We're finally at endgame in this sad phase of the Steve Bannon saga. On Friday Bannon will be sentenced in federal court for his 2 convictions on contempt of Congress charges. And of course Bannon, being Bannon, is unrepentant to the end. In a...
As long as there have been trains there have been train derailments, they kind of go with the territory when you transport tremendously heavy loads of freight at speed over terrain, around curves, in tenuously balanced rectangular boxes perched...
Immediately below is a compilation of a thread of tweets by Sen. Whitehouse with some commentary by me for easier reading. At the bottom I will post the Senator’s original tweet, in case some may wish to follow the...
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Sackett v U.S Environmental Protection Agency, re-interpreting the Clean Water Act to eliminate longstanding protections for millions of acres of wetlands. Five Justices on this new conservative Court narrowed the definition of...
Good riddance to bad garbage. A senior administration official told CNN Wednesday, without irony, that Scott Pruitt was “inching forward to the tipping point” where finally, apparently even the Trump administration would find his endless scandals intolerable. Pruitt resigned...
Scott Pruitt received a call from John Kelly on Thursday telling him that Trump had decided to pull the plug and that he had to resign immediately. He was not expecting it, incredible as that may sound. He also...
Paul McCartney released a new solo album and in one of his songs the lyrics are, 'We've got a mad captain sailing this boat'.  And yeah, he means Donald Trump. In a recent interview with  BBC UK, McCartney admitted that he...
A blind worm has just been named after Donald Trump. You have to admit the resemblance is uncanny. https://twitter.com/ENVIROBUILDcom/status/1075045351835475970 https://twitter.com/Er_Nope/status/1075534507678281728 Washington Post: EnviroBuild, a London-based sustainable building materials company, saw a resemblance between the serpentine creature, which is nearly blind and burrows underground,...
As I first wrote about this last weekend, the nuclear accident occurring offshore in northern Russia's Nenoska test site last Thursday continues to raise troubling questions for Western analysts. The death toll has risen to seven from the weekend...
Jennifer Diouhy is a Bloomberg reporter. https://twitter.com/jendlouhyhc/status/1002386812038414338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2018%2F6%2F1%2F1768723%2F-Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Hilariously-Flames-Trump-For-Ludicrous-Coal-Policy https://twitter.com/jendlouhyhc/status/1002576999616040961 The project that Trump proposes is not only unprecedented, the very idea is antiquated and absurd and Schwarzenegger says as much. https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1002575859419525120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2F2018%2F06%2Farnold-schwarzenegger-smokes-trumps-coal-bailout-plan-one-hilarious-tweet%2F This particular idiotic move of Trump's is buried in the news cycle under the...

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