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I have to say when your former Director of National Intelligence says he understands if Aussies don’t want to share intelligence with the U.S. we are not in Kansas any more Toto…
Clapper is in Australia and told the press club today that he would...
by Sydney Cat
 10 comments
on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 12:04 AM PDT
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According to an article in today’s Washington Examiner, Trump is hosting dinner tonite for senators who will be questioning him in Thursday’s Comey hearing. The lucky diners include:
Tom Cotton (AR)
Marco Rubio (FL)
Todd Young (IN)
Cory...
by jmbar2
 17 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 10:07 PM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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Towards the end of the day today I published a diary purporting to show unpopular President Donald Trump ignoring his translating headphones while amongst other world leaders at the G7 Summit in Italy. The story, it turns out, had already been debunked...
by Walter Einenkel
42 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 09:37 PM PDT
with 105 Recommends
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At Tuesday night’s debate between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel in the race for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, Ossoff said that “the minimum wage should be a living wage.” Handel, ...
by Laura Clawson
20 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 09:18 PM PDT
with 39 Recommends
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Politico reports here www.politico.com/… that Senate Majority Leader McConnell has the GOP caucus whipped back in line on “repealing and replacing” the ACA, a/k/a Obamacare. While tens of millions progressives and liberals (myself included) have been...
by FrankDiPrima
5 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 09:44 PM PDT
with 17 Recommends
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The devil went down to Georgia:
During the first debate ahead of the runoff to fill an open U.S. House seat in Georgia, the two candidates butted heads in a charged exchange about the effort to repeal Obamacare underway in Congress.
Republican...
by poopdogcomedy
98 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 07:16 PM PDT
with 133 Recommends
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None of them want to be left alone in a room with Donald Trump:
WASHINGTON — The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mr. Comey confronted Attorney...
by Bob Johnson
13 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 07:17 PM PDT
with 30 Recommends
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When Kansas Governor Sam Brownback launched his experiment, he told Kansans that it would be an injection of adrenaline and that the economy would come roaring back to life. But after 5 years, the economy struggles and the state budget is a disaster....
by Chris Reeves
92 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 07:45 PM PDT
with 273 Recommends
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The Washington Post has breaking news that Trump might have asked Director of National Intelligence Director Coats to intervene with Comey to get him to back off the Flynn investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com/...
I’m putting this up quick, but...
by stlawrence
88 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 05:29 PM PDT
with 99 Recommends
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As I mentioned in last week’s Top Comments diary , I was a first-time delegate for the Massachusetts Democratic Party Platform Convention last Saturday. BeninSC , Krotor , and Tara TASW all said I ...
by brillig
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on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 07:01 PM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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Enough of this.
Maher's recent "live moment" with a racial slur for blacks was preceded years ago by an extended insistence that white people should be able to use the word. This occurred on August 22, 2001 on Maher's previous TV...
by Chitown Kev
411 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 05:25 PM PDT
with 189 Recommends
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If this actually turns out to be true, I would soooooooo give my left arm to be able to ask Sean Spicer a question or two tomorrow in the press briefing. We have 11,000 troops in the tiny oil well of Qatar, and the minute that 4 other Gulf states...
by Murfster35
117 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 03:52 PM PDT
with 148 Recommends
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Republican and Wayne, NJ councilman Richard Jassterzbski is sexist with a vicious streak and that's putting it mildly. A Republican organizer (and one would think colleague) of Jassterzbski's, Susan Enderly-Peracchio of the Passaic County Republican...
by ursulafaw
85 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 02:35 PM PDT
with 153 Recommends
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Almost 2 weeks ago now, the Department of Veterans Affairs/VA Budget was released. In it they’re trying to do away with pay/benefits to Service Connected Severely Disabled Veterans injured from serving our Country, if they are eligible for Social...
by Roodhouse
12 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 05:58 PM PDT
with 26 Recommends
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A new study of police in Oakland, California, demonstrates what systemic racism looks like. It might be invisible if you examine it one interaction at a time, but Stanford University researchers used body-cam footage to demonstrate that police used...
by Laura Clawson
24 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 01:28 PM PDT
with 84 Recommends
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Our Democratic leaders are completely dropping the ball. Where was the unified, prepared response to denouncing Donnie Two-Scoops’ latest London tweetstorm? Why weren’t they standing en masse on the Capital steps demanding the 25th Amendment be...
by vsmilbank
14 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 01:32 PM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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After a refreshing vacation standing in a White House corner, Sean Spicer has washed the chalk off his nose and is back to host his own show.
Spicer opened with a quick tip of the White House hat to the troops who landed on D-Day. He also noted...
by Mark Sumner
97 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 12:35 PM PDT
with 130 Recommends
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From USA Today:
WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told USA TODAY on Tuesday that Russian attacks on election systems were broader and targeted more states than those detailed in an explosive intelligence report...
by ericlewis0
242 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 10:56 AM PDT
with 321 Recommends
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Once again Morning Joe questioned the sanity of the president. But this time his examples seemed to indicate that he is setting a scenario for removal.
Joe Scarborough gave a perfect example that mimics Donald Trump's behavior and explains what the...
by Egberto Willies
50 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 09:33 AM PDT
with 42 Recommends
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High teen pregnancy rates are usually associated with lower levels of education and poverty. But new research conducted by Dr. Julie DeCesare of the University of Florida's OB-GYN residency program in Pensacola has shown that’s not all that’s going on....
by Meteor Blades
133 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 10:33 AM PDT
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- When Kansas Governor Sam Brownback launched his experiment, he told Kansans that it would be an injection of adrenaline and that the economy would come roaring back to life. But after 5 years, the economy struggles and the state budget is a disaster....92 comments 272 Recs
- Towards the end of the day today I published a diary purporting to show unpopular President Donald Trump ignoring his translating headphones while amongst other world leaders at the G7 Summit in Italy. The story, it turns out, had already been debunked...42 comments 104 Recs
- Enough of this. Maher's recent "live moment" with a racial slur for blacks was preceded years ago by an extended insistence that white people should be able to use the word. This occurred on August 22, 2001 on Maher's previous TV...411 comments 189 Recs
- Trump's terrible reputation for stiffing his lawyers and being a gigantic jackass has caught up to him again: “The concerns were, ‘The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen,’” said one lawyer close to the White House who is familiar with some of the...397 comments 415 Recs
- The devil went down to Georgia: During the first debate ahead of the runoff to fill an open U.S. House seat in Georgia, the two candidates butted heads in a charged exchange about the effort to repeal Obamacare underway in Congress. Republican...98 comments 133 Recs
- From USA Today: WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told USA TODAY on Tuesday that Russian attacks on election systems were broader and targeted more states than those detailed in an explosive intelligence report...242 comments 321 Recs
- Whatever did we do to deserve this? First earthquakes and floods (with famine and war surely soon to follow?), but now 2017 in New Zealand has hit rock bottom with a visit from Trump’s itinerant oiler and handshaker Rex Tillerson. At least we Kiwis...142 comments 332 Recs
- I think today is the first day of his renewed contract. I don’t know how to post clips, but maybe someone with more skill can post a diary with a video. About 33 minutes into the show, O’Donnell showed a clip of the Mayor of London describing the...198 comments 369 Recs
- If this actually turns out to be true, I would soooooooo give my left arm to be able to ask Sean Spicer a question or two tomorrow in the press briefing. We have 11,000 troops in the tiny oil well of Qatar, and the minute that 4 other Gulf states...117 comments 148 Recs
- Republican and Wayne, NJ councilman Richard Jassterzbski is sexist with a vicious streak and that's putting it mildly. A Republican organizer (and one would think colleague) of Jassterzbski's, Susan Enderly-Peracchio of the Passaic County Republican...85 comments 153 Recs
- As best I can tell, no President’s actions have ever so adversely affected trust in his administration, including Nixon during Watergate Those words are from the 12th of 17 tweets by Jack Goldsmith yesterday. Goldsmith is universally considered...162 comments 247 Recs
- Welp, the arms deal is bullshit too: I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not...183 comments 341 Recs
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- I have to say when your former Director of National Intelligence says he understands if Aussies don’t want to share intelligence with the U.S. we are not in Kansas any more Toto… Clapper is in Australia and told the press club today that he would...10 comments 11 Recs
- Perhaps less bombshells will occur even as badgering by Rubio and Cotton will try to trip Comey up. It’s not a leak hunt … it really will be building the foundation of a case for obstruction of justice that will be prosecuted and concluded by...7 comments 10 Recs
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If Trump keeps being so destructive the environment, he may have to give these new #MAGA hats, uh, masks to his followers.
- Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Accords on Climate, just because he believes global climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese. Or could it be because he is a toxic, dirty pig who could care less if the planet succumbs to man-made pollution?...2 comments 2 Recs
- According to an article in today’s Washington Examiner, Trump is hosting dinner tonite for senators who will be questioning him in Thursday’s Comey hearing. The lucky diners include: Tom Cotton (AR) Marco Rubio (FL) Todd Young (IN) Cory...17 comments 21 Recs
- As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes,...6 comments 7 Recs
- Politico reports here www.politico.com/… that Senate Majority Leader McConnell has the GOP caucus whipped back in line on “repealing and replacing” the ACA, a/k/a Obamacare. While tens of millions progressives and liberals (myself included) have been...5 comments 17 Recs
- We liberals/progressives/Democrats/etc. continually focus on Trump and his latest outrage. But aren’t we forgetting who is responsible for the Trump Presidency? Tens of millions of our fellow Americans voted to give America’s highest, most powerful...12 comments 0 Recs
- Towards the end of the day today I published a diary purporting to show unpopular President Donald Trump ignoring his translating headphones while amongst other world leaders at the G7 Summit in Italy. The story, it turns out, had already been debunked...42 comments 104 Recs
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Trump is dehumanizing the opposition. This is how genocides have started.
- I came across this in Elisabeth Rosenthal’s new book “An American Sickness”. It’s an outstanding book that describes how greed has made our health care system dysfunctional. She narrates the tragic story of Wanda Wickizer who was in good health...1 comments 2 Recs
- At Tuesday night’s debate between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel in the race for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, Ossoff said that “the minimum wage should be a living wage.” Handel, ...20 comments 39 Recs
- Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Doctor RJ, Magnifico, annetteboardman and Man Oh Man. Alumni editors include (but not...24 comments 18 Recs
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