Filibuster!

Democrats to filibuster Neil Gorsuch amid Supreme Court showdown
Forty-one Senate Democrats have announced they will filibuster President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, setting up a partisan showdown over the hidebound institution’s internal rules this week.


Adorable. Santorum says presidents who win elections get the right to pick who they want for Supreme Court. Tell that to Merrick Garland. - John Aravosis

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Jared Kushner in Iraq With Joint Chiefs Chairman
• Trump: US Will Act Unilaterally On North Korea If China Not On Board
• Theresa May warns Donald Trump against unilateral action on North Korea
• N. Korea defector warns Kim would use nukes against US
• 11 killed in St. Petersburg subway blast; a second bomb is disarmed
• White House pulled out of meet and greet with 'conservatives' favorite Russian' over suspected mob ties 

We should probably have Jared Kushner pilot the International Space Station, because I'm sure he's not qualified to do that, either -Jeff Tiedrich

Trump Humps Egypt
Egypt’s military ruler Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was never invited to the Obama White House, where he was viewed as a brutal tyrant with little regard for human rights and democracy.
On Monday, President Donald Trump will roll out the red carpet for him.



President Trump’s daughter Ivanka is going to have her own office in the White House. So finally, we’ve got a woman named Trump who actually wants to be in the White House.- Conan O'Brien

Republican Shenanigans

• Rep. Devin Nunes returns home to protests over his Trump ties
• Trump: The 'Fake News Media' Is Just Missing GOP's Inner 'Love And Strength'
• Third Dem Senator Announces He Will Vote Yes On Gorsuch For SCOTUS
• Trump Backtracks: Actually I 'Didn't Want To Take A Vote' On O'Care Repeal
• After Golfing With Trump, Rand Paul 'Optimistic' About Repealing Obamacare
• Spicer: Democratic Senators Setting 'Very Dangerous Precedent' by Blocking Gorsuch
• Trump revives Clinton criticisms in early morning tweets
• First Lady Melania Trump Gets Her First Official Portrait
• Trump Praises 'Fox & Friends,' Renews Old Feuds in Early Morning Tweet Series

Imagine having seventeen intelligence agencies at your fingertips and choosing instead to get your facts from a third-rate morning chat show. - Jeff Tiedrich

Hawaii’s TSA recently seized a so-called “stun cane” from a passenger that is capable of delivering a 1 million-volt shock. To get an idea of what a 1 million-volt shock feels like, just remember what it was like to wake up on Nov. 9.- Seth Myers

Let The Lawsuits Begin
A federal judge in Kentucky is allowing a lawsuit by three protesters assaulted at a Donald Trump campaign rally last March to move forward, agreeing with the plaintiffs that Trump's call from the podium for his supporters to "get 'em out of here" incited rally-goers to physically attack them.





Fox News has sexual harassment suits coming out of its eyes, coming out of its wherever.- OhNoSheTwitnt‏

The faces of Sexual Assault Awareness And Prevention Month - talia tweet

The GOP obstructed Merrick Garland just like they obstructed Obama. They created this mess. Deal with it.- Dem Texas Girls Tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Democrats want to limit ICE power by banning agents from courthouses, bus stops
• The destruction of Hillary Clinton: sexism, Sanders and the millennial feminists

Trump’s so obsessed with Hillary that he’s *thisclose* to standing outside her house with a boombox over his head. - goldengateblonde tweet

He's gone over to the dark side.

This Is Why The DNC Didn't Trust Bernie. 
Donald Trump supporters are not racist “deplorables” and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party are to blame for November's shock election defeat: So said Clinton's defeated primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders during a rally in Boston Friday night.






On the one hand, you had Russia hacking the DNC, on the other, Bernie Sanders and his diehards trashing the DNC. And Trump loved it.-Peter Daou

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The White House says President Trump will not throw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals game. Apparently Trump was afraid of hurting his tweeting arm. - Jimmy Fallon



Biz/Tech News

• Donald Trump Impersonator to Host New Comedy Central Late-Night Show
• Trump Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants — Without Ever Telling Us
• National Archives Tells the White House to Save All of President Trump's Tweets

The Trump tax plan marks the 1st time anyone's ever written erotic fiction directly for the Koch Brothers.-John Fugelsang

Scientists have proven that you can grow potatoes on Mars. When they heard this, half of America said, “Wait, a planet with no Trump and French fries? When do we go? Let’s get out of here! Let’s go!”- Conan O'Brien

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Bills are Due. I Hate That.

I also hate to beg.

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Odd News

• Russian Foreign Ministry poked fun at hacker scandal
• Pig that fell from truck in South Dakota on way to new home
• Man sues after asking for real butter, getting a substitute
• Brain cancer patients live longer wearing electric cap designed to zap tumors
• These stunning timelapse photos may just convince you about climate change

Time To Deflate Photo

These illuminated tires were developed by Goodyear in 1961 when women actually wore hose.

Peace.

Life comes at you fast

The Trump White House is in deep legal trouble, according to Trump's own standards
President Trump on Friday urged his former top adviser, Michael Flynn, to seek an immunity deal from Congress, after news broke late Thursday that Flynn was seeking such a deal.


Trump's campaign is under an FBI counterintelligence investigation. His former NS advisor is asking for immunity. Your move, Republicans.- Maxine Waters

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Michael Flynn’s Immunity Request Rejected By Senate Intelligence Committee
• US and UK officials had doubts about Flynn’s loyalty and capacity for ‘linear thought’ in 2016
• US signals policy decision soon on Russian arms treaty allegations
• Obama administration under scrutiny for its response to Russia's meddling
• Germany balks at Tillerson call for more European NATO spending

Mike Flynn probably shouldn't stand near any high-floor hotel windows, and maybe try not to eat any polonium. - Jeff Tiedrich

Tillerson Threatens NATO Members
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned NATO allies Friday to boost defense spending or come up with plans to reach the alliance's budget guidelines within two months.
Tillerson, in his first talks with NATO counterparts in Brussels, said that Washington is spending a "disproportionate share" on defense compared with its 27 partners, and that he expects action by the time President Donald Trump meets with other alliance leaders on May 25.



It is "strange" that Russia concentrated anti-Hillary news in WI, PA and MI - and Trump knew to campaign there.- Amy Siskind

Republican Shenanigans

• Flynn Last Year: ‘When You Are Given Immunity, That Means That You’ve Probably Committed a Crime'
• Former FBI agent tells the Senate that Russia is secretly tweeting at Trump 
• Diplomats instructed to 'avoid eye contact' with Tillerson: report
• Trump threatens hard-liners as part of escalating Republican civil war
• Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spends his first weeks isolated from an anxious bureaucracy
• Ivanka Trump, Shifting Plans, Will Become a Federal Employee
• Chaffetz not worried Trump will gain financially from presidency: 'He's already rich'
• The religious reasons Mike Pence won't eat alone with women don't add up

If your religion tells you God wants someone dead - but can't bother to smite them Himself - then your religion sucks at religion. - John Fugelsang

New approval polls:
McConnell 19%
Ryan 21%
Pence 40%
Trump 35%

You know what has a higher favorable rating than these Republicans?

Abortion.

- Maggie Jordan

The Crucifixion Of Planned Parenthood
The Senate voted Thursday to let states block federal family planning money from going to Planned Parenthood affiliates and other abortion providers.
Senators approved the Republican legislation 51-50. Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote after two GOP senators, Maine’s Susan Collins and Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, voted with Democrats against the measure.

People being like, "don't judge Mike Pence's marriage"

Um... judging other people's marriages is Pence's favorite extracurricular activity. - Jessica Lahr

Iowa Republican Wants To Kick Women When They're Down
An Iowa state representative has caused a furor online by asserting that women who miscarry after 20 weeks of pregnancy should have to carry their fetuses to term.

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Hillary Clinton was interviewed by the FBI, testified for 11 hours before Congress, and made countless public statements without immunity.

Rock The Voter News

• 1000 Paid Russian Trolls Spread Fake News On Hillary Clinton, Senate Intelligence Heads Told
• Podesta sends Daily Caller cease-and-desist letter after article alleging wrongdoing in  financial disclosures

If Hillary Clinton were president now, Putin would be paying a price for his attack on US democracy. - David Frum

Hillary Is Back In The Saddle Again, Wearing Leather
Hillary Clinton has been gradually dipping her toe back into politics since announcing that she was “ready to come out of the woods” a couple weeks ago. At an event at Georgetown University on Friday, she criticized the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to foreign aid and diplomacy and urged the U.S. government to continue to make women’s rights a priority in foreign policy.







As much as you may want Donald J. Trump to go to prison, Melania wants it more. - Andy Borowitz

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Biz/Tech News

• Crude Oil 50.44
• American Jobs Are Headed to Mexico Once Again
• Mexico's largest cement company won't build Trump's wall
• On 'Brexit,' It's Divorce First, Trade Talks Later, EU Tells UK
• Uber vs. Google self-driving tech suit revs up as exec takes the Fifth

Today is the 70th day of Trump's presidency. It only seems like 70 years. - Jeff Tiedrich

Pipeline Update
Environmental groups are seeking to undo President Donald Trump's approval of TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline after more than eight years of political wrangling on its future and scope.





This is the ideal time in the season to either plant tomatoes or enter into a land war with Russia, I forget which.- Conan O'Brien

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I Hope Trump Doesn't Shutdown This Website

FUNDRAISER

Thank you!

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Odd News

• Pamela Anderson opens up about her relationship with Julian Assange 
• Fanged Fish Drugs Attackers with Heroin-Like Venom
• Decades after extinction declaration, hunt for Tasmanian tiger resumes
• Religious shrine proposes illuminated 'Nuns Crossing' sign
• Police: 7-11 clerk refuses dirty pennies, woman pulls guns

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In 1959, Volvo invented the 3-point seat belt, then gave a free license to all other car manufacturers to use it.

Peace.

Required reading

HOW EX-SPY CHRISTOPHER STEELE COMPILED HIS EXPLOSIVE TRUMP-RUSSIA DOSSIER
...He had little doubt the Kremlin was behind the hacking, and he had shared his evidence with the F.B.I., but as best he could tell, the bureau was focusing on solving the legalistic national-security puzzle surrounding Hillary Clinton’s e-mails. With so much hanging in the balance—the potential president of the United States possibly being under Russia’s thumb—why weren’t the authorities more concerned? He decided it was time for desperate measures.



Don't think things can't get uglier under Trump?  We may have to watch him in porn films during the Impeachment proceedings.

We can't have a credible investigation if the Chairman won't share evidence with his own committee. Neither D's nor R's know what he saw.- Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• ‘Follow the trail of dead Russians’ if you want to crack 2016 election interference: Senate intel witness
• Putin says Russia never interfered in US elections: 'Read my lips, no'
• Senate witness: Rubio, Ryan were targets of Russian influence attempts 
• Nobody’s ‘covering my back’: Ex-FBI agent tells Senate he doesn’t trust Trump to protect him from Russia
• Officials verify Russian dossier claim diplomat who fled US to hide election interference was spy: report
• State Department halts press briefings
• Italy Arrests Islamists Plotting Terror Attack on Famed Bridge in Venice 
• A Muslim family in Virginia returned home to find their home vandalized and Quran torn into pieces 

White supremacist who murdered Timothy Caughman in NYC has been charged with terrorism. Say it with me: Radical White Supremacist Terrorist. - George Takei

The Old Bait & Hook, Russian Style
Cybersecurity expert testified that Russian “bots” pushed their disinformation campaigns during times when President Donald Trump was likely to be on social media — and he dutifully hyped those conspiracy theories.
Clint Watts, a former FBI agent and counterterrorism instructor at West Point, explained Thursday that Trump as a presidential candidate helped Russia take active measures to interfere with the election, whether he realized it or not.





John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot Ronald Reagan, has been released from prison. He can now purchase a gun. Thanks NRA & Trump. - Brasilmagic



Republican Shenanigan

• Spicer disputes need for independent probe of Russian election meddling 
• GOP rep. "misspoke" when he said Nunes "works for the President" 
• GOP revival of healthcare repeal makes little progress
• Ryan breaks with Trump on healthcare: No Dems
• Tea Party leader "disgusted" by Trump’s attack on Freedom Caucus
• Freedom Caucus member fires back: It didn't take long for the swamp to drain Trump
• GOP dares call Gorsuch filibuster unprecedented—while ignoring their blockade of Garland
• North Carolina lawmakers vote to undo 'bathroom bill'
• Alex Jones attacks "the Jewish press" for reporting on his "Jefish mafia" remarks

CBS poll: 37% say Russia wasn't responsible for the hack. 17 intel agencies, Dems, Republicans agree it was. Trump's misinformation matters. - Brian Klaas

Dept. Of Vocabulary Adjustment
Staffers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) international climate office have been asked to stop using the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction" and "Paris Agreement,"

Melania Reportedly Recovering After Nine-minute Appearance in Washington. - Andy Borowitz



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Taking a page from JFK's 'Camelot', con-man Trump's lily-White House of nepotism is officially known as 'Scamelot.' - Bill Madden



Rock The Voter News

• Obama WH ethics lawyer: Appointment of Ivanka is nepotism
• Ex-Obama official: I was concerned about Russian meddling 'cover-up' after the election
• Dem senator rips Trump’s "attack on science": "It’s a declaration of war" 
• Where is Michelle Obama? Former first lady surprises students visiting her daughter's school
• Hillary Clinton's Post-Election Fashion Choices Signal a Shift in Attitude

Ivanka Trump WH job is a victory for every millionaire-at-birth handbag designer who ever dreamed of being her father's unpaid work-wife.- John Fugelsang



 

The Coverup Is As Bad As The Crime
Two White House officials helped House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) acquire information that he says shows President Trump’s transition team was incidentally surveilled



Maybe it isn't Hillary Clinton who needed to change. Maybe it is a society that devalues & disrespects women that needed to change. - bitchyologist tweet

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Biz/Tech News

• Mysterious Outage In Libya Could Drive Oil Prices Higher
• Qatar Airways is retaliating against the US laptop ban by offering some passengers an unprecedented perk
• Carl's Jr. dumps its sexy ads as McDonald's bets on fresh beef
• Climate Change-Deniers 'Spam' Thousands Of Teachers With Anti-Global Warming Packages

In a new interview, Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner said the government should be run like a company where the citizens are the customers. And people said, “Well, in that case we have a president we’d like to exchange.” - Jimmy Fallon



No Internet For The Poors
The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday he wants to block requests by dozens of small and rural Internet providers hoping to offer subsidized broadband connections to low-income Americans nationwide...

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Odd News

• Tom Hanks describes watching Bush chuck a dead bird across the Rose Garden during 2004 White House visit
• Anger rooms have become all the rage
• Judge fines Pennsylvania golf course $1K for errant shots
• Nearly half of high school's students get suspension notices
• Sharknado? Australian cyclone leaves behind shark in puddle

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This Jimi Hendrix portrait is  made up completely of guitar picks.

Peace.