Hello Don, got a new tax cut? Trump continued

[PerkingFaintly]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3035639-Is-he-Right-Left-or-is-He-Nothing-at-All-Trump-thread-continued?pg=1

Nice work if you can get it.

www.salon.com/2017/09/12/harvard-psychiatrist-lance-dodes-donald-trump-is-a-sociopath-and-a-very-sick-individual/#.WbfawwISwak.twitter

I think he just wants to test all of his toys, Across. (The only thing holding him back is the thought that it will lose him the Presidency.)

Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
Oooh! Cat among pigeons alert
Head of Ofcom on Facebook, Google, YouTube "My personal view is...they are publishers"

amp.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/10/ofcom-patricia-hodgson-google-facebook-fake-news

MOre emails

Bloomberg
Bloomberg @business
Indiana officials won’t release a number of emails from AOL accounts Pence used as governor bloom.bg/2gsXgKq

Nunes signs off on new subpoenas to firm behind Trump-Russia dossier

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/10/10/politics/fusion-gps-subpoenas-devin-nunes/index.html

Seriously, emails again.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705745/-The-Fury-of-Donald-Trump-A-tragedy-in-every-act

More data strife.

www.reuters.com/article/us-lasvegas-shooting-lawsuit/las-vegas-shooting-victims-file-lawsuit-against-bump-stock-makers-idUSKBN1CF2IC?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

Not so keen to talk.

www.politico.com/story/2017/10/10/carter-page-russia-probe-243648

I’d love to see an IQ test-off live on tv. Beautiful reality show! The best!

Breitbart has Trump winning that one easily, as he has a sparkling IQ that has only increased with age.

Golden IQ. Or Fools IQ.

BTW, this is what happens when The Don demands equal time from Late Show hosts. We get The Jon.

That's funny.

Bannon called the naming of Pence as Vice President ‘unfortunate’. From the article: ‘According to emails reported by Buzzfeed on Tuesday, Bannon said of Pence’s nomination: “This is the price we pay for cruzbots and #nevertrump movement. An unfortunate necessity … very.”’

(The Guardian)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/10/steve-bannon-mike-pence-vice-president-unfortunate

Other sites are reporting Carter Page is taking the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He is denying this.

thehill.com/homenews/senate/354805-carter-page-refuses-to-testify-before-senate-intel-report

Raw Story
Raw Story @RawStory
Kelly and Mattis discussed literally tackling Trump in the event he ‘lunges for the nuclear football’: report

www.rawstory.com/2017/10/kelly-and-mattis-discussed-literally-tackling-trump-in-the-event-he-lunges-for-the-nuclear-football-report/amp/

[here’s that lose-lose situation again: allow trump to recklessly drop nuclear bombs or completely subvert all democratic norms and physically restrain the potus from doing something? This article is entirely speculative but it’s still pretty sobering to think this is where things might be]

Eric Garland
Eric Garland @ericgarland
BREAKING: Israel's MOSSAD discovered Russian hackers using Kaspersky Labs software to obtain US intel documents.

<a class="break-all" href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html?referer=t.co/S8pL3sTXfF?amp=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html?referer=t.co/S8pL3sTXfF?amp=1

How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets

Kaspersky Lab’s products require access to everything stored on a computer in order to scour it for viruses or other dangers.

[an excerpt]

It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around the world for the code names of American intelligence programs.

What gave the Russian hacking, detected more than two years ago, such global reach was its improvised search tool — antivirus software made by a Russian company, Kaspersky Lab, that is used by 400 million people worldwide, including by officials at some two dozen American government agencies.

[...]The Russian operation, described by multiple people who have been briefed on the matter, is known to have stolen classified documents from a National Security Agency employee who had improperly stored them on his home computer, on which Kaspersky’s antivirus software was installed. What additional American secrets the Russian hackers may have gleaned from multiple agencies, by turning the Kaspersky software into a sort of Google search for sensitive information, is not yet publicly known.

Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior
Reminder of things Russia hacked:
*State Dept (2014)
*Pentagon (2015)
*Voter rolls/DNC/RNC (2016)
*Nuclear plants, likely power grid (2017)

@JaneLytv
While everyone freaks out about Russian ads, RT takes out more Russian ads

Olga_Lautman NYC ✨
Olga_Lautman NYC ✨ @olgaNYC1211
Can someone explain who is selling RT this ad space to push Russian propaganda in our Capital?This needs to stop NOW. They are attacking CIA

Will there be any consequences? I think we can guess the answer to that

Kyle Griffin
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1
Treasury Dept. launches 2nd Mnuchin flight probe after discovering it didn't get complete, accurate info 1st time.

money.cnn.com/2017/10/10/news/economy/treasury-inspector-general-mnuchin-travel/index.html?sr=twCNNp101017economy0743PMStory&CNNPolitics=Tw

The Treasury Department's inspector general's office is launching a second investigation into Steven Mnuchin's government travels after discovering it had not received a complete and accurate account of the secretary's flight information, a government official told CNN on Tuesday.

Treasury's inspector general counsel, Rich Delmar, told CNNMoney the oversight agency will be requesting additional travel records from Treasury. Delmar said the agency learned Treasury had not provided an accurate portrayal of a trip Mnuchin took to Trump Tower in New York on August 15.

The Hill
The Hill @thehill
NFL to consider rule change requiring players to stand for anthem hill.cm/nDRpXuJ

Pé Resists
Pé Resists @4everNeverTrump
If Trump defeats kneeling NFL players—well-off high-profile protestors—by tyrannically bullying their employer, none of our rights are safe.

Whoops, missed this off

The Hill @thehill
Trump calls for end to “massive tax breaks” for NFL, which gave up its tax-exempt status in 2015: hill.cm/YrQ7G4P

THis seems ominous:

Trump disputes unidentified report on Kelly's imminent firing

www.politico.com/story/2017/10/10/trump-john-kelly-firing-fake-news-243658

President Donald Trump on Tuesday night rebuffed what he said was a news report claiming that his chief of staff “will soon be fired,” even though there appeared to be no such reporting by the national media.

“The Fake News is at it again, this time trying to hurt one of the finest people I know, General John Kelly, by saying he will soon be fired,” the president tweeted, without citing any media outlet.

Trump added: “This story is totally made up by the dishonest media.The Chief is doing a FANTASTIC job for me and, more importantly, for the USA!”

A Vanity Fair report published on Monday called Kelly and Trump’s relationship “irreparable,” and a Washington Post article the same day cited sources in the president’s “inner circle” as floating potential replacements for the chief of staff should the dynamic in the West Wing become “unsustainable.” Neither report said that Kelly’s departure was on the horizon.

Trump has been vocal in his public support of Kelly, repeatedly praising the former homeland security secretary’s influence on the West Wing. On Saturday, Trump told reporters Kelly “will be here — in my opinion — for the entire seven remaining years.”

Trump’s Obamacare Sabotage Starting to Piss Off Republicans

amp.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-obamacare-sabotage-is-starting-to-piss-off-republicans

University of Hawaii tells students what to do in a nuclear attack

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/354684-university-of-hawaii-sends-nuclear-attack-prep-instructions-to?amp

The University of Hawaii sent an email to students Monday with tips on how to prepare for a nuclear attack as tensions with North Korea remain high.

The email, with the subject line "In the event of a nuclear attack," provided information about emergency sirens and sheltering in place, according to CBS-affiliate Hawaii News Now.

The email is one part of the state's nuclear preparedness campaign, which it launched in July after North Korea successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.

"In light of concerns about North Korea missile tests, state and federal agencies are providing information about nuclear threats and what to do in the unlikely event of a nuclear attack and radiation emergency," the email read.

Ooh, those ads are crying out for a bit of spraypaint commentary.

" RT Russia Today"

"Question more except of Putin "

Have just endured the Eminem video and am now ready for the next tweetstorm from Trump.

I am strangely glad Mattis and Kelly may have had that discussion but totally that it can be considered a positive sign that someone attached to the WH might step up taser the bastard should the need arise.