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

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The Chief Of Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Panel Just Admitted He’s Paid By America’s Top Alt-Right Website

The man who is in charge of President Trump’s voter suppression efforts just admitted that he is on the payroll of America’s biggest alt-right “news” website, Breitbart, at the same time that he’s gathering millions of records about American voters in his official witch hunt for the President.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has access to a vast trove of national voter data in his role as the Trump Administration’s “voter fraud” czar.
Now that Breitbart News is paying him, presumably, he’s their primary official link to gain preferred access to information about the American electorate.
The KC Star reports:

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is now a regular columnist on the far-right news site run by President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist.

Kobach, who also is running a private-sector law firm on top of his duties as secretary of state and serving on a presidential commission, said he writes his columns in his spare time — usually after dinner — and they do not interfere with his official duties.

Kris Kobach’s newest job is all the more disturbing because of Breitbart and its executive chairman Steve Bannon’s links to the mysterious big datacompany Cambridge Analytica (CA). CA is owned by reclusive billionaire Robert Mercer who was a major Trump backer, and Bannon has sat on its Board of Directors.

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/09/01/chief-trumps-voter-fraud-panel-just-admitted-hes-paid-americas-top-alt-right-website/

A Krazy Kris Kobach, aka KKK, is probably going to give US national voter data to Mercer's Cambridge Analytica,

which gives its voter, US citizen data ot Pootin's ARMY of hackers.

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EPA public affairs official given right to veto federal grants if they mention climate change

Scientists and university researchers who are seeking grants from the Environmental Protection Agency are unlikely to see any funding come their way if they mentions the dreaded double-C words: climate change.

According to the Washington Post, the EPA has given veto power over grants and awards to John Konkus, who goes by the le of Deputy Associate Administrator for Public Affairs.

The Post notes that the EPA doles out hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and that those dollars are, in essence, only given with the approval of Konkus now.

Konkus has reportedly told staffers that he is empowered to look for “the double C-word” — climate change — and warned grant officers that they not to be mentioned in funding solicitations.
The report states that Konkus has already canceled close to $2 million awarded to universities and nonprofit organizations.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/epa-...change-report/

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French chemical company Arkema has an ally writing rules in the EPA

The French chemical company Arkema,

owner of a crippled Texas plant that was in flames Friday evening,

has a high-ranking ally at the Environmental Protection Agency:

former chemical industry lobbyist Nancy Beck,

who now works in the office that regulates the kinds of dangerous chemicals that,

together with sewage and superfund sites, have turned Houston area floodwaters into a contaminated stew.


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/fren...e+Raw+Story%29

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Trump Just Cut The Wages Of 4.2 Million Workers The Day After Labor Day

The U.S. Justice Department today said it will abandon efforts to appeal a ruling by a Texas judge that put on hold an order by President Obama that greatly increased the number of workers who should receive overtime pay by making it harder for corporations to pretend they are actually white collar supervisors who are exempt from wage rules.

Chris Opfer
✔@ChrisOpfer

Just In: Justice Department to drop appeal in overtime case.

Judge last week killed Obama rule to make 4 million overtime eligible.
9:54 AM - Sep 5, 2017

The impact is that with a shrug and a wink at the big companies,

Trump has slashed the wages for millions of workers,

and cost many of them payments due for work already done under the old rules which were enacted under President George W. Bush.

“The Obama overtime rule provided protections to workers who were listed in bogus salaried positons

in the service, retail, and other sectors of the economy as a way to avoid having to pay employees overtime,” reporter and lawyer Chris Opfer wrote for Bloomberg BNA.

President Obama pushed the rule when it became clear the Republican controlled Congress would never raise the minimum wage for those in economic terms who are at the bottom of the labor pool.

“President Obama raised wages for 4.2 million workers with this rule,” adds Opfer. “Donald Turmp will slice those wages so that the money can go back into the hands of corporations.”

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/09/05/trump-just-cut-wages-4-2-million-workers-day-labor-day/

How many of these 4.2 million SCREWED employees voted for Trash?

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Climate-change skeptic lined up to run NASA in this Trump timeline

he does have a problem with one part of NASA's remit – keeping an eye on climate change.

he's firmly on the skeptical side of the climate change debate, as he said in 2013 when

he called on then-President Obama to apologize for funding climate science.

"Global temperatures stopped rising 10 years ago,"

claimed Bridenstine, "Global temperature changes, when they exist, correlate with Sun output and ocean cycles."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0..._skeptic_nasa/

Trash beefing up the oligarchy's kakistorcracy with a anti-science politician to manage science and scientists

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LGBTQ hater nominated to DoJ Civil Rights Division

LGBTQ groups criticize Trump’s Justice Department pick

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/lgbt...partment-pick/

Repugs carrying out Bannon's (and their own) strategy to up govt and Americans.

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'Putting Politics Before Science,' Trump's EPA Restricting Grants for Climate Research

A political appointee in charge of vetting grants has said he is "on the lookout for 'the double C-word'—climate change"

According to both career and political employees, Konkus has told staff that he is on the lookout for "the double C-word"—climate change—and repeatedly has instructed grant officers to eliminate references to the subject in solicitations.

Konkus, who officially works in the EPA's public affairs office, has canceled close to $2 million compe ively awarded to universities and nonprofit organizations.

Although his review has primarily affected Obama administration priorities, it is the heavily Republican state of Alaska that has undergone the most scrutiny so far.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...imate-research

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Alabama Republican Rep. Rogers DESTROYED Key Hurricane Monitoring Satellite


The US Air Force (USAF) has maintained a series of defense weather satellites with microwave imaging technology since the 1960’s.

most of the existing F series satellites have exceeded their design lifetime and no replacements are in sight because

Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee,

forced the Air Force to destroy the F-20 satellite which had already been built and was scheduled for launch.

Multiple satellite units had been built at the same time to save money on building them but storing the F-20 cost millions.

He eliminated funding for launch and for storage giving the Air Force no option but to destroy the satellite.

The premature failure of the F-19 satellite has created a potential situation where

there will be a dangerous gap in microwave satellite imaging capabilities because Mike Rogers destroyed the F-20.

Mike Rogers asserted that the technology was obsolete but it provided a continuous record with the same kind of sensor of the long decline of sea ice extent in the Arctic.

“It's a real loss to have had the F20 dismantled, but Congress would not give the Air Force the funds to launch that sensor even though the instrument had already been built,” Julienne Stroeve, a remote sensing expert at NSIDC, said.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency operates the fourth Arctic-monitoring satellite. That’s also approaching the end of its forecast five-year lifespan. Stroeve said NSIDC is working to integrate data from the Japanese satellite into their operations, “but even so there may still be a gap for a couple years.”

The European Space Agency is expected to launch an new satellite to monitor the region, but the launch isn’t on the docket until 2021.

Rogers seemed angry that the Air Force’s F satellite series was collecting key data that proved that dangerous warming was taking place in the Arctic.

He accused the Air Force of incompetence.

spacenews.com/…

During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on acquisition reform,

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said Congress had lost confidence in the Air Force’s ability to run its legacy weather satellite program.

Rogers chairs the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, which provides oversight of military satellites. …

“We could have saved the Air Force and the Congress a lot of aggravation if we put a half of a billion dollars in a parking lot and just burned it,” he said. …

In the massive omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2016,

lawmakers provided no funding for DMSP and

the bill denied $120 million of funding to launch DMSP-20 around 2018.

The combination effectively ended the program.

The Air Force had spent $518 million on the satellite, Rogers said.

Instead, he said, the money set aside for DMSP could have been spent on other national security priorities, but now

the satellite is “going in the trash. I presume it’s going to be made into razor blades.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/6/1696633/-Alabama-Republican-Rep-Rogers-DESTROYED-Key-Hurricane-Monitoring-Satellite

Repugs crapify, destroy everything they touch, savings paid to tax cuts for 1%/BigCorp

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Christian Sharia misogynist defending, enabling college rape culture and rapists

‘More of the Trump pro-rape agenda’: Internet torches DeVos for rewriting campus sexual assault rules

Education secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday announced the department will rewrite Obama-era policy for investigating sexual assaults on college campuses.

DeVos, who met with men’s rights activists

earlier this summer, promised the Trump administration’s approach to campus sexual assaults will be

“centered around equal opportunity and equal protection for all,” ( "all" being all men, excludes all women )

arguing too often the accused are not given a voice in college disciplinary proceedings.

News that DeVos—the education secretary appointed by a president who once famously bragged about committing sexual assault—is

actively working to roll back measures designed to protect victims of sexual assault

—enraged the Internet on Thursday.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trum...e+Raw+Story%29

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Hypocrite. But Funny.

Mick Mulvaney says Donald Trump is likely annoyed with Republican leaders over their inability to pass legislation.

And Mulvaney says he can understand because he is, too.

As a friend notes, this is almost comical hypocrisy.

Mulvaney may not be in the House anymore.

But as a founding member of the Freedom Caucus,

Mulvaney is ground zero for why Republicans are no longer able to act as a functioning caucus.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/hypocrite-but-funny?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ca mpaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

The Freedom Kockus caused Boner to quit, and it wants Ryan gone so they can have one of their own nutcase extremists.

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Dreiband s bag LIAR

"Eric Dreiband testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a packed hearing on Wednesday. He misled, obfuscated, and, in some cases,

outright lied to committee members during his hearing.

One particularly egregious example was when he insisted that he never opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,

even though he served as an expert witness testifying in opposition to the bill." ... from a newsletter.

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‘Should Dishwashers Be Fired ‘Cause They’re Gay?’ The Nominee to Lead DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Can’t Answer

Eric Dreiband said he'd be "zealous" in protecting civil rights, but

he's got a history of defending employers accused of workplace bias

Eric S. Dreiband—whom President Donald Trump has nominated to head the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division—refused to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee whether or not the U.S. Cons ution permits discrimination against LGBTQ people in the workplace or in schools.

his more recent work at the law firm Jones Day, where, as a partner, he has represented companies accused of varying types of employment discrimination.

Dreiband used the word “zealous” multiple times to describe the type of enforcement he would apply to civil rights laws

But when asked specifically if he will protect people in the United States from employment discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender iden y—

something Attorney General

Jeff Sessions’ DOJ has asserted the Cons ution is not designed to protect against—

Dreiband gave no such assurance.

https://rewire.news/article/2017/09/...ality+Check%29

If Repug/Sessions nominated this LGBT-hater/warrrior-on-Labor, esp after Sessions, like dubya, GUTTED the Civil Rights Division, be assured Dreiband will ZEALOUSLY NOT defend Labor against Capital.

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Misogynist Repug/white male supremacists/Devos plan to rape the victims of rape to protect the rapists

Leaked DOJ memo recommends making rape victims' sexual history fair play in campus hearings

At an event at George Mason University, Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos officially announced the

beginning of rollbacks in protections for student survivors of sexual assault under le IX.

a leaked memo courtesy of @ALT_USCIS on Twitter, which is run by self-proclaimed insiders at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.

In a Feb. 15, 2017 memo,

only 3 ING WEEKS after inauguration, the Repug WIMMEN HATERS sprung into enabling the destruction of rape victims.

from the Department of Justice to the deputy attorney general, the authors express concern about the consequences faced by students accused of sexual misconduct.

They list a few recommended changes in policy to shift even more favor on the side of the accused—one of which is particularly alarming.

• Every complainant’s sexual history, if relevant ???, may be introduced at the hearing.

Currently, questions about the complainant’s sexual history with anyone other than the accused perpetrator should not be permitted.

This recommendation is in direct contraction to rape shield laws,

which bar the defendant from bringing up the victim’s sexual past in sex crime cases.

In the 1970s some states created their own rape shield laws; 1994’s Violence Against Women Act created a federal version.

Now the highest law enforcement agency in the land is pointedly recommending a policy that’d only serve to shame survivors who dare to report—and discourage others from speaking up in the process.

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

How about the FULL SEXUAL HISTORY of the accused rapist?

nah, no,

Boys Will Be Boys

Real Mean Rape Women (they asked for it, they really love it, etc, etc)

I expect "Every complainant’s sexual history, if relevant" will be used by EVERY lawyer to destroy the accuser EVERY TIME, "revelant" will be ALWAYS relevant for the defense.

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Here's an item you ST racists/KKK/white supremacists support enthusiastically

The (racist Jeff Sessions' ) Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools

A major investigation reveals that white parents are leading a secession movement with dire consequences for black children.

“The media has twisted and turned this issue to make everyone think this is about race.” — Chris Orazine, Gardendale parent

https://www.thenation.com/article/th...tm_term=weekly

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Trump Appellate Nominee Says Her Religion Supersedes the Cons ution



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ail=emaildkre2

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yawn, OF COURSE, Little Napolean Sessions wimp wants to play hard-ass Macho Man

WH Asks Congress To Permanently Reauthorize Surveillance Law

asked top congressional Republicans and Democrats to reauthorize a law that lets the U.S. government target foreign nationals outside the United States.

“We are writing to urge that the Congress promptly reauthorize, in clean and permanent form, le VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” Sessions and Coats wrote in a letter

to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

Sessions and Coats cited information gathered under Section 702 of the legislation, which they claimed “produces significant foreign intelligence that is vital to protect the nation against international terrorism and other threats.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...0%28TPMNews%29


but no domestic surveillance of BigFinance / BigPharma / etc? Those are all MUCH BIGGER threats to Americans than foreign terrorists.

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Trump administration signals plans to defang retirement rule

The U.S. government will likely water down a key part of a landmark retirement rule,

lawyers for the Department of Labor said, signaling that the government will offer an out for brokerages that would have been subject to class action lawsuits.

Thrivent Financial, a Minneapolis-based asset manager, has asked a federal court in Minnesota to block an anti-arbitration provision in the government’s fiduciary rule.

The provision allows unhappy clients to sue their brokers, a first in an industry which has always required customer disputes be arbitrated.
In a brief filed last week, Labor Department lawyers wrote that their agency’s actions on the fiduciary rule “in the near future are likely to moot this case.”
“The department has stated its agreement with the plaintiff that the challenged provision is improper as applied to arbitration agreements,” the Labor Department said in its filing.

The Labor Department crafted the fiduciary rule during the administration of former President Barack Obama to require financial advisers to act in their customers’ best interests.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trum...e+Raw+Story%29


Yep, Repugs ing citizens, allowing BigFinance to steal retirements funds, and slamming the court house doors.

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Methodology for estimating losses to retirement investors of partial implementation of fiduciary rule

EPI estimates that the partial implementation of the fiduciary rule on June 9, 2017, without effective DOL enforcement, will cost workers saving for retirement between $2.0 billion and $5.9 billion dollars over the next 30 years,

with a middle estimate of $3.9 billion —

assuming the rule is implemented as currently scheduled on January 1, 2018.

Delaying DOL enforcement an additional 18 months (from January 1, 2018 to July 1, 2019)

would cost retirement savers an additional $5.5 billion to $16.3 billion over 30 years, with a middle estimate of $10.9 billion.

http://www.epi.org/publication/metho...uciary-rule-2/

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Paranoid Trump Endangers Lives By Ordering CDC Not To Share Data On Health With The Public

In a paranoid and bizarre move that could endanger public health, the Trump administration has ordered the CDC not to share basic data with the press.

In a paranoid and bizarre move that could endanger public health, the Trump administration has ordered the CDC not to share basic data with the press.Axios reported:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to crack down on its employees’ conversations with the press,

according to an internal email obtained by Axios. The message — sent by public affairs officer Jeffrey Lancashire and dated Aug. 31 —

instructs all CDC employees not to speak to reporters, “even for a simple data-related question.”

On a micro level, the gag on the CDC reflects the basic paranoia of the Trump administration.

There is no harm that can come from journalists sharing data with the American people about potential diseases, epidemics, and the health of the country, so the request is bizarre, but when examined from a macro point of view the crackdown on public knowledge makes perfect sense.

Donald Trump and his administration don’t want the American people to know what their government is doing or not doing.

The Trump administration has scrubbed data on

education rights for students with disabilities,

climate change data, and

is systemically going through information that the federal government used to share with the public and

either removing from websites or making agencies unavailable to the press.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/09/...iticus+USA+%29

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Of course not

(Racist Sessions' Racist) Justice Department Will Not Charge Police Officers Involved In Freddie Gray’s Death

“It’s not surprising. Police officers still continue to get a free pass to killing black people,”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...gEmail__091317

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The Repugs' perverted, racist Lady Liberty says YOU

US Virgin Islands refusing entry to non-American Irma evacuees, survivors say

Authorities on US Virgin Islands reportedly turning away boats arriving from British Virgin Islands, facing devastation in hurricane’s aftermath

The US government is turning away people trying to flee the hurricane-devastated British Virgin Islands for the nearby US Virgin Islands unless they are American citizens, refusing even those with US visitor visas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-refused-entry

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Another crapfest of a deal in the Trash never-ending crapfest

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Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump

With Irma and Harvey devastation,

Tax Cuts and Tax Reform is needed more than ever before.

Go Congress, go!

7:36 AM - Sep 13, 2017



His priority is tax cuts for himself

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This is so-called Repug "governance" by socio/economic/biological Darwinism, in a "Christian" country chosen by God to fullfil the prosperity (for businesses) gospel

Will the US Weaken its Disability Laws?

House to Vote on Bill Protecting Businesses Over Persons with Disabilities

A bill that would very deliberately undermine the protections afforded under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) could come to a vote in the US House of Representatives soon.

This is how the new bill would look:

If someone in, say, a wheelchair comes to a movie theater without a ramp or elevator, they would be required to give the business owner a written notice.

Then, the business owner would have two months to respond and another four months to take some steps to address the violation.

Only then, half a year later, could the person whose rights are at stake try to force the business to comply with the ADA and be held accountable.

This new bill would incentivize businesses dragging their feet to comply with the ADA’s accessibility obligations.

It would also act as a profound deterrent to people looking to enforce their rights under the ADA.

Already under existing law, the onus is mostly on them to trigger enforcement and accountability.

Under H.R. 620, that burden would be compounded by months of delay and new bureaucratic hurdles.

Many people would likely give up rather than put themselves through all that – and perhaps that’s exactly the point.
The United States has the obligation to ensure businesses do not discriminate against people with disabilities. Yet

H.R. 620 would actually create more obstacles for them to access justice.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/09/13/will-us-weaken-its-disability-laws

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Pruitt sickens Americans again

EPA Rewrites Rules Limiting Water Pollution from Coal Plants

Revised rule postpones compliance deadlines for critical pollution safeguards

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is taking further action to delay critical public health protections for cleaning up toxic water pollution from power plants.

EPA first began efforts to roll back the power plant wastewater standards in April, when EPA Administrator Scott

Pruitt suspended important limits on the amount of toxic pollutants such as arsenic, mercury, and lead that power plants are allowed to dump into our waters.

The EPA action announced today would make a two-year delay of those public health protections a new part of federal regulations.

During that two-year period, EPA intends to review the public health protections at industry’s request to consider further delaying and weakening them.

A coalition of public health and environmental groups, represented by Earthjustice, has been fighting in the courts to oppose the new EPA Administration’s attempts to delay and weaken the power plant toxic water rule.

“Coal-burning power plants are the number-one source of toxic water pollution in this country,”

said Earthjustice attorney Thomas Cmar.

“We know that this pollution can cause brain damage in children as well as cancer. Today’s action is a bold-faced gift to the coal industry at the expense of the health of families everywhere.”

https://www.commondreams.org/newswir...on-coal-plants

You Repug voters voted for more diseased, dying, dead Americans. Thanks!

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Repugs blue-slipped Obama's judicial nominees for 8 years,

NOW, of course, the Repugs want to kill blue-slip, so the Repugs can pack the Federal court system with oligarchy's pro-oligarchy, anti-citizen judges

McConnell calls for ending Senate tradition that gives Democrats with leverage on Trump's judicial nominees

http://www.businessinsider.com/mccon...mocrats-2017-9