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Trump ordered DHS’s Intelligence arm to investigate the risks from the seven countries in Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban. That investigation would, he announced ahead of the actual investigation, prove that his immigration ban was really just and great, and the claims to the contrary were Fake News! The DHS, unsurprisingly, found the opposite result. AP broke this story: AP EXCLUSIVE: DHS REPORT DISPUTES THREAT FROM...

Trump does enjoy squalling about the mean, nasty, unfriendly, uncomplimentary major news sources, and now they keep talking about ugly stuff. You know, the actions the White House has actually taken? This morning, at CPAC, Trump reiterated his call that the news companies are “The enemy of the people!”  (Another example of how, if you control the language, you control the argument. “Fake news!” was...

Hot story from the Washington Post: Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories The Trump administration has enlisted senior members of the intelligence community and Congress in efforts to counter news stories about Trump associates’ ties to Russia, a politically charged issue that has been under investigation by the FBI as well as lawmakers now defending the White House....

During his campaign, Donald Trump swore to rally after event, that he would protect Social Security and Medicare. “You made a deal a long time ago, a long time ago.” I missed it, but according to The Hill, Reince Priebus backed that up, insisting that his boss wouldn’t “meddle” with Medicare or Social Security. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are on the Republican chopping block....

I was just catching up with last Sunday’s Meet the Press, and I ran into a blockbuster admission that nobody’s caught. Reince Priebus, President Trump’s Chief of Staff, was castigated this week for contacting the FBI about an active investigation. According to CNN, Priebus asked the FBI to “publicly knock down media reports about communications Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to US intelligence during...

ProPublica and The Atlantic have published a joint story, accusing the Trump administration of erasing climate change data from an educational site: Child’s Play: Team Trump Rewrites a Department of Energy Website for Kids The site is “Energy Kids” about energy and the science.  It’s been running for decades, and it’s won several international awards.  And now all the discussions about environmental impacts are gone....

I love the first meaning of a ‘meme’ as an idea that swims in our collective consciousness. They survive if you think about them. They propagate if you share it with someone else, who then remembers it. A good meme punches your buttons, and is easily spread — communicated — to other people. I know it’s not a new idea. My favorite recent example was...