Turkey’s President Vows to Detail Khashoggi Death ‘in Full Nakedness’ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/world/middleeast/erdogan-khashoggi-turkey-saudi-arabia.html
The Royal Commission exposed horrific abuse of children at institutions around Australia, and systematic attempts to cover it up. Today, the prime minister apologised for a nation’s failure to protect its children #NationalApology #auspol http://bit.ly/2CvPJq9
> "We don’t ask members for their race, gender or ethnicity so we cannot use this information to personalise their individual Netflix experience. The only information we use is a member’s viewing history," it said.
"so we figured that if you're watching alot of films with black people in them. you must like watching black people so we create these movie posters showing black people even though they don't have staring roles"
i wonder if i watched a bunch of movies with white people if i got a movie poster of Undercover Brother which showed Lance instead of Undercover Brother because you know, the film is about Lance stopping Mr Feather's and The Man's scheme against black people
(Context: Lance is the only white guy in The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D)
CTV News: Canada Post hit by rotating strikes in Victoria, Edmonton, Windsor and Halifax. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-post-hit-by-rotating-strikes-in-victoria-edmonton-windsor-and-halifax-1.4143314
Also wrong room
I'm going to attempt moving messages on mobile. If I accidentally ban @Unionhawk, then my apologies.
Women are losing their pregnancies after their employers refuse to give them light duty and ignore doctors’ notes. It’s completely legal.
@jbsgreenberg https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/21/business/pregnancy-discrimination-miscarriages.html
Adding to the absurdity of Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and killing, CNN has obtained footage of a ‘body double’, dressed in Khashoggi’s clothing and glasses, and a fake beard, leaving the Saudi consulate in Turkey https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/22/middleeast/saudi-operative-jamal-khashoggi-clothes/index.html
Jared Kushner says on Monday that prison reform was “very close to my heart” because his father had gone to prison when the now senior adviser to the President was young.
(Charles Kushner, net worth $1.8B, new york real estate guy, etc, was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering in 2005)
So by "prison reform", he probably means "you should be able to get out of jail if you can just pay like a million dollars" and "oh yeah, you can probably deduct that from your taxes".
@GodEmperorDune Nah, he still wants to convict white collar criminals because some of them might be mid-tier managers who embezzle money from the "job creators".
VA Secretary Robert Wilkie opposes expanding benefits to thousands of Vietnam vets who say they suffer from Agent Orange exposure. Congress might soon force him to reverse his position. https://www.wsj.com/articles/agent-orange-concerns-joined-by-worry-over-modern-era-burn-pits-1540173918 via @WSJ w/@StephArmour1
It's more complicated than the tweet allows, obviously
Funding would require raising rates on VA mortgage loans, apparently, and it's hard to scientifically prove a link for these soldiers so far after the fact (noting a lot of Vietnam vets are already covered)
But apparently the Forever War has been using burn pits which might also have been toxic af so 🤷🏼♂️
CNN's Van Jones: “Do you trust the Saudis to investigate themselves?”
Jared Kushner: “We’re getting facts in from multiple places. Once those facts come in, the Secretary of State will work with our national security team to help us determine what we want to believe” #CITIZENCNN https://t.co/JW8MDkHl3J
this whole charade doesn't matter, we're going to keep selling them weapons
they're going to continue to be our second best friend in the region
if anything mattered, blowing up more than one school bus should have been the final straw
but no that's not happening why is iran messing up yemen
and like you had marco today on twitter like "oh, this is awful, but it's awful because it makes our continued alliance look bad which is good for iran"
none of these people give a shit
except about how this looks, and how it makes it slightly harder to justify continuing to work with the kingdom of saudi arabia
but they're going to pull through and somehow turn this into casus belli for war with iran
For those playing along at home, Trump owes $50 million to a Delaware corporation with almost no paper trail called Chicago Unit Acquisition, whose address is Trump Tower in NYC.
They just filed their annual report, signed by Don Jr. https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1054391807327567872
@MadScientist I mean it’s shady and could be almost anything. But chances are that trump is not paying proper taxes on whatever benefit he gets from it so tax fraud is a likely part of it
> Trump, who has taken a hard line toward illegal immigration since taking office last year, also wrote that he had alerted the U.S. military and Border Patrol “that this is a National Emergy,”
I'm going to believe that it's a purposeful abbreviation. I don't care how unlikely it is or how inefficient shortening three letters is, that's what I'm going to believe.
@GodEmperorDune I'm not sure which tweet you're referring to, because theree too many which fit the definition of "racist"... Which is really depressing
Because Canada has several days you can vote on, due to the advance votes
> Advance polls will be held on the 10th, 9th, 8th and 7th days before election day (a Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday). They will be open from 12 noon to 8 p.m. local time.
oh you can actually vote in person any time after an election is called, TIL
> You can vote in person at any Elections Canada office across the country, for most of the election period. After an election is called, Elections Canada sets up local offices in every riding in Canada.
@tim_cook is right. Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too. They offered no proof, story kept changing, and showed no interest in our answers unless we could validate their theories. Reporters got played or took liberties. Bloomberg should retract. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-tim-cook-bloomberg-retraction
@Wipqozn there are something like 7 voting places in my city district alone, I think the whole city has certainly more than 100 (one of the larger cities in Germany).
A group of anti-gay activists have filed a lawsuit against Houston Public Library over its Drag Queen Storytime program, which they claim violates their freedom of religion. http://huffp.st/xBDgXo9
It seems to be like, just a one-weekend event at the moment, which is why I don't get it
I mean, I get it, but
All that effort to file court paperwork and be and asshole and you could have just not done that
BREAKING — Turkish TV @tvahaber broadcasts images showing Saudi Consulate staff in Istanbul are burning documents one day after #Khashoggi murder
https://t.co/eeoDiCsn12
That's interesting. Draft doc on Space Force calls for not only a secretary and member of the Joint Chiefs, but also a Space National Guard and Space Force Reserve https://www.defenseone.com/politics/2018/10/heres-pentagons-initial-plan-creating-space-force/152203/ @DefenseOne @MarcusReports
One traditional way to kill something the President wants is to make it as dumb as possible so that it can't succeed but this is 2018 so that is no longer a barrier to entry gl everybody
@TimStone Remeber that video from over a decade ago where someone is crying 'leave Britney alone!' That's what I imagine the Trump's are doing right now with Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON (AP) — A California judge has ordered Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti to pay $4.85 million to an attorney at his former law firm. https://wgem.com/2018/10/22/judge-michael-avenatti-must-pay-4-85-in-ex-lawyers-suit/
yeah, if you're one of those guys who goes like "lolol codes of conduct are like this", then like, literally just copy paste the SE CoC and call it a day
and also you're probably a bad person who sucks
there was some js community that had a really good one that got posted in DSA LSC #ground-rules-creation chat
I also just saw a super sketchy looking mail truck, it livery was just like realistic-looking eagle and something else and no stripes or anything?
The left-wing Chron—to the surprise of nobody—endorsed every single Dem they think has even a prayer of winning. They endorsed Beto b/c is an ”unapologetic progressive,” supporting open borders, gun control & impeaching the President. Plus (unmentioned) higher taxes on oil & gas. https://twitter.com/chronopinion/status/1049015419779129347
The paper even endorsed you before you frickin' chump
Breaking: @realDonaldTrump national security adviser @AmbJohnBolton says he told Russian counterparts that Russian meddling in U.S. elections hardly had any real effect
@tedcruz Spotted yesterday in Htown. Take note. 3 of those signs are for R candidates & one for @BetoORourke. Even Repubs of sound mind don’t want @tedcruz #LyingTed
@TimStone ah ok, i saw this earlier and did not quite get the context
@TimStone texas chainsaw massacre ted?
@TimStone every day is a fresh reminder of why bolton needs to go into the sea
@TimStone urgh, creepy
@TimStone naughty avenatti, please just go away and don't run for president
Shitty plans now allowed on Obamacare exchanges
Effective today, “insurance” that doesn’t include coverage for the following events👇 will be eligible to count towards insurance— *and get subsidies that currently go to the ACA.
States need to apply for a waiver that the Trump Admin is allowing as of today. 2/
@GodEmperorDune It's not even possible to buy that here, there is no question whether any insurance will cover most of this (there are more subtle details, but they don't go even near the case of not covering a serious illness)
i guess people might be more pissed if we had single payer and then the trump admin was like "hi all, the only source of insurance is now not covering a damn thing, have a good day"
this is why we need a mass movement with revolutionary demands if we are going to even think about addressing the daily injustices our current system causes people
@Unionhawk the weird thing is that we have an entirely insane mix of private and public healthcare in Germany, and despite the inherent insanity it works reasonably well
“It’s not that the contemporary GOP lacks values entirely. There is one tenet at its spine, a core ideal whose utility has not receded for the party and whose centrality is hard to dispute. That tenet is the desire for power.” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-trump-brian-kemp-duncan-hunter-midterms-lack-of-shame_us_5bce0cc6e4b0d38b587ae942
I saw you replied @Unionhawk but lol come on my dude
Single-payer, government-run health care would essentially destroy and obliterate
→ the private health insurance system,
→ the employer-sponsored health insurance system,
→ oh and by the way—Medicare as we know it. https://t.co/83fExtgIBF
@TimStone look if the founding fathers didn't want us to be run by corporations, they wouldn't have signed the constitution brought to you by amazon prime
Exclusive: Months before he was killed, Khashoggi was invited up to office of MBS's brother for a friendly meeting in the Saudi Embassy in D.C. Prince Khalid had been contacting Khashoggi for at least a year to try to persuade him to returnto Saudi Arabia. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/khashoggi-met-crown-prince-s-brother-amid-efforts-return-him-n923031?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
The name of a Democratic candidate for statewide office in Arkansas was left off the ballot in one county and the mistake wasn't discovered until 222 voters had cast early ballots. http://apne.ws/MKt64mA
you can't just handwave a tax cut now and VOTE LATER
thats not how taxes work
Of course the racist conspiracy theory came from fox
Trump tweeted a conspiracy theory about the migrant caravan shortly after Fox host Pete Hegseth rattled off a wholly unverified, specious claim about ISIS having infiltrated the asylum-seeking group https://thebea.st/2EyK0T8
*coughs* *in Alex Jones's voice* dam those gay frog-lizard hybrids controlling the deep state that is Twitter, they wont silence our lambs!
'As hard as he tries to stir up hate and divide us, we’ll fight back 10 times harder. 1.4 million transgender Americans #WontBeErased.' http://bit.ly/2AmKdoh