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Donald Young and his Mexican doubles partner Santiago Gonzalez have beaten Nenad Zimonjic/Fernando Gonzalez to advance to the Roland Garros Men's Doubles Finals!!! This is the only Donald, in public life, that I want to hear about right now!

Constant slow-moving train-wrecks but I just keep reading about them. They're on Obamacare, they voted for Trump, and they're already disappointed If Congress follows Trump's lead, many of them will be out on their asses in '18, because look at those (dis) approval ratings. I don't know if anyone has read this article, or if it has been posted but it articulates what many know. Donald Trump’s presidency is an American crisis

I don't trust Halep, for more reasons than one. And I suspect she may have been hanging around Nastase for too long. She needs to do better than this.

For anyone who was still wondering whether Sloane and Jack were still together...

Highlights from the match I missed this morning. Boris is already throwing shade at AA.

OMG.

They've stuffed all that Christian doctrine in order to go for the Cash Grab! When I heard that Jim Bakker had climbed out of his dark hole to say something supportive of Trump, I knew that Mango Mussolini had brought all the greedy sleazeballs out from under their rocks.

Speaking of "Real" and Fake allies- Folks are running attack ads on Comey? WTF!

Wow, I missed the match completely but THIEM!!! Show them other guys the way, man! As, for the Women, I have to be real and sound like a bitter *itch, Venus is gone, Kiki's out...I don't think Caro Garcia is going to win (although that would kind of be nice), even Wozniacki stealing a first (and likely only) major might have made a nice story but with the women left, I don't really give much of a s*hit.

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Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe

Speaking of the U.S.-Qatari alliance, it appears to have been dissolved?

What the Trump administration's visit to Saudi Arabia has managed to do is embolden the Saudis in a long simmering rivalry with Qatar. Trump's visit became a catalyst to Saudi Arabia's machinations to isolate Qatar over their connections with Iran. Some other countries have joined Saudi Arabia in their efforts while other Arab nations have decided to not take sides. It actually has the potential to become a huge mess! This may come back to haunt the U.S. as there are U.S. military bases in Qatar, which is part of the coalition-led air campaign against the Islamic State. We'll see how this turns out when some military jets are sanctioned against landing/refueling at Qatari's airbases-- how that works out for the campaign offensive. By the way, JMO, but I think that Tillerson has been borderline useless as SOS.

Technically, Reality Winner is not being charged with espionage, she is being charged with leaking classified NSA documents. There are different criteria for espionage. An article on the shameful way the Trump administration is rolling back workers' safety protections in favor of big business. Some recent gains under the Obama administration, such as standards to protect workers against hazardous and toxic chemicals such as beryllium and silica (which lead to various lung diseases) are being rolled back. Also the budget for the Chemical Safety Board is being decimated to the point of practical elimination. Under Trump, Worker Protections Are Viewed With New Skepticism

I remember "The Hand" incident. Henin was not above playing dirty to get what she wanted and that was the most vivid example. The crowd shook Serena so badly for questioning the call and Henin's lack of disclosure that she never recovered in the match. Some people cite this as the incident that made them dislike Justine. Funny thing is, for me, I was always suspicious of her. Even before this incident, she had a negative aura where I was concerned. I can't explain it, it was just something about her from the get-go that I didn't care for. Yeah, that was never a good fit. TBH, Berdych was treading water for quite some time, even before he and Goran started working together but Goran definitely didn't improve Berdych's game. In today's tennis, if you're not improving, you will fall backward. Speaking of coaching, I read that Agassi is going to continue coaching Djokovic through Wimbledon. Is Agassi still not getting paid?

Was there ever a character on this series that got kidnapped more than Lily?? It seems like every few years she got kidnapped.

Some folks (we know who they are) seem to be getting desperate. Clearly.

+ Preach @JaneAusten.! Trump's lawyer, like everyone else TrumpCo. is connected to, is too busy trying to extricate himself from his own ties to Russia to know about how to apply the rule of law to his client. These people are so sloppy. Yeah, I mentioned it in a previous long post that I read that Trump's 'executive privilege' only goes as far as trying to prevent Congress from asking Comey certain questions. He can't prevent Comey from testifying. At. all.

After a slight uptick following his trip abroad, Dumpster Donny's approval rating is dropping again. In other good news, his support among the military is showing signs of deterioration. Did I mention that the Trump administration has been trying to bury the 2014 report on torture by the CIA in the wake of 9/11? Trump administration moves to keep full CIA 'torture' report secret

Trumperazzis are a bag of nerves right now and I am so here for it! Where's my popcorn.gif ? If Fanta Fascist tries to stop Comey from giving testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committe, it will raise an Olympic stadium worth of red flags, must likely making calls for a deeper, more thorough investigation of Trump Inc's shady ties only that much louder and insistent. As of the Orange-faced Menace's 'executive privilege' well there are limits to that as well, from what I've read. Trump can try to invoke executive privilege to try to curb Congress in terms of what questions they ask Comey but that's as far as his 'privilege' extends. Ha! And while we're at it, the government (i.e. Congress) needs to get a financial forensics expert to dig through Trump Inc.'s financial filings, if they really did a thorough forensic-type examinatioin, they're likely to find something.

Cornet is so ridiculous, she'll be unbearable if she gets further into the tournament. Please no.

Alizé Cornet (who is still in the tournament) had an incident with Sara Errani years ago where Cornet yelled "Vamos" in Spanish and Errani got annoyed and asked "Why you say vamos?!" Supposedly Kiki has also been known to yell "Forza" in Italian. She speaks 5 languages. Muguruza, in her Press Conference before it all fell apart was said to quip that Kiki speaks like 25 languages.

The French crowd has had pretty notorious reputation for quite some time. They boo a lot for tennis crowds. I didn't see the Mladenovic/Muguruza match but I heard it got intense with Kiki shouting after a couple of Garbiñe's double faults. Not nice at all but unfortunately I can't say it was the first time I have heard of players doing this. I've seen some pretty flagrant incidents of either flouting rules or poor sportsmanship in my years watching tennis. Sometimes I kinda think that the behavior of the French crowd over the years has brought bad karma to their players, which is sorta too bad since there are one or two French players that I would be pleased if they won Roland Garros. Maybe if they got a champion, they'd stop acting this way?