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

[TheClaws]

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

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
LONDON (AP) — UK health officials: Ex-spy's daughter no longer in condition critical as condition improves after nerve agent attack.

I'm very envious! I have no one to rant at discuss politics with safely, on a regular basis. Would probably just be the smouldering remains of a spontaneous combustion incident by this point if it weren't for these threads

Pain.

www.vox.com/world/2018/3/29/17173058/ty-cobb-trump-russia-dowd-mueller-special-counsel

Ty Cobb
'You don’t have much choice; otherwise, they subpoena. As people who pay attention have noticed, there have been no subpoenas, there have been no grand jury subpoenas. This has gone in a very smooth way. You haven’t heard any complaints from Mueller, and everything is negotiated heavily, so it’s not like we just opened up the file drawers and let them come in and pick out what they wanted.'

www.statesman.com/news/local/today-austin-police-chief-joins-kut-panel-discuss-bombings-racial-climate/6Gg2VytROVBI8e4ft5jwmJ/

Deadly Austin bombings were ‘domestic terrorism,’ police chief says.

Social media getting a bit twitchy in contemplation of Easter surprises.

<a class="break-all" href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-knows-ensuring-special-counsel-report-worst-case-scenariowww.lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-knows-ensuring-special-counsel-report-worst-case-scenario" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-knows-ensuring-special-counsel-report-worst-case-scenariowww.lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-knows-ensuring-special-counsel-report-worst-case-scenario

I see trump is taking his feud with amazon’s boss onto twitter...

edition.cnn.com/2018/03/29/politics/trump-staffing/index.html

'Several of President Donald Trump's outside advisers have told him over the past week he requires neither a chief of staff nor a communications director, at least in the traditional definition of those jobs, according to a person familiar with the conversations.

Trump has absorbed the advice, but offered little indication whether he's interested in taking it, the person said. He's been warned by other confidants that it's impossible to run the West Wing without a chief of staff.'

Ah. They told him he couldn't manage it?

Latest court doc on Trump v. Clifford.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/4426167-Expedite.html

The fight against amazon wages on through other participants too. Recall that parscale is an ex Facebook operative

Brad Parscale
@parscale
Do not forget to mention that @amazon has probably 10x the data on every American that @facebook does. All that data and own a political newspaper, The @washingtonpost. Hmm...

www.axios.com/trump-regulation-amazon-facebook-646c642c-a2d7-454b-a9a9-cdc6e4eaef2c.html

Kenneth P. Vogel
Kenneth P. Vogel
@kenvogel
NEW LINE IN TRUMP AMAZON ATTACK: Trump's campaign manager suggests that the real problem isn't how @Facebook's data can be used for political ends, but how @Amazon's data can be --->

Cozie, it’s a shame, he would be the best manager, everyone says so

Cliff notes version

Manu Raju
@mkraju
Federal judge puts a temporary stop to effort by Stormy Daniels to depose Trump and Michael Cohen, saying it’s “premature,” citing ongoing arbitration proceedings. Daniels’ attorney plans to refile motion to depose them once arbitration proceedings advance

Sara Danner Dukic
@saradannerdukic
This seems rather significant. Political parties in Australia declined to use FB's targeting tool over ethics and legal concerns.

amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/revealed-the-powerful-facebook-data-matching-tool-the-liberal-party-rejected-over-legal-fears-20180322-p4z5rh.html

Which no doubt they’ll try and exploit

Kremlin Sees Cracks in West’s Unity as France, Germany Keep Ties

www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-03-29/kremlin-sees-cracks-in-west-s-unity-as-france-germany-keep-ties

The Kremlin is sensing a crack in European unity as France and Germany seek to maintain ties, even after the West’s unprecedented expulsion of Russian diplomats over the nerve-agent attack in the U.K.

French President Emmanuel Macron still plans to visit a showcase economic forum in Russia in late May, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday, two days after Germany gave final approval for construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that bypasses other European states to deliver Russian gas.

Confirmation of Macron’s visit demonstrates France’s “constructive position” in seeking dialogue despite “sometimes quite serious” differences, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters on a conference call Thursday. Approval of the pipeline shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel is “trying to limit the damage from this scandal,” Alexei Pushkov, head of the information policy committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, told state radio.

A Beast piece.

Less than a year after Charlottesville, the alt-right is self destructing

I sometimes wonder whether certain people, when trapped in the Presidential Palace, secretly work to sabotage their esteemed and beloved leader

Sam Levine
@srl
New: Federal judge says Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder doesn't have to call call special election to fill the seat of Rep. John Conyers, who retired in December. Snyder has said he will let voters choose successor in general election this year

This means people in Conyers' district will go over a year without representation in Congress

[but Wisconsin was forced to hold one soon?]

Just popping in to thank TheClaws for the new thread and to be horrifiedly amazed at the supporters of the Parkland shooter. And to be Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells (what would the US equivalent be, Across? A select suburb of Boston, perhaps? )

Anyway, why havent't they locked up the orange bumbling cockwomble of a wankspanner yet, is the crucial question?

I reckon that the shooter's 'support' will melt away quickly. (The 'youngster's' support not so quickly. )

There’s a clever comparison of support melting and snowflakes that is eluding me

Wayfair joins TripAdvisor, Nutrish in pulling ads from right-wing TV host Laura Ingraham over tweet to Parkland survivor

www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/03/29/tripadvisor-drops-laura-ingraham-after-she-attacked-parkland-activist.html

What their attackers are (possibly deliberately) misunderstanding is that these great Parkland “kids” are more intelligent, both emotionally and generally, than the adults putting them down so patronisingly. The children are the future, the GOP and Trump supporters are going to be the past sooner than they think. (I hope.)

Laura Ingraham Apologizes for Mocking David Hogg—Right After Companies Pull Advertising

The Fox News host described her uncharacteristic humility as in the “spirit of Holy Week.”

www.motherjones.com/media/2018/03/laura-ingraham-apologizes-for-mocking-david-hogg-right-after-companies-pull-advertising/

Scott Dworkin
@funder
Thanks @Expedia for pulling your ads from Laura Ingraham’s show! #FireIngraham

So she laid down her 'principles' when confronted by the $?