Monthly Archives: August 2018

NSA Leaker Of Russian Hacking Report Gets Five Years

CNN reports: A former government contractor accused of leaking confidential information to the media has been sentenced to more than five years in prison. Reality Winner, 26, was accused of taking a report about a 2016 Russian military intelligence cyberattack from the NSA facility where she worked and sending it to an online news outlet. Winner initially faced 10 years …

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Sears To Shutter Dozens More Stores In November

Bloomberg reports: Sears Holdings Corp. continues to clean house, announcing plans to shutter an additional 46 unprofitable stores in November. The struggling chain informed workers at the impacted stores this week, and liquidation sales will begin as early as Aug. 30. The move is “part of our ongoing efforts to streamline Sears Holdings’ operations, strengthen our capital position and focus …

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Washington Post: Trump Lies 7.6 Times Daily [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports: One of the distinguishing characteristics of Donald Trump’s presidency has been his loose relationship with facts. As of the beginning of this month, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker had documented 4,229 false or misleading claims from the president — an average of nearly 7.6 a day. Trump’s allies have defended the president by suggesting that facts …

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Giuliani Demands DOJ Indictment For Hillary Clinton

Mediaite reports: Despite all the legal problems this week for President Trump and old members of his inner circle, Rudy Giuliani is apparently doing his best to make sure #LockHerUp is still a thing. The former mayor-turned-Trump lawyer is back on Twitter and demanding that the Department of Justice hurry up and bring an indictment against Hillary Clinton. Specifically, he …

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Ted Cruz: Something Something NFL Kevin Bacon

The Washington Examiner reports: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz used a tweet from actor Kevin Bacon to take a shot at his Democratic opponent in the 2018 midterm election on Thursday. Bacon, well known for his roles in movies such as “Footloose,” shared a viral video on Twitter of Beto O’Rourke, a congressman from El Paso vying for Cruz’s Senate seat, …

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Taxi Regulator To Cohen: Felons Can’t Own Medallions

The New York Post reports: In yet another blow to Michael Cohen, the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission has given him less than two weeks to transfer all his yellow cab medallions — under threat of having them revoked. Cohen owns 10 medallions that he purchased in the 1990s, according to TLC officials. The agency didn’t immediately have information on …

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China Retaliates As Billions In New US Tariffs Kick In

CNBC reports: A new round of U.S. tariffs on $16 billion worth of Chinese imports kicked in on Thursday, prompting Beijing to retaliate with its own levies on American goods worth the same amount. The latest trade escalation comes as officials from the world’s two largest economies meet for tariff negotiations in Washington. At 12.01 a.m. EDT on Thursday, the …

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Trump Echoes White Supremacists On South Africa

CBS News reports: South Africa accused United States President Donald Trump of sowing division Thursday after he tweeted that the U.S. State Department would probe “land and farm seizures… and the large scale killing of farmers.” Trump’s tweet apparently followed a segment on Fox News which claimed that Pretoria had started “seizing land from his own citizens without compensation because …

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Glorious Leader: If I Got Impeached, The Stock Market Would Crash And “Everybody Would Be Very Poor”

The Hill reports: President Trump in an interview broadcast early Thursday questioned why there are calls for his impeachment because he’s “somebody who’s done a great job.” “Fox and Friends” host Ainsley Earhardt asked Trump if Democrats will move to impeach him if they retake the House during November’s midterm elections. “I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s …

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CNN Suspends Trump Sycophant Commentator Paris Dennard After Report Of Sexual Harassment History

The Washington Post reports: A conservative commentator who was lauded by President Trump this week as “wonderful” and who has argued that past sexual indiscretions should have no bearing on Trump’s presidency was fired from Arizona State University four years ago for making sexually explicit comments and gestures toward women, according to documents and a university official. An internal investigation …

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DeVos Mulls Federal Funding For Guns For Teachers

The New York Times reports: The Education Department is considering whether to allow states to use federal funding to purchase guns for educators, according to multiple people with knowledge of the plan. Such a move appears to be unprecedented, reversing a longstanding position taken by the federal government that it should not pay to outfit schools with weapons. And it …

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Trump: Flipping Almost Ought To Be Illegal [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has complained that Michael Cohen flipping on him to get a better plea deal isn’t fair and should be made illegal. In an interview with Fox & Friends broadcast Wednesday morning, the president went on a rant about “flippers” two days after his longtime attorney implicated him in a federal crime in his guilty …

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MAGA Hat-Wearing Paul Manafort Juror Says Lone Holdout Blocked Conviction On All 18 Counts [VIDEO]

Fox News reports: Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team was one holdout juror away from winning a conviction against Paul Manafort on all 18 counts of bank and tax fraud, juror Paula Duncan told Fox News in an exclusive interview Wednesday. “It was one person who kept the verdict from being guilty on all 18 counts,” Duncan, 52, said. She added …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Tonight’s Florida Man story involves vehicular stupidity: Most Floridians are used to traveling alongside people on motorcycles. But one motorist couldn’t believe her eyes the other day. While driving on southbound 95 near Jacksonville on Saturday, a woman and her son spotted a man reclining on his bike, steering with his bare feet, looking completely calm and relaxed. The man …

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John Lithgow To Play Roger Ailes In Sex Scandal Film

Has John Lithgow ever played somebody so totally evil? John Lithgow will play Roger Ailes, the Fox News chief who masterfully exploited the country’s political divisions to rise to the top of the cable news heap, in Annapurna’s upcoming drama about the sexual harassment scandal that ended his career. The Tony and Emmy winner joins a cast of heavyweights that …

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VIRAL VIDEO: Rep. Beto O’Rouke Defends NFL Players

The Hill reports: A video showing Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke defending NFL players who kneel during the national anthem went viral Tuesday night. In the video, Rep. O’Rourke is shown saying he “can think of nothing more American” than the protests, which he said was meant to bring attention to African-Americans who are “being killed at a frightening …

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Steven Tyler To Trump: Stop Using Aerosmith’s Music

Variety reports: Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is demanding President Donald Trump stop using the band’s songs at rallies, like the one held at the Charleston Civic Center in West Virginia on Tuesday (August 21). The band’s 1993 hit “Livin’ on the Edge” was played as Trump devotees entered the venue, which has a capacity of 13,500. Tyler has in turn …

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VIRGINIA: Ku Klux Klan Leader Sentenced To Four Years For Firing Gun Into Crowd At 2017 Nazi Rally

Charlottesville’s Daily Progress reports: Richard Preston, a self-identified Ku Klux Klan leader from Maryland, will serve four years in prison for firing a gun during the Unite the Right rally. On Wednesday, Preston, 53, was sentenced to eight years in prison with four years suspended for discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of The Park School. After he pleaded no …

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Insane Details Released In Indictment Of GOP Rep

Yesterday GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife were indicted for stealing over $250,000 from Hunter’s campaign donations. The details from the charging documents are out and well, read for yourself: Throughout the relevant period, the Hunters spent substantially more than they earned. They overdrew their bank account more than 1,100 times in a seven-year period resulting in approximately $37,761 …

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Trump: 80% Of The Press Is The Enemy Of The People

The other 20% is owned by Rupert Murdoch. The Washington Post reports: President Trump on Wednesday sought to clarify how much of the press he sees as “the enemy of the people.” He put it at about 80 percent. The president has repeatedly derided the media with the term but also allowed that he believes some reporters do their jobs …

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