Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Apparently, nepotism is contagious

A family affair: Susan Pompeo's active role raising debate within the CIA
Susan Pompeo, wife of Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo, has taken on an unusually active role for a CIA spouse in agency affairs since he started the job in January 2017, regularly spending her days at the agency, traveling with her husband, and attending agency social


Seth Meyers: ‘Trump is Freaking Out Like a Final ‘Jeopardy’ Contestant Who Knows the Music Is About to Stop’



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Today's press briefing: 
Were Russian elections free and fair? 
Sarah Sanders: "Look, we don't get to dictate how other countries operate."










UK Expels Russian Diplomats. Trump Congrats Putin On Election. I Bet Theresa May Didn't Congratulate Putin.
Russian diplomats, ordered expelled by Britain over a nerve agent attack on British soil, left the country Tuesday.
They were transported from the Russian embassy in London to Stansted Airport for a flight home.
Britain ordered the 23 diplomats expelled last week, after blaming Moscow for the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury earlier this month. 






One thing you can say about Hillary when she was Secretary of State she wasn't scared of Putin, she called his ass out for cheating. - Pam Forrest





Please tell me Donald Trump calling Vladimir Putin on his “victory” is fake news. They are one step away from getting a place together.- Rob Reiner


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John McCain: “An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. And by doing so with Vladimir Putin, President Trump insulted every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election...”






Man. Crazy sh*t happens so fast in this presidency, sometimes it feels like I’m binge-watching it.” - Seth Meyers






You'd Never Know Abortion Is Legal In The USA. Another Attempted Barrier.
Supreme Court justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum expressed skepticism Tuesday about California's "truth-in-advertising" law requiring anti-abortion clinics to more fully disclose what they are.
The anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" objected to the law on free-speech grounds.





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If Hillary bought an AR-15 we'd have full gun control tomorrow. - Jeff Tiedrich




Rock The Voter News

After DiGenova and his wife and law partner Victoria Toensing did all they could to aid the impeachment of Bill Clinton in the 1990s, Toensing kept up her crusade against the Clintons by being one of the primary perpetrators of the fake (and now-debunked) "Uranium One" canard. - Seth Abramson



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Business/Tech News

Mark Zuckerberg donated $5,000 to Trumps campaign and his board member Peter Thiel donated $1.25 million to Trump's campaign. I wonder if that was done in rubles. - irishygirl





Always remember that people on welfare are just "gaming the system" but Mr. Trump merely "took advantage of all available loopholes." - John Fugelsang



Google Trying To Filter Out Fake News By Pumping Up Media Publishers
Google is making its grandest overture to the news business yet. Alphabet Inc.’s search giant is providing a new suite of tools to help media publishers grow subscriptions, advertising sales and readership -- an attempt to resuscitate an industry the search giant helped decimate. And it includes another shot at stamping out fake news.
Under the Google News Initiative, the company pledges to dole out $300 million to support digital journalism globally over the next three years.






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Namib Desert from Space. It looks so angry but beautiful at the same time.
Photo: European Space Agency

Peace.


Monday, March 19, 2018

And the beat goes on

Where is Mark Zuckerberg?’ Reporter nails Facebook for data ‘scandal’ that helped deliver Trump and Brexit
British journalist Carol Cadwalladr has been sounding the alarm on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for more than a year, and her investigative work helped reveal a massive data breach exploited by the Trump campaign.


FUN FACT: Steve Bannon, Trump's Campaign CEO and WH Chief Strategist, was VP of Cambridge Analytica, which is under an active search warrant at this very moment. - Tea Pain






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Mueller rents giant warehouse to store evidence against Trump. “It’s like a city all its own,” one warehouse worker said. “There are people working in the Michael Flynn section who’ve never met the people working in the Paul Manafort section.” - Andy Borowitz






More On Cambridge Analytica
A whistleblower has revealed to the Observer how Cambridge Analytica – a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.










Republican Shenanigans


Please. If this was a real witch hunt, Donald Jr. would be posing in a selfie with a witch head and broken broom. - Erik Bransteen





Yep. I Knew It, Religious Fundamentalists Are Coo Coo.
A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia has shown that religious fundamentalism is, in part, the result of a functional impairment in a brain region known as the prefrontal cortex. The findings suggest that damage to particular areas of the prefrontal cortex indirectly promotes religious fundamentalism by diminishing cognitive flexibility and openness—a psychology term that describes a personality trait which involves dimensions like curiosity, creativity, and open-mindedness.



If Trump ever had to take a lie detector test, he’d probably just draw the crazy lines himself. - Seth Myers





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“Hillary Clinton deliberately plotted to put me in the White House, and the American people should be very angry about that,” Trump said. - Andy Borowitz





Rock The Voter News

According to Politico, the publishers of former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming memoir are taking extreme precautions to prevent the manuscript from leaking. Yeah, it would be a shame if something got out at the wrong time and ruined everything for him.- Seth Myers



My My My, This Explains Why Kentucky Keeps Reelecting Mitch McConnell. They're All Drunk!
Kentucky’s rate of binge-drinking has been one of the highest in the nation, according to a new study.
The state ranked third, at 652, in the total number of alcoholic drinks consumed annually during heavy drinking episodes by people who reported being binge drinkers, according to the study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.








Trump warned that the people who wrote the Constitution could be fired “very soon.” - Andy Borowitz


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I'm a Crisis Actor but what i really want to do is Crisis Direct. - John Fugelsang


Business/Tech News

Elon Musk has announced that his company SpaceX will be ready to fly an unmanned rocket to Mars and back by 2019. And shortly thereafter, they’ll be able to send people there to colonize the planet. You know, just in case you-know-who is re-elected to the you-know-what.- James Corden






Kroger Alters Gun Policy
Kroger announced it will no longer sell print magazines featuring assault rifles.
The supermarket retailer said it is now starting to implement the new policy in stores across the country, USA Today reported.



Trump is suing Carly Simon for writing a song about him.  - irishygirl tweet




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They both just received the news that the groundhog saw his shadow.

Peace.


Friday, March 16, 2018

Resign or run, Trump.

Britain points at Putin in poisoning attack as gulf widens
The gulf between Russia and Britain widened on Friday as they cranked up pressure over a nerve agent attack and a suspected murder in Britain that have deepened Western worries about alleged Russian meddling abroad.


I wonder why Putin pulled off this poisoning that so easily points to him. To send a message?


Trump said Mueller looking into his finances is a red line he wouldn’t allow to be crossed and now it is presumably being crossed. Why do I think this ends with Melania in a trench coat handing files over in an underground parking lot? - Jimmy Kimmel





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I wonder what Wag the Dog chaos will ensue today in order to deflect, deflect, deflect. Perhaps an avocado tariff on Mexico. - Chelsea Handler



Trump's Consiglieres Threaten Panama Judge. Really.
A Panamanian judge involved in a dispute over the Trump Organization's management of a 70-story luxury hotel was threatened by lawyers from the company, according to a complaint filed with the country's chief prosecutor.









“I mean, you have to picture him with his BlackBerry in his itty-bitty hands, and that’s how he finds out,” Tillerson cackled. “It would serve the bastard right.” - Andy Borowitz


Republican Shenanigans

I would never laugh at a human being’s suffering. Which is why I’m totally cool with laughing at Don Jr. - Jess Dweck






Trump's Trying To Oust Career Civil Servants (aka deep state) At The State Dept.
Two months into the Trump administration, a distraught State Department Iran expert named Sahar Nowrouzzadeh asked her new boss for help.
A conservative website had published an article depicting Nowrouzzadeh as a Barack Obama loyalist who had “burrowed into the government” under Trump and even had ties to the hated Iranian regime itself.


I refuse to joke about Vanessa Trump bc it's NEVER funny when a couple files for an uncontested quick divorce, one where assets can be swiftly transferred, on the same day an independent special counsel subpoenas their family business.  People, this could happen to you someday. - John Fugelsang


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Rock The Voter News

Pundidiots are wondering if Nancy Pelosi is too "toxic" to keep on as Democratic leader.
Who says she's "toxic"? Republican propagandists and neoprogressive trollbots.
This is the same bullshit that happened to Hillary. - DC Petterson



Ivanka Subbing For Rex Tillerson
Ivanka Trump will meet with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha when she visits the U.S. following the abrupt ousting of secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Noh Kyu-duk confirmed Thursday that Ivanka Trump, a White House adviser, would meet with Kang, KBS World Radio reported.
The purpose and exact date of the meeting are not yet clear.







Well, this tweet from a New York Times columnist didn't age well. gag.



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U.S. Has Massive IQ Deficit with Canada - Andy Borowitz


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Half of Trump's A-Team couldn't get security clearance and included felons, Nazis, racists, wife-beaters and gambling addicts. Just imagine how "qualified" the B-Team will be. So far the candidates include a warmonger, a cocaine addict and a torturer.- Wil Donnelly



Jimmy Kimmel To File Federal Complaint Against Trump's Chachkies
Jimmy Kimmel might end up costing President Donald Trump’s family some big money.
In light of the White House’s “buy American” rhetoric, the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host bought a bunch of merchandise from the Trump Store, which is run by two of the president’s sons, to see where it all came from...Most of the merchandise Kimmel purchased was made abroad, and two items didn’t list a country of origin at all. Kimmel said such an omission could lead to potential fines of up to $500,000 if it turns out these products were made overseas.


The Trump family is the stupidest gang of hairbrained criminals this side of an Elmore Leonard novel. - Jeff Tiedrich






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We've all been there, except for vegans. Oh wait, there are some veggies on the grill!

Peace.