A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
After almost a week of Fox News and Trump goons going to town on his court filing, special counsel John Durham filed a defensive response on Thursday to accusations that he’d purposefully omitted and misrepresented facts in his filing to feed into MAGAland’s conspiracy theories about the Clinton campaign.
I love that Kandiss puts guns over babies.
Well, maybe not “love.”
I think even the Veep writers wouldn’t have tried that campaign bus.
But below White’s sign-off, the letter gave parents the option of shielding their children from the lessons. Parents could sign the bottom of the form under a sentence that read: “My Student Does Not have permission to receive this lesson.”
Good old Indiana, they learn everything they need to know about Black History at the klan meetings. I know there are many, many good people living there (I lived most of my adult life there) but the racists rule the roost.
2 things: 1. I think Ms. Taylor should acknowledge her debt to Warren Zevon (“Lawyers, Guns & Money”), although he would probably be appalled…2. Mr. Durham’s statement is totally consistent with the MAGA movement. It’s members consistently refuse to accept any responsibility for their words or actions.
Shorter Durham: Moi?
I guess we know where she stands on school shootings, then, huh???
One of the organizers was charged with “aiding and abetting mischief,” the spokesperson said.
On this basis, if such a law were present in the US, all of Fox and the majority of the GOP would be arrested.
Psilocybin depression therapy is long lasting
In other news, microdosing has no effect.
From “Jesus. Guns. Babies” I think we’re going to follow a natural progression in which before long some GOP candidate will have a campaign slogan that’s simply a series of grunts. Short, memorable, and something the base can identify with: It’s perfect.
Mischief in my mind is mostly harmless fun, what FOX and Friends does on a daily basis is egregious behavior.
Guns. Guns? Are guns in the bible? Did Jeebus own a gun? If not, why are they so crazy about guns?
Trump called an emergency meeting with his three adult children to discuss the sad development of them having to testify. He asked who was in favor of making Eric take the fall for the growing scandal.
Everyone in the room raised their hand.
Excerpt:
It somehow got weirder. In its most absurd iteration—with Davis, not SoRelle, at the helm—the lawsuit asked a federal judge to put the government into a receivership styled after the mythical kingdom of Gondor from The Lord of The Rings .
“During the course of the epic trilogy, the rightful King of Gondor had abandoned the throne,” the lawsuit explained. “Since only the rightful king could sit on the throne of Gondor, a steward was appointed to manage Gondor until the return of the King, known as ‘Aragorn,’ occurred at the end of the story.”
If that legal explanation wasn’t convincing enough, the lawsuit continued: “This analogy is applicable since there is now in Washington, D.C., a group of individuals calling themselves the President, Vice President, and Congress who have no rightful claim to govern the American People.”
Wow, so they want a fantasy based Government?
“LOTR”
Loonyness of the Republicans
Maybe “love” as in tennis.
Just to continue the fantasy we had for 4 years.
I had some of the best drug related experiences with psilocybin mushrooms. My partner did it only once. She still believes the billboard that was near our home were fireworks in the middle of the day.
Good times 
Durham: “If third parties or members of the media have overstated, understated, or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the Government’s Motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the Government’s inclusion of this information,” he sniffed.
Court: “And those ‘valid reasons’ are what exactly?”
Durham: “Arrgle, barrgle, something, something, not MAGA, not me, sppffft.”