If I was going to levy a complaint against “the media” it would be this. YOU ARE NOT AND HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ENOUGH FUCKING ATTENTION TO MISSISSIPPI. If you want to know how this is going to play out nationally, you need to look at what Mississippi did a year ago when it passed its religious freedom bill. If you want…

*Sigh*

It is going to get much much worse before it gets better. Everyone. has. to. fucking. vote. OK State Senate just flipped two Republican seats, it can happen.

Barry is right about the Twitter bio thing. https://web.archive.org/web/20170707174909/twitter.com/jysexton

Yeah, I gotta be honest, I saw JYS’s tweets and felt kinda bad for him, because I thought the article was about to publish under his byline in the Times. Only by reading this very blog did I realize he wasn’t officially involved.

Keep an eye on Sebastian Gorka. He’s the one who immediately constructed the deflection of the week first thing yesterday (“but the Clintons...”), and that expanding narrative of unrelated attacks on the Clintons is already the only answer the White House has to everything about Don Jr and Jared.

He gave credit (and made multiple disclosures like this) after being called out for misrepresenting himself as a Times reporter in his bio (or at least for accidentally misleading people to believe he was). A lot of people thought he was one of the Times writers on the big stories this week!

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“I have a book coming out...”

He’s transparent, all right.

I was this close to exposing that guy until you published this article.

Wow...I had just assumed that guy was the NYT reporter and he was mildly annoyed that Trump Junior preempted his story by a few minutes. Never even checked whether that was just some random non-NYT journalist who never had the emails in the first place.

It’s a shame that it took him this long to realize what the GOP had become. I’m glad that Scarborough is out, but he didn’t care until Donald came after him and someone that he loves; saying that Mexico is sending rapists to the US isn’t a joke, so there was no way for Donald to be in on it.

When Trump sent his tweets trashing Mika & Joe, the thing I found most offensive (it was all inherently gross and petty) was that Mika was in mourning, having just lost her father - a lifelong American statesman - 2 weeks earlier. This was rarely discussed, but a perfect example of how ruthless Trump is, without any…

Joe is a douche. Mika is a douche-enabler. Still, we have to welcome defections when they come since nothing is going to happen to Trump until Republicans start defecting.

All I know is, if my dog disappeared for nine months and we thought she was dead, and then she suddenly showed up again, I would weep. That’s a good girl. Dogs are amazing. And thank goodness for dedicated dog rescuers.

That is a good dog.

I just got back from hearing Connie Willis (!!!!) speak at the Seattle Library and got to read this. You guys, as long as we have writers and libraries and people who rescue dogs we cannot perish.

Can we all just refer to Assange as Putin’s Screwdriver? He’s a goddamn tool.