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  1. The Barbarian

    Trump throws his followers under the bus

    Actually it is the president who abandoned the DACA kids. He was offered a deal by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) — money for the border wall in exchange for DACA relief — but senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, along with Sen. Tom Cotton...
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    Yeah, that would work.

    One schools superintendent has a novel way to keep his students safe from school shooters: arming them with rocks. David Helsel, superintendent of a school district in northeast Pennsylvania, explained his plan to a legislative education committee last week, drawing a flurry of local media...
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    ANALYSIS: March for Our Lives could define politics for new generation

    NRA finally pushed it too far, it seems. The march comes in the immediate wake of further disappointment. Congress this week is wrapping up work on a massive spending bill that includes only a few modest fixes to the national gun-buying background-check system – essentially closing the door...
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    Republicans Don’t Care About the Russia Scandal. They Want Trump to Be a Better Liar

    On Tuesday, in preparation for his phone call with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, President Trump was given a briefing paper directing him to condemn Russia’s poisoning of a double agent on British soil and NOT to congratulate Putin on his rigged election. (“DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” read the...
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    “He said I was beautiful like her,”

    Former Playboy model Karen McDougal told CNN in an exclusive interview Thursday night that Donald Trump tried to pay her after having sex during their alleged 10-month affair more than a decade ago. “After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn’t know how to take that,”...
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    Bombfire Pizza

    https://vimeo.com/105194051 Stopped here a couple of years ago. Pizza's pretty good. The pizzaria is pretty weird. Why "Bombfire?" When they wrote the sign, they misspelled "bonfire."
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    I knew it!

    Imagine standing up to give a speech in front of a critical audience. As you do your best to wax eloquent, someone in the room uses a clicker to conspicuously count your every stumble, hesitation, um and uh; once you’ve finished, this person loudly announces how many of these blemishes have...
  8. The Barbarian

    More losing for Trump

    Congress dealt a blow to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s school choice agenda in a tentative spending bill released late Wednesday, rejecting her attempt to spend more than $1 billion promoting choice-friendly policies and private school vouchers. DeVos had sought to cut Education Department...
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    What a Stormy situation Trump trapped himself in

    The president who boasted of treating women like sex objects is being outplayed at his own tabloid-warfare game by a porn star. Maybe there’s justice in the world after all. You might have missed it in the ceaseless fusillade of news, but on Wednesday the White House all but confirmed the story...
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    More trouble in the Klown Kar

    Wondering why Trump's response to Russiagate is so disjointed? President Donald Trump’s lawyers are helping him think through whether to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller for an interview or fire him amid a potential staff shake-up. Last Saturday, Trump’s top personal lawyer, John...
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    Another School Shooting

    Gunman was killed, reportedly by school resource officer. Two students injured, one critically. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/379266-police-respond-to-reports-of-shooting-at-maryland-high-school
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    More from the Klown Kar

    Social media users quickly took to Twitter to respond to a Washington Post report on Tuesday that President Trump had ignored an all-caps warning from his national security advisers to not congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin for winning his reelection. The Post reported that Trump had...
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    Fox's Napolitano: McCabe firing could be seen as obstruction of justice

    Fox New’s Judge Andrew Napolitano warned Monday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions's firing on Friday of former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe could be seen as “obstruction of justice.” Napolitano said on Fox News's "America's Newsroom" Monday that he viewed McCabe’s firing as “vindictive”...
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    Supreme Couirt lets stand Pennsylvania Gerrymandering decision

    In a devastating blow to Pennsylvania republicans, the Supreme Court let stand a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that partisan Gerrymandering is in violation of the state Constitution. Even worse for the republicans, they stubbornly refused to produce a legal redistricting map, so...
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    Trump increasingly agitated

    Sources close to President Trump said he has grown increasingly "agitated" as he realizes the Russia isn't ending soon. The sources believe that agitation spilled over onto Twitter over the weekend, when Trump attacked special counsel Robert Mueller for the first time. The sources said that...
  16. The Barbarian

    Sorry, they aren't legal

    Trump had senior staff sign nondisclosure agreements. They’re supposed to last beyond his presidency. Back in April 2016, when the notion of Donald Trump in the White House still seemed fanciful, The Post’s Robert Costa and Bob Woodward sat down with Trump, and Costa, at one point, raised the...
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    Trump assails Mueller; republicans rebuke him.

    WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday abandoned a strategy of showing deference to the special counsel examining Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, lashing out at what he characterized as a partisan investigation and alarming Republicans who feared he might seek to shut it...
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    Jeff Sessions may have violated his recusal pledge when he fired Andrew McCabe

    Jeff Sessions may have violated his recusal pledge when he fired Andrew McCabe Making the Justice Department inspector general’s report public would help clear things up. On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, allegedly for misleading...
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    No end to this...

    Trump loses his temper on the phone after learning that Comey was allowed to fly back to Washington on an FBI plane after being fired during his trip: President Trump’s attorney on Sunday pushed back on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s claims that the president called his wife a...
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    Why Trump is very, very afraid now.

    Bob Mueller is famously nonchalant amid life’s toughest moments. Much of that public calm stems from the fact that he’s a Magnificent ******* and, specifically, the lessons of December 11, 1968. That day, then Second Lieutenant Mueller’s squad—part of the Second Platoon, Hotel Company, Second...
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