And the winner of the 2017 #ProfileInCourage Award is… https://t.co/X8xXhlq9Y1 pic.twitter.com/0PJUmlAO7H — JFK Library (@JFKLibrary) March 2, 2017 Actor Sir Patrick Stewart applies for U.S. Citizenship to "fight" Trump https://t.co/CBIKsLDCLM pic.twitter.com/b6exv3W4kt — The Hill (@thehill) March 3, 2017 . What’s on the agenda as we prepare for another week? Melania Trump reads Dr. Seuss book …
Late Night Open Thread: NUTZ!
Tomorrow's front page…NUTS!@realDonaldTrump claims Obama tapped his phones before election https://t.co/B1yJ9KalPd pic.twitter.com/cr2NgJ3UqH — New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 5, 2017 As I understand the state of play in the Trump got wiretapped story, the Trump Administration is desperate to prove he's under investigation — Armando (@armandodkos) March 5, 2017 It took Nixon 6 years …
Open Thread: Somebody Pull Up the Drawbridge, Y’All!…
Communications on Trump's wire tap allegations are on lock down while White House legal staff figure out what should be said, I'm told. — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 4, 2017 If they're letting the lawyers manage this, then either they've acquired new discipline, or the lawyers have told them they're in deep s—. https://t.co/Z5Cnlqfx2S — …
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Schadenfreude Open Thread: Almost Too Much Fun for One Weekend!
Sen. Lindsey Graham: If Obama was able to obtain a warrant against Trump lawfully, "that would be the biggest scandal since Watergate." pic.twitter.com/l9sw7pcA7Y — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 4, 2017 If we must put up with “Waterbedgate: Second Time, As Farce”, you can’t hardly blame some people for enjoying the spectacle… Trump's morning tweets, in …
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Long Read: “Death on Derby Day in N.H.”
We’re getting the coldest snap of the winter so far right now (just in time to frost the daffodil buds!), so it seemed like a good time to share this. From the Boston Globe, a cautionary tale about the dangers of even small-scale climate shifts and the unconscious assumption that humanity has turned the whole …
Saturday Morning Open Thread: The Mastodon in the Room
A visual guide to the web of connections in Trump’s Russia controversies: https://t.co/4cxmrgbMKJ pic.twitter.com/RFb4KUVrtt — Vox (@voxdotcom) March 3, 2017 For a best-possible-faith counterpart, here’s Josh Marshall’s “The Innocent Explanation, Part #1”: … The simplest explanation isn’t necessarily the right one. But in the spirit of Occam’s Razor, we should prefer it because it usually …
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Late Night Open Thread: Don’t Get Our Hopes Up…
Trump devotees like Gordan & Carter Page are throwin' themselves on their swords to save Sessions sayin' "You can't indict us all." Try us. — Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) March 3, 2017 We have moved from "We didn't do anything" to "We didn't do anything bad."https://t.co/q6fnNC4ydZ — Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) March 4, 2017 If you need …
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