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A package showed up in the mail just now from my friends at ⁦@MiniCannonTech⁩. It wasn’t exactly addressed to #BabyCannon, but she knew it had her name all over it.
She opened it, speechless with excitement. (Of course, #BabyCannon is usually speechless because he knows one word.)
From inside emerged ... #TinyBabyNavalCannon!
This is gonna be fun. :)
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This piece by @woodruffbets spins out what the White House lawyers and their allies imagine to be the mechanism by which they will stifle the Mueller findings, assuming they take the form of some kind of report that contains material plausibly covered by executive privilege.
Here is the simple reason why it won't work:
Even assuming that the executive privilege claims are valid and will be upheld and are sustainable in the face of the political pressure the administration will receive on the subject, and that is a heck of an assumption, executive privilege does not cover conclusions.
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My question, @brithume, is what turns on this distinction you're drawing? The president has repeatedly said he had nothing to do with Russia--at a time he was endeavoring to build a large building there and Russian intelligence was hacking his political opponents.
At the very time he was calling on them to do so and praising Putin. At the very time his campaign staff and advisers were having meetings with Russian cutouts. Are you really contending that this is the sort of candor we should expect from our leaders?
Are you really contending that any of this is okay?
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I've been reading about the Whiskey Ring scandal as part of @Susan_Hennessey and my book research, and wow, Grant's reaction to the prosecutions is really Trumpy. Consider:
(1) He fired a special prosecutor for questioning his authority to interfere with the activities of the secretary of the treasury.
(2) He drew a red line around his sons and demanded that reports that they were investigative subjects be rebutted.
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Over the last week, protests have erupted across #Sudan, with NISS intelligence service stations being burnt and reports of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) defending protestors in some locations. This is a developing thread for remotely monitoring the situation, h/t @trevorsnapp.
In Atbara, for example, protesters have set fire to the headquarters of ruling the National Congress Party, led by President Omar al-Bashir. There's plenty of visual evidence of the unrest, such as this video. Geolocation: 17.694190, 34.001319 (google.com/maps/place/17%…).
The NCP headquarters suffered heavy damage from the protests on 19 Dec 2018, as this photo shows (h/t @wasilalitaha). Second image shows the building in a better state, via their Facebook page.
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1/ I'm stunned, but not surprised by AT&T's decision to extended their #Friends licensing deal with Netflix through 2019. A perfect example of, despite saying they were committed to winning in SVOD, Big Media wants to have their cake, eat it to - and then hope they get a 3rd cake
2/ #Friends is one of Netflix's most valuable titles. It's one of the most celebrated sitcoms, one of Netflix's most popular series, and has a whopping 236 episodes of tonnage - and a fervent fanbase
3/ AT&T could (and should) have simply moved #Friends to HBO, their leading SVOD asset. Imagine the impact on customer acquisition - all of a sudden the press coverage inundates all Friends fans to get HBO, if they haven't already!

Related: redef.com/original/a-six…
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A few weeks ago when I heard the old Walter Reed Army Medical Center in DC was being torn down I casually put out on Twitter that if anyone was nearby I would greatly appreciate it if they could score a piece of the building for me. I figured it was a longshot, but why not try?
A few people messaged me and said they tried, but everything was fenced off as I assumed it would be. One person went the extra mile though and really came through. Imagine my surprise when this showed up in the mail recently. This thing is big too!
Thank you to everyone who tried to get a piece of the building for me, and a very special shoutout to @Weirddave0 for pulling off the seemingly impossible. I have my own chunk of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, my home for nine months after getting wounded in Iraq.
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Hey All...
I want to throw this out there, I hope many will hear and please join in if you have anything to add:

When President Trump won, the world went into chaos, unlike anything ever seen before. As we learn each day of the evil that rules the world /1
We find that there are many lucifarians, those who follow lucifer, across the world, we are finding out they are pedophiles, killers, rapists, whoremongers, liars, selfish, unruly, unholy, anti-country, and Anti-God (Jesus). All the characteristics of the one they follow /2
As we listen to them we hear them call us evil and do not undermine that accusation because they truly believe it. They have been fooled into believing that lucifer is the light of the world, after all in their secret pacts, they have been given so much from /3
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Damon gets the sudden urge to check to phone and demands Katherine give it back to him. YESSS READ YOUR DAMN MESSAGES. Its like he got this feeling something wasn't right
"You are going to get yourself killed. The Damon I remember wouldn't have been that stupid."
"I wouldn't have done it for you."
AAGSHD he will risk to life for Elena. We all been knew. But truthfully, he would have for Kat too. He did and he died in 1864.
He wouldn't do it for Katherine NOW, obviously.
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