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By Charlie Skelton in Montreux @ TheGuardian.com, June 2
Bathed in late afternoon sun, secretary of state Mike Pompeo boarded a steamboat on Lake Geneva. He was there for drinks and nibbles with the King of Holland and the head of Nato, a glamorous end to a busy day at the Bilderberg summit.
Representing the White House, Jared Kushner wore a beatific smile as he strode towards the boat, thinking, perhaps, of how best to sell a war with Iran over a glass of frascati [....]
My linked article has interestingly caused disagreement between Nate Silver and Matt Stoller on Twitter about interpretation of the 2016 election:
A city worker fired on colleagues as he stalked several floors of the building before dying in a shootout with the police. “This is the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach,” Mayor Robert M. Dyer said.
By Christoper Mele & John Eligon @ NYTimes.com, May 31 WITH VIDEO with witness statements,and links to local reports
A municipal building in Virginia Beach, Va., was turned into a scene of carnage on Friday afternoon after a longtime public utilities employee began firing indiscriminately at his co-workers, killing at least 12 people and injuring four others before dying after a shootout with the police.
It had been nearing closing time in an office offering some of the most mundane functions of city government, such as paying water bills and applying for building permits, when the employee, whose name and possible motive were not immediately disclosed, began stalking through several floors firing at his colleagues, the authorities said.
The loud bursts of gunfire sent workers scrambling and barricading their office doors [....]
By Joe Pompeo @ The Hive @ VanityFair.com, May 30
The Times recently yanked one of its journalists from Rachel Maddow amid concerns about cable-news “bias.” Dean Baquet “thinks it’s a real issue.” But didn’t MSNBC help rebuild the Times’s business? And aren’t they in the same Trump-era boat?
One of Pompeo's sources calls the policy “Inconsistent, incoherent, and poorly conceived.”
By Zack Budryk @ TheHill.com, May 30
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has a message for Sen. Ted Cruz: "Let's make a deal."
The freshman congresswoman was responding to a tweet Thursday from the Texas Republican in which he said he agreed with her that it should be illegal for former members of Congress to become corporate lobbyists.
“If you’re serious about a clean bill, then I’m down. Let’s make a deal," Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most prominent members of her party’s progressive wing, tweeted in response to the conservative senator. "If we can agree on a bill with no partisan snuck-in clauses, no poison pills, etc - just a straight, clean ban on members of Congress becoming paid lobbyists - then I’ll co-lead the bill with you,” she added [....]
Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana is expected to sign a bill that would ban abortion as soon as a heartbeat can be detected.
By Loveday Morris & Miriam Berger @ WashingtonPost.com, 30 mins. ago
Israel’s parliament voted to dissolve itself after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a government ahead of a midnight deadline, despite his party winning the largest number of seats in April elections.