.@realDonaldTrump tells audience at #SBAGala their vote in 2018 is as important as 2016. Then he pauses and says he’s not sure he believes that. Who the [heck] wrote that line, he asks.
I mean yes absolutely but I wonder where they got the idea of financially and operationally supporting unsavoury dissident elements to create regional instability from
Yeah, I'm not sure how much difference it makes as far as most policy goes
However! Shell had McConnell's backing and was "a rising star," which should certainly worry incumbent Republicans
A party leader being ousted by someone who hadn't run for office before would be big news regardless
He's not a member of the KEA because he disagrees with the candidates NEA backs, but it's unclear what specifically (besides that they're typically Democrats)
> Brenda said he voted for Bevin for governor in 2015 because of his Christian and moral values, "but I won't again. He has been way too strident against teachers and I can't accept that."
Right, just not necessarily making Kentucky any more welcoming in any other regard, but a step is a step I suppose
Stacey Abrams won her primary, and while it does not seem likely she'd win the general in Georgia, she'd be the first black woman governor in US history if she did
Oh
She's actually the first black woman to have even won the primary
New: Musk’s tweet about losing stock options by unionizing could be grounds for Labor Board charges, former NLRB chair tells me: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/musk-s-stock-option-tweet-may-invite-u-s-labor-board-complaint “The employee is going to hear it as, ‘If I vote to unionize, stock options will no longer be an option.”’ https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808
Moser lost in Texas, which DCCC shenanigans aside she had picked up that campaign manager or whoever who was borderline Eric Garlanding so I'm not sure which outcome would have been better tbh
you may be familiar with some of his more recent work, such as claiming the nefarious off-shore ""WhoisGuard) was at the center of a massive international conspiracy to smear checks notes james comey
jesus god, laura moser in TX7 hired leah fucking mcelrath as her communications director https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/article/Top-Moser-communication-aide-called-out-for-12791464.php
It's not even that I have problems with Fletcher. I'm a little bitter over how Republican voters got us into this mess and they're still being courted for this midterm.
BREAKING: State Department issues health alert to U.S. citizens in China after government employee reported unusual symptoms. Embassy Beijing confirmed to @washingtonpost that diagnosis is mild traumatic brain injury. This will raise fears of Cuba-like attack. Story coming.
As part of support for the Contras, Oliver North's operation paid $3,000 a month to Luis Posada Carriles. A decade earlier, FBI and CIA had considerable evidence Carriles helped bomb a civilian airliner killing 73 people. https://www.apnews.com/abe917c4060044b3913a1ec208e5e97c
Fox host and Trump adviser Pet Hegseth on Kim Jong Un: "The guy who wants to meet with Dennis Rodman and loves NBA basketball and loves western pop culture, probably doesn't love being the guy that has to murder his people all day long. Probably wants normalization." https://t.co/YQAcY1BXh7
So Fox and Friends is trying to normalize Kim Jong-Un now and I'm not even really sure why?
But obviously that's a ludacris thing to say about a dude who murdered his uncle, killed some people with an anti-aircraft gun, and tricked some people under the guise of a "TV show" to assassinate his brother with VX
@quartata I wouldn't rule it out just yet, because I also believe Trump is willing to side-line all his advisers just to make it happen so he can say he did it
@TimStone They realized that if they want Trump to get a Peace Prize (because suck it, Obama), they actually need pull some weight because Trump sure as hell isn't good enough at his job to do it on his own.
People talk trash about Obama's Peace Prize but it's not like he nominated himself and he pretty much said during his speech that he didn't really deserve it.
And turning it down has other geopolitical implications.
@puzzlepiece87 They still clearly want to sell, the director may not know how to use a computer (a lot of responses either made by phone, intentionally omitted, or perhaps just never made). A few funny bits (someone emailing the genealogy and local history desk about concerns about the potential sale, and also with a genealogy question). We've got more records requests to make I think. More work. More 9am on a weekday board meetings (hopefully they don't move the one after this one too...)
I'm literally bringing my work laptop and logging on, claiming WFH that morning
If nothing else we did clearly make their lives more annoying, and have slowed down this particular front of gentrification
Accountability, mostly, we each get 3 minutes so worst case scenario we end up spending about 30 minutes of their time, but best case scenario is probably something that happened last time, where an unaffiliated member of the public demanded the board answer to the things we had said at the end of the meeting
This next one is going to be interesting, and I wonder if they're interpreting "must be physically present" in their new public participation guidelines to exclude reading of the staff engagement survey (since those are curated statements made by anonymous staff members, not us)
I also wonder how far they're going to let us push "civility" because "you should all resign" and "it's amazing you guys still have a job" is pretty civil imo but I imagine they aren't going to take that
plus the whole "physically present" multiplied by "they picked an inaccessible branch again" dynamic
@Unionhawk Yup, they're not making it easier for themselves there.
@Unionhawk Don't remember how much I've shared here but I recently wrapped up a 2 year term on a church board completely plagued with infighting and inability to live with anything besides 100% of my way, 0% of yours. Naturally, such attitudes were not very compatible with the accompanying frequent resignations calls, so I'll wonder with you and say that sounds darkly and very familiar.
It's sad, we were including "reinstate this person immediately" in all of ours, but then they recieved an adverse ruling from the equal opportunity of employment people so idk how we really want to play that
ICYMI from last night, from me & @lachlan: Part of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s pitch to potential clients in his shadow-lobbying push was simple:
Don’t talk to Corey Lewandowski, b/c he’s sketchy & doesn’t have the REAL ACCESS that Cohen claimed to have https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-cohens-to-potential-clients-stay-away-from-corey-lewandowski
Like there's some validity in the argument that politicians shouldn't be able to exclude constituents but also like Trump reads any replies on Twitter, it's just dumb
DOJ argues it would not violate the First Am. for Trump to block people from the @POTUS, @WhiteHouse or @realDonaldTrump Twitter accounts. https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/979094737301966848
Well golly gee thank goodness for that, now he can finally focus on bringing peace to the Middle East
Breaking News: NFL owners agreed to a new national anthem policy: Teams will be fined if players kneel on the field or sidelines, though players will be allowed to stay in the locker room if they choose. https://nyti.ms/2IGIP5E
you go down to SoCal and it,s it, just overun, i mean really covfefe, with 2 year olds snorting coke and flashing gang signs, it;s jst terrible terrible it's all jerry browns fault
Incidentaly I find "unaccompanied" to be very interestingly picked word. It seems innocent in a "oh parent left kid at home while making a quick shopping run" way when actually the parents are probably dead
Chris Stewart, Republican on House Intel, supports Dems also getting briefed by DOJ on FBI source. “Look, how can we say we want transparency and at the same time say we only want Republicans to see the information? ... Absolutely they should be invited,” he tells @wolfblitzer
Incidentally it is also Extremely Stupid that the "Trump blocked me on Twitter" case is still a thing and yet we're not having a far more important discussion about why the league can compel behaviour like this with fines
NEWS: Virginia Rep. Tom Garrett has abruptly parted with his chief of staff and is considering not seeking reelection in November, per 3 sources familiar
Yeah but they're going to let them stay in the locker room so it doesn't even make sense from the perspective of the people who think they should be forced or GIIIIIT OUT
I'm not confident that most people weren't already ignoring it except when someone asked specifically about it, did the NFL really suffer any negative impact outside of the imaginary ones peddled by pundits?
I mean of course they did because they probably were told to take the case in the first place and were like "mmm guess we gotta figure out how to win this shit" to which the answer was "Let's cheat"
GIULIANI responds to BBC Ukraine/Cohen story in interview with @businessinsider
"Payments can be proved pretty easily, so it would be silly to deny it if it happened. And he never registered as a foreign agent. And as far as I know, never acted as one."
https://read.bi/2GN0GSY
It's unclear why he's speaking on Cohen's behalf at all!
Like it would be easy enough to say that they had no interaction with Cohen on that matter but he goes a complete step further and suggests that Cohen is, in fact, quite innocent
Getting ugly... House Intel member @JoaquinCastrotx (D) walked up to committee chair @DevinNunes (R) on the House floor and said Dems want to attend DOJ briefing on the confidential FBI source. He says Nunes replied, "I"m not going to play that game." (reporting from @mkraju)
I mean, I'm the cynical one who thinks everyone's rational and lying their asses off, so I don't believe this is actually the case.
But say you're Nunes and you literally believe (instead of just cynically lie your ass off saying you believe) that there was a Democratic conspiracy to spy on the Trump campaign.
Then it may make sense that you're not going to let in your political opponents so they can further discredit and obstruct your truth-revealing investigation.
He's not going to play the game where they join the meeting, release materials, leak things, etc.
According to me, absolutely not.
I think he's definitely just making **** up as he goes along and is deeply, deeply in the bag for Trump for reasons that I assume will eventually be revealed as hopelessly corrupt and/or crimes.
Yeah, it just doesn't seem that likely he even had the opportunity to do something Really Bad since largely who has ever cared about Nunes before this?
I could be super duper wrong, but didn't he already commit an unofficial form of obstruction of justice?
Didn't he already go over to the White House (multiple times in the middle of the night?) to brief them on the House Intelligence committee investigation?
And he kept involving himself even when "recused"
I don't know if he had anything really bad to start, just wanted a powerful administration position, no idea what the motivation was, but he jumped in and jumped in quickly, and since then has been doing some very questionable stuff that I assume has turned into its own bad cycle for him.
This guy got beaten unconscious (!), taken to an ER (phew), awoke and checked whether the ER was in-network (?!), found out it was (phew), then got treated by an out-of-network surgeon ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), and ended up with a $8k bill. https://www.vox.com/2018/5/23/17353284/emergency-room-doctor-out-of-network
Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
@Memor-X I think a recent poll showed that about 65% of people think that Mueller's investigation hasn't turned up any evidence nor charged anyone with crimes.
@Yuuki but is has though right? like i seem to recall names like Manafort getting chraged. or maybe it was unrelated or that technically they havn't been charged with a crime
A site like what Elon is describing is inevitably going to be like that -- the voting will dictate the people that stick around, and thus drive the voting
it is, in essence, a test of who shows up first
and thus, as @Unionhawk pointed out, will be a reflection of Elon's fanbase
except only its most vile parts
It sounds great, sign me up
can I have my brain embalmed so that I can be uploaded to Pravda
> Going to create a site where voters can vote on what they like but actually the server admins manipulate the tallies to their own liking and ban people that vote against what they want. I'm going to call it Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del.
> The admins will be the Jovial Site Perusal Dudes, or the OGPU.
@Yuuki It does seem kind of weird that an ER would have a doctor not in the network the facility was in, but we also only have like two systems here so maybe I'm just not familiar with things at scale