The slog of this authoritarian shitshow is grinding us all down. My inspiration has gone into hiding with Melania. Knock yourselves out! (Trump cont.)

[boatyardblues]

Does what it says on the tin. 🤷‍♂️

Here’s the last thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3258057-I-Spy-with-My-Little-Eye-Something-Beginning-with-T-Traitorous-Treasonweasels-in-Trumptown-Trump-contd

Mon Dieu.

edition.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/war-of-1812-donald-trump-justin-trudeau-tariff/index.html

Juliette Kayyem
@juliettekayyem

1. Prediction: When Trump visits @fema at 2pm, he will use the variances in numbers dead to suggest we don't know. Reporters: that is not true. Methodologies differ but no credible study is putting the number below 1400 now. So if he says the 64 number, it has been refuted

fivethirtyeight.com/features/media-reports-about-the-death-toll-in-puerto-rico-are-needlessly-confusing/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Mortality in Puerto Rico - Methodology:
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972

The sausage analogy is usually attributed to Bismarck, but may be even older - I don't think either sausages or politics have changed much for centuries!

Oh, I've just read the Guardian article and see that it says exactly that

One Pruitt aide resigns, another doesn't want to share:
Ken Dilanian
@KenDilanianNBC

Classy. 'EPA spokesperson Jahan Wilcox, reached by phone, would not comment. He said: “You have a great day, you’re a piece of trash.”'

Top Aide to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Resigns
theatlantic.com
8:21 pm · 6 Jun 2018

You get brownie points for erudition, though, mackerella.

Link:
www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561974/?__twitter_impression=true

(Whereas I've just had to look up "erudition", to make sure it does mean what I thought it meant... So, erudition is "the quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship" Phew!)

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/courts-about-to-get-tougher-black-people_us_5b106d08e4b02143b7caf710

You're very kind, Perking, but I'm not sure it's erudition so much as a misspent youth doing pub quizzes

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stormy-daniels-suit-my-old-lawyer-was-puppet-trump-cohen-n880476

To make up for my inability to read, I bring you all glad tidings of great joy: Paul Dacre to step down as Daily Mail editor in November

www.ft.com/content/1c8a5e74-6901-11e8-8cf3-0c230fa67aec

'Cambridge Analytica chief accused of taking $8m before collapse.'

Cambridge Analytica boss spars with MPs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44384639

He's quite the little snowflake, poor lamb. It's all the naughty people leading him astray and being mean to him. Ah dear.

Quite how he thinks he's going to sell himself as the master manipulator, to future clients on the world stage, when he's claiming he a) was lying to a prospective client and b) was so weak and dim he was easily manipulated by a journalist, I don't know.

Especially as everyone's seen the tape of him, and no amount of protesting about editing will help him there: the sequences of him offering entrapment were quite long.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/primary-election-results-sanders-iowa-pick-loses-trump-row-alabama-runoff

Eric Lipton
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Verified account

@EricLiptonNYT

NEWS: Just told by senior EPA person that Sarah Greenwalt, senior counsel to Pruitt, has also resigned. Asking EPA public affairs for confirmation. Comes after another aide Millian Hupp also resigned today.

Love this headline.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/trump-canada-burned-down-the-white-house?mbid=social_twitter

'Trump accuses Canada of burning down the White House.'

Jake Tapper
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Verified account

@jaketapper
1h1 hour ago

CNN: Adult film actress @StormyDaniels today launched a new lawsuit against her former attorney, Keith Davidson, as well as President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, accusing the two men “colluded” and “acted in concert” to “manipulate” Daniels and to benefit Trump.

Stormy doc.

media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/today/z_creative/PagesfromCliffordComplaint.pdf

Hmmm....

Melania Trump made her first public appearance in nearly a month on Wednesday, tamping down rumors about her noticeable absence from the public eye after she underwent a kidney procedure.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-slams-vicious-media-ahead-melania-s-first-public-appearance-n880466?cid=smnpddnntwwnp

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1004435376973537280

www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/mueller-team-zeroes-in-on-encrypted-apps-as-witness-turn-in-phones.html

www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/world/europe/putin-trump-europe-tariffs.html

Those loose lips of Giuliani need sealing - “begging on hands and knees” will be seen as a gross insult back in NK. Geez louise. Only the best people.

Christina Wilkie
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@christinawilkie
4h4 hours ago

'On April 11, I called Trump’s favorite architect to ask about jobs he did in Eastern Europe that recently drew Mueller’s eye.

Within hours, John Fotiadis closed down his 10 yr old architecture firm, deleted his portfolio and left Twitter. He’s still MIA.'

www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/how-a-ny-architect-offers-a-window-into-trump-deals-in-eastern-europe.html