Three federal judges on Monday ordered North Carolina's state legislature to draw new legislative district boundaries within a month, the latest ruling against boundaries drawn by Republicans that judges have found improper.
Circa, a video-heavy site aimed at viewers in their teens and 20s, has attracted attention from other outlets for a series of scoops on the Russian investigation
[....] It’s not Fox News, with its angry anchors and aging audience. It’s Circa, a colorful digital media site aimed at viewers in their teens and 20s.
Count me impressed, she knows exactly where an Achilles-heel meme lies with both Trump and his fans. Alas, Breitbart world probably could care less what she says. And WSJ readers already know he's a disaster.
By Peter Baker & Maggie Haberman @ NYTimes.com, July 28
It's not on the front page yet, I got the link from seeing a "Breaking" banner while reading another story. It's quite long, they might still be editing it.
President Trump recorded a remarkable trifecta on Thursday. In fewer than 24 hours, he was rebuked by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the chief scout executive for the Boy Scouts of America [....]
GOP senators want assurances the health bill they pass will serve as a start to negotiations with the House.
Senate Republicans are threatening to scuttle their own Obamacare repeal bill if they don’t receive assurances from Speaker Paul Ryan that it will merely open negotiations between the two chambers and not be passed by the House.
Nothing says Trump toadies in Congress trying to stage a coup of reality more than this.Grownups once again intervened, yelling: no, we don't want to work in a fantasy fiction video game where we all create our own narratives and everyone gets to have their own alternative facts. The one amendment wanted to punish them by subtracting dollars according to percentage of error, is like: accounting on a contingency basis....
[....] If the bill becomes law, the Republican Party will be taking its first concrete steps to constrain Trump’s unpredictable and politically risky behavior on Russia. The problem is that the European Union appears poised to punish the US for it.
