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When a nation’s children marched, and their President ignored them - Trump cont.

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TheClaws · 29/03/2018 01:36

For me, the Parkland children being belittled and abused in so many ways is utterly heartbreaking to witness. But they have been more adult than the adults in their response. They have shown us what faith means, and bravery. POTUS? He is made much, much smaller.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3198255--In-politics-stupidity-is-not-a-handicap-We-know-this-now-Trump-thread-cont

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 01/04/2018 07:37

Creator of bump stocks offering Easter discount

The creator of bump stocks is offering a sale on its devices for Easter weekend, as President Trump moves to ban bump stocks through regulatory action.

Slide Fire is offering 10-percent discounts on the original bump stock through Monday, according to a tweet posted by Bloomberg Business reporter Polly Mosendz.

"Bump stocks are going to be gone," Trump vowed after the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Prices of bump stocks quickly rose following Trump's announcement that he would move to ban them, with some sellers on gun auction websites saying, "get them while you can."
thehill.com/homenews/administration/381129-creator-of-bump-stocks-offers-discount-as-trump-moves-to-ban-devices

TheClaws · 01/04/2018 08:17

Easter Smile Easter Blessings everyone!

POLITICO @politico
32m32 minutes ago
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Manafort is now facing trial after Mueller charged him with failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department politi.co/2pUic1M

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OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 01/04/2018 08:18

Excellent news!

lionheart · 01/04/2018 08:31

Good.

And then not so good (more on Sinclair).

theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490

lionheart · 01/04/2018 08:39
Easter Hmm
When a nation’s children marched, and their President ignored them - Trump cont.
lionheart · 01/04/2018 08:43

Just remembered it is April 1st.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 01/04/2018 08:47

White supremacy

Trump's latest intern class vs Obama's
twitter.com/krassenstein/status/980073330333102081

And

Blake Montgomery 💀
@blakersdozen
A cop car just slammed a protester at the vigil for Stephon Clark. These are three blurry photos of it happening.

twitter.com/blakersdozen/status/980289550592323585

MedicaidMatt, Esq. ⚖
@mattbc
More MedicaidMatt, Esq. ⚖ Retweeted Blake Montgomery 💀
The cop will, of course, claim he "feared for his life" sitting inside his two ton squad car, with other cop cars in front and behind him, while unarmed protestors walked peacefully around his vehicle.

And

Only Black People Prosecuted Under Mississippi Gang Law Since 2010

www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/mar/29/only-black-people-prosecuted-under-mississippi-gan/

The Marshall Project
@MarshallProj
The @JxnFreePress reports that from 2010 to 2017 every single person arrested under Mississippi's gang law was African American. The Mississippi Association of Gang Investigators estimates 53% of the state's gang members are white.

And

HE SPOKE OUT AGAINST SOMALIA’S TERRORIST GROUPS. NOW ICE HAS DEPORTED HIM THERE.

theintercept.com/2018/03/31/ice-detention-immigration-somalia-refugee/

[the whole thing is heartless and brutal - I think it's important to read]

And

ICE JUST DEPORTED 25 SOMALIS WHO SAID THEY WERE PHYSICALLY AND SEXUALLY ABUSED IN DETENTION

news.vice.com/en_us/article/43banm/ice-just-deported-25-somalis-who-said-they-were-physically-and-sexually-abused-in-detention

And

New Jersey Mother Deported on Daughter's Prom Night
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/NJ-Mother-to-be-Deported-to-Bangladesh_Philadelphia-478350003.html

Greg Greene
@ggreeneva
ICE had already deported the young woman’s father, and a maternal grandparent. As a U.S. citizen she’ll remain here with her siblings — effectively orphaned by the federal government.

And

ICE Won’t Deport the Last Nazi War Criminal in America
He confessed to being a concentration-camp guard—and was stripped of his citizenship. But the U.S. government still won’t kick him out of the country.
www.thedailybeast.com/ice-wont-deport-the-last-nazi-war-criminal-in-america

The Daily Beast
@thedailybeast
During the first three months of ICE’s 2018 fiscal year, the agency deported 56,710 people, 46 percent of whom had not been convicted of a crime. This year, ICE expects to deport 209,000 people

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 01/04/2018 08:48

Slide to authoritarianism:

Don Moynihan
@donmoyn
A chorus of local news reporters reading, word-for-word, from the same Sinclair script to attack the media and defend the President. This is not what an independent media looks like.

twitter.com/donmoyn/status/980089697019023361[really recommend watching this 30 second clip - it's pretty chilling]

Of course, Sinclair has benefited mightily from the Trump administration waiving federal rules on media ownership. Symbiotic relationship between state media and the state www.politico.com/story/2017/08/06/trump-fcc-sinclair-broadcast-expansion-241337

New paper by @joshmccrain & Gregory Martin. Changes in media ownership are reducing attention to local news, pushing a more conservative line, and actually losing viewers. joshuamccrain.com/localnews.pdf

full credit to @bubbaprog for the Sinclair image

Longer video here:

How America's largest local TV owner turned its news anchors into soldiers in Trump's war on the media: theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490

Renato Mariotti
@renato_mariotti
More Renato Mariotti Retweeted Don Moynihan
This is the company that is going to take over the Tribune soon, along with the 42 TV stations it owns. If that doesn’t concern you, it should.

And

POLITICO
@politico
An anonymous email circulated by Wall Street Journal staffers says a senior editor attempted to “desurface” a story because it was too liberal
politi.co/2GpQL65

And

Trump deciding to withdraw aid to Syria (leaving ISIS to thrive again as noted above) happened on the same day he had a phone call with Erdogan

And

Why I left Fox News

www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-i-left-fox-news/2018/03/30/d1224648-32bb-11e8-8bdd-cdb33a5eef83_story.html

And

Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
I'm perfectly open to criticism of Amazon for predatory pricing, etc.--but it's interesting that Facebook is used by Russia to interfere in our election, and Trump's focus is all on Amazon.

Renato Mariotti
@renato_mariotti
More Renato Mariotti Retweeted Bill Kristol
It’s also interesting that Trump is focused on the merger involving CNN instead of the Sinclair-Tribune merger. The common thread is that CNN and the Washington Post report bad news related to his Administration.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 01/04/2018 08:48

Administration shit show

Meridith McGraw
@meridithmcgraw
Source at Mar-a-Lago tells me last night President Trump was spotted with Sean Hannity and former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik, today at the club the President was with the First Lady and daughter Tiffany.

(((DuneMyThang™)))
@Kris_Sacrebleu
More (((DuneMyThang™))) Retweeted Meridith McGraw
Kerik served 4 yrs in Federal Prison, 8 felony convictions, Kerik’s guilty plea included admissions that he lied to the White House, filed false tax returns and lied about $255,000 in work done by a mob-linked contractor, also leveraged 9/11 for personal profit

Nice guy. (Mob)

Elizabeth de la Vega
@Delavegalaw
More Elizabeth de la Vega Retweeted (((DuneMyThang™)))
The night before, March 30, Trump dined with boxing promoter Don King, who stomped a man to death 50 years ago. He served five years & was later pardoned.

And

‘Tired of the wait game’: White House stabilizers gone, Trump calling his own shots
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/unhinged-or-unleashed-white-house-stabilizers-gone-trump-calling-his-own-shots/2018/03/31/19447ae2-343b-11e8-8bdd-cdb33a5eef83_story.html

And

Steven Rich
@dataeditor
The most senior official in charge of the White House office for recruiting and vetting political appointees has seen four of her own family members appointed to government positions.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/behind-the-chaos-office-that-vets-trump-appointees-plagued-by-inexperience/2018/03/30/cde31a1a-28a3-11e8-ab19-06a445a08c94_story.html

And

John Bolton Skewed Intelligence, Say People Who Worked With Him

Former colleagues say the next national security adviser — whose job is to marshal information and present it to the president fairly — resists input that doesn’t fit his biases and retaliates against people he disagrees with.

www.propublica.org/article/john-bolton-national-security-adviser-intelligence

And

Ronna McDaniel
@GOPChairwoman
Democrats hate our President more than they love our country.

Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
More Bill Kristol Retweeted Ronna McDaniel
This recklessly divisive and remarkably demagogic tweet might lead to the judgment that @GOPChairwoman loves her president more than she loves our country.

And re: Shulin, this is the most succint explanation of the firing/resignation saga

Renato Mariotti
@renato_mariotti
Because it’s unclear that the Vacancies Reform Act allows Trump to appoint an Acting Director after firing Shulkin, they’re now pretending he “resigned.” If this Administration was less chaotic, they would have figured that out in advance.

And

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Ryan Zinke and Rick Scott were in regular contact before the “spontaneous” announcement that Florida was exempted from offshore drilling expansion, Politico reports.

Records show the decision was carefully choreographed to give Scott a political win.

www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/03/26/records-zinkes-office-refute-scott-framing-of-impromptu-oil-drilling-reversal-330060

And

Republican strategist goes on epic rant about ‘assemblage of crooks’ and ‘outright weirdos’ working for Trump

www.rawstory.com/2018/03/republican-strategist-goes-epic-rant-assemblage-crooks-outright-weirdos-working-trump/#.Wr606v-NBf0.twitter

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 01/04/2018 08:49

Russia

As Putin’s Opponents Flocked to London, His Spies Followed
www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/world/europe/london-russia-spies.html

Michael Carpenter
@mikercarpenter
The inescapable conclusion here is that the UK is losing control of its own territory. If Russian spies feel so emboldened that they can saunter in groups outside a dissident’s apartment in London, watching and waiting in the open, then there’s a problem.

Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
More Garry Kasparov Retweeted Michael Carpenter
You can’t keep Putin’s money and get rid of Putin’s spies. It’s a package deal. “Russia now has more intelligence agents deployed in London than at the height of the Cold War.”

And

Putin Is Poisoning Prague
Russian corruption starts small but quickly spreads.

foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/16/putin-is-poisoning-prague/

And

Russian ambassador says 'atmosphere in Washington is poison'
www.politico.com/story/2018/03/30/russian-ambassador-anatoly-antonov-interview-492513

Julia Davis
@JuliaDavisNews
Russian Ambo Anatoly Antonov complains that 'atmosphere in Washington is poison'

  1. Stop poisoning people
  2. Antonov is under EU sanctions for his role in Russia's annexation of Crimea, deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine. Shouldn't even be here.

And

EU Mythbusters
@EUvsDisinfo
What are the "top" disinformation claims in the pro-Kremlin media for the last month? Read more @ euvsdisinfo.eu/disinfo-review/

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 01/04/2018 08:54

Internal FBI report shows discrepancy between McCabe and Comey accounts

edition.cnn.com/2018/03/30/politics/mccabe-comey-fbi-report/index.html

Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson
Judicial Watch has the McCabe-Comey emails, and they suggest candor on McCabe's part—which may be why Comey is equivocal on what McCabe said. (And understand that McCabe is not the FBI leaker Comey was worried about when he wrote his letter to Congress.)

2/ IOW, this CNN story is (with all due respect to Manu) much ado about nothing. In fact, it's a bit dangerous, as Manu and others have given no coverage to the actual FBI leakers that forced Comey's hand and coerced him into sending an election-disrupting letter to Congress.

3/ Comey has publicly praised McCabe repeatedly and their emails show a close working relationship. This story was likely leaked by elements in the FBI favorable to Trump, who are trying to discredit McCabe and Comey. The picture of the IG report they're giving is misleading.

4/ Every IG report leak so far has been wildly useful to Trump's narrative, even though the most galling actions by FBI agents during the election—surely central to the IG's investigation—were the pro-Trump leaks to Trump aides on the Weiner case that prompted the "Comey Letter."

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 01/04/2018 09:01

The Hill
@thehill
JUST IN: New York passes bill restricting gun ownership for domestic abusers hill.cm/0ZlOf44

Shannon Watts
@shannonrwatts
More Shannon Watts Retweeted The Hill
“The law forces convicted domestic abusers to turn in rifles, shotguns, and any other firearms they were not previously prohibited from owning.”

And

Laura Ingraham has gone on holiday! Hopefully this will be like when Bill O'Reilly went on permanent holiday

variety.com/2018/tv/news/laura-ingraham-vacation-tv-advertising-1202740828/

And the weird reactions from the right on guns continues:

Frank Stallone (sylvester's brother)
twitter.com/yashar/status/980157671235088386

And on hypocrisy on boycotts

twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/980281179394990080

And

Dana Loesch Slammed For Anti-Boycott Stance After Twitter Finds Receipts of Past NRA-led Boycotts

lawandcrime.com/awkward/dana-loesch-slammed-for-anti-boycott-stance-after-twitter-finds-receipts-of-past-nra-led-boycotts/

Lweji · 01/04/2018 09:15

Remember the days of post-9/11?
Intelligence agencies were scrambling to find middle eastern specialists.

It feels that way now with Russia, but less in the open. Or, worse.

I suspect Putin did a good job of diverting attention to other players, from ISIS (or at the very least Syria) to NK.
Meanwhile, they kept defenestrating people and maintained their illegals. As well as preparing for cybercyber war.

lionheart · 01/04/2018 09:37

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/01/salisbury-easter-nerve-agent-russians-skripal-tourists-frightened

'For 750 years, Salisbury Cathedral has marked the drama of Holy Week and Easter in the same way – with services focusing on suffering, death and resurrection. But this year there is a special poignancy to the prayers.

The people of Salisbury are remembering the plight of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the Russians who collapsed just a short distance away from the cathedral, following a nerve agent attack blamed on the Russian state.'

TheClaws · 01/04/2018 10:03

CNN Politics @CNNPolitics
2h2 hours ago
More
A US general warns that Russia and China are "aggressively" developing new high-speed, or hypersonic, weapons that the US currently has no defense against cnn.it/2GrzNVd

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PerkingFaintly · 01/04/2018 10:07

That EU vs Disinfo site is really interesting. Thanks Pain, that's going on my bookmarks along with the Hamilton Dashboard.

The link again: euvsdisinfo.eu

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 01/04/2018 13:29

This whole thread is good:

Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla
This week marked a major milestone for us. Parliament heard the story & released the documents that prompted Cambridge Analytica’s legal action against us. And it was nothing to do with Facebook data...

twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/980372931690803201

lionheart · 01/04/2018 13:59

This seems pretty wasteful given how much of the population was also tracking the media coverage.

shareblue.com/trump-media-coverage-stormy-daniels-lawsuit/

'Trump gave the green light for a five-figure expenditure to monitor media coverage the day after he was sued by porn star Stormy Daniels. Since then, millions have learned the details of his affair.'

PerkingFaintly · 01/04/2018 15:33

BTW, Happy Easter all!

Will make Brew and try to catch up on the reading....

lionheart · 01/04/2018 15:45

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account
@realDonaldTrump

2h2 hours ago
HAPPY EASTER!

45m45 minutes ago
Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!

16m16 minutes ago
Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the U.S. They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!

14m14 minutes ago
These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act!

lionheart · 01/04/2018 15:45
Easter Wink
yolofish · 01/04/2018 20:45

reading, as per usual, and just feeling so damn naive...