This Is Fine

12:21 AM

Eurydice Dixon memorial vandalised ahead of nationwide vigils http://bit.ly/2JKZPZl

Tweeted by SBSNews on June 17, 2018 at 9:50 PM

^ this is why people suck

woman is raped and murdered, a memorial is made by the public where her body was found, then some asswipes draw something obscene next to it in white paint as some news outlets are reporting the morning before vigils

Tim Stone

12:33 AM

wtf :/

@Unionhawk I mean it seems Sessions literally said it's a "zero tolerance" policy so oopside woopsie

Unionhawk

ah they're going with "smuggling a child"

nice

cool

we're not separating children from families, only from human traffickers

also everyone with a child is that

Tim Stone

Naturally

Unionhawk

sea

Tim Stone

12:50 AM

Texas Dem: I'd call Trump policy separating immigrant families un-American, but it's happening in America http://hill.cm/jGd7IIE

Tweeted by thehill on June 18, 2018 at 12:49 AM

Surprisingly not wrong

GodEmperorDune

1:40 AM

@Memor-X is this the lady that texted as she was in the park right before she got attacked?

After a comedy show?

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune don't know about the texting but i know she was coming back from a comedy show she was in before she was attacked

quartata

I think the Harry Potter Musk guy might be a good contender for Meltdown June

Unionhawk

I do not remember which guy here and do not remind or tell me thanks

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X yeah I think it’s the same person then. I got the story in snippets from twitter

quartata

@Unionhawk it's like all over my TL I don't know about yours

@TimStone figured I'd revisit this and throw in that she is now taking pictures of herself eating at Chick-Fil-A to own the libs

quartata

2:23 AM

Laura Bush, who rarely weighs into domestic politics, writes a Post op-ed begging the Trump administration to change its separation policy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/f2df517a-7287-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.5325be9fccd4

Tweeted by jdawsey1 on June 18, 2018 at 1:32 AM

noted leftist laura bush

GodEmperorDune

2:40 AM

@quartata everyone is to the left of stephen miller

although he just seems to get pleasure out of being a jerk to people so it might not even be a political stance with him

quartata

these fuckers

Learn more about HERO Child-Rescue Corps, a program for wounded, injured & ill Special Ops Forces to receive training in high-tech computer forensics & law enforcement skills, to assist federal agents in the fight against online child sexual exploitation https://www.ice.gov/hero

Tweeted by ICEgov on May 25, 2018 at 3:17 PM

don't look at the elbow

Unionhawk

YEP

GodEmperorDune

@quartata fucking iron cross

goddammit

Unionhawk

it's

amazing

quartata

THEY have to be doing it deliberately

GodEmperorDune

2:44 AM

DISBAND AND PROSECUTE WAR CRIMES

all these fuckers

quartata

"child rescue" nazi in thumbnail

ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Memor-X

yeh i was just about to ask if that cross was nazi related

quartata

it is

Unionhawk

I mean anyone in ICE is just fash automatically but it's nice of them to just make it unambiguous like this

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X it's not as prominent as the swastika but its a thing white supremacists and neo nazis leverage

quartata

2:45 AM

it's a nazi military insignia

GodEmperorDune

i remember when govt jobs were like "no tattoos allowed"

quartata

can we get a shoutout to the poor dog in the background also

GodEmperorDune

abolish ICE and free the doggos too

quartata

now that's a progressive platform

GodEmperorDune

doggos should not be pressed into cops

doggos just want to be fed and pet and get some belly rubs

they are good bois

Tim Stone

2:53 AM

Did uh, did the Nazis do the whole "Bloods vs Crips" South Park episode distinction when it came to disabling war injuries or did our ICE neo-nazi here have an unfortunate turn of events?

Memor-X

3:35 AM

20 injured in mass shooting at New Jersey art festival http://hill.cm/7p7qLU2

Tweeted by thehill on June 18, 2018 at 2:49 AM

Memor-X

5:41 AM

Giuliani breaks with Trump: Justice Dept IG report doesn't exonerate him http://hill.cm/lCYOO7p

Tweeted by thehill on June 18, 2018 at 4:21 AM

it's hard to tell who's side he is on

but atleast this time they didn't choose a photo which makes him look like a madman

GodEmperorDune

6:41 AM

@Memor-X he is on all the sides and none of the sides

Tim Stone

10:56 AM

BREAKING: Reports: Audi CEO detained in diesel emissions case. http://apne.ws/skEbl1s

Tweeted by AP on June 18, 2018 at 9:17 AM

Unionhawk

11:39 AM

@TimStone I mean neo nazi marine is also not new

Mad Scientist

1:04 PM

The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on June 18, 2018 at 1:02 PM

Unionhawk

Just, straight up 14 words shit

Mad Scientist

crime rate is actually down 10% in the last year in Germany

And the CSU being stupid isn't "the people of Germany turning against their leadership"

Unionhawk

the entire country is a no-go zone and it's a dang revolution against the merkel government

Kevin van der Velden

It's quite like the netherlands in that aspect

Unionhawk

meanwhile, ugh who gave jesse singal a cover story in a respected magazine

checks notes

oh naturally The Atlantic

Wipqozn

1:41 PM

The unspeakable cruelty of Trump’s child-migrant camps

> “This is not America,” Republican politicians like to say about the imprisoned children, “this is not who we are.” These statements ignore U.S. history – this was the United States for Indigenous children torn from their parents and sent to boarding schools, for African children sold into slavery, for Japanese families held in internment camps.

Nzall

@voxdotcom @Popehat The very concept of immigrants doing more illegal stuff is nonsensical if you think about it. If I were an immigrant, with my fingerprints, face and address on record, the last thing I'd do is commit a crime and throw away all the effort and money I invested in reaching it.

Tweeted by realnzall on June 18, 2018 at 1:42 PM in reply to voxdotcom

Wipqozn

@MadScientist but muh racism

Like I feel like politicians should be held legally responsible for straight up lying

Mad Scientist

and even at the higher levels, I doubt our crime rates are anywhere near comparable to the US

Wipqozn

I don't think any first world countries crime rates are comparable to the US

It's hard to commit with a country when prison is a for profit industry

Mad Scientist

hmm, murder rate is six times as high in the US as in Germany

Wipqozn

1:48 PM

but the refugees @MadScientist

THEY'RE RUINING GERMANY

but Trumptopia is perfect and pure

I wonder if Trump has ever commented on how germans used to do it better back in the 40s

"you know, that hitler guy, he's alright. when he speaks, his people stand at attention" ~ trump

Unionhawk

I mean this on its own is 14 words shit so he's there without the actual historical callback

"we must secure a future for our culture" - donald j trump 2018

This entire situation is overwhelming and I don't have any idea what our angle of attack is

Nzall

Like, if you're an immigrant, you already spent your life savings on a trafficker, risked your life in a rickety boat hoping you don't sink and drown, in the hopes of reaching a country you so desperately want to start a new life that you want to do all those things. Why would you want to throw away all that effort and money by commiting a crime against the country you want to start a new life in

Unionhawk

the republicans love this shit, either because they love this shit (Steve King, Steven Miller and friends), or because they want to use it as leverage for the rest of their fucking atrocious immigration agenda

so getting votes from those guys on a clean "hey don't fucking do this" bill is out

Wipqozn

@Nzall yeah but they're not white, therefore they must be bad people as far as Trump and his base is concerned.

Unionhawk

I'm not convinced retaking the house will stop this bleeding; it's insufficient, anyway. But it might be necessary

fredley

2:06 PM

Meanwhile, in Brexit: The Government recently announced a new budget for the NHS, which handily worked out at ~£350m per week. This, it turns out, is a smaller yoy increase than it has received historically to date, and the Government is having to raise taxes to fund it.

bbc.co.uk/news/health-44516123

Wipqozn

I, for one, am surprised

Unionhawk

obviously spending and outcome are two different things but in this case from what I understand it's related

puzzlepiece87

@Unionhawk Of course - way to call their bluff.

Unionhawk

ALSO apparently it's next week I just didn't know when the 24th was

Wipqozn

It's the day my friend returns from his Europe trip

Tim Stone

2:26 PM

Secretary Nielson is press statementing through it, apparently

Sec. Nielson just now: We do not have the luxury of pretending that all family units coming to this country are, in fact, a family.

Tweeted by samstein on June 18, 2018 at 2:12 PM

Gonna go out on a limb and suggest that under the circumstances you kind of do?

Like the alternative is what, they're literally trafficking children, who are distraught about being removed from their traffickers?

This just in from @davidbegnaud: Border Patrol has reached out to @cbsthismorning and said they are "very uncomfortable" with the use of the word cages. They say it's not inaccurate and added that they may be cages but people are not being treated like animals. https://t.co/0zSDqJszgK

Tweeted by CBSThisMorning on June 18, 2018 at 12:58 PM

"Look they are literally cages but that sounds messed up so like"

SCOTUS punts on partisan gerrymandering. Plaintiffs lose this round but live to fight another day; Court makes pretty clear that future claims must arise from specific individual districts rather than unfairness of plan as a whole

Tweeted by dale_e_ho on June 18, 2018 at 2:28 PM

SCOTUS shoots down Wisconsin gerrymandering case on the basis that the plaintiffs lack standing, remands to lower court. But since we haven't learned what a "narrow" ruling is from the other week this will end up stupid again

Unionhawk

@TimStone meanwhile this is also basically the line WaPo's fact check is going with

puzzlepiece87

@quartata @GodEmperorDune All the whooshing you hear is stuff going over my head, but just in case this isn't some extended joke, you're talking about the same facial recognition on drones Google company. IMO this was kind of a dumb tweet/probable joke that didn't make me laugh in general - ethics in tech is a serious issue but getting on a company for providing modern IT to a government agency is hating just to hate.

And again, I'm sure you all were doing that with a very high tongue-in-cheek score that I'm just not getting via text delivery.

quartata

@puzzlepiece87 Oh, sure. Except when said tech company proudly features it in a blog post

You'd think they would know better but guess not

Tim Stone

It's just ad copy for other government IT contracts which doesn't make it good but tbh if we defunded ICE the whole problem does solve itself

Unionhawk

it's true, they probably wouldn't host them for free

GodEmperorDune

2:46 PM

@puzzlepiece87 thing is, if all the tech companies were like "nope i'm not providing IT services until you stop doing craven things", then the agency would need to spend years of manpwoer building its own cloud and its own IT services. Thats time and money that doesn't get spent on separating children at the border or fewer agents to camp out courthouses and schools

do i think that all of the cloud providers are gonna grow a backbone and turn down a lucrative govt contract like this? nope, not without substantial public pressure

and/or internal pressure, like with google and maven

Unionhawk

yeah I think internal pressure is the key here

because we did see a victory in this sphere at google

Wipqozn

@TimStone land of the free

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk dammit neolibs

puzzlepiece87

@TimStone Love too say not animals when boss says in fact animals.

GodEmperorDune

@fredley isn't this that bus figure?

fredley

2:52 PM

@GodEmperorDune Yes

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune happy pride month here's a known transphobe with a cover story in the god damn atlantic on trans issues

puzzlepiece87

@quartata A blog post... from a year ago... being proud they're updating infrastructure. So there wasn't a joke that went over my head, you're serious about this?

Unionhawk

I mean ICE was fash a year ago too as it turns out

puzzlepiece87

@quartata Yes you think an IT company would know better than to be proud of performing infrastructure upgrades at scale. Seriously, was there some "Go ICE keep separating families" line in the blog post I was missing?

quartata

first off: a year ago? it's dated January 2018

puzzlepiece87

2:55 PM

@GodEmperorDune How can you even say this in a world where COBOL still exists? That's not even funny, they would just keep using the old systems.

GodEmperorDune

@puzzlepiece87 ICE was problematic then, doing the camping for brown people on their way to DACA appointments thing, even if they hadn't started separating families

@puzzlepiece87 then they're less efficient in doing all the other awful things

anyway if i was in marketing/PR, after the election i would've sent around some sort of DO NOT CONGRATULATE letter and tell people to not brag about govt contracts when a subtantial portion of the american populace is upset with the current govt

Tim Stone

BREAKING: Timbs v. Indiana, case on whether excessive fines clause is incorporated against the states, granted cert in SCOTUS!!!!! @IJ's sixth time at the Surpeme Court! http://ij.org/press-release/case-appealed-u-s-supreme-court-asks-50-states-must-comply-u-s-constitutions-excessive-fines-clause/

Tweeted by IJSanders on June 18, 2018 at 1:34 PM

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune I mean ultimately they know who their largest consumer base is so it doesn't fucking matter

Tim Stone

mmm not on board with IJ generally but this is a challenge to civil forfeiture so full steam ahead

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk he's done so much damage to trans people already

Unionhawk

2:57 PM

hey the government we did this other contract too hire us

is what they're going for here

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk yeah then brag about it in bid documents that no one except the agency reads

Mad Scientist

If President Obama (who got nowhere with North Korea and would have had to go to war with many millions of people being killed) had gotten along with North Korea and made the initial steps toward a deal that I have, the Fake News would have named him a national hero!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on June 18, 2018 at 2:57 PM

GodEmperorDune

@MadScientist bruh you would've rekt a north korea deal much like you rekt the iran deal and TPP

Unionhawk

@MadScientist I mean it is true, he has kind of accidentally stumbled on the correct foreign policy position here and now people are mad about it

Yuuki

I'm questioning how much of it is Trump accidentally peace in North Korea and how much of it is North and South Korea trying to figure stuff out and letting Trump take the credit.

GodEmperorDune

3:00 PM

though if we're going to blame N korea policy decisions on past admins, it goes back to clinton at least

Unionhawk

@Yuuki I mean both, honestly. At the end of the day South Korea doesn't have command of the US Army

but

Mad Scientist

nothing of substance has happened with North Korea yet

Unionhawk

that's about it

Tim Stone

I mean that's debatable, he's basically encouraging nuclear proliferation. "Not doing the war" is a good choice but he was the only one who was actually trying to do the war to begin with

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki and china stepping in a security guarantor instead of the US

Tim Stone

3:01 PM

(and the usual people who just like Doing Wars, I guess)

GodEmperorDune

@MadScientist they shut down that one testing site after they nuked it too much and the mountain collapsed

Unionhawk

then again afaik the military hasn't withdrawn yet, and there is a probably bipartisan bill out there preventing such a withdraw

so

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune (There's an article about how it's actually likely still very usable but I'm lazy)

puzzlepiece87

@MadScientist This and @Yuuki 's comment x1M

Unionhawk

the status quo of being everywhere forever will probably remain

GodEmperorDune

3:02 PM

also congrats on cooling tensions after you literally inflamed them last year

puzzlepiece87

Peace in North Korea = "Mission Accomplished" for laughable prematurity

@TimStone Exactly, he stopped himself from doing the war.

Unionhawk

I think the developments are promising even if this president's contributions to them are entirely accidental

but we'll see as it moves along

puzzlepiece87

@Unionhawk The real promising developments imo: NK messes up testing site, SK president initiates constructive talks.

Everything else is show

GodEmperorDune

@puzzlepiece87 i mean trump handed NK some great propaganda footage implying that NK is an equal partner to the US... intermingled flags, handshakes, that weird promo video with hotels on beaches, saluting the NK general, ....

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk I mean sort of, the North Koreans do this stuff all the time. The kicker is whether they stick with it longer than the minimum necessary to avoid an actual conflict

Yuuki

3:06 PM

@GodEmperorDune There was a weird promo with beach hotels?

Actually, I don't know why I'm questioning that.

Of course Trump did a weird promo for North Korean beach hotels.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki apparently trump did a promo video for how nice NK would be if it chose the path of peace, the beach hotels part was ad libbed

nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005950517/…

Yuuki

Trump is like this weird right-wing version of how the Republicans imagined Obama to be except he's actually the thing instead of mass hysteria.

Tim Stone

But he's definitely trying to get a hotel

Yuuki

It's at this point where I throw out "projection, amirite" but it's still really strange how accurate that is.

GodEmperorDune

@puzzlepiece87 yes they have entire depts for this kind of stuff, but the US doesn't need to make their job easier

in fact, previous admins' policies were more of the "let their dictatorship collapse under its own weight" instead of "help prop up the dictatorship"

Yuuki

3:12 PM

I mean, we're at a point where someone can say "Trump did this completely dumb thing" and I'll believe it without really looking at proof. Which is a problem except that he does those things.

This is the dumbest political existential crisis ever.

Tim Stone

The @latimes staff just received this letter from Patrick Soon-Shiong, confirming that the sale has closed (!). For the first time in 18 years, the Times will be locally owned.

Tweeted by laura_nelson on June 18, 2018 at 3:16 PM

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone i have high hopes for this

LATimes was getting weird and shitty with paywalls recently

Tim Stone

Rich people owning papers isn't good as a matter of course, but much better than frickin' tronc

GodEmperorDune

anything is better than tronc

Tim Stone

I'm still unable to come to terms with the fact that people gathered in a room and settled on renaming the company "tronc" to begin with

Yuuki

3:18 PM

I'm unsure whether that's better or worse than "trnc".

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone its like the name of a weird conglomerate in a saturday morning cartoon

Unionhawk

@TimStone this in front of the sheriff's association flag, which contains literal fasces

lol

the writers of the 2018th season of the simulation have jumped the dang shark here

Tim Stone

Does that mean the show's getting cancelled?

Mad Scientist

@TimStone is that a euphemism for nuclear war?

Tim Stone

Or something

Yuuki

3:32 PM

Giant Meteor is taking revenge after its failed 2016 presidential bid.

Unionhawk

another car attack in front of the sheriff's association thing

god dammit

1 injured

Tim Stone

4:54 PM

Oh they let Miller write the mailer today I guess

quartata

lmao

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone n-n-nuclear takes

Tim Stone

BREAKING: Trump announces he's directing Pentagon to create 'space force' as independent service branch.

Tweeted by AP on June 18, 2018 at 4:33 PM

In case that's not crazy enough for you,

Joseph Hagin, Trump's deputy chief of staff for operations, once worked in Libya with key backers of an alleged "sex cult," according to five sources who spoke with BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/trump-hagin-libya-igtet?utm_term=4ldqpgc&bftwnews#4ldqpgc

Tweeted by BuzzFeedNews on June 18, 2018 at 4:47 PM

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone i feel like he mentioned that he was gonna do this a long time ago

@TimStone extreme sigh

Tim Stone

He talked about it and it's one of those things that uhhh should probably require Congressional approval

GodEmperorDune

4:59 PM

also what is up with people with the middle name "whitehouse"

Tim Stone

Texas detention officer charged with "super aggravated sexual assault" of a 4-year-old girl after authorities say her mother, an undocumented immigrant, was being blackmailed to stay silent about the abuse — or face deportation. https://nbcnews.to/2yodDUa

Tweeted by NBCNews on June 18, 2018 at 2:39 PM

I have not clicked through to the story because honestly I am horrified to find out what super aggravated sexual assault is

Mad Scientist

@TimStone there's also that international agreement to not militarize space

Tim Stone

5:14 PM

Minor details

MASS GOV CHARLIE BAKER SUSPENDS DEPLOYMENT OF NAT'L GUARD TROOPS TO BORDER because "federal government’s current actions are resulting in the inhumane treatment of children," reports WGBH https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2018/06/18/baker-cancels-national-guard-deployment-to-border-citing-inhumane-treatment-of-children-and-families?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_term=20180618&utm_content=1599902545

Tweeted by jonallendc on June 18, 2018 at 5:12 PM

lol Manchin finally backed Feinstein's bill

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone what the fuck

PROSECUTE

Unionhawk

honestly there might be a synthesis here with space force

Tim Stone

John Legend rips Paul Ryan for Father's Day tweet: "Seriously, f-ck you" http://hill.cm/Hx1nHGB

Tweeted by thehill on June 18, 2018 at 5:19 PM

Unionhawk

thesis: donald trump's ICE is worse than ever (and they were also always bad)
antithesis: donald trump's Space Force is a thing
synthesis: use space force to launch ICE into the sun

I think I'm understanding dialectics right

Tim Stone

This isn't important but uh, if you're gonna screencap it right there, ???

GodEmperorDune

5:21 PM

@TimStone like why click through when the entire story is in the picture

Tim Stone

The Hill is terrible, I'm still confused why they were concerned about preserving access journalism when either way they'd still have access to everyone else's stories

Unfortunately this makes it incredibly convenient to use them as a link aggregator >_>

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone article doesn't go into "super aggravated" but implies that the sexual abuse was ongoing for months to years

Tim Stone

jfc :(

GodEmperorDune

actually not just implies, the sheriff that arrested this one says it flat out

Unionhawk

@TimStone "super aggrivated" in Texas is just "aggrivated" with a 25 year minimum instead of a 5

apparently

used if a victim is under six or for repeat offenders

Tim Stone

5:26 PM

I'm not sure what you do with people like that, tbh, because rehabilitation is good but that's just a whole other level of depravity

Unionhawk

right

It's an extremely hard problem to solve from a prison abolition standpoint

GodEmperorDune

especially threatening the mom with deportation if she went to the cops

Unionhawk

but like otoh I'm fairly willing to make exceptions

GodEmperorDune

hey look, plain old insider trading

Unionhawk

every ICE agent, some cops, this guy in particular, guys like him,

GodEmperorDune

5:28 PM

finally an old fashioned crime

Days after I sought comment from Wilbur Ross about his investment in a Kremlin-linked shipping firm, he shorted stock in the company, then sold it after my story with @sashachavkin came out, per @DanAlexander21 https://goo.gl/Mp5LFq

Tweeted by mmcintire on June 18, 2018 at 3:12 PM

Unionhawk

(values of "some" here in particular mean "Ray Tensing" and such)

Tim Stone

@TimStone Uhh so also from this story the guy he worked for supposedly met the alleged mastermind of the Benghazi attack?

Unionhawk

oh shit they met hillary clinton

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone if only the govt had investigated the benghazi incident

Tim Stone

OH COME ON

I just did this #spaceforce transcript. Notable: Gen. Dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs, was in the audience and vocalized his approval.

Tweeted by AaronMehta on June 18, 2018 at 5:20 PM

Read his statement

GodEmperorDune

5:32 PM

@TimStone we got you fam

jfc

Tim Stone

Like it seems incredibly unlikely that he meant something by it versus it just being word salad but uhhh just straight up sliding "Separate but Equal" in there

Oh good the whole world is on fire

BREAKING. #Italy Interior minister and LEAGUE leader Salvini: "I've asked for a census of the Roma community living in Italy. The irregular ones will be deported. However, we'll have to keep" in Italy "the Romas with Italian citizenship, unfortunately" (ANSA agency)

Tweeted by antoguerrera on June 18, 2018 at 3:02 PM

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone LEAGUE needs to get in the sea

also in @fredley ville

Holy shit. This guy, George Cottrell, was advertising money laundering services on the dark web. He was caught red-handed in a FBI sting. Guy is (was) top aide to the Brexit campaign leader, Nigel Farage. His super secret dark web username was "Banker". https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3011958-George-Cottrell-Indictment.html

Tweeted by VickerySec on June 17, 2018 at 9:41 PM

Tim Stone

lmao of course

GodEmperorDune

how do all these people who are THE WORST at crimes end up in positions of power?

also things are still fuct in yemen

and our buddies the saudis are deeply involved

BREAKING: The United Nations says over 25,000 people have fled the fighting at Yemen's port city of Hodeida.

Tweeted by AP on June 18, 2018 at 5:38 PM

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune All it takes is money and we barely prosecute white collar crimes until they're really dumb and blatant

Unionhawk

5:45 PM

lmao an anti-initiative 77 account is protected the day before the election

Tim Stone

White House called Pruitt plan to hold debate on climate change "out of control" http://hill.cm/mPpkOUd

Tweeted by thehill on June 18, 2018 at 5:43 PM

"Look Scott this is dumb even for us"

Unionhawk

no on 77 people have been casually threatening to poison people for about a week now

quartata

wait what prop is this

(ohio?)

Unionhawk

DC, initiative to eliminate tipped minimum wage and standardize into a regular rate

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk hell yeah

Unionhawk

5:47 PM

there's some astroturf being laid by the industry and a handful of workers who are like "this will confuse people and then they won't tip"

DAYS SINCE THE ASTROTURF @SAVEOURTIPS HAS GONE WITHOUT THREATENING TO POISON SOMEONE: 0️⃣

Tweeted by samknight_one on June 18, 2018 at 5:47 PM in reply to samknight_one

I hope these idiots lose in the biggest landslide to ever landslide

quartata

lmao jeez

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk I sure I know I make sure to ask about the pay structure of a restaurant's employees, the only way I'd know the difference, before tipping

Unionhawk

I mean ultimately with the tip pooling guidance from the feds this probably will just end up with more of that theft

but

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk protip, most people don't know what the tipping minimum wage is so how will they be confused?

Unionhawk

because the other key element, "the industry", is also at play here

quartata

5:53 PM

@samknight_one @saveourtips @willmenaker wait why do they have two separate accounts? is the locked account just to threaten people with food poisoning?

Tweeted by bainard on June 18, 2018 at 5:51 PM in reply to samknight_one

GodEmperorDune

@quartata hue

quartata

insanely effective

GodEmperorDune

unlike the casual food poisoning threats

Unionhawk

this would be an increase from $3.47+tips (but no less than $12.50 total) per hour, increasing to $5+tips at least $15 by 2020, to $12.50+tips increasing to $15+tips by 2020

GodEmperorDune

interesting thread, relevant to the news by the end

A long time ago when I was in college I was lucky enough to play in a great D&D campaign called (by the players, anyway) Catholic World. Eric was a superb GM. It was a low magic, high morals world. I don't think any of us ever scored a +1 weapon, but we knew right from wrong. 1/

Tweeted by BryantD on June 18, 2018 at 3:10 PM

Unionhawk

6:03 PM

federal tipped is $2.13+tips no less than $7.25

various other states have eliminated tipped minimum already, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska

almost Hawaii (tipped is $0.75 less than whatever the current is)

Tim Stone

6:29 PM

New: @KamalaHarris calls on @SecNielsen to resign.

Tweeted by sahilkapur on June 18, 2018 at 6:26 PM

Heh

Unionhawk

yas kween

GodEmperorDune

6:48 PM

good kamala, now move closer to abolish and prosecute ICE

Unionhawk

listen, you know her background, she was a prosecutor,

To be fair, no current lawmaker is pushing abolish

though for Harris to do such things 3 months after defending their existence would be highly opportunistic at best

GodEmperorDune

7:03 PM

@Unionhawk ehhhhhhh

(i've evolved, i didn't realize ICE was gonna take the babies, etc)

Unionhawk

That's fair, we are in a slightly different era

they aren't just raiding entire apartment buildings anymore

Unionhawk

7:41 PM

Current Affairs recently did a deep dive on where we're currently at, and the executive and legislative history of how we got here

quartata

8:02 PM

current affairs was the best follow I've ever made on the hellsite

Unionhawk

It's really good

Friendship ended with Jacobin now Current Affairs is my best friend

GodEmperorDune

There is audio from the concentration/internment camps and it is goddamn awful

https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy

Tweeted by brooklynmarie on June 18, 2018 at 8:12 PM

many Microsoft employees learned of the company's ICE partnership only recently, and dissent against the contract is growing https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-employees-up-in-arms-over-cloud-contract-with-1826927803 via @BryanDisagrees

Tweeted by kateconger on June 18, 2018 at 8:19 PM

Unionhawk

8:22 PM

hell yeah

Tim Stone

There is a shirtless dude across the street who just casually laid down across the sidewalk

The adjacent house has unleashed their yappy ass terriers

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone this is the content i expected when i joined TIF

Wipqozn

> The aunt said she worried that any attempt to intervene in her niece’s situation would put hers and her daughter’s asylum case at risk, particularly since the Trump administration overturned asylum protections for victims of gang and domestic violence.

Tim Stone

I have no idea what's going on but this is local news af

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn its a clusterfuck entirely of the trump admin's making

Wipqozn

8:33 PM

@GodEmperorDune A clusterfuck would imply this wasn't what they wanted all along

as far as the trump admin is concerned all these immigrants and asylum seekersare subhumans

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn its unclear if they wanted this level of blowback

Tim Stone

Sarah Sanders just now: "The briefing will be delayed until 5pm so that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen can join me and answer questions regarding immigration. Thank you for your patience." https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1008796014726303745

Tweeted by kaitlancollins on June 18, 2018 at 8:32 PM

@TimStone He was just picked up in a red Dodge Neon which made a u-turn in the middle of the street

Chris Christie was working the phone from an Amtrak Acela train to Washington this afternoon, bashing Gov. Phil Murphy and saying that he’s helping Senate President Steve Sweeney with his messaging, according to a source who sat near the former governor. https://newjerseyglobe.com/fl/source-overhears-christie-on-train-saying-hes-help-sweeney-with-budget/

Tweeted by wildstein on June 18, 2018 at 6:54 PM

Is it just me or like

By now

Should we not have all realised not to talk about shit like that in public?

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone especially christie

hasn't he been hot micced before?

Tim Stone

I mean he was hot beached I guess he just doesn't care

Clearing up some confusion here: @realDonaldTrump said today that he was directing DOD to establish a separate #SpaceForce. But the directive he signed directly thereafter, Space Policy Directive-3, included zero language about Space Force. So... ?

Tweeted by laraseligman on June 18, 2018 at 8:33 PM

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone i got you fam

puzzlepiece87

8:47 PM

@Wipqozn The word was animals

Tim Stone

A White House official tells @jeffzeleny that @PressSec didn't want to do the briefing today amid questions on child separation policy, so @SecNielsen is being flown in from New Orleans to take questions.

Tweeted by oliverdarcy on June 18, 2018 at 8:51 PM

mmmm then quit

Mad Scientist

@TimStone that’s going to be a train wreck anyway

Tim Stone

Read the full ICE statement regarding erroneous attacks on ICE employee for #military tattoo:

Tweeted by ICEgov on June 18, 2018 at 4:03 PM in reply to ICEgov

That's pretty messed up that they singled her out, I don't think she was the single source for this claim

Scoop: DEA chief tells staff he is stepping down, citing increasing challenges of temporary role https://wapo.st/2lg7HTN?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.9321d8876035

Tweeted by DevlinBarrett on June 18, 2018 at 8:57 PM

quartata

9:09 PM

who is xxxtentacion and why is everyone on my TL making fun of them

...googling has left me no less confused on the second point since apparently he just was shot

Yuuki

I have no idea but that name has weird connotations to my Anglo-centric ears.

quartata

rapper name evidently

Tim Stone

@quartata He assaulted his pregnant girlfriend so I guess Just Desserts? but idk not on my TL

Kirstjen Nielsen at the WH podium now:

Tweeted by RosieGray on June 18, 2018 at 9:13 PM

WHAT A LOVELY DAY EVERYONE

quartata

@TimStone wtf you're not following @bobby

Yuuki

@TimStone I'm not sure how I feel about this sentiment.

Tim Stone

9:16 PM

Yeah I don't know that I agree with it but I assume that's the source

Nielsen: “we are a country of compassion. We are a country of heart.”

Tweeted by RosieGray on June 18, 2018 at 9:16 PM

Somebody play her the tape

Right the hell now

Yuuki

@TimStone We are a country of the most useless part of Captain Planet?

I mean, given Houston and California, she should've gone with "We are a country of water and fire".

puzzlepiece87

@TimStone Amen

Mad Scientist

@TimStone I really hope this is going to blow up and change something. Trump is essentially immune against regular scandals, but this is something else.

Tim Stone

From the press conference with @SecNielsen just now. Q: "How is this not child abuse?" A: "Could you...be more specific?"

Tweeted by praddenkeefe on June 18, 2018 at 9:28 PM

quartata

lmfao

Tim Stone

9:31 PM

@MadScientist I have a feeling it will merely torpedo Nielsen but anything to stop this at this point

@TimStone Oh wow it's even worse in video form:

"How is this not child abuse?" DHS Sec. Neilsen: "Be more specific please. Enforcing the law?" https://abcn.ws/2M4rX63 https://t.co/2dCMwaz8fG

Tweeted by evanmcmurry on June 18, 2018 at 9:32 PM

American Academy of Pediatrics president: Trump family separation policy is "child abuse" http://hill.cm/l6qlrOs

Tweeted by thehill on June 18, 2018 at 9:37 PM

Ah, well, it seems maybe it is 🤷

quartata

@TimStone "enforcing the law" fuck off

Tim Stone

Fore was appointed by Trump to lead UNICEF.... https://twitter.com/unicefchief/status/1008755023701069825

Tweeted by MythiliSk on June 18, 2018 at 9:39 PM

Vogel612

@quartata this reads a bit crass from the list of "other rooms you're in". I wholeheartedly agree though.

Tim Stone

@quartata I don't expect that this will end well for her

This kind of smug depravity is why we don't hear from Stephen Miller directly very much

quartata

@Vogel612 i'm sorry, i've had to resort to dire measures here in 2018

my personal ethical standards have been greatly reduced

Mad Scientist

9:43 PM

@TimStone Trump had plenty of issues with her anyway, so I fully expect her to be sacrificed soon. But the deciding issue will be if Trump and the Republicans will manage to hide behind the pathetic "the democrats did it" excuse then

quartata

for instance, my Ethical Standards now say it is ok to say that cantaloupes are bad publicly on the internet

Tim Stone

“The president has said he doesn’t like this process,” but he has no choice, says Sarah Huckabee Sanders. This is abuser language.

Tweeted by andreagrimes on June 18, 2018 at 9:44 PM in reply to andreagrimes

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SaintWacko

9:56 PM

Yeah, the whole thing about him using separating children from their parents as a bargaining chip to try to get the Democrats to do what he wants has officially pushed him over the line from moronic to monstrous

Tim Stone

@quartata Oh no Logan Paul tweeted about this and the replies jfc

SaintWacko

I mean, that's movie villain shit! "Give me my wall or I'll keep stealing children!"

quartata

@TimStone I don't even want to know

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone i thought we threw him into the sea after the suicide forest thing

Tim Stone

Sanders turns to Newsmax reporter for lifeline under relentless Qs over immigration policies toward children. He challenges POTUS' truthfulness over untrue claims there's been a spike of violent crime in Germany under Merkel.

Tweeted by davidfolkenflik on June 18, 2018 at 9:46 PM

GodEmperorDune

9:58 PM

@TimStone DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune Incidentally this is what the replies are making a joke about

quartata

@GodEmperorDune actually I think that he got more fans from that

people fucking love this guy

Tim Stone

(asking if he's on a plane to go get pictures of the body)

SaintWacko

@TimStone Ooh, I couldn't even finish watching that

GodEmperorDune

@quartata i have to admit, his face is very punchable

Tim Stone

9:59 PM

@SaintWacko Makes me want to throw something

SaintWacko

Goddamn the entire fucking administration just lies so easily

It's become the new norm!

Tim Stone

.@PressSec: "People should be begging and banging down the doors of Congress and asking them to join with the president instead of fighting him. Instead of constantly criticizing him, why aren't they offering solutions?

Tweeted by evanmcmurry on June 18, 2018 at 9:58 PM

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