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Avenatti's gift for showmanship aside, this is 100% how I read the morning Trump tweets I posted on the last page:

Wow.

Gadzooks, Caped Crusader! (Sorry)

I do think they offer decent coverage and analysis on some stuff. I also think about 95% of their major staff is blinkered and cloistered in a bubble of groupthink and knee-jerk resistance to any criticism of longstanding attitudes and bias. You have to take the solid material they do produce and then account for their weaknesses critically. And no, I don't give them money either.

Discovered today Ryan Phillippe (OLTL) was briefly in the running for Captain America. I'm glad that didn't pan out - he's an interesting personality onscreen today but too analytical and cold for the role.

A refreshingly candid piece from a NYT election correspondent on their failures, for once:

This is cool: The other Fan Dossier finalists.

Oh, I think I know:

Scum calls to scum:

By all accounts she did well, and looked good. It seems to have been a substantial part. I'll have to watch it.

Pretty sure that's an outlier.

I liked her book a lot. I did find her commentary on her drinking problem very candid - it's not for me to say if she was in denial about actually being an alcoholic. Not knowing the woman I can't make a judgment. She certainly didn't deny she had a problem.

He's doing great today:

The bigger problem is Trump probably half-believes it himself.

Orson Welles' long-lost The Other Side of the Wind - reconstructed and slated to be released by Netflix - has been pulled from the Cannes Film Festival along with several major new films due to Cannes' ongoing nasty feud with Netflix. Beatrice Welles, Welles' oft-litigious daughter who fought the Wind restoration team for years, sent a letter to Netflix pleading for them to reconsider. I support Netflix boycotting Cannes until it agrees to give their films award consideration - there are some excellent ones, including Dee Rees' Mudbound (an Oscar contender this past year) and Bong Joon-ho's Okja. But with The Other Side of the Wind I'd make an exception. It was Orson Welles' final work and I believe it deserves to be first screened at Cannes. I certainly will be making an effort to see it theatrically assuming it screens locally.

Comey is not my highest priority either. I think what he did to Clinton for a mix of reasons - political pressure from the NY office, a compulsive need to grandstand and be seen as 'apolitical', and personal resentment - is unforgivable and had immense consequences for the nation. I also think he admits to some of that in part of the excerpts I've read. And I think the man is still a patriot who believes Trump is a clear and present danger and wanted to do the right thing - even though he helped get us here. Most people are more than one thing. Comey is a classic and perhaps tragic case of that. Will I ever buy his book? I don't know, probably not. But the excerpts are very compelling, and I feel I understand his very complicated and flawed mindset a little better.

I think some of them have started peeling off in the House expressing support for Mueller and maybe the Senate also, I can't recall. Do I think that'll mean anything for a bipartisan push in an election year? No. This has to happen another way.