"A ‘former White House national security official says staffers were not sure the president had not been compromised’ by Russia.”
My father was in Patton's army, fought Battle of the Bulge, crawled thru Europe for 2 yrs, & when a French bakery refused him & his soldier buddy bread though their money was on the counter, they politely raised their guns & asked again. - Elayne Boosler
The World Is A Safer Place Without
- Remembering the US soldiers who refused orders to murder Native Americans at Sand Creek
- From Japan Trump tweets Liz Cheney’s lie that remarks by FBI agents investigating him ‘could well be treason’
- ‘What her daddy did is a war crime’: Retired colonel blasts Liz Cheney for her ‘could be treason’ comments
- Trump says he's fine with Japan negotiating truce with Iran -- after he broke treaty
- Trump denies North Korea has set off any rockets — 24 hours after admitting they shot off ‘some small weapons’
- North Korea calls Bolton a ‘defective human product’
Trump has the support of men whose children don't speak to them (Jon Voight), men who hit their wives (Rob Porter), men who call their wives "Mother" (Pence), pedophiles (Roy Moore), men who harass women (Bill O'Reilly) and a fussy butler from a 70s sit-com (Lindsey Graham) - Paul Rudnick
Trump Sure Knows How To Celebrate Memorial Day: Golf, Sumo Wrestling & BBQ
The optics and the rhetoric of President Trump's state visit to Japan aimed to show two allies at their closest in history, at the start of a new Japanese emperor's reign...On Sunday, he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shared a round of golf, attended a sumo wrestling match and had a barbecue dinner.
But on Monday, a joint press conference with the two leaders revealed the two countries struggling to manage differences over a raft of policy issues — in particular, bilateral trade, North Korea and Iran.
Queen Elizabeth Says Bone Spurs Will Prevent Her From Meeting With Trump. - Andy Borowitz
Republican Shenanigans
- GOP rep defends accused war criminal, saying he also photographed bodies
- Chris Wallace forces Lindsey Graham to watch old clips of himself calling for Clinton’s impeachment
- Trump's advisers want him to stop attacking Joe Biden -- because it's only helping the former veep with voters
- Anti-vaxx sentiment spreads to the Republican Party after igniting a measles outbreak
- C-SPAN caller thanks Trump for being ‘awesome’ — then asks why Hillary Clinton hasn’t been sentenced to death
If we don’t hold a criminal President accountable for his crimes now, do you really believe a criminal President will allow free and fair elections in 2020? - Tea Pain
In the New York Times piece by Maggie Haberman, titled “Hope Hicks Left the White House. Now She Must Decide Whether to Talk to Congress,” the White House correspondent described Hicks’s decision as “facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena in the coming weeks.”
Sarah Sanders won’t hold press briefings, but press still invites her on Sunday programs—that’ll show her!! - Eric Boehlert
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Trump retweets a video doctored to make Nancy Pelosi look stupid and there's no way to get even bc you can't doctor a video to make Trump look smart. - John Fugelsang
Rock The Voter News
- Buttigieg: Trump’s fake injury ‘an assault on the honor of this country’
- Ocasio-Cortez slams the NYT for sexist coverage of former Trump official Hope Hicks: 'It’s glamour shot time'
- Hillary Clinton Calls Doctored Pelosi Video 'Sexist Trash'
- Clintons march in Memorial Day parade
Trump's Slurred Speech Tied To Low Battery In Putin's Remote. - Andy Borowitz
Kushner Cos. gets about $800 million in federally backed debt to buy apartments in Maryland and Virginia, the company’s biggest purchase in a decade
Can you imagine Bill Clinton saying he and Saddam Hussein are in agreement in their shared criticism of George Bush? A President is using credibility of a dictator who tortured an American to death & runs a prison camp country to help his campaign. So anti-American. Disgrace. - Stuart Stevens
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Business/Tech News
- Trump: 'We're not ready' to make a trade deal with China
- BART picks a fight with Elon Musk on Twitter over tunnels
- Older Americans had a 40-point drop in their credit score
- A Million People Could Lose Their Pensions If Congress Doesn't Act
Chase CEO Giving Commencement Speech Pledges To Double Whole Class’s Student Loan Debt - The Onion
Trump Loses 2 Lawsuits
President Trump took a beating in federal court last week, losing a pair of lawsuits aimed at hindering House Democrats' investigations into him and his administration.
The decisions indicated that Trump will ultimately lose the fights: Both judges in the subpoena cases issued their rulings swiftly and decisively, underscoring the weakness of Trump's legal arguments.
Aliens are going to be so deeply disappointed by us. - Molly Jong-Fast
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