This Is Fine - 2018-01-20

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12:00 AM

@puzzlepiece87 you too

user15026

@GodEmperorDune at first I was like "oh, this doesn't seem that horrible" based on teh report from Twitter but then reading his linked thread where he explains the impact, it's like well, shit

@Ash yeah

at a certain point though i don't know how you gauge that bigger impact

and here's a good, quick explanation about how "crowd sourcing which news is reliable" (a la facebook's plan) is not going to go well

So here's the thing about Facebook asking people which news sources they perceive as trustworthy https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/953368490378964992

Tweeted by aedwardslevy on January 19, 2018 at 9:57 PM

user15026

12:19 AM

@GodEmperorDune I'm....not sure what else I expected there

user15026

People trust what backs up their views!

@Ash and facebook already had this problem during the election, so their response is to double down on it?

user15026

I guess so!

"people are unknowingly sharing fake news, let's make a thing for people to vote on what counts as fake news"

user15026

yeaaaah, what a hot mess

12:39 AM

"Aziz Ansari and Shitholes: Men Understand Consent Like White America Understands Racism" what if I told you that this lack of understanding of both is actually connected? https://www.theroot.com/aziz-ansari-and-shitholes-men-understand-consent-like-1822180380

Tweeted by redlightvoices on January 19, 2018 at 10:15 AM

12:50 AM

Big scoop in #Pa18 from @lhfang @Saccone4PA18 was a torture consultant as private contractor at Abu Gharib. Gonna be interesting to see how @ConorLambPA responds https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/gop-candidate-for-pennsylvania-special-election-is-a-former-abu-ghraib-interrogation-consultant/

Tweeted by MikeElk on January 19, 2018 at 11:35 PM

user15026

@GodEmperorDune "They believe they get to define their misdeeds and determine how the subject of their actions should respond." THIS THIS THIS THIS IS THE PROBLEM

user15026

ahem I mean....nice article, friend

\o/

and in shutdown news, senate is voting at 10 PM eastern

1:07 AM

First active-duty, same-sex couple marries at West Point http://hill.cm/id5m0U4

Tweeted by thehill on January 19, 2018 at 11:04 PM

yay, some good news

🤔🤔🤔

Tweeted by SamGrittner on January 20, 2018 at 1:00 AM

1:26 AM

@GodEmperorDune manchin and a couple others are yes

idk on what

the house thing I guess

which is CR 4 weeks CHIP 6 years no DREAM

I think

love too hold the line

and by that I mean capitulate everything forever

1:48 AM

It's important that everyone be predictably terrible forever because reasons

Oh yeah like Manchin sucks

Resistance Hero Doug Jones is also on board, apparently

Of course he is

Incredible story in the Inspector General's scathing report on Travel Ban 1.0: CBP demanded that Lufthansa remove passengers from a flight in violation of a federal court order. Lufthansa REFUSED, secured passengers' passage to America instead. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/its-now-certain-federal-agents-broke-the-law-to-implement-trumps-first-travel-ban.html?via=recirc_recent

Tweeted by mjs_DC on January 19, 2018 at 11:15 PM

working-class hero https://www.themaven.net/bluelivesmatter/news/shell-gas-station-shuts-off-pumps-refuses-service-to-cbp-officers-waQDfrZdE0KVU-OFqagikQ?full=1

Tweeted by alexnpress on January 19, 2018 at 6:44 PM

I mean, r/thathappened, but if it did indeed happen, hell yes

2:55 AM

My client appeared for court today and was arrested in the hallway by plainclothes ICE agents. The law says he’s innocent and has the right to fight his case in criminal court. ICE won’t let him. I’m furious.

Tweeted by franklinbynum on January 19, 2018 at 6:18 PM

I think the best part about this is that the person who replied to that saying "say bye-bye" has a retweet of a tweet that literally explains why the Republicans are responsible for the shutdown in the midst of all the Fox News retweets

I mean maybe they thought they should retweet it to make fun of it but I'm more inclined to believe that they're agreeing without even understanding

or iz robot searching for word "democrat", either way

3:30 AM

Senate fails to pass

@TimStone so government shutdown?

Yep

At least briefly, at this point

Paul, Graham, Lee, and Flake are (R) nos

Has this happened before? I feel like it normally comes close but doesn't actually happen

Shutting down the government? Oh sure

Not to this extent when a party controlled both WH and Congress though, that's some newage nonsense

The Democrats did it during Carter's administration but "shutdown" was a lot tamer then

Over past few days Trump has vented his frustrations that a shutdown would keep him from Mar-a-Lago, @lachlan and @swin24 scoop https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-whines-shutdown-fight-could-make-me-miss-my-party?ref=home

Tweeted by samstein on January 20, 2018 at 3:34 AM

He literally could have just not killed DACA and we wouldn't be here

The Dems would have caved on some border funding and CHIP would have passed and we'd stay open

what's CHIP?

3:40 AM

Health insurance for kids

DAVOS TRIP WOULD BE ALLOWED during shutdown, admin officials tell press on conference call. Trump can continue constitutional duties during funding lapse, and that includes diplomatic missions. Necessary staff and security also would be allowed, aides say.

Tweeted by JenniferJJacobs on January 20, 2018 at 12:07 AM

lol gtfo

Trump to propose stripping ATF's authority on alcohol and tobacco: report http://hill.cm/CtkmuHb

Tweeted by thehill on January 20, 2018 at 3:49 AM

🤔

"So uh department meeting…seems we're just 'F' now. Yeah, not ATF, just…'F'"

Oh, they added 'explosives' at some point, I guess they'd be the 'BFE' now

4:06 AM

CDC to stop disease-fighting work in nearly 40 foreign countries: report http://hill.cm/QRwZZBh

Tweeted by thehill on January 20, 2018 at 3:55 AM

tl;dr, they need more funding that doesn't currently seem to be coming

@TimStone like, at all, or currently

4:25 AM

Nothing planned

Also that nyt headline

Neither party held together you fucking morons

But presuming new funding came in they'd be able to restart

Yeah…

Incidentally there's a narrow chance they'll agree on something in the next 34 minutes, apparently, but I'll believe it when I see it

Is it the Flake "who gives a shit what the president will sign are you fucking serious we have a sort of agreement that might pass what is this" plan potentially?

Actually, Mitch very explicitly not doing that thing was a smart play

They couldn't have pulled off it's not our fault if the president vetoed it

And let me be clear the smart play in this case was present some false choice of who the government will continue to help

And some false dates too (both CHIP and DACA are in the process of expiring now)

@Unionhawk lol no don't be silly

It's a several-day CR

Ah yeah that would probably pass

4:33 AM

So we can do this all over again next week

I was going to say, I'm pretty sure they have the entire "Senate democrats who suck ass caucus" and that's only 5

With newest caucus member Doug Jones

Afraid laborers would seize the means of production, they automated. The new robots had other ideas. They walked away, seizing themselves.

Tweeted by ASmallFiction on January 20, 2018 at 3:07 AM

GORKA ON THE RUN! #SebGorka @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE https://t.co/J2qqBXsJQd

Tweeted by JAdomian on January 19, 2018 at 10:40 PM

Even if you explicitly don't want to associate with the podcast, Adomian's Gorka bits are worth

5:00 AM

Official White House statement on #SchumerShutdown

Tweeted by PressSec on January 20, 2018 at 4:55 AM

Jesus Christ that's pathetic

Now that it's past midnight though we have ourselves an official shutdown

5:36 AM

love too say that a shutdown would be a good thing then blame democrats for the shutdown and say it's bad

user15026

5:52 AM

It makes me hella sad that this is how the story ends for Andrew Kinsman and likely multiple others who disappeared from the Wellesley gay village area of Toronto, but I hope that now their families can find closure. thestar.com/news/crime/2018/01/18/…

user15026

@TimStone also, yo, aren't you guys making all the decisions that are damaging....pretty much every group you have mentioned here

@Ash yes, tehy are

and #trumpshutdown seems to be winning the hashtag wars

This will be called the #TrumpShutdown. There is no one who deserves the blame for the position we find ourselves in more than President Trump. https://t.co/WE3SH9TpRU

Tweeted by SenSchumer on January 20, 2018 at 5:46 AM

and they have a nice video of trump saying that shutdowns should be blamed on the president (from back when obama was in charge)

2 hours later…

7:50 AM

@GodEmperorDune but he'll keep blaming the democrats and saying that because of this now the military has been shut down and America is vulnerable to attack especially with "rocketman" wanting to start a war

@Memor-X well yeah

8:05 AM

Us govt shutdown. Beautiful.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Good presidency

8:18 AM

I regret going through those threads. Always such a huge shitstorm.

7 hours later…

3:29 PM

Members also complaining to me that the House gym lacks enough towels this morning and they wonder if it’s because of the shutdown.

Tweeted by costareports on January 20, 2018 at 2:14 PM

@costareports

Tweeted by pourmecoffee on January 20, 2018 at 2:36 PM in reply to costareports

3:53 PM

“social media” “public opinion” “the press” ... my dude, twitter emailed you because YOU were part of the problem https://twitter.com/johncornyn/status/954739322388930562

Tweeted by forbesmm on January 20, 2018 at 3:43 PM

Oh my god

4:13 PM

government shutdown means no speed limits means i'm going 76 mph tomorrow >:)

Tweeted by crulge on January 20, 2018 at 6:45 AM

4:41 PM

@TimStone cc @Yuuki

4:53 PM

@TimStone LOL

@Arperum Yep, that's Cornyn.

House planning some procedural votes this afternoon. A quorum call at noon, and then a rule to allow same-day authority (so House can consider a bill on the same day it's reported out of Rules Committee).

Tweeted by cimarcos on January 20, 2018 at 3:49 PM

5:13 PM

Oh happy anniversary to Ricky Spence getting hit in the face as well

@TimStone rekt

5:55 PM

(THREAD) Here's where negotiations are at, according to Republican Senator Jeff Flake, and here's how he thinks a deal will be reached today.

Tweeted by pdmcleod on January 20, 2018 at 5:44 PM

Short of it is that Ryan wouldn't commit to a separate vote on bipartisan DACA which is why we didn't reach a deal last night

Because god forbid it pass and Trump be forced into signing it

Like I said the calculus from the Rs is sound

If the president doesn't sign it it's definitely his fault

McConnell does seem willing to put Trump in that position, which like, why not? Public opinion is there, why the hell would you let yourself be held hostage by President McDeals?

If they never get to a vote then they can argue about whose fault it is

It's a really stupid game to play when it's Trump's fault DACA is even an issue though

Just urgh, I don't see how even the Republicans can't be pissed off he's making them do extra work

Because they don't want to do it at all

They want some Tom cotton ass, Stephen Miller database that criminalizes people if they do one wrong thing with the eventual goal of eliminating everyone

also lol

owned

Tweeted by spookperson on January 20, 2018 at 6:02 PM

4 hours later…

9:34 PM

JUST IN: Trump didn't approve his admin's list of immigration demands, was shocked by its contents: report http://hill.cm/7QDt8Qo

Tweeted by thehill on January 20, 2018 at 9:29 PM

lol

9:45 PM

Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino and His Brother, Marc Sorrentino, Plead Guilty to Tax Crimes https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/michael-situation-sorrentino-and-his-brother-marc-sorrentino-plead-guilty-tax-crimes

Tweeted by crampell on January 20, 2018 at 9:38 PM

9:56 PM

@Unionhawk yep its a beautiful thing

Happy anniversary y’all https://t.co/dH8hHyNBmZ

Tweeted by _grendan on January 20, 2018 at 3:15 PM

There was a "born in the USA" edit where the drum beat was him getting hit

so many relevant songs

10:14 PM

Yeah born in the USA is good too because it's very explicitly anti Vietnam war but all people pay attention to is "BOOOOORN IN THE USA" and think 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷

i don’t recall myself owning a white t shirt. The shirt actually said “deport racists” and i would love know whose decision it was to edit my shirt. https://twitter.com/fhsnews14/status/954167042734743553

Tweeted by chrisvazquezx on January 19, 2018 at 3:43 AM

11:07 PM

Activists have set up a vigil outside the Starbucks in Washington, DC that got smashed one year ago today during Trump's inauguration #J20 #J20Trials https://t.co/iL4PDk3s5v

Tweeted by RealAlexRubi on January 20, 2018 at 3:27 PM

🕯️

11:19 PM

In the running for best sign:

Tweeted by missmayn on January 20, 2018 at 10:33 PM

Capitalists will charge you to breathe air if you let them.

Tweeted by dsamqt on January 20, 2018 at 4:00 PM

Yes here's my approach to water pricing: free (supported by municipal budgets). Thank's

(yeah there's arguments for cost sharing for like, lawns especially don't @ me)

(but water shouldn't be more than cable what the fuck is wrong with you ASU)

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