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Paul Manafort's mug shot. They let him wear his toupee but didn't let him put it on right.

The fact that the Republicans still refer to the Hastert Rule shows how little they care about sexual abuse.

This will be greeting the people of OH-4 later this week.

Aside, from the accusations pointed at Jordan, this story is monstrous on a #MeToo level. I think we've barely scratched the surface of the sexual abuse problem in athletics.

I give the NY Times no clicks whatsoever. I don't know exactly what has happened in that newsroom but I don't trust them at all. I'm seeing talk on Twitter that the author of that piece is some sort of evangelical nutjob which would make sense.

Kennedy's legacy will be that he handed SCOTUS to a mentally incapacitated traitor to this country. It's another case of Everything Trump Touches Dies.

This a-s-shole. I hate him almost as much as Trump.

Ugh. Looks like I was wrong. We're doomed.

This is where I confess to working for a law firm with a huge appellate practice. I follow this stuff fairly religiously. The real threat is that not only will Trump (and let's be clear Trump won't do the picking, it will be the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society) choose someone further to the right but someone around Gorsuch's age which means they will sit on the court for decades.

I've seen nothing that can be traced back to statements he's made. It's all third parties reading tea leaves. I'm sure it's on his mind, why wouldn't it be? But until we hear from him or one of his clerks, I'm not going to take the word of naked GOP partisans.

Conservatives keep floating the idea of a Kennedy retirement as a way of trying to turn out their voters. They wanted to run on the tax cuts but - surprise - the only people who care about that are the donors.

For me it's not about a fantasy of speaking truth to power, it's about being lectured to by mainly white men about how to fight oppression. These people are afraid of violence so much as they are afraid they will get their own ass tossed from restaurants. I think it's also about elected representatives who no longer feel like they serve their constituents being afraid of what they will face when they return to their districs I'm not looking to start [!@#$%^&*] but God help Rob Portman if I see him out in public because whenever I call or write his office I get nothing but dismissiveness.

I don't see how there's any other option.

I'm still not going anywhere near this show. ABC wanted to cater to Trumpers so I consider this fruit of the poisonous tree. But, honestly, even without all this controversy, I just don't do these reboots. I think the last reboot I watched was Gilmore Girls and that was disappointing. I'm just not here for bringing back shows that had long healthy runs and in some cases, including Roseanne, went on at least a season or two too long. Better to look at shows that only had one or two seasons but managed to attract a decent fanbase but may simply not have been at the right moment. Better yet look at some of the shows that were doing well in 2007 but fell prey to the Writers Strike. There were a couple of shows I was loving then but the strike happened before they could hit their stride.

I've only seen two members of the media acknowledge that they screwed up in 2016: Jeffrey Toobin (“I think there was a lot of false equivalence in the 2016 campaign. That every time we said something, pointed out something about Donald Trump — whether it was his business interests, or grab ’em by the p–––y, we felt like, ‘Oh, we gotta, like, talk about — we gotta say something bad about Hillary.’ And I think it led to a sense of false equivalence that was misleading, and I regret my role in doing that.”) and Amy Chozick ("The Bernie Bros and Mr. Trump’s Twitter trolls had called me a donkey-faced whore and a Hillary shill, but nothing hurt worse than my own colleagues calling me a de facto instrument of Russian intelligence. The worst part was, they were right."). Everyone else is still out here doing what they did before.

I'm cautiously optimistic about Dems chances in November. My concerns are based mainly around election interference. We've done nothing to protect our election infrastructure, the SCOTUS just okayed voter suppression, I still see Russian bots and talking points swarming all over social media. Then of course there's the far left which is still trying to screw us. Bernie actually has a book coming out right before the midterms so he will obviously use that book tour to [!@#$%^&*] with us. I wish people would tamp down the talk of a blue wave though. This isn't The West Wing. Millions of our fellow Americans are now full-blown fascists and we have internment camps on the border. That doesn't get fixed in one election. The wild card in all of this is Mueller. From what I've seen in TrumpRussia circles, his report is due to come down in the next couple of months. If he drops it before midterms that could be a game changer.

The same thing would've happened. This Twitter account has done some excellent work in educating me how Narcissistic Personality Disorder works. I go bck to his "mind of Trump" threads often. He has been nailing it from day one even down to the timing.

That was a stunt. Just like when Mike Pence went to a football game so everyone could see him walk out because of kneeling players.

The next step is to turn these places into revenue generators. A lot of these kids are going to end up in what will essentially be sweatshops.

I made it 90 seconds in. How many other atrocities happened in this countries history where no one could hear the cries?

One consequence being ignored is that Republicans love to talk about MS-13 as a boogeyman. MS-13 couldn't ask for a better recruitment strategy than an entire generation of Latinx kids being traumatized. They will hate this country forever and gangs will be able to scoop them right up.

Sadly the far-left purity ponies like Sarandon and Stein are still playing the "Hillary would be just as bad" card.

There have been numerous reports that fewer people identify as Republican. If that's true then the percentage of Trump supporters remains high because that is a portion of an ever shrinking whole. Forty-two percent of 10 is vastly different than 42 percent of 1,000.

I liked her apology. I like how she apologized for adding to a toxic media cycle and for undercutting the issue she obviously really cares about. I think people forget sometimes that Bee is Canadian so she looks at the immigration debate from someone who has experienced it from the inside. Not the same as the people at the border of course but she has a better grasp of the bureaucracy involved. But I really like how she said that she didn't care if men were offended. I also appreciated how she said that she's tried to reclaim the word but she understands how many women don't. I identify with that debate (because, Lord knows I've seen enough of it when it comes to black people and the n-word.) Sam has used that word many times before many because she's been called it so much.

Those pork tariffs are going to screw Ohio farmers hard. I just hope people running in those rural districts use the gift that's just been handed to them.