Originally published at: What Trump’s ‘Very Fine People, on Both Sides’ Has Wrought
Charlottesville Still Reverberates If you read one thing today, make sure it’s Christopher Mathias’ exclusive for TPM on Marshall Rawson, the Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives who marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to video and a photo we unearthed. Rawson isn’t…
Frist?
JFC…the oligarch paid for the parties and the island, etc., not the wedding. Suck it libtards!
““It’s unfortunate that something so personal and happy can be recast as something political or sinister simply because of who someone is or where they come from,” she wrote. “Friendship doesn’t require a political motive. Generosity doesn’t automatically come with an agenda. And sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift.””
Got it. Anything we don’t like we label “fake”. So: Fake President. Fake Vice President. Fake Secretary of State. Fake Speaker of the House. Easy peasy.
Thanks for the Afternoon Agenda, formerly known as the Morning Memo.
Just straight up making shit up.
Did you know Iran wants a deal now? Canada too.
They’re all “begging like dogs!”, eh?
Seems rather shoddy that someone else paid for your wedding Bettina. Usually it’s family that pays, or in this case did the two of you not have enough cash on hand to pay for it yourselves?
There have been books and movies in which an AI overcomes its human handlers and takes over the world. Sometimes they promise peace and prosperity, though under their electronic thimbs.
I keep debating if I’d rather an authoritarian AI running things vs the Trump administration/GOP, if the AI would put Trump on trial. I’d rather have humans do it, but it’s a close thing.
…elections.
Today’s Heather & Paul:
The oceans will evaporate and the earth will become as a hot, humid, brackish swamp planet, much like Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda.
**In a press release this morning USDA proudly announced its decision to rescind the Roadless Rule in its entirety. The release was rife with warnings about wildfire risks, emergencies, and an industry favorite term for aggressive logging — active forest management. It included praise from Republican western governors like Utah’s Spencer Cox, a leading figure in the fight to sell off Americans public lands. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Vaden explained that the first step to managing forests is having access to them. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, a former logging executive, insisted that active management isn’t optional, it’s essential.**
Yep.




