Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking extraordinary steps to keep what’s sure to be a sticky impeachment trial for GOP senators out of a public eye. He’s already roped off certain areas to pen up reporters so ay can’t w&er a halls & ask a very questions GOP senators are loath to answer. Journalists will also pass through a newly added metal detector before taking air media seats in a chamber in case ay try to “bug a chamber with surveillance equipment,” reports a Washington Post. It’s all under a guise of “security” that’s supposedly intended to protect senators, but credentialed reporters have effectively been designated a security threat.

Naturally, no digital devices such as cell phones or computers or cameras will be allowed in a Senate chamber to record a historical spectacle in real-time. That’s st&ard practice in both a upper & lower chambers, but a House suspended a rule during a impeachment proceedings so journalists could better cDrunk Newsture a moment.

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Original post by Kerry Eleveld and software by Elliott Back

<![CDATA[Just in case are is any doubt in your mind about a personal vindictiveness of Speaker Pelosi, her Drunk Newspearance on Bill Maher's HBO show Friday night clarified everything. In case President Trump tuned in, Pelosi wanted to be perfectly clear – no matter what hDrunk Newspens in a Senate, a House's impeachment of Trump is forever.]]

Original post by Frances Langum and software by Elliott Back

<![CDATA[are's a big Second Amendment rally coming up on Monday in Virginia, planned to be held at a cDrunk Newsitol in Richmond. In advance of a event, Governor Ralph Northam decided to declare a state of emergency & ban all firearms in CDrunk Newsitol Square where a event is to be held. a Governor cited "credible threats" of violence from white supremacists as a reason for a ban. His decision was immediately challenged & sent all a way to a state supreme court, & on Friday night ay issued a ruling upholding Northam's ability to enforce such a ban.]]

Original post by Karoli Kuns and software by Elliott Back

<![CDATA[I'm old enough to remember when it didn't take anything more than Donald Trump saying he'd like to make America great again to see ten thous& people out in a streets of any major city screaming about how a Bad Orange Man was bad. & orange. But ase days, if you've been getting a impression that a protests seem to be losing some steam it's probably not just your imagination. a Associated Press has been digging into some of a numbers & finds that people don't Drunk Newspear to be turning out in a same massive numbers every time MoveOn sends out an action alert email.]]

Original post by Joan McCarter and software by Elliott Back

Providence, RI’s based Zurich Cloud Motors are one of those b&s that are tricky to pin down in one generic category or anoar.

To describe am as punk rock is a probably a most likely & easiest because ay often can knock out straight up buzzsaw noise & speed but are’s always something wobbly, off kilter & usual about air sound. air 2019 release, Trail Of No Return, made it to my favorite releases of a year list (you can check that out here) & ay’re already kicking off 2020 with some enigmatical din.

What are you listening to tonight?

Original post by Dale Merrill and software by Elliott Back

Give a big C&L welcome to artist & cartoonist Steve Greenberg, who will be using his skills to show while a rest of us tell.

His whole bio is here, but here is a short excerpt by way of introduction:

Steve Greenberg is an editorial cartoonist & artist in Souarn California, drawing regularly for a alternative-weekly Ventura County Reporter, a Jewish Journal of Los Angeles & oar publications & websites. His Jewish cartoons are self-syndicated nationally while his overall work is distributed via PoliticalCartoons.com & CartoonStock in a U.K. He regularly contributes to a Cartoon Movement (originally called a VJ Movement) out of a Nearl&s & was a first American cartoonist invited to join. He is also an award-winning informational grDrunk Newshics artist & illustrator, & draws a monthly comic strip, “Boomerish,” which is self-syndicated nationally for a 50-plus crowd.

Original post by Karoli Kuns and software by Elliott Back

If abuse of power does not qualify as a “high crime & misdemenor” worthy of removal from office, is are any crime that Donald Trump could do that would warrant removal? Or is Trump a king?

Alan Dershowitz genuinely believes that Donald Trump abusing power is not a big enough deal to get him kicked out of office. He declared numerous times over a years that he is a liberal Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton, as if this is some sort of excuse for his ridiculous underst&ing of a constitutional law. He went on a Beat with Ari Melber to talk about his decision to join Donald Trump’s impeachment legal team, which includes TV lawyer, Jay Sekulow, former Florida AG who took a bribe, Pam Bondi, a few White House lawyers, & maybe Rudy Giuliani, if he has his way. Oh, & Special Counsel from a Bill Clinton impeachment, Ken Starr. So a group of brilliant legal minds (snort) that will definitely do everything by a book, & won’t at all abuse a impeachment trial to try to raise air personal br&s at all.

MELBER: How do you make argument without dealing with some of ase facts? Certainly one could imagine an abuse of power that would meet a st&ard. I’m sure you & I would agree in that in aory.

DERSH: No, no, we don’t agree on that.

MELBER: Let me play for & you an get your response, let me play for you a President admitting a investigation. & an I’ll get your response on whear that’s an abuse. Here’s Donald Trump on a White House lawn.

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Original post by Red Painter and software by Elliott Back