StrangeSox

Trump taking another long weekend to go golfing in Florida. 22 of 84 days of his presidency has been spent at Mar-a-lago. That doesn't account for the couple days he spent at his other golf course, doing nothing Edit he's going there with zero senior staff too https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/...624467469664256

It's getting some coverage because it's the first use of the "largest noon nuclear bomb ever" and it seems like a weird use of it, but year ultimately if they had dropped the exact same amount of explosives but spread over smaller individual bombs, no one would have noticed.

That bomb to blow up a handful of ISIS guys cost $16m but remember there's no money in this country for meals on wheels

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/ap...am-links-russia

Age group most opposed to single payer are those that already have it.

After Campaign Exit, Manafort Borrowed From Businesses With Trump Ties https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/us/po...nald-trump.html

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 03:15 PM) Trump's flipped on three campaign promises today: -Won't label China a currency manipulator -Supports the Import-Export Bank -Calls NATO the "bulwark of international peace" (he had called it obsolete) And another, former senior White House staffer now going to work as a lobbyist https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles...-lobbying-group Ended up being a grand total of six campaign promises walked back or changed today. https://t.co/KBh33jaU4I

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 04:58 PM) Nobody knew it could be so complicated. This is why you don't elect Thanksgiving rant Uncle who thinks everything can be solved with "common sense" and"it's really simple" to be president.

Trump threatens to withhold payments to health providers in order to force Democrats to the table https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-threaten...29844?mod=e2twp

A Republican member of the NC legislature

Trump's flipped on three campaign promises today: -Won't label China a currency manipulator -Supports the Import-Export Bank -Calls NATO the "bulwark of international peace" (he had called it obsolete)

Manafort expected to register as foreign agent for past Ukraine work

"Why did this thing achieve critical mass but not this thing?" is an interesting question, but I don't know that anyone has an answer or that there's even a "right" answer of what should get people's attention and what shouldn't and in what proportions.

People react to visual stories more than print. Why did people care about Ray Rice more when the video came out, even though we had written descriptions of exactly what happened?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 09:21 AM) Oh god, now they are digging up dirt on this passenger. AWful. Crucified man had prior run-in with authorities

trump admin downplaying the effects of a shutdown

Paul manafort received over a million dollars from a Russian backed Ukrainian political party http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/manafort-fi...ger-payout.html

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 11:02 PM) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...0408-story.html Swedish PM says country can "no longer cope with the influx." That was something they said a year ago regarding the 2015 numbers. That's also not a direct quote.

Both GOP and Democratic sources say Nunes and Trump were wrong about unmasking allegations; Rice did nothing illegal. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/int...aims/index.html And the FBI has a fisa warrant on former Trump aide Carter Page https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...m=.1b8a17bd92f6

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 05:39 PM) Well at least he formally apologized for this one. Even he couldn't talk himself out of this one. He still issued a written statement that implies Jews weren't Germans. https://www.facebook.com/PressSec/posts/1666955626934539 And in his apology to Wolf Blitzer, he messed up again by defending Trump's efforts to "destabilize the region"

https://twitter.com/PatrickQuinnTV/status/8...src=twsrc%5Etfw

Tillerson Asks Why U.S. Taxpayers Should Care About Ukraine Tillerson is just so bad at his job.

DeVos dials back consumer protections for student loan borrowers