Here are the four-star generals Donald Trump has publicly bashed
After Video Refutes Kelly’s Charges, Congresswoman Raises Issue of Race
Trump plans to release JFK assassination documents despite concerns from federal agencies
Feud: Elena and Neil: Why rumors of a Gorsuch–Kagan clash at the Supreme Court are such a bombshell.
Trump’s Life-Tenured Judicial Avatar
How Badly Is Neil Gorsuch Annoying the Other Supreme Court Justices?
Gorsuch v. Roberts: The rookie takes on the chief
John Kelly and the Dangerous Moral Calculus of Working for Trump
John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup
WestSideJayhawk: "Trump is a black hole. He will always take the low road in any situation, and he drags everyone in his orbit down into his swirling vortex of terribleness. People who work for him, people who do business with him, people who try to defend him and help him, people who criticize and argue with him, the entire Republican Party, military members and their families, and anyone else that engages with him on any level. Hell, I feel worse whenever I think, speak or write something about him. He brings out the worst in everyone, all the time."
For some veterans, John Kelly’s remarks add to a worrying military-civilian divide - "... Kelly’s comments echo a prevalent attitude in some military and veteran circles — a feeling of pride for taking on a tough job in some of the most dangerous places on Earth, coupled with a simmering resentment of civilians oblivious to their mission.
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"Kelly’s words Thursday worried Carter and others. His somber ordering of how a dead service member is moved from battlefield to burial was a helpful glimpse for Americans who have not experienced that trauma. But Carter said he paired the idea with a belief that most civilians could not conceive — or intentionally fail — to understand that burden. 'It was odd. The military does not have a monopoly on loss and hardship,' Carter said.
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"The notion of military service as the purest form of public virtue, at the cost of other kinds of service to others, is an alarming development, he said. 'Military courage is something society needs to have and we need to valorize it,' Klay said. 'But we also need a civic body that makes this a country worth fighting for.' In particular, Klay said, the politicized discourse around service, and who understands its burdens, obscures legitimate questions that all citizens need to engage with, beginning, in this moment, with why U.S. forces were in Niger in the first place."
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Friday, October 20, 2017
Reading archive 2017-10-20
John Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff whose son died in combat, defends president’s call to Gold Star widow - "The 67-year-old retired Marine Corps general also sought to claim the moral high ground by deploring the degradation of modern American society. When he was growing up, he said, women, religion and the dignity of life were sacred. Now, he said, they no longer are. There was evident irony in Kelly’s making that particular point in defense of Trump, whose presidential campaign last year was marked by name-calling, harsh rhetoric about Muslims, Mexicans and other minorities, and allegations of sexual misconduct by more than a dozen women." (ed. note: lol @ John Kelly and his hypocrisy)
George W. Bush comes out of retirement to deliver a veiled rebuke of Trump
Ed Gillespie’s lobbying career included work for firms with vast interests in Virginia
‘I’ve never had a year so bad’: How Modi’s big economic changes have hit India’s small businesses
Putin talks like Russia’s next president but stays silent on whether he’ll run
CIA director distorts intelligence community’s findings on Russian interference
Retired ‘Navy SEAL’ praising Trump on Fox News was a fake
Many Trump voters who got hurricane relief in Texas aren’t sure Puerto Ricans should
The Hearing World Must Stop Forcing Deaf Culture to Assimilate: Too many hearing people view deafness as a deficiency rather than a separate linguistic context, worldview and culture.
In attack on Frederica Wilson over Trump’s call to widow, John Kelly gets facts wrong (ed. note: lol @ John Kelly and his blatant lies)
Frederica Wilson 2015 video shows White House Chief of Staff John Kelly got it wrong
What John Kelly got wrong about Rep. Frederica Wilson and the Johnson family
Rep. Frederica Wilson didn’t flinch at Trump’s attacks. Her record explains why.
George W. Bush comes out of retirement to deliver a veiled rebuke of Trump
Ed Gillespie’s lobbying career included work for firms with vast interests in Virginia
‘I’ve never had a year so bad’: How Modi’s big economic changes have hit India’s small businesses
Putin talks like Russia’s next president but stays silent on whether he’ll run
CIA director distorts intelligence community’s findings on Russian interference
Retired ‘Navy SEAL’ praising Trump on Fox News was a fake
Many Trump voters who got hurricane relief in Texas aren’t sure Puerto Ricans should
The Hearing World Must Stop Forcing Deaf Culture to Assimilate: Too many hearing people view deafness as a deficiency rather than a separate linguistic context, worldview and culture.
In attack on Frederica Wilson over Trump’s call to widow, John Kelly gets facts wrong (ed. note: lol @ John Kelly and his blatant lies)
Frederica Wilson 2015 video shows White House Chief of Staff John Kelly got it wrong
What John Kelly got wrong about Rep. Frederica Wilson and the Johnson family
Rep. Frederica Wilson didn’t flinch at Trump’s attacks. Her record explains why.
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Reading archive 2017-10-18
Trump just said his comment to a war widow was ‘fabricated.’ In an interview, the witness pushes back.
Fallen soldier’s mother: ‘Trump did disrespect my son’
Trump Sows Doubt Over Deal to Shore Up Obamacare
As midterms approach, GOP’s own words are the Democrats’ best weapon
Yes, This Is a Witch Hunt. I’m a Witch and I’m Hunting You.
Has PC Culture Gone Too Far Now That One Rapist Is Being Held Accountable?
#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism
Utah Cheerleaders Caught on Video Chanting Racial Slurs; School District Whitesplains Their Actions
David Cross Just Demonstrated the Worst Way to Apologize
Trump offered a grieving military father $25,000 in a call, but didn’t follow through
John McCain flattens Fox News reporter: ‘Why would you ask something that dumb?’
Trump is totally clueless on health care. The last 24 hours proved it.
‘Give me a break’: Sessions gets testy with Franken over his shifting Russia denials
Fallen soldier’s mother: ‘Trump did disrespect my son’
Trump Sows Doubt Over Deal to Shore Up Obamacare
As midterms approach, GOP’s own words are the Democrats’ best weapon
Yes, This Is a Witch Hunt. I’m a Witch and I’m Hunting You.
Has PC Culture Gone Too Far Now That One Rapist Is Being Held Accountable?
#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism
Utah Cheerleaders Caught on Video Chanting Racial Slurs; School District Whitesplains Their Actions
David Cross Just Demonstrated the Worst Way to Apologize
Trump offered a grieving military father $25,000 in a call, but didn’t follow through
John McCain flattens Fox News reporter: ‘Why would you ask something that dumb?’
Trump is totally clueless on health care. The last 24 hours proved it.
‘Give me a break’: Sessions gets testy with Franken over his shifting Russia denials
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Reading archive 2017-10-17
How the Russians pretended to be Texans — and Texans believed them
Better Call Paul: As last season ended, Chris Paul and James Harden had the same revelation: They could not beat the Warriors alone. In this ESPN the Magazine cover story, we ask: Can they beat them together?
The Supreme Court Is Allergic To Math - "'I don’t put much stock in the claim that the Supreme Court is afraid of adjudicating partisan gerrymanders because it’s afraid of math,' Daniel Hemel, who teaches law at the University of Chicago, told me. '[Roberts] is very smart and so are the judges who would be adjudicating partisan gerrymandering claims — I’m sure he and they could wrap their minds around the math. The ‘gobbledygook’ argument seems to be masking whatever his real objection might be.'"
Trump Falsely Claims Obama Didn’t Contact Families of Fallen Troops
Trump on Obama calling soldiers' families: "You can ask Gen. Kelly, did he get a call?" - eds. note: Robert Kelly was married, and his wife would have received the call. Gen. Kelly was invited to a White House reception for Gold Star families.
‘Disrespectful lie’: Anger grows over Trump’s claims about past presidents and fallen troops
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow - "Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee during the time the FBI probe was being conducted, told The Hill that he had never been told anything about the Russian nuclear corruption case even though many fellow lawmakers had serious concerns about the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal. 'Not providing information on a corruption scheme before the Russian uranium deal was approved by U.S. regulators and engage appropriate congressional committees has served to undermine U.S. national security interests by the very people charged with protecting them,' he said. 'The Russian efforts to manipulate our American political enterprise is breathtaking.'"
Influential investor thanks God that ‘white people populated America, and not the blacks’
Better Call Paul: As last season ended, Chris Paul and James Harden had the same revelation: They could not beat the Warriors alone. In this ESPN the Magazine cover story, we ask: Can they beat them together?
The Supreme Court Is Allergic To Math - "'I don’t put much stock in the claim that the Supreme Court is afraid of adjudicating partisan gerrymanders because it’s afraid of math,' Daniel Hemel, who teaches law at the University of Chicago, told me. '[Roberts] is very smart and so are the judges who would be adjudicating partisan gerrymandering claims — I’m sure he and they could wrap their minds around the math. The ‘gobbledygook’ argument seems to be masking whatever his real objection might be.'"
Trump Falsely Claims Obama Didn’t Contact Families of Fallen Troops
Trump on Obama calling soldiers' families: "You can ask Gen. Kelly, did he get a call?" - eds. note: Robert Kelly was married, and his wife would have received the call. Gen. Kelly was invited to a White House reception for Gold Star families.
‘Disrespectful lie’: Anger grows over Trump’s claims about past presidents and fallen troops
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow - "Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee during the time the FBI probe was being conducted, told The Hill that he had never been told anything about the Russian nuclear corruption case even though many fellow lawmakers had serious concerns about the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal. 'Not providing information on a corruption scheme before the Russian uranium deal was approved by U.S. regulators and engage appropriate congressional committees has served to undermine U.S. national security interests by the very people charged with protecting them,' he said. 'The Russian efforts to manipulate our American political enterprise is breathtaking.'"
Influential investor thanks God that ‘white people populated America, and not the blacks’
Monday, October 16, 2017
Reading archive 2017-10-16
The Danger of President Pence: Trump’s critics yearn for his exit. But Mike Pence, the corporate right’s inside man, poses his own risks.
If Only 'Being a Colossal Dick' Was an Impeachable Offense
Obama aides lash out after Trump claims past presidents didn't call fallen soldiers' families - "Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, called the president’s claim 'an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by Trump standards' and noted on Twitter that it was Trump, not Obama, who attacked a Gold Star family that had been critical of him."
Popovich issues blistering takedown of ‘soulless coward’ Donald Trump
Bomb kills investigative journalist in Malta who reported on Panama Papers
A group of Catholics has charged Pope Francis with heresy. Here’s why that matters.
The scamming runs very, very deep
Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies - Made-up sob stories about family farms broken up to pay inheritance taxes, magical claims about self-financing tax cuts, and so on go all the way back to the 1970s. But the selling of tax cuts under Trump has taken things to a whole new level, both in terms of the brazenness of the lies and their sheer number. Both the depth and the breadth of the dishonesty make it hard even for those of us who do this for a living to keep track.
The Bannon Revolution - "Which is not to say Bannon is delusional. He and his allies are the latest group to recognize the void at the heart of the contemporary Republican Party, the vacuum that somebody, somehow needs to fill. The activists and enforcers of the Tea Party era tried with a libertarian style of populism. Paul Ryan tried with his warmed-over Jack Kempism. My friends the “reform conservatives” tried with blueprints for tax credits and wage subsidies. They all failed, and the Bannon crew actually got furthest, in the sense that they got the most unlikely figure imaginable elected president on something resembling their platform."
If Only 'Being a Colossal Dick' Was an Impeachable Offense
Obama aides lash out after Trump claims past presidents didn't call fallen soldiers' families - "Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, called the president’s claim 'an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by Trump standards' and noted on Twitter that it was Trump, not Obama, who attacked a Gold Star family that had been critical of him."
Popovich issues blistering takedown of ‘soulless coward’ Donald Trump
Bomb kills investigative journalist in Malta who reported on Panama Papers
A group of Catholics has charged Pope Francis with heresy. Here’s why that matters.
The scamming runs very, very deep
Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies - Made-up sob stories about family farms broken up to pay inheritance taxes, magical claims about self-financing tax cuts, and so on go all the way back to the 1970s. But the selling of tax cuts under Trump has taken things to a whole new level, both in terms of the brazenness of the lies and their sheer number. Both the depth and the breadth of the dishonesty make it hard even for those of us who do this for a living to keep track.
The Bannon Revolution - "Which is not to say Bannon is delusional. He and his allies are the latest group to recognize the void at the heart of the contemporary Republican Party, the vacuum that somebody, somehow needs to fill. The activists and enforcers of the Tea Party era tried with a libertarian style of populism. Paul Ryan tried with his warmed-over Jack Kempism. My friends the “reform conservatives” tried with blueprints for tax credits and wage subsidies. They all failed, and the Bannon crew actually got furthest, in the sense that they got the most unlikely figure imaginable elected president on something resembling their platform."
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