Sanders supporters refusing to recognize Cuomo as NY delegation chair;...
Politico:Supporters of Bernie Sanders say they’ll file a legal challenge to the nomination of Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the chair of New York’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention in...
View ArticleBernie Sanders delays his personal finance disclosure again, until after the...
Every presidential candidate is legally required to submit a personal finance disclosure to the FEC. They were due in April, but Sanders requested a 45 day extension, which would mean that he would...
View ArticleGetting his excuses in 100 days early
Donald Trump clearly knows what’s coming and his getting his excuses in 100 days in advance. From TPM:At a Monday campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, Donald Trump teed up for a potential challenge to the...
View ArticleIt appears that Melania Trump was once an undocumented worker
Politico has published a story describing the evidence that the current Mrs. Donald Trump worked in this country illegally in 1995.In response, Mrs. Trump put out a response saying she has complied...
View Article"None of us will vote for Donald Trump" say 50 national security Republicans
Fifty national security advisers and experts who served in Republican administrations from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush have come out with a new letter expressing horror at the idea of President...
View ArticleOne-fifth of registered Republicans want Trump to drop out. What on earth are...
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released this morning shows that 19% of Republicans say they want Trump to drop out of the presidential race, an another 10% can’t only muster a weak “don’t know” when asked if he...
View ArticleSecret Service had to intervene to protect someone FROM Donald Trump
In what is surely a first, the Secret Service had to intervene to protect someone from a presidential candidate. Or, to be more precise, from the consequences of his hate-filled rhetoric.The person was...
View ArticleRepublican Congressmen trampling all over the constitution
Republicans are trampling all over the constitution in order to keep stories about their pointless obsession over Hillary Clinton’s emails on the airwaves. Yesterday two GOP congressmen, Reps. Jason...
View ArticleT-Day minus 13
Reince Priebus says Donald Trump will be tied in the polls with Hillary Clinton in 13 days. From New York Magazine.Americans should probably cancel any late summer-vacation plans and remain glued to...
View ArticleT-Day minus 12
On Sunday Reince Preibus predicted that Trump would be tied with Clinton in the polls by Labor Day. Here is the daily check into the progress that is being made toward that goal:Real Clear Politics...
View ArticleT-Day minus 11
On Sunday Reince Preibus predicted that Trump would be tied with Clinton in the polls by Labor Day. Here is the daily check into the progress that is being made toward that goal:Real Clear Politics...
View ArticleT-Day minus 10
On Sunday Reince Preibus predicted that Trump would be tied with Clinton in the polls by Labor Day. Here is the daily check into the progress that is being made toward that goal:Real Clear Politics...
View ArticleBannon's voter registration is based on an unoccupied house due to be demolished
Possibly Stephen Bannon has as little regard for voting laws as he does for truthfulness and common decency. The Guardian reports that Donald Trump’s new presidential campaign chief is registered to...
View ArticleT-Day minus 9
On Sunday Reince Preibus predicted that Trump would be tied with Clinton in the polls by Labor Day. Here is the daily check into the progress that is being made toward that goal:Real Clear Politics...
View ArticleBannon moves his voter registration to the house of a Breitbart writer
Yesterday the Guardian broke the story that new Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon was registered to vote in Florida at an empty house in Florida that is due to be demolished. Bannon owns a house in...
View ArticleTrump made cameo in a porno and encouraged his wife to pose nude for Playboy
Here are two of the stranger stories to ever appear about a major presidential candidate weeks before Election Day.TPMTrump Pressured Second Wife to Pose Nude for PlayboyIn a totally unexpected...
View ArticleDid Hillary Clinton say "Grab them by the p***y" in her paid speeches to...
Did Hillary Clinton say “grab them by the p***y” in her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs? Or something like it? That is theory that Trump's former campaign manager and current CNN contributor Corey...
View ArticleTrump told Howard Stern it was OK to call Ivanka "a piece of a**"; they also...
H/t PoliticoDonald Trump told radio host Howard Stern in 2004 that it was okay for the shock jock to refer to the Manhattan billionaire’s daughter Ivanka Trump as “a piece of ass.”...In the 2004...
View ArticleAnd now we see a GOP office holder running away from Pence as well
The idea that some people have that somehow Mike Pence is a redeeming feature might not stand up to scrutiny much longer. Politico:[Nebraska] Gov. Pete Ricketts’ political team has pulled the plug on a...
View ArticleWells Fargo CEO Stumpf is "retiring immediately" in the wake of the sham...
Breaking news: WaPo reports that Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is “retiring immediately”.www.washingtonpost.com/...That’s all I have for now, except for:“You should resign ... and you should be...
View ArticleTrump Jr.: Women who won't tolerate sexual harassment "don't belong in the...
Hat tip to BuzzFeedA tape has surfaced of a 2013 appearance by Donald Trump Jr. on The Opie and Antony Show. The topic was whether women should be allowed in all-male golf clubs. Junior described the...
View ArticleI think "Pence 2020" is no longer a thing
I think Mike Pence has guaranteed that he is going nowhere in 2020: just hours before the debate he said he was confident that Trump would accept the outcome of the election. But when he hit the...
View Article"Please re-elect Gerald - please"
H/T to Digby: I seriously love this ad, which is for a Republican Travis County, Texas County Commission candidate.xYouTube VideoNever thought I’d live to see the day where a funny Republican campaign...
View ArticleViews on the legitimacy of what is happening in Catalonia
I think it is appropriate for a range of view on the situation in Catalonia to be presented.As you may have heard, the regional government of Catalonia was planning to hold an independence referendum....
View ArticleLewandowski blames the FBI
The Party of Personal Responsibility it at it again. h/t TPM:Lewandowski Says FBI Should Have Warned Trump Camp About Manafort“If the public reports are true, and there was a time where Paul Manafort...
View ArticleIvanka Trump draws largest audience to witness a speech in Tokyo, period.
The Trumps are touring Asia and the kick-off event was a speech in Tokyo by Ivanka Trump on sexual harassment and women’s empowerment. The Guardian claims that she is a “familiar face in Japan” thanks...
View ArticleReports that Russia used fake news to stoke Catalan separatists in order to...
The EU foreign ministers and NATO are both digesting mounting evidence that Russia played a part in the extraordinary events in Catalonia over the past two months, wherein separatists attempted first...
View ArticleNarco-a-lago: Trump's Panama resort profited from money laundering
The Trump Ocean club in Panama has obvious ties to organized crime and drug trafficking, according to an NBC News and Reuters joint investigation. The Trump Organization, of course, says it was at...
View ArticleYesterday in Catalonia
There was an orderly, legal election yesterday in Catalonia, for seats in the regional assembly. It was the most legitimate test yet of the claims that the Catalonian separatists make regarding whether...
View ArticleLawsuit backfires as editor's notes about Yiannopoulos' terrible manuscript...
Fun schadenfreude-y story on the Guardian website today. 'Unclear, unfunny, delete': editor's notes on Milo Yiannopoulos book revealedCourt submissions in lawsuit over far-right provocateur’s memoir...
View ArticleEven Steve Bannon thinks the Trumps committed treason
Michael Wolff has a new book about the Trump White House coming out. It is based on interviews with Trump and his inner circle. And, according to reporting in the Guardian, at least one of the...
View ArticleTrump thought he was among friends
You’ve seen the reports of what he said. And you’ve seen the report that Dick Durbin was there, and he confirmed the previously-anonymously sourced reports.Josh Marshall of TPM now adds another...
View ArticleMilo goes to court, proves he is still an idiot
Publishers Marketplace (subscription required) reports that Milo Yiannopoulos made his first appearance in court today in his lawsuit against Simon & Schuster for breach of contract after they...
View ArticleMilo caves, withdraws lawsuit
Milo Yiannopoulos has ended his $10 million lawsuit against Simon & Schuster, having settled for...Zero. Nothing. Nada. He brought the lawsuit last year for breach of contract after S&S...
View ArticlePolitico: Scott Walker will make saving Obamacare the center of his...
Just when you think you’ve heard it all! Politico is reporting that Scott Walker is going to present himself as the savior of Obamacare in Wisconsin. And not just that, but he is also going to make...
View ArticleManafort and Gates undone by converting PDFs to Word files
This story, and the lovely graphic above, are from ArsTechnica, who deserve all the credit.A lot of the charges against Manafort pertain to bank fraud. The Feds were able to establish a paper trail to...
View ArticleTPM fingers Dana Rohrabacher as the unamed "Member of congress"
In the new court documents released today was the revelation that earlier this month — while already engaged in negotiations with Mueller’s team — Rick Gates lied to the FBI about a meeting that took...
View ArticleMueller Extra Time: another new indictment against Manafort just revealed,...
Breaking news: at 4:43pm ET today Mueller reveal a filing NEW charges against Paul Manafort, connected to secret payments to former European politicians. The indictment, in DC Federal Court, alleges...
View ArticleIncredible: Trump has not authorized action to prevent further Russian meddling
Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, testified today that he has not been given the by Trump, or Defense Secretary James Mattis, his direct boss, to strike at Russian...
View ArticleThis is weird: a connection between Manafort and the builder of the bridge...
The tragedy in Florida is still unfolding and I don’t want to be ghoulish or play politics with it. However, this story is just amazing, I have to pass it on.The bridge that collapsed was built by a...
View ArticleUS Attorney makes the case that Cohen is a fixer, not an attorney...oh, and...
I just took a first look at the motion filed today by the US Attorney’s office (USAO-SDNY) opposing Cohen’s attempt to stall proceedings. Cohen is attempting to stop anyone from looking at what was...
View ArticleThe Clusterf*** Continues: Hannity denies Cohen has ever been his lawyer
Shit’s getting weirder:Hannity tweets:Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I have occasionally had brief discussions...
View ArticleMSNBC Reporting the FBI has wiretaps of Cohen
We found out last Friday via a court filing that the Feds had been intercepting Michael Cohen’s emails. They used the evidence collected to puncture his BS about attorney-client privilege.So perhaps...
View ArticleKorea Aerospace - liars! So ridiculous you won't believe it.
The corporations known to have paid bribes to Michael Cohen for access to or favorable treatment from the Trump Administration are having questions asked of them. Yes, actual journalism is breaking out...
View ArticleTexas Lt. Governor Blames Santa Fe High School deaths on...doors
The death toll of American students this year is higher than that of our active duty military personnel. Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has decided it is time to act, and he is focusing like a laser on...
View ArticleTrump-supporting NASCAR head arrested for DUI and oxy possession
Brian France, the CEO of Nascar, was arrested on Long Island on Sunday night for driving while intoxicated and criminal possession of a controlled substance: oxycodone pills. Source: The Guardian....
View ArticleI am reliably informed this is a genuine tweet from Michael Cohen
I’m not really a Twitter person, but I am reliably informed that this is a genuine tweet sent by Michael Cohen, who today pleaded guilty to eight crimes in a plea deal with federal prosecutors that...
View ArticleA nominal Speaker of the House while Nancy Pelosi skillfully runs things...
is the stupidest effing idea I can think of.It also betrays a complete misunderstanding of what the job is.However, it is completely consistent with the attitude that says men get paid more than women...
View ArticleEven Funnier Than Cat Pictures
This is hilarious. Scary, but hilarious. Because it depends upon the “trusted Conservative” (step 2) giving up their chance to be president so that Trump can have it instead.It is like they’ve never...
View ArticleWoman, wearing a flag and a cross, pulls a gun on a mom and her baby over a...
Earlier today a Texas woman was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after pointing a gun at a woman and her six-month-old child in a dispute over a parking spot in a grocery store...
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