Everybody waiting for Mueller’s Monday reveal, but writing about it is difficult because nobody knows anything more than the bare bones. I’m skipping all the prediction stories — Mueller will be fired! — because they were written to fill a void, not because journalists make great predictions. The best thing I found was this clear-eyed John Cassidy piece for the New Yorker, in which he notes that “five months into his investigation, Mueller has brought a first set of criminal charges. By the standards of recent special prosecutors, that is fast work, and it confirms Mueller’s reputation as someone who doesn’t like to dally.”
Lots of people noticed how much the forces of Sauron ratcheted up the “you’re the puppet” talk last week — trying to pin the Steele dossier on Democrats, resurrecting the deal that sold a uranium mining operation to Russians — anything to shift the focus from their sorry conspiratorial asses. The most unhinged actor was Roger Stone, a man so craven he has a full-back tattoo of Richard Nixon. His rantings got him banned from Twitter, but before he left he made an ominous prophecy about CNN that Josh Marshall examines.
The GOP’s latest play has been to discredit Mueller himself, with clearly coordinated calls for his resignation coming in from all quarters.
Baseball’s World Series is all even after four games, but the big news from the Fall Classic is on the Brotherhood of Man front. The Commish has ruled that a Cuban hitter making a racist gesture at a Japanese-Iranian pitcher was un-American.
That’s all I’ve got for now. Have at it, and add anything you find worth talking about.