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12:02 AM

@GodEmperorDune good is a point of view

Protesters hold candlelight vigil for democracy outside White House: http://hill.cm/26LIW4z

Tweeted by thehill on July 19, 2018 at 11:19 PM

@GodEmperorDune s/experts/handlers

12:53 AM

"Trump invites Putin to Washington despite U.S. uproar over Helsinki summit" - reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia/…

'We have to start getting used to it': Record-breaking temperatures heating up the globe
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-heat-waves-1.4751633
Shared via the CBC News Android App

@Wipqozn yeh this explains everything. world's fucked so why bother trying to remain sane anymore

Time magazine merges Trump and Putin on latest cover http://hill.cm/5DL47hG

Tweeted by thehill on July 20, 2018 at 12:04 AM

2 days ago, by Wipqozn

This feels like the start of a love story

and the story continues with an illegitimate child born of 2 rival counties

1:15 AM

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper tells me he’s weighing a 2020 run and will decide “in the next month or so” whether to take proactive steps like early-state political travel and launching a PAC. He said he recently talked to Gary Hart about a presidential run.

Tweeted by ericbradner on July 19, 2018 at 10:51 PM

More white bois

We’re all understandably distracted by the president selling the country out to a foreign adversary, but @jacobsoboroff still paying attention to the family tragedies he has caused at home —> https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1020106905589514245

Tweeted by matthewamiller on July 20, 2018 at 1:16 AM

A government contractor clears out a Phoenix office building after @Reveal investigation into children being held there. And a lawmaker says she will propose new legislation to close loopholes. http://ow.ly/Jujl30l1L14

Tweeted by reveal on July 19, 2018 at 3:47 PM

Utility closets aren't technically cages taps head

EXCLUSIVE: “60 Minutes” executive producer Jeff Fager, one of TV’s most powerful men, hired a law firm to kill a #MeToo story, according to sources. Reporting by @lachcartwright: https://thebea.st/2uBbm3M

Tweeted by thedailybeast on July 20, 2018 at 1:13 AM

> “The pendulum has swung too far in the direction of freedom of the press” —Libby Locke

Ah yes that overreach of freedom stating things that happened

1:58 AM

@TimStone into the sea with ye

2:08 AM

Poll: Vast majority of Republicans approve of how Trump acted at Putin summit http://hill.cm/BjMO4n6

Tweeted by thehill on July 20, 2018 at 12:49 AM

"Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the C.I.A., I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people." https://nyti.ms/2zQ9yJ4

Tweeted by nytopinion on July 19, 2018 at 11:31 PM

Tweets are gonna be lit

> “I accept our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place,” Trump said, reading from a prepared statement on Tuesday.

> “Could be other people also. A lot of people out there,” he then added.

notice the difference

we all know that prepared statements are PR moves but you can really see that he actually doesn't believe in anything he is reading

2:35 AM

#BREAKING: NFL freezes policy barring players from protesting during anthem http://hill.cm/Q5IXZGa

Tweeted by thehill on July 20, 2018 at 2:34 AM

3:26 AM

“Across the country, the top-earning households took home 22 percent of all income in 2015, the latest year for which the IRS has data. That's just 1.9 percentage points lower than 1928's record share of 23.9 percent of income.” https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1020142012128014336

Tweeted by rtyson82 on July 20, 2018 at 3:21 AM

4:01 AM

I can’t believe this tweet is just hanging out there, it’s utterly fucking amazing https://twitter.com/torshin_ru/status/698742761160368128

Tweeted by KT_So_It_Goes on July 20, 2018 at 3:20 AM

lol come on

Torshin was just tweeting it all out there

4:27 AM

and for those of us who can't read Russian?

He basically catalogued the exact events that Butina is being charged with acting as an agent of the Russian government for

That specific tweet is saying she wrote to him telling him Trump was willing to cooperate with Russia

The father of two Parkland school shooting survivors was fatally shot at his own North Lauderdale convenience store during an armed robbery on Tuesday. #flapol https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Father-Of-Two-Parkland-School-Shooting-Survivors-Killed-After-North-Lauderdale-Robbery--488636961.html

Tweeted by shannonrwatts on July 20, 2018 at 3:25 AM

ffs :/

5:08 AM

@TimStone wtf

1 hour later…

6:12 AM

Page Six: After their interview on The View today, Whoopi Goldberg got into a fight backstage with Jeanine Pirro and said "Fuck you, get the fuck out of this building." https://pagesix.com/2018/07/19/whoopi-goldberg-and-jeanine-pirro-get-into-explosive-argument-at-the-view/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

Tweeted by maxwelltani on July 19, 2018 at 8:57 PM

6:43 AM

@GodEmperorDune yeh i saw that this morning on The Hill, don't know who Jeanine Pirro is or why Guinan is telling someone to get the fuck off the Enterprise

@Memor-X "judge jeanine" has a fox show where she spews the regular bullshit that trump likes to hear

@GodEmperorDune i assume it was to do with the Trump x Putin Sumit?

@Memor-X nah, more generic

(no fujoshi it's not a Yaoi con focused on Trump x Putin shipping)

she was promoting a book but one of the hosts (the show has like 5 hosts) was off and being filled in by an anti-trump person (ana navarro) so pirro was already pissed about that

then during the interview she accused goldberg of having "trump derangement syndrome", which is a thing that conservatives use to ignore any criticism of trump ("you can't possibly be right because you're just crazy"), goldberg said trump was encouraging hate and it kinda went off from there

6:51 AM

@GodEmperorDune yeh i know The View and at time i just imagine it's in Ten Forward and they all wear Star Fleet uniforms except Guinan. i think Roseanne Barr was a host before too

@GodEmperorDune i only heard of "trump derangement syndrome" recently......after Trump x Putin

@Memor-X nah they've been using it for months at least

@GodEmperorDune i think Australia News Media only picked up on it now because Trump used it in a recent tweet about ~~fake news~~ people complaining about his sumit

thats fair

4 hours later…

10:35 AM

@GodEmperorDune Just watched a bit of that clip, and damn, great job on whoopi

Her point about never seeing a president whip up such hate is just spot on

3 hours later…

1:33 PM

lmao: "In the late 1980s, prior to NAFTA, Smithfield had viewed North Carolina as a mini-Mexico inside the U.S."

2:14 PM

holy fuck: "The contents of the eventual order covered 1756 pages because the employer had violated so many laws, each one of which was investigated. For example, in section one of the document, the company was ordered to "cease and desist" a series of behaviors so lengthy that in listing them the NLRB judge exhausted the letters in the alphabet, starting over after "z" with "aa.""

New York's tax-collecting agency opens its own investigation of @realDonaldTrump's foundation -- separate from NY AG's probe -- Gov. Cuomo says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-yorks-tax-agency-opens-own-probe-of-trump-foundation/2018/07/19/5842919e-8bba-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html?utm_term=.907b6b945219

Tweeted by Fahrenthold on July 20, 2018 at 2:09 PM

lol Cuomo getting pressured and just going all in is great

> a: Threatening employees with plant closure if they select the Union as their collective bargaining agent
> x: Threatening employees that wages would be frozen if the Union were elected as the collective bargaining representative;
> y: Assaulting employees in retaliation for their union activities.
> z: Causing the arrest of employees in retaliation for their union activities.
> aa: Threatening violence in retaliation for employee activities.

The AG investigation is a civil matter but this would be a criminal investigation

@Unionhawk lol wtf

@TimStone This is from a UFCW election at the Smithfield plant in Tar Heel, NC in 1997, which got stalled out all the way to an appeals court in 2006 which, again, ruled in favor of the workers

because they were very clearly bringing in goons to attack people, and telling HR people to lie about termination reasons on affidavits (which came out in a sworn testimony to congress from a former HR manager)

Just, absolutely amazing

@TimStone sorry, typo, only 175 pages

2:30 PM

JFC The Federalist has a piece denouncing that Michael Anton article WaPo ran

lmao

Can you imagine getting morally outflanked by the publication that just ran "It's impossible to support the #MeToo movement and Planned Parenthood without being a massive hypocrite?"

That series of words doesn't make any sense and I do not want you to explain to me how they tried to make that make sense

I couldn't even bring myself to try and find out

Fox News' Kimberly Guilfoyle leaving the network to hit campaign trail with Donald Trump Jr. via @oliverdarcy http://money.cnn.com/2018/07/20/media/fox-news-kimberly-guilfoyle/index.html

Tweeted by Hadas_Gold on July 20, 2018 at 2:31 PM

I see Rosanne is YouTubing through it

The GOP gubernatorial candidate in PA said a woman asking him about climate change was “young and naive.” He has said human body heat and the Earth spiraling toward the sun are contributing to global warming. https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060089831

Tweeted by scottpwaldman on July 20, 2018 at 2:41 PM

> Wagner, standing before a small crowd, responded: "Rose, I appreciate you being here, but you're 18 years old; you know you're a little young and naive. Rose, I appreciate you being here, but here's the question: Are we here to elect a governor, or are we here to elect a scientist? I'm here to be the governor."

Actually sounds like you're here to be an asshole, buddy

2:47 PM

@TimStone Sounds like we should be attaching retrothrusters to the state of Pennsylvania to counteract Earth spiraling towards the sun.

We could put one right on top of the governor's house.

Also, we could get rid of Pennsylvania to save on body heat too.

Presumably by these metrics the Centralia fire is also contributing to global warming by being a huge freaking fire

Anyway hopefully the incumbent Dem governor wins reelection

Polls have it as a likely dem race I think

We found a way to get the paper out.

Tweeted by marshalltowntr on July 20, 2018 at 6:31 AM

INBOX: the White House press office highlights a compliment about Brett Kavanaugh's hair

Tweeted by Olivianuzzi on July 20, 2018 at 2:21 PM

> 'GREAT HAIR'
> Trump administration

🤔

@Unionhawk Context?

We don't have the full press release there but like

I'm getting the impression they just took stuff off of ratemyprofessor or something?

@Unionhawk Found it.

2:56 PM

@TimStone he's actually a 0.0 N/A 0 ratings on ratemyprofessor

Ah yeah I missed the leading part where the NYTimes did the lifting for them

Yaaaaay!: Uber drivers employees for unemployment purposes!

> In other words, three men—and possibly other "similarly situated" Uber drivers who had quit over low pay or who were deactivated from the Uber platform—can get paid.

> The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, in a statement, called the ruling a "landmark decision," arguing that it "could also be persuasive in other contexts where the employment status of Uber drivers is in question."

> "This decision gives drivers a safety net, and one that Uber has to pay for, challenging Uber's business model of low pay and lower retention. Uber treats drivers as if they are expendable, and up until now, it's never had to come at a risk or cost to the company," Bhairavi Desai, the group’s executive director, said in the same statement.

> Another driver, Jeffrey Shepherd, also made similar unemployment claims when he quit Uber in July 2016 after making below minimum wage.

This is fantastic news

Both for the drivers and because Uber will go bankrupt sooner

(I understand that if Uber goes bankrupt they won't have jobs with Uber anymore, but Uber is such a flaming piece of garbage I'd love to see the momentum used to reform taxi systems, etc. instead)

(Plus Lyft manages to be simply a normal profit-grubbing corporation rather than a flaming piece of garbage, which in 2018 is a big step up)

I wonder how much of that is due to Uber grabbing the lion's share of the attention though.

To be fair, I don't know too much about Lyft.

Other than "it's not Uber", which I guess is a pretty big plus.

3:14 PM

@puzzlepiece87 yep

What makes Uber worse than Lyft?

@SaintWacko internal company culture

plus their self driving cars were not designed to be safety first and they killed someone

@TimStone wow it's a mess

trying to reclaim the "rich person doing dumb an easily avoidable things" beat from elon

3:43 PM

Breaking News: President Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, secretly recorded Trump before the 2016 election discussing payments to a former Playboy model https://nyti.ms/2uDhrMV

Tweeted by nytimes on July 20, 2018 at 3:41 PM

lol

the playmate in question is karen mcdougal

and a nicer story

A little girl befriended a boy with autism in her swim class because she'd seen Julia, a nonverbal muppet on Sesame Street with autism, and wasn't judgmental or afraid on how to approach him. Representation matters. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-heartwarming-twitter-story-shows-the-power-of-representation-in-media_us_5b50f42fe4b0de86f48b2240?erq

Tweeted by ohheyjenna on July 20, 2018 at 2:30 PM

@GodEmperorDune that's not how I was expecting that sentence to end

@SaintWacko Sexual harassment and lack of promotions for women, condoned sex at company parties, killed someone while disregarding self-driving car safety, broke taxi/Lyft strike at airports when travel ban was first announced, CEO verbally assaulted driver while using service

There's more, left me find a compilation

@puzzlepiece87 Jesus, that's quite the list

And again, this is just how they are worse than Lyft, which also does routine bad stuff like classifying drivers as contractors, etc.

@puzzlepiece87 that intentional line crossing at JFK was just so blatant lol

"here we're turning off surge pricing for this location :)"

fuck off

3:50 PM

@puzzlepiece87 Damn, wow

Oh, I completely forgot repeatedly operating in cities that have banned them from operating, specifically designing cop detection software to circumvent said city crackdowns (is cop detection software really bad trolololol), still looking here....

Uber and Lyft have both resisted background checks and sexual assault prevention measures for drivers

Uber launched without tips (may not be bad in your opinion, that's kind of an American thing, but Lyft tried to be more driver-friendly and launched with tipping)

Oh dude, where is my brain this morning

UBER PAID $600M TO SOMEONE IN EXCHANGE FOR GOOGLE'S SELF-DRIVING IP

This company is complete scum, look at this stuff I'm bringing up as an afterthought

@puzzlepiece87 Oh, Lyft joined taxi companies in a strike when the travel ban was announced?

Oh gosh! Uber basically committed wage theft - they don't pay drivers based on rider fares. They show drivers one number and passengers another. Took awhile for passengers and drivers to communicate enough for that to come out.

@GodEmperorDune 😂

@Yuuki yup, and have generally tried to make nice with anti-Trumpers with ACLU donations, etc.

I mean, Lyft is still a company that is undercutting taxi companies by not paying its employees benefits and resists other measures to improve the safety of drivers and passengers. They're not good - they're just miles better than pond scum.

3:58 PM

Today, I'm releasing a searchable transcript of over 285,000 #Manafort text messages that #WikiLeaks wouldn't publish. You can find the what, why and where at: http://emma.best/2018/07/20/a-note-on-the-manafort-texts/

Tweeted by NatSecGeek on July 20, 2018 at 3:12 PM in reply to NatSecGeek

Uber tracked their customers' locations even after their rides had ended

Uber paid hackers a ransom and disclosed nothing to customers until it leaked

Uber created software that would operate fake Lyft passenger accounts to request and cancel rides in order to increase dissatisfaction among Lyft drivers

> Uber has devised a "clever and sophisticated" scheme in which it manipulates navigation data used to determine "upfront" rider fare prices while secretly short-changing the driver, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit against the ride-hailing app.

When a rider uses Uber's app to hail a ride, the fare the app immediately shows to the passenger is based on a slower and longer route compared to the one displayed to the driver. The software displays a quicker, shorter route for the driver. But the rider pays the higher fee, and the driver's commission is paid from the cheaper, faster…

> The Greyball software employs a dozen data points on a new user in a given market, including whether a rider's Uber app is opened repeatedly in or around municipal offices, which credit card is linked to the account, and any publicly available information about the new user on social media. If the data suggests the new user is a regulator in a market where Uber is not permitted, the company would present that user with false information about where Uber rides are. This includes showing ghost cars or no cars in the area.

Okay, I think you all get the point. I'm done. They're the worst.

Also, they're losing billions a year, have about 5 years of warchest remaining, and their long-term savior, self-driving cars, is on ice for them because again, they killed someone.

So I'd say they're close to deathwatch looking forward, and it will be well fing deserved.

Susan Fowler's famous Medium post on her sexual harassment experiences at Uber

so @puzzlepiece87, when will you tell us what you REALLY think of uber

Why's it called Uber again?

I mean, I understand Lyft's name.

@GodEmperorDune xD overall they're okay, you know?

@Yuuki probably ubermensch or some shit tbh

4:11 PM

Dem senator faces big-money challenge from GOP opponent, a former drug company exec http://hill.cm/AZtNOU5

Tweeted by thehill on July 20, 2018 at 4:10 PM

If he loses I will literally drive over there and throw him into the sea

Because he should have resigned

In-Box: BBC: New Misconduct Allegations President Trump.

Tweeted by yashar on July 20, 2018 at 4:02 PM

> Among the dysfunctional ice bureaucracy’s most egregious shortcomings: the wrongful arrest and incarceration of U.S. citizens and legal residents. Davino Watson was wrongfully imprisoned for 1,273 days. Sergey Mayorov was wrongfully imprisoned for 324 days.

Mark Lyttle was wrongfully imprisoned for 53 days, then wrongfully deported and “forced to cross the Mexican border on foot with only $3 in his pocket,” an ACLU summary of his ordeal alleges. “Lyttle endured 125 days wandering through Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, sleeping in streets and shelters, and even being imprison…

puzzlepiece87 says Abolish ICE

> “Victims include a landscaper snatched in a Home Depot parking lot and held for days despite his son’s attempts to show agents the man’s U.S. passport; a resident locked up for more than three years fighting deportation efforts after a federal agent mistook his father for someone who wasn’t a U.S. citizen; and a housekeeper mistakenly targeted twice, resulting in her spending a night in prison the second time even though her husband had brought her U.S. passport to a court hearing."

Abolish ICE Abolish ICE Abolish ICE

The GOP hasn't been the party of small government since like the 40s. Except Rand Paul. He still wants small government because otherwise, the fees on international shipping to Russia would be killer.

@TimStone this is new? i heard about this in 2016

4:28 PM

I don't know that the allegations are new but I'm not sure if we ever had a first-hand account from the women who were involved

> While the immediate stupefying effects of Musk’s worst tweets are now obvious, over time they serve to illuminate an important, larger truth: The captains of industry we venerate for their perceived brilliance are often huge dumbasses when it comes to anything other than accumulating a lot of money and turning it into more.

lmao

I'm convinced, never stop posting elon

@TimStone ah, got it

USA should really get better workers' rights laws.

@Dragonrage 100% agree

4:44 PM

Novichok victim Charlie Rowley released from UK hospital, days after partner died following exposure to nerve agent https://bbc.in/2NxsYVe

Tweeted by BBCBreaking on July 20, 2018 at 4:36 PM

Okay but like

Do we still not know how they came upon a vial of nerve agent?

good thing we have a party that represents the working class in this country :)

lol

consider that "lol" the end of this line of me saying things

← 5 messages moved from The Bridge

Rep. Jason Lewis calls our story on his "sluts" comments "pathetic" on Minnesota radio. "This is a contrived effort by CNN to bring down a congressman," he says. "CNN is the opposition research arm of the Democratic Party. This is not news. Says there are more stories coming

Tweeted by KFILE on July 20, 2018 at 4:50 PM

Uhh he knows there are more stories coming because everyone he knows sucks, orrr?

stares at camera :D

SCOOP: Kimberly Guilfoyle did not leave Fox News voluntarily per three sources familiar with the matter. A source close to Kimberly Guilfoyle and Don Jr. denies that she did not leave voluntarily. Her team is in separation negotiations now. Developing... http://bit.ly/2zVUKc5

Tweeted by yashar on July 20, 2018 at 4:51 PM

A source also tells our @DanaBashCNN & @GloriaBorger that upon learning of the tapes, Trump remarked, “I can’t believe Michael would do this to me." https://twitter.com/AnneClaireCNN/status/1020346435999600641

Tweeted by AlliemalCNN on July 20, 2018 at 4:47 PM

lol buddy

More context on the Toronto Police Board's push to get ShotSpotter, a gunshot-detecting web of microphones, from me and @mollyhayes They say the mics aren't there to catch human voices, but two people have been convicted due to ShotSpotter recordings. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-to-invest-in-more-camera-gun-shot-detectors/

Tweeted by jackhauen on July 20, 2018 at 2:41 PM

user15026

@TimStone "Scout Ruben of Showing Up for Racial Justice Toronto, who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they," noted at the police services board meeting that the motion included nothing about oversight. "

🤔

user15026

4:59 PM

I appreciate that they're trying to respect personal pronouns here and like...warn peopel when tehy use they instead of the expected he but eeeeeeeeeeeeeergh awkward

user15026

On top of that, I like that yeah, no oversight, and apparently a two-thirds failure rate?

I had to double-check and unless I'm missing something they had an entire 1 pronoun usage related to them

user15026

Yeah, I only saw the one

Which makes it even more unnecessary

user15026

so to make a whole thing out of it is just weird as heck

5:00 PM

Yeah :|

user15026

Why not just like...refer to them as they and be done without the like awkward "they prefer x pronoun" bit

user15026

(I hate the "prefers" part because only we get it, people who use he/she and look appropriately masc/femme never get it called a "preferred" thing)

user15026

(Sorry, this is a sore point for me, I'll step back)

Understandably so, it's just bleh :(

It is kind of a "the effort is, I mean, I guess, but?" thing, that hopefully we'll see improve and get incorporated into style guides and such

5:03 PM

BREAKING: PM Netanyahu arrives at IDF HQ in Tel Aviv for emergency meeting on the Gaza escalation

Tweeted by BarakRavid on July 20, 2018 at 4:51 PM

Trying to provoke another all-out war at this rate, god damnit :/

I'm honestly surprised IDF HQ is still in Tel Aviv

5:27 PM

It seems operationally wise

this is true

The greatest of ledes. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/20/confession-of-a-no-longer-russiagate-skeptic-219022

Tweeted by taragolshan on July 20, 2018 at 1:23 PM

lol

New Waterford boy turns lost wallet over to store staff

Some happy news for a change!

Also I love small town news

It's great

lol

Oh boy

Jul 11 at 20:26, by Tim Stone

But nah asserting the wrestlers are part of the deep state is a much better approach I'm sure sips coffee Let's see how this plays out

@Ash yay SURJ

5:42 PM

BREAKING: Ohio State says over 100 ex-students shared accounts of sexual misconduct by now-dead team doctor under investigation.

Tweeted by AP on July 20, 2018 at 5:07 PM

Narrator: It did not play out well

@TimStone who knew that apartheid would be so complicated?

5:53 PM

Oh no: Somebody made a jet-powered "Iron Man suit" and you can buy it for $600,000 https://trib.al/dyjsrnP

Tweeted by TheAVClub on July 20, 2018 at 5:51 PM

Surprisingly not Elon Musk

@TimStone inb4 he calls the creator a pedo

9 mins ago, by Tim Stone

Surprisingly not Elon Musk

@Yuuki i see what you did there

@GodEmperorDune :D

6:22 PM

I read Jeanine Pirro's new book and folks... yikes https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/20/jeanine-pirro-s-book-length-self-own/220748

Tweeted by SimonMaloy on July 20, 2018 at 6:19 PM in reply to SimonMaloy

> One worker, Keith Ludlum, wanted his job back. Ludlum had been fired from the Smithfield plant during the 1994 election, and had been taken out in handcuffs. ... By [2006] he had a new life and was making good money as a construction contractor - much better money than he would make walking back into nonunion Smithfield. But Ludlum had unfinished business at the plant. As he put it, "They pissed off the wrong motherfucker." After a pause, he added "Not sure I should be quoted saying that? ..."

@GodEmperorDune Sooo even better it turns out the tapes might actually be about them discussion sinking the National Enquirer story about this

injects it into his veins

@TimStone yep, saw a horse thread about it

user15026

horse thread?

@Ash twitter thread by the horse guy that is always doing political threads

@hoarsewhisperer is the account

6:27 PM

Shapley allegedly “interrupted witness interviews to try and identify whistleblowers in an ongoing investigation into top officials' mishandling of evidence in a contracting bribery case.” https://cnn.it/2zVn8uZ

Tweeted by W7VOA on July 20, 2018 at 6:27 PM

I will be discussing breaking news, important issues, and sharing more details about my conversation w/ Michael Cohen on #PoliticsNation w/ Al Sharpton on Sunday morning at 8am ET on MSNBC, be sure to tune in. Katy Tur, thanks for having me on this afternoon to talk Cohen & Trump

Tweeted by TheRevAl on July 20, 2018 at 6:18 PM

this dude rocks holy shit: "When I first when back in, there was no inside campaign, so we started it. ... First I figured out some relationships inside ... then I had to make the company react. ... I wrote Union Time across my hard hat. I had a mission. They had a mission. The next day, I did it on my raincoat, and they came after me for that. I had to do things so that the other workers could see me winning the battle... I had a federal court order and I knew the company had to be careful"

I'm sorry your what with who? Why did that even happen?

@Unionhawk i am missing some context for this

@GodEmperorDune this is from No Shortcuts, Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, quoting worker and organizer Keith Ludlum in the 2006 unionization effort of the Smithfield plant in Tar Heel, NC

@Unionhawk If you're enjoying a book it helps to tell us what the book is.

@Unionhawk Thanks!

6:31 PM

@puzzlepiece87 yeah, this

@Unionhawk thanks for clarifying

lol chapo

the cowards, lol

“I don’t focus on the things I can’t change and I can’t change a 70-year-old who is stuck in his way and knows what he wants,” said one GOP lawmaker. https://www.thedailybeast.com/you-are-either-with-trump-or-you-are-against-him-says-bannon-as-putin-mayhem-tests-presidents-grip-on-gop

Tweeted by samstein on July 20, 2018 at 6:34 PM

My dude you can absolutely change the outcome though that's your whole job

@TimStone seriously

Oh for the love of god

.@NRATV is now praising Switzerland(?!?!?!?) for "cultural homogeneity": https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/07/20/nratv-correspondent-pushes-white-nationalist-talking-point-praising-cultural-homogeneity-air/220749

Tweeted by cjcmichel on July 20, 2018 at 6:30 PM

"Look at all those white folk"
"Yeah but they come from very distinct cultures"
"I don't understand"

Next up the cultural homogeneity of Belgium!

The guys who have been tossing fish at Pike Place Market, made famous on every national TV Seattle sports broadcast ever, have bought the place. Amid a changing Seattle, the owner "went out of his way" to sell it to his employees, apparently for less https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/its-surreal-seattles-pike-place-fish-market-sold-to-fish-throwing-employees/

Tweeted by ByRosenberg on July 20, 2018 at 4:56 PM

6:43 PM

@TimStone Thank you for this good news

I know, I'm shocked as well. But it even has flying fish!

@TimStone hell yeah

@TimStone love to advocate for white supremacy and gun manufacturers

lol holy hell someone created a fake Twitter account for the dog-killing of the Huckabee children and the other larger adult son and former governor have already fallen for it

Billionaire Ken Langone on income inequality: 'My driver is very happy' https://yhoo.it/2uC0nXP by @aarthiswami

Tweeted by YahooFinance on July 20, 2018 at 6:15 PM

Does your driver have a driver tho?

@TimStone Needs a (salary) update though.

lol @ the comparison to Trump's driver's pay followed by the parenthetical about how the driver is suing Trump for unpaid wages

6:52 PM

look, say what you will about how me having a billion dollars is morally evil in and of itself, at least I don't also do literal wage theft too

ken,,, thanks

"Twitter is now an anger video game for many users. It is the only platform on which people feel free to say things they’d never say to someone’s face." @maggieNYT on why she's pulling back from Twitter is a must-read https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/sunday-review/maggie-haberman-twitter-donald-trump.html

Tweeted by elanazak on July 20, 2018 at 6:28 PM

I agree that there is toxicity everywhere but also maybe stopping elevating the Nazis will help?

@TimStone "i don't like how i get pushback from twitter now that the public editor is gone"

@TimStone bUt MuH aCcEsS jOuRnAlIsM

DCCC now asking me to sign a petition to block Putin from entering the United States and I don't think that's how this works y'all

CNN cameraman Dave Rust has 40 years in the field, and the storage units to prove it. Via @CJR https://www.cjr.org/b-roll/cnn-memorabilia.php

Tweeted by CNNPR on July 20, 2018 at 4:58 PM

#BREAKING: Kentucky reverses, will reinstate dental and vision benefits in Medicaid http://hill.cm/oKPwOGZ

Tweeted by thehill on July 20, 2018 at 7:07 PM

i just wanna say that being asked by a professional journalist to defend my campaign to drink the cursed bone drink trapped inside an ancient skeleton sarcophagus is probably the highlight of my career https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/20/people-want-to-drink-the-red-liquid-from-newly-opened-4000-year-old-sarcophagus-7740238/

Tweeted by innesmck on July 20, 2018 at 6:51 PM

7:08 PM

@TimStone i think @uni mentioned this earlier but no article, no inb4

lmfao

@GodEmperorDune Bevin!!! shakes fist

@TimStone i am so glad i followed this account

WhatsApp is starting a test to limit message forwarding. We believe this will help keep it the way it was designed to be – a private messaging app http://www.engadget.com/2018/07/20/whatsapp-forward-india/

Tweeted by facebook on July 20, 2018 at 2:33 PM

Hmm, curious on what this means but this could be a positive development

Ah, the article explains it, I thought the tweet was replying to the other article about the mob lynchings that resulted from the feature

@TimStone this after a lot of confusion of who was impacted by the change

since he only did the thing for people on the expansion

so then people on regular not-expanded medicaid would go to the dentist and get turned away

Let it never be said that he's not dumb as hell

7:15 PM

because why the fuck would you do that other than just to be needlessly cruel

mhmm

Like it was intentionally so, it's exactly the work requirement playbook

drop coverage for people by making retaining coverage confusing as shit

This isn't over

In solidarity with my colleague @maggieNYT - whom I believe is an absolutely stellar journalist, I too am pulling back from Twitter. She has it right - a bilious anger video game.

Tweeted by johnrobertsFox on July 20, 2018 at 7:16 PM

loool

gg Maggie

@TimStone this just makes me think that these journalists have never played a video game

because twitter is a damn shitty video game

and ironically, much less toxic than many online video games

I'm like 60% certain it's a representation of "kids these days" mentality.

7:25 PM

more like 69% certain, nice

I think the entire train of thought is just "it's on a computer"

But yeah, repping a network that gives Hannity and Tucker airtime in front of the President of the most powerful country in the world calling the press the enemy of the people and degrading your colleague right in front of you is a much more healthy place to be than Twitter 🙄

i kinda want to tell @maggieNYT to try gab instead

lol

Tell her to go to voat.

@TimStone Ah, well, I see

The Republican congressman who complained that he can’t call women “sluts” anymore also had thoughts about black people, such as: “When there is a predominantly black festival, there’s trouble.” https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/politics/kfile-jason-lewis-racial-comments/index.html

Tweeted by ddale8 on July 20, 2018 at 7:28 PM

7:38 PM

why's that jason

@TimStone whew lads

Kristin Davis, the Manhattan Madam who went to prison and was connected to Eliot Spitzer, has reportedly been subpoenaed by Robert Mueller, according to TMZ. Davis worked for former Trump aide Roger Stone for a decade. http://www.tmz.com/2018/07/20/manhattan-madam-kristin-davis-subpoenaed-robert-mueller-trump/

Tweeted by kylegriffin1 on July 20, 2018 at 7:35 PM

Sure why not it's a party

oh i only heard about the DC madam, not the manhattan madam

if they find enough people connected to both russia and donald trump, both trump and putin have to resign

it's in the constitution

I think just the entirety of everyone has to go to jail now I don't make the rules but hey what about prison reform?

7:43 PM

constitution says it has to happen nothing we can do

@Unionhawk ugh that meme about people thinking that if the president is impeached then VP and cabinet automatically resign too is v dumb

BREAKING: JAMES GUNN EXITS GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3. as old tweet resurface. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/james-gunn-exits-guardians-galaxy-vol-3-1128786

Tweeted by Borys_Kit on July 20, 2018 at 7:21 PM

@GodEmperorDune no that's more a theory that "well they're all corrupt in this way so logically pence is guilty of the same crimes"

which like probably but

that's looking at a broader context of crimes

so actually no definitely not

what the hell am I saying

@Unionhawk no it's based on a misread of the constitution which says "if any of these people are impeached, then they have to leave office immediately" and people can't handle the singular they

I've seen both then

7:45 PM

if you are removing people with impeachment, you need separate impeachment trials for each person

at least my version of what I've seen is almost how things work

it's closer to how things work

yeah that is closer to it

@GodEmperorDune What if you load the entire White House into the back of the Marshal of the Supreme Court's detention van?

@TimStone i actually haven't heard anything from the mensch lately

like the physical structure or

7:48 PM

a while ago she had some terfy take but that's it

@GodEmperorDune god, happy 1 year anniversary to the "bannon is getting the death penalty" tweet lol

@Unionhawk Yes

@TimStone Not sure what the link to #MeToo is... Bad parodies of trump are not sexual harassment...

Also, free advice to every famous person: once you hit it big, just delete all your social media accounts and start from scratch. Not that hard.

To me, this reads like being mad online about sexual harassment is not the same thing as doing sexual harassment nor is it making light of it.

@puzzlepiece87 there are services that will delete any tweets that are more than a month old

@GodEmperorDune I feel like everyone should do this on every social media platform

7:53 PM

@puzzlepiece87 yeah that is a "muddy the waters" kinda strategy that conservative media likes to do when they don't have a real argument to defend something

@GodEmperorDune There's just so few use cases where you're actually going to look back on the years ago post and be happy, you know?

wat (background)

@TimStone is this a more subtle elon thing?

Uhh which aspect?

where she called the conservative guy a pedo

ah reading the article it is way more wtf

7:57 PM

Ahh, yes

It is crazy pants, her comments are just gross but Caputo also definitely perjured himself, I'm just not sure what she's insinuating she could have on him

Into the sea with the lot of them!

ah no she wasn't accusing him of being a pedo but more that he would get tangled in the trump corruption stuff

Well, it's nice to know everyone is garbage.

agreed, into the sea

@GodEmperorDune Right, right, sorry. But she did go in on some nasty baseless stuff about his daughters

yeah that was pretty fuct

8:10 PM

BREAKING: 49 Senators introduce resolution authorizing the Senate Legal Counsel to intervene in Texas v. U.S. to defend the ACA and its pre-existing condition protections. Not a single Republican co-sponsored. https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HEN18788.pdf

Tweeted by TopherSpiro on July 19, 2018 at 5:51 PM

I didn't even realise this was allowed

I didn't even know the Senate as an entity had a lawyer

@maggieNYT @nytmike @mattapuzzo UPDATE to the update: Giuliani called back. He said Trump and Cohen were discussing buying the rights to McDougal’s story from the Enquirer, effectively a reimbursement. https://nyti.ms/2myEPqA

Tweeted by amyfiscus on July 20, 2018 at 8:00 PM in reply to amyfiscus

🤷

@Unionhawk Senate has a lawyer, House has a lawyer, and the White House has a lawyer.

Most government entities have a lawyer.

About the ones that I'm not sure have a lawyer are the judicial entities.

Ah yes, even the Supreme Court has a Legal Office.

@TimStone house republicans were allowed to sue, why shouldn't senate dems be allowed to defend?

but really yeah we should get back to the DOJ just defending all the laws like they are paid to do

@TimStone way to out a source

@GodEmperorDune (That was obviously stupid but) Weren't they suing the administration though? Here it'd be Congress stepping in for the Executive branch

@GodEmperorDune lol dead

Mattis: "Russia should suffer consequences for its aggressive, destabilizing behavior and its illegal occupation of Ukraine," U.S. defense secretary says in statement

Tweeted by LucasFoxNews on July 20, 2018 at 8:17 PM

Oh look they found Mattis

8:26 PM

"Russia should... but let's leave that for the Democrats to take care of." - Mattis, probably

I think he's saying it in response to the Pentagon committing a new $200 million to bolstering Ukraine defense

@TimStone yeah but it was a standing issue that the supreme court let stand

8:41 PM

I see the media has totally failed the grasp the brilliance of Trump's plan to lure Putin to Washington where he can be arrested and held accountable for his crimes.

Tweeted by JazzShaw on July 20, 2018 at 8:25 PM

@GodEmperorDune 5 dimensional chess

@GodEmperorDune Shame on the media, I was on it though

Honestly if that happens that would be pretty great. Until Russia declared war.

Oh oh then maybe the peace treaty can be that Russia gets Trump

And then Canada gets the USA, and everyone gets free poutine and maple syrup

See it's a master plan

And then we can bring Jack Layton back and appoint him the King of Canada

And then he can implement MMP and then retire to the moon

8:49 PM

its irrelevant, the king of skeletons, egypt will be our master soon

I'd be fine with that

@GodEmperorDune Nah based on the reports of non-descript bodies and red liquid I think they just unearthed Bannon's hot tub

At least I wouldn't need to worry about FPTP anymore

@Wipqozn Everyone can already get maple syrup for free from Canada anyway

@puzzlepiece87 I mean they paid for it with it jail time

8:52 PM

@TimStone please don't disparage the sacred bone juice

ADF (of gay wedding cake fame) asks SCOTUS to rule workers can be fired for being transgender. They say 6th Circuit was wrong to find Title VII covers gender identity. Cert petition: http://www.adfmedia.org/files/HarrisCertPetition.pdf My piece on 6th Circuit in March: https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/funeral-home-religious-title-vii

Tweeted by dominicholden on July 20, 2018 at 8:37 PM

> usurped the role of Congress

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