@Unionhawk Step 1: Separate kids from parents and put into cages

Step 2: get legal immigrants to come in and take the kids

Step 3: arrest legal immigrants ???

Step 4: Profit

@Frank Pretty sure they don't care about appearing evil, and probably not at all about being evil anyway

@TimStone and didn't Trump hint at making his daughter replace Nikki Haley as US ambassador. really hiring the family best people

🤔

Hm

@TimStone Ah, this was the Bitcoin-bomb thing you were talking about earlier @Ash

A 7 year old has been Sheriff Clarke'd by CBP, RIP :(

God damn monsters

I have yet to hear a credible case for allowing CBP and ICE to continue operating at all

also happy 15th anniversary:

Not the best breaking news to be part of, but hey!

@Unionhawk Revert to old-school USCS and just get rid of the leftover tbh

> ABC’s Stephanopoulos teases first interview with Cohen after sentencing

Ah, but! raises finger We could not do that

@TimStone and relocate coast guard to idk, interior or something

More related to park rangers than defense

lol let's check in with our Ohio correspondent @Unionhawk to see if those jobs have since been replaced

I'd start the clock at the layoffs happening but no

Allegedly Tesla is looking

They'd probably still kill that UAW shop tho

start over as unaffiliated

(USW and IBEW are looking at the Buffalo solar plant)

@TimStone this guy, i guess when your rich and make other people do your work you don't understand what a skill is

Youngstown is already hard hit after the goodyear closure, still

It's a long, hard process

At best

@Unionhawk yeh those would be the people who either are multi-skilled or can re-skill quickly.

it's be even longer and harder for those who's worked decades and don't have any transferable skills for another industry if they can't get a replacement position

That's their fault for not going back in time to learn to code while it still pays well

Bless your state @Unionhawk

> Ohio Congressman: We can fund border wall with “WallCoin”

This message will self destruct

lol, amazing

Davidson is a freedom caucus guy

Replaced boehner who had the district for about 50 years

@TimStone i just imagined Willy from Bad Santa doing this, minus the children because he would be saying "fuck the children, get the hell out of my way!"

I refuse to believe anyone knows who John Solomon is

So that definitely didn't happen, but also, I personally would love free tacos please give them to me

@TimStone I guess that's what happens when you have taco trucks on every street corner

Bless you 2018 for still having some dumbassery left to give

@TimStone wut

I...honestly don't know

Something seems to be Happening but I can't for the life of me figure out what

@TimStone lol this would be great

@Unionhawk how is this not a goddamn crime

just what the fuck

@TimStone lololol this is great

@TimStone Oof, so he went for the "I'm going to tell mom if you keep being mean to me"

@TimStone i doubled over from santa telling those kids to GTFO

Right?

> "Santa was upstairs in his grotto... and immediately assisted in the evacuation of the building" upon hearing the fire alarm, Festival Events St. Ives (FESt) said

Like I can't

saaaaaaaaaame

since when does santa have a grotto

Like just "Santa was in his grotto"

lol

Yes

@GodEmperorDune Haven't you seen Elf?

@SaintWacko i have not, actually

Oh no he's being torn apart, by the Discourse!

@TimStone not even a no-bones-sawed debate

@TimStone lol of course

> So besides the obvious reasons—a disastrous military intervention in Yemen, the brazen murder of Khashoggi, the jailing of reformers, the forced resignation of the prime minister of another country, the plan to build a moat around a neighboring country, and the apparently blind arrogance that makes all this possible—what is behind the anti-Mohammed bin Salman caterwauling?

Why indeed! What's wrong with any of those? Huh? HUH?

It's a mystery! A murder mystery!

@PrivatePansy hmmmmmmmmmmm

@TimStone my bet is on 18 dudes, with the bone saw, in the embassy

IRL taken, holyshit

@Unionhawk ... he's running

Unfortunately he lost his election.

@Unionhawk :(

@Unionhawk on this day 2019, he runs for president because he's just as qualified

Ahh he's back online, excellent

I wonder how many of those 150 people weren't agents of a foreign government and/or were not made up

"Maybe you get here and we let you die of dehydration, who knows? Very dangerous"

@TimStone lol

@TimStone ugh, this is disgraceful and barbaric

@Unionhawk what he says translates to "this is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people you dog"

@Unionhawk counterpoint: dogs are good bois tho

Ford cuts all provincial funding to Ontario College of Midwives: nationalobserver.com/2018/12/13/news/…

> The halt in funding is retroactive to April 1, 2018, and includes almost $800,000 in operational grants for the College's current budget year, which made up one-third of its budget. The government informed the College on Nov. 8, eight months into the fiscal year.

> Midwives deliver 15 per cent of the babies born in Ontario, care for 12 to 14 per cent of pregnant women and are turning away clients because they can’t meet the demand, according to the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM), which plays an advocacy and support role for midwives.

Slightly torn on this. My initial reaction is "Ford, wtf", but supposedly midwives are paid $104k and $130k ($74k - $89k after taxes), and there's 900 of them, so expecting them to pay an additional $888 funds per year doesn't seem outrageous given their salaries.

but of course stuff like this:

> "Our relatively low membership numbers compared to other regulated health colleges mean that our revenue is not sufficient to meet our expenses," the College writes in its annual report. "In acknowledgment of this discrepancy, the Ministry provides funding annually to allow the College to fulfill its mandate of regulating midwifery in the public interest."

Makes it seem like they should be increasing their funding

or maybe members should also pay abit more too, shrug

Either way I'm sure Fords stance has nothing to do with any of this, and is basically him continuing his attacks on any programs which help someone who isn't him

7-day holiday work weeks highlight pay disparity between urban, rural mail carriers cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/…

@TimStone uh, okay

@TimStone welcome to manchin caucus

lol, just the guy for the job

by banning me from earning $121 you've actually fallen into the spider's web

It's the remaining money in their account, I guess there was more in it?

Buuut yeah, I can't wait for their competitor, I wonder how long until payment providers drop them too

Already for the most part

I know they have some host

but idk if they've found another payment provider

@Wipqozn You know that vanishingly few alumni will pay that money and it'll all be pushed onto the students, who aren't midwives yet right?

Unless "College" here means something else.

Suppose it could be the "electoral college" meaning where it just refers to some group of people.

@Unionhawk All transactions will now be in Razer Silver

@Unionhawk ...

Now you may be thinking "wait, didn't Julius Tate Jr. get shot and killed by a cop?" And you would indeed be correct!

Obviously this was going to be bullshit but at no point do they even indicate what her "role" was

100% gonna turn out she was just there and witnessed what happened 🤷

imagine having that level of impunity, to get away with murder so hard someone else gets charged for it

@Yuuki I'm pretty sure that's what it means, although I could be the one acting under the incorrect assumption. Basically the increase to members would be an increase to annual membership dues.

That seems to be the implication right? The aggravated robbery is presumably related to the crimes which led to this sting, but there's no indication anyone was killed during them?

@Yuuki cmo.on.ca

> The College of Midwives of Ontario was established with the proclamation of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA) and the Midwifery Act, 1991 on December 31, 1993 to govern midwifery. The mandate of the College is to regulate the profession of midwifery in accordance with the RHPA. The College’s primary obligation to the public is to ensure that members of the profession are qualified, skilled, and competent in the area in which they practise.

So I don't think it's a college in the way you were thinking

So it's basically the bar association for midwives.

@Yuuki sounds like it

@TimStone according to the legal principle known as "the butterfly effect",

@TimStone felony murder is a hell of a drug, man

@Yuuki this isn't even that as I understand it

@Unionhawk It is a felony murder charge, but they don't say what exactly her involvement was

It seems more likely to me she helped set up the buy/sale that went bad

Than she was just involved in the original thefts

Just being involved in the original thefts seems too remote a connection to lead to felony murder

either way Columbus PD have killed something like 16 people this year

but stranger things have been tried

@Unionhawk Good, important thread.

@Unionhawk Holocaust Survivors Recall Exact Day Holocaust Started.

@BradC Technically speaking, gravity hasn't been proven.

Or rather "our current theory of gravitation" is the proper term, I suppose.

Yep. The dossier was never intended to be evaluated like you would a "final report", it is the initial raw information gathered straight from sources in the field.

But that Lawfare article is largely positive on the Dossier

> The Mueller investigation has clearly produced public records that confirm pieces of the dossier. And even where the details are not exact, the general thrust of Steele’s reporting seems credible in light of what we now know about extensive contacts between numerous individuals associated with the Trump campaign and Russian government officials.

> However, there is also a good deal in the dossier that has not been corroborated in the official record and perhaps never will be—whether because it’s untrue, unimportant or too sensitive. As a raw intelligence document, the Steele dossier, we believe, holds up well so far. But surely there is more to come from Mueller’s team. We will return to it as the public record develops.

lol, dunked on by Luxembourg

And Christie has declined to be Chief of Staff because he knows he needs to be AG to indict Chief of Staff Kushner taps head

lol a judge has struck down Poliquin's challenge to ranked-choice voting, I assume saying "That's pretty dumb"

> “To the extent that the Plaintiffs call into question the wisdom of using RCV, they are free to do so but . . . such criticism falls short of constitutional impropriety,” Walker wrote. “A majority of Maine voters have rejected that criticism and Article I (of the U.S. Constitution) does not empower this Court to second guess the considered judgment of the polity on the basis of the tautological observation that RCV may suffer from problems, as all voting systems do.”

@TimStone u wot m8

they realize that trump is the one militarizing the border, right?

@TimStone i was confused because i thought this was hope hicks

@Unionhawk uhhhh i thought yall had hatreon already

@GodEmperorDune Yeah I think it's more "Let's do a North Korea"

@TimStone wouldn't that be splitting the red states vs the blue ones then?

@GodEmperorDune it's not clear if that site is still up idk

@Unionhawk lol

@Unionhawk dafuq

@Unionhawk LAPD will ask them to hold the beer

embeddeed video in this, another reason to prosecute CBP and ICE

🤔

@GodEmperorDune I mean even if not directly intentionally they sure seem okay with it!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ahahahahaha

@GodEmperorDune they prosecute the org that does this for this if they catch them too, iirc (the org is "No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes")

because they are in favor of more deaths.

@TimStone Buddy you don't even seem to be winning at marriage right now so maybe deal with that first.

Yeah like I would definitely be questioning that if I were him?

What with the timing and the her tweeting to herself that she can do better

As one does

> "Brexit is not just a risk to Britain, EU; it could hurt US, too"

Guess we better just invade then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> Entire Floor at D.C. Federal Courthouse Sealed Off for Mystery Case

Scott Walker signed the BS WI legislation weakening the incoming governor

But also

He made this

@TimStone That's... not how Venn diagrams work?

You will be surprised to learn that Scott Walker is not actually a smart man

"I just assumed that people want to give me, Jack Dorsey, things for free, due to the awesome quality of my service"

@TimStone wtf

@Unionhawk uhhhhh I guess they are really worried about the felon voting rights

But also what the fuck

@TimStone it wasn’t Jared but it went to someone with as many jobs as jared

lol damnit

"acting" means temporary I assume, so who knows what happens

Correct