From Reuters: Martha Stewart, Canadian pot business in joint effort aimed at pets Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is joining Canadian marijuana producer Canopy Growth as an adviser to help develop and launch a line of pot-based products for humans and animals, it said on Thursday. The deal between Sequential Brands Group Inc, which owns the …
Yet another Cohen open thread
I’ve been unable to watch the last few hours. But my overall impression from the first portion of the testimony is that Cohen was eloquent in portraying how Trump recreated the corrupt culture of the Trump Organization in the Trump Administration. The GOP goons angrily attacking Cohen at the hearing couldn’t have mirrored Cohen’s performance …
Monday Night Open Thread
It was five years ago today that I lost my mom. Doesn’t suck any less. Here’s to her. Open thread!
The time of day
It’s becoming de rigueur for Democrats to refuse money from PACs and industry lobbyists, but Elizabeth Warren announced today that she’s taking it a step further: There’s another huge way in which money influences presidential campaigns. It usually goes unspoken, but I want to call it out: Candidates for public office in America spend way …
Smart woman, dumb boss
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen was interviewed by Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace recently. He asked her about Trump: Ryssdal: Do you think the president has a grasp of macroeconomic policy? Yellen: No, I do not. Ryssdal: Tell me more. Yellen: Well, I doubt that he would even be able to say that the Fed’s goals …
LOCK HIM UP! (Open Thread)
Roger Stone is back before Judge Amy Berman Jackson, trying to explain why she shouldn’t throw his sorry ass in jail. Here’s a tweet from Tierney Sneed, a TPM reporter: Now we’re discussing how Stone found the image, among two or three of Berman Jackson. Stone said he chose it “just randomly.” Berman Jackson: “You …
The Gathering Shit-Storm
Thanks to the Russian government’s wildly successful 2016 effort at shoe-horning their asset into the Oval Office, we can all expect a metric shit-ton of disinformation to rain on our heads from now to election day 2020. Every other bad actor — foreign and domestic — will jump on the disinformation bandwagon for fun and …