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CNN reports FBI chief Comey had a sit-down with Rubio’s Senate Intel committee for 3 hours regarding the Trump administration/campaign’s contacts with Russians. No details available. The FBI has previously indicated that Flynn would probably not be...
by seesdifferent
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 05:11 PM PST
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by Bill Prendergast
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 10:07 AM PST
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Flynn's loyalty towards Russia wasn't a surprise to anyone. Not our Comrade in Chief, not his jolly sidekick, not our Congress, not even the American public. If you honestly believe Flynn was forced to hand in his resignation because he misled VP...
by Darrin Stephens
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 06:21 PM PST
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“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.” (André Malraux)
Trump has failed to release his tax returns to the American public since the beginning of the campaign, since June 16, 2015; for at least 20 months. As more and more questions...
by Avaya Shamira
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 08:10 AM PST
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Earlier this week, it was revealed that National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had made several phone calls to Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, about sanctions before Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
Flynn then resigned, and...
by David Pakman
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 07:13 AM PST
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Trump calls them criminals. I call them patriots. 6 comments
on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 03:44 AM PST
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We should view all the stories about Russia and Trump as part of a whole. To facilitate that, I made an outline of the evidence of connections between Trump and Russia. I believe this circumstantial evidence strongly suggests there was collaboration...
by wnemirow
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 01:56 PM PST
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OK, presser was insane. But in good news this week, look at what the press and citizen activism has accomplished. To start with, meet Politico reporter Marianne LeVine. Worker- and wife-abuser Puzder withdrew as the result of lots and lots of worker...
by carlylu
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 08:40 PM PST
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I know this is long but my intent is to get you to consider today's presser in context. Who is Trump speaking too? Who can possibly believe such unbelievable claims?
Start with yesterday's refusal to condemn antisemitism. To even say the...
by Darrin Stephens
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 07:32 PM PST
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Get low to the ground and peer through the smoke. Do you see what I see? Flynn's loyalty towards Russia isn't a surprise to anyone. Heck as recently as 2015 he was paid by Russia's state broadcaster, Russia Today, for appearing on its air. In December...
by Darrin Stephens
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 07:05 PM PST
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The never-ending leaks and stories concerning this Trump/Bannon/Republican administration’s incompetencies and possibly treasonous transgressions is pretty bewildering to most of us. But not to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, who has shown that even...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 12:58 PM PST
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Putin had a specific reason for getting involved in the election, it was not simply to cause some sort of random undermining of American democracy.
Could this be the explanation?
Following up on the ideas expressed in that article….
Obama...
by Seemabes
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 11:52 AM PST
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The NYT is reporting here that Trumpworld is looking to Steve Feinberg, head of Cerberus Capital, to “review” the U.S. intelligence agencies.
Would that be the 17 intelligence agencies that have definitively concluded the Russians hacked the 2016...
by ScottMcMurrey
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 07:25 AM PST
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Donald Trump should resign the presidency, for his sake and ours.
Trump’s election has been called a political “black swan” event. One of the least qualified of 17 Republican contenders, he won the party’s nomination even though 55 percent of...
by Lysander Ploughjogger
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 10:11 PM PST
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l'll be expecting Trump ending up being known as the Norma Desmond of Presidents! 2 comments
on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 02:23 AM PST
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… Just to catch a whiff of some damn fine cuisine as we wait for the other shoe to drop… and maybe catch a whiff of what the Ubers and Filthys* are up to.
We're up late Jibbering our Jabber about the Great Dem Party Divide, Indivisible, Resistance,...
by winkk
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on Wed Feb 15, 2017 at 08:49 PM PST
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Utah Republican rep and answer to the question “who is a more craven character than Bram Stoker’s Renfield” Jason Chaffetz is finally getting around to asking for an investigation! I’m sure that all of his constituents’ protests and our national...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 15, 2017 at 07:02 PM PST
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The Associated Press is reporting that former (disgraced yet?) National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has had his classified clearance suspended pending investigation.
A defense official said the agency suspended Flynn's access to classified...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 15, 2017 at 03:31 PM PST
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Why is he smiling? I can answer that one. He was elected with no experience, no help from his party, no deals with his party, no concern for the truth, no concern for his country, very little financial outlay from his own pocket, and after saying...
by brooklynpaul
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on Wed Feb 15, 2017 at 02:28 PM PST
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Alt-facts have now been replaced by alt-logic:
"General Flynn is a wonderful man," Trump said during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday. "I think he's been treated very, very unfairly by the...
by amadon
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on Wed Feb 15, 2017 at 01:46 PM PST
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Trump thought that Puzder was canny
Till he hired an illegal nanny
As cabinet picks go
That one was a no
So Puzder got tossed on his fanny.
- I suppose it's well and good to have White House correspondents from major news organizations like CNN, the BBC and NBC News sparring with Comrade Donny during his so-called press conferences. But, that's not where the real journalistic work needs to...1 comments 0 Recs
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