Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, a day when countries and leaders around the world honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Donald Trump decided to post a photo from 2017 because he is too lazy to take a new one.

Donald Trump aligns himself with Nazis, the alt-Right and White Nationalists. He has called Nazis "very fine people" and refuses to fully denounce Nazis. He has full supports of White Nationalists (aka Nazis), such as David Duke, Richard Spencer and a litany of others. So it should surprise no one that he could not find 15 minutes to take a motorcade to the Holocaust Museum in DC (less than a mile from the White House) to take a photo. This lazy ass fool posted a photo from 2017 - where he is at least 25 lbs thinner and Melania still has her old kidneys.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/01/vile-donald-trump-posted-recycled-photo?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=9480

and We Have No Idea What For

Without fanfare or even notice, the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women made significant changes to its definition of domestic violence in April. The Obama-era definition was expansive, vetted by experts including the National Center for Victims of Crime and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The Trump administration’s definition is substantially more limited and less informed, effectively denying the experiences of victims of abuse by attempting to cast domestic violence as an exclusively criminal concern.

The previous definition included critical components of the phenomenon that experts recognize as domestic abuse—a pattern of deliberate behavior, the dynamics of power and control, and behaviors that encompass physical or sexual violence as well as forms of emotional, economic, or psychological abuse. But in the Trump Justice Department, only harms that constitute a felony or misdemeanor crime may be called domestic violence. So, for example, a woman whose partner isolates her from her family and friends, monitors her every move, belittles and berates her, or denies her access to money to support herself and her children is not a victim of domestic violence in the eyes of Trump’s Department of Justice. This makes no sense for an office charged with funding and implementing solutions to the problem of domestic violence rather than merely prosecuting individual abusers.


For varied reasons, many survivors make an informed choice to not initiate a criminal case.
Restoring nonphysical violence to the definition of domestic violence is critical. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, over one-third of U.S. women (43.5 million) have experienced “psychological aggression” at the hands of an intimate partner. Experts have long recognized that the manipulative behaviors identified in the Obama-era definition as restricting a victim’s liberty or freedom can cause greater and more lasting damage than physical harm. I know this from my experiences over a decade working with survivors of domestic violence. In nearly every case, the bruises and broken bones eventually heal, but the psychological scars can last a lifetime.

Trump has attempted to brand his administration as one of “law and order,” so shoehorning domestic violence into a criminal justice framework may seem to him like a sensible way to recast the issue. But it isn’t. The assumption that domestic violence must involve a criminal justice response demonstrates a myopic understanding of abuse. Many survivors—particularly those from minority or marginalized communities—are reluctant to report domestic violence to law enforcement. Race, class, sexual orientation, and immigration status can significantly affect whether a survivor decides to seek outside intervention when suffering violence in the home. A call to the police may make a survivor less safe if, for example, doing so intensifies the abuser’s anger or the arrest of a primary breadwinner renders her homeless. Some survivors do not report because they do not want their abusers to face criminal punishment or because they generally distrust law enforcement. For varied reasons, many survivors therefore make an informed choice to not initiate a criminal case.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-domestic-violence-definition-change.html

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The hosts of “Fox & Friends” on Monday apologized for showing a graphic saying Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead, blaming a control room error.

The graphic, similar to those marking the deaths of other famous figures, briefly showed a photo of Ginsburg and the dates “1933-2019.”

“We need to apologize … A technical error in the control room triggered a graphic of RBG with a date on it,” co-host Steve Doocy said later in the program. “We don’t want to make it seem anything other than that was a mistake. That was an accident.”

“We apologize, big mistake,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt added.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/426276-fox-friends-accidentally-shows-graphic-saying-ruth-bader-ginsburg-is-dead

A ‘perversion’ that ‘flies in the face of his memory’

Princeton historian Julian Zelizer on Monday smacked down Vice President Mike Pence for comparing President Donald Trump favorably with civil rights icon Martin Luther King.

After watching a clip of Pence quoting MLK and comparing his push for civil rights to Trump’s push for a border wall, Zelizer said that it was a “perversion” of King’s legacy to link him in any way to Trump.

“The policies of this administration, from the border wall to voting rights restrictions, are antithetical to everything that Martin Luther King fought for,” he said. “So having Vice President Pence invoke Martin Luther King, for this deal or for anything else, really flies in the face of his memory.”

During his Sunday interview on CBS, Pence said that Trump’s call for a border wall was as “inspiring” to Americans as MLK’s call for civil rights.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/historian-blisters-mike-pence-comparing-trump-mlk-perversion-flies-face-memory/