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 …
Notice Issued (Open Thread)
Pelosi forbids further fuckery: Michael Cohen will come before the @OversightDems & @HouseIntel Committees next week. Congress has an independent duty under the Constitution to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch, and any efforts to intimidate family members or pressure witnesses will not be tolerated. https://t.co/VDc6zE6lwH — Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) February 21, 2019 I can …
“Step firmly down upon the rake of history…”
As Trump and GOP-driven buffoonery and malfeasance consume almost every minute of our news cycle in the U.S., our cousins across the Atlantic continue hurtling toward a world-historic catastrophuck of their own: TL;DW summary from Mr. Oliver: “A true act of political courage wouldn’t be to call for a second referendum…it would be to acknowledge …
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“Who’s a good debate moderator? You are!” (Open Thread)
Like me, you’re probably expecting the upcoming primary debates to be a shit-show thanks to crappy moderators angling for click-baity soundbites. Someone in my Twitter timeline (can’t remember who, and Twitter doesn’t make backtracking easy) asked folks to suggest unconventional debate formats. I think a Puppy Bowl-style forum would be revealing since dogs are generally …
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Sanders Announces 2020 Campaign
Via Dave Weigel at The Post: Sen. Bernie Sanders will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, whose 2016 presidential campaign grew from a left-wing insurgency to a force that reshaped the Democratic Party, announced Tuesday that he will seek its nomination for president again in 2020… “Our campaign is …
Klobuchar Town Hall
Anyone watching? It’s on CNN with Don Lemon. She brought up rising insurance rates as a current effect of climate change. That’s something that will ring true for many coastal folk. She’s doing well half an hour in. Has a good command of facts and reasonably detailed responses to policy questions. So cool that we …