This Is Fine

Tim Stone

12:14 AM

@Memor-X Kind of awkward for all the "President is so busy" defenses put up as a reason to deny claims in other trials

He has no time but also plenty of time to do the work of an entire legal team!

Magic

Memor-X

12:49 AM

Delta apologizes after woman says she was tied to wheelchair http://hill.cm/eIxJR26

Tweeted by thehill on April 26, 2018 at 12:22 AM

there's only so many times you can say "fuck Delta Airlines"

GodEmperorDune

3 hours ago, by Tim Stone

Delta apologizes after woman says she was tied to wheelchair http://hill.cm/Vz9J6Aa

Tweeted by thehill on April 25, 2018 at 10:01 PM

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune ahhhh

Tim Stone

In his *fourth* major byline since being fired, Kevin still hasn’t answered the goddamn question. But I’m sure in another dozen or so we’ll know for sure whether or not he really believes women should be hanged, and if not, why he said otherwise twice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kevin-williamson-the-punishment-i-favor-for-abortion/2018/04/25/5001c6cc-48c5-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html

Tweeted by DavidKlion on April 26, 2018 at 12:55 AM

lol gtfo

Y'all don't have to pay this man, jfc

Joy Ann Reid's lawyer is now claiming that the FBI is opening an investigation into the supposed hacking of her account 🤦

Ah good Starbucks will no longer call the cops on people because the cops are just there being baristas

user15026

1:11 AM

Okay, here's why I'm so mad about the #TorontoAttack. Here's why it's so searingly awful and heartbreaking. Canadian women have been warning everybody about the normalization of MRA rhetoric in Canadian media FOR YEARS.

Tweeted by ChurchCarlton on April 25, 2018 at 1:27 AM

user15026

(that is a very good thread)

Tim Stone

Federal judge blocks Trump from defunding the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program http://hill.cm/NpKDjWB

Tweeted by thehill on April 26, 2018 at 1:13 AM

Tim Stone

1:45 AM

"Disgraced CBS anchor Charlie Rose is being slated to star in a show where he’ll interview other high-profile men who have also been toppled by #MeToo scandals." https://pge.sx/2qYyLdp

Tweeted by danarubinstein on April 26, 2018 at 1:17 AM

Absolutely not

Gonna need them to take that and throw it right the hell into the sea

quartata

@TimStone what the fuck

Memor-X

| ^ actual

Tim Stone

@quartata Like a god damn roly-poly toy, "toppled" and then right back up again, making money on the very thing that they were supposed to be punished for

quartata

@TimStone replies are pure salt

"jUdGes ARen"T ALLowEd TO Do tHIngs"

best reply

"funny how the courts keep being involved in political decisions <...>"

yes

this is how judicial review works

they are a thing

Unionhawk

4:53 AM

?

Tweeted by dannosowitz on April 25, 2018 at 11:33 PM

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Arperum

5:57 AM

@Ash only approved followers van see Theo though.

fredley

8:20 AM

The amazingly snarky drink menu at James Comey's DC book party tonight 🔥🔥🔥

Tweeted by VanessaOblinger on April 24, 2018 at 10:51 PM

Also this is a fantastic thread:

Every time I read about violent, self righteous incels I get furious, because *plenty of women spend their lives feeling unfuckable*, but instead of being taught that the world owes them sex they're taught to think they're just worthless people.

Tweeted by LuxAlptraum on April 25, 2018 at 3:13 PM

TIL the person who coined the term incel was a woman

ToxicFrog

12:12 PM

A queer Torontonian woman, no less.

Tim Stone

12:24 PM

Custody litigation between two ex-Trump staffers involves allegation that NASA faked the moon landing. https://slate.me/2Hu3XM7

Tweeted by Slate on April 26, 2018 at 12:12 PM

> Father once told Mother he believes the moon landing was staged. When Mother asked how he could possibly believe such, he said he learned it from spending time with Ted Cruz’s team, noting something about the Houston connection

ಠ_ಠ

Trump acknowledged that Michael Cohen represented him “with this crazy Stormy Daniels thing,” but then the call went out so you couldn’t hear what else he said on Fox & Friends.

Tweeted by PhilipRucker on April 26, 2018 at 12:18 PM

🤷🏼‍♂️

Unionhawk

I'm imagine Rudy and the rest of the legal team wrestling the phone away from him and it's glorious

Tim Stone

BREAKING: Jackson withdraws VA nom. Statement: “While I will forever be grateful for the trust and confidence President Trump has placed in me by giving me this opportunity, I am regretfully withdrawing my nomination to be Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs.”

Tweeted by GarrettHaake on April 26, 2018 at 11:55 AM

Unionhawk

oh man who got to post "THE DOCTOR IS OUT" first

who hit publish on that headline the fastest

Tim Stone

While Twitter appreciates your "Sorry Miss, Jackson" pun this morning, we're afraid the position has already been filled.

Tweeted by KevinMKruse on April 26, 2018 at 12:14 PM

Apparently it's Melania's birthday so Trump got her a heart attack by currently being on Fox & Friends saying a whole host of insane shit

For Trump’s lawyers this must be like watching your toddler play in traffic.

Tweeted by Popehat on April 26, 2018 at 12:36 PM

…is an adequate summary

Mad Scientist

12:45 PM

@TimStone The fact that Trump simply can't shut up in situations where there is nothing to gain for him, and everything to lose will cause his downfall, I hope.

Tim Stone

Yeah, it's just amazing. I get impulse, but like...c'mon

Unionhawk

1:06 PM

@TimStone yep

user15026

1:20 PM

@Arperum aww, damn. It was public last night when I posted.

Yuuki

@MadScientist It's also a little unsettling that he's managed to get so far despite being so incredibly incompetent.

Unionhawk

1:41 PM

> The fringe group Mountaintop Gun Club for example rented private surface land for $1 from concerned landowners. In return, the club established shooting ranges on threatened land in the hopes that the presence of armed individuals might deter coal companies from taking the land by force.

god that's so cool

(this being back in the 60s)

Tim Stone

Admiral Ronny Jackson is a man of exceptional integrity, character and intellect. We are grateful for his long and distinguished service to our Nation and look forward to continuing to see his warm smile each day at the White House!

Tweeted by IvankaTrump on April 26, 2018 at 12:54 PM

So I guess they're gonna let him continue to be the doctor?

Pitbull announces 2019 tour with life coach Tony Robbins (exclusive) http://blbrd.cm/ToBuaj

Tweeted by billboard on April 26, 2018 at 2:14 AM

???

God, yesterday was just a crazy day for musical celebrities

Mad Scientist

@TimStone Looks like it, and I expect that there will still be a lot of digging into Jackson's past, and with what we've heard so far, I don't think they'll end up empty handed.

Tim Stone

Seems kind of weird though, right? Like if you're not really really sure he was never drunk on the job, and there's no way this wasn't a blind defense, kinda feel like you wouldn't want him as your doctor?

Yuuki

@TimStone Hey man, he's their supplier.

Tim Stone

But, counterpoint, the guy who was Trump's personal doctor prior

Mad Scientist

1:54 PM

There'll be a lot of newspapers digging into this, and probably some official investigations as well

Tim Stone

Teachers in Arizona are going on strike today. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2018/04/26/arizona-teacher-walkout-redfored-education-funding/548892002/

Tweeted by mattdpearce on April 26, 2018 at 1:54 PM

I got a hold of Michael Cohen over the phone. At first he said he would have to call me back and then I asked him what's his reaction to the Trump interview on Fox & Friends. Cohen said "Did you hear what I said to you? I’m on the other line with my lawyers…." He then hung up.

Tweeted by schwartzbCNBC on April 26, 2018 at 12:58 PM

lmao

puzzlepiece87

2:20 PM

@TimStone Okay so I was surprised (but happy) to see judges block this and DACA from being ended. I understand the teen program one better - these grants have already been awarded, you can end the program, you just can't end it early and rescind previously awarded grants.

Tim Stone

The DACA one makes sense too

It's not that the Administration can't end the program, it's just it can't end the program by saying it's illegal to have the program

Because they provide no basis for why that's true

puzzlepiece87

However, what's the reasoning behind DACA? I get that they were claiming it was unlawful and they failed to show that, but why did they even need to claim unlawful in the first place? Why were they not able to just say "This is a program we were doing and now we're not going to do it anymore."

Oh, so they CAN do that, they just didn't?

Tim Stone

They can, they just don't want the optics

It's really the dumbest thing

puzzlepiece87

Ah, now I understand, thanks a lot.

Unionhawk

Yeah they could have ended it by going "this is bad and we don't want it" and have been fine

but I guess Alsup's "well, actually, determining unlawfulness is my job so" held so far

puzzlepiece87

2:23 PM

I guess this is yet another reason to prefer having the dumbest evil administration over a competent evil administration.

They waste months doing stuff like this instead of just handling it like EPA quiet removal of climate change data, etc.

I'm guessing the FBI data thing was probably similar to these two

Tim Stone

Pruitt is reportedly getting chewed out in a Congressional oversight hearing, incidentally

puzzlepiece87

If they had just said "We're not going to provide the data anymore" then it probably would have been fine, but instead for optics they were like "Don't worry we still have it" and were forced to put it back up.

@TimStone Only for doing the quiet things loudly.

Tim Stone

Now: SDNY says Hannity, Trump statements about ties to Michael Cohen 'suggest that the seized materials are unlikely to contain voluminous privileged documents' https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4447558/Cohen-USAO-20180426.pdf

Tweeted by MikeScarcella on April 26, 2018 at 2:14 PM

looooooooool

puzzlepiece87

Ben Carson's still doing dumb stuff at HUD because he mostly shut up, Pruitt's given zero f so far and aggravates the situation.

@TimStone So many people missing that key life lesson to never miss a good chance to shut up.

Tim Stone

SDNY folk sitting around drinking coffee this morning when an aide rushes in jumping up and down

puzzlepiece87

2:32 PM

Giant ground sloths! So much fun to say.

Humans once hunted giant ground sloths

Tim Stone

2:48 PM

—@DiamondandSilk are now under oath

Tweeted by oliverdarcy on April 26, 2018 at 2:40 PM

To think, we could have just not done this

Also kind of weird that you'd walk into a Congressional testimony knowing you'd lie under oath but I guess since consequence no longer exists it's just #yolo

quartata

@TimStone pls to not give platform

Tim Stone

#EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Opening Statement: "I have nothing to hide…Facts are facts and fiction is fiction. And a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper." Watch here: https://cs.pn/2KeEWSV https://t.co/3v0ieb54lr

Tweeted by cspan on April 26, 2018 at 2:58 PM

climate science comes swinging in on a vine

WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at Wounded Warrior Project event http://hill.cm/0Ia6PvS

Tweeted by thehill on April 26, 2018 at 3:04 PM

Ah, this is a healthy transition from the Fox & Friends phone-in this morning

#BREAKING: Senate committee approves bill to block Trump from firing Mueller http://hill.cm/OL3Zr2C

Tweeted by thehill on April 26, 2018 at 3:10 PM

I assume McConnell will still refuse to bring it to the floor

But maybe Grassley and McConnell will have an old man battle

Humans are now outsourcing flirting and there are consequences. https://qz.com/1247382/online-dating-is-so-awful-that-people-are-paying-virtual-dating-assistants-to-impersonate-them/

Tweeted by sona_here on April 26, 2018 at 3:11 PM

What the actual fuck

GnomeSlice

3:13 PM

@TimStone doesn't seem like news also who is that

Tim Stone

It's Trump's lawyer, being asked about comments Trump made, about a lawsuit that Cohen is in, that people think could cause him to flip against Trump

puzzlepiece87

> But how do you present yourself as an Alpha? “Never compliment her without a qualification,” he writes. “Let her know what you want in a woman and make her explain why she fits those criteria.”

Hey look, it's 2018 and we're not only still negging but paying others to do it.

Yuuki

I miss the days when my only definition for "negg" was "those things on Neopets that can get strangely expensive".

I have utterly forgotten what Neggs were for.

cc @Ash

GodEmperorDune

3:39 PM

@Yuuki RIP that scientologist front

Unionhawk

3:57 PM

> Jason Bostic, the vice president of the West Virginia Coal Association, summed up the coal industry’s response when he looked out on a snaking line of 1,500 people marching up a mountain in ninety-degree weather and asked, “What good is a mountain just to have a mountain?”

Holy shit lol

Tim Stone

4:41 PM

Diamond and Silk are claiming in their House hearing right now that they've never been paid by the Trump campaign. But the Trump campaign FEC filing disagrees! http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00580100/1133930/sb/ALL/4

Tweeted by willsommer on April 26, 2018 at 3:46 PM

My god

This is a thread. They are asked about this, a filing made by the Trump campaign. By a US Representative

And they tell him it's fake news and he fell for it

Tim Stone

4:55 PM

In other news Pompeo is on to the final vote, so confirmation likely to be soon

Unionhawk

D O U G J O N E S

Good thing that guy is on the case

Instead of someone who would have voted with the republicans

Tim Stone

Every member has left the Diamond & Silk hearing except Darrell Issa

Tweeted by JoePerticone on April 26, 2018 at 4:51 PM

(And Jason Smith, who for some reason is there but is not on the committee so is in the audience)

American Democracy had a good run time to pack it up

Pompeo confirmed 57-42

Unionhawk

~bipartisanship~

to be fair, both sides love the CIA

Tim Stone

5:27 PM

Yeah but like, the Rapture

Arizona's only two black lawmakers formally reprimanded for calling out GOP lawmaker's use of racial slur http://hill.cm/fBEKllv

Tweeted by thehill on April 26, 2018 at 5:25 PM

…🤔

Unionhawk

hmm I wonder how that could have happened

Tim Stone

5:41 PM

In going back through FEC records, I also noticed (and hadn't previously seen this) that the only other candidate to pay Diamond and Silk in 2016 was...white nationalist Paul Nehlen

Tweeted by lachlan on April 26, 2018 at 3:48 PM in reply to lachlan

throws a table

SaintWacko

@puzzlepiece87 rip @origamirobot

Tim Stone

GUILTY: A jury has found Bill Cosby guilty on all counts http://www.abc12.com/content/news/Jury-focuses-on-Cosbys-star-witness-his-lawyers-face-heat-480939341.html

Tweeted by ABC12WJRT on April 26, 2018 at 5:50 PM

3

Trump put out a statement congratulating Pompeo, the only part that was interesting to me was that he's the 70th Secretary of State, meaning Tillerson was 69 and that seems like a wasted opportunity

puzzlepiece87

6:02 PM

@TimStone Yes, good.

Unionhawk

Bill Cosby guilty.

Tweeted by nycsouthpaw on April 26, 2018 at 5:52 PM

Unionhawk

6:30 PM

Via @pewresearch : Democrats used to be much more likely than Republicans to say they like elected officials who compromise with those on the other side. Now, no more. https://pewrsr.ch/2JxJaE2

Tweeted by CarrieNBCNews on April 26, 2018 at 6:08 PM

puzzlepiece87

6:41 PM

@Unionhawk This isn't as fun as Tim Stone's graph

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk I don't understand why it rose post-2015 🤔

WATCH LIVE: Local TV coverage as large fire engulfs oil refinery in Wisconsin; thousands of people being evacuated https://bnonews.com/site/index.php/2018/04/live-video/

Tweeted by BNONews on April 26, 2018 at 6:33 PM in reply to BNONews

camera pans to Pruitt "Oil is, actually, quite good for everyone and also the environment"

Fluttershy

@TimStone This is great. And also, honestly, really surprising to me.

Tim Stone

7:00 PM

@Fluttershy He apparently did not take it well

Which like, don't be a rapist next time idk

Fluttershy

Good riddance, imo.

Tim Stone

Indeed

Fluttershy

I really worried that he'd be found not guilty when I read that his confession was thrown out.

GodEmperorDune

7:15 PM

@TimStone grumbling ...nice

puzzlepiece87

(I'm an unashamed lover of Fallows/The Atlantic:) Americans don’t realize how fast the country is moving toward becoming a better version of itself.

Tim Stone

Michael Cohen invited Trump to his son's bar mitzvah. Trump showed up late, then insulted Cohen in a speech https://on.wsj.com/2FjX6ie

Tweeted by mccarthyryanj on April 26, 2018 at 7:18 PM

Unionhawk

as one does

Tim Stone

Can you imagine even considering defending someone who demeans you like that? Wouldn't be my choice, at least

Unionhawk

well this post certainly aged well

holy fuck

GodEmperorDune

7:26 PM

@TimStone clearly this makes you a "globalist cuck"

Tim Stone

A well-reasoned argument, fair

ToxicFrog

Not sure if this belongs here or in #the-bridge, but: twitter.com/madscientist212/status/989410452483395584?s=21

The Steam forums: full of calm, well-adjusted, intelligent people who are definitely not super mad.

Yuuki

7:56 PM

@TimStone Can you also imagine begging Trump to speak at your son's bar mitzvah?

Ave

@ToxicFrog steam forums are a mess in general

sharex' dev was complaining about the forum posts in our server a couple days ago

puzzlepiece87

lol wtf When you're promised a video about the a couple who takes care of disabled animals and they do do that but their animals all also get eaten or die of "heart attacks"

Warning: above video has very little caring for animals included - it's a pretty consistent stream of Pet name, disability, death

ToxicFrog

8:36 PM

@Ave yeah, I'm just

So many people spending so much time spectacularly melting the fuck down over character creation having [pronouns: he/she/they] instead of [gender: male/female]

Ave

unrelated vent, I hate how people treat me like a suicide hotline from time to time

puzzlepiece87

@Ave More context please?

Ave

I talked about this more in arqade discord

but

a lot of people come to me to talk about their problems

and honestly

quartata

@ToxicFrog wait, which game?

Ave

that causes a lot of mental distress of me

quartata

8:49 PM

I've been wanting a game to do that for a while

Ave

and today it reached a new level as someone went as far as sending imagery of their, uh, self harm attempts

and now I'm trying to help then while trying to not throw up.

because he just doesn't want to call local lifelines

ToxicFrog

Qu

@quartata battletech

Tim Stone

The White House released photos of Mike Pompeo’s meeting with Kim Jong Un.

Tweeted by hunterw on April 26, 2018 at 8:48 PM

Ave

those look too much like photoshops

Tim Stone

It does look rather awkward

Ryan forced House chaplain to resign http://hill.cm/Ds2XQt4

Tweeted by thehill on April 26, 2018 at 8:58 PM

From the best anyone can tell right now he was fired because in a prayer he suggested that uhhh screwing the poor further was actually bad?

Kevin van der Velden

9:04 PM

Finally taking seperation of church and government seriously... wait no of course not

Tim Stone

Which like 100% checks out on why Ryan would fire someone sooo

puzzlepiece87

@Ave Got it, thanks for explaining. That all seems very understandable. Sorry that you're being asked to help deal with a problem while being out of gas to do so. I hope the situation resolves in a way that helps preserve your mental health and those asking for help. Thanks for helping in the past.

Tim Stone

#BREAKING: Senate Ethics Committee publicly admonishes Menendez, says he broke federal law http://hill.cm/LRRH5v3

Tweeted by thehill on April 26, 2018 at 9:01 PM

sighs Which is why you should have just resigned, my dude

Kevin van der Velden

And now heavy fines and jail time for all parties involved yes?

Tim Stone

Looks like they're requiring him to repay the value of any gifts

Kevin van der Velden

9:08 PM

Yeah I wasn't expecting any actual punishment, that's only for poor people

Tim Stone

He was found not guilty in a corruption court trial, shockingly

Wipqozn

9:42 PM

Well

That worked out

Theatre is only half empty. 30 minutes before.

Standard showing really is objectively the best showing

I just realized what room I'm in

Too late to fix now

You know, since I'm on mobile and I'm lazy

Tim Stone

10:34 PM

New York governor issues cease-and-desist letter to ICE http://hill.cm/d5bHxl6

Tweeted by thehill on April 26, 2018 at 10:34 PM

He's coming for your heart @Unionhawk

Also a special master has been appointed in the Cohen case, former Manhattan federal court and current Bracewell attorney Barbara Jones

puzzlepiece87

@Unionhawk Free speech/hate speech/the ACLU position seen on a less emotionally-fraught issue

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone cynthia nixon has him crapping bricks to pull so far left

Tim Stone

11:08 PM

> WATCH: Conservative network anchor criticizes pro-Trump commentator for comparing refugees to Nazis

(It was Jeffrey Lord making the comparison, of course)

Unionhawk

11:18 PM

@puzzlepiece87 since the atlantic, I googled the author and hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha this is the "the atlantic should have kept kevin williamson" guy

If you're intending to tie these things to the ACLU's involvement in the permits for the events of A12, then frankly, I'm just going to point to the closer of the last time I ranted about how that was a bad call, in that, I'm not going to argue about whether or not that was a bad call.

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