General Michael Flynn's traitorous actions are part of a GOP tradition stretching back at least as far as the Nixon-Kissinger "signals" to North Vietnam and Reagan's Iran-Contra-temps, itself organized by the National Security Council.
Reading List:
Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, resigns over Russia lies by Yochi Dreazen (Vox)
The fall of Michael Flynn: A timeline 8y Glenn Kessler (Washington Post).
Michael Flynn Is Out - Will Trump Be Next? by Mike Ludwig (Truthout)
The Missing Pieces of the Flynn Story (New York Times editorial).
Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence by Michael S. Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo (New York Times).
Michael Flynn's White House Tenure: It's Funny 'Cause It's Treason by Stephen Colbert (YouTube).
Not The Onion: AZ introduces DIY executions.
As states have faced challenges to carrying out executions by lethal injection, various work-arounds and alternatives have been proposed, including the return of electric chairs and firing squads. Arizona may have come up with the most original concept yet: an invitation for lawyers to help kill their own clients.
The rest of the story:
Arizona's execution protocol invites death row inmates'lawyers to provide drugs to kill their own clients – a suggestion attorneys describe as ludicrous: Arizona unveils new death penalty plan - bring your own lethal injection drugs by Tom Dart (The Guardian)
The rest of the story:
Arizona's execution protocol invites death row inmates'lawyers to provide drugs to kill their own clients – a suggestion attorneys describe as ludicrous: Arizona unveils new death penalty plan - bring your own lethal injection drugs by Tom Dart (The Guardian)
From the It's-All-About-Me Desk:
After exploring the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam for about an hour, Justin Bieber felt it necessary to set down his thoughts about the experience. "Truly inspiring to be able to come here," he wrote in the museum's "special guest" book. "Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber."
quote unquote: Albert Einstein
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” ― Albert Einstein
Carpe diem
Democrats are moving quickly to harness grass-roots anger over Donald Trump's first weeks in office in hopes of reclaiming the House majority in next year’s midterms. As of this week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is hiring full-time operatives to do political organizing work in 20 key GOP-held districts, including that of Rep. Ed Royce of Fullerton, in what is an unusually early investment in House races that won't have declared candidates for months. New Mexico Rep. Ben Ray Luján is heading up the effort. Senate Democrats should do the same in every state with a contest next year.
Crowded CA 34
Gov. Jerry Brown has called a special election June 6 and a primary April 4 to replace Xavier Becerra in the 34th Congressional district. The Progressive Caucus member's departure after 24 years in the House creates an unexpected opening in the heavily Democratic district that includes downtown Los Angeles, Boyle Heights, Chinatown and Highland Park.
At least a dozen people have expressed interest in running. Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez raised $300,000 in December for the race. According to the L.A. Times,ormer LA City Council staffer Sara Hernandez attracted the second largest amount, $200,000; followed by former Obama administration aide Alejandra Campoverdi with $106,000 and Arturo Carmona, most recently the deputy political
director for Latino outreach for the Bernie Sanders campaign and executive director of Presente.org, with $93,000.
Gomez has the endorsement of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest public employee union in the nation; at the time he was elected to the state assembly, he was political director for the United Nurses Association of California. Other candidates in the race also have backgrounds in organized labor: Wendy Carrillo is a former journalist and local labor activist and Raymond Meza is an organizer for the Service Employees International Union Local 721, which was central in the "Fight for $15" campaign to increase the minimum wage.
Jimmy Gomez is far and away the front runner, but if Arturo Carmona gains the endorsement of the Sanders organization and is able to raise a commensurate amount of dough, at least the campaign will be more interesting to watch.
Every race for Congress counts now, and this is an opportunity to preserve progressive numbers in the federal legislature.
Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez racks up endorsements from Latino elected officials in fight for Becerra's congressional eat. (L.A. Times)
Arturo for Congress
At least a dozen people have expressed interest in running. Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez raised $300,000 in December for the race. According to the L.A. Times,ormer LA City Council staffer Sara Hernandez attracted the second largest amount, $200,000; followed by former Obama administration aide Alejandra Campoverdi with $106,000 and Arturo Carmona, most recently the deputy political
Gomez has the endorsement of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest public employee union in the nation; at the time he was elected to the state assembly, he was political director for the United Nurses Association of California. Other candidates in the race also have backgrounds in organized labor: Wendy Carrillo is a former journalist and local labor activist and Raymond Meza is an organizer for the Service Employees International Union Local 721, which was central in the "Fight for $15" campaign to increase the minimum wage.
Jimmy Gomez is far and away the front runner, but if Arturo Carmona gains the endorsement of the Sanders organization and is able to raise a commensurate amount of dough, at least the campaign will be more interesting to watch.
Every race for Congress counts now, and this is an opportunity to preserve progressive numbers in the federal legislature.
Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez racks up endorsements from Latino elected officials in fight for Becerra's congressional eat. (L.A. Times)
Arturo for Congress
Poor Mike Pence.
He was promised that he'd be the real president.
How mortifying to be forced to defer to President Bannon.
How mortifying to be forced to defer to President Bannon.
That's what makes him an expert.
According to the AP, Trump's voter fraud expert, Gregg Phillips, whose unsubstantiated claim that the election was marred by 3 million illegal votes was tweeted by the president, was listed on the rolls in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi, according to voting records and election officials in those states.
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