Imma just leave this here...

25 May 2017 update:

Greetings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!

Friends, I'm still catching up from my trip, but I did indeed start to plan what to write for todaze post.

 

I'm sure I was planning a word on how I'm really not a mean person, but I am doing everything I can to make @realdonaldtRump crack so that maybe he'll resign without our having to wait until 2018. I want him to decide he'd rather run away like the spoiled bully he is than deal with a daily barrage of "mean" tweets from the likes of me. Since he's criticized others for being fat, stupid, inept, incompetent, and hypocritical, I figure it's fair game to call him out on all of those. If you're not convinced that I save my wrath for him and the rest of the evil Republicans who truly want to murder my dad, my bestie, and the rest of my loved ones, just follow me on Twitter and watch how I respond to the average folk--my ordinary American counterparts on the other side of the aisle. "Honest but caring and kind" is what I'm shooting for. I feel sorry for these benighted folks, but they are not my target. Not only would I not be able to change their minds, but they are only the unwitting dupes of the Republicans, who have fooled them into thinking that they're at the table when they're really on the menu. And, as I tweeted to one such deluded girl, I truly wish they weren't. If it were up to me, we wouldn't have Big Money in politics; we'd have free, fair, and fact-checked news; we'd have publicly funded elections with election day holidays and all eligible voters registered and enabled to vote; and we'd live in a society where profit was prohibited from institutions like education, news media, insurance, corrections, pharmaceuticals, and health care. And we'd take care of each other and the planet we live on because duh.

 

But, hey, that's just me.

 

And then Montana Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte strangled, body-slammed, and repeatedly punched Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, smashing his glasses and injuring his elbow badly enough to require medical attention.

 

The Atlantic: A Transcript of the Greg Gianforte 'Body-Slam' Audio

 

Mr. Jacobs's "offense"?

 

Asking Gianforte for his reaction to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score for tRumpcare version ?.? (I lost count, so sue me). Oh, and being a reporter in tRump's America, where comrade tRumPEWtin has branded the media as the enemy of the people and chronically incited/incites violence against members of the media along with anyone else who disagrees with him or who tries to hold him accountable for his malfeasance.

 

Damn, son--tRumpcare v?.? must be one super-callous-suckilicious bill if Republicans would rather beat up reporters than answer questions about its CBO score. I guess Republicans' tiny little minds are getting short-circuited by all the cognitive dissonance that comes with being "Christians" who get concrete-hard stiffies from a bill that will murder millions of innocent Americans if it passes...

 

 

On a happier note, Twitter asked Warby Parker to supply Mr. Jacobs with a new pair of glasses to replace the pair Gianforte broke during the attack--and @WarbyParker promptly agreed. That made a lot of Tweeps' day.

 

But, before Gianforte's attack on Mr. Jacobs, I was part of a Twitter campaign to #FireHannity for torturing the family of Seth Rich by continuing to spread debunked conspiracy theories to distract from tRump-Russia. Scott Dworkin (@funder) takes this issue personally because he had worked with Seth early on, and Seth's family and his memory deserve better than to be sullied by Hannity's self-serving lies. In a shockingly short period of time, the campaign resulted in four major advertisers dumping Hannity's lying ass before I hit the hay last night. Even more advertisers abandoned the constipated RWNJ today, resulting in Hannity being voluntold to take a very sudden vacation.

 

New York Magazine: As Advertisers Flee, Sean Hannity Takes a Sudden Vacation

As the teaser for the article says, not as many have dumped Hannity yet as dumped his fellow perv O'Really?--but it's quite a respectable start, and I'm proud to have been part of restoring a modicum of peace to the Rich family. I hope the respite will be permanent and that Hannity will catch the clue and leave them to grieve and get on with their lives.

 

As one fellow Tweep said, Hannity thinks it's freedom to torture an innocent, grieving family with debunked conspiracy theories, but it's fascism for the free market represented by #LaResistance to impart swift, robust, and meaningful consequences..

 

I sent Hannity the following link to give him a much-needed clue re what fascism actually is...and it-snot, "Waah waah waah--mean people disagree with me."

 

He's welcome.

 

Rense.com: Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

 

Read the link, friends--by definition, fascism is NOT liberal. Fascism is a strictly right-wing phenomenon that RWNJs like Hannity want to subject us all to. His whinging only goes to show that it's a good time to remind ourselves what fascism really is so that we don't get caught up in his web of st00pit...I mean, conspiracies...I mean, lies.

Other than those late-breaking n00z items from yesterday, the n00z speaks for itself--including stories and fallout from tRump's disastrous and weird trip to the Middle East and Europe and plenty of late-breaking n00z items from today, which you'll see as you scroll down through the headlines toward the peas.

Hopefully, I'll be even more caught up next time and back to my usual creative, (hopefully) funny self.

Cheers--be good to you; remember to follow me on Twitter; and never forget that I lurves ya madleh!

- Dot Calm's shadow

 

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Hey, #BenedictDonald--
go back to Czar a Lago!
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Choo choo time headlines and a few other thAngs...

Friends, if you read nothing else today, READ THIS:

WaPo: How a dubious Russian document influenced the FBI's handling of the Clinton probe
...In short, the FBI believed the fake document because they WANTED to believe it. And Comey was only "mildly" nauseous?!?? This whole thing makes me want to puke. THANKS A LOT, COMEY, YOU SICK, ST00PIT FUCK!!!!! Friends, this is just the beginning...of the end of our democracy. We have been pwned. 

And now for the rest of the n00z:
 

STAT News.com: Trump used to be more articulate. What could explain the change?

 

Fight tRump's savage budget: https://handsoff.org/

 

BuzzFeed: ISIS Has A Strategy To Create A Media Frenzy And News

...See also Don't let ISIS shape the news: The struggle to cover terror - Nieman Lab

 

BuzzFeed: No, Impeachment Doesn't Work That Way

...See also Vox's Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia  and Slate's Louise Mensch and the rise of the liberal conspiracy theorist.

In short, Louise Mensch is a liar. Aka #ThenextMilo, she is a total RWNJ...she was orgasmic for Brexit, is paid by Rupert Murdoch, and hates/loves everything Milo hates/loves--they're bestest buds. She is NOT a friend of The Resistance--she wants to feed us what she thinks we want to hear along with a crap-ton of fake news and Breitbart-worthy conspiracy theory. Friends, we are better than this--we form our opinions based on evidence, not emotion. Follow @MalcolmNance instead. He loves this country and will not steer you wrong! Before I forget--don't even visit #ThenextMilo's blog, patribotics--my Norton gives it a big, fat, gray "Do NOT click through!" question mark. You have been warned!

 

FRONTLINE at PBS.org: Bannon's War

..."The inside story of Trump adviser Stephen Bannon's war — with radical Islam, Washington and White House rivals."

 

Yahoo News: Trey Gowdy's effort to throw cold water on Trump-Russia

...Republicans are such pieces of shit, ain't they?!??

 

Daily Beast: Pro-Trumpcare Republicans Owned Millions in Health Care Stock

 

Hinterland Gazette: Donald Trump Failed to Disclose Foreign-Owned Business on Financial Disclosure

 

Newsweek: Trump Effect Inspires Radical Christians in Military

 

MoJo: There's Finally a Dollar Amount Attached to How Much Trump Hates the EPA

 

ABC News: Ex-Trump adviser Carter Page says he'll testify before House intelligence committee

 

MoJo: House Dems Investigating Trump Loans for Russian Connestions
...And those connections seem to run through Deutsche Bank, which is notorious for laundering Russian money.

Esquire: Wisconsin Email Leak Shows Republicans Use 'Voter Fraud" To Suppress The Vote

MoJo: Paul Ryan Says the GOP Health Bill Will Lower Health Care Premiums
...Yes, of course they will--once you die, your premiums drop to $0. And Ayn Rand Paul Ryan wants to make sure that you die very, very quickly.

WaPo: How the CBO thinks the Republican health-care bill will affect your pocketbook
...Friends, if all you have is your Social Security and Medicare, like my dad, your premiums could cost you more than you make! This vicious, savage bill must be STOPPED!!!!!

Speaking of which, here's one place you can go to fight tRumpcare:
https://trumpcaretoolkit.org/

Nature: Tropospheric Warming Over The Past Two Decades
...Friends, this is not good news. It's existentially alarming.

The Atlantic: Trump Organization Won't Track All Foreign Government Payments 
...tRump's solution to emoluments was to track payments from foreign governments to his hotels and other businesses and to donate that money back into the treasury. But awwr...it's just too hard. Too hard for him NOT to grift.

WaPo: The Health 202: Here's why the CBO report is bad news for Republicans

The Hill: People will die without access to healthcare
...Despite what Republicans say! Just like people die without access to food, and they die without access to water, and they die without access to air.... St00pit, greedy Republicans.

RawStory: 'Close to a disaster': Foreign policy scholar explains massive damage done by Trump's NATO speech
...Friends, it isn't pretty...unless you're Vladimir Putin.

NBC News: Jared Kushner Under Scrutiny in Russia Probe, Say Multiple Sources
...It was just a matter of time. I wish they'd put all these con artists out of our misery for good SOON!

Get involved--tell Congress to revoke Jared's clearance NOW:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-suspend-jared-kushners-security-clearance

Wired: Russian Hackers Are Using 'Tainted' Leaks to Sow Disinformation

 

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Uncle Ben "I gave myself a lobotomy" Carson's

s00per simpul solution to being poor:

 

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Daily Kos, AlterNet, and Democracy Now! headlines

 

Daily Kos Recommended

• Kansas congressman accuses town hall attendees of being un-American. Attendees respond.
• Donald Trump's laughably uncomfortable meeting and gift exchange with Pope Francis
• Nobel Prize economist on Trump's budget: 'You could say it’s a collection of lies put together'
• Daily Kos needs to raise $103,343.36 to close the books on May. Can you chip in $1 to support the team that brings progressive news to your inbox every day?
• If you didn't already love him, this story about Al Franken dissing Ted Cruz should do the trick
• The National Endowment for the Humanities releases a statement about being asked to close by Trump
• Montana's biggest newspapers rescind endorsement of GOP candidate who violently assaulted a reporter
• Amid white racial anxiety in the suburbs, police let blacks know that they are not welcome
• Michael Flynn gets more subpoenas, and more subpoenas, and a bonus reminder: No immunity
• A look at members of the media who make things up—and the fools who believe them
• Sign the petition: Investigate Jeff Sessions for violating his recusal
• Exxon loses in court and must turn over documents to NY AG Schneiderman
• Fox News reporters say GOP candidate grabbed reporter by the neck, slammed him to the ground
• What the holy hell? Republican candidate in Montana's special election just assaulted a reporter
• Sessions didn't disclose his Russian contacts when applying for his security clearance
• Horrifying: Audio of Montana Republican Greg Gianforte assaulting reporter Ben Jacobs
• Trump's budget—billions for mass deportations and 'bricks and mortar,' but screw the poor

 

Daily Kos Liberation League

The Daily Kos Liberation League features highly recommended posts about racial justice, gender equality, and LGBTQ rights.

• Black college student stabbed to death in what investigators think may be a possible hate crime
• Jeff Sessions tries to time travel the 1980s with his drug war but we refuse to go back
• Fleeing from swastikas in Germany, they found refuge at HBCUs in the Jim Crow south
• Trump and the GOP are already trying to stack the deck for 2018 elections. We must stop them (signature needed)
• Transgender milestone: Argentina has Latin America's first trans police chief
• DHS extends temporary protective status for Haitian refugees, but for only six months
• North Carolina Republican thinks it's only fair to kick 133,000 people off food stamps
• Ben Carson stands idly by while Trump budget proposes cuts to housing impacting poor people and vets
• Nevada becomes latest state to ban harmful 'ex-gay therapy' for minors

 

Daily Kos Breaking News

• CBO scores Zombie Trumpcare, and it's horrifying
• Check out the mega-viral way people are taking revenge on House Republicans for voting to destroy health care.
• Sign and send a PERSONALIZED message to your U.S. Senators: Reject Trumpcare.

 

Daily Kos Recommended

• Trump's budget cuts Social Security. His budget director is pretending it doesn't.
• Shaken by his promotion of conspiracies, victim's family makes gut-wrenching public plea to Hannity
• Saudi Arabia is giving $20 billion to Blackstone, whose CEO is a Trump 'adviser'
• Donald Trump's laughably uncomfortable meeting and gift exchange with Pope Francis
• Ethics office writes back to Trump to say F**k You Very Much, now get your ethics together
• Jared Kushner uses lawfare to extort money from poor tenants in Baltimore
• A man's personal story of meeting Mr. Rogers moves millions in reaction to Manchester tragedy
• Sign the petition to MSNBC: Keep Lawrence O'Donnell on the air
• When Trump gets back from his fantasy vacation ...
• After Flynn refuses subpoenas, Senate Intelligence Committee now subpoenaing his businesses
• Daily Kos needs to raise $125,086.4 to close the books on May. Can you chip in $1 to support the team that brings progressive news to your inbox every day?
• Democrats pick up two GOP-held legislative seats, the first flips of the Trump era. There'll be more
• Watch Melania Trump publicly rebuff Donald Trump for the second time in 48 hours< /a>
• How do you lose a job you never had? Ask Sheriff David Clarke
• New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's speech on removing confederate monuments is righteous
• Lynch people who take down Confederate monuments, says Mississippi state representative on Facebook
• Read the embarrassing scribbled note Donald Trump left at the Holocaust memorial in Israel

 

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tRump was so thrilled
with how fawningly the Saudis treated him
that we half expected to see this announcement
before he left Arabia for Israel...

 Funny how the teathuglikkkants
who SCREAMED at Obama's
dignified, statesmanlike bow
never made a peep
at tRump's CURTSY
...heh!

*****

 

Moar m00bies!

Hilarious!!!!!

 

 

But wait--there's more that comrade tRumPEWtin blabbed to Duterte...

 

 

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23 May 2017 post:

 

Greetings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!

Friends, I've been out of town since we last tawked, so I haven't had a minute to write anything for todaze post.

Unfortunately, the n00z speaks for itself.

Hopefully, I'll be a little more caught up next time.

Cheers--be good to you; remember to follow me on Twitter; and never forget that I lurves ya madleh!

- Dot Calm's shadow

 

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WHY are tRump and the GOP 

so eager to preserve

Russia's right

to meddle in our elections?

GOP = Government of PEWtin

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Choo choo time headlines

Daily Beast: Trump Officials: 'He Looks More and More Like a Complete Moron

Daily Beast: Donald Trump Knows Just How Bad the Russia Investigation Can Get

Vox: Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia
...Friends, don't listen to #thenextMilo Louise Mensch (patribotics blog). She is NOT our friend. She is one of the right-wing nut-job conspiracy theorists feeding us what she thinks we want to hear rather than the truth. Listen to Malcolm Nance instead--he loves this country and will not steer us wrong! New Republic has this to say to #thenextMilo: Stop promoting liberal conspiracy theories on Twitter.

Scott Dworkin: Democratic Coalition Against Trump
...You can download #TrumpLeaks from here--all legally collected documents show that the entire GOP down through the entire chain to Orrin Hatch are guilty of taking Russian money and other nefarious, un-American activity. Disgusting!! Oh--be sure to contribute to DCAT!!

HuffPo: The $110 Billion Arms Deal Trump Just Signed With Saudi Arabia May Be Illegal

Bradford DeLong, bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with Both Hands

HuffPo:
WATCH: Trump Admits Doing Business With Notorious Saudi Arms Dealer & Sultan of Brunei

CNN: Tillerson holds briefing in Saudi Arabia without US press - May. 21, 2017
...Only FOREIGN media were allowed in! Hit up Resistbot and give your congress-critters a piece of your mind like I did!

NY Times: White House Plans to Have Trump Ally Review Intelligence Agencies

NY Magazine: Trump Budget Based on $2 Trillion Math Error [Updated]
...And I guarantee that the voodoo math in tRump's budget will seem perfectly reasonable to the magical thinkers supporting tRump and drinking his poison Kool-Aid.

New Republic: “It's Time For West Virginia To Rise Up”: A Q&A with Paula Swearengin
...Here's a woman of and for the people of West Virginia--no fat-cat mor00n like tRump, she grew up with the coal mining culture with all its privations and ill health. She understands what miners are up against and how to help them. If West Virginians can somehow be coaxed into voting for rather than against their own best interests, they'll vote this lady in so fast that blue-dog Manchin's head will spin.

Politicus USA: GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz Reported To FBI For Using Potential Illegal Private E-mail Server
...It's an oldie but goodie from November 2016 and a good reminder why none of us should  EVER trust a Republican!

The Guardian: Manchester is suffering now – but its spirit will overcome this atrocity 
...This is such a heart-break. My Twitter feed was choked this morning with people searching frantically for friends and family members who'd gone to the concert but had not been heard of since. Wrenching. And it's all the fault of cowardly, hateful, superstitious, allah-bothering believers in woo who can't tolerate anyone enjoying life. So they decided to snuff out the lives of children during the Ariana Grande concert that should have been a wonderful highlight of their young lives. Sick fucking bastards. They make me wish there were a hell so they could fry in it. But it's all good--tRump worked very hard to get an Israeli anti-ISIS operative murdered by Russia and Iran so that even moar innocent people can die in ISIS attacks--yay! Won't that make you sleep better? Yeah, I didn't think so--me neither. On a more positive note, the local Manchester Muslim community wasted no time condemning the attack--unlike American Christians whenever one of their own commits an act of domestic terrorism.

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go back to Czar a Lago!
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Daily Kos, AlterNet, and Democracy Now! headlines

Daily Kos Recommended

• Kushner keeps 90 percent of real estate holdings while offering close to zero percent transparency
  
  
• Nazi FL National Guard member arrested in bomb plot
  
  
• H.R. McMaster confirms that Trump's spill of intelligence to Russia came from pure ignorance
  
  
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• Millionaire Trump supporter guilty of sex abuse after groping maid in DC during inauguration
  
  
• Who needs Trump voters? Not Democrats.
  
  
• Montana Republican tries to hide from $800,000 tax break he would get from the AHCA
  
  
• Two U.S. Intelligence officials say Trump inappropriately asked them to deny evidence of collusion
  
  
• White Islam convert Devon Arthurs kills his two white supremacist roommates
  
  
• Trump tried to get other intelligence agencies to interfere in FBI Russia investigation
  
  
• Republican hypocrite Chaffetz—who leaked Comey letter—says 'leakers' should be cuffed and imprisoned
  
  
• Sign the petition to MSNBC: Keep Lawrence O'Donnell on the air
  
  
• Angry man wearing 'Make America Great Again' hat booted off flight to chants of 'Lock him up!'
  
  
• Federal agents used 'cellphone snooping device' to find and arrest undocumented restaurant worker
  
  
• Melania Trump's frown, freeze-up, & hand-slap: She despises Donald Trump
  
  
• The world won't wait
  
  
• Betsy DeVos to lay out the plan to privatize education and destroy public schools

Daily Kos Recommended

• LMAO: Watch Melania slap Drumpf's little hand away deplaning in Tel Aviv
  
  
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• New York Times columnist David Brooks smokes Trump: He's an 'infantalist'—unable to grasp 3 vital adult tasks
  
  
• Elijah Cummings on ABC: 'There may be quite a few people that may have some problems with the law'
  
  
• Source tells NBC News: Mike Pence kept in dark 'never made aware of facts' regarding Flynn
  
  
• Trump's new budget proposal to screw over pretty much anyone in need
  
  
• Watch the Commerce Secretary rave about protester-free Saudi Arabia (where protesters are beheaded)
  
  
• Fleeing from swastikas in Germany, they found refuge at HBCUs in the Jim Crow south
  
  
• Sign the petition to MSNBC: Keep Lawrence O'Donnell on the air
  
  
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• Following the bouncing timeline of corruption, cyber-espionage and treason
  
  
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Daily Kos Recommended

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• Lawrence O'Donnell update: MSNBC is finally negotiating due to intense fan pressure
  
  
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• 26 year-old H.S. teacher wins primary against Democratic mayor who backed Trump
  
  
• "Maybe electing a clown to be president wasn't such a good idea after all..." and other signs.
  
  
• Sign the petition to MSNBC: Keep Lawrence O'Donnell on the air
  
  
• Congressman Ted Lieu tweets a cheat sheet for Trump's '1st Overseas Visit'—and it's a hoot
  
  
• Trumpcare. The CBO score is more important than you might think.
  
  
• Pssst: Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell have pitted themselves against America.
  
  
• CNN investigative team: Rightist Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized 47 times in his master's thesis
  
  
• In Saudi to talk weapons, Trump doesn't Twitter-scold Melania for uncovered hair as he did Michelle
  
  
• Entire healthcare industry to the GOP: Fund the g*ddamned CSRs. Now.
  
  
• Bernie and Rob's excellent Montana adventure
  
  
• While we're passing out subpoenas...
  
  
• NBA player, Enes Kanter, released from Romania airport after Erdoğan cancelled passport
  
  
• House Democrats are raking in small-dollar online contributions at a record-breaking pace
  
  
• "Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts"
  
  
• Bernie campaigns with Quist in Montana. Bonus: Quist's closing ad hitting opponent on Trumpcare.
  

Daily Kos Recommended

• Paul Ryan tries to deflect on leak that implicates him in a Russia cover-up
  
  
• WaPo: Closed door meeting between senators and Deputy AG Rosenstein got a bit 'heated'
  
  
• Massive red flag—Trump's attorneys advised him NOT to sign form certifying his financials as true
  
  
• Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, Republicans in Congress: NO ONE wanted a special prosecutor. But we got one because millions of people demanded one. Chip in $1 to keep fighting.
  
  
• Check this out—House Democrats told VP Mike Pence about Flynn and they kept the receipts to prove it
  
  
• Cartoon: What would it take for the GOP to dump Trump?
  
  
• If you want to understand Donald Trump, just take a look at his marriage: Trophy wife, no pals
  
  
• The uncredible Mr. Pence—Trump's VP can't roll in the mud and expect to stay clean
  
  
• Elijah Cummings warned Mike Pence that Flynn was a foreign agent all the way back in November
  
  
• Trump–Russia investigation closing in on 'White House official' at the 'highest level of government'
  
  
• Sign the petition: Investigate Jeff Sessions for violating his recusal
  
  
• As Trump remains silent, victim of Turkish guard attack in D.C. begs for justice on Twitter
  
  
• Deputy AG Rosenstein wrote his report knowing it was going to be used as cover
  
  
• Jeff Sessions tries to time travel the 1980s with his drug war but we refuse to go back
  
  
• Trump, calling Comey a 'nut-job,' tells Russians he fired him to relieve 'great pressure'
  
  
• World leaders prepare to deal with the toddler-in-chief
  
  
• ICE arrests two undocumented workers trying to get to construction job on military base
  
  
• Oklahoma officer who killed unarmed black motorist is found not guilty. But who's surprised?
  
  
• A Chaotic week for Trump and more to come
  
  
• Comey agrees to testify in open session at Senate Intelligence Committee—date TBD
  
  
• In Montana election, one candidate smoked pot. The other made a campaign contribution to a white nationalist.

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Stories As Last Confederate Statue Is Removed in New Orleans, Will School Names & Street Signs Follow? New Orleans has removed the last of four Confederate statues in recent weeks. Workers wore bulletproof vests and face coverings to conceal their identities as they ... Read More → Palestinian Hunger Strikers in Israeli Jails Protest Trump's Visit to Israel President Trump arrived in Bethlehem Tuesday during a two-day visit to Israel as part of his first trip abroad as president and vowed to do whatever necessary to ... Read More → What Impact Will the Manchester Bombing Have on U.S. Attempt at Palestine-Israel Peace Process? In Manchester, England, at least 22 people were killed in a bombing at a concert arena at the end of a performance by American pop star Ariana Grande. ... Read More → U.S. Extends Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, But Will Mass Deportations Follow in 6 Months? In a partial victory for the Haitian-American community, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday it has extended Haitians' temporary protected ... Read More → NYC Councilman on Parade Honoring Oscar López Rivera: Don't Tell People Who Their Heroes Should Be Upon the release of longtime political prisoner Oscar López Rivera, New York City's Puerto Rican Day Parade organizers have chosen to honor Rivera as the parade's ... Read More →

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Stories Human Rights Lawyer: Sweden Dropping Investigation of WikiLeaks' Assange is "Long Overdue Decision" Swedish prosecutors have dropped an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has denied the allegations, ... Read More → "Repair the Damage from the Drug War": Susan Burton on A New Way of Life to End Mass Incarceration We are joined by two leading voices in the fight against mass incarceration: Michelle Alexander, author of the best-selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass ... Read More → Michelle Alexander: We Must Respond Forcefully & Challenge Jeff Sessions's New War on Drugs Civil rights advocate and best-selling author Michelle Alexander responds to the new push by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to escalate the war on drugs by ... Read More →

Headlines → Swedish Prosecutor Drops Sex Crimes Investigation of Julian Assange President Trump Denies Ordering James Comey to Call Off Flynn Probe House Democratic Leader Questions Special Counsel's Independence Deputy AG Knew Trump Planned to Fire Comey Before Writing Memo Trump to Announce $110 Billion Saudi Arms Deal in First Trip Overseas Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Dead at 77 FCC Vote Advances Bid to End Net Neutrality Reporter "Manhandled" by FCC Security Guards for Asking Question In Video, Turkish President Watches Bodyguards Attack D.C. Protesters Syria: U.S. Warplanes Attack Convoy of Pro-Assad Forces Brazil: President Michel Temer Refuses to Resign Amid New Scandal Venezuela: Antigovernment Protests Rage as Trump Talks Intervention Greek Parliament Approves Fresh Austerity Measures Amid Protests California: Police Investigate Murder of Gender Nonconforming Person Chelsea Manning Tweets First Picture of Herself as a Free Woman

 

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M00bies!

Scott Dworkin is a good guy to follow, especially on Twitter.

If you watch only one thing for news, make it Randi Rhodes!

John Oliver: "Stupid Watergate." Friends, this is brilliant--don't miss it!

Ooh ooh! Randi has Malcolm Nance on! Be sure to listen to this segment from the show and go to the website 'n' buy a stinkin' podcast!

The swat heard round the world

tRump not only bowed to the Saudis--he CURTSIED!!!!! Like a pretty, pretty princess! So much more humiliating than Obama's statesmanlike, dignified bow. How ya like your so-called president now, #MAGA mor00ns?!??

 

tRump is addicted to doing everything he ever bashed Obama (and Hillary) for...hurrrp!

tRump's weird trip to Saudi...

 

*****

Go to RandiRhodes.com
and buy a stinkin' podcast!
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Well, friends, that's it for today. Until we meet again, don't forget to RESIST with Resistbot:

text "Resist" to 50409

And check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation's website so you can protect your online privacy:
https://www.eff.org/

Remember to boycott all the tRump shills on the boycott list below and tell them why.

And don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
  
Randi Rhodes's Homework page
DCReport.org
Open Secrets
Democratic Coalition Against Trump
MaddowBlog
Daily Kos
AlterNet
Democracy Now!
Democratic Underground
Boing Boing
Vox
Conservatives are Destroying our Future
Conservative Clown Car
God, the Good Lord Above
...skip the media outlets in the boycott list below unless you want trump propaganda. And TELL their advertisers WHY you are boycotting those media outlets!

On the lighter side:
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
      
And check out these great YouTube channels:

Randi Rhodes Air Force
Keith Olbermann: The Resistance
Thom Hartmann
Late Night with Seth Meyers
LastWeekTonight
Secular Talk
The Young Turks
The Thinking Atheist
MisterDeity
NonStampCollector

...or, if you just want something mindless and fun, try Tested

Also, don't forget to add these to your Twitter feed if you haven't already:

 

@joyannreid

@georgetakei
@malcolmnance

And now you can add me, too!

@dotcalmsshadow

And don't forget to follow

@AlexJonescopy

unless, as he says, you're a total globalist. "It's not a parody account--it's performance art!" He also urges us to retweet everything he says unless we want the globalists to win. (Srsly, friends--he's a riot. Don't drink coffee while reading his tweets.)

Peas, friends. Take care of yourselves for me. Trust me--you're worth it! And go have a Fireball and some chocolate while you still can, will ya? Time is short now that the mouth of trump hell has opened...
  

- Dot Calm's shadow

Consider the preemptive Blogger phuqued-up phormatting disclaimer to be in effect. Grrr.

-- Dot Calm's shadow

      

 

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Boycott List

Boycott media!

Don't bother with these media outlets any more unless you want trump propaganda--these media outlets have whored themselves out to trump for access for the low, low price of "fancy" cocktails and a "fancy" dinner, consisting of Donald's shriveled orange acorn dick, at chump's "fancy" (aka FAKE PLASTIC, just like everything else about trump and his FAKE PLASTIC family) "resort" in Florida. What an upstanding, responsible response to trump's denying press conferences since 27 July 2016...retch. So much for comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable, and speaking truth to power to keep that power reined in and in check...!

• Axios
• Bloomberg
• Breitbart because duh--according to AlterNet, Howard Dean Lends Voice to Consumer Activist Group Hitting Breitbart in the Wallet—And It's Working
• CNN
• FOX because of course
• MSNBC (includes Joe Scarborough, but Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes may still be OK as long as their corporate overlords allow it)
• NBC (they also have the reality TV show conflict of interest--and they just hired a couple of FUX Noise escapees, so beware a hard swing to the far, far right)
• POLITICO--their top editor(s) went and paid to party with trump, so now more and more trump propaganda has been showing up there, to my infinite disgust

Don't forget to contact these media outlets and their ADVERTISERS and TELL them all why you're boycotting them! So what if we spend a little less money overall? The money we save now may give us enough breathing room to jump ship before trump crashes the economy.

Boycott vendors that support trump, sell trump shit, and otherwise pander to hate!

Boycott Victoria's Secret--they kick out shoppers who are guilty of shopping while Black!
    
Here's a twofer: let's save our money for when dump tanks the economy and grab the trumpussy grabber-in-thief where it hurts most--by his wallet!

Want to boycott trump? There's an app for that!

And here's a list of trump companies.

There's also a spreadsheet of trump supporters and vendors that carry trump merch that includes the vendors below.
Don't forget New Balance, who praised and supported trump: 1 (800) 595-9138.

Here's the list from Mindy Fischer, featuring 28 vendors that sell trump merchandise. BOYCOTT them all and TELL them why!

6pm
Contact info: (888) 676-2660, HQ- (702) 943-7777
cs@6pm.com

Amazon--pressure them to DUMP BREITBART, while you're at it!
Contact info: (888) 280-4331 HQ- (206) 266-1000
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html?skip=true

Belk
Contact info: (866) 235-5443 HQ- (704) 357-1000
http://www.belkfeedback.com/(X(1)S(sbbxm3z11e1guxbtctk2wdkc))/Index.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Bloomingdale's
Contact info: (800) 777-0000 HQ- (212) 705-2000
http://survey.medallia.com/?blm-tuwyt-com

Bluefly
Contact info: (877) 258-3359 HQ- (212) 944-8000
flyrep@bluefly.com

The Bon-Ton
Contact info: (800) 233-7626 HQ- (800) 937-5449
http://investors.bonton.com/contactus.cfm

Bed Bath and Beyond
Contact info: (800) 462-3966 HQ- (908) 688-0888
https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/selfservice/ContactUs?…

Burlington Coat Factory
Contact info: (855) 355-2875 HQ- (609) 387-7800
http://www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com/contactus.aspx

Carson's 
Contact info: (800) 945-4438 HQ- (317) 971-6200
http://investors.bonton.com/contactus.cfm

Century 21 department store
Contact info: (877) 350-2121 HQ- (888) 221-2551
https://www.c21stores.com/contact

Dillard's
Contact info: (800) 345-5273 HQ- (501) 376-5200
http://www.dillards.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContactUs

DSW Shoes
Contact info: (866) 379-7463 HQ- (614) 237-7100
http://www.dsw.com/dsw_shoes/customer_service/send_email.jsp

Hudson’s Bay
Contact info: (800) 521-2364 HQ- (800) 521-2364
https://www.thebay.com/webapp/wcs/stores…

HSN
Contact info: (800) 284-3900 HQ- (727) 872-1000
https://www.hsn.com/cs/email_us/default.aspx

Jet
Contact Info: (855) 538-4323 HQ- (844) 538-2255
help@jet.com

Joss & Main
Contact info: (866) 263-8325 HQ- (617) 532-6100
https://www.wayfair.com/help/faq.php

Lord & Taylor
Contact info: (800) 223-7440 HQ- (212) 391-3344
https://www.lordandtaylor.com/webapp/wcs/stores…

Macy’s
Contact info: (800) 289-6229 HQ- (513) 579-7000
http://survey.medallia.com/?mcy-tuwyt-com

Marshalls and TJ Maxx
Contact info: (888) 627-7425 HQ- (508) 390-1000
https://www.marshallsonline.com/contact-us

Neiman Marcus WE WON! Needless Mark-up DUMPED TRUMP, w00t!
Contact info: (888) 888-4757 HQ- (562) 463-9333
https://www.neimanmarcus.com/assistance/contactUs.jsp

Nordstrom WE WON! Nordstrom DUMPED TRUMP, w00t!
Contact info: (888) 282-6060 HQ- (206) 628-2111
https://nordstrom.custhelp.com/app/ask/incidents.c$sent_queueid/12

Overstock.com
Contact info: (800) 843-2446 HQ- (801) 947-3100
https://help.overstock.com/app/ask

Perfumania
Contact info: (866) 557-2368 HQ- (800) 228-3489
http://perfumaniaholdings.com/contact

Saks Off Fifth
Contact info: (877) 551-7257 HQ- (212) 320-4700
https://www.saksoff5th.com/contactus

Stein Mart
Contact info: (888) 783-4662 HQ- (904) 346-1500
http://ir.steinmart.com/contactus.cfm

Wayfair
Contact info: (866) 263-8325 HQ- (617) 532-6100
https://www.wayfair.com/help/faq.php

Winners
Contact info: (514) 788 4949 HQ- (905) 405-8000
https://www.winners.ca/en/contact

Zappos
Contact info: (800) 927-7671 HQ- (702) 943-7777
https://secure-www.zappos.com/contact

Zulily
Contact info: (877) 779-5615 HQ- (206) 724-0500
http://www.zulily.com/contacts

OK, friends--let's get busy!