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April 18, 2019

Keep in mind, when you're reading the "rebuttal report"

that Bill Barr will make sure gets released before the actual report:
Every Single Thing said in it is something Trump refused to say under oath, to Mueller directly.


https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1118683716669321222

April 17, 2019

It would be totally awesome if the entire DOJ press corps boycotted the Barr presser

It would be totally awesome if the entire DOJ press corps boycotted the Barr presser, since they won't get the report for 1.5 hours, minimum, after that.


A hard-copy of the redacted of special counsel Robert Mueller's report will be made available to members of Congress at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Congressional sources told NBC News.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/congress-receive-redacted-mueller-report-11-m-thursday-n995686
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1118649517702774784
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1118647847845617664

April 15, 2019

Bill Barr's "A Tale of Two Cities"




https://twitter.com/WardQNormal/status/1115694702001446912



Unredacted:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
April 15, 2019

Katie Porter responds to Sarah Sanders: It is our duty to look at the president's tax returns ...

Katie Porter responds to Sarah Sanders: "I was elected by the American people ... It is our duty to look at the president's tax returns ... I'm not intimidated to read thousands of pages if necessary to do the work that Congress put in front of me."


https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1117767024032141313
https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1117472596537368579

VIDEO:
http://www.msnbc.com/kasie-dc/watch/rep-katie-porter-i-was-not-satisfied-with-jamie-dimon-s-answers-1492495427942

April 15, 2019

Pretzel logic -by Tom Tomorrow

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April 15, 2019

Speaker Pelosi To Trump -This one is gonna hurt

So POTUS generally refrained from attacking Pelosi - other than the dubiously-dinging nickname “Nancy” - until he saw her get what he deemed positive press on a landmark TV show.

Nancy Pelosi

Thanks for watching! We will continue to do our work #ForThePeople.



https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1117596619938172928
April 14, 2019

re: Ilhan Omar, nuff said

225 members of Congress have co-sponsored a bill to help compensate victims of 9/11.

One of these members was Ilhan Omar.

None of these members were:
Matt Gaetz
Jim Jordan
Mark Meadows
Devin Nunes



https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1117427789370667008
April 14, 2019

Robert F. Kennedy, 1968



"Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."


https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-family/robert-f-kennedy/robert-f-kennedy-speeches/remarks-at-the-university-of-kansas-march-18-1968

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