> In November, Obama's name, which appeared to be painted at the top of the structure, was crossed out. A vandal reportedly wrote "Trump's" beside it in what appears to be black marker.
Each black dot is a tear gas canister thrown by USCBP at asylum seekers into Mexican soil. While police & military embrace it as a “humane approach” and “less-lethal”, its vital not to forget that it IS a chemical weapon, designed for physical and psychological torture.
Man 'pulled a bag of cocaine from his penis' during strip search in Newcastle police station
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/james-mason-whitley-bay-tyneside-15442297
On Fox & Friends, Border Patrol Foundation president defends pepper spraying latinx migrants because “it’s natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it.” https://t.co/QLdQXqqNno
* $GM TO ANNOUNCE SIGNIFICANT PLANNED REDUCTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN SALARIED, EXEC WORKFORCE - SOURCES
* GM DECISION PUTS FUTURE OF 3 GM ASSEMBLY PLANTS IN DOUBT - SOURCES
* GM TO STOP ALLOCATING PRODUCTS TO 3 NORTH AMERICAN ASSEMBLY PLANTS IN CANADA, OHIO, MICH
via @Reuters
....hundreds of people closely involved with my campaign who never met, saw or spoke to a Russian during this period? So many campaign workers, people inside from the beginning, ask me why they have not been called (they want to be). There was NO Collusion & Mueller knows it!
I mean, this is also the spin used for "a few bad apples" regarding the police.
Regarding the "latinx" thing, I suppose I'm also spoiled by growing up with a language where there is no gender conjugation and the only gendered pronouns are all homophones.
Just reported on @MSNBC: Jerome Corsi, a former associate of Roger Stone, tells NBC News that he has been offered a plea deal by Mueller on one count of perjury, related to WikiLeaks and Assange.
@TimStone oh yeah, they're phasing out the stuff on Oshawa, despite Ford's whole look at me slashing worker protections and giving businesses tax breaks because I am going to make sure there are jobs for Ontarians, because that's totally working out
Corsi tells me he’s been offered plea deal on one count of perjury. “They want me to say I willfully lied. I’m not going to agree that I lied. I did not. I will not lie to save my life. I’d rather sit in prison and rot for as long as these thugs want me to.”
I mean he makes shit up all the time, that's his thing, so probably
Politico: “More than a dozen” prominent Democratic donors say they’ll never donate or fundraise for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand because they’re upset with her for pushing Al Franken to resign when he faced groping allegations: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/26/al-franken-kirsten-gillibrand-2020-1014697
Remarkable how the grumbling at Gillibrand continues even after Sen. Tina Smith won by a bigger margin (10.4 points) and more total votes than Franken ever did.
https://twitter.com/EggerTWS/status/1067034612474568706
The new paint-job has some more hurdles to get over. It will need approval and will cost somewhere between $750-thousand and $1-million dollars to complete. https://wben.radio.com/articles/hamburg-watertower-design
and we tried a god damn vw which I expected to be way harder
use screws for the brake light thing like literally every other car manufacturer god dammit
also vw: use wheel nuts like literally every other car manufacturer (when you change a vw tire, you have to take out and replace the entire bolt so it's hard to get it lined up)
CNN: The most dangerous place for women is the home, a new UN study says. https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/health/home-most-dangerous-place-for-women-un-report/index.html
That anti-fake news “war room” Facebook gave a PR tour to pretty much every news outlet in the world? It’s already been disbanded. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/facebook-s-sheryl-sandberg-is-tainted-by-crisis-after-crisis
jury selection is moving along slowly. when we were allowed into the courtroom shortly before 10am, only 69 jurors remained. a pool of 28 has been selected at random & they’ll do the majority of voir dire individually in chambers.
ICYMI-- the Trump admin released TWO climate related reports Friday.
This one found drilling on public lands contributes nearly a quarter of all US greenhouse gas emissions
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/418242-public-land-drilling-contributes-a-quarter-of-all-greenhouse-gas
Yeah we keep talking about the need for a monumental shift which is still true but uhhhh it seems like we could start with this very specific, singular thing and get a good head start!
Between this and the top 100 polluting companies all being energy firms, largely oil, mmm
i’m going to head back to the courthouse momentarily but my ears are burning with the sound of defense counsel hill asking jurors “does anyone feel like using violence to defend yourself is never appropriate?”
With conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi facing a potential Mueller indictment, his one-time pal "Q" is now saying Corsi is a traitor who tried to infiltrate QAnon for the deep state.
An NPM package with 2,000,000 weekly downloads had malicious code injected into it. No one knows what the malicious code does yet. https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116
While I agree with the principle of the "you need to (somehow) audit your dependencies" camp, seems extremely bad to just hand the keys over to the first complete rando who shows up!
In the github comments it seems that the malicious code is trying to steal bitcoin wallets, because of course
> I've included a break down of what I have so far on flatmap-stream below. It includes the portion of code not found in the unminified source of flatmap-stream@0.1.1 but found in the minified source. The code has been cleaned up a little to get a better understanding.
Goldman Sachs financed a deal that got special treatment in the tax code for backing real estate in low income areas.
The neighborhood where they did the deal: Long Island City.
And the deal closed the exact same day as Amazon's HQ announcement. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/goldman-lucks-into-amazon-windfall-chasing-a-tax-break-in-queens
There’s a new Draft Beto PAC.
https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00692020/?tab=filings
It shares a treasurer with the scammy Democratic Coalition Against Trump PAC. https://www.thedailybeast.com/cash-for-coalition-against-trump-going-into-consultants-pockets-instead
.@AndreaSCousins has been elected leader of the Senate Democratic Conference by her colleagues. She becomes the first woman to lead a major conference in New York State state history.
Inbox: “FOX Nation, the new on demand subscription-based service debuting tomorrow, will present a weekly video with conservative social media stars Diamond & Silk, announced John Finley, Senior Vice President of Development and Production.”
Yeah but they have to put Shep on sometimes to maintain the faintest semblance of actual reporting so they can just skip that part now
If you want details on what happens as @NASAInSight lands on Mars, @elakdawalla has you covered.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2018/mars-insight-landing-preview.html
so the flat earthers, who can fly in a plane across the earth to see how round it is, are ok with mars being round, depsite not being anywhere close to experiencing it?
in a reply to our favorite billionaire from south africa named elon, to a tweet about "why is there no flat mars society", some I think blue check flat earth account was like "we've seen mars is how we know"
@GodEmperorDune Yeah you can observe it being round from earth but any time you try to observe earth being round that's just people in on the conspiracy working against you
....and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!
And for the record I don't think there's anything particularly sacred about the human form, I care about it more from a standpoint of reckless unintended consequences and furtherance of inequality.
@GodEmperorDune @Yuuki Played the free weekend, enjoyed, wishlisted
> Others found little comfort in the assurances from He’s YouTube video. “It would be if you and I as physicians developed a cold fusion reactor ... without ever having done nuclear reactor design, flipped the switch without any safety inspection or even checking if it produced power, and then posted a vid on Instagram,” said Sandip Patel, an immunologist at University of California at San Diego on Twitter.
oh yay, it seems the team messed up the informed consent for the parents too
> It is also unclear if the participants in He’s trial were fully aware of what they were signing up for. The team’s informed-consent document describes their work as an “aids vaccine development project,” and while it describes crispr gene-editing, it does so in heavily technical language. It doesn’t mention any of the risks of disabling CCR5, and while it does note the possibility of off-target effects, it also says that the “project team is not responsible for the risk.”
> He owns two genetics companies, and his collaborator, Michael Deem from Rice University, holds a small stake in, and sits on the advisory board of, both of them. AP’s Marchione reports, “Both men are physics experts with no experience running human clinical trials.”
When you’re chatting with customer service, know that the “send” button is an illusion. Most of the agents see what you are typing in real time: https://hmmdaily.com/2018/11/26/customer-service-chats-are-watching-you-type-before-you-hit-enter/
@GodEmperorDune Lowering taxes by having the method of transaction bottom out between the time of payment and the time of processing by the state, everyone's favourite lose-lose scenario
Jury seating in the trial of James Alex Fields is going slow, but will probably be done tomorrow (it's a larger pool, and a higher profile case than previous trials related to events of that day)
defense motion for change of venue is under advisement, but hasn't been ruled on. If they somehow strike everyone, it could come up, but that seems unlikely.
New from @thedailybeast: An autopsy of Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez, a trans asylum seeker from Honduras, shows evidence of physical abused and medical neglect while she was in ICE custody, leading to her death in May. #JusticeForRoxsana
The thrust of his video seems to be that the federal government owning public land is BAD and that public land should be transferred to the states because states are GOOD. Something something true democracy something something the people.
Completely ignoring that so many states want public federal land so they can go on ahead with drilling and selling stuff to corporations.
federal regulators have a lot of problems, but i don't understand how shunting responsibility to the states is supposed to solve all of them
The IS the shot of the day as Tunisians, who managed to preserve their revolution against tyranny, protest the upcoming visit of #Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. #Khashoggi #Tunisia
i'm in a hipster coffee shop and the leftists here are all jealous that i've been banned from futures trading by the SEC
Status report on Manafort: "After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement."