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Missouri Senate Race Turns Against GOP Over Scandals

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Bernie The Good Versus Bernie The Bad

By Froma Harrop
Mercers Finance Viral Message To Promote Pompeo

By Eli Clifton
Desperate And Empty GOP Still Beating Up Hillary

By Tommy Christopher
Travel Records Belie What Trump Told Comey About Russia Trip

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House Challengers Raising More Money Than GOP Incumbents
Republicans know they have a fight on their hands to keep control of the House with a narrow majority. And it’s not looking good that to date 14 Democratic challengers have outraised their GOP incumbents while not a single Democratic incumbent faces the same problem, according to cycle-to-date campaign finance data. In fact, nine Democrats have six-figure advantages over their opponents.
By Jillian S. Ambroz

Has Trumpism Made The World Less Safe For Jews?
Earlier this month, a lifetime ago in the Trump administration, an art dealer named Todd Brassner burned to death in a fire at Trump Tower. (The building did not have a sprinkler system on its residential floors because its eponymous owner refused to install one, citing its prohibitive cost). According to the New York Daily News, real estate mogul Trump was less than enamored of Brassner, reportedly referring to his tenant as "that crazy Jew."
By Jacob Sugarman

National Memo Editor’s Blog

Rudy Is Back With Trump (And Wayne Barrett Revealed The Truth About Both)

By Joe Conason

How Trump Obediently Advances The Koch Brothers' Agenda
Billionaire conservatives Charles and David Koch were caught taking a victory lap to celebrate their own success in getting the Trump administration to deliver on their wildest dreams. The Kochs have profited handsomely from businesses that are massive polluters. Their companies produce more climate pollution than even major oil companies like Chevron and Shell.
By Oliver Willis
DNC Sues Trump Campaign, Wikileaks Over Russia Collusion Conspiracy
On Friday, the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit against Trump’s campaign, Russia, and WikiLeaks for conspiring to fix the 2016 election “to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and help Trump by hacking the computer networks of the Democratic Party and disseminating stolen material found there,” the Washington Post reports.
By Kaili Joy Gray
McConnell Says Republicans Won't Protect Mueller From Trump
A growing number of Republican lawmakers have endorsed legislation to protect Mueller in recent days following the president's fury over the federal raid on his attorney Michael Cohen. Neil Cavuto, the Fox News host who interviewed McConnell, pointed this fact out to the majority leader.
By Cody Fenwick
Danziger: Crazy Like Fox News
When Trump lawyer Michael Cohen revealed that Sean Hannity is one of his three clients, eyebrows shot up. But Fox News doesn't care about Hannity's conflicts. Fair and balanced!
By Jeff Danziger
Danziger: Woman Of Valor
At age 50 Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Duckworth, a disasbled veteran, is the first Senator to give birth while serving. Her fellow vet Danziger offers congratulations.
By Jeff Danziger
Pruitt's $43,000 'Phone Booth' Broke Federal Law
“According to the Government Accountability Office, the EPA did not comply with the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act by spending more than $5,000 on the phone booth without notifying Congress,” ABC News reports. “By failing to provide such advance notice, EPA violated section 710 of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act.”
By Eric Boehlert

Money

House Challengers Raising More Money Than GOP Incumbents
Republicans know they have a fight on their hands to keep control of the House with a narrow majority. And it’s not looking good that to date 14 Democratic challengers have outraised their GOP incumbents while not a single Democratic incumbent faces the same problem, according to cycle-to-date campaign finance data. In fact, nine Democrats have six-figure advantages over their opponents.
By Jillian S. Ambroz
Danziger: Cherchez La Femme
By Jeff Danziger
#EndorseThis: Reporter Shares Audio Of Trump Cheating His Way Into Forbes 400
By Kurt Boyer

Health

Bernie The Good Versus Bernie The Bad
Here is Bernie at his best — blunt and colorful, the senator from Vermont whom Sunday talk shows love to book. Here is the unapologetic progressive who speaks plainly on the economic plight of working Americans. And unlike so many self-defeating Democrats, Sanders does not divide them by color, gender or sexual identity. He recognizes that "white" is not synonymous with "rich and privileged."
By Froma Harrop
Learning From DeMarco
She's been a teacher, a leader of public interest groups, an investigative journalist, the author of three books, a government official, a public policy innovator and a mentor, as well as a lifelong champion of economic fairness, social justice and equal opportunity for all. In other words, as one activist put it, "she's a firecracker."
By Jim Hightower
Overdose Deaths Are The Product Of Drug Prohibition
So it was a tragedy but not a total surprise when three deaths were reported in Illinois from synthetic marijuana laced with an ingredient (possibly rat poison) that caused severe bleeding. Nationally, in 2015, says the Drug Policy Alliance, "poison control centers received just under 10,000 calls reporting adverse reactions to synthetic cannabinoids, and emergency rooms received tens of thousands of patients."
By Steve Chapman

Lifestyle

Under New Rules, Zuckerberg Will Be Our Top Propaganda Cop
By Steven Rosenfeld
Asked About Trump Tweets, Kellyanne Conway Lashes Out
Kellyanne Conway threw a tantrum of her own when asked to explain Trump’s latest Twitter tirades. And she wound up making a devastating point against her boss. Trump posted a series of panicky tweets Saturday morning, fretting about the prospect of his personal attorney “flipping” on him. On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, host Dana Bash asked Conway to explain the tweets.
By Tommy Christopher
Racist Russian Propaganda Still Going Viral On Social Media
Conservative and pro-Trump Facebook pages, most affiliated with fake news websites, are recycling memes created by Russian troll companies like the Internet Research Agency (IRA), which the social network has banned from its platform. Media Matters found 24 posts dating back to December 2017 from 11 right-wing pages that contained memes bearing watermarks from Russian troll-run social media accounts.
By Natalie Martinez

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#EndorseThis: Colbert Celebrates Pot Reform By Helping Cheech & Chong Find New Jobs

By Kurt Boyer

#EndorseThis: Planned Parenthood Boss Says Trump Worst POTUS For Women's Issues Ever

By Kurt Boyer

#EndorseThis: Reporter Shares Audio Of Trump Cheating His Way Into Forbes 400

By Kurt Boyer

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: Alex Jones Makes Incoherent Case For White Reparations

Eclipse apocalypse, white reparations, and a journalism crash course from a conspiracist blogger. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

By Brendan Gauthier

This Week In Crazy: David Crosby Faces Fire, Fury From Ted Nugent

Statue fetishists, blubbering neo-Nazis, and Cat Fight Fever. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

By Brendan Gauthier

This Week In Crazy: Trump's God-Given Mission To Nuke North Korea

Nuclear holy war, Chi-Raqi occupation, and Al Gore's "big ugly ass." Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

By Brendan Gauthier

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MONEY

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WORLD

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