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Among today's continuing IV drip of awful or disconcerting news to come out of the incoming Donald Trump presidency is this bizarre little item: Trump has ordered the head of the Washington, DC National Guard to step down in the middle of the inauguration ceremony next Friday. ...read more

2016 may have taken Bowie, Prince and Carrie Fisher, among others, but this morning 2017 killed irony. In his highly anticipated, absolutely inevitable tweet-storm in response to last night's release of the details of an intel dossier on Trump that included claims he had paid ...read more