Now that Trump's Transition Team is officially under the microscope of Robert Mueller, this is a good time to remind everyone that the head of the Transition Team was MIKE PENCE.
And if both Pence & Trump resign or are thrown from office at once, Nancy Pelosi becomes President!
Little end-of-the-year observation: we have a president who was illegally installed by our worst enemy, who hates democracy unless it benefits him, and who unceremoniously has a dead rat sitting on the top of his head. Happy New Year!ššš
This is how the House Republican effort to undermine Mueller by āinvestigating the investigatorsā ends. Not with a bang, but with a Friday, buried-in-the-holidays whimper, and one foot out the door. https://t.co/oO0Nhkmg5a
There it is. Trump has singlehandely destroyed the entire US Soybean commodity market. China has new suppliers so Itās not coming back. #Winninghttps://t.co/sbu8N3aroE
Remember: we're borrowing money from the Chinese to pay a subsidy to farmers who aren't selling their soy beans to the Chinese because Trump has a trade war with the Chinese.
Border agents took antibiotics away from her sick baby & detained them in a freezing cell called an icebox. When she asked for help, agents called her an āinvaderā who āwasnāt in a position to be asking for anything.ā After 5 days, the baby had pneumonia.https://t.co/vv9kD65b8y
Maybe Iām old-fashioned but when children die while in the custody of the federal government I expect the president to not be a fucking asshole about it.
McConnell received $3.5M in campaign donations from Russian Oligarch-Linked Firm
Remember, this man blocked the President of the United States of America from letting the American people know about the act of war by Russia during the election.
If the Steele Dossier is correct and Trump was offered 19% of the commissions from the brokerage of Russian oil giant Rosneft in exchange for him lifting sanctions, and Trump agreed, that would amount to TREASON.
That's not American First! That's Trump & Russia First!
When you find yourselves dissing Kamala Harris as "inexperienced" while pushing Beto, maybe ask yourselves how the former AG of the most populous state is "inexperienced."
And what is with all this Beto shit! Stacy Abrams ran a hell of a campaign…and came damn close to winning, even with all the possible illegal voter suppression that Kemp succeeded in achieving while acting as Secretary of State and running for Governor. She has a future ahead of her, but like Harris…she is a black woman.
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Imagine what the millions of soldiers who lived months at a time in rainy, wet trenches fighting for freedom would say about a President blowing off a memorial in their name because he didnāt want to get his squirrelās nest toupee wet.
Hey, I thought up the post’s title before I saw that tweet…referring to tRumps “squrriel’s nest toupee”…but before we get to a few links on the Orange Turd’s Paris trip, take a look at this thread.
1/ Two nights ago, Rupert Murdoch called on Mitch McConnell, after hours. Since then, two Fox News-related Twitter accounts have not tweeted.
3/ The Democrats won the SHIT out of the Midterms. Come January, the House check on Trump will leave him so hobbled, heāll be like the dude from Misery.
11/ Trumpās usual deflections are not working. Heās scared, literally holed up in a hotel room, waiting to meet with the man who pwns himā¦and could end him in the blink of an eye.
The meeting will be recorded by every intel agency under the sun, BTW.
We are all impatient. We all want justice. We WILL get it. And then some. Soon. Be patient, stay frosty, and donāt lose faith. Shit is about to get VERY real.
As I said, that thread deserved the full treatment. For serious.
So what has happened today?
Macron speaks in front of the Arc de Triomphe, calling for 'patriotism' instead of 'nationalism'… in front of Trump and Putin, he condemns the 'fascination for withdrawal, isolationism' as a grave error which will be condemned by future generations
"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Most important: our moral values. The worst is never certain as long as there are women and men of good will."
Macron: "Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism by saying our interests first, who cares about the others, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what gives it grace. And what is essentialā its moral values."
The soundscape of the Great War must have been devastating: constant artillery bombardment, rifle shots, fighter planes buzzing overhead and the screams of soldiers encountering gas.Ā But we donāt actually know quite what the World War I sounded like. Magnetic tape didnāt exist yet and recording technology was in its infancy, requiring sound to be mechanically produced using a needle and soft wax or metal. Taking such machines into the field was not practical.
Still, there were people on the front recording. Special units used a technique called āsound rangingā to try and determine where enemy gunfire was coming from. To do so, technicians set up strings of microphonesāactually barrels of oil dug into the groundāa certain distance apart, then used a piece of photographic film to visually record noise intensity. The effect is similar to the way a seismometer records an earthquake. Using that data and the time between when a shot was fired and when it hit, they could then triangulate where enemy artillery was locatedāand adjust their own guns accordingly.
At least one bit of that āsound rangingā film survived the Warāthe film recording the last few minutes of World War I when the guns finally fell silent at the River Moselle on the American Front. As Richard Connor atĀ Deutsche WeldeĀ reports, part of a new exhibit calledĀ Making a New WorldĀ at Londonās Imperial War Museum uses those graphic sound waves to recreate the moment the Armistice went into effect and the guns fell silent.
As part of a celebration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the war, the museum commissioned the sound production company Coda to Coda to use the film strip of the guns firing away at 10:58 A.M. on November 11, 1918, then going silent when the clock strikes 11, the symbolic moment politicians determined the war would end, to try and recreate what that instant may have sounded like.
That link is to the direct Coda to Coda website, it plays the full one minute of the last sounds of WWI.
The Facebook link below does not play the full recording.
One hundred years later, the absence from the orange asshole mouth fuckwad, is overwhelming:
As a veteran a find his excuse disgusting and wonder how any veteran could support him. How many Americans complained about kneeling at football games, but remain silent at his disrespect to veterans who gave their lives. My grandfather was a WWI vet
Hey you #MAGA Cult, guess who never worried about a bad hair day because of rain?@HillaryClinton
When @realDonaldTrump cancels an appearance honoring our war dead because of a little rain, please remember when he claimed Hillary didnāt have the stamina to be President. pic.twitter.com/SEzFuNh7va
This is what dignity, leadership and duty look like. Trump debased his office, disgraced the memories of fallen American heroes and shamed himself today. He is as unfit for his office as he is weak and cowardly https://t.co/614VtMoHKE
FYI – this clip is going around as Trudeau showing up Trump today, but it's from 14 months ago. (Dieppe was a World War II raid, not World War I.) https://t.co/pvvjGaX26c
Hours after tweeting a cruel statement falsely blaming California (which only controls 2% of its forests; Trump cut funding to the 98% the Fed operates) for its own fires, someone took Trump's phone and tweeted this. We see you, desperate staffer. pic.twitter.com/aM1gSNfrTN
President Trump threatened to pull federal funding from California in a tweet on Saturday for the state's "gross mismanagement of the forests," as the most destructive wildfire in the state's history ravages the region. https://t.co/8Y5ZBOUUsd
As of now (9:30PM Paris time), Trump has not shown up to the dinner for world leaders hosted by the French president at the @MuseeOrsay. Trudeau arrived at 7:30 as scheduled. Thanks for following along today – I am signing off Twitter for the night.
Ben Ferencz, 99, made the comment during a recentĀ interviewĀ with outgoingĀ United NationsĀ High Commissioner forĀ Human Rights, Zeid Raāad Al Hussein.
The lawyer said it was āpainfulā when he heard about how the Trump administration had separated more than 2,000 children from their families after they had crossed theĀ US-Mexico border.
All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government impose criminal liability on correctional facility staff who have sexual contact with people in their custody. These laws recognize that any sexual activity between detainees and detention facility staff, with or without the use of force, is unlawful because of the inherent power imbalance when people are in custody.Ā Yet, one immigration detention center is trying to avoid responsibility for sexual violence within its walls by arguing that the detainee āconsentedā to sexual abuse.
E.D., anĀ asylum-seeker and domestic violence survivorĀ from Honduras, was sexually assaulted by an employee while she was detained with her 3-year-old child at the Berks Family Residential Center in Pennsylvania. At the time of the assault, E.D. was 19 years old.
She filed suit against the detention center and its staff for their failure to protect her from sexual violence, even though they were aware of the risk. The record in the case,Ā E.D. v. Sharkey, shows that her assailant coerced and threatened her, including with possible deportation, while the defendants stood by and made jokes.
Although the employee pled guilty to criminal institutional sexual assault under Pennsylvania law, the defendants contend that they should not be liable for any constitutional violations. Their argument rests in part on their assessment that the sexual abuse was āconsensualā and that they should be held to a different standard because the Berks Family Residential Center is an immigration detention facilityĀ rather than a jail or prison.
Read the rest of this disturbing case at the link.
n the 158th year of theĀ American civil war, also known as 2018, the Confederacy continues its recent resurgence. Its victims include black people, of course, but also immigrants, Jews, Muslims, Latinos, trans people, gay people and women who want to exercise jurisdiction over their bodies. The Confederacy battles in favor of uncontrolled guns and poisons, including toxins in streams, mercury from coal plants, carbon emissions into the upper atmosphere, and oil exploitation in previously protected lands and waters.
Its premise appears to be that protection of others limits the rights of white men, and those rights should be unlimited. The Brazilian philosopher of education Paulo Freire once noted that āthe oppressors are afraid of losing the āfreedom to oppressāā. Of course, not all white men support extending that old domination, but those who do see themselves and their privileges as under threat in a society in which women are gaining powers, and demographic shift is taking us to a US in whichĀ white people will be a minority by 2045.
More of course, at the link.
Those racist will tell you, the Civil War was strictly over the question of “state’s rights”:
Acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker said he believed states have a right to nullify federal law, CNN reports. In a campaign speech for his GOP primary run for Iowa Senator, Whitaker touted the need for states to have āpolitical courageāĀ to nullify federal laws. āNow we need to remember that the states set up the federal government and not vice versa. And so the question is, do we have the political courage in the state of Iowa or some other state to nullify Obamacare and pay the consequences for that?āĀ Whitaker said in response to a question at aĀ September 2013 campaign speech. āThe federal government’s done a very good job about tying goodies to our compliance with federal programs, whether it’s the Department of Education, whether it’s Obamacare with its generous Medicare and Medicaid dollars and the likeā¦ But do I believe in nullification? I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There’s no doubt about that.ā According to aĀ Des Moines RegisterĀ columnist, Whitaker reportedly made similar remarks about nullification in April 2014 but said he didnāt believed states would do it.
The Russian media has published more than 30 articles in the past few days suggesting that America could devolve into aĀ civil wardue to the 2020 election.
Stories that seek to undermine faith in Western democracy among Russian audiences are a staple of the Russian media, much of which is state-controlled.
The source for these articles was an opinion piece published by conservative commentator Niall Ferguson, who references a “cultural civil war” but concludes that civil war is not imminent.
This type of coverage in the Russian media highlights the challenge of contending with information that is distorted to the point of inaccuracy but is not explicitly fake.
The Russian media is obsessed with the American civil war. No, not the one that erupted in 1861 over the secession of the South ā the civil war that’s coming with the next US presidential election.
tRump’s 30% are just hateful enough…and armed enough, to actually do something crazy like start a war.
This is all I have for today…btw….Tomorrow is my brother’s birthday, he would have been 48 years old. I miss him so fucking much.
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A right-wing artistās latest āheroicā image of President Donald Trump received some pretty savage reviews from people on social media.
Jon McNaughton painted a take onĀ George Washingtonās crossing of the Delaware, except in this version Trump is commanding a boat filled with members of his administration.
āTrump endeavors to cross the āswampā of Washington D.C. as he carries the light of truth, hope and prosperity,ā McNaughton wrote. āThe murky water of the deep state is laced with dangerous vermin, perfectly willing to destroy American prosperity for their personal ideologies and financial gain.ā
Take a peek at the link to see the various jokes, I’ve posted one of the funnier ones below, which conveniently also shows what the original painting looks like….
lot to unpack here but obvious observations first: Bolton looks like he's hunting Bugs Bunny and Jared Kushner has been left off the boat. https://t.co/G6kiZCi3XR
You can also see another new “work of art” (excuse me while I vomit) below…I don’t know what the name of that piece of shit is…but it must have Strangling the Mueller somewhere in the title.
Nah, see? It is called Expose the Truth. God it is fucking disgusting.
So, now that I have posted some of the visual images for the thread, I suppose I should get around to throwing some links in the pie as well.
Trump called Don Lemon, LeBron James and Maxine Waters, "dumb". One is from the South. One is from Cleveland. One is from LA. One is in the NBA. One is on TV. One is in Congress. Hmmmm… I wonder what they could possibly have in common? Oh, wait…šš¾
I don’t know what to make at that tweet above… I know whatever is being done with the attacks on the press is dangerous. Just like the paintings of tRump strangling Mueller with a tie…it crosses the line.
The pastor delivering the invocation atĀ President Trumpās rally in Ohio on Saturday called for God to shield Trump from ājungle journalism.ā
CNN reportedĀ that Gary Click, a pastor and member of the Ohio GOP’s State Central Committee,Ā delivered the prayerĀ ahead of Trumpās remarks, asking for God to āprotect our President and his family with a shield of faith, Lord.ā
āThat shield of faith against the fiery darts of the wicked one, Lord, against that jungle journalism that extorts the truth and distorts honesty and integrity every single day, gets in his face with lies and mistruths and innuendos,” Click continued.
President TrumpĀ bragged about his prowess in defeating the Republicans who oppose him, saying at an Ohio rally that he ādestroysā the careers of GOP politicians who dare defy him.
āHow do you get 100 percent of anything? We always have somebody who says āI donāt like Trump, I donāt like our president, he destroyed my career,’ ā Trump said.
āI only destroy their career because they said bad things about me and you fight back and they go down the tubes and thatās OK,ā he added.
He is a fucking thug, and it looks like Sunday will only be used for more threats and blows toward Mueller.
Twenty percent of the quiet justiceās former clerks owe their current jobs to President Trump.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is by far the courtās quietest and most conservative justice. He went 10 years without asking a single question from the bench, a streakĀ broken in 2016, not long after the death of his friend Justice Antonin Scalia. Since then, Thomas hasnāt uttered a word in court. His opinions are so quirky and radically conservative that his colleagues on the bench often seem reluctant to sign on to them, making him perhaps one of the least influential justices in the courtās history.
But the courtās only African-American justice is having an outsize influence in one important sphere: the Trump administration. AĀ new reportĀ by the APās Mark Sherman indicates that roughly 20 percent of the clerksāa total of 22āThomas has hired since his confirmation in 1991 are either now working as political appointees in the administration or have been appointed by Trump to federal judgeships.
Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to the US actor in 2016, and nowĀ Seagal will expand his ties, serving as a goodwill ambassador. He will receive no salary, the Ministry said, adding, āItās a case of peopleās diplomacy intersecting with traditional diplomacy.ā
Seagalās new role was noted by Kremlin-backed TV station RT, who noted Seagal as welcoming the appointment.
āIāve always had a very strong desire to do all I can to help improve Russian-American relations,ā RT quoted Seagal. āI have worked tirelessly in this direction for many years unofficially and I am now very grateful for the opportunity to do the same thing officially.ā
Don’t forget…
While Seagal is popular in Russia, he has been accused in the US of sexual misconduct.
In March of this year, two women who previously accused Steven Seagal of rape and sexual assault stepped forward to offer more detailed accounts of the actorās alleged misconduct. Los Angeles attorney Lisa Bloom told reporters in a press conference that she will represent former Dutch model Faviola Dadis and one-time aspiring actress Regina Simons as they seek justice.
Actresses Juliana Margulies and Pamela Anderson have also complained about Seagalās conduct during auditions.
Looks like DC is trying to make the relations between the Neo Nazis holding a rally and folks counterprotesting the racist KKK white nationalist fucks:
In an effort to head off violence between white nationalists and counterprotesters, the District of Columbia metro transit system is considering providingĀ separate trainsĀ for those attending the white supremacist āUnite the Rightā rally Aug. 12. The use of separate trains for such a purpose would be unprecedented.
In response to criticism,Ā Jack Evans, chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, said in aĀ Washington Post article:
āWeāre not trying to give anyone special treatment. Weāre just trying to avoid scuffles and things of that nature.ā
It doesn’t look like special treatment helped the situation in Portland:
Hundreds of far-right protesters from as far away as Florida gathered on the waterfront in Portland, OregonĀ for a āFreedom Marchā on Saturday. Dozens of those interviewed said they were there to utilize their āfreedom of speech.ā To do so, they came armed with bats, weighted fighting gloves, wooden poles, canisters of mace, knives, shields and body armor.
The police had declared a day earlier that all such weapons were illegal in Portland parks. But no effort was witnessed to confiscate the weapons or arrest the weapon-holders.
For hours, four lines of riot police kept the far right separated from a much larger crowd of anti-fascists. The Portland police seemingly wanted to avoid a replay of June 30, when they took a hands-off approach to another far-right rally that quickly degenerated into a violent brawl of about 100 people, resulting in five hospitalizations.
This time it was the police who sent protesters to the hospital. Later in the day, when the far right decided to march into the city, police decided to sweep the streets of counter-protesters. Neither side had permits, but police provided protection to the far right to march for two blocks.
To clear the way, police shot dozens of flash-bang grenades at more than 1,000 people who had gathered to oppose what they say are white supremacists.
There are exclusive pictures of the wounded at the Raw Story link.
#Ahora la cadena nacional del presidente NicolĆ”s Maduro fue interrumpida. El audio del mandatario fue cortado y luego se observĆ³ a militares corriendo de forma desordenada. pic.twitter.com/S14NDGDeXi
Maduro was unharmed in the attempt, but many of the military members in attendance were seen reacting to the explosion.
Footage of the speech, circulated on social media, showed Maduro delivering a speech before the sound cuts out, and those on the stage duck. A camera then shows soldiers running from in a square, before the footage cuts completely.
According toĀ Patricia Laya, Bloomberg Newsās Venezuela Bureau Chief, the feed cut after an explosion was heard near the stage.
Iam essentially a hack, a commercial person,āĀ Orson WellesĀ once said. āIf I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.ā Self-deprecation aside, this most creatively ambitious and restless of US directors was hardly a hack. Welles did have a hobby, though ā one he never abandoned or monetised, and one that is now shedding fresh light on a mighty career.
For in private, the great man worked quietly as an artist ā yielding a vast, varied collection of paintings, drawings and doodles that has rarely been given serious scrutiny. That output is the subject ofĀ The Eyes of Orson Welles, a whimsical documentary by film critic, historian and lifelong Welles devoteeĀ Mark Cousins. An exhibition of the artworks, on which Cousins advised, is alsoĀ now running at Edinburghās Summerhall galleries.
For those who think of Welles chiefly as the stern, booming talent behind such concrete American standards asĀ Citizen Kane, Cousinsās film is revelatory, exposing a wry, playful, angry, often lovestruck man behind the Hollywood legend.
That is all I have today, hope everybody is doing well.
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Oh, there is always a latest these days…every few hours, someone from tRumpWorld says or does something outrageous, that had the same “thing” been said or done a couple of years ago…would have been cause for resignations, being fired, impeachment, imprisonment…etc.
Think about it…
I watched Tanner 88 last night, a series I had not seen since it came out in 1988. It made me think about the years, 1988, 1998, and 2018.
1988- Gary Hart…Below is an article from 1987…it reads like a pulp fiction piece when you compare it to the scandals from tRump:
After the crash of his presidential campaign, the smoking pieces of Gary Hartās life were blown across the front page of every newspaper in America. Gail Sheehy discovered the black box in the wreckage, and has put all the pieces back together. What she found is startling: the world of Donna Rice is much darker than it seemed, and Hart was on a collision course with it all along.
Here is a particular bit to relish:
Ā I examined Donnaās live-in love affair with a big-time cocaine dealer, who is currently serving ten years in a federal penitentiary. Four of Donnaās friends illuminated the rest of the smoke and mirrors in this high-rolling netherworld. It might be seen as the forbidden picture show to which Hartās hidden, sybaritic side had always longed for admission. Indeed, it might be one in a dizzying series of mirrors on which, according to a senior political consultant who has known and watched him for over a decade, āGary Hart has been writing in lipstick for years, āStop me before I fuck again.ā ā
Geez,Ā āStop me before I fuck again.ā Could be the title of tRump’s biography…only perhaps a slight change to, fuck it up again?
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1998- Bill Clinton…Another look from an article in 1998, yes this one is also from Vanity Fair…keeping with the same magazine for context.
When the dust of Clintonās presidency settles, the laws against sexual harassment will still be on the books. But the social sanctions against the behavior will be irretrievably damaged.If you doubt this, look around. In the weeks that followed the Lewinsky scandal, those who had been most affronted by the awkward new social arrangements lately demanded of them shambled out of their caves to beat their chests. Conservative columnist John Leo, for example, crowed inĀ U.S. News & World ReportĀ that the scandal was āprobably the decadeās high-water mark of euphoria around the water cooler ā¦ a chance to break free from the office sex police.āItās all very well to protest that we shouldnāt look to our politicians as role models: the saga of Clintonās sex life is being played out on too large a screen to ignore. You can say until youāre blue in the face that public men are entitled to a realm of privacy; that certain kinds of bad private behavior do not necessarily conflict with political competence, or even genius; and that adultery is not in itself of feminist concern. These are all irrelevancies. This mess is on our hands, and we do not have the luxury of arguing with its existence; the best we can do is call it what it is.
Why is everyone making such a fuss about somethingĀ allĀ rich people do?
Last night on Fox News, in an unintentionally hilarious attempt to clear his clientās name, our manĀ Rudolph W. L. GiulianiĀ informedĀ hostĀ Sean HannityĀ that not only didĀ Donald TrumpĀ know about the hush money lawyerĀ Michael CohenĀ paid porn starĀ Stormy Daniels,Ā but the president repaid the $130,000. In whatĀ appearedĀ to be an (unsuccessful) effort to get Trump off for potential campaign finance violations, Giuliani told Hannity that the whole thing was āperfectly legalā because āthey funneled it through a law firm, and the president repaid it.ā As my colleagueĀ Abigail TracyĀ points out, it doesnāt actually matter where the money came fromāTrumpās own pocket, campaign contributions, or elsewhereāor if it was repaid; if, per the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the money in question was used āfor the purpose of influencing any election for Federal office,ā itās still a crime! Which made Giulianiās Thursday morning appearance onĀ Fox & FriendsĀ slightly problematic, considering he told the group it was a good thing Cohen made the Daniels story āgo away,ā as it would have been really bad if āthat came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate withĀ Hillary Clinton.ā
But hey, weāre not here to debate what is or isnāt a federal crimeāweāre here to discuss the social mores of the 1 percent. After Giuliani finished his media blitz, Trump logged onto Twitter to inform his followers that despite how things might look, paying porn stars six figures for their silence is standard operating procedure for the rich.
Gee, the good old days, when news about tRump was just things like paying off porn stars with campaign funds, conspiring with Russia, money laundering etc.
Anyway, that trip down memory lane was brought to you by the little mini-series Tanner 88, made possible from director producer Robert Altman and writer producer Gary Trudeau. Check it out if you can…it is streaming on Filmstruck and Amazon.
ox News host Ed Henry had to shut down a discussion on President Donald Trumpās immigration policies on Sunday morning when White House adviser David Bossie told a black Democratic consultant that he was out of his ācotton-picking mind.ā
During the segment, Democratic communications expert Joel Payne railed at the Trump administration racist policies. The criticism angered Bossie, who also complained about ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden comparing the child detention centers to a Nazi concentration camp.
āMichael Hayden posted a picture of Auschwitz,ā Bossie complained.
āāYeah, that liberal Michael Hayden,ā Payne shot back, sarcastically referring to the fact that Hayden is a conservative.
āYou are out of your cotton-picking mind!ā Bossie blurted, causing Payne to blow up.
āCotton-picking mind?ā Payne exclaimed. āBrother, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something, I got some relatives who picked cotton, okay?ā
Host Henry tried to take control as the two guests began yelling at each other, with Henry insisting Bossie intended to say āout of your mind,ā before he called an end to the panel.
Sara Sanders complained on Twitter about not being served at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia.Ā WaPo reportsĀ that the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, insisted that patrons uphold standards of honesty and compassion, and that Sanders flacks for an āinhumane and unethicalā administration, defending Trumpās ācruelest policies.ā
Wilkinsonās grounds for not serving the White House spokesperson amounted to personal indecency. It is important to underline that this is what social scientists call an āachievedā status. The grounds had to do with Sandersā own record of behavior and character, not with anything arbitrary about her.
In contrast, to achieved status, you have ascribed status. The latter is determined by things people think about your inherited characteristics. Being Black or Latino is an ascribed status. Or your family religion as a Catholic or Jew would be in this category of ascribed. It has to do not with your personal standards of character but with what prejudices people might have toward a whole group, of which you are part by virtue typically of inheritance. Even if you converted to Catholicism, e.g., you are not responsible for what all Catholics might have done or for what fanatic Protestants think about Catholicism.
It is wrong to shun people because of their ascribed status. It isnāt wrong to refuse to associate people because of their achieved status.
Sanders achieved her status as pariah in many quarters by lying assiduously on television for a livingā by saying things she knew were wrong and/or untrue.
In contrast, Sanders is an advocate for allowing restaurateurs to discriminate on truly objectionable grounds, of ascribed status.
On Saturday, using her official White House account, SandersĀ posted: āLast night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington [Virginia] to leave because I work for POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me.
āI always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.ā
Walter Shaub, federal ethics chief under Barack Obama andĀ briefly Trumpand now a fierce critic of the administration,Ā responded: āSanders used her official govt account to condemn a private business for personal reasons ā¦ she can lob attacks on her own time but not using her official position.ā
Since when do these people have any shred of ethics?
Case in point, Jeff Flake went on one of the Sunday shows:
Sen.Ā Jeff FlakeĀ (R-Ariz.) said Sunday thatĀ President TrumpĀ has āunfortunatelyā redefined the Republican Party, and reiterated his calls for the president to face a primary challenge in 2020.
These assholes could do something, but they consistently vote with tRump anyways…fuck them all.
Op-eds inĀ The Houston ChronicleĀ and the Canadian news magazineĀ Maclean’sĀ suggested the only way to quell the rising trade tensions is to strike at Trump’s businesses. While some countries, such as China, have appeared to try and sway the president through treating his family’s businesses more favorably, countries have not made moves to curtail the businesses’ activity within their borders.
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Debbie Shon, an international trade lawyer at Quinn Emanuel and a former official in the US Trade Representative’s office under President Bill Clinton, said that effectively hitting Trump’s businesses using trade actions ā while legal ā would be difficult.
“Looking at Trump’s businesses, I’m not sure what goods he sells that could be subject to tariffs or how you could use trade actions to hit his businesses unless you really tailored some sort of measure targeting key industries like real estate,” Shon told Business Insider.
That would force any country trying to go after Trump to get creative with their response. Scott Gilmore, a social entrepreneur and former Canadian diplomat,Ā suggested in Maclean’sĀ that Canada should use anti-corruption laws to pressure Trump on trade.
Trump-branded skyscrapers in Toronto and Vancouver represent the president’s most prominent business ventures in the country.
The chaos isn’t just in the Southwest. Increased highway checkpoints and workplace raids away from borders are alarming advocates for immigrants.
The big picture: “For 11 hours on Wednesday, drivers who wanted to travel through a remote stretch of northern Maine were asked a simple question: Where were you born?,” the N.Y. TimesĀ reports.
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“Border Patrol agentsĀ closed off all southbound lanes of Interstate 95 north of Bangor, Me., stopping drivers, searching outside their cars with drug-sniffing dogs and refusing to let them pass until they disclosed their citizenship.”
On aĀ cellphone video,Ā aĀ Bangor Daily NewsĀ reporter was stopped near the lake and lumber town of Lincoln (more than 80 miles from the Canadian border) and told: “If you want to continue down the road, then yes maāam. We need to know what citizen ā what country youāre a citizen of.”
I have traveledĀ that stretch of I-95 (all Trump country up there), and the checkpoints have been set up sporadically since 9/11. But they certainly have a different effect in this environment.
At least 10 babies and toddlers taken away from their parents after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are being housed in “tender-age shelters” in Miami-Dade, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told the Miami Herald on Saturday.
The Florida lawmaker said the children ā who range in age from newborns to 5 year olds ā are being sheltered at His House Childrenās Home in Miami Gardens and Catholic Charities’ Msgr. Bryan Walsh Childrenās Village in Cutler Bay, formerly known as Boys Town.
These facilities are also housing about 88 children ages 6 to 12 who have been separated from their parents, she said.
When the Democratic congresswoman, who represents parts of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, provided the Miami Herald with these figures, she cited a document given to her by federal officials.
It is very disturbing…especially when you consider the other tweet BB linked to, that the children will be adopted out.
It says over 500 children have been reunited with their families.
CBP has reunited 522 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) in their custody who were separated from adults as part of the Zero Tolerance initiative.Ā The reunions of an additional 16 UAC who were scheduled to be reunited on June 22, 2018 were delayed due to weather affecting travel and we expect they will all be reunited with their parents within the next 24 hours.Ā There will be a small number of children who were separated for reasons other than zero tolerance that will remain separated: generally only if the familial relationship cannot be confirmed, we believe the adult is a threat to the safety of the child, or the adult is a criminal alien.
In many countries, when thugs take power, they inflict harm on others. Every person then has a choice to make: join the thugs or refuse to harm others. The morally correct choice is the harder one. The brave ones who refuse to be complicit ā such as my clients from El Salvador, Nepal, Haiti and Cameroon who were asked to make this very choice ā were met with the most dire consequences. If they escape, they forsake all they know in hopes that they will be safer in places unknown.
Clinging to the audacious hope that their childrenās lives will be better, families flee to the U.S., the nation whose symbol is a Statue of Liberty and whose laws have welcomed millions seeking refuge. Ā In the most cruel bait and switch, President Donald Trump ā aided by his attorney general and secretary of homeland security ā took those children away, stripping from their parents the very reason they risked so much.
They say the most unrelenting grief a person can experience is burying their child. Our country has inflicted this kind of pain on desperate parents. The very least we can do is grant them the right to stay here.
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I can’t do this anymore. I live in a house where everyone has no problem with the crimes against humanity that tRump and his administration is committing at the border. (My mom is so sick now, she doesn’t have the strength to fight cancer and the assholes in this family.) I am losing my wits. I have reach the point where I am questioning my sanity. Is it gaslighting? I can’t even watch Maddow anymore, because I get verbal abuse from my father…who insist I agree with him. I want to fucking run away but I can’t.
I think this is the final example:
.@Zac_Petkanas on Fox News: āI read today about a 10-year-old girl with Down Syndrome who was taken from her mother and put in a cageā¦ā
I hate all of these assholes with more than anything I’ve ever felt before.
Oh…and get this:
Update: This 10-year-old girl with Down Syndrome (a.k.a. Corey Lewandowski's "Womp womp" child) was ripped away from her mother despite proof her father is a legal U.S. resident.
Mexico Foreign PM Luis Videgaray's desperate pleas to reunite her with her dad are still unanswered.
— āØļøSaucy StaceyāØļø (@DrSCubed) June 20, 2018
It only gets worse:
The US stopped using institutions to care for babies and toddlers decades ago, but the government is opening several shelters for very young children taken from parents at border. https://t.co/hdzEREhBe5
If anyone saw theĀ Rep. Pramila Jayapal interview last night on Chris Hayes…you know the absolute terror and disgust that can make an actual pain in your chest.
If you have not seen this interview, stop what you are doing right now, and watch it.
It will be very difficult, and the word difficult is not used lightly…but work your way through it. Feel the bitter pain, that chokes up and taste foul in the back of your throat. For that is the essence of a hateful authoritarian dictatorship rule, and when Hannah Arendt spoke of the Banality of Evil….let me tell you, it starts here….
— All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) June 13, 2018
I hope everyone will watch and share this @MSNBC interview. I promised I would tell the stories of these courageous women who have been horrifically mistreated by our government. They are still behind bars and I told them we would fight tirelessly for their release. pic.twitter.com/dDAOMErkmB
What I heard from the women being held at the federal detention facility today was saddening and disturbing. They cried so much.
Every asylum-seeker should be immediately released, reunited with their children and connected to legal services. Anything less is cruel and barbaric. pic.twitter.com/29dZrCX3Ug
My promise to the women being held at SeaTac was that I am going to make sure that everybody outside knows whatās happening to you – and that we will fight for your right to legal counsel and to be released. https://t.co/cFNOmoBhbA
Earlier I described the camps being set up to house immigrant children forcibly separated from their parents as "concentration camps." After watching Rep. Pramila Jayapal describe what she saw I'm doubling down. This is monstrous.
DHS will visit Fort Bliss, an Army base near El Paso, "to look at a parcel of land where the administration is considering building a tent city to hold between 1,000 and 5,000 children, according to U.S. officials and other sources familiar w/ the plans." https://t.co/Hn96uBWCA7
How much is Sessions and Trump making on this private prison they made from kennels?I'll bet that we are paying more than $200 per child! Making up prisons on the cheap, tearing apart families and profiteering from misery is amoral. They do not represent all of us, call congress! pic.twitter.com/e6qaw5wvgb
But aside from the horrifying details, perhaps the most important point is that a majority of the detained women @RepJayapal met with are ASYLUM SEEKERS. seeking asylum IS NOT ILLEGAL. so anyone who says "well they deserve this for breaking the law" is just plain ignorant.
"There is no reason to believe that undocumented immigrants will be the last group of people deemed beyond the law's protection." Glad to speak with @michelleinbklyn for this important @nytopinion column. https://t.co/3Rcp8A0pBr
I don’t know what the fuck the United States is anymore, it sure as hell isn’t a democracy…it has moved on past the point of the “breakdown” period. I truly think we are now at the beginning of the Totalitarian Regime of Trump.
… Arendt notes that loneliness can become both the seedbed and the perilous consequence of the isolation effected by tyrannical regimes:
In isolation, man remains in contact with the world as the human artifice; only when the most elementary form of human creativity, which is the capacity to add something of oneās own to the common world, is destroyed, isolation becomes altogether unbearableā¦ Isolation then becomes loneliness.
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While isolation concerns only the political realm of life, loneliness concerns human life as a whole. Totalitarian government, like all tyrannies, certainly could not exist without destroying the public realm of life, that is, without destroying, by isolating men, their political capacities. But totalitarian domination as a form of government is new in that it is not content with this isolation and destroys private life as well. It bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man.
This is why our insistence on belonging, community, and human connection is one of the greatest acts of courage and resistance in the face of oppression…
And let’s not forget the fiasco with Canada and our other allies….the isolation that has been the cornerstone of tRump’s rule in office:
What perpetuates such tyrannical regimes, Arendt argues, is manipulation by isolation ā something most effectively accomplished by the divisiveness ofĀ āus vs. themāĀ narratives. She writes:
Terror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated against each otherā¦ Therefore, one of the primary concerns of all tyrannical government is to bring this isolation about. Isolation may be the beginning of terror; it certainly is its most fertile ground; it always is its result. This isolation is, as it were, pretotalitarian; its hallmark is impotence insofar as power always comes from men acting togetherā¦; isolated men are powerless by definition.
tRump has aligned the US with ruthless dictators and powerful authoritarian governments…because that is what the US as become.
TRUMP on murderous dictator KJU:
āHis country does love him. His people, you see the fervor. They have a great fervor.āhttps://t.co/mvvTMXqTC7
This is in line with Trump's praise for other dictators including Duterte, Erdogan, Gadhafi, and of course, Putin. Admiring dictators is one of Trump's few consistent policy stances.
His praise for Kim isn't just appeasement, but envy. It's what Trump wants for himself. https://t.co/4HdcxuwLMi
Here is the exact quote from Trump on ABC: "His country does love him. His people, you see the fervor. They have a great fervor." The country is a gulag of 25m. #Appeasement
North Korean state media said on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump had agreed to lift sanctions against the North in addition to providing security guarantees in the summit with the Northās leader, Kim Jong Un, the previous day.
Both leaders signed an agreement committing the United States to unspecified āsecurity guaranteesā in exchange for denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula.
Trump reportedly offered to lift sanctions on the cash-strapped country in addition to those security guarantees, according to Reuters.
North Korea’s KCNA news agency cites TrumpĀ making theĀ pledge to lift the economic barriers after saying the U.S. wouldĀ end joint military exercises with South Korea.
Following the summit, Trump hadĀ indicated that sanctions would remainuntil North Korea began the denuclearization process saying of easing sanctions, āI hope itās going to be soon. At a certain point, I actually look forward to taking them off.ā
Reuters did not receive immediate comment from U.S. officials.
The Hill has also reached out to the White House for comment.
āThey have great beaches,ā Trump said at a news conference following the talks between the two leaders. āYou see that whenever theyāre exploding the canons into the ocean. I said look at that view. Wouldnāt that make a great condo beyond that?ā
āYou could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real estate perspective,ā Trump continued. āYou have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle. How bad is that? Right? Itās great.ā
Despite Trumpās grandiose suggestions, the U.S. State Department recommends against travel to North Korea. Federal authorities advise travelers to draft a will and āfuneral wishesā before going.
I think that part about drafting a will and making funeral wishes is a dramatically different message to what the tRump admin is pushing.
Going back to the #Wherearethechildren and #FamiliesBelongTogether issue…
After the Chris Hayes interview, Rep. Jayapal posted this on her Twitter account:
To everyone asking what they can do to help the children and their parents: Here are some ideas from the immigration and human rights attorneys at @NWIRP. https://t.co/EmfqyQAOaJ
Support my legislation and our demand that Congress stop funding ICE/DHS: https://t.co/sti88dH2Rf
President Trump’s wooing of Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit included the iPad showing (in English and Korean) of a “Destiny Pictures” movie trailer, made by the White House’s National Security Council, starring themselves saving the world.
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There are dunked basketballs, exploding bombs, flourishing labs and cities ā all designed to show Kim what’s possible if he engages with the West, and to warn him darkly of the alternative.
From the voiceover:Ā “Only the very few will make decisions or take actions that renew their homeland and change the course of history … Two men. TwoĀ leaders.Ā One destiny. … A story about a special moment in time when a man is presented with one chance that may never be repeated. What will he choose?”
From Trump’s presser:Ā “I showed it to him … toward the end of the meeting.Ā And I think he loved it.Ā … [W]e had it on a cassette … an iPad.Ā … [A]bout eight of their representatives were watching it, and I thought they were fascinated.”
Jonathan Swan’s sourcesĀ help illuminate Trump’s thinking:
Trump thinksĀ of his presidency in cinematic terms ā with himself as star, producer, director, writer and critic. Now, backed by the resources of the United States government, he’s a studio, too.
The presidentĀ is very aware of his celebrity and how people view him.
Kim isĀ a young tyrant obsessed with pop culture.
So by literallyĀ casting the two of them in a movie, Trump’s was celebritizing the summit, and aiming at Kim’s sweet spot.
The White HouseĀ is very proud of the video: Vice President Pence showed it at yesterday’s weekly Senate Republican luncheon.
Garrett Marquis,Ā National Security Council spokesman: “The video was created by the NSC to help the President demonstrate the benefits of complete denuclearization, and a vision of a peaceful and prosperous Korean Peninsula.”
I think this part of Boston Boomer’s post title from yesterday was spot on: “These Days I Often Cry While Reading News” …yup, I do that too! Only I would take it a step further, and say that lately, I often start to hyperventilate and have anxiety attacks while scrolling through the Twitter feed. (I am not beingĀ hyperbolic with that statement either. I do start to hyperventilate.) I can feel my breathing becoming more intense and faster…forward towards out of control. My heart rate increases dramatically. My palms sweat and feel distinctly cold at the same time. I can actually feel my eyebrows becoming one, from the pained expression my face has contorted into…
Yeah, I think we all know that feeling I am describing above…am I right?
That is why this little asteroid of a nugget that passed my way this morning made me cringe:
And as you will see, no one corrected the “misstatement?” If that is what the fucking thing was…
During an interview with former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, [Abby] Huntsman interrupted to noted that Trump had arrived for the summit in Singapore.
āThere is the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about to walk down those [Air Force Once] stairs, stepping foot in Singapore as we wait this historic summit with the North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un.ā
āAnthony, talk to us about this moment,ā she said, turning to Scaramucci. āThis is history. We are living ā regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators ā what we are seeing right now, this is historic.ā
Scaramucci then agreed… adding that Trump is a “disruptive risk taker”…not even missing a beat while continuing to fawn over the tangerine ass mouth, lavishing more praise on his dear leader as the segment went on. Video at the link.
The links I bring you today are pretty much things you may already be aware of, I don’t know anymore…War with Canada? I guess things are going as Putin planned?
I knew youād be unique as a leader. But a war with Canada…I gotta say, I didnāt see that coming! https://t.co/7KFtzhYx1F
So…. youāre suggesting using a National Security regulation to charge $8B in tariffs to *American* consumers who buy 1 million cars made by American automakers, containing 60% American parts content, because of the price of milk in Windsor?
This week started with @realDonaldTrump boosting a Chinese company identified as a national security threat to the U.S. It ended with him standing up for Russia and alienating our allies at the G7. #MAGA
I hate to say the optics of Trump starting the day whining that Russia isn't part of the G8, and leaving our former close allies at the G7 (G6) summit early to meet with another dictator, Kim Jong Un does not look so hot for democracy.
President Trump feuded with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and threatened to impose penalties on foreign automobile imports Saturday, capping an acrimonious meeting of the Group of Seven industrial nations that further frayed ties between the United States and its closest allies.
Trump said Saturday evening that he had instructed U.S. officials to withdraw support for a joint statement with other member nations he had backed just hours earlier, saying the United States would not join after Trudeau publicly criticized Trumpās trade policy.
European officials described things much differently. Their leaders confronted Trump about how his protectionist policies had given them no choice but to retaliate with tariffs of their own, a person familiar with the encounter said. These tariffs, they told Trump, would hurt everyone. Trump had tried to essentially splinter the European leaders by negotiating some changes with Germany and different ones with France, but those leaders appeared locked together.
They had been careful not to reveal their approach before meeting with Trump, although it appeared very calculated.
āIf you have a strategy, do not explain your strategy before the meeting ā because if you are explaining your strategy before the meeting, you are losing your strategy,ā European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters.
(I thought that was funny…don’t know why.)
āThe contrast between his antagonistic relationship with democratic allies and his never saying a bad word about Russia defies explanation, unless one is to buy into the theory that he is indebted in some fashion to Russian President Vladimir Putin.ā https://t.co/UMl2oG1LE4
āWhat worries me most .ā.ā. is the fact that the rules-based international order is being challenged,āĀ European Council President Donald TuskĀ said as the G-7 summit got underway. What is surprising, Tusk said, is that the challenge is driven not by the āusual suspects, but by its main architect and guarantor, the U.S.ā
By the way:
Trump spent the G-7 meeting railing against high tariffs that do not exist. https://t.co/rqWSKcGdzv
Kudlow was on the Sunday shows, fucking things up even more:
āHe did a great disservice to the whole G7,ā WH econ adviser KUDLOW says of Canadaās Trudeau. Calls it a āsophomoric political stunt for domestic consumption.ā
Dear Group of 7: I am sorry you had to put up with Blabbermouth Don. And embarrassed. Please donāt judge us too harshly. Remember that he lost the popular vote by 3 million. Most of us want nothing to do with that asshat.
A former CIA director publicly rebuking the American president, who is actively attacking our closest allies on his way to a meeting with a dictator. We live in extraordinary times. https://t.co/icUD4PmJFE
Your wrong-headed protectionist policies & antics are damaging our global standing as well as our national interests. Your worldview does not represent American ideals. To allies & friends: Be patient, Mr. Trump is a temporary aberration. The America you once knew will return. https://t.co/7qHthq2GuT
Reupping for the millionth time this FOX February 2014 interview, in which Trump basically gives up his game.
Talks about wanting close relationship with Russia, getting Putin's approval, and his desire to tank the economy and cause riots in the US. Thread: https://t.co/sJ4oaW94L5
Over the many years since Congress passedĀ the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) of 2001, the ACLU has dedicated itself to defending the civil liberties and human rights that have been threatened as a result of this resolution and its successors. The harms have included the drone killings of American citizens, broad surveillance of American citizens, the kidnapping and torture of suspects, and indefinite detention without charge or trial, even of an American citizen apprehended in the United States.
Now, Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) are working onĀ a new AUMFĀ that is even more damaging to our freedoms.
It would be hard to overstate the depth and breadth of the dangers to the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights that the Corker-Kaine AUMF would cause. The Corker-Kaine AUMF would give the current president and all future presidents authority from Congress to engage in worldwide war, sending American troops to countries where we are not now at war and against groups that the president alone decides are enemies.
Uh, yeah…you read that, Kaine.
The Corker-Kaine AUMF would authorize force, without operational limitations, against eight groups in six countries. The president could then add to both lists, as long as the president reports the expansion to Congress.Ā To be clear ā the president would have unilateral authority to add additional countries āĀ including the United States itselfĀ ā to the list of countries where Congress is authorizing war. And the president would have unilateral authority to add additional enemies,Ā including groups in the United States itself and even individual Americans,Ā under its new authority for the president to designate āpersonsā as enemies.
Their proposal also contains a sleeper provision with the innocuous title, āSec. 10 Conforming Amendment,ā that would create a new legal basis for the military to capture and imprison individuals in indefinite detention without charge or trial. This greatly expands the scope of the infamousĀ indefinite detention provisionĀ in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Like the NDAA, the Corker-Kaine AUMF has no statutory prohibition against locking up American citizens or anyone picked up in the United States itself. While we continue to believe it would still be unlawful for a president to try indefinite detention of an American citizen in the United States (again), there is no reason for Congress to risk it.
Let’s look at a few other photos from the G7 Summit:
Macron had a couple good ones…he released his own tRump smackdown picture…you can see he is looking exasperated as he jesters toward the tRump asshole below:
What do you think he was saying to him? What’s a matter with you?
Oh wait, that is more of an Italian thing right?
(tRump has that covered as well, you see, he is already love crazy over Italy’s newly elected right-wing prime minister.)
Wow, the hard on tRump gets for these far right assholes is disgusting.
Back to Macron: Did you see the lasting impression he left on tRumps little hand?
UPDATE: Cartoonist now reportedly released 'on probation', but third Turkish cartoonist to be sentenced to imprisonment in last month or so: #FreeTurkeyMediahttps://t.co/pgxVw3QTHw ā¦
Iāll tell you what was very difficult to see. One room had smaller cyclone fencesāthey look like the way you construct a dog kennel. Theyāre larger, but thatās the thought that comes to mind when you see them. Then they have these space blankets [light foil blankets], which is a very strange sight, to see kids using a space blanket as a cushionābut they donāt provide any cushionāor as a cover for privacy. Thereāre no mattresses in that section.
After they go through interviews, they go into a big warehouse. I called them cages, and the White House said thatās unfair, they arenāt cages. Well, call it a cell, then. Itās a cyclone-fence-constructed area. There were all these boys in this big enclosure, maybe three to four dozen boys, and they lined up, from smallest to largest, to get ready to go eat. The tiniest kid at the front of the line, he was knee-high to a grasshopper; he was 4, maybe 5 years old. They go up to age 16 or 17.
I understand that the McAllen facility operated under the Obama administration, to accommodate the surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America we saw in 2014. Do you know whether the children you saw last weekend are mainly unaccompanied minors, who came here alone, or whether theyāre mainly kids whoāve been separated from their parents under this new DOJ policy?
Well, some may have come as unaccompanied minors, but many have not. The 4-year-old, itās extremely unlikely he did, I suppose an older brother might have brought him across, but he was just so, so tiny. Many of them are kids who were taken away from their parents, in that facility. I asked: āWhere are the kids whoāve been separated from their parents?ā And they said āHere.ā
But hereās the thingāas soon as they take the kids away from their parents, they call them āunaccompanied minorsā too! I asked, which are the kids who came alone, and which came with their families, but no one could tell me. We do know that during a 12-day period in May 658 kids were separated from their families. We know that the number of immigrant children detained without parents went up 21 percent from May to June.
Another question is: Where do the kids end up, and can the parents reach them? They told me, āOh yes, they get an A code,ā and I asked, āWell, whatās an A code,ā and it turns out itās an āalien code,ā a number where they can be tracked through the system. So itās really not a difficulty for parents to find their children, they said. But the children are actually in one agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the parents are in another agency, the Department of Homeland Security. And according to immigration advocates I spoke with, theyāre saying itās actually not easy to track down the kids. The younger kids may be in a foster family, where the foster family doesnāt speak Spanish.
Fucking hell.
Ben Carson is backing off his plans to triple the minimum rent paid by some of the country's poorest households https://t.co/ZFCKM5kSYi
BREAKING: DOJ docs prove that Kobach and Bannon are behind Census citizenship Q. Kobach emails say he talked to Sec Ross āat the direction of Steve Bannon.ā In email, Kobach proposes specific language for the citizenship Q, says itās essentialā and āneeds to be added to census.ā https://t.co/jETtD4FRQK
Salmonella outbreak linked to pre-cut melon sickens 60 in 5 states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. Also distributed to major grocery chains in Georgia, Kentucky and North Carolina. https://t.co/dVfwUQymGr
Putnam disputed that the state didnāt run concealed weapon permits background checks but acknowledged that an employee in his office failed to review the results of those checks, which led to 291 people receiving permits who werenāt supposed to have them.https://t.co/YgOnWvAbpz
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