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

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PerkingFaintly · 12/03/2018 00:02

Oh whoops, here we are.Grin

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

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OuaisMaisBon · 17/03/2018 19:01

Gosh, yes, Pain, I just found that Royal Holloway Tweet.
I think Aberdeen and Bath occupiers have had similar poor treatment.

At some point early in the occupation my daughter was part of, security decided to lock a fire escape door from the outside, to stop more students getting in to occupy the Senate House. At around the same time, the occupying students were having to pee in bottles as they weren't allowed access to the bathrooms. Also, they were not allowed to be given food. And the Registrar had the cheek to accuse the rallying students of bullying and intimidation! Anyhow, it was resolved satisfactorily after negotiation and publicity (thank God for SM!) and the students carried on for 11 days (with swapping out) until they achieved what they had been asking for, from what I had understood to be is one of the more hard-line university managements, though Royal Holloway is looking very hard-line at this point. I heard nothing about medication not being allowed in, and it seemed that on my daughter's campus, at least, there was, eventually, a good rapport between the student occupiers and the security staff.

To be honest, I think the holding of a silent sit in by supportive students in a central university building on an open day for offer holders, was what clinched the turnaround at my daughter's university. I don't know whose genius idea it was, but it worked!

I'm sorry for this digression from Trump.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 17/03/2018 19:04

‘I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump?CMP=share_btn_tw

cozietoesie · 17/03/2018 19:08

That previous post was a response to Ouais's post copying Kyle Griffin, by the way.

lionheart · 17/03/2018 19:10
Smile

www.indy100.com/article/donald-trump-st-patricks-day-17-march-make-america-great-again-shamrock-mistake-7613416?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100

'Except Trump’s hats don't feature shamrocks.

They have four-leafed clovers.'

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 17/03/2018 19:11

I've not really been following it other than from my friend's feed. That does sound like a brilliant idea to protest on an open day!

cozietoesie · 17/03/2018 19:12

Goodness that's murky, lion.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 17/03/2018 19:17

Potentially being investigated for serious financial crimes McEntee

White House weighs rehiring fired Trump aide McEntee

www.politico.com/story/2018/03/17/john-mcentee-white-house-return-trump-468674

cozietoesie · 17/03/2018 19:21

A 'propensity for gambling'? Sure........

lionheart · 17/03/2018 19:21

Yes and also swampy.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 17/03/2018 19:28

I've moved on from the greatest showman soundtrack to the Hamilton soundtrack Grin and have the refrain of "when are these colonies going to rise up?" resounding in my head. If someone wants to start a revolution, I'm in (is a centrist revolution an oxymoron?)

lionheart · 17/03/2018 19:29

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/17/ivanka-trump-russia-mueller-investigation-organisation-subpoena

'Ivanka Trump is likely to face new legal scrutiny by Robert Mueller following reports that the special counsel has demanded documents from the Trump Organization, where she served as a senior executive.'

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 17/03/2018 21:21

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Pat Leahy is calling on Chuck Grassley to hold a hearing on White House politicization of the DOJ’s Russia probe.

Leahy writes a note at the bottom of his letter to Grassley: “Chuck — it is serious”

mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/975110855917481984

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 17/03/2018 21:24

Joy Reid
@JoyAnnReid
Republican source to me just now: “The McCabe Memos are the new Pentagon Papers.” #MuellerTime

cozietoesie · 17/03/2018 21:51

Pat Leahy the Senior Senator from Vermont?

cozietoesie · 17/03/2018 21:54

Sorry. The very same.

DoctorTwo · 17/03/2018 22:01

Oo @AcrossThePond55 your use of the word doomsday took me back more than 30 years to Flotsam and Jetsam and Doomsday For the Deceiver. A couple of videos later I was at No Place For Disgrace

Don't click if you don't like old skool thrash.

lionheart · 17/03/2018 22:22

The best people.

shareblue.com/john-dowd-andrew-mccabe-obstruction/

cozietoesie · 17/03/2018 22:42

There are good lawyers and......not-so-good lawyers. 45 does not appear to choose wisely.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 17/03/2018 22:45

Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg university

Data company gave briefing to Moscow firm Lukoil, and the lecturer who developed the crucial algorithm worked for St Petersburg university

amp.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-academic-trawling-facebook-had-links-to-russian-university

lionheart · 17/03/2018 22:45

I don't know how he manages it.

lionheart · 17/03/2018 22:48

loophole for McCabe

lionheart · 17/03/2018 22:50

We need to add this word to our Trump lexicon.

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Everything about Trump and his administration is ugly, mean-spirited, small-minded, skeevy, and just plain wrong.