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Trump fired everyone he could. He also fired one impeachment witness's brother , who had nothing to do with anything. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/07/trump-may-oust-alexander-vindman-aide-who-testified-impeachment/4688662002/ Trump first ousted Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Uk...

From Sports Illustrated: https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2020/02/06/man-plans-to-sue-nfl-over-super-bowl-halftime-show The fallout from the Super Bowl LIV halftime show continues with one man so shook [sic] from seeing the skin of Jennifer Lopez and Shakira that he plans on suing the NFL, Pepsi and...

I put the news about Trump starting to getting his revenge on the participants in the impeachment trial in the previous post. The rest of this is unrelated. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/481998-trump-hotels-charge-secret-service-up-to-650-per-night-while Secret Service personnel travel...

Just one of the many stories showing how Trump is jubilant about all the Republican senators who fell in line, and not in the least chastened by his impeachment. Of course, he and his supporters are already attacking Mitt Romney, the only Republican senator who showed principles and a backbone. http...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/481477-blm-weighs-cutting-environmental-review-when-crafting-public-lands The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is mulling a plan that would exempt the agency from considering environmental impacts when weighing how to use large swaths of public lands. Ac...

The politics behind virus naming. I think it's all a bit silly, myself. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/the-virus-that-still-has-no-name/605893/ A Virus With a Deadly Boring Name 2019-nCoV isn't going to cut it long term. In the 20th century, virus hunters frequently named their ...

Something that rarely gets mentioned by most news media (the cynic in me suspects there's a reason for this). Or most climate change activists, for that matter - especially the ones who are young and have grown up in a technology-addicted world, where "connected" is becoming incorporated i...

This just amused me, so I decided to pass it on. It seems our taxes are paying for a vanity wall with big gates that will stand open for months on end. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/480810-trumps-border-wall-requires-open-storm-gates-to-avoid-flash-floods-in U.S. Border Patrol official...

I posted an old essay (which I just saw) from a long-time, widely respected Republican staffer in another thread. One quote struck me as very relevant to the current Congressional GOP fiasco and I decided to post it here: It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party ...

Old news (2011) but I'd never heard of this guy before. Others might be interested too. He also has a book out, The Party is Over, that slams both parties, though it seems more focused on the Republicans (which Lofgren was, for decades) https://washingtonmonthly.com/2011/09/04/mike-lofgren-leaves-th...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/29/trump-john-bolton-witness-trial-108698 President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that his conversations with John Bolton are entirely classified, setting up a new line of defense against potentially devastating testimony from the former national security...

I included some free speech-related news in the post before this one , since the article from The Atlantic reminded me of them. But they're probably better in their own separate post, with various essays on academic free speech. I've included some quotes just to give the flavor of each essay and som...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/john-bolton-trump-book-barr.html John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, privately told Attorney General William P. Barr last year that he had concerns that President Trump was effectively granting personal favors to the autocratic leader...

I'm just going to put this here, for lack of a better spot and in case anyone is interested. At one point in the Trump thread, I wondered whether The Atlantic had changed hands. They were hardly talking about him (or politics and world news) any more. On a day when there was plenty of significant ne...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/mike-pompeo-npr-mary-louise-kelly-ukraine Newly released emails between the office of Mike Pompeo and NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly cast further doubt on the secretary of state’s extraordinary claim that the journalist lied to him before a contentiou...

I'm not sure, either, since early onset Alzheimer's starts much earlier. You also have to remember that "average age at diagnosis" doesn't mean "average age when your mental health started declining." It just means that the symptoms got bad enough, after what was probably a start...

Well, to be fair, being a millionaire is probably not what it used to be. ;) I suppose today's billionaires are what used to be millionaires. But yeah, Sanders has his issues, too. If I was empress of the universe, I'd eliminate the entire over-70 club - Warren, Biden and Sanders. Not so much for la...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admits-to-withholding-evidence-from-impeachment-inquiry President Trump appeared to admit Wednesday that he is comfortable with how his impeachment trial is playing out in the Senate—because the White House is withholding evidence about his dealings with Ukraine....

Fair enough. We've discussed enough politics. Probably more than enough. (I will freely admit I'm just a "political hobbyist" myself, these days, as per that article, and not terribly invested in most of it. :) If the shoe fits...) btw, I looked out of curiosity, since you mentioned that V...

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/479704-fox-news-judge-napolitano-there-is-ample-and-uncontradicted-evidence Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano on Thursday penned an op-ed arguing that the articles of impeachment and the House managers' case against President Trump provide “ample ...