London’s Channel 4 ran the last segment of their Cambridge Analytica undercover exposé today — the part about the Trump campaign. Immediately afterward, CA suspended its CEO: An investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran ‘all’ of President Trump’s digital campaign – and may have broken election law. As …
Russiagate
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: #FaceBorked
(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) . Of course it's infrastucture week. They're digging holes and shoveling shit aren't they? — TreasonWeasle (@TreasonWeasle) March 20, 2018 Michelle Goldberg, in the NYTimes, on “Trump’s High-Tech Dirty Tricksters”: …After days of revelations, there’s still a lot we don’t know about Cambridge Analytica. But we’ve learned that an operation at …
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Late-Night Speculation Russiagate Open Thread: Was North Carolina in 2014 A Trial Run for Cambridge Analytica?
GOP, eager to avoid picking fight with Trump, backs off calls to move on legislation to protect Mueller. Thom Tillis, cosponsor of bill, said “I don’t think there’s any imminent need to do it today or this week. Tillis aide tried to prevent us from asking https://t.co/4mV0T9w4m3 — Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 19, 2018 https://t.co/8guoOX3zyH …
Monday Morning Open Thread: Never A Slow News Day!
Just a reminder: this is where you can check which apps have access to your Facebook data, or which sites you’ve logged in to. https://t.co/zlxRx3EGOj — Anil Dash (@anildash) March 17, 2018 Murphy the Trickster God only knows what’ll happen by start-of-business hours, so here’s a bunch of snippets before they get overwhelmed by this …
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Open Thread: #ReleasetheMcCabeMemos ?
Republican source to me just now: “The McCabe Memos are the new Pentagon Papers.” #MuellerTime — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 17, 2018 We are a mere 21 hours past the McCabe firing and the headlines on cable news are all about McCabe’s memos. This is the most delicious vendetta fail in the history of petty …
Russiagate Open Thread: Allegedly, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III Is A Liar
NEW: Reuters: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' testimony that he opposed a proposal for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign team to meet with Russians has been contradicted by three people https://t.co/xD3CCBtCuh — Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) March 18, 2018 … Or maybe his memory is just failing, selectively: … Sessions testified before Congress in November 2017 …
The Widening Gyre
Before we get to today’s unpleasantness, here’s a downy woodpecker drumming in our bamboo stand this morning: As I mentioned on Twitter earlier, downy woodpeckers are the smallest woodpecker species in North America, and their eggs are about the size of jelly beans. Isn’t that cool? Stop reading here if you’d like to hold onto …