The White House on Thursday made public 112 pages of emails it received from voters offering comment on its Election Integrity Commission...personal information of voters worried about their sensitive personal information..including their names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and places of employment ...all of people worried about such information being made available to the public.

Republicans cut through to a core freedumb issue. And like all their other crackpot legislation, it thrills the goobers, and costs the state nothing in taxes.  Starting this fall, adults in Texas can openly carry knives with blades longer than 5.5 inches. In fact, swords, spears, daggers, sabers, bowie knives and machetes are all perfectly fine to tote around. 

Mr Pence told an American radio programme, hosted by a right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh: “The heartbreaking story of the 11-month-old Charlie Gard in England is a story of single-payer healthcare. We hope and pray that little Charlie Gard gets every chance."  No tragedy or grieving family anywhere on earth is spared partisan political exploitation by Republicans. They have no morals, no compassion, no shame, no decency.

While he was around the grownups at the G20, for three whole days, President Stupid had to more-or-less suck in his bloated, malignant narcissism.

Twitter Trump is in fact the Real Trump. 

If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother,as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!

Donald J. Trump @RealDonaldTrump

Trump 'has no desire and no capacity to lead the world'. Trump hastening decline of America and the west, and Trump failed to put Russia and China on the spot by failing to offer a resolution to condemn North Korean missile launch at Hamburg G20.

..Republican voter opinions, which are becoming alarmingly more pro-Russian. According to a Morning Consult-Politico poll conducted in May, 49 percent of Republican voters consider Russia to be either an ally or friendly. Only 12 percent consider it an enemy. In 2015, only 12 percent of Republicans held a favorable view of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Gallup. As of February, that figure had jumped to 32 percent.... Parallels in history with the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939?

Obamacare created an exception to the general corporate rules that applied specifically to the insurance industry. Under the law, companies are only be allowed to deduct up to $500,000 for each executive — including stock options and other forms of payment.  By undoing that change, insurance companies would return to the same rules as other firms, and have a stronger incentive top offer big money to their top executives.

Trump also told the crowd that he is contemplating putting solar panels on the wall that he has pledged to build on the U.S.-Mexico border.  "The higher it goes, the more valuable it is,” Trump said. “Pretty good imagination, right? . . . We could make it really look beautiful, too."

He's got such an imagination, and so much free time to indulge himself with it!

Why do all the corporate media stories describe Republican senators as "wary?" I think they're all eager and enthusiastic about getting about the business of screwing average Americans and giving the rich plutocrats pulling the Republican strings yet another tax cut. Their only hesitancy is figuring out how to do it while keeping their victims voting Republican.

-from a commenter at link.

Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee. The 1.1 terabytes of data includes birthdates, home addresses, telephone numbers and political views of nearly 62% of the entire US population. Anyone could access the data as long as they had a link to it.

Shakespeare Dallas, in Texas, has had 90 emails, while Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts has had nearly 50, plus about 10 angry phone calls."It's a case of mistaken identity," said Raphael Parry, the artistic director at Shakespeare Dallas.

Every major federal agency and program has an inspector general, a nonpartisan, independent official whose staff investigates cases of wasteful spending, criminal activity, employee misconduct and plain bad management. These are watchdogs with real teeth... The administration...has undermined the inspectors’ role by failing to hire for open positions and planning to slash the offices’ budgets, one of the many ways the White House has found to diminish the oversight functions of the federal government.

In front of 4,000 in Chicago.Forget 1%'er (he earned $1 million in 2016) Bernie bragged about the most progressive Democratic Platform in history just months ago. He is on his high horse again to stir up anger, fragment and purity test the opposition Party.  The only roadblock to the policies of Trump and the GOP. Which would cut housing, health care, education, food stamps and federal programs for the poor and working class. Forget that the Democrats, have been successful and united in doing that.  They DO NOT need purity testing for candidates and rants about "Wall Street" and "failure".

President Trump will...curtail the federal government’s funding of the nation’s infrastructure, calling upon states, cities and corporations to shoulder most of the cost of rebuilding roads, bridges, railways and waterways..Trump talked during the campaign about $1 trillion for infrastructure....Mr.

Can an autocrat be ridiculous? Can a democracy be destroyed by someone who has only the barest idea of what the word “democracy” means? We imagine the villains of history as cunning strategists, brilliant masterminds of horror. This happens because we learn about them from history books, which weave narratives that retrospectively imbue events with logic.....Historians....bring an unavoidable perception bias to the story: If a historical event caused shocking destruction, then the person behind this event must have been a correspondingly giant monster.

..it should be intuitive that educational attainment is a lower priority for parents who haven’t gotten a higher education themselves.... People who don’t have a higher education resent the hell out of the fact that their kids will need one. What they’d wish for... is that their kids could practice the trades and professions they practiced and have the same standard of living. They don’t want their kids to leave home for a college education if that means they’ll come to question their values and never come back.