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As requested.

Adam Khan‏ @Khanoisseur
HuffPo now reporting why Kushner is helping Trump delay killing Obamacare: His brother's $2.7 billion healthcare app, Oscar, relies on ACA

Adam Khan‏ @Khanoisseur
Remember Obamacare replacement will not be rolled out until Kushner's brother retools his $2.7 billion app @jdawsey1

Loving the GLC reference there

Maybe we could get some support from NM. They'll have to come to us, you'll see

Best line Lewji

On the gun thing, I am baffled by it all and there have been threads about it before now with a poster (can't remember name) who wanted to urge the UK to tool up. I was a prolific poster and linked to this. USA 4.43% of the world's population yet own 42% of the world's firearms.

I'm interested in whether the NRA is still a major influence on politics. I presume so, given it's a conservative thing and Trump has more than once posed with guns and the GOP are making guns more available.

Boris Epshteyn Named in July FISA Application; Did Nunes Obstruct Justice?

patribotics.blog/2017/03/27/boris-epshteyn-named-in-july-fisa-application-did-nunes-obstruct-justice/

Fox News‏ @FoxNews
News Alert: @POTUS spending weekend working at the White House.

Edward-Isaac Dovere‏ @IsaacDovere
This is seen as so out of character it merits an alert? (Also, he visited Trump golf courses both Saturday and Sunday of this weekend.)

The state department commented on the Russian protests!

Department of State‏ @StateDept

U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in #Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values.
1:11 am · 27 Mar 2017

Seth Abramson‏ @SethAbramson
MEGA-THREAD: MI6 agent Chris STEELE, author of history's most explosive intel dossier, will soon testify against TRUMP. Read his story here.

mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/846156109933109249

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump

General Kelly is doing a great job at the border. Numbers are way down. Many are not even trying to come in anymore.
2:04 am · 27 Mar 2017

Josh Busby‏ @busbyj2

Too bad they were tourists and students.

U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in #Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values.
1:11 am · 27 Mar 2017

Someone needs to have a word with the State legislatures - I remember articles from a few weeks ago where one state, perhaps Arkansa, was seeking powers to prevent protests/detain protesters where there was the potential for violence.

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.@Reince Priebus: 'I'm not in any trouble' trib.al/9W6HE2j

It's not old Lweji, it's vintage

Happy to help MrsT :o I used to love GLC.

I see Elmer Fudd Amber Rudd wants encrypted messaging apps to either provide backdoors in the light of the Westminster attack. If they are forced to do this we might as well have no encryption at all.

I wonder what else is an affront to democratic values?

I saw that as well doctortwo. It is exactly the sort of thing someone who has not even the faintest idea how the technology works says. She is apparently going to go and ask the EU to support her call for tech companies to create backdoors so the intelligence services can read encrypted info. The fact that this also creates a backdoor for anyone else who happens to wander past clearly escapes her (or she doesn't care). She is, quite frankly, an embarrassment and i hope the EU laugh her out of town.

That thread about steele's dossier is pretty compelling. I hope he testifies soon - it might be what helps to impeach Trump.

The fact that this also creates a backdoor for anyone else who happens to wander past clearly escapes her
She really doesn't realize that the best hackers don't work for governments
Sad
(Or rather naïve)

Glenn Thrush‏Verified account @GlennThrush 7h7 hours ago
I don't have any idea what this new Jared office is going to do. Except for 'sleek.' www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-taps-kushner-to-lead-a-swat-team-to-fix-government-with-business-ideas/2017/03/26/9714a8b6-1254-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.e382092ca3ca …

Sky News‏Verified account @SkyNews 29s29 seconds ago
Some respite for the pound as the dollar weakens in "Trump tantrum" trib.al/jrGuOGS

This Kushner thing sounds suspiciously like a "think tank" to privatise government stuff - and privatise means money in the pockets of Trump, his family ,and his friends.

I think they're going to try and squeeze as much money as they can from the country before the Trump family is out. I read somewhere a shocking statistic about how much money they've already made in these two months - will try to find it.

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Iraqi prime minister expects ISIS defeat “within the next few weeks" hill.cm/UtQbiPu

I don't understand why they say this - there are tons of them that have gone "underground" from what they are saying. Are they not saying basically that they'll have broken the tip off the iceberg??? Then the iceberg is floating free worldwide, to pop up elsewhere?

Caroline O.‏ @RVAwonk 3m3 minutes ago
WTF. The chair of the House Science Cmte - who is not a scientist - plans to use his position to punish scientific journals he doesn't like. pic.twitter.com/7xBqSZX6CP

He also wants to redefine "sound science" & make up his own peer review standards.
www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/lamar-smith-unbound-lays-out-political-strategy-climate-doubters-conference …
twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/846299686147424256 …

FFS - they're all using the same playbook.

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#BREAKING Kremlin says children were offered 'financial rewards' to protest

Following on from the previous science post....

Caroline O.‏ @RVAwonk 11s11 seconds ago
The oil & gas industry is the top donor to Lamar Smith. Surely just a coincidence. 🙃
www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00001811&newMem=N …
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Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero trib.al/oM2L3MR

Nathaniel Meyersohn‏Verified account @nmeyersohn 17h17 hours ago
The Secret Service has spent $16k so far on golf cart rentals for Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/Pgje6S1LBh