The Resistance is working! But, alas, the pro-death party won a deadly victory today...

4 May 2017 update:

Hello again, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!

I'm still behind the eight-ball today--walked back into the office after my stellar trip with le dadster only to find mountains of work with very tight deadlines. So I got home late, and I am tarred [sic]. Ugh...but it's all good.

That is, until the repukes take away my employer health insurance...which brings me to the gruesome victory that the pro-death party won today: House Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare and replace it with tRumpcare 2.0, which is even crueler and nastier than the original tRumpcare was.

According to some reports, either version of tRumpcare is worse than simply repealing Obamacare outright and not replacing it.

But even that wasn't cruel enough for the teabags.

Srsly, have you been following these murderous thugs on Twitter? They're all for themselves, and they're only too glad to let others less fortunate suffer and die.

Hell, they were positively gleeful after their vote to murder tens of millions of innocent, hard-working Americans.

They're even going to celebrate!

Ayn Rand Paul Ryan surely creamed his jeans in his ecstasy--murdering innocent Americans has been his dream ever since his college kegger days.

What kind of sick, twisted bastards ARE these people?!??

If you do follow Twitter, and if you follow yours truly there, you'll see that I am calling for every last one of them to be made to live like they want the rest of us to live.

Failing that, they need to put in at least 100 hours of volunteering to serve the less fortunate so they can see the suffering first hand and learn that these are REAL PEOPLE, no less valuable than themselves, that they want to destroy.

Optimally, it should become a requirement before your name goes on the ballot if you want to serve in public office that you have to live like "the least of these" and put in at least 100 volunteer hours serving them so that maybe, just maybe, the jackholes who are in it for power and money acquire just a modicum of decency, humanity, and compassion.

The other minimum requirements I propose--in addition to those we already have--include at least the last five years of tax returns, a passing score on the citizenship exam, and passing a psychiatric exam to show that any would-be candidate is mentally healthy, reasonably well adjusted, and not a pathological liar, kleptocrat, malignant narcissist devoid of empathy, psychopath devoid of conscience, axe murderer, etc.

Srsly, is any of this really so much to ask?

Unless you're the orange fuckwit that is tRump--he couldn't pass a one of these requirements!

And now, with a "May the fourth be with you," let me slawg on with le blawg.

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Choo choo time headlines

Business Insider: Jared Kushner didn't disclose ties to Soros, Thiel, Goldman Sachs
...From the teaser: when he filled out his SF-86 (the form you fill out to get a government clearance), "Jared Kushner didn't disclose business ties to George Soros, Peter Thiel, and Goldman Sachs, or that he owes $1 billion in loans"--well, as Rick "Do these glasses make me look c-a-t smart?" Perry would say, "Oops!" Except that it-snot an oops. Kushner knew that owing somebody...anybody...$1 BN amounts to a YUGE conflict of interest. As in, OF COURSE he'd use his position and influence to ensure that his creditors got the sweetest possible deals so they in turn would let him write off his debt for pennies on the dollar. Um, duh. How much ya wanna bet that the trumpanzees think this is all hunkey dokey?

Patheos: Ben Carson: Homeless Shelters Shouldn't Be 'Comfortable'
...According to Uncle Ben, Christian love MEANS punishing teh poorz. I say he's got a pernt--let's make government so uncomfortable that REPUBLICANS don't want to stay there any more!

The Daily Beast: Ex-Trump Staffers Register as Lobbyists, Despite 'Ban'
...Just one more case of tRump-Republican lies, hypocrisy, and graft.

American Magazine: Nancy Pelosi says pro-life Americans are welcome in Democratic Party 
...In other words, she's perfectly happy to write off women's right to bodily autonomy...she's fine with the Republican-Christian biblical notion that women's bodies are the property of men, including those in government, to do with as they please. As I tweeted Ms. Pelosi: imagine that the government could decide to rip out one of your kidneys to save the life of someone they deem more important than you.

NBC News: AP Court Revives Gay Couple's Case Against Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis
...I hope they win, and I hope she pays. If she couldn't do the job, she should have gotten another job!

DutchNews.nl: Dutch passed on information about Trump's aides and Russia: NYT
...It wasn't just our friends the Brits supplying our government with critical information on Russian interference in our election: our friends in the Netherlands were helping out, too. Thank FSM for small large favors. If only all their hard work had spared us all the grief and suffering that comrade tRumPEWtin and his Russo-Republican congress-critters are daily inflicting upon us....

Find.net: Trump order to ease opt-out of employer-covered birth control
...This headline originally appeared in The Guardian, where I read it. Oh well. As far as the content goes, it's a good thing that nuns don't get migraines or go through menopause because, if they did, they might need birth control--you know, hormones like what're covered by teh ebbil Obummercare. Good thing gawd cures nuns by magic so they never need no sciencey stuff like medicine anyway!

And now, a word from The Guardian:

House Republicans pass healthcare bill in first step toward replacing Obamacare 
...Thanks, Comey. If anyone dies because of this, their blood is on YOUR hands, you fucking millionaire ex- still-Republican bastard. Do you even care that your fellow Repukes didn't even read the bill and voted on it without so much as getting a CBO score? You know, asshole--all the niceties they insisted on for Obamacare?

Rex Tillerson: 'America first' means divorcing our policy from our values
...As I tweeted, if we divorce our policy from our values, it means that we have no values.

Google Docs users hit with sophisticated phishing attack in their inboxes
...Friends, beware this scam! It looks legit--almost identical to the real thing--but you don't want to find out first-hand what happens if you fall for it.

James Comey: I feel 'mildly nauseous' to think I may have affected the election
...Well, Comey, you prick, maybe you only feel mildly nauseous, but the truth is that you're extremely nauseous. I saw your video, and, as I tweeted, you were way too animated--you looked like a total phony. I personally think your explanation was shit, and I will never forget or forgive you for what you've already put this country and the citizens of the world through. As I tweeted, yes, you had a choice: conceal that both tRump and Hillary were under investigation, or reveal that both tRump and Hillary were under investigation. You chose to reveal one and conceal the other--you will forever be culpable for that. As I tweeted, Comey, you un-American traitor, you now have blood on your hands, starting with all the post-election violence and the bombs that tRump has already dropped. If tRumpcare passes, that's so much more blood on your hands--as will be the deaths from global warming and any ickle war-wars tRump starts. Sleep tite--nitey nite, you sick prick.

Obama unveils plans for presidential library center on Chicago's South Side 
...He and Michelle are also donating a cool $2M to help the less fortunate now that he's collected $400k in speaking fees. Is it time for me to be outraged now? Srsly, folks--Obama is center-right and always has been, just like the Clintons. As Dot Calm would say, doesn't make him a bad person. Let's keep our eye on the prize: #tRump-Russia. Babies are not gonna die (as Dot Calm would say) if Obama takes $400k in speaking fees--but babies ARE already dying because of comrade tRumPEWtin and the Russo-Republicans!!!!!

Steve Bannon's giant to-do list revealed in photo with rabbi 
...Well, well. Who knew that lovable reality star Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (of "Shalom in the Home" fame) was a ban'em-fan? Is Shmuley really an alt-right goy boi like the Christo-fascists? Doesn't he realize that ban'em and the alt-right HATE Jews?!?? Boy-howdy, politics sure makes for strange bedfellows.... (Either that, or ban'em thot that Shmuley was a rabbit rather than a rabbi, and ban'em was hankering for Trix...)

New York Times wants to offer diverse opinions. But on climate, facts are facts
...A-a-a-a-a-and this is why I refuse to subscribe to the NYT.

James Comey defends Clinton email decision but warns of threat from Russia
...What Comey did was indefensible--the nation and the world suffer already and will likely suffer a whole lot more unless we can bring down orange twAtler haste post haste...and I wouldn't want to bet that Comey's whole heart is into helping. But Comey is right--Russia is still at it. And, as I keep Resistbotting my congress-critters, every day that our government toddles along pretending this is all business as usual, they are complicit in every crime PEWtin and his cock holster tRump commit. They are, in effect, telling PEWtin, "Hey, it's perfectly fine that you dicked with our election. We don't give a shit--have at it."

Jimmy Kimmel reveals the heartlessness of healthcare in America
...Yup--Republicans said, "Fuck your baby that nearly died, and fuck you, Jimmy Kimmel." It was almost that literal. Mo Brooks said that people who live good lives don't get pre-existing conditions, so engineers like me are trying to figure out what Jimmy Kimmel's baby should have been doing in utero instead of whatever it was doing in there that damaged his heart (Mo Brooks is a Christian, so the fetus was probably masturbating...but I thot that made you blind...?). I can tell you what the problem is here, friends: Jimmy Kimmel's baby was born--according to Republicans, only the unborn are free from pre-existing conditions and therefore entitled to live; the rest of us can suck it. As I tweeted, when Republicans run the show, we should all be walking around in safe wombs.

JP Morgan to move hundreds of jobs out of UK due to Brexit
...This is what nationalism does, friends. It isolates nations, destroys their economies, and weakens them by destroying their alliances. We really are stronger together--especially when our adversaries are making concerted efforts against us deliberately to weaken us. Like our bestest BFF Russia.

Hillary Clinton: I was on way to presidency until leaks raised doubts
...There's also Hillary Clinton: I'm to blame for election loss but outside interference cost me. Friends, conservabots are howling--howling, I tell you
--about this. There-snot one piece that doesn't offend those pweshush ickle snowflakes. Mor00ns like McCain ran for president multiple times--so did tRump--but nobody ever declares them irrelevant and dismisses them, demanding they go away after one failed run. And this is after all the "where the hell is she?" crap when the poor woman just needed a minute to catch her breath after the debacle that was election night. As for me, I fail to see the problem: Hillary takes responsibility for losing but acknowledges that her campaign was materially damaged by James Comey, Jason Chaffetz, Vladimir Putin, and Julian Assange--not that she'd ever name them as directly as I just did. But that's the truth right there, friends--it took all these piece-of-shit men plus Republicans suppressing the vote plus media that's lusted for Hillary's blood since Bill became president to take Hillary down just enough to lose the electoral college by some 70,000 votes. She still won the popular vote by some 3,000,000. I think the media are pissed that she won't go away--now she's a welcome member of The Resistance, thank FSM--because her face is a reminder of what a shit job the media have done all along in covering attacking her while normalizing tRump.

Jordan Edwards shooting: Texas officer who killed 15-year-old fired
...Friends, I haven't been able to go there when it comes to the death of this poor kid and what his family is going through right now. This was one of Dot Calm's hot-button issues...mine, too. There are just no words to capture the grief, the outrage, .... At least they fired the bastard. Too bad they didn't either avoid hiring him or fire him before he murdered an innocent, unarmed kid who had his whole life ahead of him.

Trump and Putin had 'good' talk about ending Syria war, White House says
...tRump and PEWtin sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...!

Czech girl Scout stands up to neo-Nazi at rally
...*sigh*...At least not all the n00z is bad!

Red alert: Kofi Annan on the photos that capture our choking planet
...Thanks, Comey. Go fuck yourself now, please and thank you--you've already fucked all of us. As some brilliant soul said on FB, at least you could have bought us all dinner first.

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• The clown-in-chief is losing it, bigly

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Headlines → Trump and Putin Agree to Work Together to Seek Ceasefire in Syria Afghanistan: ISIS Attack Kills 8 Civilians in Kabul More Republicans Come Out Against the GOP Healthcare Bill Justice Dept. Will Not Bring Charges Against Cops Who Killed Alton Sterling Former Cop Michael Slager Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Violation for Killing Walter Scott Fmr. Acting AG Sally Yates to Testify to Senate Panel Next Week Clinton Blames Election Loss on FBI Director and Alleged Russian Hacking Creditors Force Greece to Impose More Austerity in Exchange for Bailout Promotional Video of Trump was on Website of Philippines Trump Tower Until This Week Kentucky Governor Threatens to Close State's Only Remaining Abortion Clinic Imprisoned Immigrants' Hunger Strike Spreads to Oregon Jail Texas State Rep. Admits GEO Group Wrote Immigrant Detention Bill in State Legislature Journalist Barrett Brown Released from Prison After Being Arrested Thursday Lawmakers Encourage Airline Industry to Self-Regulate at House Committee Hearing New York's Riverside Church to Divest from Fossil Fuels

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Moar m00bies!

There's an even funnier version of this on Twitter...I'm trying to track it down...with Rachel Maddow's reactions, which are hilarious. I mean, tRump's "best people" can't even work the goddamn phones! They couldn't work the light switches, either, remember? Hee HEE!

Walp, that's it from here, friends--try to have a nice weekend, and don't forget to RESIST!

- Dot Calm's shadow

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2 May 2017 post:

Hello again, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!

Why do I always seem to be behind the eight-ball?

Could it be because I have a full-time job, a partially-disabled dad to take care of, and the personality of a firebrand that won't take Republican bullshit quietly without a fight?

Ehhhh...could be!

This time, I'm behind the eight-ball because I just got back in town from a family trip to celebrate a big decade birthday. What a refreshing and fun change from...funerals. Anyhoo, the dadster and I had a great trip and, as a result, are planning several more family trips in coming months.

So, please be patient with me today--there's way more n00z than I can do justice to!

Last time, I clued you in to my clever plan to hijack tRump's 1-855-48-VOICE (6423) hotline and start reporting all the crimes being done by evil Russian agent comrade tRumPEWtin and his accomplices right here on American soil (oh noes!).

Today, I'd like to remind you that Melania is exactly the sort of person of interest that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) needs to know about: she worked here illegally under (IIRC) a tourist visa and, according to The Independent, would be a prime candidate for deportation under the tRump administration's new guidelines.

In other words, feel free to call the VOICE hotline and turn her in.

You'll be saving America from a dangerous criminal who violated our immigration laws and who is costing us between NYPD estimates of  $127,000 and $146,000 a day and  up to $410,000 per day during the school year.

Apparently, we should be grateful that the rumors that Melania and Barron were going to stay in NYC because the boy has "soccer" were just that--rumors (thanks, NY Daily News).

If ICE does its job under the new guidelines and sends Melania back to Slovenia, I'm taking bets: will tRump even miss her? Will he even know she's gone?

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Walp, friends, lemme tell ya: Resistbot works!

I promised myself to send so many faxes to my congress-critters over Resistance Recess that I'd run their machines out of paper.

One of them (the chickenshit corporate Democrat) ran out of paper--or at least stopped answering--for daze but is back online now.

The other one--the chickenshit Republican who lies during her phoned-in town halls--called me this morning to set up a meeting to discuss "some of my concerns."

I guess she decided it would be cheaper and faster to meet face to face than to spend all the time and money on paper and postage it would have taken to answer all my faxes, which ended in "I expect your answer in writing."

So, friends, I got this awful woman's attention! Thanks to us in The Resistance, Republicans are running scared.

Good.

They should run scared, after what their fat boi in the White House keeps saying he wants to do to us. He has us running scared, so the least we can do is give them a little taste of their own bad medicine.

GOOD.

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Like the hacked-up hairball on comrade tRumPEWtin's haid, tRumpcare is the zombie that will not die.

Unless we fight it, that is.

Friends, this is why I love following George Takei on Twitter: he tweeted trumpcaretoolkit.org for us to call and tweet targeted members of Congress to reject repealing the ACA once and for all.

I've already done all the tweets. It takes a few attempts because Twitter will only let you send so many at a time. After it refuses to send one of the tweets, just wait an hour or so and resend it and work your way down the list until it balks again. I think it took me three rounds total to get all the tweets sent.

We killed tRumpcare last time; tRumpcare 2.0 is even worse--even more cruel--so, if we fight just as hard, we should be able to kill it again. Please, friends--don't let this opportunity slip. I heard on CNN that we're already close to killing it--we just need one more Republican to vote "no," and even the corporate chickenshit Dems have no intention of supporting the bill.

Thank Atheist God for small wonders.

With that, allow me to slawg on with the blawg.

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Choo choo time headlines

Samuel-Warde: DNC Hackers Allegedly Paid By Trump Organization, But Were Under Putin's Control
...Where there's this much smoke, there hasta be fire.

Although there are "Democracy Now!" headlines below, Imma leave this here: People's Climate March: A Protest Against the Fossil Fuel Industry Taking Over the U.S. Government

The rest are all from The Guardian today--enjoy! (Really! Some of them are not bad news!)

People's Climate March: thousands rally to denounce Trump's environmental agenda
...According to https://peoplesclimate.org/, more than 300,000 marched in DC and across the country. Given that, according to PolitiFact, tRump's inauguration attendance numbers may have been as low as 250,000, that's saying something,

Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner: full frontal on Trump and media

Fear of neofascism keeps Emmanuel Macron ahead of Marine Le Pen

France's terrorism is largely home grown – yet both Macron and Le Pen look away

'Spicer facts' and weird handshakes: 100 days of Trump in memes

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Daily Kos, AlterNet, and Democracy Now! headlines

Daily Kos Recommended

• Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton troll Trump on Twitter—In the most delightful way
  
  
• 15-year-old unarmed honor student leaving house party shot and killed by rifle-wielding cop
  
  
• At Trump admin's urging, Argentina backs out of honoring President Jimmy Carter with highest award
  
  
• Daily Kos is prepared to resist Trump every single day for the next four years and beyond. Can you chip in $1 to support independent, progressive media?
  
  
• Archbishop orders end to Girl Scout meetings in Catholic churches, no longer 'compatible partners'
  
  
• Trump blames Constitution for his 100 days of failure, declares May 1 'Loyalty Day'
  
  
• Report: Trump counterterrorism adviser out, unable to pass clearance for National Security Council
  
  
• Late night host surprises audience with a deeply personal and moving case to save the ACA
  
  
• Schadenfreude from Breitbart readers over the budget compromise deal
  
  
• Trump administration ends Michelle Obama program to educate girls and lift them out of poverty
  
  
• Sign the petition: Denounce House Republicans for enabling Trump to hide his tax returns.
  
  
• Wow: Trump revives claim that President Obama wiretapped him, abruptly ends CBS interview
  
  
• Trump: 'Why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?'
  
  
• Trump's pick to head federal family planning program: 'Contraception doesn't work'
  
  
• Budget deal includes $41 million for 'extraordinary costs' of indulging Donald Trump
  
  
• Community believes Portland teen who won writing contest now being excluded because he's autistic
  
  
• Weak president embraces strongmen

Daily Kos Recommended

• Non-wealthy Trump supporters in swing counties will save $5.55 under his child care plan
  
  
• Donald Trump invites mass murderer to the White House for a nice talk
  
  
• Newsweek: Ivanka Trump has power 'thanks to her man.' They mean her father.
  
  
• 'Trump has the intellectual depth of a coat of paint'
  
  
• The Trump White House actually DID do a background check on Michael Flynn
  
  
• Sign the petition: Support College For All by taxing Wall Street.
  
  
• Priebus says Trump administration has 'looked at' First Amendment changes to protect Trump
  
  
• Advice for life in 2017: How to survive a nuclear blast
  
  
• 100 days: Hannity asks What is 'Trump's biggest accomplishment?' Twitter hands him his ass
  
  
• Monster defeat for Trump and GOP: Budget deal funds Planned Parenthood but has nothing for wall
  
  
• Daily Kos is prepared to resist Trump every single day for the next four years and beyond. Can you chip in $1 to support independent, progressive media?
  
  
• Don Trump Jr. spent Earth Day killing threatened prairie dogs with Montana GOP candidate
  
  
• Second Amendment snowflake? Guns banned at Donald Trump's NRA speech
  
  
• All the world's a stage. And all the men and women merely players
  
  
• Trump 'looked forward to terminating' NAFTA, but then someone showed him a map
  
  
• Alabama lawmakers vote forbidding any changes to Confederate monuments in ord er to preserve history
  
  
• Jeff Sessions doesn't think anyone could have figured out Mike Flynn was getting paid illegally

Daily Kos Recommended

• New York Times
  
  
• The Devil may be in the details. If so, it's not good news for Trump.
  
  
• Donald Trump has tied himself to the one form of energy that's never—never, never—coming back
  
  
• I have been warned...
  
  
• "Folks don't realize how close the GOP is to repealing the Affordable Care Act right now."
  
  
• Trump's got nothing except this one thing
  
  
• Trump wants to kill the Energy Star program. Guess what his motive might be?
  
  
• Sign now to tell Congress: We pay our fair share in taxes. So should Wall Street billionaires.
  
  
• Benny Hinn could be in biiiiiig trouble
  
  
• Alabama judge agrees to allow some segregation in Birmingham schools
  
  
• New study has bad news for school voucher advocates
  
  
• Saying linguists are 'flummoxed' by Trump is like saying veterinarians are 'puzzled' by roadkill
  
  
• Machete wielding terrorist attacks Democrats on Kentucky campus
  
  
• President Obama's pension primer
  
  
• Daily Kos is prepared to resist Trump every single day for the next four years and beyond. Can you chip in $1 to support independent, progressive media?
  
  
• Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: 100 days of Meh and Chaos
  
  
• 100 days: Hannity asks 'What is Trump's biggest accomplishment?' Twitter hands him his a**
  
  
• Dear Resistance: The Russia investigation needs more Jason Chaffetz moments

Daily Kos Recommended

• Ivanka vs the 'alt-right'—Trump's newest problem
  
  
• Cartoon: Stripped of his job
  
  
• Cartoon: What Trump does in between tweets
  
  
• Another day, another brewing Trump scandal
  
  
• Daily Kos is prepared to resist Trump every single day for the next four years and beyond. Can you chip in $1 to support independent, progressive media?
  
  
• Trump appoints woman who believes abortion causes breast cancer to top post at HHS
  
  
• Pro-rape, anti-woman NH legislator refuses to resign, will 'stand strong for men's rights'
  
  
• People in 'Red America' are not voting against their own interests
  
  
• Conservative commentator has a sad that Republicans never really wanted to repeal Obamacare
  
  
• Quick signature needed: Say NO to more tax giveaways for Wall Street.
  
  
• Trump promises to work 'side by side' with the NRA, warns 2020 could bring 'Pocahontas'
  
  
• Democratic senator is protesting Trump’s NRA speech by posting powerful reminders of gun violence
  
  
• Cartoon: Across the globe, with Jeff Sessions
  
  
• Trump's economy stumbles immediately, GDP lowest in 3 years
  
  
• ICE really hates all your 'criminal space alien' prank calls. Good.
  
  
• The implosion of Trumpcare and Trump's border wall funding cap his 100-day debacle of a debut
  
  
• Maxine Waters is kicking Trump's @$$ on Russia!

Daily Kos Recommended

• Cartoon: What Trump does in between tweets
  
  
• Conservative commentator has a sad that Republicans never really wanted to repeal Obamacare
  
  
• Trump's economy stumbles immediately, GDP lowest in 3 years
  
  
• Trump promises to work 'side by side' with the NRA, warns 2020 could bring 'Pocahontas'
  
  
• The implosion of Trumpcare and Trump's border wall funding cap his 100-day debacle of a debut
  
  
• Cartoon: Across the globe, with Jeff Sessions
  
  
• Trump appoints woman who believes abortion causes breast cancer to top post at HHS
  
  
• Ivanka vs the 'alt-right'—Trump's newest problem
  
  
• People in 'Red America' are not voting against their own interests
  
  
• Pro-rape, anti-woman NH legislator refuses to resign, will 'stand strong for men's rights'
  
  
• Democratic senator is protesting Trump’s NRA speech by posting powerful reminders of gun violence
  
  
• Daily Kos is prepared to resist Trump every single day for the next four years and beyond. Can you chip in $1 to support independent, progressive media?
  
  
• ICE really hates all your 'criminal space alien' prank calls. Good.
  
  
• Another day, another brewing Trump scandal
  
  
• Quick signature needed: Say NO to more tax giveaways for Wall Street.
  
  
• Maxine Waters is kicking Trump's @$$ on Russia!
  
  
• Cartoon: Stripped of his job

Daily Kos Recommended

• 'Oh, come on': Supreme Court justices incredulous at Justice Department immigration argument
  
  
• Jason Chaffetz is taking a break from Congress thanks to a conveniently timed medical crisis
  
  
• North Carolina woman voted illegally for Trump but won't be charged for 'compassionate' reasons
  
  
• Daily Kos needs to raise $171,366.72 to close the books on April. Can you chip in $1 to support the team that brings progressive news to your inbox every day?
  
  
• Trump says he's 'absolutely' considering proposals to dissolve court blocking his executive orders
  
  
• Oh my goodness. Trump says he misses his old life. Jason Kander is not having it.
  
  
• Fox News may firing more—(Hannity?)—as Murdoch gives the finger to network president
  
  
• Obama fired Michael Flynn. Trump made him national security adviser. Guess who Spicer blames.
  
  
• Trump to completely defund the State Department's office for international women's empowerment
  
  
• Grands Rapids police hold 'group of innocent youths' at gunpoint, protests are scheduled
  
  
• Confirmed: House Republicans will not hold vote on Obamacare repeal this week
  
  
• Quick signature needed: Say NO to more tax giveaways for Wall Street.
  
  
• New York judge isn't buying what ExxonMobil is selling: 'Give me a break'
  
  
• North Carolina Republicans vote to make it legal to hit protestors with your car
  
  
• Oops! Republicans decide they'd better not exempt themselves from Trumpcare after all
  
  
• Trump's inner circle continues to dish: The key job is 'To talk him out of doing crazy things'
  
  
• 100 days of chaos and failure

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3 Ways Obama Should Spend His Wall Street Money By Jefferson Morley, AlterNet How the ex-president’s buckraking can pay off for Democrats. READ MORE» Right-Wing Loons Rage Against Ivanka for Her 'Uncomfortable Embrace of Refugees' By Sophia Tesfaye, Salon Talk radio hosts are angrily comparing the first daughter to Hillary Clinton. READ MORE» The Great Job Exodus Is Upon Us: Trump's Promise to Save American Labor Is Already a Bust By Kali Holloway, AlterNet At least 12,000 positions have moved or are in the process of being moved abroad since late January. READ MORE»

Climate Change as Genocide: Inaction Equals Annihilation By Michael Klare, TomDispatch It would cost just $4.4 billion to save 20 million African lives, but the world won't pony up. READ MORE» May Day, Reinvigorated to Fight Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies By Ilana Novick, AlterNet When it comes to resistance activities, this is shaping up to be the biggest—even in red states. READ MORE» The Trump Administration After 100 Days: A Second-Rate Salesman Surrounded by Con Men and Losers By Gary Legum, Salon Trump has staffed the West Wing with low-grade hucksters, and his deal-making skills are just bad poker bluffs. READ MORE» 'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Deeply Unsettling but Not for the Reason You Might Think By Jessica Valenti, The Guardian Echoes of Trump's America are there, but the series is most compelling in its depiction of everyday sexism. READ MORE» Why Are Men Dropping Out of Work? By Michael Hout, The American Prospect A new book examines the steep decline of male employment.  READ MORE» America’s Other Drug Problem: Prescriptions Are Being Wasted While the Needy Are Shut Out By Marshall Allen, ProPublica Every year nursing homes nationwide flush, burn or throw out tons of valuable prescription drugs. READ MORE» Donald Trump's 100 Days Have Been a Hand-Wrapped Gift to the Religious Right By Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch And the family values posturing of Evangelicals has been exposed for the sham it's always been. READ MORE» The Surprising Thing Marijuana and Hot Peppers Have in Common By Tibi Puiu, ZME Science They both calm the gut, scientists say.  READ MORE» Buddhism Offers a Potent Philosophical Reason to Cut Meat Out of Your Diet By David Barash, TarcherPerigee One of the central Buddhist precepts is ahimsa, which means "non-harming." READ MORE» 'I Don't Know How Many People I've Killed': Whistleblowers Speak Out on America's Gruesome Drone Wars By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet A new PBS documentary explores our violent intervention in the Middle East.  READ MORE»

Paul Krugman: Trump Is a Monster Straight Out of 'The Twilight Zone' By Jacob Sugarman, AlterNet The New York Times columnist compares the president to one of Rod Serling's most memorable inventions. READ MORE» Could the NRA's Wayne LaPierre Talk Trump into a Violent War on the Left? By Heather Digby Parton, Salon The president has proven time and again that he's highly susceptible to suggestion. READ MORE» Bernie Sanders Chides Obama for Accepting a $400,000 Wall Street Speaking Fee By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet "I think it is unfortunate that the president is doing this." READ MORE»

Donald Trump Admits This Whole Presidenting Thing Is Much Harder Than He Realized By Mark Sumner, DailyKos The job is more demanding that sparring with Gary Busey and Meatloaf. Who would have thought? READ MORE» Alex Jones Loses Custody Battle After Being Compared to 'Cult Leader' By Sarah K. Burris, Raw Story The conspiracy theorist's attorney argued Jones was playing a "character" on InfoWars. READ MORE» Stephen Colbert Nails Trump's Most Horrifying Admission This Week By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet "Has anyone tried putting a resignation letter in front of him?"  READ MORE» Ultra-Wealthy Young Concertgoers Duped, Stranded and Growing Hungry on an Island in the Bahamas By Eleni Cresci, The Guardian The Fyre Festival was billed as Coachella in paradise. It's been a "complete disaster." READ MORE» AlterNet Comics: Keith Knight on Arkansas's Sadistic Justice System By Keith Knight, AlterNet It's like they're filling a quota of lethal injections. READ MORE»

The Top 10 Resistance Victories in Trump's First 100 Days By John Cavanagh, Sarah Anderson, Domenica Ghanem, AlterNet New social movements are making their power felt in ways that would have been unimaginable before Trump took office. READ MORE» Epic Fight Over Florida's Political Future Looms As Constitutional Amendment to Restore Felon Voting Rights Clears Hurdle By Lulu Friesdat, AlterNet Repealing the Jim Crow law that keeps 1.5 million Floridians from voting. READ MORE» The 100 Days That Turned America Upside Down By Neal Gabler, BillMoyers.com Trump, promised to disrupt the country. He has—and more. READ MORE»

Ivanka, the Fairytale Princess of False Feminism By Adele M. Stan, The American Prospect Fifty-three percent of white women voted for Trump, and Ivanka was one of the reasons. READ MORE» The Trump Family's Massive Grift: As a Business and Branding Venture, This Presidency and His Family Are Doing Swell By Heather Digby Parton, Salon Legislative accomplishments? Zilch. But in terms of building the family fortune for the future, it's all going well. READ MORE» What You Need to Know About April 29th's Climate March By Ilana Novick, AlterNet The People's Climate March is part of more than a week of intersectional direct action, beginning with the March for Science and ending with May Day. READ MORE» American Media Continues to Ignore Historic Hunger Strike Underway in Israeli Prisons By Vijay Prashad, AlterNet The Western media should pay more attention to the Palestinian prisoner strike. READ MORE» President Trump’s Corporate Government By Robert Weissman, AlterNet The Trump administration is off to a roaring start on delivering the goodies to Big Business. READ MORE» Elizabeth Warren Issues a Dire Warning to Pro-Choice America By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet "We could be in that fight up to our eyeballs this very week with the new budget coming through." READ MORE» To Have Impact, the People's Climate March Needs to Reach Beyond Activists By Jill Hopke, The Conversation Approximately seven in 10 Trump voters may be reachable on climate issues—but march organizers need to consider how to engage them. READ MORE» Hightower: The Postal Service Is Doing Great, Despite Lies and Distortions From the Right-Wing By Jim Hightower, AlterNet Contrary to the Washington Post's report, the nation's public post offices racked up a $610 million operating profit last year, and a $1.2 billion profit the year before. READ MORE» Trump's Full of It on Opioid Epidemic: GOP Health Plan Would Slash Medicaid Funding for Drug Treatment By Amanda Marcotte, Salon Trumpcare 2.0 will make the opioid problem only worse by slashing the Medicaid funds that get people treated. READ MORE» Are People Moving to States Where Marijuana Is Legal? By Ryan Carrigan, Move Buddha How much of a draw is the right to have and use weed? READ MORE» Homeless and Unemployed in an Economy We're Supposed to Think Is Liberating By Ilana Gershon, University of Chicago Press In Ilana Gershon's new book "Down and Out in the New Economy," the employer power dynamic is called into question. READ MORE» Remembering the Insider Who Blew the Whistle on Corporate Greed By Sam Pizzigati, OtherWords Graef Crystal proved that corporations won't police themselves. Maybe good policies can. READ MORE» Officers Deprive Man Water in Solitary for 7 Days And Dehydrate Him to Death By Jack Burns, The Free Thought Project Terrell Thomas's death was a murder, not an accident. READ MORE»

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Stories Immigrant Workers Lead Thousands in NYC May Day Protests: "Without Our Labor, the City Cannot Move" Around the world, millions of workers took to the streets Monday for May Day, also known as International Workers' Day. In the United States, the marches were led ... Read More → Is North Carolina Still a Democracy? How Unfettered Conservative Rule Reshaped Tar Heel State It has been nearly six months since voters in North Carolina elected Democrat Roy Cooper as governor. Republican lawmakers responded by waging what many ... Read More → May Day Protests Held at NC State Capitol as GOP Lawmakers Push Bill Defunding "Sanctuary Cities" In Raleigh, North Carolina, more than 100 people braved the rain to take part in a May Day rally outside the state Capitol to protest a series of proposed anti-worker and ... Read More → ACLU Fight Persists in North Carolina: NCAA Basketball Has Returned, But Anti-Trans HB 2 Remains Law In March, state Republican lawmakers in North Carolina struck a deal to overturn a law denying transgender people the use of the bathroom, changing room or ... Read More → Chris Kromm: The South's Political Clout Is Rising Under Trump We look at the increasing power of states in the South to shape national politics. Our guest, Chris Kromm, writes in his latest piece that Southern states gave 160 ... Read More →

Headlines → Millions Take to the Street Worldwide for International Workers' Day Milwaukee: 30,000+ March on May Day to Demand Firing of Sheriff Clarke Texas: 2 Dozen Arrested in May Day Sit-in at Gov.'s Office to Protest SB 4 Portland, Oregon: 25 Arrested in May Day Clashes Puerto Rico: Thousands Block Traffic and March Against Austerity on May Day HRW: Syrian Gov't Used Nerve Agents in 4 Attacks Since December Afghanistan: Record Number of Civilians Died & Displaced in 2016 Amid Rising Tensions, Trump Says He'd Meet with North Korea's Kim Jong-un White House Pushing for Vote on GOP Healthcare Bill, Despite Confusion over Details President Trump: "Why was There the Civil War?" Fox Ousts Co-President Bill Shine Amid Sexual Harassment Fallout Texas: Judge Rules Harris County Bail System is Unconstitutional Milwaukee: Jury Recommends Charges for Jailers Who Denied Terrill Thomas Water Minneapolis: Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Shooting BLM Protesters in 2015 Texas: Police Shot and Killed 15-Year-Old Black Teen Jordan Edwards #J20 Inauguration Day Protesters Facing Up to 75 Years in Prison Author and Editor Jean Stein Dies at 83 in New York City

Stories Watch the Indigenous Water Ceremony That Opened the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C. As President Trump marked his 100th day in office on Saturday, up to 200,000 people took to the streets of Washington to take part in the People's Climate March. ... Read More → People's Climate March: A Protest Against the Fossil Fuel Industry Taking Over the U.S. Government The People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., was held in the sweltering heat as the temperatures soared over 90 degrees. Activists and organizers came in from ... Read More → Indigenous Leader Kandi Mossett: "It's Not OK for Our Women to Die Because We Want to Protect Water" The People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., was led by people from front-line and indigenous communities, whose lives are most impacted by the ... Read More → Kumi Naidoo: As Africa Burns, Why Is U.S. Refusing to Help Stop Catastrophic Climate Change? At the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., many protesters called attention to the close ties between the Trump administration and the fossil fuel ... Read More → Sens. Markey & Merkley Push Bill for 100% Clean and Renewable Energy by 2050 Just days before the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., a group of Democratic senators and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to ... Read More → Massachusetts AG Maura Healey on Why She Is Suing ExxonMobil for Climate Deception At the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., many protesters called attention to the close ties between the Trump administration and the fossil fuel ... Read More → Berta Cáceres' Sister Speaks Out About the Ongoing Assassinations of Land Defenders in Honduras The People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday came as extreme, climate-fueled weather is already causing havoc across the world. In the U.S. over ... Read More →

Headlines → People Worldwide Pour into Streets for People's Climate March 13 Killed in Tornadoes and Flooding in South and Midwest At Rally in Pennsylvania, Trump Attacks Immigrants and News Media Trump Vows to Be Champion of Gun Owners at National Rifle Association $1 Trillion Spending Bill Won't Fund Border Wall or Cut Funds to Sanctuary Cities Trump Falsely Claims GOP Healthcare Bill to Protect People with Pre-Existing Conditions Pope Francis: U.S.-North Korea War Would "Destroy a Good Part of Humanity" Pope Francis Defends Use of "Concentration Camps" to Refer to Europe's Refugee Centers Pentagon: U.S. Launched 80 Drone Strikes in March & April in Yemen Pentagon Names 3 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq & Afghanistan Trump Invites Philippines' Duterte to Visit White House, Despite Human Rights Concerns Brazil Launches First General Strike in 2 Decades to Protest Austerity Turkey Fires 4,000 Public Workers and Blocks Access to Wikipedia Russia: 120 Protesters Arrested in Nationwide Anti-Government Demonstrations NSA Says It's Curbing Controversial Mass Surveillance Program Sebastian Gorka Ousted from White House Amid Reports About Links to Nazi-Allied Group White House Considers Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke for Top DHS Post Arkansas: Judge Orders Autopsy for Executed Prisoner Kenneth Williams Workers March & Strike Worldwide on May Day

Stories "Weekends Are for Fighting Tyranny": 350.org's Bill McKibben on People's Climate March To mark the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency, thousands of climate activists from around the country are converging in Washington, D.C. on Saturday for the ... Read More → "It Has Not Gone Well": 100 Days of President Trump and No Major Achievements Just hours before a deadline, Congress has averted a government shutdown by working on a short-term spending bill and a broader deal to fund agencies ... Read More → Trump's Tax Plan & Push To End Net Neutrality Are An "All Out Assault" on Rural America As President Trump marks his first 100 day in office, Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) argues many of his plans have increased inequality. "The tax plan is one where the ... Read More → Democratic Rep. Peter Welch Condemns Trump's "Reckless" Threats Toward North Korea The Trump administration sent mixed signals on North Korea Thursday, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the U.S. is open to direct negotiations with Kim Jong ... Read More → House Oversight Dems Demand White House "Paper Trail" on National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Our guest Congressman Peter Welch explains why he joined his Democratic colleagues on the House Oversight Committee in demanding White House  ... Read More → Vermont Lawmaker: Residents of Sanctuary Cities Reject Trump's "Dragnet Approach" on Immigration As we broadcast from Burlington, Vermont, which is a sanctuary city, Vermont Rep. Peter Welch says there has been enormous citizen support toward undocumented ... Read More →

Headlines → Arkansas Puts Kenneth Williams to Death in Fourth Execution in 8 Days Trump Admin Considers North Korea Talks as Trump Warns of "Major Conflict" House Republicans Abandon Latest Effort on Healthcare Pentagon Investigating Michael Flynn Over Foreign Payments President Trump to Sign Executive Order Expanding Offshore Drilling Atmospheric CO2 Levels Reach Record 410 Parts Per Million Senate Bill Would Phase Out Fossil Fuels by 2050 Activists Ready a Massive "People's Climate March" on Washington Texas House Approves Anti-Immigrant "Show Your Papers" Bill Government "Alien Crime" Hotline Trolled by Calls about Space Aliens Syria: Two Hospitals Bombed Amid Spate of Attacks on Medics in Idlib Palestinians Strike in Solidarity With Hunger-Striking Prisoners Court Upholds Sentence Against Former Chadian Dictator Hissène Habré Brazil: Unions Call General Strike Against Pension Cuts Chicago Union Authorizes a Strike of 5,000 Nursing Home Workers United Airlines Settles With Passenger Beaten and Dragged off Flight Free Speech Radio News to End After 17 Years of Grassroots Reporting New York: Hundreds Rally on One-Year Anniversary of Mass Arrest

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M00bies!

Friends, I love Randi so much. She give you the n00z you need in depth, but she's funneh, too. This video is insane...chimpie's ethics advisor, Richard Painter, who's a career Republican, has called tRump-Russia "treason" and called for cheeto benito's impeachment on Joy-Ann Reid's show on MSNBC. He has referred to what's been done as "espionage" and confirms that a foreign power undermined our democratic process. Painter also said that Michael Flynn accepted emoluments and lied--a criminal offense. Painter also called out tRump for taking foreign emoluments and not disclosing his taxes. He chided Republicans for covering up all these offenses and not working with Democrats to get to the bottom of it all. And did I say that Richard Painter is a career Republican?!??

This will make your day!

Of course, as a Republican, tRump has no qualms with the idea of owning people...

I gno! Let's sell our entire future for a few quick bux today...!

So, tRump and Co. both lie and are st00pit...?!

Unreal. tRump really wants to be a dictator. In reality, though, he doesn't hafta accomplish one everlovin' thing to satisfy his ickle base--all he hasta dew is tell them he did it. They'll believe it!

Then again, tRump isn't all that concerned about actually keeping his working-class base happy. He's all about systematically destroying them, just like in that song he loves so much: "The Snake."

More on moron Flynn...and how his name seems to panic trump deze daze

So. The Government actually advertised Mar-a-Lago...

Have you noticed tRump's weird American flags? Ever? He lurves the 39-star flag! But there is no such official American flag. Ever! tRump is all about messaging. I wonder what he's trying to say...

She is such a piece of bleached-blonde trailer-trash chickenshit...

tRump is panicking about Russia

More on morons voting against their own interests

Hasan Minhaj was sooooo funneh at the WHCD...!

Ba-hahahahaha!

Yay--another Randy Rainbow!!

 

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