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14 term Republican Congressperson Peter King, once Chairman of the powerful Homeland Security Committee in Congress, of NY’s 2nd District (Long Island) and currently sits on The Select Committee on Intelligence, joins more than two dozen other Republicans in Congress this year in diving for the door to  spend more...

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  • November 11, 2019

TPM (Bolds mine) “On Sunday, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who gave a bombshell testimony in the House impeachment investigation last month on President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme, will be removed from his post at the White House National Security Council… …The national security adviser...

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  • November 10, 2019

TPM (Bolds mine) “On Sunday, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who gave a bombshell testimony in the House impeachment investigation last month on President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme, will be removed from his post at the White House National Security Council… …The national security adviser...

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  • November 10, 2019

  Admin note: Diary title edited by Admin after diarist refused to correct with accurate title. TPM (Bolds mine) “On Sunday, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who gave a bombshell testimony in the House impeachment investigation last month on President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme, will...

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  • November 10, 2019

Anyone with even just sufficient powers of observation can see that Trumpists have a inherent aversion to acquiring knowledge, and at least one in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho is determined that no one else will be able to obtain any on their watch. NY Times “COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho — From her office next to...

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  • November 10, 2019

Trump goes to the Game and roots for Bama, Bama loses! Next time they should boo him! pic.twitter.com/VSk2rm0dxH — Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 10, 2019 #Bama won 31 straight home games over 4 a year span Then Trump came to see a game…. #ETTD pic.twitter.com/4P3fpneMR9 — ALBΞRT MacGloan (@AlbertMacGloan) November...

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  • November 10, 2019

This is simply reprehensible: Facing South.org “Voters in Houston, Texas, elected 19 black women to local judgeships last year. The new judges, all Democrats, have instituted wide-ranging reforms to the county’s bail system. Voters also sent Democratic judges to the state appeals court.   A few months later, Republican Gov....

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  • November 9, 2019

On the same day House GOP leadership boots an Arkansas Republican off the Intel Committee to bring in their favorite rodeo clown Gym Jordan for impeachment proceedings,  a new witness has filed a lawsuit in Jordan’s home state swearing he told Jordan of sexual abuse he suffered while Jordan was a...

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  • November 8, 2019

As the GOP considers replacing the distracted Devin Nunes with Gym Jordan for the impeachment probe, a new witness has filed a lawsuit in Jordan’s home state swearing he told Jordan of sexual abuse he suffered while Jordan was a wrestling coach at Ohio State and Jordan responded with…. a shrug....

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  • November 8, 2019

Never Trump Republican Rick Wilson has a way with words (especially salty ones) and he let some fly at the vanity campaigns of Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer and their efforts to derail progressive Democrats and re-elect Trump. As per usual I will paste his first tweet, in case you...

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  • November 7, 2019

Melania Trump traveled to the Boston Medical Center yesterday to seek a warm and fuzzy photo-op with children in its care who were born addicted to drugs, a worthy enough project where one might expected to be greeted warmly, if one is oblivious to the fact that just a couple...

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  • November 7, 2019

Melania Trump traveled to the Boston Medical Hospital yesterday to seek a warm and fuzzy photo-op with children in its care who were born addicted to drugs, a worthy enough project where one might expected to be greeted warmly, if one is oblivious to the fact that just a couple...

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  • November 7, 2019

Welp, it didn’t take long for Breitbart to join the parade of potential felons in publishing the name of the purported NSC whistle blower, after Russian media and Don Jr. shouted it from the roof tops, and former Trump campaign chairman Corey Lewandowski couldn’t wait to put the man in danger also…...

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  • November 7, 2019

Looks like the lady that flipped off Trump's motorcade and lost her job as a result is about to get a new one, as the Loudoun County Supervisor representing….wait for it….the district that's home to Trump's golf course. #VAelections — Mike Hettinger (@Hettinger_Tech) November 6, 2019 there is a god!...

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  • November 6, 2019

Oh, you crazy, Devin, just not crazy enough: BREAKING: Republicans consider moving Jim Jordan to House Intelligence Committee https://t.co/2qdwDArfJq pic.twitter.com/vDQG4IYCTs — CBS News (@CBSNews) November 4, 2019 CBS News “Washington — As the impeachment inquiry enters its public phase, top Republicans in the House are weighing whether to temporarily assign...

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  • November 5, 2019

The Hill “A Utah principal and teacher were placed on leave after allowing a student to wear a Nazi costume in the Halloween parade. A photo circulated online Friday of a child dressed in tan pants and a brown shirt with a red armband with a black swastika for the...

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  • November 4, 2019

Rep. Jim Himes from Connecticut has been driving the wingnuts to distraction appearing on Fox News lately and today will prove no different… Real Clear Politics Jim Himes: Trump Abuses Of Power Make Watergate Look Like “Child's Play,” GOP Has Become A “Personality Cult” “Rep. Jim Himes, the second-ranking Democrat...

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  • November 3, 2019

Protests in Iraq against the U.S. imposed central government in Baghdad are growing in intensity, tens of thousands of students and workers have filled Tahrir Square in recent days and Al Jazeera reports that more than 250 demonstrators have been killed and 11,000 wounded since the uprising began in early October....

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  • November 3, 2019

Buzzfeed has gotten hold of a tranche of the Mueller Report’s unpublished memos and southpaw on Twitter has been sifting through them. One of the more explosive states that, according to Rick Gates, the Republican National Committee knew in advance when Wikileaks would drop the emails from the Clinton campaign that Russia...

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  • November 2, 2019

Newsweek Speaking with the Washington Examiner Friday, White said Trump initiated plans to build a grandiose “glass cathedral” in 2006, even hiring on an architect to pursue the project. White ultimately said the timing wasn’t right on her end and the project fell through, but she recalled her and Trump’s...

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  • November 2, 2019

Either W.H. ex-Russia advisor Tim Morrison is the dumbest MFer ever to don London Fog or he is trying to craft his testimony to Congress to excuse himself for not coming forward to report Trump’s criminality as Lt. Colonel Vindman did. I know which side I come down on. CNN obtained...

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  • November 2, 2019

Newsweek “The Keystone pipeline’s spill of 383,000 gallons of oil into North Dakota was predictable, environmental group Greenpeace said in a statement depicting the transport of fossil fuels as a risky venture. The spill, which led the pipeline to shut down on Tuesday, occurred in the state’s northeastern Walsh County....

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  • November 1, 2019

At a private fundraiser last night, Trump talked about meeting Steve Scalise’s wife after he was shot: she “cried her eyes out when I met her at the hospital that fateful day … I mean not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.” pic.twitter.com/RNbBq52klv —...

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  • November 1, 2019

Deputy White House counsel John Eisenberg is camera shy, so I’m gonna let Baghdad Bob stand in his stead in the top photo. Eisenberg is the guy that stashed Don the Con’s quid pro quo call (and God knows what else) into the NSC’s super secret server, presumably to follow the...

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  • October 31, 2019

So, this afternoon drumpf tweeted RW The Daily Wire’s horrendously bad photo shop of his travesty awarding the hero K9 of the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid a medal for bravery, defacing a photograph of an actual Medal of Honor winner… The president tweeted out an image of the dog credited in...

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  • October 31, 2019

After years of using derogatory language towards dogs, applying that language to people he doesn’t like and also being the first president since McKinley not to have one livening up the White House, drumpf is now courting the woozle vote: weird thing about this is that the dog is almost...

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  • October 30, 2019

I’m sure most of you have seen the clip from last night’s car wreck of a Laura Ingraham show where she and her all star panel of a torture advocate and alleged child rapist smeared today’s witness in the impeachment hearings, Lt. Colonel Alexander S. Vindman. If not: The torture enabler was...

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  • October 30, 2019

Alexandra Chalupa is the Ukrainian_American former DNC staffer who tried to alert the nation of the danger that was Paul Manafort before the 2016 election and was subsequently smeared by Republicans for her efforts. So when she saw the below clip from the Laura Ingraham show on Fox, slandering the...

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  • October 29, 2019

Well, this will leave a mark: NY Times “WASHINGTON — A White House national security official who is a decorated Iraq war veteran plans to tell House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he heard President Trump appeal to Ukraine’s president to investigate one of his leading political rivals, a request...

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  • October 29, 2019

https://twitter.com/TomArnold/status/1188672009275760640? #WorldSeries Listen to the crowd chant #LockHimUp pic.twitter.com/k3J7C0LnEq — Luna Luvgood 🌻🌻🌻 (@LunaLuvgood2020) October 28, 2019 "Lock him up!" chants break out at Nationals Park, as President Trump attends the World Series on Sunday night – @albamonica pic.twitter.com/ymhzRSzhey — NBC News (@NBCNews) October 28, 2019 Ticket to game V...

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  • October 28, 2019

Take this with as many grains of salt as you want but… Reuters “MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Sunday it had no reliable information on the U.S. operation that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, state-run RIA news agency reported after U.S. President Donald...

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  • October 27, 2019

(1/2) Oh my God. I just heard about the passing of another dear friend, Little Feat's Paul Barrere. A brilliant guitarist, singer and songwriter—a cornerstone of one of the greatest bands of all time. #PaulBarrere pic.twitter.com/vS4rqXhD4J — Bonnie Raitt (@TheBonnieRaitt) October 27, 2019 (1/2) Oh my God. I just heard...

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  • October 27, 2019

x Fantastic afternoon in Purvis with @DonaldJTrumpJr—enjoying our 2nd Amendment rights with local supporters. On our way to campaign in North Mississippi tonight! See you soon! pic.twitter.com/9vieox4RYm— Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) October 24, 2019 x Here’s the only one I trust in this picture pic.twitter.com/QjxjbBDUSq — Passlinebettor (@passlinebettor) October 26, 2019...

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  • October 27, 2019

Philip Reeker, who, according to The Washington Post… “arrived at the Capitol shortly after 10:30 a.m., accompanied by his personal lawyer. According to an official working on the impeachment inquirer, Reeker gave his deposition under subpoena to get around an effort by the State Department to block him from appearing. Foreign...

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  • October 26, 2019

Matt Taibbi deployed a deceptive ellipsis to make it appear that former Director of National Intelligence and virulent Trump critic James Clapper threw President Obama under the bus during a CNN interview about the now “criminal” ( you can deploy that word as you will) investigation being conducted by AG Barr into...

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  • October 26, 2019

A Fox News Guest claims the impeachment inquiry is just an attempt to distract from Barr’s investigation pic.twitter.com/m1BU94hk4D — Acyn (@Acyn) October 26, 2019

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  • October 26, 2019

Trump is afraid he will look fat out there on the mound, what with all the body armor and stuff, and, I suspect he is also afraid of facing his bedrock primal fear, being isolated in a spotlight while waves of vocal disapproval wash over him. Whatever the reason drumpf...

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  • October 25, 2019

Trump is afraid he will look fat out there on the mound what with all the body armor and stuff, and, I suspect he is also afraid of facing his bedrock primal fear, being isolated in a spotlight while waves of vocal disapproval wash over him. Whatever the reason drumpf...

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  • October 25, 2019

Empty words since: -Trump promised Xi that U.S. would stay quiet on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong while trade talks continued -Trump routinely assails the American press and dissenters, calling them "enemy of the people" and "human scum"https://t.co/QXl9Ob9Xqe — Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) October 24, 2019 Charles Barkley on TNT NBA...

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  • October 25, 2019

And then it was 18… CNN “(CNN) Rep. Tim Ryan dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on Thursday, ending a campaign that failed to gain any traction in a large field of better-financed and better-known Democrats. In a video sent to his supporters, Ryan also announced that he will...

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  • October 24, 2019

Ah, the Don Jr. defense… You really have to wonder whether the @WSJ editorial board snickered at their own bad faith while concocting this laughably disingenuous defense of Trump:https://t.co/TluJ3dC41s pic.twitter.com/0unqMzarfO — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 24, 2019 Hey, WSJ Editorial Staff, while drumpf is indeed too stupid to stop committing...

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  • October 24, 2019

x Does this man-child's mother know where he is? Isn't it past his bed time? Shouldn't he be in school?— Stephen Rozov (@stephen_rozov) October 24, 2019 x The first thing they did was order pizza. — The unified self is just my MacGuffin. (@GregCfollows) October 24, 2019 x The only...

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  • October 24, 2019

Mother Jones “Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) released evidence on Tuesday that the Justice Department buried the whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president by failing to refer the matter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Klobuchar suggested the Justice Department violated a longstanding agreement between the...

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  • October 22, 2019

Biloxi Sun Herald “Russian President Vladimir Putin has sat down in Sochi with visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks on Syria. Putin welcomed the Turkish leader in the Black Sea resort on Tuesday, saying their meeting is very important in the current tense situation in Syria. He noted...

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  • October 22, 2019