He’s trying to get Lily and Steve to be more brand-friendly dammit!!!… Bianca Bosker, in the Atlantic, on “Instamom: The enviable, highly profitable life of Amber Fillerup Clark, perfect mother and social-media influencer”: One morning in early November, Amber Fillerup Clark sat at her dining-room table, which serves as her desk most days, peering at …
Open Thread: Jason Chaffetz, Craven Careerist
"The president said, 'no oversight. You can't talk about anything that has to do with oversight.'" — Untroubled GOP chair of oversight https://t.co/N8GzcYl4Aj — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 7, 2017 Chaffetz gets a 30-min mtg with Trump/Priebus in the Oval Office, says Trump insisted on no talk of investigations https://t.co/D0j8zI19Wq — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February …
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Open Thread: AWKward, Judge Gorsuch!
NEW: Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch calls Pres. Trump comments on the judiciary "demoralizing" and "disheartening" https://t.co/i3q2sS91B1 pic.twitter.com/FyFq3teSbg — Good Morning America (@GMA) February 8, 2017 I'd add "corrosive" and "damaging to our civic culture." https://t.co/BI060Smfkx — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 8, 2017 Note the senders: happy-chat morning tv show, and a conservative who still …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: The Trump Cabal, On Beyond Shameless
Sean Spicer just now: I can only hope that if Coretta Scott King was still with us, that she would support Senator Sessions's nomination. — Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) February 8, 2017 Used to be, an elderly racist like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions would be required to festoon his confirmation hearing with platitudes about ‘youthful indiscretions’ and …
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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: “Nevertheless, She Persisted”
By a 49-to-43 vote, Senate rules that Elizabeth Warren broke rule impugning a senator. She now cannot speak during debate on Jeff Sessions. — Matt Viser (@mviser) February 8, 2017 I spoke out about @SenatorSessions – until @SenateMajLdr McConnell decided to silence me. https://t.co/qbty7x0iLl — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 8, 2017 It’s not as though …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Trumpstuntin’, Middle Eastern Edition
After the fiasco of its first counter-terror effort, the Trump administration is barred from Yemen. https://t.co/p0h4CeKKsB — Neil King (@NKingofDC) February 8, 2017 Spicer denies that the target of the Yemen raid was AQAP leader Qassim al-Rimi. Says it was to get intelligence. — Samuel Oakford (@samueloakford) February 7, 2017 @dandrezner that f***ing laptop better …
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Late Night Open Thread: F-Word Trump
Sheriff tells Trump that state senator is doing something he doesn't like Trump: "Do you want to give his name? We'll destroy his career." pic.twitter.com/75y3t9zc54 — Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) February 7, 2017 Jesus. Also, the thing the sheriff didn't like? The state senator is trying to end civil asset forfeiture.https://t.co/NQ3tsogvlU — Radley Balko (@radleybalko) February …