In Attempting to Justify Trump Muslim Ban, Propaganda Outlet Proves Inanity of Iran, Sudan Inclusion

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emptywheel
WaPo did this fact check on Trump senior advisor Stephen Miller's claim that, "72 individuals, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, have been implicated in terroristic activity in the United States who hail from those seven nations,…
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Ninth Circuit Trims Executive's Expansive Claims to Be Able Pixie Dust Executive Orders

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emptywheel
Among the many good things yesterday's 9th Circuit slapdown on Donald Trump did, it may have imposed new limits on how the Executive can pixie dust its own Executive Orders.
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Why Are NINE Sources Coming Forward Now on Flynn's Conversations with Russia?

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emptywheel
One big question raised by WaPo's scoop revealing Mike Flynn discussed Obama's sanctions on Russia the day after they were imposed is why are nine sources willing to talk about this now?
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Democrats Demand DOJ Release the Information that Has Christopher Steele Hiding for His Life

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emptywheel
Democrats are at one time claiming Putin is a murderous thug and doing things that could help him be a murderous thug.
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Charles Cooper, Who Sanctioned Delayed Notification of Covert Ops to Congress, Reportedly to Be Solicitor General

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emptywheel
While I'm hopefully that Charles Cooper, Trump's reported nominee for Solicitor General, will argue as weakly as he did in the Prop 8 case, I'm mindful that while at OLC he was the architect of some dangerous precedents.
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US Indicts Hal Martin -- But Offers No Hint He's the Source for Shadow Brokers, Or Anyone Else

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emptywheel
DOJ's indictment of Hal Martin includes absolutely no hint that he leaked any of the documents he stole, much less to Shadow Brokers.
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Nevertheless, She Persisted

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Rayne
In a breathtakingly offensive move, Senate Leader Mitch McConnell used a gag rule to stop Elizabeth Warren from reading Coretta Scott King's letter about Jeff Sessions' efforts to suppress African American voters.
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How Hal Martin Stole 75% of NSA's Hacking Tools: NSA Failed to Implement Required Security Fixes for Three Years after Snowden

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emptywheel
It should be no surprise that Hal Martin was able to walk out with 75% of NSA's hacking tools. An August 2016 IG report revealed that NSA still lacks basic security features, and CIA appears to too.
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The Future of Work Part 4: The Kinds Of Jobs That Are At Risk

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Ed Walker
There is substantial evidence that AI will cause massive job losses. What then?
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Trump's War on Some Terror Directed Only at White European Christians

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emptywheel
Maybe Trump's terror list idiocy will finally lead people to rethink our mindless prioritization of the war on terror.
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BuzzFeed Now Looking to Institutional Dems to Police a Phantom Surge of Lefty Fake News

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emptywheel
In its latest installment of fake news about fake news, BuzzFeed suggests a barely existent fake news problem might prevent activists from focusing on "legitimate" topics.
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The Folks Who Picked the Stupid Seven Banned Countries Say the Muslim Ban Is Stupid

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emptywheel
Four of the people who signed an declaration opposing Trump's Muslim ban were involved in picking the seven poorly chosen countries that got targeted by it.
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John Yoo Wishes Trump Abused Executive Authority More Effectively

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emptywheel
John Yoo says Trump has gone too far. But mostly he says Trump isn't abusing Executive Authority effectively enough.
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Super Bowl 2017 Trash Talk

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bmaz
Here we are at the end of another NFL season. And the biggest sports day of the year. As you can see in the title, I have given up on the league's insistence on Roman numeral designators. We are not in Rome, and they make my head hurt after…
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Updates from the Russian Front

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emptywheel
Amid simmering news about the Russian hack, one of the people named in the Trump dossier has sued Buzzfeed.
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The Three Most Believed Fake News Stories of the Election (Tested by Stanford) Favored Hillary

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emptywheel
Democrats like to scold Trump voters for their fondness for fake news -- and it is true that more fake news supporter Trump during the election. But they often like to pretend they haven't fallen for fake news stories themselves.
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The FSB Purge: Two Narratives

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emptywheel
Some more details on the timing and narratives surrounding Putin's crack-down on FSB.
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Donald Trump, Making Canada Great Again!

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emptywheel
Tech companies may quickly take action in response to Trump's immigration actions that will significantly weaken the US.
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The Latest "Fake" News Tizzy: Garbage In, Garbage Out

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emptywheel
The latest pronouncement on "fake" news -- a study that misunderstands its basic data set -- yet again shows that those scolding about poor critical thinking skills may themselves exhibit poor critical thinking skills.
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