My year of covering @realDonaldTrump: how a rally in Iowa and a campaign mgr's falsehood set the stories in motion. https://t.co/RRrpLzvwW2 — David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) December 29, 2016 A well-deserved victory lap, with a promise for the future: “Arnold and Tim, if you’d come up, we’re going to give you a nice, beautiful check,” Donald …
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2017: The year the American president openly cheers for the Nazis in Casablanca. https://t.co/bgKnOFb9xD — Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) December 31, 2016 For New Year’s Eve 1942, Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt privately screened new film "Casablanca” at White House: pic.twitter.com/U2v6LoOJO0 — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 30, 2016 “I am shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on …
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This idiot was trying to make a racist announcement and this guy kept yelling ?NOOOOO in his face lmao pic.twitter.com/dvSGCLIPJ6 — pb (@paigebrittany) December 16, 2016
Long Read: “Trump’s Team of Rivals, Riven by Distrust”
Thomas Wright, in Foreign Policy — “Mike Flynn, Jim Mattis, and Rex Tillerson don’t have much in common with each other — or Donald Trump. But together they might revolutionize American foreign policy”: Understanding Donald Trump’s foreign policy is truly an exercise in separating the signal from the noise. Trump says and does so much, …
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Friday Morning Open Thread: Not Getting Into the Holiday Spirit
From wise garden commentor Marvel: Here’s my gal Sal (in red antlers) and her old friend Lotto (under the tree). I know they don’t look happy here, but you’d be surprised: after this snapshot, they downed a cup of souped-up eggnog and went out caroling. OK, maybe they didn’t. Truth: Sally shook her antlers off, …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Holiday Cat Greetings
Getting into the holiday spirit, without the indignity of wearing a party hat. From cat whisperer WereBear: Per your request, here is Tristan, enjoying our Holiday Rug, an annual tradition. I get a cheap holiday themed rug every year, lay it in an open space, and it becomes a cave, a mountain, and a wrestling …
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Excellent Read: “On the Subject of Listening to the People of the Land”
I whole-heartedly endorse foundational progressive blogger Driftglass‘s response to the self-styled ‘Jacobins’ and their BothSides media enablers noisily calling for a return to the mythical utopia of the WWC Democrat: In a former life, my span of responsibility was so weirdly far-flung that when people asked me what I did for a living, I would …
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