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Trump puts kids in cages because he wants his wall. How low can he go? The authoritarian shitshow continues ...

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Gumpendorf · 19/06/2018 19:29

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ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 07:36

David Smith
@SmithInAmerica
At medal of honour ceremony at the White House. Donald Trump: “They like me in Kentucky and Tennessee.”

@cherringinsc
He couldn’t even keep his eyes closed while the chaplain was praying. He looked so ridiculous peeking around the room while everyone else’s heads were bowed. Like a 3 year old learning to sit in church.

mobile.twitter.com/SmithInAmerica/status/1011696853686120449

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 07:41

'Top Democrat Crowley loses in shocker
Trump-endorsed McMaster wins South Carolina primary, and Donovan beats Grimm in New York.'

By JAMES ARKIN and SCOTT BLAND 06/26/2018 06:16 PM EDT Updated 06/26/2018 11:52 PM EDT

www.politico.com/story/2018/06/26/new-york-primary-election-results-2018-updates-677637

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 08:32

Hayes discusses the threat to American democracy with Steve Schmidt.
(This Steve Schmidt:
20 Jun
'29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.')

BolleauxtoBankers · 27/06/2018 08:39

Trump goes low, the Republican party goes lower.
What a legacy is being left for the next generation, in both the USA and Europe. I'm ashamed.

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 09:11

'President Trump Is Using 'Harassment' of Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Raise Campaign Money'

time.com/5323005/donald-trump-harassment-protest-fundraising/

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 09:14

'Harley-Davidson Falls for Second Day After Trump's Insults and Threats.

Harley-Davidson shares fall after President Donald Trump berates the motorcycle manufacturer for its plans to move some production overseas and threatens to punish the company with a tax increase.'

www.thestreet.com/investing/harley-falls-for-second-day-after-insults-and-threats-from-trump-14634466

BolleauxtoBankers · 27/06/2018 09:40

Here is the latest from my favourite, Dan Rather, but I fear he and his many supporters are spitting into the wind; the uncivil Trumpeters somehow have gained the high ground through their incivility and there is no coherent movement of opposition.

"President Trump and the GOP bemoaning a lack of civility is a hypocritical farce. It spurs an almost uncontrollable bout of forehead slapping in disbelief.

But let's be clear about what incivility really looks like:

Incivility is lying to impugn the citizenship of the first African American president.

Incivility is threatening and mocking reporters and attacking the First Amendment protections of our free and independent press.

Incivility is destroying the environment and ignoring climate change.

Incivility is countenancing corruption and venality in the highest reaches of the White House and its cabinet.

Incivility is our government's response to Puerto Rico.

Incivility is undermining a merited investigation by respected law enforcement officials and maligning the notion of an independent judiciary.

Incivility is cozying up to dictators and attacking our allies and friends.

Incivility is ripping children - even those too young to know their parent's name - from immigrants legally claiming asylum.

Incivility is endeavoring to have millions of Americans lose their health insurance.

Incivility is creating a false equivalence between Nazis and counter protesters.

Incivility is using peaceful dissent from NFL players as a pretense for stirring the deep waters of racial injustice.

Incivility is using Twitter to lie and bully.

Incivility is just having the pathology to constantly lie in the first place.

Incivility is gas lighting your fellow citizens on issues big and small.

Incivility is trying to bar entry to the United States on account of religion.

Incivility is ignoring science and reason.

Incivility is trying to run roughshod over our constitutional protections.

These are but a few of the real incivilities that plague our moment in history. They are the actions of a man and his enablers who feel no compunction about destroying the bonds that have held this improbable nation together. We will only succeed if we have a civil society. And anything or anyone who attacks that cherished American ideal must be considered... uncivil."

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 10:31

Bolleaux, I think those who say you can't out Trump Trump are right, I also believe that applies to most shades of his cultists/promoters. Finding other strategies that can be used effectively is the conundrum. And I just don't think high ground, as decency understands it, exists in the trumpiverse. Cult45/El Presidente/surrogates may claim their version of high ground, but it's a fiction in their perversion of reality.

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 10:32

I do like Rather's steadying, and clarifying voice.

Lweji · 27/06/2018 11:24

Elisabeth Warren has visited a so-called reunification centre.

"The Trump Administration designated Port Isabel as "the primary family reunification and removal center for adults" in ICE custody. I visited, and let's be clear this is a detention facility, not a reunification center. The nine women I met with asked me, with tears in their eyes, what the reunification plan is and I couldn't give them an answer. As far as I could tell there is no plan. I was in there for over two hours and this is some of what I saw and heard."

www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren/posts/10155822214623687

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 11:39

Colbert, Fallon and Conan's late night musings:

Sleipnirthewonderhorse · 27/06/2018 13:41

He's such a great deal maker:

Satellite images show North Korea upgrading nuclear research facility
thehill.com/policy/international/394326-satellite-images-show-north-korea-upgrading-nuclear-research-facility

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 14:20

He's a delusional wankspanner, Sleip.

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 14:40

@SethAMandel
God bless the Buzzfeed journos doing this reporting. It's incredibly important--in fact, I can't think of a more important beat right now than tracking down lost migrant children. Keep it up:
www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/adolfoflores/learning-where-the-us-is-keeping-your-child-only-begins-a
mobile.twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1011729045334216704

mackerella · 27/06/2018 14:56

US woman crowdfunds cost of becoming a British citizen because of Trump:

www.indy100.com/article/crowdfunding-british-citizen-trump-separate-migrant-children-kate-laine-toner-8416316?amp

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 15:12

Thread:
Anton Troianovski
@antontroian
Putin-Bolton meeting has started in Kremlin. Bolton said he looks forward to hearing “how you handled the World Cup so successfully.” Putin flashed a big smile.
mobile.twitter.com/antontroian/status/1011948147403177984

www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/bolton-putin-to-meet-in-the-kremlin-to-plan-trump-putin-summit/2018/06/27/64c190a4-79e6-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.222fa0e1ae3d

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 15:17

Ken Thomas
@KThomasDC
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Supreme Court rules states can't force government workers to pay union fees, in setback for organized labor.

mobile.twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/1011973416243683333

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 15:32

'Across the board, trust in traditional news outlets continues to sink, with the overwhelming majority of Americans (70%) saying that "traditional major news sources report news they know to be fake, false, or purposely misleading."

President Trump has exacerbated the skepticism amongst hardline conservatives with polarizing language (and tweets) about the mainstream media being "fake news.

Bad intentions: Among those that think traditional news outlets report false news, most think they do so intentionally.

'More than two-thirds (65%) say fake news is usually reported because “people have an agenda.”
Roughly one-third (30%) believe such information is shared due to laziness or “poor fact-checking.”
Hardly anyone (3%) thinks that fake news makes headlines by accident.'

www.axios.com/trump-effect-92-percent-republicans-media-fake-news-9c1bbf70-0054-41dd-b506-0869bb10f08c.html

AcrossthePond55 · 27/06/2018 15:55

Yesterday we learnt of two major defeats on civil liberties by the Supreme Court. We learnt that Scrotus' 'promise' of reunification of refugee families was bullshit (no surprise there). Last night I watched a documentary on Hitler's post war 'empire' plans. It dealt with 'bride schools', the Lebensborn, the extermination and/or enslavement of the slavs, the 'triumph' of the Aryans. This morning I watched the latest episode of the Handmaid's Tale. Shit. Shitshitshit.

This weekend there are big anti-Trump, pro-immigration rallies planned nationwide, the Families Belong Together Rally. We're attending the one near us.

Here is the link. If you're in the US, find and attend your nearest rally!!

act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together_attend1/search/

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 17:42

Michael Tackett
@tackettdc
"Bill Shine, a former Fox News executive who was close to Roger E. Ailes, the network’s ousted chairman, is expected to be offered the job of White House communications director" @maggienyt @shearm
www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/politics/bill-shine-white-
house-trump.html#click=t.co/nkvmiPVs9J
mobile.twitter.com/tackettdc/status/1012004406684942338

'Bill Shine, the former Fox News executive who was ousted from the network over his handling of sexual harassment claims, is close to being tapped as President Donald Trump’s next communications director, according to multiple people familiar with the process.

Shine, a protégé of the late Roger Ailes, has in the past flirted with the idea of joining the administration in a senior post, but taken himself out of consideration.
In recent months, however, a person familiar with his plans told POLITICO, Shine has been at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida spending quality time with the president and their mutual close friend, Fox News host Sean Hannity.
www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/bill-shine-white-house-communications-678856

ohmymimi · 27/06/2018 17:46

Hearts and minds, if not bodies, from across the pond will be with you on 30th, Across.

lionheart · 27/06/2018 18:12

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-prosecutors-cohen-raid-materials-56179362

'Prosecutors will get their hands on over 4 million files seized from the former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump after a judge on Tuesday ordered most of the materials released to investigators probing the lawyer's business dealings.'

lionheart · 27/06/2018 18:32

He'll fit right in at the WH.

www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/politics/bill-shine-white-house-trump.html

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