NEW: After today's #NotOkGoogle "town hall" meeting on retaliation, Google employee activists are planning a "company-wide day of action" on May 1 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/26/google-worker-activists-accuse-company-of-retaliation-at-town-hall
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Wayne LaPierre accuses Ollie North of extortion >>
Mr. LaPierre, in a stinging letter sent on Thursday to the N.R.A.’s board, accused Mr. North of threatening to leak damaging information about him and other N.R.A. executives unless he stepped down https://nyti.ms/2VxfS1G?smid=nytcore-ios-share
What’s happened since New Jersey overhauled its cash bail system?
- The state’s pretrial jail population dropped by 44%
- Crime rates have plummeted
- No statistically significant change in court nonappearance or rearrest rates
#EndMoneyBail
https://talkpoverty.org/2019/04/26/new-jersey-bail-reform-works/
Just…just a truly magnificently absurd take here on the TL
Elizabeth Warren would be a beloved Harvard Law Professor not a presidential candidate if @barackobama and @JoeBiden had not worked with her to make her idea to form a consumer financial protection bureau law
lmao Wayne LaPierre and Oliver North were supposed to sit next to each other at the NRA annual meeting event where organization business is conducted. North isn't there. https://t.co/5DWBM8fbDF
lol look at these chuckleheads for starters but this is the best dumb drama
Incidentally given that all problems can be solved by guns I do feel like a duel is in order
Massive room packed with NRA members.
Incredibly silent as Oliver North who has been a decades long board member essentially resigns and steps away from the National Rifle Association
Who had Mayor Pete will give every American an unnecessary cleanse in the election pool?
Goop queen Gwyneth Paltrow is throwing a fundraiser for wunderkind presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg—elevating pseudoscience into the political conversation https://trib.al/knVchom
SCOOP from @RosalindZAdams: Erik Prince’s company is back in Iraq — with Chinese funding https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/blackwater-erik-prince-frontier-services-group-iraq
Uhh apparently NRATV which is Boomer Brain fuel was a project by a North associate so maybe "good" in the most trivial of senses. But definitely good if it turns out all this financial stuff is true and they run themselves into the ground
But come on you can't keep talking about "Washington politics" like it isn't entirely Mitch McConnell's very existence
Sunday @PKCapitol: No district in America might tell us more about the state of politics than NY19.
Obama won it by 6%, Trump won by 7% and last year @repdelgado won it back for Dems.
Impeachment isn’t an issue here. They want broadband, job training.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/in-a-trump-district-a-freshman-house-democrat-works-on-repeating-his-success/2019/04/26/dd5703b8-6799-11e9-a1b6-b29b90efa879_story.html
The Minnesota State Senate has voted to take away 20% of the Minnesota Historical Society’s operating budget because the GOP is upset that Fort Snelling now includes the Sioux name of Bdote, a name used for the site prior to the establishment of the fort. https://www.twincities.com/2019/04/25/fort-snelling-at-bdote-republican-senators-threaten-minnesota-historical-society-funds-over-alleged-revisionist-history/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=fb-PioneerPress&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR2IEawFfy7d15wo7fqMSBj4Qfm8WT8v7UbvZ6tdnGunebo-a61dhIbt9M4
Nick Bosa was the second overall pick, he’s white and a vocal critic of Colin Kaepernick.
Kyler Murray, was the #1 overall pick, he’s black and won the Heisman Trophy.
Which one did the president take time to congratulate? https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1122109651087241216
Caputo said "The Department of Justice is wrecked. It is befouled. And we need to take that place apart with a flamethrower." https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/caputo-leads-cheshire-county-gop-in-post-russia-probe-victory/article_6b42f9f6-5238-5bab-a0da-bd929a36b160.html
See thread, they're having a session and they've pushed out Oliver North as president after he reportedly blackmailed LaPierre into stepping down over accusations of improper handling of finances
And I guess they've suspended their top lawyer now too
This week at #Time100Summit, @tim_cook won applause by bemoaning extensive screen time, and talking up @apple’s efforts to help people scale back.
Now the @nytimes reveals the truth: Apple is using the halo of such rhetoric to actually crack down on apps that fight addiction. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1122126118834900995
Relatedly, we have a few related resolutions for DSA (eliminating or rotating the steering committee (from "elected as a subset of the national leadership by national leadership"), limiting executive session, etc) which will be fun
O'Rourke tells audience that he met with Harry Reid before he got to forum, talked about the passage of the ACA. It's a way for O'Rourke to explain why he supports the Medicare for America Act -- implication, that it can pass, unlike some ideas.
At least four people shot during a Passover holiday celebration, according to @10News. https://www.10news.com/multiple-people-gunned-down-at-poway-synagogue-police-search-for-shooter
Spokesperson for New York AG Letitia James to me just now:
"The Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation related to the National Rifle Association (NRA). As part of this investigation, the Attorney General has issued subpoenas."