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"This is not funny. It is terrifying. The Russians engage in a sloppy disinformation effort and, before the day is out, the Republican nominee for president is standing on a stage reciting the manufactured story as truth. How did this happen? Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin?"

(tl;dr: Russian government "news" agency Sputnik put out a false article that misleadingly attributed an out-of-context Kurt Eichenwald quote to Sidney Blumenthal. They retracted the story when the lie was exposed, within hours. And yet, Trump not only got a copy of the discredited Russian-language-only fake story, but he's repeating it.)

On the topic of New TV.

There is a whole lot of new TV lately, and I like comedies. So I need to mention a few.

#1: Speechless: Minnie Driver is an overprotective mother of a kid with cerebral palsy who needs a wheelchair and can't speak. Hilarity ensues.

#2: The Good Place: Kristen Bell has died and gone to heaven, or at least the sort of heaven you get when the most any religion has gotten right is 20%. Catch is, there's been a clerical error, she's not supposed to be there. Hilarity ensues.

#3: Graves: Former President Nick Nolte regrets everything he did while in office from 1980-1988, loses the plot, decides to fix things. It's The West Wing meets Bojack Horseman.