- What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- The language of hate, by Mark E Andersen
- ‘If you lie down with dogs, you get fleas’ MP blasts Brit Home Secretary over ‘Windrush Generation,’ by Denise Oliver Velez
- Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility, by Laurence Lewis
- Abortion, free speech and the right to lie, by Jon Perr
- James Comey and the difficulty of maintaining credibility with conspiracy theorists, by David Akadjian
- Progressive Activists: You must make the case directly to America for us to win, by Egberto Willies
- The privilege of whining about white male privilege, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Officials like Valerie Huber don’t have to ride in private planes to subvert our institutions, by Susan Grigsby
- Trump and Republicans want to make it easier to discriminate in auto lending because of course, by Ian Reifowitz
“My view is that the president deserves wide latitude in their nominations, but the more important the position is, the less latitude they have.”
— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), about Rex Tillerson’s nomination to be Secretary of State on January 11, 2017.
“We give great deference to the president… and the more important the job, the more discretion the president deserves.”
— Rubio, about the nomination of Jim Bridentstein to head NASA earlier today.
A nonprofit created to raise and spend money to cover Gov. Eric Greitens' legal expenses is reporting that it neither raised nor spent any money during the first month of its existence.
- As the inmate population continues to age, look for this "record" to be broken soon:
Three decades after a bombing campaign claimed the life of a federal judge, set off panic and prompted a sprawling federal investigation, authorities in Alabama executed the now-83-year-old man convicted in the explosions.
The lethal injection of Walter Leroy Moody Jr. on Thursday night made him the oldest inmate put to death in the modern era.
- Well, this wouldn’t be at all weird:
Police in Louisiana say a woman came home to discover a naked stranger in her tub, eating her Cheetos while taking a bath. [...]
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that a responding officer found "a full tub of water and a plate of food along with half eaten Cheetos belonging to the victim on the toilet next to the tub."