Dexter Filkins does a meticulous job revisiting the Trump/Alfa Bank server connection--and lands at about the same conclusion I did a few years back: This wasn't random. https://t.co/YTy6HJyO4d
Hatch on Trump’s Murkowski attacks: “I think he has backed off now. I think he … realizes he probably shouldn’t have done that.” https://t.co/j8BJlmYwkA
EXCLUSIVE: Russia appears to be sitting out the 2018 campaign, top researchers tell @kpoulsen & @attackerman. No evidence of direct election interference. https://t.co/YQ0x2ENxQC
The characterization evokes fear of an unknown and out-of-control mass of people, and it taps into grievances about the nation’s fast-moving cultural and demographic shifts that Republicans say are working against them.
Dems +4 in 69 battleground House districts, per new Washington Post poll.
“In 2016 these same districts favored Republican candidates over Democratic ones by 15 percentage points, 56 percent to 41 percent.” https://t.co/FoleK40Dj4
One could make certain jokes but I am deadly serious: what I see is that GOP political image consultants, who are far savvier at culture wars than Dem consultants, have invaded the Supreme Court
[....] “They owe all of these people so much money, and they are hopping around here having fun,” Beaver Raymond, co-founder of Dallas-based Marshmallow Fun Co., told The Post. “I heard someone else say, ‘Where’s my rifle.’ ”
Awkward moment: US tries to seize sanctioned Russian oligarch Deripaska’s Upper East Side mansion, only to find Abramovich’s ex-wife and kids are living in it! Insane story https://t.co/rlao9Nu2E9
Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 - Coral Davenport - NYT - "A report from the UN’s scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought." https://t.co/9jQOWnp8hgpic.twitter.com/szia2xO9Kh
Cameroon on Brink of Civil War as English Speakers Recount ‘Unbearable’ Horrors - Dionne Searcey - NYT - "Cameroon, grappling with a tangled colonial past, has become a vital partner of the US in the battle against Islamist extremism." https://t.co/wu7JrW41Bppic.twitter.com/xnCBC4umeJ