We’re driving around Boston in the bomb cyclone where nearly a foot of snow has already fallen. More than 13 million people are under blizzard warnings, from Virginia to Maine.
Watch live on Facebook: https://t.co/fB6bgt40Pb
Latest storm updates: https://t.co/ETjXH22DEc pic.twitter.com/iY5tkwLMNe
— CNN International (@cnni) January 4, 2018
#Grayson Might Be Strongest Bombogenesis Event Near U.S. East Coast In Over Four Decades: https://t.co/CbsjGVaS9G pic.twitter.com/udUpBUOrpX
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) January 4, 2018
The Latest: One person dies after car skids into a commuter train at the bottom of a steep hill near Philadelphia. https://t.co/0maYd0HmDr
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 4, 2018
The bomb cyclone has hit Boston with record floods. https://t.co/C1yxev5x8R pic.twitter.com/ChOcLt2sVJ
— Slate (@Slate) January 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/ReutersLive/status/949008827298525184
Winter Storm Grayson looks absolutely massive from space https://t.co/LCL3hZ4jXC
— TIME (@TIME) January 4, 2018
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TRUMPWORLD
The portrait of an unfit president in a dysfunctional administration at a time the world is characterized by mounting disarray adds up to a truly dangerous moment in history. The best that can be hoped for is drift. The worst to be feared is a disaster of some magnitude somewhere
— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) January 4, 2018
TIMES FRONT PAGE: 'Trump's mental health questioned by top aide' #skypapers pic.twitter.com/0GEl0Rodis
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 4, 2018
Donald Trump's closest aides have reached the same conclusion in private that scores of mental-health professionals have made in public https://t.co/LsGPltdGsN
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) January 4, 2018
"Everybody was painfully aware of the increasing pace of his repetitions. It used to be inside of 30 minutes he'd repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories — now it was within 10 minutes" https://t.co/UqDrNS2eXY he needs a mental evaluation.
— Jennifer Truth Over Phony Balance Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) January 4, 2018
Sanders snaps at reporter over Trump’s mental health: ‘If he was unfit he probably wouldn’t be sitting there’ https://t.co/cMFNlyVo2v
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 4, 2018
Is there something neurologically wrong with Donald Trump?
@jameshamblin says it’s time to establish an independent system to evaluate the president’s mental fitness https://t.co/kS1z5LV91l pic.twitter.com/BVGNj75Y3R— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 3, 2018
Trump demands that publisher halt release of Michael Wolff book, threatening to seek “substantial monetary damages and punitive damages.” https://t.co/0G3DbmlHPq
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/AndrewBeatty/status/949045710640513024
https://twitter.com/janicemin/status/949005110671126528
On CNN, Atty. Mark Geragos says he has it on 'good authority' that Steve Bannon is considering a defamation suit against President Trump.
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) January 4, 2018
President Trump's threats to use Steve Bannon and Michael Wolff are the Streisand Effect in action, writes @GrahamDavidA https://t.co/48YoSpHIoA pic.twitter.com/oy7PEIJj9l
— TheAtlanticPolitics (@TheAtlPolitics) January 4, 2018
in gif form it looks like he's yelling at her pic.twitter.com/gx1xCQdlh9
— David Mack (@davidmackau) January 4, 2018
Problem for @realDonaldTrump: when you lie 5.5 times per day – all carefully-documented – it's awfully hard to come out and say, with any degree of credibility, that something else. like, oh, a book, is false pic.twitter.com/uyW3sF4g3a
— West Wing Report (@WestWingReport) January 4, 2018
Free legal advice to the WH: An ex-staffer's statement cannot both be (a) an inappropriate disclosure of a confidence, and (b) wildly false. No one is violating a contractual non-disclosure provision if they are disclosing things that you say didn't happen. So, pick a theory.
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) January 4, 2018
you realize there will be organized book burnings when Wolff's is published…right?
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 4, 2018
"They know what is wrong with Donald Trump. They know why it’s dangerous." @JamesFallows on Washington's open secret: https://t.co/amsT4ACthC pic.twitter.com/CA8Gj3JPJf
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 4, 2018
Time to update the Weapons of Mass Distraction GIF. My animated look at @realDonaldTrump 's twitter tactics, per @GeorgeLakoff 's analysis and Greg @gibilisco 's graphic. @bannerite @bustle @berkeleyside pic.twitter.com/3eUhSocMye
— Chris Morris (@camorris) January 4, 2018
JUST IN: Billionaire conservative donor issues harsh rebuke of Bannon: We do not support his "political agenda" https://t.co/mK3M4eSkcT pic.twitter.com/0oeNGcrSAn
— The Hill (@thehill) January 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/frankpallotta/status/948950606034690049
Meanwhile, plenty of other distractions; surely one of them will stick…
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Justice Department taking a new 'look into' Hillary's emails. https://t.co/MXdVPI2Q4P
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) January 4, 2018
Dear Attorney General Jeff Sessions and @TheJusticeDept: Let me give you a list of things more important for federal prosecutors and federal law enforcement to pursue other than marijuana:
1. Basically anything. https://t.co/ctyJui7g4c
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 4, 2018
Video from Colorado in 2016👇
I asked @realDonaldTrump about the possibility that his AG pick might try to shut down #marijuana legalization.
“I wouldn’t do that, no,” Trump said. “I think it should be up to the states, absolutely.” https://t.co/PnTo7OtM23
— Brandon Rittiman (@BrandonRittiman) January 4, 2018
JUST IN: SC's Tom Davis, a Republican who represents the state's lush coast, tells me the Trump administration’s proposal to expand offshore drilling is “horrible public policy" that is “simply not compatible with coastal South Carolina.” Story in edit. (photo: @britannica) pic.twitter.com/fvlXAppC00
— Meg Kinnard (@MegKinnardAP) January 4, 2018
Not on my watch. Not off Rhode Island. https://t.co/53PhxzffIq
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) January 4, 2018
Opening up oil drilling in all federal waters is a big shift, not just from the Obama era, but from all administrations since Reagan. The last offshore lease sale for the east coast was in 1983, for the west coast in 1984
— Ed Crooks (@Ed_Crooks) January 4, 2018
As I have long predicted, now that the POS Republican tax-giveaway has been enacted, all the "fiscal responsibility" groups have crawled out of the caves where they hibernated all during the tax debate to demand cuts in Social Security & Medicare. https://t.co/xdQ0ciGbOG
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) January 4, 2018
Take a look at this must-read from @AriBerman: "Trump isn’t giving up on his quest to remove people from the voter rolls, the effort is just going underground." https://t.co/hn5Eg2LpYw
— America Votes (@AmericaVotes) January 4, 2018
Member of Trump voter fraud commission: Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud a "made-up issue" https://t.co/SwweiP3ctR pic.twitter.com/UVbFJehi0w
— The Hill (@thehill) January 4, 2018
Our reporting shows how an aide to AG Jeff Sessions asked a Hill staffer four days before Comey was fired whether staffer had derogatory information on Comey, as part of apparent effort to undercut FBI director's credibility https://t.co/OxhitbBfg2
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) January 5, 2018
House Intelligence, DOJ reach agreement on Russia probe documentshttps://t.co/PC6nGIaBMO
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/RonaldKlain/status/949048414221819910
Finally…
Brendan Byrne was of the funniest people I've encountered in politics. He loved to joke that he wanted to be buried in Hudson County — "so that I can remain politically active." https://t.co/CKu31teSL4
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) January 4, 2018
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WORLD
JUST IN: U.N. Security Council to meet Friday on the situation in the Middle East after U.S. calls for session on Iran protests pic.twitter.com/OrfWE6yYc0
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) January 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/pususuti/status/949066453075898368
Well done me, says Trump on talks between North and South Korea https://t.co/RNJcdg8BjK pic.twitter.com/jd699LIDOu
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/raju/status/949048509759713280
Slaughterbots — autonomous killer robots must be halted and controlled https://t.co/5ipB7oqRQ5 pic.twitter.com/Od4fpd0uxn
— Diane Francis (@dianefrancis1) January 4, 2018
Welcome to 2018: The CDC is hosting a briefing this month on preparing for nuclear war https://t.co/xTq5nfX6I9 via @Briannaehley
— Sudeep Reddy (@Reddy) January 5, 2018
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BATSHIT BREXIT BRITAIN
Philip Stephens: Britain has made itself a Brexit straitjacket https://t.co/4mXZUWl5YT pic.twitter.com/EubI81pbaq
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) January 4, 2018
We see that 78% of Labour supporters want a 2nd referendum, 87% of SNP and 91% of LibDem. But only 14% of Tory supporters. Progressives want the future, openness, possibilities: not to creep into a corner and shut their eyes.
— A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR (@acgrayling) January 4, 2018
WATCH: “Yes, I Absolutely Want To Sabotage Brexit”, @Andrew_Adonis tells me. Clip and full (very sparky) interview here… https://t.co/QyQDfo5w0J A must watch for both Remainers & Brexiteers! Feel free to RT! pic.twitter.com/VzhpgDKB5m
— Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦.🇮🇱 (@IainDale) January 4, 2018
The pound could shake off Brexit blues and hit $1.50 this year https://t.co/ucNSCiVVJY pic.twitter.com/WP3bJxXk9m
— Bloomberg (@business) January 4, 2018
2018: A Foreign Secretary who disgracefully kept his job after his rank incompetence endangered a British citizen wrongly imprisoned by an enemy state defends the appointment of a universities adviser who maligns disabled children, routinely insults women & jokes about anal rape.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) January 4, 2018
If you want Brexit commemorative stamps, you'll be able to get them on your passport every time you go abroad.
Kidding. Like any of you gammons go abroad.
— Enough Of That Now (@AndyGilder) January 4, 2018
“The Brexit Generation is dying out” – @daaronovitch with our latest #viewsnight pic.twitter.com/NALcvy973t
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) January 4, 2018