Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It was whispered like some secret oracle: Sidecat, sidecat is coming. Negotiations over the tax incentive deal began in Ohio in early spring of last year, and only a cabal of quasi-state officials were in the know. Even after the $37.1 million in incentives were approved by state officials on July 31, 2017, the company…
When President Trump fired James Comey as FBI director last May, the special agent in charge of the Detroit field office, David Gelios, wrote an email to his staff: I just saw CNN reporting that Director Comey has been fired by President Trump. I have no notification from HQ of any such thing. If I…
Chapter 1 “I beg that you see how I am only human,” Otto Warmbier pleaded tearfully at his February 2016 show trial in Pyongyang. The University of Virginia honor student sat in judgment beneath gold-framed portraits of the Kim family, tugging occasionally at the fratty summer jacket he wore over his parti-colored shirt. Before him:…
christ what a fucking idiot What is this, Day Six of Devin Nunes’s latest justice-obstructing distraction? Something like that! If you’ve been playing hooky from life this week or forgot, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump’s little buttercup who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, has WRITTEN A TOP SECRET MEMO (or his aides wrote it) that definitely…
Trump moved to fire Mueller in June, bringing White House counsel to the brink of leaving By Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey January 26, 2018 at 5:03 AM Watch more! President Trump denied reports on Jan. 26 that he had ordered special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to be fired in June 2017, calling…
Photo: Getty On Sunday, conservative commentator Josh Hammer announced he was leaving Online Politics and would be starting a job clerking for Judge James C. Ho of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Hammer is not exactly a prominent conservative writer, but he isn’t entirely obscure, either, having written for Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire and…
AP Representative Pat Meehan, Republican from Pennsylvania, has reached peak “thanks, Obama”-ism by attributing his mistreatment of a younger female aide to stress stemming from the Affordable Care Act. Meehan has been under fire since The New York Times reported this weekend that he used thousands of dollars in public funds to settle a sexual harassment…
Christ what a fucking idiot Pretty much every week we have a story about how House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes is a lying crapweasel who’s wasting America’s time, and this week is no different. Recently we learned Nunes had convened a secret working group of fellow traveler GOP idiots on the Intel committee, so…
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) clink glasses in a toast Monday on Capitol Hill after senators reached an agreement to advance a bill ending government shutdown. (Andrew Harnik/AP) The Senate gathered to reopen the government, and boy did everyone have a great time. Democrat Amy Klobuchar gave Republican Lindsey O. Graham…
The federal government shut down for the first time in more than four years Friday after senators rejected a temporary spending patch and bipartisan efforts to find an alternative fell short as a midnight deadline came and went. Republican and Democratic leaders both said they would continue to talk, raising the possibility of a solution…