South Dakota Congressional Candidate Said Terrorist Attack Would Help Him Win Primary
State Sen. Neal Tapio was the state director for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...gEmail__051418
... that's a great policy, pro-terrorism
Trash's AmeriKKKa
4 Men Charged With Hate Crimes In Beating Of Gay Couple
A bystander was also beaten bloody in the attack, which was caught on camera.
The four suspects in the alleged hate crime are, from left, Pablo Reinaldo Romo-Figueroa, Juan Carlos Lopez, Adonis David Diaz and Luis M. Alonso Piovet.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...gEmail__051418
Devos signalling to for-profit scammers, frauds, cheats, thieves that they can carry on, with vigor, because Devos says it's ok
Education Department Unwinds Unit Investigating Fraud at For-Profits
Members of a special team at the Education Department that had been investigating widespread abuses by for-profit colleges have been marginalized, reassigned or instructed to focus on other matters, according to current and former employees.
The unwinding of the team has effectively
killed investigations into possibly fraudulent activities at several large for-profit colleges where top hires of Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, had previously worked.
Former employees of those ins utions now work for Ms. DeVos as well,
The investigative team had been created in 2016 after the collapse of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges, which set off a wave of complaints from students about predatory activities at for-profit schools.
The ins utions had been accused of
widespread fraud that involved misrepresenting enrollment benefits,
job placement rates and program offerings, which could
leave students with huge debts and no degrees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/b...gtype=Homepage
cosmored
Pruitt trolling America
The EPA’s new Office of Continuous Improvement ignores some important details
During an announcement about making the agency "lean," EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt conveniently missed some details.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the creation of a new “Office of Continuous Improvement,” meant to boost productivity inside the agency and cut operational waste.The office will expand the agency’s
“lean management system,”
which encourages employees to focus staff time on “mission-critical work.”
improve “the quality, transparency, and speed” of EPA services,
resulting in “superior customer service” for stakeholders.
Environmental groups criticized the announcement, arguing that it shifts focus away from the EPA’s core mission of environmental protection.
“Scott Pruitt is advocating for a government that abandons its responsibilities to protect our clean air and water all while using taxpayer money to pay for lavish perks for himself,”
Melinda Pierce, federal policy director for the Sierra Club, said in a press statement.
“It’s clear that the only ‘customers’ Scott Pruitt intends to help are the corporate polluters directing his every move.”
https://thinkprogress.org/epa-office...-2978b5ff35ec/
Pruitt's Lean probably means "fire 20 EPA scientists to be replaced with 5 BigCarbon lobbyists"
Pennsylvania Congressman says it is un-American to talk about racism
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) said, "We don't talk about those things."
https://thinkprogress.org/pennsylvan...-fb297d0719c6/
WHITE HOUSE THOUGHT BURYING A REPORT ABOUT POISON DRINKING WATER WAS A GREAT IDEA
It was an apparent attempt to—wait for it—stave off a “public relations nightmare.”
a report from the Department of Health and Human Services comes across your desk revealing that chemicals used by big business and the military, which have seeped into water supplies from New York to Michigan to West Virginia, endanger human health at much lower levels than the E.P.A had previously deemed safe.
You’d probably want to make sure that Americans currently coming in contact with said water were notified about the study immediately, and
that cleanup of the contaminated sites began right away—
first because it is very obviously the right thing to do, and
second because the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, and
its associated public health issues, is still fresh in people’s minds.
To most people, the proper course of action would be pretty self-evident!
And then you have the Trump administration,
whose first impulse is typically to respond in the least responsible, most corrupt, and flat-out dumbest way possible.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018...mbid=synd_digg
Trash and his kakistocracy will prioritize remediating Americans' MIC/oligarchy-poisoned water with the same urgency and relentless efficiency as its responses to Puerto Rico, Flint, opioid epidemic, etc
Trump Administration Shuts Down NASA's Carbon Monitoring Program
Since Trump took office, his administration has proposed several budget cuts to NASA's earth science programs dealing with global climate change.
United States President Donald Trump has cut the budget for National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System.
The system is charged with compiling data from various satellite and aircraft measurements of CO2 and methane emissions around the planet.
Researchers and scientists were provided with reliable information about carbon circulation due to the program. Now, it will be much more difficult for countries to verify that carbon quotas are being met under commitments they gave as part of the Paris climate accords.
The United States is the only country on earth not to ratify the treaty.
If emissions are not being measured, countries will have no idea if they are keeping their end of the bargain,
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/ne...0515-0021.html
Repugs destroying Federal govt.
It's easier, quicker to destroy than it is to build
As with the Iraq War for Big Oil, the Repug damage will last for decades.
Trash pandering to the Christian Taliban minority
Trump plans to impose abortion 'gag rule' on all taxpayer-funded women's health clinics
If you don’t think this administration has quietly declared war on women, you aren’t paying attention.
The Trump administration last year reinstated — and expanded — a rule banning family planning clinics that get aid money from the United States from performing abortions or even discussing abortion with their patients.
Often called the “global gag rule,”
it’s led to clinic closures and reductions in crucial services around the world.
And now it might be coming to the United States.
The White House is reportedly considering a domestic gag rule that would essentially apply the restrictions of the global rule to providers that receive federal le X funds,
which help low-income patients get services like contraceptive counseling and testing for sexually transmitted infections.
Such a rule would force Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health providers to either stop discussing abortions with their patients or stop receiving le X money.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/12/1763720/-Trump-Plans-To-Impose-Abortion-Gag-Rule-On-All-Taxpayer-Funded-Women-s-Health-Clinics-In-U-S?detail=emaildkre
But Repugs fund, support, encourage the lying, cheating, fraudulent CPCs, Crisis Pregnancy Centers (eg, "abortion causes cancer", "abortion is riskier than birth") with asshole employees in scrubs and doctor-ish stethoscopes as if a CPC were a legitimate health provider instead of a bull Christian Sharia scam.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 05-16-2018 at 08:40 AM.
Pruitt Says He Doesn’t Recall Using Sirens To Go To Dinner. EPA Emails Say Otherwise.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told senators at a hearing Wednesday morning that he does not remember ordering his motorcade to
use lights and sirens to cut through Washington, D.C.’s notorious traffic in non-emergency situations — such as a visit to the tony French restaurant Le Diplomate.
In response, the committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) submitted for the public record an email from Pruitt’s former security chief Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta in February that states clearly that
Pruitt “encourages the use” of lights and sirens.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/pru...0%28TPMNews%29
Pompeo: ‘Swagger’ Of State Department Is ‘America’s Essential Rightness’
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday extolled the “essential rightness” of the United States in global affairs as he urged demoralized U.S. diplomats to act firmly and aggressively as they promote and carry out the Trump administration’s foreign policies.
In a town hall pep talk to State Department employees, Pompeo explained that his repeated calls for the agency to regain its “swagger” meant that diplomats should act with confidence, knowing that the U.S. cause is just. The event was closed to journalists as Pompeo told staff he wanted his conversations with them to be private but the State Department released excerpts of his prepared remarks.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/p...+%28TPMNews%29
Maybe the dumb ones sticking around the destroyed State Dep believe Pompeo's bull . You'd have to be pretty ing dumb, tho.
The Repugs/oligarchy/Trash have degraded America before the rest of the planet.
Viral video of anti-Muslim coffee shop rant shines a light on a dark truth about America
When a Muslim customer at a California coffee shop was verbally harassed by an Islamophobic man recently, an employee and several patrons quickly jumped to her defense.
“Is this Halloween or something?” a man at a Riverside Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf said to a young woman dressed in a niqab, a full body cover worn by some Muslim women.
“I don’t like that because I don’t like your religion. It says to kill me, and I don’t want to be killed by you, how’s that?”
“Are you scared of me? Have you read the Koran?” the woman asked.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/viral-video-anti-muslim-coffee-shop-rant-shines-light-dark-truth-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
Trash's AmeriKKKa, 10Ms of racist, less assholes
AFR Statement on Appointment of Andrew Smith as Head of FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection
“The least likely candidate to run the FTC’s consumer protection unit ought to be the former lawyer for a notorious payday lender that the FTC itself pursued for a billion-dollar settlement and who is now in prison on a racketeering conviction,”
said José Alcoff, Payday Campaign Manager at Americans for Financial Reform.
“Another unlikely candidate would be an attorney for Equifax, the credit bureau that let hackers get away with the personal financial data of millions of Americans.
Yet
the FTC has found a lawyer, Andrew Smith, who worked for both payday lenders and Equifax.
The FTC needs a someone with a record of consumer protection, not yet another industry lawyer.”
http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2018...neral-counsel/
Americans gonna get ed out of $Bs more by BigFinance and Trash/Repug govt gonna do nothing.
Rocks falling into oceans, not climate, causing seas to rise, congressman suggests
A rolling stone may gather no moss, but if it tumbles into the ocean, you can expect the seas to rise.
At least that's the theory embraced by Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., during a hearing held Wednesday by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on how technology can be used to address climate change.
While questioning Philip Duffy, president of Woods Hole Research Center, about what, in addition to climate change, might be driving rising sea levels, Brooks suggested erosion might be a factor.
"Every single year that we’re on Earth,
you have huge tons of silt deposited by the Mississippi River, by the Amazon River, by the Nile, by every major river system — and for that matter, creek, all the way down to the smallest systems," Brooks said.
"And every time you have that soil or rock whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise.
Because now you’ve got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up."
Brooks pointed to the White Cliffs of Dover and to California "where you have the waves crashing against the shorelines" and "you have the cliffs crash into the sea."
"All of that displaces the water which forces it to rise, does it not?" Brooks asked.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ise/621389002/
ing Alabama!
I bet Mo doesn't even know WHY he is supposed to be a (robotic) AGW denier, it's just what the Repug tribe does, and he tags along in magnificent slave state ignorance.
Trash/JeBo trying to move USA to authoritarian fascism with Trash as Imperial, unchallengeable autocrat
DOJ Still Wants To Lock People Up For Protesting The Government, Or Even Just Talking About It
The government is still trying to land a conviction from its mass arrest of participants in last year's Inauguration Day protests in Washington, DC. So far,
it has nothing to show for its efforts but a far-too-casual disregard for civil liberties.
The prosecutions began with the government's breathtaking demand for the personal info of all 1 million+ visitors to the Disrupt J20 website.
The government's prosecutors accused protest participants of "hiding behind the First Amendment" while attempting to strip away First Amendment protections.
One of those charged by the government with rioting was journalist Alexi Wood, who had filmed the protests and had the footage to show he wasn't a participant in violent or destructive acts.
its lawyer (Jennifer Kerkhoff) tried to downplay the significance of a foundational part of our justice system -- that the accusers must prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" the accused committed a crime.
After a DC Superior Court jury acquitted the first group,
prosecutors ... saying they would focus on defendants who allegedly engaged in "identifiable acts of destruction, violence, or other assaultive conduct,"
who planned violence, or
who participated in "black bloc" tactics to aid the property destruction that day.
58 defendants remain charged and will face a judge and jury in at least nine more trials; jury selection for the next of these is scheduled to begin Monday.
The government is still giving itself plenty of leeway, though. It's not simply interested in jailing those who actually committed property destruction during the J20 protests, but anyone it thinks it can pin a conspiracy to riot charge on.
The "conspiracy" angle is only going to do more damage to First Amendment rights.
Simply having contact with someone charged with property damage/rioting could net defendants jail time.
This is an effective way to deter future dissent,
as it casts a chill on participating in protests against the government
simply because the possibility of some participants engaging in criminal activity will always exist.
the prosecution means to send an even more pernicious message, which is that protest of the sort that the defendants engaged in is prohibited full stop.
"The important aspect here is that they're going after fundamental associative rights.
They implant the idea in the minds of the citizenry that
even to discuss dissent or even 'like' a dissenting comment on Facebook can lead to prosecution.
When that happens, democracy dies.”
simply discussing participation in a protest that ultimately resulted in destructive acts from a small subset of participants is a criminal act in and of itself,
the First Amendment is going to suffer.
Given the history of these prosecutions,
it's clear the government either isn't aware of the damage it's doing or, more likely, does not care.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180516/18304639848/doj-still-wants-to-lock-people-up-protesting-government-even-just-talking-about-it.shtml
Last edited by boutons_deux; 05-25-2018 at 06:39 AM.
here's the thought/policy leader for all you ST racists
Richard Spencer: U.S. Military Should Have Enslaved Haitians After Hurricane Instead Of Providing Relief
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/r...ampaign=bestof
Trump Team Moves To Lift Ban On ‘Extreme’ Hunting Tactics In Alaska
The proposal would allow hunters to kill bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens and shoot swimming caribou from motorboats.
The Trump administration on Monday proposed rolling back a 2015 rule that bans aggressive predator control tactics in national preserves in Alaska, including shooting bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens ― a move immediately blasted by environmental groups.
The proposal, slated to be published Tuesday in the Federal Register, would amend the National Park Service’s current regulations to again allow for controversial sport hunting and trapping techniques
on roughly 20 million acres of federal lands in Alaska.
The park service, part of the Department of the Interior, said
lifting the prohibitions would increase hunting opportunities on national preserve land,
as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called for in a pair of secretarial orders last year.
The proposed rule would allow hunters
to lure brown and black bears with bait,
hunt black bears and their cubs using artificial lights,
shoot bear cubs and wolf and coyote pups in their dens, and
use dogs to hunt black bears.
It would also allow hunters to shoot swimming caribou from motorboats.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alaska-preserve-predator-hunting-interior-proposed-rule_us_5b032131e4b0a046186ecabe
Repugs demonstrate yet again their faux macho lessness
Gorusch must be a tall hero to all you ST misogynists and Bible-humpers, white male supremacists
The Supreme Court Is Helping Companies Get Away With Sexual Harassment
The Me Too movement takes a massive hit from a new decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch.
For many women, the ruling means they will no longer be able to band together to fight systemic sexual discrimination or harassment in court
“It is a real blow to women in the workplace. We have seen from the Me Too movement the power that comes from women’s voices coming together,”
“This decision makes it so much harder for employees to challenge harassment or other forms of discrimination, which means those workplace abuses are more likely to continue.”
Class-action lawsuits have been effective in forcing companies to change policies or practices that reinforce various forms of discrimination, including sex discrimination and gender pay disparities,
She pointed to a case that Home Depot settled in 1997, agreeing not only to pay the women suing the company millions of dollars but also to change its policies.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...gEmail__052218
Repugs have been and are continuing to install Gorsuch-type assholes throughout the Federal appellate system. Most law is made at the appellate level, so Americans will be legally ed for decades.
Media push back against EPA limiting reporters at chemical summit
A number of media outlets are pushing back at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for limiting the reporters allowed to cover part of its chemical summit on Tuesday — including one reporter who says she was forcibly removed from the event.
Reporters from
CNN, The Associated Press and E&E News were among a group of journalists barred
from attending a two-day-long event kicked off at EPA headquarters Tuesday morning.
While a handful of reporters from publications including The Hill were personally invited to attend EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's opening remarks and the first section of the panel,
other outlets not invited were not allowed to attend the National Leadership Summit on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), hazardous chemicals linked to cancer.
Media representatives in attendance included those from Politico, The Wall Street Journal and CBS.
Corbin Hiar, a reporter for E&E News, tweeted that he was not told why the reporters were "selectively" shut out of the meeting.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-env...hemical-summit
the oligarchy governs AmeriKKKa in secret, and punishes anybody who tries to expose them
On the oligarchy's agenda: more sickened, diseased, dead Americans and environment, for BigChem's profits.
Arizona Department of Education removes 'evolution' from science texts because god
when they submitted their plan to the Arizona Department of Education, Superintendent Diane Douglas and her creationist goobers at the agency crossed out or qualified “evolution” whenever it appeared and replaced it with language a little more flexible—language that gives cover to teachers who want to teach evolution as just another story, alongside creationism.
In one area of the draft focusing on life science essential standards for high school students, "evolution" is replaced with the words "biological diversity."
This section reads:
"Obtain, evaluate, and communicate evidence that describes how inherited traits in a population can lead to evolution biological diversity."
It’s bad enough Arizona has led the nation in defunding education over the last decade;
now the Department of Education, led by dominionist nutball Diane Douglas, wants to give students third-rate instruction.
Arizona Republic editorialist Laurie Roberts points to the way ahead for Arizona:
Next up:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
wherein our children learn that the moon really is made of cheese,
the seas are rising because of rocks falling into the ocean, and yes,
you really can fall off the end of the earth if you walk far enough.
On the way down,
maybe you can ponder whether the theory of gravity is real.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 05-25-2018 at 06:50 AM.
EPA used disavowed research to justify putting dirtier trucks on the road
At a time when acts of defiance against the Trump administration are routine in Sacramento, the rebuke that breezed through the California Assembly this month still came as a jolt. Even Trump loyalists in the chamber joined in.
The message to the administration was clear:
Forget about your plan to unleash on freeways a class of rebuilt trucks
that spew as much as 400 times the choking soot that conventional new big rigs do.
Getting caught behind the wheel of one of these mega-polluters in California
would carry a punishing $25,000 minimum fine under the measure that
lawmakers passed 73 to 0. It had the support of 25 Republicans.
"This was a reaction," said Chris Shimoda, vice president of government affairs for the California Trucking Assn., which sponsored the legislation.
"A lot of people have made the investments to clean up their trucks. They don't want to see an obvious loophole that allows others to be gross polluters and undercut them."
The trucks look new from the outside, but are equipped with repurposed motors that, according to the EPA's own experts, threaten to
produce enough soot each year to cause up to 1,600 premature deaths.
Trump's EPA has tried to justify the move by citing a privately funded study
the university that conducted the research
has now cast doubt on the findings.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-pruitt-polluting-trucks-20180528-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
Preacher asks followers to help him buy $78m private jet
A gospel preacher in the United States is asking his followers to help him to buy a $78 million Falcon 7X private jet.
Jesse Duplantis has owned three private jets throughout his life and
says he is "burning them up for the lord" and needs a new one.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world...jet/ar-AAxWU42
Trump’s new Secretary of State just announced his next meeting, and officials are “f*cking disgusted”
President Trump’s embrace of dangerous authoritarian regimes is nothing new.
he’s preparing to open his arms to the illiberal right wing authoritarian leader of Hungary, President Viktor Orban.
Orban rose to power in 2010 on a
blatantly Islamaphobic,
phobic and
anti-Semitic platform, and
that’s exactly how he’s governed ever since.
Human rights groups have been openly critical of his government’s treatment of immigrants and religious minorities especially, and
he’s attacked his political opponents incessantly on those issues.
Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian foreign minister, is set to meet with new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Wednesday,
something thATwould give Orban’s regime a degree of credibility
that much of the rest of the civilized world has denied them.
“I’m ing disgusted,” a State Department official told The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity,
adding that Pompeo “cozying up to individuals like Orban” was just the latest example of the
Trump administration embracing an authoritarian human rights abusing regime that has subverted democracy and the rule of law.
https://washingtonpress.com/2018/05/...ing-disgusted/
The courts are the only block against Repug kakistocracy/oligarchy, is why the Repugs are polluting Fed appellate courts with "right wing politicians in robes"
Judge gives a big F-U to Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump's plan to screw defrauded students
Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is terrible.
She’s proof that being a billionaire doesn’t mean you are intelligent.
In fact, being a billionaire might mean that you are something of a sociopathic idiot.
But, she is surrounded and
supports the privatization of education and
the predatory loan practices of real dirtbags.
a federal judge stopped DeVos’s plan to use earnings data to grant “only partial student loan forgiveness.”
Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco said that the Trump administration was
violating privacy laws in the data they were trying to use.
The decision is rooted in Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos’s decision in December to provide debt relief to former Corinthian students by comparing the average earnings of students in similar vocational programs.
That earnings information is collected under gainful employment, a regulation that penalizes career-training programs for producing too many graduates with more debt than they can repay.
The Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard University, a legal services clinic, filed an injunction in March to stop the practice.
The group has argued that the Education Department has no right to use the data, which is supplied by the Social Security Administration, for any purpose other than to evaluate vocational programs. What’s more,
the attorneys say denying full relief to Corinthian students is illegal.
this same court will be considering whether or not to force the Education Department to give out full student loan forgiveness to Corinthian students at a hearing scheduled for June 4.
Corinthian colleges have had a lot of support from Republicans because defrauding young people is a good way to make a lot of money with which to line Republicans’ pockets.
DeVos, like the rest of the conservative movement, has spent a considerable amount of time trying to build up swampy towers that keep out the voices of dissent.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
More Devos, racist white she devil, Queen of the Oligarchy Kakistocracy
As Advocates See Hundreds of Civil Rights Cases Dismissed by Trump's Education Dept, National Groups Take on DeVos
"These were all complaints that were legitimate. I guess we have selective civil rights in the United States now."
Weeks after civil rights advocates began receiving notifications from the Department of Education that their cases regarding discrimination in schools were being dismissed, three national groups filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing that the department's new complaint guidelines are undermining its own obligation to investigate civil rights violations.
"You don't have be an attorney to know these revisions are unlawful,"
Marcie Lipsitt, a disability rights advocate, told Education Week.
"They go against the [Office for Civil Rights'] mission statement. "
These provisions strip every American of their civil rights and their ability to file civil rights complaints.
And the beauty of civil rights complaints has been that everyone has been able to file one."
Claiming that
civil rights complaints can place an "unreasonable burden"
on its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as revised the department's procedures.
The new guidelines
allow officials to dismiss hundreds of complaints regarding unfair treatment of
students of color,
inadequate resources for students with disabilities, and
other forms of systemic discrimination.
The appeals process for resolutions has also being eliminated.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...-dept-national
Devos carrying out Bannon's "destruction of the administrative state"
Devos won't enforce the law because enforcement is too burdensome, so violators are free to keep violating
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