On the refugees held in Nauru:

Eliza - diagnosed with severe rheumatoid arthritis in her twenties. Receives infusion treatments every six weeks that run about $15K a pop (at last check). Would be uninsurable without ACA.

Naw. Sessions has too much shit he wants to get done (namely, ramping up the war on drugs and rolling back civil rights). He’s not going to quit. But Trump could fire him.

I haven’t read the story yet, but, jesus, could Fox News have picked a less flattering picture of Spicer? I mean, there’s a lot to choose from, but wow.

Trump has made it repeatedly, abundantly clear that he values loyalty over expertise. Thus, he hired his long-time NYC commercial litigators to defend him in a political crisis with criminal and constitutional implications. It’s very stupid and totally consistent with his character.

Confession: my very white, very American, 4yo son thinks the whole world is his urinal. My child will drop trou and “pee on a tree” just about anywhere. And I don’t have a problem with it.

Cannot give this enough stars.

Does Sunday’s interview with Rinat Akhmetshin in the AP change your analysis? According to him, Veselnitskaya brought a folder of documents that allegedly showed the illicit flow of money into the DNC, and either gave them to someone in the room or left them behind when she left.

This is totally beside the point, but just as a parent, the whole “high quality person” thing pissed me off.

I was getting a Robin Wright vibe off of Mika with that hair.

Man, that is solid GIFing.

I’m starting to get the feeling that Don Jr. was the designated sacrificial lamb here. He’s going down, and Trump will say “My son made mistakes, but I wasn’t involved. Nothing to see here.”

Bah! Kill it with fire!

The emails show he was promised “sensitive” information that was part of the “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

In all seriousness—I have two small kids, and I always thought the “how can you bring a child into such a fucked up world?” argument was a bit alarmist. But, we’ve been thinking about a third, and we’re delaying at least and possibly moving toward adoption for exactly this reason. 

Fuck Conway and then destroy her by leaking lesbian sex tape.

The timing of this—coming right on the heels of that nasty Mika tweet—is just exquisite.

Fucking WSJ with its fucking paywall. Grumble grumble grumble.

He’d be criminally liable for destroying those tapes, if they exist. Another charge of obstruction of justice. Furthermore, having raised the specter of those tapes in his tweet, he’d have to be incredibly stupid to destroy them now.