As BettyC mentioned earlier, both Attorney General Sessions and Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, decided to take their religion out and wave it around in everyone’s faces today. This was done to justify the change in policy that the President, via Attorney General Sessions, made in 2017 that children will be separated from …
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White Evangelicals Celebrate Opening of US Embassy in Jerusalem
Live shot of Trump-voting evangelical Christians celebrating the opening of the embassy: The event in Jerusalem features corrupt plutocrats, pandering politicians, nepotism hires and bigoted preachers. Israeli security forces have killed more than 40 Palestinian protesters so far. A religious scholar who escaped a Jesus Camp upbringing explains the significance of this move to evangelicals …
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NO COLLUSION THOUGH
You don’t say: The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election. But newly released emails show that …
Breaking News: Federal District Court Judge Gloria Navarro Dismisses All Charges in Bundy Trial With Prejudice
This means defendants cannot be retried. Federal judge Gloria Navarro called government's conduct outrageous, says gov't failed to produce evidence about existence of surveillance cameras, snipers, threat assessments, & more. Cliven Bundy will be a free man #BundyTrial @8newsnow https://t.co/v2aLTJR61R — Vanessa_Murphy (@Vanessa_Murphy) January 8, 2018 A federal judge in Las Vegas has dismissed all …
Wednesday Odds & Ends
There are some interactive thingies that predict whether you will personally benefit from the abominable tax bill the Republicans are expected to pass today. Here’s a link to WaPo’s version. Looks like we’ll get a moderate cut that will be more than consumed by the spike in health insurance premiums experts are predicting next year. …
What Does Penetration at All Levels Actually Mean
This morning Cheryl wrote about a newly reported on email about another conservative activist attempting to set up a meeting between the President, when he was a candidate, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to The NY Times reporting, the email’s author, Paul Erickson, specifically recommended establishing an early “first” contact at the NRA’s annual …
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This Morning’s Assault on the First Amendment
This morning, Trump retweeted three anti-Muslim videos from Jayda Fransen, a leader of the far-right “Britain First” movement. One of the videos appears to be an ISIS snuff film; it purportedly shows a mob pushing a boy off a roof and beating him to death. Another shows a bearded man destroying a statue of the …
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