Syrian Oscar contender Khaled Kateeb barred from entering US | Film | The Guardian

US immigration authorities have barred entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer who worked on a harrowing film about his nation’s civil war, The White Helmets, that has been nominated for an Academy Award.According to internal Trump administration correspondence seen by Associated Press, homeland security officials decided at the last minute to block Khaled Khateeb from traveling to Los Angeles for the Oscars.

Source: Syrian Oscar contender Khaled Kateeb barred from entering US | Film | The Guardian

The story of the week is Trump, Russia and the FBI. The rest is a distraction | Opinion | The Guardian – High and low Treason

‘Any investigation involving Trump advisers and Russian intelligence is serious stuff. If born out, it has the potential to become the greatest political scandal in American history.’ Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP

Narrative switching. That is what the Trump administration is desperately trying to do around Russia right now. The White House reportedly interfered with the FBI in the middle of an active investigation involving counter-intelligence. This was not only foolhardy but also suspicious, as it directly undermined their apparent objective: distracting us.

Source: The story of the week is Trump, Russia and the FBI. The rest is a distraction | Opinion | The Guardian

Last Night Thousands of Witches Across the World Tried to Hex Trump – The Ladies FingerThe Ladies Finger

Did you feel something strange happening at midnight last night? Like a rush of electricity in the air or the whoosh of bat wings or something? No? Strange.Because on the night of Friday the 24th, at the magical midnight hour, witches from around the world united to cast a spell intended to “bind Trump”, adding to the range of ways people are attempting to resist the new US President. Happily, this was not an event open to witches alone: Wiccans, shamans, Heremeticists, voodooists, hoodooists, occultists, magicians and cunning folk were all invited to traverse borders of magical categorisation and unite against the High Evil.

Source: Last Night Thousands of Witches Across the World Tried to Hex Trump – The Ladies FingerThe Ladies Finger

Fox News Interview With Fake Expert on Sweden Further Baffles Swedes

A man interviewed by Bill O’Reilly of Fox News this week, who was identified in an on-screen caption as a “Swedish Defense and National Security Advisor,” turns out to be entirely unknown in his native country, with no connections to either the nation’s defense or security services.As the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported on Friday, Nils Bildt, who echoed President Donald Trump’s debunked claim that immigrants from Muslim majority nations had driven a rise in violent crime in Sweden, has no known expertise in national security, and has not lived in his homeland since 1994. Officials at the Swedish Defense Ministry and Foreign Office told the newspaper they have never heard of this “unknown Bildt.”

Source: Fox News Interview With Fake Expert on Sweden Further Baffles Swedes

Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories – The Washington Post – and Priebus citing unnamed sources! grin

The administration’s push against the Russia coverage intensified Sunday when White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said in television interviews that he had been authorized “by the top levels of the intelligence community” to denounce reports on Trump campaign contacts with Russia as false.Priebus’s denunciations ranged from calling the articles “overstated” to saying they were “complete garbage.”Administration officials said that Priebus’s comments had been cleared by FBI Director James B. Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. In doing so, the FBI’s leadership would appear to have been drawing a distinction between authorizing comments by a White House official and addressing the matter themselves.Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he called CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Burr to express his “grave concerns about what this means for the independence” of the investigation.

Source: Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories – The Washington Post

Mem Fox, Australian author, gets apology after being wrongfully detained at LA airport – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fox, who was questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers for two hours earlier this month as she was on her way to Milwaukee to address a conference, said she collapsed and sobbed at her hotel after she was released.She said the border agents appeared to have been given “turbocharged power” by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to “humiliate and insult” a room full of people they detained to check visas.That executive order was eventually halted by Federal Courts and it was expected a new order would be signed this week, designed to avoid the confusion caused by the original.

Source: Mem Fox, Australian author, gets apology after being wrongfully detained at LA airport – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Inoreader – White House confirms conversation with FBI about Trump and Russia Traitors!

Reince Priebus, FBI director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe had a conversation which appears to violate justice department rules The White House has confirmed that its chief of staff spoke with top FBI officials about the bureau’s inquiry into links between Donald Trump’s associates and Russia – a conversation which appears to violate justice department rules to ensure the integrity of investigations.

Source: Inoreader – White House confirms conversation with FBI about Trump and Russia

Multiple news outlets denied access to White House press briefing | US news | The Guardian

Outlets seeking to gain entry whose requests were denied included the Guardian, the New York Times, Politico, CNN, BuzzFeed, the BBC, the Daily Mail and others. Conservative publications such as Breitbart News, the One America News Network and the Washington Times were allowed into the meeting, as well as TV networks CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC. The Associated Press and Time were invited but boycotted the briefing.

Source: Multiple news outlets denied access to White House press briefing | US news | The Guardian

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