The show notes for Episode 82 are at http://www.eclectablog.com/2018/05/episode-82-dirt-for-sanctions-with-special-guest-marcy-wheeler.html
Marcy Wheeler on Twitter: @EmptyWheel
Marcy Wheeler’s “must read” series on the leaked Mueller questions for Trump starts here: The Mueller questions map out cultivation, a quid pro quo, and a cover-up (Part One, Cultivation)
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The Good:
Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Elizabeth Dias at The New York Times: Ryan Reinstates House Chaplain After Priest Decided to Fight Dismissal
.@SpeakerRyan swears in House Chaplain Pat Conroy.
Full video here: https://t.co/ggRW7olPK1 pic.twitter.com/XxViAqvxAW
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 8, 2018
Harper Neidig at The Hill: Dems push to restore net neutrality rules
The Bad:
Rachel West and Eliza Schultz at the Center for American Progress: House Republican Farm Bill Proposal Launches a Dangerous Attack on Nutrition Assistance
Michelle Rook at Inforum: SNAP fight in House could derail farm bill
Aimee Picchi at CBS News: The fuzzy math of adding work requirements for food stamps
The Shrugly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯:
Louis Nelson and Alex Isenstadt at Politico: Trump moves to thwart Blankenship upset in West Virginia
Lisa Marie Segarra at Time: West Virginia Coal Baron Won’t Stop Saying ‘China People’ in His Senate Ad
What in the world did I just watch pic.twitter.com/4eudpGAxp0
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) May 3, 2018
FLINT UPDATE
Jonathan Oosting at The Detroit News: State cited Flint ‘deficiencies,’ then ended free water
Leonard N. Fleming at The Detroit News: Flint appeals to EPA over canceled state meeting
Paul Egan at the Detroit Free Press: Ex-utility director gets praise, reduced charge in Flint water plea
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Music clips
Intro music: Zoolookologie by Jean-Michel Jarre
Cannonball by The Breeders
Go to Hell by Nina Simone
Unclaimed by Mike Wagner/Total Strangers
Outro music: Complain (from the movie Bob Roberts) by David Robbins & Tim Robbins
