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Mueller: "Remember the transition emails I requested?"

White House: "You mean the 630 we turned over to you?"

Mueller: "Good news. I found the other 50,000.https://t.co/DK2jb9LOrx

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) December 16, 2017

.@chrisgeidner spoke to a senior GSA lawyer, who said of the Trump transition team: “In using our devices," transition team members were informed that materials "would not be held back in any law enforcement" actions.
"Therefore, no expectation of privacy can be assumed." pic.twitter.com/D0uqNtgR9S

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 17, 2017

Orwell Meets Reality TV

Under Trump, top US health agency forbids officials to use these words in budget documents: fetus, transgender, diversity, science-based, evidence-based, vulnerable, entitlement. https://t.co/W5P1JrnPaZ

— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) December 16, 2017

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot—a very big, a very impressive boot, people are talking about this boot—stomping a human face, which, to be frank, is not impressive, a bad face, but the boot is very impressive and big. We're gonna stomp, folks, believe me."

— Julius Goat, pa rum pum pum pum 🦆 (@JuliusGoat) December 16, 2017

Anniversary Gift

For this crowd, it's quite literally the custom to give blood money.

Trump hosted the NRA at the White House on the anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre https://t.co/kuUmEUFbKD

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 15, 2017

Blood money, and other services rendered.

White nationalist group of the year: The National Rifle Association. The NRA isn't just for lax gun laws anymore. It’s also building a racist media empire. https://t.co/16Y1iyYZ9Z (by @imillhiser) pic.twitter.com/pt1ColSUIS

— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) December 15, 2017

Thread on some of the test marketing history—

Speaking of which, here's a #TBT to Meghan McCain, before she was anointed an icon of "humanity and decency." https://t.co/ecLJ9PBDYu pic.twitter.com/XZtgl7IJbj

— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) December 14, 2017

Back To The Good Old Days

The Trump admin has indicated that the Labor Department will revisit an Obama-era rule meant to reduce exposure to coal mine dust that causes deadly black lung disease. https://t.co/OK2utySi7r

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 15, 2017

Finally, relief for all those coal miners who want to die in agony https://t.co/pLVK3NXXh0

— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) December 15, 2017

Today In Photo Ops

We've gotta be pretty close to the anniversary of last year's stacks of blank paper event. https://t.co/bBhEzhSymj

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 14, 2017

Pres. Trump cuts red tape in front of stack of paper representing current regulations. The president says his administration's goal is to return to the 1960-level regulations. https://t.co/NkJuIoh4fP pic.twitter.com/tMPYhlOpTZ

— ABC News (@ABC) December 14, 2017

Things that were allowed in 1960:
- Jim Crow
- lobotomies
- forced sterilization
- child abuse
- lead in paint
- lead in gasoline
- cars without seatbelts
- DDT
- smoking on planes
- drinking and driving https://t.co/gzPr19cPUw

— in excelsis feo (@Hermit_Hwarang) December 14, 2017

Alabama Special

All the women who support Roy Moore should respect his wishes and ignore the 19th Amendment https://t.co/pEBgEMsvBi

— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) December 11, 2017

Roy Moore in 2011: Getting rid of amendments after 10th would 'eliminate many problems' @CNNPolitics https://t.co/qqmaogIeV7

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) December 11, 2017

Come now; surely he could say what he means—just narrow it down to #13...

Can't make this up -- Roy Moore said in September that the last time America was great was when we had slavery. (h/t @reckonalabama)https://t.co/NMF4BCQ6ZS pic.twitter.com/XbpPtdifuS

— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) December 7, 2017

A pro-Moore ad calling a drive to increase turnout a "race war" tells you all you need to know. https://t.co/VAtDsv6E0d pic.twitter.com/cjEulEnUm1

— Taniel (@Taniel) December 11, 2017

Basest of bases, GOP voters, are just fine...

So I don't know who is doing chyron text for MSNBC, but this sums things up pretty succinctly. pic.twitter.com/mCtZQeE3Sf

— Christina Henderson (@HendWex) December 11, 2017

R.I.P., Simeon Booker

Sad to hear about the death of Simeon Booker, one of the best to ever do it. As the correspondent for Jet, he was crucial in telling the story of Emmett Till, and the civil rights movement from its infancy. https://t.co/mZILb4fKhD

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) December 11, 2017

Simeon Booker, a trail-blazing African-American journalist and first full-time black reporter at The Washington Post, dies at age of 99. https://t.co/NkiK1cPS0o

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2017

Good article by Serwer from August 2013: Witness to history: Simeon Booker remembers fight for 'ideal America'. Booker's civil rights reporting memoir had been published earlier that year; Serwer's article includes an interview of Booker and his wife/co-author, Carol McCabe Booker.

His work brought national attention to the murder of Emmett Till, which became one of the flashpoints for the civil rights movement. Mr. Booker’s article in JET Magazine included an open-casket picture of the boy that shocked the nation. Rest in power, sir. And thank you. https://t.co/TfbPT4wCAu

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) December 11, 2017