“I suppose they can form a ‘pariah caucus,’”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/congress-house-republicans-committee-assignments-stripped-1145320

Another Day, Another Subpoena

"The United States attorney’s office in Brooklyn is separately investigating whether foreigners illegally funneled donations to Mr. Trump’s inaugural committee using so-called straw donors to disguise their donations. Federal law prohibits foreign contributions to inaugural committees."

Trump Inaugural Committee Ordered to Hand Over Documents to Federal Investigators https://nyti.ms/2UEKrP5

Listen to This

I'll listen to anything Rhiannon Giddens does.

The Real Human Trafficking at the Border

We've separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents. And now we can't reunite those families.

The filing late Friday from Jallyn Sualog, deputy director of the department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, was an ordered response in an ACLU lawsuit challenging the government's separation of at least 2,737 children of migrants detained at the border since summer 2017.

Sualog said her office doesn't have the resources to track down the children, whose numbers could be thousands more than the official estimate.

Trump's Tan

Interesting tidbit from The Hill:

An official line from the White House on President Trump’s complexion is that his skin color is the result of “good genes,” a senior administration official told The New York Times. 

So does this make the President a "person of color?"

Sunday Inspiration

Steve Gleason (@TeamGleason) is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS. Confined to a wheelchair, he's unable to manage a keyboard, so he tweets with his eyes. And how lucky we are that he does.

New Poll: Not Trumpophilic

Presidents have recovered from bad polling two years before a re-election campaign, but somehow I don't think this one has the skills to manage it.

Overall, 34 percent approve of President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the country, and 65 percent disapprove.  The public is least negative about how the president is dealing with the economy and most negative about his handling of climate change.