I’ll eat a MAGA hat if Trump has read a book cover to cover in the last 20 years. “various books” - reminds me of when Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin which newspapers and magazines she read and Sarah answered “All of them”.

Nothing screams “alpha male” quite like “THEY’ER BEING MEAN TO ME!"

His monotonal, distant affect in today’s presser [such as it was] is completely consistent with the obvious decline in mental capacity he’s been showing off of late. 

[Trump] then cited Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Sean Hannity (great guys), saying that they’ve told him that they don’t know one man or woman who “could handle what I’ve had to handle.”

No, you’re not missing it.

Am I missing something? Trump calling Pelosi to deal, certainly *seems* like he knows he’s fucked. Though I agree with you about not getting too happy until we see something tangible.

Well it was nice to be wrong for a change and the Supreme Court did decide that the prorogation of Parliament was unlawful, primarily due to the time factor in both length of prorogation and when it was taking place (due to Brexit negotiations). To anyone watching last week (I caught bits here and there) it was clear…

Every reporter who deigns to ask this nimrod about the whole whistle blower situation should only need one question:

“not like Warren isn’t going to win there anyway...”

Michael Cohen, remember him? According to his attorney David Schwartz, Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer is “literally the mayor of his prison” and has gotten a tan and lost 30 pounds. “He’s doing great: The other inmates call him ‘Mr Mayor.’ He’s a celebrity in the jail. Everybody is coming up and shaking his…

What larger picture? Abuse of power?

Came for this, not disappointed, although my version is a little shorter:

FIFY

This all makes me wish Congress had some sort of police power to enforce their goddamn subpoenas. The acting DNI is breaking the law by withholding the Inspector General’s report. They are to review it ahead of time, but then it is to go directly to the House Intelligence Committee. If any of us tried to pull this…

“is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially “heavily populated” call.”

Yes. You are exactly this stupid... if not more so.  

Well, actually, that didn’t happen in Interstellar. Cooper was able to give Murph a gravity formula/equation/cheat code. Dr. Brand’s love gibberish and Coop’s love for his daughter didn’t actually do jack to get the remaining humans off earth. The movie did attempt to give a technobabble science-y explanation. But for…

This is the kind of post that reminds me of the old days of io9. I can only speak for myself, but I’d love to see more posts like this.

What Trump is doing is revoking states’ rights. If Californians disagree with how their chosen representatives do something they can vote new people in to change things.

The exemption says that California “shall” be granted the waiver, not “may” be granted it.

Unless the law itself is changed, the federal government doesn’t have the discretion to revoke the waiver itself.