|
PRESIDENT NIXON'S RESIGNATION SPEECH pbs.org/August 8, 1974 "In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort. As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion, that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future. But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served, and there is no longer a need for the process to be prolonged."
|
#
?
Nov 1, 2019 05:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 10:22 |
|
|
Otteration posted:
No. The halloween present time will be the next day when every news source except Fox points out that he read the doctored transcript and not the real one. 
|
|
#
?
Nov 1, 2019 20:29
|
|
|
Sundae posted:No. The halloween present time will be the next day when every news source except Fox points out that he read the doctored transcript and not the real one. No need, because Donny is utterly incapable of staying on script. So the fireside chat is unlikely to even make it a full paragraph into his reenactment before he goes into stream of "consciousness" campaign mode. At which point it's a real coin flip as to whether or not he accidentally admits to more crimes in his perfect phone call of Sir stories, silly noises, national secret reveals, and cries of witch hunt. $5 he forgets he's supposed to be reenacting his phone call with the President of Ukraine, and suddenly starts pretending to talk to one or more other world leaders.
|
|
#
?
Nov 1, 2019 21:04
|
|
|
Gyges posted:No need, because Donny is utterly incapable of staying on script. So the fireside chat is unlikely to even make it a full paragraph into his reenactment before he goes into stream of "consciousness" campaign mode. At which point it's a real coin flip as to whether or not he accidentally admits to more crimes in his perfect phone call of Sir stories, silly noises, national secret reveals, and cries of witch hunt. OOH even better. I didn't take into account the brain worms.
|
|
#
?
Nov 1, 2019 21:06
|
|
|
Gyges posted:No need, because Donny is utterly incapable of staying on script. So the fireside chat is unlikely to even make it a full paragraph into his reenactment before he goes into stream of "consciousness" campaign mode. At which point it's a real coin flip as to whether or not he accidentally admits to more crimes in his perfect phone call of Sir stories, silly noises, national secret reveals, and cries of witch hunt. I hope he has different backdrops like Pee Wee Herman's video phone
|
|
#
?
Nov 1, 2019 21:16
|
|
|
Beto O’Rourke Is Dropping Out of the Presidential Racequote:Former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas is dropping out of the presidential race, ending a campaign in which he struggled for months to recapture the energy of his insurgent 2018 Senate candidacy on a national stage full of other big personalities and liberal champions.
|
|
#
?
Nov 1, 2019 22:42
|
|
|
But he had such great qualifications for the presidency. Like not getting elected for a lower office.
|
|
#
?
Nov 1, 2019 22:45
|
|
|
FoolyCharged posted:But he had such great qualifications for the presidency. Like not getting elected for a lower office. How Trump Corrupted the American Presidency in Every Imaginable Way gq.com/November 1, 2019 "Charging the Secret Service for golf carts, threatening the National Weather Service, and every other way the 45th president has turned the highest office in the land into one crooked cesspool." .... "As it turns out, the same guy who stiffed curtain vendors and cabinet makers, scammed students with the now-defunct Trump University, and engaged in fraudulent tax schemes took a similar tack with the presidency. Throughout his tenure in the White House, Trump has leveraged the powers of his office—and the trappings associated with occupying it—to enrich himself at every opportunity. His properties are now the destinations of choice for anyone seeking to curry his favor, and the American taxpayer is among his businesses’ most dependable sources of income. At the same time, he has learned to abuse those powers to shield himself from accountability for his wrongdoing and attacked, bullied, and fired enemies both real and imagined with the imprimatur of the United States government." [Includes a long, long timeline of corruption starting at January 1, 2017] Steve Bannon Targeted 'Incels' Because They Are 'Easy to Manipulate,' Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Says newsweek.com/10/29/19 "His whistleblowing revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested the profiles of 50 million Facebook users and how that data was used alongside publicly available voter records to identify people more likely to vote for the Trump campaign." Ivanka Trump Thinks Democracy Is for Losers vanityfair.com/October 31, 2019 "The tweet is amazing for a couple reasons, the first being that Princess Purses’ reaction to lawmakers voting to move forward with a process laid out in the Constitution is to insist that these jealous losers are obviously making stuff up about her dad. Second is the implication that Donald Trump, a man who would sooner die than read a book and thinks a clause in the Constitution is “phony,” has a lot in common with one of the founding fathers. And finally, there’s the incredible fact that when Ivanka went searching for her “screw the haters” quote, she landed on one that was part of a letter written, most likely, in response to claims that Jefferson fathered a child with a slave—something that would now be considered rape considering the slave, Sally Hemings, wouldn’t have had a choice in the matter. In fact, those claims were entirely accurate!" America's Founders Disagreed About Impeachment. Here's How the Idea Made It Into the Constitution time.com/October 15, 2019 'The current clash in Congress over whether to impeach the President has extended to more than two centuries the bitter political partisanship that marked 11 previous presidential impeachment inquiries and the 1787 debate in Philadelphia over how to impeach the President. With windows of Pennsylvania’s State House (now Constitution Hall) sealed to ensure secrecy of the proceedings, the patience of sweltering delegates wore thin as July approached August. In rapid-fire succession, Massachusetts merchant Elbridge Gerry moved that the chief executive “be removable on impeachment and conviction for malpractice or neglect of duty.” New York’s Gouverneur Morris scoffed at Gerry’s proposal and moved to strike it. But Virginia’s George Mason riposted, “No point is of more importance than that of the right of impeachment. Shall any man be above Justice…who can commit the most extensive injustice?”' How can GOP senators serve as impeachment jurors when they’re implicated in Trump’s misdeeds? rawstory.com/October 30, 2019 [On it's face this argument is as irrelevant as those made against political impeachment processes in the House, but since it's all political, "...when they’re implicated in Trump’s misdeeds" works too, politically.] Conservatives Outraged Over Dem Dressing Up As ‘Batman’ On Halloween talkingpointsmemo.com/October 31, 2019 'Conservatives simply cannot believe Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) dared to wear a costume on Halloween. “As House Democrats prepare to officially blow up their Majority with impeachment, @RepKatiePorter is prancing around dressed as Batman,” the National Republican Congressional Committee tweeted on Wednesday. “This is how seriously these clowns are taking impeachment.”' .... '“Batgirl,” she told Washington Post reporter Mike DeBonis. “It’s not Batman. It’s Batgirl.”' The Trump campaign held a Halloween ‘Witch Hunt Party’ and tortured a metaphor to death washingtonpost.com/Oct. 31, 2019 'The Trump campaign gathering was billed as a “Halloween Witch Hunt Party” near edenic Lancaster, in the appropriately named Spooky Nook Sports, a massive indoor youth sports facility. But where on Halloween Eve, and the eve of the House vote on the impeachment probe, were those witches? Presumably in Washington, skulking around the basement of the Capitol. The leading trio of witches, according to the campaign, are “Shifty Schiff, Nervous Nancy and Democrat Hack Jerry Nadler” — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). Key figures in the impeachment inquiry, recast here as ghouls of the haunted House. The “witch hunt party” is Team Trump’s latest dig at President Trump’s critics, and perhaps its most confusing one. The president views himself as the victim of “The Greatest Witch Hunt in American History,” which he tweeted again Thursday, a metaphor that he has been using since the Mueller investigation. The idea is that those investigating the president are the witch hunters, determined to accuse Trump and his associates of evildoings.' Midshipmen establish study group for Satanic Temple beliefs at US Naval Academy stripes.com/October 31, 2019 [Stars and Stripes] 'Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy who have beliefs associated with The Satanic Temple now have a study group available to them, according to the military institution. A space for a study group at the academy, located in Annapolis, Md., was requested by students with “beliefs aligned with those practiced by The Satanic Temple” so they could gather and share their views, according to a statement issued Thursday by Cmdr. Alana Garas, a Naval Academy spokeswoman.' SEE IT: Trick-or-treaters dump garbage and boxes on NYPD vehicle in Brooklyn nydailynews.com/Nov 01, 2019 'A group of Halloween trick-or-treaters dumped boxes of garbage on an NYPD patrol vehicle in Brooklyn, then stood by laughing as the officers tried to clean up the mess, video posted on social media shows. The video, posted on Facebook on Thursday, was taken at the corner of E. 95th St. and Clarkson Ave. in East Flatbush. “Trick or treat, m------ f-----s!” someone says off-camera as two officers wearily remove the cardboard boxes from the patrol car.'
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2019 01:39
|
|
|
Nationals Accuse Astros of Throwing Series to Avoid White House Visit quote:The Washington Nationals filed a formal complaint with MLB this week accusing the Houston Astros of deliberately throwing Games 6 and 7 to force the Nationals to visit the White House, where they would have to dine on fast food with President Trump.
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2019 04:29
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qUQ94_MF2Y
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2019 04:33
|
|
|
Is this where the Onion writers are headed since their parent company is imploding?
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2019 13:04
|
|
|
Deteriorata posted:The Presidential run was doomed from the start. He had a decent shot at the Senate that he threw away. On the national stage, his poo poo sucked. Sad that no one was able to talk him out of destroying his career.
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2019 21:36
|
|
|
Nah, dude was disingenuous as hell. Any dem with that much money behind them could have made a stir like that. "My grassroots movement" and "keep the money out of politics" my rear end, that was being blasted constantly on all the major networks.
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2019 23:07
|
|
|
E: double post
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2019 23:13
|
|
|
Filed under "We all saw this coming" or perhaps "We also saw through this": Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump’s border wall quote:
Entire article quoted because gently caress WaPo's paywall.
|
|
#
?
Nov 3, 2019 04:20
|
|
|
Deteriorata posted:Filed under "We all saw this coming" or perhaps "We also saw through this": It's almost like walls don't work. Never have, never will. Except paywalls, of course.
|
|
#
?
Nov 3, 2019 04:43
|
|
|
How the Army officer who testified against Trump could end up in a court-martial militarytimes.com/2 days ago "When Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman appeared before members of Congress on Tuesday to discuss what he knew about President Trump’s conversations with Ukraine’s president, he was violating an order from his commander in chief not to cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry." Conservative Supreme Court Justices Are Showing Their Biases On Twitter Now abovethelaw.com/Oct 31, 2019 "If the Supreme Court followed the basic rules of ethics applicable to every other court, Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh would have to recuse themselves from the Bostock, Altitude Express, and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes cases — the ones which seek to reinterpret Title VII to allow for bigotry against the LGBTQ community. Alito and Kavanaugh took some sort of meeting and even posed for a picture with the leader of a virulent anti-LGBT group, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Here’s the photo:" Experts on Trump's conduct: 'Plainly an abuse of power, plainly impeachable' theguardian.com/Sat 2 Nov 2019 "Republicans may argue Trump’s actions were not impeachable – but scholars say it’s a solid example of a high crime" California Governor Threatens State Takeover of PG&E wsj.com/Updated Nov. 1, 2019 'California Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening a state takeover of PG&E Corp. unless the company exits bankruptcy and dramatically improves the safety of its electric grid before the next wildfire season. The governor on Friday said he has demanded that PG&E executives, investors and representatives for wildfire victims appear in Sacramento next week to discuss how to expedite the company’s emergence from chapter 11 by a state-imposed deadline of June 30. He said the state may intervene if the company’s shareholders and bondholders don’t quickly agree on a reorganization plan. “PG&E as we know it, may or may not be able to figure this out, if they cannot we are not going to sit around and be passive,” Mr. Newsom said. “The state will prepare itself as backup for a scenario where we do that job for them.”' Fire in Paradise pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/October 29, 2019 "A year after the devastating Camp Fire, FRONTLINE examines who’s to blame and why it was so catastrophic. With accounts from survivors and first responders, the documentary tells the inside story of the most destructive fire in California’s history, its causes and the impact of climate change." 383,000 Gallons of Crude Oil Spill in North Dakota ecowatch.com/Nov. 01, 2019 '"The roads around the spill area have been closed to assist with the cleanup," the Herald reported. "Walsh County Sheriff Ronald Jurgens asks the public to avoid the area so the cleanup process can proceed. On-site security will stop and fine any driver ignoring the closed road signs."' 'Sitting in class hungry': Schools wary of Trump plan to end free school lunches for some usatoday.com/Oct. 27, 2019 'Nearly 1 million low-income students would lose automatic access to free school lunches under a proposal from President Donald Trump's administration that aims to limit the number of people receiving federal food stamps. And advocates say even more could lose free meals as the implications of the cuts ripple across low-income schools. But the Trump administration says those concerns are overblown. The administration is working to trim the cost of food assistance programs and close what it views as "loopholes" regarding who qualifies for them.'
|
|
#
?
Nov 3, 2019 04:50
|
|
|
Deteriorata posted:Filed under "We all saw this coming" or perhaps "We also saw through this": imagine designing a 10 billion dollar ~security system~ that is defeated by any rear end in a top hat with 5 minutes and a sawzall
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2019 01:14
|
|
|
As if $10-billion is being spent on this.
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2019 01:24
|
|
|
Himes: The GOP has 'fully given itself over to being a personality cult for Donald Trump' thehill.com/11/03/19 'Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the No. 2 Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, defended the House’s party-line vote on formalizing procedures in its impeachment inquiry, saying the vote was the result of the GOP being a “personality cult for Donald Trump.” Pressed by Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" on the zero Republican votes after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the impeachment process must be bipartisan, Himes responded by pointing to Wallace’s previous guest, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway. "As you just experienced with Kellyanne Conway for 12 minutes of some of the most ludicrous TV and unfactual statements by a White House official I have ever heard, the Republican Party has now fully given itself over to being a personality cult for Donald Trump,” Himes said. “For understandable reasons, every one of my Republican colleagues understands that if they do what they know is right ... the president lights them up on Twitter and they lose a primary election,” he added.' California Is Becoming Unlivable theatlantic.com/Oct 30, 2019 "Wildfires and lack of affordable housing—these are two of the most visible and urgent crises facing California, raising the question of whether the country’s dreamiest, most optimistic state is fast becoming unlivable. Climate change is turning it into a tinderbox; the soaring cost of living is forcing even wealthy families into financial precarity. And, in some ways, the two crises are one: The housing crunch in urban centers has pushed construction to cheaper, more peripheral areas, where wildfire risk is greater." Trump flees to his bankruptcy-proof Florida home as New York prosecutors close in rawstory.com/November 1, 2019 "Donald Trump signaled in a trio of Halloween night tweets that criminal investigations into his New York tax and business filings are vexing him. Knowing how Donald’s mind works, my bet is that he just learned he is getting closer to civil lawsuits or indictment" A New Generation of Activist Doctors Is Fighting for Medicare for All time.com/October 24, 2019 'Miriam Callahan remembers the patient who clarified her decision to become a political activist. He was homeless, suffered from severe arthritis in his hip and was self-medicating with fistfuls of Advil. That gave him a bleeding gastric ulcer that landed him in the emergency room at a public hospital. Callahan, who is a medical student at Columbia University, and her colleagues patched him up and sent him back to the shelter, where he began self–medicating once again. He was stuck in a horrific cycle. Arthritis isn’t a disease that should kill people, Callahan says, but in this case, it was becoming a real possibility. “It’s immoral,” she says, “the way that we treat people in this country.”' The Connection Between Pipelines and Sexual Violence newrepublic.com/October 15, 2019 "Attempts to address the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis could be counteracted by the problems "man camps" cause for reservation communities." Australia’s prime minister pledges to outlaw climate boycotts, arguing they threaten the economy washingtonpost.com/November 1, 2019 "Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison railed against environmental protesters in a lunchtime speech on Friday, warning of a “new breed of radical activism” that was “apocalyptic in tone” and pledging to outlaw boycott campaigns that he argued could hurt the country’s mining industry." German city of Dresden declares 'Nazi emergency' cnn.com/November 3, 2019 '"The word 'Nazinotstand' is an exaggerated formulation for the fact that there is a serious problem -- similar to the climate emergency -- with right-wing extremism right up to the middle of society," Max Aschenbach, councilor for the satirist Die Partei (The Party), told CNN.' Jane Fonda got arrested AGAIN. Make that the 4th Friday in a row cnn.com/November 2, 2019 '"There is a collective crisis, requires collective action," the 81-year-old told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "And so I decided to use my celebrity to try to raise the sense of urgency, and I moved to Washington, and I'm going to get arrested every Friday."' Minimum Wage law.cornell.edu/ "Minimum wage laws establish a base level of pay that employers are required to pay certain covered employees. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. In addition to a federal minimum wage, some states also have their own minimum wages, codified either in a state statute or in the state's constitution. States are broken up into 4 classifications for minimum wage: ... The national minimum wage was created by Congress under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 1938. Congress enacted this legislation under its authority in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution: “The Congress shall have power to . . . regulate commerce . . . among the several states.” FLSA was a comprehensive federal scheme which provided for minimum wages, overtime pay, record keeping requirements, and child labor regulations. The purpose of the minimum wage was to stabilize the post-depression economy and protect the workers in the labor force. The minimum wage was designed to create a minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees. Others have argued that the primary purpose was to aid the lowest paid of the nation's working population, those who lacked sufficient bargaining power to secure for themselves a minimum subsistence wage. FLSA specifically provided for a minimum wage for full time and part time, public and private sector workers. Specifically, workers who are “engaged in” or “in the production of goods for” interstate (commerce between the states) and foreign commerce." [Only apropos of arguments that keep popping up against minimum wage in my sphere. Among those arguments include: "Nothing in the Constitution about minimum wages!" and "Minimum wages were just set up for high school students!" If none of that works, maybe ask them about child labor laws and their children/grandchildren.]
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2019 02:48
|
|
|
Herstory Begins Now posted:imagine designing a 10 billion dollar ~security system~ that is defeated by any rear end in a top hat with 5 minutes and a sawzall I mean people were sawing through sample pillars as a demonstration long before any effort went into building the wall
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2019 03:26
|
|
|
There’s literally nothing physical they can build that can’t be destroyed by an educated person with power tools and half an hour. . If they’d gone with concrete it would be a concrete drill and dynamite, if metal panels they’d cut a door and install concealed hinges.
|
|
#
?
Nov 4, 2019 14:15
|
|
|
My understanding is previous iterations of the border fence genuinely do not have this same scale of problem with ease of destruction.
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2019 00:14
|
|
|
Trump begins formal withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement axios.com/4 hours ago "President Trump got a step closer to pulling America out of the Paris Climate Agreement by sending a withdrawal letter to the United Nations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in a statement Monday." Fury as Trump administration gives adoption agencies freedom to reject gay couples pinknews.co.uk/November 3, 2019 "New proposed guidance slipped out by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday seek to scrap a requirement that federal grant recipients, including adoption and foster care agencies, “must treat as valid the marriages of same-sex couples.” At the same time, proposed changes would axe Obama-era non-discrimination rules, which state that people should not be denied HHS services “based on age, disability, sex, race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation.” The announcement has led to anger from equal rights groups and allies, who accused the Trump administration of trying to quietly unpick protections for LGBT+ people."
|
|
#
?
Nov 5, 2019 04:16
|
|
|
Discendo Vox posted:My understanding is previous iterations of the border fence genuinely do not have this same scale of problem with ease of destruction. Walls only work if you patrol and maintain them. Aside from the fact that people are going to make a way through if they can't find one poo poo just falls over if you leave it alone long enough. Plus if you never watch the wall it's easily defeated with a ladder or two.
|
|
#
?
Nov 6, 2019 01:42
|
|
|
the biggest reason why nobody built a wall across the entire border is because people are just going to knock holes in the wall when nobody's looking
|
|
#
?
Nov 6, 2019 02:04
|
|
|
CBS let Donald Trump Jr. slam trans athletes & lie without challenging him lgbtqnation.com/November 5, 2019 "Okay, I'm a man. I've become a woman. I'm now winning national championships, setting weightlifting world records." .... "Earlier today, Donald Trump Jr. went on CBS This Morning to promote his new book Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us. In the process, he steamrolled the show’s three hosts who let him spew lies and anti-transgender talking points without any pushback." Silicon Valley billionaires keep getting richer no matter how much money they give away vox.com/recode/Nov 1, 2019 "Their ever-rising net worths show the problem with small-ball philanthropy." .... "Billionaires keep getting richer and income inequality continues to grow. In a decade-long bull market, tech leaders who control the stock of their massive corporations keep getting fantastically wealthier — and often in ways that make any of their flashy philanthropic efforts pale in comparison." FBI arrests alleged white supremacist accused of planning to bomb a Pueblo synagogue cnn.com/November 5, 2019 Migrant in ICE custody removed from life support over family's objections usatoday.com/Nov. 5, 2019 "An asylum-seeking migrant detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement was pulled off life support after his relatives said they requested that doctors continue the lifesaving measures. More than a month later, the man's body remains in the USA, his relatives said they have been given little information about his death, and his brother has twice been denied a visa to travel to the USA to identify the body and accompany it back home to Cameroon." ‘Untold human suffering’: 11,000 scientists from across world unite to declare global climate emergency independent.co.uk/9 hours ago "Eleven thousand scientists in 153 countries have declared a climate emergency and warned that “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without huge shifts in the way we live." November is Native American Heritage Month. Critics say Trump is subverting it with a new celebration of the Founding Fathers. washingtonpost.com/November 5, 2019 "Last week, President Trump declared November as “National American History and Founders Month,” a celebration of the country’s “dedication to promoting liberty and justice.” Few noticed a White House proclamation released on Halloween, but on Monday, it suddenly sparked outrage on social media, with many arguing the move was tone-deaf — if not outright offensive — because of another month-long heritage event that has taken place in November since 1990: Native American Heritage Month." By shirking its responsibility to filter out lies, Facebook is a threat to civic society theguardian.com/5 Nov 2019 "Propaganda is often employed by those unable to maintain control without resorting to falsehoods and the demonization of their opponents. Certainly Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and various recent rightwing populist movements across the world have relied, at least in part, on alarming and false characterizations of “The Other” to gain the emotional allegiance of voters." .... ("Howard Dean is a physician, former six-term governor of Vermont, and 2004 presidential candidate. He serves as a Senior Fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs".) Microsoft Japan tested a four-day work week and productivity jumped by 40% theguardian.com/4 Nov 2019 "The experiment for the month of August led to more efficient meetings and happier workers who took less time off" ‘We’re going home!’: more than 500 Oklahoma inmates freed in historic release theguardian.com/5 Nov 2019 "Governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican, shook the hands of the women as they left Eddie Warrior on Monday afternoon. Oklahoma voters approved a state initiative in 2016 that reclassified certain drug and property crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies. This year, lawmakers passed a bill making those changes apply to people who were already serving felony sentences for those crimes. The mass release marks a striking change for criminal justice reform in Oklahoma: per capita, the state has the second-highest incarceration rate in the US. And it locks up women at the highest rate of any state. Before the mass release on Monday, state prisons held almost 25,750 people."
|
|
#
?
Nov 6, 2019 04:10
|
|
|
What are they even doing with the body? The cruelty really is the point.
|
|
#
?
Nov 6, 2019 04:52
|
|
|
Probably already in an unmarked mass grave. Which, I know sounds like hyperbolic scare-mongering, but thousands of people who have died in custody are just gone. Hell, thousands of live children have vanished, too, and we still don't know where they went.
|
|
#
?
Nov 6, 2019 06:27
|
|
|
Judge Scraps 'Conscience' Rule Protecting Doctors Who Deny Care For Religious Reasons npr.org/November 6, 2019 Updated at 1:50 p.m. ET 'In a blow to the Trump administration, a federal court in Manhattan has knocked down a rule that would make it easier for doctors and other health care workers to refuse care for religious reasons. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled Wednesday that the Department of Health and Human Services, which issued the regulation earlier this year, exceeded its authority and "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" in promoting it. The department's violations of federal law, according to the judge's opinion, were "numerous, fundamental, and far-reaching" — and he vacated the rule entirely, just over two weeks before it was set to take effect on Nov. 22.' Milwaukee man charged with hate crime in racist acid attack, authorities say abcnews.go.com/Nov 6, 2019 "A Milwaukee man was charged with a hate crime on Wednesday for allegedly throwing battery acid on a Hispanic man in a suspected racist attack, authorities said. Clifton Blackwell, 61, was charged with first degree reckless injury, use of a dangerous weapon and a hate crime after video appeared to show him dousing a man with acid during an argument over the victim's immigration status, according to a probable cause affidavit." Never Forget, America’s Mass Lynching: 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas blackwestchester.com/June 12, 2016 "Towards the end of 1918, attorney Ulysses S. Bratton of Little Rock, Arkansas listened to Black sharecroppers tell stories of theft, exploitation, and never ending debt. One man by the name of Carter, explained how he cultivated 90 acres of cotton and then had his landlord confiscate the crop and all of his possessions. Another Black farmer, from Ratio, Arkansas said a plantation manager would not give sharecroppers an itemized record of their crop. No one realized that within a year of meeting with Mr. Bratton, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. would take place. In a report released by the Equal Justice Initiative, white people in the Delta region of the South, started a massacre that left 237 Black people dead. Even though the one-time death toll was unusually high, it was not uncommon for whites to use racial violence to intimidate Blacks." ....
|
|
#
?
Nov 7, 2019 02:14
|
|
|
Reposted from USPOL: Bill Gates criticises Elizabeth Warren's plan for tax on super-rich bbc.com/7 hours ago '"I'm all for super-progressive tax systems," he said. "I've paid over $10bn in taxes. I've paid more than anyone in taxes. If I had to pay $20bn, it's fine. "But when you say I should pay $100bn, then I'm starting to do a little math about what I have left over. Sorry, I'm just kidding," he added. "So you really want the incentive system to be there and you can go a long ways without threatening that." Mr Gates is the second-richest person in the world, according to Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $106.2bn. When asked if he would be willing to meet with her about the policy, Mr Gates said he wasn't sure if Ms Warren would "sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money".' [Don't care about Warren yet or in this thread, but "Sorry, I'm just kidding," he added". Care about that.] Roger Stone in serious trouble as prosecutors play jury audio of him allegedly lying to Congress rawstory.com/November 7, 2019 "On Thursday, one of the final loose ends from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation inched closer to being tied up as the criminal trial of former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone continued." Italy making climate change courses mandatory for schools abcnews.go.com/November 6, 2019 "Italy's education minister says weekly climate change lessons are being made mandatory for the nation's public school students. Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti tweeted Wednesday that his nation will be the first country in the world to make studying sustainability and climate change compulsory. The lessons will be given to pupils from first grade through high school." An Infamous Neo-Nazi Forum Just Got Doxxed vice.com/Nov 6 2019 "A cache of data exposes the logins, emails, and IP addresses of users on IronMarch, a defunct neo-Nazi forum considered the birthplace of several militant organizations. [Yep the essentials were already posted. Results have yet to be realized though.]
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 04:43
|
|
|
Too poor to vote: how Alabama’s ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting theguardian.com/4 Oct 2017 "In Alabama, money keeps thousands of people away from the ballot box – and the state’s felon disenfranchisement policies are probably unconstitutional" "The 38-year-old resident of Dothan, Alabama, lost her right to vote in 2008, when she was convicted of fraudulent use of a credit card. She was on probation for over two years, then served a few months behind bars ending in early 2011, at which point she would have been eligible to vote in most states. In Maine and Vermont, she would have never lost that right in the first place. But in Alabama and eight other states from Nevada to Tennessee, anyone who has lost the franchise cannot regain it until they pay off any outstanding court fines, legal fees and victim restitution. In Alabama, that requirement has fostered an underclass of thousands of people who are unable to vote because they do not have enough money. For folks like Williams, who said she regularly voted before her conviction in 2008, poverty is the only remaining obstacle to participation in the electoral process."
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 05:37
|
|
|
Megillah Gorilla posted:Hell, thousands of live children have vanished, too, and we still don't know where they went. I know the next administration will have a lot of poo poo to clean up, but this is just a staggeringly chilling abuse of humanity going on. Reunification/finding out where these kids went should be a thing for a loooooong time.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 14:21
|
|
|
FilthyImp posted:If people don't end up in jail over this... Even now, I can hear Pelosi saying, "It's time to move forward and heal the country." I hope I'm wrong, but I don't expect anyone to get the comeuppance they deserve.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 16:24
|
|
FilthyImp posted:If people don't end up in jail over this... https://twitter.com/jduffyrice/status/1000927903759110144 https://twitter.com/jduffyrice/status/1000935021690130432 That situation is a bit more complicated, though. People are still mixing up unaccompanied minors with family separations.
|
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:03
|
|
|
SimonChris posted:https://twitter.com/jduffyrice/status/1000927903759110144 What that tweet thread is saying is that the proper government officials (social services and whatnot) should be investigating, not ICE or DHS, which is like, yeah, no poo poo. It’s not saying that these people are scared of the government, and so we shouldn’t bother trying to find them or ask questions or figure out if they’re, you know, loving dead or in child prostitution rings or whatever. We should absolutely be talking about them and figure out what the hell happened. Edit: or rereading it, maybe she is saying don’t investigate? I can’t figure it out, she’s all over the map Thaddius the Large fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Nov 8, 2019 |
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:14
|
|
|
Thaddius the Large posted:What that tweet thread is saying is that the proper government officials (social services and whatnot) should be investigating, not ICE or DHS, which is like, yeah, no poo poo. It’s not saying that these people are scared of the government, and so we shouldn’t bother trying to find them or ask questions or figure out if they’re, you know, loving dead or in child prostitution rings or whatever. We should absolutely be talking about them and figure out what the hell happened. My understanding is that she's saying a lot of them found happy landings somewhere that would get them or someone else deported if they got officially logged.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:30
|
|
|
Rolabi Wizenard posted:Even now, I can hear Pelosi saying, "It's time to move forward and heal the country." Pelosi can say whatever she wants, the consequences being talked about are going to be in the hands of President Democrat. Please Hammer do hurt 'em.
|
|
#
?
Nov 8, 2019 17:58
|
|
|
Trump’s Favorite Pastor Paula White Has a Fake Doctorate Degree and a History of Bankruptcy politicalflare.com/November 7, 2019 "Paula White is a Florida pastor who led a prayer at Donald Trump’s inauguration, chairs his Evangelical Advisory Council, and is now a White House employee, with her salary paid for by the American taxpayer. Befitting her association with an administration occupied by a deadbeat ex-reality TV star who has spent his life affiliating with various fraud enthusiasts, she is often introduced as “Dr. Paula” despite never having graduated from college and lives a comically luxurious lifestyle despite having driven her previous church into bankruptcy. So let’s take a look at the fake Dr. Paula White.": The Billionaires Hit huffpost.com/The Panic Button huffpost.com/11/08/2019 "Bill Gates is thinking about voting for Donald Trump, while Mike Bloomberg intends to vote for himself." No One Needs a Superyacht, but They Keep Selling Them nytimes.com/Oct. 8, 2019 "The worry is about the designers’ next vessels, because this is the time of year when clients whose boats are still in production come back from holidays with a wish list of new features — usually, based on what they saw on their friends’ yachts or at the Monaco Yacht Show, which ended Sept. 28." Rich Americans Are Interfering in Our Elections newrepublic.com/November 8, 2019 "Amazon's efforts to manipulate Seattle's city council race show that wealthy individuals and companies are threats to democracy." EXCLUSIVE: A U.S. Marine Used the Neo-Nazi Site Iron March to Recruit for a ‘Racial Holy War' vice.com/Nov 8 2019 "At least three members of the U.S. military were registered users on the influential neo-Nazi forum Iron March, according to an analysis of an anonymous data dump from the site this week. And one of them, a Marine, was apparently using Iron March to try to recruit people for a fascist paramilitary group he wanted to launch in the U.S." Neil Rafferty, an openly gay former US marine, has won a seat in Alabama with 90 percent of the vote, filling a role vacated by the state’s first LGBT+ legislator Patricia Todd. pinknews.co.uk/November 8, 2018 "Neil Rafferty, an openly gay former US marine, has won a seat in Alabama with 90 percent of the vote, filling a role vacated by the state’s first LGBT+ legislator Patricia Todd." Black Facebook employees complain racism, discrimination has gotten worse usatoday.com/Nov. 8, 2019 "An anonymous memo alleging Facebook still has a problem with racial bias is circulating inside the company one year after a former employee complained of racism and discrimination there." Robert Redford: A race against time to undo damage caused by Trump cnn.com/November 8, 2019 / Opinion by Robert Redford "Earlier this week, Donald Trump notified the United Nations of his intention to pull America out of the most significant climate effort in history, the now-famous Paris Accord. It's a decision that has shocked millions with its short-sighted foolishness. That he chose to do this on the first day he could legally do so under the UN's rules for withdrawal simply reveals his immoral dedication to isolating us from the world community by willfully ignoring the biggest, most urgent threat facing human civilization." [Lacks enough rage, but maybe post it in your feed if you have chud Redford fans therein.] U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Granted Class Status in Equal Pay Lawsuit nytimes.com/Nov. 8, 2019 "A federal judge rejected U.S. Soccer’s argument that no discrimination existed. Megan Rapinoe praised the decision as a validation of their campaign." .... "The judge overseeing the United States women’s national soccer team’s gender discrimination lawsuit against U.S. Soccer granted the players class status on Friday, an important victory for the women that appeared to support the claim that they are subjected to unequal working conditions and unequal pay when they played games for their country." Hundreds of far-right protesters clashed with filmgoers and police at the Georgian premiere of And Then We Danced, an Oscar-nominated film that celebrates gay love. pinknews.co.uk/November 9, 2019 "Local LGBT+ activist Ana Subeliani was among those injured during the protest. In a Facebook post she claimed “police did nothing” as she and her friends “were severely beaten and threatened.” Images of her bleeding and in an ambulance circulated on social media." 'Baby Trump' balloon draws crowds and protests ahead of Alabama-LSU football game cnn.com/November 9, 2019 "In preparation for Trump's appearance, Nic Gulas helped organize a GoFundMe campaign to raise $4,000 in order to bring the "Baby Trump" balloon to the game. The campaign ended up collecting $7,882 in two days."
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2019 03:21
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 10:22 |
|
|
How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster The US built a big containment vessel on the Marshall Islands filled with the remnants of their nuclear and biological weapons tests, and now that the vessel may be in danger due to sea level rise, the US is refusing to help, claiming it's the responsibility of The Marshall Islands.
|
|
#
?
Nov 10, 2019 19:08
|
|
