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Most of the attack took place yesterday, 10/24/18 At least 10 mail bombs to critics of Trump and frequent Trump targets: * George Soros * Clintons * Obamas * Eric Holder * John Brennan * Maxine Waters (DC area) * Maxine Waters (L.A.) * Robert De Niro * Joe Biden (New Castle, DE) * Joe Biden (Wilmington) Thankfully they were obvious bombs and intercepted without anyone being hurt. Probably the work of either "Y'all Qaeda" or "Vanilla ISIS" or maybe a lone "MAGAbomber"-- certainly a rightwinger unless it was a rare lefty running a false-flag attack, which doesn't make much sense. These stickers on the bombs are somewhat amusing if gross-- said "Git Er Done" in a faux ISIS font with silhouetted mudflap ladies.

Adam Davidson: One of the biggest surprises in my research on Trump's foreign deals, particularly the one in Azerbaijan with likely money-launderers for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, is how BAD TRUMP IS AT BEING BAD. He got $5 million to lend his name to a $350 million $-laundering scheme. He's a sucker. Money launderers often get 20% of the money they're laundering. If he were caught (well, he was, so, rather, if anyone cared if he was caught) he would face hundreds of millions in fines. That's just bad risk management. ESPECIALLY for a fraud-based operation. Look at how Kim Jong-Un, Putin, and MBS play him. That's how ALL his partners treat him. He really should be a multibillionaire. But he's too weak and dumb to do these deals well. His dad was, at least, bold and a bit creative in his fraud and was able to do it at impressive scale. Trump, himself, has been a chump. Trump the Chump. That's his vulnerability, imo. Why is he in power then? Becaus...

One can hardly fathom the twisted psyche of a president who, after acknowledging that Jamal Khashoggi, a contributing columnist for The Post’s Global Opinions, had likely been murdered, would go before a cheering mob to lavish praise on a U.S. congressman who physically attacked a journalist. “Any guy who can do a body-slam, he’s my kind of — he’s my guy,” Trump said in a Montana campaign appearance on Thursday, referring to Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.) who pleaded guilty to assaulting the Guardian’s reporter Ben Jacobs, who had the temerity to ask Gianforte a health-care question. “I had heard that he body-slammed a reporter. And he was way up. … I said ‘Oh this is terrible, he’s gonna lose the election,’ ” Trump continued. “Then I said, ‘Well, wait a minute, I know Montana pretty well, I think it might help him.’ And it did.” And his ghoulish fans ate that up. The Guardian’s U.S. editor responded with a statement: “To celebrate an attack on a journalist who was simply doing his job...

I've long believed the idea that the RFK assassination was a conspiracy, but hadn't really delved into the details much. The podcast "The RFK Tapes" does a great job of digging into the case and use a lot of original audio tapes in their investigation. Seems like no doubt that RFK was killed by a CIA patsy, a mind-controlled assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. In part this was to keep RFK away from the presidency a maintain the JFK assassination cover-up going. Really worth a listen.

Just two years ago, amid global fanfare, the Paris climate accords were signed — initiating what seemed, for a brief moment, like the beginning of a planet-saving movement. But almost immediately, the international goal it established of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius began to seem, to many of the world’s most vulnerable, dramatically inadequate; the Marshall Islands’ representative gave it a blunter name, calling two degrees of warming “genocide.” The alarming new report you may have read about this week from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which examines just how much better 1.5 degrees of warming would be than 2 — echoes the charge. “Amplifies” may be the better term. Hundreds of millions of lives are at stake, the report declares, should the world warm more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, which it will do as soon as 2040, if current trends continue. Nearly all coral reefs would die out, wildfires and heat waves would sweep across the planet annually, ...

-- aided the 9/11 attacks and funded al Qaeda   -- armed and funded ISIS   -- got insanely rich from selling planet damaging oil   -- beheads political opponents   -- extremely repressive and misogynistic   -- have bought off Trump with massive purchases of his real estate.   -- keep America on their side by buying our debt and politicians and weapons   -- kill and dismember dissident journalists   FUCK SAUDI ARABIA.

I'm still kind of amazed that Republicans are betting their whole future on Donald Trump, a fraud and crook of breath-taking proportions. They HAVE to know that this presidency won't end well, right? Either Trump is going down in total flames from his massive crimes or we will turn into an authoritarian kleptocratic repressive state run by white supremacists. Why would the GOP want either of these futures? Are they really this dumb or evil? Because there's no way American Democracy survives if Trump stays in power after 2020.

Trump and Dubya. Today was 3rd biggest. Is a crash coming?

Twitter essay by Julius Ghost, worth the time to read: "I'd like to speak the obvious necessary things about the Republican Party, the most central of which is that this is not an organization that is participating in democracy. Rather, they are cynically utilizing our democracy's vulnerabilities. The last two Republican Presidents to enter the White House did so without the popular vote. The last Republican President to enter the White House with the popular vote did so in 1989. Yet, when they win, they behave as though they have the mandate that comes with a landslide. For example, they upend the healthcare program. They give out trillions in corporate welfare. They start torture programs. They start surveillance programs. They lie us into wars. They gerrymander at every level they can. They deliberately disenfranchise. They make our elections so imbalanced they can get less votes than Democrats but win 60% of the seats. They are not interested in democracy. They ar...

Creepy ass shit here-- Vice President Pence is giving a speech today at the Hudson Institute. Normally that wouldn’t get a lot of attention, especially with so much else going on. But this is a bigger deal than it might appear. Seeing portions of the speech now on Twitter, it is crystal clear that the White House is trying to delegitimize the on-going Mueller probe by setting up China is the real meddler in US internal affairs and democratic practice. Most importantly, they are claiming that China is working against Donald Trump in 2018 and 2020. This is a big, big deal and I expect they will be expanding on it in the coming weeks and likely going into 2020. If the midterms go to the Dems, it's a given the Trump admin will say it was rigged by the Chinese. Will they cede power, is the real question?