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John Oliver’s Book About Mike Pence’s “Gay Bunny” Sells Over 180K Copies

John Oliver chats with Seth Meyers

Seth Meyers chatted with John Oliver of HBO’s Last Week Tonight about the runaway success of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, Oliver’s bestselling book about Vice President Mike Pence’s gay bunny.

Oliver debuted the book at the end of a segment of his show regarding Pence’s homophobic views. Oliver says the project evolved “on the quiet.”

The book has hit #1 on Amazon’s best seller list selling over 180,000 copies leading not only the Pence’s bunny book (#4) but also James Comey’s upcoming A Higher Loyalty (#2).

Also available is the audio book read by a list of luminaries like Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jim Parsons, RuPaul, Ellie Kemper, and John Lithgow and features a white-haired stink bug character that looks awfully familiar.

You can find the book on Amazon here. All proceeds from the book go to The Trevor Project and AIDS United.

Inside A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

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Austin Terrorist Bombing Suspect Kills Himself As Police Close In

Mark Anthony Conditt

From The New York Times:

A suspect in the series of bombings that have terrorized the city of Austin, Tex., died early Wednesday, blowing himself up in his vehicle as officers closed in on him, the authorities said.

A law enforcement official identified the suspect as Mark Anthony Conditt, a 23-year-old white man.

Officials did not rule out the possibility that the man had accomplices.

“We do not understand what motivated him to do what he did,” said the Austin police chief, Brian Manley.

The first explosions hit African-American residents whose families are well-known in the city’s black community, though two white men were injured by an explosive triggered by a tripwire on Sunday. Chief Manley did not address any potential motive, including race.

Law enforcement officials cautioned that the bomber could have planted other explosives that have not yet detonated. “We still need to remain vigilant,” Chief Manley said. “We do not know where he has been in the past 24 hours.”

According to The Austin Statesman, Conditt had penned a series of blog posts for an Austin Community College course on U.S. government.

In the essays, Conditt argued against gay marriage (“it’s unnatural”) and abortion (women shouldn’t have sex if they don’t want to get pregnant) and in favor of the death penalty.

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President Puppet Congratulates Russian President Putin After Being Warned Not To By National Security Team

Donald Trump

Even though his national security team told Donald Trump specifically not congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his election “win,” in that it was neither a free nor fair election, Trump went ahead and did exactly that, according to The Washington Post.

Trump also ignored the direction to chastise the Russian president for the recent poisonings in the U.K., including one earlier this month of an ex-Russian spy with a nerve agent.

Although several world leaders including Prime Minister Theresa May condemned Putin for the near-deadly attack, Trump did not mention the topic.

Nor did he bring up Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election or attacks on the U.S. power grid.

The president characterized his phone call with the Russian dictator as “very good call,” and added, “We’ll probably be meeting in the not-too-distant future.”

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PA State Rep. Brian Sims Makes My Day

Brian Sims

Woofy Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims makes my day with this tweet.

Not sure what the event was, but Brian writes, “When photos come back from that Saturday night Gala and your harness barely shows… #PolitiGay”

Sims attached the pics above and below.

Between the hair, the fur (on his shoulders and his face) and the makeup plus the barely discernible harness, this all makes me smile.

Looks like a fun party to me 🙂

#Fabulous

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Arizona Republican Congresswoman Busted For Fake Compliments On Social Media

Republican Rep. Martha McSally

Arizona congresswoman Martha McSally (R) got caught trying to compliment herself after posting a simple video status update regarding Arizonans’ service during the Vietnam War a couple of days ago.

The problem came when McSally (or whoever does her social media) forgot to switch accounts before posting some sock-puppetry praise.

The comment was deleted shortly thereafter.

McSally is campaigning for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jeff Flake. Her fellow nutjob GOPers vying for the spot include former sheriff Joe Arpaio and Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward.

How embarrassing.

Amateurs.

(h/t JoeMyGod)

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“Ashamed” Fox News Analyst Resigns Via Scathing Email From “Propaganda Machine” Fox News

In a scathing, scorched-earth email, retired United States Army Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters resigned his position as a Fox News strategic analyst denouncing the “propaganda” network and President Donald Trump.

Along the way, Peters also had choice words for the network’s primetime hosts – Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.

Here’s a portion of the resignation letter via Buzzfeed:

In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.

When prime-time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of “deep-state” machinations — I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.

As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin’s agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign.

Despite increasingly pathetic denials, it turns out that the “nothing-burger” has been covered with Russian dressing all along.

And by the way: As an intelligence professional, I can tell you that the Steele dossier rings true — that’s how the Russians do things.. The result is that we have an American president who is terrified of his counterpart in Moscow.

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News Round-Up: March 20, 2018

(image via Instagram)

Some news items you might have missed:

• Timeout Magazine shares its 2018 round-up of the 20 Hottest Dancers on Broadway including Mr. Adam Perry (above).

• From one lesbian to another: Former New York City council speaker Christine Quinn slammed Cynthia Nixon “as an unqualified lesbian” a day after the actress announced her run for New York governor. Quinn later walked her comments back.

• HUD Secretary Ben Carson told a House Appropriations committee today that transgender people in a homeless shelter make others uncomfortable.

• An openly gay Marine Corps veteran is running for a seat in the Alabama state House.

• Michelangelo Signorile explains why it matters that a gay man helped Trump backers exploit Facebook data.

• Justin Timberlake and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser welcome the thousands of protesters who are expected to descend on the District for the “March for Our Lives” rally Saturday.

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Cambridge Analytica: We Ran Trump’s Digital Campaign

Britain’s Channel 4 has done an in-depth undercover investigation on data mining company Cambridge Analytica, which claims it handled “all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy” for the Trump campaign.

The shadowy company boasts their efforts and expertise with data was the key to Trump’s to victories in swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin with a razor-thin margin of “40,000 votes.” 

CA says their micro-targeting of social media users in those three states alone gave Trump his victory in the electoral college system, despite losing the popular vote by more than 3 million votes.

In the past few days, Cambridge Analytica has come under fire for “harvesting” millions of Facebook users private information without permission.

As a result of the ongoing investigations, chief executive Alexander Nix has been suspended by his company.

This is the third of a series of reports.

If you don’t want to watch the full 17 minute report below, just take in the first four or five. Quite eye-opening.

Last year during a tour to promote her book What Happened, Hillary Clinton spoke to Channel 4 about this “new” kind of data-driven campaigning and how it may have affected the outcome of the election.

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Playboy Model Sues To Get Out Of “Catch And Kill” Deal Regarding Alleged Trump Affair

Karen McDougal (image via Instagram)

The New York Times is reporting a second woman, former Playboy model Karen McDougal, has filed a lawsuit to invalidate a non-disclosure agreement she signed regarding an alleged extramarital relationship with Donald Trump.

The model, Karen McDougal, is suing the company that owns The National Enquirer, American Media Inc., which paid her $150,000 and whose chief executive is a friend of President Trump’s. The other woman, the adult entertainment star Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, was paid $130,000 to stay quiet by the president’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen. She filed suit earlier this month.

Both women, who argue that their contracts are invalid, are trying to get around clauses requiring them to resolve disputes in secretive arbitration proceedings rather than in open court. Mr. Trump has denied the affairs.

Ms. Clifford and Ms. McDougal tell strikingly similar stories about their experiences with Mr. Trump, which included alleged trysts at the same Lake Tahoe golf tournament in 2006, dates at the same Beverly Hills hotel and promises of apartments as gifts. Their stories first surfaced in the The Wall Street Journal four days before the election, but got little traction in the swirl of news that followed Mr. Trump’s victory.

McDougal’s argument is she was initially told her deal with tabloid publisher A.M.I. would include being featured on the covers of publications like Star and OK! along with a regular monthly fitness column as well as several posts each month on Radar Online.

Very little of that actually materialized.

It turns out her agreement gave A.M.I. the “right” to publish those items, but was not an obligation to do so.