Saturday, July 13, 2019

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AOC Is the Trump-Era Hero We Need: When AOC talks, Republicans know they are losing

Himes Calls for Impeachment Inquiry

Why seeing Trump’s tax returns really matters

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Thousands of Americans are committed to reading the Mueller report — cover to cover — together. Join us!

Full list: The leaked Trump transition vetting documents

Leaked Trump transition vetting documents show numerous officials with 'red flags': Axios

DONALD TRUMP RAPE ACCUSER E. JEAN CARROLL SAYS SHE'S RECEIVED DEATH THREATS SINCE MAKING ALLEGATION

The hottest headlines, tweets, humor, and videos all in one place (The Drudge Report for the Left?)

Warren opens big lead over Sanders and Biden in MoveOn poll

Rantin' Randy's Rant 6/25/19

Tucker Carlson Stops War With Iran! Dems Upset.

List of Trump's accusers and their allegations of sexual misconduct

Judge says Democrats can begin collecting Trump financial records in emoluments suit

Robert Mueller To Testify Before House Judiciary And Intelligence Committees: The special counsel is set to testify in open session before Congress on July 17 about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

Mueller agrees to testify before 2 House committees in July

Trump attacks Mueller after he agrees to testify to Congress

Harvard Law Prof Calls Sen. Mitch McConnell a ‘Flagrant Dickhead’

Stephen Colbert and Chris Cuomo ask why a rape allegation against a sitting president isn't bigger news

'Middle class Joe' Biden is renting a $20,000-a-month Virginia home from a venture capitalist and REFUSES to name everyone who paid him for 50 speeches at up to $200,000 a time

HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP WARNS IT WILL CUT OFF ANY FIRMS THAT CHALLENGE INCUMBENTS

AOC’s Generation Doesn’t Presume America’s Innocence
Ocasio-Cortez’s “concentration camps” comment questions an old orthodoxy: that only other countries—and not the U.S.—are capable of evil.

The Democratic Debate: Night 1

Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say.  Joe Biden helped give America the language that is still used to oppose school integration today, legislative and education history experts say.

Maher: 'Very hard' to win in 2020 if Democrats run on 'reparations and concentration camps'

Overtime: Allan Lichtman, Dan Savage, Thom Hartmann, Liz Mair, Dr. Debra Soh | Real Time (HBO)

They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45

Supreme Court allows gerrymandering in North Carolina, Maryland, setting back reform efforts: The justices found that the "partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts."

Biden Tells Donors and Lobbyists at Fundraiser That GOP Will 'Know Better' After Trump and Wall Street Bankers 'Are All Positive': "Trying to decide which of 'Wall Street: they're all positive' or 'Republicans know better' would be a more fitting slogan for the Joe Biden campaign."

Supreme Court blocks Trump on census citizenship question, he calls ruling 'ridiculous'

We just released a new report revealing Lindsey Graham’s Russia-linked donations

Van Jones: Castro did the 'Texas take down' on O'Rourke.  Following NBC's Democratic presidential debate, CNN's Van Jones said candidates Elizabeth Warren and Julián Castro dominated the first debate.

The winner of the first Democratic debate: Donald Trump.  Analysis: The Republican commander in chief emerged from the scrap largely unscathed, while several of his would-be rivals took aim at each other instead.

‘Traitor!’: Disheveled Paul Manafort Assailed at Hearing for 16 New Charges.  The former Trump campaign chief looked haggard as he pleaded not-guilty to mortgage fraud charges on Thursday.

Donald Trump warns Megan Rapinoe not to 'disrespect' US flag at World Cup

Rantin' Randy's Rant 6/27/19

The Women Who Won the Debates Are the Democrats’ Best Hope: We need to get past the trauma of Hillary Clinton’s defeat.

Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision is an abdication of its duty to protect voters: The states are now our safety valves against party overreach when voting districts are drawn.

LISTEN: Biden Supported A Constitutional Amendment To End Mandated Busing In 1975

Ted Cruz humiliates himself with absurd question to Google exec

Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook

RASKIN, VAN HOLLEN INTRODUCE HANDGUN PURCHASER LICENSING ACT

Rep. Raskin Highlights Need to Protect our Elections

Cortez Masto, Gillibrand, Markey, Blumenthal Introduce Legislation to Require Alternatives to Immigrant Detention

LOL. How The Mighty Have Fallen.

Attorney General Barr Killed 7 Mueller Probes 10 Days After Release of his 4-Page Bogus Summary

Trump claims Mueller a criminal, is 'very happy' McCain is dead, and Fed chief is 'a pu— '

For Chuck Todd, the campaign is just cynical game of "Gotcha." The candidates aren't playing.

Get lost, Donny Deutsch, and take your sexist political tropes with you

Reporters held a going-away party for a public official whose actions harmed the press—and nation

Prosecutors say California Republican used campaign cash to finance two—no, three—no, five affairs

Rep. Katie Porter just neutered Ajit Pai's attempt to block broadband competition in San Francisco

Supreme Court undermines free and fair elections by refusing to limit partisan gerrymandering

Here are five ways you can fight gerrymandering right now

The Democratic Party Attempts To Pivot To The Future — Ready Or Not

Tucker Carlson: Leading a Country ‘Means Killing People’.  ‘You've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people,’ Carlson said, while speaking to Fox & Friends from South Korea.

Judge Allows Dems' Emoluments Case Against Trump to Go Forward

A Guide to the 2020 Democratic Candidates You Should Not Vote For

Let's talk about 14 characteristics, 10 stages, and where you are....

SUPREME COURT ENDORSES EFFORTS BY REPUBLICANS TO STACK THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND STATE LEGISLATURES

One of These People Is Not Like the Others, One of These People Just Doesn’t Belong: A viral video of Ivanka Trump shows world leaders reacting with forced politeness and thinly disguised irritation

Trayvon Martin’s Mother, Sybrina Fulton, Is Running for Office in Florida

What The Hell Is Nancy Pelosi Doing?  House Democrats have lost their moral compass.

Neal Balks At Using New New York State Law To Get Trump Tax Returns

A New Racist Campaign Against Kamala Harris Is Taking Shape: “Seeing the tweets declaring that Kamala isn’t black enough because her parents are from Jamaica and India, I had an immediate flashback to the 2008 campaign.”

Trump campaign, RNC raise $105 million in second quarter

The science of influencing people: six ways to win an argument: Hidebound views on subjects such as the climate crisis and Brexit are the norm – but the appliance of science may sway stubborn opinions

Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow. Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism

Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump’s July 4 Event: “It’s really a way to honor a family that ... has shown that the country is bigger than any one individual,” said Peter Kauffmann of VoteVets.

NY Times Admits It Sends Stories to US Government for Approval Before Publication: The New York Times casually acknowledged that it sends major scoops to the US government before publication, to make sure “national security officials” have “no concerns.”

Five Principles That Will Power President Trump's Reelection

Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz takes portraits of five women running for president

How Russia is boosting its role in Africa with weapons, investment and ‘instructors’: For some African countries, improved ties with Russia are attractive, enabling them to play the competition card with Europe and China

It’s Going to Rain and Thunderstorm for Trump’s July 4th Event and People Are THRILLED

‘Socialist!’ — you say that like it’s a bad thing: Readers defend socialist ideas in response to Jeff Jacoby’s recent column about the Democrats.  Socialism would be an antidote to what ails America.

Why free speech matters

Exclusive: Biden expresses skepticism of Democrats' leftward tilt and AOC's mass appeal

US Ambassador to Singapore, fired by Trump, wears Obama T-shirt as he leaves

The Court Mitch McConnell Built: Has it become hopelessly partisan?

The Great American Heist: A new Cabinet has coalesced around Donald Trump entering Year Three of his presidency, one that seems poised to pull the United States further—and more efficiently—towards kleptocracy.

19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was passed 100 years ago today

Earthquakes

The damage donnie is doing, Federal, State and Local. We can save our country. It's Friday Baby!

In William Barr Trump Finds Tool Against Political Enemies, Investigators | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Letters: Nikita Khrushchev's chilling prediction: 'We will take America without firing a shot'

Where was Trump when Pence was ordered to return to the White House for an 'emergency'? He won't say

Biden lashes out at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with Republican Meme about her inexperience

More trouble for the National Rifle Association as top donors mull their own revolt

#ETTU?  Notes on Cancel Culture

Joe Biden keeps making things worse for himself

Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather.   This article is more than 2 years old.  Royal decree ordered Friedrich Trump to leave Bavaria and never come back after he failed to do military service

US system needs to combat corruption - Robert Steele, Herland Report TV

Anderson Cooper schools Lara Trump after tone-deaf Germany comment

Elizabeth Warren's first law review article blasted an anti-busing court ruling

Aladdin - "I am the United States" - recitation

Donald Trump Reports He’s Getting Rich as President: The president’s submission to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics claims tens of millions of dollars in income from his real-estate empire.

Kellyanne Conway Has Complete Nervous Breakdown On Reporter For Asking Simple Question

The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity: Support for Trump comes at a high cost for Christian witness.

Republicans donate to Marianne Williamson’s campaign to keep her in the Democratic debates

Sorry but there is no evidence that democrats are moving too far left

Trump Supporters Get Soaked As Heavy Rains Hit Trump’s 4th Of July Event

Calls For Sen. Graham To Resign Grow After Suggesting Trump Seek A Third Term

House Files Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Trump Tax Returns

RNC Giving Out Tickets To Trump’s Hijacked Fourth Of July Celebration: What had been a nonpolitical, nonpartisan celebration on the National Mall will now likely be a multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-financed political rally, critics worry.

Liberal democracy

Mitch McConnell threatens to block everything if Trump loses in 2020: Mitch McConnell is already threatening to bring the country to a screeching halt if voters get rid of Trump.

How Hitler went from fringe politician to dictator — and why it's a mistake to think it couldn't happen in the US

AUTHORS OF THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP RELEASE MENTAL HEALTH ANALYSIS OF MUELLER REPORT

Internet loses it over Trump's unusual quirk

Melania Trump: I fell in love with Donald’s ‘amazing mind’

Trump reaches highest approval rating of presidency in latest poll: However, most Americans in The Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday say Trump has not acted in a way that is fitting and proper for a president.

Fear And Loathing At The Supreme Court — What Is Chief Justice John Roberts Up To?

AOC hits back at Pelosi for knocking far-left lawmakers who voted against border bill

Trump Ejects Protester Who Holds Up Picture Of Donald With Jeffrey Epstein

Joe Biden Minimizes AOC’s Historic Win

Why are people so hostile towards President Donald Trump?

With Jeffrey Epstein locked up, these are nervous times for his friends, enablers

Let's talk about Marianne Williamson, Pelosi, AOC, and the future....

UK Ambassador Called Trump Administration 'Clumsy And Inept'

NY Prosecutors Charge Jeffrey Epstein With Sex Trafficking

Trump Can’t Block Critics From His Twitter Account, Appeals Court Rules: The decision may have broader implications for how the First Amendment applies to officials’ accounts in the social-media era.

Ross Perot 1992 - Balancing the Budget & Reforming Government

The Ku Klux Klan officially endorses Donald Trump for president: The Republican candidate has yet to reject the endorsement

Trump 'dossier' author grilled by Justice Department watchdogs: sources

CHUCK SCHUMER CALLS ON TRUMP TO 'ANSWER' FOR PAST PRAISE OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN FOR ENJOYING 'WOMEN ON THE YOUNGER SIDE'

Trump peeved at Fox News for airing 'F--- Trump' chant: report

The Jeffrey Epstein case could involve a ‘well-known prime minister.’ Here’s what we know

British Ambassador to US accused of being a dangerously shrewd judge of character

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”: Someone on Quora asked, “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote this response… A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no […]

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I've Read

Mick Jagger Mocks Trump’s Revolutionary War Airports Blunder At Massachusetts Concert: If only the Redcoats had held on to those airports, “the whole thing might have gone differently for us,” the rocker goofed.

Old clip of Boris Johnson saying Donald Trump 'unfit' to be US president beamed onto side of Big Ben

An Explosive Leaked Recording Reveals How Russia Secretly Tried To Funnel Millions To The “European Trump”: Exclusive: Three Russian operatives and a close aide to Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini were caught on a tape obtained by BuzzFeed News negotiating a plan to siphon money from a billion-dollar oil deal into Salvini’s far-right Lega party.

Hobson's choice

Avoidance-avoidance conflict

Open Letter: To my Trump-supporting family.

Joe Biden Isn’t The Unequivocal 2020 Democratic Front-Runner Anymore: The former vice president still leads in the polls, but he’s increasingly challenged by a trio of other top-tier candidates.

Trump Lied to the Supreme Court, and Four Justices Don’t Care: The White House insisted allegations that it wanted to add a citizenship question to the survey for political reasons were conspiracy theories, right up until the moment the president confirmed them.

Satire from The Borowitz Report: Military Refuses to Participate in Trump’s Parade, Citing Bone Spurs

Facebook censored a post for hate speech; it was the Declaration of Independence

‘F-ck Trump’ Chants Interrupt Fox News World Cup Broadcast from Bar in France: The president said he would invite the team to the White House, “win or lose,” but on Saturday, co-captain Megan Rapinoe expressed doubt that any of her teammates would take him up on the offer

Joe Biden, Closet Republican: He’s the liberal Bob Dole, the looser Mitt Romney, the supposedly safe bet who’s owed a shot.

Satire from The Borowitz Report: British Ambassador Concealed Insults from Trump by Writing Messages in English

Why Boris Johnson cannot rebuke Donald Trump - Robert Peston

Do most voters even know who Bill Weld is?

The Baker administration had an important opportunity to help poor children – it passed

Justices turn a blind eye to gerrymandering

Trump’s July 4th pageant can’t mask the rot within

‘Proclaim Liberty’: How the Hebrew Bible molded revolutionary America

AOC, Sanders, and Warren Are the Real Centrists Because They Speak for Most Americans

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta must go

With impeachment in the air, Joe Kennedy inhales

White House blocked intelligence agency’s written testimony saying human caused climate change could be possibly catastrophic

Trump’s rising poll numbers raise a question

Epstein case highlights America’s two justice systems

Why free speech matters.

Continental Congress declares United Colonies Free and Independent States

Trump’s bromance with authoritarians

Nancy Pelosi can’t swat away the revolution

Let's talk about social media's impacts on political campaigns....

Fed Up With Constant Attacks and Insults, Ocasio-Cortez Slams Pelosi as 'Outright Disrespectful' for Singling Out Progressives: "I think that it would be hypocritical for me to remain silent on injustices just because those injustices may come from our side of the aisle."

‘I smell trouble’: Trump defends Deutsche Bank in bizarre series of tweets — and sets off alarm bells

Trump's Oklahoma campaign chair to plead guilt to child sex trafficking

Miriam Adelson wants a 'Book of Trump' in the Bible. We asked an expert if that's possible

The Loser Plays The Con | Blue Dot Live Stream

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