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Apr 24, 2019 The security of the 2020 election from Russian hacking may depend on Democrats impeaching Trump Is Donald Trump shutting down attempts in his administration to expose Russian election hacking because he doesn't want to hear he'd never have been elected without it, or because he wants to keep it going for 2020? His chief of staff Mick Mulvaney now insists that he doesn't recall instructing... 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Apr 24, 2019 Jared Kushner's friend Mohammed bin Salman celebrates Easter Week with a real crucifixion Technically, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman missed the actual Holy Week when planning his all-too-real reenactment, but he made up for that slight error on his calendar with 37 executions in a single day. Those included the execution of a student who had been arrested at the airport on... 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Apr 24, 2019 The Mueller report is in ... but Trump is still piling up potential impeachment charges The investigation conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller produced more than 400 pages that could easily serve as a guide for Donald Trump’s impeachment—even without seeing what’s under all those redactions. However, that doesn’t mean that what’s in the pages of the report is the... 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Apr 24, 2019 Cartoon: Our Lady is in danger Our Lady is in danger of being consumed by the criminality and treason of Republicans in Washington DC. We must save her and serve justice to those who think they’re above the law. 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Apr 24, 2019 My Kansas district flipped from red to blue, but we have much more work to do. We need your help. In 2004, I was living in Kansas and quietly raging in my red district about the Iraq war and the Bush administration. I was frustrated and desperately seeking a place to rant and organize against the Karl Roves of the world. In a pre-Facebook era, I was seeking a place that reflected my... 5 DailyKos Headlines more
Daily Beast
Apr 24, 2019 Maryland Millionaire Daniel Beckwitt Found Guilty of Murder in 2017 Death of Man Who Helped Dig Bunker Tunnels Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Montgomery County Police DepartmentA Maryland millionaire was found guilty of murder Wednesday night in connection with a 2017 fire on his property that killed a 21-year-old man who was helping him dig tunnels for his underground bunker. Daniel Beckwitt, a... Daily Beast more
Apr 24, 2019 Rhode Island Man Threatened to ‘Eradicate’ All Democrats, Eat Pro-Choice Professor: Feds REUTERSA Trump supporter from Rhode Island allegedly threatened to kill and eat a college professor and “eradicate” Democrats, according to federal officials. Matthew Haviland, a 30-year-old resident of North Kingstown, threatened to murder and eat the professor in a series of March 10... Daily Beast more
Apr 24, 2019 Border Militias Use Facebook Live to Turn Immigrant Confrontations Into ‘Reality TV’ Kevin Lamarque/ReutersThis story originally appeared in Right Richter, a newsletter by Will Sommer. Subscribe now to see what's happening in right-wing media from the safety of your inbox.Militias and other vigilante groups chasing immigrants on the southern border are able to broadcast their... Daily Beast more
Apr 24, 2019 Trump’s Source on Fake Story That Britain Spied on Campaign: There’s a Conspiracy to Frame Me as ‘Conspiracy Nut’ Chip Somodevilla/GettyLONDON—The source of President Trump’s false claim that British intelligence agents spied on his presidential campaign says there is a widespread conspiracy to frame him as a “conspiracy nut.”Trump quoted former CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson on Wednesday after Johnson... Daily Beast more
Mother Jones Politics
Apr 24, 2019 Facebook Admits it Is Expecting a Multibillion-Dollar Fine Facebook is expecting to be hit with an unprecedented $3-$5 billion federal fine. The revelation that the company anticipates such a massive fine, the result of a Federal Trade Commission investigation of the company’s privacy practices, came in an investor report released Wednesday. The fine... Mother Jones Politics more
Apr 24, 2019 Kirstjen Nielsen Was Instructed Not to Talk to Trump About Russia Targeting the 2020 Elections When former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen began to prepare a plan to address potential Russian interference in the 2020 election, she was told by President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to refrain from discussing the issue in front of the president,... Mother Jones Politics more
Apr 24, 2019 New Revelations in Maria Butina Case Highlight Russia’s Infiltration Efforts in 2016 With so much attention justifiably focused on Robert Mueller’s report this past week, not as much notice was paid to a parallel matter regarding another Russian effort to influence policy and politics in the United States: the pending sentencing of confessed Russian agent Maria Butina. But... Mother Jones Politics more
Apr 24, 2019 The Secret Service Is Racking Up Huge Expenses so Trump Can (Allegedly Cheat At) Golf When Donald Trump goes golfing, he’s accompanied by an ever-present Secret Service detail tasked with keeping him safe (and, according to a new book, helping Trump cheat by repositioning errant balls). While Trump’s predecessors also hit the links, Trump both golfs more... Mother Jones Politics more
Plunderbund
Apr 17, 2019 A Nation at Risk: Thoughts About Train Wrecks and Black Holes Darkow, Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune For those who are in their fifties and beyond, you might be familiar with this statement from another era, when names like Andropov, Brezhnev and Reagan were in the news: If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre... Plunderbund more
Mar 31, 2019 We Don’t Need No Edukashun. Just Ask Secretary Of Education Betsy DeVos For the last several days, the headlines and lead stories informed us about federal education budget cuts to the Special Olympics program. Certainly, you’d expect that such a recommendation would ignite a torrent of criticism and outrage from program advocates. Late Thursday, in response to... Plunderbund more
Mar 21, 2019 Note to Donald Trump and Company: Lower Your Voices. Stop Playing With Matches. If there is something we won’t soon forget in our turbulent era, it is the image of massive California brushfires enveloping hundreds of square miles of land in the Golden State and everything situated on that bone-dry landscape. The smoke was so severe that people with respiratory problems... Plunderbund more
Slate
Apr 24, 2019 One Reason So Many Democrats Are Running for President: They Don’t Think Joe Biden Can Win Are they right? Slate more
Apr 24, 2019 Stephen Moore Might Be a Slimebag, but Let’s Not Forget That His Economic Ideas Are Terrible Too “You could say it has advantages over the gold standard, but it has the same sort of nuttiness.” Slate more
Apr 24, 2019 Trump’s DHS Pardon Promise Is As Serious As Anything in the Mueller Report The president has no authority to induce underlings to break the law with the promise of a preemptive pardon. Slate more
The Nation
Apr 24, 2019 #BlockSidewalk’s War Against Google In Canada Lara Zarum The tech company wants to rebuild a Toronto neighborhood—but residents aren’t having it. The post #BlockSidewalk’s War Against Google In Canada appeared first on The Nation. The Nation more
Apr 24, 2019 The Trump Administration Is Launching a New Round of Aggression Against Cuba Peter Kornbluh And this time, they’re celebrating the Bay of Pigs invasion as they do it. The post The Trump Administration Is Launching a New Round of Aggression Against Cuba appeared first on The Nation. The Nation more
Apr 24, 2019 What It’s Like to Run the Arctic’s Alt-Weekly Newspaper Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Q&A with Mark Sabbatini, editor, writer, and publisher of Svalbard’s Icepeople. The post What It’s Like to Run the Arctic’s Alt-Weekly Newspaper appeared first on The Nation. The Nation more
Apr 24, 2019 The Real College-Admissions Scandal Is America’s Unjust Financial-Aid Process Emmeline Clein A Title I public-school counselor recounts how systemic barriers punish low-income students who want to go to college. The post The Real College-Admissions Scandal Is America’s Unjust Financial-Aid Process appeared first on The Nation. The Nation more
The Hill
Apr 24, 2019 Stephen Moore says he'll drop out of Fed consideration if he becomes a 'political problem' for GOP Stephen Moore, President Trump's controversial pick for the Federal Reserve Board, said Wednesday that he is "totally committed" to seeing the process through, but would bow out if he became a political liabilit... The Hill more
Apr 24, 2019 Kudlow downplays Moore's past comments on women: He's 'a wiseass kind of guy' National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow on Wednesday downplayed likely Federal Reserve Board nominee Stephen Moore's past comments about women"We continue to back Stephen Moore," Kudlow ... The Hill more
Apr 24, 2019 Hundreds of anti-vax families pile into California Capitol to protest immunization bill Hundreds of families opposed to vaccinations piled into the California Capitol on Wednesday to protest a bill that would give the state control over which children are exempt from mandatory vaccinations, the ... The Hill more
Apr 24, 2019 Delaney slams 2020 rival Sanders for calling Israeli government 'racist' Former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), who is currently running a longshot White House bid, slammed fellow candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) over comments he made Monday calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's... The Hill more
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