Betsy DeVos finds lawyer who decried discrimination against white people and puts her in charge of the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
It is what we might call ‘the consensus judgment’ that President Trump is a deeply ignorant man and perhaps a profoundly ignorant President. But it is worth stepping back and considering just what this means, the different kinds of ignorance that exist and how they differ. Read More
Word out of South Korea and Northeast Asia generally is that people in the region are seeing all the Trump winning and are getting sick of all the winning. The AP reports that Trump is finding Asian allies cool to a preemptive strike and The Washington Post Tokyo bureau chief last night suggested on Twitter that people in the region are more worried about rash action from President Trump than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which is really quite an achievement if you think about it. Read More
The last we heard of Trump campaign tough guy Boris Epshteyn he was being booted from the White House communications office and being found a job elsewhere in the Trump administration. Apparently that didn’t pan out. He’ll now be joining Sinclair Broadcasting as “chief political analyst.”
Folks following the Trump/Russia story have been talking about this article in the British Prospect, an interview with Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6 (1999-2004), the UK’s analogue to the CIA. The attention has been on this passage of the interview in which Dearlove talks about or speculates about whether Donald Trump may have been bailed out by loans from Russia or other parts of the former Soviet Union during the 2008 financial crisis. Read More
Here’s an interesting article in The Outline about how Google basically destroyed a small web publisher by stealing the information it created and using it for Google.
GOP town halls this week and last … well, not going all that well.
Ivanka bagged a string of Chinese trademarks for her luxury brand the same day she dinned with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
New York Times bestseller and award-winning journalist Bianca Bosker will be joining us in the Hive, Thursday at 2:00 p.m. to talk about all things food and wine. Feel free to send her questions about wine pairings, sommelier training and more. Submit your questions at any time below or join us Thursday at 2! If you’d like to participate but don’t have TPM Prime, sign up here.
We’ve been tracking the antics of would-be white nationalist leader Matthew Heimbach since he was a student at Townson State running a self-styled “White Student Union” and disrupting a 2013 CPAC breakout group “Trump The Race Card: Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called A Racist When You Know You’re Not One?”
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