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  1. The Barbarian

    DeVoss uses stock photo, pretends it's a real classroom

    Our frootcake Secretary of Education has done it again. Even more disturbing than the faked photo is DeVoss' notion that classrooms today still work that way. A classroom I happen to have known: As my principal said, I could have walked out of the classroom, and none of the students...
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    Worth considering

    Modern American political discourse can seem disjointed to the point of absurdism. But the problem isn’t just filter bubbles, echo chambers or alternative facts. It’s tone: When the loudest voices on the left talk about people on the right, it is with an air of barely concealed smugness, quick...
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    And here comes another one...

    Mueller investigates secret Trump team meeting in Seychelles Mueller investigates secret Trump team meeting in Seychelles
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    How biased is your news source?

    Are we even aware of our biases anymore? If you look at this chart and are convinced your “extreme” source belongs in the middle, you just might be part of the problem plaguing America today...
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    Trump gets retraining order to stop discussion of his sexual behavior

    Trump’s lawyer got a restraining order to prevent Stormy Daniels from speaking out Donald Trump’s attorney got a secret restraining order against adult film star Stormy Daniels last month to block her from speaking publicly about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump. The revelation came a day...
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    Porn actress sues Trump

    Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued Donald Trump Tuesday, alleging that he never signed the nondisclosure agreement that his lawyer had arranged with her. The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by NBC News, alleges that her agreement not to disclose her "intimate"...
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    And another one gone...

    Gary Cohn Resigns as White House Economic Adviser After Losing Tariffs Fight Defeat on tariffs was latest setback for Mr. Cohn, who has seen many ups and downs in turbulent West Wing Gary Cohn will resign from the White House after 14 months serving as President Donald Trump’s top economic...
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    Trump's support falling among evangelicals

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0p-du2KE4I
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    Fake news: how it works

    A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide." The story is completely false, but it was shared on Facebook over...
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    Trump and the prorn star

    WSJ: Cohen complained about lack of reimbursement for porn star payment President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen complained to friends he had not been reimbursed for a six-figure payment to a porn star alleged to have had an affair with Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported...
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    Hope Hicks "de facto Therapist for Trump

    'These are the darkest days in at least half a year,' for the White House, some WH aides tell the Washington Post in a new report. Philip Rucker joins Morning Joe to discuss talking with roughly two dozen staffers on the mood inside the West Wing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwLIo__RQlo
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    Trump friends worried

    CNN's Gloria Borger reports that some of Trump's allies in the White House are worried about him. One source says this past week is "different," that advisers are scared the President is spiraling, lashing out, just out of control. For example: Demanding to hold a public session where he made...
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    "This is a civil war in a leper colony"

    MARK SHIELDS: What matters is chaos in the White House is bad for the United States and bad for the world. There’s no rational order. I mean, for example, what you have described, the morale at the White House, from every report, is just incredibly low. To work in any White House, Judy, is an...
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    And the blowback continues...

    L.L. Bean became the latest retailer to announce that it will no longer sell guns or ammunition to customers younger than 21. In response to a tweet from one consumer asking the outdoors retailer to change its policy, the Maine-based retailer replied late Thursday, "In the wake of this shooting...
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    Yes, he is a moron.

    President Trump on Thursday said he has decided to impose punishing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum in a major escalation of his trade offensive, disappointing Republican congressional leaders and inviting retaliation by U.S. trading partners. Speaking at the White House, the president...
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    Why lobbyists are suddenly telling all sorts of scare stories about solar energy

    The US electricity sector is in a period of unprecedented change and turmoil. Renewable energy prices are falling like crazy. Natural gas production continues its extraordinary surge. Coal, the golden child of the current administration, is headed down the tubes. In all that bedlam, it’s easy...
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    She went to work for him, didn't she?

    The final straw: Tearful Hope Hicks resigned hours after 'Trump berated her and asked her how she could be so stupid' for admitting she told 'white lies' for the president during Russia probe testimony Source close to president has claimed Trump berated Hope Hicks on Tuesday Hicks spent...
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    Mueller team asks about Trump's Russian business as he weighed a run for president

    Investigators for special counsel Robert Mueller have recently been asking witnesses about Donald Trump's business activities in Russia prior to the 2016 presidential campaign as he considered a run for president, according to three people familiar with the matter. Questions to some witnesses...
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    And another one gone...

    (WASHINGTON) — White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal aides, is resigning. In a statement, the president praises Hicks for her work over the last three years. He says he “will miss having her by my side.” The news comes a day after Hicks was...
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