Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reiterated his concern about President Donald Trump's ability to effectively lead the country on Wednesday night.
mr president,
i've been a journalist 50 yrs. Never met one who didn't love USA.
Many risk their lives reporting on US values.
Cheap shot. - Tom Brokaw tweet
The World Is A Safer Place Without
- Americans Afraid of Trump’s behavior, war: poll
- ‘Violence and insurrection’: GOP ‘dirty tricks’ operative warns Trump impeachment will unleash ‘civil war’
- Military Transgender Ban to Begin Within 6 Months, Memo Says
- McCain renews calls for Trump to send weapons to Ukraine
- Russian nuclear bombers fly near North Korea in rare show of force
To all trans men and women serving bravely in the military: I plan to introduce legislation to fight back. We'll keep raising our voices. - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
A Federal Judge Put Hundreds of Immigrants Behind Bars While Her Husband Invested in Private Prisons
Judge Linda Reade’s husband bought more prison stock five days before one of the nation’s biggest immigration raids.
That awkward moment when a POTUS is so afraid of impeachment for treason he'll distract by defending statues of guys who committed treason. - John Fugelsang
Republican Shenanigans
- Intel chief sheds light on 'beautiful letter' Trump says he wrote him
- Who Is Rick Dearborn? Trump Aide Received Email to Set Up Putin Meeting With Campaign
- Secret Service director says he's 'fighting' for agents' overtime pay: report
- Descendant of Robert E. Lee knocks Trump: Stop defending Confederate statues you know nothing about
- Pres. Trump declared the opioid crisis a national emergency two weeks ago, but still hasn't taken official action
- Fox's Huckabee: Sen. Flake 'can’t wait to run in front of a camera to trash the president'
- Confederacy fan insists the flag isn’t racist — and then rants about ‘Martin Luther Coon’
- Agitated Trump lashes out at McConnell, Ryan, Clapper, media
- Trump retweets meme of his Obama 'eclipse'
- Republican group sent a mariachi band to a Sen. Joe Donnelly campaign stop
- Florida public school requires students to transcribe Bible verses and ignores religious bullying
- White nationalist from Vice documentary held without bond
The President's core voters
Are either rich or dim,
The rich loathe tax
The dim hate facts,
Though not as much as him
- John Cleese
Jeebus, Trump Hires Real Dummies. The subject line of the email was "Meeting with Russian Leadership -- Including Putin,"
Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
"If immigrants somehow get over the wall, the condition of our bridges and roads will keep them from getting very far," a wall supporter said. - Andy Borowitz
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's family business hired a public relations firm that specializes in crisis communication...Eric Wachter, from the crisis communication firm Finsbury, will be taking over media relations for the Kushner family real estate business. The firm will be replacing Risa Heller Communications, the firm used by the family since before Kushner joined the White House, Bloomberg reported.
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hey you journalists unhappy about how Trump treats you: if you'd done your job properly in 2016, maybe Trump wouldn't be president right now. - Jeff Tiedrich
Rock The Voter News
- Barack and Michelle Obama are every parent as they move Malia into Harvard
- More than 4,000 black people were lynched in the South — where are their monuments?
Oops. Anti-Trump Site Ordered To Cough Up Data
A court in the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered web hosting company DreamHost to produce data and information requested by the Department of Justice (DOJ) related to an anti-President Trump website.
In her new book, Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump a "creep" who "made her skin crawl." When he heard, Trump smiled and said, "I still got it." - Conan O'Brien
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Pretty clever of Mexico, 170 years after we won the war, figuring out a way to shut down the entire US by refusing to pay for Trump's wall. - emptywheel tweet
Business/Tech News
- The nation's final bare spot for Affordable Care Act health plans is filled in
- Apple to build Iowa data center, get $207.8 million in incentives
- The list of closing stores - Sears Holdings Corporation
- Amazon Prime members will get special discounts at Whole Foods
President Trump said of his critics, "I went to better schools than they did. I was a better student than they were. I live in a bigger, more beautiful apartment. And I live in the White House, too." Then someone handed Trump a fidget spinner and he quieted right down. - Conan O'Brien
Exxon Caught Lying By Harvard
Two Harvard University researchers said in a study published on Wednesday they had collected data proving that Exxon Mobil Corp made "explicit factual misrepresentations" in newspaper ads it purchased to convey its views on the oil industry and climate science.
"I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do." - James Baldwin
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