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I mean yes absolutely but I wonder where they got the idea of financially and operationally supporting unsavoury dissident elements to create regional instability from

Real thinker, that 🤔

After collecting their tax spoils, Harley Davidson is closing down a US plant and moving it to Bangkok

Dam

Holy shit

Yeah, I'm not sure how much difference it makes as far as most policy goes

However! Shell had McConnell's backing and was "a rising star," which should certainly worry incumbent Republicans

A party leader being ousted by someone who hadn't run for office before would be big news regardless

He's not a member of the KEA because he disagrees with the candidates NEA backs, but it's unclear what specifically (besides that they're typically Democrats)

> Brenda said he voted for Bevin for governor in 2015 because of his Christian and moral values, "but I won't again. He has been way too strident against teachers and I can't accept that."

But that should be fun!

mm the President is tweeting again

SPY IN OUR MIDST MENTLEGEN

@TimStone from what I understand the majority leader soon former majority leader was highly anti teacher

Right, just not necessarily making Kentucky any more welcoming in any other regard, but a step is a step I suppose

Stacey Abrams won her primary, and while it does not seem likely she'd win the general in Georgia, she'd be the first black woman governor in US history if she did

Oh

She's actually the first black woman to have even won the primary

Just to come full circle on this:

rekt

Moser lost in Texas, which DCCC shenanigans aside she had picked up that campaign manager or whoever who was borderline Eric Garlanding so I'm not sure which outcome would have been better tbh

@TimStone What does "Eric Garlanding" mean?

wait, you could bait bears with doughnuts? and it had to be banned?

Part of several regulations, scroll up

@Yuuki eric garland is the Game Theory Guy

you may be familiar with some of his more recent work, such as claiming the nefarious off-shore ""WhoisGuard) was at the center of a massive international conspiracy to smear checks notes james comey

Oh, I'm thinking of Eric Garner.

Was wondering how police brutality had anything to do with this runoff.

Oh haha

I still can't believe he got a blue checkmark but dril didn't

So comms director not campaign manager, my bad

close enough

for the purposes of this at any rate

I voted for Moser because, tbh, I'm kinda tired of Texas Democrats trying to reach out to "moderate" Republican voters.

Also didn't expect her to win so I'm not surprised.

Yeah, the DCCC in particular needs to knock it off

Always good choices in politics these days

Fletcher probably would do a better job in my district, but I just... ugh.

Oh shit Valdez won?

It's not even that I have problems with Fletcher. I'm a little bitter over how Republican voters got us into this mess and they're still being courted for this midterm.

Yeah…but hey, at least they're not ending up running the anti-abortion white dude for governor now, in a shocking twist

Which probably means she's going to lose the election and ugggggggh.

Being a left-leaning Texan is suffering.

tbf they were both likely to lose so better to out forward the person that isn't garbage

and this is why you should be careful about letting others use your twitter account on your behalf

Hmm, interesting

@TimStone "mild" "traumatic"

@Memor-X Obviously from draining the swamp too much

@TimStone DSA Louisville candidates got pretty destroyed though

@TimStone lmao

@fredley traumatic in traumatic brain injury describes the source of the brain injury (generally kinetic energy, i.e. from physical trauma)

So mild (severity) traumatic (origin) brain injury

@KevinvanderVelden I see

(Carriles has died, context for why that's good-riddance)

@Memor-X My question is why people 'like' porn on Twitter.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh

So Fox and Friends is trying to normalize Kim Jong-Un now and I'm not even really sure why?

But obviously that's a ludacris thing to say about a dude who murdered his uncle, killed some people with an anti-aircraft gun, and tricked some people under the guise of a "TV show" to assassinate his brother with VX

These people are completely insane

How have we gone from threatening to nuke North Korea over Twitter to saying "whomsdt among us hasn,t poisoned a person or two"

Trump really wants the summit, which is kind of pathetic, so I guess they're just walking in step with what makes that palatable

Still seems unnecessarily accepting of Kim Jong-Un though idk

it's probably not happening this point

Kim is right, it is just about the nuclear weapons

@Unionhawk Do you have more juicy things to report?

@quartata I wouldn't rule it out just yet, because I also believe Trump is willing to side-line all his advisers just to make it happen so he can say he did it

but he already did that

did you see his nobel peace prize, it was huge

Look if he has to throw Bolton back into the sea with the other walruses then at least we'll get that

@TimStone They realized that if they want Trump to get a Peace Prize (because suck it, Obama), they actually need pull some weight because Trump sure as hell isn't good enough at his job to do it on his own.

god I forgot about Bolton

@Memor-X Wait, are you saying the Ted Cruz one wasn't him? Please don't make my universe less happy :P

@Yuuki To be fair, neither was Obama.

@puzzlepiece87 Yeah but the difference is that Trump will accept it wholeheartedly and probably shit on some other countries during his speech.

As one does.

People talk trash about Obama's Peace Prize but it's not like he nominated himself and he pretty much said during his speech that he didn't really deserve it.

And turning it down has other geopolitical implications.

I agree, but I still like joking about it :)

@puzzlepiece87 They still clearly want to sell, the director may not know how to use a computer (a lot of responses either made by phone, intentionally omitted, or perhaps just never made). A few funny bits (someone emailing the genealogy and local history desk about concerns about the potential sale, and also with a genealogy question). We've got more records requests to make I think. More work. More 9am on a weekday board meetings (hopefully they don't move the one after this one too...)

I'm literally bringing my work laptop and logging on, claiming WFH that morning

If nothing else we did clearly make their lives more annoying, and have slowed down this particular front of gentrification

But there's definitely more in the city

Thanks for putting in the work.

They moved the next meeting up ten days which could be them messing with us or it could be them working around vacation, it's hard to say

It certainly has had the first effect even if the intent was the second

But, you know, we put together an impromptu action at the library over 4 hours we're an adaptable bunch

When you go to the meetings, is it just for accountability or for lawsuit material? You don't have any voting power, right?

Are the public meeting minutes pretty stripped down compared to what's actually said?

Accountability, mostly, we each get 3 minutes so worst case scenario we end up spending about 30 minutes of their time, but best case scenario is probably something that happened last time, where an unaffiliated member of the public demanded the board answer to the things we had said at the end of the meeting

This next one is going to be interesting, and I wonder if they're interpreting "must be physically present" in their new public participation guidelines to exclude reading of the staff engagement survey (since those are curated statements made by anonymous staff members, not us)

I also wonder how far they're going to let us push "civility" because "you should all resign" and "it's amazing you guys still have a job" is pretty civil imo but I imagine they aren't going to take that

plus the whole "physically present" multiplied by "they picked an inaccessible branch again" dynamic

@Unionhawk Yup, they're not making it easier for themselves there.

@Unionhawk Don't remember how much I've shared here but I recently wrapped up a 2 year term on a church board completely plagued with infighting and inability to live with anything besides 100% of my way, 0% of yours. Naturally, such attitudes were not very compatible with the accompanying frequent resignations calls, so I'll wonder with you and say that sounds darkly and very familiar.

Very happy to be done with that board.

I'm probably just going to throw "and also you all should resign" at the end of my 3 minutes instead of at the beginning

Do it at the end of every speech, Cato the Elder style.

It's sad, we were including "reinstate this person immediately" in all of ours, but then they recieved an adverse ruling from the equal opportunity of employment people so idk how we really want to play that

It's funny because they're both just god-awful

TIF Gaming edition

that reminds me I still need to read Blood Sweat and Pixels

I honestly can't believe we're still doing this

@TimStone oh my

Like there's some validity in the argument that politicians shouldn't be able to exclude constituents but also like Trump reads any replies on Twitter, it's just dumb

Also, gotta love the replies that indicate there are far more people with a degree in constitutional law than you'd think.

The President should just not be Mad Online so much and this issue doesn't even present itself

> The President should just not be Mad Online so much

That's like asking for water to not be so wet.

Holy crap that was literally only at the end of March we were talking about this, it feels like it's been a lot longer

@TimStone Actually, isn't the problem not that Trump can block anyone's tweets, but rather that he can block anyone from reading his tweets?

Since his tweets are considered to be politically significant because of his position in the Government?

He can't really since Twitter is public, I guess if he made his account private that would be a bigger issue

The argument is over the ability to reply to his tweets, which is part of why this is Really Dumb

Like those grifters that always post super threads in response to everything he says and it's like ???

Well golly gee thank goodness for that, now he can finally focus on bringing peace to the Middle East

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We spent all that effort quibbling about his "animals" comment but it's pretty clear what he meant 🤷🏼‍♂️

obviously referring to MS13 toddlers, log off

@TimStone See, given Trump's predilections, I'm still not sure what this means.

>_>

you go down to SoCal and it,s it, just overun, i mean really covfefe, with 2 year olds snorting coke and flashing gang signs, it;s jst terrible terrible it's all jerry browns fault

Incidentaly I find "unaccompanied" to be very interestingly picked word. It seems innocent in a "oh parent left kid at home while making a quick shopping run" way when actually the parents are probably dead

Great way to soften that...

lol I hope someone just throws Nunes to the wolves. I have no idea what his deal is

@TimStone imagine being a blue check trump reply guy

Do they all have Patreons or do some of them just get their kicks from doing it? I don't understand

looks at Twitter Ah. Well. I see this Elon Musk business is indeed transitioning out of what I'd call newsworthy and becoming Extremely Stupid

yeah elon is having a very regular day on twitter dot com

casually wondering about how he can discredit center for investigative journalism and such without being actually peter thiel

It seems there was not in fact consensus

Incidentally it is also Extremely Stupid that the "Trump blocked me on Twitter" case is still a thing and yet we're not having a far more important discussion about why the league can compel behaviour like this with fines

because a solid subset of the country agrees with the league

particular the freeze peach people

because while I am of the opinion that neither the flag nor the anthem deserve respect, I am likely a minority in this

Yeah but they're going to let them stay in the locker room so it doesn't even make sense from the perspective of the people who think they should be forced or GIIIIIT OUT

yeah but now they don't get the tv attention

the solution to protests is don't pay attention

ignore the problem and it will go away (because it does not affect your life in any way)

I'm not confident that most people weren't already ignoring it except when someone asked specifically about it, did the NFL really suffer any negative impact outside of the imaginary ones peddled by pundits?

Plus the NFL also is just Pretty Terrible so 🤔

fuckin YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT

I mean of course they did because they probably were told to take the case in the first place and were like "mmm guess we gotta figure out how to win this shit" to which the answer was "Let's cheat"

love too violate due process

hell yeah

I take that back because it's not impossible he was being facetious it's just impossible to tell because he sounds like the devil

I mean the democrats don't want to destroy america, but I do, so

he's not off base

I mean I still suspect you don't want to bring back ISIS

@TimStone Must have been the 45th correction that was the charm

Zing

@TimStone I mean idk if that's a thing that I have to do

it would appear that they still exist

it's almost like

@Unionhawk lol you said this however the 49ers have you covered

"I can't get a drink just because the stupid anthem is playing?!?"

@TimStone It's a shame they broke up

@Unionhawk No Trump got rid of them don't be silly Gorka would never lie

@TimStone I mean this only means that you need to be prepared if you plan to do this thing

having concessions beforehand

You know that's putting too much faith in the average American, myself included

love too pay ten dollars for a 16oz beer

mmm Coors Lite

FBI continues to lie in order to convince those in power no one should be able to effectively encrypt their phone

Possible sonic or other attacks first tracked in Cuba now potentially continue in China

Hmm... who would benefit from deteriorating relationships between Cuba-US and China-US?

Although it's just as possible it could be malfunctioning surveillance equipment.

It's basically an open secret that embassies also serve as intelligence outposts.

@puzzlepiece87 the cops /shrug

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@TimStone ... wouldn't "proven" be the correct conjugation/tense there?

Probably but it's Giuliani

It's unclear why he's speaking on Cohen's behalf at all!

Like it would be easy enough to say that they had no interaction with Cohen on that matter but he goes a complete step further and suggests that Cohen is, in fact, quite innocent

Has he just lost his mind, or what?

BoTh PaRtIeS aRe ThE sAmE

It's just a weird answer, I don't even understand what it's supposed to mean

I mean, I'm the cynical one who thinks everyone's rational and lying their asses off, so I don't believe this is actually the case.

But say you're Nunes and you literally believe (instead of just cynically lie your ass off saying you believe) that there was a Democratic conspiracy to spy on the Trump campaign.

Then it may make sense that you're not going to let in your political opponents so they can further discredit and obstruct your truth-revealing investigation.

Right but there's no way he's that dumb right?

He's not going to play the game where they join the meeting, release materials, leak things, etc.

According to me, absolutely not.

I think he's definitely just making **** up as he goes along and is deeply, deeply in the bag for Trump for reasons that I assume will eventually be revealed as hopelessly corrupt and/or crimes.

Yeah, it just doesn't seem that likely he even had the opportunity to do something Really Bad since largely who has ever cared about Nunes before this?

Guess we'll find out!

I could be super duper wrong, but didn't he already commit an unofficial form of obstruction of justice?

Didn't he already go over to the White House (multiple times in the middle of the night?) to brief them on the House Intelligence committee investigation?

And he kept involving himself even when "recused"

I don't know if he had anything really bad to start, just wanted a powerful administration position, no idea what the motivation was, but he jumped in and jumped in quickly, and since then has been doing some very questionable stuff that I assume has turned into its own bad cycle for him.

Yeah, he's just been a continuously enthusiastic participant and it's like ???

Other people prop up Trump with a lot less effort

it's like ???: concise, accurate

@Unionhawk since you complained about it, I figured I'd share the best summary of the Musk situation I've seen: twitter.com/fart/status/999377000132296704

Huh

inb4 fired

Have a good one everybody, see you tomorrow.

> '60 Minutes' correspondent: Trump said he attacks the press so no one believes negative coverage

Yeah I'm sensing a theme here

uhhh

I think it is merely coincidence that Nunes is involved in this instance but lol sure why not

He didn't sink a ton of money into it either but considering his "I'M JUST A FARMER" spiel owning any portion of a winery is 🙄

Oh my god what in the fresh hell is this?

(the original story about UK newsstands selling "porn passes" in light of internet content regulations)

We even just had that bandaid + ice pack case like this the other day

Extremely normal country

@Unionhawk you joke but at this rate it will be normalized

@TimStone The only logical conclusion is to sue the hospital for false advertising.

Or the doctor.

@quartata "will be"

Buddy,

Since apparently this surgeon doesn't accept any insurance.

@Unionhawk yeah yeah im an optimist

the delusional kind

@Yuuki that's actually an interesting scenario for a future state

Will there be doctors bypassing the monopsony by just forcing people into debt anyway

Therefore setting their own prices

Obviously this probably wouldn't be a thing for nonemergency type care, but stuff like this, possibly

Have we done this yet?

I mean we acknowledged it

Rich guy with a fanboy base wants to discredit the media

it reminds actually of some guy on the ballot here for senator

It's actually about ethics in investigative journalism

he wanted to make a direct democracy app using the BlOCKcHain that tells him how to vote

@quartata Are we 100% sure that's not trolling?

@Yuuki no pretty sure he was serious

@Yuuki No, he does have that name registered as of like October

So it's hard to say

Because I doubt everyone's forgotten that Pravda is and was the name of the Soviet-sponsored government newspaper.

and yes I know Pravda is this thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda

@Yuuki i think he just thought it sounded cool tbh

@quartata ... woooooow

wooooooooooooow

Okay, can I downgrade Elon Musk from "billionaire genius" to "billionaire"?

It owns that this epic hero has just become a fake news guy because he doesn't like it when people report about his company

i already did that didn't I

oh well

worth repeating

Luck and intelligence are two different things

can we get some shoutouts to poisoning the well while we're at it:

(click through for poll options)

I think it's still fair to say that he has a vision, of sorts

owned

@Unionhawk Yeah, but he clearly needs prescription glasses.

@quartata yeh, because the public really know what the truth really is

@Memor-X I think a recent poll showed that about 65% of people think that Mueller's investigation hasn't turned up any evidence nor charged anyone with crimes.

But like at most you can say he's a megalomaniac billionaire who thinks he is the only one who can stop climate change and get us to Mars or some shit

He has engineers to do anything requiring anything deeper than that

threw my hat into the ring

@Yuuki but is has though right? like i seem to recall names like Manafort getting chraged. or maybe it was unrelated or that technically they havn't been charged with a crime

@Memor-X it is indeed not right

in fact we've had about

22?

indictments?

think that's right

@quartata that sound right. i think i read it was 20 but i also think i cleaned up my RSS feeds so i can't find it anymore

@quartata this also about the new ad's SO is planning on running?

it can be about anything

I'm not referring to SO community ads but

A site like what Elon is describing is inevitably going to be like that -- the voting will dictate the people that stick around, and thus drive the voting

it is, in essence, a test of who shows up first

and thus, as @Unionhawk pointed out, will be a reflection of Elon's fanbase

except only its most vile parts

It sounds great, sign me up

can I have my brain embalmed so that I can be uploaded to Pravda

@quartata so all of it

Tough but fair

> Going to create a site where voters can vote on what they like but actually the server admins manipulate the tallies to their own liking and ban people that vote against what they want. I'm going to call it Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del.

> The admins will be the Jovial Site Perusal Dudes, or the OGPU.

@Yuuki It does seem kind of weird that an ER would have a doctor not in the network the facility was in, but we also only have like two systems here so maybe I'm just not familiar with things at scale