Yesterday Alex Jones accused Robert Mueller of participating in a child rape ring and pantomimed shooting him. It was broadcast live on Facebook (46,000 views). I asked last night and Facebook said the rant did not violate its community guidelines https://t.co/U1DuyafGML
[....] The official Trump-administration line right now is that the trade war he’s launched against China, the European community, and others is a total no-brainer, and simply a matter of Uncle Sam deciding to stop being Uncle Sucker [.....] he’s still claiming trade wars are fun and easy, as recently as this morning: [....]
[....] The witnesses, who Mueller's team submitted for immunity last week and whose identities were not released publicly until Monday, are James Brennan, Donna Duggan, Conor O'Brien, Cindy Laporta and Dennis Raico, according to Talking Points Memo.
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[....] After nearly nine years and 187,000 tweets, I have used Twitter enough to know that it no longer works well for me. I will re-engage eventually, but in a different way.
Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion in a 2011 case and other decisions indicate he might be skeptical of restrictions on money in politics, a business charged in the Mueller probe claims.
THE TAX RETURNS … RETURN? It’s not like Democrats have ever stopped wanting to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns out in the open, but Chuck Rettig’s nomination to be IRS commissioner sure seems to have brought that issue back to the forefront.
[....] while numerous GOP lawmakers rushed to distance themselves from the president this past week, Trump’s most fervent loyalists circled the wagons. Far from being politically poisonous, Bannon argued, the president represented the party’s lone bit of electoral salvation.
Six days after the US charged 12 Russian hackers with stealing and leaking DNC emails, a Microsoft executive says the same agency is targeting the midterm elections.
For one thing, it’s not Trump country. Most struggling whites I know here live a life of quiet desperation, mad at their white bosses, not resentful toward their co-workers or neighbors of color.
BRUSSELS — European authorities fined Google a record $5.1 billion on Wednesday for abusing its power in the mobile phone market and ordered the company to alter its practices, in one of the most aggressive regulatory actions against American technology giants and one that may force lasting changes to smartphones.
