Abulsme.com: February 2017

@abulsme tweets from 2017-02-06 (UTC)

02:22:18 Retweeted @isaacccccccccc 00:14:26 Hillary Clinton should have used some of her leftover campaign cash to buy 30 seconds where she just says "Still worried about my emails?"
02:24:23 Retweeted @rodimusprime 02:14:45 If the Falcons win they should be the first NFL team to go visit the previous president's regular ass house. #SB51
02:25:26 Retweeted @rejectedjokes 00:28:52 If there's a commercial of the "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" dog taking a shit on a tiny wall I would eat Taco Bell for a week straight. #Superbowl
02:28:38 Wut? https://t.co/u9r1FrCrLY
02:39:37 Reading – Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles (Thrush/Haberman) https://t.co/8Y7Vv8ugJk
02:47:23 Retweeted @SwiftOnSecurity 02:39:40 Imagine finding out you removed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the National Security Council by hearing about it on CNN. in reply to SwiftOnSecurity
02:47:53 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 02:18:44 Trump signed the order putting Bannon on the NSC without knowing what it was. https://t.co/teUWEjfdep https://t.co/vKoRF63VS0
02:58:06 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom 02:00:41 Buried in the NYT story that just dropped today: "not fully briefed on the order he signed."
What a mess. https://t.co/MPqAsWlZoq
03:00:25 Retweeted @ParkerMolloy 02:23:17 1.) Amazing that straight-forward "yay America," "reach for the American dream," "land of opportunity" stuff is conвЂ¦ https://t.co/pCG9t75amk
03:15:46 Retweeted @katzish 03:08:03 My timeline is now 100% Super Bowl-election comparisons https://t.co/SHEqeC3yHE
03:17:07 Retweeted @AntonioFrench 03:14:51 Have we learned nothing? https://t.co/TCucYdYDiv
03:19:42 Retweeted @Nate_Cohn 03:15:04 Welcome back, everyone https://t.co/l19dHtnpHV
03:19:56 Retweeted @espn 03:17:27 Well. It’s been a roller coaster. https://t.co/CoRjDfEjOL
03:20:25 No, I'm not watching football. Don't do sports. But the Election comparisons have me amused. :-)
03:21:13 Retweeted @zeynep 03:20:21 May have a place on many gravestones, maybe one for the planet. Probability models are not like poll percentages. https://t.co/OwE7inQaKc in reply to zeynep
03:23:05 Retweeted @daveweigel 03:10:46 Can't believe the Falcons clicked on that Russian phishing email
03:23:16 Retweeted @NumbersMuncher 03:20:40 Atlanta should've visited Wisconsin and Michigan in the second half.
03:27:08 Retweeted @NumbersMuncher 03:26:44 The Atlanta Falcons won the popular vote.
03:27:40 Retweeted @jessieopie 03:26:34 Has Jill Stein requested a recount of the #SuperBowl results
03:29:07 Ok, are the election/football jokes over now? Ok, good, I can stop paying attention again. :-)
03:40:42 Retweeted @ananavarro 03:29:34 I don't know about you guys, but I am blaming the Falcons' loss on Anthony Weiner sexting with an underage girl.
03:45:45 Retweeted @intelwire 03:44:20 If only someone could come up with some kind of analogy between politics and football. If only.
03:46:46 Retweeted @zeynep 03:44:03 A 60-40% election is a landslide. A 60-40% probability model is a near toss-up, especially if error bars are sizeable (as they often are). in reply to zeynep
03:48:09 .@zeynep Even 90%-10% probability model is a pretty close thing. 10% is not trivial. Happens a lot. Well, 1 out of 10 times or so. :-) in reply to zeynep
04:48:36 Retweeted @ananavarro 03:11:36 Some time in the 3rd Quarter, Comey sent out a letter saying he was investigating the Falcons.
04:50:53 Retweeted @micahflee 03:31:05 Trump signed EO putting Bannon on National Security Council without realizing what he was signing. Now mad at BannoвЂ¦ https://t.co/Ghrs4tvWr5
04:52:10 Retweeted @beyond90seconds 04:49:54 Latest Winter Storm Warning (issued 8:43 PM). #WAwx #wasnow https://t.co/o3RHK2cWCT
05:39:05 Retweeted @iseff 05:38:28 This company went for it, are taking heat for it, and responding in the best way. If you're in construction, give tвЂ¦ https://t.co/97VNZF8tE5
07:04:55 Reading – Why Trump’s refugee order is unconstitutional (Ilya Somin) https://t.co/ZHMFFTfdR1
07:05:53 Retweeted @ShannonODKOMO 06:43:05 It's not often that we're in solid blue (snow!) up and down the I-5 corridor from Bellingham to Olympia. Let it snoвЂ¦ https://t.co/5JZzpesYGj
07:07:24 Retweeted @SeanTrende 06:46:12 So, your daily reminder that you don't get to round a 99.9 percent chance of something happening up to 100.
07:09:20 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 2017-02-05 23:46:56 Here's the Coke ad that ran tonightвЂ”it's basically one big subtweet of Trump. https://t.co/a6CYdTSnsw
07:09:27 Retweeted @BrendanNyhan 00:04:34 Any positive and inclusive vision of America now plays as anti-Trump https://t.co/s7SCxrTdG4
07:12:35 Retweeted @RonaldKlain 06:17:43 Remember the memes about VP Biden leaving a stumper for Trump? Well, light switch for the cabinet room was by the dвЂ¦ https://t.co/SUIjC7qbVZ
07:15:17 Reading – Queen is first British monarch to reach Saphire Jubilee (ITV) https://t.co/h9NZSZ5yy6
07:15:53 Retweeted @HeerJeet 2017-02-05 20:22:52 People need to stop pretending there is a large cache of "good Republicans" to win over. https://t.co/hMrKc0Ixe5
10:55:08 Retweeted @AGOWA 09:22:51 Bipartisan NatSec officials to court: вЂњIn our professional opinion, the Order was ill-conceived, poorly implementedвЂ¦ https://t.co/IcwsV2ijvQ
10:58:27 Retweeted @MarkARKleiman 10:40:23 Yes, they went there (p. 11):
"the so-called harm of second-guessing the President."

Well played! https://t.co/jV4Dv8NtiM
14:04:20 Retweeted @Brasilmagic 11:28:54 Exactly https://t.co/9fwu3wrHPA
16:14:46 Woke up to snow. Work from home day? Oops, power out too. :-/
16:21:41 Yup -> Never Believe the Republicans’ B.S. Ever Again (Brian Beutler) https://t.co/2lagtHin46
16:22:29 Retweeted @DerekMYoung 14:04:26 "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." – OrвЂ¦ https://t.co/cOV2b5kgur
16:27:32 Retweeted @quantick 11:23:16 Veep episodes we forgot to write. https://t.co/OAStnD1ZZu
16:30:27 Retweeted @SnoPUD 16:02:00 OUTAGE: We have 1,726 customers without power east of Everett Mall. Crews are on their way to assess and make any needed repairs.
16:39:37 Retweeted @JohnDingell 15:45:54 Luckily for them, setting the Constitution on fire provides at least a bit of working light. https://t.co/7IkqVG2J3D
16:51:08 Power back! Woo!
17:00:27 Agree with most of this -> How to Beat Trump (David Frum) https://t.co/yQMyuhatd4
17:30:16 Retweeted @justinhendrix 01:40:40 Turns out the jokes were true- he really DOESN'T read what #PresidentBannon puts in the executive ordersвЂ¦ https://t.co/xuBWjyJORa
18:11:30 Reading – The U.S. Megalopolis Isn't as Politically Powerful as You Think (David Byler) https://t.co/fqQ5VWExtA
21:35:13 Snow Miley https://t.co/hdBGkn7GZT https://t.co/XWsX15wmjR
23:41:22 This won't end well. https://t.co/WBClchBUrH
23:42:20 Retweeted @michael_hendrix 16:47:20 USS Gerald Ford launching trucks to test its jet catapult is the most American thing ever https://t.co/Tdet1eTKTN

@abulsme tweets from 2017-02-05 (UTC)

00:06:20 Retweeted @NatalieBrandK5 00:02:32 New: appeal filed, as expected, by attorneys for President Trump following Judge Robart's ruling to halt enforcemenвЂ¦ https://t.co/gW3yJzbr91
00:08:13 Retweeted @peterdaou 2017-02-04 02:52:03 I purposely toggle between CNN/MSNBC and Fox/Breitbart. You guys realize that Trump supporters are insulated from the stories we're seeing?
00:21:33 Reading – BuzzFeed sued over its publication of uncorroborated Trump dossier (Hall/Goldstein/Gordon) https://t.co/wbI4sHfqHD
00:24:54 Reading – How's The New President Doing? Voters In One Trump County Talk (Steve Inskeep) https://t.co/DdHZuHZ7FN
01:04:55 Retweeted @jaketapper 00:13:58 Fox aired interview excerpt
O'Reilly: Putin is a killer.

@POTUS Trump: There are a lot of killers. You think our country's so innocent?
01:16:37 Retweeted @MarkARKleiman 01:16:20 It's true. He's not faking it.
This clown absolutely doesn't have a clue
about how the United States works. https://t.co/Ll7urXJhDM
01:24:33 Retweeted @jeremyscahill 01:09:11 Takeaway from Trump is not that he is wrong about US engaging in mass killing. It is that he likes it and views it as acceptable, preferable
05:14:44 Retweeted @BraddJaffy 05:04:55 Oh my god Melissa McCarthy is SNL's Sean Spicer @nbcsnl https://t.co/tpA3XbKTwr
05:15:54 Retweeted @nbcsnl 05:13:12 "I'm here to swallow gum. And I'm here to take names." #SNL https://t.co/bS6XdX1N7i
05:26:50 Retweeted @mattzap 05:20:26 BREAKING: Government has filed appeal to 9th Circuit seeking to restore Trump immigration ban. https://t.co/X9UZaInBq0
05:30:47 Retweeted @crypticmusings 05:15:35 "Sean Spicer" using props is hilarious #SNL https://t.co/aycEbyWUzP
06:45:25 Actually LOLed -> SNL Mocks the Phone Calls From Trump and Steve Bannon: вЂAustralia Sucks, Your Reef Is Failing’ https://t.co/szD1XSyIAe
06:46:02 And even more -> Melissa McCarthy Plays Sean Spicer Going Nuts on Press in Hilarious SNL Sketch: вЂAPOLOGIZE TO ME!’ https://t.co/t8WJT7qx8F
06:54:32 Retweeted @snlester 2017-02-04 13:42:36 Wait, are we not allowed out? https://t.co/7dieQ56g9M
08:18:17 Watching – Reading comments with Physics Girl and getting zapped in the face (Simone Giertz) https://t.co/O8fAE0L6e7
08:38:14 Reading – Pinpointing a Fast Radio Burst (Paul Gilster) https://t.co/d4bchV8nMH
08:38:40 Retweeted @Statistikhengst 08:29:46 THIS JUST MADE MY SUNDAY https://t.co/Aui1w8HeNr
08:55:28 Retweeted @AGOWA 08:15:21 Trump Administration's request for immediate administrative stay DENIED. https://t.co/R3tTRPyv3U
16:55:47 Retweeted @W7VOA 16:32:06 Editorial cartoon @samscenarist. https://t.co/I0WY6CWN1z
17:07:28 Retweeted @yashar 15:01:22 Here's a high quality version of Melissa McCarthy's brilliant Sean Spicer sketch. So good! https://t.co/l21tVl3Dq3
18:29:23 Reading – How Washington State Upended Trump’s Travel Ban (Alexander Burns) https://t.co/UyqSV1k45Y
18:29:28 Retweeted @imbou 18:26:32 @abulsme this was the winning legal strategy in this suit, the administration is unlikely to disprove the claim… https://t.co/sL8VZdcvaa
18:37:30 Retweeted @MorganKIRO7 18:31:36 Warning is for 3-6" of snow with isolated spots of 8". This will snarl morning commute Monday. @KIRO7Seattle willвЂ¦ https://t.co/xfm8GCy7Di
20:39:07 Retweeted @markmackinnon 20:37:55 So the standard for ending sanctions against Russia over Ukraine no longer has anything to do with Ukraine? https://t.co/QRsgGgjufC
20:40:17 Oh FFS. Idiot. https://t.co/QwohwNq5aV
20:41:26 Retweeted @NPRinskeep 16:00:23 Hm. White House cut out CNN, offered Pence to other nets. @jaketapper talked instead to McConnell, had the day's most newsworthy interview.
20:49:32 Retweeted @BrendanNyhan 20:04:57 Overwhelming R support for Trump continues – pattern we write about here https://t.co/hQHYysW5U6 Seems to be holdinвЂ¦ https://t.co/TxrvdqtszC
21:14:18 Retweeted @bungdan 20:54:18 The US president is currently rooting for a mass casualty attack so he can justify gutting judicial independence. https://t.co/zFSMSqz3YS
21:14:36 Retweeted @ezlusztig 18:59:07 When POTUS calls journalists "the opposition" and declares war, they might as well be the opposition and go to war. https://t.co/dRzX0hrmB4
21:25:24 Retweeted @BecketAdams 14:09:17 The seemingly common life cycle of a news story in the Trump era. Guy who made distrust for media a pillar of his cвЂ¦ https://t.co/lUQHjn6Ynv
21:34:09 Retweeted @kristoncapps 20:19:37 Ninety percent of Republicans approve of Trump's first two weeks as president. I don't know y'all. https://t.co/1VhW6HYHuT
21:34:20 Retweeted @mikeyang 21:33:33 This is why we are still a long way from GOP Congress doing any checking and balancing. Not the bottom yet, sadly (вЂ¦ https://t.co/6UrhNiYAdP

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Roundtable

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner… something different! Sam, Ed, Jenn, and Matt host this week. They discuss Elizabeth Warren persisting, Donald Trump’s adventures in foreign policy, and Trump’s court battles. Finally they step back a bit and talk about the lack of civility in politics today. With Ivan out dealing with family issues this week, you get to hear a different range of perspectives than usual. Check it out!

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@abulsme tweets from 2017-02-04 (UTC)

00:02:52 Retweeted @AlexRozierK5 00:02:44 Feeling President Trump may have his first tweet directed at #Seattle in 3….2….1….. https://t.co/rIO43SamYS
00:14:35 Retweeted @chernandburn 00:02:31 Worth noting here that Judge Robart was a Bush II appointee. https://t.co/kEf82egZMR
00:34:39 Following @Jim_Brunner tweets during the hearing it didn’t seem the ruling was going to go that way…
00:40:49 Retweeted @KarenTumlin 00:17:37 4 those keeping score: enjoined just now (1) Syrian refugee ban; (2) suspension of refugee program; (3) suspension of visas from 7 countries
00:55:04 Retweeted @mattyglesias 00:51:02 On Earth 2, Clinton’s somewhat botched Yemen raid dominates the agenda for weeks & is the subject of multiple congressional investigations.
01:05:38 Retweeted @jasonrantz 01:05:24 Shouldn’t Republicans be *cheering* a ruling that lessens power to the Executive, putting it back in Congress?
01:24:09 Retweeted @StuPolitics 01:24:00 I would not want to be the person who had to tell President Trump about the federal judge’s order.
01:29:40 Retweeted @ClaraJeffery 01:27:37 If we don’t all die, this will not end well for GOP https://t.co/Q3xHiYVF2R
02:21:37 Retweeted @brianstelter 02:12:45 Per a CNN spokeswoman: In lieu of Pence, the W.H. offered Kellyanne Conway for an interview, but CNN declined https://t.co/qVDgi5jWOa
03:57:50 Retweeted @BNONews 02:41:18 BREAKING: U.S. CBP informs airlines it will begin re-instating visas after federal judge blocks Trump’s executive order for now – CNN
03:58:16 Retweeted @BNONews 02:51:49 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has told airlines to board travelers who were affected by Trump’s executive order – Reuters in reply to BNONews
03:58:22 Retweeted @BNONews 03:08:42 White House calls judge’s temporary restraining order “outrageous,” says the Department of Justice will seek an emergency stay
04:00:54 Retweeted @joshua_eaton 03:59:03 Here’s the relevant section of tonight’s TRO out of Seattle вЂ” https://t.co/GIakGFgtOY
04:01:27 Retweeted @aravosis 03:58:41 Suddenly Trump is opposed to leaking confidential political communications. https://t.co/c7PupSaMRw in reply to aravosis
04:06:47 Retweeted @SunFoundation 03:58:04 Filing obtained under FOIA by @propublica shows @realdonaldTrump to be sole owner & beneficiary of a revocable trusвЂ¦ https://t.co/KyE0nO9cGc
04:09:59 Reading: This dump of cracking tools shows how keeping software defects secret makes everyone less secure (Doctorow) https://t.co/Y1uFh6xfqY
04:14:28 Reading – Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Said to Have Helped Thwart L.G.B.T. Rights Rollback (Thrush/Haberman) https://t.co/8SvCAhSuHl
04:24:11 Retweeted @toddzwillich 03:19:08 Now the WH reissues its denouncement of Seattle judge order against travel ban with “outrageous” removed… https://t.co/dEQMnKRB2m
04:26:05 Retweeted @spectatorindex 2017-02-03 08:45:37 JAPAN: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country is not devaluing the Yen and that he is prepared to explain monetary policy to Trump
04:26:50 Retweeted @dandrezner 03:53:25 Four years of headlines about other heads of state having to speak patronizingly to our president. #headdeskвЂ¦ https://t.co/5zqheiuMXb
04:29:25 Elliot “convicted of lying to Congress in Iran-contra” Abrams. Trump admin raising the integrity bar once again.вЂ¦ https://t.co/u4G7JdGknN
04:30:53 Retweeted @NateSilver538 02:41:13 Call me cynical but seems very likely that “sources” portraying Jared & Ivanka in an heroic light are actually Jared & Ivanka.
04:33:55 Reading – Third-party candidates are one step closer to being onstage at 2020 presidential debates (Alex Thompson) https://t.co/iqIhIcMSwu
04:38:43 Reading – Travel Ban Drives Wedge Between Iraqi Soldiers and Americans (David Zucchino) https://t.co/Dvm5DNUbNq
04:39:40 Retweeted @AthertonKD 03:51:24 Look at how sad these dog-poison Labradors are advertising a box of dog poison. https://t.co/vM9SgLC4DV
04:47:19 Good -> Iranian baby coming to US for heart surgery after travel ban halt (Brooke Seipel) https://t.co/Xxi85NBewE
04:48:26 Retweeted @badass_w 2017-02-03 20:15:05 Trump restricts women’s rights, while Sweden’s Isabella Lovin trolls him by sharing a photo of her all-woman team sвЂ¦ https://t.co/1Z1ryPzvO4
04:49:13 Retweeted @kevinmccauley 02:57:46 Almost like Sally Yates knew the law or something https://t.co/NRDsV4dlrb
05:04:05 Reading – Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire (Craig/Lipton) https://t.co/xGnehkX7wL
08:04:22 Retweeted @alyssabereznak 2017-02-03 15:47:01 yep, there’s ivanka trump just casually sitting in on trump’s economic advisory council meeting https://t.co/qLh5VDpEq9
14:31:55 Retweeted @djrothkopf 13:31:34 Trump sits in his garish palace in W. Palm Beach tweeting attacks on our independent judiciary. We are already in a constitutional crisis.
14:34:22 Retweeted @peterwsinger 13:32:01 Every day on Twitter:
https://t.co/BuQk8lv5Zt
Via @JoeSondow
14:39:39 Reading – Trump officials slow-walked court orders on travel ban (Isaac Arnsdorf) https://t.co/unrSeYnQIm
14:41:13 Retweeted @brianklaas 14:20:33 So-called president might want to read the so-called Constitution. https://t.co/haEeFsWkhr
14:43:24 Retweeted @peterlattman 14:17:34 It feels like we’re entering a golden age of separation of powers litigation. Constitutional law professors, rejoicвЂ¦ https://t.co/7ckEwCSjkx
16:16:02 Signs of growing up? -> Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump’s immigration order (Josh Rogin) https://t.co/NNbxaDuBhi
16:18:21 Retweeted @Stonekettle 15:15:52 That moment when you discover that part about Checks and Balances most of us learned in 8th Grade. https://t.co/y0a4DWB8UA
16:19:39 Retweeted @fortnightlylist 16:17:24 The only shocking thing about this is that almost half the country seems to think it is a non-issue. https://t.co/KormAx59zl
16:38:05 The fly on the wall has spoken. -> https://t.co/NNbxaDuBhi https://t.co/GgXksosS94 in reply to abulsme
18:01:53 Retweeted @andrewsweiss 16:33:12 Trump WH was “dismayed that there was no provision for coordinating [Raqqa covert operation] w Russia.” #Syria https://t.co/ZpOsx5lDsW
18:37:50 Retweeted @JustinWolfers 10:57:49 Amazing diversity as Trump’s senior staff is sworn in: White men of many heights, tie colors https://t.co/bE61gSQ81B https://t.co/Gv3KFUm1HC
18:38:21 Retweeted @jessicaschulb 17:54:19 According to the White House, we now have two Defense Secretaries https://t.co/dgrc6EwwCv
18:41:40 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 18:37:51 The rule would have required investment advisors to act in your best interest, so they’re literally “protecting youвЂ¦ https://t.co/GMVxHyDyfe
18:45:01 Retweeted @BraddJaffy 17:25:30 White House just put out a recap of Trump’s calls w/foreign leadersвЂ”including the вЂњPresident of AustraliaвЂќ(AustraвЂ¦ https://t.co/7vvhNYkjZI
20:17:12 Podcasts I catch every ep: Common Sense, Hardcore History, Exponent, Hello Internet, Tank Riot, Axe Files, Drezbert, & Curmudgeon’s Corner.
20:18:07 I did a tweet like that yesterday, but forgot one! Oops! I subscribe to 100s of podcasts, but these are the ones I ALWAYS listen to! in reply to abulsme
20:27:39 Retweeted @sarahmozal 2017-02-03 08:23:31 Bring your baby. Teach her to vote. Teach her to govern. Dress like Licia Ronzulli in European Parliment.вЂ¦ https://t.co/S80KMqcbRC
20:29:33 Retweeted @mattmfm 20:21:48 This is turning into a disaster for House Republicans: congressman just walked out of town hall, avoiding questionsвЂ¦ https://t.co/lRGtQ9Ibtq
20:32:18 Reading – White House Pulls Back From Bid to Reopen C.I.A. вЂBlack Site’ Prisons (Charlie Savage) https://t.co/TUfHOCLLHg
20:44:59 There goes Trump again. Tweeting how he has no understanding of anything.
20:51:45 Retweeted @IfHillaryHad 20:51:33 IT’S CALLED CHECKS AND BALANCES, BITCH. https://t.co/Z1chTApEfY
20:52:10 Retweeted @AdamWeinstein 20:51:34 Call me crazy but “literally communicates no conception of American constitutional government” feels like what theвЂ¦ https://t.co/WDs8eEAtB1
20:52:21 Retweeted @ericgeller 20:51:49 Article III, Section 2, Clause 2. https://t.co/E07CbyPjvi
20:53:32 Retweeted @ashleyfeinberg 20:46:40 I know we all already know this, but it really cannot be overstated just how much our president is an idiot in reply to ashleyfeinberg
21:01:49 Retweeted @nielslesniewski 20:51:24 I said during one of the early primary debates that Trump should be asked if Marbury v. Madison was wrongly decided.
21:02:17 Retweeted @gnrosenberg 21:02:09 Don’t discount the chances that 1) He thinks this is true 2) He thinks it’s true because Bannon told him so 3) BannвЂ¦ https://t.co/0a8kfXWKTS
21:09:02 Retweeted @yashar 21:04:47 “Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with our future. Let me ask you: Have you even read the US conвЂ¦ https://t.co/X1IGZekF0v
21:18:40 Retweeted @matthewamiller 21:07:27 With every tweet, he is just making it harder and harder for DOJ attorneys to win in court. So keep it up, I guess. https://t.co/qQID6YEfC2
21:30:12 Retweeted @joshrogin 17:26:46 This article has been updated with Sean Spicer’s denial that Bannon traveled to Kelly’s office on Jan. 28. https://t.co/Zye95HmWXS
21:45:42 Does Donald not have anything else to do besides tweet today? There goes another.
22:03:13 Retweeted @HeerJeet 22:01:29 Make no mistake: Trump will blame next terrorist attack on the judge & use it as excuse to undermine judicial systeвЂ¦ https://t.co/q6UImh4gxi
22:03:24 Retweeted @prchovanec 22:02:42 I hate to say this, but ALL of this is building up to the next (virtually inevitable) terrorist attack of some kindвЂ¦ https://t.co/6OleiPpavg
22:07:04 Retweeted @theseantcollins 2017-01-31 05:22:10 If there’s a terrorist attack, which Trump goes to bed at night praying for, we must make it not the Reichstag Fire but a firing offense.
22:07:06 Retweeted @theseantcollins 2017-01-31 05:23:16 It’s probably best to start thinking that way now. If there’s a terrorist attack, Trump failed and has to go. in reply to theseantcollins
22:32:08 Retweeted @Scatterbrandy 22:31:19 .@abulsme does he ever? All he does himself tantrum, tell foreign leaders how big his crowd was and sign whatever Bannon slides in front. in reply to abulsme
22:32:22 Retweeted @dyllyp 22:32:07 I’d take Mittens Romney and his binder full of women at this point. Or even Chris Christie and his meat sweats. Literally anybody else. in reply to dyllyp
22:41:11 Retweeted @Scatterbrandy 22:37:41 .@yashar @abulsme @realDonaldTrump the answer to that question is , no. Because his privilege and celebrity have largely insulated him. in reply to yashar
22:56:01 Reading – The little-noticed bombshell in Trump’s immigration order (Danny Vinik) https://t.co/ENKuQqLGSb
23:22:55 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Head in a Vat https://t.co/inf4sylHro https://t.co/vqQOQAPOuK
23:27:05 Retweeted @mindyfinn 14:00:37 What line in the sand must Trump cross for freedom-loving conservatives to confront his authoritarianism? Silence, the quiet enabler, kills. in reply to mindyfinn
23:36:34 Reading – Can Trump Tell the Difference Between Truth and His Lies? (Kurt Eichenwald) https://t.co/RwLyDNbWAb
23:37:41 Retweeted @imbou 23:26:12 @abulsme https://t.co/RHbJ8zkzL9
23:38:01 .@imbou Mar-a-Lago? in reply to imbou
23:38:51 Retweeted @imbou 23:38:28 @abulsme I believe it’s the road heading there in reply to abulsme
23:40:02 Retweeted @SamEifling 2017-02-02 17:46:23 My 80-percent-white hometown in Arkansas is flying a Black Lives Matter banner downtown. Your move, literally everyвЂ¦ https://t.co/Fuii3LgROr

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Head in a Vat

It isn’t going to slow down, it is? Ivan and Sam take on Week 2 of the Trump presidency, which was just as nuts as the first week. They cover the immigration executive order and the reaction to it, the NSC shuffle and Trump’s contentious calls with Mexico and Australia, the riots in Berkley, the SCOTUS nomination and the Democratic response, what Republicans are planning on Obamacare, 25th amendment possibilities… and a lot more! Oh, and it was Ivan’s birthday. Happy Birthday Ivan!

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Recorded 2017-02-03
Length this week – 2:16:23

(0:00:36-0:20:22) But First
- Happy Birthday Ivan
- Agenda
- Busy week
- Ivan’s campaigns
- Attending protests
- Opinions changing?
(0:22:21-1:00:45) Immigration Order (mostly)
- Was it a Muslim ban?
- What the order did
- Incompetence or cunning?
- Process and purpose of EOs
- Polling on the Order
- Impacted people
- Spontaneous demonstrations
- Defying court orders?
- Monday Night Massacre
(1:01:54-1:31:01) International Issues (mostly)
- NSC shuffle
- Russia call
- Mexico call
- Australia call
- Yemen raid
- Berkley riot
- Quebec attack
(1:31:50-2:16:03) Domestic Stuff (mostly)
- SCOTUS Nominee
- Democratic Response
- Trump vs Republicans
- Bowling Green Massacre
- Obamacare
- 25th Amendment
- How will the Trump presidency end?
- Retreating from the news

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@abulsme tweets from 2017-02-03 (UTC)

01:00:35 Retweeted @MarkDiStef 2017-02-02 20:33:08 Wall-to-wall across the Australian tabloids today. https://t.co/WhGLWYLV0t
01:01:41 Retweeted @brianefallon 00:40:37 When Obama did 2014 exec order on immigration, DOJ issued 33pg legal memo. For Trump Muslim ban, we get form letter
https://t.co/UZcoQ0uq28
01:09:17 Reading – Trump Tells Israel to Hold Off on Building New Settlements (Peter Baker) https://t.co/2yOJoRfWlz
01:09:23 Retweeted @ExumAM 00:42:28 The story here for me is the aggressive, impressively effective diplomacy of King Abdullah. https://t.co/DvI4z1gtZx
01:11:53 Retweeted @CarlosLozadaWP 2017-02-02 18:40:51 “1984” replacing “Hillbilly Elegy” atop Amazon sales ranking means we’re now less concerned with how we got here than with where we’re going
01:18:44 Retweeted @rumpfshaker 2017-02-02 06:06:26 He’s literally admitting Bannon has value to the NSC as a *propagandist* – anyone see problem w/this?*throws hisвЂ¦ https://t.co/HehBPZ0qih
01:22:14 Retweeted @MarkLGoldberg 2017-02-02 22:14:52 Read this thread by a member of Obama’s Nat Sec Council https://t.co/hmYjX4ReQB
01:31:29 Reading – How to Get Trump Voters to Support Refugees, Obamacare (Olga Kahzan) https://t.co/moY1iAPdEk
01:31:50 Retweeted @leedrutman 01:23:12 Sadly, this is exactly what is happening. https://t.co/lYOThE5Wqk https://t.co/N3JouyJN6Z
01:43:08 Reading – Feds Arrest Five Congressional IT Contractors At The Capitol (John Stanton) https://t.co/X0M2GvZoKo
01:49:03 Retweeted @KevinMKruse 01:11:02 Polls asking about impeachment for Nixon didn’t reach this level until sixteen months into Watergate scandal. https://t.co/4FYXyYjKw0
03:43:37 Retweeted @BCAppelbaum 03:32:31 This is a great jobs day anecdote from @genebsperling:
https://t.co/2E31zpyrC9 https://t.co/05GjTs0WMC
04:31:34 Retweeted @chrislhayes 2017-02-02 16:31:40 This is the view shared broadly among Democratic legal types, even quite lefty ones. But it will get *no truck* witвЂ¦ https://t.co/iReSHljGXg
14:04:04 Retweeted @TechnicallyRon 13:26:00 “So Kellyanne, what are Trumps new policies?”
“Dogs can talk”
“what”
“The moon is a lie”
“Mrs Conway”
“Most Giraffes are terrorists”
14:13:08 Retweeted @robferdman 13:17:25 5 days ago, a white nationalist Trump supporter killed 6 people at a mosque in Quebec.Trump said nothing.
TheвЂ¦ https://t.co/xZQX9I7hkq
16:18:35 Retweeted @A_single_bear 16:08:57 Sometimes I think something bad happened & then I remember it did not. I am glad I know the difference between happen & did not happen.
16:49:34 Retweeted @ezlusztig 2017-02-01 18:46:40 Random, disparate responses indicate total lack of Dem coordination in anticipation of a moment they’ve known was coming for months. How?
16:49:39 Retweeted @ezlusztig 2017-02-01 18:48:28 The Dems had over a year to plan a response to Trump nominee in wake of R obstruction on Merrick Garland. This is tвЂ¦ https://t.co/8OfdgnuX98
17:27:04 Retweeted @SCClemons 06:33:41 Repeat. Two (& perhaps more) @SecretService Mgr level staff abtuptly forced to resign tonight & escorted out of EEOB #trump #whitehouse
17:29:08 Retweeted @natsecHeather 15:10:45 #BowlingGreen massacre Twitter snark misses point: what % Americans believe a jihadist mass killing has happened near them?
17:29:28 Retweeted @chrissyfleps 17:20:52 Next week’s New Yorker and next week’s Spiegel. https://t.co/tv6AfACmhk
17:34:32 Retweeted @imbou 17:34:19 @abulsme @rebliv go CMU! https://t.co/daMOmUvpNu
17:35:46 Retweeted @mattyglesias 15:19:27 Trump is signing an order making it legal for banks to deliberately give you bad financial advice for profit.
17:41:41 Thread on 1 of the court proceedings on the EO. Think it is mistake for opponents to argue based on intent insteadвЂ¦ https://t.co/424s86RKFE
17:45:51 Retweeted @CNN 16:13:01 Meet Hass. He’s the only Libyan refugee who made it into the US in the fiscal year 2016 https://t.co/squHyVNI81 https://t.co/kPajNqy7ZH
17:49:33 Reading – Government reveals over 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban (Weiner/Jouvenal) https://t.co/L2vN1Nl42X
17:51:24 Retweeted @woodruffbets 17:27:15 -Spicer on Monday: the EO just slowed down 109 people-DOJ lawyer on Friday: the EO meant 100k people lost their visas
17:56:05 Retweeted @brhodes 2017-02-02 15:08:06 Everything Trump says here is false. Iran was not collapsing. Deal is with 6 countries. Iran did not get 150 billioвЂ¦ https://t.co/sulfl2mO30
18:11:46 Retweeted @APDiploWriter 18:01:45 .@statedept says visas revoked by immigration EO is <60k, NOT >100k as DoJ lawyer told court. DoJ didn’t cull diplomatic and expired visas.
18:13:32 Retweeted @BecketAdams 15:33:25 So about Trump’s call with Putin.Woof, man. Just woof. https://t.co/TDghBrBjb1
18:24:44 Retweeted @xor 17:56:57 Critics charge that Trump is looting the country to enrich his friends. Trump counters that he’s looting the countrвЂ¦ https://t.co/wO5B8OEIg7
18:36:38 Reading – The leaks coming out of the Trump White House right now are totally bananas (@thefix) https://t.co/OMuTwl45MZ
18:49:29 Retweeted @charlesornstein 18:49:10 Government agency, meet government agency. Sort this out and give us the correct figure. https://t.co/8OPP1hrJ4O
18:49:39 Retweeted @MattMurph24 17:38:31 Sean Spicer taking credit for Obama’s final jobs report. Funny how the stats aren’t fake now.
18:50:26 Retweeted @Rob_Flaherty 18:49:40 Congrats, y’all. We’ve made it through 1% of Donald Trump’s presidency.
19:16:58 Reading – Trump Muslim Ban Executive Order Violated Executive Order About Executive Orders (Jon Schwartz) https://t.co/vhoCI1Gll4
19:33:47 Was set up to work from home. Internet went down. Don’t know why. Now setting up at @starbucks for a bit instead.
19:38:53 Details of what she was actually thinking of -> Kellyanne Conway’s claim of a вЂBowling Green massacre’ (Kessler) https://t.co/vUj5tpgJjv
20:11:51 Listening to Exponent Episode 103 вЂ” Dull Knives Don’t Cut
via iCatcher! https://t.co/F5nqFdqfts
21:25:28 Reading – Chelsea Clinton finally finds her political voice вЂ” and it’s edgy (Aaron Blake) https://t.co/wNbpx3ZbZC
21:39:11 Retweeted @rebliv 20:53:08 A question all Americans should ask themselves: What’s your red line? https://t.co/w6tLgN6ivD
21:41:15 Retweeted @joanne_stocker 18:47:19 “They’re not behaving,” POTUS said, and the pool was escorted out of the Oval at 1:20. https://t.co/HdUgxZ1iAR
21:45:50 Listening to Hello Internet H.I. #77: Woah, Dude
via iCatcher! https://t.co/LlDgZ7xzvs
21:49:33 Podcasts I try to catch every episode: Common Sense, Hardcore History, Exponent, Hello Internet, Tank Riot, Axe Files, Curmudgeon’s Corner.
21:50:23 Retweeted @ddayen 21:28:26 Point of the EO swarm is to live the presidency at high volumes so low-info voters will hear “repealed bad thing,” not “ordered a report”
22:02:59 Retweeted @nktpnd 21:08:29 That moment when you get information on whether its safe to travel to the United States of America from *Amnesty InвЂ¦ https://t.co/ajdJy5vuzX
22:04:24 Retweeted @georgejoseph94 22:02:52 Law enforcement asked Facebook to turn over account info on someone arrested at the anti-Trump Inauguration protestвЂ¦ https://t.co/8WuCE5r3Di
22:04:37 Retweeted @kkondik 22:03:46 RCP Trump 45.9 approve/48.6 disapprove, almost exactly the same as popular vote spread (disapproval just a few tenths higher than HRC share)
22:05:50 Retweeted @AoDespair 22:03:01 Story being retracted now: Not SS, but other WH security fired. Still fearful about private security supplanting puвЂ¦ https://t.co/VJ5SaAKNZJ
22:42:38 Retweeted @Jim_Brunner 22:38:52 Hearing in state of WA vs. Trump has begun before federal judge James Robart in Seattle #ImmigrationOrder
23:51:43 Boom https://t.co/2tQnn1NQVj

@abulsme tweets from 2017-02-02 (UTC)

00:00:25 Reading – Trump to Mexico: Take care of ‘bad hombres’ or US might (Vivian Salama) https://t.co/LD1XiS1SyZ
00:01:23 Retweeted @alexburnsNYT 2017-02-01 23:55:48 Something kinda dissonant about seeing Obama hanging out w/Branson & Clinton cutting book deal as a furious Dem base takes to the streets
00:04:11 Reading – White House tweaks Trump’s travel ban to exempt green card holders (Gerstein/Nussbaum) https://t.co/14K7JPAAJP
00:04:32 Retweeted @danpfeiffer 2017-02-01 23:55:38 Take a moment and cogitate on this: the President threatened to invade Mexico. Yes, Mexico. This would be funny ifвЂ¦ https://t.co/BE4TlbOKU9
00:05:08 Retweeted @mattdpearce 2017-02-01 23:55:12 you’re next, Trudeau
00:05:13 Retweeted @dansolomon 2017-02-01 23:55:12 so close, but I had February 3rd in the вЂњwhen will the President of the United States threaten to invade MexicoвЂќ poвЂ¦ https://t.co/kgHHhW5xjz
00:05:38 Retweeted @MrGeorgeWallace 2017-02-01 23:19:50 I’m showin’ up to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s house every damn mornin’ with a kale smoothie and a shitload of vitamins and whatnot.
00:07:11 Retweeted @AndrewBeatty 2017-02-01 23:46:49 The White House tells me POTUS did not threaten to invade Mexico. https://t.co/93Np22bgUm
00:10:23 Retweeted @bungdan 2017-02-01 23:41:41 Mexico’s foreign ministry absolutely savages unsourced story claiming Trump behaved like a maniac on call with EPN. https://t.co/YRLWXWmB7x
00:25:02 Retweeted @ianbremmer 00:20:57 If we’re going to invade Mexico, important to do it BEFORE we build the wall. #logistics
00:59:25 Reading – Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam – sources (Ainsley/Volz/Cooke) https://t.co/VJ23BCzOo9
01:17:18 Retweeted @jesseltaylor 00:13:34 The Trump administration has threatened some form of military action in at least three countries since January 20th.
01:17:23 Retweeted @KevinMKruse 00:15:26 Maybe Chicago, too. https://t.co/A34tOHFsC3
01:26:36 Pissing off Australia too? -> On call with Australian prime minister, Trump badgers and brags (Miller/Rucker) https://t.co/YJL5T2g119
01:30:28 Retweeted @PhilipRucker 01:14:00 Hearing from Aussies that PM Turnbull was just asked about our story at a news conference and no-commented https://t.co/3H89od0ScH
01:30:47 Retweeted @polly 01:15:15 I feel like we shouldn’t fuck with a country that has so many kangaroos idk
01:30:59 Retweeted @poniewozik 01:15:24 You elites can laugh, but I spent a week in Michigan & all the locals cared about was putting Australia in its place https://t.co/fomTIeRq9b
01:31:35 Retweeted @varadmehta 01:15:02 Remember: there will be a hell of a lot more phone calls with foreign leaders than Supreme Court appointments over the next four years.
01:34:12 Retweeted @JamesFallows 00:45:23 2 astonishing aspects of story.
-Unhinged behavior by DJT, to very suave PM of very close ally;
-Purposeful high-leвЂ¦ https://t.co/fDPHoqZPv4
01:36:03 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 01:12:20 We still like you, Australia. He’s just weird. (Sorry.)
01:37:30 Retweeted @political_alert 01:06:16 PM: “These conversations are conducted candidly, frankly, privately. If you see reports of them, I’m not going to add to them.” #auspol in reply to political_alert
01:37:58 Retweeted @ddiamond 01:04:39 Australia is at least the fifth major nation antagonized by Trump team in past week. (China, Iran, Mexico, Germany.) https://t.co/doAHjth0KG
03:00:55 Seriously people? Don’t do this shit. https://t.co/Y1ahZhO6WS
03:26:11 Retweeted @Acosta 02:32:34 Source familiar with Trump foreign leader calls says the POTUS convos are turning faces “white” inside the WH.
03:26:19 Retweeted @poniewozik 03:01:33 Aren’t those just the actual faces https://t.co/p3A1gEu2u3
04:49:06 How much do R’s need to convince them he is a disaster? https://t.co/KBJVq5gKDZ
04:49:22 Retweeted @Evan_McMullin 04:22:58 Retweet if you’d trade @realDonaldTrump for a refugee any day of the week. <symbol><symbol> https://t.co/3JVHrHqzJV
04:50:01 No. No. No. Idiots. https://t.co/PmZpHmdqtN
04:56:29 Reading – Questions Cloud U.S. Raid on Qaeda Branch in Yemen (Schmidt/Sanger) https://t.co/1SBJSsDwvT
04:56:46 Retweeted @RosieGray 04:28:56 the pace of completely off-the-wall stuff happening is now down to about once an hour
05:04:06 Retweeted @ExumAM 03:51:58 This strikes me as unfair criticism of the president. The task force commander, CJCS, and Secretary of Defense owneвЂ¦ https://t.co/VLWZi1KM46
05:04:10 Retweeted @ExumAM 03:52:58 Sure, the president ultimately approved the operation. But almost certainly not before his closest military advisors recommended it. in reply to ExumAM
05:04:14 Retweeted @ExumAM 04:06:03 One final word before signing off for the night: keep your powder dry for things the president *does* need to be blamed for. You’ll need it. in reply to ExumAM
05:07:21 Reading – U.S. military probing more possible civilian deaths in Yemen raid (Ayesha Rascoe) https://t.co/9spX9TG3YB
05:07:44 Retweeted @morningmoneyben 04:59:17 Yemen, Mexico, Australia, Frederick Douglas, all these could be signifcant stories. But the sheer volume makes it very difficult.
05:09:10 Retweeted @MileHighBecky 04:58:43 This has got to be the luckiest lady on earth with Trump explosions distracting from this scandal. https://t.co/zpKsyBBQeg
05:10:40 Retweeted @elakdawalla 01:47:54 Dear Mexico and Australia I am so ashamed and sorry please don’t be mad at us
05:15:59 Retweeted @cjciaramella 04:47:02 Wheeee https://t.co/pGlIUM3iHD
05:16:42 Retweeted @BrendanNyhan 04:55:03 More accurately: inside the House/Senate Republican Caucus https://t.co/upXR4aEmEw in reply to BrendanNyhan
05:18:10 Retweeted @shelleyaw123 05:17:12 @abulsme How can he be gaining favorability through all this? Australia? in reply to abulsme
05:19:19 .@shelleyaw123 Polls lag, and poll averages more so. Most recent poll covers Sat-Tue. But it may just be a good number of people like this. in reply to shelleyaw123
05:19:52 Retweeted @81sportsfan 03:54:52 Students destroy property at UC Berkeley so Milo can’t speak. Milo then goes on Fox for 30 minutes to be heard by millions. Nice work.
05:23:23 Retweeted @rebliv 05:22:31 Assuming we’re still a country, our next president is going to have to go on a massive, never ending, international apology tour.
05:35:28 Retweeted @20committee 03:35:39 Trump is insane. We have proof now. He needs to be removed from office. Peacefully, one hopes. @GOP, you know what you have to do — do it.
05:36:51 Retweeted @shelleyaw123 05:26:29 “…approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequatвЂ¦ https://t.co/IebV4dk3xy
05:37:06 Retweeted @20committee 04:21:41 Still on this. That Trump would needlessly berate Australia, our true friend & ally (short list that)…yeah, fuck that guy, truly. Totally.
05:42:41 Retweeted @SkyNewsAust 03:33:16 #BREAKING Sky News sources say Donald Trump was ‘yelling’ during his phone conversation with PM Turnbull and hung uвЂ¦ https://t.co/KQfvQHJBmV
05:43:34 Retweeted @HeerJeet 03:40:57 @20committee GOP won’t do this — too much of base loves Trump. Our only hope is Dems win congress in 2018 & impeach in reply to 20committee
05:43:44 Retweeted @20committee 03:42:29 Not sure the world has that long.https://t.co/cl1wduUCL6
05:43:50 Retweeted @20committee 03:41:39 To save the Republic and possibly the world we need to contemplate things which are very abnormal. But these are most abnormal times.
05:46:13 Retweeted @wilw 05:24:09 You forgot America. https://t.co/txBdVpJBfX
05:46:29 Retweeted @scott_tobias 05:20:37 Is the assumption that no one is paying attention to this sort of thing or is it just YOLO time for blatant corruptвЂ¦ https://t.co/l5APYDfMp1
05:48:13 Retweeted @scottlincicome 2017-02-01 17:30:19 So the WH, apparently unaware of EU law re trade negotiations, has contacted indiv member states to negotiate bilatвЂ¦ https://t.co/uC4gxvAzuy
05:48:40 Retweeted @StephanieCarvin 03:12:40 Australia right now. https://t.co/Phwvnejoub
05:49:47 Retweeted @kbeninato 03:27:02 “It was at the end of a long day & he was tired & fatigue was setting in.”
CNN on White House’s response to Trump’s hanging up on Aussie PM.
06:09:00 Agree with thread. -> https://t.co/6rNIIzhxzb
06:15:30 Retweeted @conor64 06:04:32 Let me help “denormalize” that again: initiating violence is wrong. And it does not stop fascists, it both mimics aвЂ¦ https://t.co/NTEoVhvVAM
06:15:55 Retweeted @JuddLegum 03:13:23 Virginia’s Solicitor General alleges Trump is in contempt of court, ignoring order on Muslim ban https://t.co/hJeoQd1H22
06:22:46 Retweeted @Susan_Hennessey 2017-01-30 22:48:09 Note that George W Bush now spends time painting portraits of service members harmed while carrying out his orders. https://t.co/eEcqOvFC4m
06:39:35 Retweeted @mistressmatisse 04:47:34 When you’re watching the news thinking “Please God, let that guy who wants women to hold funerals for their tampons become President soon.”
07:01:16 Retweeted @schemaly 05:40:45 “She doesn’t have the look. She doesn’t have the stamina,” Trump said as media dedicated 13x more coverage to her hвЂ¦ https://t.co/XQH4FxgZCW
07:06:27 This makes me so angry. https://t.co/LDaHIPukBP
07:09:41 Retweeted @franklinleonard 06:26:00 Thread. https://t.co/oEUxNln5qf
07:15:38 FFS -> Trump’s Supreme Court pick founded and led club called ‘Fascism Forever’ at his prep school (Alana Goodman) https://t.co/cL1nkT7pv4
07:27:55 Retweeted @GlennKesslerWP 03:16:36 Why all of the leaks out of Trumpland? People leak when the process is messed up, their input is not valued and/or the boss lacks respect.
07:32:02 Retweeted @DanKaszeta 07:14:53 They may be fake, but they are funny. And possibly not fake, in which case this is scary. https://t.co/ylOUI2itmI
07:32:18 Retweeted @GlennF 2017-02-01 06:11:45 The reason they’re saying protests are pointless and don’t work is because they’re working. You don’t criticize something you can ignore.
07:35:25 Retweeted @KatyTurNBC 04:20:27 Well this essentially confirms the contentious call w Australia PM. https://t.co/SAqzdzoSd2
07:35:45 Retweeted @Nick_Ashdown 07:11:45 Is he a six year old boy who missed nap time? https://t.co/IRzZaPRT4a
07:37:42 Retweeted @netw3rk 05:31:17 I think it’s bad that the president is a 70-year old possibly mentally ill man fully under the sway of white supremacists
13:00:22 Retweeted @KING5Seattle 12:56:22 Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter. #GroundhogDay https://t.co/8S97g7Lbyt
13:02:05 Retweeted @HotlineJosh 03:17:33 The extent to which many otherwise smart Trump defenders won’t believe ANYTHING from mainstream press is remarkable. Poisonous to democracy.
13:02:31 Retweeted @ericgeller 2017-02-01 14:48:00 Reporters fantasize about getting this kind of quote. https://t.co/p1OAcRAi0Y https://t.co/nKem3gRpL6
13:10:40 Reading – Resistance from within: Federal workers push back against Trump (Eilperin/Rein/Fisher) https://t.co/f7TTM9T115
13:14:54 Retweeted @ReformedBroker 12:02:16 вЂњomg wtf right?вЂќtext from Australian PM to Mexican President
14:14:11 Retweeted @HeerJeet 14:03:42 Gaslighting has now become part of American foreign policy. https://t.co/dtqUq7WvCW
17:56:28 Retweeted @BNONews 17:37:41 Sunday’s U.S. raid in Yemen killed as many as 23 civilians, including a newborn baby and 10 other children, human rights group Reprieve says
17:57:22 Retweeted @zerohedge 17:31:52 ICYMI: US Eases Sanctions Against Russia https://t.co/IHfK2p11H2
17:58:22 Retweeted @PeterAlexander 17:13:10 BREAKING: US Treasury Dept easing Obama admin sanctions to allow companies to do transactions with Russia’s FSB, successor org to KGB.
18:00:39 Retweeted @RawStory 16:22:37 Foreign policy insider: вЂNo readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording’вЂ¦ https://t.co/mQGUBRqiSY
19:02:07 Retweeted @MarkHarrisNYC 18:09:16 Remember that poll from a few days ago showing 48-41 approval for the Muslim ban? Things seem to have changed. https://t.co/IJibaBzVpP
20:33:13 I predicted right after Election Day that this presidency would end early due to unhappy Trump resigning. More in tвЂ¦ https://t.co/2lVJXha8kE in reply to ericgarland
20:39:33 Retweeted @SteinarWestin 09:11:26 Carl Sagan: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – ” @AllenFrancesMDвЂ¦ https://t.co/8rYU8jahjF
20:51:52 Reading – John McCain Calls Australia’s Ambassador To Clean Up Trump’s Mess (Amanda Terkel) https://t.co/kgNrqcxQU7
21:22:25 Retweeted @PaulBlu 20:58:35 Again, no love for Georgetown Prep kids, but the Fascism Forever Club thing is just a joke https://t.co/hleFhTsHtY
21:40:11 Retweeted @ForecasterEnten 20:58:37 Early days yet (ergo check back in a week), but no sign yet that Trump took a public opinion hit because of his immigration/refugee EO.
21:41:55 Retweeted @JamesSurowiecki 14:22:39 This is pretty extraordinary. NYT now has the biggest readership of any US paper. And doubling subscriptions in a yвЂ¦ https://t.co/JX4I217YGV
22:19:22 Reading – Donald Trump has built a wall. It’s in Washington Dulles International Airport. (Tara Golshan) https://t.co/0XdrLgkS4e
22:21:37 Reading – Howard Stern: Trump wants to be loved, presidency will be ‘detrimental’ to his mental health(Kaczynski) https://t.co/aGeouZw5iF
22:25:23 Retweeted @neal_katyal 22:05:21 Wow. That’s it? If this is how OLC is going to review the legality of executive action from now on, we are in forвЂ¦ https://t.co/N9Pr5ShRFf
22:31:31 Reading – The G.O.P. Campaign to Repeal Obamacare Hits a Wall (Pear/Abelson) https://t.co/Ys06mGbS1Z
22:36:19 Retweeted @BNONews 22:11:31 U.S. Ambassador Haley says Crimea-related sanctions against Russia will remain in place until the peninsula is returned to Ukraine
22:43:44 Retweeted @kkondik 22:33:43 Something that seems obvious but is easy to forget. The actual hearings & oppo research on Gorsuch do matter to Dems’ ability to fight him
23:11:19 Retweeted @conor64 23:03:13 Campus condemns violence, defends free speech | Left and right should read this statement from UC Berkeley https://t.co/L7tgpIVvsq
23:16:42 Retweeted @jonfavs 16:18:20 Biden’s top national security aide https://t.co/GaaeZ937Ww

@abulsme tweets from 2017-02-01 (UTC)

00:16:13 Retweeted @BrashEQLibrium 2017-01-31 23:54:20 Hey @GOP, tit for tat is an evolutionarily stable strategy, mother fuckers. https://t.co/QOXcFrs5TF
00:29:53 Oops. -> Family of Syrians Deported From Philadelphia Voted for Donald Trump (Chang/Lozano/Gutierrez) https://t.co/KKLOi7ikK4
00:33:24 Retweeted @matthewamiller 2017-01-31 02:31:55 A president who fires an AG over this will think he can fire an AG over, say, a probe into whether his campaign coordinated w/ Russia.
00:33:49 Retweeted @PeterAlexander 00:28:58 SCOOP: “Only 1 of the 2” SCOTUS finalists made it to DC today, per WH official. Means *no “Apprentice”-style showdown. @HallieJackson
00:34:20 Retweeted @NoahCRothman 00:30:51 Wait… does this mean the next Supreme Court Justice was whoever made it to D.C. on time? in reply to NoahCRothman
00:42:31 Retweeted @JuddLegum 00:07:50 14 Senate Democrats have voted for every Trump nominee so far (5) https://t.co/Pp5SpY72Fm
01:04:06 Retweeted @Bencjacobs 01:03:47 It’s Gorsuch per the teleprompter
01:04:45 Retweeted @CNBCnow 01:04:06 BREAKING: President Donald Trump selects federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch to fill U.S. Supreme Court vacancвЂ¦ https://t.co/s44lagN2VG
01:09:53 Retweeted @joshgerstein 01:06:58 Trump just said a justice can serve for 50 years. Perhaps one can, but no one ever has. 36 years 7 months max
01:11:04 Retweeted @ananavarro 01:07:17 Not sure if this is Miss Universe or final episode of The Apprentice, but President Trump delivered on an impt. promise he made to his base.
01:11:14 Retweeted @BresPolitico 01:06:16 Hardiman sighs, shakes head, sends gas receipt to White House.
01:13:10 Retweeted @emptywheel 2017-01-31 13:20:20 Can people stop claiming Lindsey and McCain are standing up to Trump until they start voting against him? Don’t get played here, media.
01:13:27 Retweeted @Hegemommy 01:07:31 Gorsuch is difficult to block. He’s a solid choice. Kennedy clerk. Well respected. Conservative as hell
01:15:15 Retweeted @ericgeller 01:08:40 Seems like a missed opportunity for Obama that he didn’t nominate someone to fill this Supreme Court vacancy.
01:17:01 Retweeted @Fahrenthold 01:09:37 Uh…what happened to the other one? Do we need to send out a search party? https://t.co/yzIrZrDDii
01:17:43 Retweeted @HorsleyScott 01:08:22 If Gorsuch is confirmed, it will be a 6-3 Court. 6 Harvard. 3 Yale.
01:43:33 Retweeted @pbump 01:36:31 CNN seeks a broad range of input on the Gorsuch pick, flipping the dial from Cruz all the way over to Mike Lee. in reply to pbump
02:54:51 Retweeted @jonathanchait 02:51:03 It’s good to hear Trump picked a respected conservative, since anybody he selected, regardless of merit, was goingвЂ¦ https://t.co/2sO3aYe5vC
02:55:08 Retweeted @Yair_Rosenberg 02:38:07 Here’s the thing: a principled small government states’ rights jurist is really the best liberals could hope for inвЂ¦ https://t.co/Z5O7CjjpXF
03:45:11 Retweeted @KellyO 03:31:42 WH says Hardiman was notified by phone and did not drive to D.C. WH says reports of him being seen unrelated https://t.co/OWxnDBC4o1
03:53:10 Retweeted @davidsirota 03:30:47 Overton Window = Trump nominating a right wing extremist & Dems breathing a sigh of relief that at least he didnt nominate Emperor Palpatine
04:13:22 Retweeted @AndrewWMullins 01:08:43 Every single one of these Senators voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch in 2006. https://t.co/qBy7MGo4UG
04:14:15 Retweeted @pbump 03:55:09 I just realized that Google Street View is Myst.
04:20:28 Reading – Trump scraps signing of cybersecurity executive action (Jordan Fabian) https://t.co/bj5XykgeI7
04:23:15 Retweeted @davidfrum 01:57:20 Everyone’s going to enjoy the Gorsuch debate, because it’s the kind of debate you would have if things were normal.
04:24:10 Retweeted @selenarevivals 2017-01-31 19:56:06 This is a game changer https://t.co/fu8Ekb4a2f
04:24:19 Retweeted @MikeOkuda 03:29:10 Trump shouldn’t get to appoint a justice in the final year of his presidency.
04:30:02 Retweeted @robinthede 03:31:47 Obama got his hat to the back like it’s 1990 and trump isn’t president. GET YO ASS BACK HERE… with respect, sir. https://t.co/wJKI4602Gx
04:30:12 Retweeted @maura_healey 2017-01-31 00:25:49 I don’t wake up every day looking for a way to sue Donald Trump. But we are 10 days in and I’ve filed three cases already.
04:57:31 Retweeted @chrislhayes 04:56:44 As I said on TV tonight, as far as norms, traditions, fair play, etc: It’s all out the window. God is dead and all is permitted.
05:27:05 Retweeted @Filmdrunk 04:14:55 I can’t believe we live in a world where a person can say these things (and I checked, he did) without irony ONE YEвЂ¦ https://t.co/NdY6ywLBdZ
05:28:22 Retweeted @claytoncubitt 05:02:37 Never attribute to Machiavellian genius what sheer brazen dickery will explain.Fascism isn’t chess, it’s street thuggery in office.
05:28:43 Retweeted @ezlusztig 2017-01-31 09:57:59 Republicans: Say it with me – Radical Christian Terrorist. If you can’t say it, you can’t fight it. https://t.co/Y2ocKfMoE4
05:31:00 Retweeted @alexandraerin 2017-01-31 20:31:22 Does everybody understand how big it is that the U.S. Marshal service has been ordered to ignore judicial orders & answer to the executive?
05:33:06 Reading – Detroit family caught in Iraq travel ban, mom dies waiting for approval to come home (Amy Lange) https://t.co/BXaE4QM1gu
05:34:29 Retweeted @chrislhayes 2017-01-31 20:50:33 It’s not about security: it’s about cultural, racial, religious and ethnic purity. THEY EVEN SAID IT. https://t.co/3HvhAWmn5j
05:34:49 Retweeted @ProfSaunders 01:50:14 We now return to our regularly scheduled collapse of the liberal international order.
05:42:13 Retweeted @RepMarkTakano 01:19:41 Just like Merrick Garland, Neil Gorsuch is a respected judge. He should receive the same type of fair & honest consideration in the Senate.
05:44:04 Retweeted @nytimes 05:21:05 How each senator voted on President Trump’s cabinet nominees https://t.co/XPuwsU8AlX https://t.co/yJIVK3sCdn
05:47:12 Retweeted @kevinroose 03:18:31 Jerry Falwell Jr. will be leading Trump’s higher education task force. Here’s a science textbook I was assigned atвЂ¦ https://t.co/M22Z28nmpp
06:10:19 Fleeing the US into Canada. :-( -> ‘They want a country to call home’ (Randy Turner) https://t.co/7TjR50G1VO
06:30:44 I think I may agree with this logic -> Make Republicans Nuke the Filibuster to Confirm Gorsuch (Jonathan Chait) https://t.co/FxwEv2ZHkX
06:33:28 Thread. And yes, this is needed. -> https://t.co/XMifcBzSwf
06:39:23 Retweeted @FrankConniff 05:34:50 Supreme Court appointments give us the chance to pause and reflect on how progressives who don’t vote or vote 3rd party are assholes.
06:49:52 Retweeted @XSovietNews 2017-01-31 20:54:40 Some of the mysterious recent Russian deaths. Thanks @christogrozev for the inspiration. https://t.co/QrZhBWFHB3
06:56:09 Retweeted @FreddyAmazin 01:22:46 Ellen DeGeneres’ response to Donald Trump screening “Finding Dory” at The White House is everything: https://t.co/ox8FFISqhK
07:03:58 Reading – Why Democrats Should Oppose Neil Gorsuch (David Leonhardt) https://t.co/XYjrEwn4b0
15:23:41 Retweeted @AP_Politics 14:44:28 BREAKING: Senate committee approves Trump Treasury, Health nominees without Dems present after GOP changes panel’s rules.
15:24:06 Retweeted @Atrios 15:01:27 republicans change rules when nominees get caught lying to congress, but, hey, go high democrats. don’t overplay that hand
15:24:13 Retweeted @MileHighBecky 15:01:27 The system is working to check some of Trump’s excesses. But, it’s going to feel like a LONG two years for Dems with no federal control.
15:31:07 Thread -> https://t.co/K7bmv0hCEi
15:33:32 Retweeted @davidfrum 15:16:33 Trump just described Frederick Douglass as “someone who has done a terrific job that is being recognized by more and more people”
15:37:38 Retweeted @bcburden 15:30:29 ICYMI: re-upping this graphic from @vlotero. We’re going to need it for the next 4 years. Use and support high qualвЂ¦ https://t.co/CNQrOWicqF
15:42:50 Reading – Covering Trump the Reuters Way (Reuters) https://t.co/dUJ4q9ZSlb
15:47:39 Retweeted @mattyglesias 14:57:03 Maybe they lied, maybe they made mistakes. Either way, Senate GOP taking decisive action to ensure nobody feels compelled to tell the truth. in reply to mattyglesias
15:53:22 Retweeted @kwcollins 15:27:21 Senate rules are all Calvinball, episode 273 https://t.co/iiOWmokoqB
15:55:54 Retweeted @KillerMartinis 15:26:19 OK kids, gather ’round, the Sessions hearings will be starting in a few minutes! Will Franken lose his shit? Will Grassley be pissed again?
16:13:09 Retweeted @ddale8 15:59:42 This is a full transcript of President Trump’s speech to his Black History Month event. https://t.co/uJ9iXvUOGr in reply to ddale8
17:22:09 Retweeted @CelesteKatzNYC 17:18:01 via WH pool… “Mitch, go nuclear” https://t.co/9SH6zOaNVe
17:23:26 The truth is, R’s probably won’t need to nuke the filibuster. Unclear Dems can muster the unity to sustain filibuster anyway.
17:24:23 Retweeted @TrumpDraws 17:15:02 train https://t.co/D7e3Wpwxd0
17:44:42 Listening to BhTV: Drezburt (audio) Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner
via iCatcher! https://t.co/ewj0NHoqH0
18:43:45 Listening to The Axe Files with David Axelrod Ep. 117 – Natalie Jaresko
via iCatcher! https://t.co/NIQHxVeGKd
19:09:18 Oh goody. https://t.co/aetkv8zFaI
19:11:55 Retweeted @ericgeller 19:08:58 Spicer won’t say whether Trump agrees with Bannon that Islam is a dark, violent religion. That seems noteworthy.
19:13:34 Thread -> https://t.co/fJOs0XOLeB
19:17:02 Retweeted @sangerkatz 19:07:12 Loss aversion: Exhibit A https://t.co/k5ELGVfR6I @haeyoun https://t.co/OUQ5G857po in reply to sangerkatz
19:19:00 Retweeted @dorrismccomics 13:54:12 meeting your hero https://t.co/9720yHHuKJ
19:22:45 Retweeted @CharlesPPierce 19:07:37 Murkowski over the side now. Says she’d fielded thousands of calls for Alaskans. DeVos is in actual trouble.
19:24:14 Retweeted @AP 19:03:16 BREAKING: Key Senate Republican Susan Collins announces opposition to Education nominee Betsy DeVos.
19:25:32 Retweeted @DanielLarison 19:06:33 Remember that Flynn imagines that Iran is at the center of a huge (non-existent) “alliance” that wages global war against us. He’s a nut in reply to DanielLarison
19:44:28 Btw, Trump’s net favorability now at an all time high and trending up. (Still negative though.) – Data derived fromвЂ¦ https://t.co/zafaffgnuR
19:58:12 Up to 4/15 confirmed cabinet members. Need VP + 8 confirmed cabinet to cleanly invoke the 25th. :-) https://t.co/S8f9q2Fis1
20:20:27 Uh, OK. https://t.co/8qbKpvwr7z
20:24:21 Retweeted @christinawilkie 20:21:04 The White House says Trump’s destination is off the record. And no, this is not normal. https://t.co/jD3Seym9zs
20:31:41 Retweeted @Statistikhengst 20:22:36 It’s not like the can write “POTUS to take russian bride brothel tour in Bethesda”…. https://t.co/i3bctDT1lj
20:33:05 Retweeted @chapmanchapman 2017-01-31 17:11:32 The est. security cost for Melania living 200mi away from Trump is double the annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.
20:34:43 Retweeted @redsteeze 20:30:40 Another magical update. Sideshow Bob rake .gif https://t.co/zmSCUlr79r
20:36:07 Retweeted @BNONews 20:35:12 UPDATE: President Trump is making an unannounced trip to honor the return of U.S. Navy SEAL killed in Yemen raid – AP in reply to BNONews
20:38:48 Retweeted @BenjySarlin 20:30:19 [The president enters a darkened parking garage in Maryland]BOBCAT: Did you come alone https://t.co/6V9XmT6uLd
20:45:21 Retweeted @timkmak 20:37:01 Called Dover Air Force Base this morning. The SEAL’s next of kin chose to make the return to U.S. private, not openвЂ¦ https://t.co/gGTwhVfZ1k
20:46:04 Normal President stuff. They just botched communications about it as usual. https://t.co/Azmbz7WgHM
21:11:57 Retweeted @IanDunt 19:34:20 Article 50 bill passes by 498 votes to 114. One MP mutters: “Suicide”
21:13:18 Retweeted @cjreames 21:09:03 This has become my daily mantra. https://t.co/grPvq40DWy
21:22:15 Reading – Neil Gorsuch Won’t Fill The Vacancy On The Supreme Court (Tom Scocca) https://t.co/vju2vI6mJx
21:22:26 Retweeted @chrislhayes 19:23:52 This is the near unanimous belief of the Democratic grass roots. https://t.co/ySImrL6Nvn
21:26:05 Retweeted @atrupar 20:30:51 This is entirety of what Press Sec Sean Spicer had to say about Frederick Douglass today https://t.co/npXAEz78Re https://t.co/KVSXc6HDYe
21:30:14 Retweeted @mattdpearce 21:09:49 “FOX 2 has confirmed that his mother died five days earlier.” https://t.co/7W0uMztqN9 in reply to mattdpearce
21:46:30 Retweeted @NationalZoo 21:42:13 Female bobcat Ollie found on Zoo property. Facebook Live broadcast @ 5pm press con https://t.co/XCJPq5wsn3вЂ¦ https://t.co/VQtSBqHing
22:03:19 Retweeted @Phil_Lewis_ 05:15:40 Obama’s on vacation with the hat backwards. He’s never coming back. https://t.co/RUakcwwgtT
22:29:25 Retweeted @jshieber 2017-01-31 07:45:40 This is from an American friend of mine working with the UN in Iraq. https://t.co/a86pLqY67b
22:34:29 Retweeted @20committee 22:23:12 Basic interagency coordination, what is it?Seriously, these rank amateurs will get people killed.
HT @ektrit

https://t.co/2GdpKHNgaW
23:06:36 Retweeted @AthertonKD 23:06:25 it’s going to be super weird when we go to war against Iran, China, and Mexico all at the same time
23:07:13 Retweeted @ryanjreilly 18:27:28 Today’s edition of вЂњimagine what would’ve happened if Obama did this.вЂќ https://t.co/6EV8HdeKza
23:54:57 WTF. Sigh. https://t.co/PTryEKNDOI
23:56:41 Retweeted @Max_Fisher 23:54:26 Dept of healthy skepticism: Both sides of the US-Mexico call are denying reports Trump threatened to send troops. FWIW.

@abulsme tweets from 2017-01-31 (UTC)

00:01:51 This whole thread -> https://t.co/dXcwDpVQZx
00:02:05 Retweeted @PoliticalLine 2017-01-30 23:55:31 Line of Succession if Trump fires the Acting AG https://t.co/mEzQlWk7qf
00:07:42 Thread on Bannon playbook for this -> https://t.co/zZkBdqSQFs
00:08:47 Retweeted @pkcapitol 00:04:24 I missed escaped bobcat news. In the not-so-distant past, CNN would’ve gone wire-to-wire on zoo animals roaming D.CвЂ¦ https://t.co/5ZsoxAXsLG
00:08:54 Retweeted @benwizner 00:00:10 It took Nixon almost five years to get to the Saturday Night Massacre. Low energy! https://t.co/Bw0UboWWcx
00:59:57 Retweeted @ericgeller 00:50:00 Trump rips into acting AG Sally Yates, who just declined to enforce his Muslim ban. But will he fire her? https://t.co/GyhBP7Wdtt
01:14:33 Trump did say he wanted to kill the families. -> SEAL, American Girl Die in First Trump-Era U.S. Military Raid (NBC) https://t.co/mXzJxddsQI
01:17:35 Retweeted @wyethwire 01:05:07 Tune in tomorrow when I name a nominee to a SCOTUS seat that’s been magically vacant for nearly a year. https://t.co/NPx1r501qN
01:18:31 Retweeted @MattGertz 01:04:14 To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with him doing this. The problem is Trump says this indicates fraud. https://t.co/8UFdUzEfcC
01:19:14 Retweeted @ChadLivengood 00:43:19 Today’s lesson in governing: Get your Attorney General confirmed before imposing a policy ripe for legal challengesвЂ¦ https://t.co/cLXy5d31u5
01:19:27 Retweeted @peterdaou 2017-01-30 17:36:42 Trump can mock @SenSchumer‘s tears, but give me a man who cries at the violation of our values over one who smiles while obliterating them.
01:20:12 Retweeted @ddiamond 2017-01-29 19:55:48 The first five executive orders signed by Obama vs the first five signed by Trump. https://t.co/HlHFlOr8jL in reply to ddiamond
01:27:32 Retweeted @lizcgoodwin 01:00:08 Senators voted to end the filibuster but Dems are taking up the hours they have left before final vote to oppose reвЂ¦ https://t.co/gKpiyezK3d
01:27:40 Retweeted @_Drew_McCoy_ 01:01:59 30 hours of post-cloture debate. McConnell is going to have to keep the Senate open round the clock for awhile. https://t.co/2gBEfim6L0
01:28:30 Retweeted @RaRaVibes 2017-01-30 17:13:46 In the US Holocaust Museum.
I’m shook. https://t.co/EeuHEXWusE
01:30:09 Thread -> https://t.co/MIAN5F8Etk
01:31:56 Retweeted @_cingraham 2017-01-30 15:06:32 So, yeah. This tweet hasn’t aged well. https://t.co/uONn7JDie5
01:35:33 Retweeted @sparksjls 01:31:40 You asked her to stay, Mr. President. https://t.co/mnrOgKM0Ym
01:40:21 That won’t annoy anybody at all. -> Hill staffers secretly worked on Trump’s immigration order (Bade/Sherman/Dawsey) https://t.co/Yd0Qqi2K2q
01:40:53 Retweeted @JamesFallows 00:15:13 She’ll be remembered for this (cf A Cox, E Richardson). People choosing sides in real time. Going out the right wayвЂ¦ https://t.co/XwkEZjuAQX
01:41:40 Retweeted @chrislhayes 2017-01-30 22:11:44 After a terrorist attack on a Canadian mosque by a Trump fan, I wonder if Canada will take measures for extreme vetting of Trump fans
02:17:15 Retweeted @BNONews 02:16:52 BREAKING: President Trump has relieved Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates of her duties
02:18:31 Retweeted @BNONews 02:18:03 MORE: President Trump has named Dana Boente to take over as acting attorney general, White House spokesman says in reply to BNONews
02:27:22 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 02:21:26 Woof, this statement is really disturbing. via @Bencjacobs https://t.co/8cRdC3MhEQ
02:29:23 Does Trump get to appoint replacement like this? I thot chain of command in DOJ was predefined & would automatically go to next in line. No?
02:33:39 Retweeted @goldengateblond 02:32:34 She knew this would happen when she took a stand. Tonight, she will sleep the sleep of the innocent. https://t.co/bwpNMdbEPr in reply to goldengateblond
02:33:53 Retweeted @mattblaze 02:32:28 My NYT home page has three BREAKING NEWS bars stacked at the top.
02:34:01 Retweeted @mattyglesias 02:32:21 And now this guy is attorney general https://t.co/jLLx9sMrhk
02:36:42 .@PoliticalLine So was Boente actually next in line? Or is Trump actually not constrained by this? Or is this going to be disputed? in reply to PoliticalLine
02:38:15 .@PoliticalLine So that line of succession you posted wasn’t actually operative? He can appoint an acting that isn’t subject 2 confirmation? in reply to PoliticalLine
02:39:30 Retweeted @PoliticalLine 02:38:58 @abulsme so it is line of succession but section 2 of line of succession order says or whoever President deems appropriate in reply to abulsme
02:39:43 .@PoliticalLine If true, why bother ever appointing a regular AG, just appoint Sessions acting AG and be done… in reply to PoliticalLine
02:39:45 Retweeted @PoliticalLine 02:39:14 @abulsme US Attorneys are confirmed by Senate in reply to abulsme
02:43:21 .@PoliticalLine So by picking a USA he meets the requirement for FISA I guess? in reply to PoliticalLine
02:45:19 Retweeted @BNONews 02:44:36 Dana Boente was sworn in as acting attorney general about 40 minutes ago – CNN in reply to BNONews
02:59:48 Retweeted @imbou 02:57:48 @abulsme fuck fucking fucker stupid motherfucker! in reply to abulsme
03:00:47 Retweeted @JYSexton 03:00:09 Pundits are treating this like it’s any other Monday. The wheels have come off. The wheels have been off for weeks.
03:02:28 Retweeted @Carrasquillo 02:54:11 White House says acting atttorney general Dana Boente is authorized to sign foreign surveillance warrants as of Monday night.
03:02:45 Retweeted @KianpourWorld 02:50:54 State Dept official tells me border security EO dissent letter had 600 signatures by afternoon, now looks like up to 1000 @BBCNorthAmerica
03:02:55 Retweeted @steve_vladeck 2017-01-29 05:36:26 I teach my 1Ls about how hard it is under current EP doctrine to prove discriminatory intent because “no one’s thatвЂ¦ https://t.co/XUgmDWqMWt
03:03:21 Retweeted @sfpathe 02:04:11 Banking on unpopularity of President Trump in 2018, Dems are targeting seats he won by as much as 36 pts https://t.co/qVsHcp13Oq
03:11:08 Retweeted @BNONews 03:10:24 BREAKING: President Trump dismisses Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Daniel Ragsdale
03:12:09 Retweeted @BNONews 03:11:52 Thomas D. Homan has been appointed to take over as Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in reply to BNONews
03:22:51 Retweeted @ElectProject 03:22:38 Tonight on Celebrity President:You’re Fired!
03:45:22 Retweeted @acoyne 03:06:37 I’ve said before: Nixon was a crook, but even he handed over the tapes when the SCOTUS told him to. I don’t think we can say Trump would.
03:48:41 Retweeted @JeffRLord 02:50:11 If you had “10 days” as a guess for how soon @realDonaldTrump would go full Nixon, you win. But maybe this means he’ll be gone by April.
03:49:42 Retweeted @ananavarro 02:25:35 After last 10 days, if u oppose Trumptatorship, u got 2 choices: live in blissful oblivion; 2) protest & resist & then do it again & again.
03:50:17 Retweeted @dicktofel 02:59:04 Not a constitutional crisis for president to want his order defended. That would come if he defied court ruling that it is illegal.
03:51:24 Retweeted @Reddy 01:56:16 The world we’re in now: GOP congressional aides, without telling their bosses, are working secretly with Trump aideвЂ¦ https://t.co/lvgQnNza5S
03:51:32 Retweeted @mcclure111 03:09:29 This is while multiple executive agencies have been ordered not to communicate with congresspeople https://t.co/PXahAUhCTM
03:51:48 Retweeted @JohnJHarwood 03:49:08 WashPost quoting DHS as saying acting ICE director not fired, will become deputy director https://t.co/3iwnHrsYI5
03:53:33 Retweeted @rorycooper 03:42:00 Tomorrow night: “As you can see, my finalists for the Supreme Court nomination are trapped in the Roosevelt Room with a Bobcat…”
03:54:19 Retweeted @sarahkendzior 03:52:45 You should not be surprised at pace of admin’s destruction. You should be thinking many steps ahead, which means thinking fast, acting now.
03:54:53 Retweeted @deray 2017-01-30 23:38:05 It’s been interesting to see how protesting is now being re-framed as a sign of true patriotism. This has been a long two years.
04:02:07 Retweeted @Ali_H_Soufan 02:38:04 Chilling language. Refusing to defend an EO blocked by a judge doesn’t mean betrayal. President is not a king. TheвЂ¦ https://t.co/b0jMpubjH0
04:02:46 Retweeted @mattmfm 03:58:48 Let me be blunt: if senate Democrats let a Court nominee through without forcing GOP to invoke nuclear option, theyвЂ¦ https://t.co/UKDLS5AgRc
04:06:00 Reading – Who is new acting attorney general Dana Boente? (Rachel Weiner) https://t.co/YJDfaQFreG
04:06:27 Retweeted @SeanTrende 04:04:08 People are making the same mistake they made in the primaries and the general. Trump’s order not terribly unpopular. https://t.co/E4T3kOfOt9
04:07:18 Retweeted @MordorNPS 04:04:42 “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” -J.R.R. Tolkien https://t.co/IcFt2r6iMN
04:09:56 Retweeted @theglipper 04:06:10 No matter what happens Ted Cruz manages to be the single most pathetic person involved. (via @OakParkLawyer) https://t.co/1mnVltuVEF
04:10:09 Retweeted @NickBaumann 04:10:01 butemails
04:12:21 Just a reminder that it was obvious this was the likely path as soon as Yates did what she did. https://t.co/NpUu8RWlNL in reply to abulsme
04:20:22 Trump net favorability still much better than it was on Election day. Last polls ended Wednesday. Eagerly waiting tвЂ¦ https://t.co/MtGBebNx9d
04:26:30 Or Pollster if you prefer: https://t.co/2rl4ooo6U9 in reply to abulsme
04:30:17 Retweeted @MikeScarcella 03:48:58 Jeff Sessions to Sally Yates: вЂњPeople will be asking you to do things you just need to say no about.вЂќ (1:15:57) https://t.co/CZjt3DStmf
04:34:35 Retweeted @zachheltzel 01:34:08 Hillary Clinton’s silence means Trump has nobody he can reliably attack to take pressure off him. Look how he’s flailing without her.
04:37:10 Retweeted @lauramholson 04:33:14 For the young ones, this man worked in Nixon’s White House and was involved in the Watergate coverup. Yes, that WatвЂ¦ https://t.co/Z1YNKrz3X7
04:39:01 Reading – Obama’s Protections for L.G.B.T. Workers Will Remain Under Trump (Jeremy Peters) https://t.co/VZ93C8AUKf
04:46:49 Retweeted @jbarro 04:44:12 Seems like another indication Trump will do what Trump cares about, not what GOP cares about. https://t.co/GHT5jB2dti
04:49:13 Retweeted @ryanjreilly 04:46:35 … and the new acting AG rescinded Yates’ memo, just after he was sworn in. https://t.co/hAsBuRGTcu in reply to ryanjreilly
05:11:26 Retweeted @JuddLegum 2017-01-30 18:00:50 The almost certain impact of Trump’s refugee ban is more children will die.Trump thinks anyone who cries over it must be faking.
05:13:10 Notice the leaks about Trump/Russia connections pretty much dried up after the inauguration?
05:28:48 Reading – Can Jared and Ivan outrun Donald Trump’s Scandals? (Emily Jane Fox) https://t.co/VDhmCbRBIi
05:28:57 Retweeted @Scatterbrandy 05:25:07 .@abulsme not entirely. That thing about the stock? in reply to abulsme
05:45:01 Retweeted @CaitlinFrazier 00:06:36 The NPR politics podcast has to start with a time stamp now, bc they have no idea wtf could’ve happened since recording.
06:22:26 Good read -> Weak and Incompetent Leaders act like Strong Leaders (Tom Pepinsky) https://t.co/p4mh4Lj5Hg
06:23:54 Retweeted @HeerJeet 2017-01-30 22:59:45 From 2014. Very strange comment. Almost as if the writer had a fear of stairs. https://t.co/v7trQsLPO9
06:25:40 Retweeted @yottapoint 04:40:27 Amazing. Sally Yates at her confirmation hearing answering her job-ending Q. Look who’s asking. Via @charles_gaba https://t.co/3Vsf9UugIu
07:30:35 Very good, very depressing, must read -> How to Build an Autocracy (David Frum) https://t.co/zkrA5U74xV
07:31:03 Retweeted @BYUfan 06:37:57 .@abulsme Is that your smoke alarm chirping again?! How can you live like that?
07:32:09 .@BYUfan Uh, oops, I think maybe? Different one. Downstairs from where I record. I think I have heard it a couple times. Maybe. in reply to BYUfan
07:33:08 Retweeted @SamWangPhD 02:54:22 Authoritarian Government Watch: before 1/20, I wrote a checklist. With Yates firing, it’s arguably at 5 out of 10.вЂ¦ https://t.co/VrF5YjiYdS
07:45:47 Just the start -> White House aides who wrote Trump’s travel ban see it as just the start (Bennett/Bierman) https://t.co/4ENPnY6YHi
07:52:36 Thread on Quebec shooting -> https://t.co/gh4vWbbF1U
07:55:18 Retweeted @pierre 07:26:16 Bannon thinks he’s winning because he’s creating more enemies. He doesn’t realize his enemies outnumber his base anвЂ¦ https://t.co/NemN9klSsl
08:01:20 Reading – The right splits, and the nature of our democracy is up for grabs (Jennifer Rubin) https://t.co/8RWgKXprzZ
08:16:58 Retweeted @cjwerleman 05:05:08 Watch this video and then try to describe immigrants in dehumanizing terms such as “waves” or “floods.” #MuslimBan https://t.co/vTqvE3Nvys
08:17:36 Retweeted @mattmfm 2017-01-30 23:52:32 Don’t think these protests are effective? House GOPer: “Women are in my grill no matter where I go. We’re getting hвЂ¦ https://t.co/mZQtm4Ty2e
08:26:32 Retweeted @ezlusztig 08:25:34 Agree totally. But that this has become so obvious, so quickly, indicates massive tactical dysfunction and administвЂ¦ https://t.co/pK6auuFxO6
08:28:55 Retweeted @JohnWonderlich 02:30:25 A Congress that allows its staff to be secretly, contractually obligated to the White House is no longer a Congress.
08:29:43 Retweeted @NotAltWorld 2017-01-26 11:11:48 вЂњThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.вЂќвЂ• Isaac Asimov
08:35:14 Retweeted @brianklaas 08:06:47 Yates knew she would be fired. That’s not shocking. But Trump saying she “betrayed” him is something from Game of Thrones, not democracy.
08:36:12 Retweeted @evoque 2017-01-29 19:41:27 “God fucking damnit” indeed #somethingawful https://t.co/yGjGDuD2HE
15:02:48 Retweeted @imbou 15:00:01 @abulsme well they started killing some of these people… in reply to abulsme
15:04:28 Retweeted @imbou 15:00:52 @abulsme that’s a lot of drunk republicans who still cling to the belief he will help their agenda in reply to abulsme
15:04:58 Retweeted @imbou 12:27:58 TrumpВґs action keeps being called a refugee ban. He also banned dual citizens, tried to ban green card holders, visa holders. If he had
15:05:02 Retweeted @imbou 12:29:16 @imbou put a moratorium on new refugees until a new vetting process was in place, it would be different. But without due process stripped in reply to imbou
15:05:08 Retweeted @imbou 12:31:09 @imbou visas from people living and working here. There risk from allowing those already authorized to travel and remain was almost 0. in reply to imbou
15:05:13 Retweeted @imbou 12:32:59 @imbou you had a higher chance of getting killed in your car this morning or shit by a coworker than a terror attack.This was simply racist in reply to imbou
15:05:48 Retweeted @amiraminiMD 10:44:55 Yes, this is a refugee family in handcuffs, in America, for being muslim. That little girl? Handcuffed.History wiвЂ¦ https://t.co/KIJoo8Zd2B
15:06:17 Retweeted @natsecHeather 13:43:33 Folks, we need to acknowledge we didn’t get a CBP that handcuffs little kids in 1 week;our society built this tool&вЂ¦ https://t.co/ygYnwmbFmg
15:18:53 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 15:09:51 Tolkien is good. https://t.co/VgEzxCitrl
15:24:18 Retweeted @owillis 15:08:04 remember how in the hearings the nominees said things like they disagreed with trump? this is why that doesnt matteвЂ¦ https://t.co/MNTRVwZy5W
15:24:26 Retweeted @intelwire 15:08:02 Trump Week 2 has been great for jihadists and it’s only Tuesday. Everyone already talking about how the Muslim ban is good for recruiting…
15:27:49 Retweeted @NoahGarfinkel 06:48:45 To Trump voters who think liberals are condescending: We only thought he’d lose because we thought you were too smart to vote for him.
15:45:22 Retweeted @dimireider 14:21:14 EU President Donald Tusk tells EU leaders Trump admin part of external вЂњthreatвЂќ together with China, Russia, radical Islam, war and terror.
15:51:54 Retweeted @imbou 15:51:20 @dimireider @abulsme that’s what these fuckers wanted! America first fuck everyone else. Except Russia he loves Russia! in reply to dimireider
16:05:36 Retweeted @Gus_802 15:38:06 Far-left much like the far-right is framing Clinton’s loss as a landslide and not a minor technicality based on 80,000 lousy votes.
16:58:58 Retweeted @KSoltisAnderson 15:54:41 I wonder how many Americans view this all as a sort of “organ rejection” with the body of Washington just refusing to accept the transplant.
17:21:53 Retweeted @alexburnsNYT 15:54:11 There are folks on here who, if Trump launched a nuclear first strike, would say it’s merely a diversion from something Bannon did at the WH
17:21:58 Retweeted @alexburnsNYT 15:56:57 Point is, sometimes the story erupting in full view is actually the most important thing вЂ“ not some connect-the-dots House of Cards fantasy
17:24:24 Retweeted @Evan_McMullin 16:58:37 Trump and some supporters are increasingly suggesting that principled opposition to him is betrayal or disloyalty tвЂ¦ https://t.co/EQrw6ZtkEZ
18:24:05 Reading – Stop that plane: The frantic race to halt a deportation (David Croman) https://t.co/VCMTRD9uFN
19:30:35 Retweeted @dylanmatt 14:51:45 In a normal country, the Executive Order madness would lead to junior coalition partners defecting, a vote of no confidence & new elections
19:31:11 Retweeted @ericgarland 19:27:31 US Marshals, enforcement arm for one branch of gov’t, is “waiting on orders” from the White House before obeying a judge? Is that right? in reply to ericgarland
19:34:48 Retweeted @DanKaszeta 19:27:07 This thread https://t.co/eqCjyakdN9
19:35:56 Retweeted @daniel_barker 2017-01-30 16:19:45 -What do we want?
-No more Nazis!
-When do we want it?
-Honestly like 70 years ago I mean it was a whole thing.
19:37:51 Retweeted @TBCJay 19:13:42 This is the kind of factcheck that infuriates conservatives. Statement was factual. Yet you get “mostly true”.вЂ¦ https://t.co/onxtqP1ipQ
19:38:01 Retweeted @ericgarland 19:26:06 So we have Trump making secret deals with Legislative staffers, and now apparently with Judicial’s enforcement arm. Simultaneously.
19:44:14 Retweeted @DavidAFrench 19:23:02 My admittedly anecdotal evidence points to lots of anxiety and disappointment from folks who voted for him but didnвЂ¦ https://t.co/fATDsFcatm
19:51:51 Retweeted @mikeyang 19:21:09 Interesting thread on possible political consequences of Google’s efforts to get more timely info into search https://t.co/HIADlIKAiL
19:56:51 Retweeted @ACLU 18:24:13 If you have valid documents at a port of entry, you may have additional screening, but cannot be detained or illegally removed from US soil in reply to ACLU
20:21:40 Retweeted @varadmehta 20:20:18 What if Trump has Gorsuch and Hardiman at the announcement tonight, and says Gorsuch gets this vacancy and Hardiman gets the next one?
20:23:10 Retweeted @justkarl 19:48:31 If everyone reports it’s Gorsuch, what are the odds Trump picks Hardiman because he didn’t like the spoilers?
20:39:02 Reading – Che Taylor Shooting: Inquest Starts with all White Jury (Charlotte LeFevre) https://t.co/e53iyaj0w0
20:50:02 Reading – Trump admin circulates more draft immigration restrictions, focusing on protecting U.S. jobs (Hauslohner) https://t.co/5JpvR50S6B
21:58:51 Retweeted @jeffzeleny 21:40:55 White House is setting up Supreme Court announcement as a prime-time contest: @JusticeGorsuch and @JusticeHardiman identical Twitter pages.
21:59:01 Retweeted @ericgeller 13:45:11 I’m still astonished that a U.S. special forces raid in Yemen killed an 8-year-old American girl and virtually no one is talking about it.
21:59:46 Retweeted @cmclymer 21:17:26 Believe it or not, #TheResistance is working. These are not small things.h/t @ElaineReplogle https://t.co/gND2clhOYC
22:00:09 Retweeted @Outpost_Skaro 21:46:17 So are we setting into a 3 season pattern for Doctors or are we due a repeat of a one year wonder?
22:01:38 Reading – Trump’s travel ban polarizes America – Reuters/Ipsos poll (Chris Kahn) https://t.co/OjkVsAp9YU
22:39:13 Retweeted @jeffzeleny 22:13:13 The Twitter accounts of @JusticeGorsuch and @JusticeHardiman were not set up by the White House, I’ve been told.
22:43:17 Retweeted @NolanDMcCaskill 21:13:43 .@jaketapper with a remarkable 2-minute fact-check on @PressSec https://t.co/GGjQ21GMUb
22:46:36 Retweeted @chrislhayes 00:46:54 If there’s one thing D’s learned (first hand) in the Obama years is that there is *no* political cost for obstruction.
22:50:42 Reading – Trump admin signals that some temporary bans on entry into the US could become permanent (Brian Bennett) https://t.co/lOKoweWwDt
22:59:19 Reading – Trump Ignored All of Obama’s AdviceвЂ”and Now He’s in a World of Trouble (Brian Beutler) https://t.co/VzRjjKRHvu
23:00:44 Retweeted @charlesornstein 22:23:35 This thread —> https://t.co/OaZmBFbmGS
23:06:04 Retweeted @dorseyshaw 21:04:51 Trump, asking for Rudy, can’t see that Giuliani is right in front of his face. This is scary. https://t.co/yc1DTE3pMe
23:06:16 Retweeted @laurenduca 22:57:02 If this was Hillary, the illness narrative would be throbbing so hard, blood vessels would burst all over Reddit. https://t.co/O5xD2zWSEu
23:10:47 Reading – Mysterious intruder rattles GOP lawmakers (Mike DiBonis) https://t.co/fStMmCSNcc
23:16:28 Retweeted @AGOWA 22:02:26 Federal court hearing on Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in State v. Trump Fri 2:30pm before Judge Robart. https://t.co/uw3FphgELg
23:20:54 Retweeted @chrislhayes 22:52:37 Public opinion matters less, in these moments, than public pressure. Broad but weak support often loses to intense, concentrated opposition
23:58:03 Retweeted @SybilT2 02:53:38 Remember how Trump was going 2 manage the federal government like a businessman? I think we know now why he went thru bankruptcy many times

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