Thursday, May 31, 2018

Unearthing Portugal's Wine of the Dead, a Relic From the Napoleonic Wars - Gastro Obscura

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Roseanne Barr was widely denounced for comparing a former aide to President Obama to an ape. But among the racists of the radical right, the comedian – who has apologized, blamed the sleep aid Ambien and continued to retweet racist ideas – became a martyr after her sitcom was canceled. Many of Roseanne's backers claim that her comment wasn't racist, but they're overlooking the historical pattern of white supremacists linking black people to primates.

Did the Trump Administration Separate Immigrant Children from Parents and Lose Them? (The New York Times)

At Least 152 People Have Died in K–12 School Shootings Since April 20, 1999. We Honor Their Memories. (Teaching Tolerance)

'You Need to Speak English': Encounters in Viral Videos Show Spanish is Still Polarizing in the U.S. (Los Angeles Times)

Baton Rouge Police Union President Faces Possible Discipline in Alton Sterling Shooting (The Advocate)

Staffing Polling Places with ICE Makes Literally Zero Sense (The Washington Post)

Twice a Week, These Texas Students Circle Up and Talk About Their Feelings. It's Lowering Suspensions and Preventing Violence. (The Texas Tribune)

More Americans Than Ever Support Same-Sex Marriage (HuffPost)

How Southern Organizers are Leading the Movement to End Money Bail (Scalawag)



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Roseanne Barr was widely denounced for comparing a former aide to President Obama to an ape. But among the racists of the radical right, the comedian – who has apologized, blamed the sleep aid Ambien and continued to retweet racist ideas – became a martyr after her sitcom was canceled. Many of Roseanne's backers claim that her comment wasn't racist, but they're overlooking the historical pattern of white supremacists linking black people to primates.

Did the Trump Administration Separate Immigrant Children from Parents and Lose Them? (The New York Times)

At Least 152 People Have Died in K–12 School Shootings Since April 20, 1999. We Honor Their Memories. (Teaching Tolerance)

'You Need to Speak English': Encounters in Viral Videos Show Spanish is Still Polarizing in the U.S. (Los Angeles Times)

Baton Rouge Police Union President Faces Possible Discipline in Alton Sterling Shooting (The Advocate)

Staffing Polling Places with ICE Makes Literally Zero Sense (The Washington Post)

Twice a Week, These Texas Students Circle Up and Talk About Their Feelings. It's Lowering Suspensions and Preventing Violence. (The Texas Tribune)

More Americans Than Ever Support Same-Sex Marriage (HuffPost)

How Southern Organizers are Leading the Movement to End Money Bail (Scalawag)



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Jill Stein Robbed You Suckers Blind | Wonkette

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If Martha Stewart told criminal con-man Trump to shove his 'pardon' up his wretched orange ass, she'd go down in history with righteous heroes like August Landmesser, who refused to give Hitler the "Sieg Heil" salute during a Nazi rally in Hamburg on June 13, 1936. @MarthaStewart

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Stop with the 'TBS should fire Samantha Bee' crap for calling Ivanka Trump a "C-nt"...

"Anyone who thinks Hillary isn't a c-nt is a pussy."
- Roseanne on Twitter - October 9th, 2016

What happened after that? Roseanne got her own TV Show.

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Rudy Giuliani Says Robert Mueller Will Be 'Doing a Comey' If He Doesn't End Russia Probe by September

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Why an Ordinary Life Can Be a Good Life

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Sicilian Pizza Dough Recipe - Genius Kitchen

Sicilian Pizza Dough Recipe - Genius Kitchen

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This also makes a wonderful 'deep dish' pizza crust as pictured above. The recipe will make one deep dish crust. Brush rimmed baking sheet with olive oil, place dough into pan and shape and dimple with finger tips. Brush top with olive oil and pre-bake at 425 F for 7 minutes - then add toppings and bake for another 10-15 minutes.

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  1. Coat a large bowl with teaspoon of olive oil and set aside.
  2. Stir first three ingredients together and let sit for 10 minutes, until nice and foamy.
  3. Place three cups of flour in large bowl and mix in salt.
  4. Place one cup of flour on work surface.
  5. Mix pour olive oil into yeast mixture and then pour yeast mixture into bowl with flour.
  6. Stir until as combined as possible.
  7. Turn out onto floured surface.
  8. With well floured hands, knead dough to work in the cup of flour on the board.
  9. Continue kneading until nice, smooth dough-ball is formed.
  10. Place in oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap, then kitchen towel and let sit for 30 minutes.
  11. Dough should double (at least).
  12. Use half the dough to form a pizza crust, crimp the edges, brush edges with olive oil and top as desired.
  13. Bake on pizza stone or ceramic tile at 425 F for approx 15 minutes.
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Washington Monthly | Bolton Taps Neo-Nazi as National Security Council Chief of Staff

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Major Right-Wing Media Outlets Can't Keep Up With The Racism Of Their Audiences | Crooks and Liars

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Carnival-Barker-In-Chief Says 'Who, Me?' Over Comey Firing | Crooks and Liars

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Jill Wine-Banks: 'It's Time For Rudy To Zip Up' | Crooks and Liars

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The Roseanne Barr saga continued late Tuesday and into Wednesday after her lighting-fast firing by ABC, with the revelation that President Trump's son got in on the action by retweeting Barrs unhinged tweet about George Soros, and the President himself sounded off on Twitter in response to the cancellation of Roseanne.

Barr came up with a remarkable excuse for her behavior, blaming her early morning tweetstorm on Ambien, a prescription sleep aid. The drug manufacturer responded by stating that racism is not a known side effect. Barr ended her apology tour soon after by contemplating on Twitter that she might start to fight back.

The misinformation machine didn't even let the ink dry on Barrs pink slip before working up some obvious hoaxes. (Obvious to us, but missed by many information consumers.) According to one fake news purveyor, the canceled sitcom was picked up by three different networks within a matter of hours, and a fake Facebook post supposedly from Trump's press secretary appeared to offer an official White House position to the controversial comedian.

In other online news, legend has it that whoever catches the brides bouquet will be the next to get married, and one fictitious bridesmaid wasn't messin' around when it came to getting her place in line. (False)

Far-right British activist Tommy Robinson was sentenced in May 2018 for violating reporting restrictions and potentially risking the collapse of a child sex abuse trial, not for breaching a court order designed to protect muslim pedophiles? (False)

The Right to Try act is aimed at experimental treatments for terminally ill patients, not giving you the right to experiment with weed in all 50 states. Plus, the Trump administration isn't a fan of sweet cheeba. (False)

Phew! A 6-foot-long boa constrictor reported loose in Binghamton, New York, has been found.

If all this has you down, catch a quick reprieve by listening to Long Island Railroad passengers sing 'Piano Man' on the train bound for Huntington in unison.

We want to congratulate the students of the University of Washington's Information School for their successful Capstone event which took place Wednesday evening. 

Four students, advised by Snopes' Vice President Vinny Green, showcased a possible solution to combating fake news and misinformation at scale using crowd-sourced information.

They took home the 2018 Research Award. #Proud



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A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn: Isn't it Good Norwegian Cake

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Michael Cohen's Line (Parody of "Telephone Line" by ELO)

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Michael Cohen's Line (Parody of "Telephone Line" by ELO)

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Everything Coming To Netflix In June 2018

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Why You Should Never Kill a House Centipede - What Do House Centipedes Look Like

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Centre of Shaman Eternal Heavenly Sophistication – Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - Atlas Obscura

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How To Repot an Orchid | Apartment Therapy

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: We end Game of Thrones “the right way”

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White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says

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Pennywise Actor Calls IT 2 a Very Different Experience

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Steelers unveil new throwback uniforms, and they are glorious

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China’s Eye of Sauron - Daily Pnut

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Huh? Felons gonna felon. Practicing your pardoning skills won't work when charges are brought against your people say, in New York State. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…

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Make American Christians Good Again

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Donald Trump told the NFL he wanted its kneeling policy changed because it was good for him politically, according to testimony from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. The NFL is about to face the most costly boycott of all time – and Trump just added another felony to his indictment.

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The Red Hats' sole intention is to troll the Normals. Some have admitted to it and it's exactly why they should never be taken seriously. Screw outreach. Put it this way: on a professional sports team, the competitor on the field who strictly trolls is called the mascot. #MAGA

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Here's Rudy Giuliani defending the Sanctuary City policies in NYC. I don't think @realDonaldTrump will like this very much. Don't retweet it. It could get Rudy fired. #TrumpLeaks #FireRudy pic.twitter.com/IERnWkuKo1

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Omg our President just pretended to be his wife.

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Our so-called president had us all at a bit of a disadvantage these 1st 18 months; nobody, not the press, the resistance, world leaders, nobody knew how low he could go. Well, we're starting to understand the playbook. Makes a muthafucka feel a tide turnin...

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O'Hara opens Edible Trail; pears, blueberries available to pick along path | TribLIVE

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Trump’s Spygate Lies Get Smacked Down By Republican Leaders

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The Rude Pundit: Puerto Rico Remains So Very Fucked (and the Rest of Us Might Be, Too)

The Rude Pundit: Puerto Rico Remains So Very Fucked (and the Rest of Us Might Be, Too)

Puerto Rico Remains So Very Fucked (and the Rest of Us Might Be, Too)

The unsurprising but still alarming number of dead from Hurricane Maria, as estimated by a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, is more than 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina combined: at least 4645 killed directly by the storm or in the aftermath. It ought to be a scandal that our bumblefuck president not only low-balled the number by over 4500 but bragged about the federal government's response in keeping the death toll minimal. It ought to be a scandal that it took a private entity to accurately report the thousands of dead. But scandals are cheap in this shit era we're damned to live through. And the only thing that's cheaper are the lives of the American citizens on Puerto Rico.

Here's what else we've learned recently:

On Sunday, El Nueva Dia reported, "Eight months after Hurricane Maria, four main transmission lines of the island's power grid remain unrepaired." This means that much of the island now gets power from sub-transmission lines, and that leaves the power grid vulnerable to weather events, like, say, another hurricane, the season for which starts Friday. Actually, one FEMA official said that "a small tropical storm" could take down the grid. On top of that, thousands of families still do not have power and some still do not have water.

A Frontline report revealed just how disparately the situation in Puerto Rico was treated when compared to the federal government response after Hurricanes Harvey in Texas and Irma in Florida. Nine days after the storms, Puerto Rico, where a third of the houses had been wrecked or damaged, received just 5000 roof tarps, compared to 20,000 for Texas and 98,000 for Florida. Just 10,000 federal personnel were in Puerto Rico after 9 days, compared to 22,000 for Florida and 30,000 for Texas. Yes, by the time of Maria, FEMA and other federal workers were stretched thin, but even at its peak of 16,500, Puerto Rico never had the same number of people there to help out as the other two.

FEMA has approved less than half of the 750,000 applications for housing assistance for people who are trying to rebuild in Puerto Rico. This is because, especially in rural areas, people don't have the records that are required in order to get the aid. And even those who had them saw them washed away in the storm. FEMA has provided an average of $2974 in assistance, and the program will end on June 30.

Finally, there continues to be the way that the disaster in Puerto Rico has the potential to be a disaster for the whole country if we don't invest a fuck-ton of funds there. 90% of emergency room physicians say that "they have experienced shortages or absences of critical medicines in their emergency departments" in the past month. On top of that, 93% say "their emergency departments are not 'fully prepared' for patient surge capacity in the event of a natural or man-made disaster, or mass-casualty incident," with less than half saying they are even "somewhat prepared." One reason (though not the only one) for these shortages is that "up to 10% of all drugs consumed by Americans" were made at pharmaceutical companies in Puerto Rico, along with about half the IV saline and a large percentage of the IV bags used by, well, everyone from the local EMT to your big damn hospitals. Those facilities still aren't fully back and are subject to the whims of the weakened power grid.

The fact that we're not still focused on how fucked Puerto Rico is speaks to a general acceptance that the rank racism of the Trump administration is just a part of our daily lives. There was a massive tragedy involving millions of our fellow Americans, with thousands of them dying, and our government is choosing to do the bare minimum because bad news fucks up the MAGA triumphalism.


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The War Childhood Museum Shares Stories Of Kids Growing Up Under Seige | GOOD

The War Childhood Museum Shares Stories Of Kids Growing Up Under Seige | GOOD

The War Childhood Museum Shares Stories Of Kids Growing Up Under Seige

by Christina Noto

Photo by Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty.

White ballet slippers symbolize childhood for Mela Softic. She grew up during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. Her memories of youth are those of war.

"Dancing was something that helped me survive [the] war," said Softic, who was 8 years old when the war broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 1992. The Bosnian war was one of several conflicts in the 1990s that shook the region during the breakup of Yugoslavia.

During the siege, the Bosnian Serb army encircled the city, targeting civilians, and for years citizens of Sarajevo lived in fear. Thousands of children were killed and many more were robbed of a normal childhood.

Many children, like Softic, spent their formative years in a state of fear and deprivation, dreaming of chocolate, fresh fruit, and other luxuries stolen by the circumstances, often cowering in cellars during shelling.

The generation raised in the Bosnia war were forced to grow up prematurely. But this was not an anomaly. Today, this is a reality for children in conflict zones all over the world, and those who survive the violence often suffer from health and psychological problems long after the conflict ends.

Photo by Christina Noto.

Children of conflict

according to UNICEF, one in nine children live in conflict zones. Those under the age of five are twice as likely to die from preventable diseases.

"No one thinks about what it is like to be a child during war [and] what it is like to grow up during war," Softic said.

In Sarajevo, a 29-year-old author is shedding new light on the world of children in conflict with a unique project.

Jasminko Halilovic, who made Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2018, was just 4 years old when the war broke out. In an effort to create a memorial of his own experience, and those of other children affected by the siege, he decided to start collecting testimonies.

Photo by Christina Noto

The War Childhood Museum (WCM) in Sarajevo opened in January 2017. It was initially dedicated to telling the stories of children during the war in Bosnia. It is now in the process of expanding to tell the stories of children affected by war around the world, including those from more recent conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.

The museum collects personal objects and oral testimonies in order to tell the story of wartime childhood. Softic's pair of white ballet slippers is one of 4,000 items donated to the museum by Bosnians. The collection features a bulletproof vest, a half-finished letter, and pieces of a destroyed playground, among other sentimental artifacts.

Although the WCM has only been in operation for a year, the museum is part of a larger project started by Halilovic. He contacted hundreds of people who were young during the Bosnian war and asked them to answer the question, "What was a war childhood for you?" via text message, in 160 characters or less.

He collected more than 1,000 responses, which he compiled in the book "War Childhood: Sarajevo 1992–1995." The book's success inspired him to found the museum.

"This museum, a least for me, is a fourth [quarter] of my life. It is the most important thing I ever worked on, and it will remain the most important thing I've done in my life," said Halilovic.

A children's choir uniform displayed at Sarajevo's War Childhood Museum on February 1, 2017. Photo by Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty.

Global memory

The WCM has collaborated with over 300 individuals to collect stories and mementos from the war in Bosnia. Each object tells a unique story about the children affected by violence.

The museum plans to continue to collect the stories of those affected by the conflict, "We will continue collecting objects from those who were in Sarajevo during the armed conflict, however, we are collecting objects and stories from people from all around the country, no matter where in BiH they were," said Almedina Lozic, the collection and content manager.

The museum has a great significance to those who have contributed, but the intimacy of the experience is not lost on others.

The innocence of childhood was lost, despite how normal they tried to make it.

The architecture is modern and sophisticated, the sparse design complementing the tattered possessions lined up in glass cases and lit by spotlights.

Visitors from all over the world are moved by the stories mounted on plaques next to each object.

"I could never relate to what they saw, heard, and experienced. I pictured myself during that time – living a normal childhood … and here these children had that all taken away from them – they were looking death right in the eye every day. The innocence of childhood was lost, despite how normal they tried to make it," said Stephane Pallhorn, 24, from Melbourne, Australia, who visited the museum in November 2017.

Photo by Christina Noto.

Sharing experiences

Although Bosnian children are currently the central focus of the museum in Sarajevo, Lozic says that "with time we will include more and more objects and stories from other countries." Each new exhibition is set to feature a few personal objects and stories collected from children in different areas of armed conflict. In April, the exhibit will rotate the items on display and include one item from a Syrian child refugee in Lebanon.

Four organizations, Basmeh & Zeitooneh, Sadalsuud Foundation, From Syria with Love, and Sawa Foundation, have partnered with the WCM, and together they will launch a traveling exhibition this year containing around 40 objects and stories. The exhibition will start in Sarajevo and travel across Europe, ending in Beirut, where the children and their families will get a chance to see their items and stories on display. The museum has already collected 80 objects.

We hope that our exhibition … will contribute to understanding of what these refugees went through.

One donated item is a drawing of an aircraft. A boy drew it when he left Syria at age 2. Although he does not remember drawing it, his family does, and often reminds him of his reasons for drawing it. He wanted to use the aircraft to fly over Syria and see what the country looks like.

"We hope that our exhibition, when we tour it around European cities and countries … will contribute to understanding of what these refugees went through, what brings them there, why they are there, and how the mutual trust can be established based on understanding their experiences," said Halilovic.

The WCM staff plans to use the same model for an exhibition on children affected by conflict in the Ukraine. This will exhibition will start in 2019.

The WCM aims to use the new exhibitions to build on its growing international recognition. On December 5, 2017, the museum was awarded the prestigious 2018 Council of Europe Museum Prize by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

"Sometimes it's difficult to use all the opportunities that we have because we have many invitations for exhibitions for different collaborations but we need to pick priorities," said Halilovic.

Students from the George Washington Museum Studies Department have been hired for the summer to work on a temporary exhibition, by the WCM in Washington D.C., dedicated to children across the world who lived through conflict or experienced it secondhand.

Photo by Christina Noto.

The WCM is also establishing a nonprofit organization in the United States to manage the educational projects and the exhibition in the United States.

Alexandra Hartley, education materials developer at the WCM and a history teacher from the United States, has introduced a curriculum entitled "War Childhood" for primary school children in the school district where she teaches in Ithaca, New York. She uses material from the WCM, "The Diary of Anne Frank," and "Zlata's Diary" – the account of the so-called "Anne Frank of Bosnia."

Through education, Halilovic hopes to raise awareness regarding issues that stem from childhood interrupted by conflict. In addition, the museum managers plan to develop curricula to educate students of all ages.

Although the war in Bosnia ended in 1995, conflict continues to disrupt and dominate the course of children's lives around the globe. For Softic, the WCM project has a compelling message for the world.

"The collection in this museum is from Bosnia, but the museum does not only focus on Bosnia. It is focused on war childhood anywhere in the world," she says. "The point of this museum is to just stop wars. See what you are doing to your kids. Just stop all wars."

 

Christina Noto is an alumni of the School for International Training study abroad program Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo: Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans. This story was written as an independent study project in journalism.

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Day 496 | What The Fuck Just Happened Today?

Day 496 | What The Fuck Just Happened Today?

Day 496

1/ Robert Mueller is investigating Trump's request to Jeff Sessions that he reverse his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation in March 2017. Trump berated Sessions in public and in private over his decision to step away, but Sessions refused Trump's request. Mueller is investigating the previously unreported confrontation as part of the ongoing obstruction of justice probe. Mueller's interest in Sessions suggests the investigation may be even more broad than Trump's interactions with and subsequent firing of James Comey. (New York Times / Washington Post)

  • Trump again expresses regret for choosing Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Trump said Wednesday that he wishes he had picked someone else to be attorney general. (Washington Post)

2/ Federal prosecutors investigating Michael Cohen are set to receive 1 million files from three of Cohen's cell phones that were seized last month in raids on his apartment, office, and hotel room. A court filing submitted by special master Barbara Jones on Tuesday says investigators for the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York have already received nearly 300,000 pieces of potential evidence from the raids. So far, only 252 seized items have been flagged by Cohen's or Trump's attorneys as privileged materials. An additional 292,006 items were turned over to prosecutors on May 23. (Washington Post)

3/ A federal judge in Manhattan ordered Michael Cohen's lawyers to complete their review of the huge trove of seized documents and data within two weeks. Judge Kimba Wood warned that she would allow the government to take control of the review process if Cohen's attorney's don't meet her June 15 deadline. The purpose of the review is to determine whether any of the materials seized by the FBI last month should be protected under attorney-client privilege. (New York Times / Washington Post)

4/ The Senate Intelligence Committee wants to interview Roger Stone. The committee also wants Stone's attorneys to hand over certain electronic communications. The email from the committee to Stone's lawyers includes a list of search terms it wants his attorneys to use to identify which communications to hand over. Stone says he hopes the interview with the committee will be public, and that he has "already begun to think about what to wear." (Daily Beast)

5/ Trump bragged about a classified battle between U.S. forces and Russian mercenaries in Syria while speaking to donors at a closed-door fundraiser. Trump said he was amazed by the actions of American F-18 pilots, suggested that the strikes lasted "10 minutes," and claimed they killed up to 300 Russians. The details of the battle remain classified. (Politico)

6/ The Trump administration will impose restrictions on Chinese visas as part of its attempt to counter alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property by Beijing. Under the new policy, U.S. consular officers may limit how long the visas will be valid, instead of simply issuing them for the maximum possible length. Chinese graduate students studying robotics, aviation, and other high-tech fields will be limited to one-year visas. Chinese citizens seeking visas will require clearance from multiple U.S. agencies in order to work as researchers or managers at certain companies. The restrictions are set to go into effect on June 11. (Associated Press)

7/ A new U.S. intelligence assessment concludes that North Korea does not intend to give up its nuclear arsenal any time soon. The CIA analysis is consistent with expert opinion on the subject, but it conflicts with Trump's recent claims that Kim intends to give up his nuclear stockpile in the near future. The assessment does note, however, that Kim Jong Un might open up a burger joint inside North Korea as a display of good will. (NBC News)

8/ Senior House Republican Trey Gowdy said the "FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got" from an informant inside Trump's 2016 campaign. Gowdy attended last week's highly classified Justice Department briefing about the FBI informant who approached multiple members of Trump's foreign policy team, including Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. Contrary to Trump and Giuliani's "spygate" conspiracy claims, Gowdy said the effort to place an informant inside the campaign had "nothing to do with Donald Trump." (Politico / Daily Beast / Washington Post)

9/ Trump accused Democrats of siding with MS-13 gang members over the American people during a rally in Nashville. "They don't want the wall, they want open borders," Trump said. "They're more interested in taking care of criminals than they are in taking care of you." Trump also reiterated his claim that immigrants who commit crimes are "animals," turning it into a chant for the crowd: "What was the name?" Trump called to the crowd. "Animals!" they shouted back. Trump also called Marsha Blackburn's Democratic opponent Phil Bredesen "an absolute, total tool" of Chuck Schumer, and referred to the House Democratic leader as "the MS-13 lover Nancy Pelosi." (New York Times)

10/ Federal bank regulators announced a plan to considerably weaken the Volcker Rule, which was put in place after the financial crisis to prevent risky trading. The rule also dictates that banks can't be the ones to make the rules about what constitutes a risky trade. The revisions make it so banks no longer have to prove that each trade serves a clear purpose — that it's not just a speculative bet. (New York Times)


Notables.

  1. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens resigned after a series of personal and political scandals. He gave a brief but defiant statement at the governor's office on Tuesday: "I am not perfect, but I have not broken any laws," he said. Greiten's resignation will go into effect on Friday at 5 p.m. (Washington Post)

  2. Kim Kardashian will meet with Trump at the White House and ask him to pardon a woman serving a life sentence without parole for a first-time drug offense. The meeting is the result of months of back-channel talks between Kardashian and Jared Kushner. (Vanity Fair)

  3. The Russian journalist who was believed to have been killed yesterday in Kiev showed up at a press conference today, very much alive. Arkady Babchenko apologized to friends and family who believed he was dead. "I'm still alive," he said. Babchenko's death was faked as part of a sting operation by the Ukrainian Security Service. (NPR / Associated Press)

  4. Ivanka Trump abruptly left a conference call about an upcoming fitness event after reporters asked her about her company's trademarks in China. A White House official previously said Ivanka would take a few questions before leaving for a meeting, but reporters started asking questions about the trademarks, which she refused to answer. Ivanka was gone by the time they got around to questions about her father's fitness regime. (New York Times / CBS News)

  5. Paul Manafort's friends launched a legal defense fund to help Manafort fight the charges brought against him by the special counsel. In an email announcement, fund organizers wrote, "The Defense Fund is urging anyone who values civil liberties and wishes to show the 'Deep State' that they cannot exert their will on ordinary citizens, to join them in supporting the Manafort family as they grapple against the Special Counsel to clear their name." (NPR / BuzzFeed News)

  6. Trump complained that Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, apologized to Valerie Jarret for Roseanne's racist tweets but hasn't apologized to Trump for all the mean jokes people have made about him on Disney-owned networks. During a press conference, Sarah Huckabee Sanders went through a laundry list of things Trumps feels warrant an apology from Iger. (Boston Globe / Salon)



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