Japanese PM Shinzo Abe nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last year — after receiving a request from the U.S. government to do so, the Asahi newspaper reports. reuters.com/article/us-nor…

Under 10 U.S.C. § 2808(a), the SecDef must find that the border wall is a “military construction project[] ... that [is] necessary to support such use of the armed forces”“required” by the emergency declared by the President.

I think Adam Jentleson has been drafting this piece for ten years, and every sentence in it is a must read. nytimes.com/2019/02/18/opi…

Actually, it was Democrats who killed the 70 percent tax politi.co/2DILQNC

This is worth watching on President’s Day.

I am trying to tell you that if you look inward, and study your own sacredness and creativity and blessedness, and joy and power as closely as you study the sacred books of the gods,

We had to cut this for length, but McCabe told me that his guess is that the White House "immediately knew the steps I took after Jim got fired, and the cases I opened" because of Nunes. "When I was surprised to see Nunes at the briefing, I knew it would happen very quickly."

"The Supreme Court’s Contribution to the Confrontation Over Emergency Powers," the latest from Richard H. Pildes: tinyurl.com/yyrf7ena

A few wks ago new words in the wordclouds of our domestic subset of #Hamilton68 Russian sympathizer accnts appeared on the topic of abortion. President Trump has been bleeding support among evangelicals & campaigns #walkaway & #buildthewall have proved ineffective #infosec #osint

@KenDilanianNBC Well, he doesn’t mention the CI investigation at all in the book. He couldn’t, because of the FBI’s pre-pub review process. The Times broke the story later, so now he feels he can discuss it openly. He told me this during our interview but, again, we had to cut for length.

“You think of your bodies as you think of responsibilities. You think that vulnerability is wrong. Your freedom lies in your vulnerability to life sensation, experience, song and being—being is vulnerable. You can’t deny feelings without denying portions of your soul.” #Seth

.Maggie Haberman on Trump's claim that reporters don't reach out to the White House for comment: "That's a lie...We went through a detailed list of what we were planning on reporting. They chose not to engage." axios.com/maggie-haberma…

“There’s no evidence that thousands of Americans are killed by undocumented immigrants, especially in light of credible studies showing they commit lower rates of crime than native-born Americans” Every claim used to support Trump’s declaration is false washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Torched Laura Ingraham Over a ‘Wack Billboard’ Subtweet esqr.co/ibdjDCz

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“Yes, this is a huge victory, but to make his victims suffer for 11 years, this should not have happened. Instead of admitting what they did, and doing the right thing, they spent 11 years fighting these girls.’’

This is serious: The FDA Commissioner who led the agency when OxyContin was approved says the agency erred and the label needs to be changed. See the latest from 60 Minutes: cbsnews.com/news/former-fd…

"It would be timely and appropriate for the Justice Department and Robert Mueller to reconsider the shaky policy regarding indictability of a sitting president first formulated 45 years ago."

“It is not that your being exists in a lesser reality. It is that you have not learned to recognize the extent of the reality in which you do exist.” #Seth

Oh look, Donald J. Trump discovers socialism. #MAGA