Trump leaks are better than Comey leaks: winning!

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My gift to you:

Poor blighters. My thoughts are with them and theirs.

Horrible news about the missing crew but the latest suggets the ship is safe. Trump will deign to mention it when somone reminds him or when it is expedient.

The original story the inspired this opera is beyond grim but the woman at the centre of this is extraordinary in terms of her courage:

www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/pakistan-rape-victim-attends-opera-inspired-170617061409056.html

More on the other kind of swamp:

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Today we learned half of Trump's income comes from golf courses. Eric Trump told Jim Dodson the funding for those courses comes from Russia.

George is on good form:

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Uh-oh, now Mike Pence has lawyered up. Even Donald's own lawyer has hired a lawyer. And to think I doubted Donald's ability to create jobs.

George

www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-16/one-trump-tweet-can-shake-up-the-justice-department

One Trump Tweet Can Shake Up the Justice Department

This might be obsolete because even though there were reports that privately, rosenstein had contemplated recusing himself, I think he later said that he wouldn't. Of course, it could all turn on a dime (or tweet, as this article points out!), so it's interesting from that perspective

Have you seen the news that an (the?) ISIS leader was killed?

Well done Trump and his great plan: leave it to the Russians.

Well... Maybe. Just as long as it's not like Trump's inaugural crowd.

Russian Military Says It Might Have Killed ISIS Leader

nyti.ms/2tudUgW

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The USS Fitzgerald might sink off Japan and the U.S. President can't call our Ambassador or our Navy Secretary because we have neither

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Ben Carson breaks with Trump: Give Mueller a chance in Russia probe (link: hill.cm/4qsSxjb) hill.cm/4qsSxjb

THIS is what's wrong with the GOP today..... their focus is on winning, not on people.

Tara Golshan‏Verified account @t_golshan 23h23 hours ago
But in all seriousness...This exchange I had with McCain made me sounds like a crazy broken record. pic.twitter.com/F2kNqdZN1W

Robert Reich‏Verified account @RBReich 15h15 hours ago
Trump's infrastructure plan is another way of transferring money from the working middle class and poor to the rich. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/reich/article/Trump-s-infrastructure-scam-a-tax-giveaway-to-11223352.php …

McConnell won't even allow staff to meet with patient advocacy groups on Trumpcare www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/16/1672460/-McConnell-won-t-even-allow-staff-to-meet-with-patient-advocacy-groups-on-Trumpcare …

👓 Tom Wellborn‏ @TomWellborn 2m2 minutes ago
The latest The Wellborn Report! paper.li/tlw3?edition_id=0b1d2c00-535b-11e7-b4c4-0cc47a0d1605 … Thanks to @MsCella @simplysuburban @un_belizable #dsnworld #ukelection

Dan Diamond‏Verified account @ddiamond 16h16 hours ago
Mike Pence got a bunch of grown men to cry and change their votes on health care. www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/16/vice-president-mike-pence-profile-feature-215257 … pic.twitter.com/iZlN2CKNbt
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shauna Retweeted Dan Diamond
They don't cry over millions of children losing their health insurance. They cry because Papa Pence scolded them. Who ARE these fuckwits.

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I'm at Warren elementary in Chicago where two children were shot during an end-of-the-year picnic.

The Cuban American community in Florida is very anti-Castro, but many younger Cuban Americans and some older ones, too, are in favor of regularizing relations with Cuba. The community is not a political monolith on the Cuba issue.

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A search is still on for 7 crew members missing from a U.S. Navy destroyer after a collision at sea: cbsn.ws/2rqyhuP

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Daniel W. Drezner Retweeted Kevin Baron
Eleven hours later, and president Trump still hasn't tweeted anything.

I think that Fitzgerald is now back in Yokosuka.

www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/opinion/name-your-pick-for-trumpworlds-worst-cabinet-member.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

So many choices: 'at first Ornstein refused to pick for Worst, arguing that the contest for most awful cabinet member should be treated like a kid's atheletic competition where everyone's a winner.'

Even I know the difference between revenue and income (after watching The Apprentice).

www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-20/trump-s-financial-report-that-s-rich

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White House plans to push House GOP for friendlier Russia sanctions deal politi.co/2rqeSdp

The White House has broached the possibility of a veto?

A Newsweek piece on the Comey testimony.

Comey testimony

The Hill @thehill

Putin warns new US sanctions will "complicate" US-Russia relationship (link: hill.cm/Vd6fzjx) hill.cm/Vd6fzjx