memeorandum: North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation (Kathy Gilsinan/The Atlantic)

8:40 AM ET, April 15, 2017

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Kathy Gilsinan / The Atlantic:

North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation — Not long after the United States Navy dispatched a carrier strike group in the direction of the Korean peninsula following a North Korean missile test last week, Pyongyang vowed to counter “the reckless act of aggression” and hinted at “catastrophic consequences.”

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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:

North Korea Shows Off Long-Range Missiles in Military Parade — SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's latest military hardware, including what analysts said appeared to be three kinds of intercontinental ballistic missile, rolled through central Pyongyang on Saturday, as the country showed off …

Discussion: Mediaite

Ben Westcott / CNN:

North Korea puts on a show for Day of the Sun — (CNN)A military parade in the heart of Pyongyang is underway where it's expected the North Korean regime will show off some of its latest arsenal. — Pictures on state television showed thousands of soldiers marching in formation alongside tanks, balloons and enormous crowds.

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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:

Trump delights in watching the U.S. military display its strength — Amid the often jarring inconsistency of President Trump's foreign policy, one thing has always been crystal clear: He loves a big show of American military force. — “You gotta knock the hell out of them — Boom! Boom! Boom!”

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Fox News:
US Air Force sends message to North Korea with display of air power

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Associated Press:
THE LATEST: RUSSIAN LAWMAKER: US BIGGER THREAT THAN N. KOREA

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Reuters: North Korea displays apparently new missiles as U.S. carrier group approaches

Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest: Reading Trump's Foreign Policy Shifts

Jun Mai / South China Morning Post:
Air China clarifies ticket sales to blame for temporary flight cuts to Pyongyang; no suspension of services

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Washington Post:
North Korea shows off new missiles in huge military parade, but doesn't test nuke

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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:

CREW STATEMENT ON WHITE HOUSE REFUSAL TO RELEASE VISITOR LOGS — Washington, D.C.—In response to the White House's decision to break six years of tradition and refuse to release White House visitor logs, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Executive Director Noah Bookbinder released the following statement:

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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump's reelection stockpile grows as small donors keep giving

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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House says it won't make visitor logs public

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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump will keep list of White House visitors secret

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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:

Alt-Right Ringleader Mike Cernovich Threatens to Drop ‘Motherlode’ If Steve Bannon Is Ousted — A week after President Donald Trump began to publicly distance himself from White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, alt-right ringleader Mike Cernovich threatened to release a “motherlode” …

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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:

Trump's reelection campaign raised $13.2 million in first quarter — President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is off to a quick start, pulling in $13.2 million through a trio of committees in the first three months of the year, while paying an unusually large staff of about 20 employees …

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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:

Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World — The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent …

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Annie Waldman / ProPublica:

DeVos Pick to Head Civil Rights Office Once Said She Faced Discrimination for Being White — The new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights once complained that she experienced discrimination because she is white. — As an undergraduate studying calculus …

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YouTube:

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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:

A Trump Tower Neighbor Is the Point Man for Europe's Populists — PALM BEACH, Fla. — George Guido Lombardi spotted President Trump's young son Barron alone on a couch playing a video game in the gaping and gilded living room of Mar-a-Lago, his father's private oceanfront club in Palm Beach.

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Carl Prine / sandiegouniontribune.com:

Decorated Navy SEAL moonlighting as a porn star — Joseph John Schmidt III during one of his many community outreach events for the Navy SEALs. (photo courtesy of U.S. Navy) — Navy Chief Special Warfare Officer Joseph John Schmidt III has been living dual lives.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

New York Times:

O'Reilly's Behavior Said to Have Helped Drive Megyn Kelly Out at Fox — Last fall, in the weeks after 21st Century Fox struck settlements with two women who said that Bill O'Reilly had sexually harassed them, the Fox News host went on morning television and offered a harsh assessment of women …

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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:

Trump claims he can't be sued for inciting rally violence — Donald Trump's lawyers in a Friday afternoon federal court filing argued that he cannot be sued for inciting his supporters to hurt protesters because, as the president, he is immune from civil lawsuits.

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Eric Adler / Kansas City Star:

Catholic college in Kansas wipes ‘yoga’ from names of classes — it's a Hindu thing — Yoga is designed to help bring peace and wellness to body and mind. — But at Benedictine College — a small and strongly Catholic liberal arts school in Atchison, Kan. — yoga classes per se will soon be yo-gone …

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Trump and The Problem of Militant Ignorance — It is what we might call ‘the consensus judgment’ that President Trump is a deeply ignorant man and perhaps a profoundly ignorant President. But it is worth stepping back and considering just what this means, the different kinds of ignorance that exist and how they differ.

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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:

NASA ‘sting’ operation against 74-year-old widow of Apollo engineer draws court rebuke — Agents of the U.S. government are entitled to immunity from lawsuits for what they do in the line of duty, as long as they do it right, in accord with the Constitution.

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Ezra Klein / Vox:

How to fix the Supreme Court — The way we choose Supreme Court nominees is broken. Here's how to fix it. — It's worth taking a step back to realize just how broken the process for selecting Supreme Court justices now is. — In 2016, Senate Republicans responded to Antonin Scalia's death …