Nearly five hours later, Pence, Mulvaney and Kushner are still on the Hill, working behind closed doors. Less than four hours to go until part of the government shuts down.
motion for the sergeant at arms to call the senators back, do I have a second everyone is gone
I accuse you directly. You had sex repeatedly with minor victims provided to you by Jeffrey Epstein. https://twitter.com/alandersh/status/937695541269590016
After last-minute bargaining, AMR and the Teamsters have reach a tentative deal. I don't have details yet on what's in it. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-emts-reach-tentative-deal-with-employer-averting-strike/
@TimStone At this time they have not identified any victims and do not currently have a suspect. Police seem to believe no shots were fired, some reports indicated the initial message was that there was a fight in which a gun was drawn, so we'll see if that happened and if it may have snowballed from there
GPU producer Nvidia is the worst performer in the S&P 500 as crypto mining sales disappear
https://cointelegraph.com/news/following-crypto-mining-crash-gpu-producer-nvidia-worst-performer-in-sp-500
BREAKING: Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell as his frustration has intensified after this week’s interest-rate increase and months of stock-market losses.
Advisers close to Trump aren’t convinced he will try to do it, but say he wants to.
@TimStone fwiw Trump gave non-exempt workers Monday off and Tuesday is a holiday so hopefully this will impact the minimal number of people, though likely still those who it hurts the most :/
Indeed, though you could argue Powell could just...keep showing up to work, I guess. It's also not completely clear that everyone would be on board with him tanking the markets to make himself feel better
Everything else that's happened sure because they're all evil, but this is about money so
Rep. Adam Schiff: "If the President will deliver on his campaign promise and get Mexico to pay for it, then we may be able to work something out." http://hill.cm/PSapd1V https://t.co/QA9cGJI6D8
This USAF Gulfstream went jetting off to St. Martin ahead of the impending government shutdown:
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25635/this-usaf-gulfstream-went-jetting-off-to-st-martin-ahead-of-the-impending-government-shutdown
@GodEmperorDune take the offer quickly before Trump realises that those secret russian documents label Trumperation Trump: How to destroy American with Trump is still under the bed with the porn
Lancashire police admit they passed information about disabled people's involvement in anti-fracking protests to the DWP, in an apparent attempt to have their disability benefits removed https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/police-force-admits-passing-footage-of-disabled-protesters-to-dwp/ via @johnpringdns
1. Days after Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis resigns, Brett McGurk, the top diplomat leading the fight against ISIS, turns in his resignation letter, saying he cannot carry out Trump’s policy of withdrawing from Syria. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/world/brett-mcgurk-isis-resign.html
Well in this case McGurk replaced Allen under Obama and, given his pivotal role in keeping everything together, was likely focused specifically on not making that situation worse
I think it's the having no plan and leaving everyone to fend for themselves #yolo approach that is the ultimate issue here, since people will die
Which like, if you're the person responsible, you might feel guilty about. Unless you lead DHS or something, in which case you just don't bother keeping track of the people you've killed >_>
But yeah, Mattis is one thing, especially given Yemen, but in McGurk's case I don't fault him for doing what he could until what he was made to do was unconscionable
137 years of #climate anomalies visualized. Wait for it...
There is no more time to wait. We must speed action on #climatechange
#ActOnClimate #Climate #energy #cdnpoli #bcpoli @JustinTrudeau https://t.co/GD0qSJvKF5
Canadians going for the biological warfare. I guess we had it coming
Traveling this holiday season? Kindly adjust your attitude toward TSA agents at the airport. They are working without pay at Christmastime because Fox and Friends taunted the president and he has the emotional maturity of a five-year-old. Please RT Cc: @AFGENational
City of Inglewood to destroy more than 100 police shooting investigation records that could otherwise become public under new state law https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-city-of-inglewood-to-destroy-more-than-1545504782-htmlstory.html
Honestly at this point I'm just not entirely sure how "Oh yeah we definitely did something bad you just don't know what" is necessarily better than the alternative
Last night, while America was distracted by a potential government shutdown, the GOP quietly passed a tax bill that gutted the Johnson Amendment, which could give billionaires a tax break for funneling secret money into our elections through charities and churches.
BREAKING: The company owned by a foreign country that is challenging a grand jury subpoena in federal court in DC, and lost its challenge at the DC Circuit, has asked the US Supreme Court to step in. The case is under seal, so we have no additional information at this time.
Kansas Supreme Court rules 4-3 that cops can conduct warrantless search of private homes if they say they smell marijuana. Practical difference between this and "...whenever they please" is not clear. https://www.cjonline.com/news/20181208/kansas-supreme-court-decision-in-marijuana-case-hinges-on-lawrence-officers-sense-of-smell
Gonna have to upgrade the bodycams with smell-o-vision, because that's some bullshit
New from @PressSec — “Due to the shutdown, President Trump will remain in Washington, D.C. and the First Lady will return from Florida so they can spend Christmas together.”
New HuffPost/YouGov poll: Trump voters still expect Trump to build the wall and make Mexico pay for it. And they say it's important that he does. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-campaign-promises-border-wall-poll_us_5c1d32e0e4b05c88b6f88159
Yeah, I suspect the answer isn't based on that concession though
Remember when Donald Trump convened a commission because he was so concerned about voter fraud?
Turns out NC requested the DOJ do something about voter fraud there two years ago — which may have prevented the fraud that occurred #NC09 — and they declined. https://apnews.com/73c059acc31e4047a89cc0d1a8ce8710
@Frank @Wipqozn how are you both surprised by this? doesn't he try to pull this every time a government shutdown, only difference now is that the GOP can also blame the Dems because they control the lower house
(2/2) especially in light of my major trade negotiations which are ongoing, but I never suggested firing Chairman Jay Powell, nor do I believe I have the right to do so.”
@TimStone no, he actually said "nor do I believe I have the right to do so but who cares because i'm president and i can use an executive order like i always do"