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Mussolini era fascist symbolism recently uncovered at the old Italian embassy WaPo link

Comey's on Maddow right now. She's trying to look at the memos during commercial breaks, and as they go along, and ask him questions. I'm sure she's got people in her ear as they go. I bet she wishes this interview was tomorrow night. -- One thing I found interesting was Maddow straight up asking if the announcement of the re-opening of the Clinton email investigation was when she honed in on Giuliani's hinting to it ahead of time, and whether it was due in part due to a fear of the NY FBI field office leaking details to the press, and a need to protect the FBI's reputation. Comey basically said that he did order an investigation into that before he was fired, but that it had no impact on his decision to re-open the case.

Foul! Yeeesh. Yuck. Blech. Ick. Nast...

Anybody up in DC/NOVA area want 2 tix to Brian Fallon at the 9:30 club on 4/28? Something came up, and I can't make the trip. Thought I'd try here first. DM if you want em

Just took a peak at the GOP twitter account, which I actually followed a while back. It's a full on push to get people to check out lyincomey.com. A link to "check the facts" actually directs you to a page on the official GOP website, which is actually telling slanted half-truths (er..lyin') about Comey. How sad, pathetic, and disgraceful. Side note: I just checked if lyingop.com was available as a domain name. Nope. Registered today. Also, it points you to a WaPo article from January: President Trump has made 1,950 false or misleading claims over 347 days

Attorney–client privilege is dead! Nah A total witch hunt! Nah

More on that

I stumbled across this at 12:20 on Monday morning, and I'm too tired to read or think, but thought of this thread... so kind of a bookmark to look at later. Maybe something for anyone who pokes their nose in here, and actually wonders about the past couple of posts https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/

NYT reporter on NPR last week: About Nader, Broidy, Prince, Kushner, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the Seychelles meeting, ... https://www.npr.org/2018/03/29/597783188/reporter-tells-of-persian-gulf-rivalries-hacked-emails-and-a-mueller-subpoena

I imagine the answers were a little more polite than "Is fake newez. Is newez for eediots, if you don' understand. Now get lost pleeyuz. Sank you."

I'm pretty sure this may cause seizures, or nightmares at least:

I was wondering the same thing when I first saw it. I think most people believe it is. It's been getting retweets and likes from a lot of very legit accounts. ---

..."Also on the Kremlin's list, he says, were several other ex-KGB agents, as well as Christopher Steele, author of a 35-page dossier alleging collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. Bill Browder, the driving force behind a set of U.S. sanctions against Russian individuals known as the Magnitsky Act, was there as well, he adds."...

The 12 over the 5 upset that seems most likely is Armagedon Draughn over Habbakkuk Baldonado.

That story about Mikhail Lesin always stunk to high heaven, and it confused me that so little was made of it..The people who decided that it was even plausible that he fell down repeatedly and killed himself that way need to be looked at. When I started hearing people asking when will Putin do what he's done around the world in the US last week, I was like.. did people forget about that guy (?). There was another Russian who died on election day at the Russian consulate in NYC,...they said he fell from a roof, then they said he had a heart attack, then they said it was something else. I think it received a little attention, but mostly the same kind of deal. Completely suspicious, but meh, he was Russian so let's not look too deep into it. That probably had something to do with where it happened though, not sure if the US has any authority inside the consulate. I feel like I'm forgetting another one.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-russia-expulsions-factbox/factbox-diplomatic-moves-against-russia-after-nerve-gas-attack-idUSKBN1H21VA?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social BRITAIN - Expelled 23 Russians alleged to have worked as spies under diplomatic cover. Promised to freeze any Russian state assets that “may be used to threaten the life or property of UK nationals or residents”. UNITED STATES - Expelling 60 Russians, including 12 intelligence officers from Russia’s mission to U.N. headquarters in New York. Closing Russian consulate in Seattle. CANADA - Expelling four Russians alleged to have worked as spies or interfered in Canadian affairs under diplomatic cover. Denying three applications for Russian diplomatic staff. FRANCE - Expelling four diplomats GERMANY - Expelling four diplomats POLAND - Expelling four diplomats ITALY - Expelling two diplomats LITHUANIA - Expelling three diplomats CZECH REPUBLIC - Expelling three diplomats NETHERLANDS - Expelling two diplomats DENMARK - Expelling two diplomats LATVIA - Expelling one diplomat ESTONIA - Expelling one diplomat FINLAND - Expelling one diplomat UKRAINE - Expelling 13 Russian diplomats RUSSIAN RESPONSE: BRITAIN - Russia has expelled 23 British diplomats and closed the British consulate in St Petersburg and the British Council cultural body. OTHERS - Moscow will expel at least 60 staff from U.S. diplomatic missions in Russia, RIA news agency quoted Russian senator Vladimir Dzhabarov as saying. RIA also quoted an unnamed Foreign Ministry source as saying: “The response will be symmetrical. We will work on it in the coming days and will respond to every country in turn.”

I suppose I have to put a Christopher Cross song here. I tried to find one you might not have heard in an elevator. He is a great musician/songwriter, Enjoy a soothing experience.

N/M. Struck me as funny at first, but not really funny.