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Trump excluded orange juice -- a crucial breakfast staple -- from yesterday's tariffs on Brazil, but not coffee -- possibly an even more crucial breakfast import. By doing so, he'll moot a lawsuit filed two weeks ago challenging his capricious attack on Brazil.

Donald Trump says it risks the national security of the United States if Brazil subpoenas Xitter.

Ten years ago today, I observed that Republicans had "few means of controlling [Donald Trump] and even fewer to limit any damage he might do if provoked." In those ten years he set out to -- and made significant progress on -- destroying the country, all to punish people he now calls "the Enemy from within."

Most of the HPSCI Report complaints about the Steele dossier object that the Intelligence Community Assessment did not include details the committee itself discovered much later. But as with the main part of the report, their OWN silences -- about Paul Manafort, about Oleg Deripaska -- are the real story.

Donald Trump says he needs to depose Rupert Murdoch in his lawsuit right away in case the WSJ owner kicks the bucket before this case actually gets around to discovery.

Right wingers on the House Intelligence Committee used a 2018 indictment from Robert Mueller as part of their "proof" that authors of the Intelligence Community Assessment report finalized in January 2017 ignored evidence that Putin wanted Hillary to win. The entire HPSCI Report attempts to create a time machine to make Trump's Russia Russia Russia problem go away.

But the billionaires and their allies will burn money and the planet to control our future.

Judge Robin Rosenberg made sure to get DOJ to put in writing that it knew it could not ask her to unseal grand jury transcripts.

Let's fight fascism together, and build a better future in the process.