Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit reading Trump news.
The Spy Revolt Against Donald Trump Begins
NSA and other agencies are withholding data from the White House because they think Russia “had ears” there.
Court Refuses to Reinstate Travel Ban, Dealing Trump Another Legal Loss
Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement
Steve Bannon: Donald Trump’s chief strategist has a grand vision for remaking America — Quartz
Quartz performed the heroic task of watching Bannon’s films and presents the worldview of “the Leni Riefenstahl of the Tea Party”. I guess he’s been promoted to Goebbels now.
Liberal fears of proportional representation and a referendum killed Trudeau’s reform promise
I don’t get why they didn’t just go with a ranked ballot.
Trump’s First Two Days of February
This is a collection of stories from just the past 48 hours or so that I’ve found to be alarming and/or outrageous.
Two Competing Narratives of Intention and a Third Theory
I’ll go light on the Trump stuff from now on, but this is really good
Trump Considers Deporting Legal Immigrants for Being Poor
Wow. Things getting worse, quickly.
How to Build an Autocracy
We are living through the most dangerous challenge to the free government of the United States that anyone alive has encountered. What happens next is up to you and me. Don’t be afraid. This moment of danger can also be your finest hour as a citizen and an American.
This guy was Bush’s speechwriter. He’s full neocon.
Four Tet Made a Playlist of Music from Trump’s List of Banned Countries
Trial Balloon for a Coup?
Kathleen Wynne stopping John Tory’s plan for tolls on DVP, Gardiner
The Ontario Liberals don’t believe in anything, do they?
No White House Leaks Like This … Until Now
Josh Marshall summary of two big must-read Trump leak stories that is itself a must-read. Quotes:
We are three days into the administration and the Trump White House leaks not so much like a sieve as a bucket with no bottom.
Or
There is, to put it mildly, a rather clearly recurring theme: a torqued up man-child, alternatively rageful and fragile, both grandiose and profoundly insecure.
A Few Thoughts on Entering the Trump Era
Donald Trump inauguration: Scottish newspaper previews ceremony as Twilight Zone episode
The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible.
How Jokes Won the Election
Great Emily Nussbaum thinkpiece (thanks, y). That Triumph election special where he called Trump a shock comic was prescient.
Trump ‘compromising’ claims: How and why did we get here?
Later, I used an intermediary to pass some questions to active duty CIA officers dealing with the case file – they would not speak to me directly. I got a message back that there was “more than one tape”, “audio and video”, on “more than one date”, in “more than one place” – in the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow and also in St Petersburg – and that the material was “of a sexual nature”.
Trump Intelligence Allegations
These are the memos
These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia
The memos in question are attached at the bottom of this article
Trump Received Unsubstantiated Report That Russia Had Damaging Information About Him
Wow.