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- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this morning defended President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey and rejected calls for a special prosecutor.
- North West turned her “time out” into a “day spa.”
- The NY Times has a fascinating look at Don Diva, a quarterly magazine written for and sometimes by prisoners that is "often the first place that criminals come to talk about themselves."
- The Times also explains why a special prosecutor to investigate the Trump campaign's possible Russian collusion is not even technically possible.
- The only item on Trump's schedule today is a meeting with Russia's top diplomat, who derisively feigned surprise this morning when a reporter informed him of Comey's firing.
- But in keeping with the Nixon comparisons, Trump made time for Henry Kissinger.
- Rudy Giuliani says he’s not a candidate for FBI director. A White House source says he is.
- Read Rolling Stone's feature on "the Doomsday Glacier": "In the farthest reaches of Antarctica, a nightmare scenario of crumbling ice—and rapidly rising seas—could spell disaster for a warming planet."
- And Jacobin has an edifying story on the lost history of Antifa.
- Who's in the mood for some owls? This video is a hoot.
Published May 10, 2017
Modified May 10, 2017
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