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Texas Governor Jokes About Shooting Reporters
Donald Trump's Crumbling Brand Just Took Another Major Hit
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Focus On Victims Rewards Vicious Terrorism

By Froma Harrop
When Violence Against The Press Becomes Acceptable

By Matt Gertz
Trey Gowdy Is The Perfect Trump Stooge In House Russia Probe

By Adele M. Stan
How Trump's Thuggish Style Incites And Rationalizes Violence

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New Drama For Jared Kushner, In A Family Familiar With Controversy
Jared Kushner's father is immensely proud of his son, according to family friend. Kushner, now a high-level advisor to President Donald Trump and married to his daughter, plays a major role in the new administration and is involved in all major policy decisions.
By NJ.com

Texas Governor Jokes About Shooting Reporters
The unrelenting Republican assault on the free press continued on Friday when Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, joked about shooting journalists. The joke was made not two days after a Montana congressional candidate, Greg Gianforte, assaulted a reporter instead of answering a question on health care.
By Alexander Nazaryan

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In Trump's Budget, Both Epic Betrayal And Mathematical Fraud

By Joe Conason

Donald Trump's Crumbling Brand Just Took Another Major Hit
Between the Trump slump and a growing movement to boycott his products, the president's brand is in free fall—especially in his hometown of New York City.
By Alexandra Rosenmann
Focus On Victims Rewards Vicious Terrorism
As these gruesome events pile up, the public is learning to grimly go about its business in the aftermath. The terrorists' ability to appall us diminishes as their assaults become sadly routine.
By Froma Harrop
When Violence Against The Press Becomes Acceptable
Press freedom advocates warned of the dangers of a soft authoritarian like Trump becoming president. And indeed, the first months of the Trump administration have featured a wave of these cases.
By Matt Gertz
Trey Gowdy Is The Perfect Trump Stooge In House Russia Probe
Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, has a very important job: preserving the presidency of a man whose campaign featured individuals who had contacts with likely agents of a foreign adversary that intelligence officials say interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
By Adele M. Stan
How Trump's Thuggish Style Incites And Rationalizes Violence
The president of the United States sets a tone, an example, a style. With Donald Trump, that tone conveys a suffused rage and a violent intolerance that equates questions with insults and disagreement with disloyalty.
By Jefferson Morley
Report: Kushner Met Secretly With Russians, Proposed Covert Back Channel
FBI scrutiny of Kushner began when intelligence reports of Flynn’s contacts with Russians included mentions of U.S. citizens, whose names were redacted because of U.S. privacy laws. This prompted investigators to ask U.S. intelligence agencies to reveal the names of the Americans, the current U.S. law enforcement official said. Kushner’s was one of the names that was revealed, the official said, prompting a closer look at the president’s son-in-law’s dealings with Kislyak and other Russians.
By Ned Parker and Jonathan Landay

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In Trump's Budget, Both Epic Betrayal And Mathematical Fraud
Aside from defense spending, the Trump budget violates nearly every programmatic promise he made to voters last year. And adding insult to real injuries, he pretends to fulfill his promise to balance the budget with fake numbers. Not only are the numbers phony, but they represent the most audacious mathematical con game in a federal budget that anyone in Washington can remember. It is phonier than the phony budgets cooked up during the Reagan era, when the president’s own budget director eventually confessed, “None of us really understands what’s going on with all these numbers.”
By Joe Conason
Bernie Sanders Gives Budget Director Mick Mulvaney Epic Lesson On American Inequality
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan in a scathing op-ed.
By Alexandra Rosenmann
The Art Of The Steal: Has Trump Finally Found Someone To Buy The Brooklyn Bridge?
At last, Trump has set the stage for a sequel to his first book of lies, The Art of the Deal—and in grand style. He’s found the right investor. He may have received a gold necklace from the Saudi king and looked regal;
By Doug Kreeger

Health

Three Strategies To Defend GOP Health Bill: Euphemisms, False Statements And Deleted Comments
Earlier this month, a day after the House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act, Ashleigh Morley visited her congressman’s Facebook page to voice her dismay.
By Charles Ornstein
GOP Obamacare Repeal Would Kick 23 Million Off Health Insurance And Give Trillion-Dollar Tax Cut To People Who Don't Need It
The American Health Care Act is even worse than Democrats warned from the floor of the House last month when they fell one vote short of blocking Paul Ryan’s bill that was marketed as Obamacare-repeal legislation but was mostly a tax cut for the rich.
By Steven Rosenfeld
John Lewis Hammers Steve Mnuchin Over Trump's Sadistic Budget Cuts
"Mr. Secretary, I've often said that a budget proposal is a statement of values and priorities," Lewis began. "This administration's proposal makes crystal-clear that the hungry, the middle class, the elderly and the struggling will be left out and left behind."
By Alexandra Rosenmann

Lifestyle

#EndorseThis: Jimmy Kimmel On His Holiness The Trump's Papal Audience
Donald Trump's papal visit was mercifully brief but still historic -- as Jimmy Kimmel put it, a "holy day, or maybe an a-holey day." During their conversation, the Holy Father tried to persuade the American president to take up the causes of the poor and the environment. "Unfortunately Trump is only in year 70 of his 100-year deal with the Devil right now," according to Kimmel, "and it has a no-trade clause..."
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Ventures Into Trump's Undrained Swamp
Checking in on the president’s often-repeated campaign promise to reform the business of government -- by banning lobbyists, enforcing ethics, and stemming the influence of big money -- Seth Meyers finds that the swamp is just as dank and dismal as ever.
By National Memo
Trump Administration Says It Isn’t Anti-Science As It Seeks To Slash EPA Science Office
Trump’s budget, released Tuesday, reflects the president’s wish list. The numbers likely will change by the time it goes through the congressional appropriations process, but the proposed cuts are consistent with the administration’s push against environmental regulation and scientific funding.
By Lisa Song

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#EndorseThis: Jimmy Kimmel On His Holiness The Trump's Papal Audience

Donald Trump's papal visit was mercifully brief but still historic -- as Jimmy Kimmel put it, a "holy day, or maybe an a-holey day." During their conversation, the Holy Father tried to persuade the American president to take up the causes of the poor and the environment. "Unfortunately Trump is only in year 70 of his 100-year deal with the Devil right now," according to Kimmel, "and it has a no-trade clause..."

By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Ventures Into Trump's Undrained Swamp

Checking in on the president’s often-repeated campaign promise to reform the business of government -- by banning lobbyists, enforcing ethics, and stemming the influence of big money -- Seth Meyers finds that the swamp is just as dank and dismal as ever.

By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Should Children Eat? A Short Course In Trump's Cruel Budget

Stephen Colbert isn't impressed by the grandiose title affixed to Trump's first federal budget, "A New Foundation For American Greatness," and notes that the president and his budget director Mick Mulvaney are "building that new foundation for American greatness on the ground-up bones of poor people."

By National Memo

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: Hear A White Supremacist's Advice For Trump

The Religious Right civil war, the devil's in the "no-fly" list, and a white supremacist tells Trump exactly how to "Make America Great Again." Welcome to “This Week In Crazy."

By Sam Reisman

This Week In Crazy: Or, How Not To Respond To A Tragedy

When 49 people were massacred in a gay nightclub in Orlando last weekend, the vast majority of Americans responded with outrage, sympathy, and resolve to do better. And then there were these people. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy."

By Sam Reisman

This Week In Crazy: GOP Makes Its Bed With Trump

The satanic Switzerland tunnel, the classic it's-not-Trump-it's-you racism feint, and the Republicans' devils bargain with the Donald. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy."

By Sam Reisman

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New Drama For Jared Kushner, In A Family Familiar With Controversy
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MONEY

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LIFESTYLE

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WORLD

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HEALTH

Three Strategies To Defend GOP Health Bill: Euphemisms, False Statements And Deleted Comments
By Charles Ornstein

GOP Obamacare Repeal Would Kick 23 Million Off Health Insurance And Give Trillion-Dollar Tax Cut To People Who Don't Need It
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