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

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here's the kind of fascist, anti-Cons utional assholes Trash's kakistocrats hire

Will Trump’s Labor Board Say Workers Have No Right to Float a Balloon?

The NLRB’s top attorney is gunning for unions’ inflatable rat



Bloomberg reported last week that Trump-appointed General Counsel Peter Robb wants to issue

a rule making it illegal to engage in any protest activity in the company of a balloon rat.

https://prospect.org/article/will-tr...-float-balloon

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Indiana Republican who employs 100s of minors introduces bill to do away with child labor laws



An Indiana Republican state senator has got

a great idea for his business: loosen up those restrictive child labor protections!

wants to lengthen the amount of time children are allowed to work

“get rid of work permit requirements for minors and remove all restrictions on what hours 16- and 17-year-old Hoosiers can work.”

He employs somewhere between 300 and 400 minors.

"The bill will decrease expenditures and workload for the DOL.

The bill repeals Indiana child labor laws including the DOL’s responsibility to enforce the law,

eliminating the need for inspections to ensure compliance with child labor laws

as well as the necessity to educate employers on child labor laws in Indiana," the legislation says.

The Indiana Department of Labor collected almost $1.5 million in penalties last year connected to violations of minors in the workplace.

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

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Legislative Lowlights: Lawmakers in Four States Want to Bring Fetal ‘Personhood’ to the Ballot Box

Republicans in Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana want voters to weigh in on state cons utional amendments for fetal "personhood."

https://rewire.news/article/2019/01/...od-ballot-box/

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Why can't America be GREAT? Why does America keep declining?

Repugs.

and esp this MOTHER ING, POWER-GRABBING, JUDICIARY-STUFFING McConnell

McConnell says bill that would make Election Day a federal holiday is a ‘power grab’ by Democrats

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...nl_most&wpmm=1

Repugs knows they can't win anymore due to demographics, so voter suppression, gerrymandering, and counting fraud is how they win anymore

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Why can't America be GREAT? Why does America keep declining?

Repugs.

and esp this MOTHER ING, POWER-GRABBING, JUDICIARY-STUFFING McConnell

McConnell says bill that would make Election Day a federal holiday is a ‘power grab’ by Democrats

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...nl_most&wpmm=1

Repugs knows they can't win anymore due to demographics, so voter suppression, gerrymandering, and counting fraud is how they win anymore

You admit racial bias dictates politics in America but still wonder why it isn't great

Multiculturalism of

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probably a run of the mill so-called Christian, with nice bangs

GOP-Aligned Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Likened Gay Sex To Bestiality



https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckra...0%28TPMNews%29

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Post-shutdown, an ocean of outrage greets Interior’s proposed FOIA changes

The Trump administration continues to crack down on transparency.

More than 130 groups and organizations have submitted public comments opposing the Interior Department’s efforts to crack down on public information requests —

a suppression that opponents say will make it much harder to hold the government accountable on a number of issues including impacts from the partial government shutdown.

More than 9,000 submissions commenting on the proposed rule change have seemingly come just as the comment period winds to a close without an extension, despite the shutdown.

The proposal to limit FOIA requests was introduced in late December by former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke

just prior to his departure at the end of the year.

As part of the change, requests would be transferred to Deputy Solicitor General Daniel Jorjani,

a former advisor to the mega-donor conservative Koch brothers.

Interior career staff previously oversaw the requests, while Jorjani is a political appointee.

Under the proposed changes,

the department would also loosen the timeline for responding to FOIA requests.

Federal FOIA rules state that the government must respond within 20 days to requests,

and while that time period often drags on far past that limit, Interior’s proposed change would mean an even longer waiting time for those seeking information of concern to the public.

FOIA requests would also need to be much more detailed according to the new rules, and among other caveats,

Interior “will not honor a request that requires an unreasonably burdensome search.”

https://thinkprogress.org/130-organizations-interior-foia-zinke-trump-bernhardt-9caf8abb6834/

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Repugs committing manslaughter of 1000s, Ms, many who vote Repug

CAA authority to stop climate change would be gutted with carbon dividend bill passage

Legislation introduced Thursday [Jan. 24, 2019] by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) would

eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate and address greenhouse gas emissions

from power plants and mobile sources like cars, trains and airplanes

in exchange for a carbon dividend fee on fossil fuels.

The legislation would prohibit the EPA from establishing binding Clean Air Act standards or regulation for at least 10 years.

the EPA would lose nearly all authority to address climate change.

“A low carbon fee by itself won’t work, and

discarding the Clean Air Act to make this seem politically palatable is just folly.”

https://alankandel.scienceblog.com/2019/02/03/caa-authority-to-stop-climate-change-would-be-gutted-with-carbon-dividend-bill-passage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29

Oligarchy's AmeriKKKa The Polluted

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Trump says he will nominate Bernhardt for secretary of interior

former energy lobbyist

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-interior-bernhardt/trump-says-he-will-nominate-bernhardt-for-secretary-of-interior-idUSKCN1PT24V?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&u tm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign= Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reuters+Politics +News%29

... with intention of degrading, destroying the Dept of Interior and the Interior itself.

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“We have come a long way on that arc since the Reconstruction,

since whites and blacks alike were in nearly equal numbers lynched for the crime of being Republican,”

Rep. Lori Saine, R-Firestone

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/28/1830221/-Republican-hijacks-MLK-resolution-to-say-that-white-Republicans-were-lynched-the-same-as-black-folks

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more diseased and manslaughter for profit by kakistocracy

TRUMP QUIETLY PUT A KOCH OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF AMERICA’S DRINKING WATER

How much cancer is too much cancer? Let Koch’s expert on water and chemical regulations decide.

For the last two years, the E.P.A.—

which, as a reminder, is supposed to be protecting human health and the environment

—has done everything in its power to turn the planet into an ashtray and

convince Americans that toxic chemicals are actually totally fine to drink, breathe, and otherwise ingest,

all in an effort to help companies secreting those chemicals maximize their profits.

The Trump administration has placed a former Koch Industries official in charge of research

that will shape how the government regulates a class of toxic chemicals contaminating millions of Americans’ drinking water—

an issue that could have major financial repercussions for his former employer.

David Dunlap ... the previous eight years as Koch Industries’ lead expert on water and chemical regulations, a position that typically includes

helping companies to limit regulatory restrictions and liability for cleanups.

the agency’s decision not to set drinking water limits for chemicals known as

perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances,

which “have been linked with kidney and testicular cancer, as well as other ailments.”

Dunlap has been able to

avoid a Senate confirmation hearing

in which his prior work experience might come up because Trump has not officially nominated anyone to run to office.

Koch’s various environmental crimes against humanity

are laid out in several high-profile lawsuits over the past 20 years.

“Koch Industries was assessed more than $400 million in fines, penalties, and judgments”

between 1999 and 2003, such as

for dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of aviation fuel into a Minnesota wetland.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/trump-put-a-koch-official-in-charge-of-americas-drinking-water?mbid=nl_th_5c59fc6fba532c6650dee1dc&CNDID=43 758549&utm_source=nl&utm_medium=email&utm_brand=vf &utm_mailing=vyf_hive_news_20190206%20(1)&bxid=MzI 5MjgzNzg1MjQ4S0&hasha=992d608214b505003aa04bf10a59 5031&hashb=542eb31d958e85ddd5a4c3ccf3faae18526a77b d&spMailingID=15083272&spUserID=MzI5MjgzNzg1MjQ4S0 &spJobID=1580433821&spReportId=MTU4MDQzMzgyMQS2

Poisoned water, land, air, that's what all y'all Trash fellators voted for, right?

Trash's "acting" assholes avoid Senate confirmation, dirty trick

Dunlap is working in, influencing govt, and he's not even nominated.

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Trash/Repug misogyny, acceptable violence against women confirmed by Devos and Kavanaugh

Sexual assault incidents at military academies rise 50 percent in past couple of years

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/1/1831501/-Sexual-assault-incidents-at-military-academies-rise-50-percent-in-past-couple-years

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Loan sharks win again with Trump administration rollback on consumer finance protection

the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is further eating itself alive by weakening Obama-era rules that prevent payday lenders from extending loans that people can't afford to pay back.

Trump's CFPB has proposed both

delaying implementation of the rule that is currently set to go into effect in August until sometime next year,

as well as nixing a requirement that lenders verify borrowers' income and

that they can afford the loans they're applying for.

That rule came about because payday lenders can charge interest rates of 390 percent or more

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1832808

I wonder how many farming families screwed by Trash's tariff war and govt contractors screwed by Trash's shutdown have gotten trapped by loan sharks?

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Cindy McCain casts su ion on interracial families everywhere with bogus human trafficking claim



Cindy McCain and her husband, the late Sen. John McCain, adopted a daughter from Bangladesh and weathered racist attacks on their family as a result.

Nonetheless, when she recently saw a woman and toddler who didn’t share a skin tone,

her thoughts went not to family but, Donald Trump-style, to human trafficking.

According to McCain,

the existence of a woman and child of different ethnicities traveling together didn’t just “look odd,”

but officially panned out as trafficking, with the child in imminent harm.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/7/1832969/-Cindy-McCain-casts-su ion-on-multiracial-
families-everywhere-with-bogus-human-trafficking-claim?detail=emaildkre

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you misogynist Repug wife beaters (and child beaters) now have how much more that you can get away

How the Department of Justice’s New Definition of Intimate Partner Violence Could Leave Victims at Risk

An archived version of the DOJ’s Domestic Violence page from 2017 shows comprehensive, nuanced definitions for intimate partner violence.

These definitions reflected the conclusions of scholars, activists, nonprofits, and community organizations that intimate partner violence and sexual assault are, at their core, about power and control.

The current definitions, updated as recently as January 3,

include only “felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence.”

Because the DOJ is directly responsible for allocating funding and resources toward criminal, legal, and penal violence interventions,

this change could have far-reaching implications.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/02/...ality+Check%29

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Bannon's "deconstruction of the administrative state" continues.

There are as many oligarchy kakistocrats as there are Muslim terrorists created by USA


Trump’s choice for Interior Department secretary had big role in eliminating bird protections



David Bernhardt, a former industry lobbyist, has been personally involved with intricacies of new policies at the Interior Department that benefit oil companies and other industries.

The emails provide rare insight into Bernhardt, who is known for avoiding paper trails. Current and former department officials told Reveal that he directed staff not to write emails or take notes during meetings.



https://www.revealnews.org/article/trumps-choice-for-interior-department-secretary-had-big-role-in-eliminating-bird-protections/?fbclid=IwAR1ZVPF4MZgI7_p8SIkdvo3-T1TwQm2rofY0ibj2jBSxVduDllx9QXhIlDQ

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U.S. to slash payouts from 9/11 victims fund

future awards will be significantly reduced, typically by at least 50 percent, because the fund is running short of money.

is necessary because the $2.375 billion remaining in the $7.375 billion fund is not enough to compensate the thousands of additional eligible victims and family members.

“I am painfully aware of the unfairness of this plan,”

Roughly $5 billion has been awarded on more than 21,000 claims, about three-quarters of which came from New York.

Bhattacharyya said the fund would have needed to be $12 billion, instead of $7.375 billion,

to compensate everyone fully.

Nearly 40,000 compensation claims have been filed in the last seven years, but half were filed in 2017 and 2018. Thousands more are expected.

Bhattacharyya attributed

the faster pace of claims to the growing number of cancers, other serious illnesses and deaths linked to the attacks,

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02...iticus+USA+%29

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Trump’s Pick To Lead Climate Panel Once Compared CO2 To Jews In Nazi Germany





William Happer, President Donald Trump’s reported pick to lead a new panel on climate change, is a science denier with a history of controversial comments.

Happer, a retired Princeton physics professor with no expertise in climatology, will lead a

has claimed rising carbon dioxide levels not only aren’t harmful but also are actually beneficial.

“The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler,”

“Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews.”

is on the National Security Council, has a history of dropping Nazi references.

dismissed those who accept science by calling them “climate alarmists” who have “complete control of the media” and have “hijacked all the major scientific societies.”

he managed to name-check the Salem witch trials, the French revolution, the Soviet purge and the Nazis in defense of those such as himself.

he called climate science a “cult” and said that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Then he dropped another Nazi comparison to those who believe in the science of climate change.

“This is George Orwell. This is ‘’The Germans are the master race. The Jews are the s of the earth,’” he said. “It’s that kind of propaganda.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/willi...b0f40774cbfa70

Happper is Trash-whisperer Bannon's ideal kakistocrat of a climate panel member

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New Watchdog Complaint Outlines ‘Pattern Of Ethical Misconduct’ At Interior Department

Six senior agency officials are named in a complaint filed Wednesday with Interior’s Office of Inspector General.

Office of Inspector General to launch a formal investigation into

violations of federal ethics rules by six high-ranking agency officials who

maintained close ties to former employers.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ethic...gEmail__022119

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Repug extreme right white-man cavalry still waging war on the redskins.

Who Will Stop a Trump Nominee Who Built His Career Attacking Native Rights?



the Senate voted 51 to 46 to invoke cloture on the nomination of lawyer Eric Miller to the federal bench.

The Senate could vote as early as today to officially confirm the 43-year old Miller to a lifetime appointment on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

That particular court just so happens to be responsible for 427 federally recognized Native nations, or roughly 75 percent of all federally recognized Native nations.


the Ninth Circuit will add a man with a penchant for attacking the weak spots around the United States’ treaties with the Native nations.

“Federal judicial nominations have a disproportionate impact on Indian Country because Indian law is often made and changed more from the judicial bench than by Congress,”

“As an attorney, the nominee has represented interests that were opposed to treaty rights.

He has attacked Tribal sovereign immunity.

He has disputed a Tribal nation’s ability to acquire trust lands under the Indian Reorganization Act and

[shown] a repeated willingness to side against Tribes in court,

Miller’s resumé sparkles in all the right places,

so much so that the glares against Indian Country were smothered—

first by errant scheduling,

then by Senate Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell and his determination to place as many conservative judges on the bench as will fit.

Miller earned a reputation as the go-to lawyer in the West for folks looking to tangle with Native nations.

Miller argued against the tenants of land rights and tribal recognition.

Miller argued against the tribe, noting the limits and increasing divestment of tribal sovereignty

Miller went after the federal recognition status of the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians.

https://splinternews.com/who-will-st...ign=2019-02-26

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Billionaires relentlessly degrading public education

DeVos: Tax Credits Promoting School Choice Won’t Cut Public School Funds

renewed its push for school choice on Thursday with a proposal to

provide $5 billion a year in federal tax credits

for donations made to groups offering scholarships for private schools, apprenticeships and other educational programs.

“What’s missing in education today is at the core of what makes America truly great: freedom,” DeVos said dumb Ditzy read what somebody wrote

The proposal will also face a difficult time in the House, where Democrats gained a majority in the November midterm elections.

“The only folks who are threatened are those who have a vested interested in suppressing education freedom,” DeVos said.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/d...+%28TPMNews%29

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GOP lawmaker encouraged teens to rat out their teachers for ‘violating their conservative values’


A South Dakota

Repug lawmaker gave high school students

fliers encouraging them to tattle on teachers who violate their “conservative ideology” — and

also attempted to link Democrats to the KKK.

flier featuring a meme from conservative activist Dinesh D’Souza

that includes references to the pre-schism Democratic Party’s role in slavery and the Klan.

“I think if people want to wipe out reminders of slavery, segregation & white supremacy,

we might consider getting rid of the Democratic Party,”

flier also encourages students to email Jensen’s government address

if their teachers violate their “conservative values by pushing their own ideology.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/gop...e+Raw+Story%29

ing red/slave states

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Coal Ash Pollution Contaminates Ground Water At Hundreds Of Locations

Coal ash contains large amounts of cadmium, cobalt, chromium, lead, arsenic, and lithium — toxins that are linked to cancer, kidney damage, and neurological disorders.

The Environmental Integrity Project has analyzed the data and found that of the 265 US power plants that monitor groundwater,

242 reported unsafe levels of at least one pollutant derived from coal ash.

“The pollution is basically everywhere you look.

The major concern is that this could be a problem for decades or centuries because once the pollutants leach from the coal ash into the water, they are hard to get out,”

In Texas, all of the 16 coal-fired power plants included in the data were found to be leaching dangerous amounts of chemicals into local groundwater.

“We found contamination everywhere we looked, poisoning groundwater aquifers and recreational fishing spots across the state,” Abel says.

“This confirms that

dumping large volumes of toxic waste in poorly lined pits is a terrible idea.

The problem is unfortunately going to get even worse unless Texas power plants change the way they dispose of coal ash.”

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/03/04...-of-locations/

Repugs' hole Texas!

TCEQ will get on the coal ash pollution IMMEDIATELY!

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Trump’s pick for Office on Violence Against Women doesn’t understand gun violence against women

A Republican whose career has been defined largely by

a record of opposition to LGBTQ and immigrant rights, and

who falsely claims guns will protect women from violence,

is being considered to lead the Office on Violence Against Women.

She has also made claims that

women owning guns protects them against violence,

which is not supported in research.

https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-pic...-9b6e1965228a/

Trash/Repug/Bannon kakistocracy rolls on.