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The Borderland
Like travelers, we are crossing a frontier into a different land, with a terrible king and ancient howling gods.
Were you expecting talons? This is what authoritarianism looks like.
That’s right- it looks like a greasy oval weasel.
Trump is Trump, but his Congressional enablers are what will prove genuinely ruinous.
The Trump Russia Dossier: Quick Hits
So, it seems like the big story today might be the Presidential-level dossiers about the Russian government cultivating, supporting, and aiding Trump for 5 years, as well as the Trump campaign colluding with them to hack the DNC, spread fake news, and discredit Hillary Clinton.
Buzzfeed has the whole 35 pages, which were compiled by a British former intelligence officer, given to the FBI by John McCain (though they already had much of it) and then given to both Obama and Trump last week. It’s pretty explosive, as Chris Hayes just told me.
There are salacious bits, of course: some very salacious, but those aren’t the main points.
Some quick thoughts on this.
Lazy Sunday Reads: Poetry, Infrastructure, and the End of the World
Putin Wins By Playing Different Game: He Knows Trump’s Actions are Dictated by Trump’s Ego
He can look above it all, and make Obama look small, because he has the next President right where he wants him.
And Now For Something Fun!
That’s a big boat! All images in post from MLive, courtesy of the Great Lakes Maritime Institute
We interrupt this daily cavalcade of horrors to think back to a time when you could cruise the Great Lakes in luxury, before they set the boats on fire for scrap metal.
Assasination in Ankara: The Iconic Image of Our Fraying Time
Government by Fear and Paranoia
Don’t Be Distracted by The Jiggling Spokesladies: Trump’s Labor Pick is A Catastrophe
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The Donald Trump Bill of Goods tours continues with an anti-labor labor secretary, but there are other fish to fry. SEXY fish!
Shooting Irrelevance 