#BREAKING FIVE total people shot in Downtown Denver, per @DenverHealthMed. 1 was pronounced dead on scene. 4 taken to Denver Health. Conditions unknown at this time. @CBSDenver for more at 5 and 6.
NYC's top watchdog alleges De Blasio called him up screaming in an effort to kill an investigation into city neglect of lead paint problems in public housing https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-doi-commissioner-fights-firing-20181119-story.html
@TimStone To be fair, they tried to schedule inspections to check for that sort of thing, but people wanted to go vote instead, so really the city can't be blamed for this at all
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Act), it's an organized crime statute
Put extremely simply, anyway. Anytime there's some sort of conspiracy (like, people conspiring, not conspiracy theory) people are always like "OMG IT'S RICO!" but it's never actually RICO
I mean but probably also like yes in an "ever before" sense
Hmmm there is a link that makes Jacob Wohl's accusations look even worse which was funny but then I clicked through and it was written by the Krassensteins so now I'm just angry
The mayor of Elkhart, Ind., wants the Indiana State Police to investigate his city's troubled police department.
But the state police just said: No. That's a job for the feds.
The problem there? The feds no longer want that job.
@ProPublica @SBTribune
https://www.propublica.org/article/indiana-state-police-turn-down-elkhart-mayors-request-for-broad-review-of-citys-police-department
The @NWSSacramento has issued a Flash Flood Watch for the #CampFire Nov 21-23. Multiple agencies collaborated to prepare for post-fire flooding and debris flows in advance of rain. Residents are reminded to remain vigilant and be prepared. Press release: http://tinyurl.com/campfirefloodpreparedness
New @wesleysmorgan SCOOP: The Pentagon is set to begin a drawdown of its 5,800 troops from the Southwest border as early as this week, the Army commander overseeing the mission told POLITICO. https://politi.co/2Kgxxmq via @politico
Trump fans are spending their savings to buy millions of Iraqi dinars, convinced that Trump will use the near-worthless currency to make them rich. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-sink-savings-into-iraqi-dinar-scam
> Like other investors in the incredibly long-shot dinar scheme, Kotseos hopes that Trump and the Iraqi government will somehow “revalue” or “RV” the currency, boosting its current value of less than $0.001 to $3 or $4.
white nationalist cult, the Proud Boys, have finally been classified an extremist group https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/19/proud-boys-fbi-classification-extremist-group-white-nationalism-report?CMP=twt_gu
@Unionhawk I can't believe that a group whose founder has stated that he saw that the "left can't fight" and wanted to start a "gang" that "can fight" could possibly ever be considered extreme.
@Unionhawk it kinda bothers me that the ladies wing of the proud boys is called the "proud boys girls" instead of just the "proud girls" but i guess the sexism was already baked in
@GodEmperorDune yeah, at the end of the day, one of the primary driving forces behind these people is a healthy mix of toxic masculinity and dedication to conservative 50s gender roles
I suppose the second implies the first there to a degree, but
Mueller might soon bring charges that even Trump die-hards can't trivialize - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-litman-mueller-probe-blockbuster-developments-20181120-story.html
Aside from not just killing the turkey this isn't Trump's fault yet is still extremely dumb
Counterpoint though: The turkey is far more watchable than Sarah Sanders
> “One of the two turkeys will be selected via an online White House poll to become this year's National Thanksgiving Turkey. The turkeys have been carefully groomed for a White House event, trained from a young age to be comfortable with lights, crowds, and music to make them comfortable in the limelight.”
two in istanbul (a single district in european side), one in ankara, rest of them spread across turkey
I just watched a thing on one of them, apparently she was stabbed by a client, with client later saying shit like "I thought he was a woman, he turned out to be a man".
guess who is even more scared of having a job that involves a lot of traveling now
and FUCK YOU AMAZON
you've been delaying the knife I relied on for a week now, and I already waited over a month
(it's small because it's not that legal to carry around a knife for offense or defense reasons, so I went with something that I can reasonably claim that I can use as a tool to open stuff)
@Unionhawk ah but what about insider gentrification?
A couple Amazon employees bought condos in Long Island City *before* the company disclosed that would be its new HQ, and lawyers say that’s legal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-employees-join-the-rush-to-buy-long-island-city-condos-1542709801
@TimStone I don't believe he writes a statement like this entirely on his own, but it certainly has his voice. So either someone is channeling Trump, or he is editing or suggesting changes
This is, without a doubt, the most uninformed, imbecilic, toady, poorly-written, categorically untrue statement I have ever seen from a president of the United States. A complete disgrace. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-standing-saudi-arabia/
Like someone kept asking him about it and he threw his hands up and said "I'm gonna write a statement" and told his staff writers he didn't need them because they weren't as good as him
A written statement, issued in the President's name from the White House, puts the CIA's reported high confidence assessment on par with Saudi denials. How appointed intelligence leaders could continue to serve after this betrayal is beyond me. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-standing-saudi-arabia/?utm_source=twitter
.@realDonaldTrump pardons "Peas", one the National Thanksgiving Turkeys, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) @AP_Politics @AP_Images @AP
@GodEmperorDune I mean, idk. Like, parking starts out like "in city skylines, you need between 0.75 and 2 spaces per floor space of a building", but then goes in on "this is way more complicated in real life even and parking minimums do this images of a lot of empty parking lots in urban areas"
I plan to vote against any future arms sales and appropriation to Saudi Arabia. I also believe that the United States should consider sanctions against the crown prince and that the Saudi ambassador to the United States should not be allowed to continue in that role.
EXCLUSIVE on @AP — Never before publicly disclosed records show that student loan servicer
Navient may have steered thousands of borrowers into higher cost repayment plans, and that the Department of Education may have kept these documents from authorities.
> Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!
> Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an “enemy of the state” and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that – this is an unacceptable and horrible crime.
What's the point in mentioning this at all, if not to disparage the victim?
@Unionhawk this is really, really accurate for istanbul tbh
Thanks to gentrification, I pay more rent than my mom (who lives in Ankara), mom gets a three floor house in a nice spot, I get a single room that's in a less nice spot
> Famous, long-established phenomena—the stuff of textbooks and ted Talks—might not be real. There’s social priming, where subliminal exposures can influence our behavior. And ego depletion, the idea that we have a limited supply of willpower that can be exhausted. And the facial-feedback hypothesis, which simply says that smiling makes us feel happier.
@GodEmperorDune Yes, it's very frustrating that this field acted so irresponsibly that two separate, very bad things tarnished so much of their research output.
BREAKING: Ex-MSU President Lou Anna Simon charged with lying to police about Nassar investigation https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2018/11/20/msu-michigan-state-lou-anna-simon-larry-nassar-criminal-charges/2068121002/ via @LSJnews
This is a hell of thing to type, but I reviewed the UFC's unhinged propaganda film. https://deadspin.com/ufc-is-streaming-a-bizarre-donald-trump-propaganda-docu-1830519160
@puzzlepiece87 that non profits are more advanced and don't have the same toxic culture issues
iirc, they still don't have parity where exec leadership is fully representative of the population, but they are beyond "make sure that non-white/non-males get a chance to contribute in meetings and get credit for their ideas"
@GodEmperorDune This is a fallacious question. Gritty is not a person but an all-consuming, alt-right destroying, socialist, hivemind zeitgeist born from the depths of human insanity and our collective subconscious godhead.
In case anyone was in doubt, yes, Jeff Flake was somehow on the list despite his entire existence being predicated on not effecting change
You guys, something really interesting is happening with Amazon workers in Minnesota. A group of Somali workers organized and appear to be the first known group in the US to push Amazon to the table
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/technology/amazon-somali-workers-minnesota.html
Outbreak Alert: Do not eat any romaine lettuce, including whole heads and hearts, chopped, organic and salad mixes with romaine until we learn more. If you don’t know if it’s romaine or can’t confirm the source, don’t eat it. https://go.usa.gov/xPAy5
BREAKING: Trump tells reporters on the South Lawn that he's going to "complain" about the 9th circuit. Calls it a "disgrace." “It’s not going to happen like this anymore” via @asebenius
A couple Amazon employees bought condos in Long Island City *before* the company disclosed that would be its new HQ, and lawyers say that’s legal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-employees-join-the-rush-to-buy-long-island-city-condos-1542709801
EXCLUSIVE: White House lawyers warned the president in a memo that he could be impeached if he tried to get the Justice Department to investigate his rivals. w/@maggieNYT https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/us/politics/president-trump-justice-department.html
Right as Whitaker's financial disclosure drops, WaPo has a story $1.2 million windfall Whitaker reaped from an obscure nonprofit with no employees that's funded entirely by anonymous donors https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/conservative-nonprofit-with-obscure-roots-and-undisclosed-funders-paid-matthew-whitaker-12-million/2018/11/20/25ff987e-e9db-11e8-bd89-eecf3b178206_story.html