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No way Trump would stay put behind his keyboard and just watch as a fellow cyclist struggled with a frozen lock. Nah he'd push people aside getting right into the action. With his tiny fingers he'd be able reach inside the keyhole melting the mechanism with pure manliness.

There is also a bike shop around the corner (Pitfield St)

I've Been here an hour trying to unlock my bike in on crossroads of Shoreditch high street and hackneyrd

There are good people on both sides. Boths sides.

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Manafort is a bigger fish than is generally recognised. If Mueller wants to drain the swamp, Manafort is the person who created it. This is long, but very, very interesting... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/

Jared Kushner now has the same security clearance as "summer interns at the State Department"

The report said that officials in four foreign countries – the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico – have discussed ways to manipulate Kushner based on his business debts and inexperience.

There’s a really good joke in there.

Pretty interesting read on Marion Hammer, an NRA lobbyist in Florida, who over the last 30 years has written and helped pass most of the nutty gun laws that have been copied by other states, i.e. concealed carry, stand your ground etc

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/the-nra-lobbyist-behind-floridas-pro-gun-policies

"As recently as 1988, Cole notes, a federal court maintained that “for at least 100 years [courts] have analyzed the second amendment purely in terms of protecting state militias, rather than individual rights.” The subsequent shift toward individual rights can be traced back to Hammer.

This 538 podcast backs up the distortion of the 2nd Amendment by pro-Gunners.

http://play.podtrac.com/espn-fivethirtyeightpolitics/c.espnradio.com/s:J1X3L/audio/3469533/fivethirtyeightpolitics_2018-02-20-180233.64k.mp3

questions being raised about how melania got an Einstein visa

" green card with the elite EB-1 program—dubbed the “Einstein visa”—reserved for those who demonstrate that they have "an extraordinary ability, are an outstanding professor or researcher, or are a multinational executive or manager." "

she got the visa while dating the future president

Other than late night cheeseburgers and overcooked trumpsteak™, I think Melania is our best hope for Donnie meeting an unfortunate demise. Look at the weapons she carries. Imagine one of those in his billy goat...

There really are a lot of Jared Kushner stories today

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/opinion/jared-kushner-donald-trump-nepotism.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-top-region&region=opinion-c-col-top-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-top-region

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-has-faded-inside-the-28-days-of-tumult-that-left-kushner-badly-diminished/2018/03/02/62acb9ce-1ca8-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html?utm_term=.8f6252d4549f

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/jared-kushner-real-estate-qatar-blockade/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/01/is-jared-kushner-using-the-white-house-as-his-own-personal-boardroom/?utm_term=.863eb638aafb

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrat-reiterates-doubts-jared-kushners-loyalty-u-s-100050660.html?.tsrc=fauxdal

insider dealing ?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/02/carl-icahn-shares-sell-trump-steel-tariffs-announcement-timing

Is it a ploy for The Donald to make his move on Ivanka?

shooting outside the whitehouse
wonder if the Donald rushed out unarmed to deal with the intruder in his wee willie winkie sleeping attire

• US President Donald Trump is not at the White House. He's in Florida, but is set to return later on Saturday
  

A nicely damning piece on Ivanka

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-ivanka-legitimizing-20180303-story.html

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/best-trump-gridiron-dinner-jokes-2018-3?r=US&IR=T

"I like turnover. I like chaos. It really is good. Now the question everybody keeps asking is, 'Who is going to be the next to leave? [Policy adviser] Steve Miller or Melania?' "

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-subpoenas-communications-with-trump-and-inner-circle

A grand jury subpoena reviewed by Axios that special counsel Robert Mueller sent to a witness indicates that many in President Trump’s known inner circle, and the president himself, are within the scope of the Russia investigation. The list subpoenas “all communications—meaning emails, texts, handwritten notes, etc.—that this witness sent and received” to Carter Page, Corey Lewandowski, Donald J. Trump, Hope Hicks, Keith Schiller, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Roger Stone, and Steve Bannon. The subpoena calls for all communications to be turned over from Nov. 1, 2015—five months after the president first announced his campaign—to the present. All of the people listed were either part of the Trump campaign or are former and current employees of the Trump White House. The subpoenas come as those within Trump’s inner circle have been suspected of being within Mueller’s sight lines, and as Manafort and Gates have already been indicted by the special counsel, with Gates recently pleading guilty.

This looks quite interesting (having skimmed it quickly - and it is long)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier

It certainly has an interesting level of detail on its subject:

His free time is devoted largely to his family, which includes three cats, one of whom not long ago replicated the most infamous allegation in the Steele dossier by peeing on a family member’s bed.

Ex Russian double agent who was "poisoned" in Salisbury was kind of possibly run by Christopher Steele when he was in MI6.

Says Twitter.

Another ex Trump aide called Sam Nunberg is currently making Carter Page look normal in a telephone interview on MSNBC.

Told Mueller to "come and arrest me" and saying he will ignore the subpoena he was issued and then then asked the interviewer "what do you think he will do to me?" "I'm not a lawyer, but I think you're going to be held in contempt."

Katy Tur: "Do you think that they have something on @POTUS?"
Sam Nunberg: "...I think that he may have done something during the election."