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'Look, You Can Live on Minimum Wage!' Say Modern Slavers

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Rayne
Pundits can't understand why millennials are killing so many things like fast food businesses. Hello? Because they can't afford them on current minimum wage.
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Three Things: Shocker, Badger, Vapor

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Rayne
Summer doldrums hitting hard; it's too steamy today to do much but watch the garden grow and the 'hot takes' bloom. Stay cool with a quick three things on AHCA and Trump-Russia.
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Akhmetshin's Involvement and the Trump Dossier

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emptywheel
Given all the changes in stories about the June 9 meeting at Trump Tower, it's worth returning to Trump Sr's initial response to reports of the meeting.
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Three Things: Lawyer Dumps Kushner, Hot at Fox, Dimon's Douchery

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Rayne
It's a Friday smack in the middle of summer, for god's sake; can't the news-making weasels give the treadmill a rest? This is an open thread.
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And Now Akmetshin, or Why the Hell *Didn't* Obama 'Tapp' Team Trump?

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Rayne
The definition of stink: today's revelation that a former-GRU-agent-cum-campaign-hacker-now-lobbyist was present at Junior Trump's June 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
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Kushner's Digital Armies and Facebook's .1%

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emptywheel
As Congress focuses on any tie between targeting data stolen by Russians and the fake news spread into targeted precincts, they should understand Facebook's data on who was doing what.
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Don Jr Provides Proof Obama Didn't "Tapp" Trump

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emptywheel
In addition to incriminating himself by showing the world his own smoking gun, Don Jr just proved that Obama did not "tapp" his father.
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Be Careful How You Define Collusion: On the Veselnitskaya Bombshell and the Steele Dossier

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emptywheel
The NYT has a new bombshell showing that Don Jr. was willing to meet with someone to get Russian dirt on Hillary. It is damning. But Democrats should be very careful about calling it collusion, yet.
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James Clapper Updated Rules on Congressional Notice the Day before He Retired

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emptywheel
James Clapper slightly changed the rules on unmasking the name of a Member of Congress as one of his last acts as Director of National Intelligence.
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On Trump's Impenetrable Cyber Security Unit to Guard Election Hacking

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emptywheel
The problems with Trump's plan to set up a "Impenetrable Cyber Security Unit" to "Guard Election Hacking" go well beyond the obvious.
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Trump Was Worried HR McMaster or Fiona Hill Would Spy on His Conversation with Putin

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emptywheel
There were two infuriating stories earlier this week in preparation of today's meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin. The Daily Beast reported that Trump's aides wanted top NSC Russia expert Fiona Hill in the meeting between…
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Maddow's Forgery and Mistaken Timing

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emptywheel
Rachel Maddow suspects that she got a forgery cut and pasted off the document Reality Winner shared with the Intercept. Except the document appears to have been created between the time Winner was arrested and the Intercept published the document.
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Death of the Car(go) Cult(ure)

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Rayne
I had an economic and philosophic epiphany recently. It sneaked up on me, right about the time I let go of my comfortable illusion of middle-class security.
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The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay: Human Nature is more than Producing Stuff

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Ed Walker
Human beings are more than their value in production of goods. And what's all this talk about the glories of work, and how does it relate to freedom?
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Nyetya: Sanctions and Taxes

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emptywheel
Perhaps Nyetnya is just Vladimir Putin's way of imposing reciprocity in sanctions.
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Curiouser: The Blindsiding of Sally Yates

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Rayne
Looks like former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates was completely blindsided by the travel ban.
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Did NSA Start Using Section 702 to Collect from VPNs in 2014?

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emptywheel
It appears likely that a challenge to a new kind of 702 collection in late 2014 pertained to collection that would obtain, but not use, US person collection.
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