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Black sites, paper trails and foreign recruits + this day in history w/the 'Twilight Zone' accident and our song of the day by Weaves on your Morning Monarchy for July 23, 2018.

(CD) — After its triumphant tour over hundreds of thousands of U.K protesters and their bloody brilliant signs, the Baby Trump blimp – scowling face, yuge diaper, teeny hands clutching toxic phone and all – is coming to New Jersey to torment the noxious baby himself at his Bedminster golf club, where Trump often weekends on, lest we forget, your and my dime. […]

American idiot, crazy evil genius and the end of compact discs + this day in history w/the New York City blackout of '77 and our song of the day by Metric on your Morning Monarchy for Friday the 13th of July, 2018.

Credit: Chris Jordanby Gaius PubliusFrom the Dept. of What We're Up Against:

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: The shadow economy keeps crime down; Pushing back on the police state in the Big Easy; And after 80 years, US Congress critters work on undoing hemp prohibition.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: The shadow economy keeps crime down; Pushing back on the police state in the Big Easy; And after 80 years, US Congress critters work on undoing hemp prohibition.

Everyone at Blue America thought that the longest long shot we were taking this cycle was backing Alexandria Ocasio. "That's impossible," people told us. "If you couldn't take a nobody like Dan Lipinsky down, how you going to take down Joe Crowley?!?!" Well, to start, we didn't take down Joe Crowley. Alexandria did. The voters in the southwest Bronx and north Queens saw the contrast between the two candidates and made the easy choice.

After Blake Farenthold was forced out of Congress earlier in April for being a workplace perv, there was a vague hope Democrats could win his seat in a special election-- very vague. The DCCC gave the seat a thumbs down and refused to engage, especially after it was clear that the leading Democrat, Eric Holguin, is a progressive. The very gerrymandered district (TX-27) stretches along the Gulf from Corpus Christie and Port Aransas up through Victoria and Port Lavaca to Bay City and, incongruously, west through Shiner and Gonzales into the exurbs southeast of Austin.

This week on the New World Next Week: police chief calls press conference then arrests everyone who attends; California is flirting with a fake news council; and there's blood in the water as the SPLC settles a defamation case.

This week on the New World Next Week: police chief calls press conference then arrests everyone who attends; California is flirting with a fake news council; and there's blood in the water as the SPLC settles a defamation case.