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GodEmperorDune

12:14 AM

@TimStone i read that as fiona apple and was very confused

Tim Stone

12:36 AM

lol

Tim Stone

2:00 AM

You'll never guess who Erik Prince thinks should protect the Kurds

GodEmperorDune

2:24 AM

@TimStone my eyes have rolled so hard out of my head they're down the block

Stormblessed

4:12 AM

@TimStone fuck

Remember back when a few things made sense?

When we had the concept of “allies”?

I bet that monster Tulsi Gabbard is happy about this

Nzall

7:25 AM

Elizabeth Warren BURNS hypothetical homophobe in town hall

GnomeSlice

11:31 AM

New info on the "vaping epidemic"

Tim Stone

12:15 PM

Five people have been stabbed inside Manchester Arndale

Nzall

12:52 PM

Memor-X

Prince estate objects to President Trump playing "Purple Rain" at Minnesota rally

might as well assume all songs are off limits. would be much easier

Elva

1:23 PM

Naaah, I'm sure there's a bunch of songs Goebbels helped create that they'd be welcome to use, and they'd be fitting too!

Tim Stone

1:37 PM

> Norwegian Cruise Passengers Live-Tweet a Mutiny

GnomeSlice

1:49 PM

A 14 year old boy was stabbed to death in front of his mother by bullies

Pretty upsetting

cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/winston-churchill-assault-1.5312115

Nzall

Trump's EU ambassador to testify after Democrats' subpoena At least there's someone who puts country above party

Tim Stone

2:12 PM

I'm actually really surprised and confused why he's decided to testify so we'll see how that goes

Frank

@Memor-X Well, they need a license to play it.

Knowing Trump and co, they didn't even bother to try getting one.

Nzall

@Wipqozn I can't type in the bridge during the timeout

Tim Stone

> Feds hit GirlsDoPorn owners with criminal sex trafficking charges

CW, some of the victims describe being raped

This follows the civil case being brought against the company

Wipqozn

> One of the site's owners, 36-year-old Michael Pratt, fled the United States last month. Co-owner Matthew Wolfe, 37, was arrested on Tuesday. Ruben Garcia, 31, the male performer in many of the site's videos, was arrested on Wednesday.

Fled the country you saw? Seems innocent

Tim Stone

A lot of people seem to be doing that these days

Wipqozn

2:27 PM

@TimStone They probably saw all of us telling them to "get into the sea" and thought we meant "flew overseas".

Tim Stone

3:02 PM

The appeals court also says Congress can definitely subpoena Trump's taxes

Unionhawk

oh boy I can't wait for coach k to write some opinion like "actually the president of the united states is subject to no laws whatsoever"

GnomeSlice

The school is trying to say it was the boys fault for being on social media and interacting with the bullies who stabbed him to death

What in the fuck

ToxicFrog

what the entire fuck

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk if you can't enjoy a few brewskies while filing your taxes in complete confidence do we even have a country 5-4 in favour of godking

Stormblessed

Surprise: Google doesn’t give a crap about the Earth

> The list includes the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative policy group that was instrumental in convincing the Trump administration to abandon the Paris agreement and has criticised the White House for not dismantling more environmental rules.

Google said it was disappointed by the US decision to abandon the global climate deal, but has continued to support CEI.

Tim Stone

3:09 PM

"Look I was doing crimes maybe but some shadow client was paying for me to be there but for totally unrelated reasons" is an extremely Giuliani defense

Stormblessed

I’m switching to DuckDuckGo now

Tim Stone

So while we're pretending to withdraw from Syria we're sending thousands more troops to Saudi Arabia?

ToxicFrog

@Stormblessed AFAICT Google's approach is to give money to literally everyone so that no matter who wins they can go "hey, we supported your campaign, be nice to us"

Tim Stone

Also in "Is Joe Biden still bad?" news, yes

ToxicFrog

No matter how often or how loudly people (internally and externally) point out that this means giving money to some pretty awful people who are often utterly opposed to Google's fundamental mission, let alone other causes Google claims to support

Unionhawk

3:15 PM

Oct 3 at 16:57, by Unionhawk

INSUFFICIENT WAGON CIRCLING DETECTED

tom perez has been dispatched to your location

Tim Stone

3:28 PM

> Michael Drejka sentenced to 20 years in parking lot shooting

> An IRS employee stole identities and went on a 2-year spending spree

@Unionhawk Ah shit I've done a demcrime

Tim Stone

4:15 PM

The Turkish immigrant who gives free pizza to the homeless

Yuuki

4:34 PM

@TimStone Given current events, it's probably prudent to point out that this guy is Kurdish.

Wipqozn

5:08 PM

In a split decision, an Ontario court says Doug Ford's government broke the law when it scrapped the cap-and-trade system, but the court won't force Queen's Park to reinstate the program that gives companies incentives to reduce carbon emissions. cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/…

> Greenpeace had challenged the cancellation on grounds the government did not hold public consultations before making the decision, a process required by Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR).

Yuuki

@Wipqozn "They did something wrong but we're not going to fix it" is functionally indistinguishable from "they did nothing wrong".

Tim Stone

> Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said that her departure came as a direct result of pressure President Trump placed on the State Department to remove her

> More potential whistleblowers are contacting Congress

Seems like this is going well for the administration

You have to assume mostly everyone will keep lying to support him but the stress can't be good for their health so gl with that

> The White House legislative affairs office blasted out the below WSJ piece to senators, telling them: “The President has asked for this article to be shared with you.”

It would be super weird if uhhh say the Attorney General had met with the person who owns the Wall Street Journal just checks notes yesterday

Super weird

Yuuki

5:28 PM

@TimStone This is why Barr met with Murdoch?

Ugh, I was hoping against hope for something less dumb than that.

Tim Stone

See there was your mistake, assuming it wouldn't in fact be the dumbest thing possible

I mean I guess we might find out it was something else but this seems like a pretty good bet honestly

> A 67-year-old Pollock Pines man who died 12 minutes after PG&E cut power to the region at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday may have been a victim of the “safety measure” by the electricity purveyor, the Mountain Democrat has learned

Wipqozn

@Yuuki Yeah it's dumb

Tim Stone

> Rand Paul gets laughed at by The View audience after saying that the 1% has it worse than the working class when it comes to taxes

Ah u hate to see it

murgatroid99

@TimStone I just have to point out that power outages happen sometimes, and someone who couldn't survive 12 minutes without power and who had no backup power was going to have problems eventually.

Tim Stone

5:45 PM

Yeah, that's true, hopefully someone will try and find out why he was without any backup

Wipqozn

Fair, this whole situation is fucked though. I still don't understand fully why they need to do the shutdowns. I know it's related to wildfires though.

Is it that the infrastructure just really old?

Tim Stone

Assuming of course that's even definitively what happened, the article is short on substance

Frank

@TimStone Hah! When you decide to torch a whistleblower to set an example, I guess you can't think there won't be more rats.

Wipqozn

okay seems like a case of having shit infrastructure

@MBraedley are no strangers to that, although this makes me feel better about NS power infrastructure,

Tim Stone

6:04 PM

@TimStone State Dept. rank and file growing more frustrated that @SecPompeo has yet to show public support for Yovanovitch, whom POTUS denigrated in the Ukraine call. Trump called Marie Yovanovitch bad news.'' Well, she's going to go through some things."

Did…did they think he would?

Yuuki

@TimStone It's not the State Department anymore, it's the Department of Swagger(ing Away From Any Obligations).

I'm sure I could figure out a better riff on "Department of Swagger" given more time but I'd rather not deal with that idiocy.

Tim Stone

> Secret Manhattan Condo Purchases Are Dead, Thanks to a Suburban Squabble

ahahaha

People using LLCs to do illegal conversions in the suburbs prompted lawmakers to draft a law that would forbid hiding behind the LLC, something many people apparently do when purchasing high value Manhattan properties

> The state law was another blow to a weak luxury market that has come under pressure from too much new supply, a retreat among foreign buyers and because of government actions, New York City brokers say

Oh no

> Bret Stephens Backs Out of Bedbug Debate

> The discussion would have put a bow on a highly public back-and-forth Stephens instigated a month and a half ago, but at the last minute, Stephens insisted that the event be closed to the public. When Karpf disagreed, Stephens pulled out entirely

Yuuki

I can't remember if there's an existing tax loophole that revolves around creating an LLC for a company to pay instead of paying you as an employee and you get some kind of tax credit or whatever.

Tim Stone

> A NY federal judge has blocked the Trump admin's new "public charge" rule, which would restrict the ability of immigrants to get permanent residency if they receive/are likely to receive public benefits

@Yuuki I mean it's helpful for privacy (i.e. for celebrities) and checks notes money laundering at any rate

Oh speaking of which did we do the Japanese guy who was arrested for stalking a pop idol after identifying her address through reflections on her eyeballs in photos?

Because that was a thing and my word

> White House Press Briefing with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin: "The president wants to make very clear it is imperative that Turkey not allow even a single ISIS fight to escape."

Ah, Steve, buddy

I have bad news

Riot is also going the way of Blizzard, tells casters not to discuss "sensitive" topics

MBraedley

6:22 PM

@Wipqozn Let's be fair, Dorian was a once in a decade occurrence. The power troubles in California are many months of the year every year.

Yuuki

@TimStone Probably trying to minimize the possibility of a Blizzard-esque incident occurring.

Tim Stone

> Several mountain climbers have reportedly scaled a replica of President Trump's border wall in under one minute, with one person juggling during their climb and an 8-year-old girl reaching the top of the wall as well

This timeline is so tiring

GnomeSlice

6:44 PM

Alexei Leonov, the first human being to walk in space, has passed away at 85

🖖

@TimStone Smartest thing they can probably do at the moment

Wipqozn

@MBraedley I'm not even thinking of Dorian. power just seems to randomly fail in nova scotia because of "salty air" all the time.

Tim Stone

> A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to build a border wall is unlawful and appears poised to block the use of those funds. Judge David Briones requested the plaintiffs propose the scope of a preliminary injunction

GnomeSlice

National climate debate cancelled after conservatives refuse to participate

Liberals pull out of debate on foreign policy, conservatives pull out of debate on climate... what a bunch of clowns

Tim Stone

7:08 PM

> #Turkey bombs U.S. Special Forces in #Syria attack, apparently by mistake

Waiting to see confirmation, this is an amazing screw up if true

Tim Stone

7:40 PM

> There's a "substantial deal" with #China, @POTUS tells reporters in the Oval Office, calling it "Phase-1."

> An explosion has occurred near a U.S. position where American troops remain outside Kobane in Syria, a U.S. official said Friday. Not believed that the position was bombed. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to sensitivity of situation, said everyone is ok

Hmm that's a different take

Unionhawk

I see conflicting reports yeah

Tim Stone

lololololol @GodEmperorDune

GodEmperorDune

This about wohl’s 100% grift speedrun?

Tim Stone

Yes

GodEmperorDune

jacob wohl is doing another false allegation press conference, this time with Nancy pelosi and Adam Schiff’s alleged "drug dealer"

lol they didn't even bother setting up a custom email domain

Tim Stone

7:55 PM

@TimStone lol this hasn't even actually been written yet

Amazing

@GodEmperorDune Pelosi was trying to clap the bugs she was seeing while tripping on LSD

> SHEP SMITH is leaving Fox News, network says

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone pissed trump off one to many times imo

Tim Stone

@TimStone From @CNN @barbarastarrcnn clarifying Newsweek report of US base getting hit - Turkish artillery hit close to a US special operations unit in Kobani. The artillery shells hit several hundred meters from where the US special ops forces were located. No US injuries reported

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn PGE has neglected maintenance for decades, they got busted for falsifying mandatory inspection records several years ago

white house emails Democrats their planned talking points... again

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune They only have like five ostensibly news people so like if they all quit feel like the laws say they gotta change the name

@GodEmperorDune lmfao

@TimStone Incidentally I guess this could have been what Barr was there for @Yuuki, although maybe they multi-tasked

Frank

@GodEmperorDune At this point, you gotta wonder if there's a mole in there being, "accidental" about it.

Tim Stone

8:05 PM

> Travelers who visited Philadelphia International Airport last week might have been exposed to measles, Pennsylvania health officials said Friday

Ah, cool, cool

GodEmperorDune

@Frank could be malicious or just that incompetent

Tim Stone

STARE INTO THE FACE OF DEATH AND ABANDON ALL HOPE

2

GnomeSlice

8:34 PM

Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize

Shitty ass article headline focusing on someone who lost and not the winner but it's in there

GnomeSlice

8:55 PM

California bans private prisons and immigrant detention centers

@TimStone Stars reserved for news items but lol it looks like a tarantula

GodEmperorDune

9:23 PM

@TimStone it gets better

Tim Stone

lol yes

Wipqozn

10:09 PM

@GodEmperorDune Into the sea I say

Wipqozn

10:19 PM

Scheer won't commit to keeping cannabis legal if Tories form government

wait this from over a year ago

user15026

@Wipqozn of course he wont!

Wipqozn

Gosh darn it @GnomeSlice

So uh, Trump has a TWitch channel now

I think his favourite thing to stream is the apocalypse?

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Really?

I doubt his positions changed

Wipqozn

I mean obviously not,BUT STILL

GnomeSlice

My bad though, people are reporting on it now

Wipqozn

10:31 PM

to be clear I'm not actually mad

Although this might explain why that video has nothing to do with the article

GnomeSlice

This is why I stick to the fresh toast for cannibis news mostly

Super professional reporting

@Wipqozn I never watch them whoops

Memor-X

@TimStone and this comes after Barr met with Rupert Murdoch

granted i don't know how much input Rupert Murdoch has with the Wall Street Journal

oh wait, you mention that right after

should read a couple of post after the initial link

GnomeSlice

Things are looking more and more sketchy for the new light rail in my city

Like really not off to a good start people

Tim Stone

@Memor-X It's owned by News Corp, so he owns it at least

GnomeSlice

Are they even safe??

Tim Stone

10:44 PM

What's up with them that the company won't answer questions about them?

Memor-X

@TimStone amazing and creepy at the same time

@TimStone is this what he deems "off limits in his unmatched wisdom", that ISIS fighters just have to remain locked up? not that the Turkish military have killed civilians, including 2 children

Memor-X

11:04 PM

@Wipqozn have to wonder if he knows what Twitch is......that's it's a streaming platform for those awful mass shooting causing violent video games

(yes i know Twitch does have IRL Streams, don't correct me on that)

Wipqozn

11:31 PM

@MBraedley They're finally going to begin taking the crane down sunday: saltwire.com/news/local/…

Context for everyone:

globalnews.ca/video/5871999/…