The official Thread for Trash/Repug CRAPICATION of America, the planet

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“Ah, America!

We’ve gone from separating Indian babies from their parents (and then exterminating them),

to stealing babies from their slave parents (and then re-selling them into slavery),

to building a country on child labor (working in factories as young as 8-yrs. old),

to incarcerating Japanese-American toddlers in internment camps,

to allowing priests to sexually abuse children for decades,

to forcing buckets of high-fructose corn syrup down kids’ throats until half of them are part of a childhood obesity epidemic,

to turning our schools into killing fields

because we love our guns more than we love our kids — who the are we kidding?”,

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/06/...kids-atrocity/

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Trump administration tightens rules for federal scientists talking to reporters

A new directive from the Trump administration instructs federal scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey to get approval from its parent agency before agreeing to most interview requests from reporters,

the new protocol represents a dramatic change in decades of past media practices at the scientific agency

and will interfere with scientists’ ability to quickly respond to reporters’ questions.

They expected that taxpayers would see less of the USGS’ scientific expertise as reporters seek scientific comment elsewhere.

The new protocol also permits the Department of the Interior’s communications office to reject interview requests on scientific matters.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...s=mcnewsletter

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The Trump team just spat on the graves of Hurricane Maria victims with a disgusting move

the EPA contracted The Lapel Pins Plus Network to design and manufacture nearly

two thousand “challenge coins” featuring the EPA’s logo and slogans praising the agency’s role in assisting the response to hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the California wildfires.

The cost? Over $8,500.

The contract, obtained through public records,

mandates the inclusion of the phrase “response excellence” on the coin, and says that the coin should “convey the sentiment that

EPA staff from all across the country worked together to respond to the incidents from Puerto Rico to California (and regions in between).”

these challenge coins are created when the operations they celebrate are actually successful.

Given that so much of Puerto Rico is still without power due to the government’s inadequate response, and that

the EPA prematurely cleared still-contaminated toxic waste sites in the Houston area as safe before it was revealed that they were actually still quite dangerous,

the EPA and its staff hardly deserve a token of special recognition for their criminal mishandling a disaster that led to the deaths of 4,600 people.

Environmental groups were horrified by the contract for the coins, telling CNN that the

EPA’s response to the disasters was “lacking,” particularly in its addressing issues of contaminated drinking water and toxic flooding.

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/06/...sgusting-move/

No matter how TY Trash's Exec is, it always tells everybody that it's doing great.

Sicko, lying self-aggrandizement

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SHS's POS so-called pastor father

Mike Huckabee Sends Bigoted Tweet Calling Gang Members Pelosi’s “Campaign Committee”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...committee.html

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Here's Trash and JeBo violating the press

DOJ seizure of Timesreporter’s data raises press freedom concerns

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has made its first move to go after a journalist’s data. The action comes as part of a case against former Senate Intelligence Committee senior staffer James A. Wolfe, who has been charged with lying to the FBI about his contacts with reporters.

Minutes before the indictment against Wolfe was unsealed last night, The New York Times reported that prosecutors had secretly seized years’ worth of the phone and email records of one of its reporters, Ali Watkins.

“Mr. Wolfe’s case led to the first known instance of the Justice Department going after a reporter’s data under President Trump,”

wrote the paper’s Adam Goldman, Nicholas Fandos, and Katie Benner.

The communications between a journalist and a source aren’t protected by a federal shield law,

but rules! require authorities to take “all reasonable steps” to obtain information through alternative sources before targeting reporters’ information.

It’s not clear whether those guidelines were followed in this case.

“Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of democracy, and communications between journalists and their sources demand protection,”

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/...-data-leak.php

Trash and JeBo going after the "failing NY Times". They don't need no steenkin' "rules"

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Private prison stocks up 100% since Trump's win

Thanks to President Donald Trump, America's private prisons appear to be entering a gold age.

The stocks of the two biggest private prison operators --

CoreCivic (formerly know as Corrections Corp. of America) and Geo Group

-- have doubled since election day. CoreCivic (CXW) is up 140% since Trump won in November; Geo Group (GEO) has risen 98%.

For all the talk about how good Trump has been for big banks like Goldman Sachs,

he's been even better for private prison investors.

The reason private prisons are back in vogue is simple:

Trump has made sweeping promises to crack down on crime and illegal immigration.

Wall Street calculated quickly that Trump's rhetoric is likely to translate into more people behind bars.

And that means more profits for private prisons.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/investing/private-prison-stocks-soar-trump/index.html

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JeBo helps

Jeff Sessions Reinvigorates the Drug War

The U.S. attorney general is bringing back the harshest sentences for low-level drug offenses, rejecting Obama-era reforms.

Sessions instructed federal prosecutors nationwide to seek the strongest possible charges and sentences against defendants they target.

“It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense,” he wrote.

“This policy fully utilizes the tools Congress has given us.

By definition, the most serious offenses are those that carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory-minimum sentences.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...g-memo/526029/

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“Women for Trump” just held a fashion show for his birthday and pulled the creepiest stunt

https://twitter.com/2020fight/status...30635124731904


https://washingtonpress.com/2018/06/...eepiest-stunt/

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Trump’s head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration floats removing ‘climate’ from mission statement





https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/tru...e+Raw+Story%29

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Trump’s nominee to lead the IRS was just busted in major corruption scandal

Ethical questions have been raised about Chuck Rettig, President Trump’s nominee to head the IRS, after it was revealed he failed to disclose that two rental properties he owns are in Trump-branded properties.

Rettig, who is scheduled to testify today before a Senate committee considering his long-pending confirmation, had disclosed he owned a 50 percent stake in two rental properties in Hawaii, but failed to disclose that they are in the Trump International Hotel Waikiki and Tower.

That missing piece was discovered by Congressional staff who examined his financial disclosure and other statements and was discussed in a due diligence staff meeting on June 21, according to Politico.

The staff also raised questions about loans made to a family member which were repaid with interest, but not properly declared on Rettig’s tax returns over several years.

Rettig is a Beverly Hills, California, lawyer who has specialized in dealing with tax controversies for clients and is known to have been aggressive about seeking deductions for his wealthy clientele.

The family loans involved three $200,000 loans made in 2014, which were repaid.

Rettig, according to the staff memo, failed to record interest income on the loans on his tax returns in 2014, 2015 and 2016. However, he did deduct $17,856 in interest expense in 2015.

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/06/...ption-scandal/

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ORDER CODE RED


Scott Pruitt Personally Involved in ‘Ratf*cking’ Ex-Aides Who He Feels Betrayed Him

she had been tasked with procuring her boss a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Just days after news of that testimony broke, the aide, Pruitt’s now former director of scheduling

Millan Hupp, submitted her resignation.

But even though Hupp was gone from the agency, Pruitt wasn’t done with her.

he personally reached out to allies in the conservative movement, including some at the influential legal group the Federalist Society, to insist that she had lied about, or at least misunderstood, the request for a used Trump mattress.

He also stressed that Hupp could not be trusted—the implication being that she should not be hired at their ins utions.

against a young staffer—

one who worked on Pruitt’s attorney general campaign in Oklahoma,

followed him to Washington, and

by all accounts had been one of his most loyal aides at the EPA.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/scott-...mpression=true

A FINE Christ-loving evangelical Christian man

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Study: Most people who will lose Medicaid because of work requirements

ARE ALREADY WORKING

it’s all about punishing poor people—and nothing else.

The new Trump-certified approach is to impose work requirements on non-elderly, non-disabled people enrolled in Medicaid.

What it ignores is that a large percentage of those people are already working,

A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that

up to 4 million people nationally could lose their Medicaid coverage if the requirement was adopted by Congress,

which the Republican House is proposing in their new budget.

"Specifically, under all scenarios,

most disenrollment would be among individuals who would remain eligible but lose coverage

due to new administrative burdens or red tape versus

those who would lose eligibility due to not meeting new work requirements."

Nearly two-thirds—62 percent—of non-elderly and non-disabled adults on Medicaid already work at least part-time;

43 percent work full time.

But they have to prove it to the state to keep their coverage,

a requirement that is likely to be so burdensome that people won't be able to comply.

On top of kicking already-working people out of coverage in the name of putting people to work (which is insane),

states are going to have to spend a lot of new money in creating the reporting systems and

hiring the people required to run them.

Savings that these states see from dropping people out of the program will be eaten up by creating the system to do it.

It's not about creating dignity for poor people,

getting them back to work,

helping them lead meaningful lives—

all that aspirational kind of bull people like Paul Ryan hide behind.

This is about punishing poor people.

It's about destroying the social safety net

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1776702

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White supremacist propaganda on college campuses is soaring

There have been nearly 300 incidents in the last academic year alone.



The amount of white supremacist propaganda posted on college campuses has nearly doubled in the last year, according to a new report released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

there have been 292 reported incidents of white supremacist propaganda — including stickers, banners, and flyers containing racist and anti-Semitic messages — left on campuses that range from Ivy League to local community colleges.

The incidents represent a 77 percent increase from the previous year. “They’re trying to engage with what they hope are future members of their organizations,” Oren Segal, director of ADL’s Center on Extremism, told the New York Times. “They have put a premium on winning hearts and mind.”

Far-right figures have repeatedly targeted college campuses for speaking engagements designed to provoke and enrage the student body.

the ADL’s report shows how smaller, more hardline groups are still infiltrating colleges to deliver their white supremacist message.

One of these groups is Patriot Front, a white supremacist organization that describes its members as “American Fascists.”

Patriot Front members discussing

an ideal society filled with “ethnostate rape gangs”

and how members regularly engage in “violence training.”

the group

“speaks openly of violent ethnic cleansing.”

While the group is based primarily in Texas, there are also do ented members in New England.

covering of college campuses with racist propaganda is a crucial part of their broader campaign to recruit new members.

Another white supremacist group heavily pushing propaganda onto college campuses is

Iden y Evropa (IE), a neo-Nazi group founded by Iraq war veteran Nathan Damigo, who cites former Klansmen David Duke as one of inspirations.

https://thinkprogress.org/white-supr...-6cdcfe79a092/

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Krapifying Kudlow

Kudlow Falsely Claims Deficit Is ‘Coming Down Rapidly’

Three sources of government data contradict Friday’s claim by the White House economic adviser, showing instead that the federal budget deficit is actually increasing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/u...er=rss&emc=rss

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Trash's racist kakistocracy in action, Sleepy Bear so-called Dr. Carson as Uncle Thomas as Clarence Thomas

Trump administration now has fair housing in its sights

HUD’s Carson wants to make it easier for banks, insurers and landlords to redline minorities

Anna Maria Farías, an assistant secretary at HUD, is asking for comments on possible revisions that could

“add clarity” and “reduce uncertainty”

on a HUD rule based on a legal theory the Obama administration and its predecessors used to prove discrimination cases.

The theory, “disparate impact analysis,” measures discrimination, such as African-Americans paying higher interest rates on loans, without having to prove an intent to discriminate.

Republican lawmakers have urged HUD Secretary Ben Carson to review the rule.

Seventeen of the 18 House members who signed the letter have received $55,333 in campaign contributions

so far for the 2018 election from the political action committee of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America which has suedHUD over the rule.

Their letter regurgitated some of the points made in court filings by insurance industry attorney Paul Han , who was representing the American Insurance Association in another lawsuit against HUD.

Four of the letter signers have received a total of $13,000 so far for the 2018 election

from the political action committee of the America Insurance Association.

https://www.salon.com/2018/07/02/tru...ights_partner/

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New Authoritarian GOP Removed "Democracy" from Textbooks As Too "Partisan"

Right-wing conservatives in Michigan, led by Trump nut state Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R), (@pjcolbeck), are forcing Michigan schools to adopt “new standards” that do some sick stuff to social studies.

The term “core democratic values” has been stricken---replaced with “core values”.
The reason? It’s too “partisan”:

”Some believed that even using the word ‘democratic’ implied partisan leanings,”

the GOP without adding bigotry, Colbeck’s got you covered:

The [old] standard about the expansion of civil rights for minorities in the 20th century included specific references to Native Americans, Latinos, people with disabilities, and gays and lesbians.

They were removed in the proposed new standards,

while language was added saying that

the expansion of civil rights for some groups

can be seen as “an infringement of rights and freedoms” of others.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

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Kentucky’s Republican governor just retaliated against a judge by punishing half a million of his own citizens

In a stunning show of vicious retaliation, the Republican Governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin, just canceled the vision and dental benefits for nearly half a million Medicaid recipients in his own state.

Furious that his cruel plan to force Medicaid recipients to work was slapped down by a federal judge, Bevin has decided to punish his state’s most vulnerable people out of spite and is shamelessly attempting to blame the judge’s ruling for it.

The Governor’s office

announced that since he couldn’t force the poor to work for their benefits,

he would impose a different kind of means-testing in order

to squeeze every last drop of blood from his own voters:

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/07/...-own-citizens/

You Repugs are really some very ed up assholes

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“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, even though nobody has any idea what that is anymore?”

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Trump’s plan to collect unpaid taxes costs the government more money than it brings in

Trump administration’s debt-collection plan is a bust — and targets low-income taxpayers with terrible advice

A year after several members of Congress blasted the Trump administration’s plan to revive the use of outside contractors to go after delinquent taxpayers,

the outsourcing is costing more money than it is bringing in,

according to Nina Olson, the IRS’ national taxpayer advocate.

“According to the IRS, the [private debt collection] program generated net revenue in Fiscal Year 2018 but

has yet to break even,”

Lost $10 million in 11 months

“How much more proof do we need that replacing the professional civil servants of the IRS with for-profit collection agents working on commissions is

a bad financial decision for the U.S. Treasury?”

the private contractors have not only cost more money than they have brought in, but

they targeted lower-income taxpayers who are getting locked into repayment plans they won’t be able to maintain.

Almost half of the households the contractors went after had incomes below 250 percent of the federal poverty level.

“The [private debt collection] initiative as implemented does not involve any financial analysis and thus does not take into account any of these taxpayers’ specific facts and cir stances,” the NTA report stated.

“For lower-income taxpayers, the consequence is that they are not paying for things they need. They are not meeting their basic living expenses.”

https://www.salon.com/2018/07/03/tru...-it-brings-in/

As usual, privatizing govt functions is a money loser, but Repugs don't care.

Increasing the deficit will ALWAYS be "pay for" by cutting the social safety net.

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5 Horrifying Things About Scott Pruitt's EPA Replacement

He's even scarier than the corrupt administrator he's replacing.



Wheeler Will Be Better at Destroying the Environment

Wheeler is described by the New York Times as a “consummate Washington insider who avoids the limelight and has spent years effectively navigating the rules.”

Analysts believe Wheeler could be more effective than Pruitt at implementing Trump’s deregulatory agenda at the EPA.

Wheeler Was an Energy Industry Lobbyist

“Like Pruitt, this veteran coal lobby lobbyist has shown only disdain for the E.P.A.’s vital mission to protect Americans’ health and our environment,”

Wheeler Worked for a Climate Change Denier

worked for Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), a climate change denier who called the science “the greatest hoax” ever perpetrated on Americans.

Many remember Inhofe for his attempt to debunk global warming “hysteria” by bringing a snowball into the Senate.


Wheeler Really Loves Coal

He served as the vice president of the Washington Coal Club.

This organization is a quiet federation of more than 300 coal producers, corporate leaders, policy professionals and lawmakers.

Wheeler Lobbied to Open Public Land to Uranium Mining

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...pa-replacement

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Study: Most people who will lose Medicaid because of work requirements

ARE ALREADY WORKING

it’s all about punishing poor people—and nothing else.

The new Trump-certified approach is to impose work requirements on non-elderly, non-disabled people enrolled in Medicaid.

What it ignores is that a large percentage of those people are already working,

A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that

up to 4 million people nationally could lose their Medicaid coverage if the requirement was adopted by Congress,

which the Republican House is proposing in their new budget.

"Specifically, under all scenarios,

most disenrollment would be among individuals who would remain eligible but lose coverage

due to new administrative burdens or red tape versus

those who would lose eligibility due to not meeting new work requirements."

Nearly two-thirds—62 percent—of non-elderly and non-disabled adults on Medicaid already work at least part-time;

43 percent work full time.

But they have to prove it to the state to keep their coverage,

a requirement that is likely to be so burdensome that people won't be able to comply.

On top of kicking already-working people out of coverage in the name of putting people to work (which is insane),

states are going to have to spend a lot of new money in creating the reporting systems and

hiring the people required to run them.

Savings that these states see from dropping people out of the program will be eaten up by creating the system to do it.

It's not about creating dignity for poor people,

getting them back to work,

helping them lead meaningful lives—

all that aspirational kind of bull people like Paul Ryan hide behind.

This is about punishing poor people.

It's about destroying the social safety net

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1776702

Why is it burdensome to prove that they are working?

[Chucho]

Why is it burdensome to prove that they are working?

Papercuts from check stubs are a .

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With his insider information, Ross bets stocks would drop

Wilbur Ross shorted more stocks than previously reported

The Commerce secretary is under fire for five sales, three of which involved a shipping company with alleged ties to the Kremlin.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross revealed to CNBC Monday that he shorted two more stocks while in office, in addition to the short sale of three other stocks Forbes previously reported in June.

Ross defended the newly disclosed May 2017 sales — which involved stock belonging to Air Lease and Ocwen Financial Corporation — by echoing his earlier comments about the three other shorts.

He excused those sales as part of an effort to divest himself from any financial holdings that could pose a potential conflict of interest.
Monday, Ross told CNBC that in all five sales, his stake in the companies was zeroed out and he received no profit or loss on the trades. “These transactions are not profit-seeking short sales,” Ross said. “These shorts are technical ways of disposing the stocks.”

While Ross claims he was simply doing the right thing by divesting his assets, the action still raises a few red flags.

Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said Monday that he had “

never heard of someone using short positions to divest.”
“I helped in hundreds of transactions for employees entering government, this is not an acceptable situation,” he said.

https://thinkprogress.org/wilbur-ros...-d15e0c6f5a38/

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Pruitt won’t be needing those tactical pants anymore. But Trump might.

Pruitt spent the past 16 months turning the Environmental Protection Agency into a paramilitary operation, with the sole purpose of protecting him.

Pruitt had spent some $4.6 million on security,

enlisting a round-the-clock detail that followed him everywhere, even to Disneyland and Italy,

whisking him from his office —

where a $43,000 soundproof phone booth cocooned him and

a panic alarm connected him directly to the security office —

to the $50-a-night room in a condominium that he had rented from a lobbyist.

He clothed his security agents in $2,750 worth of “tactical pants” and “tactical polos,”

the Intercept reported.

He got them $88,000 worth of security radios,

holsters and

travel charges.

He let it be known that

he liked to travel around with police lights flashing and the siren blaring— the better to avoid traffic — and

this undoubtedly improved the experience in the Chevy Suburban with bullet-resistant seats that he leased for $10,200 a year.

He made sure

his guards were equipped, on the ground, with a $931 breaching kit of the type they used to break down the door to his lobbyist-owned condo

when he was napping and staff grew panicky that they could not reach him.

In the air, he flew first class to minimize his contact with passengers who might “endanger his life.”

Even the administrator’s skin was well protected;

he dispatched his security detail to the Ritz-Carlton to find him the scented lotion he required.

dining so often at the White House mess that he was urged to eat elsewhere, and

letting it be known that

he would be willing to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III

if Trump fired Jeff Sessions as attorney general and gave Pruitt the job on an acting basis.

of much greater value:

Ivanka Trump’s trademarks and

Jared Kushner’s investors and foreign governments pumping millions into Trump properties.

Now Pruitt is gone, and Trump is about to be caught with his tactical pants down.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pruitt-wont-be-needing-those-tactical-pants-anymore-but-trump-might/2018/07/05/13930b86-80a8-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html?utm_term=.2db2dca3fae7&wpi src=nl_most&wpmm=1

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EPA blocks warnings on cancer-causing chemical



Burying the formaldehyde study is part of an effort by Pruitt and aides to undermine EPA's research program

The Trump administration is suppressing an Environmental Protection Agency report that warns that most Americans inhale enough formaldehyde vapor in the course of daily life to put them at risk of developing leukemia and other ailments,

top advisers to departing Administrator Scott Pruitt are delaying its release as part of

a campaign to undermine the agency’s independent research into the health risks of toxic chemicals.
“They’re stonewalling every step of the way,”

the current official said, accusing political appointees of interfering with the formaldehyde assessment and other reports on toxic chemicals produced by EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...blocked-696628

God wants Americans to have cancer. It's God's Way.

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Bill Shine's wife had a shockingly racist Twitter feed until her husband joined the Trump administration



https://www.mediaite.com/online/bill...-about-blacks/

http://theweek.com/speedreads/783582...administration

Shine ignored repeated reports of sexual harassment when he was a mucky much at Fox News

Trash surrounds himself with trash