White House says Conway has been ‘counseled’ after touting Ivanka Trump’s products
John McCain’s brutal rejoinder to Sean Spicer
'Nevertheless, She Persisted' and the Age of the Weaponized Meme: Mitch McConnell silenced Elizabeth Warren in the Senate chamber. That only made her voice louder.
Pennsylvania senator to Trump: Come after me, you 's***-gibbon'
The TSA knows its screening methods are unscientific and unreliable, says ACLU report
The Democrats Never Had a Chance Against Betsy DeVos: The fight matters anyway.
The White House is really splitting hairs on Neil Gorsuch’s rebuke of President Trump
Sean Spicer went full Melissa McCarthy today
Federal appeals court maintains suspension of Trump’s immigration order
Donald Trump cast doubt on the Baltics’ involvement in NATO. Here’s what they actually do.
Ted Cruz: ‘The Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan’
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Reading archive 2017-02-08
How the Anti-Vaxxers Are Winning
Anti-Trump Employees Put Their Bosses in the Hot Seat: Executives face internal pressure, even threats to quit, unless ties to Trump are severed.
Trump blasts Nordstrom for dropping Ivanka’s clothing line
The touching letter Hillary Clinton sent this lifelong Republican protesting Donald Trump
Out of options: School choice gutted Detroit’s public schools. The rest of the country is next.
Rural Americans felt abandoned by Democrats in 2016, so they abandoned them back. Can the party fix it? - whiny white people
Trump gives America’s critics their dream opponent
Department of Defense looks to rent space in Trump Tower
Sean Spicer Makes Up Atlanta Islamist Terror Attack: Kellyanne Conway is not the only Trump adviser to make up a terrorist attack. White House press secretary Sean Spicer has repeatedly listed Atlanta among cities wracked by Islamist terror.
Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch says Trump’s attacks on judiciary are ‘demoralizing’
Sean Spicer just set an extraordinary standard for criticizing military operations under Trump
First Vertical Forest In Asia To Have Over 3,000 Plants And Turns CO2 Into 132 Pounds Of Oxygen Per Day
Anti-Trump Employees Put Their Bosses in the Hot Seat: Executives face internal pressure, even threats to quit, unless ties to Trump are severed.
Trump blasts Nordstrom for dropping Ivanka’s clothing line
The touching letter Hillary Clinton sent this lifelong Republican protesting Donald Trump
Out of options: School choice gutted Detroit’s public schools. The rest of the country is next.
Rural Americans felt abandoned by Democrats in 2016, so they abandoned them back. Can the party fix it? - whiny white people
Trump gives America’s critics their dream opponent
Department of Defense looks to rent space in Trump Tower
Sean Spicer Makes Up Atlanta Islamist Terror Attack: Kellyanne Conway is not the only Trump adviser to make up a terrorist attack. White House press secretary Sean Spicer has repeatedly listed Atlanta among cities wracked by Islamist terror.
Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch says Trump’s attacks on judiciary are ‘demoralizing’
Sean Spicer just set an extraordinary standard for criticizing military operations under Trump
First Vertical Forest In Asia To Have Over 3,000 Plants And Turns CO2 Into 132 Pounds Of Oxygen Per Day
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Reading archive 2017-02-07
Ordinary Americans carried out inhumane acts for Trump
Sam Waterston: The danger of Trump’s constant lying
Trump is a boy’s idea of a man
Why You Need Less Noise for Work and Your Health
Republican lawmakers face rising anger at town halls
GOP gets bolder in breaking with Trump
Bannon flies close to the sun
New Documents Show Trump Retains Direct Tie to Businesses
Trump’s loose talk about Muslims gets weaponized in court against travel ban
How to Build an Autocracy: The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism. - Over the past generation, we have seen ominous indicators of a breakdown of the American political system: the willingness of congressional Republicans to push the United States to the brink of a default on its national obligations in 2013 in order to score a point in budget negotiations; Barack Obama’s assertion of a unilateral executive power to confer legal status upon millions of people illegally present in the United States—despite his own prior acknowledgment that no such power existed.
Donald Trump, however, represents something much more radical. A president who plausibly owes his office at least in part to a clandestine intervention by a hostile foreign intelligence service? Who uses the bully pulpit to target individual critics? Who creates blind trusts that are not blind, invites his children to commingle private and public business, and somehow gets the unhappy members of his own political party either to endorse his choices or shrug them off? If this were happening in Honduras, we’d know what to call it. It’s happening here instead, and so we are baffled.
The popular uprising that threatens the Betsy DeVos nomination
The provocative faith of Lady Gaga
‘I shot dad’: The tragic case of a child who killed his abusive, neo-Nazi father
Sam Waterston: The danger of Trump’s constant lying
Trump is a boy’s idea of a man
Why You Need Less Noise for Work and Your Health
Republican lawmakers face rising anger at town halls
GOP gets bolder in breaking with Trump
Bannon flies close to the sun
New Documents Show Trump Retains Direct Tie to Businesses
Trump’s loose talk about Muslims gets weaponized in court against travel ban
How to Build an Autocracy: The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism. - Over the past generation, we have seen ominous indicators of a breakdown of the American political system: the willingness of congressional Republicans to push the United States to the brink of a default on its national obligations in 2013 in order to score a point in budget negotiations; Barack Obama’s assertion of a unilateral executive power to confer legal status upon millions of people illegally present in the United States—despite his own prior acknowledgment that no such power existed.
Donald Trump, however, represents something much more radical. A president who plausibly owes his office at least in part to a clandestine intervention by a hostile foreign intelligence service? Who uses the bully pulpit to target individual critics? Who creates blind trusts that are not blind, invites his children to commingle private and public business, and somehow gets the unhappy members of his own political party either to endorse his choices or shrug them off? If this were happening in Honduras, we’d know what to call it. It’s happening here instead, and so we are baffled.
The popular uprising that threatens the Betsy DeVos nomination
The provocative faith of Lady Gaga
‘I shot dad’: The tragic case of a child who killed his abusive, neo-Nazi father
Monday, February 6, 2017
Reading archive 2017-02-06
Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles
Donald Trump Says ‘Negative Polls Are Fake News’
As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is hard at work
Why Melissa McCarthy Had to Play Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer Must Be Taking His Suit Advice From Donald Trump: Specifically, from Trump’s 2005 book “Think Like a Billionaire.”
ADDITIONS TO THE FIVE JOURNALISTIC “W”S
Conway used 'Bowling Green massacre' days before MSNBC interview
Cancel dinner plans. Send ‘nerd prom’ to the history books.
Obama got the Pentagon’s medal for distinguished public service, and Sarah Palin didn’t like it
George Will on leaving Fox News: ‘It’s their toy’
The Trump administration has sprung a leak. Many of them, in fact.
Hundreds of people showed up for a town hall with California's Rep. Tom McClintock, and things got intense
Mike Pence’s awkward — and telling — response to whether the U.S. is ‘morally superior’ to Russia
President Trump is now speculating that the media is covering up terrorist attacks
How to be an American: Syrian refugees find a home in Trump country
Former top diplomats, tech giants blast immigration order as court showdown looms
President Trump’s simplistic, illogical worldview, in one tweet
The White House and Fox join forces to undermine anti-Trump protests as violent and fake
We’re having the wrong argument about GMOs
Donald Trump Says ‘Negative Polls Are Fake News’
As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is hard at work
Why Melissa McCarthy Had to Play Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer Must Be Taking His Suit Advice From Donald Trump: Specifically, from Trump’s 2005 book “Think Like a Billionaire.”
ADDITIONS TO THE FIVE JOURNALISTIC “W”S
Conway used 'Bowling Green massacre' days before MSNBC interview
Cancel dinner plans. Send ‘nerd prom’ to the history books.
Obama got the Pentagon’s medal for distinguished public service, and Sarah Palin didn’t like it
George Will on leaving Fox News: ‘It’s their toy’
The Trump administration has sprung a leak. Many of them, in fact.
Hundreds of people showed up for a town hall with California's Rep. Tom McClintock, and things got intense
Mike Pence’s awkward — and telling — response to whether the U.S. is ‘morally superior’ to Russia
President Trump is now speculating that the media is covering up terrorist attacks
How to be an American: Syrian refugees find a home in Trump country
Former top diplomats, tech giants blast immigration order as court showdown looms
President Trump’s simplistic, illogical worldview, in one tweet
The White House and Fox join forces to undermine anti-Trump protests as violent and fake
We’re having the wrong argument about GMOs
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Friday, February 3, 2017
Reading archive 2017-02-03
The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence: He's trampled on the rights of women, LGBTQ folks and the poor. Then there's the incompetence. Meet, quite possibly, the next president - During my travels across the self-proclaimed Crossroads of America, I learned that Mike Pence had once paid his mortgage with campaign funds, dragged his feet during an HIV epidemic and a lead-poisoning outbreak, signed an anti-gay-rights bill that nearly cost Indiana millions of dollars, lost his mind on national TV with George Stephanopoulos, and turned away Syrian refugees in an unconstitutional ploy laughed out of federal court. And he ended his gubernatorial term unpopular enough that his re-election bid in a Republican state seemed dicey at best.
How to #StayOutraged Without Losing Your Mind: Self-Care Lessons for the Resistance
Trump's 'Voter-Fraud' Investigation Targets States That Opposed Him: The White House says an inquiry into baseless claims of illegal voting will spare states that voted for the president.
America’s Leading Authoritarian Intellectual Is Working for Trump
Donald Trump’s Excuse for Gutting Wall Street Regulations Is Hilariously Flimsy
What CEOs say happened in Trump’s closed-door meeting with big pharma
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner worked to sink LGBT order: Members of the religious right with ties to the Trump administration say they have been led to believe that some changes will still be coming.
Trump’s Enemies Within: The president has awakened the slumbering beast that felled presidents before him: the federal bureaucracy.
Will This Man Take Down Donald Trump?: They’ve been squaring off for years. Now New York’s attorney general is emerging as the leader of the Trump resistance.
A special warfare unit was spotted flying a Trump flag in public. Now the Navy is investigating.
How to #StayOutraged Without Losing Your Mind: Self-Care Lessons for the Resistance
Trump's 'Voter-Fraud' Investigation Targets States That Opposed Him: The White House says an inquiry into baseless claims of illegal voting will spare states that voted for the president.
America’s Leading Authoritarian Intellectual Is Working for Trump
Donald Trump’s Excuse for Gutting Wall Street Regulations Is Hilariously Flimsy
What CEOs say happened in Trump’s closed-door meeting with big pharma
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner worked to sink LGBT order: Members of the religious right with ties to the Trump administration say they have been led to believe that some changes will still be coming.
Trump’s Enemies Within: The president has awakened the slumbering beast that felled presidents before him: the federal bureaucracy.
Will This Man Take Down Donald Trump?: They’ve been squaring off for years. Now New York’s attorney general is emerging as the leader of the Trump resistance.
A special warfare unit was spotted flying a Trump flag in public. Now the Navy is investigating.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
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