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  1. The Barbarian

    Trump insulating himself from reality

    Rather than broadening the range of voices who have a place at the table and who can provide him with diverse analysis about how to handle the crises that the nation faces, Trump seems instead to be getting rid of anyone who sings even a slightly different tune. With any president, such insular...
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    Trump tries to rationalize his Pennsylvania loss

    Trump, who claimed that Conor Lamb was a tool of Nancy Pelosi, is now claiming that Lamb is a republican. Trump falsely claimed that Lamb supported his tax bill and repeal of Obamacare, after his guy lost. Before he lost, he claimed Lamb was a radical liberal. Even his supporters don't...
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    Stormy Daniels, the tip of the iceberg?

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    Mueller Moves a little closer

    Mueller subpoenas Trump organization records. Not good news for Trump.
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    IQ test.

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    Who's next out of the clown car?

    Trump suggests that the turmoil in his administration might not be over: Apparently, he's decided to fire everyone smarter than he is. There's a long line.
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    DeVos tries to explain how her "reforms" didn't really make schools worse

    In the wake of controversial comments during a recent television appearance, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sought Tuesday to further clarify her stance on school choice. In an interview aired Sunday on CBS's 60 Minutes, DeVos struggled to explain how diverting money from underperforming...
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    Ted Cruz messes up:

    On Tuesday, after he comfortably won the Republican primary for his Senate seat, Ted Cruz asserted his Lone Star State bona fides by dropping a country music radio ad aimed at educating Texans about what real Texas men are not. ... Cruz’s opponent, Robert O’Rourke, a white man of Irish ancestry...
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    ICE official resigns rather than lie for Trump

    James Schwab has resigned from his job as a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, saying he didn't agree with Trump administration officials' use of "misleading facts" to attack Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf after the mayor issued a warning about an immigration sweep in late February. "I quit...
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    ‘We’ve lost all credibility’: GOP House intel member contradicts his own party’s Russ

    House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) on Monday admitted his panel has “lost all credibility” after waffling on whether or not he accepts his party’s conclusions on the Russia probe. GOP committee members on Monday released a draft report from the year-long Russia probe...
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    "But I was just doing what President Trump does!

    Sen. Bill Dix, the leader of the Iowa Senate's Republican majority, resigned Monday, just hours after video was posted online showing him apparently kissing a lobbyist at a Des Moines tavern earlier this month. Dix met briefly with his Republican colleagues behind closed doors at 1 p.m...
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    Trump’s Lawyers Seem to Be Getting Desperate

    On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s lawyers were considering an audacious demand of Robert Mueller. In return for granting Mueller an interview with Trump, they would require he commit to end his investigation of the Russia scandal within 60 days. ... There is zero chance...
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    Shocking poll results from Trump country

    This is probably not accurate. If the republicans can't win in this heavily-gerrymandered district, they'll have trouble winning anywhere. National republicans are pouring money into the race, and even Trump has come in a last-ditch effort to reverse the trend. Maybe it will be enough. I...
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    Conservatism is curable.

    Well, changeable. Conservatism isn't a mental disorder unless it interferes with normal living. But there's been a lot of data collected on how brains of conservatives are different than those of other people. Conservatives, it turns out, react more strongly to physical threat than liberals...
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    There's more to Ruasian interference than Mueller supposed

    For Russia, cyber-operations are a subset of overall information warfare and a way to integrate hacking seamlessly into influence campaigns. Russia considers NATO expansion and Western incursions into post-Soviet space existential threats, providing pressing motivations for a response...
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    Trump Money Laundering and Organized Crime

    Global Witness Report: Trump Ocean Club, Money Laundering, and the Russian Mafia https://themoscowproject.org/dispatch/moscow-project-dispatch-11-17-2017/
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    Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists

    Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists Carbon-free fusion power could be ‘on the grid in 15 years’ The dream of nuclear fusion is on the brink of being realised, according to a major new US initiative that says it will put fusion power on the grid within 15 years. The...
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    Bill Maher rips liberals

    (Warning, on objectionable word in the report) Maher Trashes Liberal Response To Trump North Korea Meeting: "F*ck You," "It Just Might Work" Posted By Ian Schwartz On Date March 10, 2018 On Friday night's broadcast of HBO's Real Time, host Bill Maher said he watched the cable news reaction to...
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    Gun owners vs. the NRA

    Gun owners vs. the NRA: What the polling shows Third, gun owners who were not NRA members were more supportive of gun control than guns owners who were NRA members. Forty percent of non-NRA gun owners supported a national gun registry. Forty percent supported a ban on the sale of magazines...
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    Trump again upsets his lawyers by talking to witnesses

    What [Donald] Trump has done here is what every defense lawyer warns their client not to do, which is talk to witnesses,” Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama, told me Thursday morning. The night before, The New York Times had reported that Robert Mueller...
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