@TimStone I’m tired of these mfing snakes in this mfing moat

Also apparently this is taken in part from a book and I guess we're just publishing it now because it's timely for the release?

That classic thing you sit on, the President wanting to gun down people

> Man takes date to park where he was gored by bison, figuring it wouldn’t happen again - he was wrong

Of course it wasn't him that was gored this time

> The White House has eliminated two scientific advisory boards: one on marine life protections, and another on invasive species

Isn't the invasive species lobby just China not wanting to check shipments? Who is this for?

> In court today, a judge questioned why the administration can't give an assurance they won't destroy records about Trump's calls with foreign leaders while a lawsuit goes forward. DOJ is hesitating

"Your honour, you have to understand, the President, he…he really likes doing crimes"

@TimStone good thing the intersection of these two things in the Atlantic, lionfish, are already delicious

And mainly controlled by REEF, who even does special licensing to allow net fishing of lionfish in SPAs

which are normally no touch no take zones

mmm, delicious

I have heard it's a nice delicate white fish similar to hogfish

All you have to do is snip the venomous spines

Which does beg the question, how does one safely net a fish with venomous spines

Spear them sure

Ugh I don’t like Buttigieg

People are wasting millions of money on him

It’s idiotic

Also my copy of the latest Atlantic shows they’re sponsored and working with drum roll HUAWEI

Fucking Huawei

> Pompeo pushed out his own Ukraine rep, Kurt Volker, to try to squash this growing scandal

Viewing Todd Phillips’s new film through the lens of the present misses the larger picture. In 1981, Ronald Reagan was the original Joker.

@TimStone

@Unionhawk Many people are saying Reagan is Jared Leto

Giuliani wants to sue…"The Swamp"?

Extreme Boomer energy right there

Trump shouted 'you're making me look like an idiot' at White House staff, report claims

(This is quoting the book excerpt the NY Times posted last night)

This is the same meeting that he kept suggesting idiotic things to do with the border wall, like a moat with alligators or body-impaling spikes on top or shooting immigrants on sight

A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms

Not much of a mystery, actually, it's called buying favor and its been a favorite of corrupt autocrats since the beginning of time

Forbes: Donald Trump’s Sons Have Sold More Than $100 Million Of His Real Estate Since He Took Office

UPS receives government approval to operate "drone airline", fly as many commercial drones as they want

@Nzall This is a news room

Hue though

@BradC To be fair, that doesn't make me think idiot so much as it does murderer.

@Yuuki True

Philly media company WHYY is unionizing

> “Kirstjen, you didn’t hear me the first time, honey,” Mr. Trump said. “Shoot ’em down. Sweetheart, just shoot ’em out of the sky, OK?”

:|

Jeez. Not like you can really put aside the fact that he's asking her to break the law, but what a creepy patronizing thing to say

Bernie Sanders is cancelling events for the time being to recover from insertion of two stents to address arterial blockage

Damn it @TimStone

I'm not even at home! Newssniped

Sanders has reportedly also cancelled his Iowa tv ad buy, not sure if that's because the ads featured appearance dates or what

I hope he'll be fine.

He's not at the top of my list, but it would sure shake up the race if he couldn't continue

@BradC Yeah. If he fell out of the race, it would most likely be Warren vs Biden

@BradC Yeah, me too

Doh, he fixed it. An earlier version of this tweet said:

> Now the press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moot stuffed with alligators and snakes, with an electrified fence and sharp spikes on top, at our Southern Border.

@BradC I'd suspect that this will inevitably hurt his chances because it puts more focus on his age

Putin jokes that Moscow plans to meddle in the 2020 election

> Amber Guyger joked about Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, mocked her black colleagues in text messages

Incredible

Like he had a sudden flashback to watching that on TV and went "I've got an idea"

yeah, not so much, actually

Trololol

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49913130

Pastor Robert Jeffress: Democrats Worship the Child-Sacrificing Demon God Moloch

brought to you by Fox News Radio...

They should really make all the Democratic candidates hold the next debate while riding a donkey

A federal judge has ruled Philly's safe injection site, the first of its kind, does not violate federal law

So, The Wrap is claiming that Todd Starnes lost his Fox News contract because of this "Moloch" interview

They have no real defense, so they're trying to turn this back on Schiff

When Schiff's crime was (...checks notes...) encouraging the whistleblower to follow the proper procedure

henrykissinger.rip

How to play: donate to an organization that undoes some of the damage of US imperialism, $5 per entry, upload your reciept and pick your dates, whoever guesses right (price is right rules) wins

Whoa, more serious fuckery at the border: Government Plans to Begin DNA Testing on Detained Immigrants

@BradC oh different kind of "testing"

I was about to go "I'll take 'Josef Mengele' for $500."

I can't get past the paywall, but I presume this is so they can further separate families

"oh, she's actually your niece, not your daughter? Send her into foster care why we deport you"

Botham Jean's killer has been sentenced to 10 years

@TimStone :/

Hey, can she and the dude I was on jury duty for last week trade sentences?

I would appreciate that very much.

Now everyone is hugging?

Curious if everyone saw the article where she turned out to be a bit racist or if they've been busy today >_>

@TimStone According to Wikipedia, they wouldn't even have needed to see the article.

> During the sentencing hearing, Jean's mother provided emotional testimony and some of Guyger's text messages and social media posts were shared that were considered by many to be offensive.[12]

So it was part of the sentencing.

Ahhh, okay

As long as everyone came to this conclusion with the full set of facts then that's alright

@TimStone I dunno about everyone else but the jury shouldn't be watching the news.

Right, I just meant the people hugging

The judge for my case actually went on a whole anti-news media spiel in the jury room when they came to inform us that the defendant took a plea bargain.

@Yuuki :(

@TimStone This is great! We have some in my town

People complain about them and they do have a tendency to kind of... attract bad people to the area but they're still necessary and good I feel

Yeah, it's a big win

It's one of those things where it'd be great if we didn't need them, but we do, so like, not having them isn't helping

Yep

A surprising number of people on like... well, facebook complain about them. A lot of boomers saying we're just paying for druggies to get their fix

I don't really think it's that hard to understand

harm reduction works

I think we have 4 sites now?

Wow good for you not having addiction problems

pretty much

@GnomeSlice I mean, that's basically what corporate subsidies and bailouts are and we do those things so why stop there?

> Giuliani tells @MichaelRWarren that he provided State with some of the docs that the State IG gave to Congress today

lmao

Oh good our old friends Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl have teamed up again to have checks notes a "decorated USMC Combat Veteran" come forward to talk about his "whirlwind relationship with Elizabeth Warren"

Will Burkman remember to zip up his fly? Will the Marine just be Jacob Wohl in a uniform he stole off a fallen soldier? These answers and more, tomorrow!

will the relationship just be completely vanilla?

And the whole "scandal" is just checks notes someone and Elizabeth Warren were dating for awhile?

We're apparently supposed to believe that Elizabeth Warren hired a 24-year old Marine for sex or something

I dunno, these two aren't very smart so it's never immediately clear what the end game is

@TimStone meh, wont beat the Trump x Putin fan fics