Author: Jack Slater
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Decrypting Sneakers
The surest way to gain a link is to talk about the best movie of all time, Sneakers, as Priscilla Page has by taking apart the film for Birth.Movies.Death: Phil Alden Robinson’s Sneakers might just be the most undervalued movie of all time. It’s a political thriller, a caper, “tech-noir,” a little like Three Days of…
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It Gets Worse
This morning, the Times’ Michael S. Schmidt reported that Comey left a fantastic paper trail before he was fired: President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo…
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An Idiot’s Guide to Mishandling Classified Information
Absolutely insane series of events. Yesterday the Washington Post’s Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe reported that Trump gave classified information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in front of the Russian press during their jovial meeting at the White House: The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S.…
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Alex Tizon’s Story of Slavery in America and the Philippines
Heartbreaking story from Alex Tizon: To our American neighbors, we were model immigrants, a poster family. They told us so. My father had a law degree, my mother was on her way to becoming a doctor, and my siblings and I got good grades and always said “please” and “thank you.” We never talked about…
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National Embarrassment Threatens Former FBI Director With Blackmail
After lying about his predecessor recording his calls, Trump has threatened to release secret recordings of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey: James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017 If the White House records something…