Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
After a pair of damning HuffPost stories and another by BuzzFeed News about Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s horrible alleged treatment of her staff, the New York Times today has its own story out about the 2020 presidential candidate’s relationship with her staff. This is how it begins: Senator Amy Klobuchar was hungry, forkless and losing…
An avid genealogist, I have a knack for using the document trail to root out buried family secrets and often help adoptees and others trace their histories. And so it’s with great amusement that I have unpacked the family trees of anti-immigrant right-wing personalities from Rep. Steve “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s…
A “fired up” Ellen Page slammed the Trump administration, and in particular Vice President Mike Pence, for its anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric during an emotional interview on The Late Show on Thursday night. Touching upon the Tuesday attack on Empire actor Jussie Smollett in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime, Page said that…
The strong boy.Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) “It’s not going to change a damn thing,” the President of the United States told an assemblage of news anchors at an off-the-record White House meeting some weeks ago. “But I’m still doing it.” To a certain extent, that groaning is just standard Trump shit—his signature all-caps triumphalism…
The news has been so batshit this week that we almost forgot to tell you there’s a new tell-all book from a pissed off former Trump staffer! This dude’s name is Cliff Sims and he was a communications aide — you know, when the comms department wasn’t quite as much of a wasteland as it…
Of all the disagreements that drove President Trump and then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis apart, one of the most perilous had to do with blowing up Iranian boats. “Why don’t we sink them?” the president would ask. Acting on an obsession that went back to the campaign, Trump repeatedly asked his national security team for plans…
This past week, we saw the first concrete evidence that Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia — and it seemed as if no one cared. That’s a reason to ask a disturbing question: What if the slow burn of Robert Mueller’s investigation ends with a fizzle, not an explosion? What if Mueller, in his role as special counsel,…
White supremacist congressman Steve King is sorry he gave you all “heartburn” by asking The New York Times what’s so “offensive” about being a white supremacist earlier this week, but that’s about it. King, who just entered his ninth term representing Iowa in Congress, took the House floor today to say he regretted making a…
Photo: Susan Walsh/AP If you’re new on the job and your boss is a tyrannical creep who yells at you that you’re fucking everything up, you could be a personal assistant in Los Angeles. Or you could be President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who, according to Axios, appeared to have gone…
Photo: AP So, will the government shutdown ever end? From the Wall Street Journal on Friday (emphasis mine): President Trump’s aides have started preparations for the State of the Union speech on Jan. 29, drafting some sections of the address with an understanding the partisan government shutdown could be continuing more than a month after it…