Month: November 2017

How Papadopoulos Was Recruited By the Russians

The court papers that spell out the nature of the crimes that George Papadopoulos committed don’t tell the whole story. That’s understandable. They’re mainly concerned with explaining how and when Papadopoulos...

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Jeff Sessions Has a Bad Memory

Yesterday, I noted that the Trump administration’s defense against the proof of collusion with Russia introduced by the guilty plea of former staffer George Papadopoulos was essentially claiming that the Attorney General...

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The Dem Message Shouldn’t Sound Like 1992

I don’t know if you saw Molly Ball’s recent piece On Safari in Trump’s America, but the basic idea was that researchers from The Third Way had gone to talk to folks in Middle America and then wound up writing a...

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Oh, Donna, oh, Donna, — Update

Politico – Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC – When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign....

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Midweek Cafe and Lounge, Vol. 39

Someone asked me about Black Flag a couple weeks ago, and more generally about my interest in punk and US hardcore. Back in the day, I became really fascinated with the hardcore scene, and was around in SoCal during its dying...

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