NEW: K.T. McFarland denied in a Senate hearing that she was aware of Russia contacts Flynn made. But she was found to have discussed the contacts over email. https://www.axios.com/mcfarland-testified-she-wasnt-aware-of-flynn-contacts-she-emailed-about-2514905209.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=textshort&utm_term=politics
what stage of late capitalism is "bono offering to write a song to protest kraft-heinz' hostile takeover bid for unilever"? https://www.ft.com/content/76cddc3e-d42e-11e7-a303-9060cb1e5f44
HATCH defends Trump endorsing Roy Moore: “I don't think he had any choice but to do that... that's the only Republican we can get down there.”
Adds that “many of the things he allegedly did were decades ago.”
(Via pooler @Carrasquillo)
BREAKING: @VerminSupreme's @HillaryClinton pony protest is a go. The man will be provided a full parking space across from the book signing event at Gibson's for use of up to two ponies, Concord attorney James Kennedy confirms. The justice system has spoken. #nhpolitics
Roy Moore in the US Senate would be a stain on the GOP and on the nation. Leigh Corfman and other victims are courageous heroes. No vote, no majority is worth losing our honor, our integrity.
He's also been consistent in condemning Moore which tbf says less about Romney and more about what the baseline human behaviour should be and how everyone else can't even reach that point
Goldman Sachs: GOP tax bill could have negative impact on US economy http://hill.cm/GtoInJJ
This bill is an abominable transfer of wealth into fewer and fewer hands, and yet they're just getting started because guess what suddenly we don't have money I guess we have to privatize Medicare and end Medicaid sorry
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I feel like whoever comes after Trump is going to basically like be all "put that thing back where it came from or so help me"
Unfortunately, this feels like the start of a kind of death spiral. Trump basically ran on "undo everything Obama did". If the next president's platform is "undo everything Trump did", then we will basically be entirely stopping any forward progress we might have had.
i have heard theories that the congress is trying to get all the stuff done right now because they are pretty sure trump is going to get booted out or somehow unable to do anything the longer he is in office
as long as income inequality continues and the poor get poorer and neither side tries to help, politics are going to get more partisan and rage fueled
even though republicans passed this atrocious bill, they are going to wash their hands of any damage it does and blame it on minorities or some other ridiculous thing
And the thing is Democrats had the opportunity to do vast things in 2009 but didn't because they falsely believed that their opponents would respect their respect for process which absolutely did not happen
The American Dream assertion that there's inherent reward in hard work is extremely toxic since it leaves people searching for an excuse to why that doesn't play out instead of just admitting to themselves the only fairness is forced
At this point if we can't turn things around soon I'm just hoping my taxes are low when I cash out on this company so I can turn around and use my Big Boy Money to help vote these jerks out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also to launch these yappy ass dogs across the street into the sun
@GodEmperorDune well that and remember how they accepted tons of republican amendments and such to ACA and got tons of respect for taking months to do it
For those insisting it was normal in 1970s Alabama for a grown man to pursue teenage girls, check out this story.
In 1957, the Alabama Klan toppled a leader for marrying a 15-year-old girl. Even *they* knew this was wrong. https://twitter.com/alanlcross/status/937744648658964485
> Those who deny climate science do not genuinely reject that science, but they are indifferent to its impact. They are, in other words, people who are sufficiently rich and powerful that they believe they can escape even the worst case scenarios while imposing their costs on the rest of the population, so long as our current social structure is maintained.
Hah apparently there's an entire set of cards that work together with United Resistance (normal monsters People Running About and Oppressed People and the trap card Huge Revolution)
People Running About is 600/600 and Oppressed People is 400/2000, and Huge Revolution requires all of them to be on the field so
NRSC source says it is remaining out of the Alabama race and that chairman @SenCoryGardner remains committed to this position https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/937873773138759680
Just so we’re clear, Senator Grassley, here’s what my constituents are spending “every darn penny” on:
🏡 Rent.
🍊 Groceries.
💊 Prescriptions.
📚 College tuition.
You just made their lives harder in order to give billionaires massive tax breaks. https://twitter.com/npr/status/937661017152253953
ok. so yeh i was thinking this entire time that Alt-Right wanted to progress Forward but Alt-Left was stuck in their ways always going Back and the only way society moves on is making the webpage do multiple redirects.
if Alt-Right is white supremacist it's proably good we disable the javascript to stop those redirects
The biggest casualty to AI won't be jobs, but the final and complete eradication of trust in anything you see or hear. http://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-12_Unsupervised-Image-to-Image-Translation
Rail fares to increase again by 3.4% this January. We are paying 50% more than rail users in Europe.
It is cheaper to fly Newcastle to London via SPAIN than it is to get the train there.
This proves once again that the private rail model is failing.
Renationalise the railways.
Also Mueller's office has released its expenses report
Which while I guess there might be some giveaways in there I don't really find that to be news but apparently everyone else does so I'm sure it won't get distorted into something stupid
FEMA has informed employees who’ve worked extra hours battling record wave of natural disasters in 2017 that they may have to pay back some overtime | @josheidelson https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/fema-tells-staffers-they-might-get-billed-for-working-too-much
@TimStone Actually, hm. Conyers apparently introduced the house medicare for all bill, so perhaps this is fine
We'll see, I think this line of attack will appear though, but we'll see
Being associated with the democratic establishment is a strong negative for me, but I could get on board with such a candidate depending on messaging and such
.@SpeakerRyan: "I want to give credit to Senate Republicans" for passing their version of tax bill. "The forces of the status quo are clearly stacked against us. But guess what: we're doing it." http://abcn.ws/2ArxsJM https://t.co/1LokJ2WAfr
@GodEmperorDune Sorry, I think I was wrong in replying to this before. They are enforcing that workers must make minimum wage, except that that was already supposed to be a thing so take that as you will. But I think it's inclusive of the tip pool redistribution
So basically you can make sure everyone gets paid exactly minimum wage and then pocket the rest
The one where that fake US embassy turns out to be fake news -- that the US embassy itself allegedly seemed to invent. (ht @pulitzercenter newsletter) http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/true-story-fake-us-embassy-ghana?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=12052017
Coal baron convicted for deadly mining disaster filed @FEC docs to made his WV Senate run official—but he also just got federal court approval to transfer his primary domicile to Las Vegas so he'd need a judge or probation office to OK any travel outside Nevada judicial district.
@TimStone Looks like internal Labour drama, essentially. She's a particular Constituency Labour Party women's officer who has campaigned to remove a fellow women's officer from the party for transphobia
Next update. If not all cakes are speech, then cake is not--as a category--speech.
Also, there are plenty of cases requiring architects/contracts to serve all people
Actually, I can think of at least one good book on why workers don't get the full value of their labor. https://twitter.com/BV/status/937935558566993920
Press office for Jordan's King Abdullah II says the king received a phone call from POTUS informing him that the Trump administration will proceed with the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem. 1/
2. Why would you pick the photo in which both people are holding beverages to set the tone for whether wanton hugging is "still acceptable"?
Ventura County Fire Captain Scott Quirarte had to break the news to his daughter that her apt burned down #Thomas Fire now 45,500 acres https://t.co/lUNw837m4t
This is big border wall news for #RGV in Texas. CBP Dep. Comm. Ron Vitiello in press conf. today says they are asking for enforcement zones. What that means is homes, land south of the wall could be claimed under eminent domain.https://www.ice.gov/live
@GodEmperorDune Hrm, yeah, that's rather troubling. I should be upfront and disclose that I followed him and was confused by some of the rumblings based on what I saw, but that and the other stories give a lot of important context :/
@Arperum Right, because they can't control Mexico's side of the border so they have to put the wall further into US territory to get what they want. But doing so means seizing land from private citizens
@cazc_941 Look at it this way: there's nothing stopping them from coming back without the blessings of the government, but this way makes it easy to keep tabs on them.
@TimStone Yea, but it also looks like it won't follow the turns in the border, so it'll even cut off some areasthat are not in the "enforcement zone" and on the mexican side of the wall.
WHich will probably still be privately owned, and thus people will need to be able to access their land? or can the government just say "fuck it, you are not allowed to get to your rightfully owned land."
Yea, but the picture shows the wall going very straight, where there are turns in the river.
But people in those areas will be angry about them using eminent domain at all. There's not strong support for the physical wall in the areas that the wall would actually be
> Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 movie Elysium portrays a dystopian Earth in the year 2154. A small elite—the 1 percent, if you will—has decamped for a space station called Elysium. There, they enjoy lives of comfort and leisure, lives that are apparently eternal due their access to miraculous “Med-Bay” technology. Back on Earth, meanwhile, the rest of humanity lives on a crowded, polluted planet, governed by a robotic police force.
.@SenateMajLdr: "I had hoped Judge Moore would...withdraw from the race. That obviously is not going to happen. If he were to be elected, I think he would immediately have an issue with the ethics committee." http://abcn.ws/2Ay8rdQ https://t.co/Y0ry3OQejH
A Second Chance: This Amazing Organization Helps Disgraced Pedophiles Rebuild Their Lives By Getting Them Elected To Political Office http://clckhl.co/6YPpjcK
Going forward, police in Del., Md., Va. and W.Va. are on notice that they cannot compel a teen to masturbate in front of them for the purpose of taking his picture, even with a warrant.
4th Cir.: This is one of those things that's so bad a police officer can't get immunity even though there's no case expressly saying it's a bad search.