“When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption become known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you.” -- Former CIA Director John Brennan in a tweet responding to Trump after he gleefully tweeted about the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Trump’s actions have shown the firing of McCabe was political and nothing more. He is a disgrace to the office he holds.
Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired late Friday--and he fired back. “This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally," McCabe said. "It is part of this Administration's ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel's work."
AP learns McCabe kept memos regarding Trump.
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's memos on his interactions with President Trump are in the hands of special counsel Robert Mueller.
Democrats on Twitter are offering former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe jobs, after Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired the 49-year-old two days before he was set to retire.
Trump lawyer calls for Rosenstein to end special counsel's Russia investigation.
Trump’s actions are that of a guilty man. Period. If he won’t talk with Mueller (and is really trying to get him fired) then he’s not innocent. Stop preaching about “actions speak louder than words” if you’re going to still support this disgusting excuse of a human being.
50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach. “The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in the tech giant’s biggest ever data breach, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box. A whistleblower has revealed to the Observer how Cambridge Analytica – a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.” This is big. Very big.
If you only read one thing today, this is the story: Now meet Christopher Wylie, the above mentioned whistleblower, as he discusses his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate. Seriously. This is the most important story of the day--maybe in days. If you’re a Facebook user, then you should know what has happened. Wow.
Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica over concerns about violations of the social media site’s policies. About goddamn time.
In a 2016 interview with WIRED, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica specifically denied using this Facebook user data, a denial that directly contradicts the company's own statement on Friday.
Massachusetts A.G. Maura Healy is launching an investigation into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
The cover of next week's New Yorker
Fred Meyer phasing out sales of all guns and ammunition.
Marielle Franco, councillor and police critic, shot dead in targeted killing in Brazil, sparking protests.
Two moms took three children to a mosque and live-streamed their hate-filled tirade. “‘Mommy, they buy their chicken to rape it,’ the child says.” We must stand against this bullshit. Fight Islamophobia and racism.
California school bus driver accused of sexually assaulting special needs children.
About a quarter of U.S. adults say they are ‘almost constantly’ online.
While you were sleeping, Dennis Prager's right-wing YouTube empire was quietly nudging millennials toward conservatism.
Parenting doesn’t matter. We’re all terrified we’re going to mess up our kids. The science says we probably won’t have much impact at all.
YouTube Kids has videos on how reptilians rule the world, moon landing was fake. And the indoctrination of “fake news” begins early. Ugh.
“Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.” -- Robert Reich
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Good night.
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