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Both Roger Stone and Donald Trump have spent the summer trying to sow disinformation about Crowdstrike.

Trump has committed a lot of impeachable offenses. He's profited from the presidency, put children in concentration camps (where some died), obstructed justice, various other things documented at length in the Mueller report, and a litany of…

It's time. There are only so many ways to say this. Refreshed whip list to come soon.

The press should use Trump's claim he was pushing Ukraine to invent dirt on Joe Biden to insist that he talk about his own corruption.

True ideas are useful tools.

Pragmatism adopts the approach of the scientific method as a tool for working out whether our opinions conform to reality.

After a new report in Washington Post about the ODNI whistleblower's complaint, we're still wondering what the complaint is about. Is it a Trump-Russia issue alone, or does it also include a promise related to another country — like North Korea or Iran?

A big Yahoo scoop includes the detail that Russia seemed to have identified FBI assets as part of a larger compromise. That's particularly interesting given that at least two former FBI assets floated dangles from Russia during the 2016 operation.

Given what we know about the defector Oleg Smolenkov, it's remarkable that both Mike Flynn and Jared Kushner appear to have ignored advise to reach out to his boss, Yuri Ushakov. Because Kushner and Flynn did not (apparently) communicate with Ushakov, they did not alert CIA in real time to their efforts to set up back channels. 

The ODNI is withholding a whistleblower complaint; what could it have been about, assuming there are other related matters in the public eye? A timeline might help--let's build one.