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The Art of the Con 0

Farron tries to figure out Republicans’ loyalty to Donald Trump.

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Honor . . . or Else 0

Kim Jong-Un speaks:  Your President called me a very honorable leader and anyone in my country who doesn't agree will be executed.

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Mother’s Day Musings 0

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Chief Petty Officer 0

EU asks Donald Trump,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Recommended Reading 0

Shaun Mullen makes book.

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Facebook Frolics Meets Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

USA Today staffers read every phony Russian Facebook ad. What they found should not surprise. Here’s their first paragraph:

The Russian company charged with orchestrating a wide-ranging effort to meddle in the 2016 presidential election overwhelmingly focused its barrage of social media advertising on what is arguably America’s rawest political division: race.

Follow the link for why they said that.

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Michael Cohen and the Selling of “Privileged Communication” 0

Michael Cohen as

Josh Marshall marvels at the venality.

Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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Contemptible Congress 0

Devin Nunes to Lady Truth holding her lamp:

Via Juanita Jean.

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Mythbuster: Thom Confronts an Oxymoron 0

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Multiple Guess Question 0

Title:  Intellectual Honesty Exam.  Image:  Pictures of Iran and the United States headed by a question:  Using standard definitions of words, identify which image depicts

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Rogue State, One More Time 0

Mike discusses efforts by the Trumplers’ to smear Obama officials as part of the effort to justify Trump’s perfidy on the Iran agreement.

Warning: Language, and lots of it.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Russian trolls go a-frolicking.

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Rule of Lawless 0

Jennifer Wiggins.

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Rogue State, Reprise 0

Donald Trump signing a document as

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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“Up Is Down” 0

Man standing before guru sitting in cave on side of the mountain; a sign saying

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Speaking of Russian bots. . . . .

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Trumpling Carrier Employees 0

Read the New Yorker article David refers to.

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River of Destruction 0

Title:  News Item:  More structures destroyed as Killatreaty Volcano continues oozing destructive magman.  Image:  Trump as the volcano oozing lava, destroying the TPP, the Paris Accords, NAFTA, and the Iran Deal.

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Rogue State 0

I believe that, in pulling out of the Iran Agreement, Donald Trump has signaled other nations, friend and foe, that the word of the government of the United States of America can no longer be trusted . . .

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The Reform of Normalcy 0

Shaun Mullen fears that we will become numb to Trump’s cavalcade of lies.

Methinks he has a point.

“Stupid and craven” seems to be the new normal. And thus “the shining light” becomes the “shimmering fright.”

In my darker moments–oh, never mind.

Experiments fail, even noble ones.

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Debating the Issue 0

Voices coming from the White House:

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