Sarah Sanders proudly (or embarrassedly but obediently) posted Trummp’s Big Boy ledder to that mean Nansee Pulowsee.
President @realDonaldTrump’s letter to @SpeakerPelosi concerning her upcoming travel pic.twitter.com/TtBCvwp080
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 17, 2019
Look at that pile of dingoes’ kidneys. The Shutdown; the Strong Border Security movement; our Southern Border. It’s the letter of a childish idiot but they publish it as if it were the Gettysburg Address.… Read the rest
President Donald Trump said Thursday he was denying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a military plane for a trip to Afghanistan that was set to begin in the afternoon, a tit-for-tat retaliation that deepened the divide between the leaders and brought the government no closer to reopening.
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Pelosi had been scheduled to leave within the hour that Trump’s letter was made public, making for the awkward site of a large blue Air Force bus idling outside the Capitol as the implications of the President’s missive came into focus.
This is what it is to have a stupid malevolent narcissistic child in the executive role in government.
… Read the restThe administration “worked with the Air
I had jury duty Monday and Tuesday so I missed some headlines. I missed the very public murder of the mayor of Gdańsk.
The mayor of the northern Polish city of Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz, was stabbed on Sunday evening in an apparent assassination attempt in front of thousands of people during a charity concert.
Adamowicz, who has served as mayor of Gdańsk since 1998, was resuscitated at the scene and rushed to a nearby hospital where he underwent five hours of surgery. Doctors described his condition as “critical” and “serious”.
And he didn’t make it.
… Read the restAdamowicz is a powerful liberal voice in a country that has been governed by the rightwing Law and Justice party since 2015. He is
Grim.
Over two days in November, record-breaking heat in Australia’s north wiped out almost one-third of the nation’s spectacled flying foxes, according to researchers.
The animals, also known as spectacled fruit bats, were unable to survive in temperatures which exceeded 42C.
They plummeted out of trees by the thousand.
Last week, researchers from Western Sydney University finalised their conclusion that about 23,000 spectacled flying foxes died in the event on 26 and 27 November.
That tally was reached through counting by wildlife volunteers who visited seven flying fox camps following the heatwave.
There were only about 75,000 going in.
… Read the restFlying foxes are no more sensitive to extreme heat than some other species, experts say.
But because they often gather
Thieves fall out department. Cohen helped Trump rig polls, Cohen stiffed the people doing the rigging, Cohen kept some of the money Trump gave him to pay the poll-riggers…it’s grifters all the way down.
… Read the restIn early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at Trump Tower to collect $50,000 for having helped Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss’s favor before the presidential campaign.
In his Trump Organization office, Mr. Cohen surprised the man, John Gauger, by giving him a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Mr. Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts
The Left has become totally unhinged. They no longer care what is Right for our Countrty!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2019
Our poor poor Countrty!
Well, it’s no wonder he’s too agitated to spel gud, the puir wee mon. He’s looking like a loser.
Make no mistake: Pelosi’s decision to disinvite Trump from delivering his “State of the Union” address to Congress is a total power play designed to remind Trump that a) Congress is a co-equal branch of government and b) his willingness to keep the government shuttered until he gets money for a border wall is going to have impacts on him, too.
Rat shan’t visit party.… Read the rest
Why do so many women keep buying into this line?
"We can argue all day, but trans people are dying, and I don't want to be part of a feminism that allows that to happen…"
Important, empathetic talk from @MillyAbraham on why feminism should be allied with trans rights #LwithTheT #ComeOutForTransEquality https://t.co/pnHCyz7K0q
— Stonewall (@stonewalluk) January 16, 2019
We can argue all day, but trans people are dying, and I don’t want to be part of a feminism that allows that to happen.
I haven’t watched the TED talk and don’t intend to, I’m just addressing that one sentence that Stonewall UK thinks is so convincing.
Why in hell does Milly Abraham single out feminism as somehow allowing trans people … Read the rest
Aw no.
It says women’s march in the url, but…
THE MARCH – January 19
We kick off a the anniversary of the first Womxn’s March on Seattle with a RALLY. Hear from the region’s most powerful progressive womxn leaders as they speak about the greatest threats and most inspiring triumphs our communities have experienced in the past year. After the rally, we will MARCH to Seattle Center, where we continue our day of service and learning. At Seattle Center, attend one of several “Activism 101” WORKSHOPS designed to energize, illuminate, and activate our marchers for the work to come in 2019 and beyond. See the most recent updates about the march on our website.
But it wasn’t… Read the rest
This looks hopeful.
https://twitter.com/miss9afi/status/1085661105853063168
Maybe she just means she hopes Raif is released, as always…but then why mention the important meeting? More likely the important meeting was about some form of progress. So…here’s hoping.
https://twitter.com/miss9afi/status/1085673705735360512
The journalists were probably there for a reason.
Also on Facebook.
On the other hand, the chickenshit Republicans refused to tell Trump no he can’t lift sanctions on Oleg Deripaska.
Senate Republicans on Wednesday narrowly staved off an effort by Democrats to deal the Trump administration’s Russia sanctions policy an embarrassing rebuke.
Eleven Republicans joined Democrats in a vote to enforce sanctions against the corporate empire of an influential ally of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, but the effort fell three votes short of the 60-vote threshold required to advance the measure. The vote was 57-42, with one Democratic senator not voting.
Nothing at all corrupt about it though. No no no, perish the thought.
… Read the restDemocrats had urged the administration to delay its decision on the fate of the
Oh, interesting. It’s the House Speaker who gets to invite the president to come on over and wow them with a State of the Union address. He didn’t think of that, did he.
… Read the restAs House speaker, it’s on her to extend the official invitation to the president to come into her chamber and present his State of the Union. On Wednesday morning, she told him he best reschedule.
“Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th,” Pelosi wrote
In intervals between jumping off cliffs, Parliament has passed legislation making “upskirting” a crime. I don’t really understand why it can’t just be part of existing laws against doing creepy shit to women, but whatever. A young woman named Gina Martin started a campaign to this end after some toad stuck a camera up her skirt.
… Read the restSpeaking after the bill was approved, Gina said: “Eighteen months ago I was upskirted at a music festival and I decided I wasn’t going to brush it off.
“I was tired of ‘ignoring it’. I felt this was wrong and I was astounded to learn that upskirting wasn’t a sexual offence. I wanted to change this for everyone, because the least we deserve is
They want to be clear about something.
We want to be clear about something. The Second Shelf is intersectional, inclusive, and expansive in our use of the term women as we embrace the multidefinitionality of gender identity and expression. We will not debate this.
— The Second Shelf (@secondshelfbks) January 15, 2019
Only, to me it’s not clear. It’s anything but clear; it’s downright muddy.
For instance, why is there any need to be “expansive” in anyone’s “use of the term women”? Why can’t the word “women” just mean “women” and let it go at that? Apart from anything else, it’s convenient. It saves trouble when words mean what they mean and not some “expansive” extra set of things imposed … Read the rest
So that’s a big NO to Theresa May and her particular Brexit plan. Unfortunately a second referendum is not the only other option.
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes – the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.
MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets out the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU on 29 March.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has now tabled a vote of no confidence in the government, which could trigger a general election.
The confidence vote is expected to be held at about 1900 GMT on Wednesday.
Putin is no doubt hugging himself with glee.… Read the rest
… Read the restIn William Barr’s first day of confirmation hearings to be attorney general, one of the key topics was special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He’s been pressed on whether he’ll make the final report public, whether he’d consider recusing himself, and whether he’d fire Mueller, and he’s fielded questions on his independence. Here are some of the takeaways from the first day so far:
- Barr suggested he is inclined to think a sitting president cannot be indicted. “For 40 years the position of the executive branch is that you can’t indict a sitting president,” Barr said, adding that he hasn’t read those opinions in a long time, but
I so jennerous! I paid! I paid!!! I served them cold hamberders what I paid for with my oan money!!!
Updating to add:
due to a large order placed yesterday, we're all out of hamberders.
just serving hamburgers today.— Burger King (@BurgerKing) January 15, 2019
Walter Shaub points out that Nixon’s downfall established the principle that a president may not select his investigator.
… Read the restNow with the Senate’s likely confirmation of William Barr as attorney general, Trump may succeed in destroying this principle. Barr’s nomination is before the Senate only because Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions for refusing to stop special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. (Sessions technically resigned, but a “resignation” requested by the president is Washington-speak for “fired.”)
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Barr is infinitely more qualified than acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker, but Barr and Whitaker have something in common: They both auditioned for the job by making sure Trump knew they opposed the special counsel investigation. Whitaker made his views known in television
Gaby Hinsliff suggests that Piers Morgan is actually part of the advertising campaign.
What would the advertising industry do without Piers Morgan?
Whenever they need a grumpy middle-aged man to be triggered, there he is, reliable as clockwork. He did it with Greggs’ vegan sausage roll, helping catapult their January marketing wheeze onto the front pages by complaining that it was a monstrosity. And he’s done it again with the new Gillette ad targeting toxic masculinity, which twists its familiar “the best a man can get” tagline to suggest that men can do a lot better than Harvey Weinstein and fighting in the street.
It’s true! We’re all pitching in to help sell this shaving cream.… Read the rest
