Mitch McConnell, America’s No. 1 obstructionist, is trying to make big things happen
Republicans push for outright repeal of Obamacare if GOP can’t agree on health-care bill
‘Morning Joe’ Hosts and Trump Bring National Enquirer Into Their Feud
Friday, June 30, 2017
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-27
It’s no surprise that the Kansas tax cut experiment failed to create jobs
How Thunderpuss Turned Whitney Houston’s “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay” Into Her Most Iconic Gay Anthem: Chris Cox of the remix duo explains transforming Whitney Houston’s anthem into an LGBTQ club classic.
Even in a Post-Moonlight World, It’s Nearly Impossible to Get a Gay Movie Made: As Pride Month draws to a close, six LGBTQ directors reflect on the trials and tribulations of getting their work through the system.
A Time Magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.
The NWS shared its LGBT pride — and Facebook turned the support into hate
An ICE agent visited a restaurant. About 30 employees quit the next day, its owner says.
How Thunderpuss Turned Whitney Houston’s “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay” Into Her Most Iconic Gay Anthem: Chris Cox of the remix duo explains transforming Whitney Houston’s anthem into an LGBTQ club classic.
Even in a Post-Moonlight World, It’s Nearly Impossible to Get a Gay Movie Made: As Pride Month draws to a close, six LGBTQ directors reflect on the trials and tribulations of getting their work through the system.
A Time Magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.
The NWS shared its LGBT pride — and Facebook turned the support into hate
An ICE agent visited a restaurant. About 30 employees quit the next day, its owner says.
Monday, June 26, 2017
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Monday, June 19, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-19
Seattle police fatally shoot black mother of four who they say confronted officers with a knife
Some gun owners are disturbed by the Philando Castile verdict. The NRA is silent.
Philando Castile Should Be the NRA’s Perfect Cause Célèbre. There’s Just One Problem.
The destruction of political norms started decades ago. Here’s how it happened.
Another clash between Starbucks and a Trump voter is going viral
Amazon has a patent to keep you from comparison shopping while you’re in its stores
Two years ago, they couldn’t look away. Now some Trump supporters are tuning out.
Some gun owners are disturbed by the Philando Castile verdict. The NRA is silent.
Philando Castile Should Be the NRA’s Perfect Cause Célèbre. There’s Just One Problem.
The destruction of political norms started decades ago. Here’s how it happened.
Another clash between Starbucks and a Trump voter is going viral
Amazon has a patent to keep you from comparison shopping while you’re in its stores
Two years ago, they couldn’t look away. Now some Trump supporters are tuning out.
Friday, June 16, 2017
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-15
Breitbart lost 90 percent of its advertisers in two months: Who’s still there?
Walmart’s answer to Aldi and Amazon: ‘designer cantaloupe’
She is transgender. He proposed a ‘bathroom bill.’ They’re running against each other in Northern Virginia.
Republicans are privately angry at Trump for accidentally unmasking their big scam
Newt Gingrich’s hypocritical comments on the Alexandria shooting
The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas. The World Is Watching.
I’ve covered Obamacare since day one. I’ve never seen lying and obstruction like this.
Walmart’s answer to Aldi and Amazon: ‘designer cantaloupe’
She is transgender. He proposed a ‘bathroom bill.’ They’re running against each other in Northern Virginia.
Republicans are privately angry at Trump for accidentally unmasking their big scam
Newt Gingrich’s hypocritical comments on the Alexandria shooting
The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas. The World Is Watching.
I’ve covered Obamacare since day one. I’ve never seen lying and obstruction like this.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-14
Will the Georgia Special Election Get Hacked?: The state’s voting systems are uniquely vulnerable, security researchers say—and the state has ignored efforts to fix the problem.
Jeff Sessions cites 'longstanding policy' to deflect senators' questions in Russia hearing
Report: Trump Is Under Investigation for Obstruction of Justice
'Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan' – my day at the Goop festival: With its kale ice-cream, rose quartz eggs and inhouse shaman, Paltrow’s ‘wellness adventure’ is silly and fun. But is it only for rich, white people who are disproportionately well already?
Ivanka Trump Wrote a Painfully Oblivious Book for Basically No One
Jeff Sessions cites 'longstanding policy' to deflect senators' questions in Russia hearing
Report: Trump Is Under Investigation for Obstruction of Justice
'Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan' – my day at the Goop festival: With its kale ice-cream, rose quartz eggs and inhouse shaman, Paltrow’s ‘wellness adventure’ is silly and fun. But is it only for rich, white people who are disproportionately well already?
Ivanka Trump Wrote a Painfully Oblivious Book for Basically No One
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-13
Joy Reid just went on a tirade against Bernie Sanders and his supporters
Some dung beetles have taken to decapitating millipedes: The popular image of dung beetles involves them rolling balls of poo across an African landscape. This is true, but it is not the whole truth
Oliver Stone defended Vladimir Putin to Stephen Colbert. The audience laughed at him.
Delta pulled funding from a Trump-esque ‘Julius Caesar’ — but not from an Obama-like version in 2012
RuPaul on Identity in the Trump Era: ‘Don’t Pick Battles With Your Allies’
Commentary: My lawyers got Trump to admit 30 times, under oath, that he lied
Exasperated attendees give up on Gwyneth’s Goop summit
Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known
Some dung beetles have taken to decapitating millipedes: The popular image of dung beetles involves them rolling balls of poo across an African landscape. This is true, but it is not the whole truth
Oliver Stone defended Vladimir Putin to Stephen Colbert. The audience laughed at him.
Delta pulled funding from a Trump-esque ‘Julius Caesar’ — but not from an Obama-like version in 2012
RuPaul on Identity in the Trump Era: ‘Don’t Pick Battles With Your Allies’
Commentary: My lawyers got Trump to admit 30 times, under oath, that he lied
Exasperated attendees give up on Gwyneth’s Goop summit
Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known
Monday, June 12, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-12
Trump is likely to get much, much worse. Here are a few big things to watch for.
When a liberal power lawyer represents the Trump family, things can get ugly
Why foreign aid is critical to U.S. national security: We can't solve every foreign crisis through military action, say two former military commanders.
The Trumps are complaining about the ‘viciousness’ of politics. Irony is dead. - "when you spend the better part of 17 months habitually breaking political norms with your unusually nasty campaign, you can't spend time during your presidency complaining about the nastiness of the political system that you will now oversee as president. That's trying to have it both ways, which happens to be one of the few things the Trump White House is consistent about."
Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again - "'Always beware of books that describe themselves as the untold history of anything, because it’s usually been told before,' he said. 'It sets up this thing that there is some sort of mysterious force suppressing the true facts, right? Glenn Beck does this all the time. It’s the same thing here, except this is basically a very standard left-wing, C.P., fellow traveler, Wallace-ite vision of what happened in 1945-46.' It’s not, Wilentz continued, that the questions raised aren’t worth raising. 'Is there a legitimate argument to be made about the origins of our nuclear diplomacy or the decision to build the H-bomb?' he said. 'Of course there is. But it’s so overloaded with ideological distortion that this question doesn’t get raised in an intelligent way. And once a question gets raised in an unintelligent way, then you are off in cloud-cuckoo land.'"
When a liberal power lawyer represents the Trump family, things can get ugly
Why foreign aid is critical to U.S. national security: We can't solve every foreign crisis through military action, say two former military commanders.
The Trumps are complaining about the ‘viciousness’ of politics. Irony is dead. - "when you spend the better part of 17 months habitually breaking political norms with your unusually nasty campaign, you can't spend time during your presidency complaining about the nastiness of the political system that you will now oversee as president. That's trying to have it both ways, which happens to be one of the few things the Trump White House is consistent about."
Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again - "'Always beware of books that describe themselves as the untold history of anything, because it’s usually been told before,' he said. 'It sets up this thing that there is some sort of mysterious force suppressing the true facts, right? Glenn Beck does this all the time. It’s the same thing here, except this is basically a very standard left-wing, C.P., fellow traveler, Wallace-ite vision of what happened in 1945-46.' It’s not, Wilentz continued, that the questions raised aren’t worth raising. 'Is there a legitimate argument to be made about the origins of our nuclear diplomacy or the decision to build the H-bomb?' he said. 'Of course there is. But it’s so overloaded with ideological distortion that this question doesn’t get raised in an intelligent way. And once a question gets raised in an unintelligent way, then you are off in cloud-cuckoo land.'"
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-11
Trump looms over Georgia special election, a proxy battle for 2018
Trump’s Assault on LGBT Rights Is Galvanizing Activists for an Even More Defiant Pride
Protestors Disrupt D.C. Pride Parade, Seek A ‘Different Vision’ For The Event: Parade organizers are pressed to break ties with “police, prisons and pipelines.”
Trump’s Assault on LGBT Rights Is Galvanizing Activists for an Even More Defiant Pride
Protestors Disrupt D.C. Pride Parade, Seek A ‘Different Vision’ For The Event: Parade organizers are pressed to break ties with “police, prisons and pipelines.”
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-08
Sandy Hook hoaxer gets prison time for threatening 6-year-old victim’s father
7 takeaways from Comey’s extraordinary testimony about what Trump told him to do
Sen. John McCain’s bizarre questioning of Comey
Comey just blew apart a leading GOP talking point about Trump and Russia
Initial Comments on James Comey’s Written Testimony - "It’s hard to express to people who are not steeped in federal law enforcement just how inappropriate these inquiries are, particularly when they involve an investigation in which the President has such deep and multifaceted personal stakes. No, they are not illegal. The President, after all, has constitutional authority to ask for whatever information he wants from his subordinates in the executive branch. But of course, the President also has the authority to give the State of the Union address in Latin and have it consist entirely of obscenities directed at the Speaker of the House. To people who know the norms of federal law enforcement, the conduct described here is closer to that end of the spectrum of presidential behavior than it is to the normal range.
...
"Let’s leave to another day whether anything the President did here amounts to any kind of obstruction of justice. It’s poisonous stuff to a rule of law society that requires that law enforcement not be simply an arm of political power.
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"First, Comey is describing here conduct that a society committed to the rule of law simply cannot accept in a president. We have spent a lot of time on this site over seven years now debating the marginal exertions of presidential power and their capacity for abuse. Should the president have the authority to detain people at Guantanamo? Incinerate suspected terrorists with flying robots? Use robust intelligence authorities directed at overseas non-citizens? These questions are all important, but this document is about a far more important question to the preservation of liberty in a society based on legal norms and rules: the abuse of the core functions of the presidency. It’s about whether we can trust the President—not the President in the abstract, but the particular embodiment of the presidency in the person of Donald J. Trump—to supervise the law enforcement apparatus of the United States in fashion consistent with his oath of office. I challenge anyone to read this document and come away with a confidently affirmative answer to that question."
James Comey just made it clear: He is trying to expose President Trump
7 takeaways from Comey’s extraordinary testimony about what Trump told him to do
Sen. John McCain’s bizarre questioning of Comey
Comey just blew apart a leading GOP talking point about Trump and Russia
Initial Comments on James Comey’s Written Testimony - "It’s hard to express to people who are not steeped in federal law enforcement just how inappropriate these inquiries are, particularly when they involve an investigation in which the President has such deep and multifaceted personal stakes. No, they are not illegal. The President, after all, has constitutional authority to ask for whatever information he wants from his subordinates in the executive branch. But of course, the President also has the authority to give the State of the Union address in Latin and have it consist entirely of obscenities directed at the Speaker of the House. To people who know the norms of federal law enforcement, the conduct described here is closer to that end of the spectrum of presidential behavior than it is to the normal range.
...
"Let’s leave to another day whether anything the President did here amounts to any kind of obstruction of justice. It’s poisonous stuff to a rule of law society that requires that law enforcement not be simply an arm of political power.
...
"First, Comey is describing here conduct that a society committed to the rule of law simply cannot accept in a president. We have spent a lot of time on this site over seven years now debating the marginal exertions of presidential power and their capacity for abuse. Should the president have the authority to detain people at Guantanamo? Incinerate suspected terrorists with flying robots? Use robust intelligence authorities directed at overseas non-citizens? These questions are all important, but this document is about a far more important question to the preservation of liberty in a society based on legal norms and rules: the abuse of the core functions of the presidency. It’s about whether we can trust the President—not the President in the abstract, but the particular embodiment of the presidency in the person of Donald J. Trump—to supervise the law enforcement apparatus of the United States in fashion consistent with his oath of office. I challenge anyone to read this document and come away with a confidently affirmative answer to that question."
James Comey just made it clear: He is trying to expose President Trump
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-07
Statement for the Record Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - James B. Comey - June 8, 2017
Why the latest Russia news paints an increasingly grim picture for Trump
‘I need loyalty’: James Comey’s riveting prepared testimony about what Trump asked him, annotated
Der Spiegel Just Published the Minutes From Trump’s Contentious Meeting With G7 Leaders
Kansas’ collapsed tax-cut plan will provide political fodder for Democrats for decades
Trump’s sons recommend the high road they usually don’t take
How Russian Propaganda Spread From a Parody Website to Fox News
Why the latest Russia news paints an increasingly grim picture for Trump
‘I need loyalty’: James Comey’s riveting prepared testimony about what Trump asked him, annotated
Der Spiegel Just Published the Minutes From Trump’s Contentious Meeting With G7 Leaders
Kansas’ collapsed tax-cut plan will provide political fodder for Democrats for decades
Trump’s sons recommend the high road they usually don’t take
How Russian Propaganda Spread From a Parody Website to Fox News
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-06
The real reason working-class whites continue to support Trump
Working-class whites can’t handle their status as ‘the new minority’
Trump is now raging at Jeff Sessions. This hints at a deeply unsettling pattern. - Trump expects independent officials “to behave according to personal loyalty, as opposed to following the rules,” added Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale University who wrote “On Tyranny,” a book of lessons from the 20th century. “For Trump, that is how the world is supposed to work. Trump doesn’t understand that in the world there might truly be laws and rules that constrain a leader.”
Trump launches infrastructure initiative with fake signing ceremony
The Lawless Presidency - Foreign governments speed up trademark applications from Trump businesses. Foreign officials curry favor by staying at his hotel. A senior administration official urges people to buy Ivanka Trump’s clothing. The president violates bipartisan tradition by refusing to release his tax returns, thus shrouding his conflicts. The behavior has no precedent. “Trump and his administration are flagrantly violating ethics laws,” the former top ethics advisers to George W. Bush and Barack Obama have written.
Just Give It 7 Seconds
US suspects Russia planted fake news in Qatar: report
Working-class whites can’t handle their status as ‘the new minority’
Trump is now raging at Jeff Sessions. This hints at a deeply unsettling pattern. - Trump expects independent officials “to behave according to personal loyalty, as opposed to following the rules,” added Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale University who wrote “On Tyranny,” a book of lessons from the 20th century. “For Trump, that is how the world is supposed to work. Trump doesn’t understand that in the world there might truly be laws and rules that constrain a leader.”
Trump launches infrastructure initiative with fake signing ceremony
The Lawless Presidency - Foreign governments speed up trademark applications from Trump businesses. Foreign officials curry favor by staying at his hotel. A senior administration official urges people to buy Ivanka Trump’s clothing. The president violates bipartisan tradition by refusing to release his tax returns, thus shrouding his conflicts. The behavior has no precedent. “Trump and his administration are flagrantly violating ethics laws,” the former top ethics advisers to George W. Bush and Barack Obama have written.
Just Give It 7 Seconds
US suspects Russia planted fake news in Qatar: report
Monday, June 5, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-05
AP FACT CHECK: Attack draws visceral Trump tweets, not facts - "President Donald Trump can’t be counted on to give accurate information to Americans when violent acts are unfolding abroad."
It’s time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class.
It’s time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-04
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-03
Hell Is Empty And All the Hedge Fund Managers Are At The Bellagio
Are You Proud to Be an American Today?: The Rose Garden's dumbest moment on record.
Nunes-led House Intelligence Committee asked for ‘unmaskings’ of Americans
I can’t stop laughing at the Trump administration. That’s not a good thing. - It’s hard to overstate just how badly Trump has navigated the global stage. The Chinese and Saudis have figured out how to buy him off with a couple billion dollars and some flattery. There is zero evidence of any appreciable policy gains. U.S. leadership is being constantly questioned. Whatever soft power resided in the United States has dissipated. Outside of the Persian Gulf, Trump’s approach has done nothing but alienate allies and bolster potential rivals.
Are You Proud to Be an American Today?: The Rose Garden's dumbest moment on record.
Nunes-led House Intelligence Committee asked for ‘unmaskings’ of Americans
I can’t stop laughing at the Trump administration. That’s not a good thing. - It’s hard to overstate just how badly Trump has navigated the global stage. The Chinese and Saudis have figured out how to buy him off with a couple billion dollars and some flattery. There is zero evidence of any appreciable policy gains. U.S. leadership is being constantly questioned. Whatever soft power resided in the United States has dissipated. Outside of the Persian Gulf, Trump’s approach has done nothing but alienate allies and bolster potential rivals.
Friday, June 2, 2017
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Reading archive 2017-06-01
HOW JOKES WON THE ELECTION: How do you fight an enemy who’s just kidding?
If Trump quits the Paris climate accord, he will lead the U.S. into the wilderness
The Loneliness of Donald Trump: On the Corrosive Privilege of the Most Mocked Man in the World - "... he has stepped off a cliff, pronounced himself king of the air, and is in freefall."
Trump has granted more lobbyist waivers in 4 months than Obama did in 8 years
If Trump quits the Paris climate accord, he will lead the U.S. into the wilderness
The Loneliness of Donald Trump: On the Corrosive Privilege of the Most Mocked Man in the World - "... he has stepped off a cliff, pronounced himself king of the air, and is in freefall."
Trump has granted more lobbyist waivers in 4 months than Obama did in 8 years
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