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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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OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/04/2018 08:01

What a stroke of luck!

Ivanka Trump’s Chinese-Produced Clothing Exempt From New Tariffs

lawandcrime.com/awkward/ivanka-trumps-chinese-produced-clothing-not-subject-new-tariffs/

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/04/2018 08:09

Facebook suspends another data analytics firm after CNBC discovers it was using tactics like Cambridge Analytica

Data analytics firm CubeYou used personality quizzes clearly labeled for "non-profit academic research" to help marketers find customers.
One of its quizzes, "You Are What You Like" which also goes by "Apply Magic Sauce," states it is only for "non-profit academic research that has no connection whatsoever to any commercial or profit-making purpose or entity."
When CNBC showed Facebook the quizzes and terms, which are similar to the methods used by Cambridge Analytica, Facebook said it was going to suspend CubeYou from the platform to investigate.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/08/cubeyou-cambridge-like-app-collected-data-on-millions-from-facebook.html

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/04/2018 08:29

Trump's top national security spokesman to leave White House

www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/04/08/national-security-spokesman-anton-trump-508641

National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton said Sunday that he plans to leave the White House — a move that will leave President Donald Trump without one of the earliest and sharpest defenders of his “America First" foreign policy.

lionheart · 09/04/2018 08:32

This makes me wonder whether Pruitt is really afraid of someone.

edition.cnn.com/2018/04/07/politics/epa-pruitt-security-detail/index.html

Washington--(CNN) EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is facing renewed questions about the size and cost of his 24-hour security detail, adding to a string of ethically questionable arrangements or actions on his part that have surfaced over the past year.

Pruitt's security team currently consists of 19 agents and includes a fleet of at least 19 vehicles, a source with direct knowledge of Pruitt's security detail said. With the cost of maintenance, gas, and training for agents, that leaves the dollar amount for his round-the-clock security in the millions.

The size of Pruitt's security is unprecedented. No previous EPA chief has ever received a 24/7 security detail, the agency's inspector general has said. Former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who served under George W. Bush, has told CNN she walked to work alone even after the September 11 terrorist attacks, and although she traveled with security, it was never this large.

lionheart · 09/04/2018 08:36

www.salon.com/2018/04/05/exclusive-scott-pruitt-trumps-epa-chief-involved-in-shady-2011-real-estate-deal/?preview=true&preview_id=14882425&preview_nonce=97d9028e3e

'In 2011, Pruitt and his wife, Margaret, bought a property in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just days before a court ruled that it had been fraudulently transferred by a Las Vegas developer who was on the hook for a $3.6 million loan default. Pruitt, who was then Oklahoma attorney general, apparently flipped the property for a $70,000 profit four months later, selling it to a dummy corporation set up by a major campaign contributor, Kevin Hern.

Hern, a successful Tulsa businessman and the finance chair of the Oklahoma Republican Party, has been a major donor to Pruitt and other Republican candidates in the state over the years. According to records on file with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission, Hern contributed $3,500 to Pruitt between 2010 and 2014, and has given a total of $33,625 to Oklahoma candidates since 2006.'

lionheart · 09/04/2018 08:39
Smile

shareblue.com/fox-news-graph-howard-kurtz-frank-luntz/

'Fox News just had a moment of accidental honesty about the network's lack of honesty.'

lionheart · 09/04/2018 08:42

Hope you are enjoying your holiday, Pain. Easter Smile

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/08/new-york-times-editor-dean-baquet-donald-trump

lionheart · 09/04/2018 09:03

Kimmel is sorry for upsetting Sean.

When a nation’s children marched, and their President ignored them - Trump cont.
Lweji · 09/04/2018 09:18

It looks like everyone is leaving the WH.

It's a Doctor, but not the Carson. And it's only the Doctor, because the rest of the Evil remains.

lionheart · 09/04/2018 10:42

Interesting read from The Atlantic.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/a-dissent-concerning-kevin-williamson/484052/

Lweji · 09/04/2018 13:42

Have you noticed the note at the end of The Guardian's articles?

We have received legal threats, including from Facebook, but we are determined to continue publishing stories that raise important questions about the use of people’s data in political campaigns – from the US election to Brexit
Hmm

lionheart · 09/04/2018 14:13

I didn't. Shock

ohmymimi · 09/04/2018 14:48

Emerging from my lurkathon to add this:
mobile.twitter.com/speculawyer/status/983100584130588672
More turds appear in this tsunami of sh*t.
The work of you all curating the tsunami is amazing. Thank you.

PerkingFaintly · 09/04/2018 16:10

ShockThat's quite some summary by that Tweeter, ohmymimi (if accurate).

Speculawyer 🇳🇴-American
@speculawyer
Pruitt brought corrupt lawyer lady to DC from OK. She (Dravis) shacked up with wife-beater(Porter). Wife-beater cheated on Dravis with Hope Hicks. Dravis kicked out wife-beater & narced on him to McGahn. Fired Wife-beater gets revenge by leaking on Pruitt.

Pruitt got Dravis a huge raise from the safe drinking water act. Dravis didn't show up to work for 3 months but still got to go on the First class vacation to Paris & Morocco to help Pruitt sell LNG for an Icahn-owned company (not the job of EPA). Govt pays MILLIONS for all this.

I haven't been following the details of Pruitt's behaviour because trailing through a swamp like that is just so exHAUSTing.

PerkingFaintly · 09/04/2018 16:16

www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-associate-administrator-samantha-dravis-resigns/
In a letter to Arthur Elkins, the EPA inspector general, dated March 28, Sen. Tom Carper wrote that Dravis "did not attend work or perform her duties for much if not all of the months of November 2017-January 2018." He continued, "I am additionally informed that Ms. Dravis was likely compensated as a full-time employee throughout that time."

Though it looks like the big pay rises Pruitt allegedly wangled via the Clean Water Act after the White House had refused them, went to two other aides:
thehill.com/homenews/administration/381376-pruitt-raised-pay-of-two-aides-after-white-house-declined-to-approve

Roussette · 09/04/2018 16:29

hi mimi the ins and outs are like an eastenders episode!

Looks like 45 is planning to renege on his budget ...

www.thenation.com/article/trump-is-plotting-a-diabolical-budget-double-cross/

TheNorthWestPawsage · 09/04/2018 17:24

StarRandy returns Star

NEW VIDEO! #MondayMotivaton #MusicalMonday #YouCantStopHisTweets 🎶🎀👉🏻tinyurl.com/y97on2oa
twitter.com/randyrainbow/status/983331275653042179?s=21

cozietoesie · 09/04/2018 17:35

Oh he's GOOD. Smile

lionheart · 09/04/2018 17:36

Hello ohmy.

ohmymimi · 09/04/2018 17:52

Hi Perking and Roussette
I just found that possible chain of events seem such a good fit for the fragrant Mr. Pruitt.
Check this out re Trump Panama Hotel.
mobile.twitter.com/Jake_Bernstein/status/983328744948551680

lionheart · 09/04/2018 18:02

Dangerous ground ahead.

www.politico.com/story/2018/04/09/comey-book-trump-white-house-508621