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Responding to the treasonous behavior of Senate Judiciary Chair Charles Grassley, ranking member Dianne Feinstein goes ahead on her own and releases the GPS Fusion transcript. Grassley has been suppressing it because it gives the lie to Grassley and the GOP’s preposterous accusations against truth-telling Christopher Steele, who is being persecuted by Sens. Grassley and Graham because he tried to defend the national security interests of the United States.

Hopefully, Feinstein’s move indicates an understanding by the Democrats that the GOP is completely out of control, is dismantling American democracy, and must be contained if the U.S. is going to survive.

Seth Abramson notes that Grassley began the GPS interview by noting that it was “‘unclassified,’ meaning that no Senator could credibly claim that release of the transcript would be a threat to intelligence sources or methods.”

Therefore, Grassley has absolutely no legal grounds to suppress the transcript.

But he did.

It’s exciting writing a book about Diana Sands for so many reasons.

Steve Willis and I are excited by how plugged in she was to her time and place.

About her affair with Dr. Alvin Poussaint in 1968, we write:

“Pouissant’s racial and political consciousness was strong. For two years,
beginning in 1965, he had been the Southern Field director of the Medical
Committee for Human Rights, providing medical care to civil rights workers,
accompanying them on every march—he’d gone on as many as fifty over the
course of two years. And now Diana’s circle of acquaintances and friends exposed
Poussaint to a new threshold of social and political activism. She took him to meet
Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X’s widow, at Shabazz’s apartment in Harlem.
Despite James Baldwin’s affair with her ex-husband, Diana remained friends with
the writer. She was at this time participating in fund-raising dinners at Baldwin’s
NYC apartment, hosted by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne, where money was
raised for organizations like the Southern Leadership Council. Diana and Robert
Hooks were among a core group of actors who entertained the guests with
recitations of Baldwin’s work.”

lead her to make the filthy claim that Medicaid should not be given to “able-bodied adults,” thus demonstrating that in addition to her enmity toward Americans she does not understand the economic as well as medical benefits of preventative and maintenance care.

Deport her immediately.

He falsely claims that RFK and Eric Holder were dedicated to serving their presidents rather than American democracy, then uses his smear to justify his own demand that the Attorney General serve his own interests rather than America’s.

Kennedy and Holder were certainly not above reproach, but Trump’s defamation in the service of totalitarian agit prop is sign of his almost unprecedented abuse of this country’s stanchions of democracy.

Have we ever in modern American politics seen a circle-the-wagons-and-grovel operation like the one the GOP is mounting as it prostrates itself before Trump?

Trump and the GOP will expulse Attorney General Sessions by confronting him with the crimes he committed because Trump asked him to.

The fawning and dissembling Batshit is engaged in remove the one attribute that one could possibly find admirable about Bannon. His populist mewlings are, of course, unsubstantiated by any action whatsoever. He is a demagogic hate-monger and a liar. But the sheer chutzpah of his caterwauling has at least a certain entertainment value. Now, as he comes begging for Trump’s absolution, we see again that he is simply, entirely, an opportunist without ethics, principles, or personal dignity.

White House, Inc. is composed of deranged authoritarian robot humans.

Today, Jake Tapper turned off the Miller spout of hate and lies.

Now it’s America’s turn to hit the streets once Sessions is fired and replaced with an AG who can fire or sandbag Mueller.

and is conspiring with Sen. Grassley to obstruct justice and commit treason.

“pollwatcher” at Daily Kos reviews the incestuous connections that may explain Graham’s Manchurian recruitment.

and all dressed in identical casual attire–

that photo in the Times of Trump”s lieutenants arrayed behind Fearless Leader at the Camp David pow wow tells you a lot about the GOP’s culture of conformity as well as its lock/goose step behind Herr Trump.