I feel dirty

Speaker Ryan, Republicans rally around Rep. Jim Jordan amidmounting allegations
Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday joined a unified GOP front supporting Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio in the face of allegations from some former wrestlers at Ohio State University that Jordan turned a blind eye to sexual abuse by the team's doctor.

Our next president is going to have to go on one hell of an apology tour. - Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• 'Music to Putin's ears': CNN panel stunned by Trump's 'malevolence toward key allies' at NATO summit
• Israel shoots down Syria drone; Netanyahu meets Putin
• Mike Pompeo admits his North Korea meeting was a disaster: It went ‘as badly as it could have gone’
• 'That is absurd': CNN's Erin Burnett destroys Trump apologist after he claims North Korea is not a threat
• Blackwater founder Erik Prince wants to 'rationalize and restructure' America's wars -- and has a company to do it

By the time Trump gets back from Europe, not only will we be out of NATO, but America will be renamed "West Moscow." - Erik Bransteen

More Warnings. GOP Silent.
The United States was not designed to withstand the sort of authoritarian onslaught we’re seeing from Donald Trump, former CIA analyst Nada Bakos warned on Wednesday night.

We are one firin' away from a full-blown Constitutional crisis.  The lawyer for Alfa Bank, who never tried a case, is the head of the DOJ criminal division and the next in line behind Rod Rosenstein.  Trump and Putin's coup is almost complete.- Tea Pain

Trump Whines About Imaginary NATO Debt
Unleashing in-your-face rhetoric at the NATO summit, President Donald Trump pressed the falsehood Wednesday that members of the alliance owe money to the U.S. and took sole credit for higher military spending by NATO partners — a decision that preceded his presidency.

A man who had a yacht seized, a plane seized, signed over hotels, bankrupted  several businesses included casinos and stiffed contractors millions of dollars is calling for NATO to pay their bills. -irishygirl

Republican Shenanigans

• Watergate fall-guy John Dean has advice for Michael Cohen: 'When you kick the king -- it better take care of the job'
• Donald Trump’s ratings drop by 7 million viewers for Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh
• White women rant about ‘fat Mexican b*tches’ after cops refuse to immediately arrest Latino neighbors
• Off-duty cop and apartment manager force ‘only black dude in pool’ to leave — even though he lives there
• GOP lawmaker's campaign team installs tracker to find person taking down his signs
• ‘I’m telling the truth’: Jim Jordan claims he ‘stood up’ for athletes who he didn’t know were being molested
• House Speaker Paul Ryan on accusations against Rep. Jim Jordan: “I’ve always known Jim Jordan to be a man of honesty and a man of integrity.”
• Sacha Baron Cohen enrages Sarah Palin with 'evil' humor 

Something tells me Sacha Baron Cohen could have duped Sarah Palin dressed as Sarah Palin. - Jeremy Newberger

Paul Manafort Has A Private Cell With Bath, Cell Phone & Laptop. How Did That Happen?
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday submitted files opposing former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s request to delay his trial for months, a filing that reveals details of Manafort’s life behind bars.

Women will always have access to safe and legal abortion, as long as they got pregnant by a married republican. - irishygirl

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Rock The Voter News

• NEW POLL: Americans rank Obama as the best president in their lifetime 
• Dems call for release of Strzok interview transcript after Republicans asked about Mueller probe

Sarah Palin is trending so I can only assume her kids Trig, Track, Bio, Calc 2, and JV Lacrosse have gotten into some kind of drunken snowmobile fight. - OhNoSheTwint

Why, I believe this woman got her degree from Trump University, Magna cum covfefe

I miss Anthony Bourdain.

I miss Prince.

I miss Carrie Fisher.

I miss David Bowie.

I'm so sick of Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell I could vomit.

We really got a raw deal, world. - John Pavlovitz

 

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Business/Tech News

• Tax cuts since 2000 have mostly benefited high earners: study
• 'Wherever you look, you see damage': CNN analyst shows how Trump's tariffs are killing the stock market
• US says to slap tariffs on extra $200 billion of Chinese imports
• Papa John’s founder accused of using n-word in conference call about how to avoid bad PR incidents 

- North Korea pranks Pompeo
- Republicans visit Moscow
- Trump loses migrant children
-  I feel dirty

Elon Musk didn’t save the Thai soccer team, but he will put them on a Tesla waitlist.- Conan O'Brien

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Odd News

• Burglar breaks into escape room, can't escape, calls 911 on himself 
• A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who's Inside
• Snake comes down family's chimney into fireplace
• Former astronaut says humans could have made it to Mars decades ago, but most would probably die
• Two asteroids zipped by Earth hours before anyone noticed

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The Dubai Frame is an architectural landmark in Zabeel Park, Dubai. It has been described The Guardian newspaper as "the biggest picture frame on the planet", however is also controversial as the "biggest stolen building of all time". Hmm, I see it as a facsinating piece of art.

Peace.

Trump nominates Supreme Court Justice

Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Justice nominee: Trump announced 
President Trump announced his selection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be his second Supreme Court justice Monday night

Jeffrey Toobin on CNN: "Brett Kavanaugh is on the D.C. Circuit. You know who is the chief judge on the D.C. Circuit? Merrick Garland. How do you think he feels today?"

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Trump: Solution to reuniting immigrant families is 'don't come to our country illegally'
• Judge extends deadline as U.S. struggles to reunify migrant families
• In Emirates, Pompeo knocks Iran’s ‘bad behavior’
• Trump won't say if Putin is friend or foe

It’s hard to respect a president who is kinder to ruthless dictators than women in Congress and Senators dying of cancer. - Tony Posnanski

I Wonder How The Trumps Will Be Treated By NATO?
Ahead of Donald Trump's arrival at the NATO summit, EU's Tusk tells the U.S., 'Please respect your allies, you don't have that many'. 

Buzzfeed: Take our "Which Trump Child Are You quiz!!" Me: I don't waste time w/those awful people.Buzzfeed: Ooh that means you're a Tiffany! - John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• Pres. Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn arrives at DC courthouse to competing chants of "Lock him up!" and "We're with you, General Flynn!"
• GOP Senator John Kennedy on Russia Trip: I Told Them to ‘Stop Screwing with American Elections’
• Scalise defends Jordan amid sex abuse scandal
• Man harasses woman at park for wearing Puerto Rico flag shirt, calls her un-American
• San Bernardino prosecutor punished for comments about Maxine Waters
• Trump pardons Oregon ranchers at center of 40-day standoff

$80 worth of sushi tells me Stephen Miller was ordering for two. Himself and someone he has shackled to a radiator in his apartment.- Andy Lassner

Judge Calls Trump's Request Cynical
The judge called the Trump administration's request to extend a 20-day maximum detention for children a "cynical attempt" to pass the buck on immigration policy.

Donald Trump’s campaign manager IS IN JAIL.

5 members of his campaign have PLEAD GUILTY to charges brought by the Mueller probe.

And the media is acting like it’s perfectly normal that this obviously guilty man is going to NAME HIS OWN JUDGE.

WAKE THE FVCK UP. - Mikel Jollett

I’m sick of his face, hand gestures, whiny voice and appalling vocabulary.- SpockResists tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Bill and Hillary Clinton fly commercial twice in one weekend
• Trump's Supreme Court pick tests vulnerable Senate Democrats

Tit for tat. Amirite?

Isn't This Unethical? Why Of Course It Is!
Source familiar tells NBC that Justice Kennedy had been in negotiations with the Trump team for months over Kennedy’s replacement. Once Kennedy received assurances that it would be Kavanaugh (his former law clerk) Kennedy felt comfortable retiring.

"If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can do to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court." - Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)

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So five men are going to overturn Roe v. Wade, right? That's the takeaway, right? - Matt Fuller

Business/Tech News

• Iran says U.S. sanctions to bite, but will sell as much oil as possible
• Chinese Refiner Stops US Oil Imports, Turns To Iranian Crude
• Tesla hikes prices in China after tariffs hit US cars
• Consulting firm cuts ties with ICE

Sarah Huckabee Sanders called China’s tariffs on its full range of tanning products an “act of war.”- Andy Borowitz

The Miracle Of 2018
Every parent should be so lucky to have a man like Ekapol Jantawong as their child’s coach.
He didn’t lead the Thai soccer team into the cave — He was searching for them after their parents reported them missing.

Can the Thai Navy Seals come rescue 3,000 kids in cages in America?- irishygirl

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Odd News

• Man breaks Guinness record for one-handed Rubik's cube
• Woman tried to fly with snake hidden in hard drive
• Daylight meteor spotted streaking across central US
• New Giant Dinosaur Discovered That Rewrites Evolutionary History
• 'Miracle' baby found alive buried in Montana woods for 9 hours

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An ice cave in Iceland. I hope he has a raft.

Peace.

I know how you feel, sun.

Trump's Personal Driver for 25 Years Sues for Unpaid Overtime
Donald Trump’s personal driver for more than 25 years says the billionaire real estate developer didn’t pay him overtime and raised his salary twice in 15 years, clawing back the second raise by cutting off his health benefits.

Of the trillion reasons Trump should not be naming a Supreme Court justice today, not meeting the court's deadline return the toddlers and infants he stole from their parents is one.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Foreign policy expert warns Trump meeting Putin alone is ‘beyond unusual’ and ‘really dangerous’
• British woman exposed to Russian nerve agent in Amesbury, England has died -- police launch homicide investigation
• Trump administration comes out against breastfeeding worldwide to placate baby formula makers -- until Russia objects
• Shine to join Trump in Helsinki for Putin meeting
• Donald Trump Jr.'s defense is that there's nothing wrong with colluding
• Trump criticizes NATO members ahead of summit
• Trump optimistic after North Korea criticizes talks
• State Dept. says copy of Elton John 'Rocket Man' CD not delivered to Kim Jong Un
• Some migrant children under 5 unlikely to be reunited with their parents by Tuesday deadline
• Reporter faces deportation after police coverage ‘without a doubt’ landed him in jail
• 92-year-old Mexican man beaten with a brick, told to 'go back to your own country’ by a pack of attackers — WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO
• 1-Year-Old Baby Appears In Immigration Court, Cries Hysterically

1-year-old baby in immigration court, alone. Judge is embarrassed to ask if he understands the proceedings. Baby cries hysterically. His father has now been deported. This is a human rights violation, an atrocity, a stain on America. How is anyone sleeping? - Randi Mayem Singer

GOP In Russia: Dog & Pony Show Went As Planned
Eight Republican lawmakers appeared to signal weakness toward Russia last week. Upon returning home, one of them made matters a little worse.

Saving those kids trapped in the cave is a great thing, but let's not forget the kids trapped on our southern border. Not trapped by rising water but by the cruel policies of this administration. - Stephen King

How The Hell Do You LOSE Kids?
Government lawyers said Friday that officials are unable to locate the parents of 38 migrant children separated under the administration's controversial "zero tolerance" border policy, as officials push to comply with a judge's order that the families be reunited.

Republican Shenanigans

• Fox cuts away from breaking news to freak out about Hillary 2020 run while CNN and MSNBC cover Thai cave rescue
• Oops: Giuliani slips up and confirms Trump asked Comey to give Flynn 'a break' -- even though Trump denies it
• Ex-GOP official: Jim Jordan will survive sex abuse accusations because he's from a safe conservative district
• Clarence Thomas' wife: People are accusing GOP lawmaker of covering up sexual abuse because he "threatens the elite"
• GOP lawmaker rejects racism charge: 'My son is named after a black guy'
• Stephen Miller Takes Out His Rage on an $80 Sushi Order
• Members of Trump's private clubs may have been invited to tour Air Force One: report
• Trump supporters are furious about the giant 'angry baby' balloon

— Steve Bannon is getting protested at book stores.
— Mitch McConnell is getting protested in his hometown.
— Stephen Miller, Kirstjen Nielsen and Sarah Sanders are getting protested at restaurants.
No matter how hard Trump and the GOP try, most Americans don’t like FASCISTS. - Ryan Knight

We Are Caught In The Middle Of A Sad Political Soap Opera
Michael Cohen's new lawyer Lanny Davis questioned the honesty of President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani in a caustic tweet after Giuliani said Cohen should cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating him and tell "the truth."

Trump: “goodbye scott, thanks for everything” *pruitt leaves, trump checks his wallet and finds it’s gone* - Trevor Noah

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Having worked for Obama for years, I was always amazed by how he absorbed his briefing books. He not only read all the memos, but he picked up on arguments that had been missed or minimized. Staff had to raise their games to keep up with him. - Chris Lu

Rock The Voter News

• Dem senator to oppose Supreme Court nominee, cites 'corrupt bargain' with 'far Right'
• Dem strategist: Rumors of Hillary 2020 run are a 'pipe dream'

My experience at restaurants: I ordered take out at a Greek restaurant. When I arrived, the owner saw me & threw in a free baklava (one of my favorite desserts). He said he appreciated what I was doing. I guess that's what happens when one opposes ripping kids away from parents.- Rep. Ted Lieu

Tell Us How You Really Feel About Maxine Waters
A senior prosecutor in California is under investigation after calling Rep. Maxine Waters a “c--t” on social media and wondering why no one has ..

As Scott Pruitt resigns as head of the EPA, he leaves...a former coal lobbyist in charge. It's like a set of toxic nesting dolls, a reference I know our Russian bosses will appreciate. - Bette Midler

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Breaking: Racist Farmers Should Have Cared More About Farming Than Racism When They Voted - Jess Dweck

Business/Tech News

• Sell tech! Morgan Stanley's warning to investors
• Insurers warn of rising premiums after Trump axes Obamacare payments again
• Florida pension investments flow to Russian companies targeted by Trump administration
• Illinois governor profits off ICE detention center contracts
• Theresa May dealt Brexit blow with resignation of key Cabinet minister

Part of Me wants Britain to win the World Cup but another part of Me would prefer a European country. - The TweetOf God

Every Little Bit Helps
Starbucks announced on Monday it plans to eliminate plastic straws from its 28,000 stores worldwide by 2020.
The company will broaden the manufacture and use of what some in social media have dubbed the "adult sippy cup." It's a plastic strawless lid that will come to replace single-use plastic straws that now inundate its coffee shops.

The Arctic 103 years ago and today

One of these Sundays, I’d like Pope Francis to say “God” the way the FIFA announcer says, “GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!” - Conan O'Brien

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Odd News

• News interview interrupted by rude cat
• RSPCA rescues over a dozen drunk gulls
• Boat with wheels drives on road in Tennessee
• Guinness record-breaking puzzle created in Dubai
• Apollo: Recovery of lost mission tapes solves lunar mystery
• Researchers film glacier calving massive iceberg in Greenland

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A rare adult orchid mantis from Malaysia. It's pretty but I wouldn't touch anything with eyes like that.

Peace.