Blitz7x posted:

evilweasel posted:

There is a head of the FBI, it's the acting director, and he will stay head of the FBI until someone is confirmed.

Supremezero posted:

It would also require Trump to know the name of any member of the FBI.

Chilichimp posted:

Eh, does anyone actually believe the poo poo in red-text? Getting some whiny piss-baby to custom-title you is a badge of honor in my book.

Chilichimp posted:

No, I am a Falcons fan.

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Top Education Department official resigns
James Runcie, head of the agency's student aid office, submitted his resignation last night, effective immediately.
By MICHAEL STRATFORD and KIMBERLY HEFLING 05/24/2017 10:37 AM EDT Updated 05/24/2017 12:29 PM EDT

The head of the Education Department’s student financial aid office has resigned after more than seven years on the job following an apparent dispute with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over his scheduled testimony before the House Oversight Committee.

James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, “submitted his resignation to the department last night,” effective immediately, the agency said in a press release. Runcie had been slated to testify on Thursday before the House Oversight Committee regarding the department’s rising improper payment rate for federal student aid programs.


An Education Department official, who declined to be named, said Runcie’s resignation came abruptly at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday after DeVos directed him to testify before the House oversight panel. The department official said Runcie also refused requests to testify made by the committee and Jim Manning, the department’s acting undersecretary.

Runcie’s name is included on a committee witness list for the hearing. The Education Department’s Inspector General and the head of a group representing financial aid administrators are also slated to testify. A committee spokesperson did not immediately respond to request for comment.

The department official said Runcie said he wasn’t the correct person to testify about the issue, but department leadership indicated they didn't understand his reasoning and are baffled by his refusal to testify.

“That’s what we’re trying to figure out,” the official said. “We don’t know.”

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

There's apparently a tradition that only Catholic queens can wear white while visiting the pope. As to whether that requires everyone else to wear black, I don't know

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Pres. Trump met with Pope Francis and Sean Spicer, a Catholic who eagerly anticipating the meeting, wasn't with him

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/867460059252523008

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NEW: Comey's decision to go public with Clinton announcement was influenced by a fake Russian document

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Ministers 'furious' at US leaks

The UK government has expressed its anger after photographs apparently showing fragments from the Manchester bomb were leaked to the New York Times. A Whitehall source said:

"We are furious. This is completely unacceptable. These images leaked from inside the US system will be distressing for victims, their families and the wider public. The issue is being raised at every relevant level by the British authorities with their US counterparts."

The images appeared just hours after the home secretary, Amber Rudd, told the US authorities not to leak information. That came after details about the attack emerged in American media on Tuesday before being confirmed by British police. Rudd had said that she was “irritated” by the early release of Salman Abedi’s name and had made “very clear” to American counterparts that no further leaks should happen.

The row goes to the heart of the close intelligence-sharing relationship between the transatlantic allies and provides an awkward backdrop to Theresa May’s meeting with the US president, Donald Trump, at the Nato summit in Brussels on Thursday.

fsif posted:

I don't know enough about his district, but this HAS to spell the end for Paul Ryan in 2018, right? Or is his a constituency particularly susceptible to messages like “I will literally murder you”?

Rigel posted:

https://twitter.com/amyfiscus/status/867494769018228739

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Breaking: Top Russian Officials Discussed How to Influence Trump Aides Last Summer https://nyti.ms/2qXKrOo

Captain Monkey posted:

You think Ohio and Michigan are on the east coast? Wow, Montana has some bad schools.

Mister Adequate posted:

If it was in Montana that would be the third-biggest, I believe. A veritable metropolis!

Yeah we... have a bit of empty space.

e; but yeah everything east of the Mississippi is an undifferentiated mass of East Coast.

Night10194 posted:

It is.

gently caress you Andrew Jackson, you genocidal Toledo-stealing piece of poo poo.

Night10194 posted:

Joke's on all of you, the UP turned out to be full of riches!

Lote posted:

Montana is a weird East Coast state. This may help him depending on the audio.

Ekster posted:

This is going to court and Trump will pardon Gianforte.

Al Borland Corp. posted:

Hard to understand how an at large district can be so heavily weighed in favor of republicans but elect a democratic senator at least twice in a row. That's the same district isn't it?

Ice Phisherman posted:

Whatever, haters. Can't fly if you don't try.

Andrast posted:

Maybe she heard that Trump really likes maps

Z. Autobahn posted:

Here's the thing that I keep mulling over. Let's say it's November 6th, 2016, and Hillary bodyslams a Fox News reporter.

....we'd all still vote for her, right? I mean, we wouldn't feel great about it, but most of us didn't feel great voting for her anyway. And I'd take a Hillary that beats the poo poo out of reporters over Trump any day, no question.

Z. Autobahn posted:

Calling a white dude 'whitey' and a black person the n-word are not even remotely equivalent.


This is a dodge.

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NBC News: 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the nationwide block Trump's travel ban executive order, @PeteWilliamsNBC reports

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Affirmed in part, vacated in part by published opinion. Chief Judge Gregory wrote the
opinion, in which Judges Motz, King, Wynn, Diaz, Floyd, and Harris joined in full.
Judge Traxler wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment. Judge Keenan wrote an
opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which Judge Thacker
joined except as to Part II.A.i. Judge Wynn wrote a concurring opinion. Judge Thacker
wrote a concurring opinion. Judge Niemeyer wrote a dissenting opinion, in which Judges
Shedd and Agee joined. Judge Shedd wrote a dissenting opinion, in which Judges
Niemeyer and Agee joined. Judge Agee wrote a dissenting opinion, in which Judges
Niemeyer and Shedd joined.

eyebeem posted:

loving.

L
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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/867834190078906370

Tayter Swift posted:

That burned down in April of '93 tho. Why did it take six weeks to sink in?

Lote posted:

Waco dude

Lote posted:

Gallup only measured approval ratings every two weeks back then. Waco took him from 55% to 45% between the end of April and mid May

Office Pig posted:

Fair enough. On another topic:

https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/867864915595239424
https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/867890663010037761

stdh.txt, or a golden opportunity?

Spaced God posted:

Nah, after doing nothing during Comey's firing and Trump asking Intel folks to lie for him which are borderline literal charges raised against Nixon, GOP has crossed the Rubicon and are committed to riding out this loving hellstorm.

Frankly I won't be surprised if the Mueller report comes out and basically says "like half this administration is controller by Russia, here's tapes and video and phone calls" and the GOP only gets mildly concerned and puts him up for 2020.

Office Pig posted:

https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/868146351175020544

tetrapyloctomy posted:

So if I were hypothetically to erect a monument of Confederate soldiers being hanged for treason, no one could take it down?

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The bill will block local governments from removing monuments that have been on public property for more than 40 years. It also prevents renaming public schools that have stood for 40 years.

Spaced God posted:

As I alluded to in the post above, the Rosenbergs were convicted of Espionage, not treason