Even if you subpoena us, we won't turn up on the Trump threads

[PerkingFaintly]

Oh whoops, here we are.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3180160-Trump-talk-HOW-MUCH-for-that-inauguration?pg=1

Re: the package bombs in Austin

Alexandra Erin
@alexandraerin
whispers very loudly Hate crimes should be treated more seriously than other crimes because they terrorize a community. It's the difference between vandalism, assault, or murder, or vandalism, assault, or murder that sends a deliberate message of "THIS COULD BE YOU NEXT."
A crime can involve the emotion of hate and not be a hate crime. Most murders have one target. A lynching is aimed at a community. A lynching sends a message to everybody who witnesses or hears about it, about who belongs where. How we deal with lynchings must blunt that message.
If I kill you because I hate you, that's murder and you're the victim. If I kill you because I hate people of your religion, and I do it in a way designed to make people of your religion feel unsafe in their place of worship, that's murder and a hate crime with many other victims
This mini thread brought to you by the fact that there is someone sending bombs mostly to Black people in the Austin area and this is both literally terrorism and a hate crime, and if it gets any traction as an issue it's going to attract "All crimes are hate crimes!" comments.

So I'd forgotten he'd only stepped down and was due to go soon and hadn't been fired. But it's not too late!

Andrew McCabe, a Symbol of Trump’s F.B.I. Ire, Faces Possible Firing
www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi-firing-recommendation-justice-department.html

Susan Hennessey
@Susan_Hennessey
McCabe is scheduled to retire on Sunday. This smacks of a petty, cruel effort to deny him his pension after 21 years of service to his country.

Foreshadowed by Ivanka Trump following him on twitter last night:

President Trump picks conservative TV personality Larry Kudlow as his next top economic adviser, a source says

edition.cnn.com/2018/03/14/politics/larry-kudlow-white-house-economist/index.html

John McCain
@SenJohnMcCain
As we hope for the recovery of Sergei & Yulia Skripal, we must recognize #Putin will not hesitate to engage in state-sponsored assassination. He must not be allowed to treat the UK or any other nation as a venue for political murder. (link: www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=F497FC38-F339-4E0D-97E7-9D92FEE9D84C )

Trump acknowledged yesterday that there had been a Russian attack in the UK,not sure f he's said anything since-

"As soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn Russia or whoever it may be" - President Trump on Salisbury poisoning

mobile.twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/973554768189599744

Gee Donald, thanks for your heartfelt support.

He's annoyed with the UK.

If he agrees with the facts. Ffs.

He's still miffed that he's not getting the State Visit and the Golden Coach ride. Plus he probably thinks his BFF Vlad the Poisoner did it as revenge for the snub.

I reckon you've got it, Across.

I have to admit to being throughly confused by today’s turn of events

Sam Coates Times
@SamCoatesTimes
The US does now blame Russia for the chemical attack. Unlike France and Jeremy Corbyn. This tonight from the UN

It’s not just that he wouldn’t dare to speak out against Russia as jas been his MO for the last year?

oybbk it’s apparently the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death too

I'm actually slightly looking forward to see how trump will react.

On national walk out day:

Northwestern
@NorthwesternU
NU EMERGENCY: Person with gun on Evanston campus. If on campus, seek shelter in safe place and stay until further notice. Others keep away.

And

A Republican candidate for the Maine House, who is running unopposed, has used Twitter to attack two students who survived a mass shooting at a Florida school

'Skinhead lesbian': GOP candidate attacks Parkland teen Emma Gonzalez

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna856311

A reminder that the Panama a hotel is the one embroiled in money laundering allegations and also had the shredder/Fur Elise/crowbarred letters episode (this is like a game of mad libs)

Betsy Woodruff
@woodruffbets
NEW: The Pentagon spent more than $17k at the Trump hotel in Panama, raising major domestic emoluments questions

Pentagon Spent $17,000 at Panama Trump Hotel
Trump Organization employees were facing legal action over how poorly the branded-resort performed. Then the U.S. military showed up.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-spent-dollar17000-at-trumps-panama-hotel/

Where have we seen this playbook before (without the payroll bit. though she may have been on Putin's)?

APNewsBreak: Green Party candidate was on state GOP payroll
apnews.com/aae15528a9fe415282402c4e14090c75

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A man who registered as a Green Party candidate for Montana’s U.S. Senate race was on the state Republican Party’s payroll and heads a newly formed anti-tax group, according to a review of election documents.

Timothy Adams filed as a challenger Monday against Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, who faces a tough re-election campaign, in a race where a Green Party candidate could siphon votes from the Democrat.

FFS.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/14/russian-spy-poisoning-investigation-extends-dorset-town-sergei-skripal

Some good.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/14/rand-paul-gina-haspel-cia-director-torture-gleeful-joy

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/14/larry-kudlow-gary-cohn-trump-administration

'Conservative commentator was chosen from a shortlist of just one candidate for one of the most powerful posts in the administration.'

Hearing set in Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against Trump

edition.cnn.com/2018/03/14/politics/stormy-daniels-lawsuit-hearing-date/index.html

And

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
NICOLLE WALLACE: Is there a sex tape?
MICHAEL AVENATTI, Stormy Daniels' attorney: I'm not going to answer that.
WALLACE: Could there be a sex tape?
AVENATTI: There could be, might be, would be, could be. Who knows?

With the exception of the door, I think these all broke in the last 24 hours (please don't make me check exactly when they broke)

• Scott Pruitt's $25,000 soundproof phone booth actually cost more like $43,000
• Emails show Ben and Candy Carson selected the $31,000 dining set for his Department of Housing and Urban Development dining room
• Shulkin is facing new allegations that he had a member of his security detail go shopping with him at Home Depot and then cart the purchases into his house, AP reports.
• Zinke got caught taking money from a wildfire account at @Interior to pay for an unrelated helicopter ride during the most expensive wildfire season in recorded history. Plus his $139000 door.
• Kellyanne Conway took several private flights with ousted Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last year, costing taxpayers "tens of thousands" of dollars, according to a Democratic congressman

www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/the-obama-history-that-trump-may-be-doomed-to-repeat/2018/03/14/2971289a-274b-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?utm_term=.e429afc8e9c0

Wow.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/county-sheriff-jail-feed-inmates-etowah-alabama-todd-entrekin-budget-food-provisions-a8256041.html

A County Sheriff who received $750,000 (£538,000) from the government to feed prisoners has bought a $740,000 (£531,000) beach house.

Todd Entrekin, from Etowah, Alabama, has more than $1.7 million (£1.22m) worth of property despite being on a five-figure salary.

Ethics disclosure forms show that Mr Entrekin received more than $750,000 (£538,000) from a source he identified as "Food Provisions".

'The money was allocated to feed inmates in the Etowah County jail but a state law passed before World War II says that the “excess” can be kept by sheriffs.'

[echoes Haberman's reporting. Well, not reporting but tweets]

“TRUMP WANTS THEM OUT OF THERE”: AFTER SWINGING THE AXE AT TILLERSON, TRUMP MULLS WHAT TO DO WITH MCMASTER, SESSIONS, JARED, AND IVANKA

With tariffs done, Trump’s sights are now on the Iran deal—and, possibly, the Russia investigation. “The president is finally realizing he is the president,” a former White House official told me. “He’s just making these decisions on his own.”

www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/trump-swinging-the-axe-at-tillerson-mcmaster-sessions-jared-and-ivanka?mbid=social_twitter