Yes this is sarcasm, but it also seems surreal that in only two years the Trump administration has lost so many individuals in key administrative positions. Raj Shah Out As White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary. Here’s a list – rather long at that – of people who have left the administration for one reason…

It’s a complicated story, but in a nutshell the guy smuggled 222 kg of Meth. Source: Chinese court sentences Canadian to death as diplomatic row deepens | IOL News

As it turns out, fact checkers are as much prone to inaccuracy as the facts they sometimes check.  Case in point: this report by Snopes. If you dig a little deeper, you’ll find that there is some bias to this “community patrol” in NYC.  The NYPD has had several complaints by women of color who…

David Greene talks to Newt Gingrich, former GOP speaker of the House, who presided over one of the longest shutdowns of the federal government. In 1995, parts of the government closed for 21 days. Source: Newt Gingrich: Lessons Learned From Past Government Shutdowns : NPR

And, here’s another take on the Trump/Putin thingy.  Is thingy still a word?  Hmm. Source: Trump rejects report that he hid details of Putin meetings, seized translator’s notes | The Japan Times

Source: House GOP Leader: ‘Action Will Be Taken’ On Steve King Over White Supremacist Remark | HuffPost

Don’t get your panties in a wad over Carl Bernstein’s two cents worth – or his sources for that matter.  Woodward (the other half of Watergate) wrote a book last year and after two years of research said that he could find no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia. Woodward looked through as much of…

This is shaping up to be a DNC nightmare. Source: Former HUD secretary Julián Castro joins 2020 Democratic presidential field – The Washington Post

President Trump is manning the White House solo, he tweeted Saturday, posting that “there’s almost nobody in the W.H. but me” as he attacked reports that he lacks a strategy for ending the shutdown. “I do have a plan on the Shutdown,” he wrote. “But to understand that plan you would have to understand the fact…