@GodEmperorDune Yeah, who told him is a big question!
Just now, Reuters has published a story largely confirming the Guardian’s scoop, saying that Ecuador tried to name Assange (who now holds Ecuadorean nationality) to the Latin American nation’s Embassy in Moscow. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-assange-exclusive/exclusive-ecuador-attempted-to-give-assange-diplomat-post-in-russia-document-idUSKCN1M12R5
GOP FL Rep Gaetz: I have requested the Judiciary Cmte convene hrngs w/Rosenstein & others who are alleged to have been in the room..in order to ascertain the truth..if these inflammatory &!disturbing claims are true, they constitute grounds for..Rosenstein’s immediate removal
Sean Hannity on Rosenstein: "I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. These actors, tonight, and I have multiple sources confirming this ... it is all a set up" https://t.co/xAjHLcfDh3
@TimStone realistically, i think one faction is "oh shit mueller is gonna find my crimes" and another faction is "oh shit messing with mueller might get trump impeached and then i'll lose my access to the presidency"
hannity has to know that no other president is gonna bring him on conference calls and such
Judge Kavanaugh I just granted another extension to Dr Ford to decide if she wants to proceed w the statement she made last week to testify to the senate She shld decide so we can move on I want to hear her. I hope u understand. It’s not my normal approach to b indecisive
Good god. Trump's former communications director got his mistress pregnant, and when he found out, he spiked her drink with mifepristone and aborted her pregnancy without her consent.
Republicans are woman-abusing, sexual psychopaths. https://trib.al/iUKhtn1
> We also know the identity of the ‘Jane Doe’ referenced in the filing, have located her, and Mr. Miller is absolutely certain that he does not know her, never had a relationship with her…
Well that certainly doesn't make sense
"He never did that but we had to discover this unknown woman's name and track her down to be sure"
in somewhat less awful news, this is a long form article about fatness, how it is orthogonal to health, and how shaming fat people makes things worse for them and does not at all help them lose weight
This is an issue I've been obsessed with since I was a kid and I finally got to write a big long feature about it
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/
the most interesting point i found from this is here:
> The most effective health interventions aren't actually health interventions—they are policies that ease the hardship of poverty and free up time for movement and play and parenting.
strange for ted to be putting out pro-beto messaging like this
@TimStone it's the long game of the 1917 october revolution
you see it's all those people in HHS trying to help people keep their food stamps that are doing it
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4:34 AM
@GodEmperorDune I know, but @Slowpoke pointed out our anthem's wording is very sdimilar in tone to the Pledge and so I paid attention tonight specifically to that
What's really weird (to me) is that the French version isn't even the same song 🤔
Also I know it's a Tennyson reference and "true"-loyal not "true"-fact but the true north makes me giggle like Americans were all "Ah, we're north" and the Canadians clapped back with "you ain't seen shit"
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4:54 AM
@TimStone I know and when people don't wanna sing the God bits they just swap to French and that's a weird discord
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@TimStone child me always found that funny like that too
in debate w/O’Rourke, Cruz says he’s a Republican because Rs supported the civil rights movement while Democrats in the South opposed it
he claimed Martin Luther King would side w/him in opposing NFL athletes who kneel during National Anthem because King respected the flag
> "They do not want to work hard to feed a large family. And that is why they opt for births controls and end up with one or two children only," he said.
Jesus christ
> Last year he proposed that pregnant schoolgirls be blocked from resuming their education after giving birth.
@GodEmperorDune You never go full D'Souza unless I guess you asked for him to be pardoned
This aside in a story about the prep school party scene during Kavanaugh’s time in school is a journey https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/100-kegs-or-bust-kavanaugh-friend-has-spent-years-writing-about-high-school-debauchery/2018/09/21/a8e0fe22-bb55-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html?utm_term=.4d155d27fecf
Meanwhile in Tennessee GOP state Rep. David Byrd is set to win re-election despite several credible allegations that he sexually abused high schoolers he coached. https://twitter.com/MPRnews/status/1043229818496507904
BREAKING: A top adviser for the Senate Judiciary Committee working on Kavanaugh and Ford issues has resigned amid questions from NBC News about a previous sexual harassment complaint. By @HeidiPrzybyla
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/spokesman-gop-kavanaugh-nomination-resigns-has-been-accused-harassment-past-n912156
@mattdpearce @elianayjohnson reports it's not clear when/if he left CRC but worked there as recently as July and "a source said Ventry had joined the Committee after the Federalist Society requested that CRC send somebody over to the Hill to help with the Kavanaugh nomination."
To be clear I wasn't the one that wanted an abortion, it was the writer of the article
Just in case there was any confusion
> Why, then, didn’t I want to be pregnant? I don’t believe anyone needs to justify this. But I am going to explain.
Emphasis mine. I absolutely love that, and it echoes strong with me.
Not the "I don't wanna be pregnant" part obviously
but just the general idea of not wanting kids, or anymore kids et cetera
I don't want kids. Just a whole lot of responsibility I personally don't want to take on, but you definitely get the pressure that you're expected to have kids. Someone once called me selfish for not wanting children. People suck.
Anyways, that's just an aside, but the article is a good read
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@Wipqozn This makes me really fucking glad, as a human with a uterus, that I live in Ontario
"I was in Ontario, and decided to wait until I got home, and then I regretted everything*
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"“It comes down to a lot of nitty-gritty details people don’t like to talk about in health care in Canada,”
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SO MUCH THIS
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It breaks my heart
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3:36 PM
Like here we do have trouble sometimes with people getting access to the abortion pill (well actually it's more than one pill but that's semantics)
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but we have the ability to access it, OHIP covers it
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(and a local sexual health clinic is working to be able to provide it themselves instead of having to find you a specific doctor somewhere that can do it, as often that means going to Toronto)
"I cannot find words to express how happy I am..." Y.T.
The MINERVA-II1 rovers have successfully landed on asteroid Ryugu, snapped photos & taken the first successful hop! Have a read about this world first and hear the comments from our Project Members.
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20180922e/
Michael Bromwich, the former DOJ Inspector General, has formerly joined Christine Blasey Ford's legal team. He also currently represents Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
> Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell claims that US President Donald Trump suggested Spain should build a wall across the Sahara desert to deal with the migrant crisis.