Trump 2018: Resistance is Never Futile

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To pick up on the Star Trek motif.

Sounds like an idyllic evening bigly

Looks like more rats are scurrying

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Adm. Mike Rogers, NSA director and head of Cyber Command, has now told the workforce he is retiring this spring, and he expects POTUS to nominate and Senate to confirm a successor this month.

But I’ve just learnt all the characters from the last series! It’ll take me ages to become invested in new ones

EPA chief Pruitt is said to be eyeing attorney general job

A nomination would face strong resistance from Democrats over his weakening of environmental protections

www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/01/05/scott-pruitt-us-attorney-general-position-326373?__twitter_impression=true

Don't you think the whole business is quite weird enough without taking Substances to distort reality even further? Or is the idea that it gets distorted back to something resembling the real world we used to know...?

I think it's more that you just don't care as much about the distortion of reality Annie.

In that case I'm going to break the habit of a lifetime (I don't even smoke tobacco). Gimme some!

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This is a must-read @indyweek story about Trump judicial nominee Tom Farr's longtime ties to segregationists in NC www.indyweek.com/indyweek/thomas-farr-jesse-helms-and-the-return-of-the-segregationists/Content?oid=10620860 …

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JUST IN: Two top Pence aides leaving White House: report hill.cm/Wngrfos

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President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress are meeting at Camp David to address an urgent and more conventional menu of issues nyti.ms/2EZhyWK

ANyone else wishing they could be a fly on the wall??? I imagine it's all going to be "damage control"and"how to derail Mueller"

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Trump has reupped 21 judicial nominees that were returned by the Senate at the end of the term. Not on the list, as expected: Brett Talley, Matthew Petersen, and Jeffrey Mateer pic.twitter.com/To3pkgdYkK

The only nominees who remain unaccounted for by my tally are Federal Claims nominees Damien Schiff and Stephen Schwartz. Sen. Kennedy previously suggested he was not a fan of Schiff (in particular, Schiff's blogging), see: www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/a-republican-senator-is-getting-in-the-way-of-one-of-trumps?utm_term=.ugDy16rW4q#.wsazvnWmX4 …

Also: All of Trump's pending US attorney nominees were held over in the Senate into the new session (that is, they weren't returned to the White House), so they didn't need to be renominated

Jumping in as a non-regular poster!

You know that scene in ‘the help’, Where everyone is at home reading the book?

Funnily enough the help came up in twitter memes telling April Ryan not to eat SHS’s pie 🤣

I’m about to download and read but now feel it will be an anti climax

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The President has renominated Thomas Farr for a federal judgeship in NC. Farr has a long history of being hostile to the civil rights of Black North Carolinians. We've repeatedly urged @senjudiciary to bring him back for further questioning on his past involvement. twitter.com/srl/status/949310467310223360 …

We've shown that Farr is unfit for a seat on the federal bench here: medium.com/@NAACP_LDF/senators-against-white-supremacy-time-to-match-rhetoric-to-votes-on-nominees-b203a18302f2 …

And here: medium.com/@NAACP_LDF/white-supremacy-has-no-place-on-the-federal-bench-d6bdc14159d7 …

Thomas Farr's work to promote an anti-civil rights agenda & his failure to answer questions accurately before @senjudiciary are sufficient grounds to have his nomination withdrawn. He should not be given an opportunity to advance a discriminatory agenda on the federal bench.

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Big: Senate Judiciary Committee refers Christopher Steele, author of Trump-Russia dossier, for criminal investigation, alleging false statements. pic.twitter.com/4YfUPpTYm0

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Grassley: “Maybe there is some innocent explanation for the inconsistencies we have seen, but it seems unlikely. In any event, it’s up to the Justice Department to figure that out.”

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Republican Senators Recommend Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier nyti.ms/2F27V9D

Is there some benefit I'm not seeing for Trump to have MBS as Saudi Crown Prince rather than the previous one?

www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/put-man-top-trump-mbs-book-claims-180105124054629.html

So... all mobile phones banned in the WH now...

www.salon.com/2018/01/04/the-white-house-is-now-enforcing-ban-on-personal-devices-and-twitter-has-concerns/?utm_content=inf_677_3115_2&utm_source=SocialEdge&utm_campaign=influencer&tse_id=INF_438cfa60f24411e78f902fe1e08be610

Ari Berman
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So instead of investigating mounting Trump-Russia collusion, FBI is probing Hillary Clinton and GOP senators recommending criminal charges against author of Trump-Russia dossier. These are authoritarian tactics

I think it’s a sign of increasing panic and anticipation of more damaging news. It is Friday after all, so there may even be more shoes dropping tonight

More on those charges:

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Just in: Grassley and Graham have made a criminal referral to DOJ about Chris Steele. Legal experts tell me this looks like a PR stunt, mostly because it's not clear that the senators have info that the FBI does not already have (and DOJ hasn't independently pursued charges

Inside the Trump Team’s Push on Israel Vote That Mike Flynn Lied About

Transition team’s bid to scuttle U.N. vote criticizing Israel was intense. Jared Kushner, Mike Flynn and Nikki Haley all made calls

www.wsj.com/amp/articles/inside-the-trump-teams-lobbying-blitz-on-2016-u-n-israel-vote-1515153600?__twitter_impression=true

An informative thread on background and context here:

mobile.twitter.com/dcpoll/status/936623415670333441

Sinking ship and all that:

edition.cnn.com/2018/01/05/politics/mike-pence-staff-departures/index.html?CNNPolitics=Tw

Steele's a Brit living in the UK. What's the point of referring him to the DoJ? And for what crime exactly? IMO it's all 'theatre' to try to make him look guilty and thus discredit the dossier. After all if you can disprove the document then discredit the author.

Going after Steele.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senior-republican-refers-trump-dossier-author-for-possible-charges/2018/01/05/ead4585e-f0af-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.f5505005b740

They certainly seem to be staring lots of fires ans setting off fireworks.