Best Internet Variety Show (and Good Luck Getting Anything Done, Ever) in 2005! 
The mind-boggling past 24 hours in politics, explained
We could just use that title over and over again EVERY DAY.
RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!
- "The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN."
- Interview with the recently dead Putin critic.
- There's a smell of treason in the air.
TRUMPCARE:
- GOP Hits Dead End on Trumpcare — and May Have to Start Over
- "Yet women, at least based on Pence’s picture, just weren’t present at the White House meeting to reflect those experiences."
- Paul Ryan Unleashed Hell on Himself
- Trump Reportedly Wants an AHCA Vote Friday. Or Else.
- THE SQUIRRELS!
TRUMPTRUCKS:
- The President of the United States Had a Big Day of Playing With Trucks
- Trump Got To Sit In A Big Boy Truck Because Today Was A Special Day! Vroom vroom vroom! Pretty sure my four-year-old cousin could have written this.
- Trump responds to health care setback by sitting in big truck, honking horn
Other TrumpLife:
- "Nunes did not vindicate the “bulk of Trump’s claims.” Trump claimed that Barack Obama, a “bad (or sick) guy,” was “tapping my phones in October.” The words tapping and phones were not written in quotes. The president further claimed that this “tapping” was quite likely illegal, saying “I bet a good lawyer could make a great case” out of it. Nunes’s story is that intelligence operatives may have improperly unmasked the names of Trump officials whose communications were intercepted via routine, legal surveillance — after Election Day. This story does not vindicate the “bulk of Trump’s claims.” It does not vindicate any of Trump’s claims. Which is to say: The president, and his allies, are trying to prove that he isn’t a shameless liar by spreading a shameless lie."
- We Redacted Everything That's Not a Verifiably True Statement From Trump's Time Interview About Truth
- How are those promises going?
The Evil Empire:
- Senate Republicans Vote To Gut Internet Privacy
- #GOPDnD Uses Dungeons & Dragons to Process Republicans’ Cartoon Villainy. It's going well tonight.
- GOPArrestedDevelopment.
Fear and loathing:
- Codes of Conduct Around Inclusion and Harassment Are a Sadly Necessary Trend: "What does it mean when this much energy must be expended to ensure that professionals and activists, say, don’t actively harass each other?"
- The Forces Driving Middle-Aged White People's 'Deaths Of Despair'
- Wife Now Regrets Supporting Trump After Husband Set to be Deported
Washington Post:
- Long rundown of everyone who may not be for the bill.
- As Ivanka Trump kept her White House plans quiet, a coveted West Wing office stayed open for her
- Ivanka Trump’s West Wing job isn’t just unethical. It’s also dangerous.
- “The ‘Trump Troubadour’ went to 45 Trump rallies in honor of his late son. Now he feels ‘betrayed,’
- “This is California in the era of Trump,” by Dan Zak: “Californians wake up every day delighted to be in California, and then they remember that they are also in the United States. The bougainvillea catches the rising sun in San Clemente, the sapphire tide heaves into Big Sur — and three time zones to the East, [Trump] has been up and tweeting for hours. The Resistance has taken many forms, and one form is California-shaped. At an A-list rally … Jodie Foster proclaims: ‘This is our time to resist.’ Up in Sacramento, the Democrat-controlled state Senate is trying to sandbag the White House’s aggressive immigration policies. ‘California, in many ways, is out of control,’ Trump declared … and Californians fired back with data points. The state is the world’s sixth-largest economy, ahead of France! It is a national generator of utopia (Silicon Valley) and nostalgia (Disneyland)! The state is destiny made manifest, and the rest of the country is always trying to catch up. It is a Tomorrowland state, and Donald Trump is a Coney Island president. This is the California problem in 2017.”
- "Seeking and winning the presidency has been a magical voyage of discovery for Donald Trump. Tuesday night, he divulged a most remarkable finding: Abraham Lincoln was — are you sitting down for this? — a Republican. “Most people don’t even know he was a Republican,” Trump told a group of Republicans. “Right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that.” It’s possible that somebody doesn’t know that Lincoln, the first Republican president, was a member of the Republican Party, also known as “the Party of Lincoln.” But it has not been for lack of effort on Trump’s part. He has repeatedly tried to educate the populace on this little-known fact. August 2016: “Most people don’t know this. The Republican Party is . . . the party of Abraham Lincoln.” September 2016: “A lot of people don’t realize that Abraham Lincoln, the great Abraham Lincoln, was a Republican.” October 2016: “A lot of people don’t know that it’s the party of Abraham Lincoln.”
- Mike Huckabee argues in favor of the NEA. What?!
- Admit it: We love grousing about the other side’s double standards
Video: A Closer Look
The Resistance:
- Nice shirt.
- THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DYING IN HAWAII Beth Fukumoto was a leader in the GOP. Now because of Trump, she’s becoming a Democrat.
- Democrats will try to filibuster Neil Gorsuch. And the filibuster might not survive intact.
- Are the Democrats Smart to Filibuster Neil Gorsuch? A Slate Debate.
- The Media Have Finally Figured Out How to Cover Trump’s Lies
- Ted Lieu continues to rock it.
- A Night Among the Witches Fighting the Trump Administration Hey, that reminds me, that mass binding spell from February 24? That time of month is coming up again on March 26. Get your props ready.
- Scientists say there's a surprising way to change people's political views "Instead of going the usual route and explicitly telling people their beliefs were irrational, the researchers used a strategy called "paradoxical thinking," meaning they presented people with the extreme versions of their political perspectives."
- Jerry Brown steals Biden's thunder at anti-Trumpcare rally in Washington
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