Must read by Masha Gessen.

“The day after the election, the stock market will crash. Then, there will be a lull. For one thing, Trump will not have taken office yet. But life will seem conspicuously unchanged. The stock market will recover some. On inauguration day, there will be large anti-Trump protests in some American cities. But in some others, including Washington, there will be large celebrations that will make your skin crawl. On the other hand, they will not be wearing black shirts, and that will make what has happened seem a little less real. In some cities, there will be clashes. The police will do their jobs, and this will be reassuring.

After all, you will think, the American presidency is a strangely limited institution. It doesn’t give Trump that many ways to radically alter the everyday lives of Americans. But that is exactly the problem. President Trump will have to begin destroying the institutions of American democracy—not because they get in the way of anything specific he wants to do, like build the wall (though he will probably have moved on to something else by that point), but because they are an obstacle to the way he wants to do them.”

The Trump-Putin Fallacy

Voting technology has been a shitshow for 20 years, driven by political kickbacks, privatization contracts, and the larger political drive to suppress voting rights. Now it’s also a national security issue.

By November, Russian hackers could target voting machines

I think these guys are unaware they’re running mates.

Mike Pence warns of ‘consequences’ if Russia hacked emails

The Onion kills it: “82% of DNC would attend Michelle Obama University even if they knew it was a scam”

Highlights Of Michelle Obama’s 2016 DNC Speech

Amazing. DNC should fly them to Philly and pay them $2.5K onstage.

The creator of the viral pro-Trump act ‘USA Freedom Kids’ now plans to sue the campaign

And here we go. It’s not politics anymore, it’s national security. ABC reports Feds believe “Russian gov’t-affiliated operatives hacked DNC, pushed material to Wikileaks in attempt to influence election”.

ABC News Politics on Twitter

The speeches are good, the booing has stopped, and this is going to be the story unless the 10 PM speeches destroy.

Greg Sargent on Twitter

Excellent recap of the history of 25 years of attacks on Hillary, and a pretty damn decent encomium on her current positions, from someone with Bernie politics.

Belief, Hatred, and the Democratic Primary.

The Justice Department under Trump is not the America you recognize.

http://ift.tt/29QFSOw Imagining a Trump Justice Department

Jesus, Post editors. This headline gives permission to every partisan to ignore the story. Say “Cyber experts say…” and report the goddamn story as national defense, not horserace politics. Christ. Clinton campaign — and some cyber experts — say Russia is behind email release

Holy crap. This is DWS talking to *her own delegation*.

Democrats have gone fucking insane.

Andrea Mitchell on Twitter

“Johnson’s 2009 report, which was classified only for the eyes of law enforcement, leaked almost immediately, and became the first scandal, real or imagined, of the Obama presidency. It was also the moment when the political career of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano abruptly ground to a halt. “There was a backlash to it by the Republican establishment, as well as Fox News,” says Johnson, who today works in private security consulting that focuses on domestic terrorism. “The day after that thing was leaked, all of our work stopped.”” The GOP Shut Down a Program That Could Have Prevented Dallas and Baton Rouge

Excellent analysis of what’s wrong with the news media by the people who make it. Also, Tucker Carlson is seriously an ass.

The Case Against the Media, by the Media