Let the indictments commence...

Former Trump Foreign Policy Adviser Secretly Pleaded Guilty in Mueller Probe
A former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos, secretly pleaded guilty as part of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.


There are 12 charges. It rather evokes a Xmas carol: “On the first day of charges, Mueller gave to me: Manafort on treas’nous conspiracy!” - George Takei

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• North Korea: Fresh test could trigger radioactive leak, South says
• Iraqi Kurdish opposition parties report attacks on offices
• Saudi Arabia to extract uranium for 'self-sufficient' nuclear program
• Iran's president says he turned down a meeting with Trump at the UN
• Navy investigating if Green Beret died at hands of SEAL Team 6 members
• US court blocks enforcement of Trump’s transgender military ban

The Manafort indictments make you wonder anew why Roger Stone was freaking out on Twitter the other day. Who might Paul flip on...? - Joy Reid

FBI Is Investigating Whitefish Contract On Puerto Rico
The FBI is reportedly investigating the $300 million contract awarded to Whitefish Energy to repair Puerto Rico's electrical grid in the wake of Hurricane Maria.






If I was Don Jr. I'd start doing sit ups and practicing shiv-making techniques.- Rick Wilson. GOP Media Guy Tweet

The FBI interview where Papadopolous lied about his Russia contacts came on the same day, Jan. 27, Trump asked Comey for a loyalty pledge.- Matthew Miller


Republican Shenanigans

• Paul Manafort and Rick Gates plead not guilty to charges in Russia probe
• Trump decries 'evil politics' of Mueller's Russia probe
• Trump to lunch with Sessions amid Manafort charges
• Boehner: Obama never sneaks cigarettes because he's "scared to death of his wife"
• Investigators Probe Kushner Company Over Allegations of Vermin-Infested Properties and Aggressive Debt Collection'
• Feud explodes on ‘The View’ as Meghan McCain tries to tout Clinton conspiracy: ‘Hillary wasn’t just indicted!’
• Boehner: Hannity and Limbaugh went over to the 'dark side'
• Read the full list of charges against Manafort

A reminder that Trump & his campaign DEMANDED Hillary Clinton BE SENT TO PRISON for not adhering to state department email protocol. - Chris Hayes

Jesus, Trump Is Fundraising Off Of The Indictments
President Donald Trump’s campaign on Monday blasted out a fundraising email, asking donors to contribute after the indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
On the same day that news broke that Manafort had been indicted on 12 counts, Trump voters found a fundraising request from Eric Trump in their inboxes with the subject line “Still Standing.”



Pence Asks Jesus to Rapture Him Up Before Mueller Indicts Him. - Andy Borowitz

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Can't believe Hillary forced Manafort to do these things just so she could keep Trump from locking her up for uranium something something. - Rex Huppke

Rock The Voter News

• Obama, now a private citizen, plans to serve on jury duty
• Hillary Clinton Jokes 'Fox News Thinks I Live In The White House'
• Hillary Clinton Shrugs Off Reminder Of Comey Letter Anniversary: 'Oh Is That Today?'

Problem is the swamp drain is all clogged with Trump's hair.- Jess McLaren

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Paul Manafort and George Papadopoulos are the only the beginning. Hell is about to comb over. - Randi Mayem Singer‏

Business/Tech News

• Russian billionaire scoops up another East 75th Street townhouse
• Alcohol Industry Targets Pot With Constellation-Canopy Deal
• Houston Texans Players Kneel En Masse After  Owner Bob McNair's "Inmates" Comments
• NBC terminates Mark Halperin's contract

Let Trumpers cry more. Let Fox rant about Hillary. The big game has finally started, and all that matters is Mueller and Friends. #WINNING - John Schindler

Hewlett-Packard History Goes Up In Smoke
When deadly flames incinerated hundreds of homes in Santa Rosa’s Fountaingrove neighborhood earlier this month, they also destroyed irreplaceable papers and correspondence held nearby and once belonging to the founders of Silicon Valley’s first technology company, Hewlett-Packard.


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If the world were really going to end, cosmically, I’d let y’all know, and with plenty of time to do nothing about it.- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Odd News

• Dozens of Octopuses Crawl From The Sea In Wales In "end of days" Beach Scene
• Ancient Egyptian and Biblical Texts Reveal Oldest Known Solar Eclipse—and Secrets of Ramesses the Great's Rule
• Police say woman stole 47 guns from sick dad’s cache
• Man admits smuggling chocolate-covered heroin on a flight from Guatemala
• 450-pound seal gets comfortable on a runway at an airport in Alaska

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First charges filed in U.S. special counsel's Russia investigation: source
A federal grand jury on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters.


I'm guessing the first ones to be charged are Manafort, Flynn and fill in the blanks 

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Under Trump & Sessions, 70% of the tables from the FBI's most important crime report have been taken offline
Every year, the FBI releases a report that is considered the gold standard for tracking crime statistics in the United States: the Crime in the United States report, a collection of crime statistics gathered from over 18,000 law-enforcement agencies in cities around the country. But according to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight, the 2016 Crime in the United States report — the first released under President Trump’s administration — contains close to 70 percent fewer data tables1 than the 2015 version did, a removal that could affect analysts’ understanding of crime trends in the country.


Trump Supporters Celebrate Massive Tax Cut for Everyone but Them. - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Poll: Majority of military officers view Trump unfavorably
• Around 1m Americans overdosed on opioids last year, and 64,000 of them died 
• Las Vegas victims targeted by death threats after surviving massacre: ‘I hope someone truly shoots you’
• State Department Scraps Sanctions Office
• GOP winds down Russia probes with Trump collusion unanswered
• Vladimir Putin Launches Four Ballistic Missiles in Nuclear Forces Drill Across Russia
• Spain Moves to Take Control Over Catalonia

President Trump today claimed he has a better recollection of his condolence call to the widow of a soldier than she does, pointing to his head and saying quote “one of the great memories of all time.” Trump then added, “If you don’t believe me, ask my wife Melatonin.” - Seth Myers

What Have We Become To Sink To This Level Of Cruelty? We've Become Trump.
Federal immigration agents detained an undocumented 10-year-old girl from Laredo, Texas, just out of emergency surgery on Wednesday.
Rosa Maria Hernandez, brought illegally into the United States at three months of age by her mother, was taken to Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, by her cousin. En route to the hospital, they were stopped at a Customs and Border Patrol checkpoint. Immigration agents then proceeded to follow the two to the hospital and remained there throughout the night.
Once she was discharged, Rosa Maria, who suffers from cerebral palsy, was escorted via ambulance to the Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center in San Antonio, Texas, by officers with Customs and Border Protection.

In the past week, several prominent men have been fired for sexual harassment and it’s being called “The Harvey Effect.” Of course, none of them will see any jail time and that’s being called “The Cosby Effect.” - Conan O'Brien

Republican Shenanigans

• Sebastian Gorka says Hillary Clinton should be convicted of treason like the Rosenbergs: "Those people got the chair"
• ‘No you brought her up!’ Kellyanne Conway melts down when CNN asks why she keeps talking about Hillary
• Maddow busts GOP Senate staffer involved in Russia investigation who did her own private search for Clinton’s emails
• Sessions lashes out at federal judges for not "appropriately respecting" Trump 
• The president is ordering the Justice Department to go after his political opponent
• 15 times Trump bragged about his intelligence
• Trump is hardest working president since WWII: Republican voters
• Joy Reid calls BS on GOP lawmaker saying faith-based treatments will make up for meager Trump opioid budget
• Trump White House spending $1.75 million on new furniture, redecorating
• Witness To George HW Bush Groping Incident Says Actors Were Warned: 'He Gets Pretty Handsy'

We're probably a few months off from 12-hour-long Fox News broadcasts of Clinton showtrials. - Ankit Panda

Georgia Deletes Voter Info Needed For Lawsuit
A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.
The server’s data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state’s election system. The data wipe was revealed in an email sent last week from an assistant state attorney general to plaintiffs in the case that was later obtained by the AP. More emails obtained in a public records request confirmed the wipe.


Toddler-in-Chief @realDonaldTrump tweets birthday wishes to singer Lee Greenwood but tags attorney Lee Greenwood ... He’s Ivy League smart. - Col. Morris Davis

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A new poll has found that 51 percent of Democrats now have a favorable view of former President George W. Bush. That makes sense. I’d also have a favorable view of the flu if I suddenly found myself with the plague.- Seth Myers

Rock The Voter News

• New Occidental College scholarships honor school's most famous student: Barack Obama
• Russia's Troll Factory Made 'Hillary Clinton' Sex Tape, Ex-Worker Claims
• Hillary Clinton Receives Wonder Woman Award & Her Speech Will Remind You Of Your Power
• JFK Assassination Records - 2017 Additional Documents Release | National Archives

Every tweet ever written has been archived in the Library of Congress for future generations to read, so hate wisely. - John Fugelsang


Trump Blocks Some JFK Documents
President Donald Trump has blocked the release of hundreds of records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, bending to CIA and FBI appeals, while the National Archives came out Thursday night with a hefty cache of others.

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The JFK files got released before Trump's taxes. - Tim Hanlon


Business/Tech News

• Walmart tests shelf-scanning robots in 50-plus stores
• Pharmaceutical Founder Arrested In Alleged Nationwide Opioid Scheme
• Mark Halperin, a Top Political Journalist, Faces Multiple Claims of Harassment
• Almost half of Trump’s Twitter followers could be fake: report

Congress is now "looking for funding" to address the opioid crisis. Maybe they should look in the same place where they somehow found $1.3 trillion in tax cuts for rich people. - Andy Borowitz

When US Companies Aren't Patriotic
Twitter quietly ramped up a campaign last year to permanently delete some user data from its social media platform and the files of commercial firms using it, raising concerns that the policy would help Russian cyberspies suspected of meddling in the 2016 election cover their tracks.



Before Twitter we had no way of knowing the illiteracy rates of our favorite celebrities. - John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• ‘Hoover’s one to talk’: CNN’s Anderson Cooper amused by report J. Edgar Hoover thought Jack Ruby was gay
• Catholic Priest Conducts Spiritual Cleansing Of Las Vegas Shooter's Hotel Room
• Air Force retracts tweets claiming that Santa Claus isn’t real
• Two women and their dogs rescued after 5 months adrift in the Pacific
• A robot that once said it would 'destroy humans' just became the first robot citizen

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Best wishes to all for a peaceful weekend.