This Is Fine

Memor-X

1:33 AM

Texas shooting victim 'rejected gunman's advances' http://bit.ly/2LinGN6

Tweeted by SBSNews on May 21, 2018 at 12:53 AM

yeh it was a week later after the rejection

GnomeSlice

3:21 AM

@Memor-X wtf

@Memor-X ugh. Elliot Rodger all over again

Memor-X

@GnomeSlice oh yeh, that happened

fredley

10:29 AM

@Memor-X This is the Mail reporting, I'm not going to even read it

Memor-X

11:45 AM

@fredley well i did try to find a SkyNews tweet on it since that's where i heard it first and the another page i found was anti-ad block

Tim Stone

1:15 PM

MORE: Sanctions on Iran will be strongest in history, Iran will 'be battling to keep its economy alive' - Pompeo - @ReutersWorld

Tweeted by Conflicts on May 21, 2018 at 1:12 PM in reply to Conflicts

Another broken economy is certainly what the Middle East needs for peace so glad to see we're on track for that one

Memor-X

@TimStone and just a couple months ago North Korea had the strongest sanctions

Tim Stone

Ex-convict coal exec to launch third-party run for West Virginia Senate after losing GOP primary http://hill.cm/1OXaZ4W

Tweeted by thehill on May 21, 2018 at 1:22 PM

It must be really weird to be rich and just not know when to stop

Unionhawk

lmao

Trillbilly Workers' Party (a podcast by a couple of leftist eastern kentucky guys) talked about a piece on the primaries that was like "people rejected Don's racism"

ignoring the fact that like, first of all the nominee is probably about the same just not as loud but didn't kill 29 people

quartata

1:35 PM

@TimStone this is great, it'll dilute the GOP vote

Tim Stone

That may actually be his intention

quartata

They won't be able to resist the siren call of "long loong will-kill-29-people-for-cash man"

Tim Stone

Normally you'd say "Surely he doesn't want Manchin to win?" but it's Manchin, he said he'd possibly vote for him, and he's petty as hell

quartata

@TimStone or he just wants to run more hashish mitch ads

Tim Stone

Pompeo has not outlined a strategy, but rather a grab bag of wishful thinking that can only be interpreted as a call for regime change in Iran.

Tweeted by MaloneySuzanne on May 21, 2018 at 1:24 PM

quartata

1:38 PM

great

Tim Stone

Yeah who could have foreseen that the CIA guy would hold a grudge and go along with the mustachioed sociopath's warlust for conflict with Iran?

quartata

...

lol

Tim Stone

WHOM AMONGST US?

Unionhawk

Question: would you consider "reading 800 pages of emails from the library administration that we got from an open records request at a bar for fun" to be "weird" or

Tim Stone

I've read legal opinions to pass the savings on to You so I mean idk

quartata

1:39 PM

@Unionhawk not in the slightest

Unionhawk

Good because it should be fun

with apparently such things as "sorry your story got leaked"

cc @Ash

I think we also put out an open records request on the selection of the latest board member

Yuuki

> “We’re not just gonna track ’em and watch ’em roam around our state,” Williams [Republican primary candidate in Georgia] says in a video announcing his tour. Williams pats the side of the bus as rock music plays in the background. “We’re gonna put ’em on this bus and send ’em home.” YouTube briefly labeled the video as hate speech and removed it, but then put it back up.

Tim Stone

The Hill seems to revel in having some of the most nonsensical op-ed pieces but Twitter has decided "Stopping Robert Mueller to protect us all" really takes the cake

quartata

@Yuuki the Georgia GOP primary is out of control

Yuuki

Incidentally, the back of the bus reads: "Danger! Murderers, rapists, kidnappers, child molesters, and others on board."

quartata

1:43 PM

I quote: "my chainsaw is ready to rip up some regulations"

Yuuki

Although it's a bit of a self-own since it's currently functioning as a campaign bus.

Tim Stone

@Yuuki I saw a picture of the bus the other day and that's some real commitment to being a shitbag

Yuuki

@TimStone Well, the current occupants are all part of Williams's campaign, so...

quartata

Pretty sure it was in response to Kemp doing the same thing with his pickup truck

Yuuki

Hey @fredley, want to trade buses?

quartata

1:45 PM

desert bus anyone

fredley

@Yuuki pls

Tim Stone

.@SecPompeo: As seen from the hijab protests, the brutal men of the regime seem to be particularly terrified by Iranian women who are demanding their rights. As human beings with inherent dignity & inalienable rights, the women of #Iran deserve same freedoms the men of Iran have. https://t.co/mqbE8vPwpv

Tweeted by StateDept on May 21, 2018 at 1:47 PM

Yuuki

Y'know, all these memes about "This is America" kinda serve to demonstrate its point.

← 1 message moved from The Bridge

Tim Stone

Okay, for starters, I assume it is not unusual but seems kind of weird that a government account would post comments from a government official ... talking at a conference hosted by the Heritage Foundation

Unionhawk

I mean

Tim Stone

1:53 PM

"lol independency - Citizens United"

Unionhawk

in our extremely normal world,

Tim Stone

But also

camera pans to Saudi Arabia

State Department oddly quiet on them arresting all those women activists huh

Unionhawk

None of this is odd.

Tim Stone

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Delivers Remarks at Compliance Week’s 2018 Annual Conference for Compliance and Risk Professionals https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-attorney-general-rod-rosenstein-delivers-remarks-compliance-week-s-2018-annual

Tweeted by TheJusticeDept on May 21, 2018 at 1:46 PM

user15026

@Unionhawk I would say fun but that's just me, is this related to your ongoing library DSA things?

Tim Stone

1:56 PM

See, that seems less unsavoury because Compliance Week has to be boring as hell

Unionhawk

@Ash Yep

Private Pansy

Less than 12 hours after our national newspaper published an article about this being in the third year Singapore has not had haze, our PSI reached 150 (unhealthy)

Unionhawk

We're also probably going to lend our expertise to Louisville since they also have some nonsense occurring (shifting services away from poorer parts of town)

Tim Stone

Mountain Families PAC -- mysterious super PAC that targeted Blankenship in WV GOP senate primary & was set up to avoid disclosing donors until after election -- filed monthly report & termination report w/ FEC. Funded by $1.4M from McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund.

Tweeted by DavidWright_CNN on May 21, 2018 at 1:46 PM

lmao

Yuuki

@TimStone Well, it'd be out-of-character for anyone going to Compliance Week to not comply with the law.

Tim Stone

1:58 PM

Noted Mountain Family Sheldon Adelson

tfw China's border with North Korea is porous

Unionhawk

@TimStone I mean, noted kentuckians Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell iirc

(Rand was a texan and Mitch I forget)

(I think)

(at least Don and Joe are WVians)

Tim Stone

BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING news:

Supreme Court holds 5-4 that employment agreements that bar class actions are enforceable.

Tweeted by SCOTUSblog on May 21, 2018 at 2:04 PM

🤷

quartata

k

can we honestly be surprised in 2018

Tim Stone

No

Private Pansy

Oh, agreements that ban class actions

I thought bar class was a thing

Tim Stone

2:09 PM

lol

Classic English

Private Pansy

Bartenders have to learn their trade somewhere, right?

Unionhawk

interesting that the guy who ruled that truckers must remain in life threatening situations if their employers say so ruled in favor of employers

:thinking:

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk counterpoint though

White House releases official statement calling MS-13 "animals" 10 times.

Tweeted by evanmcmurry on May 21, 2018 at 2:11 PM

Glad we're bringing Tweet Through It directly to press releases now

Unionhawk

woof

Yuuki

In other news, someone found unexploded ordinance in their server room.

quartata

2:12 PM

@TimStone I myself released an official statement calling @dril an animal 20 times, not impressive

@Yuuki already posted in the Bridge

can we just comment on the fact that it's exactly 10 times == trump wrote it

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk lol my dude wrote the opinion

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Question, what if someone cut the A/C to the Supreme Court Building in the middle of summer?

Ostensibly, the employers of the Supreme Court are the people of the US...

Tim Stone

It starts out with "Should employees and employers be allowed to agree that any disputes between them will be resolved through one-on-one arbitration?"

image of tipped scales "Is this a balanced negotiation?".meme

Unionhawk

love too handwave power dynamics

this is merely an agreement between two parties

Tim Stone

To be fair, I suppose, he admits that as a matter of policy the question is surely debatable

I did not even know we had a Federal Arbitration Act

Thanks Congress

GnomeSlice

2:37 PM

businessinsider.com/…

fredley

One Weird Trick To Getting Universal Healthcare That American Insurance Companies Don't Want You To Know

Tweeted by LadyBusiness_ on May 19, 2018 at 4:26 PM

GnomeSlice

May 2 at 15:42, by Ash

Please don't use this room for any tweet that is slightly political, mocking, etc. That's not really what it is here for.

fredley

:(

→ /rooms/751358/this-is-fine-memes

Tim Stone

That Is Fine, These Are Memes

Unionhawk

so are we going to have a 45 minute meta discussion here, or, can we just like, move on

fredley

2:42 PM

This Is Fine? No, this is Patrick/Sparta.

@Unionhawk like you even have to ask

GnomeSlice

@Unionhawk The discussion already seems to be over

Yuuki

Jeez, how much money is Monsanto pouring into Reddit?

For the past month or so, I've been seeing variations on the same promoted post about the California ruling on glyphosate labeling.

quartata

@Unionhawk I do think it's a discussion worth having since people seem to want a place for these but not here or the Bridge

Yuuki

I think we also need a discussion on general link posting etiquette.

We should figure out what we want to do with "funny" posts and also how we post links to foster discussion, since that's the intended point of this room.

Unionhawk

3:04 PM

My position is: I don't agree that that place should not be here but I recognize that I'm probably a minority in that and I recognize that it is not the current policy.

Thank you for reading my Ted talk

Tim Stone

I get the bit about "notable but irrelevant person on Twitter said something" being frustrating but also think topical but funny posts every now and then are better than complete gloom and doom srs bsns all day everyday 🤔

Unionhawk

We're definitely doomed, but it's extremely funny that we're doomed

Tim Stone

UK foreign secretary @BorisJohnson on Pompeo speech: "The prospect of a new jumbo Iran treaty is going to be very, very difficult...I don’t see that being very easy to achieve, in anything like a reasonable timetable."

Tweeted by julianborger on May 21, 2018 at 3:09 PM

"Brexit tho"

Urgh, admittedly I am torn on the SCOTUS ruling having read through it

Like, the problem is that Congress made this legal, and could easily take that back

And they should just do that

And the problem would be solved

Yuuki

Yeah, but Congress.

Unionhawk

love that we have one party interested in conserving the status quo

and also the republicans

Tim Stone

3:16 PM

Of course, it's just probably not particularly worthwhile to be angry with SCOTUS instead of angry at elected members and the system in general

Unionhawk

I mean

I can do both

Tim Stone

Fixing Congress would address like...everything, and it's the thing people arguably have the most control over

Just a lot of people don't care so we're actually screwed

Tim Stone

3:37 PM

(cancelling your subscription did not get any easier)

Unionhawk

borden entered a plea of guilty to the felony malicious wounding charge. his lawyer clarified that he admits guilt on the assault & battery unlawful wounding charges, but it’s an alford plea to the malicious wounding - “he did not have malice in his heart.”

Tweeted by socialistdogmom on May 21, 2018 at 3:23 PM in reply to socialistdogmom

judge moore disagreed — borden was across the street when the assault began. like ramos, borden ran to join a beating in progress. and unlike the two men already convicted of malicious wounding, borden struck harris with a weapon. the judge found him guilty of malicious wounding.

Tweeted by socialistdogmom on May 21, 2018 at 3:23 PM in reply to socialistdogmom

Tim Stone

lol, good

Asylum-seekers in Quebec are doing pretty well at becoming self-supporting. Of those who arrived last year and started getting social assistance, more than half were off it and paying taxes by the end of the year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/asylum-seekers-have-flooded-into-canada-the-government-is-putting-them-to-work/2018/05/20/5cd4e218-593b-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html

Tweeted by seleross on May 21, 2018 at 1:58 PM

Unionhawk

So from what I understand an Alford plea is a guilty plea that asserts innocence, but admits that the prosecution has enough evidence to convict

which ultimately doesn't matter at this point because the judge already said "yea guilty"

"sentencing in October"

Meanwhile

Court resumes this AM in the 2nd #J20 Trump inauguration protest mass-arrest trial. Defense is expected to cross-examine Officer Chatman, the first new witness who wasn’t also in the first trial. Chatman rode a motorcycle on Inauguration Day as part of a “Civil Disturbance Unit”

Tweeted by UR_Ninja on May 21, 2018 at 2:21 PM

Tim Stone

3:56 PM

It's interesting from a procedural perspective because different states interpret it as either a "no contest" plea or basically just as a whiny guilty plea. Virginia seems to be the latter, but I'm not sure

Huh, I was curious as to why WV called it a Kennedy plea and the reason is coincidentally relevant to current happenings

> The petitioner, John Kennedy, was indicted on a two count indictment. Petitioner and the prosecuting attorney entered into a plea agreement under which petitioner would plead guilty to delivery of marijuana in return for dismissal of a second charge, delivery of oxycodone

Unionhawk

not to be confused with Joe Kennedy, who would never do such things

puzzlepiece87

@Ash Thank you for working to up the level of discourse in the room!

@Unionhawk Though that guy may have picked up on random cop taking multiple photos of him. That's never a comfortable experience.

puzzlepiece87

4:15 PM

@quartata I'm excited for this too, keep WV blue again

@quartata Stardew Valley reference?

fredley

@puzzlepiece87 I think it was a Desert Bus refrance

puzzlepiece87

Oh oh that driving simulator game I haven't played

Where it won't drive in a straight line or whatever

So out of curiosity, what happened with Shog over the weekend? He came in and deleted 10 messages?

Did something get out of hand?

quartata

4:31 PM

not really

has nothing to do with this room in particular

puzzlepiece87

Ah okay, so nothing to worry about?

quartata

just a random person

puzzlepiece87

GettingNifty?

quartata

nah nothing to worry about. Shog likes us, by his own admission

although I suspect that's mostly because of @TimStone

puzzlepiece87

Some comments by GettingNifty was the only thing I saw that looked out of place from normal discussion, comments towards Ash about ad hominem attacks that didn't seem appropriate

Unionhawk

4:32 PM

likely

it wasn't like

mos eisley type danger

puzzlepiece87

Got it, that's good to know. I read the meta about Mos Eisley and C++ Lounge so I could know better what kind of behavior is now banned.

quartata

It really had nothing to do with this room, no point in speculating any further

if you're an RO you can read the deleted messages, prepare to be underwhelmed

Tim Stone

@quartata Yes (I have no idea what's going on but I like it)

fredley

@quartata not these, looks like there's a new CM delete mechanic

There's no old message stubs, just a message from shog's account with 10 messages deleted, so no way to view history

Unionhawk

new tech

oh man

it was all extremely boring

Mad Scientist

4:41 PM

@fredley I think the deleted messages are just further above, and that message was just shog manually notifying people that he deleted stuff

quartata

@fredley isn't that just the normal batch delete audit message?

fredley

Make Politics Boring Again

@quartata no idea

quartata

Cause I've seen it plenty of times from mods

It's like the move audit

@MadScientist indeed

fredley

12 messages deleted

Oh yeah

Tim Stone

5:04 PM

I wrote about how predatory rehab marketers use addiction support groups on Facebook to find targets https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17370066/facebook-addiction-support-groups-rehab-patient-brokering

Tweeted by biocuriosity on May 21, 2018 at 5:01 PM

fredley

@TimStone That is fucked

Tim Stone

That's...a long ass time ---> Burundi Just Voted To Allow Its President To Serve Until 2034 https://www.buzzfeed.com/tamerragriffin/burundi-referendum-results?utm_term=.glLawk13x via @tamerra_nikol

Tweeted by HayesBrown on May 21, 2018 at 5:14 PM

Fluttershy

5:50 PM

@Unionhawk This is exactly what an Alford plea is.

Unionhawk

6:48 PM

Oh wait I didn't read all of the email

Tim Stone

"One thing I know about @NASCAR," says @POTUS. "They stand for the playing of the National Anthem."

Tweeted by markknoller on May 21, 2018 at 6:36 PM

Unionhawk

@TimStone I just see reelection in 2018

Yuuki

(removed)

Unionhawk

with a highly clickbait email subject designed to get Draft Bernie guys excited

and then immediately slightly less excited

Tim Stone

Yeah I don't know how I misread that

Yuuki

6:49 PM

@TimStone That's a weird "one thing to know" about NASCAR.

Tim Stone

Totally my bad

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki I didn't read the article at all, I was shamelessly commenting based on Tim's headline :P

Yuuki

My assumption is that Trump doesn't know anything else about NASCAR.

Unionhawk

Honestly if it was meant to be clickbait to Draft Bernie guys and also people who are annoyed with Draft Bernie guys (hello) it fuckin worked

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki Firetruck.jpg

Unionhawk

6:51 PM

so mission accomplished

Mad Scientist

> President Donald Trump will ask his top Justice Department officials at a White House meeting later Monday to turn over to Congress and his own legal team all of the memos they have about an FBI informant who made contact with his 2016 campaign, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told POLITICO.

Unionhawk

get swiped directly into done

Mad Scientist

politico.com/story/2018/05/21/…

that sounds very far over any red line, if he asks for that information to be given to his lawyers as well

Yuuki

@MadScientist "We need to know who the informant is so we can preserve as much of their evidence as possible."

"And by 'preserve', we mean 'embalm' and by 'their evidence', we mean 'their body'."

"Because we're going to kill them. We're killing them, Joe."

Tim Stone

@MadScientist They don't even have clearance! Incredible that we're mixing scandals from multiple presidencies now

Less than a month to Trump-Kim summit, White House Communications Agency (WHCA) releases its “trip coin.” This is #74 of 250 made.

Tweeted by PeterAlexander on May 21, 2018 at 5:40 PM

Holy crap, literally making a coin labeling Kim Jong-Un Supreme Leader

Mad Scientist

7:02 PM

@TimStone wasn't the official title something like chairman?

Tim Stone

It's Complicated™, but it's a crazy thought that the US would about-face on this so easily

quartata

@TimStone what the fuck

Tim Stone

It reeks of desperation

Yuuki

@TimStone TFW the president really wants that nobel peace prize but he f--ked it up

Also, what's with that jagged line between Trump and Jong-Un?

Tim Stone

Not that we deserve to be on the high horse, granted, but the dude assassinated his brother and uncle

Yuuki

7:08 PM

With that and the seemingly confrontational look they're giving each other, it doesn't look a whole lot like peace talks.

puzzlepiece87

Bad sentence in a good Ben Wittes column: the FBI does not open investigations without a genuine reason to believe a crime may have been committed

Unionhawk

they hired Ben Garrison for the president's face

Yuuki

Straight line and both leaders looking at the viewer instead of at each other would've been a better design.

puzzlepiece87

Sure dude whatever like the 70s never happened and like it stopped there

Unionhawk

The FBI Is Good Actually

quartata

7:09 PM

@Yuuki lol

Tim Stone

@Yuuki They probably sampled part of the DMZ or something incredibly stupid like that

Yuuki

@quartata Hire me, WHCA.

Actually don't because I don't want to be arrested for conspiracy.

Among other things.

Also, are trip coins just a thing that every White House does?

Tim Stone

Ehh the whole challenge coin thing is weird generally imo

Yuuki

I figured it was a thing that every White House did because it'd be a weird tradition for Trump to start. Even if he likes putting his face and name on gold stuff.

Unionhawk

7:38 PM

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha Tesla Model 3 is a big "not recommend" from consumer reports and I wonder why

Holy shit

Remember: the model 3 is a luxury sedan, not, a truck

SaintWacko

Wow, yeah

That's not great

Tim Stone

7:56 PM

How's that even happen? 🤔

That Trump/Kim « coin » reminds me of my best souvenir ever, this heart-shaped lighter with GWB and Saddam (the fighter clicks up to reveal the flame).

Tweeted by OKnox on May 21, 2018 at 6:32 PM

lol wtf

quartata

I need this

Yuuki

@TimStone GWB looks like he's possessed by a demon.

quartata

@Yuuki its glorious

Yuuki

And Saddam looks like he's had too many bowls of mac and cheese.

GnomeSlice

8:38 PM

@TimStone wrong room

Ah you know what forget it

Yuuki

To be fair, it was in reference to an earlier post that was more ostensibly news.

Mad Scientist

The princes, the president and the fortune seekers

it's interesting that Broidy turns out to be deeply involved, as it makes the other conspiracy theory about the 1.6 million payment slightly more plausible

Unionhawk

[Court proceedings] Attorney: "Do you understand what is going on here?" 2 year old being held in a deportation centre: "Mama." This isn't a joke but an extract from a news report from Frankfurt, Germany. The judge approved the detention. I am filled with disgust and rage.

Tweeted by antifatwa on May 18, 2018 at 5:43 AM

Mad Scientist

8:59 PM

@Unionhawk the article is annoyingly vague about it, but I would interpret it as the mother being in the room with the child here, and the child being asked for formal reasons. Doesn't really matter for the general situation, but might explain the more ridiculous parts of this

Unionhawk

I'm not sure I'm willing to grant that benefit of the doubt here

But maybe

If as interpreted here, it would be in line with American policy

With at least one immigration judge treating detainees as young as 3 as if they were fully competent to defend themselves

Mad Scientist

as far as I read the original article, unaccompanied children will have child protective services in these cases. But in this case they were not alone

sueddeutsche.de/politik/…

this is the original article

it sounds like there is a general guideline to also hear the children, that probably wasn't designed to apply to very small children, but older minors

Unionhawk

9:19 PM

so our internal publication put out a call for submissions pitching on the question "What would a political revolution look like in the United States today?"

Which uhh

Extremely large question

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Hmm... midterms happen every two years so technically not a revolution...

... an election?

Tim Stone

Dana Baiocco defended a company that sold dangerous children’s toys containing lead paint. Now she’s the Trump administration’s nominee to regulate … wait for it … *THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN’S TOYS* as a @USCPSC commissioner. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/ethics-experts-trumps-pick-for-safety-commission-has-conflict-20171019.html

Tweeted by RonWyden on May 21, 2018 at 9:19 PM

Sure why not

Yuuki

Trump basically does a fuzzy search for all of his appointments.

if (person.history.contains('children's toys')) { hire(person); }

SaintWacko

@Yuuki Holy shit, you're right

Unionhawk

@Yuuki it also to me depends on how you define today

Because like obviously it's not today,

SaintWacko

9:27 PM

if (person.history.contains('epa')) { hire(person); }

Unionhawk

But like what does now mean

Current decade?

Longer?

Yuuki

A revolution happens once a year.

In fact, that's how "year" is defined.

Unionhawk

The end goal is pretty well decided among DSA, within a handful of parameters

How we get there is

More complicated

And ultimately more interesting

Mad Scientist

@TimStone WTF just isn't strong enough for this. Fucking LEAD, there's no reason at all to put that anywhere near children's toys.

Unionhawk

Or paint tbh

quartata

9:30 PM

But wait guys theres a way to justify this

Unionhawk

That's work that I want to start getting into with health justice

quartata

@RonWyden @USCPSC Yet you support big pharma putting poisons in vaccines and trying to make everyone take them. What kind of freedom is that?

Tweeted by LarryABaker4 on May 21, 2018 at 9:28 PM in reply to RonWyden

Would you rather have vaccines or lead paint, it's a choice

Unionhawk

"poisons" does a lot of work here

In an antivax direction

Tim Stone

Incidentally this reminds me that I learned that Ajit Pai worked as a counsel for Securus

(Thanks Ars)

Speaking of need for recusal and everything

Mad Scientist

@TimStone that's the ones that published all the location information for phones, or?

Yuuki

9:32 PM

@quartata Poe's Law too stronk

Tim Stone

@MadScientist It is!

quartata

Also just in general a shitty manifestation of the prison industry

Yuuki

@quartata That profile bio though. Who uses Twitter for dating?

quartata

It's great

@Yuuki wonder what kind of matches I'd get for a tweet like this

That would be interesting

Yuuki

Does a Bourne-again Christian practice martial arts every Sunday?

quartata

9:36 PM

no only uses Bourne-again shell

but seriously what kind of dating profile would you get out of a Weird Twitter account

mere algorithms cannot wring consistency from dril's prose

Tim Stone

@MadScientist Speaking of horrible things, Illinois officials request that you hold their beer

Illinois officials routinely keep inmates with disabilities in prison long after their release dates because of a lack of other housing options: https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/illinois-doc-keeps-people-with-disabilities-in-prison-beyond-release-dates/e595c391-f907-4a5e-ade2-ef902bc97b24

Tweeted by KeeganNYC on May 21, 2018 at 9:40 PM

quartata

@TimStone oh cool

great

like

Tim Stone

10:00 PM

Sure you know "democracy dies in darkness" but have you seen the totally metal tagline of the Aspen Daily News?

Tweeted by taylorkatebrown on May 21, 2018 at 4:15 PM

tbh that's much better

puzzlepiece87

WaPo > Aspen

Tim Stone

STATEMENT FROM @AmericanAir AFTER MONKEY ESCAPES ITS CAGE AT @SATairport.

Tweeted by LukeKENS5 on May 21, 2018 at 9:50 PM

puzzlepiece87

The Aspen one is too dark for me

Makes it sound like everyone's always conspiring to do crimes

Tim Stone

I mean judging by gestures towards everything they actually seem to be

White Collar Crime: There's a Ton of it

puzzlepiece87

Yes definitely but also I try to exclude the multitudinous reminders of that from taglines

Because I'm too soft for a hard world

SaintWacko

10:05 PM

@TimStone I love this

Tim Stone

Very Gir voice: Imma sing the doom song now

BREAKING: Federal Judge orders the State of Texas to: implement online voter registration with drivers' license transactions within 45 days in our #NVRA lawsuit. More details coming shortly! #txlege

Tweeted by TXCivilRights on May 21, 2018 at 6:42 PM

puzzlepiece87

@TimStone Is this good or bad?

It sounds good, but it also involves voting and IDs in the same sentence, so I'm wary.

Tim Stone

In Texas you are able to update driver's license information online (for some reason), and there was an expectation that your voting information would be updated as well. Texas refused to actually do this, telling people they weren't registered properly at the polls instead

Texas now must correct this, which is good

puzzlepiece87

Good!

Thanks for explaining

Yuuki

Oh yeah, primary runoff tomorrow.

I'm expecting Fletcher to win the Democratic nomination unfortunately.

Tim Stone

10:26 PM

This, at the top corner of the Drudge Report, links to an InfoWars report which cites a tweet from a random pro-Trump Twitter user who cites anonymous "sources" to make this claim. https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/998645820013535232

Tweeted by oliverdarcy on May 21, 2018 at 8:00 PM

I mean at that point why even bother citing anything

@TimStone Okay it's ruined now

murgatroid99

10:42 PM

@TimStone I think this is actually the opposite of news, if anything

Tim Stone

In a way, but Drudge talks to Trump on the regular, or at least did, which isn't very reassuring

Sean Spicer: Daily press briefings are "not worth" the hassle http://hill.cm/EI831Ww

Tweeted by thehill on May 21, 2018 at 10:49 PM

lol, imagine literally refusing to provide useful content and then throwing your hands up and saying "Wow this is pointless"

Unionhawk

@TimStone hell yeah

@TimStone I mean yes

Tim Stone

Exclusive: President Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, recommended appointing Stefan Halper, an academic and suspected FBI informant on the Trump campaign, to a senior role in the Trump administration, Axios has learned. https://www.axios.com/peter-navarro-trump-stefan-halper-fbi-informant-cc8a2601-dfe1-45a0-8899-62bfb7578599.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic

Tweeted by JimVandeHei on May 21, 2018 at 8:40 PM

> Texas newspaper files lawsuit claiming Farenthold was hired as lobbyist illegally

WSJ confirms Mother Jones report: Michael Cohen helped a major donor to Trump’s inauguration pitch a nuclear-power investment to the Qatari sovereign wealth fund at a meeting in April. https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-cohen-helped-trump-donor-seek-investment-from-qatar-fund-1526939401

Tweeted by kylegriffin1 on May 21, 2018 at 10:50 PM

It's news o'clock!

quartata

i mean whomst among us hasn;t sold a uranium or two

Memor-X

11:00 PM

@TimStone i want to star that

Tim Stone

Police in Missouri are supposed to distribute all revenue from seized property to the state’s public schools. So why have schools only seen a fraction of the money they’re entitled to? https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/uncle-sam-helping-missouri-cops-steal-states

Tweeted by ACLU on May 21, 2018 at 11:01 PM

"See asset forfeiture is fine because we're giving the money to the schools?"
"You are?"
"Well not uh...all of it"

Tim Stone

11:29 PM

Trump uses a W.H. cell phone that isn’t equipped with sophisticated security features designed to shield his communications, two senior admin officials tell Politico. Trump has gone as long as 5 months without having the phone checked by security experts. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/trump-phone-security-risk-hackers-601903

Tweeted by kylegriffin1 on May 21, 2018 at 11:15 PM

lol, that is just, holy shit

Like we knew about that before, but in light of the whole Michael Cohen thing you'd think!

Also, you know, foreign actors with malicious intent

Memor-X

@TimStone and how do we know that covfefe wasn't an injection attempt by a foreign actor

Tim Stone

.@GovChristie on Trump's latest move in Russia probe: "I've told him many times that there's no way to make an investigation like this shorter, but there's lots of ways to make it longer, and he's executed on a number of those ways to make it longer" @ university of chicago

Tweeted by tarapalmeri on May 21, 2018 at 9:20 PM

"As someone who knows a thing or two about making things worse..."

> Education Department probing whether Yale discriminates against men

> Yale Will Admit Women in 1969

quartata

11:44 PM

nnnnnnh

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