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- "You have to watch that."
- "Derek's father" - "American History X"
Repug racists use their racist stooge Session to up DOJ and screw non-whites
Trash Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government
New directives will limit the Department of Justice’s use of enforcement tools and more.
For decades, the Department of Justice has used court-enforced agreements to protect civil rights, successfully desegregating school systems, reforming police departments, ensuring access for the disabled and defending the religious
Now, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the DOJ appears to be turning away from this storied tool, called consent decrees. Top officials in the DOJ civil rights division have issued verbal instructions through the ranks to seek settlements without consent decrees — which would result in no continuing court oversight.
The move is just one part of a move by the Trump administration to limit federal civil rights enforcement.
Other departments have scaled back the power of their internal divisions that monitor such abuses.
In a previously unreported development, the Education Department last week reversed an Obama-era reform that broadened the agency’s approach to protecting rights of students.
The Labor Department and the Environmental Protection Agency have also announced sweeping cuts to their enforcement.
Sessions ordered a sweeping review of all consent decrees with troubled police departments nationwide to ensure they were in line with the Trump administration’s law-and-order goals.
Attorneys who worked on the case for years were barely consulted about the change — many weren’t consulted at all, according to two former DOJ officials with knowledge of the matter.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...across-federal
The racist Repugs gonna show that knitter Obama and his knitter AGs how to do racism The Jim Crow Way
^Good.
- "You have to watch that."
- "Derek's father" - "American History X"
Hate crimes soar two years after Dylann Roof massacre
President Donald Trump announced he was running for office on June 16, 2015. The following day, white supremacist Dylann Roof opened fire in a historically black church located in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people in the hopes of launching an all-out race war.
"There has been a massive explosion of violence across the country, and an increase in the number of hate crimes against virtually all minority groups. The numbers are definitely going up in 2017."
When looking at the data, it becomes immediately clear that es in hate crimes and racial tension haven’t only impacted black communities, like the Episcopal Church.
There were at least 1,314 reported cases of anti-Muslim bias in 2014, according to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report. By 2016, that annual figure soared to 2,213.
Anti-Semitic incidents also rose in 2015, the latest year the Anti-Defamation League has data on, rising three percent to 941 total incidents nationwide.
Of all the hate crimes carried out that year, over 48 percent were committed by whites.
"We know that the normalization of violence, particularly against marginalized people, creates a culture of complicity and acceptance of hate based violence,"
In total, hate crimes rose from 5,479 reported incidents in 2014 to 5,800 the next year, when Roof made his decision to act on a months-long quest he had do ented at length across the web and on his racist website, TheLastRhodesian.com.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/hate...e+Raw+Story%29
Thanks, all y'all Trash voters, defenders, fellators. Making American ty Again.
And Bernie MADE that guy shoot Scalise!
Last edited by boutons_deux; 06-18-2017 at 06:51 AM.
I'll just bet you do.
Repugs will block this
US Commission On Civil Rights To Launch 2-Year Probe Into Trump Admin
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a watchdog agency in the federal government that monitors civil rights law enforcement, announced on Friday that it would launch a two-year assessment of the executive branch.
The commission warned that budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump’s administration could lead to a “dangerous reduction” in civil rights law enforcement.
“The Commission, by majority vote, expresses concern with the Administration’s proposed budget cuts to and planned staff losses in numerous programs and civil rights offices across the federal government that enforce our nation’s federal civil rights laws,” the commission said in a statement.
“Along with changing programmatic priorities, these proposed cuts would result in a dangerous reduction of civil rights enforcement across the country, leaving communities of color, LGBT people, older people, people with disabilities, and other marginalized groups exposed to greater risk of discrimination.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/us-c...0%28TPMNews%29
Greater abuse and discrimination is exactly what the Repugs and Christian Bible-humpers want, and they are, and will be, permitting, inciting it.
Repugs didn't send a life-long racist from AL to be AG to protect non-white males.
Christian Taliban supremacist Betsy Devostate doin' God's HATE-FILLED work
'Stunning and Dangerous': DeVos Memo Reveals Plan to Roll Back Civil Rights
In a move decried as "more evidence of backward thinking" by the Trump administration,
an internal memo from the Department of Education's office for civil rights lays out the agency's plan to
roll back investigations into civil rights violations at public schools and
diminish Obama-era rules requiring "schools and colleges to overhaul policies addressing a number of civil rights concerns,"
"requirements that investigators broaden their inquiries to identify systemic issues and whole classes of victims will be scaled back,"
"Also, regional offices will no longer be required to alert department officials in Washington of all highly sensitive complaints on issues such as the disproportionate disciplining of minority students and the mishandling of sexual assaults on college campuses."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/17/stunning-and-dangerous-devos-memo-reveals-plan-roll-back-civil-rights
Racism and sex were, aka social issuer, were apparently more important to Trash's base than economics, so Devos is delivering the hate that Trash's voters want.
The militarized police state/VRWC/oligarchy hires Repugs to violate the Cons ution in favor of autocracy protecting the oligarchy.
Since Trump's Election, 20 States Have Moved to Criminalize Dissent
"In my dozen years of monitoring state legislation, I've certainly not seen a wave of anti-protest bills this large,"
Republicans in at least 20 states have put forward or passed laws with the intention of making protest more difficult and the punishment for expressing dissent more draconian since President Donald Trump's inauguration in January.
In a move that sparked immediate outrage, Senate Republicans last week announced new rules making it difficult for reporters to interview lawmakers in the hallways of the Capitol.
the White House barred reporters from making audio or video recordings of the daily press briefing,
"The state will try to devise ways to squash opposition and chill the will of people who are willing to face risks to their liberty to further their cause,"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/20/trumps-election-20-states-have-moved-criminalize-dissent
Trump steals from the poor to give to himself—cuts housing aid for tenants, but not landlords
Donald Trump’s proposed budget aggressively reduces programs designed to help the poor find housing, but leaves intact a program that rewards wealthy landlords—including one very special individual.
One of those landlords is Trump himself, who earns millions of dollars each year as a part-owner of Starrett City, the nation’s largest subsidized housing complex. Trump’s 4 percent stake in the Brooklyn complex earned him at least $5 million between January of last year and April 15, according to his recent financial disclosure.
Trump may like to hang his name on faux luxury goods, but it’s the these apartments for the poor that has been his most dependable source of income.
Trump has already taken home $38 million in government money for Starrett City just since his inauguration.
The property has provided Trump a steady—and massive—income even when his disastrous investments in casinos and gaudy condos has left him filing bankruptcy on company after company. It’s an investment that’s proved to be so good, you can tell that Trump didn’t make it.
Trump once called Starrett City “one of the best investments I ever made,” but it was his father who was an investor in its construction, according to a representative of Starrett City.
“Upon Fred Trump’s death, his four children inherited his interests,” Bob Liff, a spokesman for Starrett City Associates ...
Not only is Donald Trump taking millions from the government, he’s still living on money given to him by his father.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/...tail=emaildkre
EPA accelerates purge of scientists
Members of the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors were told that they would not see their tenure renewed.
Dozens of Environmental Protection Agency scientists were recently informed that their contracts would not be renewed this August, leaving a key EPA office without important scientific guidance.
According to an email sent to EPA scientists and obtained by the Washington Post, the EPA has decided not to renew the posts of any scientists working for the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC).
The BOSC functions as an advisory board for the EPA’s Office of Research and Development, and helps the office make sure that it is using sufficiently rigorous science in its research and development programs.[
“The Board of Scientific Counselors was formed to make sure the EPA does the best possible scientific work with limited taxpayer dollars,” Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a statement.
“This independent advice is needed now more than ever. By sacking dozens of scientific counselors, Pruitt is showing that he doesn’t value scientific input and the benefits it offers the public.”
https://thinkprogress.org/epa-dismis...mp-7530dc37dcf[/COLOR]
You rightwingnut "false equivalence" assholes tell us that Repugs and Dems are identical.
So President Hillary would have put a Pruitt in charge of EPA?
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How Trump-Style Policies Will Deepen the “American carnage”
President Trump, in his inaugural address and elsewhere, rightly says that over the decades since 1980 American household distributions of income and wealth became strikingly unequal.
But if recent budget and legislative proposals from Trump and the House of Representatives come into effect, today’s distributional mess would become visibly worse.
How would a Trump program along the lines of his and the House’s proposals affect rich households? The obvious answer is “very favorably.”
Because capital and wealth change slowly over time, some sort of economic growth model is needed to provide numbers. The one we used has four key characteristics.
- Medium-term business cycle oscillations are ignored. As opposed to most growth models output is (realistically) determined by aggregate demand, not the available supplies of labor and capital as in mainstream exercises. In line with econometrics, both economic activity and capital growth are assumed to respond positively to a higher profit share.6
- Model solutions track toward a “steady state” with all relevant variables growing exponentially at the same rate. Growth trajectories never quite reach this “attractor” or “center of gravitation” but economists pretend that the steady state represents the “long run.”
- All profit income is transferred to households by interest and dividend payments and capital gains. (This assumption is counter-factual. Over recent decades, such transfers or capital losses of business exceeded net profits.)
- The benchmark or baseline “balanced growth” simulation assumes that real wage growth equals labor productivity growth, which is pegged at 1.4% per year. (Again counter-factual: the benchmark holds the share of wages in income constant, when in fact it fell by around five percentage points after 1980).
We examine how variables shift from balanced growth in various scenarios. Current discussion involves policy changes in a range of one trillion dollars over ten years. With US aggregate demand (household and government consumption of goods and services, investment, and exports) approaching twenty trillion dollars, one hundred billion per year is not going to perturb the system very much. Larger changes have to involve ulative effects over the years.
Upper range estimates for Trump’s and Congress’s proposed economic interventions include the following three items:
- Reduce government spending on current and capital spending by $200 billion per year from a total of $3.2 trillion, decapitating discretionary outlays and boosting defense.
- Cut transfers (mostly Medicaid) by $200 billion from a total of $2.5 trillion.
- Remove taxes of $500 billion from a total of $700 billion for the top one percent and $200 billion for the middle class.
The impact of the first two moves would be to reduce aggregate demand,
with the effect magnified by the fact that (at least according to available data) lower income households spend more income than they receive.
Even though they have strongly positive saving, more income for the top one percent would boost their consumption.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/...n-carnage.html
Interior Secretary Attempts to Justify Deep Cuts to Native American Education Program
he attempted to defend the Trump administration's call for massive cuts to his own Interior Department, particularly programs for Native Americans.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Mastro (D-Nev.) grilled the Secretary over a proposed 12 percent cut to the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) and an additional $23.3 million taken out of social service and welfare programs for Native Americans.
"More money may not produce a better solution," he claimed.of course!
The proposed budget cuts to BIE are in tune with the austerity imposed on the entire Native American community in the Trump Interior budget.
Hundreds of millions of dollars would be reduced from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) budget. The agency is tasked with managing social services and land protection for nearly two million indigenous Americans across the country.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs alone would shoulder $371 million in reductions.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/4...cation-program
but more tax cuts for BigCorp and 1% are ALWAYS better
Betsy DeVos To Put $1.3 Trillion Student Aid Office In Hands Of Exec From For-Profit Student Loan Company
The top official at the federal Office of Financial Aid recently resigned after butting heads with new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her plan to make sweeping changes to federal student loan programs.
Now DeVos has announced a replacement who is more likely to follow her lead: Dr. A. Wayne Johnson, the CEO of a private, for-profit student loan company.
DeVos announced Tuesday the intent to appoint Dr. Johnson as Chief Operating Officer of the $1.3 trillion Federal Student Aid office.
he doesn’t have experience working in public education. It should be noted that Johnson did receive a PhD in Higher Education Leadership from Mercer University.
“Through its founder’s experience in the unsecured consumer finance industry, Reunion has developed proven and proprietary processes which allow for a fast, smooth and efficient refinancing experience,” the company’s website states.
It’s unclear the terms of the refinancing options offered by the company.
https://consumerist.com/2017/06/21/b...-loan-company/
tribal loyalty replaces meritocracy, political savvy, EVERYTHING
Our new secretary of the Energy is completely addled when it comes to basic climate science
the secretary of Energy, a position responsible for our nation's nuclear weapons and reactor research, among other duties, would be a person with at least basic competency in the sciences.
Past secretaries have included nuclear physicists, Nobel Prize winners, chemical engineers, and Navy admirals.
The new hire is known primarily for pledging to eliminate the department despite forgetting what it was. His own grasp of the sciences is just baffling.This is an amazing level of gibberish, but coming from the freakin' secretary of Energy it's ... well, what do you even say? This is one of those declarations that's too stupid to even be wrong.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry told CNBC Monday morning that he doesn’t believe carbon dioxide is primarily responsible for global warming, contradicting the overwhelming scientific consensus on the causes of climate change.When asked by interviewer Joe Kernan whether CO2 is the “primary” driver of changing temperatures, Perry responded,
“No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.”
coming from the oil state of Texas, has decided he'll be denying the effects of burning fossil fuels on our atmosphere until he's dead and buried in the hot Texas ground. The denialism is just plain, market-driven denials.
somewhere talked to him about the ocean's pivotal role in all this and he retained a sliver of it, and is
regurgitating it back here in a scientifically addled game of telephone.
It's the worst possible combination of scientific illiteracy and market-driven disinformation, all rolled up tight and, to our eternal discredit, put in charge of the nation's policies.
Yet again, I mean—
the same ball of stupidity and crookedness is also now running the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department and for all we know deciding what to stock in the Pentagon vending machines.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/...28Daily+Kos%29
every Repub crapification thread MUST have some KAC in it
Kellyanne Conway: Media and Democrats Have a ‘Russian Concussion’
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/kellyanne-conway-media-and-democrats-have-a-russian-concussion/
... and the 36% of American who STILL approve of Trash believe KAC's alternative facts.
U.S. spent $28M on 'forest' uniforms for Afghan army fighting mostly in the desert
https://www.yahoo.com/digest/20170621/spent-28m-forest-uniforms-afghan-army-fighting-mostly-desert-10967844
US military just so SICK OF WINNING (...nothing since 1945)
Trash hires "the best evah people", surrounding himself with trash
FBI Fired Sebastian Gorka for Anti-Muslim Diatribes
Trump confidant Sebastian Gorka was taking money from the FBI—and declaring that the fight against Islamic radicals was ‘a holy war on our side,’ too.
The inflammatory pundit Sebastian Gorka worked for the FBI while he was a paid consultant to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, lecturing bureau employees on counterterrorism issues.
Until the FBI terminated Gorka for his over-the-top Islamophobic rhetoric.
The Daily Beast has learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended its contract with Gorka just months before he joined the White House as a senior adviser to President Trump.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-fir...slim-diatribes
How the Pill Made the American Economy Great
The Missouri Senate just approved a bill that includes a provision rolling back employment protections in St. Louis for women who use contraception, which was tucked alongside a number of other attacks on reproductive rights.
The legislation would make it perfectly legal for an employer to fire or refuse to hire someone because she uses birth control.
gives bosses the power to dictate private aspects of their employees’ lives.
https://newrepublic.com/article/143446/pill-made-american-economy-great
misogyny, like racism, is a fundamental component of Repugs/Christian Taliban ideology.
entire page be like
the VRWC oligarchy's coup d'etat unstoppably rolls on
Donald Trump Is In The Perfect Position To Dramatically Remake The Courts
With 100+ judicial vacancies and a Senate eager to fill them, conservatives are salivating
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...gEmail__062217
With BigFinance killing the CFPB, we won't be getting many more of these reports about abuse of student debtors.
Consumer Agency Condemns Abuses in Loan Forgiveness Program
Many borrowers “point to a range of student loan industry practices that delay, defer, or deny access to critical consumer protections,”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/b...er=rss&emc=rss
... esp now that billionaire bimbo Christian supremacist Devos has put a for-profit loan predator to run $1T+ educational loan program
United States rejects U.N. call for access to safe abortions
The United States on Thursday rejected a United Nations resolution on violence against women because it called for access to safe abortion for all women in countries where legal.
The administration of President Donald Trump said last month it was vastly expanding the scope of a policy blocking U.S. assistance to foreign groups that perform or provide information about abortions.
U.S. First Secretary to the U.N. in Geneva Jason Mack said, after a resolution from Canada on eliminating violence against women was adopted by consensus, that the U.S. "must dissociate from the consensus" specifically on access to safe abortions.
"We do not recognize abortion as a method of family planning, nor do we support abortion in our reproductive health assistance," he said in a statement read to the Council.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-un...Health+News%29
‘Not racist’ member of ‘White Privilege Club’ tries to run over Trumpcare protesters with motorcycle
A member of the “White Privilege Club” social media group was arrested for attempting to run over Trumpcare protesters in San Francisco with his motorcycle.
The motorcyclist drove at high speed directly at a group of demonstrators staging a “die-in” Wednesday afternoon to protest the Republican health care reform bill, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
Some of the protesters were lying down, blocking Seventh Street near Mission Street for about seven minutes, when the man turned the wrong direction down a one-way street and drove directly toward them.
“He was revving and revving, he was gunning it, aiming at people who were laying down,” said witness Tracey Brieger, of Emeryville.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/not-...e+Raw+Story%29
attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon
there was no known video of white cops stomping on his head while he was prone and handcuffed
Trash'a America is a septic tank
A surprising number of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...______20170623
and they voted for Trash and the Repugs
Jettisoning 'Best Available Science,' Trump Admin. Tosses Out Federal Protections for Yellowstone's Grizzlies
The "ongoing threats the bears face will now be compounded by trophy hunting and lethal removal by trigger-happy state agencies," says Andrea Santarsiere of the Center for Biological Diversity
Until natural connectivity with the northern grizzly population occurs, scientific studies make clear that a minimum population of closer to 2,000 bears would be needed to maintain long-term genetic diversity."
Another problem with the rule from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, says Strong, is that it "dismisses the potential threat of climate change [... ] such as loss of food sources (like whitebark pine seeds) and shifts in denning time leading to increased conflicts with humans."
Under current law, eliminating threatened species protection for the big bear
paves the way for Montana, Idaho and Wyoming to take over responsibility from federal managers outside Yellowstone.
That means fewer restrictions;
states alone will make the call on dealing with nuisance bears—and will probably include a hunting season for grizzlies.
Bears within the boundaries of the national park will remain a federal responsibility and will not be hunted, unless they leave Yellowstone.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...al-protections
Wolves also back on the less hunters' slaughter list.
The Trump Administration Just Made Their First Move Against Hillary Clinton
But given the way that the Trump administration has been drunkenly stumbling from one disaster to the next without a care for the consequences, one can hardly be surprised that Rex
Tillerson’s State Department has decided this would be a good time to open another investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
FOX News has jubilantly announced that a formal inquiry has been opened into whether or not Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information while she was Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 in
an attempt to strip her of her security clearance, as confirmed by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Grassley’s committee is also conducting its own inquiry. When pressed for comment, Grassley dutifully recited the
holy Republican Litany Of How Hillary Clinton Was Extremely Careless In Her Handling Of Very Sensitive, Highly Classified Information
that we’ve all heard a thousand times before
Let’s recap:
- President Trump held a national security meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago while the vulturous patricians of South Florida gawked around him and took selfies with the nuclear football.
- President Trump knowingly allowed Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to remain as National Security Advisor and sit in on classified CIA briefings for nearly a month after he was informed that Flynn was in the pay of foreign governments and was vulnerable to blackmail by the Russian Federation.
- President Trump revealed the existence of a top-secret informant within the ranks of Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) to the Russian ambassador because he was boasting about how he had the “best intelligence,” and then promptly announced in public, in Israel, that Israel was the source of that informant.
http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/06...llary-clinton/
Next up? Repugs launch new investigation into Benghazi!
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