Worst person you know, etc, Trump going all in on bashing cryptocurrencies

cc @warrendavidson

the bitcoin congressman

@TimStone That is a shockingly coherent statement

@murgatroid99 Obviously written by an aid

Whelp guess we're gonna do something about detentions in China now that a Koch Industries executive was held

URGENT: Tropical Storm Barry Phone Zap "As Tropical Storm Barry threatens Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas over 65,000 people behind prison bars and in detention centers lie directly in it’s path with no ability to evacuate."

Reports are that ICE raids will begin Sunday in various US cities. Know your rights, and help fund RAICES if you can

Trump is busy uhh checks notes attacking Paul Ryan and I don't even know why

Oh, apparently he has some book where he admits he had no idea what he was doing? Which seems extra funny for anyone that took him seriously

R. Kelly has been arrested on sex trafficking charges in NY

Somehow he was arrested by NYPD detectives…in Chicago? (but also the FBI, since these are federal charges)

@TimStone i wonder if they've been sitting on this for awhile or only started looking into it after that doco

ummm, ok so a guy went on a misogynist tirade in Bagel Boss. he also has a youtube channel full other him yelling at people and being very bigoted

lmao wtf is this?

(as a warning for others)

I watched them out of curiosity after seeing that and you are absolutely right

Somebody's boss ain't gonna be happy about this

Kim Darroch apparently isn't the only one who thinks Trump is inept

@Nik3141 yeh i heard the reason why he stood down because Borris Johnson, being the ever Trump kiss ass, couldn't even answer if he would support the guy at the debate with Jeremy Hunt

Italian far right wants to send dissidents to the Russian Gulag

@Unionhawk we are shocked to inform you that the border patrol chief is involved in the secret racism groups

weird it's almost like this isn't just some subculture of this particular arm of the department of homeland security

Trudeau concedes he’s made mistakes, but warns teachers’ group that it’s him or Scheer

hmm weird I wonder why the liberals scrapped any plans to move away from FPTP

:thonk:

@Unionhawk Seriously. Easily the thing his parties down that frustrates me the most. Even just switching to ranked ballot woukd make this election less stressful.

I'm going to spend the next 7 hours of my work day figuring out if this counts as iron law of institutions or not

@Wipqozn Not a fan that he completely abandoned a campaign promise.

looooool

Acosta out

@Frank I mean, I honestly didn't believe that anyways. The whole process was just designed to make it fail.

@Wipqozn Which is definitely a major mark against him.

@TimStone And that's number 48. 2 more and Trump gets a free Sundae

I'm not a fan of the messaging he's using, either; "It's me, or this scary dude over here."

Note that a bunch of them have been given funny names as jokes

> Pres. Trump on outgoing Labor Sec. Alex Acosta: "He was a great student at Harvard. He's Hispanic, which I so admire, because maybe it was a little tougher for him."

> A southern Illinois man who admitted using blackmail to obtain nude pictures of about 100 girls and women has been sentenced to 35 years in prison

@TimStone geoblocked in EU

Wow, they still haven't fixed that? But anyway, it's mostly what it says in the blurb there; the extent of what he did involved threatening to kill a 10 year old unless she sent him nude photos, super frickin' gross

@TimStone we need commercial space flights so we can send these pricks to the sun

i hope he was also put onto the sex offender registry

@Memor-X why are you even giving this guy screentime

Don't spread garbage like that

Lol

:51003134 removed now

I took care of it. Nothing to see here behind the curtain. There definitely isn't a wizard hiding.

all good

whoosh!

:eyes:

Oh I'm dumb I thought this was bridge so I was confused why I didn't have a history button lol

Trump is reportedly looking to just DNI Dan Coats too, although I'm not sure why now as opposed to any time prior. Unless he's causing issue for Barr trying to make up excuses to go after people involved in the Mueller investigation

In retrospect that was the obvious dumb explanation I guess

Motherboard has obtained Palantir's user manual

No kidding, my word

Mrs Pelosi plz raise the debt ceiling or we'll run out of money to do crimes and such

@TimStone Seems like a perfect time for a good compromise.

Indeed, so naturally I can't wait to be disappointed

House votes 251-170 to block military force against Iran without Congressional auth

@TimStone please consider the above to be a linked reply

> Oakland real estate developer plans on shooting dollar bills over a homeless encampment in hopes of getting them to leave

Gross

> Initial jobless claims dropped last week by 13,000 to 209,000

*209,001

> One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23 time grand slam winner Serena Williams

Of course

> If you think you are safe from ICE's lawless brutality because you are a U.S. citizen, you are wrong

Abolish ICE

@Unionhawk lol holy hell why do they have blades??

> 198-223: House defeats Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) amdt to defense bill to prohibit Defense Dept facilities from being used to house or detain unaccompanied migrant children

Oh wow today in "How can Joe Manchin screw things up even more?" he's introduced a bill to force the FDA to change on-label indications for opioids to exclude chronic pain

> Fox News releases statement following @yashar's story on @PlanetTyrus saying the network hired an outside law firm and "the recommendations we received were appropriate and promptly implemented"

Uhhhhh they gave him his own show? Not sure what lawyer suggested that, but 🤔

Dark energy breakthrough

Hyperbolic space simulated on plane to allow quantum research

Our brains are actually more complex than we thought

The whole idea that no quantum states exist before you observe them is really trippy.

Scientists make a movie of a chemical bond

> 187-236: House defeats Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) amdt to 2020 defense bill banning indefinite military detention of persons held under 2001 AUMF or 2012 NDAA law

50 Democrats voted against this, insane

Sorry the school filter is blocking it can you summarize?

The indefinite military detention is supposed to be bad correct? So Amash's amendment should be good, and the Democrats voted to keep the ability for people to be held indefinitely?

Interesting interesting...

50 of them but yes

Unfortunate

Very unfortunate

Yeah, even if you're very pro putting enemy combatants in military prison, there's not really any justification for not just giving them a trial unless you can't prove they're bad people, in which case there's no reason to detain them

> 179 Democrats just voted for AOC's amendment to prevent Trump from deploying troops to the border to enforce immigration law. It failed 179-241-1

And I mean you can't really be tried per se for being an enemy combatant. You have to commit a war crime or a human rights abuse.

Well I mean from the military's eyes you probably can

But in international law not really, and especially if you can't prove that the person is an enemy combatant you definately can't hold them.

It's generally some terrorism charge that they're being held under, fwiw

Yeah

@TimStone what's the tally on this one like 60?

blue no matter who btw :)

That seems about right, I assume the vote was similar to that for Amash's amendment

> Reporter denies Trump's accusation that he paid Paul Ryan for a critical interview

yeah ryan "the guy who beat up a car" whoever and all his friends

plus, idk

I'm sorry but that's genuinely funny because the whole basis is that Paul Ryan is so incompetent his only option is to take money to say bad things about Trump

@TimStone The link is missing. If you have a link obviously.

Nah, there's not much else of substance to go along with it other than that sentence

Oh ok

> House votes 402-12 to authorize 9/11 victim compensation fund for 70 years; bill now moves to Senate

all right god dammit I have to find out who the 12 are

Seems weird everyone can so easily get behind that (which they should!), and not like, all the other stuff, to help people

@Unionhawk Amash and 11 Republicans

ARRINGTON, AMASH, BROOKS (Ala), BIGGS, BUCK, CLOUD, GOSAR, HICE (Ga), HARRIS, MASSIE, J. ROSE, NORMAN according to some rando replies

How are people solving the world's trash problem

This is a good sign - Philanthopists raise money for environmental groups

It seems the administration is putting together some deal by which Guatamala will act as a processing place for asylum applications to the US as part of an agreement that would declare it the first "safe" country for people traveling north

Seems like the kind of thing that will go very wrong very quickly, but I guess the point is to make it seem like that's not our fault

Yeah if you've got a bunch of vulnerable migrants with virtually no legal protections in one location things are bound to go wrong

Let's see, who is replacing Acosta? …Oh, this guy, hm

> Taking a gentle swipe at his rivals, Biden reads from prepared remarks on the lectern: "There’s a lot of good people running, but we should be talking about the future, not the past.... The last thing we need – to use Barack’s phrase – is to form a circular firing squad here."

I'm hoping that ellipsis is doing a lot of work because if those two lines are close together the lack of self-awareness is blinding

Facebook paid a $5 billion fine as part of a settlement with the FTC over privacy violations

I'm not sure what the most useful metric to rank that against is? As of Q1 they had $45.2 billion cash on hand, though, which is easily-accessible money

@TimStone ... How do companies even have 45B dollars in cash (assuming you mean a checkings account with that)

The technical answer is by not paying very much in taxes, but :P

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

> Jeffrey Epstein, facing sex-trafficking charges in New York, has now been accused of witness tampering by federal prosecutors, who said he wired $350,000 to two people who were potential witnesses against him, NYT reports

@Ash lol, that's excellent

Okay the context for this Goomba puppet is quite offensive but the puppet itself is adorable

Just gonna go out on a limb and say that when your concentration camps are so bad that the VP's propaganda tour can't avoid showcasing that they are quite bad then maybe stop doing that idk

Also Bernie Sanders and Lloyd Blankfein are feuding on Twitter

Yeah :/

There are some pictures, not too graphic but extremely dehumanizing