We are a nation of immigrants. We are not animals.

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is voting on three Trump nominees for the federal bench who are grossly unfit.

These three nominees have a history of putting their personal bigoted and religious beliefs above the law twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/…

Noon briefing today: António Guterres in Washington D.C., updates on #Ebola outbreak in the #DRCongo - WHO African Region, Cindy McCain in #WestAfrica , UNAMI Live: unwebtv.live/briefing170518

Attorney Michael Avenatti revealed that two more women claim they signed hush money agreements with President Donald Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen and for much more money than the $130,000 paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels...
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Davidson is under investigation now for his duplicity with Stormy Daniels. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…

Stand back and think about what this means.

One year into the Special Counsel's investigation, Donald Trump's lawyer (not his lawyer under criminal investigation, the other one) is boasting, not that Trump didn't commit a crime, but that he is above the law and can't be charged. twitter.com/FoxNews/status…

I'd like to thank Sean Hannity for giving us the word 'funneled' in his interview of Giuliani when he dropped the bomb about 'reimbursement' of Cohen by trump.
That single word will be used by the prosecution.

As someone who worked at Treasury on anti-money laundering activities, my reaction to this Ronan Farrow story is “holy s**t.” newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

Marty Hisington, a Human Being Here's the rub: Nixon and Trump disregarded the law and should be held accountable (Trump should resign also). But Nixon has the differentiation of have some policy chops (agree or disagree) and foreign relations gravitas, i.e., maturity

Actually it does matter. Accepting foreign aid or funding during a campaign is illegal. It's black or white, right or wrong. There is no gray area for collusion with Russia in a presidential campaign. twitter.com/FoxNews/status…

Mexico is not a ‘safe third country’ in any sense. Those seeking protection face grave risks of kidnapping, disappearance, sexual assault, trafficking, and other harms in Mexico. humanrightsfirst.org/press-release/…

The GOP sure hasn't changed. Nixon had their total support when he said 'one year is enough' of Watergate investigation. twitter.com/NancyPelosi/st…

A mother and son driven off the road, attacked and called racial slurs | WNYT.com wnyt.com/news/mother-an…

Palestinian official tears into Nikki Haley for threats to nations that oppose US: She's not 'the schoolmarm of the world' hill.cm/JFRKfKM

Fox News guest claims ICE is only rounding up criminals. But noncriminal arrests by ICE more than doubled under Trump. mm4a.org/ZRK

Report: Training Torturers: The UK's Role in #Bahrain 's Brutal Crackdown on Dissent
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Trump was duped and duped again into his Kim summit. He's now faced with a choice of admitting he was punked - or covering his initial error by trying to punk the country. I'm guessing he'll choose the latter. Me in The Atlantic today theatlantic.com/international/…