An editorial
A New York Times editorial: “Seizing Children From Parents at the Border Is Immoral. Here’s What We Can Do About It.” Have you called your representatives in Congress yet?
DKNK
Nicholas Kristof: “It’s breathtaking to see an American president emerge as a spokesman for the dictator of North Korea.”
“Act an ASS”
“Use your voice. Take a risk. Act an ASS.” And: “Do not obey in advance.”
Tape
Federal employees have been assigned to tape back together the documents the president rips up.
No science
“Mr. Trump is the first president since 1941 not to name a science adviser, a position created during World War II to guide the Oval Office on technical matters ranging from nuclear warfare to global pandemics.”
Be prepared (?)
Yeah, you got this.
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Challenge coins, on sale!
Spare change
All those challenge coins.
“Entirely made-up”
A made-up deadline, or so it seems.
Who?
Oh, wait, he’s speaking of South Sudan.
A theory
“This account — as bizarre as it may seem at first glance — is actually more plausible than the story leaked to the Journal, the New York Times, and CNN.”
Donald Trump is not a jazz musician
Such comparisons are an insult to improvising musicians, who know what they’re doing. They may be working from a set list (of “tunes”). Or they may be engaged in collective free improvisation. Either way, they’re always working with a high degree of sympathetic understanding, attentive to and responsive to fellow players.
“Thin it out”
Everything that needs to be conveyed to the President must be boiled down, the former staffer said, to “two or three points, with the syntactical complexity of ‘See Jane run.’”
Mushrooming
And I thought the allegations were limited to alcohol, Ambien, and Percocet.
Sean Hannity’s “property empire”
And here I was, thinking that Hannity was asking Michael Cohen for advice about buying that cute little split-level ranch in the new subdivision.
Decorum
Media decorum about brutal imaginings won’t help our democracy, or help what’s left of it.
Recently updated
The release of James Comey’s memos clears up a question I had about who said what.
“Trump’s mystery mansion”
One short Reveal story, about a Beverly Hills property changing hands in exceedingly strange ways.
Cohen, Cohen, Cohen
At Talking Points Memo , three pieces on Michael Cohen: 1 , 2 , 3.
“Demagogues and charlatans”
Rob Riemen: “Put demagogues and charlatans in charge, use the mass media to cultivate the belief that this leader, the antipolitical politician, is the only person who can save the country — and the constitutional, democratic institutions will disappear just as quickly as the authorities become impotent because no one believes in them anymore.”
“The ſhrill Trumpe”
As seen in the Bodleian First Folio.
Got warrants?
One warrant? More than one? Whichever. Seize! Seize!
Not exactly a profile in courage
Our representative in Congress, John Shimkus (R, Illinois-15), commenting on the possibility of Chinese tariffs on soybeans and other crops: “I’m just a legislator.”
The real fake news in Illinois
The Chicago Tribune reports on Liberty Principles and Think Freely Media, purveyors of pseudo-newspapers.
Barnum and Dennison
At Innovation Hub , a conversation about P.T. Barnum, touching on resemblances to the current president.
Impromptu in D
“Oh, Jake,” Peggy said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”
Cambridge Analytica, continued
Today, the company’s work with a recent presidential campaign.
Steroids and stilts
“Trump is Nixon on steroids and stilts”: John Dean (who should know).
Channel 4 News and Cambridge Analytica
From Channel 4 News , a five-part series about Cambridge Analytica.
“Facebook’s Surveillance Machine”
Zeynep Tufekci: “A business model based on vast data surveillance and charging clients to opaquely target users based on this kind of extensive profiling will inevitably be misused.”