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1:19 AM

President Trump on Rod Rosenstein: "I actually have a good relationship other than there's been no collusion, folks, no collusion. But I have a very good relationship." http://hill.cm/XUdLyaB https://t.co/pKjqo3CJSF

Tweeted by thehill on October 9, 2018 at 12:00 AM

do you realize that you're talking about Rosenstein, not Putin

Unionhawk

,,,,xD

Memor-X

Donald Trump apologises to Brett Kavanaugh for 'the terrible suffering you have been forced to endure' http://bit.ly/2Nwz2gd

Tweeted by SBSNews on October 9, 2018 at 12:30 AM

Memor-X

1:59 AM

Banksy posts video of £1m painting shredding stunt (Tap to expand) https://bbc.in/2PgVnQt https://t.co/6H51YsZZp4

Tweeted by BBCNews on October 7, 2018 at 10:45 AM

Tim Stone

2:21 AM

NEW tonight: @fire_ted_cruz PAC ad, directed by Richard Linklater https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=qRYYqEgT9uI

Tweeted by evanasmith on October 9, 2018 at 2:07 AM

Heh, Linklater directed an anti-Cruz ad

Kevin

11:37 AM

@TimStone I like that the tweet links to second 32 of a 32 second clip...

Unionhawk

Ambitious reformer Mohammed bin Salman faces a key test in how he handles the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi https://bloom.bg/2CBp5Nw via @bopinion

Tweeted by business on October 9, 2018 at 5:07 AM

oh hell yeah @TimStone

Tim Stone

Yeah, I'm still trying to wrap my head around that being something someone actually wrote

"How will he handle it?"
"I mean he almost definitely ordered the kidnapping/probable murder"
"Ah but will he un-murder him as a show of good faith?"
"...No? What?"

In a first-of-its-kind case, Israel has held an American graduate student at its international airport for a whole week, accusing her of supporting a Palestinian-led boycott movement against the Jewish state. http://apne.ws/ejew9to

Tweeted by AP on October 9, 2018 at 11:39 AM

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner is set for early release from prison for good conduct https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/weiner-on-track-for-early-release/ via @nypost

Tweeted by Sarah_Boxer on October 9, 2018 at 11:45 AM

Absoeffinlutely not

Only a few months but every month we are free from Anthony Weiner showing up to do something horrible again the better off we are

Unionhawk

11:54 AM

@TimStone shit like this is why I'm so mad at andrew gillum, why "oppose laws criminalizing BDS" is probably going to be on our top 5 non-negotiable list for candidates

Nzall

12:23 PM

Someone on twitter explains Rape Culture using a comparison to getting kicked in the nuts

5

Tim Stone

1:39 PM

Siri show me the worst possible back-and-forth

Avenatti hits back at Trump Jr. over Anthony Weiner insult http://hill.cm/eioZlXb

Tweeted by thehill on October 9, 2018 at 1:36 PM

JUST IN: Supreme Court rejects bid to review Kavanaugh-authored appeals court ruling that nixed Obama-era climate rule

Tweeted by ReutersUS on October 9, 2018 at 1:36 PM

Reuters being a fair bit misleading in its implication there

It's not that Kavanaugh is bad (this time), it's that the EPA is now like "Actually HFCs are awesome pump them bad boys into the atmosphere after all"

Unionhawk

wait are you telling me that both parties are at best Insufficient on climate change

Tim Stone

Well yes, but this was a lawsuit by companies who wanted to use HFCs and now the Trump EPA has 180ed

So there's just not much left to review on account of the EPA largely abandoning its rule

Unionhawk

Oh that makes slightly more sense

Tim Stone

2:05 PM

@TimStone Oh good it's now technically news

uhhh

BREAKING: President Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-nikki-haley-resignation-d25b64a9-264e-483a-a79b-ae8a48e367db.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100

Tweeted by axios on October 9, 2018 at 2:05 PM

Unionhawk

Can't wait for our new UN rep, John Bolton or someone like that

Mad Scientist

@TimStone big question is why she is resigning

Tim Stone

I dunno, no other outlets are reporting this yet so let's hope they didn't pull another Rosenstein

The paid D.C. protesters are now ready to REALLY protest because they haven’t gotten their checks - in other words, they weren’t paid! Screamers in Congress, and outside, were far too obvious - less professional than anticipated by those paying (or not paying) the bills!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on October 9, 2018 at 12:32 PM

Unionhawk

we're through the looking glass people

Tim Stone

Well at least now we know why Jared and Trump are meeting with Kanye on Thursday

Yuuki

2:13 PM

I'd normally say "Kanye West, UN Ambassador" would be emblematic of the hellhole we currently live in, but it seems like every decision Trump makes is somehow pretty goddamn emblematic of the hellhole we live in.

Tim Stone

@TimStone Maggie's on the case

Big announcement with my friend Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Oval Office at 10:30am.

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on October 9, 2018 at 2:18 PM

"IT'S MY SCOOP, MINE!"

Mad Scientist

@TimStone doesn't sound like fired, more like promotion

Kevin

Reminder: This is trump we're talking about

Don't expect his words to have any relationship to reality

Tim Stone

did Trump's attacks on the NFL actually impact ratings? @USATODAY analysis of viewership data finds that the quality of football, not politics, played a much bigger role: https://bit.ly/2RCZMPq

Tweeted by minakimes on October 9, 2018 at 2:15 PM

Ah who knew the driving factor for ratings was people's interest in watching the content

(not a swipe at the report, but at Trump's assumption he could sway viewers)

Mad Scientist

2:31 PM

maybe she'll be the new attorney general, or something even more insane

Tim Stone

Yeah Twitter already has involved theories

Wipqozn

@TimStone I imagine that must be a really difficult job right now

Tim Stone

Here they are.

Tweeted by PhilipinDC on October 9, 2018 at 2:37 PM

Yuuki

@TimStone I hate you forever.

Tim Stone

CNN is now speculating that Ivanka Trump is taking over as UN ambassador and I want to throw my computer out the window

Tweeted by zackbeauchamp on October 9, 2018 at 2:39 PM

Yuuki

2:40 PM

@TimStone Actually, can we mod-delete this?

Tim Stone

lol bring it 2018 I hate you

Yuuki

So that was the first time I used Porkchat's burninate feature.

Tim Stone

@Yuuki I mean, we can!

BREAKING: Nikki Haley is leaving at the end of the year, Trump says. She wants to “take a break.”

Tweeted by JenniferJJacobs on October 9, 2018 at 2:40 PM in reply to JenniferJJacobs

She's running

But also weird that it's announced now, before midterms!

Kevin

@Yuuki now I'm curious what it was

Yuuki

@TimStone B L I N D T R U S T

I mean, mostly unrelated but still.

Tim Stone

2:46 PM

@TimStone (She says she's not running, but)

Yuuki

> The second Salisbury poisoning suspect was named a GRU doctor, who gave himself away by using his first name and real date of birth on his fake identity passport.

Honestly, that doesn't sound too dumb. Keeping your first name means you avoid the whole "person calls you by your fake name and you don't react" trick.

And it's not like your date of birth is going to clue anyone in to you being a spy.

> Dr. Alexander Mishkin's false identification papers also listed GRU headquarters in Moscow as his home address.

uhhh

uhhhhhh

Unionhawk

classic opsec

Tim Stone

My favorite thing about the “college campuses are hotbeds of radicalism!!” is Have You Ever Gone And Talked To A Bunch Of College Kids https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1049673482332659712

Tweeted by mattdpearce on October 9, 2018 at 2:55 PM

Unionhawk

apparently UC has some event where all the political orgs on campus debate each other, which sounds awful but there's a YDSA group there this year

Tim Stone

I mean it is kind of absurd when you consider a non-zero percentage of college students were people who could painlessly afford to go to college and therefore aren't obligated by circumstance to pay attention

Unionhawk

3:01 PM

it still sounds awful

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk It would be better as just a cage match tbh

Unionhawk

college politicon

Tim Stone

shudders

Roger Stone aide Andrew Miller says he challenged Mueller's authority because "I'm not going to be a victim to my government." He says that when he spoke to prosecutor, "there was such disdain about me coming to DC, and that I had to be here...Why is he not flying to me?"

Tweeted by etuckerAP on October 9, 2018 at 2:57 PM

lmao "look I do crimes from the comfort of my own home why can't the police just come to me and also the prison?"

Exxon puts $1 million into carbon tax campaign http://hill.cm/3lRoMwe

Tweeted by thehill on October 9, 2018 at 3:01 PM

Unionhawk

yesterday, by Unionhawk

Carbon tax

Tim Stone

What's the gamble there, that smaller companies can't bear the cost so Exxon & co can scoop them up?

Unionhawk

3:05 PM

Oh as in they want to look like they're helping

Tim Stone

Yeah, the campaign is calling for $43/metric ton

I have no idea what's actually reasonable

Unionhawk

all of it

tbh

Yuuki

Central estimate for social cost of carbon is ~$50/metric ton.

Tim Stone

Hmm, yeah, it also seems coal still accounts for ~30% of US energy production, so that makes sense if Exxon thinks it can push natural gas sales

Yuuki

IIRC, Exxon is not involved in coal. Or at least minimally so.

So it would make sense that they'd want to push them out.

Tim Stone

3:18 PM

Right, since natural gas plants are more efficient and less CO2-producing than coal, putting in the carbon tax would push the market in that direction barring the viability of other forms

Unionhawk

3:51 PM

The Irving family owns both the Telegraph Journal and the oil refinery that 'sploded yesterday. Here's how their newspaper covered their accident.

Tweeted by JesseBrown on October 9, 2018 at 1:43 PM

hell yeah

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk nice

Yuuki

4:04 PM

> Republicans threaten lawsuit after bar declines to host pro-Kavanaugh "Beers 4 Brett" party.

wE aRe PrO-bUsInEsS, bUsInEsSeS sHoUlD bE aLlOwEd To ReJeCt WhOmEvEr ThEy WaNt

Tim Stone

4:20 PM

@Unionhawk Damn Canadians

Top Dem on Senate Foreign Relations Committee @SenatorMenendez calls @nikkihaley resignation a "setback from promoting American values and priorities." He thanks Haley for "her willingness to express moral clarity to the world and to President Trump."

Tweeted by DCPulse_ALM on October 9, 2018 at 4:04 PM

Bob, buddy, shhhhhhhh

I still don't understand how they didn't get him on corruption charges, sigh

"The office of Russia’s infamous troll factory believed to be at the vanguard of Russia’s information war has been set on fire in St. Petersburg overnight... an unknown suspect broke the agency’s ground-floor window and threw a Molotov cocktail inside" https://themoscowtimes.com/news/infamous-st-petersburg-troll-farm-set-on-fire-63130

Tweeted by timkmak on October 9, 2018 at 4:15 PM

Tim Stone

4:37 PM

"I am not running for president,'' says Disney CEO Bob Iger. As adamant as he's been on the topic.

Tweeted by Lucas_Shaw on October 9, 2018 at 4:29 PM

Err…okay? No one even asked you Other Bob

Yuuki

Hmm... being a CEO and deciding to not run for president is probably way too low a bar for "welcome to the resistance".

Unionhawk

being a ceo grants you automatic membership in the resistance as long as you aren't ceo of trump hotels

Tim Stone

NEW: A Miami resident married to a U.S. citizen says he lost his wallet & that hours later, someone called to say he found it and to come to a highway rest-stop to get it back. He says that when he arrived, the "good samaritans" were really ICE agents: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/ice-arrests-miami-man-who-lost-wallet-in-ohio-10806988

Tweeted by jerryiannelli on October 9, 2018 at 1:38 PM

Yuuki

Yeah, what was I thinking, there's no bar too low for the resistance.

Tim Stone

Daily Abolish ICE

Unionhawk

4:41 PM

unrelated (partially related I guess, more related to the CNN piece going around today), from the Guardian last year:

Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals

100 companies are responsible for 71% of emissions

don't let CNN frame us all being about to die as an individual moral failing because you don't take the bus or whatever

GodEmperorDune

5:10 PM

@Unionhawk yeah our individual moral failing is in not eating the rich quickly enough

@Yuuki NYT, wapo, and all newspapers do a lot of good journalism work. my main complaints with them are: 1) funding terrible take clickbait opinion pieces, 2) assuming that it is possible to write an unbiased article when the very act of deciding what to cover is tainted by bias, 3) assuming that doing both sides equivalence (and ignoring scale) "averages out" into a neutral article

oh and 4) not realizing that their own actions in publishing/not publishing stories contributes to how those stories play out

as a good example of 4, the whole "rostenstein joked about betraying trump in a meeting" a few weeks ago

as for what i consider good journalism work, most of it is investigative work that takes a lot of time and is very expensive to do properly, so mainly its big papers that can still afford to do it these days

NYT's extremely long read on how donald trump and his family did a lot of extremely shady if not outright illegal tax things back in the day is a great example of that

Tim Stone

5:37 PM

White House just announced that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will speak to reporters on the driveway in 15 minutes.

Tweeted by EamonJavers on October 9, 2018 at 5:36 PM

Look both ways for busses

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone so is javanka officially un rep now?

Tim Stone

Well Haley's in until the end of the year, UN Ambassador is a Senate-confirmed position, the prospect of Ivanka in that role might be too absurd even for them

Especially when the alternative would just likely be some rando Pompeo lackey or something

GodEmperorDune

or is this just a "nikki haley was so great, vote her in 2020" groundwork speech

stupid chat lag

Tim Stone

I dunno why she gave Javanka shout outs though

GodEmperorDune

the senate will just about confirm anyone these days

Unionhawk

5:44 PM

congrats to UN assembly rep mark judge

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune It helps if you come from a preselected list like Kavanaugh though

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone so un rep dinesh dsouza then

Tim Stone

Sorry I should have clarified that the selection list can't be the imitation Christmas tree catalog

GodEmperorDune

oh i thought the preselected list was anyone on fox news

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk Which is why Carbon Tax is really important, but of course, the right tries to brainwash people into thinking it's a bad thing for the little guy

Unionhawk

5:50 PM

@TimStone dinesh is a serious intellectual who wrote and directed a film how dare you

Tim Stone

Look I'll still turn to him for advice about voting fraud or whatever

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone campaign fraud

Tim Stone

Ah right

@Wipqozn Hmm this is actually a good question, of what the impact is on general folk. The 100 companies are all energy providers, so I guess we should consider what power they have to raise rates until the market corrects. Of course, dealing with that is preferable to, you know, baking to death, so either way 🤷

‘Not today,’ said Bill Shine, the WH communications director when asked for reaction to the UN climate report predicting a dire future. ‘It’s a Kavanaugh night’ https://nyti.ms/2zZl3fa?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Tweeted by tripgabriel on October 9, 2018 at 1:53 AM

🤔

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone i'd be more sympathetic if they weren't so dickish about making solar a pain in the ass

Unionhawk

the official white house position has already been "who fucking cares, it's too late anyway"

GodEmperorDune

5:58 PM

@TimStone it's illegal to throw beers at wh officials, isn't it?

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune Right I just meant like for people to be able to afford electricity, since it would presumably impact poor folk the most. The companies can go pound sand, obviously

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune if a law is unjust, one is not only right to disobey, they are obligated to

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone make power companies into co-ops imo

put the public back into public utilities

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk I'm pretty sure what they really mean "We'll be dead by then anyways, fuck you everyone else hahahahaha!"

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune Down with Exelon Corp!

But actually they don't even own any coal plants I don't think

So it looks like if we sent @Unionhawk south with a sledgehammer and some unlimited time off he could kick things back in the right direction

Unionhawk

6:13 PM

Unionhawk is creating Ecoterrorism | Patreon

Tim Stone

I was wondering what the hell that multiple-MW "Other" generation source along the Virginia/WV border was and it's presumably this:

Bath County Pumped Storage Station

The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant, which is described as the "largest battery in the world", with a maximum generation capacity of 3,030 MW, an average of 2,772 MW , and a total storage capacity of 24,000 MWh . The station is located in the northern corner of Bath County, Virginia, on the southeast side of the Eastern Continental Divide, which forms this section of the border between Virginia and West Virginia. The station consists of two reservoirs separated by about 1,260 feet (380 m) in elevation. It is the largest pumped-storage power station...

GodEmperorDune

7:03 PM

White people now calling the cops on whales https://boingboing.net/2018/10/09/listen-to-a-group-of-idiots-ca.html

Tweeted by BoingBoing on October 9, 2018 at 6:25 PM

@Unionhawk pledged

SaintWacko

> You guys, you guys

GodEmperorDune

Hashtag not all whales

Yuuki

> #WhaleLivesMatter
> #AllFishLivesMatter

SaintWacko

That may have been one of the stupidest things I've heard

Like it sounds like a mediocre SNL skit

There's this amazing thing happening and they're freaking out and panicking while being as white as they possibly can

user15026

7:22 PM

That poor guy when he is like "I could have touched it" like he sounded so sad, because he got how miraculous and awesome the whole thing was

SaintWacko

@Ash And it was spoiled by all the idiots ranting and panicking around him :(

GodEmperorDune

like i can understand being startled

Unionhawk

but also like,

VHF channel 16

friends

GodEmperorDune

but "there are 3 ways under us and i am worried we are going to get run over"

uhhhhhhh even the prepositions give you away

Unionhawk

chill the fuck out, but if all else maybe fails (it won't), throw a mayday on VHF 16 don't make a phone call lol

Yuuki

7:28 PM

On the bright side, at least neither the people nor the whales got hurt during this.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki yeah i was worried when they started the motor

user15026

@Yuuki that I am grateful for yes

Unionhawk

7:39 PM

for the Civility file: "After Emanuel’s decision not to seek a third term was announced, a source close to him claimed that protests outside the mayor’s family home were a major stressor and a serious consideration as he pondered a re-election bid." https://theappeal.org/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-wont-seek-a-third-term-these-movements-are-a-big-reason-why/

Tweeted by adamjohnsonNYC on October 9, 2018 at 2:58 PM

folks

direct action works

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk yepppppppppp

civility is a tool of status quo

Unionhawk

lmao, heritage foundation just retweeted a post that said something like "I wonder what happened a decade ago that made healthcare unaffordable"

(the ACA was pretty much copy paste heritage foundation stuff)

Wipqozn

8:09 PM

@GodEmperorDune These people should not be on the water

If you're gonna panic that much over whales, then you really aren't safe driving a boat

Actually that guy who isn't losing his shit is probably the drive, so that's good

I bet he'll never be taking any of them out on the water again

Yuuki

@Wipqozn He actually tells someone to drive the boat away during the video, likely because he realizes that everyone panicking is probably not a good idea despite the whales not really being any danger.

So I don't think he's the one driving the boat.

Wipqozn

Ah okay I definitely return to my earlier statement then

Yuuki

Given that the boat didn't speed away before being told to, I'm guessing the person driving the boat also wasn't panicking and likely just didn't say anything during the entire video.

Memor-X

10:19 PM

Religious freedom review: Gay teachers, students could be rejected by schools http://bit.ly/2NzyuGq

Tweeted by SBSNews on October 9, 2018 at 7:19 PM

Trump: Ivanka would be "incredible" at UN if not for accusations of nepotism http://hill.cm/8VAAXRS

Tweeted by thehill on October 9, 2018 at 9:22 PM

in case if no one knows why he's saying this, Nikki Haley is "resigning" her position at the end of the year

GodEmperorDune

11:52 PM

SCOTUS just upheld voter ID law in North Dakota that could disenfranchise thousands of Native voters & cost Heidi Heitkamp her Senate seat. "The risk of disenfranchisement is large" RBG writes in dissent https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/supreme-court-makes-it-harder-for-tribal-north-dakotans-to-vote/

Tweeted by AriBerman on October 9, 2018 at 9:48 PM

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune so what's this voter id law?

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X this specific one says that you have ot have a residential address to vote

however most native communities in the state use PO boxes to get mail so they don't have a residential address and thus cannot vote under the new law

the native communities voted strongly in favor of the current senator, who is a democrat and up for re-election and barely won last time

and the rest of the state is strong republican and passed through voter suppression mechanisms like this

Unionhawk

A third of Maryland Democrats are backing the Republican governor. http://bit.ly/2yqw8UI

Tweeted by newrepublic on October 9, 2018 at 8:57 PM

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune was about to say that having a residential address would make sense but since you added about the PO boxes yeh i can see the problem

Unionhawk

ah,

Memor-X

11:58 PM

not 100% but i think in Australia you do need an address but you can use a PO Box too because in all cases you need to provide photo ID when you vote anyway and the address just serves to indicates where you are to vote

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