Reaching for New, Exciting Lie, Trump Accuses Past Presidents of Not Calling Slain Soldiers' Families 

Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today:

• Trump vaguely accused President Obama of not calling the families of slain soldiers, taking advantage of a uniquely psychotic opportunity for one-upmanship. “That’s a fucking lie,” former Obama staffer Alyssa Mastromonaco tweeted. “to say president obama (or past presidents) didn’t call the family members of soldiers KIA – he’s a deranged animal.” [sic’d] [Politico]
• Here are some ways the environment is being ruined today: 1) Scott Pruitt is working to make it more difficult for environmental groups to sue the EPA; 2) Ryan Zinke is looking to build a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska; 3) Congress is gearing up for another fight to open the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. Whee. [TPM, Washington Post, E&E News]
• The situation in Puerto Rico remains horrifically dire. [HuffPost]
• Stocking the executive branch with billionaires continues to have been a bad idea. [Forbes]

Here are some tweets the president was allowed to publish:

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