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Mark Sumner's Profile
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Mark Sumner is the author of the nonfiction work "The Evolution of Everything" as well as several novels including "Devil's Tower."
Real Name: Mark Sumner
Groups: DK GreenRoots, Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Saturday Evening Geek Out, Gadget Land, Science Matters, Republicans are Wrong, Backyard Science, Meta Groupies, MIT Climate CoLab Proposal, BillStarter, Friday Night Fiction, On Whetsday, Utopia and Dystopia, Recount2016, Election Justice
Twitter: devilstower
Diaries published: 3067 (1 day since last diary on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 12:03 PM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: Eulogy, 403 comments, 975 recommends
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German newspaper Der Speigel got a chance to see what happened behind closed doors at the recent G7 summit. What the record of those meetings revealed was leader after leader attempting to reach Donald Trump—through logic, through common sense, through...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 12:03 PM PDT
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Former FBI director James Comey, who Donald Trump admits to firing because he wouldn’t drop the investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, is set to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
This is the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 11:27 AM PDT
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With his extensive experience in running Trump Airlines into the ground ...
The high debt forced Trump to default on his loans, and ownership of the company was turned over to creditors.
… Donald Trump is obviously the right person to lead...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 10:06 AM PDT
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In the midst of his Monday morning Twitter rant, Donald Trump paused for the daily direct-to-Trump ego-stroking that is Fox and Friends. There, hosts eager to get away from watching Trump dump a boatload of poison into his own Supreme Court case by...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 08:43 AM PDT
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Article 5 is the heart of NATO. It’s the section of NATO’s founding treaty where all the nations that participate in the alliance promise to come to the defense of any member under attack. Article 5 has been invoked exactly one time—by the United...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 06:57 AM PDT
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Donald Trump fired off a string of tweets on Monday morning using London as proof that the United States need to implement his Muslim ban. But Trump isn’t just applying pressure to the executive order that’s on its way to the Supreme Court. He’s ready...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 05:59 AM PDT
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