Other Matters

• Chauncey DeVega scoops Washington Post; Washington Post adds interviews.
• A take on the Dakota Access Pipeline you may otherwise miss.  Not favorable to the Obama Administration.  (Jerri-Lynn Scofield, naked capitalism)
• Trumpery.  (Paul Bibeau, Goblinbooks)

  But it's ok. It's nothing. In less than a week, if you keep this up... you'll be able to send a SEAL team after people you don't like. You'll be able to make people you don't like disappear. With a phone call. Isn't that worth a little crap-eating? Isn't it? Making nice with the female reporters and taking them seriously? Keep it up. Just a little longer.

• Troglodytes.  (Paul Bibeau, Goblinbooks)

  The scandal that should have taken down Donald Trump right at the beginning is the one that requires no investigation. You know the facts already. He and his supporters are bigots - against so many different kinds of people it's hard to keep track of them. They don't believe in the equal rights guaranteed by the American Constitution. They don't share the values we claim to support.
  
  The reason that scandal did not take him down is that too many people in this country agree with them