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There are currently two parallel efforts considering whether to liberate the details of Manafort's sharing of polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik and through him Russia: one led by Bill Barr, who may have incentive to suppress it, and one led by DC prosecutors, who may not.

This ain't no disco. Have your phones at the ready for these three things -- now with more about Puerto Rico. This is an open thread.

In which William Barr says the letter that he sent Sunday that "summarize[d] the principal conclusions reached by the Special Counsel and the results of his investigation" was not a summary, and other hackish reversals.

So you're angry -- welcome to the club. Get your war face on and let's kick ass. This is an open thread.

I've made this point implicitly a few times, but it bears making explicitly. We have proof that Bill Barr's memo spins the known contents of the Mueller Report to minimize the complicity of Trump's flunkies. That's because we can compare what…

It’s time for government to exercise its democratically earned power to protect us from Capitalism, and to protect Capitalism from itself. That's the meaning of the Green New Deal.

William Barr just did something totally cowardly to avoid fulfilling the promises he made in his confirmation process.

Three things bother me about Boeing and the 737 Max crash in Ethiopia two weeks ago. This is an open thread.

Now that Mueller has said whatever he has to say about why the evidence of Trump's ties to Russia do not amount to a crime, both sides need to focus on preventing Russia from attacking the country again.

If Jon Karl's certainty about the Mueller Report comes from one or another of Trump's lawyers that is or was being investigated for obstruction, he ought to be a lot more circumspect about their claims.