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12:19 AM

God fucking dammit

Over-the-Rhine homeless camp clears after countywide ban becomes permanent http://bit.ly/2OR1f2e

Tweeted by WCPO on August 21, 2018 at 12:01 AM

and go where

@Unionhawk probably to a cemetery, which is where these politicians want homeless people people to begin with

sweeping people under the rug so that people don't have to look at the problem, don't have to think about it, and just

This city admits to a 40k unit housing shortage

I agree with not wanting folks camping out in the park, but the solution is to then set up a place where they can stay. Everyone has a right to a roof over their head.

As we all know, step 1 in addressing people's needs, is to displace them to try and force them into overcrowded shelters

Are American schools currently out for summer break?

12:29 AM

Coming back

Because if so I feel like turning them into temporary shelters would at least give them more time to come up with a better solution

Silly @Wipqozn we don't fund schools either

The whole situation here is dumb too, lots of shelters have restrictions like families only etc

I wonder how much it actually costs fund a shelter

Which on top of them all being at or above capacity is why this community has, until now, elected to just form a camp

And yes I say community as in community

12:32 AM

Because I feel like a 10% cut to the military budget could fund a lot of shelters

@TimStone oh right I forgot about that. School funding is directly tied to taxes and performance, which just makes the problem even worse.

laugh-cries in American

What if we treated schools like a business

:hyperthink:

fuck

This is one of those immediate things that I just have no idea how to work with

“There is not a constituency, certainly among Republican voters, to let serious felons out of prison or slash their prison sentences,” Cotton said in the interview. “It’s ill-advised policy and even more ill-advised timing.” https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/20/cotton-trump-sentencing-reform-790040

Tweeted by burgessev on August 21, 2018 at 12:29 AM

It's true, Tom's favourite approach is to just let them wait long enough that they die

Sometimes I'm shocked you guys won the cold war

@Wipqozn Shockingly relevant

It was Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut did it

12:38 AM

@Wipqozn I'm not sure "won" is really the best word. As I understand it it's more that we postured and fought endless proxy wars until the Soviet Union fell apart.

@TimStone LONG LIVE PIZZA HUT

@murgatroid99 yeah it was just meant to be a lame joke

@murgatroid99 outlasted is probably a better word

Greg Orman faces challenge over thousands of petition signatures https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article217043600.html#storylink=twt_staff

Tweeted by KCStar on August 20, 2018 at 10:42 PM

@TimStone can your veins handle it tho

It's so good. I thought maybe it'd be something iffy but the impossibly fast signature collector pulled through

Kobach will still win though 100%, Kansas is dumb as hell

12:47 AM

across all the counties too

i thought kansas couldn't get more rekt after brownback was booted

i was wrong

Colyer was already a sufficiently evil guy if your association is that kind of thing so picking Kobach instead just means you like getting grifted? To own the libs? I guess?

brownback got so lucky with that federal appointment

he was gonna get trounced if he stayed in

Like I get picking The Republican but when you're picking between two why would you go with the guy who is demonstrably more full of shit?

His votes were gonna trickle down to some other candidates that's for sure

lol

1:05 AM

Global News: Trudeau unapologetic after telling heckler, ‘Your racism has no place here’.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4397026/trudeau-calls-out-woman-racism/

1:32 AM

Trump indicates he's leaning against sitting down with Mueller: It could be "perjury trap" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402756-trump-indicates-hes-leaning-against-mueller-sit-down

Tweeted by thehill on August 21, 2018 at 12:31 AM

> President Trump on Monday indicated he is not inclined to agree to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, saying any statements he makes under oath could be used to bring perjury charges against him.

in other words "i will lie to Mueller and because it's under oath it would be perjury" *bashes head against palm tree*

(and yes that the link works now, just wont be the shortened ones)

now for stupid Australian politics

Malcolm Turnbull has declared the leadership vacant. #libspill is on http://bit.ly/2Lch15v

Tweeted by SBSNews on August 20, 2018 at 11:27 PM

Malcolm Turnbull has won the Liberal leadership ballot 48 votes to 35 #libspill #auspol http://bit.ly/2MZZCyO

Tweeted by SBSNews on August 20, 2018 at 11:36 PM

Peter Dutton @PeterDutton_MP has resigned as Home Affairs Minister, having lost leadership ballot to @TurnbullMalcolm triggering a reshuffle #auspol @SBSNews

Tweeted by BrettMasonNews on August 20, 2018 at 11:49 PM

can we please not do this again until like the next election?

like you only have to wait a year

McGahn does not believe he implicated Trump in legal wrongdoing in special counsel interviews, his attorney tells president’s legal team https://wapo.st/2PrgIr4?tid=ss_tw-amp

Tweeted by Susan_Hennessey on August 21, 2018 at 1:39 AM

lol imagine them giving any answer other than this

"Oh yeah we tanked him he's screwed"

JUST IN: Protesters have toppled and poured dirt on "Silent Sam" at the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the monument was erected in 1913 in honor of soldiers who died while fighting for the Confederacy. https://twitter.com/WRAL/status/1031715264797310976

Tweeted by NBCNews on August 21, 2018 at 1:48 AM

2:05 AM

Been a hell of a year. Decisions.

Tweeted by GeorgePapa19 on August 20, 2018 at 8:03 PM

lol shit, I want to make fun of him hopping on Twitter for this but like Trump is President

@Memor-X Okay, but! And bear with me. What if the next election was just now?

BREAKING I’m now told Turnbull is weighing up calling an election rather than risk another challenge. The reaction from one backbencher “F@$k me dead. We’ll get annihilated” @SkyNewsAust

Tweeted by ljayes on August 21, 2018 at 1:23 AM

Speaking of Trump and Twitter… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Just watched former Intelligence Official Phillip Mudd become totally unglued and weird while debating wonderful @PARISDENNARD over Brennan’s Security Clearance. Dennard destroyed him but Mudd is in no mental condition to have such a Clearance. Should be REVOKED? @seanhannity

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on August 21, 2018 at 2:06 AM

Havin' a real one tonight

@TimStone pfft in the past decade which is when all the kifing has been happening we have never had a feudal election after a in-term election spill

Ah yes but now things are extra dumb taps head

2:37 AM

@TimStone hell yeah

@TimStone hell yeah

uhhhh @Memor-X i see a bunch of words but what do they actually mean in context. is there an explainer?

2:56 AM

lol Jake Tapper out here giving the full backstory on the statue like anyone gives a crap about the trash on the ground except throwing it away

Oh let me guess, daughters of confederacy put it up in like, 1907 or some shit

Or maybe 1960s

And it's a mass produced statue that they just put up wherever they could

Which is why it came down so easy

Just like the Raleigh statue that just folded once it hit the ground last year

@GodEmperorDune ahh sorry. since Kevin Rudd prime ministers have been getting stabbed in the back by a member of their party to take the top job in the middle of their terms when really what should be happening is that the prime minister is elected because they are the leader of the majority party and thus, in a sense, elected by the people (since most people vote for local MPs based off her their leader is)

and i used wrong working there, i meant to say leadership spill which is when the current leader steps down to have the party to vote who the leader is

Oh or you could scroll up and have "1913" immediately

@Memor-X ah that is the term i was missing

Though they did put up a bunch in the 60s

3:03 AM

@Unionhawk minor details

Second ex-Walker staffer endorses his Dem opponent http://hill.cm/sK8N5dV

Tweeted by thehill on August 21, 2018 at 3:01 AM

loooool

@TimStone huuuuuuuuuuuuuuue

While I'm unlikely to get lucky with Kobach losing watching Walker get pwned would be a good runner up

Although, once again, I'm not sure why we're even electing a govenor now that it's Foxconnsin

@TimStone rumor is a dem win would retract the foxconn deal

the town would probably go bankrupt but chances are that was happening either way

Didn't he give them like upfront money or something absurd on top of the tax breaks?

iirc free land

well the state and local govts have to buy all the land and foxconn does not

but i dunno if its some leasing shenanigans or what

3:09 AM

Ah okay

@TimStone shortened url is still broken

GoFundMe raises thousands for family of transgender girl to move out of Oklahoma town after online threats http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/402711-gofundme-raises-thousands-for-family-of-transgender-girl-to

Tweeted by thehill on August 21, 2018 at 2:28 AM

@Memor-X the adults in that town are so fuct

like i heard about some of the horrible shit they posted on the facebook page

Here's how Amazon, one of the richest companies in the world, secretly offloads its electricity costs to local taxpayers who live near its data centers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/amazon-isn-t-paying-its-electric-bills-you-might-be

Tweeted by lmatsakis on August 20, 2018 at 5:05 PM

they'll probably bitch that it's *high pitch whiny voice* "freedom of speech" but freedom of speech does not give any asshole the right to threaten bodily harm on a person

3:19 AM

@GodEmperorDune Urgh, yeah, the general sentiment isn't unusual unfortunately but their willingness to just put it out there at a kid was shocking even to me :/

@Memor-X i forget who pointed it out, but its often good to look at what the nazis are trying to do with their freedom of speech while they are whining about their speech being suppressed

who wants to see the most depressing shit in the world https://t.co/CI9w7AqIdP

Tweeted by ashleyfeinberg on August 21, 2018 at 3:13 AM

What in the fresh hell

Orrin Hatch reti…ah, yes

I mean but also I want that bacon

@TimStone this is some sick shit

lol @ that Marsha Blackburn rt

"What if I was 100% wrong on things other than broadband?"

@TimStone "what if i was 100% wrong about all the things"

> I think that more important than that is making certain that women are recognized by those companies. You know, I’ve always said that I didn’t want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.

uhhhhh maybe pay the women well at the same time as doing the other things

3:30 AM

@TimStone "like i thought it was bad when it was just a shot of bacon" doesn't seem bad to me. "so i clicked to close it but then i caught a glimpse of orrin and involuntarily yelled “no” at my phone" still not sure what's bad. "and then i turned the sound on".........i'm scared to do this

@GodEmperorDune It's great because that has nothing to do with the issue, lol

Like unless the conclusion is "If they had to pay us fairly they wouldn't hire us!" in which case uhhhhh

@TimStone yeah exactly

a ringing endorsement

Tweeted by ashleyfeinberg on August 21, 2018 at 3:33 AM

lmao

You didn't really think I was gonna finish my time at BuzzFeed without writing about pugs, did you? https://www.buzzfeed.com/mariskreizman/area-of-expertise-pug-instagram-pugstagram?utm_term=.rm26kJmE3#.sejPz45k6

Tweeted by mariskreizman on August 20, 2018 at 3:21 PM

hell yeah more pug news @Memor-X

Narrator: Brett Kavanaugh's nomination went off the rails today as several GOP senators voted against the candidate, claiming their constituents would not accept someone "lamestream" and a "so-called qualified expert" in the field

1 hour later…

4:52 AM

Pentagon contradicts Trump: He canceled parade before he knew about costs http://thehill.com/policy/defense/402666-pentagon-trump-canceled-military-parade-before-being-briefed-on-cost

Tweeted by thehill on August 21, 2018 at 3:21 AM

either Trump lied (would be no surprise) or he's dumb enough to just accept a number as "too high" and stop right there without fact checking it......which he rarely does anyway

guess you can now go "mr president, it'll got 15 gazillion dollars to stop Mueller's investigation and it costs us 10 zillion dollars every time you complain about it"

2 hours later…

6:44 AM

In honour of Peter Dutton's #libspill defeat, potatoes are being placed on doorways and windowsills around the country http://bit.ly/2Pk7UTT #putoutyourpotatoes #auspol

Tweeted by SBSNews on August 21, 2018 at 4:15 AM

> It's reminiscent of 2015, when #PutOutYourOnions trended after Tony Abbott lost the party leadership to Mr Turnbull.

Then, it was about Mr Abbott's infamous onion-eating episode, while the latest vegetable tribute apparently references Mr Dutton's appearance.

7:04 AM

@Memor-X rekt

3 hours later…

9:57 AM

Toronto Star: Toronto will take province to court over Ford’s plan to slash size of city council.
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2018/08/20/toronto-council-deciding-how-to-fight-premier-doug-ford-on-ward-cut.html

Cc @Ash

10:32 AM

@Memor-X Peter Spuddon

@Memor-X What even the fuck

> The comments, made in a Facebook group for district parents, referred to Maddie as “it” and “thing,” and encouraged students to attack her.

Isn't that actually illegal in the USA?

Not that anything will come of it obviously, but it would be nice

nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/…

> Officials closed a rural Oklahoma school system this week after the sheriff began investigating online threats against a transgender student.

> “A lot of the negative comments and what we perceived as threats were outside our county and, sometimes, out-of-state,” Christian said. But he added that the man who provoked the child’s mother lived in town.

> "I need education; we all need to be educated,” [Achille Superintendent Rick Beene] said. “It’s certainly something that people didn’t deal with 20, 30 years ago.”

good on the superintendent for acknowledging his own lack of awareness

Sounds like he'll try to actually better educate staff around the best way to help transgender students

Hopefully he will anyways

That said that's not going to do anything for people calling for physical violence

Those people are beyond hope and don't deserve education. They deserve to be locked up where they can't hurt anyone.

@Wipqozn And for their children to be taken away and assigned to someone who isn't a bigot

10:52 AM

I mean, I don't think being a bigot by itself is enough reason to take a persons kids away, it's the fact these people have taken to online harassment and calls for physical violence against a kid that pushes this over into criminal activity.

It definitely would be if they lived in Nova Scotia due to the cyberbullying laws, which I really hope other parts of Canada adopt

11:18 AM

@Nzall that's a good one

@Nzall true. we have anti-domestic violence campaigns here in Australia which push the message that what adults do pass on to their children. same can be said of bigotry like that

@Wipqozn more the rest of the world since you don't need to leave the house to post those things about someone on the other side of the world

11:39 AM

@Memor-X yeah and according to the article a lot of the group members weren't even from the area

The cyberbullying laws were made in response to a very specific incident which resulted in a teenager committing suicide. Horrific story but it was nice that the government stepped up and took action.

someone a while back posted about Netflix adding ads. well

The Jeffree Star Laura Lee Apology Implosion, Asia Argento Hypocrisy Controversy, & More...

times to the Netflix thing where you get an explanation of what's going on

12:17 PM

prison officials were so desperate to keep incarcerated activist Hasan from just TALKING about #august21 #prisonstrike that, instead of moving him to solitary where he could speak w/ others thru vents, they **barricaded his cell door with sandbags.** https://shadowproof.com/2018/08/20/ohio-prisoners-repression-talking-publicly-prison-strike/

Tweeted by bsonenstein on August 20, 2018 at 9:36 PM

(for information on what you can do to support from the outside, DM Unionhawk#2133 on discord or Unionhawk on twitter)

(is that legal I guess I'll find out if it isn't)

12:43 PM

@Unionhawk That's pretty shitty

I can see a non-shitty justification for it, but considering its the USA prison system, the benefit of doubt is a privilege it lost long ago.

Thar justification bring a fear of inciting a riot, but again, it'd the US for profit prison system

given the reason for the strike (a preventable uprising at overcrowded max facility Lee Correctional that killed 7 in April),

1 hour later…

2:18 PM

@Wipqozn My guess is that it's more like the Aziz Ansari thing - lots of sex happening and people know what happened in their particular instance was bad, but internally question whether it was actually a crime even if it was.

@GodEmperorDune Guardian messed up on the mid-article photo, I'm thinking.

2:39 PM

Museum visitor falls into giant hole that looks like a cartoonish painting on the floor http://gizmo.do/rPwjL7L

Tweeted by Gizmodo on August 20, 2018 at 10:44 PM

@puzzlepiece87 yep

@GodEmperorDune ... why is that not roped off?

@GodEmperorDune that's a lawsuit right there

Apparently, there were warning signs but no physical barrier.

Why was there no physical barrier?

@Memor-X It's Europe, so apart from a fine, there probably won't be any lawsuits

@Yuuki that’s why you don’t order from acme

2:49 PM

I feel like no matter what, the safety of the audience should always be first with regards to art. Having an 8 foot drop with not even a waist-high ribbon around it does not fit that

Danger should be simulated, not real

> The museum closed the exhibit to assess what happened

Someone had a dumb idea and no one said no.

Critics in city where hit film is set complain that it leaves out minorities and is ‘simplistic'

3:08 PM

@Wipqozn "So often, when we discuss movies or TV shows for or with Asian-Americans, or any group of people of color, we demand it be everything for everyone. It's an unfair burden."

@puzzlepiece87 this was a more articulate thing than what i was trying to word, so thanks

There, now that I'm not on mobile

@GodEmperorDune thumbs up

@puzzlepiece87 Yes it is, and I agree 110% , but it's intended to serve as a nice reminder that while this indeed a great step for Hollywood that there isn't an accurate representation of Asia and that there's still a lot of groups being underrepresented.

In other words this is a great step, but it's not the last step.

That and it's important for us to listen to the opinions of people from where the country is actually placed instead of just a bunch of people from Hollywood

@Wipqozn this is true

3:13 PM

@Wipqozn Indeed, everything you said is true.

@Wipqozn Another valid criticism of the film: casting some non-Chinese actors to play Chinese roles instead of just casting Chinese actors.

One of the disastrous side-effects of marginalization in Hollywood is that whenever a movie seems to break the mold (like having an mostly minority cast), everyone hypes it up as the "Great <Minority> Hope".

So now whenever you want a minority cast movie, you better be making something worthy of an Oscar.

It's just everything I've seen about this movie has been just how great it is without any discussion about how Hollywood still has a ways to go, so I wanted to share a different persepective that I saw

@puzzlepiece87 or at least scarjo

> As Chu famously said of Crazy Rich Asians: “It’s not a movie, it’s a movement,” a statement echoed by Constance Wu, his lead actress, and countless others on social media.

@Yuuki yeah this type of perfectionism helps the status quo.... "don't even try unless you are 100% sure" encourages people to not try to make changes at all

3:17 PM

Really, the best Western "Asian experience" movie this year was Bao.

@Wipqozn 2 articles from NYTimes with criticisms: "Not Asian Enough" "Elicits mixed feelings in Asia"

@Yuuki what movie was that the short for again? i missed it and want to get it when it hits streaming

@GodEmperorDune The Incredibles 2.

@Yuuki That was such a great short

@Yuuki thanks

3:18 PM

@GodEmperorDune Well played

It's weird but I'm more excited to have Bao when Incredibles 2 comes out on streaming than the actual movie.

@Yuuki Which is just a fantastic movie in it's own right. It does a great job of portraying how difficult being a single parent is, the undue burden often put on mothers to perform the majority of household duties, and also a great nod to the fact that men are more than capable of taking on more of that burden / all of it just like woman due - despite how Hollywood often portrays things.

In other words it has a great message of "hey, people, parenting is a thing everyone can and should do"

well how hollywood / society in general tries to portray things

plus it gave us perhaps the most creeper movie review in a while

And also, there's a weird deconstructionist message about superheroes that's unfortunately handled by the antagonist so that colors interpretations.

@GodEmperorDune Oh yes, we can't forget that

3:27 PM

@GodEmperorDune inb4 Kim Possible comes out.

Jul 25 at 16:35, by Ash

@GodEmperorDune Oh, right, and weird parts of the fandom are all "how dare you cast an actual teenager" for...uncomfortable reasons

@puzzlepiece87 oh yeah those are gonna be gross

Kind of related, one thing I'm grateful for growing up is that my mother and father did a fairly good job of having a "balanced household" as it were. It certainly wasn't perfectly balanced, and I know my mother took on more of that burden in certain aspects, but overall they both played a large role in househould duties and raising me and my sister. It's certainly helped to ensure I had an open mind and realized that traditional gender roles are a society thing.

talking about the inc 2 got me thinking on that haha

TIL @Wipqozn's mom is a superhero

@Wipqozn Grateful for the exact same.

They also had a relationship heavily based in open communication too, which has obviously been a great influence

3:30 PM

@GodEmperorDune hahahahaha

@Wipqozn I try to be better at open communication but my parents were slightly more passive aggressive and I have to work to shake that habit lol

@GodEmperorDune So pretty much all my friends think my mother is the best possible mother. She's just a generally kind hearted person that's always putting others before herself.

In fact sometimes I need to remind her it's okay to be selfish sometimes and just do something for yourself haha

@Wipqozn That's wonderful :)

The only people I've talked to who didn't understand Bao were people who didn't get that the majority of it was a dream sequence

@GodEmperorDune I read Jezebel for 1.5 years to become a better feminist. Their go to example isn't even movie reviews, it's every time Vogue sends a male writer to interview a female (they do this often).

@GodEmperorDune We already have people complaining they cast the actress too young FOR REASONS

3:35 PM

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Amazing that he brought both sides together to abolish ICE

@Ronan false, pork buns are literally alive

Jezebel: Why are so many vogue cover stories written by men?

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@puzzlepiece87 Relevant clip

The only youtube link I found for this Canadian TV show was region restricted to the US

The relevancy will make sense near the end

@Wipqozn Lol and that one's region-restricted for me.

Thanks for the link though!

3:46 PM

@puzzlepiece87 its a bunch of women making products for women that are identical to men's products but are pink and more expensive. A new employee asks why they're doing this when the bosses boss comes on, is a man, and is just 'yes pink fantastic women love pink. Good job ladies. This is officially man approved"

I paraphrased that last part to capture the meaning

@Wipqozn Ah thank you!

Yes this is going to happen, yes it will be so stupid: "But I worry we are about to start a two-year campaign analyzing every word the 2020 Democratic candidates utter in some attempt to divine if they will offend white men in Ohio who we think won’t vote for a woman or a black person."

Turn out the base 2020

Kelly Marie Tran: I Won’t Be Marginalized by Online Harassment

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Forget Ohio voters who were on the fences after freaking Trump

"If we cannot come to a consensus for a single count, how can we fill in the verdict sheet?," @PaulManafort trial jury queries judge.

Tweeted by W7VOA on August 21, 2018 at 3:49 PM

loooooooooooool

It's certainly possible that they decided not guilty on all of the other counts they aren't confused on but I wouldn't take that bet

Meanwhile Cohen is indeed discussing a plea deal with prosecutors per sources

Also this:

Epstein’s judgement was in places withering. The oligarchs had argued Steele did not enjoy 1st amendment protections b/c he's British not American. "The judge said this was 'ironic' given the fact the billionaires had Russian &Israeli citizenships,&had gone to a US court 4redress https://twitter.com/dmitryzaksAFP/status/1031927633754382338

Tweeted by lrozen on August 21, 2018 at 3:53 PM

@TimStone the passerby yelling at him in new york was truly prescient

4:01 PM

Federal housing agency staffer secretly recorded director's sexual advances toward her: report http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402800-federal-housing-agency-employee-secretly-recorded-directors-sexual

Tweeted by thehill on August 21, 2018 at 3:58 PM

lol everyone has tapes

> Sea level rise is eroding home value, and owners might not even know it

lol WaPo, yes, this is the most concerning aspect

Over weekend, Trump said to Giuliani: “'It’s your fault! I offered you attorney general, but you insisted on being secretary of state. Had I picked you none of this would be happening.' (The White House declined to comment.)" https://twitter.com/gabrielsherman/status/1031927860867616768

Tweeted by lrozen on August 21, 2018 at 3:41 PM

@TimStone uuuuuuh get into the rising sea

C-SPAN caller slams Gorka, Trump aides as "treasonous b----es" http://thehill.com/homenews/media/402836-c-span-caller-slams-gorka-trump-aides-as-treasonous-bitches-on-air

Tweeted by thehill on August 21, 2018 at 4:04 PM

"Yes that is me, I am GORKA"

OOOOO BOY

rubs hands together

Barricades were just put up outside the Manhattan federal courthouse at 500 Pearl Street

Tweeted by eorden on August 21, 2018 at 4:04 PM

are your veins ready @TimStone?

@TimStone To be fair, did we expect anything else from, oh wait I read "WaPo" as Wall Street Journal for some dumb reason.

Reinforced and waiting

4:06 PM

@TimStone Wouldn't reinforcing your veins make it harder to inject directly?

Please deposit into the fresh content port

@Yuuki pretty sure @TimStone has a central line set up by now

it just makes things easier

It's like how I process everything on MSE

lmfao

Manafort’s attorney said he wished jurors would be given a third option on the form -- a hung jury option for each count he said. The jury verdict form gives jurors only the options of not guilty or guilty for each of the 18 charges against Manafort.

Tweeted by ShimonPro on August 21, 2018 at 4:05 PM

@TimStone Schrodinger's collusion.

The EPA says that Trump's rollback of coal regulations will result in "between 470 and 1,400 premature deaths annually by 2030" and "48,000 new cases of exacerbated asthma and at least 21,000 new missed days of school annually by 2030." https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/1031899995073462272

Tweeted by ddale8 on August 21, 2018 at 1:49 PM

Ah, it's a good thing Pruitt's replacement signed off on it then

4:23 PM

@TimStone I'll take it since that is all some people care about.

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Oh, this made me have SO MANY feelings.

The Washington Times' Charlie Hurt tries to say that Trump calling women dogs is "a compliment" akin to calling someone "my dog," and gets immediately shut down and talked over. https://t.co/e7hYG0MBBS

Tweeted by revrrlewis on August 21, 2018 at 3:55 PM

@TimStone wat

It's so beautifully stupid

He does know who tends to use "my ~~dog~~ dawg" as a compliment or term of endearment, right?

My god, this is exactly the n-word "debate".

4:34 PM

He was too busy reaching to consider anything else

#SCOTUS #KavanaughSCOTUS #KavanaughFacts

Tweeted by senjudiciary on August 21, 2018 at 4:10 PM

🤔

I honestly don't know who that is even for

... are they trying to chuck norris Kavanaugh?

"Well I was undecided on Kavanaugh, who I cannot directly vote for and would only call my Senator if I held a strong belief, but now that I know he graduated from Yale, and in the 90's, my word let me pick up the phone!"

"Kavanaugh is so judicial that defendants would hang themselves rather than appear in his court."

🤔

Pentagon identifies Army helicopter pilot killed in Iraq crash: CW3 Taylor J. Galvin, 34, from Spokane, Wash. Member of 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, had 9 deployments to Iraq & Afghanistan

Tweeted by LucasFoxNews on August 21, 2018 at 1:07 PM

Nine deployments to the same Forever War

Rand Paul is linking to a Charlie Kirk piece in The Hill about how Trump is making diplomacy work again and I'm gonna have to just shut everything down sorry folks

Trump endorses conservative mega-donor in Wyoming governor race: He will be "strong on crime" and "borders" http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/402830-trump-endorses-conservative-mega-donor-in-wyoming-gop-gubernatorial-primary

Tweeted by thehill on August 21, 2018 at 4:46 PM

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Wyoming's crime rate is nearly 40% lower than the national average and it's an entirely internal state

??????

Today, I resigned as Speaker of the House and will file to run for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals this afternoon. I am looking forward to talking with my fellow West Virginians and working to earn their trust and votes to serve as their Supreme Court Justice.

Tweeted by ArmsteadWV on August 21, 2018 at 4:19 PM

Excuse me? You impeached the sitting court, literally nothing could make your conduct above question, FFS

4:51 PM

@TimStone Wyoming is the center of perhaps the biggest shift from Democrat to Republican, IIRC.

So standard right-wing soundbytes will work well there, I assume.

Yeah but it's just stupid, lol

It'd be one thing if it was a Representative or Senator

But what's the governor going to do?

Christopher Watts told the police it was his wife who strangled their 2 young daughters — and that he strangled her out of rage. But on Monday he was charged with murder in all 3 deaths. https://nyti.ms/2N9YkBe

Tweeted by nytimes on August 21, 2018 at 2:47 AM

I mean because he 100% did all three, but yeah

@TimStone "i warned you about stairs bro, i told you dawg"

dammit sen collins

NEW BREAKING: Sen. Collins just said Kavanaugh told her he agrees w Roberts' take on Roe V Wade - that it is settled law.

Tweeted by LisaDNews on August 21, 2018 at 4:47 PM

5:07 PM

lol she knows what she's doing

sadly, yep

RIP roe v wade

user15026

@GodEmperorDune what does this mean

From the perspective of how he would decide a case absolutely nothing, basically

From the perspective of whether she'll vote to confirm him, she will, based on nothing

But it sounds like something which is what she wants

yeah i agree with @TimStone's analysis

it basically gives Sen Collins clearance to vote for him and then if he overturns roe v wade she can go "oh no i was bamboozled"

user15026

Alright, I am missing like half the details here

5:11 PM

@Ash here are some of the previous times collins has done a similar thing

BREAKING: Charlie Brown receives assurances from Lucy that she will not pull the football away. This time for serious. https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1031945884534300672

Tweeted by ParkerMolloy on August 21, 2018 at 4:58 PM

(Kavanaugh is the Supreme Court nominee to replace Roberts, the concern is that he'd overturn women's right to choose (i.e. abortion) among other things, people called Collins concerned about that, she got confirmation from him that he considers it "settled law", which is good enough for her despite being meaningless)

"settled law" is the keyword for "i'm not going to overturn it", however it has no teeth and there is no real reason for Kavanaugh to stick to that line once he gets on the court, because lifetime appointment

He is incidentally also someone who worked on the Bill Clinton case and really, really wanted to know some intimate details about the affair with Monica Lewinsky in an apparent gambit to embarrass Clinton but also that's just weird dude

@GodEmperorDune The key point being that it's not even a lie, since the law is currently settled but that doesn't mean he feels the past Court decided it correctly, lol

"Ah well that's good enough for me then" 🤷

@TimStone good nuanced point, yes

how could I have known that this ideological conservative judge would do the thing that's been a conservative dream for 30 years

etc

user15026

5:24 PM

So there's nothing really stopping him from ultimately overturning it singlehandedly?

I mean "singlehandedly" as in "with 4 others", and they technically need to have a case put in front of them to do it,

Oh, no, not single-handedly, but conservatives will have a majority so it would be possible if an applicable case was brought to them

but it's another key piece in place to doing it

and it's highly likely that relevant cases are already in the pipeline

The hardest piece of it honestly

@GodEmperorDune there's about a 90% chance Mike DeWine and friends are drafting something

or honestly the more likely route is some state does an actual or effective ban (heartbeat for example) and then supreme court goes "yes this is ok"

5:27 PM

i mean red states have been pushing boundaries for the past several years, planned parenthood and such sue immediately

so the cases are there

user15026

Lovely :(

"Ex-Trump attorney Cohen in discussions with U.S. prosecutors to plead guilty - source" - Get updates at Reuters.com

No article yet just an alert

Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract

(spoiler: it's tech employees)

(but the article is all about conspiracies)

NEW: @ABC has learned that Michael Cohen has entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.

Tweeted by KFaulders on August 21, 2018 at 5:39 PM

still no article yet

in the meantime, here is an article about the prison strike

"Nineteen days of peaceful protest are planned across the nation, organised largely by prisoners themselves. ...'Other inmates have been warned that if they continue to contact advocacy groups they will be moved to the most brutal camps.'" #PrisonStrike https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor-protest-america-jailhouse-lawyers-speak

Tweeted by Shakestweetz on August 21, 2018 at 1:49 PM

5:50 PM

@GodEmperorDune Not surprised. News agencies, credible ones anyways, are moving more towards breaking news alerts twitter posts for a quick 'this is happening' until they have time to write a more detailed and researched article

Source: I used to work at one

@Wipqozn yeah that php isn't gonna code itself

@GodEmperorDune :(

@GodEmperorDune phone zaps planned throughout the period, including today

For more information check out @IWW_IWOC

@Unionhawk what is a phone zap?

@GodEmperorDune incarceratedworkers.org/resources/how-organize-phone-zap

5:56 PM

thanks

> Pick targets that will feel the pressure and are in some way vulnerable. Phone zaps for prisoners involves dealing with state bureaucracies and prison administrations. Avoid public relation officers and state directors; it's already their job to lie and handle bad PR.

At prisons for example, wardens are essentially middle management who fear for their jobs. That is a vulnerability. The point is to have an organizational and political analysis of the institution you are messing with. Pick targets that get results or are vulnerable over anything else.

Call-in campaigns

phone zap sounds cooler tbh

It does

With a more specific goal of both tying up phones all day and letting DOCs know we're watching them

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