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[lionheart]

Let's hope he is done soon.

There’s a FWR thread about incels. Scary stuff.

I quote.

"Incel" is short for "involuntarily celibate" and in particular refers to online groups of men who feel that they can't enter into sexual relationships.
The attitudes of men who visit the boards vary widely, but online they frequently vent anger against sexually prolific men ("Chads") and women ("Stacys"). More generally, incel forums often include rants aimed at feminism and women.

In November, Reddit banned a section or subreddit of its site devoted to incels for hosting violent content.

On Tuesday, another subreddit dedicated to incels, r/Malecel, was banned.
However, other similar boards remain active on Reddit, and many other sites play host to incel discussions."

OMG, it's the dominance hokey cokey. ("I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait.")

This is odd.

thehill.com/homenews/administration/384704-jackson-wont-withdraw-nomination-reuters?__twitter_impression=true

Not necessarily. You don't know what was really said to him by 45. (And he's no politician.)

Look forward to the hearings ...

Oh Yes. Any idea when they are rescheduled for?

No date as yet it seems.

‘Why can’t people just be nice’.

Bigly catch up

Thanks for the new thread, lion. I don’t have any Aeros but I do have heaps of Easter eggs, much to the frustration of my teenage son. But they’re mine, ALL MINE!!

Anyway.

Trump is causing some consternation with his comment that Kim Jong Un is “honourable”. As is ‘murdering members of your own family, staring your people, etc.’ type honourable.

thehill.com/homenews/senate/384734-gop-senator-trumps-comment-on-kim-jong-un-surpasses-understanding

Not *staring! Starving. Although if Kim Jong Un stared at me for an extended period, it would make me anxious for my future.

Good morning, Trumpeters (shome mishtake, Shirley?)! Thank you for the new thread, lionheart - wouldn't it be great if this were the last such thread? (Relapses into happy daydream involving unicorns, puppies, and a Democrat or Lefty Independent President of the US and a Lib Dem PM in the UK. Wakes up with a start of horror.)
This morning was the first time I'd heard of the Incel Rebellion and frankly, I wish I hadn't On the other hand, please tell me, this, from Twitter, MUST be good news, and Trump can't do anything much about it immediately?

ACLU
‏Verified account @ACLU

ACLU Retweeted Washington Post

BREAKING: This ruling is a huge blow to the Trump administration's bottom line.

DACA is constitutional, deal with it.

ACLU added,
Washington Post
Verified account @washingtonpost
Federal judge orders government to continue DACA and accept new applicants, in toughest blow yet to Trump’s efforts to end program wapo.st/2qUtBiu
5:40 AM - 25 Apr 2018

place marking.

Also, New York Special Elections seem quite good news:

Sasha Fox
‏ @second_sasha
48m48 minutes ago

Democrat Steve Stern (AD-10) flips New York state seat that Republicans have held since 1978, winning it 59% to 41%

This gives Democrats their 40th statehouse seat pickup in this cycle #BlueWave🌊

(Apologies if this has already been mentioned; I couldn't see it here or on the last page of the last thread.)

Amy Siskind
‏Verified account @Amy_Siskind
15h15 hours ago

Another item from THE LIST that we have forgotten and normalized in the chaos: after all the celebration; turns out Harriet Tubman will not be going on the $20 bill in the era of Trump.

Arizona Special Election:

Seth Abramson
‏Verified account @SethAbramson
8m8 minutes ago

This is beyond bad for the GOP. Trump won by 21 here, now the GOP wins by 6.

And in Maryland:
Brian Witte
‏Verified account @APBrianWitte
12h12 hours ago

Gov. Larry Hogan signs legislation enabling judges to order people to temporarily give up their firearms, if they are found to pose an immediate danger. He also signed a bill banning bump stocks, which can increase a semi-automatic rifle's firing rate.

(Hogan is a Republican)

Amazing news about the special election victories/narrowing of the gaps! I read that the Republicans had spent 7 figures on the Arizona race and the Dems barely did a thing (can't find where that was so it might not be wholly accurate) which is promising.

Swampy

Mulvaney, Watchdog Bureau’s Leader, Advises Bankers on Ways to Curtail Agency
www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/mulvaney-consumer-financial-protection-bureau.html

Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives on Tuesday that they should press lawmakers hard to pursue their agenda, and revealed that, as a congressman, he would meet only with lobbyists if they had contributed to his campaign.

“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mr. Mulvaney, a former Republican lawmaker from South Carolina, told 1,300 bankers and lending industry officials at an American Bankers Association conference in Washington. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”

Harley Rouda
@HarleyRouda
“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress. If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you,” Mulvaney explained to the 1,300 banking industry officials.

They don’t even try to hide it anymore. @Mickmulvaney

#CA48 #Briberyswamp

slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/mick-mulvaney-explains-his-pay-to-play-rule-for-lobbyists-while-in-congress.html

Rep. Eric Swalwell
@RepSwalwell
I’m not surprised @MickMulvaneyOMB confessed he would only meet with lobbyists who gave him money. He once told me on the @HouseFloor he was voting against a bipartisan bill of mine because @Heritage_Action would “score” him negatively.
My bill countered China’s cheating around rare earth element exports by getting the US in the game. @GOPLeader and I negotiated a compromise consensus bill. @Heritage_Action opposed it & sent @MickMulvaneyOMB to @HouseFloor to object to unanimous consent.

www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/07/24/right_wing_groups_just_scored_their_first_victory_over_kevin_mccarthy.html

Russia

Cambridge Analytica Data Scientist Aleksandr Kogan Wants You To Know He’s Not A Russian Spy
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic whose app has set off the firestorm about online user data, says he’s considering suing Facebook.
www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/facebook-cambridge-analytica-aleksandr-kogan-not-spy

And

Russian hackers may have targeted a Democrat's Texas Senate campaign website
www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/04/23/russian-hackers-may-targeted-texas-senate-candidates-campaign-website

And

The remains of Yahoo just got hit with a $35 million fine because it didn't tell investors about Russian hacking
uk.businessinsider.com/yahoo-hack-35-million-sec-fine-for-not-telling-investors-about-russian-hack-2018-4

And

Patrick Howell O'Neill
@HowellONeill
I'm back in the courtroom today for the sentencing of Karim Baratov, the 23-year-old hacker who pleaded guilty to building a for-profit hacking business whose customers included the Russian FSB. The US seeks an 8 year sentence, he wants r year.
www.cyberscoop.com/karim-baratov-yahoo-hacking-fsb-guilty-plea/

Baratov is one piece of a much larger puzzle here and he's the only one of his co-defendants actually in an American custody. You can see the entire original indictment here:

www.documentcloud.org/documents/4445990-Baratov.html

Baratov says he didn't know his customers included FSB agents. Victims included journalists, political officials, industry targets, and lawyers of interest to Russian officials. Another interesting target: Employees at an unspecified "major Russian cybersecurity company." Hm?

On another note, US officials are considering sanctions against Kaspersky:

www.cyberscoop.com/kaspersky-sanctions-white-house-russia-donald-trump/

Baratov's co-defendants include Dmitry Dokuchaev, the FSB officer accused of paying Baratov. He was arrested in 2016 by the Russians on accusations of treason. There are more questions than answers in that case:

www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/world/europe/russians-arrested-on-treason-charges-helped-us-catch-hacker-report-says.html

Another co-defendant is Alexey Belan who is accused of breaching Yahoo in 2014. That's the 500 million user breach, for context, which doesn't quite measure up to the separate 3 billion+ user breach in 2013. Belan remains free.

www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/technology/yahoo-hack-3-billion-users.html

[rest of thread here: twitter.com/HowellONeill/status/988833060543086592 ]

And

Wendy Siegelman
@WendySiegelman
Judiciary and Oversight Committee Democrats Issue Joint Statement After Interview with Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Christopher Wylie - Judiciary Committee Republicans refused to participate in the interview

nadler.house.gov/press-release/judiciary-and-oversight-committee-democrats-issue-joint-statement-after-interview

Judiciary Committee Republicans refused to participate in the interview, focusing instead on a Thursday hearing featuring social media personalities Diamond and Silk, who argue that social media companies are engaged in a plot to silence conservative voices on the Internet

And

Peter Geoghegan
‏*@PeterKGeoghegan*
Fascinating watching AIQ appear before Canadian committee. parlvu.parl.gc.ca/XRender/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20180424/-1/29127?useragent=Mozilla/5.0%20(iPhone;%20CPU%20iPhone%20OS%2011_3%20like%20Mac%20OS%20X)%20AppleWebKit/605.1.15%20(KHTML,%20like%20Gecko)%20Version/11.0%20Mobile/15E148%20Safari/604.1 … Asked how found DUP - who spent money w/AIQ in 2016 and 17 - Silvester says cannot recall. DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson says very same thing

And

SODEM #FBPE
@SODEMAction
I managed to get a quick interview with Damian Collins ToryMP. I quizzed him about Russian involvement. This is what he said- certainly not denying it! #Interesting #StopBrexitSaveBritain #RussianMeddling

twitter.com/SODEMAction/status/986954590460538881

Racism

This is from a few weeks ago but I missed it (apologies if it's already been posted on here)

In Pennsylvania, It’s Open Season on Undocumented Immigrants
ICE’s Philadelphia office is fanning out into communities across its three-state region and making more “at-large” arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions than anywhere else in America.
www.propublica.org/article/pennsylvania-ice-undocumented-immigrants-immigration-enforcement

And

Racial disparities in school discipline are growing, federal data show
www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/racial-disparities-in-school-discipline-are-growing-federal-data-shows/2018/04/24/67b5d2b8-47e4-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html

And

CNN Tonight
@CNNTonight
CNN's Don Lemon says that President Trump's tweet about sanctuary cities and "breeding concept" is the latest example of explaining away a racist remark by the president. cnn.it/2HWTIgi

And

White judge gets probation for election fraud in same Texas county that jailed black woman for voting
www.rawstory.com/2018/04/white-judge-gets-probation-election-fraud-texas-county-jailed-black-woman-voting/

And

The Muslim Ban Is Working
If the Supreme Court needs proof of the ban’s discriminatory intent, just look at the numbers.

slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/the-muslim-ban-is-working.html

About Trump's phone(y) security

David P Gelles
@gelles
In 2008, when President Obama asked for a smartphone, the NSA set up a lab where dozens of experts spent months creating a presidential BlackBerry to weed out potential threats to secure communication.

money.cnn.com/2014/05/22/technology/security/nsa-obama-blackberry/index.html

Kushners' Loan for Troubled N.J. Site Backed by Web Lender

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-24/kushners-needing-funds-for-n-j-project-got-web-lender-loan

Kushner Cos. says it’s the victim of discrimination.

Michael Avenatti
@MichaelAvenatti
Sean @seanhannity - when we were at the THR party a couple of weeks ago, we met and I found you to be very affable despite our divergent views. And we discussed me coming on the show to debate the case. Let's do this thing already. Full hour - you and me.

Sean Hannity
@seanhannity
More Sean Hannity Retweeted Michael Avenatti
Michael the world has had stormy stormy 24-7 on every low rated show. It's old news. Learn about Fisa Abuse, lying to Fisa Courts, 18 USC 793, deleting subpoenaed emails, acid washing hard drives, destroying devices with hammers and then u have a shot at the number 1 Show!

Oh and only @realDonaldTrump or top newsmakers Get a full hour. Best Sean

Max Tani
@maxwelltani
hannity legit doesn’t want to interview stormy daniels’ lawyer because he’s too busy covering stories that aren’t “old news” like Hillary’s emails