Tucker Carlson, in a rare act of journalism, decided to press Paul Ryan on his use of health care policy as a fig leaf for massive upper-class tax cuts. He received a Very Serious answer: Carlson: The overview here is that all the wealth [in] basically the last ten years basically has stuck to the top end, that’s one of the reasons we’ve had all this political turmoil, as you know.

Ali Velshi methodically schooled Right Wing Congressman Jim Jordan by refuting his lies with authority as fast as the Congressman let them out. Velshi is what a journalist looks like in action.

Statement by Mike Litt, Consumer Program Advocate at U.S. PIRG Education Fund, on today’s guilty plea by Volkswagen in its criminal court case for emission violations “18 months after news of Volkswagen’s emission scandal broke, we’re glad to see the company finally admit to criminal wrongdoing. This kind of company admission is a big deal.

Caitlin Moran, the widely-celebrated feminist author and columnist, has called for girls to avoid reading any books with male authors until they are grown women. Moran, a Times of London columnist behind the best-selling How to Be a Woman, argued that reading great works by males will make young women cripplingly insecure.

The president has been seething as he watches round-the-clock cable news coverage. Trump recently vented to an associate that Carter Page, a onetime Trump campaign adviser, keeps appearing on television even though he and Trump have no significant relationship.

What does make Americans so insanely xenophobic? I mean, it’s one thing if your community really is being “taken over” by people from somewhere else , but just being driven mad by the presence of someone who looks like a furriner?

Lots of other stuff, too, but I spent quite a few years of my life doing what I thought I could to end that stupid fucking war and get Bushies as far away from power as possible. I even like his damn paintings, but not on board with the whole “lovable Bush” redemption tour.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign accepted illegal contributions in the weeks after election day and falsely recorded them as paying down the campaign’s debt, according to a complaint filed by two watchdog groups on Thursday. The Campaign Legal Center and left-leaning non-profit Common Cause allege that the campaign violated federal election laws designed to prevent campaigns from circumventing contribution limits.

Likely from the golden commode at the tackily ostentatious throne room at Disgraceland this morning, Trump dropped the following nuggets on Twitter: As I’ve done repeatedly in this nightmarish political cycle, I double-checked to make sure it was actually his account rather than one of the many parodies. The news sites are just now picking it up, so it’s apparently legit.

No More Mister Nice Blog : The GOP’s narrative about its enemies collides with the GOP’s narrative about itself. We welcome relevant, respectful comments.

Musician Jon Dwyer has to be one of those guys who never rests. From his former bands such as the Coach Whips and the Hospitals to his most famous and main vehicle these days, Thee Oh Sees, it seems he doesn’t have a new record out, he is working on one.

A growing number of Democratic senators and representatives say Jeff Sessions must resign over revelations he made false statements under oath. A bipartisan array of members of Congress have called for Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the investigation into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials, following revelations on Wednesday that the Attorney General falsely claimed under oath in his confirmation hearings that he had not met with Russian representatives.

In the wake of news that Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III lied to the Senate about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign, he must resign. He did not simply lie in his testimony .

Was I daydreaming a bit today? Yes. About a beach. Any beach as long as the weather is nice.

Last month’s deadly commando raid in Yemen, which cost the lives of a U.S. Navy SEAL and a number of children, has so far yielded no significant intelligence, U.S. officials told NBC News. Although Pentagon officials have said the raid produced “actionable intelligence,” senior officials who spoke to NBC News said they were unaware of any, even as the father of the dead SEAL questioned the premise of the raid in an interview with the Miami Herald published Sunday.