will Never Get Out' - A former legal spokesman is expected to say that the White House communications director gave assurances to Trump.
'Smells like a coverup': Watergate prosecutor says Hope Hicks could be in big trouble over Don J
Yet Another Trump Staffer Appears Ready to Sing for Mueller - "Oh man, they couldn't have sent a message any clearer if they'd ented a revolving neon sign in Times Square" ... yet another former Trump staffer is ready to sing: Mark Corallo, who served as a spokesperson for Trump's legal team before resigning in July ... During a flight on Air Force One last July, Trump and White House communications director Hope Hicks reportedly led the drafting of a misleading statement suggesting that the meeting was about Russian adoptions ... he told both Mr. Trump and Ms. Hicks that the statement drafted aboard Air Force One would backfire because documents would eventually surface showing that the meeting had been set up for the Trump campaign to get political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians ... did she say anything incriminating ...? Bannon said ... "You are as dumb as a stone!" Wolff also reported that Corallo quit because he believed the Air Force One meeting amounted to obstruction of justice, which the Times report seems to confirm.

4 New Trump Corruption Stories From the Last Day Alone ... What Kennedy did not mention, however, was the Trump administration's deep-rooted corruption, which is an odd omission, because there is quite a lot of it. (he didn't want to be "divisive" +nice pic of an Ivanka "air-kiss")

Trump's Birth Control Problems ... Stormy ... Trump did not use a condom: "And I was really kind of upset about it because I am so, like, careful." Torpedoing critical programs that help women to avoid unwanted pregnancy in the first place, however, is just cruel and stupid. And an embarrassing reminder that, for a former playboy, our president doesn't seem to know all that much about birth control.

Here's What Happens If 'Magnificent Bastard' Mueller Gets Fired

Maggie Haberman: Trump 'Loves' Watching the News Change After He Tweets
Newt Gingrich Goes Full Conspiracy Theorist: 'The Elite Media Is Part of the Deep State' (talkin' to Hannity, hahaha)
Kellyanne Conway rants wildly in attack on fact checkers: 'Americans are their own fact checkers' ... "Liberals seize more and more control of the infrastructure, they control the newspapers, they control the networks" (sure they do)
CNN panel mocks Trump fan who says the 'Deep State' is leaking to distract from SOTU speech

What if Clinton Had Done All This? - The New York Times

Top career US diplomat to quit State Department in latest departure under Trump - The U.S. State Department's third-ranking official, Tom Shannon, is stepping down from his post, the department said on Thursday, becoming the latest senior diplomat to exit since President Donald Trump took office a year ago. (34 years of service down the Trump drain)

WSJ Columnist: Trump Can Do Anything and I'll Support It - Wall Street Journal Columnist Discovers Trump Defense to End All Trump Defenses -- Holman Jenkins Jr., the longtime Wall Street Journal editorial writer and columnist, has crafted a comprehensive rationale for defending Trump that renders every case-by-case rationale superfluous. Jenkins argues that the only ethics in politics and governing is triumphing over your partisan enemies. ("Holman Jenkins Jr") Philosophically, this is quite chilling. It does not even rise to the level of fascism, which at least pretends to create a moral framework for a politics of zero-sum domination. It is the anti-ethos of mafiosi and serial killers ... Republicans are entitled to do literally anything it takes. ("laws" were always for those kinds of people)

DollyPartonSocialism on Twitter: "Bernie clapping like Slytherin just won the house cup " (not that slow)
Bernie Sanders Slow-Clapping Donald Trump Is Your New Favorite Meme | HuffPost

Donald Trump Jr. Fails Miserably In Twitter War With Joy Reid | HuffPost - Junior brought a slingshot. Reid had brought an arsenal.
Tomi Lahren Apologizes For 'Limp Dick' Social Media Meltdown | HuffPost - The conservative commentator attacked Rep. Joe Kennedy III on Instagram. (and a "little nasty ginger (as opposed to her dyed fake blond hair)

Trump Tower meeting participant sues for libel - POLITICO - In his complaint, Kaveladze accuses George Lakoff of libel and slander for comments he made in an MSNBC interview with Chuck Todd, in which Lakoff called Kaveladze "he major person who has been responsible for money laundering from Russia and other post-Soviet countries"

Behind Pence's plan to rescue the Republican majority in 2018 - In an exclusive interview, the vice president said the GOP could expand its majorities in Congress with his team (hahaha)

The new Republican model: strong defenders of President Trump - The Washington Post (minions of Satan show their true colors and fall into line)

Eschaton: The Ancient Days Of Blooging - So when political bloggers (nie warbloggers) showed up, they fit right into this quaint little community. Liberal assholes like me didn't and pissed the "old timers" off. The conservatives (I mean very serious libertarian patriots who love America more than you do) fit right into the "non-political" blogging because all right-thinking Americans were mad about 9/11 and hated Osama bin Laden and sure George Bush wasn't perfect but AMERICA and also that Saddam guy was really really bad so what choice do we have? How dare you hippies bring POLITICS into it? If you really cared about Iraqis you'd be protesting Saddam!!! Salute the flag or get a 2x4 in the face, citizen. ... The whole country was like that. It really was a bit out of the ordinary to criticize George Bush then. It was unseemly.


Trump administration strips CFPB office of enforcement power in lending discrimination cases - The Washington Post (rebranded as the Consumer Financial Non-Proection Bureau)

Eschaton: And What Army - Send the marshalls to lock him up. -- State Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R., Jefferson) said Wednesday he would not turn over any data requested by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the wake of the gerrymandering ruling that Republicans are fighting in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sen. Scarnati refuses Pa. Supreme Court order to turn over map data in gerrymander case - Philly ("Joe Scar" hahaha)

Judge should order governor to stop using ephemeral messaging app, lawyers say | Ars Technica ... an ephemeral messaging mobile app, which they say is in violation of state public records law. (hahaha we don't need no steenking "public records")

American Students Aren't Learning The Full Truth About Slavery | HuffPost - Students often get only a superficial view of the atrocity that built the country, a new study finds ... Only 8 percent of high school seniors surveyed by an independent polling firm for the study identified slavery as the primary reason for the Civil War. Almost half identified tax protests as the main cause.

America's Most and Least Popular Governors -- January 2018 - Republicans continue to dominate, at the top and bottom of the rankings (Charlie, at 69% approval, leads the pack)

Zombie Campaigns | Investigations | Tampa Bay Times - The campaign is over. The candidate might be dead. But the spending never stops.

New York docked $14M for I Love NY highway signs - 500 I Love NY road signs that violate federal highway rules and state law. Andrew Cuopmo's administraion, which installed the blue signs across the state in recent years despite a 2013 federal order prohibiting it from doing so.

Is Chelsea Manning eligible to run for U.S. Senate? - The Washington Post ... (comment:) "I think Chelsea Manning has probably used up her dance card at this point. Running for the Senate is a bridge too far. If she wants to give back to the community, there are plenty of other offices to run for. Build a legislative record and a good reputation of working for people and then maybe the public will be more supportive."


Two students shot at Salvador Castro Middle School; one in critical condition. 12-year-old girl is in custody


Hillary Clinton's sexual assault response shows a fatal flaw - The Washington Post - There was that hoary first line: "The most important work of my life has been to support and empower women," but very little was about the woman in question. In the entire statement, "I" appears 37 times, and "Sorry" not evn once (it's all about her and she's not at all "sorry" because she never, ever, is)
The Clinton reckoning is one of the most essential #MeToo revelations yet. - Hillary Clinton personally protected a senior adviser on her 2008 campaign who was accused of repeated sexual harassment
Hillary Clinton explains why she didn't fire a staffer accused of sexual harassment - Her statement was deeply unsatisfying.

USOC was told of Larry Nassar abuse in 2015 and failed to act, says report | Sport | The Guardian - Wall Street Journal reports turns spotlight on US Olympic Committee

Why We Applaud When Woody Allen Insults Women - "He called her a 'fellatrix'"

Humane Society keeps CEO after sexual harassment complaints, prompting seven board members to resign - The Washington Post ... The decision by the Humane Society breaks with a recent pattern of removing leaders accused of sexual misconduct in the workplace ... "Are you out of your mind?" board member Erika Brunson, a California interior designer, responded. "Don't you have anything better to do in life than air your repressed sexual fantasies in public?" (Erika Brunson infamous on the internets for all eternity in the soulless asshole dept) Pacelle has led the Humane Society since 2004 and earned about $380,000 in 2016 (he's their male star and everyone else's salary sucks)

Top Editors Out At NY Daily News Following Harassment Investigations | HuffPost - managing editor fostered a culture of fear and silence, current and former staffers said.

Investigator calls Robert Wagne A Person of Interest" - in Natalie Wood drowning death - For the first time since reopening the investigation into the mysterious death of the legendary actress, investigators speak out ... number of bruises that appeared to be fresh on Wood's body. "She looked like a victim of an assault" (more deeply-buried male shit coming to the surface)


WATCH: Black customer gets vindication after Old Navy employees accuse him of stealing his own jacket< - "The store manager Beau Carter was very unprofessional and stereotyped me because I was black" /a>

3 arrested for torture, death of 13-year-old boy | KRQE News 13 - Santa Fe County Deputies said a 13-year-old New Mexican boy spent his final days living in a dog kennel after suffering years of abuse at the hands of his mother's boyfriend


How the Uber economy increases inequality - The Washington Post - The unique economic properties of intangibles

Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India. The question is: Who made them? - The Washington Post


How realistic is the cancer "vaccine" talked about recently? : askscience
Callmyredberg explains how cancer actually works, and why is it so hard to treat it : bestof


Hey, we're here to talk about that desktop redesign you're all so excited about! : blog

The Publisher of Newsweek And The International Business Times Has Been Buying Traffic And Engaging In Ad Fraud - buying and manipulating traffic that originates on pirated video streaming sites. The company acknowledged buying traffic, but denies engaging in ad fraud.

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Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science - Scientific American Blog Network - By attending the State of the Union with NASA administrator nominee Jim Bridenstine, the Science Guy tacitly endorses climate denial, intolerance and attacks on science ... By 500 Women Scientists on January 30, 2018
White House seeks 72 percent cut to clean energy research, underscoring administration's preference for fossil fuels
Ghost Cat Gone: Eastern Cougar Officially Declared Extinct - Scientific American Blog Network - The subspecies has now been removed from the Endangered Species Act, 80 years after itThe head of Moscows last sighting


Rubio, Menendez express concern about Russian influence in Mexican election to Tillerson - CBS News

Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts - The New York Times - Federal and state authorities are investigating the sellers of artificial followers and other fraudulent social media engagement. More than a million followers have disappeared from the accounts of dozens of prominent Twitter users in recent days as the company faces growing criticism over the proliferation of fake accounts and scrutiny from federal and state inquiries into the shadowy firms that sell fake followers.


Trump's Saturday Night Massacre Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes -- The aim of the campaign against the Mueller investigation and the FBI is clear: obstructing justice.
Mueller Zooms In on Trump Tower Cover Story - The New York Times


Viewers approve of Trump's first State of the Union address - Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave. Just a quarter disapproved.
Less than half of State of the Union watchers have very positive view of Trump address - CNNPolitics - Almost half of Americans who watched President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address -- 48% -- say they had a 'very positive" impression ... lowest net positive rating for a State of the Union address since at least 1998, when CNN first asked the question. There is no equivalent poll for addresses before 1998. (who are you gonna believe?)
TV ratings: Trump's First State of the Union Fails to Match Obama in Viewership - 7 million on CBS, 5.4 million on ABC, and 3.6 million on Fox for a combined 23.1 million viewers. (wut? no one watch Fox?)

Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union speech | PolitiFact -- two False statements, three Mostly False, one Half True, three Mostly True, and one True.
Fact Check: Trump's State Of The Union Address
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's claims in his State of Union address (pack of lies and misleading)

Trump's Speech Exposed the GOP's Lack of Direction - It was unique in its near-total refusal to lay out any ideas for the future. (there is no future in Republicanism)

Trump campaign: Send us $1 and we'll scroll your name during State of the Union live stream

A divisive and misleading State of the Union - The Washington Post
Donald Trump Pits Dreamers Against American Citizens In State Of The Union | HuffPost - The president framed immigration as a violent threat.
The Hidden Extremism Of Trump's State Of The Union | HuffPost - he most important part of Trump's tate of the Union address is what he didn't say. ... The speech's banality -- its embrace of optimism and platitude -- is a mask. Do not be fooled: Political extremism, divisive rhetoric and bizarre behavior have characterized the first year of Trump's presidency and underlie many of the harmless-sounding proposals he talked about Tuesday night.
Trump's State Of The Union Gets Brutal Review From New York Daily News | HuffPost
Donald Trump Got Clap-Happy During The State Of The Union, And Twitter Noticed | HuffPost - "Why is Trump clapping for himself? It's almost like he's a narcissist or something."
All I could think of during Trump's State of the Union address last night


Brian Stelter on Twitter: "Trump: "I would love to be able to bring back our country into a great form of unity. Without a major event where people pull together, that's hard to do. But I'd like to do it without that major event, because usually that major event is not a good thing. I would love to do it."" (yes, read that again, he loves to do bad things)
This was the scariest part of Trump's State of the Union - He talked about North Korea the way George W. Bush talked about Iraq. Trump discussing North Korea in the same way that Bush discussed Saddam is a troubling warning sign. This is how American presidents sell wars absent an imminent threat. They paint the prospective enemy as evil, an enemy of civilization, something that must be defeated both to preserve our own safety and to secure the future of humanity ... Cha had criticized the administration's proposed plans for a strike on North Korea in private. (they long for your blood)
Eschaton: Bets On How Many People He Kills? - Looks like the plan is "millions." -- The White House's original choice for U.S. ambassador to South Korea is no longer expected to be nominated after he privately expressed disagreement in late December with the Trump administration's North Korea policy, according to people familiar with the matter ...
Disagreement on North Korea policy derails White House choice for ambassador to South Korea - The Washington Post - Victor Cha (who actually knew something)
U.S. can destroy 'most' of N. Korea's nuclear missile infrastructure, top general says (not what Cha says. your corrupt lying military will kill millions, again)
Victor Cha: Giving North Korea a 'bloody nose' carries a huge risk to Americans (not to mention those South Koreans who don't count)

Eschaton: Stop Speaking Random Bits Of Spanish, Politicians
3 winners and 2 losers from Donald Trump's first State of the Union - Loser: people coming to America seeking asylum.

Donald Trump just asked Congress to end the rule of law. - This should be the biggest headline of the speech ... Under Trump's proposal, any Cabinet secretary could decide that, say, a law enforcement official investigating the president had "undermined the public tgrust" or "failed the American people" -- and fire him on the spot. In other words, Trump is calling for an end to any semblance of independence for the IRS, the FBI, the Department of Justice, or any other federal agency. (how very Turkish)

What Trump's First State of the Union Says About 2018 - The Atlantic - The three main ways the president is shaping congressional races, as seen in his first State of the Union

Signature line from Trump's speech is already a white nationalist rallying cry = Speaking their language ... "Because Americans are dreamers too." (and their dreams are very dark despite the pure whie color of their skin)

In Joe Kenney's speech, Democrats rediscovered Barack Obama's compelling vision - America is about equality, across all dimensions.

The Nunes Conspiracy - The New York Times (lock up the little Russian traitor) Tom Nichols, a Naval War College professor, worte: "The memo itself is far less important than the fact that GOP Congressmen are now at war with our own law enforcement and intelligence community, something in a lifetime of being a Republican I never expected to see. This will end badly." (and who did you vote for, Mr lifetime Republican?)
Rep. Nunes's s memo crosses a dangerous line - Adam Schiff -- However, unlike President Richard Nixon, who waged his Watergate fight without the same kind of vocal allies, Trump not only has an entire media ecosystem dedicated to shielding him from accountability but also senior Republicans who on the Hill have cast aside their duty to uphold the law and perform oversight in favor of protecting the Trump presidency -- no matter the cost. (intelligence committees hopelessly compromised by Putin, and it wasn't even that hard)
FBI Director Opposes Memo Release Because of Inaccuracies, Source Says - Bloomberg - Democrats say memo is inaccurate, effort to undermine Mueller
F.B.I. Condemns Push to Release Secret Republican Memo - The New York Times ... Christopher A Wray ... condemning a push by House Republicans to release a secret memo that purports to show how the bureau and the Justice Department abused their authorities to obtain a warrant to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser. (who, being a Russian agent, should have been spied on)
FBI Launches Preemptive Strike on Nunes Memo
In rare public rebuke, FBI humiliates GOP for Mueller smear campaign

DOJ gives special counsel internal docs on proposed Sessions resignation, source says - ABC News - nd emails with the White House about fired national security adviser Michael Flynn

Controversial FBI agent co-wrote draft of Comey letter - CNNPolitics - Peter Strzok - who co-wrote what appears to be the first draft that formed the basis of the letter Comey sent to Congress, also supported reopening the Clinton investigation once the emails were discovered on disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop ... (Republicans are impervious to irony, but they are complaining about Comey throwning the election to Trump)
Second Trump-Russia dossier being assessed by FBI | US news | The Guardian - memo written by former journalist Cody Shearer independently sets out some of the allegations made by ex-spy Christopher Steele (including the pee-tapes?)

Russia's Sanctioned Spy Chief Reportedly Met CIA Director in the U.S. - The head of Moscow's foreign intel service, which masterminded 2016 election interference, supposedly talked to Mike Pompeo about working together on terrorism. (but really about hacking for the Republicans)

Exclusive: Trump asked Rosenstein if he was 'on my team' (of criminals)

Internal Justice Department probe eyes McCabe's role in final weeks of 2016 election - why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks on a request to examine a batch of Hillary Clinton-related emails found in the latter stages of the 2016 election campaign (the Weiner Files, which were a nothing-burger but Trumpsters need bigly distractions)


Stormy Daniels Throws Weird New Twist In Alleged Trump Affair Drama | HuffPost - interview raises even more questions. Or does it? ... Stormy Daniels implied on Tuesday night that a letter denying an alleged affair with President Donald Trump didn't come from her.

Michael Wolff: Nikki Haley 'embraced' rumors of affair with Trump

EXCLUSIVE: Trump officials discussed "Reversing" abortion for undocumented teen ... a controversial, scientifically unproven method ... teenager who had been impregnated by rape (Make America Evil Again)

Trey Gowdy not running for re-election - Axios - He is the 34th House Republican that will not seek re-election. (rats off the boat)

CDC chief Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald resigns amid tobacco stock controversy - departure comes less than a day after Politico revealed she bought stock in a tobacco company within a month of taking her job. Fitzgerald also owned stocks in other tobacco companies, despite overseeing CDC's smoking-cessation programs.


'Using his position for private gain': HUD lawyers warned Ben Carson risked running afoul of ethics rules by enlisting son ("ethics" hahaha)


Eschaton: Hacks - People are rooting for their team no matter how much they pretend they aren't. But there should be limits. News outlets that regularly put liars and hypocrites on the air or in the funny papers aren't actually providing "journalism" to their audiences. A weird thing is that genuine ideological journalism (especially from The Left, but that's another conversation) is held in lower regard than just pure hackery. I'm not sure why that is.

Eschaton: Media Criticism And Trump Criticism Aren't The Same - That the narrative during the latter Obama years was largely that "the economy is doing better, but meh" and now suddenly we have a Trump miracle (I'm exaggerating, a bit, but the coverage is friendlier to Trump) despite things not really being different. This is something to criticize. Media should be better, but it's more about relative coverage. If The Trump economy is good this year, then the Obama economy was good last year.

In shocking move, feds drop all charges against Sen. Bob Menendez | NJ.com

Eschaton: Guilds - Guilds are different than unions, because unions are about either gross uneducated dirty blue collar dudes or people doing women's work like nurses or teachers. I'm kidding. But I've long been "amused" by the fact that newspaper unions are generally called "guilds." I think one fair observation about our newspapers (media generally, but local and national newspapers specifically) is they've been pretty hostile to unions over the years. Especially public unions, but not just. Labor hasn't really been an important beat, except for Labor boss corruption ... One journalist I know agreed that they often don't really see their "guilds" as the same as "unions" because reasons. I suspect this will change. We're all proles now. Solidarity!

Drug firms shipped 20.8M pain pills to WV town with 2,900 people | Health | wvgazettemail.com (what's the problem, that's only 6,895 pills/person)

Virginia May Make You Pay The State To Watch Porn | HuffPost - The state says it's for lovers -- but maybe not for viewers of pornography. -- would require Virginians to pay a $20 fee to unblock content on adult websites. (trial run for the $100 fee for watching non-Trump content)

Mike Cernovich Is Bidding $500,000 to Buy Gawker.com | Vanity Fair - A leaked pitch deck shows how Cernovich would turn Gawker into a platform for his media ambitions ... "D-list right-winger" (and that was kind, but who is funding him?)

Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour arrested with gun at airport - said he will pay a fine after being arrested with a loaded handgun in his briefcase as he went through an airport security checkpoint in early January.

Senior adviser who worked for disgraced Trump appointee at federal volunteer agency was banned by Uber over allegations of racial comments - CNNPolitics - A senior adviser who worked for disgraced Trump appointee Carl Higbie was banned from using Uber after an incident early last year in which he allegedly made racially charged and anti-Muslim comments to a driver ... Daniel Pollack (only the best racists)

Republican Hawley lags behind McCaskill in Missouri Senate fundraising race | The News Tribune
Josh Hawley blames sex trafficking on 'sexual revolutin' of 1960s in leaked audio ... Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley ... Hawley, the top Republican prospect to challenge Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill in November ... During a speech at a "pators and Pews" event hosted by the Missouri Renewal Project ... an affiliate of the national American Renewal Project, a group that works to politically engage conservative Christians. ("Renewal" = Destruction)
SF will wipe thousands of marijuana convictions off the books - San Francisco Chronicle - The move will affect thousands of people whose marijuana convictions brand them with criminal histories that can hurt chances for finding jobs and obtaining some government benefits.


A Paper Tears Apart in a City That Never Quite Came Together - The New York Times - For all its successes, Los Angeles has not developed the political, cultural and philanthropic institutions that have proved critical in other American cities. "L.A. was self-consciously designed to be a decentralized place. What we call sprawl in the 21st century was part and parcel of the decentralized nature of the place."


He worked at a water district for just seven days. But it ended up costing $1.5 million - Two hours later, Beilke crashed headfirst into a wall on the second floor of the district's headquarters in the City of Commerce. One employee later said she watched Beilke fly across the frame of her door, arms stretched out, like Superman ... In the wake of the costly incident, some have questioned why Beilke was hired in the first place. A former Pico Rivera mayor, Beilke had been convicted of political misconduct.

Virginia Tech freshman had assault rifle, attempted to buy 5,000 rounds of ammo, police say - Man, 19, had been Tech student for six months ... Yunsong Zhao on Monday and charged him with possessing or transporting an assault firearm while not being a U.S. citizen or while not being lawfully admitted for permanent residence to the U.S, according to the arrest warrant. (shades of Seung-Hui Cho, what's the thing with Chinese assassins and VTech?)


Simone Biles Blasts U.S. Olympic Committee's Response To Larry Nassar | HuffPost - The gymnast said it was "crazy" that no one from the organization had reached out to her. (burn it down)
Michigan police department to apologize for doubting 2004 Larry Nassar accuser : news

Oprah Winfrey Drops Russell Simmons From Spiritual Advice Book - The New York Times -- after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct, including rape.

My Woody Allen Problem - The New York Times - By A. O. SCOTT (good article, deals with the deep story of Woody's creepy misogeny, including the "archives." comments are mostly pro-pervert, say acccusations are like a "communist witch-hunt" and he's "innocent until proven guilty" - these are educated people with no moral comprehension and can't see Allen is hiding in plain sight)

This editor pushed for equal pay. He got fired instead - The Boston Globe - The editor of a chain of western Massachusetts newspapers told his staff Wednesday that he was fired for advocating for raises for female reporters, whom the publisher had described as "girls" and "selfish young ladies" for requesting equal pay ... Rather than accepting a financial severance package that was tied to a nondisparagement clause, Good said, he blasted the publisher in an e-mail he sent to the employees of all the newspapers he oversaw, including The Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, the Greenfield Recorder, the Amherst Bulletin, and the Valley Advocate ... publisher Michael Rifanburg (lied)

Ben Affleck denies Rose McGowan ever said she was raped | Daily Mail Online


Teen Snatches Wig off of Classmate with Scalp Condition. Records Her Crying in Bathroom : news

'Juuling': The most widespread phenomenon you've never heard of ... The letter warned that recent studies "suggest e-cigarettes are the latest 'gateway' to harder drug use

North Andover rejects proposal for pot farm - The Boston Globe - final count: 1,430 in favor of the ban to 1,155 against. "We have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to secure a multimillion [dollar] stream of revenue for the town and keep [tax increases] and borrowing to a minimum. This is a well-financed, well-developed, forward-looking business plan. Others strongly disagreed. "I think the property values in North Andover will go down dramatically" said Susan Paplia a local real estate agent. "We're just not that kind of town." (they turn down millions they could have used for schools because "we're not that kind of town")


We've misunderstood the Backfire Effect - New research shows people accept fact-correction, but keep their opinions. This happens because facts are used to justify prior opinions, not as a basis for them; when one fact gets corrected, another, favorable to the prior opinon, takes its place. : science (often combined with the "stupid effect" +"I like to think of it as justification whack-a-mole")


Reprogramming patient T-cells to hunt down and destroy leukemia cells induces remission in over 70% of patients, over 5x better than chemotherapy standard of care. Pivotal study published in New England Journal of Medicine. : science (the end of chemo)


Killer whale learns to imitate human speech in world first : news

New evidence of muscle memory at a DNA level
Cellular memory erased in human embryos | Nature
No, trauma is not inherited | Debunked | Dallas News
NOVA | Transcripts | Ghost in Your Genes | PBS
Weight loss alters sperm epigenetics

TIL of a woman who was able to smell Parkinson's disease. In a study she was able to accurately identify 11/12 patients with Parkinson's. And not a year later the last patient was also diagnosed, making her record 12/12. : todayilearned ("smellotron" in the works")

ELI5: why do news anchors/cameramen still use bulky shoulder mount cameras when camera technology has advanced so far with things like gopros and their video quality? : explainlikeimfive

What 'phase' did you go through as a kid? : AskReddit

Someone made a Where in the World is Carmen San Diego game entirely through Imgur. Enjoy : gaming

Google Removed Over 700,000 Bad Apps, 100,000 Developers From Play Store in 2017 : technology (Chinese spyware)

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Hawaii missile alert: Troubled worker sent alert believing attack was imminent, reports say - The Washington Post - said he misunderstood that a drill was underway and believed that a ballistic missile had actually been fired at the state ... At least twice before the false alarm, he "has confused real life events and drills" (will run for President)

This Leaked Government Brexit Analysis Says The UK Will Be Worse Off In Every Scenario - Almost every sector of the economy included in the analysis would be negatively impacted in all three scenarios, with chemicals, clothing, manufacturing, food and drink, and cars and retail the hardest hit. The analysis found that only the agriculture sector under the WTO scenario would not be adversely affected. (when you let morons/tabloids run a country)


White House to Congress: Russia sanctions not needed now - politico ("Vlad is my bff" says Dumpster)
The Trump administration's weird explanation for withholding Russia sanctions - A State Department official added that there was, in fact, no need for new sanctions "because the legislation is, in fact, serving as a deterrent" (as Russia ramps up election interference on behalf of Republicans, the party of traitors)
Trump, Russia, Election. Quid, Pro, Quo. - Sanctions? What sanctions? (little Susie is "perplexed")


A Very Bad Week for a Lawless President
I think Mueller s Days Are Numbered -- Trump will do anything. That's power.
Five Questions the Nunes Memo Better Answer | Just Security
How to Get a Wiretap to Spy on Americans, and Why That Matters Now - The New York Times
Gorka on the Nunes Memo - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- "100 times bigger" than the abuses of power by Great Britain which led to the American Revolution



Carl Bernstein Bashes 'Enablers' Putting Trump Over Country: McCabe Departure is 'Monday Night Slaughter'
Trump's slow-motion massacre at the Justice Department (President for Life Trump dismantles America)

The Real State of the Union Is Awfully Precarious - On the very week President Trump is set to give this speech, he and his party have taken grave steps that put the republic at risk. (Party of Treason)
The great disorientation machine - Axios - the American people will be so thoroughly disgusted with everyone that the political outcome is a wash.

Federal judge blasts ICE for 'cruel' tactics, frees immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir ... "We are not that country," Forrest said, "and woe be the day that we become that country under a fiction that laws allow it" (Trumpistan)

Millions of Voters Will Cast Ballots in November in Unconstitutionally Gerrymandered Districts Mother Jones - Blame the Supreme Court. (maybe by 2030 something might change, hahahaha)


State Of The Union Tickets Feature Major Misspelling: 'Uniom' | HuffPost (says it all)

Trump's Approval Highest in West Virginia, Lowest in Vermont (well, actually D.C. is 4x lower than Vermont but doesn't count; the rockhead/welfare states are poor and stupid)



Joy Behar Challenges Kirsten Gillibrand: Why'd You Push Out Al Franken? | HuffPost ("one less candidate to worry about," Joy.)



Libertarians Fail To See Clear Threat That Donald Trump Poses to the Neoliberal Order - Lawyers, Guns & Money

How Texas Colleges Have Responded to the Hate Groups Behind All Those Racist Flyers - Records show a few dozen angry young white men, led by a teenager from the Dallas suburbs and emboldened by Trump, have caused headaches at universities across the state. "Now that our man TRUMP is elected and republicans own both the senate and the house -- time to organize tar & feather VIGILANTE SQUADS and go arrest & torture those deviant university leaders spouting off all this Diversity Garbage" (freedom of Nazi speech)
Democracy's Fragility -- Some of these schools have publicized the names and addresses of suspects, others are protecting. Texas attorney general lieutenant governor and complete wingnut Trumper Dan Patrick is going to hold public hearings on "freedom of speech on campus" which dollars to donuts is going to find that colleges are limiting the ability to Nazis to speak. Of course, this is just one of many examples of this sort of extremism undermining our national traditions that we could cite.

What does Hollywood's reverence for child rapist Roman Polanski tell us? ... we know exactly what happened because Polanski admitted to it and later wrote about it in astonishing detail in his autobiography ... Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kate Winslet and many more have appeared in Polanski movies in the decades since his conviction, and questions about why they were working with a convicted child rapist were seen as tacky, proof of a rigid mind more focused on gossip than art ... what Weinstein described as "his so-called crime"

Humane Society CEO is subject of sexual harassment complaints from three women, according to internal investigation - The Washington Post - by chief executive Wayne Pacelle and found that senior female leaders said their warnings about his conduct went unheeded ... The investigation also found the nonprofit agency, one of the country's biggest animal charities, had offered settlements to three other workers who said they were demoted or dismissed after reporting Pacelle's alleged behavior ... also reported that there was a perception within the Humane Society that certain women owed their career success to romantic relationships with the chief executive ... The amounts of the settlements were not disclosed.

Former 'Glee' Star Mark Salling Dies Awaiting Child Porn Sentencing | HuffPost - The actor faced up to seven years in prison.

Pink Had The Most Badass Response To Women In Music Being Told To "Step Up"



Eschaton: Evening - Enjoy. ...and the most popular man in America, Chris Christie, gets a job ... It's almost impossible to get as low approval ratings as he did unless you are caught on tape slaughtering several children. So, you know, perfect for a medium which requires charismatic telegenic people
Chris Christie Joining ABC News Is a Lesson for Journalism - Chris Christie joins ABC News while a Pulitzer-winning paper declares bankruptcy. -- There is absolutely no legitimate journalistic reason for ABC to hire an ill-tempered slug who has demonstrated all the intellectual nuance of block of cheese and all the political skill of an andiron ... In American journalism today, television networks can pay princely sums to celebrity political analysts who don't know enough about the actual issues to throw to a cat, but newspapers actually doing the publc's work of covering those issues on the ground go broke. (De Vos/KochBro's plan for de-educating America)


Everything you should know about happiness in one infographic | Big Think
Yale's Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness


The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything


Now even YouTube serves ads with CPU-draining cryptocurrency miners | Ars Technica - Ad campaign lets attackers profit while unwitting users watch videos.

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Donald Trump appears to misunderstand basic facts of climate change in Piers Morgan interview | The Independent (chief moron)

A super blue blood full moon all at once will happen on January 31 - The Washington Post - a full moon, a total lunar eclipse, a blue moon and a supermoon.


Russian jet flies within 5 feet of US Navy plane, Pentagon says - CNNPolitics

The Latest in Holocaust Denial - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Last Friday, Poland's lower house passed a bill (months in the making) that would make it a criminal offense -- punishable by a prison sentence -- to implicate Poles in the crimes of the Holocaust


Trump Tower Russian Lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Exposed in Swiss Corruption Case - who organized the notorious Trump Tower meeting, has been named in an explosive Swiss court case about bribery, corruption, and double-agents. (quite the Russian spy-girl)

U.S. military reviewing its rules after fitness trackers exposed sensitive data - The Washington Post

Why everyone is freaking out about a White House plan to nationalize the country's 5G data networks (only pro-Trump messages allowed)


Russian Attacks on 21 States in 2016 Election -- Oversight Dems Ask Gowdy to Subpoena Documents Withheld by Trump Administration (good luck with that)

Republicans vote to release memo alleging FBI missteps while surveilling Trump campaign operative - The Washington Post -- Current and former intelligence officials have expressed concern that releasing the memo will harm national security. (commnent:) - Top FBI official probing Trump/Russia demoted - House Intel cmte votes along party lines to release Nunes memo without Dem rebuttal - House Intel informs Democrats that DOJ & FBI are officially under investigation - Trump admin declined to impose Russia sanctions on day of deadline as required by Act of Congress - Our country is dealing with some serious sihte, people.

House Republicans Vote to Release Secret Memo on Russia Inquiry - The New York Times (500,000 Russian bots working for Nunes)
House Republicans Declare War on FBI, Vote to Spill Its Secrets and Investigate It (here comes your autocracy)

Mark Warner: 'We've Had New Information That Raises More Questions' The top Democrat on the Senate's Russia investigation says he's worried about what he's learned

Secret Memo Hints at a New Republican Target: Rod Rosenstein - The New York Times - A secret, highly contentious Republican memo reveals that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein approved an application to extend surveillance of a former Trump campaign associate shortly after taking office last spring ... Carter Page (it's a crime to accuse Republicans of a crime)

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepping down - NBC News - who has been attacked by President Donald Trump, stepped down Monday (more obstruction)
Andrew McCabe is retiring early. Here'S WHAT WE KNOW. (Hillary's emailz weren't investigated enough)
Trump told McCabe to ask his wife how it felt to be a loser: report | TheHill (of course he did)
FBI'S Andrew McCabe leaving deputy director job, will retire in March
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, frequent target of Trump's ire, steps down: NBC News : news

Eschaton: Tomorrow Is The Day He Became President - Journalists are already teeing up the "TRUMP IS REALLY PRESIDENTIAL NOW" narratives, because reading from a teleprompter is the sole qualification for the job. They literally will not judge him on the content, just the ability to not shit himself visibly for 45 minutes. I have no idea why "objective" political journalists feel like part of their job is bad theater criticism, but apparently they do.

An Article of Impeachment Against Donald J. Trump - The New York Times
Republican House 'leaders' are complicit in obstruction (and your media, especially Chuck Toddler)

Is Trump a greater threat than Nixon? Here's the big danger ahead -- "We are two tweets away from an extraordinary constitutional crisis, We are in a very dangerous point now in American political life."

CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: 'I regret my role' in Hillary Clinton false equivalence (well, yeah, thanks, Toobz)
Bad for reporting is not healthy for children and other living things - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Perhaps it is the regular attacks by the DOPUS, or even a basic sense of human decency, but Jeffrey Toobin seems to have realized that false equivalence-style reporting is a somewhat bad idea.
Hold My Beer, Ross -- As part of the eternal hack columnist search for false equivalency, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd suggests that the Democrats really blew it by not nominating someone with absolutely no gender-related baggage like ... Joe Biden ... I dunno, with Dowd on her umpteenth year of stumbling over to the phone and hitting some random numbers after her fourth martini-ing it in it strikes me that the Times may want to reconsider giving its columnists more job security than Article III judges. (lot of slime oozing out lately, thanks, NYT)
Charles P. Pierce on Twitter: "I am amused by the notion that the Ds "gave" the nomination to HRC." (those silly voters)

Donald Trump is winning - Vox - Trump is making us a little more like him, and politics a little more like the tribal clash he says it is.

North Carolina's Voter Suppression Is a Lesson to the Rest of the Nation -- It is relentless and multi-faceted - Nowhere has the assault on voting been as thoroughgoing, or as creative, as it has been in the newly insane state of North Carolina.
North Carolina Supreme Court Strikes Down GOP Attempt to Control Elections Board -- struck down a Republican-sponsored measure stripping Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of his ability to regulate the state's elections ... ensuring he will be able to restore voting rights throughout North Carolina in time for the 2018 election. (democracy-fuckers)

'He's ot God': In the wake of porn-star allegations, most evangelicals stand by Trump - presidency, white evangelicals are rewarding him with some of his strongest support, even amid continuing salacious headlines about his personal foibles ... "You have to take the good along with the bad" (wait, last week you were telling us he actually is God)

NJ GOP Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen to retire; won't seek 2018 election - when he was expected to face the toughest campaign of his career in New Jersey's 11th district (another fucker down)

Arkansas Resident: Cotton's Office Sent Cease And Desist When I Said 'Bullshit'- office confirmed this month that it occasionally sends constituents cease and desist letters, one Arkansas resident shared his attempts to learn the Senator's position on two issues close to his family, which he said ended in Cotton's staff sending the him a cease and desist letter. (hahah you thought he was your "representative" +is "Cotton" southern for "Slaveholder?")

How Clinton CLEARED THE FIELD - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Joe Biden thought that Hillary Clinton was 'playing ugly' after she attacked his record to discourage him from running for the presidency against her. The former vice president told an aide: if she thinks she's going to force me out of a race like this, she had another thing coming to her' ("thing" ??? +talk about entitled assholes, it was "his turn")
Hillary's staff saw Joe Biden as a DEF-CON 1 threat to her presidential campaign - while the vice president confided to aide that she play ugly'

An ER visit, a $12,000 bill -- and a health insurer that wouldn't pay -- A new insurance policy expects patients to diagnose themselves (Republican said you don't need health insurance, just go to the ER, then passed laws to make you pay anyway in KY and IN)

Illinois Ordered A Doctor To Tell Women Where To Get Abortions. Now He Wants The Whole State To Suffer | HuffPost - .. and the right-wing bureaucrats Trump installed in D.C. might agree with him. (religious freedumb!)

Julian Assange Thought He Was Messaging Sean Hannity When He Offered 'News' on Democrat Investigating Trump-Russia



Nikki Haley Trashes Hillary Clinton's Surprise Grammy Appearance | HuffPost - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations doesn't want politics in her music
P A T L E E on Twitter: "Fun Fact: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Woody Guthrie once wrote of his contempt for his bigoted landlord. That landlord happened to be @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/GeErlUn1GY "

2018 Grammy Ratings Sink From Recent Years | Hollywood Reporter - The CBS telecast is down a steep 21 percent from 2017 in early numbers, potentially spelling an all-time low

Suspects in five killings reportedly linked to macabre neo-Nazi group : news
Trump cuts funds to fight anti-right wing violence | TheHill

PatriotHole


'Every Corner' Of MSU Will Be Investigated Following Larry Nassar Sentencing | HuffPost - "No individual and no department... is off-limits" Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said ... "from the president's office down" (lock up Lou Anne)

Before 'soul mate' comment, Rep. Pat Meehan ignored advice against interviews ... "It's a difference of dying from an incurable disease, and committing hari-kari."

Modeling Agencies Enabled Sexual Predators For Years, Former Agent Says | HuffPost - In the 1980's and 1990's, Carolyn Kramer said she and her colleagues knew about allegedly predatory photographers, and sent their models to them anyway ... According to her, companies sent young women to live in residences -- one of which was reportedly known as "Clitoride," Italian for "clitoris" -- where they were preyed on by wealthy Italian men ... "It becomes a little bit of a human trafficking kind of thing." ... Kramer said she and other Elite agents would send models, who in many cases were under 16 and had never been to New York City, on appointments with nothing more than subway fare and a map ... New York pass a bill in 2013 that, among other things, requires models under 16 to have chaperones.


I Was Sexually Harassed By A Famous French Chef But That's Only One Part Of The Story - Sara Moulton recounts her harrowing experience working in the kitchen of esteemed French chef Maurice Cazalis, Julia Child's response to her story and her thoughts on the boys club that continues to rule the restaurant industry ... "Oh dearie, what did you expect? They're all like that. Get over it." (not like she warned the kid she would be raped or anything: morally empty Julia Child)


Troubled Los Angeles Times Picks New Editor Amid Unrest - The New York Times - the paper was expected to name Jim Kirk, a veteran journalist and former editor and publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times, as its next editor in chief on Monday ... the publisher, Ross Levinsohn, was put on leave following reports that he had previously been the subject of sexual harassment allegations. (TRONC!)


Date Lab:?She was funny and talkative. He was put off. - The Washington Post ... mama's boy Charlie Vinopal has never been on a dinner date, doesn't like "silverware," is "super white" has "midwestern values" and really weird hair ... comment: "A guy with Charlie's hair style shouldn't be be too judgmental about a postage-stamp-sized tattoo on Shelbie's wrist" hahah

Gay man and straight woman who married to prove their commitment to Mormon church announce divorce : news


How do we know what Ancient Egyptian (or any ancient language) sounded like?



Experiment on 390 persons show initial effect of fake news is not fully undone by later correcting information, this especially applies for people with lower cognitive ability : science ... Dumb people are easily fooled and stubbornly adhere to already-formed opinions in the face of contradictory evidence beyond that of average people?
Bright minds and dark attitudes: lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice through right-wing ideology and low intergroup contact. - PubMed - NCBI


ELI5:what is laveyan satanism : explainlikeimfive

A Boy Ate 3 Laundry Pods. This Is What Happened To His Lungs. : videos
Redditor finds out articles submitted to Not The Onion are not actually articles from The Onion - realizes how weird the world has become : bestof


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Polish 'death camp' law restrict talk of Holocaust history, angering Israel - The Washington Post - a law approved by the Polish parliament making it a criminal offence to mention Polish complicity in crimes committed during the Holocaust ... would fine or jail people who blame Poland or Poles for Nazi atrocities committed on its soil during World War II, including the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp ... would jail even foreigners for up to three years for using terms such as "Polish extermination camps" ... Villagers in Jedwabne, for example, reportedly locked about 300 Jewish residents in a barn and burned them alive in 1941 ... "white Europe" ... "pure blood" ... "any person who publicly insults the Polish nation is punishable by up to three years in prison" (sounds a lot like Turkey or Egypt)

France backs down on honoring an infamous anti-Semite. Many ask why he was being honored to begin with. - The Washington Post - The name Charles Maurras evokes the darkest currents of the French past: strident nationalism and obsessive anti-Semitism ... "Maurras was until the end of World War II the most prominent anti-Semite in France and the Number One enemy of liberal democracy"

Five British citizens are facing pornography charges in Cambodia after images emerged showing a group of tourists taking part in a party game : news

Dutch intelligence agents watched Russia hack the DNC. : technology

Eschaton: Stay Home - Travel to the U.S. has been on the decline ever since President Donald Trump took office, and new data from the Commerce Department shows the slump translates to a cost of $4.6 billion in lost spending and 40,000 jobs, according to an analysis by the U.S. Travel Association.

U.S. soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging - The Washington Post

The Latest: Russian protesters march past govt headquarters - Russian protesters shouting slogans including "Putin is a thief!" - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was detained by police en route to an unauthorized protest rally in Moscow, is expected to be charged with a public-order violation. That charge could bring a punishment of 20 days in jail.

Donald Trump tells Theresa May he won't visit the UK unless she bans protests -- Trump sets no-protest condition for visit to UK. (which he's planning to implement in the new rebranded America: the United State of Trump)

ICE and Border Patrol May Be Trump's Worst Legacy - proto-fascist behavior in action. (disgusting)


White House perjury panic - Axios -- "Trump doesn't deal in reality. He creates his own reality and he actually believes it"

Trump's attack on the FBI is an attack on the US constitution itself | Jill Abramson | Opinion | The Guardian
Paul Manafort, American Hustler - The Atlantic - Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort's pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington.
Paul Manafort - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dan Nexon on Twitter: "2) We find this pattern across North America and Eurasia: people runningon nationalism and xenophobia who themselves are creatures of international corruption. It's nauseating. It should make you furious. And it's critical to future left-wing mobilization. [end]"

The 'Law And Order' Party Has Unleashed An Extraordinary Attack On Law Enforcement | HuffPost - Trump supporters working to undermine the Mueller investigation are saying things about the FBI you don't typically hear from Republicans (it was always lawn order for THOSE kind of people and before Putin bought all of them)

President Trump Is a Reflection of Dark American Ideals - The Atlantic - s Mirror on the Wall - A year into his presidency, Trump has proven to be a reflection of the nation's darkest political traditions. (62 million Trump voters need to be deported to Russia)
Republicans redefine morality as whatever Trump does - The Washington Post -- Republicans. By 72 to 22 percent, they say Trump is a good role model (the Party of Lies and Death)
Hullabaloo - Forbearance, or lack thereof -- The confidence Americans place in their being exceptional has proven over the last few years to be a hollow boast. Not that it wasn't all along. And not that they have given up on boasting. They elected a hollow president whose career has been one long, empty boast. -- "How Democracies Die"

Trump Will Try to Fire Mueller. Again. - Bloomberg - The president clearly believes he can do whatever he wants. Including obstruct justice.

No, Ivanka Trump didnn't stop Josi Andris from getting into a party. Here's what really happened ... feast featured punchlines delivered by former president George W. Bush, former secretary of state John F. Kerry, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. And those were just the speakers. (snapshot of your elites)

Why conservative magazines are more important than ever - The Washington Post ("conservative intellectual" is not possible)

The Ballad of the Never Trumper - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Ross Douthat decided that Holocaust Remembrance Day was an excellent time for a column normalizing Stephen Miller. How highly principled! Douthat sure is resisting that Trump agenda! (Stephen Miller is Jewish)

Republicans Aim to Stop a Democratic Wave Right Here - Bloomberg - Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, whose population peaked about the time native son Perry Como left in the 1930s, is Trump country.

Did Democrats "Let Unions Die?" ... Eric Levitz ... But his analysis of the Democratic Party is incomplete, because it ignores the long-term historical relationships between the labor movement and the party that demonstrate why Democrats can get away with marginalizing organized labor ... the problem that labor has traditionally faced is twofold. First, the American working class is deeply divided by race. Second, when the government is opposed to workers making advances, it's almost impossible for unions to succeed
Richard Yeselson on Twitter: "Right,agree. Indeed some of the angriest types on left are leftist technocrats themselves, upset that that is how they will make a huge contributionnot by being Joe Hill. Often gendered too.)
https://t.co/mpSMAOUusU"


Employee theft 'shockingly common' at nonprofits ... Somerville Homeless soon discovered that the COO == who handled all the finances -- allegedly embezzled approximately $108,000 over 18 months. ... "The money he stole from us could have prevented 100 families from going homeless." ... So nonprofits typically avoid publicity when they discover someone pilfered funds. In some cases, nonprofits try to quietly negotiate deals to have workers leave or repay the organizations instead of reporting theft to police. (the list in MA is long)


Why Trump Can't Quit Steve Wynn -- The casino magnate faces allegations of sexual assault and harassment, but the president revels in his flattery and attention. (two creeps in a pod)

Hillary Clinton Kept Sexual Harrasser in 2008 Campaign: New York Times - What has been cited is the ridiculous treatment of that campaign by, among other institutions, The New York Times. But, somehow, it became important to the two authors of this piece to imply that HRC has been AWOL from the #MeToo movement, probably because of Harvey Weinstein (see Elmer Gantry)
Hillary Clinton Let Him Stay. Women Say His Harassment Continued. - Touching, inappropriate comments, and an untenable work environment: A woman who worked on Hillary Clinton's campaign made those complaints about her boss, a faith and values adviser, in 2007. He was punished, but not fired, by Clinton. Six years later, still in her world, he landed the top job at a pro-Clinton super PAC as a well-connected operative close to "the boss lady." There, former staffers say, his behavior wasn't any different ... Last year, he attended Clinton's 70th birthday party ... (Killary has an enabling-sexually-abusive-men problem and a lying issue)
Hillary Clinton: accusations against adviser were 'taken seriously' (by not taking them seriously)
Hillary Clinton: #MeToo, meet #SoWhat ... yes, faith adviser, you can't make this stuff up ... Strider ... "docked several weeks of pay and ordered to undergo counseling." Which, predictably, he never attended. ... It's never just once, people ... (Hillary-speak never takes responsiblity for anything)
Once Again: How Hillary Holds Up - The New York Times - "I don't understand why any political campaign would have a 'fath adviser' on paid staff, said Gloria Steinem ... But she's never been at her strongest when it comes to men on the prowl. While her faith adviser wasn't anywhere near the level of a Harvey Weinstein, she did hang out with Weinstein, too, cherishing him as a beloved donor.

Can Woody Allen Work in Hollywood Again? - The New York Times (no)

Rubio fires chief of staff for improper relations with subordinates - POLITICO - his chief of staff Clint Reed

Garrison Keillor, Fired For Harassment, Goes After MPR And Accuser In Statement | HuffPost - "If I am guilty of harassment, then every employee who stole a pencil is guilty of embezzlement" ... The report claims Keillor wrote and displayed a suggestive poem about an employee in his bookstore, sent $16,000 and a confidentiality agreement to a subordinate he was romantically involved with, and told a 21-year-old student in his writing class that he was intensely attracted to her. It also revealed a 1998 lawsuit filed against MPR by a former employee who claimed Keillor discriminated against her based on her age and gender. ("and so forth" -- lying little above-average fucker)

Exclusive: Three More Women Are Accusing Jeremy Piven Of Sexual Misconduct - Three more women shared their stories about the Entourage actor with BuzzFeed News, bringing the total number of public accusations of sexual misconduct against him to eight. Piven has denied all the allegations and previously took a polygraph test to prove his innocence. (fake lie-detector tests don't work on pathological liars)

Scott Baio Denies Claims That He Molested Charles in Charge's Nicole Eggert as a Teen : television


A girl from my hometown got suspended from school after posting this video to spread awareness of our broken system that deals with bullying. This was made in response to a classmate committing suicide in the week prior to filming this. : videos


How the Mom Internet became a spotless, sponsored void - The Washington Post (product placements)

What to Say When You Meet the Angel of Death at a Party - The New York Times - After years of living with stage IV cancer, I have some suggestions.

She championed the idea that freezing your eggs would free your career. But things didn't quite work out ... On average, a woman freezing 10 eggs at age 36 has a 30 to 60 percent chance of having a baby with them ... Around the age of 35, women confront a "ferility cliff," when the chances of becoming pregnant decline sharply as the eggs decrease in number and quality. By age 40, the average woman has a 5 percent chance of getting pregnant in any given month. By 45, it's 1 percent ... In an unfortunate and unfair twist of nature, men are believed to replenish their sperm at a rate of 1,500 a second through most of their lives; there are documented cases of men remaining fertile into their 90s ...

Family's Fabulous Pet Chicken Gets Own Obituary In Local Newspaper | HuffPost - Research over the past few years suggests that chickens can experience empathy, plan for the short-term future, and even perform very basic arithmetic, the BBC reported in January. Plus, sometimes they even purr like cats.


Why you're still hungry: 6 obstacles to healthy eating

Carved from a piece of Agate : pics
Penny Stock Journal: Carved Gemstone Masterpieces by Dreher
The Lizzadro Museum displays gemstone treasures, antiques to modern, with a blending of earth science exhibits.

Researchers have found a new mechanism in which an antibody can prevent allergic reactions in a broad range of patients. The antibody prevents the human allergy antibody (IgE) from attaching to cells, thus keeping all allergic symptoms from occurring, as reported in Nature Communications. : science


There are ultra conserved sequences of DNA in the non-coding portion of genomes across multiple species. The purpose of this DNA has remained elusive until recently. Now a team finds this DNA 'dark matter' plays an important role in brain development. : science

Climbers rescue French woman stranded on Pakistan's Killer Mountain but unable to go further to rescue the other Polish climber, who is now presumed dead.

Rupert Murdoch to Mark Zuckerberg: Shut Up, Pay Me | Vanity Fair - As Facebook tinkers with its news algorithm, Murdoch suggests another arrangement: forcing tech companies to subsidize publishers. ("carriage fees" for users linking to Fox, hahaha)
Eschaton: 12,000 - I am curious how 12,000 employees are going to get too and from this thing every day. Let's say 8,000 work traditional hours, arriving and leaving during the morning rush hours. One highway lane can optimistically carry 2,000 per hour (that's at peak flow, with the perfect number of cars and no congestion) and of course the transition from highway to street always involve some degree of bottleneck. Not saying it's not possible, just...probably not a lot of fun. (Apple built a spaceship in Cupertino, now there will be huge traffic jams getting there, because they didn't think about that part, but Steve Jobs)
Trader forced to transfer Bitcoin at gunpoint : news

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Every One of the World's Big Economies Is Now Growing (thanks to Trump)

'It's a Massacre': Taliban Bomb in Ambulance Kills 95 in Kabul - injuring at least 158 others (Trump will drop even more bombz on the shithole country, making it even more shitholey)

Paris zoo shut after 50 baboons escape | World news | The Guardian - Visitors to Paris Zoological Park evacuated as workers try to lure animals back to enclosures (send John Kelly over)


Kiribati: ferry carrying 50 people missing for seven days | World news | The Guardian - A ferry carrying an estimated 50 people is missing in Kiribati, prompting an international search involving New Zealand and Fiji authorities.

TIL Anne Frank's family was denied asylum to the U.S. resulting in a catalyst to her death. : todayilearned


Twitter Says Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 470,000 Times - Bloomberg - The information further underscores how Russian-linked accounts sought to stir up discord during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. < Russian bots retweeted Trump almost half a million times in final weeks of 2016 campaign - Jan. 27, 2018
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Trump sought release of classified Russia memo, putting him at odds with Justice Department - The Washington Post (distraction train)

Trump's handling of the Russia investigation has never looked more like a coverup -- President Trump didn't just consider the most drastic conceivable response to the Russia investigation; he actively tried to do it -- until someone stopped him. (he trusts his dictator instincts)
With Attempt to Fire Mueller, the Answer to Whether Trump Obstructed Justice Now Seems Clear | The New Yorker (bigly)
Eschaton: What's The End - I don't think there's anything which would cause Republicans to impeach Trump (or Democrats, really, and certainly no way to get conviction in the Senate in any case), and so even if Mueller has the goods (and by the standards of Clinton impeachment, of course he does)...
Five takeaways from Trump's thwarted effort to fire Mueller v

Trump turns Russia frustration to Rosenstein - CNNPolitics - Sources described Trump's frustration with Rosenstein as largely bluster. (Pres Mr Bluster)

Grassley calls out FBI lovers' use of 'private' devices during Clinton email probe (Fox and Grassfuckly at work, Dem should not be able to own cell phones)

new refrigerators cost $24 million ... The units are unable to effectively support mission requirements for food storage (military-speak and Trump ordered solid gold ice-boxes)


Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President - POLITICO Magazine - A surprisingly fascinating book explains why ... the charismatic Pentecostals who were some of his earliest religious supporters and who now view his election as the fulfillment of God's will. ... And perhaps best of all we each thanked God in our own way that Hillary Clinton was not going to be the next commander in chief." ... A catholic holy man named Thomas Zimmer laimed to have received a prophesy in the 1980s that Trump would "lead America back to religion" (the "health and wealth" gospel says Trump wouldn't be rich if God hadn't "greased the skids" and given him "milligans.") (and the prophecy may be true, just not the way they thought)
The new and improved Bible for evangelical Trump supporters - The Washington Post ... Tony Perkins ... observed evangelicals "were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists. And I think they are finally glad that there's somebody on the playground that is willing to punch the bully." (that black guy you mean? this is how they "think")

Rep. Devin Nunes's hometown paper nails him for being "Trump's stooge" (why does he look worried in every photo?)

The White House Dreamer Deal Isn't A Compromise. It's A Racist Ransom Note. | HuffPost - As the White House's senior advisor for policy, Stephen Miller seems to have one goal: to take a wrecking ball to the Statue of Liberty and shove the remains into the Upper New York Bay. (and his racist buddy Kelly)

Janet Yellen Was A Great Fed Chair. So Why Is The Economy Still Broken? | HuffPost - Inequality remains at or near record highs. (the millionth time Refucks lied about everything)

Critics Adorn Twitter With Digs At Ivanka Trump's 'Convertible' Jewelry | HuffPost (gold-plated handcuffs)

Is Skyland Courtyard A Real Person Even? I Remain Skeptical. - Lawyers, Guns & Money (a "real American" from the "real American" state of Mon) "These Working-Class Heartland Voters Also Don't Want Their Daughters to Grow up to Be Nail-Biting Manophobic Hell-Bent Feminists"

Hating Gerrymandering Is Easy. Fixing It Is Harder. | FiveThirtyEight
The Atlas Of Redistricting | FiveThirtyEight

The Dark Side of America's Rise to Oil Superpower It sounds good, but be careful what you wish for.

Oh, oh, your nostalgia file -- Finally, some fresh new blood! Former Secretary of State John Kerry is considering a second run for president in 2020 to take on President Trump, according to comments reported by the Israel newspaper Maariv. (#1: leaked to the Israel press? #2 Biden-Kerry 2020! JoeBi and Jokerry!) TNC: Joe Biden, then the junior senator from Delaware, quickly became the point man for showing that Democrats would not go soft on criminals Biden cast Democrats as the true party without mercy. (he ran on killing black people, which is why Barry liked him)

Mayor sought illegal funds for political allies, records allege - Sun Sentinel - Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who was removed from office Friday after being snared in an FBI sting, solicited illegal campaign contributions not only for herself but for two political allies, court documents say.

Reporter rushes to Kentucky school shooting -- and learns the alleged gunman is her son -- 15-year-old Gabe Parker (dad was a violent bully +her guns?)

Pa. School Shooting Thwarted, Student Found With Arsenal Of Weapons + CBS Pittsburgh - Multiple weapons were found in the bedroom of a teenager accused of threatening to carry out a shooting at a Fayette County high school. According to police, a 14-year-old male was arrested around 8 p.m. Thursday ... During their search, troopers found one semi-automatic rifle, one shotgun, two lever-action rifles, one revolver, one crossbow and bulk ammunition for all weapons. Troopers also found throwing knives and two machetes. (Trump-voting parents had no idea)

Accused of assaulting 3 young girls, man says he's boy trapped in adult's body ... "a nine-year old trapped in an adult's body." He was ordered held without bail.


CNN Investigation: #MeToo in the courts - CNNPolitics - What happens when judges judge themselves

NYT Opinion on Twitter: "Nothing could have prepared me for the pain of telling the truth about Larry Nassar. I lost my church. I lost my closest friends. I lost every shred of privacy. https://t.co/mc9dA5XYn8"
The Price I Paid for Taking On Larry Nassar - The New York Times (her church dumped her? tell us more.)

In Nassar Case, Michigan State Wanted Famed Ex-Prosecutor to Both Examine and Defend It - The New York Times
Wojo: Michigan State mired in full-blown crisis of trust
NCAA president Mark Emmert was alerted to Michigan State sexual assault reports in 2010 - The Athletic - to 37 reports involving Michigan State athletes sexually assaulting women. (shut them down and lock them up and what's with the little-boy haircut?)
Today in the Noble Ideals of Amateurism (TM) - Lawyers, Guns & Money - You will be shocked to learn that among the institutions that failed during the MSU scandal was the NCAA: Conveniently, Lou Anna Simon was on the Board of Governors at the time. To be Scrupulously Fair, this wasn't a real scandal, like a unpaid player getting ten bucks for his autograph or something. (and then they keep all the money)
Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis steps down (they were all complicit)
USA Gymnastics announces entire board of directors will resign in wake of Larry Nassar scandal - The Washington Post - the USOC said more changes were needed, including a turnover of the organization's entire board and an independent investigation of the culpability of both officials at USA Gymnastics and the USOC for Nassar's crimes. The USOC, which oversees the country's Olympic governing bodies, threatened to decertify USA Gymnastics, stripping the organization's association with the Olympics, if it did not comply.
Larry Nassar's enablers? A nation that doubts and dismisses women.
The Michigan State scandal and the financial structure of American universities - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The invidious effects of big time college sports and the (closely related) economics of major research universities in the new gilded age are at the core of the Michigan State scandal. -- The central point is that Michigan State's obsession with sports success is the key to understanding both why Nassar's reign of terror lasted so long, and why in recent years the department turned a blind eye toward or actively covered up sexual assaults by numerous athletes from the two teams responsible for funding the athletic department, football and men's basketball. (inferiority complex relative to UMich) The school's board of trustees, which resisted calls for Simon's ouster until public pressure became too overwhelming, is dominated by former MSU football and basketball players, one of whom went on to become the football team's coach. (sportsballers, what could go wrong?)


Steve Wynn resigns as RNC finance chairman amid sexual misconduct allegations - The Washington Post (srsly, his face)
Scandal-ridden GOP donor spoke at Mar-a-Lago last week - CNNPolitics
The Perfect Finance Chair For the RNC - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Apparently, Steve Wynn's moral monstrosity isn't limited to driving dumptrucks of money up to Dean Heller's house to compel him to take healthcare away from millions of people: ... dozens of people The Wall Street Journal interviewed who have worked at Mr. Wynn's casinos told of behavior that cumulatively would amount to a decadeslong pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Wynn. Some described him pressuring employees to perform sex acts.
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Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "Chris Cilizza's take on the news that the RNC's Finance Chairman is a sexual harasser is scorching. (lizard warning)
Trump 'Likes' Tweet On Sexual Misconduct Claims Against 'Great Friend' Steve Wynn | HuffPost - As many people noted, it was only Trump's 25th "like" on the social media platform. (and Wynn has a really weird face)
Clash of the Titans -- "The Vegas Volcano" weighing in at $780 million vs "The Donald" weighing in at $1.4 billion (exaggerate his money, minimize his "weight" and really New York Mag, no fucking date on your articles)

NY Daily News Editor Accused Of Harassment Fostered A Culture Of Silence | HuffPost - Managing editor Rob Moore told staffers he would get rid of people who complained about his behavior, sources said. (another entitled male asshole and friend )


'Anything could happen': : Amid newsroom clashes, Los Angeles Times becomes its own story ... Last week, Levinsohn was suspended by the paper's owner, Chicago-based Tronc, after NPR revealed a series of sexual harassment allegations against him in previous jobs. The company said it is investigating. (let's let an alpha abusive hedgie run our operation)
Tronc Is Building A Shadow Newsroom Full Of Scabs, L.A. Times Staffers Fear | HuffPost - A mysterious new management team appears to be quietly building a non-union network. (evil hedgies at work dismantling institutions)

Shadow and Act on Twitter: "TriStar picks up rights to @Zendaya thriller 'A White Lie' on black woman who passed as white to attend Vassar https://t.co/siUgrMccZU
https://t.co/TLRnQLwhVf"

Eschaton: No Wrinkle In Time - The idea of a car that's going to pick you up at your house and take you to your destination across the city is always only going to be viable for an elite because there isn't oom for everyone to do that; there physically isn't room

Man imprisoned for decades sues police, FBI after release - Sentinel & Enterprise - BOSTON -- A Massachusetts man who spent more than three decades in prison for a rape he says he didn't commit has filed a federal lawsuit accusing law enforcement officials of conspiring to frame him by planting phony evidence and coercing false statements that were used against him. George Perrot was 17 in 1985 when he was arrested and charged with raping a 78-year-old Mary Prekop in Springfield, Massachusetts. Perrot, whose conviction was based in part on a single strand of hair ...

Homeless man escapes after being thrown into garbage truck with his tent in San Diego : news
Homeless man escapes after being thrown into garbage truck with his tent in San Diego - In what could have turned into a fatal blunder, a homeless man scrambled out of a San Diego city trash truck and avoided being crushed by mere seconds last month, city officials say.

Five High School Students Accused Of Raping 13-Year-Old Girl : news

Here are images of my art before and during a medicinally induced psychosis that I was unaware was taking place. Descriptions of my thought processes of each photo is included. By far the scariest experience of my life. : pics


The Follower Factory - The New York Times - Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it.

The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google | WIRED (they 4Chan'd them)

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This Flu Season Is the Worst in Nearly a Decade - The New York Times


Trump wins over global elites at Davos. All it took was a $1.5 trillion tax cut. - The Washington Post (Trump to oligarches: "haha I have a bigger national debt to loot and plunder than you, bow down to me.")


Coincheck Says It Lost Crypto Coins Valued at About $400 Million - Bloomberg

Trump: No more aid unless Palestinians talk peace; Jerusalem is 'off the table' -- Sitting next to Netanyahu in Davos, US president says Israel 'wanted to make ese,' Palestinians 'disrespected' US in refusing to meet Pence (the pro-apocalypse fundie who wants Jews to ultimately die, but not until he kills everybody elee)


ICE has struck a deal to track license plates across the US - The Verge

Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia's interference in US-elections -- Hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference with the American elections. For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear

It's Now Likely Mueller Thinks Trump Obstructed Justice -- bombshell news points toward one conclusion: The special counsel has the goods on the president. (lock him up, permanently and his Republican cronies and colluders)
Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit - The New York Times
Trump's Effort to Fire Mueller: Reactions to the New York Times Report -- demonstrates just how out of control the president had become in June, less than a month after firing James Comey as FBI director (WITCH HUNT!) apparent willingness to fire the special counsel in a fit of rage ... drives home the fact that his hints about firing other senior members of federal law enforcement are far from idle
8 times since June the White House denied Trump was considering firing Mueller - CNNPolitics
Trump's Runaway Presidency - The Atlantic - Out of Control -- Nixon's excesses prompted Congress to reassert its own powers, but those changes eroded over time. Now, Trump is demonstrating anew all the dangers of unchecked executive authority.
The Note: Mueller controls the clock as revelations come at a dizzying pace - ABC News
Trump Reportedly Tried To Fire Robert Mueller In June | HuffPost - The president has denied that he plans to remove the special counsel from the Russia probe.
Mueller Wasn't Interested in Bannon Until 'Fire and Fury,' Source Says -- ex-campaign chairman and White House strategist painted a bullseye on himself after he blabbed to Michael Wolff about the Russia probe.

Trump Launched Campaign to Discredit Potential FBI Witnesses -- The president targeted three bureau officials who could provide key testimony in the Mueller probe.
What Happens to Trump If He Fires Robert Mueller?
White House counsel was 'fed up' with Trump
Key Republican Dials Back Effort to Protect Robert Mueller From Donald Trump - Sen. Thom Tillis was one of the first Republicans to try to save the special counsel. Now he says his bill isn't urgent, even after news Trump tried to fire Mueller.

Trump ordered the firing of Mueller. That makes it more likely he obstructed justice. - The Washington Post
In trying to fire Mueller, Trump digs his own legal grave - The Washington Post
GOP leaders' complicity grows as their members undermine the rule of law (so the Rethugs turned out to be corrupt Russian agents covering for Putin's stooge)
Ex-spy chiefs weigh how to say enough about Trump without saying too much - The Washington Post - A low point came on Veterans Day, when, after meeting genially with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump derided Clapper, Brennan and former FBI director James B. Comey as "political hacks."

Rep. Devin Nunes, Trump's stooge, attacks FBI

Donald Trump Offers The Most Unenthusiastic Apology For Racist Retweets | HuffPost --- "Here's what's fair. If you're telling me they're horrible, racist people I would certainly apologize, if you'd like me to do that" (babbling toddler)
Get the first look at Piers Morgan's EXCLUSIVE interview with President Trump | News | Good Morning Britain | GMB ("yes, I'm a racist asshole but if you want me to apologize to you only, I will" )

Donald Trump Was the Inevitable Result of Republicanism - A few thoughts on Woke Bill Kristol ... The damage done by this presidency* can't be swept out of the national memory the way the damage done by the last Republican president has been. The Republican Party has to be purged of the prion disease, all of it. Because the prion disease has sickened the entire nation now. The progress of the disease is now so advanced that the Republican powers within the national legislature are unable to check the powers of a president* that a good portion of the country believes shouldn't be within 200 miles of the White House, a form of ideological enfeeblement that may be the final stages of the disease ...

Eschaton: Bill Kristol Is Bad - "BUT WE NEED ALLIES!!!" No, really, we don't. Bill Kristol is bad and always has been bad and always will be. The voice of the "resistance" should not be Republicans. The voice of Republicans is Republicans. The voice of the Tea Party is Republicans. The voice Trump is... Republicans. The public voice of everyone in politics is always Republicans. OK, and "centrist Democrats" who are, mostly, Republicans. Republicans are bad. Stop promoting bad people just because they don't like Trump. Also, too, Bush was bad. Bush's people were bad. It was horrible. Why does nobody remember?

Eschaton: Chase The Soccer Ball - One thing the Right (Republicans, talk radio, other conservative media) can do without fail is get the "respectable" media to chase whatever soccer ball they kick. Thus the latest "Secret Society" nonsense. It doesn't matter how absurd it is, how little presented evidence there is, or how may times the same dishonest actors have pulled the same move. All they have to do is start shrieking "OHMYGODWEHAVESOMETHINGBIG," give it some sort of catchy name, hint at something even darker, and every political desk in the country scrambles to figure out what it's about and why it is, in fact, good news for Republicans and probably John McCain specifically.

For conservatives, character counts -- when you're a Democrat -- "We kind of gave him, all right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here," said Tony Perkins, president of the right-wing Family Research Council (in fact, a constant stream of do-overs, Trump must really be blessed) comment: "You are loathsome, Evangelicals. And you have now abdicated all claim to morality. I will never again give you anything more than the withering scorn you so richly deserve. After all, you have worked hard to earn it."

Sens. Cotton and Perdue are outed for lying on Trump's behalf ... by Trump ... Not only did these two repeatedly lie, but Cotton also impugned the integrity of Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), who told the truth ... They can lie and enable the president hoping to score brownie points, but this White House won't repay loyalty in kind. Instead, Republicans will find themselves humiliated ... Why should these Republicans hold elected office? Why should anyone believe them in the future? And lastly, what is the appropriate response to them? (jail) comment: "62 million trumpsuckers must never be allowed to vote again."

Melania 'staying in hotel' after Stormy Daniels scandal | Daily Mail Online .. 'It's been upsetting and humiliating; her relationship with President Trump has become strained'

Here's a Look at the Conservative Reaction to Trump's Immigration Proposal

An affair with Trump? Nikki Haley on 'disgusting' rumors and her rise to a top foreign policy role -- The former anti-Trump governor became one of the president's favorite officials, giving her rare standing on the global stage.

Kris Kobach's Office Leaks Last 4 Social Security Digits of Nearly Every Kansas Lawmaker and Thousands of State Employees, Including Kris Kobach ... high-ranking state employees at virtually ever Kansas government agency. (the guy Trump wanted to give everyone's SS numbers to)

Murphy backs Indonesian Christian immigrant facing deportation - Murphy, who pledged during the gubernatorial campaign to protect unauthorized immigrants in New Jersey, said he raced to the church after learning of the ICE activity.

Frustrated State Department employees hire attorneys, charging 'political retribution' (for not swearing loyalty to the god-emperor-antichrist)


Rod Dreher's Race Problem -- In wading into the "shithole" debate, Dreher betrays the dark side of his reverence for Western civilization. (a man of ostentacious Christian faith)
b-boy bouiebaisse on Twitter: "i'm at the gym right now and i have ruined the end of my workout because i am legitimately stunned by the hate and vitriol in that paragraph. imagine believing that everyone of your station sees the residents of public housing as worthless degenerates


Hillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008 - The New York Times - A senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign who was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young subordinate was kept on the campaign at Mrs. Clinton's request ... Mrs Clinton's campaign manager at the time recommended that she fire the adviser, Burns Strider. But Mrs. Clinton did not. Instead, Mr. Strider was docked several weeks of pay and ordered to undergo counseling, and the young woman was moved to a new job ... Mr. Strider, who was Mrs. Clinton's faith adviser, a co-founder of the American Values Network, and sent the candidate scripture readings every morning for months during the campaign ... ("faith advisor" and they told her it was wrong and she did it anyway)

Steve Wynn, RNC finance chairman, faces allegations of sexual misconduct - The Washington Post
These 6 GOP tweets just became very awkward -- Steve Wynn has raised and donated millions for Trump -- The article describes Wynn exposing himself and demanding sex acts from masseuses who worked at his casinos, which have billions of dollars in annual revenue. Wynn is also a close friend of Donald Trump, who also has denied allegations that he sexually assaulted at least 14 women.
Republicans Dragged Democrats Over Harvey Weinstein. Now They Have A Problem Of Their Own. - Casino magnate Steve Wynn is a top fundraiser for the RNC. So far, the committee isn't responding to new allegations about his conduct.

Rep. Pat Meehan will not seek reelection after sexual harassment furor ... five days after the accusation and his secret settlement payout were first made public, and two days after interviews in which the congressman seemed to worsen the situation by attempting to defend his actions ... "and after prayerful reflection" (bye-bye, good Christian asshole)

CNN reinstates Ryan Lizza - The Washington Post - Based on the information provided and the findings of the investigation, CNN has found no reason to continue to keep Mr. Lizza off the air

Groping scandal a
t Presidents Club charity dinner exposed by Financial Times reporters - The Washington Post ... "More than 300 rich businessmen were perfectly happy to attend such an event, which shows the rotten, sexist culture still alive and kicking in parts of the business community. Time's up on this crap"
Presidents Club: who was invited to the all-male charity gala? | UK news | The Guardian - The Guardian has obtained the full list of men allocated tables and seats at the event, though it is not confirmed they attended (shun and shame list)

Pattern of denial, inaction, information suppression at Michigan State goes beyond Larry Nassar case - ESPN -- The actions go well beyond the highly publicized case of former MSU athletic physician Larry Nassar ... the football coach, had dealt with a sexual assault accusation against one of his players: He had the player talk to his mother about what he had done. (burn it all down all of it.
MSU hid full conclusions of 2014 Larry Nassar report from victim< (Lou Anne needs to go to jail) /loua>
How was Larry Nassar able to abuse so many gymnasts for so long? | Sport | The Guardian - The biggest sexual abuse scandal in sports history shines a light on a culture of medals over morals (and highly-paid administrators over everyone else)

Casey Affleck Withdraws From Oscars, Won't Present Best Actress Award - He was in a no-win situation, with all the attention surrounding the #MeToo movement. The specter of Affleck presenting would have created controversy ... allegations of inappropriate behavior toward two women


NBC stunned by how far Megyn Kelly went with Fonda attack | Page Six


The Good Place: All the Ways Its Blown Up Its Own Premise


Eschaton: Hilarious - For obvious reasons. -- INDIANAPOLIS -- In order to make Indianapolis more attractive as home to Amazon's second headquarters, a House committee gave the green light Wednesday to a bill that would lift the current ban on light rail that's written into Indiana law ... Republicans push for the state's ban on light rail back in 2014 because of the cost. (they could have just not funded it, instead they banned trains in the entire state and now ...)

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The Doomsday Clock is now just 2 minutes to 'midnight,' the symbolic hour of the apocalypse (another sign and portent)
Cape Town Braces For Water Emergency That Could Affect Nearly 4 Million People | HuffPost - The South African city plans to shut off its water on April 12, unless dam water levels go up.


The Disaster Tourist - The Huffington Post - ventured into North Korea as part of a five-day package with a China-based outfit called Young Pioneer Tours.


Putin Family Split Offers Peek at Secret Dealings of Russia Inc. - Bloomberg


As family dynamics change in Japan, more people are living by themselves -- and dying alone ... where people lie dead in their apartments for long periods before being discovered


The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From Its Deep Poverty Problem - The New York Times - According to the World Bank, 769 million people lived on less than $1.90 a day in 2013; they are the world's very poorest. Of these, 3.2 million live in the United States, and 3.3 million in other high-income countries (most in Italy, Japan and Spain). ... When we compare absolute poverty in the United States with absolute poverty in India, or other poor countries, we should be using $4 in the United States and $1.90 in India. Once we do this, there are 5.3 million Americans who are absolutely poor by global standards. (U.S. 17th, between Ireland and Spain)

NSA Deletes "Honesty" and "Openness" From Core Values (swamp drained)


Mueller Almost Done With Obstruction Part of Trump Probe, Sources Say - Bloomberg -- Special Counsel Robert Mueller is moving at a far faster pace than previously known and appears to be wrapping up at least one key part of his investigation ... Mueller has quietly moved closer to those around Trump by interviewing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former FBI Director James Comey in recent weeks ... also interviewed CIA Director Mike Pompeo

Hundreds of newly created Twitter accounts pushed #ReleaseTheMemo - Jan. 24, 2018 (Russian bots for Nunes)
Devin Nunes' Anti-FBI Memo Names James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, and Andrew McCabe -- The Department of Justice called the plan to release it to the public "extraordinarily reckless." (purging the Justice Dept of sane moral people, sound familiar?)
Republicans Are Using the Russian Playbook on the FBI

Errant court filing suggests feds had informant at Manafort firm - politico - who provided information about his financial dealings.

Trump and the great GOP abdication - The Washington Post .. (comments:) What the hell did Nunes recuse himself from again? the truth and ethical behavior ... reality.

Trump Says He's 'Looking Forward' To Speaking With Special Counsel Under Oath - "I would do it under oath, absolutely" ("oath" : "so help me Trump")

The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh but the Guggenheim offered a solid gold toilet instead. - The Washington Post


Gay Couple Sues After U.S. Denies Citizenship To One Of Their Twin Boys | HuffPost - birth certificate lists one parent as a U.S. citizen, which should entitle him to citizenship as well, the lawsuit argues.

The Photo That Never Saw The Light of Day: Obama With Farrakhan In 2005 -- A journalist announced last week that he will publish a photograph of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that he took in 2005 at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, but did not make public because he believed it would have "made a difference" to Obama's political future. (who's worse: Farrakhan or Putin?)

DNC's New Chief Security Officer Knows All About Crisis - Yahoo veteran Bob Lord will take his know-how to the Democratic National Committee as its first chief security officer


The sinister pro-Trump propaganda of Lou Dobbs - Tune in to Lou Dobbs Tonight for creepy adulation of Donald Trump and routine calls to imprison the president's opponents (another lying mouth of Satan)

Be Smart: Mike Allen Wrote The Rules Of Washington And Now Donald Trump's Destroying Them - Every morning, Washington wakes up to Axios AM -- Mike Allen's top 10 stories of the day, filled with short bits of breaking news, feuding White House insiders, and, some days, sober, moral pronouncements on how weird the Trump era is

A dangerous piece of fake news is spreading like wildfire on Facebook -- Despite new efforts, Facebook still can't figure out how to slow the spread of fake news ... yournewswire ...


Eschaton: And Exactly Why Is That - I don't think it's unreasonable that people have some say in a transit project (like a new little train, or a 16 lane freeway, or whatever) that's going to go through their neighborhood but this is still hilarious ... They got it moved away from the residential neighborhood so they now complain it doesn't serve residents. (dots, so hard to connect)



GLAAD survey: More Americans say they're uncomfortable with gay teachers, doctors and even family members - The Washington Post -- In three years, LGBT Americans have gone from triumph to backlash (can't stand to see gay people holding hands) But now, Gerzema noted, 80 percent of non-LGBT Americans say they know someone who is lesbian, gay or bisexual, and 20 percent of Americans know someone transgender. If they know LGBT people and are getting less comfortable with them anyway, we may have reached the end of exposure therapy as a political tactic.

Four Waves of Feminism | Pacific University - Martha Rampton

GOP Senate candidate flips out over 'women's rights': 'I want to come home to a cooked dinner every night' -- epublican U.S. Senate candidate for Missouri Courtland Sykes blasted 'women's rights' this week ... "I want to come home to a home cooked dinner every night at six," Sykes said ... One that she fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives" ... hoped his daughters (which he does not have yet) do not grow up to be "career obsessed banshees who forgo home life and children and the happiness of family to become nail-biting manophobic hell-bent feminist she devils who shriek from the top of a thousand tall buildings they are [SIC] think they could have leaped in a single bound -- had men not been 'suppressing them.' It's just nuts ... they're finished. Ask Hillary."" (keep talkin' "Courtland")

Rep. Pat Meehan will have to step aside, Republican insiders say ("she was just my life partner")

Sources: MSU board working on succession plan for Simon exit
Source: MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to step down before end of week | The State News - Calls for her resignation stem from how the university has addressed ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
Michigan State has botched handling of Larry Nassar case at every turn - The Athletic

Eschaton: Lock Them All Up - The law is an ass and I am not qualified to have Opinions on specific appropriate criminal charges, but as Charlie says, all of Nassar's enablers, and the enablers of the enablers, need to pay. If appropriate legal remedies are not available, then they should not be able to go out in public without people shouting at them.

Burn It All Down: It's Time For Every Last Coward Who Enabled Larry Nassar To Pay For Their Sins ... Nobody employed in the upper echelons at USA Gymnastics, or at the United States Olympic Committee, or at Michigan State University should still have a job. If accessorial or conspiracy charges plausibly can be lodged against those people, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Those people should come out of civil courts wearing barrels ... none of those three institutions should continue to exist in its current form. USA Gymnastics and the USOC should lose their non-profit status forthwith. Michigan State should lose its status within the NCAA for at least five years. American gymnastics is no longer a sport. It's a conspiracy of pedophiles and their enablers.

Aly Raisman: 'This Is Bigger Than Larry Nassar' | HuffPost The Olympic gymnast said USA Gymnastics and others need to be held accountable for Nassar's abuses, too

Long Wharf Theatre's Gordon Edelstein On Leave Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Long Wharf Theater's Artistic Director Fired Over Sexual Misconduct Accusations - Gordon Edelstein

David Copperfield Accused of Assaulting Former Teen Model - The woman, Brittney Lewis, told the Wrap that she met the magician when she was 17 years old


Cuckolding can be positive for some couples, study says - CNN

Students re-publish article about teacher's firing after school deleted it - The Washington Post
Schools and lockers: No longer the right combination - The Washington Post - Once the gravitational center of the high school day, lockers long ago lost their allure, and their usefulness seems a relic of an epoch of education that has slipped away



Hollywood Cover 2018: 12 Extraordinary Stars, One Momentous Year | Vanity Fair

Eschaton: 65 MPH is 65 MPH - Even this cynic has been a bit guilty of seeing "driving on highways" as the simple self-driving car problem. In many ways it is, but there's still the little issue of driving really fast. It apparently isn't that easy to recognize that a parked fire truck is parked.


"This Is Serious" : Facebook Begins Its Downward Spiral -- Facebook was always famous for the sign that hung in its offices, written in big red type on a white background, that said "Move Fast and Break Things." Every time I think about the company, I realize it has done just that -- to itself

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Kentucky shooting: What we know now about the tragedy at Marshall County High School - Twenty students in total were victims ... Sixteen of them were hit with gunshots, including two of them who died. Four other people were injured in the chaos of the incident. Of the 20 victims, 14 were males and six were females

Afghan Pedophiles Get Free Pass From U.S. Military, Report Says - The New York Times - A former Special Forces officer, Capt. Dan Quinn, was relieved of his command and pulled from Afghanistan after fighting with an Afghan militia commander for keeping a boy as a sex slave ... On 5,753 occasions from 2010 to 2016, the United States military reported accusations of "gross human rights abuses" (your corrupt alway-wrong military likes pedophiles if they are the right pedophiles, and speaking of "gross human rights abuses" please look in the mirror)

How Arafat Eluded Israel's Assassination Machine -- The nations security forces tried for decades to kill the P.L.O. leader. Now, former officials tell the story of how they failed -- and how far they almost went to succeed (very evil)


Rumsfeld Snowflakes Come in from the Cold | National Security Archive - On the day before September 11, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld believed the gravest threat to American national security was Pentagon bureaucracy, according to "snowflakes" he wrote that were released by the Defense Department after a five-year Freedom of Information Act fight and lawsuit by the National Security Archive. (government's prime directive is secrecy and transparent Barry didn't help)


Oregon Voters Approve Measure 101 . News | OPB - overwhelmingly approved a package of health care taxes to ensure low-income Oregonians will keep their health coverage.


Nine Humanitarian Activists Face Federal Charges After Leaving Water for Migrants in the Arizona Desert (Trump unleashes sadistic ICEholes)

After his gusher of lies, can anyone trust Trump? - The Washington Post

You Need To Watch This -- "Secret Society" in FBI plotting to overthrow Trump (Is there a Republican psyche? Has it gone full psychotic? do they have an unconscious perception of the depth of their perfidity?)
GOP Senator Goes Off On Corruption and 'That Secret Society' At The FBI (Ron Johnson, Kochistan)

Today's Mueller Revelations Were The Biggest in Months ... Let me be clear: I am not saying that Robert Mueller is going to start investigating Devin Nunes for obstruction. (oh pls Jesus)

Eschaton - We've seen an evolution of the conservative conventional wisdom on the Iraq war. I don't want to rehash the whole chain of absurdity, but it sort of culminated in "Bush had bad intelligence." Or so I thought that was the culmination of that particular bit of revisionism. But, no, it hasn't stopped there. Now the bad intelligence was actually a CIA plot, masterminded by Democrats, to make George Bush look bad ... In another couple of years the war will have been started by President Gore, and his disgrace led to the election of George Bush in 2004, who cleaned up Gore's mess which is why we have no more troops in the Middle East.
alicublog: AROUND THE BEND. - Again, once upon a time I assumed such a brain-melting idea as the Democrats using the CIA to trick Bush into the Iraq War would be beneath a popular radio star like Limbaugh ... I'm used to them being full of shit, and had supposed the effect of having the Prince of Lies as a party leader had just made them even more full of shit, but this goes beyond mere shamelessness into schizophrenia.
Rush Limbaugh: "The deep state" may have faked Saddam WMD evidence to "damage" George W Bush (Cheney had nothing, nothing to do with it, I tell you)

Mueller Probe Zeroes In On Trump's Inner Circle | HuffPost - The special counsel's team has reportedly interviewed the CIA director, the NSA director, and the Director of National Intelligence.

Flynn kept FBI interview concealed from White House, Trump - NBC News - FBI interview on Jan. 24, 2017, set in motion an extraordinary sequence of events unparalleled for the first year of a U.S. presidency. Flynn was fired as national security adviser after 24 days on the job, the acting attorney general was fired 10 days after the president took office, the FBI director was allegedly pressured by the president to let go of an investigation into Flynn, and then eventually fired himself.

Nadler calls GOP memo criticizing FBI 'profoundly misleading' ... "Those materials tell a very different story than the conspiracy theory concocted by Chairman Nunes and being repeated in the press" ... A parade of GOP lawmakers this week have said the memo confirms misconduct and political bias against President Donald Trump by senior officials at the FBI. (the little Russian ratfucker needs to be locked up for the rest of his life along with all of the ratfuck party)
#ReleaseTheMemo and the conservative war on the FBI, explained - Vox

Trump asked the acting FBI director how he voted during Oval Office meeting - The Washington Post - The two men exchanged pleasantries, but before long, Trump, according to several current and former U.S. officials, asked Andrew McCabe a pointed question: Whom did he vote for in the 2016 election? McCabe said he didn't vote (bow down to the god-emperor)
Totally improper' : Senators react to Trump's question to McCabe (Fuckabee: "real Americans don't give a shit")

Impeach Jeff Sessions | Crooked Media - First, we learned from Axios that inappropriate political pressure Sessions has brought to bear on the FBI, at President Trump's behest, recently drove Trump's newly installed FBI Director, Christopher Wray, to consider resigning. Second, we learned from the New York Times that Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has interviewed Sessions as a witness in his investigation of the Trump campaign's involvement in the Russian government's subversion of the 2016 election.

New signs Gates may be negotiating with Mueller's team -- Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates has quietly added a prominent white-collar attorney, Tom Green, to his defense team, signaling that Gate's approach to his not-guilty plea could be changing behind the scenes.

Sean Hannity Is Now a Favorite Weapon of Russian Trolls Attacking America -- Kremlin propagandists are piling on the Fox News war against the Mueller investigation (little big-mouthed Sean is a Russian agent, lock him up!)

Former RNC Chair Michael Steele: Trump's Evangelical Backers Need To 'Shut The Hell Up' -- "Don't ever preach to me about anything ever again" (Satangelicals at work and would Jesus give Trump a "mulligan' on his mortal sins??)
Evangelical leader Franklin Graham says Trump is a 'changed person' (said a mouth of Satan)

CFPB Drops Investigation Into Payday Lender That Contributed To Mick Mulvaney's Campaigns (they don't give a shit how their shit looks anymore)


The Bigot Threatening CNN Got Out of Jail in Time for Dinner - Trump, who has something to say about everything, hasn't said anything about Brandon Griesemer (white Trumpster terrorist wasn't Muslim and he didn't threaten Fox)

In Ohio, no one wants Gov. John Kasich's endorsement -- including his former running mate who has it (only insane Republicans need apply)

Potential citizenship question in 2020 Census could shift power to rural America - The Washington Post (shift it from where it already is, see gerrymandering and the Senate)
Trump administration demands documents from 'sanctuary cities'

Sessions congratulates Trump for ending imaginary crime wave ThinkProgress - Sessions says Trump delivered on his promise to end "American carnage." There's just one problem. Sessions is touting new FBI crime statistics showing a very slight drop in U.S. violent crime in 2017 by praising Trump for giving Americans hope ... violent crime in America's largest cities has been steadily decreasing for more than two decades (the lie machine +lead in gas)


Senate moves Brownback to the brink of Trump post | The Kansas City Star - cleared the way for his confirmation to an at-large ambassadorship for international religious freedom, based in Washington, D.C. (yeah, read that again)


Republicans' changing views fuel sharp rise in concerns about harassment ... Republicans expressed the least concern of any political party in October, with 42 percent saying harassment of women at work is a serious problem, little different from 38 percent in 2011. But that has rocketed to 59 percent in the latest survey, a 17-point rise.

More than 160 women say Larry Nassar sexually abused them. Here are his accusers in their own words. - The New York Times (MSU says no big deal, the pres who oversaw all this should keep her very, very well-paying job)

GOP Rep. Blames Obamacare For Sexual Harassment Allegations | HuffPost - Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.) denied allegations that he sexually harassed a young female staffer and blamed Obamacare for some of his behavior that she perceived as hostile ... Meehan denied that he retaliated against her and instead blamed any negative behavior on stress over the Republican effort to dismantle Affordable Care Act
Under Fire for Harassment, Congressman Says Aide 'Invited' Behavior ... his intimate communications, and that he was emotionally wounded when she filed a complaint against him. ... caller her "a complete partner for me" (good Christian guy)

Investigation: For some who lived in it, Keillor's world wasn't funny ... "I have worked happily with women for my entire life, have nothing to apologize for" ... " a hero whose patron has portrayed him as a predator, but in the greater scheme of things it is minor stuff, and the person can easily solve this problem by selling his house and moving to New York. No problem" (little creep has his own bookstore, among other more than average things)
MPR: Allegations against Keillor far beyond single touch - MPR said the woman, whom it has not identified, detailed the allegations in a 12-page letter that included excerpts of emails and written messages. MPR said as it attempted to investigate the case, Keillor and his attorney refused to grant access to his computer, emails and text messages ... He told the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Nov. 29 that he had simply been trying to console a co-worker. "If the full 12-page letter or even a detailed summary of the alleged incidents were to be made public, we believe that would clarify why MPR ended its business relationship with Garrison and correct the misunderstandings and misinformation about the decision" (lying little entitled above-average creep
Not Dark Yet: Garrison Keillor Was Telling Our Story - Ms Pauley did use the term autism in her conversation with Mr. Keillor:

Someone Edited This Music Festival Poster To Point Out Its Obvious Woman Problem | HuffPost

Exclusive: 5 Women Sue Monster Energy Over Abusive, Discriminatory Culture | HuffPost - The women say they were bullied, harassed and even assaulted. They're out of work, but the men who allegedly behaved badly? They still have jobs. Even as he awaits a criminal trial for allegedly strangling his girlfriend during a business trip in 2016, Brent Hamilton is still the head of music marketing at Monster Energy, the multibillion-dollar beverage company partly owned by Coca-Cola ... A fifth lawsuit, filed in 2016 by a woman who worked in the company's human resource department, alleges she experienced harassment that was enabled by the company's female former head of HR. (even the women were bros when they weren't bitches and whores)

Men Only: Inside the charity fundraiser where hostesses are put on show - FT investigation finds groping and sexual harassment at secretive black-tie dinner ... a secretive annual event, the Presidents Club Charity Dinner. (FT blurred their faces, but who's the little midget?)

Erykah Badu, In Conversation (kids today are vibrating at a higher frequency and Bill Cosby is Jesus)

Is 'RePaul's Drag Race' the Most Radical Show on TV? The reality-television competition that began nine years ago has evolved to reflect an era fixated on gender and identity -- and the boundary-pushing spirit of its star.


Mississippi Teen's Mysterious Disappearance Examined In New Podcast | HuffPost


Toys R Us to close 180 stores across the US - The retailer hopes to restructure and emerge from bankruptcy.


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M 8.0 earthquake in Alaska : news
Tsunami Advisories Lifted After Alaska Earthquake - The New York Times
Alaska earthquake: NOAA website NOT UPDATED during tsunami alert | World | News | Express.co.uk - NOAA website has failed to push potential life-saving alerts about a tsunami threat to the US West Coast, Hawaii and Canada due to the US federal government shutdown, sparking fury on Twitter after Alaska was hit by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake. (AK voted for Trump, suckers)

Kentucky school shooting: 2 dead, 12 more shot at Marshall County High School - live updates - CBS News
Marshall County High School shooting: Latest news & updates | Lexington Herald Leader
Shooting at Marshall County High School : news

Russia war threat: 'Parallels with 1914' Chilling video of Putin army - UK General warning | World | News | Express.co.uk - THE nightmare prospect of war with Russia was raised yesterday by the head of the Army as the Whitehall battle over defence funding intensifies.


Republicans and Democrats Grow Even Further Apart in Views of Israel, Palestinians | Pew Research Center - Netanyahu remains a deeply polarizing figure in the U.S. (Repuglicans love authoritarians +AIPAC)

Ecuador's president calls Julian Assange 'more t han a nuisance' (+he stinks)


Pence Western Wall visit: Female journalists forced to stand behind male colleagues - The Washington Post -- #PenceFence


'Fake news. I'm coming to gun you all down' : Mich. man accused of making threatening calls to CNN ... Brandon Griesemer of Novi, Mich. (another foreign-born Trump-loving terrorist, oh wait)


Richest 1% Made 82% Of Wealth Last Year

All Glenn Greenwald's Women -- A big profile of Greenwald neglects to cite even one woman -- thereby missing crucial nuance in the story of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election (he doesn't listen to girls) (Winner's identity became known in part because of sloppy reporting by The Intercept)

Why Mueller Interviewed Comey and Sessions in Russia Probe - Jeff Sessions and James Comey were both interviewed by the Special Counsel.
Mueller seeks to question Trump about Flynn and Comey departures - The Washington Post
Jeff Sessions Is Questioned for Hours in Russia Inquiry - The New York Times

Why the Democrats lost their nerve in the shutdown battle - The Washington Post
Schumer Sells Out the Resistance - The New York Times

Five Days On, NRA Still Mum On Report Of Russian Money Probe

Bill Clinton Monica Lewinsky Scandal 20th Anniversary - Bad Journalism - Also, the Monica Lewinsky scandal ... Without the journalistic malpractice of the era of the Great Penis Hunt, there wouldn't have been the journalistic malpractice that bedeviled the 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore ... but what elected Donald Trump was less about what he learned from Bill Clinton about lying, and more about what the ratfcking community learned about how easily elite political journalism can get played, especially on the subject of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Some things never die.

12news.com | Border Patrol arrests ASU instructor who gave food, water to immigrants - The arrest came hours after the group released videos showing some Border Patrol agents kicking over water bottles left for immigrants. (ICEholes)


Biden: McConnell stopped Obama from calling out Russians - POLITICO - by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement of condemnation. (and Barry would never do anything not bi-partisan so we're all fucked)

Melania Trump no longer joining the President in Davos - CNNPolitics ... "scheduling and logistical issues" ("and porn")

Tony Perkins: Trump Gets 'a Mulligan' on Life, Stormy Daniels -- The Family Research Council head says that evangelical conservatives are willing to overlook Trump's past behavior so long as he delivers for them on policy. ("we don'T care if he is the Anti-christ, we worship Satan anyway")

The Least Self-Aware Man in the World - Lawyers, Guns & Money - If he weren't so obviously convinced of his own rectitude, I would start to wonder if he's actu ally in on the joke -- James Comey -- For example, in times of challenge it would be very bad indeed to violate rules and norms to send a highly prejudicial letter to Congress based on redundant and immaterial emails, resulting on a man unfit on every level for the office becoming President of the United States, apparently at least in part because you were concerned that Jason Chaffetz would have said mean things about you otherwise. (Republicans are immune to hypocisy)


Tammy Duckworth is pregnant; will be 1st senator to give birth

Florida Takes Big Step Toward Expanding Voting Rights To Over 1.5 Million People | HuffPost - harshest laws disenfranchising felons. That could change in November.

Do strawmen dream of rhetorical sheep? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Andrew Sullivan has a huge platform, so it's arguably worth killing a few brain cells to point out that his argument about the terrible social and political effects of what he calls "left feminism" is terrible (let's ask a conservative gay guy about women's issues +Mr Bell Curve) )
Andrew Sullivan's ode to testosterone is rooted in stereotypes, not science.
Eschaton: America's Stupidest Humans - Andrew Sullivan. - Why do conservatives never have editors and fact checkers? Why does New York Magazine pay someone who famously spent a yearish in their city whining about how horrible it was before fleeing back to DC? Life is full of mysteries.
City & State - Has Andrew Sullivan ever been to Brooklyn? - In a curious, rambling screed against contemporary feminism published Friday, Sullivan referred to Brooklyn three times. Nothing in his blog post actually had anything to do with the borough or any of its 2.6 million inhabitants. Rather, Sullivan uses Brooklyn as a metonym for a particularly aggressive brand of millennial political correctness on all matters of gender identity. He blames that phantom ideology for inciting a backlash that has made most Americans skeptical that sexism even exists and helped to elect Donald Trump


Rebecca Traister: Media Ignores Women's Marches At Their Own Risk

Second woman accuses Murray of sexual misconduct; Secretary of state won't seek reelection or higher office | 307 Politics | trib.com - Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Murray ... Theresa Sullivan Twiford said that nearly 30 years ago, when she was 18 years old and babysitting for the Murray family, Ed Murray forcibly kissed her in front of his house ... following the allegation made last month by a Colorado woman. The woman, Tatiana Maxwell, said that Murray sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s.

Camerota Roasts Schlapp: 'Conservatives Don't Care Anymore About Extramarital Affairs?'

Trustee: More to worry about at Michigan State than 'just this Nassar thing'
This Nassar thing
Michigan State fans, alums express shock over Joel Ferguson's comments


Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88 - The New York Times


Missouri man mistakes neighbor's house for his own, kills homeowner thinking he was an intruder

No Passport or Ticket: How a Woman Evaded Airport Security and Flew to London - The New York Times - Marilyn Hartman

Neil Diamond Diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, Announces Retirement : Music (see comments for personal experiences)


TIL of Strewwelpeter a German book to scare kids into being good. Ex. a story about a boy who never cleans himself & is unpopular, one refuses to eat his soup & withers away & dies, a girl plays with matches & burns to death, & 2 boys tease someone w/ dark skin & are then dipped in ink as a lesson : todayilearned
Daumenlutscher


E-cigarettes: safer than smoking, National Academies report finds - Vox - E-cigarettes may help adult smokers quit tobacco. But they also entice young people to start smoking ... In the NAS report, the authors repeatedly state that e-cigarettes are far less harmful than conventional cigarettes. "There is conclusive evidence, that completely substituting e-cigarettes for combustible tobacco cigarettes reduces user's xposure to numerous toxicants and carcinogens present in combustible tobacco cigarettes."


Psychedelic mushrooms reduce authoritarianism and boost nature relatedness, experimental study suggests : science

Artificial intelligence predicts corruption : science

No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour - Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the theory that video games make players more violent. : science

TIL almost 1 in 4 people with tattoos regret it, meaning about 7.5 million Americans : todayilearned

PSA: Quick Hotel Safe Override - Check for this before you store your valuables in a hotel safe. : videos

What's the worst thing you've seen or done on public transportation? : AskReddit
Some real camo... : pics
During a dusting of snow in Cambridge yesterday, my friend saw me taking photos outside and shouted from her window "Wait! I bought a new coat which *needs* to be worn in the snow!"... : pics


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Trump's Solar Tariffs Mark Biggest Blow to Renewables Yet


Inequality gap widens as 42 people hold same wealth as 3.7bn poorest | Inequality | The Guardian (up against the wall)


Inside The Fight For The Soul Of Kaspersky Lab


Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell announce a deal to reopen the government after a three-day standoff.
Dems Fold on This Shutdown, But the Next One Could Be Worse - promise to vote on Dreamers in exchange for reopening the government. If he breaks that promise, all hell will break loose.
Democrats are adopting tactics they condemned in the Obama years. But they still want to compromise.
Democrats Are Allowing Republicans To Have It Both Ways On The Dreamers | Crooked Media
Most Americans Blame President Trump and Republicans in Congress for the Government Shutdown, New Poll Shows -- Fifty-two percent ... their current position of blocking protections for Dreamers even if it means the government remains shut down is supported by only 33 percent of Americans.
The Deal - Lawyers, Guns & Money - I guess I am in a significant minority on the left, but I don't see this government shutdown deal as a capitulation or sellout at all. What I see is the following:
Democrats' Bold Fold Shifts the Pressure onto Trump and His GOP Enablers -- Democrats freed 9 million child hostages. Republicans got a Willie Horton ad.
Trump is facing a big moment of truth. And no amount of spin and lies can change it. - The Washington Post

Watchdog group files complaint against Trump campaign over reported payout to Stormy Daniels - The Washington Post - the settlement amounted to an unreported in-kind contribution to Trump's campaign

Are Trump and Kelly Heading for Divorce? -- With the president and his chief of staff arguing in public, Ivanka Trump takes charge of finding a replacement.

FBI: Devin Nunes Wn't Show Us Memo Alleging Surveillance Abuses -- The FBI has yet to see a controversial memo alleging the intelligence community engaged in grave abuses. (because everyone would laugh even more at Russian ratfucker Nunes)

Trump, Threat Inflation, and Authoritarianism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Team Trump Bypassed DHS Analysts to Produce Bogus Terror Report - 73% of terrorists were 'foreign born" (little Jeffy wrote it himself, which is why is don't make any sense) "The Trump administration is trying to turn counterterrorism into an immigration issue"

'Defiance Disorder' : Another new book describes chaos in Trump's White House (Howie Fucking Kurtz)

Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law | HuffPost - peanuts compared with what the Koch brothers will save.

Democrats solidify their lead in midterm elections matchup (POLL) - ABC News
Pennsylvania court throws out congressional boundaries - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's congressional map Monday, granting a major victory to Democrats who charged that the 18 districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to benefit Republicans.
Trump voting commission asked to for Texas lists flagging Hispanic voter surnames - The Washington Post

The Latest: Pence calls report on Trump affair baseless (Satangelicals always lie)
The Trump evangelicals have lost their gag reflex - The Washington Post (soul, if they had one)

Nate Silver on Twitter: "The Women's March is probably a more *important* story than the shutdown. It involves less drama/unpredictability, however, so news outlets deem it to be less newsworthy. https://t.co/w5c499fwhl" (because, girls helping and not men screwing America)
"We're not going anywhwere": the 2018 women's marches show the movement's endurance
Mass Mobilization Matters - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The religious activists on the rise inside Trump's jealth department -- Critics fret some agency leaders are blurring the lines between church and state. (Fundies in charge, finally)

ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years - The Washington Post (now in jail)


How was I to know he was with the Russians too? - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "It is not an insubstantial portion of Democratic online loyalists who believe that if you deviate from Democratic Party orthodoxy on the Trump-Russia question, you are a paid Kremlin agent": Greenwald says (and he should know) comment: "Greenwald is dedicated to two propositions 1) everything a Democrat does is wrong and 2) everything he says is right."

2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege -- Max Boot



Kid Rock sends $122K from fake campaign to voter group - to a voter-registration organization affiliated with the College Republicans, his publicist said. (suckers, as usual)

Anthem's imprudent standard -- it is well known that absent a very knobbly boot on the neck, health insurance companies behave like libertarian sadists on a coke binge. For example, Anthem continues to roll out its Diagnose Yourself or Pay policy, even though it violates federal law.


A #MeToo Reckoning Is About to Hit the Grammys

Matt Lauer's wife kicks him out of Hamptons house ... He owns a $36 million compound in North Haven, a house in Sag Harbor and a 40-acre horse farm in Water Mill.


A Decade After the Great Recession, We're Outsourcing Home Appraisals to India (and google maps) how fast we're decided to ignore the lessons of the great housing bubble and the subsequent crash. Republicans, of course, never wanted to learn any lessons from the very start, but Wall Street stayed cautious for at least a few years. Now even that's receding into the rear view mirror, a mere decade after the second-worst recession of the past century

Vermont Governor With 'Mixed Emotions' Signs Marijuana Bill -- Republican Gov. Phil Scott
Vermont has officially legalized cannabis : news - Putting the squeeze on New Hampshire. Basically the whole state is gonna get contact high now.

Town official in Maine under fire after espousing white supremacist views - The Boston Globe - Jackman town manager Tom Kawczynski recently made public comments bashing Islam and calling for preservation of white European heritage in northern New England ... "He has also identified as a supporter of President Donald Trump" (go back to Poland, dude)

Police union slashes number of get out of jail free cards issued ... The rank and file is livid ...A source said Lynch ordered the cutback to stop the sale of the cards, which were being hawked on eBay last week for as much as $200. (yeah, it's really a corrupt cop thing)

University Student Hospitalized After Eating A Tide Pod | HuffPost - The incident comes just days after health officials repeatedly warned against ingesting them.

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TIL in much of the US it is illegal to buy a new car from the manufacturer. You are required by law to go through the middleman of a car dealer, so they can tac on an extra ~30?. : todayilearned (Come on down!)

Judge tells convicted murderer "I Hope You Die in Prison!" after she laughs and smirks at the family testifying for their deceased loved one. : videos

Facebook: we were too slow to recognise our 'corrosive' effect on democracy. : technology - More like "we didn't care before because nobody noticed. Now that people are mad, we're going to act like we're doing something about it."

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Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo : news (sore losers)


Why has Britain given such a warm welcome to this shadowy professor? | Nick Cohen | Opinion | The Guardian - He seems to be a spy, but Joseph Mifsud meets ministers and lands university posts


Afghan forces end deadly Taliban siege at Kabul hotel - Intercontinental Hotel that left at least 18 people dead, including 14 foreigners. (drop more bombzz)


Republican's Guide to Presidential Etiquette (none, hahaha suckers) Remember the hand-wringing when Barack Obama wore a tan suit or tossed a football in the Oval Office? (and your media, including NYT, faithfully reported the "scandals")

One Year Down, Three (Oh Dear God Please Only Three) Years To Go - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The most important thing, in my view, to understand about Donald Trump's worldview is the racist resentment. That runs through his advisors and through the nearly the whole Republican Party as they fall into line ... I still maintain that Obama made a huge mistake by not attempting to mobilize his supporters who loved him in 2009 into doing something active (instead, he told his grass-roots to go home and let the adults handle everything which worked out really well, fuck you Barry)
Trump campaign ad on murder raises heat in shutdown fight -- "Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants"

Now on Stage, Stormy Daniels: A Strip Club and a Presidency Meet After Dark - The New York Times ... "Making America Horney Again" ... "This is just a news story. I don't know if it's accurate," the Rev. Franklin Graham, a Trump supporter, told MSNBC (and noted Satangelical)
NYT Reporter Files Amazing Story from Stormy Daniels' Strip Club Appearance
Conservatives Shake Their Heads at the Stormy Daniels S---storm | Vanity Fair - How is it that the president's alleged affair with a porn star isn't even the biggest story of the week? (all good Christian men have their failings) Trump lost 16 of 20 states with the highest percentage of immigrants, while he won 26 of 30 with the lowest (of course the anti-immigrants would be assholes with no expericne of immigrants)

More texts turned over from FBI agent taken off Mueller team - The Justice Department has turned over to Congress additional text messages involving an FBI agent who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team following the discovery of derogatory comments about President Donald Trump. (no criticism of the god-emperor allowed)

They Were Bad. He May Be Worse. - The New York Times - George Washington observed at the outset of his presidency in 1789, the president cannot in any way "demean himself in his public character" and must act "in such a manner as to maintain the dignity of office" ... historian's ratings of presidents have consistently consigned a dozen or so presidents to the bottom of the heap, including James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce and, in recent evaluations, George W. Bush.

Amid record low one-year approval rating, half of Americans question Trump's mental stability (very stable shithead but not a genius)

Tammy Duckworth Scorches Donald Trump As 'Five-Deferment Draft Dodger' | HuffPost - "Cadet Bone Spurs"

The Political Mythbuster in Chief - The New York Times - The jig is up. Mr. Trump has made false or misleading claims more than 2,000 times in the past year ... Gone, even, is the idea that videotaped evidence of misbehavior is dispositive ... He whispers that it wasn't even him on t he "Access Hollywood" tape. Suddenly, what was beyond debate is debatable. (fuck yer lying eyes)

Sad Trump spent day watching videos of himself attacking Obama for last shutdown
Schumer offered Trump something Democrats hate for something Republicans broadly like - The Washington Post ... A deal on those covered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that would also potentially fund the wall. (usual fucky Chucky bs)

Eschaton: Saturday Evening - The scary thing is some senators really... believe it? They think they've been elected to form gangs and go the gym together or whatever. Strange people. I'm looking at you Claire McCaskill. Stop it.


Who Gets The Most Traffic Among Conservative Websites? -- Breitbart recorded more audience visits in December than Politico, Newsweek and Slate.

Glenn Greenwald Slams Liberal Russia Hype and 'Partisan Hack' Rachel Maddow in New Profile

In Pennsylvania, women who voted for Trump voice support after first year - In a sign of its importance, his campaign dispatched his daughter Ivanka to the region late in the race to woo women there.

Watching the Blue Detectives - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Led by British gadfly Louise Mensch (269,000 followers on Twitter currently)

My Kid's First Lesson in Realpolitik -- Swiss parents believe that if children learn to resolve their own conflicts early on, they will be more autonomous and confident later in life ... If you examine him through the lens of playground politics, you will recognize Mr. Trump as a thin-skinned bully who seems incapable of stomaching criticism or opposition. At the same time, he postures as a victim, vacillating between venomous outcries at his foes and the desperate need for validation from his fans.

Trump's 24-year-old drug policy appointee was let go at law firm after he 'just didn't show' ... He said that he hired Weyeneth in part because both men were involved in the same fraternity (the best of the well-connected worst)


Women's March Dials Up Major Crowd Size Numbers Across the U.S. A picture of the movement, one year later.


House Ethics Committee Drops Republican Over Taxpayer-Funded Harassment Settlement | HuffPost - A lawmaker tasked with addressing sexual harassment in Congress secretly settled his own harassment claim. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.), a member of the House Ethics Committee and married father of three, expressed interest in the personal life of a female aide who was decades younger than him. Meehan eventually attempted to pursue a romantic relationship with the aide and became hostile when she rejected his advances,

Ethics probe barely alive, as those who spoke up fear Senate reprisals - The Boston Globe - Independent investigators looking into Senator Stan Rosenberg's conduct ... "There's no way I would come forward" said one of the alleged victims. "This is an investigation to clear Stan Rosenberg's name. It's not an investigation to find out the truth."

"Vice Has Flown Its Freak Flag High" : Vice May Have Survived Its #MeToo Scandal, but Now Comes the Hard Part


NPR's Ross Levinsohn scoop delivers a double blow to Tronc - The Tronc rollercoaster continues: Just as it tries to unveil a familiar strategy ("gravitas with scale"!) its top digital leader's past catches up with him.
L.A. Times Publisher Ross Levinsohn to take unpaid leave of absence - LA Times (the world of alpha bros)

The Los Angeles Times Votes To Unionize | HuffPost - A day before the vote, senior editors had made a last-ditch effort to quash the unionizing campaign - 248 in favor, 44 against. A landslide victory ... The announcement comes a day after an NPR report uncovered allegations of sexual misconduct against the Times' publisher and CEO, Ross Levinsohn, increasing tensions between staffers and the executives who have long been hostile to the union campaign.

Playboy is suing Boing Boing - but linking is not copyright infringement / Boing Boing

Newsweek Raided by Manhattan DA in Long-Running Probe - removing 18 computer servers


1 Son, 4 Overdoses, 6 Hours - The New York Times - Drug deaths draw the most notice, but more addicted people live than die. For them and their families, life can be a relentless cycle of worry, hope and chaos ... In the 20 years that Patrick has been using drugs, he has lost track of how many times he has overdosed. He guesses 30, a number experts say would not be surprising for someone taking drugs off and on for that long ... New Hampshire, which leads the country in deaths per capita from fentanyl, almost 500 people died of overdoses in 2016. (carnage in the outer towns)

The 13 siblings held captive under horrifying conditions kept hundreds of journals : news
Canadian Billionaire and Wife Believed to Have Been Murdered by Multiple Killers. : news


How DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage, and Probably Yours, Too

Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs | News | The Guardian - Work has ruled our lives for centuries, and it does so today more than ever. But a new generation of thinkers insists there is an alternative

Science in flux: is a revolution brewing in evolutionary theory? | Aeon Essays -- Yet as novel ideas flood in from genomics, epigenetics and developmental biology, most evolutionists agree that their field is in flux. Much of the data implies that evolution is more complex than we once assumed. ... The orthodox view has been that developmental processes are largely irrelevant to evolution, but the EES views them as pivotal.

The top 10 places people are moving, and how their choices differ by race - The Washington Post

Adolescence now lasts from 10 to 24 (maybe even later)

US flu season gets worse, has 'lot more steam' than expected : news
Flu outbreak: 100 people a week dying in US as virus continues to spread | The Independent - At least 759 people died in the US between 7 October and 23 December


Former cheaters of Reddit how were you caught by your significant other? : AskReddit

The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought - Bloomberg - Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber? - Kalanick operated by gut feeling and with a stubborn sense of how people should feel, not how they did ... "Some people don't take responsibility for their own shit!" Kalanick can be heard yelling at Kamel. "They blame everything in their life on somebody else!" (entitled autistic (see 2048 ref) Trumpster tech-bro) Arianna Huffington, the media entrepreneur and Kalanick's staunchest ally on the board ... board members suspected that Huffington was serving as his proxy. The founder of the Huffington Post was a constant presence at Uber's offices, making suggestions that seemed to promote her new wellness company ... she wanted to put "nap pods" at driver hubs and give drivers meditation wristbands. Huffingtron's company received $50,000 in consulting fees from Uber. (more true colors)

Snapchat Goes Full Scaramucci, Threatens Leakers with Jail Time | Vanity Fair - suggests employees who speak to the press will lose their jobs, and then some. (they always were assholes)

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Pope Francis, company man - The Boston Globe - Let the record show that the promise of Pope Francis died in Santiago, Chile, on Jan. 18, in the year of our Lord 2018.


Dead ` Porter: The Alleged Chinese Boss of Bosses Using Slaves to Produce Luxury - An Italian sting operation led to the arrest of 33 Chinese mafiosi who ran one of the deadliest and most lucrative trades in cheap trinkets and high fashion in Europe.


Politics Is More Partisan Now, But It's Not More Divisive - And anyway, agreement between the two parties has often masked serious problems.

In the crowd at Trump's inauguration, members of Russia's elite anticipated a thaw between Moscow and Washington (haha they wore Maga hats)

Trump plans gala at Mar-a-Lago tonight, again renting a ballroom from himself - The Washington Post

Trump's first year: A damage assessment - People who once insisted on religious beliefs and a sterling character as paramount in their evaluation of a president now wave away alleged payoffs to porn stars; fiscal conservatives now blithely applaud the addition of $1 trillion in debt; foreign policy hawks now mumble quietly as the president draws moral equivalences between the United States and Russia.

Eschaton: Shutdown - John Kelly is as big a racist xenophobe as Stephen Miller, if perhaps for different reasons, and you can't make a deal with bestest boy Donald about immigration (or anything) because they'll run interference and get him to "reconsider." The New York Times reporters spent all last night (in their shitty newspaper and on the twitters) blaming Democrats for the shutdown, because it's always their fault, so cancel your subscriptions. Please. I am so sick of this shitty newspaper destroying our politics. From Whitewater to Iraq to Clinton Cash to Emails to Maggie when will people learn. It is a bad newspaper. Local media is often horrible but at least they cover things that nobody else does so give your guilt money to them instead.
Your Liberal Media - Lawyers, Guns & Money - NYT once again operating as a Trump propaganda outlet, with its lies used by the GOP to shape policy that causes citizens to suffer

How Every Senator Voted on the Government Shutdown - The New York Times (NYT says it's all the Dems fault +Donnelly, Heitkamp, Jones! Manchin and McCaskill)

#TrumpShutdown beats #SchumerShutdown in hashtag battle to assign blame - ABC News
#TrumpShutdown becomes top trending hashtag worldwide | TheHill

Shutdown? It Could Be Forgotten in a Trumpian Flash - The New York Times - n the fall of 2013, Republican hard-liners engineered a 16-day shutdown of the federal government, implausibly insisting that President Barack Obama acquiesce to their demand that the Affordable Care Act be stripped of all funding. The gambit failed miserably (Republicans can't remember last week and they think you can't either)
Republicans are fooling themselves if they think they have a shutdown leg up [Updated] - The Washington Post
Government shutdown threats aren't new -- but this standoff is far different -- Twice under President Obama, Republican lawmakers precipitated acute crises of governance. Now, as Donald Trump's Washington nears a government shutdown, Republicans accuse Democrats of doing the same thing.
Federal Government Shuts Down at Midnight : news

Government Shuts Down After Senate Blocks Short-Term Spending Bill | HuffPost -- Forty-four Democrats and four Republicans voted against the short-term spending bill that passed the House on Thursday evening, many of them saying they could not vote for a measure that does nothing for the 700,000 undocumented young people President Donald Trump has put at risk of losing protection from deportation
On The Anniversary Of Trump's Inauguration, The Government Is Shut Down | HuffPost - "We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action" he proclaimed at his inauguration. (they have always hated government except for the tax-cuts)
Trump Blames Democrats For Shutdown Despite GOP Control Of Congress | HuffPost - "This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present" (lying asshole of the year award)
Trump Whines: Shutdown Fight Could Make Me Miss 'My Party' -- he political impasse would possibly keep him from attending a glitzy inauguration anniversary bash and fundraiser set for Saturday at his Florida getaway Mar-a-Lago.
Eschaton: One Thing I Know For Sure - There is nothing that upsets the Majority Leader more than knowing that some kids might lose their health insurance. If only he had any power to do something about it.
How Trump and Schumer Came Close to a Deal Over Cheeseburgers - The New York Times ... Mr. Schumer left the White House believing he had persuaded the president (Trumpster always fucks everything)
What's so extremely, uniquely wrong about Trump's presidency ... "At the right time, I will be so presidential, you will be so bored."
Trump Campaign Uses Shutdown To Accuse Democrats Of Being Complicit In Murder | HuffPost - pinned murders committed by undocumented immigrants directly on Democrats who are pushing for relief for so-called Dreamers, young people who came to the U.S. as children.
Unhinged Fox host tries to distract from Trump's shutdown by stalking Hillary Clinton ... Fox New's Judge Jeanine Pirro is poking around the woods in Chappaqua, NY, where she says she is "on the search for Hillary"

NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve - POLITICO - "sincerely regrets its failure" (and if you believe that ...) in connection with pending lawsuits and apparently never took some of the steps it told a federal court it had taken to make sure the information wasn't destroyed (erased illegal spying by Bush ... the original fuck-you agency)

Devin Nune's Mystery Memo: Repeating the Cycle of Distraction
Right-wing demand to #ReleaseTheMemo endorsed by Russian bots, trolls - NBC News
House GOPers Say A Secret Memo Could End The Trump-Russia Probe. Their Staff Wrote It. | HuffPost - #ReleaseTheMemo is the latest way Republicans on Capitol Hill are trying to undermine the Mueller probe.
Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose Gets Woke Over Devin Nunes; Twitter Roars | HuffPost - all there in a secret four-page memo viewed by members of Congress. The problem? It's written by Republicans, orchestrated by Nunes and, Democrats complain, designed to try to cut Mueller's probe off at the knees

Report: Deutsche Bank Flags 'Suspicious' Kushner Company Transactions | HuffPost - The bank is prepared to turn over documents to special counsel Robert Mueller, says a German business magazine.
Jared Kushner Is China's Trump Card (slimy little sleazeball)


Don't Let Dishonest Don Erase Honest Abe | HuffPost - Like most of Trump's pronouncements, this was boilerplate projection. If anything is full of lies, it is the president himself.

Tabloid helf porn star's 2011 interview after Trump threat (so many missed opportunities)
President Trump Is Having an Affair "right now" Michael Wolff Tells Bill Maher (why Melania always looks so unhappy)
Former Trump spokesman named in Wolff book lawyers up - POLITICO - Mark Corallo has hired the husband-wife attorney duo of Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova in anticipation of requests for interviews by special counsel Robert Mueller

The bizarre rise and dramatic fall of Louise Mensch and her 'Bluie Detectives -- A year later, why does anyone still listen to Seth Abramson? ... "the InfoWars of the left"

Elizabeth Warren's Native American problem goes beyond politics (refuses to release her 23andMe)


FBI opened inquiry into Missouri governor - CNNPolitics (a good moral pro-life Republican)


Justine Sacco, the PR exec who was fired from IAC for her tweets, has landed back at IAC's Match Group - Sacco, who tweeted before she got on a plane, is back with Barry Diller's company ... "Going to Africa. Hipe I don't get AIDS, just kidding. I'm white!) (now OKCuipid Girl)


Women's March Draws Massive Crowds In Cities Across The Nation | HuffPost - a lot more rage and a lot more anger in this march
Organizers say 300K descend on downtown Chicago for Women's March - Chicago Tribune
One year later, thousands gather for second Boston women's march
At women's marches, the signs tell the story ... "We Are Not Ovary-Acting"

The Fake Feminism Of The #MeToo Backlash | HuffPost - a fleet of male reactionaries, many of them veterans of previous culture wars; an auxiliary of middle-to-upper-class female pundits, delighted with their own wicked apostasies from the sisterhood and crowing over the professional boost it was giving them -- joined forces to protect the beleaguered patriarchy from incremental change. ... we got Katie Roiphe as a '90's eminist symbol, even as she vigorously mocked the work feminists were doing and did nothing of note to shift cultural norms or structures to empower women. Roiphe rocketed to fame in 1993 as the 25-year-old ... The book was heavily promoted, especially by The New York Times (they've always been evil) ... Andrew Sullivan had the jaw-dropping gall ... a bizarre screed by Caitlin Flanagan ... 2016 to explain why she couldn't Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump ... as a feminist, Weiss holds exactly the same views on male-female sexual dynamics as we held in the '50's and for eons before: If women don'gt want to be sexually violated, they need to fight men off. (the usual cast of retrograde Republican assholes and Jill Stein idiots)

Bill Maher: 'I'm Down With #MeToo, I'm Not Down With #MeCarthyism' | HuffPost (Bill is just "concerned")

Congressman Combating Harassment Settled His Own Misconduct Case - The New York Times - Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle his own misconduct complaint after a former aide accused him last year of making unwanted romantic overtures to her ... A married father of three, Mr. Meehan, 62, had long expressed interest in the personal life of the aide, who was decades younger and had regarded the congressman as a father figure ... and he grew hostile when she did not reciprocate


A look at the lives of 13 siblings held captive in a house full of chains -- and what comes next (Pentacostalism)
Valor Christian College | Rod Parsley, Founder - "The School of the Spirit"


Nicholas Cage once blew $150 million on a private island and a dinosaur skull -- here'S everything he bought (his soul is empty)

He ate raw fish almost every day -- until a 5-foot-long tapeworm slithered out of his body ... "It's not like every single piece of raw fish is infected," said Janine Caira, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut.


What is something you witnessed as a child and didn't realize was really fucked up until you remembered it many years later? : AskReddit


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Pope Accuses Clergy Sex Abuse Victims Of Slander | HuffPost - The victims claim Bishop Juan Barros protected a pedophile priest.

In Venezuela, money has stopped working - The Washington Post - strewn about in the trash are at least a dozen 20-bolivar bills, small-denomination currency now so worthless even looters didn't think it was worth their time to stop and pick them up ... Each bill is worth about $0.0001 at the current exchange rate, meaning you need to have 100 of them to equal one penny ... How can Venezuelans go on? One thing is clear: No one in power much cares. (third-grade educated bus driver wrecks the country but corrupt elites have his back, vive la revolution


Orgasmic Communism??? Critical Reflections on Kristen R. Ghodsee's New York Times Op-Ed -- "Eastern women had twice as many orgasms as Western women"

Shovels: Lawful Weapons or War Crime? - Lawfare - ISIS needs to understand that the Joint Force is on orders to annihilate them ...if they choose not to surrender, then we will kill them with extreme prejudice, whether that be through security force assistance, by dropping bombs on them, shooting them in the face, or beating them to death with our entrenching tools.


Russians under every rock - The Washington Post ... "If you were running an influence operation with the goal of subverting 70 years of Republican hawkishness on Russia, infiltrating the right's most powerful lobbying group wouldn't be a bad way to do it," (surprising how easy it was to flip one of their core ideologies +Barry completely missed the whole thing)
Devin Nunes Doesn't Think Donald Trump Should be Subject To the Kind of "Witch Hunt" He Conducted with Edward Snowden

The man-child in the White House reels wildly out of control - The Washington Post

Stormy Daniels' Explosive Full Interview on Donald Trump Affair: "I Can Describe His Junk Perfectly" (very, very, small)
Stormy Daniels Once Claimed She Spanked Donald Trump With a Forbes Magazine - Mother Jones - At his request. (makes the pee-pee tapes a lot more likely)

'I'll give her a week' to lose the baby weight, Trump said of Melania, months before alleged tryst with porn star
What should scare us about Trump's porn star scandal ... the secrecy ... Bannon as asking, "What did we have, a hundred women?" before saying that a lawyer "took care of all of them" < Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump, Our Contemporary America - Out on the weekend with the president* and a porn star.
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Eschaton: Sure, Believe That's The Straw. Whatever. Lol You Garbage People - Fates are already sealed. -- But some episodes can't be ignored. Trump's comments during a closed-door immigration meeting last week in which he referred to "shithole" countries are still reverberating, with several administration officials privately worrying that their future job prospects could be damaged by association, according to a person familiar with their thinking.

Watergate prosecutor says Bannon's testimony "looks like a cover-up" -- testimony only raised more questions about what the White House is trying to hide -- and why.
Trump personally made decision to limit Bannon testimony: report | TheHill (but it's not a coverup or anything)

'Release the memo' campaign aided by Russia-linked Twitter accounts - Business Insider - are working overtime to help Devin Nunes and WikiLeaks (meanwhile, at the bottom of the traitorous slime-barrel)

Omarosa may have taped confidential White House discussions - NY Daily News

Turnover In Trump's White House Is 'Record-Setting,' And It Isn't Even Close -- Turnover in Trump's first year was more than triple that in former President Barack Obama's first year, and double the rate in President Ronald Reagan's White House. A full 34 percent of high-level White House aides either resigned, were fired or moved into different positions in this first year of the Trump presidency.

Trump is historically unpopular. But the intensity gap should really terrify Republicans. - The Washington Post

Blame game ramps up as shutdown nears | TheHill - McConnell accused Democrats of holding hostage various federal priorities (The Hill says it's all the Dems fault even though Republicans have all the power)
You're Only A Wartime Consigliere, Mitch ... Your Twitter handle would seem to indicate that you are the Senate majority leader. You are, as best as I can determine, a Republican. So, yes, this failure to pass legislation to avert a government shutdown would seem to fall entirely on the Democratic Party, particularly when members of your own party a refusing to vote for the bill.
More Americans blame Republicans than Democrats for potential government shutdown, Post-ABC poll finds - The Washington Post - A 48 percent plurality says Trump and congressional Republicans are mainly responsible for the situation resulting from disagreements over immigration laws and border security, while 28 percent fault Democrats. (not bad, considering the 27% of America who can't think at all)
Here's Another Fine Mess They've Gotten Us Into
Inside the Oval Office Immigration Meeting That Left a Senator Stunned - The New York Times - Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard J. Durbin found themselves in a condition unfamiliar to such veteran politicians: speechless.

On Trump's mental fitness, the experts are silenced and the public's in the dark


Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks North Carolina Gerrymandering Ruling - The New York Times - making it likely that the midterm elections this year will be conducted using districts favorable to Republican candidates.
John Robert's Long War On Voting Rights Continues (looks like theSC will make Republican gerrymandering legal)

Trump appointee Carl Higbie made racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments on the radio - CNNPolitics (only the best of the worst racist Republican assholes)
Trump Appointee Resigns After Perfectly Reflecting the Trump Administration's Views on Everything - Lawyers, Guns & Money ... "Go back to your Muslim shithole and go crap in your hands and bang little boys on Thursday nights" ... Higbie said people who receive government assistance shouldn't be allowed to vote in the subsequent election. (tax cuts for the rich aren't "government assitance")

New HHS civil rights division charged with protecting health-care workers with moral objections - The Washington Post ("civil rights division")

Check Out The Hilarious Device That Lets Racists Sleep At Night | HuffPost - the Aryan 2 white-noise sleep machine. Now, racists can welcome the sandman with the "soothing sounds of intolerance" from Richard Spencer, Alex Jones and President Donald Trump. "Don't let equality keep you up at night"


California's top cop warns employers to follow state law on immigration | The Sacramento Bee

GOP Lawmaker Falsely Claims ISIS Behind Las Vegas Shooting - The Daily Beast ... "I smell a rat, like a lot of Americans. Nothing's adding up," Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) told Fox News' Tucker Carlson ...

Mortal Again: Christie Blocked at VIP Entrance to Newark Airport - Bloomberg - Police officer sends him to Terminal B with rest of nobodies -- Three days out of office and Port Authority ends prized perk (hahaha)

Conservative Ed Martin Out as CNN Contributor | Hollywood Reporter - The pundit was brought on by CNN to help replace Jeffrey Lord, whom the network fired in August ... Martin hasn't appeared on air since mid-December, when he said on his radio show that some of his fellow panelists on a particular segment were "black racists" ... Martin is the former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, and the co-author of a book called The Conservative Case for Trump.

Texas judge interrupts jury, says God told him defendant is not guilty : news


Dylan Farrow denies being brainwashed in first TV interview about Woody Allen allegations | Film | The Guardian - Farrow repeats claim that her father sexually assaulted her as a child in interview with CBS This Morning
Colin Firth says he will never work with Woody Allen again | Film | The Guardian - Actor provides statement to Guardian on same day Dylan Farrow gives first televised interview accusing her adoptive father of sexual assault

Shut Up, Alec Baldwin: The Self-Confessed 'Sexist' Defending Hollywood's Alleged Abusers ... Remember when we thought that putting Alec Baldwin in a toupee to make fun of our idiot president could actually save us?

Michigan State is apparently not going to fire anybody for enabling 20 years of sexual abuse by Larry Nassar - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The good folks on the MSU Board of Trustees are more than willing to let Lou Anna K Simon continue to call herself (the nation's sixth-highest paid public university) president:

State legislature spent $269K on sexual harassment complaints - WNEM TV 5 - That is raising questions over whether the State Senate has kept a slush fund of sorts to handle these kinds of situations.

Accusations of 'Frat House' Behavior Trail 'LA Times' Publisher's Career ... CEO and publisher, Ross Levinsohn, has been a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits and that his conduct in work settings over the past two decades has been called into question repeatedly by female colleagues ... Back in A ugust, top; officials at the Los Angeles Times' parent company -- called Tronc -- wanted new leadership to run its crown jewel. They fired a slew of top executives at the newspaper and hired Levinsohn. (a knewn harrasser, but he's a Repubican)

The Truth About Gianni Versace and Andrew Cunanan's Relationship Did the designer and his murderer actually know each other, as American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace indicates?
American Crime Story: How Ryan Murphy Transformed Ricky Martin's Real-Life Pain into Stunning TV ... his devastating turn in the show's premiere


Prospect assistant police chief told LMPD recruit to 'shoot' black people -- told a Louisville Metro Police recruit that, if he catches juveniles smoking marijuana, he should "shoot them" if they are black (instant execuation)

2 Boys Arrested After Vandalism That Killed 500,000 Bees On Iowa Honey Farm | HuffPost - he boys, ages 12 and 13, wrecked equipment and knocked over 50 hives at the Wild Hill Honey farm in Sioux City last month


Eschaton: No Foods - I've experienced shortage problems at my local Whole Foods a couple of times recently, though I have no idea if it's related. It's one thing if they're out of kelp or something, but another if you can't be sure you'll find onions and potatoes and other basic staples. Twice I've had to go the Other Supermarket across the street for really basic stuff ... But Whole Foods employees say the problems began before the acquisition. They blame the shortages on a buying system called order-to-shelf that Whole Foods implemented across its stores early last year ... Supermarkets need to be overstocked. Yes that'll lead to waste, but...


According to a recent study, spanked children were five times more likely to experience delays in language development than children who weren't Scolded and spanked children were more likely to suffer delays in developing language and socio-adaptive skills.

Scientists edge closer to creating a blood test that can detect multiple types of cancers, seeing success rates of around 70% in cancerous individuals : science - Interestingly, the tests detected Ovarian cancer 98% of the time



A hotel has banned YouTubers and Instagram stars - after a 22-year-old YouTuber asked for a five-night free stay and broke down in tears when she was bluntly refused : news


How Amazon's HQ2 finalist cities compare -- We look at tech talent, office space and time to the airport.

Amazon is raising the price of Prime monthly memberships by nearly 20 percent - Recode - From $10.99 to $12.99. (99$ yearly membership not increasing)

The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm In 2018 - The anger factory has changed a bit since 2013.

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A new U.S. air blitz in Afghanistan isn't stopping for winter. But will it stop the Taliban? -- U.S. and Afghan forces conducted 455 airstrikes in December, an average of 15 a day, compared with just 65 the year before. Even in December 2012, when there were nearly 100,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, barely 200 strikes took place. (your corrupt, lose every war, military unbound)

FBI investigating whether Russia funneled cash to NRA to aid Trump's campaign | McClatchy Washington Bureau
You Can't Spell "Trump-russia Investigation" without an N, R, & A -- Raise you hand if you're surprised by the possibility that the NRA was a conduit for pro-Trump Russian money.

Majority Of Americans See Trump's First Year As A Failure ... by a 53-to-40-percent margin ... And by an almost 2-to-1 margin (61 to 32 percent), Americans said they believe Trump has divided the country since his election.
World's Approval of U.S. Leadership Drops to New Low (except in Israel and Russia, probably)

A burst of acrimony on Capitol Hill threatens immigration deal - The Washington Post

'Truth Decay' infected politics before Trump and feeds the paralysis that makes a shutdown possible (you mean decades of Republican pathological lying)
WikiLeaks: Trump administration a 'frequent source of false information'
Trump averages a 'fake' insult every day. Really. We counted.

Norms: We've all lived through nightly flood the zone coverage of certain issues. We know they can do this. Who knew Congressional witnesses could "choose" how and whether to cooperate without invoking any relevant valid legal doctrine to do so. Things change fast! ... When Trump is gone we will be back to tan suits being month long scandals for President Democrat. I'm not sure that's good or bad, but... (double standard: Trump can protect witnesses with his vastly expanded "executive priviledge" which only Republicans can do)

Jared Kushner Still Doesn't Have Security Clearance After a Year At the White House

American Democracy Is an Easy Target - Foreign Policy - Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.
Twitter may tell users if they were exposed to Russian propaganda (but will turn it off for Trump because all he reads is Russian propaganda)

Freedom's just another word for being denied medical care by religious bigots


Staffers at The Hill press management about the work of John Solomon - The Washington Post - Over the past three months, Solomon has turned in a dozen or so appearances on "Hannity" (+being a mouthpiece for Putin +The Hill's rightward lurch)



Is Trump's doctor okay? ("shared psychois"

Fact-checking President Trump's Fake New Awards (Fake)

'Girthers' on Twitter Are Just Asking Questions About Trump's Size


Eschaton: But Atrios, The NYT Is Good - Stop telling me to cancel my subscription! -- On Thursday, the NYT is not running any editorials in print. The ed board is devoting the page to letters from Trump supporters. Check it out ... Ah, remember back to 2009, when Obama won the presidency, Dems controlled Congress, and our liberal media did nothing but profile...the same fucking people they're profiling now. They just called them the Tea Party then.
Anthropological journalism as denial - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Anthropological journalism consists of sending a reporter out to some "exotic" ocale in flyover country, to interview Racist Fuckhead (not his real name) and his friends about their decision to vote for Trump. (NYT)
Your Liberal Media - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Congratulations to the New York Times for finding the last Trump supporters to not be discussed in one of their articles about Trump supporters and deciding to turn over the entire op-ed page tomorrow to them. What a rag!

A Piece of Intriguing News - Lawyers, Guns & Money - David Simon is doing a mini-series of The Plot Against America? During the Trump years?


The Onion on Twitter: "Pelosi: We Must Fight Even Harder Against Trump's Authoritarian Impulses Now That We've Voted To Enable Them https://t.co/VDDh4DUYEn"

Ivanka Trump on Instagram: #FirstFemalePresident of The United States. -- What do you think?

Philadelphia Media Slam Newly Elected DA Krasner for Firings but House Cleaning Advances His - Last year, Krasner, a career civil rights and defense attorney, rode a surge of grassroots organizing to a shocking win, promising to turn the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office upside down and take concrete steps to end mass incarceration. (so naturally the Philly Republican establishment is unhaoppy: "he's doing what he said he would do!")


The controversy around Babe.net's Aziz Ansari story, explained -- The story deepened a crucial divide in the M# Instagram
eToo reckoning. (not really, men have many ways of being creepy)

Inside Harvey Weinstein's Frantic Final Days -- Before the story of his alleged abuses broke in October, Harvey Weinstein hunkered down in his Tribeca bunker -- even as the producer refused to believe the end was near.

French film icon Brigitte Bardot slams #MeToo as 'hypocritical' - actresses who complain of sexual harassment were just looking for publicity ... "Lots of actresses try to play the tease with producers to get a role. And then, so we will talk about them, they say they were harassed" said 83 year old Bardot

#MeToo Backlash | January 17, 2018 Act 1 | Full Frontal on TBS - Women speaking out has finally led to men speaking about how unfair it was that the women got to speak in the first place.
Babe's Aziz Ansari piece was a gift to anyone who wants to derail #MeToo

Megyn Kelly staffer fired after reporting 'toxic and demeaning' work culture

Sandusky in Lansing - Lawyers, Guns & Money - . It is almost certain that Michigan State University, who employed Nassar for decades, should have been able to stop him sooner. At least 8 women informed someone at MSU about Nassar's abuse, and the first was in 1997: but this seems as bad or worse as the complicity of officials at Penn State in the Sandusky scandal. (if they get the Penn State treatment, they will be sued in non-existence)


b-boy bouiebaisse on Twitter: "mcclellan is one of the great failsons of american history "

Why we still allow bullying to flourish in kids sports - The Washington Post - Coaches continue to perpetuate behavior that would be unacceptable in any other setting. ("coaches" are "men of God" who "win at all costs")

Sorority sister speaks out on racist videos that got her booted from college | New York Post - A spokeswoman for the Alpha Phi International Fraternity confirmed to AL.com that Barber has been kicked out of the sorority because of the "offensive and hteful" videos


The classic explanation for the Black Death plague is wrong, scientists say - The Washington Post - it points primarily to lice and fleas, not rodent culprits.

He tried to hold in a sneeze and ended up in the hospital on a feeding tube - The Washington Post


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Nearly all members of National Park Service advisory panel resign in frustration - The Washington Post - that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting last year. (don't need your steenking advice)

Eschaton: Civilization, How Does It Work? - I do think one element of conservatism is imagining that they'd win the post-apocalyptic feudal games ... Enjoy your last couple of weeks on Earth, I guess. I suppose you can forage for fruit, for a bit, and as a good conservative you own guns so you can shoot all the "looters" who are trying to take "your" fruit, but...


Pentagon Reportedly Weighing Using Nukes In Response To 'Large Cyberattacks (your corrupt, insane military loves to kill people)


Swiss town denies passport to Dutch vegan because she is 'too annoying' ... Ms Holten, a vegan and animal rights activist, has campaigned against the use of cowbells in the village and her actions have annoyed the locals.


Exclusive: Trump says Russia helping North Korea skirt sanctions; Pyongyang getting close on missile (Mar-a-Lago already programmed in)


A German hacker offers a rare look inside the secretive world of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks - The Washington Post


US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says | US news | The Guardian - Humanitarian groups report agents routinely destroy supplies left in Arizona desert, condemning people to die of thirst


Ankit Panda on Twitter: "This is... extremely bad and explains why CIA assets in China began dropping like flies in recent years. https://t.co/OseVj6bBEf" - Too little, too late, but this is a counter-counterintelligence coup. (And another naturalized US citizen of Chinese origin implicated.) (let's put them in the CIA, what could go wrong?)
Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations - The New York Times - MAY 20, 2017 -- The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward ... the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.'s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building -- a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A.


Donald Trump's terrifying plan to win the 2018 midterms -- A Washington Post report shows again he doesn't understand governing beyond self-interest ... he doesn't think the 2018 election has to be as bad as others are predicting. He has referenced the 2002 midterms, when George W. Bush and Republicans fared better after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, (and Putin has his back)

The truth about the FBI's Russia probe -- A question for Republicans in Congress who have been so quick to trash FBI officials and defend Trump: Does this concern you at all? (no, they are all traitors)
Investigators Are Scrutinizing Newly Uncovered Payments By The Russian Embassy - US authorities are poring over hundreds of newly uncovered payments from Russian diplomatic accounts. Among them are transactions by former ambassador Sergey Kislyak 10 days after the 2016 presidential election and a blocked $150,000 cash withdrawal five days after the inauguration.

FBI agents visited Steve Bannon's home last week to discuss subpoena in Russia probe
Inside the room: What Steve Bannon told Congress yesterday - Axios - Steve Bannon made one conspicuous slip up in his closed-door hearing on Tuesday with the House Intelligence Committee, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the confidential proceedings. Bannon admitted that he'd had conversations with Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and legal spokesman Mark Corallo about Don Junior's infamous meeting with the Russians in Trump Tower in June 2016.

With A Possible Shutdown Hours Away, Republicans Are Negotiating With Themselves | HuffPost - House conservatives could throw the government into chaos.
An archconservative revolt is taking the government closer to shutdown - Vox - With less than three days to fund the government, tensions are only escalating in Congress.

Explosive Interview With Stormy Daniels: Donald Trump Cheated on Melania With Me -- Stormy also took and passed a polygraph test at the time of the interview.
Stormy's Story -- Did Donald Trump pay a porn star to keep quiet about an affair? (story actually came out in Oct 2016 on Smoking Gun but the NYT was too busy with Hillary's emailzz +Jacob Weisberg revealed as another election decider)
Tom Scocca on Twitter: "It's hard to overstate what a disgrace and catastrophe this is. https://t.co/ogAaek1PO1" -- There are so many counterfactuals around 2016 that would have kept Trump out of office it's hard to keep track.
No More Mister Nice Blog: Trumpers Love The Testosterone, So The Stormy Daniels Story Won'T Bother Them -- The New York Times has asked Trump voters to tell us why the president is so goshdarn wonderful. The paper has now published fifteen letters to the editor from Trump fans.

The Media's Performance in 2016 Was Worse Than the Cleveland Browns's - Lawyers, Guns & Money - At least two news outlets sat on a story of Donald Trump having had an affair with a porn star, started while his wife was either pregnant or had just given birth, and then paid her a six-figure settlement to keep silent: How is this happening? How can the president of the United States get away with what looks like hush money paid to a mistress in the middle of an election? How is it that this isn't front-page news until Trump tells us what it was all about and shows us the agreement? ... It really is staggering. Imagine the press having an on the record story about, say, Barack Obama or Bill Clinton paying off a porn star he had an affair with. This would be a twenty-alarm scandal defining the news for months.

This is why the Stormy Daniels story is so dangerous -- A sex scandal that is actually important. -- There are credible allegations that the President of the United States engaged in an affair with an adult film actress, paid her over $100,000 to keep quiet about it weeks before the election, and is now actively engaged in an elaborate cover-up ... Evans says Daniels later told her she had sex with Trump ... This scandal had not garnered the intense media coverage one might expect of a story about a porn actor's affair with a president. (how low we have sunk)
Stormy Daniels' Friend Alana Evans Recalls Being Invited to Donald Trump Sex Romp
Fox News shelved story on Trump and porn actress Stormy Daniels before election


Trump Fans Threatened Psychiatrists Who Warned Trump Was Inciting Violence (with violence)

Donald Trump height, weight: Athletes who are same size | SI.com
Sanjay Gupta: By all standards, Trump has heart disease | TheHill -- Gupta then talked about his interaction Tuesday with Trump's doctor, Navy Rear Adm. Dr. Ronny Jackson. (uh-huh. passed all his tests with flying colors except for the fake weight and the heart disease)
Trump's Physical Revealed Serious Heart Concerns, Outside Experts Say ... LDL levels remain above 140 even though he is taking 10 milligrams of Crestor, a powerful drug that is used to lower cholesterol levels to well below 100.
Chris Hayes on Twitter: "Has anyone coined "girther" for those who belive the president weighs more than his doctor reports?"
The girther controversy - Lawyers, Guns & Money - It's completely characteristic of both Donald Trump personally and the clown show that is his White House that the White House physician has released a medical report that features an egregious lie about Trump's weight.

Feds planning massive Northern California immigration sweep to strike against sanctuary laws - San Francisco Chronicle - federal officers would look to arrest more than 1,500 undocumented people while sending a message that immigration policy will be enforced in the sanctuary state, according to a source familiar with the operation. ("Operation Boxcar")

Trump Administration Revives the "Conscience Clause' -- The Trump administration, by which I mean Mike Pence, loves the old culture wars so much that he's pulled up one of its Greatest Hits on the 'ol jukebox of horrors: The Conscience Clause. (anything they find "morally reprehensible" except themselve)

Behold Sen. Orrin Hatch's Magical Harry Potter-Esque Glasses | HuffPost

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy met with birther movement activists in his office in 2013 - CNNPolitics - where he was shown a video alleging then-President Barack Obama had forged documents related to his citizenship (they are all racist fucks)

Women would lose $4.6 billion in earned tips if the administration's 'tip stealing' rule is finalizedOverall, workers would lose $5.8 billion ... would make it legal for employers to pocket their workers' tips as long as they pay those workers at least the minimum wage. (lie, cheat, steal, loot and pillage)


He Leaked a Photo of Rick Perry Hugging a Coal Executive. Then He Lost His Job. - The New York Times


Unexpected defeat in rural Wisconsin special election sets off alarm bells for Republicans ... Trump won there by 17 points in 2016 ... Last night, Democratic candidate Patty Schachtner won by nine points. (26 point swing in conservative rural WI)
Charlie Sykes on Twitter: "Genuinely stunning setback for GOP in Wisconsin. Hard to overstate the anxiety this will cause... https://t.co/1OPVQo7OZp"

Two Dem House members back challenger to anti-abortion rights Dem | TheHill - fellow Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.), one of the only House Democrats opposed to abortion rights ... voting against the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and voting to freeze funding for Planned Parenthood. He was also one of only six House Democrats who voted in 2013 for a ban on abortions after 20 weeks. (and hates gays, looks like a Republican)


New California Declares Independence From Rest Of State + CBS13 | CBS Sacramento - don't want to leave the United States, just California. -- "Well, it's been ungovernable for a long time. High taxes, education, you name it, and we're rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and standpoint in California" said said founder Robert Paul Preston ... The state of New California would incorporate most of the state's rural counties (guess where they get their money +the rubes always lie)
The Case for New California -- Today's Senate map is more biased in the GOP's favor than at any point in American history. And as the populations of small states in Middle America grow even smaller, older, and more racially unrepresentative of the broader country in the coming years, this bias could become a (more profound) threat to our government's democratic legitimacy. (built-in time bomb)

Meet Antifa's Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists | WIRED


Ann Curry Was 'Not Surprised' By Matt Lauer's Sexual Misconduct Allegations | HuffPost - "I can say that I would be surprised if many women did not understand that there was a climate of verbal harassment that existed."
Ann Curry Claims NBC Had Pervasive Culture of Verbal Sexual Harassment

The Ansari matter and Cat Person - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- I thought it would take a little longer for the hit squad of privileged young white women to open fire on brown-skinned men. I had assumed that on the basis of intersectionality and all that, they'd stay laser focused on college-educated white men for another few months. But we're at warp speed now ... Apparently there is a whole country full of young women who don't know how to call a cab, and who have spent a lot of time picking out pretty outfits for dates they hoped would be nights to remember. They're angry and temporarily powerful, and last night they destroyed a man who didn't deserve it. (second-wave/clueless "feminists" who think the creep needed to be a "mind-reader" to figure out they are being creepy)
https://t.co/O1fBPRoKhF"
Aziz, We Tried to Warn You - The New York Times -- Lindy West -- The notion of affirmative consent did not fall from space in October 2017 to confound well-meaning but bumbling men; it was built, loudly and painstakingly and in public, at great personal cost to its proponents, over decades. If you're fretting about the perceived overreach of #MeToo, maybe start by examining the ways you've upheld the stigmatization of feminism (Aziz billed himself as an expert in "Modern Romance" but actually is a clueless creep)
Ashleigh Banfield Fires Back After Getting Insulting Email from Writer of Aziz Ansari Piece | Mediaite ... "insight into the caliber of person who held that nuclear weapon that was wielded on Ansari's career" (everything has gone "nuclear") "Ashleigh, someone I am certain nobody under the age of 45 has heard of" the email began, "I hope the 500 retweets on the single news write up made that burgundy lipstick, bad highlights, second wave feminist has-been really relevant for a little while" (girls can be mean, can't they?)

Before We Burn Aziz Ansari, Perhaps Some Self-Reflection Is in Order - Slog - The Stranger (Katie Herzog is a lesbian)
Before We Defend Aziz Ansari, Perhaps Some Critical Thinking Is In Order | The C Is for crank (defining moment for (anti)feminists of various waves) Katie Herzog says she doesn't have sex with men, but she seems pretty confident that straight and bi women aren't "really" traumatized by nonconsensual encounters with dudes like the one Grace describes having with Ansari (many defining moments)
Some mid-week links - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Erica C. Barnett says what needs to be said about Katie Herzog's pathetic apologia for Aziz Anzari at The Stranger. There's a lot of awfulness there, but one particular passage from Herzog deserves contempt:

Jessica Valenti on Twitter: "This is part of the problem with focusing so much on punitive action - it means anything that isn't prosecutable or fireable gets dismissed as unimportant (communication is hard for men)
Yes Means Yes (inactive but relavant)


Helen Mirren's Been Slaying Sexist Creeps for Years:

Climate Denial Group Protected Former Executive Charged With Stalking Colleague, Ex-Staffers Say | HuffPost - A former Heartland Institute director faced charges for violating a female subordinate's restraining order. An official at the think tank came to his defense ... Eugene Koprowski'S temper earned him a reputation around the office pretty quickly ... Koprowski started work as the marketing director at the Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank ... Heartland, they said, fostered a culture that allowed Koprowski, 52, to relentlessly harass a female subordinate half his age (another angry entitled baby Republican) Heartland has enjoyed unprecedented influence at the Environmental Protection Agency, and works closely with hard-line science skeptics in Congress such as Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.). EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt joined the members of Congress in November to speak at Heartland's America First Energy Conference in Houston.

Goldman's No. 2 Allegedly Swindled Out of $1.2 Million of Wine by Assistant

Indiana teen 'ashamed' after video of him chanting racial slurs and wearing Nazi flag goes viral

Gay couple sues over 'satan' themed wedding pamphlets -- Two men who ordered programs for their September wedding from a popular printing company but instead received a boxful of anti-gay pamphlets warning, "Satan entices your flesh with evil desires" ... The claim was filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, the state where the company in question, Vistaprint, is based.

Groundbreaking Portland police officer put on leave after arrest in Massachusetts - Portland Press Herald - A 24-year-old Portland police officer has been charged with five misdemeanors, including assault and battery, after being arrested Saturday night at a concert venue in Worcester, Massachusetts. Worcester police said Zahra Munye Abu, of Portland, is also facing charges of trespassing, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace ... the first member of Maine's Somali immigrant community to become a police officer in Maine.


The Awl to Stop Publishing
The Awl and Hairpin's Best Stories, Remembered by Their Writers -- Yesterday, the Awl and the Hairpin, two of the most influential blogs on the internet over their near-decade runs (the Awl was founded in 2009; the Hairpin in 2010), announced that they would cease publication at the end of this month.


Watch a thought race across the surface of the brain | TechCrunch (shit lights up)


Bitconnect, which has been accused of running a Ponzi scheme, shuts down | TechCrunch
Apple rerouting employee shuttles after highway attacks shatter windows on buses during commutes | TechCrunch

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South Africa Is Running Out of Water - South Africa is the latest victim of the elaborate ... This would make Cape Town the first major city in the world to run out of water ... Two million tourists a year visit the place. (Soros and the Chinese stole all of SA's water so they'd think there was a climate problem but Trump knows better)


Venezuela's solution to a collapsing economy and rampant violence: Woo tourists (new distination: Murderville +bus-driver with a third-grade education continues to drive his country over the cliff)

A missing tourist scattered Bible pages in Israel's desert. Is 'Jerusalem Syndrome' to blame? ... a rare but unsettling psychotic episode in which tourists in Israel suffer delusions of grand religious missions and sometimes even believe they are biblical figures ... 1870: "It is an odd fact that many Americans who arrive at Jerusalem are either lunatics or lose their mind thereafter."


Justice Department report blames immigrants for terrorism, but doesn't have the date to prove it (foreign terrorists are foreign! to distract from all the white nationalist terrorism in America)
Liars, all the way down -- Sessions get shouty: DOJ, DHS REPORT: THREE OUT OF FOUR INDIVIDUALS CONVICTED OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND TERRORISM-RELATED OFFENSES WERE FOREIGN-BORN -- The Trump administration is a Russian nesting doll of lies
Trump's DOJ pushes bigoted propaganda while ignoring threats from domestic terrorism -- Instead of engaging in appropriate law enforcement and defending Americans, the Department of Justice is being used to justify Donald Trump's prejudices and appeal to his wounded ego.

Raging, isolated Trump retreats deeper into his bubble - The Washington Post -- We must have Security at our VERY DANGEROUS SOUTHERN BORDER, and we must have a great WALL to help protect us, and to help stop the massive inflow of drugs pouring into our country!

Trump Attacks Senator Who Confirmed 'Shithole Countries' Comment | HuffPost - The president went after Sen. Dick Durbin (lying is what they do)
Tweeters Ridicule Donald Trump Over 'Uninspired' New Nickname For Political Rival | HuffPost - "I bet he can't wait for 6th grade to start" -- Yes, Trump used Twitter to call Dick Durbin "Dicky"
Trump Says He's The 'Least Racist Person.' Anderson Cooper Has A Reality Check.
'I did not hear that word used' : DHS Secretary Nielsen responds when asked about Trump's vulgar comments (lies, lies, lies)
Secretary Nielsen, look in the mirror and ask yourself these questions - The Washington Post ... This is as preposterous as her response to a question that she was unaware Norway is a predominantly white country.
Booker Slams Homeland Security Secretary for Saying She Didn't Hear Trump's "Shithole" Remark -- "Your silence and your amnesia is complicity" (all the Repugs in the room fell asleep with their fingers in their ears as soon as Trump started talking) < Sanders Says Trump Isn't Racist, Citing 'The Apprentice' (because Omoaroso stuck around)
br /> No, Trump's approval among black Americans hasn't doubled ... approval among black Americans fell nine points from January to December. Rather than doubling, his approval rating among those Americans was actually more than cut in half, dropping from 15 percent to 6 percent. (statistics is too hard for Fox & Fuckers)
br /> Redditors Rework Old Photo Of Donald Trump To Hilarious Effect | HuffPost - Trump as a sea monster? Check.

The recidivism presidency - Axios - a dangerous pattern forming for this year: a backslide into bad habits of the chaotic early days of the Trump presidency.

Bannon Is Subpoenaed in Mueller's Ru ssia Investigation
Steve Bannon To Meet Behind Closed Doors With House Panel On Russia | HuffPost (little Russian ratfucker David Nunes will protect Trump at all cost)
House Democrats, Fusion GPS want Nunes to release interview transcript - Business Insider (they lie, lie and lie)
GOP Access to FBI Files Rattles Agents Caught in Political Fight - Bloomberg - Sensitive sources or material may be exposed, agents say -- Republicans question FBI amid probe into Russian collusion (what could go wrong with giving Putin access to all the FBI files?)

Officials Warned Jared Kushner About Friendship With Wendi Deng Murdoch: Report | HuffPost - "routine senior staff security briefing" (Chinese security)

Blackrock's Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losing Our Support -- It may be a watershed moment on Wall Street, one that raises all sorts of questions about the very nature of capitalism.


The Democrat Trumpworld fears most - politico - Former Vice President Joe Biden, however, is seen as someone who could cut into Trump's base (another out-of-it old guy with a questionable past)

DNC overhaul struggles as Sanders-Clinton rivalries persist - politico - I undeniably underestimated the depth of the turnaround job (just go home, both of you) officials are beginning to dig out of the hole left by Debbie Wasserman Schultz's mismanagement, Barack Obama's indifference, Russian hacking and the bitter rivalry between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (esp. float-above-it Barry)

Ku Klux Klan fliers -- and the hatred they represent -- can't be ignored -- Why else would someone come to a suburban neighborhood in Northern Virginia and drop racist and anonymous Ku Klux Klan fliers on driveways in the dark of night on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend? -- "Smash Communism -- Martin Luther King was a Communist Alcoholic Pervert" (said the pawns of Putin)

U.S. Uninsured Rate Steady at 12.2% in Fourth Quarter of 2017 - but it is up 1.3 percentage points from the record low of 10.9% found in the last quarter of 2016. (don't worry, the party of death is just getting started)

Great Moments In Murc's Law - Lawyers, Guns & Money - You might think that Republicans having control of both branches of government and the White House would make it impossible for political reporters and pundits to deflect responsibility from them when they can't execute basic tasks of government. As you know if you read this blog, would be very wrong!


Seal Under Investigation for Sexual Battery | TMZ.com - Seal -- Cops Investigate Sexual Battery Allegedly Groped & Forcefully Kissed Actress -- just one week after he publicly encouraged sexual abuse victims to come forward ... but the singer denies any wrongdoing.

The poorly reported Aziz Ansari exposi was a missed opportunity | Jill Filipovic | Opinion | The Guardian -- In the midst of women sharing stories of harassment and assault via the #MeToo movement, and a brewing backlash of hand-wringers wondering if women have perhaps gone too far, it was only a matter of time before a publication did us the disservice of publishing a sensational story of a badly behaved man who was nonetheless not a sexual assailant .. we're arguing about whether Aziz Ansari is a sexual assailant, and missing the more relevant conversation about sex, male entitlement and misogyny in the bedroom.


Jack Latvala's latest accuser: 'He unbuttoned my jacket and he felt me up' Lobbyist Laura McLeod's #MeToo moment was 20 years in the making. What started as a consensual affair with Sen. Jack Latvala turned into years of fear, anxiety and harassment ... Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Latvala

No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say - The New York Times - he (former) novelist shares -- his thoughts on Trump, #MeToo and retirement ... I am, as you indicate, no stranger as a novelist to the erotic furies. Men enveloped by sexual temptation is one of the aspects of men's lives that I've written about ... Men responsive to the insistent call of sexual pleasure, beset by shameful desires and the undauntedness of obsessive lusts, beguiled even by the lure of the taboo

Creating The Next Bechdel Test | FiveThirtyEight - Does it have at least two named female characters?1 And do those characters have at least one conversation that is not about a man?


13 siblings, some shackled and malnourished, rescued from California house, police say - The Washington Post -- The grandparents said that the children are home-schooled, made to memorize long scriptures in the Bible. Some of the children, the grandparents told ABC News, have tried to memorize the entire book. (+private school scam +neighbors noticed skinny wraith-like ghost children but didn't think anything was wrong)
13 Children Hospitalized, Parents Jailed on Torture Charges - NBC Southern California

Eschaton: Overnight - DASH CAM VIDEO: Bus barely misses getting hit by a car that went airborne and crashes into 2nd floor of a Santa Ana dental office. We showed you surveillance of 2 near misses, including this bus. Now, a look from the bus driver's view.


In the Flu Battle, Hydration and Elevation May Be Your Best Weapons - The New York Times

A family of doctors helps reinvent medical marijuana - The Washington Post

TIL one of the side-effects of quitting marijuana is an overwhelming amount of dreams. A little known fact about marijuana is it can stop you from dreaming. When a user quits, they usually report extremely vivid dreams as they can now experience them again. : todayilearned

How death got cool | News | The Guardian - The latest death trend is a cross between hygge and Marie Kondo: a sign that dying well has become a defining obsession of our time. By Marisa Meltzer (and death cleaning)


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Hawaii missile alert: How one employee pushed the wrong button and caused a wave of panic -- Around 8:05 a.m., the Hawaii emergency employee initiated the internal test, according to a timeline released by the state. From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: "Test missile alert" and "Missile alert" (and no are you sure? ... what could go wrong?)
Major Earthquake Strikes Southern Peru | HuffPost - At least one death and dozens of injuries have been confirmed.

Military Quietly Prepares for a Last Resort: War With North Korea - The New York Times (your corrupt, always wrong military salivating at the thought of nuclear destruction)

University rejects Chinese Communist Party-linked influence efforts on campus - The Washington Post - A major battle in this nascent campus war played out over the past six months at the University of Texas in Austin.



Brit Party Leader Splits With Girlfriend After Her Shocking Remarks About Meghan Markle | HuffPost - Jo Marney said Markle would "taint" the royal familiy and pave the way for a "black king." ... Henry Bolton, 54 ... Jo Marney, a 25-year-old model (so he's more than twice her age)

A Creepy Sex Cult Scandal and Firebombed Churches Greet Pope Francis in Latin America


'Very high level of confience' Russia used Kaspersky software for devastating NSA leaks


Net neutrality advocates look to states after FCC repeal: 'As of Friday, California, Washington, New York, Rhode Island, Nebraska and Massachusetts have all introduced net neutrality. North Carolina and Illinois are mulling similar legislation.' : technology
With Net Neutrality Killed, Some Cities Plan to Build Their Own Access -- "Nationwide, there are 95 municipal broadband networks similar to the Fort Collins plan."
(Harvard Study) City-owned Internet services offer cheaper and more transparent pricing. : technology (someone tell Cambridge)


On MLK Day, ICE deports Jorge Garcia, a married father of 2 kids in metro Detroit who has lived in the U.S. for 30 years. He was brought to the U.S. when he was 10 years-old by undocumented family members, making him too old to qualify for DACA : pics (fucking asshole Republicans at work)


It's all explosive: Michael Wolff on Donald Trump -- Donald Trump is deeply unpredictable, irrational, at times bordering on incoherent, self-obsessed in a disconcerting way, and displays all those kinds of traits that anyone would reasonably say, 'What'S going on here, is something wrong?'

Here's What The FBI Lovers' Secret Texts Actually Say About Trump, Clinton And Leaks | HuffPost - texted each other burns about politicians, but their main ideological commitment seems to be to the power and independence of the FBI. (you will bow down before the god-emperor)

Trump kicks off Martin Luther King Jr. Day by visiting his own golf course - The Boston Globe

'I'm Not a Racist,' Trump Says in Denying Vulgar Comment ... "I'm the least racist person you will ever interview, that I can tell you." (and I always tell the truth)
Donald Trump'S Racism: The Definitive List
Trump Is a Racist. Period. - The New York Times (38% of Americans say Trump's election made "race relations" better or no difference, 36% say "he shares their views")
Graham: 'My memory hasn't evolved' on meeting where others say Trump referred to 'shithole countries' ("memory" = biggest lie I can get away with)
The Heartbeat of Racism Is Denial - The New York Times (Repubicanss: what racism?)
Ivana Trump Says Donald's Not Racist, Just Confused | HuffPost
Justice Scalia Spoke Favorably of Trump's Presidential Run (in case you were unsure he was an evil racist pig)
Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Calls Donald Trump 'An Embarrassment' | HuffPost (another responsible Republican appointed by reach-across-the-aisle Barry)

Eschaton: But Stalin Only Appointed the Best Judges, So I Will Vote To Approve Them All - Flake is such a poser.

Highest GOP Satisfaction With U.S. Direction Since 2007 - About six in 10 Republicans (61%) say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. (they loved the Bush catastophe and hated the black guy because they are evil racist pigs)
Nation Tracker: Americans weigh in on Trump immigration remarks, first year in office - CBS News - Americans feel more positive about the economy but not as good about the state of the country overall -- and the latter is closely tied to views of the president ... Overall, the movement we have seen over the year is a slow shift away from Mr. Trump, and we have that movement across the four groups: the believers, the conditionals, the curious and the resisters ... Two-thirds of his strongest supporters now feel like they have more of a voice in what happens in America


The Vile Zinke - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Elizabeth Kolbert has a good run-down of what the mendacious Ryan Zinke has done to the Department of Interior and our public lands -- This is someone who wants to repeal a century of progress in 4 years and then run for senator or even president. He is a very dangerous and very bad man. (and another "swear loyalty to me" kind of guy)


Incoming N.J. governor plans a swing to the left -- and a model for the country -- New Jersey's 56th governor, Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs financier and ambassador to Germany ... who spent $20 million of his own money to win the June primary (there's a model for you)

In Maine, is GOP linked to flurry of anonymous attacks? - The Boston Globe (or Putin)

Did Americans Turn to Opioids Out of Despair -- or Just Because They Were There? (like Fox News is just 'there' - uneducated white Americans have a very special kind of "despair") Ruhm's paper suggests that economic and social conditions have received undue emphasis in the media's accounts of the opioid crisis, in particular. (Americans consume far more opiods than any other country; i.e., America is an opium den) In the United States, we have structured the health-care sector of our economy in a manner that leaves roughly 40 million Americans without health insurance


Policing Sexual Desire | City Journal - Heather Mac Donald -- Feminists cannot acknowledge the divide between men and women when it comes to sex and sensibility. Doing so would violate what Steven Pinker calls the blank slate doctrine, a foundation stone of modern liberalism ... The sex bureaucracy is exploding on college campuses (the conservative reaction)


Forget the backlash -- we need #MeToo now more than ever -- There's a discussion to be had, but this isn't it ... The Atlantic subsequently published an op-ed best described as a 1,500-word feat of victim-blaming, one that characterized women in the #MeToo movement as "angry, temporarily powerful -- and very, very dangerous." ... written by a woman. A wide array of second-wave feminists have come out against what they view as the excesses of the #MeToo movement ... Margaret Atwood leapt into the fray, defensively asking if she is a "bad feminist" for comparing the #MeToo movement to the Salem witch trials, or to Joseph Stalin's purges, which killed millions.
Margaret Atwood denies being a "Bad Feminist" for defending due process : books
The Backlash to #MeToo Is Second-Wave Feminism (women, not men, except for Andrew Sullivan)
On Suspiciously Selective Calls For Unspecified "Due Process"

Catherine Deneuve Apologizes to Victims after Denouncing #MeToo - The New York Times (in the war on "clumsy flirting" and "men ejaculating on you in the subway")

140 Women Have Accused Larry Nassar Of Abuse. His Victims Think We Don't Care. | HuffPost - Days before the former USA Gymnastics doctor is sentenced, these survivors are still trying to get the public to listen ... nearly as many victims as the Jerry Sandusky, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein scandals combined.

Aziz Ansari Responds To Sexual Assault Allegations: 'I Took Her Words To Heart' | HuffPost - An unnamed woman accused the comedian of impropriety in an essay published on Saturday. (promises to moderate his use of "the claw" +and what's with his eyes?)
Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader. : television
Comedian Aziz Ansari responds to sexual misconduct allegations - The Boston Globe



Ohio teacher put on leave after telling black student his friends would 'lynch him' (only black kid in the class)

Using marijuana to fight the opioid crisis - The Boston Globe

13 victims, ages 2 to 29, kept shackled in foul CA home by parents, officials say : news

Kenny Holmes on Twitter: Unbelievable new surveillance video shows a car hitting a median and launching into the second story of a Santa Ana dentist office.


How To Keep Fake News Off Twitter -- Allowing a false tweet to stand facilitates its ability to spread. For users who send out false information on Twitter, there is only one way to truly correct the record.
Pivot to JOURNALISM YOU IGNORANT NUGGETS | First Draft - This move has been long-rumored, and has been looked at by many in the industry as an incoming algorithmic apocalypse that will have far-reaching impacts on the bottom lines and ultimate survival of outlets whose readers find them through Facebook (the world's largest "news organization" has 7,000 "content" moderators and zero "journalists")
Eschaton: Significant Municipal Investment - Huzzah -- "Bringing this smart city to reality will require significant municipal cooperation and investment, and it remains to be seen if local governments share Ford's ambitions ... however, this future is a long way off." (their "business plan" is for you to give them all your infrastructure for free)

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Water-saving measures in California have translated into 1,830 GWh total electricity savings, and a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction of 521,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents (MT CO2e), which is equivalent to taking about 111,000 cars off the road for a year. : science
Death toll in Montecito mudslide rises to 19, while 101 Freeway will remain closed indefinitely - LA Times
Eschaton: When The Tunnels Go - One thing that doesn't get mentioned enough in the context of Christie cancelling the tunnels so he could run for president - New Jersey needs them more than NYC does. (fat fuck Christie fucked the whole north east, but especially NJ, suckers)

Terror in Paradise: I Got the Hawaii Missile Message and Prepared to Die - Something must be done. Not just about the flawed warning system in Hawaii, but about a world in which nations are poised to destroy each other with barely a moment
I'm In Hawaii And Just Got The Scariest Alert Of My Life. Here's What I Did Next. -- What would you do if you thought you had 15 minutes to live?
People who made an impulse decision when they found out Hawaii was going to be nuked, what did you do and do you regret it? : AskReddit
Pearl Harbor visitors were watching video on Dec. 7 attack when false alarm dinged on their phones: : news

Iranian oil tanker sinks off China as official says no hope of survivors | World news | The Guardian - Officials play down fears of environmental disaster after vessel carrying 136,000 tonnes of crude oil goes down off China

Google is pulling addiction treatment center ads worldwide - The Verge - The move comes after reports that Google profited enormously from ads in the UK -- An entire industry has emerged online to advertise addiction treatment centers through the search engine, sometimes using deceptive tactics.
Facebook Couldn't Handle News. Maybe It Never Wanted To. - The world's largest social network wants to go back to an idealized safe space, free of hyperpartisan pages, misinformation, and fake news. Can it? -- planned changes to News Feed are a retreat from the online public square the company helped create.


A close reading of Glenn Simpson's Trump-Russia testimony

The President is Wrong to Accuse the FBI of Treason - Lawfare (Lawfare weighs in on whether everyone in government had to swear a loyalty oath to the god-emperor before he as electe
White House Disputes Trump Quote in Journal Interview - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal stands by what it reported and releases audio of disputed portion of interview -- "I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea" (like he knows what he said even while he said it)


Trump's apologists invite grave danger to our nation

Trump does more damage to himself than his opponents ever manage to do - The Washington Post

GOP senator: Trump did not make 'shithole' comment -- Republican Sen. David Perdue (Ga.) (and if he did, I had my fingers in my ears +in the great tradition of lying Georgia Republicans)
The Latest: Durbin spokesman: GOP senator has no credibility - ABC News - Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue -- "Credibility is something that's built by being consistently honest over time. Senator Durbin has it. Senator Perdue does not. Ask anyone who's dealt with both."
Flake to denounce Trump media attacks as Stalinist in Senate speech - NBC News (reality-oriented media are "the enemy of the people" and need to be gulaged)

Porn star Alana Evans says she was invited to Trump's hotel room in 2006 | US news | The Guardian - Alana Evans says Stormy Daniels requested Evans join her and Trump -- Third adult star Jessica Drake reportedly signed non-disclosure agreement

Eschaton: Free Money For Black People - Just a senile old man who watches Fox news. -- President Donald Trump was apparently unaware that not all -- in fact, the vast majority -- of welfare beneficiaries are not black as recently as last March, according to a new report. -- It isn't just Fox News, of course. In various ways big and small our "mainstream" media regularly portrays poverty (except that of unemployed coal miners as they are the cool fashion trend) and welfare especially as black issues. And, of course, aside from Medicaid, pennies for food stamps, and a patchwork of social programs, there isn't anything that, even in the broadest sense, can be called "welfare" anyway.

Obama: Fox viewers 'living on a different planet' than NPR viewers (they are both Republican planets, Barry)
/u/Deggit 's linguistic analysis of Donald Trump's speech patterns. : bestof (waterbug speaking)
Deggit comments on Obama: Fox viewers living on a different planet than NPFR listeners (the planet of lies)

Sell the New York Times. Now. - POLITICO Magazine - And other unsolicited advice for A.G. Sulzberger ... His family's business came close to ruin during the recession and had to call on a loan from Mexican oligarch, telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, to save it. Newspapering hasn't been a 30 percent margin business for more than a decade, and the New York Times Company is no longer the diversified entity it once was. If the paper is to survive as a business, it must grow. How? (hire more op-ed hacks! + inextricable NYT/Trump collusion) The Bezos fortune of $105 billion is so large that it can fluctuate more in an afternoon, depending on the performance of Amazon stock, than the New York Times Company is worth `

Trey Gowdy steps down from House Ethics Committee, citing 'workload' (sounds plausible, he never was very good at either work or ethics))

Sarah Huckabee Sanders kills irony dead, once and for all - The Washington Post -- "The president believes in making sure that information is accurate before pushing it out as fact, when it certainly and clearly is not." "I'm a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right."

Trump's nightmare (they are slowly waking up)
The next GOP panic: Gubernatorial races - POLITICO
New alarm among Republicans that Democrats could win big this year - The Washington Post -- At least 29 House seats held by Republicans will be open in November following announced retirements, a greater number for the majority party than in each of the past three midterm elections when control of Congress flipped. (but he's going to do a lot of rallies!)
Lewandowski: 'We've got a real problem' if Dems retake the House ... said that if Democrats retake the House, one of their first priorities will be to introduce articles of impeachment against the president. (the brightest bulbs)

Meet the 24-year-old Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the government's drug policy office -- Recent college grad and campaign volunteer Taylor Weyenth is now an administrative leader (frat boy whose family has a history of selling illegal opiods +remember when Bush sent the young Republicans to dismantle Iraq?)

Minn. Poll split over Trump's job, but majority sees his temperament as being unfit - StarTribune.com - Minnesota Poll: Majority says he lacks presidential temperament, but stark divide remains on performance ... For the most part, the poll shows, Minnesotans who voted for Trump still like him. (hard-core stupid and evil) Among Democrats, just 4 percent approve of Trump while 92 percent disapprove; among Republicans, he's at 89 percent approval and 2 percent disapproval.

Another dispatch from Trumplandia, RSA - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Anyone who has read any of the countless articles about Dump Supporters in Dump Country might have predicted that it was a non-stop MAGA-fest. Which would be one more reason not to read those articles, because they cause one to be wrong.

California Is Doing Fine, Thank You Very Much -- There's a whole cottage industry on the right dedicated to the proposition that California is a hellhole. Why? Because California is the most liberal state in the nation, and the existence of a high-tax, high-service state that nonetheless has a great economy is an affront to their principles. And yet, California's economy is doing fine.

Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is back. So too are Latino voters who helped oust him - LA Times -- the 85-year-old former sheriff ... "If he thinks he can come back and terrorize the entire state like he did Maricopa County, it's not going to happen."

Republicans Embrace Democratic Lawmaker Accused Of Sexual Harassment | HuffPost - Colorado state Rep. Steve Lebsock quit his caucus this week after a colleague accused him of harassment.

Condoleezza Rice on #MeToo: 'Let's not turn women into snowflakes'
Catherine Deneuve, Signatory of the 'Manifesto of the 343 Sluts' Turns on #MeToo "Will you please ask Catherine Deneuve and those older French women what in the world they're thinking?" Tatum O'Neal asked. ... Deneuve's "squad" ... trendy millennial sexual mores ... "I can only think that she might be suffering from dementia" ... supported Polanski ... Millet, 69, whose bestselling 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M detailed how she "loves to suck men's cocks" and enjoyed taking it in every orifice during orgies involving up to 150 people ... provoked the nation last month when she said she "really regretted not having been raped because I could have shown that you get over it."
Ladies, let's be reasonable about #MeToo or nothing will ever be sexy again

More than 10 writers remove their names from controversial letter in Steven Galloway case - The Globe and Mail - Mr. Galloway, a bestselling novelist, was fired from his job as the chair of UBC's creative writing program in 2016 after a high-profile suspension the previous year.
Am I a bad feminist? - The Globe and Mail - an Open Letter called UBC Accountable, which calls for holding the University of British Columbia accountable for its failed process in its treatment of one of its former employees, Steven Galloway, the former chair of the department of creative writing, as well as its treatment of those who became ancillary complainants in the case. (she does go on and on)
The Galloway affair: Salem comes to UBC - The Globe and Mail -- But on campus, fainting-couch feminism is the order of the day ... An earlier version of this article said some of UBC professor Steven Galloway's accusers said his behaviour had ruined their lives. In fact, it was the investigation into his behaviour ("gross overreaction" said the judge)
UBC's botched job on Galloway case puts new president to the test

I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life ... "The move he kept doing was taking his two fingers in a V-shape and putting them in my mouth, in my throat to wet his fingers, because the moment he'd stick his fingers in my throat he'd go straight for my vagina and try to finger me." Grace called the move "the claw" (why didn't she leave after the first "claw?" +what's wrong with his eyes? +author of best-selling "Modern Romance" about the nuances of dating and sex in the digital age)


Woman at center of Greitens story asks for privacy; Greitens asks lawmakers for forgiveness | Political Fix | stltoday.com - The phone calls underscore the lengths to which Greitens, a Republican, is going to preserve his political career. In the past, Greitens has derided members of the Legislature, at one point comparing them to third-graders and calling them into Jefferson City for two special sessions last summer, which he called "summer school." ... It was unclear why he was at an office that has used money from unnamed donors to attack senators and finance pro-business proposals. Greitens did not stop to answer questions from the Post-Dispatch as he left the office by an alley exit.


Women taking their right to go topless to state's high court (New Hampshifre didn't get the memo)


Legal marijuana cuts violence says US study, as medical-use laws see crime fall | World news | The Guardian - Murder and violent crime found to have decreased most in states bordering Mexico as drug cartels lose business to regulation (so Jason Lewis is a big fat liar with his "vice industry" and we have to give all the tax money to cops crap)
Illinois Judge Allows 11-Year-Old Girl To Use Medical Marijuana At School : news


Mother's Exercise May Boost Baby's Brain -- If a woman is physically active during pregnancy, she may boost the development of her unborn child's brain.

Baking soda could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance. Researchers have discovered that the ion bicarbonate (baking soda) disrupts a bacterium's energy system, increases the efficacy of some antibiotics, and could help in the discovery of new antimicrobials.
A Spoonful of Baking Soda Helps the Antibiotics Go Down? | American Council on Science and Health

A study has found that children are significantly more attentive and engaged with their schoolwork following an outdoor lesson in nature. Teachers could teach uninterrupted for almost twice as long during a subsequent indoor lesson. : science

Ages 1 to 4 are very important for brain development but yet most people can't recall anything from that time period. Why don't we remember our earliest memories? : askscience


LA swatting suspect opens up in jail interview : news

Officer Accused Of DUI Hit-Run Passes Out Behind Wheel With Daughter Inside Vehicle : news

District finds teacher regularly harassed 14-year-old girl. He's still teaching high schoolers : news
Woodcreek High School teacher retains job after harassing female student | The Sacramento Bee - A longtime Woodcreek High School teacher with a history of inappropriate behavior was transferred but still employed in the classroom after a 14-year-old student complained that he often touched her inappropriately and flirted with her (Sacramento)

"Come and See" (1981), widely considered one of the greatest war films ever, is available for viewing with ENG subtitles on YouTube : movies

What do you believe happens after you die? : AskReddit

Eschaton: The Slow Lane - Try to hand off a lane to buses and everybody freaks, but sure sure just do this ... The clutter of those damn pedestrians and legacy vehicles. Gotta get rid of them. (techbro innovators and car companies demand you hand over a trillion dollars in infrastructue to them to they can charge you for driverless cars)

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This year'S awful flu season, mapped -- more severe than usual is because it involves the dreaded H3N2, a strain of the influenza A virus that causes more health complications and is more difficult to prevent.
Energy Department is seriously underestimating solar power abroad : technology (2017 update)
Photovoltaic growth: reality versus projections of the International Energy Agency

Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say - The New York Times
Hawaii ballistic missile alert is a false alarm - Vox - While it was a false alarm, the episode raises some interesting questions. (Ruissian hacking?)
Emergency alert about ballistic missile sent to Hawaii residents; EMA says no threat
Hey, Hawaii: The Telecom Industry Lobbied Against Testing for Emergency Alert System - Motherboard - Everyone in Hawaii received a ballistic missile threat today under a system that currently has no good testing protocols.
Reddit members in Hawaii what initially went through your mind when you first heard the false ballistic missle warning? : AskReddit

The horrors of war with North Korea, explained by a South Korean general -- "This would be more like trying to get rid of Allah" (three generations of brain-washing)

Las Vegas Gunman Took Elaborate Steps to Hide His Tracks, New Documents Show - The New York Times
Resisting the Label of Victim, but Forever Scarred by a Mass Shooting - The New York Times

The U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands finally admits 'no-go zone' claims were false : news -- Hoekstra was a founding member of the Congressional House Tea Party Caucus in 2010 .. Hoekstra is of Dutch heritage himself and is from Holland, MI; a town in West Michigan that also spawned Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince
After drubbing by media, Trump's ambassador to the Netherlands apologizes for anti-Muslim remarks ... "Looking back, I am shocked I said that" (time ot sit down and have a talk with your racist asshole nazi self, Dorkstra)


Pro-Trump supporters disrupt speech and attempt to arrest London mayor Khan ... the White Pendragons group ... Khan (said) "It is a pleasure to be here even though we were distracted by the actions of what some would call very stable geniuses" ("sovereign citizens" hit the UK)

Drones keep entering no-fly zones over Washington, raising security concerns - The Washington Post

Former President of Maryland-Based Transportation Company Indicted on 11 Counts Related to Foreign Bribery, Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme | OPA | Department of Justice - for his alleged role in a scheme that involved the bribery of an official at a subsidiary of Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation. (but Hillary was behind it all)

Haitian government claims ousted dictator 'Baby Doc' Duvalier laundered stolen money through Trump Tower

New Yorker cover responds to Trump's profane remarks by putting him in a literal hole

The United States has always been a country of immigrants. The English-speaking Protestant Christians who founded the country, however, have not always welcomed other types of arrivals. The disdained have changed over time. (1970 the low-point for immigration)
Why Trump's wall contradicts today's immigration trends (Trump is living in the 1930's)

The 'genius' of Trump: What the president means when he touts his smarts (he's a 'genius' at getting all the attention)
How Much More of Trump's Insanity Are We Willing to Take?
We've Faced Questions About a President's Mind Before -- And it's always messy

Trump Thinks Only Black People Are on Welfare, but, Really, White Americans Receive Most Benefits
WV DHHR: 4 of nearly 900 TANF applicants test positive for drugs | Health | wvgazettemail.com - Once again, the Legislature wants to punish people for having a medical condition, he way to punish them is to take away those benefits. You're further destabilizing a family that's already at risk ... Republicans said they had expected 100 times that number to be caught and punished +they had already destroyed the program)

Donald Trump Flushes Away America's Reput ation (when you elect a shit-hole ... and Brooks fell the scam, hook, line and shithole)
No, not everything is racist. But Donald Trump is. - But Donald Trump is. By William Saletan -- It has been thrown at House Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen. John McCain, former Gov. Mitt Romney, and other decent conservatives (doing the Saletan dance)
CNN panel devolves into screaming match when televangelist offers biblical defense for Trump's 'shithole' comment ... Burns admitted that as a church official, his job is to help the poor and homeless. "But don't let them into your home, God forbid," Burnett retorted. (black guy loves Trumpster)
Watch disgusted Joy Reid cut mic on ranting pastor excusing Trump's racism ... Mark Burns (stupid black guy making the rounds)
Inside Trump's paranoid mind (using "mind" very loosely +Tony Blair tipped off Trump trying to get a job +the Deep State is after him) "clown prince among the rich and famous"

Porn Star: Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels Invited Me to Their Hotel Room - I ended up with Donald in his hotel room. Picture him chasing me around his hotel room in his tighty-whities < Trump Accuser Jessica Drake Has an NDA Preventing Her from Talking About Donald Trump -- in late October 2016, Drake became the 14th woman to accuse then-candidate Trump of sexual misconduct

Sex puts coverage of Her Emails in context - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Consider: The press was presented with a thrice-married man involved in the beauty pageant and modeling industries. Reporters stuck to reporting on Clinton's emails ... Is it reasonable to assume these outlets can accurately gauge, much less report on, reality? No. That's s why we're constantly bombarded by articles about Ardent tRump Supporters Who Live Far Away articles ... Anyone want to think about what the press would do if, say, Barack Hussein Obama had an affair with an adult film star 10 years ago? (and what do those old white people at the diner think now??)
Jeff Gannon - Wikipedia
Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner - Wikipedia ("D.C. is a Republican society" and they hated it)
If We Are to Have a Future Together, This Must Stop -- Balloon Juice (2016)

James O'Keefe says Trump asked him to go on birther-linked mission ... if he would "get inside" Columbia University and obtain President Obama's sealed college records ... Trump "suspected Obama had presented himself as a foreign student on application materials to ease his way into New York's Columbia University, maybe even Harvard too, and perhaps picked up a few scholarships along the way (how many "scholarships" did Trump get?)


Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland - The Washington Post -- Manning, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, would be challenging Democrat Ben Cardin, who has served two terms in the Senate and is up for re-election in November (go home, Chelsea, and get a little experience before you make a fool out of yourself)

'The wave versus the map' : Democratic control of Senate moves from preposterous to possible


Kentucky Just Made It Harder For Poor People To Get Health Care | HuffPost - and more states will likely follow ... would reduce benefits, require some beneficiaries to work, and generally make it more difficult for people to stay on the program ... 95,000 would lose coverage ... (they voted to kill their poor neighbors, but not themselves)
Kentucky to now require LITERACY TESTS for "certain populations" to receive medical care (next: IQ tests to make sure you are stupid enough to vote)
Smoking penalties, ER fees, premiums on the poor: How states want to shrink Medicaid - The Washington Post


Eschaton: Miscarriage - Wonder what this is about. -- Teresa Manning, the controversial official in charge of the Title X federal family planning program, was escorted from HHS premises on Friday. -- How horrible do you have to be to get booted from this administration?
Anti-birth control official who led Title X departs HHS - POLITICO - she was responsible for helping set national policy around family planning, contraception and teen pregnancy ... stated in 2003 ... "contraception doesn't work" and "birth-control causes breast cancer" (only the best of the stupid assholes) ... staff were told to leave the floor of the HHS building and to take their computers, in order to ensure that no one witnessed her being escorted out. (nothing to see here)


Eschaton: Shut Up, Joe Biden - Just shut the hell up and go away forever. Try knitting. Thanks for the bankruptcy bill, by the way. (he was always an asshole, but he was Obama's asshole, because ...)


Moore forces seek retribution against Shelby - POLITICO - special election is still tearing at the Republican Party.


How Charlie Baker ditched Trump to become the most popular governor in America - POLITICO - Republican governor is defying the laws of political gravity ... "Charlie Baker is the Flying Wallendas of Massachusetts politics," (not one word about MA legislature)


Sexual Harassment Inc: How the #MeToo movement is sparking a wave of start-ups - The Washington Post

Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them - The New York Times -- For a fashion model, success is the ability to incite desire. The job requirements often include nudity and feigning seduction; provocation is a lever for sales. In the industry, boundaries between the acceptable and the unacceptable treatment of models have been etched in shades of gray. (photographer creeps)
The Illustrated Interview: Bruce Weber - The New York Times - Sept. 14, 2017 (they knew, or should have known before doing this incredibly shallow "interview")

LAPD opens investigation of Steven Seagal after sexual harassment claims : news

Mark Wahlberg Donates $1.5M In Michelle Williams' Name To #TimesUp Legal Fund (Marky-Mark flips because very bad PR)

(10) Eliza Dushku - Posts - When I was 12 years old, while filming 'True Lies' I was sexually molested by Joel Kramer, one of Hollywoo's leading stunt coordinators.
Eliza Dushku says she was molested during the production of "True Lies" by the stunt coordinator, a guy who still works in Hollywood and most recently did the stunts for "Blade Runner 2049" and "Furious 7" : movies

How Katie Roiphe Became Feminism's Nemesis-In-Chief -- The row over whether author Katie Roiphe planned to out the creator of the "Shitty Media Men List' crystallized competing ideologies and activism within modern feminism. (JFC, another "bvth-sides" take +why use a 20 year-old pic of her??)

Before #MeToo, there was Mad Men

Liam Neeson: Sexual harassment scandal has sparked 'a bit of a witch hunt' (no fact-checking on the Keillor re-rendition)

'Don't do this to me' : Woman testifies she was raped at knifepoint on moving Metro train



Tonya Harding dumped by agent for plan to fine journalists - The Boston Globe - Former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding may not have changed her stripes after all ... onya 2.0 turns out to be a lot like the woman we used to know ... Harding was dumped by her publicist/agent Michael A. Rosenberg for ordering that journalists who ask about the infamous incident with Kerrigan be fined $25,000 ... Harding demanded that reporters sign an affidavit stating that they wouldn't ask her anthing "about the past" or they'd be fined. (so, did you vote for Trump?)

Helen Mirren Finds Out She's Younger Than She Thought, Has Best Reaction | HuffPost (she "forgot" what year she was born)

The Griefbot That Could Change How We Mourn - mitating the deceased's cadence, tone, and idiosyncrasies. Ahmad thinks these griefbots could make grieving for loved ones an interactive experience.

Dining in is the new dining out. And it's costing restaurants

Harvard at odds with Roslindale neighbors over solar panel proposal - The Boston Globe - Harvard had planned to put solar panels on an auxiliary of the Arnold Arboretum that borders Jamaica Plain. ... "The land was intended to be for public enjoyment, which is not exactly what solar panels do" (JP got "Fausted")

The state's s 100 highest paid employees ... How about a Director of Diversity & Inclusion at $293,327.84 per year? ... our disgraced former State Police Super at number 26 ... A $385,000 per year basketball coach? (93% UMass, including 4 "coaches" +a few state cops)

Colorado Cities Keep Voting To Build Their Own Broadband Networks : technology (coulda been you, Cambridge, but "we're not competing with Comcast" won't get you far)


How many bytes of information can a single neuron store? : askscience -- Neurons are analog, not digital
Neurons use a viral-like gene to transmit genetic information between each other in an oddly virus-like way that, until now, we had no idea about. While the reason for the transfer is unclear, the gene has been implicated in multiple neurological diseases. : science

If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? With Daniel Dennett - YouTube

If gravity causes time dilation, wouldn't deep gravity wells create their own red-shift? How do astronomers distinguish close massive objects from distant objects? : askscience

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Diurnal cloud cycle biases in climate models | Nature Communications


Donald Trump Signals Openness to North Korea Diplomacy in Interview - WSJ - also accuses Steve Bannon of betrayal

UK rejects Ecuadors's attempt to remove old garbage from its London embassy.


Russia's Oligarchs Brace for U.S. Report Listing Putin Friends


ARA San Juan - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The energy released by the collapse was equal to the explosion of 12,500 Pounds of TNT at a depth of 1275-feet.


How Tom Clancy Novels Shaped American Foreign Policy - Lawyers, Guns & Money - "synthetic experiences" by creating a comprehensible mental construction based on fictional inputs. Such synthetic experiences affect how readers understand the world and, therefore, their behavior in political environments ... For instance, Senator Dan Quayle quoted Red Storm Rising as proving the utility of anti-satellite weaponry ... Red Storm Rising ... makes the argument for a strong merchant marine ... Reagan read Red Storm Rising, (all the cites are Republicans who can't deal with 'charts, graphs" and "words")

Update on Pawn Storm: New Targets and Politically Motivated Campaigns - TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog -- Pawn Storm has been attacking political organizations in France, Germany, Montenegro, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States since 2015.

Supreme Court to hear sales tax collection case - ABC News (big)
U.S. Supreme Court to Review Bid to Collect Internet Sales Tax - Bloomberg


US ambassador to Panama resigns, saying he can no longer serve under Trump administration - John Feeley, 56, a career diplomat and former Marine Corps helicopter pilot, announced his resignation in a letter to the state department.


Trump's Statement On Canceled London Visit Is Full Of Falsehoods | HuffPost - He blames Obama for the move, even though it was first planned under Bush ... President Donald Trump offered a classically Trumpian explanation for why he canceled his upcoming trip to the U.K.: the construction of a new U.S. embassy in the British capital represents a bad deal, and he wants nothing to do with it. (don't bother me with your fake "historical context")
Donald Trump cancels London visit amid protest fears | US news | The Guardian - President will not open new US embassy next month, with secretary of state Rex Tillerson likely to take his place
The U.S. ambassador in London contradicted just about everything Trump said about the new embassy - The Washington Post

There's s No Way Out -- Trump's presidency may be a dysfunctional disaster, but there's no apparent way to end it.

Top intel Republican can't name a single falsehood in the Trump-Russia dossier -- The refusal to offer a single supposed falsehood runs counter to what Nunes and his fellow Republicans have loudly been alleging for months: that the dossier contains false information. (little Russian ratfucker Nunes)


Eschaton: It Occurs To Me That The President Might Be A Racist - Not even really sure why this might have tipped the scales and not the last 40 years of his life, but whatever...
Time to Say It: Trump Is a Racist - The New York Times
Trump's history of breaking decorum with remarks on race, ethnicity ("he tells it like it is" to all the racist assholes)
What did the men with Donald Trump do when he spoke of 'shithole countries? ... His defenders seemed to say that if the president says things that we would be ashamed even to think, he is somehow speaking a kind of truth (no one said a word, and Republiicans covered up and dedged
Few Republicans Acknowledged Trump's 'Shithole' Slur | HuffPost
Lindsey Graham: 'I said my piece' to Trump. But senator doesn't address 'shithole countries' comment (slimy Lindsey)
This is CNN Tonight. I'm Don Lemon. The president of the United States is racist
Dick Durbin Was In The Room And Confirms Trump Made 'Shithole' Comments | HuffPost - "He said these hate-filled things and he said them repeatedly" ... "I cannot believe that in the history of the White House, in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday"
From Norway to Haiti, Trump's Comments Stir Fresh Outrage

Anderson Cooper Fights Tears As He Defends Haiti From Trump's Insults | HuffPost - CNN anchor says Trump could learn from the dignity of Haitians.
Don Lemon's Had It With Trump Supporters: 'You Know What You Can Go Do?' | HuffPost - CNN anchor calls out those who defend Trump "no matter what" (traitors)

Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers - unidentified buyers who paid cash, an indication of possible money laundering.
New Filing Shows Eric Trump Raised Millions, Lied About His Foundation's Expenses (what a trio)

Trump Lawyer Arranged $130,000 Payment for Adult-Film Star's Silence -- Agreement just before election required woman to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, people familiar with the matter say ... Ms. Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels ... (but pizzagate! and Dumpster loves porn stars)
Porn Star Who Claimed Sexual Encounter With Trump Received Hush Money, Wall Street Journal Reports - The New York Times

David Brooks Picked a Bad Week to Say Trump 'Runs a Normal, Good Meeting' (very bad time to normalize Dumpster, BoBo)


Trump asked why the US needs more Haitians. Mar-a-Lago may hold the answer - Palm Beach resort, Mar-a-Lago, reportedly employs Haitian guest workers to do a variety of jobs -- Mar-a-Lago received 70 H-2B visas for foreign workers in 2017

Will President Trump's Physical Show That He's Obese? (even his head is fat)

Hoyer calls Pelosi's 'five white guys' remark offensive (said blue-dog Whoreyer)

Which Demographic Has Trump Best Held His Support? - Lawyers, Guns & Money -- But those Jewish voters who care only about an aggressive, expansionist Israel love Donald Trump. If you were Jewish and a Trump supporter in 2016, you are still a Trump supporter. Which says a remarkable amount about a particular type of politics that makes you a stickier Trump supporter than literally every other demographic group in the nation. (they also have a lot of money)
Trump's approval ratings in Georgia erode

Watch Don Lemon kick Trump's VA co-chair off his show after he calls Lemon "lazy" -- Well Don, it's not about race as you like to make it, because that's easy and lazy. It's about economics (and we control your economics, lazy black boy)

The Pathological Cruelty of Trump's Medicaid Work Requirement (from the guy who never worked a day in his life)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Trumpism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Trumpism - Lawyers, Guns & Money - A fascinating new paper suggests that if anything Piketty's book underestimates this trend: that the return on wealth grows faster than the economy as a whole. The moral here is pretty obvious: being born into wealth is a far better choice than working hard at some stupid series of jobs. ... + "I think the Devil shits Dutchmen" -- Samuel Pepys

Biden Trashes Millennials in His Quest to Become Even Less Likable - VICE (self-promoting old guy thinks he had it hard)

Washington Post reporter who spoke at liberal event put on leave - Jan. 11, 2018 - Janell Ross ... was sidelined after she participated in a private gathering in November attended by Democratic lawmakers and liberal activists, including the billionaire benefactor George Soros. (she got Rreitbarted)

Behind the Duck: Former Aflac Employees Allege Fraud and Abuse in Nearly Every Aspect of Company


Mason teacher admits to making lynching comment to student - mother wants the district to take more action (Trump voters in Ohio)


God sees the truth but waits - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Megachurch pastor Andy Savage made a confession this past Sunday at Highpoint Church in Memphis, Tennessee. (he "had" a "sexual incident" called rape)

Exclusive: Watch Chris Matthews Joke About His 'Bill Cosby Pill' Before Interviewing Hillary Clinton ... Matthews has a long history of talking disparagingly about Hillary Clinton (these were the serious assholes who told us about serious things)
Having Political Coverage Dominated By Well-Documented Misogynists Seems Suboptimal - Lawyers, Guns & Money


Exclusive: Wahlberg refused to approve Plummer without payday ... over a million dollars for the reshoot (Marky-Mark took all the monies because he's very special)


Social Media Is Making Us Dumber. Here's Exhibit A -- This week, a video surfaced of a Harvard professor, Steven Pinker, which appeared to show him lauding members of a racist movement ... biologist PZ Myers, who also wrote a blog post denouncing Mr. Pinker for this supposed alliance "; "political correctness has done an enormous amount of harm" in the sliver of the population"
If you ever doubted that Steven Pinker's sympathies lie with the alt-right (NYT article doesn't touch his politics)
Steven Pinker and the New York Times are making us dumber - Because I exposed Steven Pinker's atrociously bad arguments, I have now been accused of "smearing" and "distorting" Pinker's words and gotten all kinds of fun hate mail ... Pinker is an advocate for evolutionary psychology, he criticized the March for Science as "anti-science PC/identity politics/hard-left rhetoric" (gosh, how many dog-whistles can you pack in a phrase?), (the alt-right flying monkeys came for PZ +NYT always seems to have a normalization of evil agenda)
Repudiating scientism, rather than surrendering to it (Pinker is arrogantly, condescendingly, shallow and stupid)
FUCK THEORY - In Which Steven Pinker Is A Total Ignoramus Who Who Should Go Read A Fucking Book And Get Himself Some Fucking Education ... Let's be absolutely clear - not a single one of the thinkers this asshole claims for "science" were scientists. Not a single one of them thought of themselves as scientist ... (Pinker is blinded by his own brilliance)
What Does PZ Myers Despise? | Evolutionary Psychology Blog Archive - evolutionary psychology
A defense of evolutionary psychology (mostly by Steve Pinker) + Why Evolution Is True


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Reporter to Trump ambassador: 'This is the Netherlands, you have to answer questions' (unlike America, Russia or Turkey) "There are cars being burned, there are politicians that are being burned" he told a conservative group. When pressed by the Dutch reporters, Hoekstra declined to retract the comments or give specific examples to back them up. (they never admit their lies) 270 million people were radical Islamist militants and appeared to imply that Huma Abedin had "egregious" ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (his dad was deported for being a Nazi, became a Reublican Ametican)


Ecuador grants WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange citizenship - The Washington Post - in a bid to end his more than five-year stay at its embassy in London and resolve a protracted dispute with Britain.


Trump attacks protections for immigrants from 'shithole' countries
Josh Marshall on Twitter: Remarkable worlds from CNN's Jim Acosta. Not surprising. But these are not ways reporters talk on network or cable network TV. Watch this! https://t.co/2gUqdlREOd" -- "the president seems to harbor racist feelings about people of color ... this cuts to the very core of who he is. (worlds indeed)
Trump Alarms Lawmakers With Disparaging Words for Haiti and Africa - The New York Times
washingtonpost comments on Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ' shithole' countries in Oval Office meeting


Republicans Have Dramatically Ramped Up Their Attacks On Russia Probes In 2018 | HuffPost (they are all traitors)
Trump Accuses FBI Agent of 'Treason' U.S. is taking steps to ensure Russia doesn't interfere with future elections, president says
I Am The State -- According to the President, federal law enforcement officers criticizing him on government phone and text devices amounts to 'treason.'
Shepard Smith Hits Trump With A Brutal Fact Check On Russia Investigation | HuffPost - "a Democratic hoax" -- Fox News has been reporting and will continue to report that two people have pleaded guilty.

Eschaton: How The President Is Covered Now -T a gentle reminder that the GOP Chair of House Government Oversight in the 1990s ****shot watermelon with a pistol**** to reenact what he said was the presidenthis isn't even true, but even if we accept that it is... He was clearly able to follow the debate, and mount a defense of his own controversial positions -- on a border wall, for example -- without causing obvious offense, and appeared magnanimously open to other viewpoints.

Confused Trump Tricked Into Opposing Own Surveillance Bill ... he has taken seriously the Republican talking points about the Deep State, failing to realize that it's disingenuous propaganda designed to cover up misdeeds by his campaign. (that's a dot too far)
Trump stuns Republican leaders with tweeted policy backflips - Axios

Democrats to invite sex misconduct victims to Trump's State of the Union

Top U.S. Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site - Users connecting from Senate, Navy, and Executive Branch computers bragged about 'wins,' or nonconsensual nude photos, posted on Anon-IB, a revenge-porn epicenter ... Anon-IB was also intertwined with a 2014 breach of celebrity nudes referred to as The Fappening ... at least one post is linked to the Executive Office of the President ... Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the spokesperson for the White House, did not respond to a request for comment. (the Senate is porn-central)

Eschaton: Trump's Perfectly Normal - No journalist who has spent time with him could possibly agree with Wolff's characterization of him. -- On topic of yesterday's White House meeting w/members of Congress about immigration, Trump says he received "letters" from news anchors claiming "it was one of the greatest meetings they've ever witnesses. (sic)
Democratic leaders face internal mutiny over Dreamers deal - POLITICO - Liberals are worried that a DACA deal will give conservatives too much.
Aaron Rupar on Twitter: "On topic of yesterday's White House meeting w/members of Congress about immigration, Trump says he received "letters" from news anchors claiming he's the best pres ever https://t.co/PgxZvzaFiF"
Conway: Trump 'discovered' there doesn't need to be 'physical wall' along entire border ... "There are rivers, I'm told ... There are mountains involved ..."
Kellyanne Conway's Interview With Chris Cuomo Quickly Flies Off The Rails
Conway said "nobody" at White House talks about Clinton. These 75 Trump tweets say otherwise.

Schiff: It would be 'valuable' if Ivanka Trump testified in Russia probe (how long can she avoid jail?)

Bill Browder, Fusion GPS battle escalates with Glenn Simpson testimony - Business Insider - A fierce but muted battle erupted last year between Bill Browder, a banker turned human-rights activist, and Fusion GPS, an opposition-research firm.

Can Requiring People to Work Make Them Healthier? - The New York Times - The Trump administration wants to make a major change to Medicaid, but there's not a lot of evidence for one of its key assertions. (workfare is back)

Bannon'S brutal ouster from Trump and Breitbart circles should frighten Americans -- political slaughter not for his past sins but because he criticized the president. That's chilling (just woke up?)

Trump administration ends registry for substance abuse, mental health programs | TheHill

PRRI - One in four (25%) young people report having been targeted or treated unfairly themselves in the last 12 months because of their race or ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, immigration status, or religious beliefs ... Young people as a whole feel more positively about Obama than Trump, but the politics of young people are deeply divided along racial lines ... White young people (35%) hold more favorable views of Trump than Hispanic (17%), API (6%), and black young people (5%). However, young white people are less favorably inclined towards Trump than white Americans overall; 46% of white Americans view Trump favorably ... More than 1 in 3 white young people believe "reverse" discrimination is a serious problem.

We Don't Need No -- Private schools are the best. -- MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A Wisconsin private school that asked fourth graders to list three good reasons for slavery and three bad ones apologized to parents after the mother of a black student shared the assignment on Facebook, calling it offensive.


Coal miners turn on Trump after they gain fewer jobs than a local Sam's Club (suckers, but will they learn?)

Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018 | HuffPost - Three of them are bragging about it. (Arpaio, Blankenship, Grimm, Gianforte)

Eschaton: Well Then - ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) -- Governor Eric Greitens on Wednesday night confirmed to News 4 he had an extramarital affair, an admission a months-long News 4 investigation prompted. -- That's the lead paragraph, but the real lede is that he blindfolded her, tied her up naked, took a picture of her, and used it to blackmail her. (also, the Republican-owned TV station didn't mention that the creep is a Republican)
Gov. Greitens admits to extramarital affair, denies threatening to blackmail the woman | The Kansas City Star
Greitens admits affair but denies related blackmail allegation | Political Fix | stltoday.com (a true family values Republican)
Timeline of events in allegations of Greitens' sexual conduct
Sarah Kendzior on Twitter: "Eric Greitens should resign. This is revolting. https://t.co/NEd0nRlt1s"
Sarah Kendzior on Twitter: "Eric Greitens is a pal and seeming protigi of Mike Pence. Curious what Pence thinks of Greitens' extramarital affair and blackmail and threats https://t.co/igSKBfo61U"
Sarah Kendzior on Twitter: "Any updates, Mr. Vice President? ?? https://t.co/3nsIuehxE3"
Sarah Kendzior on Twitter: Geitens thread


Pink pussyhats: The reason feminists are ditching them -- The sentiment that the pink pussyhat excludes and is offensive to transgender women and gender nonbinary people who don't have typical female genitalia and to women of color because their genitals are more likely to be brown than pink.


Moira Donegan: I Started the Media Men List ... This escalated when I learned Katie Roiphe would be publishing my name in a forthcoming piece in Harper's magazine.
Moira Donegan Outs Herself As Creator Of 'S**tty Media Men' List | HuffPost

Five women accuse actor James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior - LA Times
5 Women Accuse James Franco Of Sexual Misconduct | HuffPost

Women in finance have been grabbed, humiliated, and propositioned but have kept quiet because of the industry's culture, 20 interview show (the hedgies are the alphas and too much at stake for the women)

MLB Sports Agent Accused Of Filming His Clients In The Shower | HuffPost - Jason Wood allegedly recorded these baseball players without their knowledge.

EXCLUSIVE: New York State Sen. Jeff Klein Accused Of Sexual Misconduct | HuffPost - A former staffer has come forward to accuse Democratic New York state Sen. Jeff Klein of forcibly kissing her in 2015.

Inmates at Three New York Prisons Can't Receive Donated Books Anymore, They Have to Buy Them : books (fuckers to the core)

Vermont Senate legalizes recreational pot : news

Peter Thiel submits bid for Gawker, faces challenges (J.D. Vance's boss)

Slave labor found at Fayetteville fish market | News & Observer - an alternative religious group -- on charges that they used the slave labor of children as young as 9 to run a series of fish markets in the Fayetteville area.
Walmart is abruptly closing 63 Sam's Club stores and laying off thousands of workers ... 1 Tobias Boland Way, Worcester, MA 01607


Steven Pinker: Here's how political correctness winds up creating its own antagonists ... as curious students discover certain unspeakable truths have been hidden from them ... it's clear what he means, i.e. left-wing efforts to silence opponents and censor discussion of certain uncomfortable topics


How the robocall industry outwitted the government and wrecked the Do Not Call list - The Washington Post (and millions of people's phones) Since the robo-call ban went into effect in 2009, the FTC has brought just 33 cases against robo-callers ... So the FTC has only collected on a fraction of those sums: $18 million in relief and less than $1 million in penalties.


The controversy over Essure, the only permanent female contraceptive device | The Washington Post - Some people see a breakthrough in female contraception. Others see a dangerous medical device.

Thnking Beyond the 'Chemical Imbalance' Theory of Depression ("internal and external factors" that's very helpful)
Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? | Society | The Guardian - In this extract from his new book, Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 13 years, calls for a new approach ... between 65 and 80% of people on antidepressants are depressed again within a year (so they up the dose) "low serotonin ... here was never any basis for it, ever. It was just marketing copy. (and then, omg 87% don't like their work) It turns out if you have no control over your work, you are far more likely to become stressed -- and, cruccially, depressed. (science is slowly, very slowly, coming to think that experiences might have an effect on how you feel)
Is everything Johann Hari knows about depression wrong? | Science | The Guardian ... plagerism scandal ... Logically, someone with a reputation for making false claims should be the last person making high-profile, controversial, sweeping statements about something as sensitive as mental health. And yet, here we are. It's 2018
How do antidepressants actually work? | Dean Burnett | Science | The Guardian - not as simple or as understood as many might think


What's your best truth or dare gone wrong moment? : AskReddit


011018

NYT Politics on Twitter: How Much Has 'Climate Change' Been Scrubbed From Federal Websites? A Lot. (the anti-factual Death Party)
Flu season is off to a bad start, bringing fears of what's next
He was 21 and fit. He tried to push through the flu -- and it killed him (but was he vaccinatedd?)
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AP sources: Trump to extend sanctions relief for Iran

Who is attacking Russia's bases in Syria? A new mystery emerges in the war ... including one conducted by a swarm of armed miniature drones


President Trump has made more than 2,000 false or misleading claims over 355 days - The Washington Post

Why didn't Republicans want you to see in the Fusion GPS transcript? (Grassley should go to prison)
The great Republican abdication - The Washington Post (every single Republican has been co-opted by Putin)

Trump vs. Trump, again: Judge cites presidential tweets as he blocks DACA phaseout - The Washington Post -- Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really! -- Donald J. Trump
. DACA negotiation stunt showed how dangerously we've lowered the bar for Trump. He remembers names (that are written on placards) -- congratulations, America!


Eschaton: So Much For Those Jobs And Overtime - I'm guessing this isn't what border patrol agents were expecting. -- The Trump administration would cut or delay funding for border surveillance, radar technology, patrol boats and customs agents in its upcoming spending plan to curb illegal immigration -- all proven security measures that officials and experts have said are more effective than building a wall along the Mexican border. (haha suckers)
Trump's Scattershot Immigration Remarks Leave Congress Reeling ... took a range of positions on negotiations over the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program (very stable)
Immigration agents target 7-Eleven stores in nationwide sweep - The Washington Post
Tucker Carlson Turns On Trump: 'What Was The Point Of Running For President?' | HuffPost - Fox News host slams the president over immigration. (Fucker Carlson mad he's a sucker and immigransts have a big effect on him and his family)

The Crime Is Worse Than The Coverup | Crooked Media (the entire Republican party is a coverup)

Mueller adds veteran cyber prosecutor to special-counsel team - The Washington Post
Trump declines to say whether he would sit for interview with Mueller's team
Trump attacks Feinstein over release of testimony on Russia probe, calls for GOP to 'take control ... "Sneaky"
Trump is mad that "Sneaky Dianne Feinstein" debunked a key Republican theory on Trump and Russia -- The big news Republicans didn't want you to see

'It's not a fabrication' : Six times the firm behind the infamous dossier contradicted Trump's claims

Alice Ollstein on Twitter: Feinstein smiles while stepping into an elevator as reporters ask about her unilaterally publishing Fusion GPS transcript. "I just decided to do it," she says
PoppinKREAM comments on Trump-Russia: Senator Dianne Feinstein releases testimony of dossier firm boss (Rex Tillerson is a Russian plant comment by PoppinKREAM)

Senate Democrats: Future Elections May Be Threatened By Russian Attacks | HuffPost - It is imperative that the American people better understand the true scope and scale of Putin's pattern of undermining democracy. (he seems to have bought/compromised the entire Republican party, who should all go to jail)

I'm Proud We Published the Trump-Russia Dossier -- By Ben Smith (Buzzfeed, not NYT, who supported Trump)
New dossier testimony reveals how badly NYT screwed up -- in Trump's favor -- The paper that obsessed over Hillary's emails also scared off a key source of information on Trump and Russia.

White House Official Floated Withdrawing U.S. Forces to Please Putin - Trump's National Security Council staff had a radical notion: to pare back American troops in Europe as a way to curry favor with the Kremlin. (the Pee-Pee tapes)

Trump Administration Waives Punishment For Convicted Banks, Including Deutsche -- Which Trump Owes Millions

Eschaton: Jew Counters -- Asked if Trump is antisemitic, Wolff says: "He's aware of who is Jewish in a way that feels creepy."

Trump's inner circle escapes televised grillings on Russia

Trump's real estate: Secretive sales continue unabated -- $35M in real estate in 2017, mostly to secretive buyers (who could that be?)

Why Conservatives Love Dumb Presidents .... Since Reagan's s time, conservatives have not only reflexively dismissed questions about the intelligence of any leader who seemed wanting, but presented these traits as encouraging evidence of Reaganesque qualities ... Bush eventually grew to take his job more seriously, but his trust in his gut instinct over analysis never left him. ("my instincts are the best")

Are Democrat's Senate Chances In 2018 Overrated? ... it may be the worst Senate map that any party has faced ever, or at least since direct election of senators began in 1913
Republican Retirements Raise Talk of Democratic Wave in November - The New York Times

North Carolina Congressional Map Ruled Unconstitutionally Gerrymandered : news
The future of American democracy is being decided right now - The Washington Post - Are our elections going to be fair and open, or are we going to allow whichever party is in power at a particular moment to rig the system in their favor? (SC: "yes as long as they are Republicans")
What gerrymandering? Every North Carolina district just happens to look like a monster. - The Washington Post

Decision to back off Florida drilling plan makes waves - Axios - This announcement, which followed a meeting with GOP Florida Gov. Rick Scott

Wait. What? Pa. House to really shrink? - Cost savings and maybe efficiency in the nation's largest, most expensive, usually useless "full-time" legislature? ... cuts the 203-member House to 151 members, a 25 percent reduction. (Republicans)

With Issa, Royce, Corker, Flake retirements, Republicans are doing their best to lose their majorities - The Washington Post
Rep. Darrell Issa, who was GOP's attack dog against top Democrats, will retire (the asshole was responsbile, among other things, for Swarzenegger)

Grand jury subpoena issued in Rep. Duncan Hunter criminal investigation - The San Diego Union-Tribune - regarding certain transactions in Rep. Duncan Hunter's campaign treasury, which has been under scrutiny since the spring of 2016 as a result of frequent personal expenditures ... In January 2017, Hunter supported a Republican-led proposal that would have made a procedural change stripping the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent government watchdog agency, of much of its power. The congressmen dropped the effort after Trump and others questioned the timing of the proposed change.

GOP senator says she'll vote to restore net neutralit y rules (little Susie trying to repair the damage from her budget/kill healthcare in Maine vote)


POLL: Joe Arpaio in dead heat with Martha McSally in GOP race for U.S. Senate seat in Arizona - ABC15 Arizona

WBUR Poll: Baker's Popularity Continues To Soar, While Trump's Continues To Slump -- 74 percent of Massachusetts voters approve of the job Baker is doing and only 29 percent approve of Trump

Governor Baker urges US attorney to focus on opioids, not marijuana - The Boston Globe - Marijuana shops in Mass. go cash-only with fear of federal crackdown ... after threats of a federal crackdown prompted a key payment processing company to pull out of the Massachusetts cannabis market.
Crackdown on marijuana unlikely, but don't rule out some prosecutions (if you're black, especially)
Vermont poised to enact legal pot through Legislature -- putting the state on course to become the first in the country to legalize pot by an act of the Legislature rather than through a referendum by voters.

New York Police Union Sues to Stop Release of Body Camera Videos : news (what are they hiding? )

The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse - Bloomberg - Think Penn Station is bad? Let's go into the crumbling, disaster-prone tunnels that lie beneath. (Christie's legacy of disaster)

Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner to settle divorce out of court - The Washington Post

How Oprah Helped Spread Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience: That's one thing she has in common with Donald Trump ... Larry King and People magazine also gave attention to McCarthy and her views. She became a semi-regular guest on Winfrey's show and signed a deal with Winfrey's Harpo Studios to create her own show, though that show ultimately fell through.

Democratic women plan all-black fashion statement for State of the Union - NBC News

Catherine Deneuve and Others Denounce the #MeToo Movement - The New York Times - Catherine Deneuve joined more than 100 other Frenchwomen in entertainment, publishing and academic fields Tuesday in the pages of the newspaper Le Monde and on its website in arguing that the two movements, in which women and men have used social media as a forum to describe sexual misconduct, have gone too far by publicly prosecuting private experiences and have created a totalitarian climate. ((French women love being sexually objectified and harassed as long as you don't actually rape them)) In March, Ms. Deneuve defended Roman Polanski, the director who pleaded guilty in 1977 to having sex with a 13-year-old girl and who was accused by two other women of forcing himself on them when they were under age.
Catherine Deneuve says #MeToo is driven by 'hatred of men' ... "This urge to send men to the slaughterhouse, instead of helping women be more autonomous, helps the enemies of sexual freedom"

Greta Gerwig, Aaron Sorkin: Hollywood Must Change - The New York Times

Ronan Farrow, the Hollywood Prince Who Torched the Castle | Hollywood Reporter
My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked (Guest Column) | Hollywood Reporter

Corey Feldman Named in Sexual Battery Police Report | TMZ.com - a woman walked into a police station Monday and filed a report claiming Corey grabbed her ass in early 2017

A Feminist Twitter Campaign Targets Harper's Magazine and Katie Roiphe ... 1993 ... In it, she argued that campus feminists had inflated the number of women who had been raped and questioned how the definition of rape was changing.
The Selling of Katie Roiphe - Jennifer Gonnerman - No. 6 December 1994
Katie Roiphe - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Greta Gerwig Says She Regrets Working With Woody Allen | HuffPost (on Sunday, she had yet to make a determination on where she stood on the matter)

Top Fox News D.C. Reporter James Rosen Left Network After Harassment Claims : NPR

Post reporter Joel Achenbach suspended for 90 days for 'inappropriate workplace conduct'

What Did James Franco Do to Ally Sheedy?
The brewing James Franco controversy over sexual misconduct allegations, explained - The Washington Post

Outrage Erupts Over Report That Mark Wahlberg Made Over 1000 Times More Than Michelle Williams | HuffPost
Jennifer Bendery on Twitter: what the shit (Marky-Mark is a guy, so)

Michael Douglas Gets Out Front Of Potential Harassment Story To Deny A Sordid Accusation | Deadline - After a storied 50 year career as actor and producer that includes two Oscars, Michael Douglas finds himself accused of something tawdry he said that he didn't do -- masturbate in front of a former employee


Stephen Colbert Presses James Franco on Sexual Harassment Claims : television

Harvey Weinstein Attacked at Scottsdale Restaurant | TMZ.com



Threats prompt lockdown after video of handcuffed teacher spreads - The Boston Globe - A Louisiana school board's office went on temporary lockdown after getting death threats from around the world in response to widely viewed video of a teacher screaming while being handcuffed at a school board meeting ... Women have several times been told to leave meetings, while men who speak out have not been removed ... Superintendent Jerome Puyau gave himself a $38,000 raise, while the board hasn't raised teacher salaries in more than a decade. (do not question our authority)
School board gets death threats after teacher handcuffed after questioning pay raise : news
Teacher's union will be holding a rally in response to Deyshia Hargrave's removal for questioning Superintendent's raise : videos



Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now - The New York Times


What is an imminent danger that nobody seems to be talking about? : AskReddit


What screams "I'm emotionally unstable"? : AskReddit -- the need to control the actions of others. (oh, hello, Adam)
Marijuana extraction accident in New Mexico : WTF (see BloodyFreeze)

'These are bad facts for him': Intel CEO's $24 million stock sale before disclosing the chip flaw could trigger lawsuits, SEC inquiry : technology
NSA discovered Intel security issue in 1995 : technology

010918

In Deepest Cold, a Subway Car Becomes the Shelter of Last Resort - The New York Times
At least 8 dead as heavy rains trigger flooding, mudflows and freeway closures across Southern California - LA Times
Success: EPA set to reduce staff 50% in Trump's first term (success! and fuck your liberul environment)


The App Powering the Uprising in Iran -- Telegram


Why I'm Skeptical of This North Korea Leak ... a word doing a lot of work on Tuesday morning. In fact, there was a word that was moving mountains with a trailer hitch and digging the Suez Canal with a soup ladle. "... quietly debating whether it's possible to mount a limited military strike against North Korean sites without igniting an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula ... "Presumably, such a strike would be a one-off attack that is immediately followed-up by a presidential announcement that this is a warning shot and nothing more" ... I think this was not a strategic leak, but a desperately panicky one. (your military has always been insane with a long history of tragically calamitous blunders)


New US ambassador to Netherlands regularly made unsubstantiated 'no-gone'zones' claims, speculated 15% of Muslims could be jihadists - Pete Hoekstra (R.HI, Dimbulb) (only the best stupid and predudiced)


Classified Military Satellite Goes Missing After SpaceX Launch - Bloomberg


Trump systematically alienates the Latino diaspora -- from El Salvador to Puerto Rico and Mexico (one of Obama's policies he likes)
Trump wants immigration 'bill of love' to protect DREAMers


Wolff: WH officials think if Mueller targets Trump's finances, 'he's sunk' (Trump, not Mueller and that horse left the barn a long time ago)
Michael Wolff: People close to Trump 'afraid' for the country
The White House struggles to silence talk of Trump's mental fitness (unfitness)

WikiLeaks shared the full text of Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' book online. Here's why it may be a problem. - The Washington Post - Whether WikiLeaks could be accused of copyright infringement depends on a few factors, experts say.
WikiLeaks is promoting a pirated copy of Trump book Fire and Fury - The Verge
WikiLeaks on Twitter: "Full text of controversial book on Trump, "Fire and Fury", by Michael Wolff, leaks onto internet: https://t.co/sf7vj4IYAx"
WikiLeaks/Assange response to strange FPF "ultimatum"

No Sane Lawyer Would Let Trump Be Interviewed by Mueller

It's Probably Bad That the FBI Had a Mole in Your Campaign - The ballad of Trump 2016.
Fusion GPS founder claimed FBI had Trump source during campaign - The Washington Post -- It was released by the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. That decision marks the most serious break yet in the cooperative relationship she has had with the Republican chairman of the committee, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) (Grassfuck is a traitor) "Her action undermines the integrity of the committe's oversight work" (very high integrity from the guy who wanted to arrest the truth)
Democrats Release Fusion GPS Testimony on Trump and Russia - The Daily Beast
'Somebody's already been killed' because of Trump dossier, Fusion GPS rep revealed (by Trump's Russian hitmen)
verostarry comments on Sen. Dianne Feinstein unilaterally releases Fusion GPS testimony (Russians may have compromised McCain in 2008 and Grassley is looking very kompromated, and yes, the Pee-tape is real and there are videos of Trump with underage females)
NYT Report On No Trump-Russia Link Led Steele To Cut Off Contact With FBI -- The Times story reported at a critical moment in the 2016 election campign that the FBI had found no "conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government ... Simpson testified that the article contradicted Steele and Fusion's own research into Trump's connections with Russia. (who's doing this, they wondered, and decided to "stand down" +NYT fucked the election)

It's easier to wave away 'Trumpism' if you ignore the xenophobia that got him elected ... As is often the case, Brooks is evaluating the right evidence and drawing the wrong conclusion
No More Mister Nice Blog: BROOKS: TRUMP IS CRAZY, USELESS, AND APPROACHING DEMENTIA -- BUT HIS ENEMIES ARE THE REAL PROBLEM
The Rectification of Names: A Tale of Two White Houses - Longer David Brooks ... While we in the anti-Trump movement, to which I am proud to belong, seem to be getting dumber, sad to say. I'm just about the fiercest anti-Trumper you want to meet, but I'm afraid our movement is getting lowbrow and vulgar, attached to a smug, fairy tale version of reality in which Trump is a semiliterate madman surrounded by morally inferior sycophants (instead of the nuanced and highbrow picture you could get from people who go to the dinner parties where you can find me).

David Nunes Messed With NSA's Most Cherished Surveillance Power -- Usually, Republicans on the intelligence committee are more than happy to OK the Deep State's spying powers. But these are not usual times. (little Russian ratfucker)

Steve Bannon Steps Down From Breitbart Post - The New York Times

Inside a Confederate Rally in Memphis, From Morning Cigarettes to Evening Beers

How "Fox & Friends" Rewrites Trump's Reality -- The thin fourth wall between the President and his TV. (from Murdoch's mouth to your ears)

Secret Pro-Life Meeting With Mike Pence Killed Obamacare Fix -- for Now - Pro-life groups held a behind-closed-doors meeting with VP Mike Pence shortly before the bipartisan compromise deal to patch up Obamacare went down in flames ... met with Pence to lobby the Trump administration against supporting a health-insurance market-stabilization bill on the grounds that it does not contain sufficient language on abortion restrictions (Satancrats in charge)

Sessions' DOJ Charged A White Supremacist With Terrorism. They Just Didn't Tell Anyone. | HuffPost -- "I'm the conductor, bitch" (KKK Sessions says white people can't be terrorists)

Man says Eliot Spitzer threatened to stab him in the penis during dinner | New York Post

Scott Pruitt Is Now a Christian Warrior for the Environment - onathan Chait flagged this paean to Scott Pruitt, Transformative Genius of High Principle, in National Review, America's longest-running journal of mainstream white supremacy.
Interior puts science grants through political review - The Washington Post ... "promote the priorities" of Trump (no "fake science" for you)


Ruth Bader Ginsburg hires clerks through 2020 - CNNPolitics

The impending GOP catastrophe in Trump's backyard -- In New York, the Republican Party is coming up empty in its hunt for top statewide candidates. (this is not news)

Court Ends Consent Decree Against RNC "Ballot Security" Activities, Raising New Risks of Voter Suppression ("security" to make sure non-white people don't vote)
Court Strikes Down GOP's North Carolina Congressional Gerrymander ... Republican control of the House, which is built partly on a series of gerrymanders in large swing states like North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio, as well as Wisconsin, whose maps are currently in front of the Supreme Court.

Oprah Winfrey for President: Have We All Gone Bonkers? (Hollywood, anyway, because "stars")
People are completely missing the point of Oprah'speech -- It wasn't about her. It was about us (it's always about her, and the short "speech" wasn't that great but her audience clapped a lot so it was great)
Oprah Winfrey for President: Have We All Gone Bonkers? (the normalization of incompetent celebrities)

'Hillbilly Elegy' author Vance urged to run for Senate ... about running for Senate in Ohio after the abrupt withdrawal of GOP candidate Josh Mandel last week (hahaha, almost as good as Oprah)

Scoop: WaPo hits 2nd year of profitability, plans expansion - Axios -- The team of nearly 800 journalists will be acquiring additional space in its headquarters building in downtown Washington in 2018. (the new "paper of record" after the Sulzfuckers fucked Hilllary and thumped for Trump)

John Dickerson Of CBS's 'Face the Nation' Is Set To Replace Charlie Rose -- Rose was fired by CBS following allegations of sexual misconduct. (America's new "dad")

A Brief Survey of Our 'Post-Racial' America -- How are things looking out there? - From out in the country, we have another pair of specimens for our traveling museum exhibit, It's not About Race because it's never about race First, out in Kansas, a state with which I no longer care what's wrong ((ooohhh)) a state representative named Steve Alford had some thoughts he thought he'd share hare about African-Americans and marijuana ... "And that." Oh, yeah, thaaaat.

Under Fire From ACLU, New Jersey Reverses Ban On Book About Mass Incarceration : books
The New Jim Crow - the_new_jim_crow_-_intro._-_chapter_2_0.pdf

California Republican Rep. Ed Royce won't seek reelection, creating bigger opening for Democrats ... Still, Royce won reelection in 2016 by 15 percentage points and he had $3.5 million in cash on hand as of the end of September, which put him financially far ahead of his challengers ... Royce was the 35th House Republican nationwide to announce plans to leave Congress this year, but his decision was still unexpected. (lie, cheat, steal, pillage, run away)


Ivanka Trump tries to hop on Oprah's #MeToo message. #MeToo says no thank ... president's daughter is trying to piggyback on Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes speech.

Memphis Pastor Admits 'Sexual Incident' With High School Student 20 Years Ago ... Andy Savage, a pastor at a Memphis megachurch, received a standing ovation after apologizing to a woman who said he assaulted her when she was a teenager. "It's disgusting." the woman said

Marvel creator Stan Lee is accused of groping nurses | Daily Mail Online
Russell Simmons halts #NotMe campaign | Page Six



Why Cliven Bundy Is Free - Not that it will matter in the end ... So, if you're going to defy lawful authority and gather some folks to draw down on federal officials, apparently, it helps to be old and white. It also helps when the prosecution botches the rules of evidence beyond all recall ... The prosecution apparently let its loyalty to the FBI override its obligations to due process, and it got caught ... king irony to this whole thing: Cliven Bundy and his family and his spavined cattle are all free now because the system he was so hell-bent on defying actually works. I think the cattle will understand this before he does.

HIV positive school assistant accused of sexually assaulting 42 kids gets 190 years : news

Teacher removed from Vermilion school board meeting in handcuff - KATC.com | Continuous News Coverage | Acadiana-Lafayette - After Hargrave posed several questions, board president Anthony Fontana ruled Hargrave out of order, warning her that the public comment section was not for a question-and-answer session.

An Alt-Right Personality Lost His Job As A Substitute Teacher After Officials Discovered His Identity - Greg Conte, under the alias Greg Ritter, is a director at a prominent white supremacist think tank and had been working at a private all-girls high school since 2014. (Richard Spencer's "tank" +of course he cigars)

Owner of French Press apologizes for "stable genious" Facebook post The post also went on to claim the drinks would "wash the lie out of your mouth." (the trumpies got mad +yet another local TV station refuses to tell yuo what state they are in)


The Worst Part of Dating an Older Guy Is His Texting Habits - My boyfriend is five years older than me. As people in our early 30s and late 20s (generations are now 5 years long)
Why Millennial Pink Refuses to Go Away (and why paragraphs are unnecessary, apparently)


Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here's what our telescopes actually capture.

ELI5: What are quaternions and octonions? What are they used for and how? : explainlikeimfive

In Alzheimer's disease, tau, an abnormal protein, spreads in a prion-like manner from neuron to neuron within the brain, similar to the spread of an infection, to cause nerve cell death, finds a new study using advance brain imaging. Blocking its spread may prevent the disease from taking hold.


My college's anti-cheating pens are perfect for cheating. : funny

This Is the Data Snapchat Doesn't Want You to See -- The data shows that despite its perception as a nascent social platform, Snapchat is much more of a chat app ... Snapchat already lost $443 million in the third quarter of 2017 and desperately needs to prove to investors that it can successfully monetize ... In the meantime, the company is preparing to move into a brand new 300,000-square-foot office in Santa Monica. The building is a pitch black cube-like structure with giant black reflective windows. (paranoid asshole Evan Spiegel says it's all very secret +techbro culture +monitize this, suckers)

Inside the Semiconductor Industry's Meltdown ("meltdown," haha)

010818

Netanyahu son bragged about gas deal outside strip club, tape reveals | World news | The Guardian - My dad made an awesome deal for your dad



BBC China editor Carrie Gracie quits post in equal pay row - BBC News - citing pay inequality with male colleagues ... who has been at the BBC for more than 30 years -- accused the corporation of having a "secretive and illegal pay culture" ... two-thirds of its stars earning more than #150,000 were male. The BBC said there was "no systemic discrimination against women" (Beeb says don't believe your lyin' eyes)


Trump's Twitter Threats Put American Credibility on the Line

When Deportation Is a Death Sentence | The New Yorker - Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return? (Repubicans love killing innocent people)
Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave - The New York Times (Repubicans are real fuckers)

Trump Administration Set for Broad Engagement with Russia in Early 2018 - Ending an Obama policy of isolating Moscow, the top military leaders of NATO and Russia are planning to meet in Azerbaijan later this month.

Initial talks underway about Trump interview in Mueller Russia probe - NBC News - Anticipating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview President Donald Trump, the president's legal team is discussing a range of potential options for the format, including written responses to questions in lieu of a formal sit-down (so he wouldn't have to "think")
Has Trump Obstructed Justice? It Looks Like It - President* Trump has attempted to obstruct justice, among other things.

It's time for Democrats to take this drastic step on Trump and Russia -- Democrats need to ensure that the transcripts of testimony delivered to Congress by the co-founders of the firm that commissioned the so-called Steele Dossier are made public. Hardball procedural tactics toward this end do exist: A Democratic senator can try to make the transcripts public by reading them into the congressional record on the floor.

Scoop: Trump's secret, shrinking schedule - Axios - which almost always means TV and Twitter time alone in the residence (all downhill)
Why 'exectutive time' is a particularly bleak scoop about President Trump ... part-time president ("executive" = "toddler")

You're Not NeverTrump Unless You're NeverRyan and NeverMcConnell - The Republican Party's brain disease has seized full control.

Jared Kushner's company under renewed scrutiny over Chinese and Israeli deals | US news | The Guardian - Family s real estate company received a subpoena from the SEC, and separately questions have been raised about his business dealings in Israel
Russian lawyer believes she met Ivanka after 2016 Trump Tower meeting | TheHill (lock her up!)

'Fire and Fury' proves an often-forgotten rule: Don't assume 'we're off the record' -- Margaret Sullivan

Fire breaks out on Trump Tower roof - NY Daily News (symbolic)

Stephen Miller escorted off set after heated CNN interview | TheHill (asshole refused to leave hahaha)

Democratic plan for 2018: Play hardball just like Republicans - Oppose, oppose, oppose, just like the GOP. Unless they can notch big, clear wins, Democrats should shelve compromise until 2019 or 2021.


Cliven Bundy walks free as judge dismisses Bundy Ranch standoff case
Charges Against Bundys in Ranch Standoff Case Are Dismissed - The New York Times
Cliven Bundy standoff case thrown out in another stunning blow to government | OregonLive.com - By Maxine Bernstein (the sheer incompetence and mendacity of the Federal prosecution team is breathtaking, they bungled an important case. Look for the State of Bundy in the near future +male bullying, of course)
Bundy Trial dismissed due to 'flagrant prosecutorial misconduct,' cannot be refiled : news - the same guy who tried to extort Burning Man by demanding over a million dollars worth of lavish over the top accommodations for BLM staff as a condition of getting their permit for the event. This was one of the main reasons he lost his job.
15 confidential sources fed FBI info from Malheur National Wildlife Refuge | OregonLive.com


UPDATED: Grand jury takes sworn testimony in Burlington College case - VTDigger - he federal probe into a 2010 land deal orchestrated by former Burlington College president Jane Sanders, wife of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has deepened. (Jane's going to jail, will Bernie be found to be an accomplice?)


Acclaimed book The New Jim Crow banned in some New Jersey prisons | US news | The Guardian - ACLU writes to state after finding influential 2010 work on 'mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness' by Michelle Alexander is banned at two jails (authoritarian racist assholes don't wan't you to know how racist they are)
ACLU Says New Jersey Prisons' Banning of "the New Jim Crow" Is Unconstitutional

On Florida's 'Forgotten Coast,' a Supreme Court fight over fresh water (Georgia wants to steal all the water and the Army! says fine)

Rep. Steve Alford cites belief blacks more susceptible to marijuana - State Rep. Steve Alford, R-Ulysses, made an ostensibly racist comment when citing domestic Jim Crow-era drug policies. "the African Americans, they were basically users and they basically responded the worst off to those drugs just because of their character makeup, their genetics and that." (old white asshole)

Man who vandalized Colorado mosque kills himself - CBS News - two days after he was sentenced to three years in wellness court and six months of work release for throwing rocks and a Bible through the windows of the Islamic Center of Fort Collins.
Texas couple ordered to pay enslaved nanny $121,000 : news (7 months for slavery in Texas and they compensated her at $8/hr)

Golden Globes: A watchable revolution, with Oprah leading the way - The Washington Post
Golden Globe fashion was a blur of black accessorized with activism - The Washington Post
'A new day is on the horizon' : Read Oprah Winfrey's stirring Golden Globes speech
Oprah for president in 2020? Here's everything you need to know. (she knows crap about government but she's a tv star and that worked so well last time)
NBC Takes Down Tweet Calling Oprah Winfrey 'OUR future President'
Oprah Winfrey'S presidential candidate-esque Golden Globes speech, annotated (not that impressive, but the bar has been lowered into minus numbers)
The Case Against President Oprah - Nope-rah? (celibriculture)
Get a grip, people. Oprah should not run for president. - The Washington Post

Bella Thorne Said She Was Sexually And Physically Abused Until She Was 14

Dylan Farrow Is Calling Out People Who Support Both Anti-Harassment Efforts and Woody Allen - "The people who join this movement without taking any kind of personal accountability for the ways in which [they've] helped to perpetuate the culture they are fighting against"







Coachella Is Banning All Marijuana Use -- Despite California Legalization

What Unspeakable Hell Is This, Part II - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Ari Fleischer and Ollie North return on Fox!l ... buncha old white guys telling old white guys what to think)

Does your boss 'phub' you to focus on a smartphone? Science explains why that's a stupid move (must be a millennial boss)

The Future of Work, a History - POLITICO Magazine - America has a long, complicated track record of dreading that robots would take our jobs.

Lana Del Rey says Radiohead is suing her for plagiarizing 'Creep' (from the creeps who stole it in the first place and patented the "minor fourth" chord)

Caffinated colons - Lawyers, Guns & Money Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop - he company that takes money from wealthy women in return for dangerous things to stick in their orifices - is catching some well-deserved flack for hawking coffee enemas and a $135 kit to jet java up the far end of your digestive system.
Who said it: Ivanka Trump or Gwyneth Paltrow? - Home | Because News | CBC Radio

Bam Margera Arrested for DUI : television

Why Some Shopping Malls May Be in Deeper Trouble Than You Think - Bloomberg - Smaller stores quietly not renewing leases, Green Street says


We are licensed mental health professionals here to answer your questions about Domestic Violence (and other topics) AMA! : IAmA

CDC Reports that US women are entering pregnancy at increasingly unhealthy and potentially dangerous weights : science

TIL that Genghis Khan slaughtered the inhabitants of an entire city because they killed his son-in-law. Khans grieving daughter requested that all citizens be decapitated to ensure they were dead and that pyramids be built from their skulls : todayilearned


Two Experiments Show Fourth Spatial Dimension Effect : science

Boston Dynamics releases a new robot : videos

/u/iGotYouThisCake continues to update Reddit on her dark secret life on 1$ cake making on her throwaway account 5 years later : bestof
I think my teenage son may have sodomized our dog. I'm not sure what to do. Help me Reddit. : AskReddit
What's been explained to you repeatedly, but you still don't understand
What's the one Reddit Post that you will never forget? : AskReddit
Netflix's 'The End of the F***ing World' Is Pitch-Black Perfection: Review : television
What is a LPT you've adopted that has really changed your life? : AskReddit

Google Memo Author James Damore Sues Company For Discrimination Against White Males - Damore, Gudeman, and other class members were ostracized, belittled, and punished for their heterodox political views, and for the added sin of their birth circumstances of being Caucasians and/or males
The FCC thinks american broadband standards are too fast and defined too aggressively: 10Mbps download, 1Mbps upload speed will be the new minimum standard, wireless service will qualify as broadband availability. : technology (make American slow again, go Trumpies)

010718

Whole ocean is frozen, INSANE! - YouTube - Old Silver Beach - North Falmouth, MA | January 2018

How U.S. Intelligence Agencies Underestimated North Korea - The New York Times (one of the untold stories of Barry's admin, the complete failure of U.S. intelligence in the two most critical areas: Russian interference and NK rockets/h-bombs, while Barry was droning children in in the basement and locking up whistleblowers/journos)

Ex-Iranian president Ahmadinejad arrested for inciting unrest -- comments against Rouhani government amid rallies have led authorities to seek to place him under house arrest (I'm a dinner-jacket)
Iran's Protesters Want One Thing: Accountability

TIL In 2008 a British man traveling to Dubai was sentenced to 4 years in prison after being caught with 0.003g of Cannabis, Which was stuck to his shoe. : todayilearned

Stockholm metro explosion: Injuries reported after blast in Sweden capital : news

Sunday Book Review: The Red Army and the Second World War - Lawyers, Guns & Money

20 groups that advocate boycotting Israel will now be denied entry - The Washington Post (no, you are not free to not buy our struff and you can't talk about it either)

Latvia, a disappearing nation -- the exodus triggered by Latvia's accession to the EU. Since joining the bloc, nearly a fifth of the nation has left to work in more affluent EU nations: The U.K., Ireland, Germany.


We are being defeated in a digital war -- but there is still time to fight back ... 1 per cent of social-media users as content creators; 9 per cent as curators sharing content; while 90 per cent POLITICO - he exodus triggered by Latvia are simply consumers. We need to mobilize that 90 per cent, to get them off the sidelines to produce authentic content (good luck with that)
Pro-Russia Twitter Trolls Take Aim at Special Counsel Robert Mueller | WIRED -- 16 percent of the articles shared by those accounts between December 9 and December 31 were related in some way to the so-called deep state, the bulk of which aimed to discredit Mueller. That's a lot of tweets ... a volume of conversation that, in late November, was reserved for the right's favorite punching bag, Hillary Clinton

Eschaton: The Best People - Heckuva job. White House officials believe that chief of staff John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December, according to three U.S. government officials. (he was downloading Russian porn but he's a Republican and a guy so it's all ok, no need for endless hearings and cries of "lock him up")


Here are the people closest to Trump who might doubt his mental fitness - The Washington Post
Trump is now dangerous -- that makes his mental health a matter of public interest
Schiff: We have a seriously flawed human being in the Oval Office'


WikiLeaks shares full text of Wolff's Trump book (shares? or "steals?) "
Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer: We're Hand-Delivering New Anti-Trump Book to All of Congress

Donald Trump and the Rule of Law | The New Yorker -- contempt for the rule of law. The week began with a tweet from the President that, in a quasi-normal political environment, would have led to an impeachment investigation ... Richard Nixon earned eternal disgrace for keeping a list of his political enemies, but he, at least, was ashamed enough of the practice to know that he had to keep it secret. Trump, in contrast, is openly calling for the Department of Justice, which he controls, to put his political opponents in jail. This kind of behavior is a trademark of the authoritarians he admires, like Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Republicans, the party of patriotism, are all traitors)

Mueller's Russia investigation turns its attention to Ivanka Trump -- contacts with Russian officials who attended the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, marking the first known time that she has come under scrutiny in the federal probe. (lock the brown-eyed blond up, really)
House GOP intensifies assault on Mueller probe | TheHill (little Russian ratfucker Nunes needs life in prison)
Ties to Israel Deepen Even With Mideast Diplomatic Role (they are all so slimy +great pic of Javanka)

Eschaton: Sunday, Sunday - Even the New York Post...

Eschaton: The NYT Is Bad - Also, too, NPR. Stop defending them.
A Hypothesis About The NY Times Political Reporters | Mike the Mad Biologist - One example is Maggie Haberman's attempt to convince followers that Jane Sanders, wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders, supports rightwing racist and disgraced Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio (they've always been Republican hacks because you can't be a "seriouis journalist" without being a Republican hack)
Heidi N Moore on Twitter: "If you get off on proximity to power, consider that journalism is not for you. Be a political aide or a PR. Journalists question power." This is how we got Judy Miller. Judy Miller is how we got the Iraq War. This batch of NYT journos on Trump will give us a *nuclear* war ... Because journalists in Mexico or Turkey have to worry about being assassinated for asking questions. They do it anyway. (talkin' about you, Maggie)

A Real 'Very Stable Genius' Doesn't Call Himself One - The Atlantic - Hint: not by discussing IQ ... they know what they don't know

Purchasing Pundits: The Ezra Klein Edition? | Mike the Mad Biologist -- How much is the insurance industry paying Ezra Klein? ... Probably $15,000-$25,000
Krugman Discovers the Congressional Retirement Plan -- the "K-Street end game." (nine years later)

Eschaton: Everybody Is Corrupt But Me - Everybody in economics was pure. I think this kind of bias is prevalent in a lot of professions, but it's especially funny in economics, which is entirely (supposedly) about how people behave in response to incentives. But, yes, I think journalists do it too, which might be even more ridiculous.
Eschaton: Not Me - Ross Douthat is probably the worst pundit I can think of based on this. Even when he's playing "reasonable conservative" it's all about how the world should work, and not about how people might be starving and dying. Liberal pundits are guilty, too.

Breitbart editor fires back at Trump over Bannon attack: "Outrageous"
Exclusive: Bannon apologizes - Axios (very sorry for calling Don Jr a traitor)


Jake Tapper Cuts Off WH Adviser Stephen Miller in Tense Interview - The Daily Beast
KING: Stephen Miller is the latest liar and bigot on Team Trump - NY Daily News

Official who improperly helped Redskins owner cut down trees picked as National Park Service deputy director - The Washington Post ... who improperly helped Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder cut down more than 130 trees to improve a river view at his Potomac, Md., estate has been chosen by the Trump administration to be one of the agency's highest-ranking leaders.


Did Jeff Sessions Just Increase the Odds Congress Will Make Marijuana Legal? - POLITICO Magazine - The attorney general has created intolerable uncertainty for a growing industry that is now demanding legal protections from Congress. And lawmakers are listening ... an industry that was worth $7.9 billion in 2017, called Sessions' action revoking "outrageous" and "economically stupid" (the KKKeebler elf at work fucking things up, making prohibition great again)

Eric Garland Has Blown Our Cover - Terrible news. Project Gizmodnik, our brilliant plan to secretly infiltrate the U.S. tech media for the glorification of Matushka Rossiya's Great Leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and/or the destruction of global capitalism*, has been compromised by American "super spy" Eric Garland

The Alt-Right's Asian Fetish -- "yellow fever" ... dating Asian women is practically a "white-nationalist rite of passage' ... myth one: hardworking "model minority" ... myth two: subservient hypersexuality


That Term "Due Process," I Do Not Think ...
Are men accused of harassment denied due process? Or are the victims? - Vox - When we worry that due process is dead, whose due process are we talking about? -- On Friday, the New York Times published an op-ed by the writer Daphne Merkin mourning the death of due process as a result of the post-Weinstein reckoning. (the "re-normalization of sex through corporate consensus" lady, see below)

Stars Will Take Activists to the Golden Globes Red Carpet - The New York Times
Amber Tamblyn: Redefining the Red Carpet - The New York Times
Golden Globes: Actress Evan Rachel Wood urges stars to 'circle predators' : movies

Maria Contreras-Sweet leads Weinstein Co bid Bob Weinstein out staff in | Deadline


Female coach of boys team faces felony sex charges : news

Ex-Giants quarterback Joe Pisarcik faces sexual harassment lawsuit | Giants Wire -- found himself in hot water after allegedly sexually harassing female staff members of the National Football League Alumni Association, where he worked as chief executive ... Slickmeyer accuses Pisarcik of twice smacking her on the buttocks, while the other women claim he massaged their shoulders and backs, braided their hair and openly discussed his interest in them sexually. (let's put a football man-boy jerk in charge of women, what would go wrong?)

Chiefs blow a 21-3 lead and lose another home playoff game - Marcus Mariota threw a pass that was batted in the air, and he caught it and dove into the end zone for a touchdown. It's only the second time in NFL history a quarterback has thrown a touchdown to himself, and the first time in playoff history


More than $100K raised for Moore accuser whose home was destroyed in suspicious fire | TheHill
Sarah Silverman's response to a Twitter troll is a master class in compassion - Blog | q | CBC Radio



Sleeping less than the recommended eight hours a night is associated with intrusive, repetitive thoughts like those seen in anxiety or depression, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York. : science


Tap water in neti pots behind two brain-eating amoeba deaths, investigation finds : news


What Chappelle was saying by telling us the story of Iceberg Slim. : television
[Serious] Girls of Reddit who had a sugar daddy in your teens (17-21), what made you do it, or was it by choice? Do you have any regrets? : AskReddit
People who preface questions here with "people of Reddit" or something similar: who else do you think is reading this? (multiple recursions)
What is your most useful NSFW lifehack? : AskReddit - If it looks infected, it probably is.
Marcus Mariota just threw a touchdown to himself. : videos
Me and the 250 pound alligator named Casper that I work with at a Florida wildlife rescue. I call this "crocfit"
Women of Reddit, how aware are you that your boob is touching our elbow? : AskReddit


010618

CDC To Teach The Public How To Prepare For A Nuclear Explosion | HuffPost - Brace yourselves, and educate yourselves ... The agency said most people "don't realize that sheltering in place for at least 24 hours is crucial to saving lives and reducing exposure to radiation."
As the weather wreaks havoc on pipes, plumbers are hard to come by - The Boston Globe
The 99 best things that happened in 2017

The U.S. Wanted to Discuss Iran. Russia Brought Up Black Lives Matter. - The New York Times ... The Russian ambassador, Vasily A. Nebenzya, was more blunt. He asked rhetorically why the Security Council had not taken up the issue of Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Mo., which were at times also met with a violent police response. (Icky Nikki using crisis to boost Trumpster)


'Romantic encounter' set off Australia's role in triggering Donald Trump investigation - a woman in London with whom Papadopoulos became involved happened to know Alexander Downer and told the Australian High Commissioner about Papadopoulos, a newly signed staffer for Donald Trump. Downer, being a canny diplomat, followed it up and arranged a meeting with the young American,


Trump book author says his revelations will bring down U.S. president
It's happening here - Lawyers, Guns & Money - We are now is such a degraded political culture that the fact that the president of the United States threatened to seek a prior restraint on the publication of a book critical of him hardly registers with the public. ... It is a quintessentially authoritarian gesture. That this kind of thing is now so normalized that it generates little outcry
It's Happening Here II - Lawyers, Guns & Money - The more evidence that emerges for Trump's unfitness for office, the more tightly the Republican Party circles the wagons in his defense:
Brian Stelter on Twitter: Here are the RNC's weekend talking points about Michael Wolff's book. (A source shared these with me)
Nick Confessore on Twitter: "Wolff's book is an elaboration of what the best WH reporters have been chronicling in real time his year, not a contradiction of it. ... #MaggieHabermanIsJudithMillerWithAPenis

Trump boasts that he's 'like, really smart' and a 'very stable genious' amid questions over his mental fitness (and completely delusional)
Donald Trump Just Called Himself 'A Very Stable Genius' | HuffPost - "My two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart."
Trump Defends His Mental Capacity, Calling Himself a 'Very Stable Genious'
A rich text - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence..
Sarah Sanders: Americans who aren't "celebrating" Trump are "mentally unfit" (said a mouth of Satan)
The Increasing Unfitness of Donald Trump | The New Yorker - The West Wing has come to resemble the dankest realms of Twitter, in which everyone is racked with paranoia and everyone despises everyone else.

And the Trumpie goes to .?.?. - The Washington Post -- the apricot swirl atop the president's head (there were so many signs)

Senate Republicans become Trump accomplices in manipulating the system - The Washington Post (Grassyfuck and Tinkerbell)

SEC Looks Into Kushner Cos. Over Use of EB-5 Program for Immigrant Investors - WSJ - Probe is being conducted in collaboration with Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office, which issued similar subpoena

Eschaton: "More Skilled" - Which ones? -- More than half a dozen of the more skilled White House staff are contemplating imminent departures. Many leaving are quite fearful about the next chapter of the Trump presidency.

>Eschaton: And He Just Published It - It's petty, but watching Maggie Haberman and her NYT fellow travelers turn their brand to shit has been fun.
Eschaton: I Pitched This Dystopian Novel To My Editor - He said no one would believe this "Trump" character.

Eschaton: EvenTheLiberal - Back in the day, conservatives and the mainstream press would cite The Old New Republic ("even the liberal New Republic...") to bless conservative policies. This was a con because The Old New Republic was extremely conservative on most issues. You could do a "National Review or The New Republic" quiz and have a hard time figuring out which was which ... Why do liberals constantly look for validation from Republicans and conservatives. Who cares of some former W. flunky doesn't like Trump? I don't get it.

Eschaton: It Was A Dumb Slogan, Brent - Much can be written about how conservatives get to claim to be the real stewards of "True America" and liberals don't. It's stupid and unfair, fine. But "America is Already Great" is probably the stupidest thing ever said by a Democratic presidential candidate ever. I don't get why people keep justifying it. Bill was mocked for "I feel your pain" but...that was good. Trump is a senile bullshitter, and all of us savvy people knew that, but the Clinton campaign fucked up and I am tired of people defending it. "America is already great." Whatever.
"America Is Already Great" ... the saying rang unbelievably tone-deaf in a nation that was experiencing near-record levels of inequality, the shattering of families via state-sanctioned violence and staggering rates of incarceration, the frontal assault on democracy by way of dark money and voter suppression, and so on. (thanks, Barry)

In Calling For politicians' Arrest, an ICE Official Embraces His New Extremist Image
The Fascist Who Leads a Fascist Agency - Lawyers, Guns & Money - disturbing but not surprising that the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency dedicated to ethnic cleansing and filled with fascist agents is led by a fascist.

McConnell dances on Bannon<'s grave -- But with nasty Republican primaries on the horizon, the Senate majority leader is hardly in the clear. (Yertle the fuck-turtle) /a>


Legal Marijuana is Far from Inevitable - Lawyers, Guns & Money



If the poor must work to earn every dollar, shouldn't the rich? (oh, they work very, very hard screwing you)
New Frontiers in the Post-Employment Economy - Lawyers, Guns & Money - walked into a beer bar and was struck that this bar employed no bartenders. Instead, patrons pour their own beer. I was unaware that bartenders were a problem that needed a solution, but then I am not one of our Tech Betters Disrupting for Innovation and New Paradigms. (next: robot bartenders will screw up your drinks)
The Real Future of Work - POLITICO Magazine - Forget automation. The workplace is already cracking up in profound ways, and Washington is sorely behind on dealing with it ... Over the past two decades, the U.S. labor market has undergone a quiet transformation, as companies increasingly forgo full-time employees and fill positions with independent contractors, on-call workers or temps ... "contingent workforce" (full-time jobs w/benefits are over, just work more, see above)

Hawaii has record-low unemployment and it's not a frozen hellscape. Why are people leaving? ... low unemployment ... great weather ... Hawaii has the most expensive housing in the nation and the worst homelessness except for D.C. ... (+tourism is their industry: lots of dead-end low-pay jobs)

LISTEN: Spitzer chides blackmailer in alleged recording (GRAPHIC) - NY Daily News -- Svetlana Zakharova Travis (Elliot the stupid)

The Crimes of Millard Fillmore - Lawyers, Guns & Money - his role in the passage of the notorious Fugitive Slave Act ... By pushing this compromise, Fillmore capitulated to the demands of the slave-holding South, fractured his party and helped set the stage for secession a decade later. (1850)



Pressuring harassers to quit can end up protecting them - The Washington Post - Kozinski ... With his immediate retirement, it appears that he has essentially shut down the federal judiciary's investigation of his conduct and deflected further revelations in the press. That allows him to disappear, quietly receiving his pension, until the outrage dies down.


A history of the final dying days of the power suit - The Washington Post (symbol of male power)


Trouble In Team Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money (Kraft - Belichick - Brady war)


Fewer teens are having sex as declines in risky behaviors continue - The Washington Post - about ongoing progress in reducing risky behavior by teenagers, who are becoming pregnant, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and using marijuana at rates lower than younger people before them

Five myths about exercise - The Washington Post


Why are college tuitions rising so fast? A common idea is that cuts in state funding cause schools to raise prices. Two studies question this claim, though, finding that for every $100 cut in student subsidies, tuitions rise only $5-25. This suggests other factors are fueling rapidly rising costs. : science


Mecxs comments on For every 50 upvotes when Garlicoin goes live I will eat 1 clove of garlic on live stream. [No Bamboozle]

(NSFW) What have you found out about someone that you would never tell them you know? : AskReddit

Memphis mega-church pastor accused of sexual assault : news

Michigan dairy farmer gets prison time for hiring undocumented immigrants : news

Pulse gunman's wife: I knew he was going to Orlando to attack : news
Police chief arrested for soliciting agent posing as 14-year-old in online sting : news

AdDuplex Windows Device Statistics Report for November 2017
A Japanese youtuber's reaction to Logal Paul : videos
My husband's uncle didn't like one of the gifts we got him for Christmas so he sent it back to us with this letter. I don't think we'll get him anything at all next year. : pics
Maryland substitute teacher fired after 'alt-right' views discovered by students : news

010418

Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation | Public Health Grand Rounds | CDC (and here we are)
The One Spot That Could Feel Like Minus 100

American Detained by U.S. Military Says He Wants to Sue - The New York Times (black-bagged, no Constitutional rights for you)


The GOP is sabotaging this sacred mandate - The Washington Post (2020 census will not count democrats, black people and immigrants, burning government down and stealing everything)

The psychiatrist who briefed Congress on Trump's mental state: this is "an emergency" - The case for evaluating the president's mental capacity -- by force if necessary (send him to the quiet room)

Republican Senators Raise Possible Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier - The New York Times (they are getting very desparate - Grassley and tinkerbell Graham)
Why Hasn't Rod Rosenstein Recused Himself from the Mueller Investigation?
Republican Senators Target Christopher Steele< -- nd the Reason Is Obvious -- Anything to distract from the big picture: Putin's attack on the US and Trump-Russia contacts. ... The Republican Party, which for decades claimed it was the party that championed patriotism and national security, has jettisoned these priorities for Trump protectionism. (Republicans are at war with the truth, we'll see how that goes) /a>

Schiff on New York Times report: The case that Trump obstructed justice just got stronger - The Washington Post
Paul Ryan backed Nunes in spat with Justice Department over Russia documents, sources say - CNNPolitics (the little Russian ratfucker)
Obstruction Inquiry Shows Trump's Struggle to Keep Grip on Russia Investigation
Amid Already Chaotic Week, Trump Faces New Questions On Potential Obstruction Of Justice | HuffPost - A news report details how Trump sought to keep Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Russia probe.
The New York Times report contains a heap of legal trouble for Trump and Sessions - The Washington Post
Follow the money - The Washington Post - The Trump family has had longstanding real estate and licensing dealings with questionable business associates, some of them Russian and some of them not ...

Rod Rosenstein Recused Himself from the Mueller Investigation?



FBI launches new Clinton Foundation investigation | TheHill (Republicans are immune to hypocracy)
The FBI is investigating the Clinton Foundation - The Washington Post
Republicans Weaponizing the Law Against Trump's Enemies


'Fire and Fury' author Wolff calls Trump least credible person who has ever walked on earth ... "They all say he is like a child. And what they mean by that is, he has a need for immediate gratification. It is all about him (great, toddler-in-chief with his litthe thumb on the button)
'Fire And Fury' Author Defends Book After Trump Slams It As 'Phony' And 'Full Of Lies' | HuffPost - "extraordinary" that the president tried to stop the publication.
"Jerk" "Egomaniac" "expendable" "Wart" : Trump Excommunicates Bannon and the Base Follows Suit - The angry tide against the Breitbart chairman reached a fever pitch in the midst of Michael Wolff-gate. But it was actually a long time coming.
It's Been an Open Secret All Along -- The scandal of Michael Wolff's new book isn't its salacioius details -- it's that everyone in Washington has known its key themes, and refused to act
Eschaton: Who To Root For In The War Between Anal Cyst And Pancreatic Cancer - Pancreatic cancer will always win ... All this is fun but I repeat my regular point that The Left never gets the kind of obsessive coverage. (remember "No Drama Obama?")
Eschaton: Crass Commercialism - Wolff spent the year disparaging other journalists and playing a long con on the Trumpkins. I give him that much! Watching the NYT gang trying to knock Wolff has been funny (I've expressed my opinions about Wolff, but I don't have my own competing book that hasn't yet come out. Poor Maggie).
Eschaton: The Best People - All that gossip doesn't matter much, but the fact that there was so much gossip does tell us that these are deeply incompetent people. Obvious, I know, but still.

The Wolff lines on Trump that ring unambiguously true - Axios (Trump is a sick fuck moron and America is screwed)
The Worst Thing Donald Trump Says in Michael Wolff's Book -- Once again, the commander in chief rhetorically reduces a woman to a body part. (Sally Yates is a "cunt")

Everyone in Trumpworld Knows He's an Idiot (but get this: the plan is for Trump to appoint President Ivanka)

I asked Trump a blunt question: Do you read? - The Washington Post (no)
Led by the Mercers, Bannon's Allies Abandon Him
Bannon Banished for Telling Truths About Trump as MAGA Monsters Turn on Each Other - Watching Bannon fall victim to the claws of the monster he helped create
Steve Bannon was warned - Axios -- to lay off Jared Kushner
rump campaign digital director: 'Not one person made a decision' withought Kushner and Eric Trump's 'approval' ... it could raise new questions about Kushner and Eric Trump for the Russia investigation

The Trouble With Kirsten Gillibrand - Now, some Democratic senators have expressed remorse that they jumped on the push-Al-Franken-off-the-cliff-without-a-hearing train. But its conductor is full steam ahead

The Daily 202: Trump administration angers vulnerable Republicans with offshore-drilling expansion and marijuana crackdown - The Washington Post
61% of Americans favor legalizing marijuana | Pew Research Center

I've Studied the Trump-Fox Feedback Loop for Months. It's Crazier Than You Think. (Murdoch behind the throne controlling Trump's brain or what's left of it)


Trump's new war on marijuana, explained -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions is unleashing federal law enforcement


Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel quits - The shocking move leaves Republicans with barely a month to find a formidable candidate in a key state. The filing deadline is Feb. 7.

Cummings hospitalized as wife suspends campaign for governor - POLITICO

Roy Moore's Gadsden home burns; arson investigation underway - Roy Moore accuser Tina Johnson lost her home Tuesday in a fire that is now under investigation by the Etowah County Arson Task Force.

Wisconsin Is Quietly Becoming The Top Senate Race Of 2018 | HuffPost (Tammy Baldwin targeted by billionaires)

Paul Haggis Accused Of Sexual Misconduct By Three More Women | Deadline - Paul Haggis today postulated that the new charges were a tactic to force a mutimillion dollar settlement or the result of his long estrangement from Scientology.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Haggis accused of rape, sex assault

Publicly, We Say #MeToo. Privately, We Have Misgivings. - The New York Times - Daphne Merkin -- "what happened to flirting?" ... We are witnessing the re-moralization of sex, not via the Judeo-Christian ethos but via a legalistic, corporate consensus. (oh please)

FX internal investigation: 'No findings' of Louis CK sexual misconduct. : television


Sleeping woman sexually assaulted on Spirit Airlines flight by man sitting between her and his wife, officials say - The Washington Post

Man in Georgia shot and killed in his home by deputies after 911 call claiming woman was trying to kill family members : news - Shot him through a window huh? Sounds like they rolled up with the outcome of this call already in their minds.


Black unemployment rate falls to record low : news



Beginning of the end for New England Patriots? Robert Kraft, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick internal power struggle


Brooklyn boy, 6, comes home from school with both arms broken, education officials pointing fingers : news
PS 106 in Queens shamed by parents as the world's worst primary school

'Casablanca' director Michael Curtiz is finally getting the recognition he deserves - LA Times

The science is in: exercise won't help you lose much weight -- Exercise accounts for a small portion of daily calorie burn
What to know about the "raw water" trend - A new Silicon Valley craze could make people sick. (they don't believe in vaccines and flouridation, either)
Purity Through Food: How Religious Ideas Sell Diets - The Atlantic - offers little but sanctimony.
Is Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop pseudoscience winning? -- Goop has been called out for bullshit over and over. But the brand seems to be stronger than ever.

Is the feminine voice that many gay men seem to have something that they do intentionally, or is it their natural speaking voice? If it's intentional, why? If it's their natural speaking voice, why don't more heterosexual men speak this way? : AskReddit ... men who have the accent do not have it when they are waking up from anesthesia. It usually only takes them a few minutes to get it back, but categorically if they are unconscious, they don't have it automatically when waking up.
Do I sound gay? - YouTube | Do I Sound Gay? - Official Trailer I HD I Sundance Selects - YouTube

TIL Neanderthals'tracheal anatomy suggests they had high-pitched, raspy voices, like Julia Child.

Alcohol raises the risk of developing cancer. : science

TIL that staring into a mirror in a dim room for a long time can make you hallucinate : todayilearned
John Dee's spirit mirror - The British Library


Promising anti-obesity drug that shrinks fat without suppressing appetite - Researchers discover a drug that has been shown to selectively shrink excess fat by increasing fat cell metabolism, to significantly reduce body weight and blood cholesterol levels without lowering food intake in obese mice. : science


Redditor blisteringly explains Steve Bannon's mindset and relationship with Trump : bestof
random-dent comments on Scoop: Wolff taped interviews with Bannon, top officials

Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition to have Logan Paul kicked off YouTube after controversy over his filming of a dead body in Japan's 'Suicide Forest' : news
Football with storm Eleanor : gifs
My Dad had surgery today to become a woman. My Mum still has a good sense of humour about it all. Here's what she got her. : funny

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Here's what a Massachusetts snowstorm looks like acrso : pics
s the street from the ocean. : videos


14 Dead, Hundreds Injured In Fiery South Africa Train Crash | HuffPost - The train struck a lorry, derailed and burst into flames. (no crossing gates, because Zuma, what could go wrong)


Iran protests: General declares 'sedition' defeated - BBC News


How cartoons are skewering Trump's taunts of a bigger nuclear button


Top FBI, DOJ officials huddle with Ryan to talk dossier - The Washington Post (sorry Republifucks, it's all real)
Trump Org. gave Russia-related docs to Mueller and Hill - CNNPolitics - The Trump Organization has provided documents on a range of events, conversations and meetings (the beans)


Eschaton: Wolff - There was more: Everybody was painfully aware of the increasing pace of his repetitions. It used to be inside of 30 minutes he'd repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories -- now it was within 10 minutes. Indeed, many of his tweets were the product of his repetitions -- he just couldn't stop saying something -- they all -- 100 percent -- ame to belivee he was incapable of functioning in his job. At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.
"He's going to unravel" Psychiatrist warns members of Congress about Trump in secret briefing (not much ravel left to un)
It's Been an Open Secret All Along - The Atlantic - everyone in Washington has known its key themes, and refused to act.

Bannon's Treason Charge Is Milder Than Money Laundering - Bloomberg

Trump Demands That Publisher Halt Release of Critical Book - The New York Times (no freedom of the press for you)

Trump portrayed as uninformed, unprepared and lacking focus in unflattering new book - The Washington Post (so 62 million Americans elected their demented dumb uncle for pres)
"You Can't Make This Shit Up" : My Year Inside Trump's Insane White House
Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it? - The Washington Post (dumb question)

Top 20 Revelations from Trump 'Fire and Fury' Book About Golden Showers, Ivanka, Bannon and More ... Hope Hicks was ... Trump's real daughter and Ivanka was ... his real wife ... for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate

Mercer issues rare public rebuke of former ally Bannon - The Washington Post (Breitbart considering dumping him)

Trump attorney sends Bannon cease and desist letter over 'disparaging' comments
Scoop: Wolff taped interviews with Bannon, top officials - Axios (whoops)
White House Bans Staff From Using Personal Mobile Phones at Work - Bloomberg - Trump administration cites security concerns for new policy


Scoop: White House officials discuss removing Katie Walsh from outside group - Axios - , after comments she reportedly made to the author Michael Wolff ... "Figuring out what Trump wants is "like trying to figure out what a child wants" (that's really harsh)
How Donald Trump's White House team handles his giant ego


Ellen DeGeneres Ridicules Eric Trump Over His Weird Conspiracy Theory About Her | HuffPost -- just the craziest thing I've seen all week, because I saw that movie with the lady having sex with the fish and still this beats that ... "no one has undermined Donald Trump more than Donald Trump" (they are all nuts)

How the Republican fake scandal machine works - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Remember the IRS targeting scandal? The one in which President Obama ordered the IRS to target Tea Party and other conservative non-profits for extra scrutiny, to determine if they were violating restrictions on partisan political activity by such groups? (they invent scandals to discredit dems and wreck government and the media loves it)

Justice Department 'Looking Into' Hillary Clinton's Emails -- Again -- the most scrutinized email server of all time. But the president is demanding it get scrutinized again. And DOJ is taking a fresh look. (very fresh)
Trump's media uses Clinton house fire to invent totally bonkers conspiracy -- "Trump supporters are using a small fire that broke out in a Secret Service facility to distract from the dumpster fire engulfing the White House" (she's burning her emails!)
The Clinton Rules Are A Hell of a Drug - Lawyers, Guns & Money - More than a year later, big-time political reporters assert that it was self-evidently justified to treat this minor breach of IT best practices as being more important than any of Trump's actual scandals and every substantive issue combined. (your elite (maie, usually) press don't know how dumb they are)

Sessions ending federal policy that let legal pot flourish
Cory Gardner just showed how Senate Republicans could check Trump if they wanted to -- But they don't want to
Cory Gardner torches Sessions over pot crackdown (Gardner is toast if Sessions wrecks their revenue model)
Trump administration targets recreational pot, placing thousands of marijuana businesses in California at risk

Eschaton: Now's The Time - We can debate precisely what "legalization" should mean (taxation, regulation, etc.) but basically making it a crime has been an excuse to put black people in jail. -- (CNN)In a seismic shift, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce Thursday that he is rescinding a trio of memos from the Obama administration that adopted a policy of non-interference with marijuana-friendly state laws, according to a source with knowledge of the decision. -- Dems need to start saying it out loud. Sure the Obama administration did the right thing, but they did it quietly. Want voters to know? Tell them (Barry looks so stupid in retrospect)

Orrin Hatch is Horrible - Lawyers, Guns & Money (early prion carrier into the Republican brain, def Frank Moss, evil triumps)

It's Good For Presidential Nominees to be Good at Politics - Lawyers, Guns & Money - profile of Kirsten Gillibrand is excellent:

Virginia just determined control of its state house by picking a name out of a bowl - Vox - The random drawing to settle a tied race delivered the house majority to Republicans. ("random")


Los Angeles Times Newsroom Voting on Whether to Unionize - The New York Times

Peter Thiel Is Exploring The Creation Of A Conservative Cable News Network - the billionaire has engaged the wealthy Mercer family about the endeavor. (the vampire news network)

We Found The Neo-Nazi Twitter Account Tied To A Virginia Double Homicide | HuffPost - On Twitter, Nicholas Giampa wrote about race war, convincing transgender people to kill themselves, and using Jews as target practice.


Meryl Streep rips Melania and Ivanka Trump over 'silence' on sexual harassment ... in her interview with The New York Times, Streep dismissed criticism over her own silence on the allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. "I don't want to hear about the silence of me' Streep said. (shut the fuck up, Meryl, you're compromised)

CBS News fires political director amid allegations of 'inappropriate behavior' Steve Chaggaris (another asshole falls)

Gaming Site IGN Fires Editor-in-Chief Steve Butts Over Misconduct Allegations - Variety ... after ... meetings ... that described former IGN editor Vince Ingenito sexually harassing her and another woman over a period of several months ... HR department and senior managers told her she engaged in "innapropriate flirtation" ... and forced her to sign a document stating that she had "behaved inappropriately"

I read decades of Woody Allen's private notes. He's obsessed with teenage girls. His 56-box archive is filled with misogynist and lecherous musings ... Allen's archive is a garden of earthly deletes ... "I pulled a contract out of my pocket and we both signed, but not until I told her about the sexual obligation that was a part of the job of any actress who worked with me" ... Allen used Keaton and the others the way Harvey Weinstein used Meryl Streep ... But this is a man who, at 43, awarded himself 16-year-old Hemingway's first kiss --the actresses herself, not her character's -- on the set of "Manhattan." Afterward, she recalled in a talk show interview, she ran over to cinematographer Gordon Willis and cried, "I don't have to do that again, do I?" ... Allen is worse than an augury of those trolls of tomorrow; he is a model for them, a validation (good read. +pervy little creepster +#sheknew)
1971: Woody Allen Jokes About Ex-Wife Being Molested - YouTube
Woody Allen - The Moose - YouTube - Stand Up On English Television From 1965

'Community' Creator Dan Harmon Apologizes To Writer Megan Ganz For Treating Her Like Garbage -- In a frank Twitter exchange that suggested a history of possible misconduct, Harmon expressed regret for abusing his position. (many men are conceited abusive asshole)


Man wrongly taken into custody, forced to take antipsychotic drugs. Given $50 gift card as apology. : news

Jacqueline Kent Cooke accused of smacking lawyer, calling him Jew - NY Daily News - Cooke caused two gashes on the right side of his head after winging her $300 Lulu Guinness Chloe Mirrored Perspex Box Clutch at him during the sidewalk skirmish ... daughter of late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke ... She allegedly snapped at Boston cops during a 2008 DUI arrest, asking them "whether they knew who her father was" and demanding their badges because "$1 billion goes a long way," (another super entitled special asshole Republican)


"When Breath Becomes Air" widow and "The Bright Hour" widower find love --- together - The Washington Post

'I don't even know how' : Some Oregonians panic about new self-service gas law ... "It's official. Oregon is full of mentally defective, full grown children, incapable of the most mundane adult tasks,"
Gas Station Attendants and the Working Class Economy - Lawyers, Guns & Money



Which fundamental force does dark energy use? : askscience


Study of sapiosexuality suggests some people really are sexually attracted to intelligence. The study in the journal Intelligence found that most people desire a partner who is smart. Furthermore, a small percentage of them reported that they were specifically sexually aroused by intelligence. : science


The FCC Disqualified a Bunch of Rural Communities from Receiving Internet Funding After Big Telecom Said They Already Have Internet : technology
The FCC is preparing to weaken the definition of broadband - "Under this new proposal, any area able to obtain wireless speeds of at least 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps would be deemed good enough for American consumers." : technology
Comcast fired 500 despite claiming tax cut would create thousands of jobs : news

Non-scientifically conducted Benchmark Results before and after KB4056892 Windows Update [Surface Pro i7 2017] : Surface
Intel slowdown | Microsoft Surface Forums

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The scary reality behind Trump's ong Tuesday of weird tweets -- He's relying on Fox News for all his information. (that is scary)
Daniel Dale on Twitter: A day in the life of the president who doesn't watch much TV primarily because of documents. (there you go)
Trump Says His 'Nuclear Button' Is 'Much Bigger' Than North Korea's
Some White House officials fear accidental war - Axios - "You just don't know what's going to send him over the edge (what edge?)
Tweeters Ridicule Donald Trump For Bragging About Size Of His 'Nuclear Button' | HuffPost -- JESUS CHRIST ON A CROISSANT THIS IS NOT PRO WRESTLING YOU DISEASED FUCKING TESTICLE
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated ... (lots of Russians in the thread)
/u/ohnodopey jokes how Trump will tweet that he has a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jong Un. The next day, Trump tweets just that. : bestof
My buttons bigger! : pics
Eschaton: Big Button Joke Thread - Laughing all the way to the apocalypse...

Eschaton: Eye of the Tiger - Some people just want to watch the world burn. I don't really know why that is, but I'm pretty convinced its true. Some of those people think they'll survive the apocalypse and, in fact, look forward to it. Gun nuts and preppers think they'll be little feudal lords in the new civilization, shooting the libs who are trying to clamber into their castle bunker for a can of baked beans, or whatever ... Sadly you can get in trouble for shooting the libs and enslaving people these days, but soon that arsenal can be put to good use. At least for the 2 days your generator keeps powering your Xbox and the 3 before you die of radiation poisoning.


Trump's Foreign Policy Methods ... Trump struck them as uninformed about their issues and dangerously unpredictable ... "The word they all used was: "This guy is insane" ... "catastrophic ... terrifying, incompetent, and dangerous" ... 63 million people are cheering for tweets like this. This is what they signed up for -- pure, uncut freebasing of chest-thumping rage and racism.
Donald Trump's Year of Living Dangerously -- It's worse than you think
America Is Not in Retreat. It's a Rogue Superpower -- As Trump upends international relations, will other nations restore stability?

rump accuses DOJ of being part of 'deep state'
Trump accuses DOJ of being part of 'deep state' : news
The person anonymously leaking racist attacks on the Mueller grand jury sounds a lot like Trump - ThinkProgress

NSA's top talent is leaving because of low pay, slumping morale and unpopular reorganization (Putin wins again)
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror -- James Risen (remember when Obama wanted to lock up reporters?)

Sen. Feinstein Says Trump's Social-Media Guru "May Have Corresponded With Russian Nationals (a lot of shoes dropping)
Rosenstein meets with Ryan about Russia investigation | TheHill (heads up)

Fusion GPS founders say they were 'shocked' by contents of 'Steele dossier' ... dismissing accusations that it was tainted by partisan politics. (yes, red-state Republifucks elected a Russian spy)

The Repubicans' Fake Investigations (lock up all the traitors)

Donald Trump Didn't Want to Be President -- One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration's shocked first days
Trump asked who John Boehner was the day after the election: report | TheHill
Hope Hicks fled the room after Trump called her 'the best piece of tail' Lewandowski will ever have
New book: Rupert Murdoch called Trump a 'fucking idiot'
Trump called ex-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates 'such a cunt,' book alleges

Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Bannon says in explosive book | US news | The Guardian -- "They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV"
What Bannon Has Over the Trumps - smarter, and he wants to burn it all down even more than they do ... "They're sitting on a beach trying to stop a Category Five"
Steve Bannon touches the third rail of Trumpworld - Axios

Enraged Trump Personally Dictated Scathing Denouncement of Strategist Steve Bannon

Some Trump Supporters Think Mueller's Grand Jury Has Too Many Black People | HuffPost - The racist attack on the federal grand jury in D.C. adds to the ways the president's backers are trying to discredit the Russia probe ... "The grand jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders rally, Maybe they found these jurors in central casting, or at a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley."

Trump ICE pick: Politicians who run sanctuary cities should be charged with crimes | TheHill (he's going to arrest California +he looks the part)
Trump's Immigration Chief Just Floated Throwing (Democratic) Politicians in Jail -- Look out, Jerry Brown. (and de Blasio and Maaaty) Homan has found within himself an authoritarian knob that turns way past 11.

As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel the Sting - The New York Times (part of the war on knowledge)

CNN attacks Trump's mental stability, fitness for office

Powerful yet addicted to power: Why the New York Times is in the hot seat so often - The Washington Post -- Margaret Sullivan

They Said This Day Would Never Come (why did Iowas vote for Obama and then Trump? one word: Bush +Hillary was more qualified, we could have avoided Rahm, she wouldn't have floated above it all, and America's deep racism wouldn't have come to the surface with Trump)
Eschaton: The Good Old Days Of The Bush Administration - It wasn't just that we went to war, it was all of the horrors and incompetence that surrounded that. Also, the lies, the manipulation, the impugning of patriotism (anti-war protesters are on the other side, you see?), Ari Fucking Fleischer. There are a lot of things people forget about that era. Well, they don't forget, so much as they never really knew. Whatever the flaws of the press right now, Trump administration outrages actually get some coverage. Back then, the equivalent tended to land on page 8 and then disappear.

10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2018 - CNNPolitics

Eschaton: In Cooperation With Brookings - Good to see our fine centrist foreign policy organizations are on board with supporting terrorism for terrorism's sake.
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Florida's 1.5 Million Missing Voters -- It didn't matter whether their crime was murder or driving with a suspended license, nor whether they had fully served their sentence. In Florida, the voting ban is entrenched in the Constitution, and it's for life -- Today, Florida disenfranchises almost 1.5 million of its citizens, more than 11 state's populations and roughly a quarter of the more than six million Americans who are unable to vote because of a criminal record. (they don't want those kind of people to vote, unless rich Republicans with big lawyers, the system is rigged in favor of evil)


The sexual harassment vote the GOP would like to forget - POLITICO - Not long before a deluge of sexual harassment claims engulfed Capitol Hill, congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump quietly repealed safeguards to protect hundreds of thousands of American workers from such harassment.

Star's former publisher acknowledges assault on reporter -- H. Brandt Ayers, former publisher of The Anniston Star and current chairman of the board of the company that owns the newspaper, acknowledged Tuesday that he assaulted a reporter in her Anniston home in the 1970s ... spanked her on the advice of a doctor ... no intention of resigning from his position as chairman of the board of Consolidated Publishing, which operates The Star ... Two other women told The Star of similar incidents in which Ayers spanked women against their will, with sexual overtones (creepy Republican)

Two Harvey Weinstein Police Investigations Sent to L.A. District Attorney : television
Paul Sorvino Weinstein Blacklisted My Girl 'I Will Kill That Motherf*****'


'Swatting' victim's mother to police: Please let me see my son (cops in full coverup mode)
Attorney: Family of 'swatting' victim wants officer charged



Dear Mona, What Percentage Of Women Have Breast Implants? | FiveThirtyEight - 4 percent of women in America, or one in every 26



ELI5: The key characteristics and differences between Euclidean and Non-Euclidean geometry : explainlikeimfive


TIL : IN 2006, a man in Portland, Oregon hired a hitman to kill his 51-year-old wife. His wife ended up killing the hitman with her bare hands. When Susan Kuhnhausen had her hands on his neck she asked him, "TELL ME WHO SENT YOU HERE AND I WILL CALL YOU A FUCKING AMBULANCE!" : todayilearned

People who have used the Dark Web/The Deep Web, what's the most surprising thing you've seen? : AskReddit
Family photos by the sea... : WTF

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign The Register - Crucially, these updates to both Linux and Windows will incur a performance hit on Intel products.
Intel Chips Have 'Kernel Memory Leaking' Design Flaw and Fix Could Lead to Performance Drop : technology
Intel's CEO Just Sold a Lot of Stock -- Pay attention to these transactions. (12/19/17 right before the shit hit the fan)
Big shock: $700 Internet-of-Things door lock not a success The Register - We had the rug pulled from under our front door, says CEO

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'Bomb cyclone' to blast East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week


Iran protests and death toll grow as tension rises - The Washington Post
Iran's Supreme Leader blames 'enemies' for protests, death toll hits 21


Joshua Boyle, Canadian hostage in Afghanistan, arrested and faces list of charges in Ottawa | Toronto Star - Boyle appears in court Wednesday to face 15 charges, including sexual assault and forcible confinement. (the story continues)


The haunting allure of Aokigahara, the Japanese 'suicide forest' Logan Paul captured on film

The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Another Currency - Bloomberg

Foreign governments are finding ways to do favors for Trump's business


Republican's Steele dossier conspiracy theory was dealt a big blow this weekend

How bad is the Republican coverup on Trump and Russia? We may soon find out - The Washington Post ... Democrats are seriously exploring the possibility of issuing a minority report that details (among other things) the degree to which Republicans tried to impede a full investigation, should that end up happening. In this scenario, the public would at least have a clear sense of just how far Republicans went to protect President Trump and his top officials from accountability. (the Party of Treason, lock them all up, expecially Russian ratfucker Nunes)

Trump urges Justice Department to 'act' on Comey, suggests Huma Abedin should face jail time (getting desparate)
Trump suggests Huma Abedin be jailed after State Department email release - POLITICO

President Trump has made 1,950 false or misleading claims over 347 days - The Washington Post (Repulifucks have always lied but Trump is the mouth of Satan)

'Fake News': Wide Reach but Little Impact, Study Suggests ... the most conservative 10 percent of the sample accounted for about 65 percent of visits to fake news sites ... Pro-Trump users were about three times more likely to visit fake news sites supporting their candidate than Clinton partisans were to visit bogus sites promoting her. (there were so many of those) The study found that Facebook was by far the platform through which people most often navigated to a fake news site (zuckerfucked your democracy)


Warren positions herself for potential 2020 run - POLITICO - The Massachusetts senator has made a series of under-the-radar moves in the past year that would help her if she challenges Donald Trump.
Warren raised more campaign money than nearly any senator ever at this point in election cycle: report | TheHill

Orrin Hatch, Utah Senator, to Retire, Opening Path for Mitt Romney - The New York Times
Utah could be Steve Bannon's next battleground, especially if Mitt Romney runs (failureground)

Al Franken officially resigns Senate seat | Minnesota Public Radio News
Michele Bachmann Is Asking God Whether She Should Run For Al Franken's Senate Seat

Doug Jones hires African-American chief of staff - POLITICO


Coal mining deaths more than double in 2017 | TheHill - The Senate last month approved David Zatezalo, a former coal mining executive, to lead MSHA, the main agency responsible for coal mine safety. Zatezalo faced numerous questions about his own safety record throughout the confirmation process. (they voted to die)

Eschaton: The Trump Infrastructure Plan - It isn't as if infrastructure expenditure is generally pure. There's always some grifter money to go around. The Trump infrastructure plan is basically add 50% more grift for the banksters. Huzzah.


Hoda Kotb joins Savannah Guthrie as co-anchor of TODAY Show - TODAY.com

"Oh My God, This Is So F---ed Up": Inside Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side -- Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties ... brotopia lifestyle choice

Peter Martins Retires From New York City Ballet After Misconduct Allegations - The New York Times ... the powerful leader of New York City Ballet who shaped the company for more than three decades, has decided to retire ... "I deny everything" ... when they also learned that he had been arrested on Thursday and charged with driving while intoxicated in Westchester County ... verbal and physical abuse dating as far back as 1993.

Dave Chappelle Says Louis C.K. Accuser Has a 'Brittle Ass Spirt' in Netflix Specal ... for alleging that his conduct helped dissuade her from pursuing comedy as a career. (he masturbated on the phone with her and she gave up her career)


TIL that Wisconsin has the same number of bars as California despite a population that's 85% smaller. 1 bar for every 1,862 residents compared to California's 1 for every 11,962 residents

Philadelphia Police Officer Identified in Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Man Shot Another Suspect 10 Months Earlier : news
Police arrested 63 people at a house party after finding less than 1 ounce of marijuana- ThinkProgress - Cartersville, Georgia

Raymond Sackler: The Philanthropist Who Helped Spawn the Opioid Crisis - POLITICO Magazine

TIL the FBI ran a 2-year investigation on a fictional anti-goth cult, Church of the Hammer, before realizing it was a parody : todayilearned


Amazon's Best of Prime 2017 Reveals the Year's Biggest Trends


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Winners and losers from 2017, the year in politics - The Washington Post -- The rich won. The truth lost. Russia won. America lost.
Another year in death - The Washington Post - The death penalty, which Americans once favored at near-consensus rates, was a historically rare punishment.
2017 Golden Dukes Winners Announced! (best U.S. scandalss of the year)

Big money is backing out of fossil fuel industry, moving into greener alternatives

TIL a group of US soldiers used to kill teenagers in the Afghanistan for fun. Pictures can be seen of them smiling with their "trophy" just like people used to do with wild animal killings : todayilearned


Kim Jong-un Offers North Korea's Hand to South, While Chiding U.S. (now they're better at diplomacy too)

A Battle for the Future of Iran - The Atlantic - Change will not come easily, peacefully, or soon ... The Iranian government has the highest per capita execution rate in the world, treats women as second class citizens, persecutes gays and religious minorities, and stifles free speech. (Islamofucks, good job, CIA)
Iran protests: 12 killed in violence as demonstrators attempt to storm police stations and military bases | The Independent - Reported death toll rises as tens of thousands of Iranians join protests
Iranians Protest Across Country, Defying a Crackdown - The New York Times

Germany starts enforcing hate speech law : news

Kuwaiti report: US gives Israel go-ahead to kill powerful Iranian general | The Times of Israel - Newspaper says Washington and Jerusalem have overcome the differences that saw Americans tipping off Tehran about Israeli attempt to kill Qassem Soleimani 3 years ago (Trump outsourced M.E. policy to Netanyahu)

Eschaton: If Only Somebody Had Thought Of That - Brexit is going to be such a disaster.-- Brexit threatens to clog this crucial artery. Port officials warn that increasing the average time it takes trucks to clear customs by as little as two minutes could lead to 17-mile (27-kilometer) traffic jams. (it's very complicated, we didn't have time to think about all the details la-di-la}

The trade deal that triggered a health crisis in Mexico - in pictures | Global development | The Guardian -- became a tariff-free dumping ground for soft drinks and junk food imported from the US ... world's second highest obesity rate and a growing child malnutrition crisis.



Lorde called a bigot in Washington Post ad over cancelled Israel concert | Music | The Guardian - Advert placed by 'America's rabbi' Shmuley Boteach also accuses singer's native New Zealand of prejudice against Israel ... n 2016, Boteach defended Bannon (the assholes are loose, everywhere)

Ezra Klein on Twitter: "It is difficult to believe that Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that Russia had dirt on Clinton but didn't mention anything to the campaign he was part of. Very difficult. Virtually impossible.

Today in American Ethnic Cleansing - Lawyers, Guns & Money - Happy New Year, especially to those victimized by the policies of American ethnic cleansing being pursued by the Trump administration and fascists who work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Joe Hockey discussed Alexander Downer's Russia revelation with FBI
New New York Times scoop on Russia raises questions about old New York Times story on Russia - The Washington Post

Making China Great Again | The New Yorker - As Donald Trump surrenders America's global commitments, Xi Jinping is learning to pick up the pieces. (Make America Weak Again)


Erik Loomis on Twitter: Pretty clear that what West Virginia needs to keep young people is destroying more mountains to fund Don Blankenship's Senate campaign.

Democrats in High-Tax States Plot to Blunt Impact of New Tax Law - The New York Times (the republifucks let's stick it to the libturds plan)


The Hoarse Whisperer on Twitter: "Trump is back to tweeting like a deranged chimp on speed. Oh, yeah. (Eyeroll emoji, eyeroll emoji, middle finger emoji)
Trump has a golf problem -- "I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf." (haha suckers)

The Hoarse Whisperer on Twitter: "Louise Linton models the latest from the Swiffer Duster Collection while Steve Mnuchin dazzles in a vintage Country Club Waiter ensemble.

How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue - The New York Times -- What vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans. (you forgot the helicopters) the greenest city in America is Burlington, Vt., while Casper, Wyo., has the largest per-capita carbon footprint.



Powerful Hollywood Women Unveil Anti-Harassment Action Plan - The New York Times

The Hoarse Whisperer on Twitter: "2017: The year of #MeToo and the emergence ofp the researchers found. (owerful women's voices. MSNBC: Soooo, hire Hugh Hewitt and fire Joan Walsh? You're not getting it, @MSNBC Like, at all. At. All. (Comcast at work, fucking your media)

Sources: Chris Matthews Runs A Toxic And Abus | The Daily Caller -- Two former NBC producers independently alleged Matthews would rate the looks of his female guests on a scale and said Matthews was so abusive that staff joked about being battered women. The interviews in total paint Matthews as a tyrant liable to fly off the handle at the slightest mistake, who was eager to objectify women and made inappropriate sexual comments appear to be a matter of course for someone in his position ... multiple female employees were often left in tears after Matthews's angrey tirades ... No other workplace like this exists where you can get away with that (oh what a surprise, another very special sociopathic bully-boy)

Already dismissed from Fenway health center, doctor leaves more medical posts amid misconduct allegations - The Boston Globe - Dr. Harvey Makadon

Fort Smith Mosque Forgives Its Vandal, Paying His Debts

Gunman in deadly Colorado deputy shooting identified as Iraq War vet with grudge against sheriff : news
Con Artists Eyed in Tinder Murder - Sydney Loofe vanished after a Tinder date -- and may have been dismembered. The main suspects: a pair of alleged scammers accused of fleecing folks from Pennsylvania to Utah.

Legal marijuana arriving in California after decades of underground dealing : news

Trans Activist Who Called Caitlyn Jenner A 'F**king Fraud' Is Running For Office | HuffPost (good boob shot of Jenner)

Dylan and the Cross


TIL although iodine was added to table salt in the U.S. beginning in 1924 as an antidote to goiters caused by iodine deficiency, it had the unanticipated side effect of raising the national IQ by an average of 3.5 points. : todayilearned

Most people believe others' social lives are richer and more active than their own : science


A drug developed for diabetes could be used to treat Alzheimer's after scientists found it "significantly reversed memory loss" in mice through a triple method of action. The drug improves memory formation, reduces amyloid plaque load, and increased neurogenesis and synapse numbers in the brain. : science (ALZ = type 3 diabletes)

What is the most uncomfortable/unpleasant way you've ever realized someone had a crush on you? : AskReddit
People of reddit who have had sex with an in-law or step sibling or parent, what happened? How did you get into that situation? and did anyone find out?
What makes you secretly go, "yeah, good luck with that?"
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