I was going to share this but I wasnāt sure!
Also, great complementary listening to this article (which I actually heard before the Bloomberg piece came out, I probably wouldnāt have read the article if I hadnāt heard it) is Larry Wilmoreās podcast interview with Michael Lewis. Itās quite interesting.
(Side note: more and more we learn about Bannonā¦the more confirmation that Joshua Greenās book, Devilās Bargain is spot on.)
Love Larry Wilmore! I havenāt listened to this one. Thanks for posting!
The rants in the PSA episode are everything. Have a listen!
Lovettās ranttttt. yasss.
(BTW - went to the LA show taping. 
It was amazinggggg. Iāve been to Lovett or Leave It before, but this was wayyy different. And, I meanā¦John Legend & Chrissy Teigen! 
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Lovettās rants are fucking everything Iām mad about but canāt properly articulate! I canāt wait for PSA to come to Seattle, I went to LIOL a couple weeks ago, he had on my dream panel, Ijeoma Oluo, Lindy West, and Akilah Hughes. Even my normally super shy partner was yelling and hissing with the crowd.
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Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, details his experiences in the Trump White House. 
Maybe Brooks should take an AR15 enima and call those kids in the morningā¦thats not rude is it?
@ron This is your second inappropriate comment about violence. I will not tell you again that this is unacceptable here.
Excellent piece.
It makes sense ā 16 year olds are able to work (thus pay taxes), able to drive and in most states are tried as an adults if they commit a crime. Why shouldnāt they be able to vote?
Profile: Hope Hicks from the New Yorker
āHeās JFK with tattoos and a bench pressā
A Trump voting Democrat running for Congress in WVā¦
He might be a little rough for my tastes, but Ojeda at least is taking the Democrats away from the losing corporate globalist party and bringing labor back. Itās kind of disingenuous to introduce him as āTrump voting Democrat.ā The article says he regrets the decision, that he originally wanted Sanders. Thatās kind of the real story, that the Democrats couldnāt win this area with Clinton.
And hey, if populism wins, Iād rather it win on the left than on the right, and Iād rather we get advocacy for our civil liberties instead of this āprotect my privilegeā nationalist, racist, sexist march thatās been going on. If I lived there, heād have my vote, and I hope we get more like him.
From Andrew McCabe
David Shulkin on leaving the VA
If President Donald Trumpās lawyer discussed the possibility of pardons with Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, then it could be a whole new piece of the obstruction of justice investigation into the president [ā¦] the report raises the possibility that the pardons were offered to influence the two men if they later faced a decision about whether to cooperate with special counsel Robert Muellerās investigation into links between Russia and the Trump campaign to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.
From the New York Times.
Mark Zuckerberg, āā¦ answered with white-noise-machine calm, like a tech-support representative asking legislators if theyād tried turning their democracy off and turning it back on again.ā
Wow, thatās good.
Stand out piece from the Seattle based alt-weekly, The Stranger on homelessness.
This group experiences the cityās economy as a great depression.
Profile: Dan Scavino, āthe Secretary of Offenseā, White House social media director, the man behind Trumpās Twitter account.
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One of Scavinoās main roles is the care and feeding of his bossās ego. He has learned how to fend off any negativity with a ready supply of superlatives. While Hope Hicks would inform Trump about how some matter might be playing in the mainstream media, Scavino, Hicks told me, would ātell him how things are playing with his people. Thatās a gauge for him that the president takes seriously.ā Checking in with the base is as easy as looking at his phone. Scavinoās old friend offered an example: āDan would scroll through his Twitter feed and if Franklin Graham says something particularly complimentary, heāll say, āLook what Franklin Graham just wrote.ā Or if [CNN show host] Brian Stelter says something particularly stupid, heāll run over and say, āLook what Fake News is doing.ā ā
The full extent of Scavinoās role in Trumpās Twitter regimen has never been fully disclosed. White House officials initially maintained to me that he only typed and posted verbatim what Trump dictated to him, while occasionally contributing anodyne tweets relating to the presidentās schedule. (āNews conference at the White House concerning the Omnibus Spending Bill. 1:00 P.M.ā) Somewhat begrudgingly, one senior official did not deny that Scavino also sometimes corrected Trumpās spelling errors.
Evidence of Scavinoās active participation in Trumpās tweets emerged last autumn. On the morning of Oct. 4, Scavino posted to his own account one of the social media directorās usual rants against the media: āNBC news is #FakeNews and more dishonest than even CNN. They are a disgrace to good reporting. No wonder their news ratings are way down!ā One minute later, the identical message was posted on his bossās account as an original Trump tweet. Scavino hastily deleted his first tweet, but not before eagle-eyed users took screen shots.
On a recent Monday in late March, I dropped by the West Wing to have one last in-person visit with some of Scavinoās colleagues and hopefully catch a glimpse of the social media director. The evening before, Yashar Ali of The Huffington Post had broken the news that Scavinoās wife, Jennifer, had filed for divorce several weeks earlier. I had heard rumors of the split from a former White House staff member who, while praising Scavinoās crazed work ethic and fealty to Trump, casually added, āBy the way, it also destroyed his marriage.ā Scavino had long struggled to balance his ambitions with caring for his wife, who suffers from chronic Lyme disease. That day in the West Wing, he was nowhere to be seen by the time I arrived. Scavino had boarded Air Force One with Trump and flown to Manchester to capture images of the president somberly proposing the death penalty for opioid dealers.
Perspective: Scavino makes $179k/year of taxpayer money to tweet and go on KFC runs. What an administration! 