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12:25 AM

Doesn't sound like Republicans for sure have the votes. Asked if the moderates were on board, Whip John Cornyn said "We're working through those issues."

Tweeted by pdmcleod on September 28, 2018 at 12:12 AM in reply to pdmcleod

I can't see them not getting the votes but hey, work at it

1 hour later…

1:28 AM

@TimStone Is the vote supposed to happen tonight?

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1:43 AM

I assume that today won't change anything because it never changes anything, we just get ripped raw and put on display and people go i believe you and then nothing changes.

user15026

He's probably going to get the thing even though he was a frothing angry entitled mess

@Wipqozn tomorrow morning

@Ash you talking about the hearing for Kavanaugh and Ford?

1:59 AM

> It finally just dawned on me: Brett Kavanaugh’s voice is Ted Cruz's face.

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@Memor-X nods

@Yuuki … 🤔 …Yes, actually

thoughts and prayers to the thousands of junk drawers suffering lead exposure, luckily no scout has ever remembered their neckerchief slide for any event ever https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1045493358335070214

Tweeted by davegershgorn on September 28, 2018 at 2:02 AM

RIP @Unionhawk

2:17 AM

lol

We never used the official version of that

2:35 AM

@Ash well from my understanding which is only watching Sky News when they had their US correspondent talking about it, the nomination and confirmation has nothing to do with the law or justice.

assuming that the position doesn't require one to have no convictions and those who are voting want to be assholes they could still vote him in even if he was found to be guilty

some probably want to delay until it's confirmed because they probably don't want to later deal with the fallout if Kavanaugh is found guilty later on

6 hours later…

Kevin van der Velden

8:14 AM

@Unionhawk perhaps a more accurate you would be: "abolish the current prison system"

2 hours later…

10:43 AM

"How dare you," screamed the accused man. "How dare you say such things about me." "You've been through so much," murmured the other men. "So much." "But is it true?" asked a woman. "How dangerous," the men warned, "If we asked that, we'd have to ask all the other men that, too."

Tweeted by JuliusGoat on September 28, 2018 at 10:24 AM in reply to JuliusGoat

2 hours later…

12:22 PM

‘My only sin is the extrajudicial killings,’ says #Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte https://buff.ly/2OWNxLE

Tweeted by SCMPNews on September 28, 2018 at 12:00 PM

I mean,

Wait what

"The only thing I did wrong was when I killed all those people. Is that really so bad? Who hasn't killed a bunch of people?"

whom amongst us has not on occasion engaged in the act of extrajudicial murder

Exactly. I do it every day in XCOM!

12:42 PM

In addition to the ABA’s call for a pause on the Kavanaugh nomination after previously rating him unanimously well-qualified, the Jesuit-produced Catholic magazine America on Thursday went further, calling for the Kavanaugh nomination to be withdrawn after prior endorsement. —> https://twitter.com/americamag/status/1045465487986036736

Tweeted by chrisgeidner on September 28, 2018 at 12:41 PM

Not that I think it'll matter at this point, but

Kavanaugh even cited the ABA endorsement yesterday and now they're like "Woah buddy hold on there"

12:55 PM

It's going to be 52-48

er, wait, 52-47

maybe 51-47

1:10 PM

@Unionhawk Wait who's missing?

@TimStone former senator john mccain

I thought what's his bucket was already there to replace him?

is he?

Yeah, it was a huge thing because Kyl was literally shepherding Kavanaugh through the process and now lol he gets to vote on him

As one does

It's pretty cool and totally normal that Lindsey Graham went full-on Trump personna just so the President would like him and let him assassinate foreign heads of state

I really hope that it does turn out that this election was disrupted by Russia, because that opens the door to an Annulment of everything that Trump has done

1:19 PM

lol

Although that would probably sound weird to the hundreds of international agreements the US violated

@GodEmperorDune, welp:

Brett Kavanaugh Has Become a Hero to the Incel Community https://www.thedailybeast.com/kavanaugh-has-become-a-hero-to-the-incel-community?ref=home by @willsommer

Tweeted by samstein on September 28, 2018 at 1:05 PM

@Wipqozn And sometimes, you kill aliens too!

Deep in a 500-page analysis, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: The planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees F by 2100. So rolling back climate U.S. regulations would hardly make a difference. w/⁦@eilperin⁩ ⁦@chriscmooney⁩ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-sees-a-7-degree-rise-in-global-temperatures-by-2100/2018/09/27/b9c6fada-bb45-11e8-bdc0-90f81cc58c5d_story.html

Tweeted by brady_dennis on September 28, 2018 at 1:15 PM

Ah

That's...okay

So we’ve moved on from “humans couldn’t cause climate change” to the “it’s too late to do anything about climate change” phase.

1:33 PM

@TimStone He only claimed he was a virgin, even. He's been seen with a GF by multiple fellow classmates

lol Jeff Flake is a "it was such a hard decision but of course I'm voting with my party" yes

1:49 PM

@Unionhawk ...which one is for and which one is against?

@TimStone Seems like an apt description

Motion to subpoena Mark Judge, supported by all Democrats on Senate judiciary committee, is defeated 10-11.

Tweeted by SabrinaSiddiqui on September 28, 2018 at 1:47 PM

A sexual assault survivor just confronted Jeff Flake (who just announced he's voting for Kavanaugh): "Don't look away from me! Look at me and tell me that it doesn't matter what happened to me, that you will let people like that go into the highest court of the land" https://t.co/Jix2BI090B

Tweeted by davidmackau on September 28, 2018 at 1:40 PM

...Damn :/

2:06 PM

Committee votes 11-8 (some Dems not voting out of protest) to hold 1:30 p.m. vote on Kavanaugh's nomination

Tweeted by seungminkim on September 28, 2018 at 1:48 PM

#Tsunami, up to 1.5 meters high, has hit two cities, sweeping homes away and families are missing, according to officials in #Indonesia. https://www.medcom.id/nasional/peristiwa/ob3VEdPN-gempa-lahirkan-tsunami-di-palu https://t.co/accNRnC2Hh

Tweeted by W7VOA on September 28, 2018 at 2:05 PM in reply to W7VOA

ughh, today is gonna suck

@TimStone well I think we all know where this is headed :/

Yeah, now we know when

@TimStone Congratulations on your protesting.

I mean, I doubt they had the votes to stop the vote, but still.

There's only 21 members, no Republicans were going to vote no

@Yuuki it would have been 11-10 at most

They were hoping Flake would vote against, but he didn't

2:14 PM

@Yuuki I think they only refused to vote on the when should vote vote

I have a vehement dislike of protesting via not voting.

@Yuuki Same

AFAIK though, this vote is just "should the committee vote on passing the nomination to the senate"

"I'm so unhappy about this decision that I'm going to avoid doing anything to oppose it"

E-mails Show That Republican Senate Staff Stymied a Kavanaugh Accuser’s Effort to Give Testimony https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/e-mails-show-republican-senate-staff-stymied-a-kavanaugh-accusers-effort-to-give-testimony

Tweeted by joshtpm on September 28, 2018 at 2:06 PM

2:17 PM

@SaintWacko I mean, even if the effort's futile, I feel like voting "no" is more of a protest than not voting at all.

2:38 PM

Lindsey Graham: "I know that I'm a single white male from South Carolina and I've been told I should shut up. Well, I'm not gonna shut up."

Tweeted by toddzwillich on September 28, 2018 at 2:34 PM

1. Buddy

2. Wait, Lindsey Graham isn't married?

You should shut up for various other reasons too tbh

south carolina isn't even on the list

@Yuuki Same here

@Nzall hasn't it been found that Russia did meddle in the election? that the probe is just trying to figure out and/or prove if the Trump Campaign was in on it

we're not going to be saved by some oh well technically he never was the real president nonsense

@Yuuki The idea of not voting instead of voting no is a protest against the process of voting, to indicate that in your opinion, the voting process is rigged and you disagree with how it was handled. Voting no has a different meaning where you effectively say "I do not think this is the right choice to make"

2:46 PM

There's not even a mechanism to roll anything back, that's all a complete fantasy.

@puzzlepiece87 there sorta is but it's not an instant undo but more a do everything again but in reverse (eg. next guy undoes everything Trump did like how Trump has been trying to undo everything Obama did)

and we, collectively, need to build to that, it's not going to just magically start happening

unless God comes down and go "hey America, you love me don't you, then stop this shit"

So a complete fantasy then :P

the norms fairy isn't going to install joe biden or whoever as president to make drone strikes and deportations still happen but quietly so that people with privilege don't have to think about it

2:50 PM

snopes.com/news/2017/09/27/presidential-election-do-over

@Nzall if i'm reading it right, all the options there require supermajorty congress and a Supreme Court who wont shoot it down which i assume if Kavanaugh gets in, who is Trump's pick, chances are it will

the right wing understands how to gain and wield power.

8 mins ago, by puzzlepiece87

So a complete fantasy then :P

they do it very well

Agreed - all the stuff we've been doing for Indivisible has basically been Tea Party of the left.

2:59 PM

@puzzlepiece87 we might as well go full fantasy, give Trump a OPed ring and then wait

@TimStone The only reason I know this is because of incredibly hypocritical "lefties" on Reddit.

The supreme court as it stands now is a highly antidemocratic institution anyway

@Memor-X Hahaha there we go. But he's already RealGollumTrump, so.

3:15 PM

Some Nazi fucks pepper sprayed attendees at the @dsa_louisville meeting tonight

Tweeted by kbloggins on September 28, 2018 at 3:11 AM

3:31 PM

@Unionhawk You guys really need better cops, Jesus.

@Unionhawk Gotta love the victim blaming here.

A+, demsocs.

3:44 PM

@Yuuki ?

@Unionhawk Did you not see the multitude of "you should've brought a gun" or "it's your fault for trusting the police" comments. Fair, don't trust the police, but maybe don't express that view with "it's your fault".

Oh, scrolling down. That makes sense

Dean Gerken Joins the ABA in Calling for Further Investigation.

Tweeted by YaleLawSch on September 28, 2018 at 3:34 PM

Imagine being such a shit person your university's like "mmmm"

user15026

Is it terrible of me that I just want the vote to be done so we all know he has the asshole seat and we can try to salvage things? Like...I feel like this is fucking inevitable.

It's inevitable

Flake's yes, Collins is already rationalizing to yes. Even if Murkowski votes no, it's 50-50, Pence comes in and pushes it through.

seriously doubt M will vote no

user15026

3:57 PM

Yeah, I just wanna be done, and I am not even American. Like dragging this out feels exhausting. I can't imagine how survivors in the US feel.

In the odd event Democrats retake the Senate we'll get a whole new saga in which we contemplate impeaching a sitting Justice

Good news though, Doug Jones is voting no

@TimStone no we won't lmao

Sure we will, it's a great talking point for 2020

They won't actually do anything, but whew will we talk about it

And everyone will continue being angry as hell! Very healthy

@Ash This probably isn't possible, but if it's possible for you to mentally write it off as "already confirmed for seat", then that would be statistically a safe thing to do.

This Ted Cruz speech keeps veering toward the cliff’s edge. Calls Kavanaugh “odd,” his penchant for hiring female clerks “unusual,” notes that sexual predators rarely offend just once, chides Democrats for not asking about other accusers... all in Kav’s defense.

Tweeted by nycsouthpaw on September 28, 2018 at 4:00 PM

"If he had killed some folk and scribbled down a coded note he'd be the perfect candidate, for me, definitely Not the Zodiac Killer"

lol Grassley told him to wrap it up

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4:02 PM

@puzzlepiece87 I have just been like "yep, he has it, let's process that" so far today from inside my blanket fort (because I am sick on top of it all hurray)

@TimStone It's almost as if he's neck-and-neck in a Senatorial race in Texas.

I don't know why Ted Cruz still wants to be a Senator. It's not like he does anything and he already has enough name recognition to not need national-level office to run for President.

@Ash Yeah, hopefully that works. It seems like the least bad alternative.

Ted Cruz says "frankly" he finds Kav's calendars "kind of odd" "Not many people do that."

Tweeted by KoltenParker on September 28, 2018 at 3:58 PM

"Doesn't he know better than to leave a paper trail of his crimes?"

Y'know, I had only a few years ago gotten over the whole "I want to live all over the place" young adult wanderlust and had decided that I would just vacation abroad a lot.

I realize now that that may have been a mistake.

2019 is gonna be lit when Kavanaugh gets wasted and starts picking on Gorsuch for being a nerd in high school and then RBG has to break it up by suplexing him over the bench

4:09 PM

Were they in school at (roughly) the same time?

Gorsuch graduated 2 years after him

NEW: Republicans on intelligence committee block release of Russia-probe interviews with @DanaRohrabacher, whom a source tells me talked about "highly concerning contacts" with Russians during 2016 campaign. https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-intel-gop-withholds-rohrabacher-and-wasserman-schultzs-russia-probe-transcripts

Tweeted by attackerman on September 28, 2018 at 4:02 PM

🙄

@TimStone So given high school, they were definitely at school at the same time.

Yeah

Actually kinda funny that Gorsuch graduated after Kavanaugh but got on the Supreme Court before him.

Kinda morbidly funny, but yeah.

@TimStone the problem(?) here is that once R.B.G. starts suplexing she's going to have to keep suplexing people forever

4:17 PM

Rumble in the Political Jungle

And while I'm ok with her finally ascending to her ultimate destiny as an immortal suplex elemental, doing it now and leaving another opening on the court seems unwise

4:47 PM

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BREAKING: Facebook hack results in the exposure of data on up to 50 million user accounts https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html

Tweeted by MikeIsaac on September 28, 2018 at 4:46 PM

BREAKING: Military official confirms that Marine F-35B fighter aircraft has crashed in Beaufort County, SC by MCAS Beaufort. Pilot is believed to have ejected, no update on pilot's status.

Tweeted by LMartinezABC on September 28, 2018 at 4:48 PM

5:13 PM

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:

Up to 50m Facebook accounts attacked - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45686890

Another story on it

I regret to inform you that there is additional Jeff Flake drama

rubs temples

> Friday, September 28: National Drink Beer Day 2018 in United States of America

it's almost poetic if you think about it

I would advise against thinking about it

5:29 PM

Uhh

looks out the window

Hello, entire police force

wyd

Most of them are returning to their cars now

Something brewing in Senate Judiciary committee. Dem staffers smiling. Sasse meeting with Whitehouse. Hatch and Graham look deeply upset. #StopKavanaugh

Tweeted by JordanUhl on September 28, 2018 at 5:33 PM

(meanwhile)

NEW: I spoke to the women who confronted Jeff Flake in that Capitol Hill elevator. w/ @NirajC https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/jeff-flake-protesters-kavanaugh.html

Tweeted by AsteadWesley on September 28, 2018 at 5:34 PM

As you might note the vote was supposed to be six minutes ago

@TimStone Is his last name actually Flake?

Yes, lol

That's kind of perfect

At least his name is accurate

The person who was in the (parked) car all the police were around has now driven away, weird

It's worth noting that even if the Judiciary Committee votes Kavanaugh down, McConnell could still call a floor vote. Presumably he wouldn't have the votes if the committee doesn't, given the close split in the Senate, but also surprised the committee isn't voting right now so idk

Sounds like there's a lot going on behind that door Cop just came by and told us which way to evacuate if something happens, which is unusual

Tweeted by timkmak on September 28, 2018 at 5:43 PM

5:45 PM

oh shit the democrats are going to pull a whichever country's opposition party threw a tear gas grenade on the floor

Grassley returning

Lost his keys

(I don't know what he was looking for but he did that "I'm old as hell and have forgotten where on my person I placed something" dance)

GOTTA HAVE A QUORUM, folks

Jeff Flake is calling for delayed floor vote for a week for an FBI investigation.

Tweeted by KFILE on September 28, 2018 at 5:51 PM

Now he's kissing Grassley's ass

Grassley is saying he advocates for Flake's call for the investigation, but he (correctly) says he can't guarantee it because only McConnell can

FWIW I was confused, the full floor vote isn't even tentatively scheduled until Tuesday

6:01 PM

I just started typing "statute of" into Google and one of the top suggestions is "statute of limitations on sexual assault maryland". I guess it's a question on a lot of people's minds

@TimStone explains the downvotes

seems like committee vote passed on party lines

Yes, there is an "informal understanding" that Flake would (presumably) vote no if the investigation wasn't allowed

Since this is Jeff Flake McConnell could easily call that bluff

hue i saw a great relevant joke

Grassley and Cornyn both said that they supported the idea though, so we'll have to see

we'll wait fot trump to find out and get mad online

6:08 PM

If you assume that the FBI won't be able to compel Judge's testimony and won't get much more out of the parties than we already have it might be worth doing for the sake of show, to secure Flake's vote definitively

McConnell had the floor vote for Tuesday, so moving it to Friday (or the following Tuesday? idk, they said "up to one week") is like 🤷

Sen. Graham: Somebody has got to explain that to Trump, I guess that is my job.

Tweeted by lrozen on September 28, 2018 at 6:08 PM

Yeah, so I think they'll do it

@TimStone yeah, my friends elsenet are already predicting that this will turn up a bunch of stuff that's "suspicious" but nothing that's "definite" and thus end up doing nothing but covering for his confirmation, especially if they only have a week

aiui, lying to the FBI is also a more serious offense than lying to a senate committee, so the FBI investigation might actually bear more fruit

Assuming they can convince Trump not to throw a hissy fit about it

Even Graham seems happy about this, because as @ToxicFrog said it provides a lot of cover without doing a lot

@ToxicFrog thats a week more of headlines about how terrible kavanaugh is, though

Well and that's the real kicker, lol

Because Avenatti is putting his client on air this weekend?

6:11 PM

@GodEmperorDune which will make no difference, because the Republicans do not remotely care about public opinion

and a week more of not being able to do things they want to get done before the midterms

@ToxicFrog it matters for the midterms, imo

And are incapable of feeling shame

So Trump may refuse just on that basis, and blow everything up, and then who knows

trump's teflon so far has been that there are so many scandals that nothing sticks in the news cycle long enough to filter down to people who don't hyperfocus on political news

@GodEmperorDune I also remember reading somewhere that there is a case coming for the court soon about some kind of frog which right now is 4-4

theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/…

6:13 PM

...some kind of frog?

looks around warily

when stuff sticks long enough in the political news cycle, it starts percolating down to non-political national news, then local news, then people actually hear about it

this is among the reasons why the "but her emails" was much worse for clinton than everything about trump

Per pool, @realDonaldTrump just said, “whatever they think is necessary” about a possible delay in a full Senate vote on Kavanaugh. But as @LindseyGrahamSC points out, “Somebody’s got to explain this to Trump,” referring to @JeffFlake’s call for an @FBI investigation.

Tweeted by weijia on September 28, 2018 at 6:10 PM

Counterpoint though they don't have to explain it because he doesn't care, they just have to get him to order it, which he will if they tell him it'll make him look good

@TimStone yep

@ToxicFrog Read the article: it's about how to interpret the word "habitat" when it comes to an animal and the Endangered Species Act. There are a number of critically endangered species that would benefit from having more land, but right now there's a discussion of whether a habitat is just where a species lives or what it needs to live

Aah

6:17 PM

as usual, science vs private profit

Trump on Ford: “She looks like a very fine woman. Very fine woman... a very credible witness.”

Tweeted by Acosta on September 28, 2018 at 6:16 PM

> (“I disagree with Brett Kavanaugh pretty much every time he opens his mouth,” Snape told me.)

now i know this isn't severus snape. but lol nonetheless

I mean probably same

I guess we agree on beer

but maybe not even

He calls them "skis" so let's hope not or I'll disown you

Oh, welp

6:19 PM

@TimStone i thought he claimed that "skis" was the nickname of a friend of his

So much for my moment of bipartisanship

@GodEmperorDune He probably did but none of us are that clueless

Apparently, in his agenda, Kavanaughty had a statement about drinking a beer through his ass

much like the devil's 3 sided shape that definitely has nothing to do with sex

or in his yearbook or whatever

6:20 PM

So now we get to see if McConnell will honour the agreement!

FUN TIMES

he won't

@Nzall tbh this is a thing that heavy alcohol users do to pass a breathalyzer

like, in his yearbook quotes, he asks "have you boofed yet?" and he insists that he's talking about flatulence. Yes, it's quit common to ask your fellow alumni whether they've farted yet

he also said that "ralphing" had nothing to do with vomiting

Lawmakers fail to pass annual intel bill after key Dem objects http://hill.cm/zOEN8sg

Tweeted by thehill on September 28, 2018 at 6:22 PM

6:23 PM

@TimStone yeah, my boi

before 2016 i have to confess i thought schiff was a bit of a tool for being on the intelligence committee instead of like ways and means.... i have since revised that opinion

Yeah, I'm curious what the objection was over, and assume it has something to do with Nunes

MURKOWSKI tells me she spoke with Flake before he made his decision in Judiciary committee and they are in agreement. She says she supports having an FBI investigation that is “limited in scope”

Tweeted by byrdinator on September 28, 2018 at 6:31 PM

@TimStone to the surprise of no one

If that's the case and if Collins was privy I suspect McConnell will allow it, complain how it's the Democrats' fault, and then everyone will use it as coverage to vote yes a week later

@TimStone if there is nothing conclusive, it probably provides enough cover for them to vote yet. But there's still plenty of time for worse stuff to come out

If more stuff comes out, or the FBI turns up something specific, it could also mean a lot more cover for Republican defectors

It could, but I doubt they'll get much more in that timeframe

6:35 PM

did the FBI ever figure out what kavanaugh's several hundred thousand in recently paid off debts were?

They talk about making the investigation "limited in scope" and I suspect it'll be tailored to do that

@GodEmperorDune Hahah don't be silly

@GodEmperorDune if that turns out to be connected to similar incidents, this could be devastating. But I doubt they'll look into it

@TimStone i have people in my TL saying they were russian payoffs but that smells too louise menschy too me

Oh, no way

I'd be much more inclined to just think the Mercers fronted him the money or something

yeah that makes much more sense

6:39 PM

Paying off other people he's sexually assaulted?

It's still pretty crazy though because no one is disputing he had tens of thousands of dollars in debt

Even if he "bought tickets for friends" or whatever nonsense excuse there was, uhhh

What kind of person puts tens of thousands of dollars on their credit card and also has the sound judgment to sit on the Court? 🤔

i've heard "gambling while blackout drunk"

@Yuuki that is the most likely version, though all possible options sound rather insane

or given how much drinks cost in DC, maybe just getting drunk

@GodEmperorDune Which is like "oh, now we're dealing with two out of control vices"?

6:42 PM

People can get into bad financial situations in all sorts of ways and that isn't automatically a judgment of character but if you were in that kind of trouble recently idk maybe taking on the caseload of the SCOTUS isn't the best idea right now

I'm not holding my breath but if the Democrats ever manage a majority in Congress, hopefully this whole debacle has laid some pretty good groundwork to impeaching Kavanaugh.

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But I doubt it will happen.

Who the fuck would take up a mortgage to pay for baseball tickets for friends? I mean, I could imagine something like him wanting to appear richer than he actually is to his friends, but even then it's far fetched

We will start next week as we started this one: expecting a Rosenstein meeting and a Kavanaugh vote.

Tweeted by spettypi on September 28, 2018 at 6:32 PM

6:44 PM

> Data from a Vox analysis of a Bloomberg transcript of the hearing, via the Washington Post

launches himself into the sun

@murgatroid99 yeah i thought that was fun

That data really took quite a journey to get there

@murgatroid99 its the journalism equivalent of MVC

god dammit

6:47 PM

@GodEmperorDune huh

I think pro-Kavanaugh folks dumping on Flake are seriously underestimating how savvy a move that was. He basically neutered Ds' central talking point. If the FBI finds nothing new (as is likely), Collins, Murkowski, and Manchin are unquestionably more likely to vote yes.

Tweeted by lachlan on September 28, 2018 at 6:37 PM

lol they're attacking Flake? something something emotions

It seems very unlikely Kavanaugh will somehow end up in more danger than he's already been, so 🤷

@murgatroid99 ok, model-view-viewmodel might be more accurate. bloomberg held the data, vox adapted it for presentation, then wapo presented it

I mean, I certainly hope so regardless, but I'm not holding my breath

Manchin releases statement also endorsing Flake and Murkowski’s call for a one week delay for FBI to do probe

Tweeted by seungminkim on September 28, 2018 at 6:50 PM

Ahhh Manchin

@TimStone It really provides cover both ways. If nothing new comes out of it, they can say that they did their due diligence and vote yet. And if something new is discovered they have a plausible reason to vote no.

It is the ultimate unprincipled stance

6:52 PM

@TimStone flake learned from mccain

dam

Also Bush calling the undecideds to try and whip votes, imagine being that guy

one interesting aspect is that this could draw the other accusations into this, which they have avoided to include at all cost so far

@TimStone yep, poor centrists that let him into #resistance

"I could sit here and just paint or I could go support an accused sexual predator, hmm"

6:53 PM

@TimStone george w bush? or the guy who is not the majority whip who is making calls to whip votes

who knew that the guy signing off on war crimes for fun and profit was not a good dude just because he painted now

"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, well, let's confirm this trainwreck"

@Unionhawk former president

Update: Flake joined Democrats in calling for an FBI investigation and a one week delay on Kavanaugh’s confirmation. If he is actually insisting on that, that is the opposite of cowardly. Pending further review, we hereby withdraw our preliminary description of Flake as a coward. https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1045742956509048832

Tweeted by MotherJones on September 28, 2018 at 6:49 PM in reply to MotherJones

lol almost choked on my muffin

i mean sen feinstein asked for an FBI investigation 2 weeks ago

they could've started it and had the data by now

7:01 PM

Yep

Proud moment for @ClaraJeffery and @MotherJones in #Wolfenstein2

Tweeted by leslieleeiii on October 29, 2017 at 2:05 AM

imagine naming your magazine after an IWW cofounder and then doing this shit

Right? 🤷

@Unionhawk TIL

@Unionhawk Also, what definition of "dapper" applies to that guy?

He wears a suit! And a tie! How droll and uncommon for checks notes a Nazi

7:14 PM

@SaintWacko whoops i read that as diaper

lol

@GodEmperorDune Yeah she owned

UMW organizer in the late 19th early 20th century

oh hell yeah this lady was badass

> Jones was denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate as the "grandmother of all agitators".

> In 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America"

7:18 PM

@Yuuki Now it's my turn to feel unproductive today.

Sep 14 at 19:11, by Yuuki

@puzzlepiece87 I feel particularly unproductive today.

user15026

@Unionhawk oh yes she was fantastic.

@puzzlepiece87 decouple productivity as a measure of self worth, imo

@GodEmperorDune What if my dream is for you to think of me as a badass lady? :P

@puzzlepiece87 sure, be a badass lady if you want, i fully support that dream

@TimStone Question, just saw this:

> Republicans said after a caucus meeting Thursday that the committee would hold votes on Friday and the full Senate would begin voting on Saturday

Does it take 2-4 days to complete a full vote?

That just caught my eye since you had been mentioning Tuesday.

It's not an important question, just wondering.

7:27 PM

It's what I saw but then I saw Saturday too, so I'm not sure about the timeline now

@puzzlepiece87 it probably takes as long as they want it to take

@TimStone Doesn't matter, it's changed now. Thanks!

imo they're trying to bank what votes they have before more news stories hit

@GodEmperorDune Agreed.

@GodEmperorDune Exactly.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Kavanaugh friend Mark Judge says he'll cooperate with any law enforcement agency that investigates `confidentially'

Tweeted by KThomasDC on September 28, 2018 at 7:12 PM

7:28 PM

though i imagine people can change what votes they enter up until the close time

trololol wtf?

@TimStone lelelele

the rich white man privilege, can yall feel it?

i can practically taste it

(tastes like warm natty ice for anyone interested)

@Unionhawk hmmm, this is starting to explain the dapper article

> Jones was ideologically separated from many of the other female activists of the pre-Nineteenth Amendment days due to her aversion to female suffrage.

> er opposition to women taking an active role in politics was based on her belief that the neglect of motherhood was a primary cause of juvenile delinquency.

@GodEmperorDune Unless I'm misunderstanding, this was a position taken by a woman who was taking an active role in politics (?)

@murgatroid99 by the time she really got active, her husband and kids had all died in a yellow fever epidemic so i guess she gave herself a pass

but yeah she did like 95% things i agree with and a few that i don't

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