This Is Fine

Tim Stone

12:16 AM

Yeah but we could just blame them for that separately

Tweeted by ditzkoff on February 19, 2019 at 12:12 AM

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user15026

Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki FYI US Marshals run Witsec.

@Ash Wow, that safety manager has blown not one but two whistles. Good person it seems!

Tim Stone

1:15 AM

It's official: A coalition of 16 states has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that Trump's emergency declaration is unconstitutional, WaPo reports. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/02/18/states-file-federal-lawsuit-claiming-trumps-national-emergency-declaration-is-unconstitutional/?utm_term=.70536fa366c6

Tweeted by kylegriffin1 on February 19, 2019 at 12:45 AM

Memor-X

President @realDonaldTrump: "The twilight hour of socialism has arrived in our hemisphere, and frankly, in many, many places around the world. The days of socialism and communism are numbered, not only in Venezuela, but in Nicaragua and in Cuba as well." http://hill.cm/Tc78Dkj https://t.co/Y8HbPaSxlE

Tweeted by thehill on February 18, 2019 at 11:32 PM

more or less @Unionhawk's second post

NEW: Kremlin seeks more control over internet in Russia http://hill.cm/tPwVahl

Tweeted by thehill on February 18, 2019 at 11:05 PM

Unionhawk

love 2 have president cold warrior

Unionhawk

1:41 AM

WV teachers are truly at it again

Tweeted by alexnpress on February 19, 2019 at 1:22 AM in reply to alexnpress

At the current moment, only 2 counties are open

Tim Stone

2:09 AM

Justice news: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave the Justice Department in mid-March —@LauraAJarrett reports

Tweeted by joshscampbell on February 19, 2019 at 2:08 AM

Unionhawk

54/55

Wipqozn

A Florida boy was arrested after refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in class

> An 11-year-old boy in Florida was arrested after he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in class and allegedly refused to listen to orders from school officials and a resource officer.

> After the boy told his substitute teacher that the American flag is racist, she asked him, according to her report to the school, “Why if it was so bad here, he did not go to another place to live.” The boy reportedly responded, “They brought me here.” The teacher then said, “Well, you can always go back, because I came here from Cuba, and the day I feel I’m not welcome here anymore, I would find another place to live.”

> A school spokesperson told Yahoo Lifestyle that students aren’t required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in class, but the substitute teacher “was not aware of this” and that the teacher “will no longer be allowed to substitute at any of our schools.”

and yet the kids is still suspended and charged...

> The student was taken to a juvenile detention center and charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence. He was also suspended for three days.

There's really not words to describe just how fucked up this entire thing is

Memor-X

2:34 AM

@Wipqozn yeh

aside from "that's fucked"

Unionhawk

I've got a post queued up for when this 55th alert comes in

waiting on Putnam County

Memor-X

2:50 AM

Graham calls for investigation into possible "bureaucratic coup" to remove Trump http://hill.cm/gcy5iq1

Tweeted by thehill on February 19, 2019 at 1:29 AM

GodEmperorDune

3:48 AM

@TimStone yeah i had to do this, it's a pain in the ass to calculate

@TimStone i predict this is going to become a standing mess

Unionhawk

4:08 AM

calling it

Schools across 54 of 55 West Virginia counties are CLOSED due to a work stoppage by teachers and school service workers. One year after the strikes in 2018, they now fight against retaliatory legislative action tying future raises to increases in class sizes among other things

I'll ping @TimStone if that updates to "all"

Memor-X

10:13 AM

Brexit III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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^ learned from that what the Irish Backstop was and also that Brexit is even worse than i had thought

and he make a good point, we elect people to make fact based decisions for us which is what Brexit isn't

Kevin

12:39 PM

All schools in #Harrison Co closed Tue 2/19/19 due to work stoppage

Tweeted by WVSnowDay on February 19, 2019 at 1:08 AM

Is that just a single county? I don't get how america works (spoiler: it doesn't)

Unionhawk

@Kevin yes

The official and presumably final is all except Putnam County

Kevin

Ah

Ave

1:04 PM

Bernie Sanders announces run for presidency in 2020

this makes me happy

Nzall

@Ave Let's hope the democrats don't make the same mistake they did in 2016

So we might finally be able to end eternal 2016

Unionhawk

2:04 PM

you best start believing in the 2016 primary,,, you're in one

(this primary is going to be excruciating)

(like vastly dumber than last time)

@Unionhawk Update: busses are not running in Putnam County.

Buns Glazing

Online debate about face masks being racist apparently rages

Lol?

Unionhawk

schools are open on paper in that county, but there is a work stoppage by bus drivers

Nzall

Karl Lagerfeld has passed away

Kevin

2:19 PM

@Unionhawk School busses are still a weird concept for me

Buns Glazing

I know that's not really "news" but I felt compelled to share, lol

Domestic abuse survivor speaks out

MBraedley

@Kevin Even in Europe, there have to be some students that get a school bus to school.

Buns Glazing

That is super awful

Kevin

@MBraedley Probably! Probably even some in the netherlands, but that's not a school bus

That's just regular public transport

googles Yeah they're just regular public transport that anyone can use

Also I see your sneaky edits being sneaky @MBraedley

Near as I can tell anyway, basically the country is small enough that people just take the bike

MBraedley

So where I grew up, school buses were how rural community students got to the high school in town. The town isn't big enough to have public transit, but some students were coming as far as ~20km away.

Kevin

2:27 PM

Friend of mine lived 10 kilometers away from the school

MBraedley

@Kevin In most (all?) of Canada, that student would take a bus all through high school.

Kevin

Bikes easier, it's only half an hour =p

MBraedley

Yes, but that same bus is already coming from 20km out, and it's not much for them to stop and pick up more students along the way.

Kevin

If it were 10 km further away there'd be a different school much closer

Unionhawk

yeah but that's because the netherlands is only 30km across

Kevin

2:31 PM

Well yes

I did mention that

Yuuki

2:52 PM

@puzzlepiece87 You see, now that you mentioned this, I remember. Mainly because I watched Eureka, where the main character used to be a US Marshal.

> Father spinning gun on finger accidentally shoots self at daughter's birthday party

Thanks, Houston.

(i hate my city sometimes)

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki Yup, I watched In Plain Sight.

BradC

3:13 PM

Just published: My interview with McCabe, who told me concerns about whether Trump "posed a national-security threat that we should be investigating had been building for some time" before Comey's firing—& that not opening a case wasn't a credible option. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/mccabe-warns-trump-mueller-undeterred/583000/

Tweeted by NatashaBertrand on February 19, 2019 at 1:10 PM

Good interview, lots of substantial quotes

Unionhawk

3:39 PM

Mermaids and The National Lottery Community Fund The National Lottery Community Fund has confirmed that it will be supporting Mermaids with a grant of £500,000 over the course of 5 years. https://www.mermaidsuk.org.uk/mermaids-and-the-national-lottery-community-fund.html

Tweeted by Mermaids_Gender on February 19, 2019 at 2:38 PM

(the funding had been "under review" because of an email campaign coordinated by graham linehan)

Tim Stone

3:56 PM

Roger Stone has, shockingly, been ordered to appear before the judge he definitely made threats and then tried to file an apology to

stares directly at camera, for the umpteenth time

Beware of buying young people's blood to prevent aging, the FDA says https://bloom.bg/2SIkrG1

Tweeted by business on February 19, 2019 at 3:44 PM

Yuuki

@TimStone :|

Oh hey, is this where millennials can complain about the FDA killing an industry?

Tim Stone

Former Rep. Joe Crowley joins lobbying firm that represents Amazon, Samsung, Royal Dutch Shell, Proctor & Gamble, UnitedHealth https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000067299&year=2018 https://www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/news/2019/02/crowley-and-shuster-join-squire-patton-boggs

Tweeted by JStein_WaPo on February 19, 2019 at 3:19 PM

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NEW: Whistleblowers sounded alarms about plan backed by Trump advisers to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, House Oversight Committee says in new report. -@benyc @mattmosk https://abcn.ws/2DOrN08

Tweeted by evanmcmurry on February 19, 2019 at 4:03 PM

Wait what

Yuuki

@TimStone what

Tim Stone

Look it's everyone's favourite players!

Flynn, Barrack, McFarlane

In case you haven't heard of McFarlane recently,

> Robert “Bud” McFarlane, 81, who resigned as President Ronald Reagan’s national security advisor during the Iran-Contra scandal and later pleaded guilty in 1988 to charges involving the withholding of information from Congress, has been a global consultant in the security and energy sectors in recent years

Kevin

I think @Unionhawk said it best:

18 hours ago, by Unionhawk

this country is dumb

Yuuki

4:11 PM

@TimStone So it's Iran-Contra but this time it's nukes instead of guns and the Saudis instead of Iranian rebels.

Tim Stone

Ostensibly nuclear power technology but if the whole concern about Iran is that their enrichment process could be used for nuclear weapons then yeah

puzzlepiece87

@Unionhawk Ah, this is the Donkey Kong/AOC group, they sounded familiar.

Tim Stone

4:27 PM

@TimStone (not least because this should require Congressional approval which they're trying to sidestep)

Tim Stone

4:40 PM

Ex-Sessions spokesperson @whignewtons is joining CNN as political editor, helping coordinate 2020 coverage: https://politi.co/2NgcSjY w/ @elianayjohnson

Tweeted by mlcalderone on February 19, 2019 at 4:24 PM

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BradC

Oh boy. Judge Amy Berman Jackson doesn't seem happy with Roger Stone.

Tweeted by NatashaBertrand on February 19, 2019 at 3:29 PM

BradC

5:13 PM

I'm in @TheAtlantic today about Roger Stone's busy holiday. Dude, just go to a barbecue or something. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/roger-stones-online-attack-judge-amy-berman-jackson/583048/

Tweeted by Popehat on February 19, 2019 at 3:08 PM

> “I’m sorry, Your Honor, but my client only intended to insult you and didn’t even notice the crosshairs” is not the defense I’d choose, but we go to court with the clients we have, not the clients we want.

> Never gratuitously annoy the person who is deciding how long you’ll spend in federal prison. I shouldn’t have to tell people these things, but here we are.

Tim Stone

I'm always tickled when I remember he's still using my background image

BradC

5:27 PM

@TimStone who is, Ken White?

Tim Stone

5:59 PM

Yeah

Tim Stone

6:30 PM

.@CNN your political director called you the Clinton News Network

Tweeted by JesseLehrich on February 19, 2019 at 5:17 PM in reply to JesseLehrich

NEW: Trump raised with acting AG Whitaker the idea of getting the U.S. attorney in New York to "unrecuse" himself from Cohen investigations. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/trump-investigations.html w/@MarkMazzettiNYT @maggieNYT @npfandos

Tweeted by nytmike on February 19, 2019 at 6:14 PM

Congrats to everyone who predicted the inevitable Elon Musk + PewDiePie collab https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/pewdiepie-elon-musk-meme-review-youtube-t-series-sub-count-a8786141.html

Tweeted by TaylorLorenz on February 19, 2019 at 4:35 PM

...God damnit

Tim Stone

7:04 PM

Now @LynnePattonHUD is stuck in the elevator https://t.co/F7lX2aFctR

Tweeted by courtneycgross on February 19, 2019 at 4:53 PM

lmfao

Unionhawk

8:13 PM

VICTORY IN WEST VIRGINIA: Under pressure from today's teachers' strike, the Republican-led House just voted 53-45 to kill the pro-privatization bill. Strikes work — and West Virginian educators have again made history. https://t.co/f0um1SMV1P

Tweeted by jacobinmag on February 19, 2019 at 6:01 PM

Tim Stone

8:48 PM

Excellent

puzzlepiece87

9:24 PM

@Unionhawk Great news.

Not related to anything:

> One time, my wife (then girlfriend) and I were at her brother’s house for a game night of Cranium.

I don’t remember the exact details (probably because I was in hysterics) but someone asked my wife what caused the US to enter WWII.

Now, my wife is not very history savvy. Probably her least knowledgeable subject. I, on the other hand, loooove history.

Point is, she didn’t know the answer. Her guess was the Boston Tea Party.

I lost my shit, and so did she and everyone else. To this day, if my wife doesn’t know the answer to something, I tell her to write down “Boston tea party.”

From the very enjoyable Reddit thread What's the silliest thing your significant other has done

Yuuki

9:46 PM

@puzzlepiece87 Technically speaking, she's not wrong.

If the grievances leading up to the Boston Tea Party didn't happen, would there be a US to enter WWII?

🤔

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki You want tapshead.gif here lol

Yuuki

@puzzlepiece87 Can't put a tapshead.gif if it's not an emoji.

🤔

Memor-X

10:06 PM

@BradC yeh but people are dumb so you have to tell them....and also remind them that lying is also a crime so don't do that either

@TimStone and when this doesn't work, they'll do a Paul + PewDiePie colab

which Paul? i don't know, which ever one is the most annoying who hasn't been punched in the head enough yet

GodEmperorDune

10:21 PM

@TimStone first the caching site, now this. How many memes are you responsible for?

Tim Stone

I mean I haven't reached @Ave levels of memeing or anything but I do alright, I do alright

I actually forget what exactly that was in response to because it seems the person's account was suspended

BradC

@Yuuki sure you can

Tim Stone

I think they were calling him an ambulance chaser or something?

Yuuki

@BradC :tapshead:

:|

Tim Stone

10:49 PM

The Alabama Press Association has voted to censure Goodloe Sutton and suspend the membership of the Democrat-Reporter following the publication of an editorial calling for the Ku Klux Klan to "night ride again." #alpolitics

Tweeted by lyman_brian on February 19, 2019 at 10:24 PM

Memor-X

11:07 PM

Steve King asks for Congressional Record correction over white supremacist quote http://hill.cm/o6G9G4s

Tweeted by thehill on February 19, 2019 at 10:16 PM

> King claimed that the quote should instead read as the following, with a hyphen instead before he mentions "Western civilization": "White nationalist, white supremacist — Western civilization, how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”

ummmm, is that any different?

> "According to my actual words, the question 'how did that language become offensive?' clearly referred only to the term 'Western Civilization.'

yeh, no

personally i read it as a question to Western civilization why language like White nationalist and white supremacist is offensive

Tim Stone

11:32 PM

I mean at best he's saying white nationalism and white supremacy are components of Western civilization which…true, but not in a way that's useful to his point 🤔

puzzlepiece87

DeepFakes writing bot for news stories and other genres so good that researchers decline to release it publicly

Tim Stone

In a letter to @SecretaryRoss, @OfficeGovEthics informs him he is in violation of his ethics agreement because he reported on his financial disclosure form that he had sold bank stock that other reports indicate he still holds.

Tweeted by W7VOA on February 19, 2019 at 11:37 PM

Covington Catholic HS students sues The Washington Post for $250 million, claims he was targeted and bullied "because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red ‘Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap on a school field trip” | @Reuters: https://reut.rs/2TX5AEe

Tweeted by EvertonBailey on February 19, 2019 at 11:39 PM

Ah yes, I'm sure this won't become incredibly stupid incredibly fast

puzzlepiece87

@TimStone Why couldn't he chain himself to one door instead?

Tim Stone

lol

Memor-X

11:48 PM

@puzzlepiece87 does this have any relation to the ai that added celebrity heads to porn videos?

Online petition calls for US to sell Montana to Canada for $1 trillion http://hill.cm/40HfxsP

Tweeted by thehill on February 19, 2019 at 11:10 PM

> The petition on Change.org says Montana should be sold to America’s northern neighbors to pay off the ballooning national debt.

“We have too much debt and Montana is useless,” the description for the petition reads. “Just tell them it has beavers or something.”

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