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red dog 1's JournalTrump Putting US Intelligence Ties At Risk, Officials Say
The Times Of Israel
May 16, 2017
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- With his shoot-from-the-hip tweets targeting US spies and alleged Oval Office leak of secrets to the Russians, US President Donald Trump has damaged White House relations with American and allied intelligence agencies and put national security at risk, current and former officials said Tuesday.
Diplomats, former intelligence officials and senior politicians said Trump's attitude could make allies less willing to share secrets with the United States, and render US spy chiefs less able to provide the White House with crucial security information.
Ex-CIA Director Leon Panetta warned that Trump's behavior risks polluting relations between the intelligence agencies of the United States and it's allies.
"He cannot just, you know, go ahead and reveal classified information without creating some huge problems within the intelligence community," Panetta said on CNN, reacting to an explosive Washington Post report claiming Trump shared top secret information with Russia's foreign minister and it's ambassador to the United States.
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http://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-putting-us-intelligence-ties-at-risk-officials-say/
Senate Democrats: Fight Mitch McConnell's attempt to make Trump normal, Shut It Down!
Daily Kos
May 13, 2017
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) rightly called popular vote loser Donald Trump "dangerous" in an interview on "Morning Joe" Friday.
He followed up with a statement adding that Trump's admission in the NBC interview with Lester Holt that he had fired Comey because his Russian investigation:
"is dangerously close to obstruction of justice," and that Trump's tweeted threat to Comey Friday morning "could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law."
Because of this, Durbin continued, "Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein must appoint an independent special prosecutor to pursue possible criminal charges, or he must resign."
Right.
So what are Senate Democrats going to do, besides send statements, to make that happen?
Durbin is ready to fight, he shut down Senate committee hearings using one of the procedural tools the minority has.
That's an excellent start, but as Adam Jentleson, former deputy chief of staff to Sen. Harry Reid, writes, Democrats have to keep it up because
"through a steady slog of unrelenting business as usual, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his army of obedient congressional Republicans will turn Trump's lurch toward authoritarianism into the new normal - unless Democrats stop them."
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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/13/1661760/-Senate-Democrats-Fight-Mitch-McConnell-s-attempt-to-make-trump-normal-shut-it-down
Impeach Donald Trump Campaign Has Nearly 1 Million Signatures
RootsAction.org
Free Speech For People
May 10, 2017
From the moment he assumed the office, President Donald Trump has been in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution.
The President is not above the law.
We will not allow President Trump to profit from the presidency at the expense of our democracy
Congress's impeachment investigation should include the President's violations of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses and whether the President has - in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws to be faithfully executed - prevented, obstructed or impeded the administration of justice.
We launched this campaign on Inauguration Day based on the President's choice to profit from the presidency at public expense, in violation of the United States Constitution.
Over 950,000 people joined the campaign in the first 110 days.
Now we are expanding the impeachment campaign in response to the President's apparent interference with a criminal investigation by firing FBI Director James Comey.
As of 4:25 PM EDT, May 10, 2017, 951,536 people have signed their names to
Impeach Trump Now.
The signature count will be periodically updated.
Add your name calling for the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump for violating the U.S. Constitution.
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A Short History of the Trump Family
London Review of Books
February 16, 2017
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE TRUMP FAMILY
By Sidney Blumenthal
The most enduring blight left behind by Donald Trump, long after he has smashed things up, will be the pile of books devoted to trying to make sense of him.
It will grow after investigative journalists have spent years diving for hidden records, exploring subterranean corporations and foreign partners but never reaching the dark ocean bottom.
It will continue after political scientists have trekked through mountain ranges of survey data seeking the precise source of his magnetic attraction for the aggrieved white lower-middle and working classes.
It will outlast the pundits holding forth on TV, collecting lecture fees and cranking out bestsellers that retail inside dope gleaned, single-sourced and second-hand, from somewhere near the elevators of Trump Tower.
It will not be stemmed even after the memoirs of Trump's associates, unreliable narrators in the spirit of their leader, have been removed from the remainder bins of used bookstores.
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n04/sidney-blumenthal/a-short-history-of-the-trump-family
Idaho town hall erupts after GOP lawmaker says "no one dies" from lack of health care
Raw Story
May 6, 2017
Voters attending a packed town hall in Idaho booed and shouted down their Republican congressman after he attempted to defend the House passing a replacement for Obamacare by telling the crowd "no one" in the US dies from lack of health care.
Appearing less than 24 hours after the GOP-dominated House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Rep. Paul Labrador (R-ID) was on the receiving end of complaints from the audience and at one time admonished them to stop being rude, reports the Idaho Statesman.
At the town hall at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, Labrador was confronted by a woman who told the lawmaker that she feared the loss of health care protection under Medicaid would result in deaths.
"That line is so indefensible," Labrador said.
"Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care."
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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/watch-idaho-town-hall-erupts-after-gop-lawmaker-says-no-one-dies-from-lack-of-heath-care/
How One Major Internet Company Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web
ProPublica
May 4, 2017
Since it's launch in 2013, the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has quickly become the go-to spot for racists on the Internet.
Women are whores, blacks are inferior and a shadowy Jewish cabal is organizing a genocide against white people.
The site can count among it's readers Dylann Roof, the white teenager who slaughtered nine African Americans in Charleston in 2015, and James Jackson, who fatally stabbed an elderly black man with a sword in the streets of New York earlier this year.
Traffic is up lately, too, at white supremacist sites like The Right Stuff, Iron Watch, American Renaissance and Stormfront, one of the oldest white nationalist sites on the internet.
The operations of such extreme sites are made possible, in part, by an otherwise very mainstream internet company - Cloudflare.
Based in San Francisco, Cloudflare operates more than 100 data centers spread across the world, serving as a sort of middleman for websites - speeding up delivery of a site's content and protecting it from several types of attacks.
Cloudflare says that some 10 percent of web requests flow through it's network, and the company's mainstream clients range from the FBI to the dating site OKCupid.
The widespread use of Cloudflare's services by racist groups is not by accident.
Cloudflare has said it is not in the business of censoring websites and will not deny it's services to even the most offensive purveyors of hate.
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http://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serve-up-hate-on-the-web
Yale Historian Warns It's "Inevitable" That Trump Will Stage His Own "Reichstag Fire"
Raw Story
May 1, 2017
"Yale Historian Warns That It's 'Inevitable' That Trump Will Stage His Own 'Reichstag Fire' To Save His Presidency"
Yale University Professor Timothy Snyder's recent book focusing "On Tyranny" not only puts President Donald Trump in context with other 1930s fascists, but it walks readers through steps for the resistance to maintain freedom.
In a recent interview for Chauncey DeVega's podcast, Snyder explained that Americans assumed nothing bad would ever happen since the Cold War ended.
Trump managed to tap into the idea that the U.S. isn't a democracy anymore so people should simply let him be their very own oligarch.
But because Americans tend to throw around terms like "fascist" "dictator" and "Hitler,"
the idea loses it's meaning.
Add to that, Americans tend to believe in our own exceptionalism.
"As I see it, there are certainly elements of his approach which are fascistic," Snyder explained.
"The straight-on confrontation with the truth is at the center of the fascist worldview."
Fascists during the 20th century were quick to urge putting aside the facts.
They also tend to use language similar to Trump's during his rallies.
They name enemies, remove opponents and use blunt slogans and soundbites over and over again.
More:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/yale-historian-warns-its-inevitable-that-trump-will-stage-his-own-reichstag-fire-to-save-his-presidency/
Your favorite line(s) from National Lampoon's "Vacation"
COUSIN VICKI
I'm going steady and I French kiss
AUDREY GRISWOLD
So what? Everybody does that
COUSIN VICKI
Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it
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