Oddly-Timed Story: White House Counsel McGahn’s Call to FCC’s Ajit Pai
Maybe it’s something. Maybe it’s nothing. But with White House Counsel Don McGahn under so much scrutiny earlier this week, this story’s timing seemed odd.
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Maybe it’s something. Maybe it’s nothing. But with White House Counsel Don McGahn under so much scrutiny earlier this week, this story’s timing seemed odd.
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Oh great, 412 pages to read, crazy-pants interview to watch, Twitter threads and blog posts to peruse, and now a timeline to check. Damn you, Page — as if I had nothing better to do this week. This is an open thread.
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We were warned in 1999, and again in 2013 if not earlier. Asymmetric warfare is here to stay.
It’s Monday morning; do you know where your phone is? Good. Get dialing.
America’s founders didn’t set out to create a summer holiday when they signed what for all intents and purposes was their death warrant.
I don’t even have a real post for this because I am so goddamned angry right now. PAY ATTENTION, DAMN IT. Where are the girls, the babies, all of the children?
When I think I can’t get any angrier, the Trump administration proves there isn’t a limit to how low they will go. ICE asked last year to shorten the time it keeps records on sexual assaults and deaths of detained immigrants in custody.