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12:50 AM

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

Tweeted by nktpnd on October 22, 2018 at 12:48 AM

Sea creature described as "headless chicken monster" spotted in Antarctic Ocean during a test of underwater camera technology https://abc7.la/2yrpSwE

Tweeted by ABC7 on October 22, 2018 at 12:51 AM

I mean reality is just screwing with us now right?

Memor-X

1:06 AM

@TimStone or Australians just happen to keep finding monsters no matter where in the world we go

which doesn't discount reality just fucking with us

Unionhawk

1:36 AM

@TimStone erdo please keep your pants on when detailing these things

Memor-X

1:56 AM

@TimStone i read his name as Eroge Dragon for a reason it seems

Memor-X

4:08 AM

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

Tweeted by SBSNews on October 22, 2018 at 1:47 AM

Netflix has been accused of deceiving black users with its film artwork http://bit.ly/2CycVE7

Tweeted by SBSNews on October 22, 2018 at 3:26 AM

> "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)

Wipqozn

10:49 AM

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.

→ 1 message moved to The Bridge

Phew! It's a good thing the move message is longer than the delete link or that could've happened.

Unionhawk

11:46 AM

A Labour government will ban fracking immediately. https://t.co/QJQrs7blYJ

Tweeted by jeremycorbyn on October 22, 2018 at 6:31 AM

Nzall

1:42 PM

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

Tweeted by Nataliekitro on October 21, 2018 at 5:24 PM

> The company also disputed that the warehouse was windowless, noting that there were a number of interior windows.

And the award of the day for comically missing the point goes to...

GodEmperorDune

2:23 PM

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

Tweeted by mcquillanator on October 22, 2018 at 2:16 PM

uruguay passes trans rights bill

Tim Stone

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.

Tweeted by merica on October 22, 2018 at 2:21 PM

lol

Unionhawk

(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)

Yuuki

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

@Yuuki or just "don't convict white collar criminals"

Yuuki

@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".

Tim Stone

2:34 PM

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

Tweeted by bkesling on October 22, 2018 at 2:29 PM

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 🤷🏼‍♂️

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone jeez when even this congress thinks its a bad move

GodEmperorDune

2:55 PM

ah jared, saying the quiet part loud

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

Tweeted by CNNPolitics on October 22, 2018 at 2:34 PM

Unionhawk

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

I believe in you marco

you can do it

GodEmperorDune

all that saudi money was well spent in tech

"they can't be so bad, they invested in uber"

Unionhawk

gotta recycle pro-israel stuff

lol

"hmm how will BDS people survive without such important tech like sodastream, waze, and caterpillar bulldozers"

Yuuki

3:17 PM

@GodEmperorDune It's the "you claim to hate capitalism/Saudi Arabia and yet you have money/tech" tactic.

Tim Stone

3:30 PM

You're against climate change but you're still breathing out carbon dioxide checkmate scientists

Wipqozn

3:58 PM

"Trump vows to cut Central America aid, calls migrant caravan an emergency" - reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-caravan/…

GodEmperorDune

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

Tweeted by RobertMaguire_ on October 22, 2018 at 3:31 PM

@Wipqozn oh is that what he meant in that racist tweet?

Mad Scientist

@GodEmperorDune that's probably part of a tax fraud scheme, or?

Yuuki

@Wipqozn "Due to the dry season, we are undergoing a serious fire epidemic. As a result, I have cut funding to all fire departments."

GodEmperorDune

@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

Tim Stone

> 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,”

rubs temples

Yuuki

4:11 PM

@TimStone sic?

Tim Stone

I'm assuming

Yuuki

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.

puzzlepiece87

4:26 PM

@Yuuki @Wipqozn Exactly, love to make the problem worse

Wipqozn

@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

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn he recently did one where a caravan of refugees was not only icky latinx people but also secret middle easterners and “an emergy”

@Yuuki yes

Qanon is gonna be all over that typo

Tim Stone

@Yuuki I chose to believe he combined two words into one

@GodEmperorDune lol yes

Yuuki

Ugh, my early voting location is nowhere close to me.

Hmm... there's another location that's close to my work.

But my workplace is in a different district than my home, I think.

Mad Scientist

The farthest by voting location has been was around 500m, but I haven't voted in many different places

Wipqozn

4:39 PM

@Yuuki Welcome to voter disenfranchisement!

Yuuki

My election day location (which has been the same for years now) is really close to my house.

Mad Scientist

there is no early voting here at all

Yuuki

@Wipqozn I wouldn't be counting this as voter disenfranchisement simply because this is early voting.

Unionhawk

yeah in Ohio you can only early vote at the board of elections

typically at the county seat

Wipqozn

@MadScientist I think it might be legally required in Canada, because it's been a thing for as long as I remember

Yuuki

4:40 PM

I figured I might want to try early voting this year but I guess I won't be.

Early voting locations are required in the US if the county has a large enough population.

Mad Scientist

we vote on Sundays, and I've never seen any significant lines, so it's not really necessary

Unionhawk

there was a chart of average time to vote by race floating around

you will uh

never guess

Wipqozn

Not sure about legal but we always have it: elections.ca/…

@MadScientist You must just set up a lot of locations, then. Is there a way for folks to vote without going to a polling station?

Mad Scientist

@Wipqozn you can vote by mail, if you request it

Wipqozn

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.

5 days total

Only having 1 day just seems nuts

Unionhawk

4:43 PM

I love my job at the cincinnati post office where I destroy all absentee votes against issue 1

Wipqozn

@MadScientist yeah we do that too

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.

That's really great.

Tim Stone

@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

Tweeted by ajassy on October 22, 2018 at 3:57 PM

(head of AWS)

Bloomberg really screwed up there, huh

Mad Scientist

@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).

Tim Stone

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

Tweeted by huffpostqueer on October 22, 2018 at 4:30 PM

:|

Mad Scientist

hmm, found some numbers for an older election, and in my city it's around 1 voting place for ~1350 people

Wipqozn

4:52 PM

@TimStone inb4 they win because religious rights trump all others

Because cake

Tim Stone

I'm just trying to figure out what the legal argument even is here, I guess something based off the fact it's a "public" library?

"Don't attend the book reading you weren't going to attend anyway" "BUT MAH RELIGIONS"

Hard to see how that would make the entire library somehow inaccessible and therefore be a potentially discriminatory action

Wipqozn

@TimStone I'm pretty sure the legal argument amounts to 'We hate homosexuality'

Yuuki

@TimStone I was not aware we had a Drag Queen Storytime program.

Tim Stone

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

Tweeted by ragipsoylu on October 22, 2018 at 4:46 PM

lol

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

Tweeted by dave_brown24 on October 22, 2018 at 4:47 PM

More lol

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

Wipqozn

5:26 PM

@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

Unionhawk

what

Tim Stone

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/

Tweeted by eorden on October 22, 2018 at 5:27 PM

Ahhh, good times

Dear SQLite developers: this is truly a bizarre hill to die on https://www.sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html

Tweeted by bascule on October 22, 2018 at 4:09 PM

:|

Wipqozn

5:43 PM

@TimStone I.. Wait what?

I'm so confused

Tim Stone

People asked for a code of conduct so they responded with this trolling, basically

Wipqozn

Okay in that case this is hilarious as it is a huge asshole move

Yuuki

So in making a joke out of a request for a code of conduct, they proved that they should probably have a code of conduct?

Unionhawk

6:11 PM

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

Tim Stone

Hmm this is like the third time in the last month the police have shown up at this house across the street 🤔

Tim Stone

6:35 PM

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

Tweeted by tedcruz on October 19, 2018 at 9:26 PM

lmfao @Yuuki

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

Tweeted by jeffmason1 on October 22, 2018 at 6:06 PM

Ah that'll show them John, great work

Yuuki

6:53 PM

> The left-wing Chron

wololololol

Tim Stone

"He's not lying Ted anymore. He's beautiful Ted." - @realDonaldTrump just now

Tweeted by KateBennett_DC on October 22, 2018 at 6:49 PM

Existing is so painful

Yuuki

@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

Tweeted by TejanoKe on October 20, 2018 at 12:07 PM in reply to tedcruz

Tim Stone

Just an immensely unlikable man

Trump also said his new nickname for Cruz is “Texas Ted.”

Tweeted by kaitlancollins on October 22, 2018 at 7:00 PM in reply to kaitlancollins

rubs temples

Unionhawk

7:39 PM

Ambulance crew seen rushing into Lenin’s Mausoleum... Is he back? https://on.rt.com/9h00 https://t.co/uG0Xs22gnB

Tweeted by RT_com on October 22, 2018 at 7:30 PM

sorry RT simpsons did it

GodEmperorDune

8:15 PM

@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/

Tweeted by ASlavitt on October 22, 2018 at 7:39 PM in reply to ASlavitt

love to buy insurance in 2018 that doesn't cover depression or anxiety

Yuuki

I’m not one for “tit for tat”, but if pregnancy isn’t going to be covered, then at the very least erectile dysfunction shouldn’t be covered either.

Unionhawk

isn't dialysis like, specifically covered for every person by medicare

Mad Scientist

@GodEmperorDune I looked at the list for the stuff I know to be really expensive, and all of that is on it

Unionhawk

or is it just 100% covered for regular medicare patients (65+)

GodEmperorDune

8:31 PM

@MadScientist yeah i dunno what sort of value you get as a consumer in buying insurance that doesn't cover these things

which is why obamacare made it illegal to do stuff like this

Mad Scientist

@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)

Unionhawk

the entire idea of private health insurance is dumb

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk yes, but this is where we are now

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"

Unionhawk

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

Mad Scientist

@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

Mad Scientist

8:56 PM

Donald Trump: US will build up nuclear arsenal

Let's just hope he isn't in power long enough for that to actually happen

GodEmperorDune

@MadScientist another colossal waste of money

trump has such a hardon for nukes

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune It's the devastation, the nuclear.

GodEmperorDune

they can kill a lot of people and wreck a lot of infrastructure but are also extremely easy to figure out who did it

and also have an extremely messy cleanup

hacking (aka "the cyber") is much more cost effective

and much more of a legal gray area too

he is so stupid, i can't even

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune I guess Trump prefers nuking people to cybering them.

GodEmperorDune

9:22 PM

“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

Tweeted by chick_in_kiev on October 22, 2018 at 8:58 PM

Tim Stone

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

Tweeted by SpeakerRyan on October 22, 2018 at 12:56 PM

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone r u serious bro

@TimStone lol @uni, great reply

Tim Stone

It's just such an insane argument

GodEmperorDune

changing things would change things

Tim Stone

Employer-sponsored health insurance only started in earnest after WWII

GodEmperorDune

9:27 PM

spooky music

Tim Stone

And I'm not sure anyone's like "Ah yeah that worked out well"

GodEmperorDune

@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

Tim Stone

And who tf likes their insurance company?

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone the CEOs of said insurance company?

Tim Stone

I dunno I'd take the golden parachute over running a private insurer

GodEmperorDune

9:30 PM

mister bone saw is busted again

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

Tweeted by kylegriffin1 on October 22, 2018 at 9:25 PM

oops this is brother of mister bone saw

GodEmperorDune

10:17 PM

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

Tweeted by APCentralRegion on October 22, 2018 at 10:14 PM

Memor-X

10:52 PM

@GodEmperorDune "mistake" ha

GodEmperorDune

Tweeted by ddale8 on October 22, 2018 at 10:44 PM

he doesn't understand how any of this works

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

Tweeted by thedailybeast on October 22, 2018 at 10:40 PM

GodEmperorDune

11:22 PM

alex jones is quite upset with beto (and/or extremely confused about who beto is)

Yuuki

11:33 PM

Please tell me this is in Dallas.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i thought the trump/cruz rally was in houston

Yuuki

11:56 PM

@GodEmperorDune plsno

I refuse to countenance the presence of Trump, Cruz, and Alex Jones in my city.

Memor-X

#BREAKING: Twitter suspends over a dozen accounts linked to Infowars http://hill.cm/fPnjVBy

Tweeted by thehill on October 22, 2018 at 11:55 PM

*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

Tweeted by SBSNews on October 22, 2018 at 11:13 PM

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