> Unemployment in the Lone Star State has dropped to 3.8 percent—the lowest rate ever recorded. If that weren’t enough, the average Texas family has been able to save more than $2,000 on average thanks to December’s historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Heh, it still seems so weird to use such specific numbers!
Because if you're someone who did not save more than $2,000, that means you're worse than average
> Several of the books Dorr burned were included in a petition earlier this year asking that the books be banned or labeled as homosexual or transgender content.
i count that as a fail
.@AndrewGillum: "Our kids right now are going to school and being taught what to do in active shooter drills, rather than learning arts and science and language arts and history and culture and politics." http://hill.cm/79JjCTl https://t.co/ztvVQBNN0h
Actress and ex-Scientologist @LeahRemini says Trump administration official @LynnePatton sent her a tweet suggesting presidential interest in revoking the Church of Scientology’s tax exempt status https://twitter.com/leahremini/status/1054562898448539648
@TimStone great trade there, complicity and comforting racists because you are the one black person they like in exchange for a single person out of jail
@GodEmperorDune what's the worse that could happen aside from Tom Cruise stroking Trump's ego by telling him he is Xenu Reincarnated and Trump pushes to make Scientology the only religion
@TimStone *sigh* what is is being said now? that a kid raped her with his eyes as he was staring at the chocolate at the counter she was no where near?
this is coming from seeing that incident of the woman who said a kid molested her when all that happened was the kids backpack brushed her as he walked past
The Air Force has been spending $1,280 on special coffee mugs — $1,280 on *each* coffee mug, that is — and Republicans unflinchingly tell us the Pentagon needs more money.
Reminder: The Defense Department has NEVER completed an audit.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/22/air-force-spends-over-300-000-metal-coffee-mugs-raising-questions/1729890002/
They're not just regular mugs obviously but I'm still very confused why they're so expensive!
It talks about why the price increased but not how the hell this technology is different than that shit that plugs into your car
Supreme Court temporarily blocks deposition of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in suit challenging new citizenship question in next census. Gorsuch and Thomas would have gone further:
The Globe and Mail: Canada willing to freeze armoured vehicle exports to Saudi Arabia, Trudeau says. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-willing-to-freeze-armoured-vehicle-exports-to-saudi-arabia/
> Saudi Arabia is the second-biggest arms market for both Canada and Germany, purchasing about half a billion dollars in military goods from each annually. Berlin froze all exports Sunday until the Khashoggi investigation is concluded, but Ottawa has not matched that action.
why do you think medicare supplement insurance exists paul
my deductible is $3k paul
that means every year we have a choice of trying to go under that number, or going hog wild after going over that number every october
we literally billed cigna for 4 knee MRIs last year just because might as well get the full service while it's the 3 month period where they pay for stuff every year
and even then like, cigna forced that to be all on different days
meanwhile, in actual fascists
For example. Bolsonaro just gave a speech to his supporters TODAY and promised "a cleansing never before seen in the history of Brazil." He continued: "They will have to get out, or go to jail. Those red criminals will be banned from our fatherland."
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/amp/poder/2018/10/folha-e-a-maior-fake-news-do-brasil-diz-bolsonaro-a-manifestantes.shtml?__twitter_impression=true
@Unionhawk Now that Aetna has bought CVS I'm just waiting until the Insurance Nations battle it out Hunger Games style in a yearly ritual to cull the weak
She burnt THE FLAG Okay actually the state flag And the flag contains the confederate battle flag And I totally don't hold it against her THE FLAG
New WaPo/Schar poll of 69 battleground House districts, 63 of which are currently GOP-held
—48 races are about even
—Ds lead in 21 Hillary-won districts
—Among voters who dislike both parties, Ds lead by 15; in 2014, Rs led by 17 with this group
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/battleground-house-districts-remain-close-in-new-poll/2018/10/22/e6c77a32-d63e-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html
NYPD Sgt. Ann Guerra under investigation after she allegedly stuffed her panties down a fellow-officer’s throat when he complained about her leaving underwear in the unisex locker room
The victim officer filed a complaint and said Guerra told him he ‘has a little di**’ - NY Post
Wow: Investigators' queries to Roger Stone associates suggest "Mueller's team is skeptical of Stone's explanation that Randy Credico was his main intermediary, according to people familiar with interviews conducted by investigators."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/22/politics/roger-stone-wikileaks-contacts-scrutiny/index.html
@SaraMurray reports
Look it may not be the assholes we thought we wanted but if at least Manafort and Stone go down it'll still be pretty funny and good
Dow drops sharply in early trading as two industrial giants warn of trouble https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/dow-drops-sharply-as-two-industrial-giants-warn-of-trouble/2018/10/23/509fb3e4-d6c5-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html?utm_term=.1ec378893613
loooooooool Caterpillar is down 6% as a result of poor forecasting due to the rising cost of steel
"Take him seriously when he comes out with these things," says Kudlow of Trump call for additional 10% tax cut for middle income earners. Kudlow says the WH is working with the House Ways and Means Committee. He says the plan may not surface for a while, but take it seriously.
He's saying it will literally happen before midterms, a thing that cannot possibly happen
@Nzall lol, I didn't even see that
stares directly into the camera
A Chinese-owned pork producer is eligible for federal payments under President Trump’s $12 billion farm bailout, a program established to help U.S. farmers hurt by Trump’s trade war with China.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/chinese-owned-pork-producer-qualifies-for-money-under-trumps-farm-bailout/2018/10/23/154764da-d3ce-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html?utm_term=.6a41db07bfcd
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice in the US, shares information about her health with the nation in a letter that her family has asked to be distributed. The Supreme Court’s public information office sent it out this morning.
.@JudgeEckhardt says people who CAN boil water should refrain from buying tons of bottled water and leave that for people who can't, such as children in schools, elderly, other vulnerable populations. #AustinWater
JUST IN: A special prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges against #Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, who was accused of inappropriately touching a state lawmaker and other women during a party in March. https://bit.ly/2CzBQY2 (via @indystar)
tl;dr he definitely did it! But the special prosecutor doesn't believe they can prove it amounted to simple battery
President Trump is reportedly growing increasingly frustrated with the blanket news coverage of the #Khashoggi murder & how negative he personally believes he's being portrayed. Aides are telling him to focus more on the #MigrantCaravan, which is more politically advantageous... https://t.co/1wkzzcvewF
I swear to god if that charlie kirk "oh if america is bad why are people from honduras trying to come here" gets quoted on my tl like "because america backed a far-right coup in honduras in 2009 that has destroyed the country" one more time though
Former IWK CEO Tracy Kitch charged with fraud https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/iwk-hospital-ceo-tracy-kitch-1.4874547 Shared via the CBC News Android App
IWK is the local children's hospital
> The report, released Aug. 31, 2017, showed Kitch billed $47,000 in expenses deemed to be personal during her time as CEO.
@johnston_kelly Mr. Johnston, neither Mr. Soros nor Open Society is funding this effort. We are surprised to see a @CampbellSoupCo executive spreading false stories. We do support the historic U.S. commitment to welcoming people fleeing oppression and violence in their homelands.
@Unionhawk Majority of Republicans, welcome to the resistance?
> Yes, that's the president of the USA saying that all the citizens of this state [Texas] who went out in their "little boats", volunteering to help save neighbors and strangers are a bunch of dumbasses doing it to impress their wives and should do him a favor and stay home next time so the Coast Guard doesn't have to rescue them.
I did some reading and there are some implications that there's possibly some political motivations to get them there here in time to become a big mid-term election issue.
On the Mexican side, the Mexican ambassador in the USA, Geronimo Gutierrez, said:
> “We have evidence that this caravan is also very much politically motivated. We’re obviously sensitive to the humanitarian situation that we encounter, and we’re acting precisely. But we have also made very clear that there’s no legal ground on which Mexico can issue a permit by which people can just go through Mexico toward the United States."
Not a shocker, but the top performing stories containing "caravan" on Facebook in the last 24 hours come from:
1. Fox News (also the #1 performing link overall)
2. Breitbart
3. Fox News
4. Ben Shapiro
5. Daily Caller
6. Ben Shapiro
7. Daily Caller
8. News & Guts
9. Breitbart
I don't know. My first thought when I heard "political motivations" was some right-wing thing because everyone knows that, child separation aside, mass immigration is an issue that plays really well for Republicans among independents.
Brian Kemp expressed at a ticketed campaign event that his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams’ voter turnout operation “continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote.” 😐 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brian-kemp-leaked-audio-georgia-voting-745711/
Nuclear experts, as you all remember, the last announcement of an operational emergency at Pantex Plant was unrelated to Directed Stockpile Work, and involved a suspicious package in an administrative building.
Important not to overreact, as much as we want the clicks. https://twitter.com/PantexPlant/status/1054779316846911488
Make no mistake: Despicable acts of violence and harassment are being carried out by radicals across the political spectrum—not just by one side. Regardless of who is responsible, these acts are wrong and must be condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike. Period.
Precautions are being taken due to a security event. Access to FM2373 has decreased north of Hwy. 60. Other precautions include assistance from Carson County Sheriff and @AmarilloPD
> The Pantex Plant is the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
This is important. Piece by piece, the Trump admin is constructing a case that attacking Iran is covered by the 2001 AUMF. https://twitter.com/GEsfandiari/status/1054742589759541248
The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), Pub. L. 107-40, codified at 115 Stat. 224 and passed as S.J.Res. 23 by the United States Congress on September 14, 2001, authorizes the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001 and any "associated forces". The authorization granted the President the authority to use all "necessary and appropriate force" against those whom he determined "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the September 11th attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups.
The AUMF was signed by President George W...
Speaking of terrible things, brexit is going well, kinda sorta
BREXIT: I can’t believe I’m tweeting this about the U.K. in 2018 via @FT
Britain is drawing up plans to charter ships to bring in emergency food and medicines in the event of a “no-deal” Brexit next March, in a move greeted with disbelief at a stormy meeting of cabinet on today
Bay Area Curbside Communities Respond To UN Special Report On Homelessness Naming Oakland, San Francisco As Human Rights Violators
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/19/18818332.php
N.S. unveils how cap-and-trade system will affect cost of gas, electricity https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cap-and-trade-climate-change-environment-mcneil-1.4874444 Shared via the CBC News Android App
> Nova Scotians will be paying slightly more for gasoline, electricity, natural gas and heating oil over the next four years as a result of Nova Scotia's new cap-and-trade system.
> Nova Scotia is imposing a cap on the amount of carbon emissions that can be generated. Companies that pollute more will have to purchase credits from industries with lower emissions in order to pay for exceeding their targets.
> About two dozen of the province's largest polluters are, by law, expected to report on how much they emit and come up with ways to reduce those emissions over time.
The White House’s anti-socialism report inadvertently makes a case for single-payer
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/23/18014026/trump-socialism-single-payer
lol another Navy plane drew a sky-peen fantastic work tax dollars
in divorce filings, Richard Spencer's ex-wife says he beat and emotionally abused her https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/talalansari/richard-spencer-divorce-abuse-wife-allegations
I'm still having a hard time getting past Megyn Kelly being like "Ah blackface was okay when I was a kid" like that whole fact isn't how she ended up as a Fox News anchor
JUST IN: At least six children have died from an adenovirus outbreak at a nursing and rehabilitation center in New Jersey, officials say. https://abcn.ws/2D1oapE
What happened after a big ICE raid hit farms in a Nebraska town?
Laborers rarely leave their homes, families have split up, immigrants have left & many can't find jobs anymore.
“In this town, I don’t think there’s anything — it’s finished."
My latest:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/immigration-ice-oneill-nebraska-raid-workers-trump
@TimStone It's always been shortsightedness. We're roughly at the point where the first generation to have never seen the drastic changes that vaccines have brought are having children.
The people having kids right about now have been vaccinated and their parents have been vaccinated. And they're too young to have even seen the people in their grandparent's generation suffer polio, measles, etc.
@TimStone I'm not entirely sure you can use McConnell as any kind of example of any human being.
ted cruz renewed the domains for http://sleazydonald.us and http://daffydonald.us in february https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-donald-trump-sleazy-daffy-domains_us_5bce26dde4b055bc9483a7bc
the MyPillow ceo Mike Lindell tells me he’s headed to the Trump WH tomorrow to discuss opioids with the president; Kellyanne conway confirms, saying he’s ones of 20 “private sector entities” scheduled to attend the event https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-man-heads-to-trump-white-house-to-talk-opioids-and-drugs
1/3 We are cancelling our contract with @GOGcom and have asked them to remove our films from their platform immediately. Zombie Orpheus Entertainment does not do business with companies that express hate speech.
Damn, they deleted this quick.
Guess even the Gat0r-trash that helms the GOG Social Media accounts realized that this is gonna backfire.
But don't worry, here's a screenshot.
Yesterday, we posted a tweet containing a trending hashtag as a pun. The tweet was neither intended as a malicious attack, nor as a comment to the ongoing social debate.
GOG should focus only on games. We acknowledge that and we commit to it.
NEWS: Trump -- when pressed repeatedly by @acosta for evidence to support his claim of "Middle Easterners" in the migrant caravan -- says: "There's no proof of anything, but there could very well be."
I'm not sure if it's now even worse if the upcoming Cyberpunk game has pro-transgender themes. Given their clear reluctance to make changes with regards to GOG's social media presence, it would be rather hypocritical to be championing transgender issues on one front via Cyberpunk and this via GOG.
@TimStone Well, technically it's neither given that CDPR is itself a division of CD Projekt (in the sense that Github isn't a subsidiary of the Skype team at Microsoft).
BREAKING: Pompeo just announced the US is revoking visas for the Saudi agents accused of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
This is the Trump admin’s first concrete step to punish Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi's death
@TimStone Okay the full quote is, amazingly enough, bad
Full Trump quote on Saudi killing of Khashoggi:
“They had a very bad original concept. It was carried out poorly and the cover-up was one of the worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups. Very simple. Bad deal, should have never been thought of. Somebody really messed up.”
In the spirit of "hey maybe people don't see things that seem obvious to you because of your expertise:"
This is not only not an apology, it's a deliberate reassurance to the sort of GoG folks that would object to the basic humanity of trans people. https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/1054706033887793152
Right? I'm not sure what he's trying to say, like the "original concept" was murder, clearly, was it bad because it was murder or bad because it involved them thinking they could cover up said murder?
It's that weird internet edgy sort of apology, like "we're sorry you were offended" instead of "we are sorry we did the thing" - they're not sorry they did the thing, they're sorry that people took it badly, and it's a weird blame shift to like....those soft babies being sad over our harmless joke